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This publication documents an unusual project by a multidisciplinary group of architects based at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London and collectively known as sixteen*(makers). Composed of some of the most innovative architects in Europe, the group focuses on interactive 'intelligent' systems employing digital fabrication, robotics, and(...)
Contemporary Architecture
September 2011
55/02: a sixteen*(makers) project monograph
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This publication documents an unusual project by a multidisciplinary group of architects based at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London and collectively known as sixteen*(makers). Composed of some of the most innovative architects in Europe, the group focuses on interactive 'intelligent' systems employing digital fabrication, robotics, and distributed networks of sensors and microprocessors. The project 55/02 is a form of forest shelter that engages with the landscape and is designed to address the visitor towards the particular qualities of its unique placement. It is at once a shelter, a sculpture, a vantage point, and a geographical marker. Essays by the project's authors describe the creation/building process and speculate on the work and its significance. The project's name comes from its coordinates, (55° 11.30 N, 02° 29.23 W, '55/02'), in Northumbria, England. In 2011 the building was awarded a prize by the Royal Institute of British Architects.
Contemporary Architecture
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En cinquante ans, le centre-ville de Montréal a vu s’implanter un réseau piétonnier protégé de près de 30 kilomètres, donnant accès à ce qu’on appelle maintenant la ville intérieure. Le « RÉSO », entièrement accessible au public, comprend des stations de métro et des gares, des halls d’immeubles, de bureaux et d’habitation, des galeries marchandes, des pavillons(...)
Montréal et Toronto: villes intérieures
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En cinquante ans, le centre-ville de Montréal a vu s’implanter un réseau piétonnier protégé de près de 30 kilomètres, donnant accès à ce qu’on appelle maintenant la ville intérieure. Le « RÉSO », entièrement accessible au public, comprend des stations de métro et des gares, des halls d’immeubles, de bureaux et d’habitation, des galeries marchandes, des pavillons universitaires et bien d’autres structures. Toronto a connu avec le « PATH » une évolution similaire, et les deux métropoles ont acquis pour ces aménagements une renommée internationale. Résultat de plusieurs années de recherche, ce livre décrit deux expériences d’urbanisme tridimensionnel. Il retrace leur historique et aborde les grandes questions qui se sont posées au fil des années. Quelles sont les conditions favorables à l’extension d’une ville intérieure? Quels en sont les obstacles? Quels sont les rôles respectifs des autorités publiques et des entreprises privées? Dans quelle mesure les usagers et les citoyens en général ont-ils leur mot à dire dans ce genre de développement urbain? Le développement de la ville intérieure est-il terminé ou faut-il s’attendre à un nouvel essor?
Architecture in Canada
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Metropolitan Natures presents original histories of the diverse environments that constitute Montreal and its region. It explores the agricultural and industrial transformation of the metropolitan area, the interaction of city and hinterland, and the interplay of humans and nature.It covers a wide range of issues, from landscape representations during the colonial era to(...)
Architecture de Montréal
June 2011
Metropolitan natures: environmental histories of Montréal
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Metropolitan Natures presents original histories of the diverse environments that constitute Montreal and its region. It explores the agricultural and industrial transformation of the metropolitan area, the interaction of city and hinterland, and the interplay of humans and nature.It covers a wide range of issues, from landscape representations during the colonial era to urban encroachments on the Kahnawake Mohawk reservation on the south shore of the island, from the 1918-1920 Spanish Flu epidemic and the ensuing modifications to the urban sprawl characteristic of North America during the postwar period.
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Aalto and America
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The internationally renowned Finnish architect and designer Alvar Aalto (1898-1976) created several landmarks of modern design in the United States. The first, the Finland Pavilion at the New York World's Fair in 1939, introduced his pioneering style to the country and established his reputation among his American peers. Subsequent designs produced in the United States(...)
Aalto and America
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The internationally renowned Finnish architect and designer Alvar Aalto (1898-1976) created several landmarks of modern design in the United States. The first, the Finland Pavilion at the New York World's Fair in 1939, introduced his pioneering style to the country and established his reputation among his American peers. Subsequent designs produced in the United States marked major turning points in his evolving position as an architect. His commissioned project for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Baker House dormitory (completed 1949) features an undulating facade of red brick, a material that references the building's Boston surroundings. Aalto's fan-shaped plan for the Mount Angel Abbey Library (completed 1970) in St. Benedict, Oregon, his consummate exploration of the library type, capitalizes on the local terrain and the use of natural light. Aalto's designs had a lasting impact on American modernism, but his experiences in America also profoundly influenced his own stylistic development. Aalto and America is a detailed survey of this beneficial relationship, with contributions by fifteen experts who explore these key designs in relation to larger themes in international politics, architectural culture, housing research, and modern criticism and design.
Architecture Monographs
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Inigo Jones (1573-1652) is widely acknowledged to have been England's most important architect. As court designer to the Stuart kings James I and Charles I, he is credited with introducing the classical language of architecture to the country. He famously traveled to Italy and studied firsthand the buildings of the Italian masters, particularly admiring those by Andrea(...)
Inigo Jones: the architect of kings
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Inigo Jones (1573-1652) is widely acknowledged to have been England's most important architect. As court designer to the Stuart kings James I and Charles I, he is credited with introducing the classical language of architecture to the country. He famously traveled to Italy and studied firsthand the buildings of the Italian masters, particularly admiring those by Andrea Palladio. Much less well known is the profound influence of native British arts and crafts on Jones's architecture. Likewise, his hostility to the more opulent forms of Italian architecture he saw on his travels has largely gone unnoted. This book examines both of these overlooked issues. Vaughan Hart identifies well-established links between the classical column and the crown prior to Jones, in early Stuart masques, processions, heraldry, paintings, and poems. He goes on to discuss Jones's preference for a "masculine and unaffected" architecture, demonstrating that this plain style was consistent with the Puritan artistic sensitivities of Stuart England. For the first time, the work of Inigo Jones is understood in its national religious and political context.
Architecture Monographs
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Chicago architect and iconoclast Stanley Tigerman has been called a "design maven who can spit venom like a snake." Though he is at times sharply critical, his ability to cut to the core of architectural discourse has opened this insular world to a broader audience. His words and theories are appealing for their candor and are backed by his long-standing architectural(...)
Schlepping through ambivalence : essays on an American architectural condition
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Chicago architect and iconoclast Stanley Tigerman has been called a "design maven who can spit venom like a snake." Though he is at times sharply critical, his ability to cut to the core of architectural discourse has opened this insular world to a broader audience. His words and theories are appealing for their candor and are backed by his long-standing architectural practice. This collection of essays, most previously unpublished, spans the course of Tigerman's career. Included are writings on the history of Chicago architecture, architectural theory, and commentary on contemporaries. Tigerman's engaging words, at times humorous and humble, at times biting and cantankerous, will captivate students and scholars as well as the general reader.
Architectural Theory
Adolf Loos: The Looshaus
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When it was completed in 1911, the Goldman & Salatsch Building in Vienna, commonly known as the Looshaus, incited controversy for its austerity and plainness. It represented a stark rejection of the contemporary preference for ornamentation, though its architect, Adolf Loos (1870-1933), had intended it to preserve Viennese tradition within a new modernist language. The(...)
Adolf Loos: The Looshaus
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When it was completed in 1911, the Goldman & Salatsch Building in Vienna, commonly known as the Looshaus, incited controversy for its austerity and plainness. It represented a stark rejection of the contemporary preference for ornamentation, though its architect, Adolf Loos (1870-1933), had intended it to preserve Viennese tradition within a new modernist language. The heated debate that ensued among critics and the public set the project apart, distinguishing it as one of the most important and contentious buildings of the early 20th century. In celebration of the Looshaus's centennial year, Christopher Long, a leading authority on Viennese architectural history, brings to light extensive new research and careful analysis that dispel long-held myths about Loos, his building, and its critical reception. The book, which features new color photography and a vast array of archival materials in print for the first time, tells the remarkable story of the Looshaus's design and construction, the political and social restlessness it reflected, and the building's fundamental role in defining the look of modernism.
Architecture Monographs
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Many people who live in and visit the Lake District are charmed by the traditional buildings that enhance the landscape. This book introduces the traditional houses, barns, watermills, and chapels of the Lake District and the surrounding hills and valleys that make up the county of Cumbria. With the aid of hundreds of photographs, drawings, and diagrams, the author(...)
Traditional buildings of Cumbria : the county of the Lakes
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Many people who live in and visit the Lake District are charmed by the traditional buildings that enhance the landscape. This book introduces the traditional houses, barns, watermills, and chapels of the Lake District and the surrounding hills and valleys that make up the county of Cumbria. With the aid of hundreds of photographs, drawings, and diagrams, the author explains how the building types have developed over the centuries and how the indigenous building materials of stone, clay, brick, and slate have been used to create works of vernacular architecture that seem to grow out of the surrounding landscape.
Residential Architecture
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Montréal est né parce qu’il se trouvait au cœur d’un bassin hydrographique exceptionnel. Son destin est demeuré étroitement lié au fleuve même si la ville a semblé s’en détourner quand elle a poussé ses faubourgs vers l’intérieur de l’île. Les Montréalais ont toujours manifesté la même fascination pour l’eau, que ce soit dans leur vie quotidienne ou dans leurs loisirs.(...)
Montréal et l'eau: une histoire environnementale
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Montréal est né parce qu’il se trouvait au cœur d’un bassin hydrographique exceptionnel. Son destin est demeuré étroitement lié au fleuve même si la ville a semblé s’en détourner quand elle a poussé ses faubourgs vers l’intérieur de l’île. Les Montréalais ont toujours manifesté la même fascination pour l’eau, que ce soit dans leur vie quotidienne ou dans leurs loisirs. Plus récemment, cette fascination s’est doublée d’une préoccupation pour l’eau polluée par les activités humaines et industrielles. L’historienne Michèle Dagenais aborde ici l’eau dans sa globalité et sous ses diverses formes, en examinant ensemble les cours d’eau qui ceinturent l’île et l’eau qui coule dans les réseaux souterrains. L’eau est appréhendée dans ses dimensions concrètes et tangibles, comme élément physique qui se transforme avec le développement de Montréal en même temps qu’il y contribue. L’eau est aussi examinée sur le plan socioculturel, comme une composante cruciale de la production et de la transformation de l’espace montréalais. L’auteur examine les principaux aménagements dont l’eau a fait l’objet au cours des deux cents dernières années. En somme, elle nous raconte l’histoire de Montréal dans ses rapports avec les éléments naturels, au premier rang desquels se trouve l’eau.
Architecture de Montréal
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Construire une maison à partir de conteneurs permet de se loger à moindres coûts, dans des bâtis bien isolés et réalisés à partir de matériaux recyclés. Cet ouvrage permet de comprendre ce type de construction, de concevoir, planifier et budgéter votre projet, et de suivre votre chantier étape par étape.
Construire sa maison container
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Construire une maison à partir de conteneurs permet de se loger à moindres coûts, dans des bâtis bien isolés et réalisés à partir de matériaux recyclés. Cet ouvrage permet de comprendre ce type de construction, de concevoir, planifier et budgéter votre projet, et de suivre votre chantier étape par étape.
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