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Recognizing that buildings are a major contributor to global warming and the critical role of embodied versus operational carbon, the book focuses on houses built from materials that either sequester carbon (plants), use materials with very low embodied carbon (earth and stone) or reuse substantial amounts of existing materials. Organized by those materials (wood,(...)
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Recognizing that buildings are a major contributor to global warming and the critical role of embodied versus operational carbon, the book focuses on houses built from materials that either sequester carbon (plants), use materials with very low embodied carbon (earth and stone) or reuse substantial amounts of existing materials. Organized by those materials (wood,(...)
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Manual of biogenic house sections
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Recognizing that buildings are a major contributor to global warming and the critical role of embodied versus operational carbon, the book focuses on houses built from materials that either sequester carbon (plants), use materials with very low embodied carbon (earth and stone) or reuse substantial amounts of existing materials. Organized by those materials (wood, bamboo, straw, hemp, cork, earth, brick, stone and re-use), and incorporating life cycle diagrams demonstrating how the raw material is processed into building components, the book shows how the unique properties of each material can transform the ways architects conceive the sections of houses. The house was selected as the vehicle for these investigations due to its scale, its role as a site of architectural experimentation, and its ubiquity. Building on the techniques of the "Manual of section," the book is comprised of newly generated cross-sectional drawings of fifty-five recent, modestly sized houses from around the world, making legible the tectonics and materials used in their construction. Each house is also shown through exploded axonometric, construction photographs and color photographs of the exterior and interior. Introductory essays set up the importance of embodied carbon, the role of vernacular plant-based construction and the problems of contemporary house construction. Drawing connections between the architecture of the house, environmental systems and material economies, the book seeks to change how we build now and for the future.
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Recognizing that buildings are a major contributor to global warming and the critical role of embodied versus operational carbon, the book focuses on houses built from materials that either sequester carbon (plants), use materials with very low embodied carbon (earth and stone) or reuse substantial amounts of existing materials. Organized by those materials (wood, bamboo, straw, hemp, cork, earth, brick, stone and re-use), and incorporating life cycle diagrams demonstrating how the raw material is processed into building components, the book shows how the unique properties of each material can transform the ways architects conceive the sections of houses. The house was selected as the vehicle for these investigations due to its scale, its role as a site of architectural experimentation, and its ubiquity. Building on the techniques of the "Manual of section," the book is comprised of newly generated cross-sectional drawings of fifty-five recent, modestly sized houses from around the world, making legible the tectonics and materials used in their construction. Each house is also shown through exploded axonometric, construction photographs and color photographs of the exterior and interior. Introductory essays set up the importance of embodied carbon, the role of vernacular plant-based construction and the problems of contemporary house construction. Drawing connections between the architecture of the house, environmental systems and material economies, the book seeks to change how we build now and for the future.
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"Contemporanea" is a nascent lexicon for the twenty-first century edited by seasoned philosophers and authors Michael Marder and Giovanbattista Tusa. The collection showcases perspectives from a range of noteworthy thinkers in philosophy, ecology, and cultural studies, as well as artists, from across the globe, including Slavoj Zizek, Timothy Morton, Denise Ferreira Da(...)
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"Contemporanea" is a nascent lexicon for the twenty-first century edited by seasoned philosophers and authors Michael Marder and Giovanbattista Tusa. The collection showcases perspectives from a range of noteworthy thinkers in philosophy, ecology, and cultural studies, as well as artists, from across the globe, including Slavoj Zizek, Timothy Morton, Denise Ferreira Da(...)
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Contemporanea: a glossary for the twenty-first century
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"Contemporanea" is a nascent lexicon for the twenty-first century edited by seasoned philosophers and authors Michael Marder and Giovanbattista Tusa. The collection showcases perspectives from a range of noteworthy thinkers in philosophy, ecology, and cultural studies, as well as artists, from across the globe, including Slavoj Zizek, Timothy Morton, Denise Ferreira Da Silva, and Vandana Shiva, who each describe what they anticipate will be the concepts shaping the trajectory of this century—everything from the world state to the nuclear taboo, automation to Teslaism, plant sexuality to arachnomancy, and ecotrauma to resonances, to name a few. This century, as the editors explain, has to date grounded itself in the debris of the preceding century, whose revolutions and struggles failed to transform our time: post-colonialism, post-fascism, and post-liberalism have morphed into neocolonialism, neoliberalism, and neofascism, often combined in a previously unimaginable mix. And, just as the political developments at the beginning of the twenty-first century revived and reshuffled those of the preceding epoch, so too have philosophical trends sought to breathe fresh life into the stillborn -isms of the past—realism, vitalism, logicism, materialism, empiricism, criticism—adding the adjective "new" and sometimes "radical" before them. To articulate a different future, another language is needed. And, to develop another language, one needs to develop fresh concepts, including the concepts proposed in this collection.
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"Contemporanea" is a nascent lexicon for the twenty-first century edited by seasoned philosophers and authors Michael Marder and Giovanbattista Tusa. The collection showcases perspectives from a range of noteworthy thinkers in philosophy, ecology, and cultural studies, as well as artists, from across the globe, including Slavoj Zizek, Timothy Morton, Denise Ferreira Da Silva, and Vandana Shiva, who each describe what they anticipate will be the concepts shaping the trajectory of this century—everything from the world state to the nuclear taboo, automation to Teslaism, plant sexuality to arachnomancy, and ecotrauma to resonances, to name a few. This century, as the editors explain, has to date grounded itself in the debris of the preceding century, whose revolutions and struggles failed to transform our time: post-colonialism, post-fascism, and post-liberalism have morphed into neocolonialism, neoliberalism, and neofascism, often combined in a previously unimaginable mix. And, just as the political developments at the beginning of the twenty-first century revived and reshuffled those of the preceding epoch, so too have philosophical trends sought to breathe fresh life into the stillborn -isms of the past—realism, vitalism, logicism, materialism, empiricism, criticism—adding the adjective "new" and sometimes "radical" before them. To articulate a different future, another language is needed. And, to develop another language, one needs to develop fresh concepts, including the concepts proposed in this collection.
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March 2024
March 2024
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Critical Theory
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Cet ouvrage questionne une histoire récente du design où la notion d’ornement se donne au cœur de nouvelles logiques de conception et de production. Avec l’avènement du numérique et la redéfinition du rôle de l’ornement, la forme ornementale se donne à présent dans une dimension calculée de morphogenèse : sa dynamique s’ancre dans les processus de croissance de la nature.(...)
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Cet ouvrage questionne une histoire récente du design où la notion d’ornement se donne au cœur de nouvelles logiques de conception et de production. Avec l’avènement du numérique et la redéfinition du rôle de l’ornement, la forme ornementale se donne à présent dans une dimension calculée de morphogenèse : sa dynamique s’ancre dans les processus de croissance de la nature.(...)
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Design et merveilleux : de la nature de l'ornement / Design and the wondrous: on the nature of ornament
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Cet ouvrage questionne une histoire récente du design où la notion d’ornement se donne au cœur de nouvelles logiques de conception et de production. Avec l’avènement du numérique et la redéfinition du rôle de l’ornement, la forme ornementale se donne à présent dans une dimension calculée de morphogenèse : sa dynamique s’ancre dans les processus de croissance de la nature. Dans toutes ces réalisations, la dimension générative de la nature a conféré à l’ornement un rôle structurel nouveau. S'appuyant sur une sélection d'œuvres de plus de cinquante artistes, , quatre essais (Marie-Ange Brayer, Spyros Papapetros, Martine Dancer-Mourès et Sophie Fétro), nous donnent à lire et comprendre, l'évolution du design et de l'ornement, à l'ère du numérique. / This volume presents a new narrative of design, situated somewhere between plant life and ornament, nature and artifice. Through essays by several authors it explores the ornament’s role with respect to morphogenesis, by which the object is continually transformed through an evolving dynamic of forms. With the arrival of the digital age, the ornament’s role in design has been greatly modified. No longer a simple motif, it is used as an animated form. At the intersection of information sciences and biology, designers utilise 3D printing to create carefully calculated objects based on organic growth. With contributions by Spyros Papapetros, Marie-Ange Brayer, and others.
Design et merveilleux : de la nature de l'ornement / Design and the wondrous: on the nature of ornament
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Cet ouvrage questionne une histoire récente du design où la notion d’ornement se donne au cœur de nouvelles logiques de conception et de production. Avec l’avènement du numérique et la redéfinition du rôle de l’ornement, la forme ornementale se donne à présent dans une dimension calculée de morphogenèse : sa dynamique s’ancre dans les processus de croissance de la nature. Dans toutes ces réalisations, la dimension générative de la nature a conféré à l’ornement un rôle structurel nouveau. S'appuyant sur une sélection d'œuvres de plus de cinquante artistes, , quatre essais (Marie-Ange Brayer, Spyros Papapetros, Martine Dancer-Mourès et Sophie Fétro), nous donnent à lire et comprendre, l'évolution du design et de l'ornement, à l'ère du numérique. / This volume presents a new narrative of design, situated somewhere between plant life and ornament, nature and artifice. Through essays by several authors it explores the ornament’s role with respect to morphogenesis, by which the object is continually transformed through an evolving dynamic of forms. With the arrival of the digital age, the ornament’s role in design has been greatly modified. No longer a simple motif, it is used as an animated form. At the intersection of information sciences and biology, designers utilise 3D printing to create carefully calculated objects based on organic growth. With contributions by Spyros Papapetros, Marie-Ange Brayer, and others.
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May 2019
May 2019
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Gelebte Utopie : die Terrassenhaussiedlung der Werkgruppe Graz / Eugen Gross, Andrea Jany (Hg.).
Gelebte Utopie : die Terrassenhaussiedlung der Werkgruppe Graz / Eugen Gross, Andrea Jany (Hg.).
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Berlin : Jovis Verlag, [2022], ©2022
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Gelebte Utopie : die Terrassenhaussiedlung der Werkgruppe Graz / Eugen Gross, Andrea Jany (Hg.).
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Cet ouvrage de l’architecte Jacques Plante révèle l’identité unique de l’architecture québécoise du spectacle à travers 52 œuvres réalisées et potentielles. On y trouve 450 photographies magnifiques, 200 dessins comparatifs en plans et en coupes ainsi que des fiches et des textes descriptifs pour chacun des projets. Théâtres, salles de concert et de danse, espaces(...)
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Cet ouvrage de l’architecte Jacques Plante révèle l’identité unique de l’architecture québécoise du spectacle à travers 52 œuvres réalisées et potentielles. On y trouve 450 photographies magnifiques, 200 dessins comparatifs en plans et en coupes ainsi que des fiches et des textes descriptifs pour chacun des projets. Théâtres, salles de concert et de danse, espaces(...)
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Architectures du spectacle au Québec
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Cet ouvrage de l’architecte Jacques Plante révèle l’identité unique de l’architecture québécoise du spectacle à travers 52 œuvres réalisées et potentielles. On y trouve 450 photographies magnifiques, 200 dessins comparatifs en plans et en coupes ainsi que des fiches et des textes descriptifs pour chacun des projets. Théâtres, salles de concert et de danse, espaces circassiens, centres de production et de diffusion culturelle et multimédia, constituant nos lieux culturels par excellence, y sont élégamment présentés. Quinze personnalités des spécialistes, metteurs en scène, scénographes, danseurs, architectes, acousticiens et gestionnaires nous livrent l’expérience qu’ils ont vécue dans certains lieux de spectacle et les espoirs qu’ils nourrissent à l’égard des nouveaux espaces. Architectures du spectacle au Québec est le premier ouvrage à documenter toute cette production architecturale, primée tant au Québec qu’au Canada.
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Cet ouvrage de l’architecte Jacques Plante révèle l’identité unique de l’architecture québécoise du spectacle à travers 52 œuvres réalisées et potentielles. On y trouve 450 photographies magnifiques, 200 dessins comparatifs en plans et en coupes ainsi que des fiches et des textes descriptifs pour chacun des projets. Théâtres, salles de concert et de danse, espaces circassiens, centres de production et de diffusion culturelle et multimédia, constituant nos lieux culturels par excellence, y sont élégamment présentés. Quinze personnalités des spécialistes, metteurs en scène, scénographes, danseurs, architectes, acousticiens et gestionnaires nous livrent l’expérience qu’ils ont vécue dans certains lieux de spectacle et les espoirs qu’ils nourrissent à l’égard des nouveaux espaces. Architectures du spectacle au Québec est le premier ouvrage à documenter toute cette production architecturale, primée tant au Québec qu’au Canada.
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April 2011
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Dans la foulée des ouvrages Architectures du spectacle au Québec (2011) et Architectures de la connaissance au Québec (2013), Jacques Plante et Nicholas Roquet présentent ici le troisième volet d’une trilogie exceptionnelle sur les lieux culturels. Ils nous font découvrir la qualité et l’innovation du travail de nos architectes et nous proposent la visite en mots, en(...)
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Dans la foulée des ouvrages Architectures du spectacle au Québec (2011) et Architectures de la connaissance au Québec (2013), Jacques Plante et Nicholas Roquet présentent ici le troisième volet d’une trilogie exceptionnelle sur les lieux culturels. Ils nous font découvrir la qualité et l’innovation du travail de nos architectes et nous proposent la visite en mots, en(...)
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Architectures d'exposition au Québec
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Dans la foulée des ouvrages Architectures du spectacle au Québec (2011) et Architectures de la connaissance au Québec (2013), Jacques Plante et Nicholas Roquet présentent ici le troisième volet d’une trilogie exceptionnelle sur les lieux culturels. Ils nous font découvrir la qualité et l’innovation du travail de nos architectes et nous proposent la visite en mots, en dessins et en images de musées, de centres d’interprétation et de lieux d’exposition disséminés aux quatre coins de la province. Ils nous font comprendre l’importance des grands musées nationaux et celle des musées et centres d’interprétation régionaux, notamment ceux des Premières Nations, qui diffusent et protègent notre patrimoine culturel et scientifique. Cet ouvrage remarquable sur les lieux d’exposition contient 11 textes inédits d’auteurs reconnus sur les grands enjeux des musées d’hier et d’aujourd’hui, des présentations détaillées de 36 projets d’architecture, 377 photographies et illustrations et 200 dessins en plan et en coupe. L’architecture contemporaine, souvent alliée à des lieux patrimoniaux de différentes époques, traduit notre identité à travers des constructions qui s’inspirent de grandes thématiques, comme les beaux-arts, les sciences, les sociétés, le temps, le paysage et l’événement. Les auteurs – architectes, directeurs de musées et professeurs – nous invitent donc à découvrir l’évolution et la spécialisation de ces établissements culturels du Québec et à admirer la transformation spatiale, fonctionnelle et muséographique qu’ils connaissent depuis plus d’un quart de siècle, au gré d’une culture internationale, nationale et régionale en pleine mutation.
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Dans la foulée des ouvrages Architectures du spectacle au Québec (2011) et Architectures de la connaissance au Québec (2013), Jacques Plante et Nicholas Roquet présentent ici le troisième volet d’une trilogie exceptionnelle sur les lieux culturels. Ils nous font découvrir la qualité et l’innovation du travail de nos architectes et nous proposent la visite en mots, en dessins et en images de musées, de centres d’interprétation et de lieux d’exposition disséminés aux quatre coins de la province. Ils nous font comprendre l’importance des grands musées nationaux et celle des musées et centres d’interprétation régionaux, notamment ceux des Premières Nations, qui diffusent et protègent notre patrimoine culturel et scientifique. Cet ouvrage remarquable sur les lieux d’exposition contient 11 textes inédits d’auteurs reconnus sur les grands enjeux des musées d’hier et d’aujourd’hui, des présentations détaillées de 36 projets d’architecture, 377 photographies et illustrations et 200 dessins en plan et en coupe. L’architecture contemporaine, souvent alliée à des lieux patrimoniaux de différentes époques, traduit notre identité à travers des constructions qui s’inspirent de grandes thématiques, comme les beaux-arts, les sciences, les sociétés, le temps, le paysage et l’événement. Les auteurs – architectes, directeurs de musées et professeurs – nous invitent donc à découvrir l’évolution et la spécialisation de ces établissements culturels du Québec et à admirer la transformation spatiale, fonctionnelle et muséographique qu’ils connaissent depuis plus d’un quart de siècle, au gré d’une culture internationale, nationale et régionale en pleine mutation.
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Après Architecture du spectacle au Québec, Jacques Plante nous emmène une fois de plus au coeur du travail des architectes en nous faisant voir et comprendre des bibliothèques inspirées et inspirantes, dites "architectures de la connaissance". Qu'on les nomme bibliothèque, maison de la culture, centre d'archives ou centre culturel, elles sont le reflet de notre société et(...)
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Après Architecture du spectacle au Québec, Jacques Plante nous emmène une fois de plus au coeur du travail des architectes en nous faisant voir et comprendre des bibliothèques inspirées et inspirantes, dites "architectures de la connaissance". Qu'on les nomme bibliothèque, maison de la culture, centre d'archives ou centre culturel, elles sont le reflet de notre société et(...)
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Architectures de la connaissance au Québec
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Après Architecture du spectacle au Québec, Jacques Plante nous emmène une fois de plus au coeur du travail des architectes en nous faisant voir et comprendre des bibliothèques inspirées et inspirantes, dites "architectures de la connaissance". Qu'on les nomme bibliothèque, maison de la culture, centre d'archives ou centre culturel, elles sont le reflet de notre société et de notre époque. La bibliothèque s’adapte aux besoins des clientèles autant qu’aux changements technologiques et sociaux. Devenue troisième lieu de vie des citoyens, concept dont on parle maintenant comme d’une révélation, elle s’avère aussi un refuge où profiter de moments paisibles à l’abri de la confusion du monde.
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Après Architecture du spectacle au Québec, Jacques Plante nous emmène une fois de plus au coeur du travail des architectes en nous faisant voir et comprendre des bibliothèques inspirées et inspirantes, dites "architectures de la connaissance". Qu'on les nomme bibliothèque, maison de la culture, centre d'archives ou centre culturel, elles sont le reflet de notre société et de notre époque. La bibliothèque s’adapte aux besoins des clientèles autant qu’aux changements technologiques et sociaux. Devenue troisième lieu de vie des citoyens, concept dont on parle maintenant comme d’une révélation, elle s’avère aussi un refuge où profiter de moments paisibles à l’abri de la confusion du monde.
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London ; New York : Routledge, 2012.
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Urban wildscapes / edited by Anna Jorgensen and Richard Keenan.
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One of the delights of life is the discovery and rediscovery of patterns of order and beauty in nature—designs revealed by slicing through a head of cabbage or an orange, the forms of shells and butterfly wings. These images are awesome not just for their beauty alone, but because they suggest an order underlying their growth, a harmony existing in nature. What does it(...)
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One of the delights of life is the discovery and rediscovery of patterns of order and beauty in nature—designs revealed by slicing through a head of cabbage or an orange, the forms of shells and butterfly wings. These images are awesome not just for their beauty alone, but because they suggest an order underlying their growth, a harmony existing in nature. What does it(...)
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January 1900, Boston, London
January 1900, Boston, London
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Power of limits: Proportional harmonies in nature, art and architecture
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One of the delights of life is the discovery and rediscovery of patterns of order and beauty in nature—designs revealed by slicing through a head of cabbage or an orange, the forms of shells and butterfly wings. These images are awesome not just for their beauty alone, but because they suggest an order underlying their growth, a harmony existing in nature. What does it mean that such an order exists; how far does it extend? The Power of Limits was inspired by those simple discoveries of harmony. The author went on to investigate and measure hundreds of patterns—ancient and modern, minute and vast. His discovery, vividly illustrated here, is that certain proportions occur over and over again in all these forms. Patterns are also repeated in how things grow and are made—by the dynamic union of opposites—as demonstrated by the spirals that move in opposite directions in the growth of a plant. The joining of unity and diversity in the discipline of proportional limitations creates forms that are beautiful to us because they embody the principles of the cosmic order of which we are a part; conversely, the limitlessness of that order is revealed by the strictness of its forms. The author shows how we, as humans, are included in the universal harmony of form, and suggests that the union of complementary opposites may be a way to extend that harmony to the psychological and social realms as well.
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One of the delights of life is the discovery and rediscovery of patterns of order and beauty in nature—designs revealed by slicing through a head of cabbage or an orange, the forms of shells and butterfly wings. These images are awesome not just for their beauty alone, but because they suggest an order underlying their growth, a harmony existing in nature. What does it mean that such an order exists; how far does it extend? The Power of Limits was inspired by those simple discoveries of harmony. The author went on to investigate and measure hundreds of patterns—ancient and modern, minute and vast. His discovery, vividly illustrated here, is that certain proportions occur over and over again in all these forms. Patterns are also repeated in how things grow and are made—by the dynamic union of opposites—as demonstrated by the spirals that move in opposite directions in the growth of a plant. The joining of unity and diversity in the discipline of proportional limitations creates forms that are beautiful to us because they embody the principles of the cosmic order of which we are a part; conversely, the limitlessness of that order is revealed by the strictness of its forms. The author shows how we, as humans, are included in the universal harmony of form, and suggests that the union of complementary opposites may be a way to extend that harmony to the psychological and social realms as well.
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January 1900, Boston, London
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Moshe Safdie achieved worldwide recognition as an architect when his very first building, Habitat 67, at Expo in Montreal, proved to be eminently livable. He was also enthusiastically praised as a writer on architectural and human values after the publication of his first book, Beyond Habitat (The MIT Press, 1970). He has since added to his luster a number of exciting(...)
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Moshe Safdie achieved worldwide recognition as an architect when his very first building, Habitat 67, at Expo in Montreal, proved to be eminently livable. He was also enthusiastically praised as a writer on architectural and human values after the publication of his first book, Beyond Habitat (The MIT Press, 1970). He has since added to his luster a number of exciting(...)
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Moshe Safdie: For everyone a garden. Habitat 67
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Moshe Safdie achieved worldwide recognition as an architect when his very first building, Habitat 67, at Expo in Montreal, proved to be eminently livable. He was also enthusiastically praised as a writer on architectural and human values after the publication of his first book, Beyond Habitat (The MIT Press, 1970). He has since added to his luster a number of exciting architectural projects, and now this second book, For Everyone a Garden, goes beyond Beyond Habitat in several ways: it provides further detail and technical specificity of Safdie's experience with industrialized building methods for architects and engineers; it updates the status of ongoing projects; and, best of all, it throws off a cascade of sparkling new ideas about people, building, planning, sites, processes, and their interactions. The book is an integral synthesis of words and pictures. The greater part of its total net area is devoted to illustrations—about 125 drawings, 165 halftones, and 5 color photographs, supported by substantial captions—while the text proper puts these into perspective from four thematic points of view: the idea of the three-dimensional community; the requirements and possibilities of human habitation, ranging in amenity from the minimal to the luxurious; the techniques of building in the factory, with a case study that includes a typical plant layout and simplified flow diagrams; and the attributes of well-planned urban meeting places, whether in Jerusalem, Paris, or San Francisco.
Moshe Safdie: For everyone a garden. Habitat 67
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Summary:
Moshe Safdie achieved worldwide recognition as an architect when his very first building, Habitat 67, at Expo in Montreal, proved to be eminently livable. He was also enthusiastically praised as a writer on architectural and human values after the publication of his first book, Beyond Habitat (The MIT Press, 1970). He has since added to his luster a number of exciting architectural projects, and now this second book, For Everyone a Garden, goes beyond Beyond Habitat in several ways: it provides further detail and technical specificity of Safdie's experience with industrialized building methods for architects and engineers; it updates the status of ongoing projects; and, best of all, it throws off a cascade of sparkling new ideas about people, building, planning, sites, processes, and their interactions. The book is an integral synthesis of words and pictures. The greater part of its total net area is devoted to illustrations—about 125 drawings, 165 halftones, and 5 color photographs, supported by substantial captions—while the text proper puts these into perspective from four thematic points of view: the idea of the three-dimensional community; the requirements and possibilities of human habitation, ranging in amenity from the minimal to the luxurious; the techniques of building in the factory, with a case study that includes a typical plant layout and simplified flow diagrams; and the attributes of well-planned urban meeting places, whether in Jerusalem, Paris, or San Francisco.
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October 2015
October 2015
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Architecture Monographs
Architecture Monographs
