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La ville du Havre, présente une histoire faite de ruptures. Leure, le port d’origine, se trouva comme effacé par la guerre de Cent Ans. Le Havre proprement dit a été fondé par François Ier, qui voulait un port pour faciliter les échanges rouennais, notamment avec l’Amérique. A la fin du XIXe siècle et au début du XXe, le Havre connaît un développement des plus rapides.(...)
Le Havre : un port, des villes neuves
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La ville du Havre, présente une histoire faite de ruptures. Leure, le port d’origine, se trouva comme effacé par la guerre de Cent Ans. Le Havre proprement dit a été fondé par François Ier, qui voulait un port pour faciliter les échanges rouennais, notamment avec l’Amérique. A la fin du XIXe siècle et au début du XXe, le Havre connaît un développement des plus rapides. Les bombardements de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, en feront une des villes d’Europe les plus sinistrées. Sa reconstruction selon les plans de l’équipe Perret se posera en exemple et chef-d’œuvre d’architecture rationaliste. Dès l’après-guerre, l’expansion urbaine reprendra à une rythme effréné jusqu'à la fin du XXe siècle. Le livre aborde la ville par sa réalité physique et met en évidence les rapports du port et de la ville. Il restitue toute la richesse de cette ville au passé détruit, mais dont la qualité architecturale contemporaine lui vaut d’être proposée par la France pour une inscription sur la liste du patrimoine mondial de l’humanité.
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Matière vivante, la ville en mouvement ne doit se laisser enfermer ni par les carcans juridiques, réglementaires ou financiers ni par les pensées dominantes d’une époque contemporaine exposée à moult turbulences. Accompagner plutôt qu’imposer l’évolution d’un lieu, s’inspirer de la vitalité de ses habitants et aborder l’architecture par l’observation minutieuse des usages(...)
La ville, matière vivante : L'AUC, Grand Prix de l'urbanisme 2021
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Matière vivante, la ville en mouvement ne doit se laisser enfermer ni par les carcans juridiques, réglementaires ou financiers ni par les pensées dominantes d’une époque contemporaine exposée à moult turbulences. Accompagner plutôt qu’imposer l’évolution d’un lieu, s’inspirer de la vitalité de ses habitants et aborder l’architecture par l’observation minutieuse des usages jusqu’à l’échelle de la métropole : autant de constantes pour l’AUC, équipe lauréate du Grand Prix de l’urbanisme 2021. Ceux qui, pour avoir été la plus jeune équipe de la consultation du Grand Paris, pourraient passer pour les « enfants terribles » de l’urbanisme, ont choisi un nom révélateur : Ab urbe condita (« Depuis la fondation de la ville »). Une formule qui affiche l’ambition que partagent François Decoster, Djamel Klouche et Caroline Poulin de s’emparer de la question urbaine de manière exigeante, précise et libre de tout dogme ou héritage pesant. Une locution valant aussi programme, leur action se déploie des projets d’architecture aux projets urbains, voire métropolitains, qu’ils mettent en parole et en dessin d’une façon souvent peu orthodoxe.
Urban Theory
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This publication presents the various garden types from the perspective of contemporary landscape and garden design. They point the way toward the essential compositional principles, the plants most commonly utilized and their most characteristic uses, and the possibilities for employing them in contemporary projects, thus providing readers with a source of inspiration(...)
The chinese garden: garden types for contemporary landscape architecture
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This publication presents the various garden types from the perspective of contemporary landscape and garden design. They point the way toward the essential compositional principles, the plants most commonly utilized and their most characteristic uses, and the possibilities for employing them in contemporary projects, thus providing readers with a source of inspiration for their own designs and creations. The panorama of The Chinese Garden stretches from the surviving historical gardens all the way to modern examples as the garden at the Bank of China in Hong Kong (designed by I. M. Pei), Ai Weiwei s Yiwu Riverbank Park, the Garden of Flowering Fragrance in the area of Los Angeles, California, and the Garden of Awakening Orchids in Portland, Oregon.
Gardens
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In Toward Sustainable Architecture Mazzola makes a series of observations aimed at bringing about a reversal in the trend of conceiving, developing and living in our cities and towns, before it is too late.
Toward sustainable architecture : recreating our cities before they collapse
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In Toward Sustainable Architecture Mazzola makes a series of observations aimed at bringing about a reversal in the trend of conceiving, developing and living in our cities and towns, before it is too late.
Urban Theory
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Total Design offers an intimate tour of houses conceived as complete works of art. Each of the houses demonstrates how an architect realized a unifying vision through all aspects of design — architecture, furniture, fittings, decorative objects, color, and gardens.
Total design: architecture and interiors of iconic Modern houses
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Total Design offers an intimate tour of houses conceived as complete works of art. Each of the houses demonstrates how an architect realized a unifying vision through all aspects of design — architecture, furniture, fittings, decorative objects, color, and gardens.
Interior Design
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Beneath the veneer of a very successful China that the world readily acknowledges, a quiet revolution is taking place within the realms of architecture and the city. The social, architectural and urban theories documented in this book are organized around the established canons of social actions – from mobilizing, laboring, resisting and mediating, to networking,(...)
The social imperative: Architecture and the city in China
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Beneath the veneer of a very successful China that the world readily acknowledges, a quiet revolution is taking place within the realms of architecture and the city. The social, architectural and urban theories documented in this book are organized around the established canons of social actions – from mobilizing, laboring, resisting and mediating, to networking, controlling, rationalizing and aestheticizing. This book aims to put the social agenda squarely back in the rapid development of the built environment in China. This publication is the culmination of a three-year study of social issues in the architecture and cities of China. It involved visits to sites undergoing massive change, discussions and debates among architects and critics, reflections by practitioners about their own work, and activists lobbying for social change. Supported by the non-profit AA Asia, the edition of the contents relied heavily on original input and exchanges between architects and theorists committed to China, from Asia and beyond. Since the 1990s, AA Asia remains one of a few unique think tanks committed to the study of architecture and cities in Asia. As an advocacy with strong academic roots, it seeks to establish the differences across various postcolonial and Asian contexts, and recalibrate the role of architecture in a technocratic era dominated by the global economy.
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''The Interiors of Social Media'' explores the relationship between architecture, interiors, and social media, guiding us through today's digital landscape to reveal where the virtual and physical worlds meet. From influencer bedrooms and gaming setups to humanitarian shelters, pet influencer homes, and porn rooms, Javier Fernández Contreras reveals how social media(...)
The interiors of social media: Architecture, space and technology
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''The Interiors of Social Media'' explores the relationship between architecture, interiors, and social media, guiding us through today's digital landscape to reveal where the virtual and physical worlds meet. From influencer bedrooms and gaming setups to humanitarian shelters, pet influencer homes, and porn rooms, Javier Fernández Contreras reveals how social media does not merely depict interiors, but actively scripts new spatial types: homes that are both private and hyper-public, domestic yet performative, and material yet algorithmic. By mapping platform spatialities and tracing the themes that connect them, he examines interiors as sites of consumerism, display, and mediatization - environments that expose the ethical, political, and ecological implications of 21st-century digital culture. Drawing on architecture, media studies, and digital humanities, «The Interiors of Social Media » offers a critical lens on how online interactions are woven into everyday life and invites us to rethink architecture in the age of the algorithm.
Social
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Following the success of "Material world", European material experts MatériO have compiled and described innovative materials for architecture and design in the sequel: "Material world 2". Once again architects, interior architects and designers can look up the ideal manufacturer, and gain inspiration for their building exteriors, interiors, and innovative products.(...)
Material world 2 : innovative materials for architecture and design
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Following the success of "Material world", European material experts MatériO have compiled and described innovative materials for architecture and design in the sequel: "Material world 2". Once again architects, interior architects and designers can look up the ideal manufacturer, and gain inspiration for their building exteriors, interiors, and innovative products. "Material world 2" is as comprehensive as the first volume: here architects and designers will find detailed product information, addresses, and contact details of manufacturers for every material featured. In addition, each material entry is accompanied by case studies, which show the material in specific applications.
Materials and Lighting
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This guide focuses on the architects whose designs shaped the physical form of the city. Published in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the AIA chapter in Washington State.
Shaping Seattle architecture : a historic guide to the architects
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This guide focuses on the architects whose designs shaped the physical form of the city. Published in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the AIA chapter in Washington State.
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The Cubist movement, which revolutionized the art world in the early twentieth century, was largely restricted to painting and sculpture in Western Europe. However, in Bohemia, Cubism achieved remarkable heights not only in painting and sculpture, but also in architecture and the applied arts. The startling work created by the Czech avant-garde of the early 1900s has(...)
Czech cubism : Architecture, furniture, and decorative arts, 1910-1925
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The Cubist movement, which revolutionized the art world in the early twentieth century, was largely restricted to painting and sculpture in Western Europe. However, in Bohemia, Cubism achieved remarkable heights not only in painting and sculpture, but also in architecture and the applied arts. The startling work created by the Czech avant-garde of the early 1900s has rarely been seen outside of Eastern Europe. ''Czech cubism'' presents a collection of architecture, furniture, and decorative arts through more than 500 photographs and drawings. Essays by nine noted scholars provide historical and critical background for the work.