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Auguste Perret
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This monograph is the first sustained study of Perret in English, illustrated with colour photography as well as drawings and photographs from the Perret archive. It features an appendix of Perret's writing on architecture, including his published text "Contribution to a Theory of Architecture," which provides an insight into the forces behind his craft and its artistic(...)
Auguste Perret
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This monograph is the first sustained study of Perret in English, illustrated with colour photography as well as drawings and photographs from the Perret archive. It features an appendix of Perret's writing on architecture, including his published text "Contribution to a Theory of Architecture," which provides an insight into the forces behind his craft and its artistic and social principles.
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October 2001, London
Architecture Monographs
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Ce livre comprend 400 photos illustrant les nombreuses facettes du patrimoine bâti du Nord, du Sud et de l'Est ontariens: patrimoine agricole, religieux, civil et domestique, commercial, communautaire, industriel, ainsi que l'art populaire, documentés par l'enquête directe sur le terrain.
Architecture in Canada
June 2001, Sudbury
Habiter le pays : inventaire du patrimoine de l'Ontario français
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Ce livre comprend 400 photos illustrant les nombreuses facettes du patrimoine bâti du Nord, du Sud et de l'Est ontariens: patrimoine agricole, religieux, civil et domestique, commercial, communautaire, industriel, ainsi que l'art populaire, documentés par l'enquête directe sur le terrain.
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June 2001, Sudbury
Architecture in Canada
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Jardins de Métis
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Ce guide illustré propose une promenade dans les sentiers ombragés des Jardins de Métis. Il présente à la fois l'histoire et les richesses horticoles de ce domaine, dont les photographies de Louise Tanguay traduisent la magie et la beauté.
Jardins de Métis
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Ce guide illustré propose une promenade dans les sentiers ombragés des Jardins de Métis. Il présente à la fois l'histoire et les richesses horticoles de ce domaine, dont les photographies de Louise Tanguay traduisent la magie et la beauté.
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June 2001, Québec
Architecture du Québec
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Lyons and McLean : promenade
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"Promenade" documents the successful architect-artist collaboration of Irena Bauman Lyons and Bruce McLean on the RIBA award-winning scheme for the regeneration of Bridlington's Seafront. Mel Gooding's narration of the genesis and realisation of the project is complemented by essays on the culture of the British seaside, seaside architecture and on art at the edge(...)
Lyons and McLean : promenade
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"Promenade" documents the successful architect-artist collaboration of Irena Bauman Lyons and Bruce McLean on the RIBA award-winning scheme for the regeneration of Bridlington's Seafront. Mel Gooding's narration of the genesis and realisation of the project is complemented by essays on the culture of the British seaside, seaside architecture and on art at the edge between sea and land.
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January 1900, Yorkshire
Architecture Monographs
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Framed by Terry Smith's introduction, the essays in this book focus on two kinds of strangeness involved in experiencing visual images in the modern era. The first, explored in the book's first half, involves the appearance of oddities or phantasmagoria in early photographs and cinema. The second type of strangeness involves art from marginalized groups and indigenous(...)
Impossible presence : surface and screen in the photographic era
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Framed by Terry Smith's introduction, the essays in this book focus on two kinds of strangeness involved in experiencing visual images in the modern era. The first, explored in the book's first half, involves the appearance of oddities or phantasmagoria in early photographs and cinema. The second type of strangeness involves art from marginalized groups and indigenous peoples, and the communicative formations that result from the trafficking of images between people from vastly different cultures.
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September 2001, Chicago
Architectural Theory
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This collection contains studies written by art historian James Ackerman over the past decade. Whereas Ackerman’s earlier work assumed a development of the arts as they responded to social, economic, political, and cultural change, his recent work reflects the poststructural critique of the presumption of progress that characterized Renaissance and modernist history and(...)
Architectural Theory
November 2001, Cambridge, Mass.
Origins, imitation, conventions : representation in the visual arts
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This collection contains studies written by art historian James Ackerman over the past decade. Whereas Ackerman’s earlier work assumed a development of the arts as they responded to social, economic, political, and cultural change, his recent work reflects the poststructural critique of the presumption of progress that characterized Renaissance and modernist history and criticism. In this book he explores the tension between the authority of the past--which may act not only as a restraint but as a challenge and stimulus--and the potentially liberating gift of invention. He examines the ways in which artists and writers on art have related to ancestors and to established modes of representation, as well as to contemporary experiences. The "origins" studied here include the earliest art history and criticism; the beginnings of architectural drawing in the Middle Ages and Renaissance; Leonardo Da Vinci’s sketches for churches, the first in the Renaissance to propose supporting domes on sculpted walls and piers; and the first architectural photographs. "Imitation" refers to artistic achievements that in part depended on the imitation of forms established in practices outside the fine arts, such as ancient Roman rhetoric and print media. "Conventions," like language, facilitate communication between the artist and viewer, but are both more universal (understood across cultures) and more fixed (resisting variation that might diminish their clarity). The three categories are closely linked throughout the book, as most acts of representation partake to some degree of all three.
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November 2001, Cambridge, Mass.
Architectural Theory
Water house
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This exploration of built and yet-to-be-realized aquatic habitats shows how water has become architecture's next frontier. Whether they're floating on top, hovering over, or submerged beneath the water, each of the more than fifty structures examined here demonstrates an innovative use of water resources. Colourfully illustrated with photographs, drawings, and plans, this(...)
Miniature Architecture
May 2005, Munich
Water house
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This exploration of built and yet-to-be-realized aquatic habitats shows how water has become architecture's next frontier. Whether they're floating on top, hovering over, or submerged beneath the water, each of the more than fifty structures examined here demonstrates an innovative use of water resources. Colourfully illustrated with photographs, drawings, and plans, this global and historic sampling includes Shanghai's Bionic Tower, complete with its own lake; Biorock, an artificial reef in the Indian Ocean; an undersea hotel where scuba divers can spend a comfortable night; and Sweden's Ice Hotel, where translucent frozen walls reveal the beauty of the Northern Lights. Each of these projects demonstrates man's ability to live in the water without interfering with nature's rhythms. Together they offer reassuring proof that today's architects are finding workable and appealing solutions to the problems of shrinking resources and growing populations. Each of these projects demonstrates man's ability to live in the water without interfering with nature's rhythms. Together they offer reassuring proof that today's architects are finding workable and appealing solutions to the problems of shrinking resources and growing populations.
Miniature Architecture
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Located at Kop van Zuid in Rotterdam, the new Ichthus University of Professional Education is clearly inspired by the architecture of the surrounding docklands. Designed by (EEA) Erick van Egeraat associated architects, it is a supremely transparent building of glass and steel. Nor is it only the building's(...)
Ichthus University of Professional Education Rotterdam
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Located at Kop van Zuid in Rotterdam, the new Ichthus University of Professional Education is clearly inspired by the architecture of the surrounding docklands. Designed by (EEA) Erick van Egeraat associated architects, it is a supremely transparent building of glass and steel. Nor is it only the building's transparency that is extraordinary. Behind the energy-efficient glazing resides a unique construction that includes an atrium, a 'learning platform', suspended 'studyscapes' and freely subdivisible floors. The building is therefore representative not only of the architect's qualities but equally of the client's vision of an open and flexible setting for higher education. Photography by Daria Scagliola, Stijn Brakkee Design by Reynoud Homan and Robbert Zweegman
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January 1900, Rotterdam
Architecture Monographs
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Reyner Banham (1922-88) was one of the most influential writers on architecture, design, and popular culture from the mid-1950s to the late 1980s. Trained in mechanical engineering and art history, he was convinced that technology was making society not only more exciting but more democratic. His combination of academic rigor and pop culture sensibility put him in(...)
Reyner Banham : historian of the immediate future
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Reyner Banham (1922-88) was one of the most influential writers on architecture, design, and popular culture from the mid-1950s to the late 1980s. Trained in mechanical engineering and art history, he was convinced that technology was making society not only more exciting but more democratic. His combination of academic rigor and pop culture sensibility put him in opposition to both traditionalists and orthodox Modernists, but placed him in a unique position to understand the cultural, social, and political implications of the visual arts in the postwar period. His first book, "Theory and Design in the First Machine Age", was central to the overhaul of Modernism, and it gave Futurism and Expressionism credibility amid the dynamism and change of the 1960s. This intellectual biography is the first comprehensive critical examination of Banham’s theories and ideas, not only on architecture but also on the wide variety of subjects that interested him. It covers the full range of his oeuvre and discusses the values, enthusiasms, and influences that formed his thinking.
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October 2001, Cambridge, MA
Architectural Theory
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The gray cloth
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The German expressionist, architectural visionary, author, inventor, and artist Paul Scheerbart (1863-1915) wrote several fictional utopian narratives related to glass architecture. In "The Gray Cloth", the first of his novels to be translated into English, Scheerbart uses subtle irony and the structural simplicity of a fairy tale to present the theories of coloured glass(...)
The gray cloth
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The German expressionist, architectural visionary, author, inventor, and artist Paul Scheerbart (1863-1915) wrote several fictional utopian narratives related to glass architecture. In "The Gray Cloth", the first of his novels to be translated into English, Scheerbart uses subtle irony and the structural simplicity of a fairy tale to present the theories of coloured glass outlined in his well-known treatise "Glass Architecture". The novel is set forward in time to the mid-twentieth century. The protagonist, a Swiss architect named Edgar Krug, circumnavigates the globe by airship with his wife, constructing wildly varied, colored-glass buildings. His projects include a high-rise and exhibition/concert hall in Chicago, a retirement complex for air pilots on the Fiji Islands, the structure for an elevated train across a zoological park in northern India, and a suspended residential villa on the Kuria Muria Islands off the coast of Oman in the Arabian Sea. Fearing that his architecture is challenged by the colourfulness of women’s clothing, Krug insists that his wife wear all gray clothing with the addition of ten percent white. This odd demand brings him notoriety and sensationalizes his international building campaign. For the reader, it underlines the confluence of architecture with fashion, gender, and global media. In his introduction John Stuart surveys Scheerbart’s career and role in German avant-garde circles, as well as his architectural and social ideas. He shows how Scheerbart strove to integrate his spiritual and romantic leanings with the modern world, often relying on glass architecture to do so. In addition to discussing the novel’s reception and its rediscovery by contemporary architects and critics, Stuart shows fiction to be a resource for the study of architecture and places "The Gray Cloth" in the context of German Expressionism.
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October 2001, Cambridge, Mass.
Architectural Theory