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The pub scene across the world is characterised by its casual warmth and conviviality. It has none of the pretences or formality of a restaurant or cocktail bar. It is the relaxed setting in which friends and strangers alike can choose to meet. The pub is where we go to celebrate a special occasion with a group of chums, but also where we might go to flirt intimately with(...)
Commercial interiors, Building types
March 2006, Chichester
Pub scene
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The pub scene across the world is characterised by its casual warmth and conviviality. It has none of the pretences or formality of a restaurant or cocktail bar. It is the relaxed setting in which friends and strangers alike can choose to meet. The pub is where we go to celebrate a special occasion with a group of chums, but also where we might go to flirt intimately with a prospective lover. It is a comfortable destination for seeking out the company of others. Whether located on a street corner in the Scottish Highlands, Munich or New Zealand, a favourite pub is defined by its own distinct atmosphere and character. Pubs are distinguished as much by their interior décor, as by the beer and liquor they sell and the customers that mingle around the bar. These qualities combine to give a 'local' its particular appeal, with a draw far beyond its immediate locality. These very unique, idiosyncratic attributes of pubs, which were once taken for granted, are now in real danger of extinction, as bar chains with standardised designs and drinks' menus are rolled out across city centres and main streets. Turning its back on the trend towards homogeneity of today's watering holes, "Pub Scene" celebrates the often exuberant, sometimes elegant décor, and always singular, wow factor of public drinking places, whether they are big or small, traditional or contemporary. Author Jane Peyton describes some of the world's best looking pubs, including British Victorian Gin Palaces, classic Art Nouveau Belgian café bars, Germany's Beloved bierkellers, Australia's amazing beachside beer-gardens and America's notable brew-pubs.
Commercial interiors, Building types
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This book is not about war, nor is it a history of war. Avoiding the shock and awe of wartime images, it explores the contemporary spatial configurations of power camouflaged in the infrastructures, environments, and scales of military operations. Instead of wartime highs, this book starts with drawdown lows, when demobilization and decommissioning morph into realignment(...)
Ecologies of Power: countermapping the logistical landscapes and military geographies of the US Department of Defense
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This book is not about war, nor is it a history of war. Avoiding the shock and awe of wartime images, it explores the contemporary spatial configurations of power camouflaged in the infrastructures, environments, and scales of military operations. Instead of wartime highs, this book starts with drawdown lows, when demobilization and decommissioning morph into realignment and prepositioning. It is in this transitional milieu that the full material magnitudes and geographic entanglements of contemporary militarism are laid bare. Through this perpetual cycle of build up and breakdown, the U.S. Department of Defense—the single largest developer, landowner, equipment contractor, and energy consumer in the world—has engineered a planetary assemblage of “operational environments” in which militarized, demilitarized, and non-militarized landscapes are increasingly inextricable. In a series of critical cartographic essays, Pierre Bélanger and Alexander Arroyo trace this footprint far beyond the battlefield, countermapping the geographies of U.S. militarism across five of the most important and embattled operational environments: the ocean, the atmosphere, the highway, the city, and the desert. From the Indian Ocean atoll of Diego Garcia to the defense-contractor archipelago around Washington, D.C.; from the A01 Highway circling Afghanistan’s high-altitude steppe to surveillance satellites pinging the planet from low-earth orbit; and from the vast cold chain conveying military perishables worldwide to the global constellation of military dumps, sinks, and scrapyards, the book unearths the logistical infrastructures and residual landscapes that render strategy spatial, militarism material, and power operational. In so doing, Bélanger and Arroyo reveal unseen ecologies of power at work in the making and unmaking of environments—operational, built, and otherwise—to come.
Architectural Theory
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Between 1949 and 1953, Robert Frank continually returned to Europe from his new home in New York to take photographs in France, Switzerland, Spain, and Great Britain, photographs that show the development of his uniquely humanist, poetic, and realist eye. In 1951 and early 1952, Frank visited London--"I liked the light, I liked the fog."--and set out to photograph the(...)
Photography monographs
June 2003, Zurich, Berlin and New York
Robert Frank : London / Wales
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Between 1949 and 1953, Robert Frank continually returned to Europe from his new home in New York to take photographs in France, Switzerland, Spain, and Great Britain, photographs that show the development of his uniquely humanist, poetic, and realist eye. In 1951 and early 1952, Frank visited London--"I liked the light, I liked the fog."--and set out to photograph the unique atmosphere of the city. He followed British financiers around the City, capturing them in their traditional top hats and long coats, creating images that depict them in a poetic dance with their fog-shrouded environment. He shot pictures of workers, men delivering coal, children playing on the streets, people waiting or relaxing in the parks, and images of poverty. In these photographs he juxtaposed money and work, wealth and poverty, creating a dynamic photographic project that has never been shown before in its entirety. Then, in March 1953, before the impending nationalization of the country's coal mines, Frank travelled to the town of Careau, in Wales, to photograph the coal miners whose lives revolved around their work. One miner, Ben James, and his family became the subject of a picture essay (originally published in a 1955 issue of U.S. Camera) in which Frank downplayed the classic modernist photographic moment in favor of a more provocative form that offered informal, revealing glances rather than an official document. In "Robert Frank: London/Wales", Frank returns for the first time to these old negatives. The volume explores a stylistic transformation in his work, a period of development which saw his mode of photography move from an innovative romanticism to a highly charged, metaphorical realism.
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Roger Fenton (1819-1869) was England’s most celebrated and influential photographer during the 1850s, the “golden age” of this radically new medium. Fenton’s majestic pictures of cathedrals, country houses, and varied countryside were without peer in England--as were his views of the royal castles and Houses of Parliament that embodied Britain’s power. But Fenton’s(...)
Photography monographs
November 2004, New Haven, London
All the mighty world : the photographs of Roger Fenton, 1852-1860
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Roger Fenton (1819-1869) was England’s most celebrated and influential photographer during the 1850s, the “golden age” of this radically new medium. Fenton’s majestic pictures of cathedrals, country houses, and varied countryside were without peer in England--as were his views of the royal castles and Houses of Parliament that embodied Britain’s power. But Fenton’s choice of subjects ranged more widely still: he was among the first to photograph the Kremlin and other landmarks of Moscow and Kiev; he was commissioned in 1855 to document the Crimean War, producing early war photographs; and he created theatrical Orientalist costume pictures and a startling series of lush still lifes. Fenton had first studied law and painting, but soon after he took up the camera he was making photographs that were technically superb and highly original in their handling of composition, perspective, atmosphere, and light. Always he strove to demonstrate that photography could equal the art of painting and even surpass it. He was the force behind the founding of the Photographic Society (later the Royal Photographic Society), which worked to advance the profession and encouraged the exhibition of members’ works throughout Britain. In a career of a single decade, Fenton did much to transform photography into a medium of powerful expression and visual delight. This exquisitely produced book--the first comprehensive publication on Fenton in almost twenty years--presents eighty-five of the artist’s finest photographs and discusses every aspect of his work and his remarkable career. This catalogue accompanies an exhibition on view at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (October 17, 2004, to January 2, 2005); the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles (February 1 to April 25, 2005); The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (May 16 to August 14, 2005); and Tate Britain, London (September 25, 2005, to January 2, 2006).
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In December 2006, close to Zurich airport, Opfikerpark was completed after a construction period of 79 weeks. Central element of the park is a concrete sculpture, over 500m-long, accommodating a lake surrounded by sandy beaches and a reed belt. The idea for the design of the park was the result of an international competition initiated in 2001 and won by Berlin practice(...)
Landscape Architecture, Monographs
July 2007, Berlin
79 KW Zurich : building Opfikerpark
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In December 2006, close to Zurich airport, Opfikerpark was completed after a construction period of 79 weeks. Central element of the park is a concrete sculpture, over 500m-long, accommodating a lake surrounded by sandy beaches and a reed belt. The idea for the design of the park was the result of an international competition initiated in 2001 and won by Berlin practice Kiefer. As the second exhibition at gallery AedesLand, this project will be introduced in June 2007. Contrary to the usual approach, the exhibition does not aim to present an already completed construction but rather make transparent the process of creation and realization of the building project ‘opfikerpark’. The efforts and challenges to create a complex and outstanding structure, which were faced by client, planners, engineers as well as executing contractors, shall be recorded in a commented illustration of the construction work. Building sites are temporary production sites involving a multitude of disciplines and trades which need to be coordinated. The exhibition reflects the progressing technological, organizational and design process as well as the objective and subjective influences in effect and thus aims to convey a realistic image of the building activities. Photographer Hanns Joosten has documented the construction progress at regular intervals. His high-quality, large-scale images communicate the special aesthetics of a building site in all its diversity and affect the atmosphere of the exhibition. The whole exhibition space will be part of the exhibition, even floors and ceilings. In addition, a media installation explains the progress of constructing Opfikerpark where viewpoints of diverse disciplines and participants meet. The players get a chance to speak and express their personal perspective on the building process with spoken commentaries. How is a large park constructed? How does a building site work? What do you need so many planners for? And how do they work together? Based on these questions, spontaneous contributions shall throw a critical and ironic light on the expert discourse.
Landscape Architecture, Monographs
Berlin 1919-1933
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Berlin, sous la République de Weimar. Quatorze ans seulement de démocratie après l'Empire et avant le IIIe Reich, quatorze ans de productions artistiques, d'innovations techniques et de bouillonnement intellectuel exceptionnels sur fond d'inflation, de chômage, de luttes sociales. Métropole ouvrière, plus grande cité commerciale d'Europe, capitale de la rationalisation(...)
Berlin 1919-1933
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Berlin, sous la République de Weimar. Quatorze ans seulement de démocratie après l'Empire et avant le IIIe Reich, quatorze ans de productions artistiques, d'innovations techniques et de bouillonnement intellectuel exceptionnels sur fond d'inflation, de chômage, de luttes sociales. Métropole ouvrière, plus grande cité commerciale d'Europe, capitale de la rationalisation dans tous les domaines industriels et domestiques, Berlin ressemble alors à une grouillante métropole américaine avec, dans une atmosphère d'apocalypse plus que d'"Années folles", ses hauts-lieux, ses bas-fonds et ses innombrables théâtres, cinémas, cabarets, médias et grands magasins.
Architecture since 1900, Europe
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Art de la couleur par excellence, l’aquarelle permet de rendre en quelques touches une atmosphère, une époque ou une ambiance. Cet ouvrage propose plus de 50 palettes de couleurs, inspirées par des paysages, des mouvements artistiques, des animaux ou des plantes. Chaque palette est une source d’inspiration inouïe pour les peintres et tous les créateurs visuels. (...)
L'harmonie des couleurs pour l'aquarelle
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Art de la couleur par excellence, l’aquarelle permet de rendre en quelques touches une atmosphère, une époque ou une ambiance. Cet ouvrage propose plus de 50 palettes de couleurs, inspirées par des paysages, des mouvements artistiques, des animaux ou des plantes. Chaque palette est une source d’inspiration inouïe pour les peintres et tous les créateurs visuels. Regorgeant de conseils techniques et reprenant les grands principes de la théorie de la couleur, L’harmonie des couleurs pour l’aquarelle invite son lecteur à ouvrir grands les yeux sur ce qui l’entoure.
Colour Theory and Design
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Cet ouvrage présente plusieurs projets illustrés, conçus par des architectes et décorateurs de renom. Matériaux traditionnels ou innovants, souples ou solides, doux ou rugueux... A chacun correspond une atmosphère particulière. On peut ainsi choisir une ambiance zen, chaleureuse, contemporaine ou futuriste, et la souligner grâce à l'emploi des matières appropriées, pour(...)
Béton, verre, bois, végétaux, bambou: nouvelles esthétiques
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Cet ouvrage présente plusieurs projets illustrés, conçus par des architectes et décorateurs de renom. Matériaux traditionnels ou innovants, souples ou solides, doux ou rugueux... A chacun correspond une atmosphère particulière. On peut ainsi choisir une ambiance zen, chaleureuse, contemporaine ou futuriste, et la souligner grâce à l'emploi des matières appropriées, pour la structure comme pour la décoration. Si le béton évoque la modernité, le verre permet de créer transparences et sensations d'espace, le bois apporte chaleur et noblesse, dans un esprit classique ou actuel. Plus originaux, les bottes de paille et le bambou produisent des effets sensationnels.
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Brooklyn noir
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Peu de boroughs de New York ont l'indépendance d'esprit et la personnalité de Brooklyn, royaume de Spike Lee, Paul Auster et Hubert Selby Jr. En vingt nouvelles, Brooklyn Noir offre un panorama des différentes communautés qui y vivent : rastas et juifs hassidiques, flics irlandais et rappeurs, Coney Island babies et gangsters de Little Odessa. Un melting-pot de langages,(...)
Brooklyn noir
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Peu de boroughs de New York ont l'indépendance d'esprit et la personnalité de Brooklyn, royaume de Spike Lee, Paul Auster et Hubert Selby Jr. En vingt nouvelles, Brooklyn Noir offre un panorama des différentes communautés qui y vivent : rastas et juifs hassidiques, flics irlandais et rappeurs, Coney Island babies et gangsters de Little Odessa. Un melting-pot de langages, d'origines, de classes sociales, empreint de l'inimitable atmosphère brooklynite, désinvolte et décalée. « Les histoires racontées ici sont aussi variées que le quartier lui-même, mais similaires de la façon la plus importante qui soit : comme le sait n'importe quel érudit de bar à gin de Flatbush, ce qui compte, c'est de raconter une bonne histoire. » Tim McLoughlin
City Guides
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L'architecture d'intérieur présente une discipline qui recourt aux théories, à l'histoire et aux principes de l'architecture pour concevoir et créer un espace intérieur et se préoccupe principalement d'adapter, de moderniser et de remodeler des bâtiments maisons, appartements, palaces, hôtels, aéroports, bureaux, grands magasins, restaurants, gares, boutiques. Cinq(...)
Les fondamentaux de l'architecture d'intérieur
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L'architecture d'intérieur présente une discipline qui recourt aux théories, à l'histoire et aux principes de l'architecture pour concevoir et créer un espace intérieur et se préoccupe principalement d'adapter, de moderniser et de remodeler des bâtiments maisons, appartements, palaces, hôtels, aéroports, bureaux, grands magasins, restaurants, gares, boutiques. Cinq chapitres explicitent les savoirs élémentaires qui régissent cette discipline: espace/forme, site/fonction, matériaux/textures, lumière/atmosphère, présentation/représentation. Les données théoriques et techniques sont contextualisées via des biographies d'architectes et des illustrations de projets de créateurs tels que Blacksheep, Bluebottle, Universal Design Studio et Virgile & Stone. Cette introduction au métier d'architecte d'intérieur s'adresse principalement aux étudiants en architecture et en design, mais aussi à tous ceux qui se passionnent pour la création et la conception d'intérieurs.
Interior Design