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Les écrits d'une figure essentielle et incontournable du design italien contemporain, architecte, designer, rédacteur en chef, essayiste, poète et théoricien, permettent de suivre l'évolution de sa pensée et le développement de son œuvre, avec un appareil critique complet et des introductions historiques et théoriques pour saisir le contexte italien et international qui(...)
Alessandro Mendini, Écrits : architecture, design et projet
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Les écrits d'une figure essentielle et incontournable du design italien contemporain, architecte, designer, rédacteur en chef, essayiste, poète et théoricien, permettent de suivre l'évolution de sa pensée et le développement de son œuvre, avec un appareil critique complet et des introductions historiques et théoriques pour saisir le contexte italien et international qui préside à leur écriture.
Design Theory
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Relationships with Italy were crucial in contributing to the making of postmodern architecture in Australia. In this collection of essays and conversations, the authors reflect upon the reception of Italian postmodern architecture in Australia, revealing a richness of original interpretations.
Italy / Australia: Postmodern architecture In translation
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Relationships with Italy were crucial in contributing to the making of postmodern architecture in Australia. In this collection of essays and conversations, the authors reflect upon the reception of Italian postmodern architecture in Australia, revealing a richness of original interpretations.
Post-modernism
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Dementia presents immense challenges – both for individuals as well as for society as a whole. More than 35 million people all over the world currently live with dementia, a number that is expected to double by 2050. This also has implications for architecture and urban planning because dementia often affects people’s sense of orientation and their ability to perceive(...)
Commercial interiors, Building types
July 2014
Lost in space: Architecture and dementia
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Dementia presents immense challenges – both for individuals as well as for society as a whole. More than 35 million people all over the world currently live with dementia, a number that is expected to double by 2050. This also has implications for architecture and urban planning because dementia often affects people’s sense of orientation and their ability to perceive space. How can homes, apartments, public buildings, outdoor spaces, neighbourhoods and cities, as well as environments and infrastructure, be designed to meet the needs of people with dementia as well as those of their caregivers? And can a consideration of the problems of dementia lead to a better understanding of space that can improve architecture and the built environment for us all?
Commercial interiors, Building types
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"What does the landscape architect actually do as a design?" The authors investigate this seemingly simple question: how are locations and spaces created in the open air, how are paths routed and boundaries set, how are hard and soft materials used? Drawing on practical and theoretical experience, this introduction, often used as a textbook, reveals the central components(...)
Opening spaces: design as landscape architecture
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"What does the landscape architect actually do as a design?" The authors investigate this seemingly simple question: how are locations and spaces created in the open air, how are paths routed and boundaries set, how are hard and soft materials used? Drawing on practical and theoretical experience, this introduction, often used as a textbook, reveals the central components of design and the intellectual paths followed in the design process.
Gardens
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This scholarly guide presents a detailed survey of the plans and typologies of apartment buildings from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in downtown Cairo. It also maps the changes in use of these spaces over time and shares some of the inhabitants' stories.
Arch Southwest Asia & North Africa
August 2014
Discovering Downtown Cairo : architecture...and stories
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This scholarly guide presents a detailed survey of the plans and typologies of apartment buildings from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in downtown Cairo. It also maps the changes in use of these spaces over time and shares some of the inhabitants' stories.
Arch Southwest Asia & North Africa
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« Architecture : Le coyote, le petit-renard, le geai et le pou » est un conte philosophique sur ce qu’habiter la Terre ensemble signifie. Il place le désir de communauté comme préalable pour parvenir à s’établir. En partant d’un conte autochtone, l’auteur analyse le cheminement de quatre compères, ici : un coyote, un renard, un geai et un pou qui se rencontrent et(...)
Architecture : Le coyote, le petit renard, le geai et le pou
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« Architecture : Le coyote, le petit-renard, le geai et le pou » est un conte philosophique sur ce qu’habiter la Terre ensemble signifie. Il place le désir de communauté comme préalable pour parvenir à s’établir. En partant d’un conte autochtone, l’auteur analyse le cheminement de quatre compères, ici : un coyote, un renard, un geai et un pou qui se rencontrent et décident d’œuvrer ensemble, et de s’accorder pour s’établir dans un lieu idéal et habiter, ensemble, le monde. Plein de poésie et de philosophie, superbement illustré, ce conte questionne les fondements mêmes de l’architecture.
Literature and poetry
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Présentations d'une centaine de réalisations contemporaines, créations ex nihilo ou réhabilitations, à Paris et ses environs. La géométrie puriste s'hybride avec de nouvelles formes souples quand elle n'est pas chahutée par une logique déconstructive à grand renfort de désaxements. La quête d'une architecture durable et écologique s'affirme de plus en plus.
Architectures contemporaines de 1990 à nos jours : Paris et environs
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Présentations d'une centaine de réalisations contemporaines, créations ex nihilo ou réhabilitations, à Paris et ses environs. La géométrie puriste s'hybride avec de nouvelles formes souples quand elle n'est pas chahutée par une logique déconstructive à grand renfort de désaxements. La quête d'une architecture durable et écologique s'affirme de plus en plus.
City Guides
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Orientalism's Interlocutors contests the idea that Orientalist art simply expresses the politics of Western domination and argues instead that it was often produced through cross-cultural interactions. Focusing on paintings and other representations of North African and Ottoman cultures, by both local artists and Westerners, the contributors contend that the stylistic(...)
Arch Southwest Asia & North Africa
November 2002, Durham, N.C.
Orientalism's interlocutors : painting, architecture and photography
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Orientalism's Interlocutors contests the idea that Orientalist art simply expresses the politics of Western domination and argues instead that it was often produced through cross-cultural interactions. Focusing on paintings and other representations of North African and Ottoman cultures, by both local artists and Westerners, the contributors contend that the stylistic similarities between indigenous and Western Orientalist art mask profound interpretive differences, which, upon examination, can reveal a visual language of resistance to colonization. The essays also demonstrate how marginalized voices and viewpoints—especially women‘s—within Western Orientalism decentered and destabilized colonial authority Among the artists considered are the Algerian painters Azouoau Mammeri and Mohammed Racim; Turkish painter Osman Hamdi Bey; British landscape painter Barbara Bodichon; and the French painter Henri Regnault.
Arch Southwest Asia & North Africa
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We are at a new moment in architecture, one when many cultures are contributing to the unfolding of modernism. This enriching influence is broadening the mix, extending the range available to architecture, of materials and colours, of evocative forms, of cultural references and of social thinking. In an era of boredom with monocultures and orthodoxies, there is the(...)
Magazines, Back Issues
October 2005, London
The new mix : culturally dynamic architecture
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We are at a new moment in architecture, one when many cultures are contributing to the unfolding of modernism. This enriching influence is broadening the mix, extending the range available to architecture, of materials and colours, of evocative forms, of cultural references and of social thinking. In an era of boredom with monocultures and orthodoxies, there is the almost universal expectation that the metroculture, be it in London or Beijing, will provide broadened cultural experiences in food, performance, dress and sound. The new ethnically diverse city is a place of zesty daily encounters/collisions/cohabitation between cultures, a place of mixed signals, contradictions, delightful confusions. Franco-Japanese cuisine, elite schoolchildren wearing doo-rags, jazz performed on gamelans—no matter what one’s mother culture - we’re all getting addicted to varied rhythms, different emotional emphases, ‘other’ ideas of beauty. This change is visible in schools of architecture, at least in the range of students, typically from many ethnicities, none of them constituting a majority. No wonder, then, that there is increased interest in ways that architecture can incorporate a larger compass of riches. A rising group of practitioners is meeting the challenge of this broadening cultural landscape in pursuing strategies of quick switching, layering, reframing. These new architectural expressions of multiple cultures represent an enrichment that ultimately might help create a more robust modernism, helping to rescue it from a ‘potato blight’ of too much sameness.
Magazines, Back Issues
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Using comics, interviews, and architectural sketches, ‘Undocumented’ explores a growing industry in an era of militarized borders, state surveillance, and criminalized migration. Originally released in 2014 to an architectural audience, this special edition from Ad Astra Comix features an updated afterword by Syed Hussan (No One Is Illegal, Toronto), as well as an(...)
Undocumented: The architecture of migrant detention
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Using comics, interviews, and architectural sketches, ‘Undocumented’ explores a growing industry in an era of militarized borders, state surveillance, and criminalized migration. Originally released in 2014 to an architectural audience, this special edition from Ad Astra Comix features an updated afterword by Syed Hussan (No One Is Illegal, Toronto), as well as an interview with a former detainee. Focusing on Canada’s migrant detention system, where detainees are often held in maximum security prisons without charges for indefinite periods of time, "Undocumented" draws chilling conclusions about the societies that tolerate these punitive spaces of confinement. Proceeds from the sale of each book go to the End Immigration Detention Network.
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