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Belgian architect Xaveer De Geyter is the focus of this issue, which features a selection of projects from the past fifteen years. He began his career working with Rem Koolhaas at OMA, and started his own firm in the early 1990s. De Geyter believes architecture is about opening up possibilities: the potential of a site, the hidden opportunity of a particular situation, of(...)
El Croquis 204: XDGA Xavier De Geyter 2005-2020
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Belgian architect Xaveer De Geyter is the focus of this issue, which features a selection of projects from the past fifteen years. He began his career working with Rem Koolhaas at OMA, and started his own firm in the early 1990s. De Geyter believes architecture is about opening up possibilities: the potential of a site, the hidden opportunity of a particular situation, of a programmatic conflict. Among the featured projects are Hasselt’s Z33 Museum, Sint-Lucas School of Fine Arts in Ghent, a learning and innovation centre in Brussels, and a design for the International Olympic Committee Headquarters. Includes an interview with the architect by Sarah Whiting and essay by Philip Ursprung.
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El Croquis
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Comme toutes les espèces vivantes, toutes les cultures humaines ont eu leur propre monde. La modernité occidentale, à partir du XVIIe siècle, est le seul paradigme qui ait privé le sujet humain de cosmicité, en reléguant « le monde » à l’état d’objet. Au siècle dernier, cela aboutit à ce que l’architecte Rem Koolhaas a nommé junkspace, l'« espace foutoir ». Par-delà la(...)
Recosmiser la Terre : quelques leçons péruviennes
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Comme toutes les espèces vivantes, toutes les cultures humaines ont eu leur propre monde. La modernité occidentale, à partir du XVIIe siècle, est le seul paradigme qui ait privé le sujet humain de cosmicité, en reléguant « le monde » à l’état d’objet. Au siècle dernier, cela aboutit à ce que l’architecte Rem Koolhaas a nommé junkspace, l'« espace foutoir ». Par-delà la détérioration de l'environnement, cette acosmie globalisée atteint aujourd'hui au cosmocide. Au Pérou, comme dans tous les pays colonisés ou en développement, ne faut-il pas alors s’inspirer de la cosmicité des communautés autochtones ? Mais peut-on faire face aux réalités contemporaines et à venir ? Et créativement « recosmiser » l'existence humaine sur la Terre ?
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This book presents over 120 of the key arguments of today's major architectural philosophers. These show that the modern architecture of the early part of this century has mutated into three main traditions: a critical and ecological post-modernism; a high-tech and sculptural late modernism, and deconstructive, subversive new modernism. Here are the seminal texts of James(...)
Theories and manifestoes of contemporary architecture
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This book presents over 120 of the key arguments of today's major architectural philosophers. These show that the modern architecture of the early part of this century has mutated into three main traditions: a critical and ecological post-modernism; a high-tech and sculptural late modernism, and deconstructive, subversive new modernism. Here are the seminal texts of James Stirling, Robert Venturi, Colin Rowe, Christopher Alexander, Frank Gehry, Reyner Banham, Bernard Tschumi, Rem Koolhaas and many others who have changed the discourse of architecture. Here also are the anti-modern texts of the traditionalists - Leon Krier, Demetri Porphyrios, Quinlan Terry, Prince Charles and others. Many of these texts are concise, edited versions of influential books. Reprinted in 2003.
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Alors que la crise économique conduit parfois à renoncer à des projets grandioses faits pour durer, une nouvelle vague de bâtiments et de créations architecturales temporaires déferle sur le monde, que ce soit pour loger de toute urgence des refugiés ou accueillir des spectacles. Autre secteur: celui des expositions et des foires, véritable mine de projets fascinants au(...)
Temporary architecture now!: L'architecture éphémère d'aujourd'hui!
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Alors que la crise économique conduit parfois à renoncer à des projets grandioses faits pour durer, une nouvelle vague de bâtiments et de créations architecturales temporaires déferle sur le monde, que ce soit pour loger de toute urgence des refugiés ou accueillir des spectacles. Autre secteur: celui des expositions et des foires, véritable mine de projets fascinants au service de la mode, de la joaillerie ou du design, mais qui apparaissent et disparaissent en quelques jours. Les défilés de mode ou les expositions d’art bénéficient aussi de cette nouvelle tendance dynamique qui intéresse les plus grands noms de l’architecture contemporaine - comme Zaha Hadid ou Rem Koolhaas -, mais aussi de très nombreux architectes, à découvrir dans cet ouvrage.
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Une ville sous un seul toit
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Célébrés par Rem Koolhaas dans New York Délire (1978) les deux textes rassemblés ici éclairent, au lendemain de la Prohibition et de la Grande Dépression, la progressive relégation de la Gotham City du lac Michigan, où Raymond Hood (1881-1934) venait d'ériger la tour du Chicago Tribune (1922-1925). Désormais, c'est dans l'effervescence du New York Art Déco que tout se(...)
Une ville sous un seul toit
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Célébrés par Rem Koolhaas dans New York Délire (1978) les deux textes rassemblés ici éclairent, au lendemain de la Prohibition et de la Grande Dépression, la progressive relégation de la Gotham City du lac Michigan, où Raymond Hood (1881-1934) venait d'ériger la tour du Chicago Tribune (1922-1925). Désormais, c'est dans l'effervescence du New York Art Déco que tout se passe. Pour son ami Hugh Ferriss, Manhattan préfigure même la Metropolis du futur. Dans 'Une ville sous un seul toit' (1929), Hood imagine de petites villes dans la ville, tandis que dans 'L'Architecture de Rockefeller City' (1932), il transpose le modèle idéal en chantier opérationnel. Bref, une Messe pour le temps présent, un Office pour l'architecture métropolitaine...
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While the first half of the 20th century in architecture was, to a large extent, characterized by innovations in aesthetics (accompanied by succinct and polemical manifestoes), the post-war decades saw emerge a more refined and intellectual disciplinary framework that eventually metamorphosed into the highly theory-focused moment of the 'postmodern'. Colin Frederick Rowe(...)
Reckoning with Colin Rowe: ten architects take position
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While the first half of the 20th century in architecture was, to a large extent, characterized by innovations in aesthetics (accompanied by succinct and polemical manifestoes), the post-war decades saw emerge a more refined and intellectual disciplinary framework that eventually metamorphosed into the highly theory-focused moment of the 'postmodern'. Colin Frederick Rowe (1920 - 1999) was a leader of this epistemic shift due to his aptitude to connect his historical and philosophical erudition to the visual analysis of architecture. This book unites ten different perspectives from architects whose lives and ideas intersected with Rowe’s, including: Robert Maxwell, Anthony Vidler, Peter Eisenman, O. Mathias Ungers, Léon Krier, Rem Koolhaas, Alan Colquhoun, Robert Slutzky, Bernhard Hoesli and Bernard Tschumi.
Architectural Theory
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Architectural discourse today is characterized by an overlapping conversation between architects and academics, teachers and students, theorists and practitioners. Certain terms-"diagram, " "extreme form, " "autonomy, " and "the generic, " among others-capture the moment in architecture in definition and in operation. "Crib sheets" is a guide-a "crib"-to twenty-two of(...)
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June 2005, New York
Crib sheets : notes on thecontemporary architectural conversation
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Architectural discourse today is characterized by an overlapping conversation between architects and academics, teachers and students, theorists and practitioners. Certain terms-"diagram, " "extreme form, " "autonomy, " and "the generic, " among others-capture the moment in architecture in definition and in operation. "Crib sheets" is a guide-a "crib"-to twenty-two of those buzzwords, framing contemporary currents and trajectories. Each of the words is presented with a list of quotations, or sound bites, arranged in order of length and drawn from more than two hundred commentators, from Charles Baudelaire, Le Corbusier, and Buckminster Fuller to Frank Gehry, Paul Goldberger, and Rem Koolhaas. The structure attempts to evoke the present-day architectural conversation, capturing social milieus, current events, clusters of topics, and even background noise and eavesdropping.
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New conceptual strategies for structures, hybrid materials and constructions, computer-aided design and fabrication, and the adaptation of techniques from airplane design and ship building: these new technical developments are radically changing the use of metals in building. Yesterday's standards and processes are rapidly becoming out-dated, and it is high time that the(...)
Steel and beyond : new strategies for metals in architecture
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New conceptual strategies for structures, hybrid materials and constructions, computer-aided design and fabrication, and the adaptation of techniques from airplane design and ship building: these new technical developments are radically changing the use of metals in building. Yesterday's standards and processes are rapidly becoming out-dated, and it is high time that the most recent advances are documented in a systematic overview. Case studies examine significant buildings which illustrate ground-breaking concepts. These include Frank O. Gehry's Guggenheim Museum at Bilbao and the Experience Music project in Seattle, the Millennium Bridge by Norman Foster, Sendai Mediatheque by Toyo Ito, the Seattle Library by Rem Koolhaas. Each project is comprehensively documented in image and text, paying particular attention to the application and processing of metal and steel.
Engineering Structures
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Le plan moderne s’est voulu neutre, rationnel, reproductible. Avec le typical plan1, Rem Koolhaas a exposé la logique impérieuse de la standardisation qui organise l’espace tertiaire selon des modules sans qualités, des séquences sans histoires, des grilles où le sujet s’efface. Ce plan, produit de la modernité capitaliste, prétendait l’universalité : à chaque fonction,(...)
Plan L***** 211 : Troubler le plan
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Le plan moderne s’est voulu neutre, rationnel, reproductible. Avec le typical plan1, Rem Koolhaas a exposé la logique impérieuse de la standardisation qui organise l’espace tertiaire selon des modules sans qualités, des séquences sans histoires, des grilles où le sujet s’efface. Ce plan, produit de la modernité capitaliste, prétendait l’universalité : à chaque fonction, son espace?; à chaque corps, sa case. Mais ce plan, typique, est aussi un plan normatif. En effaçant les singularités, il impose des modèles d’usage, de comportement, de relation. Étendons ce constat à la manière dont le logement collectif se produit avec ses granulométries, ses types – T1-T1bis-T2-T3-T4-T5 – qui répondent plus aux attentes des familles nucléaires qu’à la diversité des formes de vie actuelles.
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Presenting a critical and theoretical dimension to retail design, "Boutiques and other retail spaces" links the ideas behind it to real practice in this innovative and important contribution to architectural/interior theory literature. Retail structure has been subject to a dramatic and ongoing transformation over the past thirty years, materializing in the emergence(...)
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July 2007, New York, London
Boutique and other retail spaces : the architecture of seduction
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Presenting a critical and theoretical dimension to retail design, "Boutiques and other retail spaces" links the ideas behind it to real practice in this innovative and important contribution to architectural/interior theory literature. Retail structure has been subject to a dramatic and ongoing transformation over the past thirty years, materializing in the emergence of large-scale out-of-town shopping centres and new specialized shops in city centres. These specialized boutiques are highly designed, involving well-known architectural firms such as OMA/Rem Koolhaas, David Chipperfield, Herzog + de Meuron amongst others. With case studies and over 100 black and white images, Vernet and de Wit set forth original and well-grounded theory to accompany this popular and lucrative area of work.
Commercial interiors, Building types