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The hand of Palladio
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This book identifies Palladio's personal touch and pinpoints the most typical features of the architectural language he used.
Architecture Monographs
September 2008
The hand of Palladio
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This book identifies Palladio's personal touch and pinpoints the most typical features of the architectural language he used.
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Architecture Monographs
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Chicago is famous for its role in fostering modern architecture. Now Jeanne Gang, founder of Studio Gang Architects, is giving the epithet "Chicago School" a new meaning. Her recently completed 82-story Aqua residential tower is already an icon of the Chicago skyline and has been universally hailed as a masterwork for the young firm. Reveal presents an in-depth look at(...)
Studio Gang Architects: Reveal
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Chicago is famous for its role in fostering modern architecture. Now Jeanne Gang, founder of Studio Gang Architects, is giving the epithet "Chicago School" a new meaning. Her recently completed 82-story Aqua residential tower is already an icon of the Chicago skyline and has been universally hailed as a masterwork for the young firm. Reveal presents an in-depth look at the firm's unique work and working process through drawings, diagrams, sketches, and photographs that illuminate the evolution of each of the book's eight featured projects, both public and private, and ranging in size from exhibition to high-rise.
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Alvar Aalto houses
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This book presents twenty-six of Aalto's innovative residences--from small summer homes and postwar standardized housing to large housing complexes for industrial commissions--built between the 1920s to the 1960s.
Alvar Aalto houses
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This book presents twenty-six of Aalto's innovative residences--from small summer homes and postwar standardized housing to large housing complexes for industrial commissions--built between the 1920s to the 1960s.
Architecture Monographs
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House in the Landscape offers a viable alternative for landowners who want to build in a more thoughtful manner. Twenty-two houses by some of today's best-known residential architects illustrate nine site types from all over the United States. Each site, the issues it posed, the solutions the architects found, and the resulting house design are discussed and explained in(...)
House in the landscape: Siting your home naturally
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House in the Landscape offers a viable alternative for landowners who want to build in a more thoughtful manner. Twenty-two houses by some of today's best-known residential architects illustrate nine site types from all over the United States. Each site, the issues it posed, the solutions the architects found, and the resulting house design are discussed and explained in detail, providing siting information.
Residential Architecture
The architectural detail
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Edward Ford's forty years of practicing and teaching architecture have focused on one area: the architectural detail. Yet, despite two influential books, numerous articles, and lectures given from Vancouver to Vienna, there is one question Ford has never answered: 'What is a detail?' Ford walks the reader through five widely accepted and wildly different definitions(...)
The architectural detail
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Edward Ford's forty years of practicing and teaching architecture have focused on one area: the architectural detail. Yet, despite two influential books, numerous articles, and lectures given from Vancouver to Vienna, there is one question Ford has never answered: 'What is a detail?' Ford walks the reader through five widely accepted and wildly different definitions of detail, in an attempt to find, for once and for all, the quintessential definition of detail in architecture. After shuffling through the history of architecture, he finally reaches a conclusion.
Architectural Theory
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This book is about the power of thought in architecture by renowned Dutch architect Wiel Arets. Without his strong conceptual thinking, the Academy for Arts Maastricht, Hedge House, the University library Utrecht, the Jellyfish house, the 4 Towers in Osdorp, the Allianz Headquarters and Wiel Arets’ product designs for Alessi wouldn’t be of exceptional and outstanding(...)
Wiel Arets: Timeline of ideas, articles & interviews 1982-2010
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This book is about the power of thought in architecture by renowned Dutch architect Wiel Arets. Without his strong conceptual thinking, the Academy for Arts Maastricht, Hedge House, the University library Utrecht, the Jellyfish house, the 4 Towers in Osdorp, the Allianz Headquarters and Wiel Arets’ product designs for Alessi wouldn’t be of exceptional and outstanding quality. Wiel Arets believes that research and education are an intrinsic part of being an architect. The development of Arets’ ideas is shown in their multitude of thought and action. Architect Wiel Arets speaks, but also enters into a dialogue with others, while his work is critically analysed.
Architecture Monographs
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Depuis sa fondation à Chambéry en 1960 par Bernard Patriarche, l'agence familiale, devenue Patriarche & Co, est passée d'une pratique artisanale à celle d'une agence internationale. L'adjonction de l'acronyme " & Co " marque la volonté de Jean-Loup Patriarche, qui la reprend au décès de son père, en 1985, d'apporter une nouvelle dimension en y intégrant progressivement(...)
Patriarche & Co, architectes et ingénieurs, 1960-2010
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Depuis sa fondation à Chambéry en 1960 par Bernard Patriarche, l'agence familiale, devenue Patriarche & Co, est passée d'une pratique artisanale à celle d'une agence internationale. L'adjonction de l'acronyme " & Co " marque la volonté de Jean-Loup Patriarche, qui la reprend au décès de son père, en 1985, d'apporter une nouvelle dimension en y intégrant progressivement des compétences adaptées à la complexité du monde post-moderne : celles d'économistes, d'ingénieurs et d'universitaires, associés à la genèse du projet dès ses premiers instants. Patriarche & Co s'appuie depuis toujours sur une architecture rationnelle reposant sur une analyse fine du lieu et du programme. La conception architecturale met en oeuvre des formes épurées et une géométrie rigoureuse, qui traduisent une quête constante de l'Economie au sens noble du terme. Le travail de Patriarche & Co rappelle que si l'architecture est un art, elle est aussi un métier. Au travers de la vie de cette agence, toujours implantée à Chambéry, bien qu'il y ait d'autres sites à Paris, Lyon, Annecy, Montréal ou Hanoi, c'est un demi-siècle de l'évolution de l'architecture et de sa pratique que cet ouvrage propose. Patriarche & Co n'y est pas présenté comme un modèle, mais comme un exemple de mutation possible de la profession en ce début de XXIe siècle.
Architecture Monographs
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For almost 20 years, Detlef Mertins has been a critical voice in renewing our understanding of architectural modernity. Architect, historian, professor, his essays have often taken up familiar themes in order to redress inaccuracies and release energies that we were unaware of. These essays elaborate on such key modernist tropes as transparency, glass architecture,(...)
AA words 7: Modernity unbound
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For almost 20 years, Detlef Mertins has been a critical voice in renewing our understanding of architectural modernity. Architect, historian, professor, his essays have often taken up familiar themes in order to redress inaccuracies and release energies that we were unaware of. These essays elaborate on such key modernist tropes as transparency, glass architecture, organicism, life and event, sameness and difference. Previously published in a variety of different venues, from journals to anthologies – including such noted books as Lars Spuybroek's NOX: Machining Architecture and FOA's Phylogenesis – they are now assembled for the first time in this volume.
Architectural Theory
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Each of the contributors has responded to a set of 20 questions on the multiple conditions under which particular ideas and words enter architectural discourse through publication. The resulting critical positions and observations are as diverse as the magazines from which they originate, and range from the oldest student-edited journal (Perspecta) to a research(...)
20/20 : editorial takes on architectural discourse
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Each of the contributors has responded to a set of 20 questions on the multiple conditions under which particular ideas and words enter architectural discourse through publication. The resulting critical positions and observations are as diverse as the magazines from which they originate, and range from the oldest student-edited journal (Perspecta) to a research collective that at the time of writing was on the cusp of being launched ([bracket]). Also included are contributions from the editors of 306090, AA Files, Actar, An Architektur, Footprint, Grey Room, Harvard Design Magazine, Hunch, Interstices, Log, Manifold, Mark, New Geographies, OASE, Praxis, Scapes, UME and Volume. 20/20 is a timely publication that provides today's architectural reader with concise viewpoints from the editors behind the magazines behind architectural culture.
Architectural Theory
Imagine 05: energy
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Energy is everything and we are used to this in the means of energy reduction for our buildings. The reduction in energy used in a climate-efficient building during its lifetime is equal to the energy consumption necessary to produce and install the building. This publication focuses on the embodied energy aspects of building materials, their life cycle and their(...)
Imagine 05: energy
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Energy is everything and we are used to this in the means of energy reduction for our buildings. The reduction in energy used in a climate-efficient building during its lifetime is equal to the energy consumption necessary to produce and install the building. This publication focuses on the embodied energy aspects of building materials, their life cycle and their potentials for reuse as energy or in construction, and presents some far-reaching design ideas.
Green Architecture