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Architects Ken Kaplan and Ted Krueger present a blunt criticism of present social and political conditions. In response to the ''dogmatic gas'' that they perceive as invading today's architectural ideology, they attempt to find(...)
Pamphlet architecture #14 : mosquitoes - a handbook for survival
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Architects Ken Kaplan and Ted Krueger present a blunt criticism of present social and political conditions. In response to the ''dogmatic gas'' that they perceive as invading today's architectural ideology, they attempt to find an antidote to the ''deluded blather'' through architectural experimentation.
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July 1993, New York
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L'injonction au développement d'une architecture et d'un urbanisme durables introduit des exigences nouvelles pour les professionnels comme pour les institutions et les habitants. Elle implique la construction de compétences et l'évolution des modalités de collaboration pour intégrer les objectifs de lutte contre le changement climatique ou de préservation de la biodiversité.
Cahiers Ramau 7 - Architecture et urbanisme durables: modèles et savoirs
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L'injonction au développement d'une architecture et d'un urbanisme durables introduit des exigences nouvelles pour les professionnels comme pour les institutions et les habitants. Elle implique la construction de compétences et l'évolution des modalités de collaboration pour intégrer les objectifs de lutte contre le changement climatique ou de préservation de la biodiversité.
Urban Theory
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The development of modern architecture in Korea and, more recently, South Korea, is closely tied to the country’s dramatic transformations since the late 19th century. The authors interrogate major periods from the Late Joseon Dynasty to the vibrant democratic present, showing how architecture, by making technological and stylistic leaps, has played a important role in(...)
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Korean modern: the matter of identity. Modern architecture in an east Asian country
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The development of modern architecture in Korea and, more recently, South Korea, is closely tied to the country’s dramatic transformations since the late 19th century. The authors interrogate major periods from the Late Joseon Dynasty to the vibrant democratic present, showing how architecture, by making technological and stylistic leaps, has played a important role in the construction of the nation’s identity. The architectural analyses, ranging from Hwaseong Fortress to 21st-century constructions like Paju Book City, Ssamziegil Shopping Center, the Boutique Monaco skyscraper, and the Bauzium Sculpture Museum, focus on buildings in which the formation of a specifically Korean modernism is particularly observable. The appendix includes biographical descriptions of major architectural figures.
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From total look to total living: Alchimia, Tadao Ando, Armani, Vanessa Beecroft, Benetton, Pierre Cardin, CP Company, Courrèges, Diesel, Diller & Scofidio, Droog Design, Final Home, Dan Flavin, Tom Ford, Future Systems, Eileen Gray, Gucci, Andreas Gursky, Halston, Herzog & De Meuron, Tommy Hilfiger, Damien Hirst, Ikea, Philip Johnson, Rei Kawakubo, Calvin Klein, Rem(...)
Interior Design
January 1900, Milan
Total living : fashion, architecture, design, art, communication
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From total look to total living: Alchimia, Tadao Ando, Armani, Vanessa Beecroft, Benetton, Pierre Cardin, CP Company, Courrèges, Diesel, Diller & Scofidio, Droog Design, Final Home, Dan Flavin, Tom Ford, Future Systems, Eileen Gray, Gucci, Andreas Gursky, Halston, Herzog & De Meuron, Tommy Hilfiger, Damien Hirst, Ikea, Philip Johnson, Rei Kawakubo, Calvin Klein, Rem Koolhaas, Helmut Lang, Le Corbusier, Levi's, Mandarina Duck, Marni, Steven Meisel, Alessandro Mendini, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Issey Miyake, Moschino, Helmut Newton, Nike, NL Architects, Ora-Ito Studio, John Powson, Prada, Emilio Pucci, Ralph Lauren, Claudio Silvestrin, Hedi Slimane, Paul Smith, Ettore Sottsass, Philippe Starck, Versace, Louis Vuitton, Bruce Weber, Yves Saint Laurent. Styles and lifestyles are fast becoming uniform under labels and definitions of fashion, and as an industry and a cultural form. Total Living is the point of no return in a project which, step-by-step, develops strategies whose goal it is to offer an even more sophisticated and targeted lifestyle. It is a place where there are definitions for clothes, behavior modes, and even the atmoshpheres and spaces in which one moves. Assuming the contours of a landscape of the future, this scenario raises topical themes and problems connected with the overwhelming power of consumerism. Accompanying scholarly essays consider the thematic universes of fashion designers and brands; models of total living in 20th century history; references to total living in mass culture; living and eating; arty fashion and fashionable art; the world of fashion design; the languages of shopping; urban fashion districts; and advertising as a narrative. A rich and interconnected iconographic passage visually narrates the various forms and ramifications of total living today and in the recent past through a succession of utopias, life-projects, urban visions, architecture, special homes, stores, art galleries, museums, and editorial pages and ads from fashion and lifestyle magazines. With texts by Papla Antonelli, Francesco Bonami, Michele Ciavarella, Emanuela de Cecco, Riccardo Dirindin, Roberto Monelli, Herbert Muschamp, Chee Pearlman, Michele Sernini, Dietmar Steiner, and Deyan Sudjic.
Interior Design
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Après la cité antique, la ville médiévale, après l'espace urbain de la Renaissance, le XIXe siècle apporte un nouveau changement. L'architecture et l'urbanisme deviennent les agents et les serviteurs de la révolution industrielle, celle du fer et du charbon, du béton et de l'électricité. Les hommes bâtissent alors de nouvelles villes en un bouleversement de styles et(...)
Histoire de l'architecture et de l'urbanisme modernes: 1. idéologies et pionniers 1800-1910
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Après la cité antique, la ville médiévale, après l'espace urbain de la Renaissance, le XIXe siècle apporte un nouveau changement. L'architecture et l'urbanisme deviennent les agents et les serviteurs de la révolution industrielle, celle du fer et du charbon, du béton et de l'électricité. Les hommes bâtissent alors de nouvelles villes en un bouleversement de styles et d'habitudes qui prennent parfois les couleurs de l'utopie... Ce volume montre et explique l'habitat humain dans ses réalisations et ses projets, de l'aube des temps contemporains jusqu'à nos jours. Une irremplaçable synthèse illustrée, comprenant un index des noms cités.
Modernism
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People Meet in Architecture is the official catalog of the 12th International Architecture Biennale. The idea of Kazuyo Sejima for this Biennale is to restart the discussion about architecture and its role in civilization, thus helping people relate to architecture while helping architecture relate to people and helping people relate to themselves.
People meet in architecture: Biennale Architettura 2010, official catalog
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People Meet in Architecture is the official catalog of the 12th International Architecture Biennale. The idea of Kazuyo Sejima for this Biennale is to restart the discussion about architecture and its role in civilization, thus helping people relate to architecture while helping architecture relate to people and helping people relate to themselves.
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Contemporary South Africain architecture in a landscape of transition explores the ways in which local architects have contributed to change in this country through their work and to the development of a new sense of cultural identity. The focus is on buildings that create beauty from utility and need, that respect their place in the landscape, that connect people to(...)
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Contemporary South African architecture in a landscape of transition
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Contemporary South Africain architecture in a landscape of transition explores the ways in which local architects have contributed to change in this country through their work and to the development of a new sense of cultural identity. The focus is on buildings that create beauty from utility and need, that respect their place in the landscape, that connect people to their social and physical environment, and that unlock the potential of cities to amaze and astound. This book will bring South African architecture to the center of the international architectural debate.
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December 2008
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Focusing on the correspondence between the period's built environments and its literary pursuits, Building Romanticism argues that at this turbulent moment in British history a number of politically charged and aesthetically resonant architectural spaces, both real and imagined, negotiated intense anxieties about shifting notions of gender and sexuality, increased class(...)
Building romanticism : literature and architecture in Nineteenth-Century Britain
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Focusing on the correspondence between the period's built environments and its literary pursuits, Building Romanticism argues that at this turbulent moment in British history a number of politically charged and aesthetically resonant architectural spaces, both real and imagined, negotiated intense anxieties about shifting notions of gender and sexuality, increased class mobility, the individual's uncertain place in history, challenges to the British national character and to the project of nation building, and the very form and function of art itself.
History until 1900, Great Britain
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The year 1973 marked a turning point in American strategic interest in the Middle East and in Israel’s social, economic and political structures. This publication examines the constructed environments that emerged as a result, through contemporary visual commentary, historical materials and architectural texts written in both Israel and the U.S.
Aircraft carrier: American ideas and Israeli architecturees after 1973
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The year 1973 marked a turning point in American strategic interest in the Middle East and in Israel’s social, economic and political structures. This publication examines the constructed environments that emerged as a result, through contemporary visual commentary, historical materials and architectural texts written in both Israel and the U.S.
Transportation, Tourism, Migration
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Despite its deceptive title, the fact that this book is a guide about Iowa is accurate. Daniel Naegele qualifies “good” being not absolute but contingent and personal, and therefore a very questionable qualifier. By “architecture”, however, Naegele means “good building”, regardless of whether or not the built object was designed by an architect, is a habitable structure,(...)
Naegele's guide to the only good architecture in Iowa
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Despite its deceptive title, the fact that this book is a guide about Iowa is accurate. Daniel Naegele qualifies “good” being not absolute but contingent and personal, and therefore a very questionable qualifier. By “architecture”, however, Naegele means “good building”, regardless of whether or not the built object was designed by an architect, is a habitable structure, or is even a building at all. Most entries in this guide are concerned either with vernacular works that are habitable tools (barns, corncribs, silos) or with built works that are not buildings at all (billboards, bridges, wind turbines, water towers). Mildly contentious by nature, Naegele’s guide is nevertheless utterly practical.
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