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Claude-Nicolas Ledoux (1736–1806) is a French revolutionary architect. Since the 1930s, when he was rediscovered by Emil Kaufmann in the famous study “From Ledoux to Le Corbusier,” his visionary but widely realized buildings have served as a source of inspiration for unusual designs.
Claude-Nicolas Ledoux : architecture and utopia in the era of the french revolution
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Claude-Nicolas Ledoux (1736–1806) is a French revolutionary architect. Since the 1930s, when he was rediscovered by Emil Kaufmann in the famous study “From Ledoux to Le Corbusier,” his visionary but widely realized buildings have served as a source of inspiration for unusual designs.
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The list of authors in "Theorizing a New Agenda" reads like a "Who's Who" of contemporary architectural thought: Tadao Ando, Giulio Carlo Argan, Alan Colquhoun, Jacques Derrida, Peter Eisenman, Marco Frascari,(...)
Theorizing a new agenda for architecture : an anthology of architectural theory 1965-1995
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The list of authors in "Theorizing a New Agenda" reads like a "Who's Who" of contemporary architectural thought: Tadao Ando, Giulio Carlo Argan, Alan Colquhoun, Jacques Derrida, Peter Eisenman, Marco Frascari, Kenneth Frampton, Diane Ghirardo, Vittorio Gregotti, Karsten Harries, Rem Koolhaas, Christian Norberg-Schulz, Aldo Rossi, Colin Rowe, Thomas Schumacher, Ignasi de Solá-Morales Rubió, Bernard Tschumi, Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown, and Anthony Vidler. A bibliography and notes on all the contributors are also included.
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November 1995, New York
Architectural Theory
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In this book, curator and historian Penelope Curtis traces the ways sculp¬ture infiltrated architectural thought over the post-war period. Her study identifies the wall as a particular locus of creative thinking – a surface which produces both continuity and separation, and which similarly unites and distinguishes the two disciplines. Surveying a series of walls – carved,(...)
The pliable plane: The wall as surface in sculpture and architecture, 1945-1975
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In this book, curator and historian Penelope Curtis traces the ways sculp¬ture infiltrated architectural thought over the post-war period. Her study identifies the wall as a particular locus of creative thinking – a surface which produces both continuity and separation, and which similarly unites and distinguishes the two disciplines. Surveying a series of walls – carved, cast, applied, imagined, and even conceptual – in such places as bomb shelters, caves, war memorials, and public buildings, Curtis introduces a cast of renowned and lesser-known practitioners who defined the three-dimensional conception of the years 1945 to 1975. With close readings of the work and lives of Henry Moore, Anni Albers, Frederick Kiesler, Jorge Oteiza, and Mary Martin, among others, Curtis’s lucid history encom¬passes the developments of wartime production, the discovery of the Lascaux Caves, and the rise of relief art.
Architectural Theory
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Rethinking strategies for rural development is a global pressing challenge. To stimulate the international discussion Aedes Architecture Forum Berlin is presenting a remarkable example from rural China. Dynamic urbanization processes shape large parts of the world and China in particular. The young population migrates to the cities, whereas many elderly people and(...)
March 2018
DnA_Design and Architecture: Rural moves, the Songyang story
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Rethinking strategies for rural development is a global pressing challenge. To stimulate the international discussion Aedes Architecture Forum Berlin is presenting a remarkable example from rural China. Dynamic urbanization processes shape large parts of the world and China in particular. The young population migrates to the cities, whereas many elderly people and children remain in the rural areas. While in the German hinterland railway lines are shut down and the digital infrastructure is more than inadequate, the rural exodus in China is countered with new high-speed train lines and even the most remote mountain villages are being connected by broadband coverage. But also small-scale architecture creates positive future prospects for cultural, social and economic development.
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The Pritzker Architecture Prize is the world’s most highly regarded architecture award. It is presented annually to a living architect who has “produced consistent and significant contributions to humanity and the built environment through the art of architecture.” This splendid book celebrates the 20th anniversary of the prize, which(...)
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March 1999, New York
The Pritzker architecture prize : the first twenty years
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The Pritzker Architecture Prize is the world’s most highly regarded architecture award. It is presented annually to a living architect who has “produced consistent and significant contributions to humanity and the built environment through the art of architecture.” This splendid book celebrates the 20th anniversary of the prize, which has been awarded to such outstanding international figures as Tadao Ando, Frank Gehry, Philip Johnson, Richard Meier, I. M. Pei, James Stirling, Robert Venturi, and most recently Renzo Piano. This volume features texts by Pritzker jury members and discussions of the prize and the laureates’ work by Colin Amery and William J. R. Curtis. Selected buildings and projects by each of the 21 winners are illustrated.
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March 1999, New York
Architecture since 1900, Europe
Old stories, new ways: Conversations about an architecture inspired by indigenous ways of knowing
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Vivian Manasc, one of the founders of Manasc Isaac Architects, has pioneered sustainable architecture in Canada. Her work in partnership with Indigenous communities has been her greatest inspiration, and it has transformed the very nature of her practice. Through the profound lessons of the seven Grandfather Teachings, Vivian came to understand that the process of(...)
December 2020
Old stories, new ways: Conversations about an architecture inspired by indigenous ways of knowing
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Vivian Manasc, one of the founders of Manasc Isaac Architects, has pioneered sustainable architecture in Canada. Her work in partnership with Indigenous communities has been her greatest inspiration, and it has transformed the very nature of her practice. Through the profound lessons of the seven Grandfather Teachings, Vivian came to understand that the process of planning and designing a building should be a circle, with the beginning and end of the story linked together. The stories Vivian tells in this book are also framed by these teachings of Courage, Love, Wisdom, Respect, Truth, Humility and Honesty, with each teaching illuminating an aspect of how working with Dene, Cree, Saulteaux, Métis, Inuit and Inuvialuit communities has influenced her design practice.
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Jorge Silvetti looks back on a long career as both a designing architect and as an architectural teacher and theoretician. Born in Argentina he was educated in music, the visual arts, and architecture amidst the vibrant culture and political turmoil of Buenos Aires in the 1950s and 60s. Silvetti continued his studies and began teaching at the University of California(...)
Architectural Theory
May 2025
Large, lasting and invevitable: Jorge Silvetti in dialogues and writings on architecture
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Jorge Silvetti looks back on a long career as both a designing architect and as an architectural teacher and theoretician. Born in Argentina he was educated in music, the visual arts, and architecture amidst the vibrant culture and political turmoil of Buenos Aires in the 1950s and 60s. Silvetti continued his studies and began teaching at the University of California Berkeley after 1967, where his professional association with Rodolfo Machado began. Their work together continues until today as Machado Silvetti Associates, with offices in Boston and Buenos Aires. Silvetti’s teaching, projects, and writings have significantly shaped contemporary architectural discourse.
Architectural Theory
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This publication explores a series of urgent questions addressing architecture’s role in the welfare and everyday life of citizens, from the interdisciplinary perspectives of architecture, art history and anthropology. With Denmark as a case, it examines how the spatiality of the welfare system has transformed, since the end of the so-called “golden age of the welfare(...)
Architectural Theory
September 2022
Architectures of dismantling and restructuring: Spaces of Danish welfare, 1970-present
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This publication explores a series of urgent questions addressing architecture’s role in the welfare and everyday life of citizens, from the interdisciplinary perspectives of architecture, art history and anthropology. With Denmark as a case, it examines how the spatiality of the welfare system has transformed, since the end of the so-called “golden age of the welfare state” in the early 1970s until today. Rather than unfolding a singular narrative of loss and nostalgia associated with welfare dismantlement – or one of triumphant humanization and restructuring of modernist planned environments – it describes shifting spatial materializations of welfare and the “good life” at the intersection of these two tendencies, under the influence of a Danish version of the neoliberal turn and other important societal transformations. A rich analytical sequence of drawn visualization supplements the book’s textual and photographic descriptions of welfare space transformation.
Architectural Theory
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This publication, which emanates from the "Emergent practices in South Asia" lecture series, catalogs 41 emergent architectural practices in South Asia that displayed a rigorous engagement in the making of architecture, landscape, and infrastructure in the public realm. The publication and lecture series aims to capture the current pulse of the region, offering a platform(...)
December 2023
Architectures of Transition: Emergent practices in South Asia
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This publication, which emanates from the "Emergent practices in South Asia" lecture series, catalogs 41 emergent architectural practices in South Asia that displayed a rigorous engagement in the making of architecture, landscape, and infrastructure in the public realm. The publication and lecture series aims to capture the current pulse of the region, offering a platform for dialogue among practitioners and exploring the pluralism of modes of practice.
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Blending architectural and social history with the necessity for food, this book attempts to understand the development of the American house by viewing it through one very specific lens: the food axis. The author Elizabeth Collins Cromley explores all areas of food management within the home -- preparation, cooking, consumption, and disposal. Studying the use and(...)
November 2010
The food axis: cooking, eating, and the architecture of american houses
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Blending architectural and social history with the necessity for food, this book attempts to understand the development of the American house by viewing it through one very specific lens: the food axis. The author Elizabeth Collins Cromley explores all areas of food management within the home -- preparation, cooking, consumption, and disposal. Studying the use and interaction of these spaces, and the ways in which their components change over time, the author shows how these elements have helped shape the multiple forms of residential architecture in the United States, from the first settlement period to the present.