Transforming Barcelona
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This unique book, written by local experts in the city, deals with the transformation of Barcelona during the last twenty years. Barcelona has been held up as a model of urban planning and economic regeneration amongst built environment professionals. The redesign of square parks and streets throughout the city in the 1980's first attracted attention and praise and then(...)
Transforming Barcelona
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This unique book, written by local experts in the city, deals with the transformation of Barcelona during the last twenty years. Barcelona has been held up as a model of urban planning and economic regeneration amongst built environment professionals. The redesign of square parks and streets throughout the city in the 1980's first attracted attention and praise and then the 1992 Olympics hosted in the city raised international awareness. The city received many awards and accolades including a Gold Medal from the RIBA. The selection of writings is well illustrated throughout with maps, drawings and photographs and will be of interest to architects, planners and urban designers as well as those interested in the social and economic impacts of regeneration.
Architecture since 1900, Europe
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Frei Otto, recipient of the prestigious Royal Gold Medal 2005 awarded by the RIBA, is internationally renowned for his innovative tensile and tent-like structures. With his application of modern technology and research into natural forms Frei Otto became a pioneer in the field of lightweight construction and ecological building. This is the first comprehensive survey of(...)
Architecture Monographs
July 2005, Basel
Frei Otto : complete works - lightweight construction, natural design
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Frei Otto, recipient of the prestigious Royal Gold Medal 2005 awarded by the RIBA, is internationally renowned for his innovative tensile and tent-like structures. With his application of modern technology and research into natural forms Frei Otto became a pioneer in the field of lightweight construction and ecological building. This is the first comprehensive survey of his complete works, including such aesthetical masterpieces as the West German Pavilion at the Montreal Exposition in 1967 and the roof of the 1972 Munich Olympic Arena. 12 essays by prominent authors and an extensive catalogue of over 200 buildings and projects from 1951-2004, supplemented by drawings, models and historical documents combine to make this publication the definitive reference work on one of the most influential architects of the 20th century.
Architecture Monographs
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''Part of a city: The work of Neave Brown Architect'' explores the ethos and ideas of the Anglo-American architect Neave Brown (1929-2018), winner of the RIBA Gold Medal 2017. Part of a City gets its title from Brown’s Gold Medal acceptance speech, when he observed: ''We weren’t making housing, we were making part of a city.'' The book brings together his writing and(...)
Architecture Monographs
December 2022
Part of a city: The work of Neave Brown Architect
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''Part of a city: The work of Neave Brown Architect'' explores the ethos and ideas of the Anglo-American architect Neave Brown (1929-2018), winner of the RIBA Gold Medal 2017. Part of a City gets its title from Brown’s Gold Medal acceptance speech, when he observed: ''We weren’t making housing, we were making part of a city.'' The book brings together his writing and design projects, including his celebrated large-scale urban housing work for Camden Council, and the later projects in Italy and The Netherlands, the latter undertaken in private practise with David Porter. Part of a City re-presents original critiques from the 1960s and 1970s by prominent figures such as Reyner Banham, Bob Maxwell, Christopher Woodward and Ed Jones, with new writing by architects and critics including Kenneth Frampton, Jonathan Sergsion, Simon Henley, Paul Karakuservic and Peter Barber.
Architecture Monographs
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"Charles Correa – seen by many in India as a sort of guru, as someone capable to transcend and grasp the ineffable reality that surrounds us – has left his noteworthy architectural heritage across the globe. In 2013, the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) celebrated him as one of the greatest contemporary urban planners showcasing his work in an exhibition(...)
The ineffable in Charles Correa
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"Charles Correa – seen by many in India as a sort of guru, as someone capable to transcend and grasp the ineffable reality that surrounds us – has left his noteworthy architectural heritage across the globe. In 2013, the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) celebrated him as one of the greatest contemporary urban planners showcasing his work in an exhibition called: 'Charles Correa: India’s greatest architect'. Profoundly tied to my Indian origins, to me Correa has been the master over distance, a personal benchmark to set my goals against. He was my inspiring thinker, architect and urbanist, or simply said, the designer I would have liked to be. Many of Correa’s last works show his deep-rooted search of the highest spiritual dimension in the attempt to trap part of the cosmic energy surrounding us into architectural works that were – and are – the shadow of his soul."
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Stephen Hodder
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This book detailing the work of Stephen Hodder covers the last fifteen years of his production. Stephen Hodder has been in practice since 1983. Hodder Associates was formed in 1992 and won the Royal Fine Art Commission/Sunday Times Building of the Year Award for Colne Swimming pool in Lancashire later that year. He was afterwards selected as one of six(...)
Stephen Hodder
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This book detailing the work of Stephen Hodder covers the last fifteen years of his production. Stephen Hodder has been in practice since 1983. Hodder Associates was formed in 1992 and won the Royal Fine Art Commission/Sunday Times Building of the Year Award for Colne Swimming pool in Lancashire later that year. He was afterwards selected as one of six architects to represent the emerging generation of British Architects in an exhibition at the Architectural Institute of Japan in Tokyo and at the Biennalle at Sao Paulo in Brazil. In 1995 the practice was awarded the Grand Prize at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, for the panels presented as part of the submission for the Manchester City Art Gallery Competition and in 1996 it received the RIBA/Sunday Times Building of the Year Award, the inaugural Stirling Prize for the Centenary Building, University of Salford.
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Architecture Monographs
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This is the first biography of Ernö Goldfinger (1902-1987), the leading modernist architect in Britain in the twentieth century. It is the fascinating story of a man and his struggle to build in a modern style in Britain in the face of contemporary opposition. Today, opposition to his buildings, particularly Trellick Tower, is turning to admiration. 2 Willow Road, his own(...)
Architecture Monographs
December 2003, London / New York
Ernö Goldfinger : the life of an architect
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This is the first biography of Ernö Goldfinger (1902-1987), the leading modernist architect in Britain in the twentieth century. It is the fascinating story of a man and his struggle to build in a modern style in Britain in the face of contemporary opposition. Today, opposition to his buildings, particularly Trellick Tower, is turning to admiration. 2 Willow Road, his own house, was recently acquired by the National Trust - its first modern property. A century after his birth his buildings are achieving heritage status. This book tells the story of Goldfinger's life in architecture which raises profound questions about the role of architecture in British society and the political and moral values that buildings can embody. In writing this important new book, Nigel Warburton researched the extensive archive of Goldfinger's writing, office papers, models and drawings held in the RIBA Collection and also interviewed people who knew and worked with him.
Architecture Monographs
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Jean Nouvel, lauréat du prix Pritzker en 2008, est considéré comme l'architecte français actuel le plus original et important. Il a débuté aux côtés des grands Claude Parent et Paul Virilio, entre 1967 et 1970, avant d'ouvrir son propre cabinet à Paris. Il a remporté son premier succès critique avec l'Institut du Monde Arabe, à Paris (1981-87). Depuis, il a notamment(...)
Nouvel
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Jean Nouvel, lauréat du prix Pritzker en 2008, est considéré comme l'architecte français actuel le plus original et important. Il a débuté aux côtés des grands Claude Parent et Paul Virilio, entre 1967 et 1970, avant d'ouvrir son propre cabinet à Paris. Il a remporté son premier succès critique avec l'Institut du Monde Arabe, à Paris (1981-87). Depuis, il a notamment signé l'Opéra de Lyon et la Fondation Cartier (Paris). Comptent parmi ses plus importants projets réalisés depuis l'an 2000 le Centre de Culture et de Congrès de Lucerne, en Suisse, la spectaculaire Tour Agbar de Barcelone, le Musée du quai Branly à Paris, le Guthrie Theater de Minneapolis, dans le Minnesota et l'Hôtel Sofitel Vienna Stephansdom avec son centre commercial. Jean Nouvel s'est vu décerner la médaille d'or royale du RIBA (Royal Institute of British Architects). À l'occasion de cette distinction, Peter Cook a salué les créations de Nouvel: «Dans une époque de fadeur, d'imitation et de doute, son oeuvre brille toujours par son évidence et sa finesse, son originalité et son lyrisme.»
Architecture Monographs
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For more than fifty years, Halley Research Station—located on the Brunt Ice Shelf in Antarctica’s Weddell Sea—has collected a continuous stream of meteorological and atmospheric data critical to our understanding of polar atmospheric chemistry, rising sea levels, and the depletion of the ozone layer. Since the station’s establishment in 1956, there have been six Halley(...)
Ice station: the creation of Halley VI
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For more than fifty years, Halley Research Station—located on the Brunt Ice Shelf in Antarctica’s Weddell Sea—has collected a continuous stream of meteorological and atmospheric data critical to our understanding of polar atmospheric chemistry, rising sea levels, and the depletion of the ozone layer. Since the station’s establishment in 1956, there have been six Halley stations, each designed to withstand the difficult climatic conditions. The first four stations were crushed by snow. The fifth featured a steel platform, allowing it to rise above snow cover, but it, too, had to be abandoned when it moved too far from the mainland, making its habitation precarious. Completed in 2012, Halley VI is the winning design from a competition in collaboration with the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA). Like its predecessor, Halley VI can rise to avoid snow accumulation, but it is also the first research station able to be fully relocatable, its eight modules situated atop ski-fitted hydraulic legs. This book tells the story of this iconic piece of architecture’s design and creation, supplemented with many illustrations, including plans and previously unpublished photographs.
Contemporary Architecture
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"Ideas, faces and places" is a record of an exhibition and symposium that took place in Dublin at The Irish Architectural Archive in the autumn of 2022, "Sweet Disorder and the Carefully Careless: Ideas, Faces and Places", which transferred to RIBA headquarters in London in the Spring of 2023. The book is a repository for some of the observations that arose at these(...)
Architectural Theory
January 2023
Ideas, faces and places : Sweet disorder and carefully careless
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"Ideas, faces and places" is a record of an exhibition and symposium that took place in Dublin at The Irish Architectural Archive in the autumn of 2022, "Sweet Disorder and the Carefully Careless: Ideas, Faces and Places", which transferred to RIBA headquarters in London in the Spring of 2023. The book is a repository for some of the observations that arose at these events made by architects and critics including John Tuomey, Ed Jones, Irina Davidovici, Kenneth Frampton and others. The exhibition juxtaposed Celia Scott’s busts of the architects James Stirling, Leon Krier, Alan Colquhoun, Ed Jones and others, with a pictorial biography of her husband, the eminent architect and academic Robert Maxwell (1922-2020). The view that this book offers of the exhibition and of the work of Scott and Maxwell is provisional and partial, offering the reader the chance to meander and to relish unexpected juxtapositions and oblique views of its subjects - almost exactly like the rooms that Celia Scott created in Dublin and in London. Robert Maxwell was one of the most important architectural theorists and teachers of the second half of the 20th century - this book is an essential addition to his oeuvre.
Architectural Theory
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Maria Giuseppina Grasso Cannizzo exhibited at the Venice Biennial in 2004 and 2008, and was honored by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) in 2012. That same year she won a gold medal for her life’s work at the Milan Triennial, and has been nominated twice for the Mies van der Rohe Prize. Nevertheless, she’s still considered an insider’s tip. She lives in(...)
Loose ends : Maria Guiseppina Grasso Cannizzo
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Maria Giuseppina Grasso Cannizzo exhibited at the Venice Biennial in 2004 and 2008, and was honored by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) in 2012. That same year she won a gold medal for her life’s work at the Milan Triennial, and has been nominated twice for the Mies van der Rohe Prize. Nevertheless, she’s still considered an insider’s tip. She lives in Vittoria, a small city in southern Sicily, where she realizes the majority of her architecture, including many transformations of historical buildings, single and multiple-family housing, or projects such as the control tower in Marina di Ragusa. Grasso Cannizzo’s special design methods are based on her analyses of the urban context and the landscape, as well as her examination of the specific “story” behind each project. She translates the knowledge gained into minimal, self-aware, and sometimes radical concepts, which are ultimately always open to any changes that life and the passage of time may bring. At the same time, this first comprehensive monograph is also a conceptual manifesto by Grasso Cannizzo. Collected in a black box, loose prints provide insight into her most important buildings and make it possible to see the architect’s general design methods.
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