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'Dreamscapes & Artificial Architecture' presents the work of creatives from across the globe, exploring the infinite ways to conceptualize utopian oases and dystopian nightmares. With their roots in spatial design, their ideas present a new creative current defined by the fusion of digital techniques such as computer rendering and 3D art, and an aesthetic that moves(...)
Dreamscapes & artificial architecture: imagined interior design in digital art
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'Dreamscapes & Artificial Architecture' presents the work of creatives from across the globe, exploring the infinite ways to conceptualize utopian oases and dystopian nightmares. With their roots in spatial design, their ideas present a new creative current defined by the fusion of digital techniques such as computer rendering and 3D art, and an aesthetic that moves between fantasy and reality. Freed from the constraints of the physical world, these dreamscapes expand the possibilities for architecture and interior design.
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This book examines the ways in which a historic, and so-called 'traditional' city quietly mutated into one that was modern in its own terms not only in form but also in its use and meaning. Through a study of Delhi, the author challenges some prevalent dichotomies and myths in architecture and urbanism and identifies an interpretation of modernism that expands upon(...)
April 2005, London
Indigenous modernities : negotiating architecture and urbanism
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This book examines the ways in which a historic, and so-called 'traditional' city quietly mutated into one that was modern in its own terms not only in form but also in its use and meaning. Through a study of Delhi, the author challenges some prevalent dichotomies and myths in architecture and urbanism and identifies an interpretation of modernism that expands upon conventional understandings of it. Conventional discourse in the West defines modern as the antithesis of that which is 'not-modern' or is 'traditional.' Many scholars have debated the significance of the words and most agree that the very word 'tradition' was a modernist creation that variously implied backwardness, threatened by change, resistance to innovation. The first part of this book reflects on the transformations and discontinuities in built form and spatial culture and calls into question accepted notions of the static nature of what is normally referred to as 'traditional' and 'non-Western' architecture. The second part is a critical discussion of Delhi in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It expands upon conventional understandings of modernity in a way that wrenches free the city's architecture and the society from the objectified realm of the exotic while also acknowledging cultural conditions of modernity and modern architecture outside the West. Stepping outside Western canons, this project looks at late nineteenth and early twentieth century architecture to include them in a conversation on architecture that has typically focused on Western Europe and North America. Finally, the author seeks out the 'indigenous modernities': the irregular, the uneven, and the unexpected in what uncritical observers might label a perfectly coherent 'traditional' built environment; or in the influence of local society and institutions on forms that appear modern by conventional standards in the West.
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Beuk Peroviæ Architects, Dekleva Gregoriè Architectsi, Elastik, Maechtig Vrhunc Architects, Ofis and Sadar Vuga Architects are the architectural practices introduced here. Some 80 projects are briefly examined, accompanied by photographs, models, texts and plans in this useful survey of a new generation who are defining the current state of contemporary Slovenian architecture.
Architecture since 1900, Europe
April 2006, Ljubljana
6ix pack : contemporary Slovenian architecture, 2005
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Beuk Peroviæ Architects, Dekleva Gregoriè Architectsi, Elastik, Maechtig Vrhunc Architects, Ofis and Sadar Vuga Architects are the architectural practices introduced here. Some 80 projects are briefly examined, accompanied by photographs, models, texts and plans in this useful survey of a new generation who are defining the current state of contemporary Slovenian architecture.
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April 2006, Ljubljana
Architecture since 1900, Europe
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In an age of diminishing natural resources, architects and their clients need to know about an environmentally sustainable alternative to new construction: new life for old buildings. This book presents six case-study buildings, each more than a generation old, that were on the brink of oblivion. Mitchell Giurgola Architects worked closely with the client to determine(...)
Architecture since 1900, Europe
January 2005, Victoria (Australia)
Boomer buildings : mid-century architecture reborn
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In an age of diminishing natural resources, architects and their clients need to know about an environmentally sustainable alternative to new construction: new life for old buildings. This book presents six case-study buildings, each more than a generation old, that were on the brink of oblivion. Mitchell Giurgola Architects worked closely with the client to determine how each project could be salvaged by incorporating updated program elements to serve a new generation of users. All six case studies present in detail how each project is analyzed, from its energy use and curtain-wall performance to its mechanical, electrical, and plumbing systems, and structural stability. The buildings often expand in size, with a seamless melding of new and old. Contemporary curtain walls not only improve building performance, but also lend a fresh aesthetic appeal. The results are born-again buildings created for a fraction of the cost and consuming far fewer materials than, a new facility built from scratch. Today, our cities and suburbs are peppered with buildings of the same era as those profiled here that are on the brink of failure and are excellent candidates for rebirth. Mitchell Giurgola documents a new, more sustainable approach to design and construction that builds on the past, and makes the old better than new.
Architecture since 1900, Europe
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L'architecture et les transformations urbaines constituent des outils politiques efficaces capables d'améliorer la cohésion sociale, la qualité de vie et la prospérité de la ville contemporaine. À l'instar de toutes les métropoles européennes, Bruxelles fait face à de grands défis urbains et sociaux : démographie et flux migratoires, économie urbaine, mobilité,(...)
Construire Bruxelles: architectures et espaces urbains, 44 projets en Europe
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L'architecture et les transformations urbaines constituent des outils politiques efficaces capables d'améliorer la cohésion sociale, la qualité de vie et la prospérité de la ville contemporaine. À l'instar de toutes les métropoles européennes, Bruxelles fait face à de grands défis urbains et sociaux : démographie et flux migratoires, économie urbaine, mobilité, équipements publics. De Copenhague à Tirana, de Londres à Madrid, en passant par Milan, Zurich, Lyon ou Amsterdam, ce livre rassemble les expériences positives de 44 projets urbains exemplaires et novateurs : transformations de zones délaissées en lieux dynamiques à fortes attractivités économique et culturelle, logement social intégré, tramway et métro fédérateurs et créateurs de nouveaux symboles.
Architecture since 1900, Europe
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In the post-war decades, Hong Kong architects, many of them having migrated from Mainland China or studied overseas, embraced modern principles when forced to face the problems of housing shortage, mass construction and limited budgets. Although economic efficiencies often prevailed over design, their buildings were rooted in their time and place, reflecting the local(...)
December 2022
Hong Kong modern: Architecture of the 1950s-1970s
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In the post-war decades, Hong Kong architects, many of them having migrated from Mainland China or studied overseas, embraced modern principles when forced to face the problems of housing shortage, mass construction and limited budgets. Although economic efficiencies often prevailed over design, their buildings were rooted in their time and place, reflecting the local climate, social values, materials, technique and use in an often unique and pragmatic fashion. With more than 300 buildings and ensembles documented, the new publication ''Hong Kong modern architecture of the 1950s-1970s'' by Walter Koditek gives a comprehensive overview on the architecture of that transformative period in combining full-page photographs with detailed background information and further b/w images explaining and illustrating the design and history of these buildings.
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Juin 1940 : les combats et la défaite. Les centres historiques sont dévastés, les châteaux réquisitionnés, les monuments effondrés. Le régime autoritaire de Vichy entreprend le " redressement moral " du pays. Contre l'internationalisme et le cosmopolitisme des avant-gardes, l'architecture française doit retrouver sa grandeur nationale et sa place éminente dans le monde.(...)
April 2008, Rennes
Les monuments historiques de 1940 à 1959: administration, architecture, urbanisme
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Juin 1940 : les combats et la défaite. Les centres historiques sont dévastés, les châteaux réquisitionnés, les monuments effondrés. Le régime autoritaire de Vichy entreprend le " redressement moral " du pays. Contre l'internationalisme et le cosmopolitisme des avant-gardes, l'architecture française doit retrouver sa grandeur nationale et sa place éminente dans le monde. Dans ce projet, les monuments anciens ont un rôle de tout premier plan. Il ne s'agit pas seulement, en effet, de relever les ruines, mais aussi d'inventer une nouvelle modernité architecturale et urbaine appuyée sur la tradition et le génie artistique propre à la France. Le service des Monuments historiques se rapproche des services de l'urbanisme et de la reconstruction afin d'inventer le nouveau cadre bâti de la France régénérée. Juin l944-Mai 1945: nouvelles destructions et Libération. A la réflexion théorique succède l'action, dans un pays exsangue. Commence le grand chantier de la reconstruction, elles désillusions: crédits insuffisants, rupture du consensus avec les responsables de la construction. Refusant l'habituelle opposition entre architecture et patrimoine, cet ouvrage envisage le monument historique comme un élément à part entière de l'histoire de l'architecture. Il retrace son itinéraire politique et social autant que son destin matériel dans une période agitée, caractérisée par une quantité d'interventions absolument sans précédent.
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For millennia, architects and builders have attempted to rationalize cities into well-functioning and liveable places. While many aspects of a city evolve naturally, other facets result from human interventions and radical imagination. "Future city" celebrates the visionary urban schemes that have preoccupied architects trying to create a better world from the 1950s to(...)
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April 2007, New York
Future city : experiment and utopia in architecture
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For millennia, architects and builders have attempted to rationalize cities into well-functioning and liveable places. While many aspects of a city evolve naturally, other facets result from human interventions and radical imagination. "Future city" celebrates the visionary urban schemes that have preoccupied architects trying to create a better world from the 1950s to the present. This publication assembles several generations of utopian architecture in a single volume. With the city serving as the context and catalyst for the works, the book provides resource for contemporary architectural and urban development and innovation in the third millennium. It features hundreds of seminal works by some sixty architects, ranging from the groundbreaking experiments of Rem Koolhaas, Zaha Hadid, Peter Cook, Daniel Libeskind and Coop Himmelb(l)au, alongside a new generation of rising stars, including Asymptote, NOX, UN Studio and Greg Lynn.
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April 2007, New York
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With a statement by Daniel Libeskind.
Architecture Monographs
April 1998, Windsor, UK
Peter Pran : an architecture of poetic movement
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With a statement by Daniel Libeskind.
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April 1998, Windsor, UK
Architecture Monographs
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Du plus profond de chaque territoire, leur architecture témoigne, en tant que “fragment du monde”, d’une vision renouvelée de notre avenir. C’est dans ce contexte que Jana Revedin, architecte et professeur, a créé en 2007 le “Global Award for Sustainable Architecture”. Cet ouvrage illustre le travail des lauréats 2009 et 2010 (Sami Rintala, Studio Mumbaï, Diébédo Francis(...)
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March 2012
Sustainable design II : vers une nouvelle éthique pour l'architecture et la ville
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Du plus profond de chaque territoire, leur architecture témoigne, en tant que “fragment du monde”, d’une vision renouvelée de notre avenir. C’est dans ce contexte que Jana Revedin, architecte et professeur, a créé en 2007 le “Global Award for Sustainable Architecture”. Cet ouvrage illustre le travail des lauréats 2009 et 2010 (Sami Rintala, Studio Mumbaï, Diébédo Francis Kéré, Patrick Bouchain et Loïc Julienne, Thomas Herzog, Junya Ishigami, Steve Bear, Giancarlo Mazzanti, Troppo Architects et Snohetta). La première partie de chaque chapitre présente les architectes en retraçant les conditions de leur engagement, en expliquant la démarche que chacun a construite au sein de la société où il vit et en mettant en lumière ce que son expérience apporte au débat mondial. La seconde partie présente deux ou trois projets qui illustrent particulièrement cette démarche et sont porteurs d’enseignements.
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