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This researched and illustrated study catalogs all of Latrobe's domestic commissions, offering an authoritative treatment of the concepts, designs, and unique interior and exterior features of his houses. Benjamin Henry Latrobe, an English émigré and the first professional architect of international stature to practice in the United States, invented an American house(...)
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March 2006, Baltimore
The domestic architecture of Benjamin Henry Latrobe
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This researched and illustrated study catalogs all of Latrobe's domestic commissions, offering an authoritative treatment of the concepts, designs, and unique interior and exterior features of his houses. Benjamin Henry Latrobe, an English émigré and the first professional architect of international stature to practice in the United States, invented an American house type for the new democratic republic. Calling upon his diverse education and travel experiences in Europe and his training with eminent architects and engineers in London, Latrobe responded to American manners and climate by producing what he called his "rational house," an application of Enlightenment thinking to the design of a proper living environment for the citizens of the world's most recent democracy. Establishing a new benchmark in Latrobe studies, Michael W. Fazio and Patrick A. Snadon extend their analysis to Latrobe's training and career in England and Europe, his principles of design, and his methods of architectural practice. The authors trace the evolution of his design thinking through analytical essays on all of his major domestic commissions and conclude with a summary discussion of his position within the international architectural scene, his design theories, the integration of interior design and engineering into his architectural practice, and the preservation of his houses.
Architecture Monographs
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In 1879, Carpentry and Building magazine launched its first house design competition for a cheap house. Forty-two competitions, eighty-six winning designs, and a slew of near winners and losers resulted in a body of work that offers an entire history of an architectural culture. The competitions represented a vital period of transition in delineating roles and(...)
Cheap and tasteful dwellings: design competitions and the convenient interior, 1879-1909
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In 1879, Carpentry and Building magazine launched its first house design competition for a cheap house. Forty-two competitions, eighty-six winning designs, and a slew of near winners and losers resulted in a body of work that offers an entire history of an architectural culture. The competitions represented a vital period of transition in delineating roles and responsibilities of architectural services and building trades. The contests helped to define the training, education, and values of “practical architects” and to solidify house-planning ideals. The lives and work of ordinary architects who competed in Carpentry and Building contests offer a reinterpretation of architectural professionalization in this time period.
Museology
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globalized society, and it will continue to do so in the future. Already today, the demands of the job no longer correspond to the profile on which classical architectural training is based. In this context, the question that arises is no longer that of the building alone, but also that of a changed approach to building and new pathways within design itself. This(...)
Contemporary Architecture
October 2008, Baserl, Boston, Berlin
Explorations in architecture: teaching design research
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globalized society, and it will continue to do so in the future. Already today, the demands of the job no longer correspond to the profile on which classical architectural training is based. In this context, the question that arises is no longer that of the building alone, but also that of a changed approach to building and new pathways within design itself. This is where Explorations comes in: internationally celebrated authors, all of whom are professors as well and hence directly involved in the processes they describe, address the principal topics of contemporary architectural research. Taking the works of their own design studios as examples they offer concrete discussions of those topics and place them in the context of applied research and practice. Short and accessible essays on the most important architectural movements of the twentieth century clarify the relationship between the subjects discussed and canonical architectural research.
Contemporary Architecture
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The book highlights the fundamental aspects of this charismatic architect's work that are relevant from a contemporary perspective: his redefining of the house and urban development, the effect of order and discovery in his designs, the poetic force of his buildings and, lastly, their cultural permeation seen, for instance, in Japanese influences. Daniel Treiber has been(...)
Danier Treiber: Frank Lloyd Wright
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The book highlights the fundamental aspects of this charismatic architect's work that are relevant from a contemporary perspective: his redefining of the house and urban development, the effect of order and discovery in his designs, the poetic force of his buildings and, lastly, their cultural permeation seen, for instance, in Japanese influences. Daniel Treiber has been teaching architctural design and architectural history for twenty-five years. Since 2002 he has done so in the context of a Design Chair at the École d'architecture in Lille. He is also the director of the advisory board for the national training of architects in France.
Architecture Monographs
Dancing building
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The Dancing building, Prague, Czech Republic. Function : offices, restaurant, conference, training and trade centre. Project : 1992-94. Construction : 1994-96. Client : ING Real Estate, Paul Koch, Jan Doets. Design architect : Gehry Partners, LLP, Frank Gehry. Collabrating design architect : Studio VM, Vlado Milunic.
Architecture Monographs
January 1900, Rotterdam
Dancing building
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The Dancing building, Prague, Czech Republic. Function : offices, restaurant, conference, training and trade centre. Project : 1992-94. Construction : 1994-96. Client : ING Real Estate, Paul Koch, Jan Doets. Design architect : Gehry Partners, LLP, Frank Gehry. Collabrating design architect : Studio VM, Vlado Milunic.
Architecture Monographs
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At a time when few architectural firms would hire women, Frank Lloyd Wright unhesitatingly employed women, giving them both training and the opportunity to practice. Ultimately, over 100 women architects and designers worked with Wright, many of them going on to remarkable careers of their own. In his studio in Oak Park and at both Taliesin Fellowships, Wright trained and(...)
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October 2009
100 women architects in the studio of Frank Lloyd Wright
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At a time when few architectural firms would hire women, Frank Lloyd Wright unhesitatingly employed women, giving them both training and the opportunity to practice. Ultimately, over 100 women architects and designers worked with Wright, many of them going on to remarkable careers of their own. In his studio in Oak Park and at both Taliesin Fellowships, Wright trained and practiced with women as draftsmen, designers, and fellow visionaries. This production focuses on six of those women - Marion Mahony, Isabel Roberts, Lois Gottlieb, Jane Duncombe, Eleanore Petterson, and Read Weber.
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October 2009
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"Built futures" brings together Shahed Saleem’s written and visual research on the British Mosque, to narrate how mosques have emerged, evolved and become established in Britain since the late nineteenth century. Critical texts describe the ways in which mosques have been created through the grassroots, self-funded and self-built endeavours of migrant Muslim communities(...)
Architecture since 1900, Europe
September 2021
Building futures: The counter architecture of the British Mosque
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"Built futures" brings together Shahed Saleem’s written and visual research on the British Mosque, to narrate how mosques have emerged, evolved and become established in Britain since the late nineteenth century. Critical texts describe the ways in which mosques have been created through the grassroots, self-funded and self-built endeavours of migrant Muslim communities of diverse backgrounds, as they have settled in Britain. Through this journey of research, writing and designing, Saleem challenges the norms and assumptions of his own architectural training and wider design culture, leading him to ask: where is architectural meaning made, and with whom does authorship actually reside? Mostly created through the adaptation of existing buildings, from pubs to cinemas, high street banks to domestic terraces, the mosques which emerge from these sites are a combination of cultural histories and architectural styles, resulting in unexpected and original buildings that are powerful expressions of minority community agency and empowerment.
Architecture since 1900, Europe
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LAN (Local Architecture Network) rethinks the economy of sustainability beyond its technical aspects in the ‘'PARIS XVIII’ housing project. Zeller & Moye explore the row house layout in ‘'La Ribera'’, drawing inspiration from the traditional Mexican vecindad, centered around a shared courtyard. Onsitestudio analyzes the formal and functional contradictions in the “newly(...)
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August 2025
DOMa 12: LAN, Zeller & Moye, Onsitestudio, Jean-Benoît Vétillard architecture
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LAN (Local Architecture Network) rethinks the economy of sustainability beyond its technical aspects in the ‘'PARIS XVIII’ housing project. Zeller & Moye explore the row house layout in ‘'La Ribera'’, drawing inspiration from the traditional Mexican vecindad, centered around a shared courtyard. Onsitestudio analyzes the formal and functional contradictions in the “newly invented tradition” of a sports facility: the ‘'Sassuolo Training Centre'’. Jean-Benoît Vétillard Architecture presents six design iterations before arriving at the final scheme for ‘Maison Nana’. Andreas Angelidakis shares an extensive archive of concrete façade studies and other architectural objects for a ‘'House in Evia'’.
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There is almost nothing new left to say about the urgent need to reduce our devastating impact on the biosphere that supports us. In architectural terms, we have been told since the 1960s that mainstream architecture is not engaged enough with the environmental consequences of what it produces and how it produces it. The usual approach is to propose new ways of designing(...)
Revolution? Architecture and the antropocene
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There is almost nothing new left to say about the urgent need to reduce our devastating impact on the biosphere that supports us. In architectural terms, we have been told since the 1960s that mainstream architecture is not engaged enough with the environmental consequences of what it produces and how it produces it. The usual approach is to propose new ways of designing and building to persuade the reader of the centrality of environmental concerns. But too many readers have remained resolutely unpersuaded over decades. In four sharp, interlocking essays, this book asks why the majority of the architectural profession and its clients still only pay lip service to the importance of the environmental. In each essay, therefore, are examples of innovative and determined people pursuing other ways of practicing architecture and other ways of training architects for this critical century, who are pulling the model of a nature-centric practice out of the margins and into the centre.
Architecture ecologies
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Gordon Atkins practiced architecture in Calgary, Alberta from the early 1960s until the late 1990s. Early in his career he established himself as one of the brightest young architects in Canada. Included in this book is an essay exploring Gordon Atkins'role as an architect, an interview with Atkins that explores in detail his design philosophy, formative training, and(...)
Gordon Atkins : architecture, 1960-95
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Gordon Atkins practiced architecture in Calgary, Alberta from the early 1960s until the late 1990s. Early in his career he established himself as one of the brightest young architects in Canada. Included in this book is an essay exploring Gordon Atkins'role as an architect, an interview with Atkins that explores in detail his design philosophy, formative training, and upbringing.
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November 2004, Calgary
Architecture in Canada