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This architect from Rome is one of the younger generation of Italian architects who possesses a wide knowledge of the architectural debate and is firmly dedicated to a qualitative and innovative resurrection of architecture in Italy. He is known, among other reasons, for his analyses of the cultural situation and the profession of the contemporary architect in the(...)
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This architect from Rome is one of the younger generation of Italian architects who possesses a wide knowledge of the architectural debate and is firmly dedicated to a qualitative and innovative resurrection of architecture in Italy. He is known, among other reasons, for his analyses of the cultural situation and the profession of the contemporary architect in the(...)
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Towards an architecture of today / panta rhei 1
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This architect from Rome is one of the younger generation of Italian architects who possesses a wide knowledge of the architectural debate and is firmly dedicated to a qualitative and innovative resurrection of architecture in Italy. He is known, among other reasons, for his analyses of the cultural situation and the profession of the contemporary architect in the internationally renowned architectural magazine "Domus", as well as for his activities as deputy editor-in-chief of this journal from 1992 to 1996. In this book, Nicola Di Battista analyses the discipline of architecture and the architect's profession, developing principles of a new orientation from a beneficial distance and with a clear overview.
Towards an architecture of today / panta rhei 1
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This architect from Rome is one of the younger generation of Italian architects who possesses a wide knowledge of the architectural debate and is firmly dedicated to a qualitative and innovative resurrection of architecture in Italy. He is known, among other reasons, for his analyses of the cultural situation and the profession of the contemporary architect in the internationally renowned architectural magazine "Domus", as well as for his activities as deputy editor-in-chief of this journal from 1992 to 1996. In this book, Nicola Di Battista analyses the discipline of architecture and the architect's profession, developing principles of a new orientation from a beneficial distance and with a clear overview.
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January 2001, Luzern
January 2001, Luzern
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Architectural Theory
Architectural Theory
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This book surveys two centuries of Russian history through a succession of ambitious architectural projects designed for a single construction site in central Moscow. Czars, Bolshevik rulers, and contemporary Russian leaders alike have dreamed of glorious monuments to themselves and their ideologies on this site. The history of their efforts reflects the story of the(...)
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This book surveys two centuries of Russian history through a succession of ambitious architectural projects designed for a single construction site in central Moscow. Czars, Bolshevik rulers, and contemporary Russian leaders alike have dreamed of glorious monuments to themselves and their ideologies on this site. The history of their efforts reflects the story of the(...)
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Architecture since 1900, Europe
Architecture since 1900, Europe
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September 2007, New Haven London
September 2007, New Haven London
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The holy place : Architecture, ideology, and history in Russia
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This book surveys two centuries of Russian history through a succession of ambitious architectural projects designed for a single construction site in central Moscow. Czars, Bolshevik rulers, and contemporary Russian leaders alike have dreamed of glorious monuments to themselves and their ideologies on this site. The history of their efforts reflects the story of the nation itself and its repeated attempts to construct or reconstruct its identity and to repudiate or resuscitate emblems of the past.
The holy place : Architecture, ideology, and history in Russia
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This book surveys two centuries of Russian history through a succession of ambitious architectural projects designed for a single construction site in central Moscow. Czars, Bolshevik rulers, and contemporary Russian leaders alike have dreamed of glorious monuments to themselves and their ideologies on this site. The history of their efforts reflects the story of the nation itself and its repeated attempts to construct or reconstruct its identity and to repudiate or resuscitate emblems of the past.
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September 2007, New Haven London
September 2007, New Haven London
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Architecture since 1900, Europe
Architecture since 1900, Europe
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Combining formal argument with informal conversations and design proposals, this title offers creative ideas for "thinking and acting architecture differently." What makes the book unique is the freshness of its voices — young architects and emerging practitioners who for the most part have not published before. Interwoven with their proposals are conversations among(...)
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Combining formal argument with informal conversations and design proposals, this title offers creative ideas for "thinking and acting architecture differently." What makes the book unique is the freshness of its voices — young architects and emerging practitioners who for the most part have not published before. Interwoven with their proposals are conversations among(...)
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Architecture at the edge of everything else
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Combining formal argument with informal conversations and design proposals, this title offers creative ideas for "thinking and acting architecture differently." What makes the book unique is the freshness of its voices — young architects and emerging practitioners who for the most part have not published before. Interwoven with their proposals are conversations among these new voices and more established authors and practitioners, including Sanford Kwinter, Sylvia Lavin, K. Michael Hays, Philippe Rahm, Liam Gillick, Teddy Cruz, and Michael Meredith. This publication investigates the inner contradictions tangling and obscuring architectural discourse. It locates architecture in a cultural, social, political, and situational landscape — the space it actually occupies in the contemporary world. Examining architecture as it comes into contact with other disciplines — including art, art history, cultural studies, curating, landscape architecture, neuroaesthetics, pedagogy, philosophy, political science, and urbanism — the book considers architecture's precarious position at the edge : at the edge of its own dilemmas and at the edge of "everything else." In different ways, all the contributors suggest how to understand the innovative possibilities and pitfalls of spatial practices—teasing, analyzing, and celebrating architecture's disciplinary ambiguity — with proposals that range from a "lo-res" architecture to one controlled by the curatorial impulse, from customizable "skins" on residential buildings to the collection of residual space for new uses. Their investigations encompass how to interpret, how to intervene, and how to imagine.
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Combining formal argument with informal conversations and design proposals, this title offers creative ideas for "thinking and acting architecture differently." What makes the book unique is the freshness of its voices — young architects and emerging practitioners who for the most part have not published before. Interwoven with their proposals are conversations among these new voices and more established authors and practitioners, including Sanford Kwinter, Sylvia Lavin, K. Michael Hays, Philippe Rahm, Liam Gillick, Teddy Cruz, and Michael Meredith. This publication investigates the inner contradictions tangling and obscuring architectural discourse. It locates architecture in a cultural, social, political, and situational landscape — the space it actually occupies in the contemporary world. Examining architecture as it comes into contact with other disciplines — including art, art history, cultural studies, curating, landscape architecture, neuroaesthetics, pedagogy, philosophy, political science, and urbanism — the book considers architecture's precarious position at the edge : at the edge of its own dilemmas and at the edge of "everything else." In different ways, all the contributors suggest how to understand the innovative possibilities and pitfalls of spatial practices—teasing, analyzing, and celebrating architecture's disciplinary ambiguity — with proposals that range from a "lo-res" architecture to one controlled by the curatorial impulse, from customizable "skins" on residential buildings to the collection of residual space for new uses. Their investigations encompass how to interpret, how to intervene, and how to imagine.
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June 2010
June 2010
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Architectural Theory
Architectural Theory
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160 pages
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160 pages
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Bruxelles : Archives d'Architecture Moderne 2016.
Bruxelles : Archives d'Architecture Moderne 2016.
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Bruxelles : Archives d'Architecture Moderne 2016.
Bruxelles : Archives d'Architecture Moderne 2016.
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Marthe Wery : architecture
Marthe Wery : architecture
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Ce livre prolonge un tissu d’échanges articulés autour de la création d’une œuvre de Marthe Wéry intégrée au nouveau Théâtre Lemanège-Mons et interrompu par la brutale disparition de Marthe. Ces échanges ont tenté de générer une réflexion sur les rapports inaboutis entre Marthe Wéry et l’architecture et, par là, sur la notion d’impasse dans la quête perpétuelle de la vie(...)
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Ce livre prolonge un tissu d’échanges articulés autour de la création d’une œuvre de Marthe Wéry intégrée au nouveau Théâtre Lemanège-Mons et interrompu par la brutale disparition de Marthe. Ces échanges ont tenté de générer une réflexion sur les rapports inaboutis entre Marthe Wéry et l’architecture et, par là, sur la notion d’impasse dans la quête perpétuelle de la vie(...)
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Marthe Wery : architecture
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Ce livre prolonge un tissu d’échanges articulés autour de la création d’une œuvre de Marthe Wéry intégrée au nouveau Théâtre Lemanège-Mons et interrompu par la brutale disparition de Marthe. Ces échanges ont tenté de générer une réflexion sur les rapports inaboutis entre Marthe Wéry et l’architecture et, par là, sur la notion d’impasse dans la quête perpétuelle de la vie au travers de la forme. Le thème de l’inachèvement nous a conduit à produire une forme de document, au travers d’une matière volontairement appauvrie par l’incomplétude de ces tentatives.
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Ce livre prolonge un tissu d’échanges articulés autour de la création d’une œuvre de Marthe Wéry intégrée au nouveau Théâtre Lemanège-Mons et interrompu par la brutale disparition de Marthe. Ces échanges ont tenté de générer une réflexion sur les rapports inaboutis entre Marthe Wéry et l’architecture et, par là, sur la notion d’impasse dans la quête perpétuelle de la vie au travers de la forme. Le thème de l’inachèvement nous a conduit à produire une forme de document, au travers d’une matière volontairement appauvrie par l’incomplétude de ces tentatives.
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May 2012
May 2012
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Contemporary Art Monographs
Contemporary Art Monographs
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xv, 291 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
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xv, 291 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
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New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2010.
New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2010.
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The Escorial : art and power in the Renaissance / Henry Kamen.
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xv, 291 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
The Escorial : art and power in the Renaissance / Henry Kamen.
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New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2010.
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407 pages : illustrations ; 22 x 28 cm
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407 pages : illustrations ; 22 x 28 cm
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New York : Zone Books, 1997.
New York : Zone Books, 1997.
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The panorama : history of a mass medium / Stephan Oettermann ; translated by Deborah Lucas Schneider.
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407 pages : illustrations ; 22 x 28 cm
The panorama : history of a mass medium / Stephan Oettermann ; translated by Deborah Lucas Schneider.
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New York : Zone Books, 1997.
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Entering the world of professional architectural photography, Exit 36 focuses on works commissioned by architects, construction companies or specialised publications, and in turn form an essential means of showcasing contemporary architecture. Photographic portfolios from 17 practitioners are presented, including works from Jordi Bernadó, Hélène Binet, Richard Glover,(...)
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Entering the world of professional architectural photography, Exit 36 focuses on works commissioned by architects, construction companies or specialised publications, and in turn form an essential means of showcasing contemporary architecture. Photographic portfolios from 17 practitioners are presented, including works from Jordi Bernadó, Hélène Binet, Richard Glover,(...)
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Exit 36: Architecture, the professional view
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Entering the world of professional architectural photography, Exit 36 focuses on works commissioned by architects, construction companies or specialised publications, and in turn form an essential means of showcasing contemporary architecture. Photographic portfolios from 17 practitioners are presented, including works from Jordi Bernadó, Hélène Binet, Richard Glover, Josef Hoflehner, Christobal Palma, Balthazar Korab, Julius Shulman and Hisao Suzuki.
Exit 36: Architecture, the professional view
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Entering the world of professional architectural photography, Exit 36 focuses on works commissioned by architects, construction companies or specialised publications, and in turn form an essential means of showcasing contemporary architecture. Photographic portfolios from 17 practitioners are presented, including works from Jordi Bernadó, Hélène Binet, Richard Glover, Josef Hoflehner, Christobal Palma, Balthazar Korab, Julius Shulman and Hisao Suzuki.
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May 2010
May 2010
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Working in rural China is unlike other countryside: it is full of contradiction, neither rural nor urban, both traditional and modern, abandoned in some areas and yet others are becoming cities overnight. It is in fact a laboratory for new ways of living. And it has become our laboratory for new ways of making architecture. Whereas contemporary architecture since the(...)
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Working in rural China is unlike other countryside: it is full of contradiction, neither rural nor urban, both traditional and modern, abandoned in some areas and yet others are becoming cities overnight. It is in fact a laboratory for new ways of living. And it has become our laboratory for new ways of making architecture. Whereas contemporary architecture since the(...)
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Uncertainty : Experiments in making from the Chinese countryside
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Working in rural China is unlike other countryside: it is full of contradiction, neither rural nor urban, both traditional and modern, abandoned in some areas and yet others are becoming cities overnight. It is in fact a laboratory for new ways of living. And it has become our laboratory for new ways of making architecture. Whereas contemporary architecture since the advent of modernism has developed increasingly controlled, prototypical, and standardized mechanisms for building, our experiments embrace the opposite: a lack of control, taking place within the flux of political, social and economic uncertainties. The experiments presented here are examples taken from a series of design and build projects conducted from the Department of Architecture at the University of Hong Kong over the past 10 years. They are remarkable in their diffuse explorations and situations. Some were urgent post-earthquake reconstructions, often adapting to extreme topographies or taking place in the midst of major urbanizing transformations, whereas other experiments occurred in forgotten villages with left-behind craftspeople and their disappearing building cultures. These forays and what can be best described as adventures in building, left us with varied and novel (sometimes failed) experiments with structure and program. But they are presented here for the trait they have in common: an exploration of the limits of material, geometry, construction methods, and even historical context. As often occurs for architects working in a foreign landscape, the differences in language and culture have proven to be a source of constant miscommunication and surprising discovery. The lack of a common spoken language- these remote areas speak their own dialects- has placed an emphasis on drawing as another means of communication. Through drawing we have explored a means of design and a means of building. Therefore, this is also a book about ways of drawing that represent ways of control and, inversely perhaps, what not to control.
Uncertainty : Experiments in making from the Chinese countryside
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Working in rural China is unlike other countryside: it is full of contradiction, neither rural nor urban, both traditional and modern, abandoned in some areas and yet others are becoming cities overnight. It is in fact a laboratory for new ways of living. And it has become our laboratory for new ways of making architecture. Whereas contemporary architecture since the advent of modernism has developed increasingly controlled, prototypical, and standardized mechanisms for building, our experiments embrace the opposite: a lack of control, taking place within the flux of political, social and economic uncertainties. The experiments presented here are examples taken from a series of design and build projects conducted from the Department of Architecture at the University of Hong Kong over the past 10 years. They are remarkable in their diffuse explorations and situations. Some were urgent post-earthquake reconstructions, often adapting to extreme topographies or taking place in the midst of major urbanizing transformations, whereas other experiments occurred in forgotten villages with left-behind craftspeople and their disappearing building cultures. These forays and what can be best described as adventures in building, left us with varied and novel (sometimes failed) experiments with structure and program. But they are presented here for the trait they have in common: an exploration of the limits of material, geometry, construction methods, and even historical context. As often occurs for architects working in a foreign landscape, the differences in language and culture have proven to be a source of constant miscommunication and surprising discovery. The lack of a common spoken language- these remote areas speak their own dialects- has placed an emphasis on drawing as another means of communication. Through drawing we have explored a means of design and a means of building. Therefore, this is also a book about ways of drawing that represent ways of control and, inversely perhaps, what not to control.
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June 2022
June 2022
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Contemporary Architecture
Contemporary Architecture
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After the Second World War, talented young architects including several from Switzerland, turned to the task of promoting the ideals of Modernism. Their main interest lay in furthering the new design and construction methods which were then being made possible by industrial prefabrication and montage, eve considering and incorporating them at the design stage. The time(...)
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After the Second World War, talented young architects including several from Switzerland, turned to the task of promoting the ideals of Modernism. Their main interest lay in furthering the new design and construction methods which were then being made possible by industrial prefabrication and montage, eve considering and incorporating them at the design stage. The time(...)
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Architecture since 1900, Europe
Architecture since 1900, Europe
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April 2002, Basel
April 2002, Basel
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Post-war modernity in Switzerland : architecture by Werner Frey, Franz Füeg, Jacques Schader, Jakob Zweifel
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After the Second World War, talented young architects including several from Switzerland, turned to the task of promoting the ideals of Modernism. Their main interest lay in furthering the new design and construction methods which were then being made possible by industrial prefabrication and montage, eve considering and incorporating them at the design stage. The time has now come to review this chapter of recent architectural history. This publication focuses on four architects: Werner Frey (1912-1989), Franz Füeg (born 1921), Jacques Schader (born 1917) and Jacob Zweifel (born 1921). This group of Zurich architects created buildings which can be seen to embody the typical features of the architecture emerging from the late 1950s, 1960s, and early 1970s : fastidious construction methods, a structural approach to designing brought about by increased use of prefabricated parts, an awareness of different social needs of the individual and the group which were subsequently reflected in the designs. Using a wealth of historical illustrations together with photographs by Doris Fanconis and 8 documentary films by Georg Radanowicz, visually interpreting the architecture from a contemporary viewpoint, this book is an invaluable documentation and analysis of those buildings which are of consequence for today's architecture.
Post-war modernity in Switzerland : architecture by Werner Frey, Franz Füeg, Jacques Schader, Jakob Zweifel
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After the Second World War, talented young architects including several from Switzerland, turned to the task of promoting the ideals of Modernism. Their main interest lay in furthering the new design and construction methods which were then being made possible by industrial prefabrication and montage, eve considering and incorporating them at the design stage. The time has now come to review this chapter of recent architectural history. This publication focuses on four architects: Werner Frey (1912-1989), Franz Füeg (born 1921), Jacques Schader (born 1917) and Jacob Zweifel (born 1921). This group of Zurich architects created buildings which can be seen to embody the typical features of the architecture emerging from the late 1950s, 1960s, and early 1970s : fastidious construction methods, a structural approach to designing brought about by increased use of prefabricated parts, an awareness of different social needs of the individual and the group which were subsequently reflected in the designs. Using a wealth of historical illustrations together with photographs by Doris Fanconis and 8 documentary films by Georg Radanowicz, visually interpreting the architecture from a contemporary viewpoint, this book is an invaluable documentation and analysis of those buildings which are of consequence for today's architecture.
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April 2002, Basel
April 2002, Basel
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Architecture since 1900, Europe
Architecture since 1900, Europe
