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Concrete Concept takes architecture admirers on a tour of the world's most impressive, celebrated and controversial Brutalist buildings. Featuring 50 international examples (built between the 1950s to 1970s), it skips from one country to the next to illustrate why utilitarian concrete buildings grew to become both the most hotly contested and fashionable architectural(...)
Concrete concept: brutalist buildings around the world
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Concrete Concept takes architecture admirers on a tour of the world's most impressive, celebrated and controversial Brutalist buildings. Featuring 50 international examples (built between the 1950s to 1970s), it skips from one country to the next to illustrate why utilitarian concrete buildings grew to become both the most hotly contested and fashionable architectural style in history. Building descriptions cover key details about the building as well as a context for its original use, public reception and current status.
Contemporary Architecture
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Ricardo Bofill has shaped the caracter of his work throught his revaluation of the aesthetic function of each construction, of its relationship with its context and in particular of its relation to the society in which it is implanted. This book presents, with a wealth of illustrations, some published here for the first time, the projects and built work of this(...)
Ricardo Bofill: works and projects
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Ricardo Bofill has shaped the caracter of his work throught his revaluation of the aesthetic function of each construction, of its relationship with its context and in particular of its relation to the society in which it is implanted. This book presents, with a wealth of illustrations, some published here for the first time, the projects and built work of this internationally-acclaimed architect: by way of schemes for parks, public buildings, housing and offices, and skyscrapers.
Architecture Monographs
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Jean Nouvel, Rem Koolhaas, Bjarke Ingels and Norman Foster all these cutting-edge architects have at some time used comic strips to present their projects or reflected on the socio-political context that shaped them. Bricks and Balloons brings together a wealth of architectural projects that reach out to the world of comics, many published here for the first time. The(...)
Bricks & Balloons: architecture in comic-strip form
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Jean Nouvel, Rem Koolhaas, Bjarke Ingels and Norman Foster all these cutting-edge architects have at some time used comic strips to present their projects or reflected on the socio-political context that shaped them. Bricks and Balloons brings together a wealth of architectural projects that reach out to the world of comics, many published here for the first time. The book is based on first-hand information collected during dozens of interviews with architects and comic strip artists.
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On the new
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On the New looks at the economies of exchange and valuation that drive modern culture's key sites: the intellectual marketplace and the archive. As ideas move from one context to another, newness is created. This continuous shifting of the line that separates the valuable from the worthless, culture from profanity, is at the center of Boris Groys's investigation which(...)
On the new
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On the New looks at the economies of exchange and valuation that drive modern culture's key sites: the intellectual marketplace and the archive. As ideas move from one context to another, newness is created. This continuous shifting of the line that separates the valuable from the worthless, culture from profanity, is at the center of Boris Groys's investigation which aims to map the uncharted territory of what constitutes artistic innovation and what processes underpin its recognition and appropriation.
Critical Theory
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In this illustrated volume, Maria Antonietta Crippa and Françoise Caussé explore the particular set of circumstances that led to one of the twentieth century’s most famous exponents of urbanism creating an ethereal space of worship perched atop a remote hill in the French countryside. Putting the chapel into its historical context and exploring the controversies and(...)
Architecture Monographs
November 2014
Le Corbusier : the chapel of Notre-Dame du Haut at Ronchamp
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In this illustrated volume, Maria Antonietta Crippa and Françoise Caussé explore the particular set of circumstances that led to one of the twentieth century’s most famous exponents of urbanism creating an ethereal space of worship perched atop a remote hill in the French countryside. Putting the chapel into its historical context and exploring the controversies and arguments that have surrounded and continue to surround it, the book also features new photographs that capture the genius of Le Corbusier’s design.
Architecture Monographs
Disobedient objects
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From political activism comes the art of protest, symbols, and designs that defy standard definitions. This timely book shows how objects can change the world by out-designing authority. It focuses on the period from 1980 to the present, a time that brought new technologies and political challenges to protest movements. Provocative and engaging, this book showcases how(...)
Disobedient objects
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From political activism comes the art of protest, symbols, and designs that defy standard definitions. This timely book shows how objects can change the world by out-designing authority. It focuses on the period from 1980 to the present, a time that brought new technologies and political challenges to protest movements. Provocative and engaging, this book showcases how artists have produced work within the context of social movements, which become the vibrant engines for ingenuity and collective creativity.
Design Theory
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Sigurd Lewerentz, Architect is a high-quality reprint of the first monograph ever written on Lewerentz and his work. Originally published in 1985 in Swedish, this legendary book tells the story of his life and presents his entire body of work through a combination of texts, photographs, drawings, and plans. This edition sets Lewerentz in a contemporary context through a(...)
Sigurd Lewerentz, architect 1885-1975
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Sigurd Lewerentz, Architect is a high-quality reprint of the first monograph ever written on Lewerentz and his work. Originally published in 1985 in Swedish, this legendary book tells the story of his life and presents his entire body of work through a combination of texts, photographs, drawings, and plans. This edition sets Lewerentz in a contemporary context through a concluding essay on his work and legacy by the German-Chinese architect, critic, and professor Wilfried Wang.
Architecture Monographs
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Works 1965-Today stems from a retrospective held at the Grazer Kunstverein showcasing Josef Bauer’s experiments with language, color, and their spatial contexts nearly forty years after his last exhibition in Graz. His practice combines sculpture, installation, painting, and performance to disturb our perception of words and colors as mere “carriers” of meaning. By(...)
Josef Bauer : works, 1965-today
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Works 1965-Today stems from a retrospective held at the Grazer Kunstverein showcasing Josef Bauer’s experiments with language, color, and their spatial contexts nearly forty years after his last exhibition in Graz. His practice combines sculpture, installation, painting, and performance to disturb our perception of words and colors as mere “carriers” of meaning. By removing their two-dimensional context, letters become objects that communicate directly with our bodies in an unfiltered and urgent language called “tactile poetry.”
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80 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
Paris : Archibooks, ©2014.
Rezo Strato : Anne Démians architecte, Hardel et Le Bihan architectes / Laurence Allard.
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237 pages ; 18 cm.
Gollion : Infolio, [2018], ©2018
Justice et environnement : les citoyens interpellent le politique / Lydie Laigle et Sophie Moreau ; préface de José-Frédéric Deroubaix.
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Gollion : Infolio, [2018], ©2018