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Texts by Jean Nouvel, Norman Foster, Toyo Iti, et al. Published in the occasion of the 19th UIA in Barcelona.
Urban Theory
January 1997, Barcelona
Present and futures : architecture in cities
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Texts by Jean Nouvel, Norman Foster, Toyo Iti, et al. Published in the occasion of the 19th UIA in Barcelona.
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January 1997, Barcelona
Urban Theory
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Latin American Modern Architectures has thirteen new essays from a range of distinguished architectural historians to help you understand the region's rich and varied architecture. It will also introduce you to major projects that haven't been written about in English. A foreword by historian Kenneth Frampton sets the stage for essays on well-known architects, such as(...)
Latin American modern architectures: ambiguous territories
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Latin American Modern Architectures has thirteen new essays from a range of distinguished architectural historians to help you understand the region's rich and varied architecture. It will also introduce you to major projects that haven't been written about in English. A foreword by historian Kenneth Frampton sets the stage for essays on well-known architects, such as Luis Barragan and Felix Candela, which will show you unfamiliar aspects of their work, and for essays on the work of little-known architects, such as Lucio Costa and Joaquim Cardozo, which will spark your creativity. This book is a source for historical and critical essays on a sampling of Latin America's diverse architecture, providing much-needed information on key case studies.
Modernism
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In the period from 1890 to 1940, landscape architects organized as a profession distinct from art and architecture, bringing to the fore a variety of theories and aspirations — to influence urban growth, reinforce national identity, and shape land conservation and land-use planning, among other goals — in response to challenges posed by rapid change. The twelve essays(...)
Modernism and landscape architecture, 1890-1940
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In the period from 1890 to 1940, landscape architects organized as a profession distinct from art and architecture, bringing to the fore a variety of theories and aspirations — to influence urban growth, reinforce national identity, and shape land conservation and land-use planning, among other goals — in response to challenges posed by rapid change. The twelve essays included in this volume grapple with the definition and significance of modernism in landscape design during this transformative era.
Gardens
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An examination of the changing face of UC Berkeley's College of Environmental Design throughout the 20th Century. Just as constant evolution is inherent in the practice and history of design, the College of Environmental Design's steady metamorphosis incited by social and cultural changes, advancements in the design field and faculty contributions, is well documented in(...)
Design on the edge: A century of teaching architecture at the University of California, Berkeley 1903-2003
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An examination of the changing face of UC Berkeley's College of Environmental Design throughout the 20th Century. Just as constant evolution is inherent in the practice and history of design, the College of Environmental Design's steady metamorphosis incited by social and cultural changes, advancements in the design field and faculty contributions, is well documented in this book. This compilation of essays and historical documents features contributions from such notable faculty members as Christopher Alexander, Michael Bell, Charles Eames, Dan Solomon, William Wurster and many others.
Architectural Theory
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An exploration into media and architecture, Everything All at Once features the experimental work of the New York City-based studio MOS. By exchanging plans and sections for software and film, the firm moves beyond the static forms of traditional architectural discourse and exposes a working technique that is inventive, playful and primitive. In this vibrant publication,(...)
Everything all at once : the software, videos and architecture of MOS, Michael Meredith and Hilary Sample
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An exploration into media and architecture, Everything All at Once features the experimental work of the New York City-based studio MOS. By exchanging plans and sections for software and film, the firm moves beyond the static forms of traditional architectural discourse and exposes a working technique that is inventive, playful and primitive. In this vibrant publication, partners Michael Meredith and Hilary Sample weave together a visual narrative of computation, representation and design. Showcasing over twenty five projects on screen and in built form, including the acclaimed thatch covered structures from the 2009 PS1 After Party and the mylar weather balloon installation at the 2010 Venice Biennale, the book provides a unique look at the process of one of the most innovative firms at work today.
Architecture Monographs
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By 1915, Hollywood had become the epicenter of American filmmaking, with studio "dream factories" structuring its vast production. Filmmakers designed Hollywood studios with a distinct artistic and industrial mission in mind, which in turn influenced the form, content, and business of the films that were made and the impressions of the people who viewed them. The first(...)
October 2015
Studios Before the System: Architecture, Technology, and the Emergence of Cinematic Space
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By 1915, Hollywood had become the epicenter of American filmmaking, with studio "dream factories" structuring its vast production. Filmmakers designed Hollywood studios with a distinct artistic and industrial mission in mind, which in turn influenced the form, content, and business of the films that were made and the impressions of the people who viewed them. The first book to retell the history of film studio architecture, 'Studios Before the System' expands the social and cultural footprint of cinema's virtual worlds and their contribution to wider developments in global technology and urban modernism.
The taylorized beauty of the mechanical : scientific managment and rise of modernist architecture
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The dream of scientific management was a rationalized machine world where life would approach the perfection of an assembly line. But since its early twentieth-century peak this dream has come to seem a dehumanizing nightmare. Henry Ford's assembly lines turned out a quarter of a million cars in 1914, but all of them were black. Forgotten has been the unparalleled new(...)
Architecture since 1900, Europe
July 2006, Princeton / Oxford
The taylorized beauty of the mechanical : scientific managment and rise of modernist architecture
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The dream of scientific management was a rationalized machine world where life would approach the perfection of an assembly line. But since its early twentieth-century peak this dream has come to seem a dehumanizing nightmare. Henry Ford's assembly lines turned out a quarter of a million cars in 1914, but all of them were black. Forgotten has been the unparalleled new aesthetic beauty once seen in the ideas of Ford and scientific management pioneer Frederick Winslow Taylor. In "The taylorized beauty of the mechanical", Mauro Guillén recovers this history and retells the story of the emergence of modernist architecture as a romance with the ideas of scientific management - one that permanently reshaped the profession of architecture. Modernist architecture's pioneers, Guillén shows, found in scientific management the promise of a new, functional, machine-like--and beautiful--architecture, and the prospect of a new role for the architect as technical professional and social reformer. Taylor and Ford had a signal influence on Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius and on Le Corbusier and his Towards a New Architecture, the most important manifesto of modernist architecture. Architects were so enamored with the ideas of scientific management that they adopted them even when there was no functional advantage to do so. Not a traditional architectural history but rather a sociological study of the profession of architecture during its early modernist period, "The taylorized beauty of the mechanical" provides a new understanding of the degree to which modernist architecture emerged from a tradition of engineering and industrial management.
Architecture since 1900, Europe
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The first volume of the collection maps the work of the institutions and organisations involved in communicating the new and innovative thought and practice leading architecture today, highlighting the strategies they use and programmes they run to support this. Essays and interviews from the Museum of Architecture and Design, Ljubljana, the National Museum of XXI Century(...)
Contemporary Architecture
October 2016
Archifutures Vol. 1: The museum. A field guide to making the future of architecture
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The first volume of the collection maps the work of the institutions and organisations involved in communicating the new and innovative thought and practice leading architecture today, highlighting the strategies they use and programmes they run to support this. Essays and interviews from the Museum of Architecture and Design, Ljubljana, the National Museum of XXI Century Arts, Rome, the Swiss Architecture Museum, Basel, CANactions, Kiev, Prishtina Architecture Week, Kosovo, the Lisbon Architecture Triennale and others give working examples of the roles that these organisations and institutions play in communication and education for those both within and beyond the field of architecture. A particular highlight of the book is a “collage conversation”, a visual dialogue between Superstudio co-founder Cristiano Toraldo di Francia and Guillermo López of MAIO, with some images specially commissioned for the publication.
Contemporary Architecture
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This volume is a call to practical action leading on from the theoretical approaches seen in Volume 2: The Studio. It presents a further selection from the Future Architecture platform call for ideas, and focuses firmly on the nitty-gritty of practice with projects and strategies that are on-site or site ready to shake up that future. These are the inspirational solutions(...)
Contemporary Architecture
October 2016
Archifutures Vol. 3: The site. A field guide to making the future of architecture
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This volume is a call to practical action leading on from the theoretical approaches seen in Volume 2: The Studio. It presents a further selection from the Future Architecture platform call for ideas, and focuses firmly on the nitty-gritty of practice with projects and strategies that are on-site or site ready to shake up that future. These are the inspirational solutions and ideas, which could soon be transforming the landscape of architecture and our cities, reasserting the agency of what architecture in its widest sense can offer and mean.
Contemporary Architecture
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Beauty is a big business worldwide. From London to Los Angeles, the corner "beauty shop" has lately been transformed into extraordinary salons and day spas by some of our most thoughtful architects and designers. 'Salons and spas' features the design details from firms as Archi-Tectonics, ARO, Escher GuneWardena, Saucier + Perrotte Architectes, among others.
Commercial interiors, Building types
July 2005, Gloucester, MA
Salons and spas : the architecture of beauty
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Beauty is a big business worldwide. From London to Los Angeles, the corner "beauty shop" has lately been transformed into extraordinary salons and day spas by some of our most thoughtful architects and designers. 'Salons and spas' features the design details from firms as Archi-Tectonics, ARO, Escher GuneWardena, Saucier + Perrotte Architectes, among others.
Commercial interiors, Building types