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xxi, 359 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1998.
The structure of the ordinary : form and control in the built environment / N.J. Habraken ; edited by Jonathan Teicher.
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Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1998.
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The global changes taking place in the architectural world are crystallizing right now in Japan, with the past five years being considered one of the most innovative periods in current Japanese design history. Observed by architects and designers from around the world, these changes are illustrated and articulated in this publication. By documenting 48 important(...)
Contemporary Asian Architecture
September 2011
The new Japan architecture: recent works by the world's leading architects
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The global changes taking place in the architectural world are crystallizing right now in Japan, with the past five years being considered one of the most innovative periods in current Japanese design history. Observed by architects and designers from around the world, these changes are illustrated and articulated in this publication. By documenting 48 important projects by 42 established and avant-garde architects, this book takes the reader through a journey of current trends in contemporary Japanese architecture and predicts future directions. The selection of buildings includes projects that are big and small, private and public, residential and commercial.
Contemporary Asian Architecture
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In "Tower and Office", Spanish architects Inaki Abalos and Juan Herreros look at the role and impact of advanced building technologies in American architecture since World War II. The war, they claim, marked the end of the first cycle of modernism, challenging the belief that technological progress alone could produce a perpetually better future. At the same time, the war(...)
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Tower and office : from Modernist theory to contemporary practice
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In "Tower and Office", Spanish architects Inaki Abalos and Juan Herreros look at the role and impact of advanced building technologies in American architecture since World War II. The war, they claim, marked the end of the first cycle of modernism, challenging the belief that technological progress alone could produce a perpetually better future. At the same time, the war was the source of powerful new structural models and construction methods. The authors examine the ways these technologies have been inflected over the last half century by more subjective and integrated processes of spatial organization. In the first part of the book, Abalos and Herreros focus on the work of Le Corbusier, revealing the degree of complexity achieved in his interpretation of the modern skyscraper. In the second part, they look at the intersection of technical and cultural determinants in the design of high-rise structures since World War II. Among the issues they consider are the evolution of the load-bearing frame, the impact of high-tech systems on tall buildings, and the transparent building skin. In the third part, they address developments in office design and planning, tracing an evolution from the repetitive and homogeneous office skyscraper to the present-day mixed-use structure. Overall they demonstrate how the objective technical analysis associated with modernist architectural theory has given way in recent building practice to a variety of flexible, pragmatic, and environmental approaches. These, they suggest, have opened the way to new urban and architectural forms.
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Edward Dimendberg offers the first comprehensive treatment of one of the most imaginative contemporary design studios. Since founding their practice in 1979, Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofidio have integrated architecture, urban design, media art, and the performing arts through performances, art installations, and books, in addition to buildings and public spaces. (...)
Diller Scofidio + Renfro: architecture after images
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Edward Dimendberg offers the first comprehensive treatment of one of the most imaginative contemporary design studios. Since founding their practice in 1979, Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofidio have integrated architecture, urban design, media art, and the performing arts through performances, art installations, and books, in addition to buildings and public spaces. At the center of this work is a fascination with vision and a commitment to questioning the certainty and security long associated with architecture. Dimendberg provides an extensive overview of these concerns, how the partners question the nature of space and vision in contemporary culture, and produce work that is endlessly surprising and rewarding, from New York’s High Line to Blur, an artificial cloud, and Facsimile, a video screen that moves around a building facade.
Architecture Monographs
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With today's ecological imperatives, contemporary architecture faces its greatest challenges since Modernism. In 2009, Denmark hosted an international summit on climate and sustainability. The Louisiana Museum is supporting this event with a major exhibition, The Future Has Arrived: Architecture for a Sustainable World, the second show in the series The Frontiers of(...)
Green architecture for the future
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With today's ecological imperatives, contemporary architecture faces its greatest challenges since Modernism. In 2009, Denmark hosted an international summit on climate and sustainability. The Louisiana Museum is supporting this event with a major exhibition, The Future Has Arrived: Architecture for a Sustainable World, the second show in the series The Frontiers of Architecture. This exhibition catalogue presents a spectrum of new visions for sustainable global development, based upon the three parameters of economy, environment and social change, with essays by German architect Wilfried Wang, Danish philosopher Ole Thyssen and interviews with Ecosistema Urbano, Foster & Partners, Philippe Rahm and R(n).
Green Architecture
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How can we build a sustainable future in a time of climate change and dwindling resources? As our spatial needs begin to evolve more rapidly, architects are exploring ingenious ways in which to reuse and recycle existing buildings; resulting in a stunning transformation of our existing urban fabric. This volume collects the strategies of reuse together, demonstrating(...)
Building for change: The architecture of creative reuse
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How can we build a sustainable future in a time of climate change and dwindling resources? As our spatial needs begin to evolve more rapidly, architects are exploring ingenious ways in which to reuse and recycle existing buildings; resulting in a stunning transformation of our existing urban fabric. This volume collects the strategies of reuse together, demonstrating their power for change through groundbreaking projects from some of the world’s leading architects. From waste repurposed as construction materials, to buildings reworked with canny spatial interventions, and modular structures designed to be dismantled, discover how the architecture of creative reuse is helping us build a better tomorrow.
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326 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color), plans ; 26 cm
Novato, CA : ORO Editions, 2021., ©2021
Thirteen ways of looking at a house / David Leven and Stella Betts, LEVENBETTS ; with Thomas de Monchaux.
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Novato, CA : ORO Editions, 2021., ©2021
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A multimedia exploration of the morphology of architecture in the American Southwest as defined by evolving modes of transportation. In examining advances in transportation, the book asks how we have come to acquiesce to the monotonous, isolating, and aesthetically bankrupt landscape of suburbia. It also casts predictions about how the future built landscape will look as(...)
Architecture of normal: The colonization of the American landscape
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A multimedia exploration of the morphology of architecture in the American Southwest as defined by evolving modes of transportation. In examining advances in transportation, the book asks how we have come to acquiesce to the monotonous, isolating, and aesthetically bankrupt landscape of suburbia. It also casts predictions about how the future built landscape will look as it continues to adapt to patterns of human movement.
Contemporary Architecture
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Qu'elle soit contemporaine ou traditionnelle, l'architecture japonaise est une source d'inspiration pour les architectes et designers à travers le monde. La scène architecturale japonaise est, depuis quelque temps, au coeur des débats, notamment grâce au travail de jeunes artistes visionnaires allant à l'encontre des standards contemporains aussi bien en Europe qu'aux(...)
La nouvelle architecture Japonaise
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Qu'elle soit contemporaine ou traditionnelle, l'architecture japonaise est une source d'inspiration pour les architectes et designers à travers le monde. La scène architecturale japonaise est, depuis quelque temps, au coeur des débats, notamment grâce au travail de jeunes artistes visionnaires allant à l'encontre des standards contemporains aussi bien en Europe qu'aux Etats-Unis. Des musées aux demeures privées, en passant par les nouveaux bureaux, les immeubles universitaires, les aéroports et les temples ainsi que les écoles, gares et églises, les projets présentés dans cet ouvrage sont très variés. Ces créations sont celles de jeunes cabinets émergents tels que Sou Fujimoto Architects et Junya Ishigami & Associates mais aussi d'architectes renommés comme Toyo Ito, Tadao Ando, Kengo Kuma et SANAA. On y trouve enfin des projets de cabinets internationaux localisés au Japon comme ceux de Richard Rogers Partnership, Foster &. Partners, Herzog &, de Meuron. Ouvrage de référence, La Nouvelle Architecture japonaise est un guide essentiel, non seulement pour les architectes et designers mais aussi pour tous les amateurs d'architecture curieux de découvrir la place unique qu'occupe dans ce domaine le Japon face au reste du monde .
Contemporary Asian Architecture
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95 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 33 cm
München : Hirmer Verlag GmbH, [2019]
Schöpferische Wiederherstellung = Creative reconstruction : Hans Döllgast, Karljosef Schattner, Josef Wiedemann / Fotografie = photography, Klaus Kinold ; Text, Wolfgang Jean Stock.
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München : Hirmer Verlag GmbH, [2019]