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This book presents visual profiles of the most iconic buildings in the world, from twenty-five of the most important and most visited cities. Featuring detailed line drawings rendered in black and white, these artworks and the accompanying text help the reader learn each structure’s history and understand what makes them so visually and culturally iconic.
Iconic buildings: an illustrated guide to the world's most remarkable architecture
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This book presents visual profiles of the most iconic buildings in the world, from twenty-five of the most important and most visited cities. Featuring detailed line drawings rendered in black and white, these artworks and the accompanying text help the reader learn each structure’s history and understand what makes them so visually and culturally iconic.
History since 1900, Reference Books
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Prodigious archival research informs Grigor's account of the excavations and discoveries Iranian authorities used to construct monuments to national heroes like Omar Khayyam, an important mathematician and astronomer of the 11th century as well as the author of the Rubaiyat. Grigor also brings immense knowledge to her lively discussion of the modern idiom integrated into(...)
Building Iran: Modernism, Architecture, and National Heritage under the Pahlavi Monarchs
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Prodigious archival research informs Grigor's account of the excavations and discoveries Iranian authorities used to construct monuments to national heroes like Omar Khayyam, an important mathematician and astronomer of the 11th century as well as the author of the Rubaiyat. Grigor also brings immense knowledge to her lively discussion of the modern idiom integrated into such retrospective monuments and buildings. This book is the first in English to study 20th-century Iranian architecture within the historical contexts that shaped its forms and significance.
Architecture since 1900, Middle-East
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Créatrice incontournable du XXe siècle, Charlotte Perriand (1903-1999) est l'une des fondatrices de l'architecture d'intérieur moderne, discipline à part entière de l'art de bâtir. Figurant parmi les pionniers du design, bien que sa démarche reste avant tout celle d'une architecte, elle n'a cessé, pendant soixante-dix ans de sa vie de création, de mener une réflexion(...)
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January 1900, Paris
Charlotte Perriand : un art d'habiter 1903-1959
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Créatrice incontournable du XXe siècle, Charlotte Perriand (1903-1999) est l'une des fondatrices de l'architecture d'intérieur moderne, discipline à part entière de l'art de bâtir. Figurant parmi les pionniers du design, bien que sa démarche reste avant tout celle d'une architecte, elle n'a cessé, pendant soixante-dix ans de sa vie de création, de mener une réflexion politique et éthique sur un habitat adapté à l'homme. Dès sa sortie de l'école de l'Union centrale des arts décoratifs à l'âge de 22 ans, elle se libère du conservatisme dominant pour figurer deux ans plus tard dans l'avant-garde française parmi les créateurs des premiers meubles en tube. Frappé par la modernité du Bar sous le toit qu'elle expose au Salon d'automne de 1927, Le Corbusier lui propose de s'associer à lui et à Pierre Jeanneret pour l'aménagement intérieur, le mobilier et l'équipement des villas qu'ils construisent. En 1929, elle est l'une des cofondatrices de l'Union des artistes modernes. Pendant les dix années de sa collaboration avec Le Corbusier, elle poursuit des recherches sur un habitat et un mobilier pour le plus grand nombre, l'architecture préfabriquée modulaire et l'urbanisme au sein des Congrès internationaux d'architecture moderne (CIAM) dont elle est l'une des animatrices en France. Parallèlement, elle développe la technique du photomontage pour la communication de ses idées politiques. Nommée en 1940 conseillère pour l'art industriel au Japon, elle découvre une conception de l'habitat traditionnel qui rejoint les théories les plus avant-gardistes. Cette expérience est déterminante dans l'élaboration de son " Art d'habiter ", manifeste exprimant une vision fondée sur l'harmonie et le vide qu'elle rédige à son retour en France. A cette époque, elle participe à la fondation du mouvement Formes utiles dans le cadre de l'UAM. En 1952, la perspective d'une production en série l'amène à signer avec les Ateliers Jean Prouvé une convention aux termes de laquelle elle est chargée de l'amélioration esthétique (les meubles existants et d'apporter des dessins (le meubles nouveaux. Ces années 50 voient la concrétisation de ses recherches sur le rangement avec le placard Brazza, les bibliothèques Mexique et Tunisie -aussi célèbres que la chaise longue basculante, le fauteuil pivotant et le fauteuil grand confort réalisés en 1928 avec Le Corbusier et Pierre Jeanneret. Les chantiers d'équipement qu'elle dirige alors- immeuble Air France à Brazzaville, maisons de la Tunisie et du Mexique, agences Air France de Londres, Paris et Tokyo et pavillon du Brésil en 1959 - préfigurent le travail considérable qu'elle accomplira pour la station des Arcs en Savoie au cours des années 70 et 80.
Design Monographs
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Architecture involving and consisting of bamboo as a building material has developed into one of the most fascinating and dynamic areas of global building culture. The giant grass is found on all continents and, as the fastest-growing plant species, is in basically infinite supply. The unique material properties combining extreme hardness with low weight, strong(...)
Bend & build: architecture with bamboo
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Architecture involving and consisting of bamboo as a building material has developed into one of the most fascinating and dynamic areas of global building culture. The giant grass is found on all continents and, as the fastest-growing plant species, is in basically infinite supply. The unique material properties combining extreme hardness with low weight, strong compressive and tensile strength, and elasticity significantly contribute to this trend. ''Bend & build'' shows the versatility of this eco-hero of architecture and interior design, whose applications have become significantly wider and more diversified This collection includes some of the finest, most creative, and cutting-edge bamboo projects of recent years. The range extends from traditional building styles and their modern interpretation to the innovative combination of bamboo with other materials.
Timber Construction
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In this book, David Brown locates jazz music within the broad aesthetic, political, and theoretical upheavals of our time, asserting that modern architecture and urbanism in particular can be strongly influenced and defined by the ways that improvisation is facilitated in jazz. Improvised music consists of diverse properties that fail to register in the(...)
Noise orders : jazz, improvisation, and architecture
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In this book, David Brown locates jazz music within the broad aesthetic, political, and theoretical upheavals of our time, asserting that modern architecture and urbanism in particular can be strongly influenced and defined by the ways that improvisation is facilitated in jazz. Improvised music consists of diverse properties that fail to register in the object-oriented understanding of composition. As a result, it is often dismissed as noise — an interfering signal. However, Brown asserts, such interference can bear meaning and stimulate change. "Noise orders" identifies how architecture can respond to the inclusive dynamics of extemporaneous movements, variable conceptions of composition, multiple durations, and wide manipulation of resources found in jazz to enable outcomes that far exceed a design’s seeming potential. By exploring overlapping moments between modernism and the cultural dimensions of jazz, "Noise orders" suggests that the discipline of improvisation continues to open and redefine architectural theory and practice, creating a world where designers contribute to emerging environments rather than make predetermined ones. Comparing modern and avant-garde artists and architects with individuals and groups in jazz—including Piet Mondrian and boogie-woogie, John Cage and Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Le Corbusier and Louis Armstrong, and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM)—Brown examines how jazz can offer alternative design ideas and directions, be incorporated in contemporary architectural practices, and provide insight on how to develop dynamic metropolitan environments. Interdisciplinary in its approace, "Noise orders" argues for a deeper understanding of the infinite potential inherent in both music and architecture.
Acoustics
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"Food and architecture! is the first book to explore the relationship between these two fields of study and practice. Bringing together leading voices from both food studies and architecture, it provides a ground-breaking, cross-disciplinary analysis of two disciplines which both rely on a combination of creativity, intuition, taste, and science but have rarely been(...)
Food and architecture: at the table
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"Food and architecture! is the first book to explore the relationship between these two fields of study and practice. Bringing together leading voices from both food studies and architecture, it provides a ground-breaking, cross-disciplinary analysis of two disciplines which both rely on a combination of creativity, intuition, taste, and science but have rarely been engaged in direct dialogue. Each of the four sections – Regionalism, Sustainability, Craft, and Authenticity – focuses on a core area of overlap between food and architecture. Structured around a series of 'conversations' between chefs, culinary historians and architects, each theme is explored through a variety of case studies, ranging from pig slaughtering and farmhouses in Greece to authenticity and heritage in American cuisine. Drawing on a range of approaches from both disciplines, methodologies include practice-based research, literary analysis, memoir, and narrative. The end of each section features a commentary by Samantha Martin-McAuliffe which emphasizes key themes and connections.
Food
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This book presents twelve essays by John Dixon Hunt, the leading theorist and historian of landscape architecture. The collection's common theme is a focus on sites, how we see them and what we derive from that looking. Acknowledging that even the most modest landscape encounter has validity, Hunt contends that the more one knows about a site and one's own sight of it (an(...)
Site, sight, insight: essays on landscape architecture
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This book presents twelve essays by John Dixon Hunt, the leading theorist and historian of landscape architecture. The collection's common theme is a focus on sites, how we see them and what we derive from that looking. Acknowledging that even the most modest landscape encounter has validity, Hunt contends that the more one knows about a site and one's own sight of it (an awareness of how one is seeing), the greater the insight. Employing the concepts, tropes, and rhetorical methods of literary analysis, he addresses the problem of how to discuss, understand, and appreciate places that are experienced through all the senses, over time and through space.
Landscape Theory
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Material Matters brings together texts and work by theorists and practitioners who are making material central to their work and reflects the diverse areas of inquiry which are expanding current material discourse. Focusing on the cultural, political, economic, technological and intellectual forces which shape material practices in architecture, the contributors draw on(...)
Materials and Lighting
January 2006, London, New York
Material matters: architecture and material practice
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Material Matters brings together texts and work by theorists and practitioners who are making material central to their work and reflects the diverse areas of inquiry which are expanding current material discourse. Focusing on the cultural, political, economic, technological and intellectual forces which shape material practices in architecture, the contributors draw on disciplines ranging from philosophy, history and pedagogy to art practice and digital and low-tech fabrication. By paying critical attention to material, a wide range of issues emerge in Material Matters which are otherwise excluded from architectural discourse, issues that shape and determine the buildings we make, the processes we use and the ways we understand them. Beautifully illustrated and designed, this book is a unique collection which will be of great interest to architectural practitioners and theorists who want to consider the wider implications of material practice, and to students who are developing their own approach to making buildings.
Materials and Lighting
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Once in every generation comes a scholar who is a master of both the documentary evidence and the buildings themselves. Such a man is Christoph Luitpold Frommel who, after winning a world-wide reputation, here distils his learning into a new synthesis that is both up-to-date and securely based on primary sources. The book is not only illustrated throughout with(...)
The architecture of the Italian Renaissance
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Once in every generation comes a scholar who is a master of both the documentary evidence and the buildings themselves. Such a man is Christoph Luitpold Frommel who, after winning a world-wide reputation, here distils his learning into a new synthesis that is both up-to-date and securely based on primary sources. The book is not only illustrated throughout with photographs, drawings, plans and reconstructions, but social context, technical innovation and aesthetic judgement are all given due weight, with particular emphasis on the way in which each architect balanced individual inspiration with the accepted canon.
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January 1900, London
History until 1900
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This book reveals a group of singular buildings created with glass structures and the interplay of transparencies.
Engineering Structures
January 1998, New York
The architecture of glass : shaping light
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This book reveals a group of singular buildings created with glass structures and the interplay of transparencies.
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January 1998, New York
Engineering Structures