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The Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAI) awarded the first NAI Prize in 2002. It was awarded to the best building realized during the last two years by an architects under 40 years of age. the NAI will once again be awarding the prize under the title AM-NAI Prize 2004. Fresher Facts presents the four nominated projects in detail and explains the context in which these(...)
Architecture since 1900, Europe
March 2005, Rotterdam
Fresher facts : the best buildings by young architects in the Netherlands
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The Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAI) awarded the first NAI Prize in 2002. It was awarded to the best building realized during the last two years by an architects under 40 years of age. the NAI will once again be awarding the prize under the title AM-NAI Prize 2004. Fresher Facts presents the four nominated projects in detail and explains the context in which these four buildings were created.
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March 2005, Rotterdam
Architecture since 1900, Europe
2G #91: adamo-faiden
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Founded in 2005, adamo-faiden reformulated their role as architects in the new Argentinian social context upon their return to Argentina after the crisis. Among their first projects were residential and office buildings, others were added to this tried-and-true typology that have consolidated adamo-faiden as one of the reference studios in the Southern Cone. This issue(...)
2G #91: adamo-faiden
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Founded in 2005, adamo-faiden reformulated their role as architects in the new Argentinian social context upon their return to Argentina after the crisis. Among their first projects were residential and office buildings, others were added to this tried-and-true typology that have consolidated adamo-faiden as one of the reference studios in the Southern Cone. This issue includes their recent work, from single family houses to commercial buildings.
Architecture Monographs
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''Margin and Text'' is a collection of essays, interviews, and personal stories, as well as historical and current writings and lectures, contributed by BIPOC and female practitioners and educators in architecture. Each piece offers reflections on architecture's troubled past, commentary on its fluid present, and visions of possible futures, all set amid today's context(...)
Architectural Theory
November 2024
Margin and text: Amplifying diverse voices in architecture
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''Margin and Text'' is a collection of essays, interviews, and personal stories, as well as historical and current writings and lectures, contributed by BIPOC and female practitioners and educators in architecture. Each piece offers reflections on architecture's troubled past, commentary on its fluid present, and visions of possible futures, all set amid today's context of broad social activism, divisive politics, and the devastating toll of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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"Architecture of the real" is a book about both architectural design and photography. Architectural design because it focuses on the work of twelve practices and turns a critical eye on contemporary French production. Photography because it presents atypical images made by photographers who are active in contemporary art, and who propose a new realist view of(...)
Architecture since 1900, Europe
October 2004, Paris
Architecture of the real : contemporary architecture in France
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"Architecture of the real" is a book about both architectural design and photography. Architectural design because it focuses on the work of twelve practices and turns a critical eye on contemporary French production. Photography because it presents atypical images made by photographers who are active in contemporary art, and who propose a new realist view of archtiecture - since the buildings are photographed in their inhabited state and everyday context.
Architecture since 1900, Europe
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In "Jacques Henri Lartigue : the invention of an artist", Kevin Moore puts to rest the long-held myth of Lartigue as a naive boy genius whose creations were based on instinct alone. Moore begins by exploring the milieu in which Lartigue became a photographer, examining his father's crutial role in teaching him the techniques as well as the larger context of the(...)
Jacques Henri Lartigue : the invention of an artist
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In "Jacques Henri Lartigue : the invention of an artist", Kevin Moore puts to rest the long-held myth of Lartigue as a naive boy genius whose creations were based on instinct alone. Moore begins by exploring the milieu in which Lartigue became a photographer, examining his father's crutial role in teaching him the techniques as well as the larger context of the turn-of-the-century craze for amateur photography.
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October 2004, Princeton
Photography monographs
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The study of American architectural and urban history has undergone substantial growth and change during the past two decades. "American achitectural history : a contemporary reader" provides a critical introduction to this development. It features twenty-four illustrated selections drawn from the past twenty years of publishing in the field, arranged chronologically(...)
American architectural history : a contemporary reader
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The study of American architectural and urban history has undergone substantial growth and change during the past two decades. "American achitectural history : a contemporary reader" provides a critical introduction to this development. It features twenty-four illustrated selections drawn from the past twenty years of publishing in the field, arranged chronologically from colonial to contemporary subjects. The editor provides a comprehensive introductory essay and sets the book's major theme in context.
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April 2004, London, New York
History until 1900
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Established in London,Proctor and Matthews' work has been consistently committed to imaginative, relevant and forward-thinking solutions in each of its urban projects. This book explores, through commissioned essays, how the practice's concern for cultural identity, historical context and sustainability has earned it international recognition, receiving awards from(...)
Pattern place purpose, Proctor and Matthews architects
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Established in London,Proctor and Matthews' work has been consistently committed to imaginative, relevant and forward-thinking solutions in each of its urban projects. This book explores, through commissioned essays, how the practice's concern for cultural identity, historical context and sustainability has earned it international recognition, receiving awards from organisations as diverse as the RIBA, the Evening Standard London Life Style, the World Wildlife Fund and the Civic Trust.
Architecture Monographs
Gerrit Rietveld
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Gerrit Rietveld's simple yet dynamic style greatly influenced international furniture design and contributed significantly to the history of architecture. Following Rietveld from his humble beginnings as a cabinetmaker to his final years as a world-renowned architect, this book presents both his lesser-known work and his most celebrated. It explores his significance in(...)
Gerrit Rietveld
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Gerrit Rietveld's simple yet dynamic style greatly influenced international furniture design and contributed significantly to the history of architecture. Following Rietveld from his humble beginnings as a cabinetmaker to his final years as a world-renowned architect, this book presents both his lesser-known work and his most celebrated. It explores his significance in the wider context of avant-garde movements, and his influence within De Stijl and Functionalism.
Architecture Monographs
The Houses of Philip Johnson
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Johnson's celebrated Glass House, built in 1949 in New Canaan, Connecticut, is perhaps the single most famous house of the twentieth century. Until now, however, that house has not been looked at in the context of Johnson's many other house projects. This book, the first to comprehensively survey Johnson's residential work, not only brings to light a largely neglected(...)
Architecture Monographs
September 2001, New York, London
The Houses of Philip Johnson
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Johnson's celebrated Glass House, built in 1949 in New Canaan, Connecticut, is perhaps the single most famous house of the twentieth century. Until now, however, that house has not been looked at in the context of Johnson's many other house projects. This book, the first to comprehensively survey Johnson's residential work, not only brings to light a largely neglected side of Johnson's achievement, but fresly illuminates his entire career.
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Room 5 issue 2 : arcade
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This second issue of Room 5 draws together work that reflects the commitment of the London Consortium to multidisciplinary research. Since its inception in 1995, the Consortium has recognised both the ongoing need to analyse modern culture in its social context and to bring to this analysis the knowledges of the human sciences, as well as the need to combine this analysis(...)
Room 5 issue 2 : arcade
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This second issue of Room 5 draws together work that reflects the commitment of the London Consortium to multidisciplinary research. Since its inception in 1995, the Consortium has recognised both the ongoing need to analyse modern culture in its social context and to bring to this analysis the knowledges of the human sciences, as well as the need to combine this analysis with cultural policy and cultural production.
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