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Olivier Leblois, créateur d'une collection de meubles en carton ondulé, dépose en 1993 le brevet de son fauteuil qui sera diffusé à 150.000 exemplaires. L'intérêt qu'il porte alors aux designers ayant approché le matériau carton sera le point de départ de ce livre, qui présente, sous forme de fiches monographiques, de multiples réalisations des constructions en carton(...)
Carton: mobilier / éco-design / architecture
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Olivier Leblois, créateur d'une collection de meubles en carton ondulé, dépose en 1993 le brevet de son fauteuil qui sera diffusé à 150.000 exemplaires. L'intérêt qu'il porte alors aux designers ayant approché le matériau carton sera le point de départ de ce livre, qui présente, sous forme de fiches monographiques, de multiples réalisations des constructions en carton notamment des architectes Frank O. Gehry, Shigeru Ban, Enzo Mari, Peter Raacke, Guy Rottier, Richard Buckminster Fuller. Le livre aborde aussi les problèmes techniques et les systèmes constructifs adaptés à ce matériau injustement méprisé.
Green Architecture
GA Houses 119
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Issue 119 features three projects by Gurjit Singh Matharoo (b. 1966 in Ajmer, India), a Glass/Wood House by Kenga Kuma, a space in Dutchess County, New York by Steven Holl, some small houses by Frank Gehry, the Gagarin House in Connecticut by Marcel Breuer, a house by Ken Yokogawa, a house by Takashi Yamaguchi, a house by Shigeru Fuse, a project by Alphaville, a project(...)
GA Houses 119
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Issue 119 features three projects by Gurjit Singh Matharoo (b. 1966 in Ajmer, India), a Glass/Wood House by Kenga Kuma, a space in Dutchess County, New York by Steven Holl, some small houses by Frank Gehry, the Gagarin House in Connecticut by Marcel Breuer, a house by Ken Yokogawa, a house by Takashi Yamaguchi, a house by Shigeru Fuse, a project by Alphaville, a project by Keisuke Maeda and an art collector’s loft in Manhattan by UN Studio. The ‘Elements’ series focuses on Gurjit Singh Matharoo and Eric Owen Moss.
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Envisioning Architecture, the first in a series of three titles showcasing selected works from The Museum of Modern Art's superlative architecture and design collection, features a wide variety of drawings by great architects of the modern period, from early masters such as Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier, and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe to contemporary practitioners(...)
Envisioning architecture : drawings from the Museum of Modern Art
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Envisioning Architecture, the first in a series of three titles showcasing selected works from The Museum of Modern Art's superlative architecture and design collection, features a wide variety of drawings by great architects of the modern period, from early masters such as Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier, and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe to contemporary practitioners including Frank Gehry, Zaha Hadid, Rem Koolhaas, and others. Revealing the range of aesthetic viewpoints in architecture since the late 19th century, these drawings also cumulatively trace the development of the field, almost incidentally making the crucial point that in this increasingly technological age, the age-old discipline of drawing is as vital and inventive as ever. The book opens with an exploration of the relatively brief history of collecting architectural drawings, whose practice dates back little farther than the 16th century.
Architectural Drawing
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Frank Gehry's startling architecture for the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles has been depicted in two other books by Balcony Press (Iron and Frozen Music). This new release describes the daring and skill that produced the pipe organ which is the visual focus of the auditorium. This book gives honor to the creativity and craftsmanship of those who designed,(...)
Commercial interiors, Building types
March 2007, Los Angeles
A forest of pipes : the story of the walt disney concert hall organ
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Frank Gehry's startling architecture for the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles has been depicted in two other books by Balcony Press (Iron and Frozen Music). This new release describes the daring and skill that produced the pipe organ which is the visual focus of the auditorium. This book gives honor to the creativity and craftsmanship of those who designed, fabricated, and installed this instrument. (Façade design by Frank Gehry, tonal design by Manuel Rosales, construction of complex components by Glatter-Götz Orgelbau). It also pays tribute to the artistry of the organists who inaugurated it. The generous quantity and quality of the color photographs are balanced with a readable text that describes the development of this pipe organ from initial sketches, to models, to the completed instrument. Included are interesting interviews with designers, builders and musicians.
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March 2007, Los Angeles
Commercial interiors, Building types
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This publication contains photographs taken between 1974 and 2009 of buildings designed by 17 well-known architects including: Peter Eisenman, Louis Kahn, Fumihiko Maki, Norman Foster, Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier, Frank Gehry, Zaha Hadid, Alvar Aalto, Shigeru Ban and Renzo Piano. From the beginning of her career, Turner has used architecture as subject matter.(...)
Judith Turner: seeing ambiguity
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This publication contains photographs taken between 1974 and 2009 of buildings designed by 17 well-known architects including: Peter Eisenman, Louis Kahn, Fumihiko Maki, Norman Foster, Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier, Frank Gehry, Zaha Hadid, Alvar Aalto, Shigeru Ban and Renzo Piano. From the beginning of her career, Turner has used architecture as subject matter. Ambiguity has always been a hallmark of her work where solids become voids, causing positive and negative to reverse. The photos are small fragments of architecture taken out of context. Through her eyes, the subject is decomposed and recreated, assuming a new meaning. The photographs are quiet, yet dynamic, beautifully framed compositions. Architects have commented that she exposes elements of their work they never imagined existed. Thus, while using architecture as subject matter to invent her own worlds, Turner is also revealing some of its inherent complexities.
Photography monographs
RoTo archtiecture
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The presumptive post-Frank Gehry flag bearer of L.A. modernism, Roto has earned international recognition for its expertise in community planning in rural areas, city parks, and on campuses. Featuring essays by architecture critic Mildred Friedman and design theorist Michael Benedikt, "RoTo architecture" illustrates the breadth and depth of the firm's commissions,(...)
Architecture Monographs
April 2006, New York
RoTo archtiecture
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The presumptive post-Frank Gehry flag bearer of L.A. modernism, Roto has earned international recognition for its expertise in community planning in rural areas, city parks, and on campuses. Featuring essays by architecture critic Mildred Friedman and design theorist Michael Benedikt, "RoTo architecture" illustrates the breadth and depth of the firm's commissions, including a memorial for the L.A. Fire Department, an experimental theater complex in La Jolla, California, a large Buddhist stupa in Santa Cruz, California, and a city planning project in Louisville, Kentucky, where a seventy-acre industrial site was transformed into an extension of the city's center.
Architecture Monographs
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This book offers more than 70 examples of contemporary chair design worldwide by designers Tom Dixon, the Campana Brothers, Frank Gehry, and Massimo Vignelli, an others. Chairs of new and reprocessed materials, chairs that knock-down or stack in imaginative ways, chairs impossible to imagine before computer-aided design, even chairs that push the traditional concept of(...)
New chairs : innovations in design, technology, and materials
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This book offers more than 70 examples of contemporary chair design worldwide by designers Tom Dixon, the Campana Brothers, Frank Gehry, and Massimo Vignelli, an others. Chairs of new and reprocessed materials, chairs that knock-down or stack in imaginative ways, chairs impossible to imagine before computer-aided design, even chairs that push the traditional concept of utility are all present. Inflatable, sculptural, and illuminated chairs apply imaginative dimensions to this ubiquitous object. The book includes concept drawings, prototypes, manufacturing details, and insights into the creative process in the designers' own words, all accompanied by color photos of each piece—making.
Interior Design
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What makes an architect tick? What is the state of architecture today? How do architects view each other's work? No one can answer these questions better than the practitioners themselves. Here such distinguished figures as Cecil Balmond, Norman Foster, Frank Gehry, Zaha Hadid, Philip Johnson, Rem Koolhaas, Daniel Libeskind, I. M. Pei, and others offer a wide-ranging(...)
Talking architecture: interviews with architects
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What makes an architect tick? What is the state of architecture today? How do architects view each other's work? No one can answer these questions better than the practitioners themselves. Here such distinguished figures as Cecil Balmond, Norman Foster, Frank Gehry, Zaha Hadid, Philip Johnson, Rem Koolhaas, Daniel Libeskind, I. M. Pei, and others offer a wide-ranging assortment of perspectives on contemporary architecture and the architects' roles in shaping the state of the art today. Each interview focuses on the unique contributions of its subject, and is accompanied by images of their most important works.
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October 2008
Architectural Theory
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In today’s architecture engineers often play an important role concerning the structural design of a building. Their contribution is mostly forgotten, however, and the architects are generally recognized for their work. This book seeks set the record straight and acknowledge the important role engineers play in the development of complex architectural designs.(...)
Remarkable structures : engineering today's innovative buildings
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In today’s architecture engineers often play an important role concerning the structural design of a building. Their contribution is mostly forgotten, however, and the architects are generally recognized for their work. This book seeks set the record straight and acknowledge the important role engineers play in the development of complex architectural designs. "Remarkable structures" presents a series of buildings that are representative of high engineering input including the City of Science (Santiago Calatrava), the Japanese Pavilion (Shigeru Ban/Buro Happold), the Tokyo International Forum (Rafael Vinoly/Structural Design Group), the Guggenheim Museum (Frank Gehry/SOM), and the Educatorium, Utrecht (Koolhaas/ABT).
Engineering Structures
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In the 1980s, Bilbao was Spain’s most polluted city due to the mining and iron industries that had served as its main sources of employment, by then in terminal decline. In 1993, seven years after Spain joined the European Union, a radical transformation was initiated, and celebrated architects such as Santiago Calatrava, Norman Foster, and Frank O. Gehry were brought on(...)
Roger Wherli, Bilbao: photographs since 1988
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In the 1980s, Bilbao was Spain’s most polluted city due to the mining and iron industries that had served as its main sources of employment, by then in terminal decline. In 1993, seven years after Spain joined the European Union, a radical transformation was initiated, and celebrated architects such as Santiago Calatrava, Norman Foster, and Frank O. Gehry were brought on board to design buildings that would serve as icons of the reinvented Bilbao. Swiss photographer Roger Wehrli documented this transformation, which was so successful that Bilbao has since become a model for former industrial centers throughout Europe.
Photography monographs