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''Mind-building'' tells the story of public libraries and library architecture in Finland. Featuring seventeen buildings from different periods, grouped under specific themes and curated by architectural critic and scholar Anni Vartola, it presents texts, drawings, and photographs of each, plus extracts from various sources such as newspapers, competition briefs, and(...)
Mind-building: exhibition at the pavilion of Finland, 16th Biennale Venezia
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''Mind-building'' tells the story of public libraries and library architecture in Finland. Featuring seventeen buildings from different periods, grouped under specific themes and curated by architectural critic and scholar Anni Vartola, it presents texts, drawings, and photographs of each, plus extracts from various sources such as newspapers, competition briefs, and architectural reviews. The oldest library is the Rikhardinkatu Library in Helsinki (1881), the first in the Nordic region built specifically for the public. Also included are Viipuri Library (1935) by Alvar Aalto, Tampere Main Library Metso (1986) by Raili and Reima Pietiläknown, and Turku Main Library (2007) by JKMM Architects.
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Windowscape 4
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In this fourth volume, Atelier Bow-Wow delves into the window behavioural characteristics in nordic architecture, showing how climate and culture are strongly reflected in their windows. The works and influences of six architects are featured: Gunnar Asplund and Sigurd Lewerentz from Sweden, Alvar Aalto from Finland, and from Denmark, Kay Fisker, Arne Jacobsen and Jørn(...)
Windowscape 4
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In this fourth volume, Atelier Bow-Wow delves into the window behavioural characteristics in nordic architecture, showing how climate and culture are strongly reflected in their windows. The works and influences of six architects are featured: Gunnar Asplund and Sigurd Lewerentz from Sweden, Alvar Aalto from Finland, and from Denmark, Kay Fisker, Arne Jacobsen and Jørn Utzon. After three years of research, the team visited about 235 works and measured 470 windows. 114 selected works are presented with photographs, detailed drawings, and analyses, examining the transformation of window technology and design, and the history and social issues of each country.
Contemporary Architecture
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The pioneers of ecological architecture today are necessarily researchers as much as architects, in any conventional sense of the term. Sustainability is the key criterion in this field, and ecologically sound solutions for the designs of homes are the key challenge (homes the most commonly built structure). Ecological Living assesses a selection of some recently built(...)
Ecological living: what architecture for a more sustainable city?
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The pioneers of ecological architecture today are necessarily researchers as much as architects, in any conventional sense of the term. Sustainability is the key criterion in this field, and ecologically sound solutions for the designs of homes are the key challenge (homes the most commonly built structure). Ecological Living assesses a selection of some recently built ecological habitats, collecting several built examples from a variety of French architects, examining precursors such as Frank Lloyd Wright, Alvar Aalto and Pierre Lajus, plus proposals for European architects and architecture students and inquiries into the ecological viability of detached housing and tower blocks.
Green Architecture
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With page after page of situation drawings rendered in meticulous and comprehensive detail, this book presents a mix of famous contemporary and historic buildings located around the world and realised by a wide range of notable architects. Works by Frank Lloyd Wright, Antonio Gaudí, Le Corbusier, Arne Jacobsen, Louis I. Kahn, Johannes Duiker, Alvar Aalto, Charles and Ray(...)
Sites: architectural workbook of disposition
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With page after page of situation drawings rendered in meticulous and comprehensive detail, this book presents a mix of famous contemporary and historic buildings located around the world and realised by a wide range of notable architects. Works by Frank Lloyd Wright, Antonio Gaudí, Le Corbusier, Arne Jacobsen, Louis I. Kahn, Johannes Duiker, Alvar Aalto, Charles and Ray Eames, Lina Bo Bardi and Jørn Utzon make up just a handful of the projects. Following the keyword of disposition, each is given special meaning according to its placement or arrangement in context, emphasising why they are enduring great works of architecture.
Architectural Drawing
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Robert Venturi est reconnu comme l'un des grands architectes-théoriciens du XXe siècle. Vu depuis le Capitole (qui aurait tout aussi bien pu s'intituler De Michel-Ange à McDonald) rassemble dix-sept articles écrits avec son associée, Denise Scott Brown, entre 1953 et 1982, et publiés à l'origine dans des revues d'architecture. Ils y livrent leurs réflexions sur l'histoire(...)
Vu depuis le Capitol, et autres textes
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Robert Venturi est reconnu comme l'un des grands architectes-théoriciens du XXe siècle. Vu depuis le Capitole (qui aurait tout aussi bien pu s'intituler De Michel-Ange à McDonald) rassemble dix-sept articles écrits avec son associée, Denise Scott Brown, entre 1953 et 1982, et publiés à l'origine dans des revues d'architecture. Ils y livrent leurs réflexions sur l'histoire de l'architecture depuis la Renaissance et le baroque et, concernant les XIXe et XXe siècles, évoquent aussi bien l'Ecole des beaux-arts que Frank Furness, Sir Edwin Lutyens, Alvar Aalto ou l'influence de la pop culture américaine sur l'architecture.
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Brick: a world history
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This architecture book follows the story of brick from 5,000 BC to its use in building today, via the vast baths and basilicas of ancient Rome, through the wonders of Gothic brick in Germany, the majestic temples of Pagan and Mughal mosques in Iran, to its modern revival. The authors have applied their expert visual and technical knowledge to more than one hundred(...)
Materials and Lighting
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Brick: a world history
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This architecture book follows the story of brick from 5,000 BC to its use in building today, via the vast baths and basilicas of ancient Rome, through the wonders of Gothic brick in Germany, the majestic temples of Pagan and Mughal mosques in Iran, to its modern revival. The authors have applied their expert visual and technical knowledge to more than one hundred themes, from bricks in ancient Egypt to their distinctive use by such modern masters as Louis Kahn, Alvar Aalto and Renzo Piano. Great works of engineering – viaducts, tunnels and bridges – are given prominence alongside cathedrals and country houses, temples and mosques, testifying to the versatility and importance of bricks and brickwork.
Materials and Lighting
Archi brut
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Un large aperçu du Brutalisme, fascinant style architectural, avec des exemples prestigieux de constructions brutalistes réalisées entre les années 1950 et aujourd’hui. L’ouvrage met en lumière de nombreux trésors méconnus de l’architecture brutaliste, construits dans l’ancien bloc de l’Est et dans les quatre coins du monde. Présente les oeuvres des plus grands(...)
Archi brut
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Un large aperçu du Brutalisme, fascinant style architectural, avec des exemples prestigieux de constructions brutalistes réalisées entre les années 1950 et aujourd’hui. L’ouvrage met en lumière de nombreux trésors méconnus de l’architecture brutaliste, construits dans l’ancien bloc de l’Est et dans les quatre coins du monde. Présente les oeuvres des plus grands architectes contemporains, dont : Zaha Hadid, Peter Zumthor, David Chipperfield, Daniel Libeskind, Herzog & de Meuron, Thomas Heatherwick, John Pawson, Rem Koolhaas/OMA, Jean Nouvel, Peter Eisenman, Toyo Ito Tadao Ando. Et des figures de l'architecture du XXe siècle, comme : Alvar Aalto, Arne Jacobsen, Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe, Frank Lloyd Wright, Louis Kahn, Paul Rudolph, Marcel Breuer, Oscar Niemeyer, Eero Saarinen, Lina Bo Bardi, Carlo Scarpa.
Contemporary Architecture
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Sigfried Giedion (1888–1968) and Carola Giedion-Welcker (1893–1979) were among the most influential scholars of art and architectural history during the early twentieth century. Of particular impact was their role in connecting leading protagonists of modernism in architecture, art, and literature, such as Alvar Aalto, Hans Arp, Constantin Brancusi, Marcel Breuer, Max(...)
The Giedion world: Sigfried Giedion and Carola Giedion-Welcker in dialogue
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Sigfried Giedion (1888–1968) and Carola Giedion-Welcker (1893–1979) were among the most influential scholars of art and architectural history during the early twentieth century. Of particular impact was their role in connecting leading protagonists of modernism in architecture, art, and literature, such as Alvar Aalto, Hans Arp, Constantin Brancusi, Marcel Breuer, Max Ernst, Walter Gropius, Barbara Hepworth, Le Corbusier, László Moholy-Nagy, Piet Mondrian, and Sophie Taeuber-Arp. The interactions they initiated, for example, on the new vision in photography or the synthesis of arts continue to be highly relevant to the present day. "The Giedion World" offers a long-awaited reevaluation of Sigfried and Carola Giedion-Welcker’s work and lasting significance.
Architectural Theory
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In this story, we meet, among others, the Boston Brahmins Jack Phillips and Nathaniel Saltonstall; the self-taught architect, carpenter and painter Jack Hall; the Finn Olav Hammarström, who had worked for Alvar Aalto; and the prolific Charlie Zehnder, who brought the lessons of both Frank Lloyd Wright and Brutalism to the Cape. Initially, these designers had no clients;(...)
Cape Cod modern: midcentury architecture and community on the outer cape
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In this story, we meet, among others, the Boston Brahmins Jack Phillips and Nathaniel Saltonstall; the self-taught architect, carpenter and painter Jack Hall; the Finn Olav Hammarström, who had worked for Alvar Aalto; and the prolific Charlie Zehnder, who brought the lessons of both Frank Lloyd Wright and Brutalism to the Cape. Initially, these designers had no clients; they built for themselves and their families, or for friends sympathetic to their ideals. Their homes were laboratories, places to work through ideas without spending much money. The result of this ferment is a body of work unlike any other, a regional modernism fusing the building traditions of Cape Cod fishing towns with Bauhaus concepts and postwar experimentation.
Modernism
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Featuring 450 of the very best works of Mid-Century Modern architecture from every continent, the "Atlas of Mid-Century Modern Masterpieces" showcases how the architects of the time harnessed the post-war boom and increasing globalization to create forward-thinking designs on a grander scale. From embassies and office blocks to entertainments spaces and transport hubs,(...)
Atlas of Mid-Century Modern Masterpieces
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Featuring 450 of the very best works of Mid-Century Modern architecture from every continent, the "Atlas of Mid-Century Modern Masterpieces" showcases how the architects of the time harnessed the post-war boom and increasing globalization to create forward-thinking designs on a grander scale. From embassies and office blocks to entertainments spaces and transport hubs, glamorous designs by such icons as Arne Jacobsen, Mies, Le Corbusier, Eero Saarinen, Alvar Aalto, Marcel Breuer, Frank Lloyd-Wright, and Oscar Niemeyer are each illustrated with stunning photography. This stylish hardcover book showcases buildings from every continent, from classic North American skyscrapers and European masterpieces to modest churches in Africa, and iconic swimming pools in Australia and is a must-have for all design and architecture aficionados.
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