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This book follows the evolution of Millau Viaduct in southern France from first sketches through to completion, as designed and executed by Foster + Partners, with engineer Michel Virlogeux. Spanning the spectacular gorge of the River Tarn in Southern France, the Millau Viaduct provides a critical link in the A75 autoroute between Clermont-Ferrand and Beziers.(...)
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This book follows the evolution of Millau Viaduct in southern France from first sketches through to completion, as designed and executed by Foster + Partners, with engineer Michel Virlogeux. Spanning the spectacular gorge of the River Tarn in Southern France, the Millau Viaduct provides a critical link in the A75 autoroute between Clermont-Ferrand and Beziers.(...)
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This book follows the evolution of Millau Viaduct in southern France from first sketches through to completion, as designed and executed by Foster + Partners, with engineer Michel Virlogeux. Spanning the spectacular gorge of the River Tarn in Southern France, the Millau Viaduct provides a critical link in the A75 autoroute between Clermont-Ferrand and Beziers. Commissioned by the French state, the 2.46 km-long viaduct resolves numerous structural and design challenges in an elegant cable-stayed form. Utilising optimised, repetitive spans with piers taller than the Eiffel Tower at their zenith, the bridge is structurally and visually elegant. Not only does it exemplify technical excellence, the Millau Viaduct illustrates the powerful impact that architecture of infrastructure can have on the environment. This monograph will appeal to those interested in architecture and design; equally, it illustrates a significant engineering feat.
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This book follows the evolution of Millau Viaduct in southern France from first sketches through to completion, as designed and executed by Foster + Partners, with engineer Michel Virlogeux. Spanning the spectacular gorge of the River Tarn in Southern France, the Millau Viaduct provides a critical link in the A75 autoroute between Clermont-Ferrand and Beziers. Commissioned by the French state, the 2.46 km-long viaduct resolves numerous structural and design challenges in an elegant cable-stayed form. Utilising optimised, repetitive spans with piers taller than the Eiffel Tower at their zenith, the bridge is structurally and visually elegant. Not only does it exemplify technical excellence, the Millau Viaduct illustrates the powerful impact that architecture of infrastructure can have on the environment. This monograph will appeal to those interested in architecture and design; equally, it illustrates a significant engineering feat.
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Chicago is a city dedicated to the modern—from the skyscrapers that punctuate its skyline to the spirited style that inflects many of its dwellings and institutions, from the New Bauhaus to Hull-House. Despite this, the city has long been overlooked as a locus for modernism in the arts, its rich tradition of architecture, design, and education disregarded. Still the(...)
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Chicago is a city dedicated to the modern—from the skyscrapers that punctuate its skyline to the spirited style that inflects many of its dwellings and institutions, from the New Bauhaus to Hull-House. Despite this, the city has long been overlooked as a locus for modernism in the arts, its rich tradition of architecture, design, and education disregarded. Still the(...)
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Chicago makes modern: how creative minds changed society
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Chicago is a city dedicated to the modern—from the skyscrapers that punctuate its skyline to the spirited style that inflects many of its dwellings and institutions, from the New Bauhaus to Hull-House. Despite this, the city has long been overlooked as a locus for modernism in the arts, its rich tradition of architecture, design, and education disregarded. Still the modern in Chicago continues to thrive, as new generations of artists incorporate its legacy into fresh visions for the future. Chicago Makes Modern boldly remaps twentieth-century modernism from our new-century perspective by asking an imperative question: How did the modern mind—deeply reflective, yet simultaneously directed—help to dramatically alter our perspectives on the world and make it new?
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Chicago is a city dedicated to the modern—from the skyscrapers that punctuate its skyline to the spirited style that inflects many of its dwellings and institutions, from the New Bauhaus to Hull-House. Despite this, the city has long been overlooked as a locus for modernism in the arts, its rich tradition of architecture, design, and education disregarded. Still the modern in Chicago continues to thrive, as new generations of artists incorporate its legacy into fresh visions for the future. Chicago Makes Modern boldly remaps twentieth-century modernism from our new-century perspective by asking an imperative question: How did the modern mind—deeply reflective, yet simultaneously directed—help to dramatically alter our perspectives on the world and make it new?
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A philosophy of discomfort
A philosophy of discomfort
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A Philosophy of Discomfort explores the idea of comfort and discomfort as a historical and philosophical concept – a constant push and pull of opposing forces. Discomfort is a relative state, changing as the idea of well-being shifts through different epochs and cultures. Yet Jacques Pezeu-Massabuau claims that discomfort is of greater importance than comfort, even as we(...)
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A Philosophy of Discomfort explores the idea of comfort and discomfort as a historical and philosophical concept – a constant push and pull of opposing forces. Discomfort is a relative state, changing as the idea of well-being shifts through different epochs and cultures. Yet Jacques Pezeu-Massabuau claims that discomfort is of greater importance than comfort, even as we(...)
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A Philosophy of Discomfort explores the idea of comfort and discomfort as a historical and philosophical concept – a constant push and pull of opposing forces. Discomfort is a relative state, changing as the idea of well-being shifts through different epochs and cultures. Yet Jacques Pezeu-Massabuau claims that discomfort is of greater importance than comfort, even as we maintain the constant struggle to evade pains and privations. He explores notions of comfort over time, and considers examples of housing and interiors, from Japanese homes to the Moroccan casbah and modern city apartments, in which aspects of discomfort – the physical lack of well-being – are tolerated and accepted. In so doing, he also unravels the myths of modern comfort. While instinct demands we avoid it, the author insists that we recognize discomfort as central to our existence. He suggests we should learn to utilize it in order to find our way to its opposite: be it pleasure, hedonism or well-being.
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A Philosophy of Discomfort explores the idea of comfort and discomfort as a historical and philosophical concept – a constant push and pull of opposing forces. Discomfort is a relative state, changing as the idea of well-being shifts through different epochs and cultures. Yet Jacques Pezeu-Massabuau claims that discomfort is of greater importance than comfort, even as we maintain the constant struggle to evade pains and privations. He explores notions of comfort over time, and considers examples of housing and interiors, from Japanese homes to the Moroccan casbah and modern city apartments, in which aspects of discomfort – the physical lack of well-being – are tolerated and accepted. In so doing, he also unravels the myths of modern comfort. While instinct demands we avoid it, the author insists that we recognize discomfort as central to our existence. He suggests we should learn to utilize it in order to find our way to its opposite: be it pleasure, hedonism or well-being.
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Mountains and memory
Mountains and memory
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From Egypt’s Abu Simbel to South Dakota’s Mount Rushmore to Tan Swie Hian’s Earth Art Museum in China’s Quingdao National Forest, mountains have long been shaped to resemble human personages, including pharaohs, presidents, and painters. Mountains and Memory explores this practice and traces the history of anthropomorphism—the attribution of human qualities to non-human(...)
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From Egypt’s Abu Simbel to South Dakota’s Mount Rushmore to Tan Swie Hian’s Earth Art Museum in China’s Quingdao National Forest, mountains have long been shaped to resemble human personages, including pharaohs, presidents, and painters. Mountains and Memory explores this practice and traces the history of anthropomorphism—the attribution of human qualities to non-human(...)
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Mountains and memory
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From Egypt’s Abu Simbel to South Dakota’s Mount Rushmore to Tan Swie Hian’s Earth Art Museum in China’s Quingdao National Forest, mountains have long been shaped to resemble human personages, including pharaohs, presidents, and painters. Mountains and Memory explores this practice and traces the history of anthropomorphism—the attribution of human qualities to non-human nature—as expressed in the form of carvings on mountainous rock formations.
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From Egypt’s Abu Simbel to South Dakota’s Mount Rushmore to Tan Swie Hian’s Earth Art Museum in China’s Quingdao National Forest, mountains have long been shaped to resemble human personages, including pharaohs, presidents, and painters. Mountains and Memory explores this practice and traces the history of anthropomorphism—the attribution of human qualities to non-human nature—as expressed in the form of carvings on mountainous rock formations.
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The domestic space reader
The domestic space reader
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The Domestic Space Reader demonstrates how discussions of domestic spaces can help us better understand our inner lives and challenge our perceptions of life in particular times and places.
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The Domestic Space Reader demonstrates how discussions of domestic spaces can help us better understand our inner lives and challenge our perceptions of life in particular times and places.
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The domestic space reader
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The Domestic Space Reader demonstrates how discussions of domestic spaces can help us better understand our inner lives and challenge our perceptions of life in particular times and places.
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The Domestic Space Reader demonstrates how discussions of domestic spaces can help us better understand our inner lives and challenge our perceptions of life in particular times and places.
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La publication par les architectes américains Robert Venturi et Denise Scott Brown de Learning from Las Vegas, d’abord sous forme d’articles puis de livre, a entrainé à partir de 1968 une controverse sans équivalent dans l’histoire moderne de l’architecture. L’historien Stanislaus von Moos a parlé à ce propos d’« une polarisation de pratiquement l’ensemble du champ(...)
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La publication par les architectes américains Robert Venturi et Denise Scott Brown de Learning from Las Vegas, d’abord sous forme d’articles puis de livre, a entrainé à partir de 1968 une controverse sans équivalent dans l’histoire moderne de l’architecture. L’historien Stanislaus von Moos a parlé à ce propos d’« une polarisation de pratiquement l’ensemble du champ(...)
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La controverse Learning from Las Vegas
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La publication par les architectes américains Robert Venturi et Denise Scott Brown de Learning from Las Vegas, d’abord sous forme d’articles puis de livre, a entrainé à partir de 1968 une controverse sans équivalent dans l’histoire moderne de l’architecture. L’historien Stanislaus von Moos a parlé à ce propos d’« une polarisation de pratiquement l’ensemble du champ architectural — et pas seulement en Amérique — entre les opposants et les sympathisants des supposées ou réelles positions des Venturi. » En revenant sur les nombreux arguments mobilisés alors par les architectes, les critiques et les universitaires, et en observant la dynamique des débats sur une durée de vingt ans, Valéry Didelon éclaire ici d’un jour nouveau l’émergence du postmodernisme en architecture, mouvement culturel dont Learning from Las Vegas allait devenir à tort ou à raison l’un des principaux manifestes.
La controverse Learning from Las Vegas
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La publication par les architectes américains Robert Venturi et Denise Scott Brown de Learning from Las Vegas, d’abord sous forme d’articles puis de livre, a entrainé à partir de 1968 une controverse sans équivalent dans l’histoire moderne de l’architecture. L’historien Stanislaus von Moos a parlé à ce propos d’« une polarisation de pratiquement l’ensemble du champ architectural — et pas seulement en Amérique — entre les opposants et les sympathisants des supposées ou réelles positions des Venturi. » En revenant sur les nombreux arguments mobilisés alors par les architectes, les critiques et les universitaires, et en observant la dynamique des débats sur une durée de vingt ans, Valéry Didelon éclaire ici d’un jour nouveau l’émergence du postmodernisme en architecture, mouvement culturel dont Learning from Las Vegas allait devenir à tort ou à raison l’un des principaux manifestes.
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Conceived by a misguided government seeking to quiet the fears of an anxious public, the concept of the “Family Fallout Shelter” was Cold War paranoia at its finest, a massive bit of “propaganda by architecture” that has no more truth behind it than the absurd notion of “duck and cover.” Inundated with government-sponsored films, posters, booklets, traveling caravans and(...)
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Conceived by a misguided government seeking to quiet the fears of an anxious public, the concept of the “Family Fallout Shelter” was Cold War paranoia at its finest, a massive bit of “propaganda by architecture” that has no more truth behind it than the absurd notion of “duck and cover.” Inundated with government-sponsored films, posters, booklets, traveling caravans and(...)
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Bomboozled : how the U.S. governmenrt misled itself and its people into believing they could survive a nuclear attack
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Conceived by a misguided government seeking to quiet the fears of an anxious public, the concept of the “Family Fallout Shelter” was Cold War paranoia at its finest, a massive bit of “propaganda by architecture” that has no more truth behind it than the absurd notion of “duck and cover.” Inundated with government-sponsored films, posters, booklets, traveling caravans and exhibitions, the American family bought into the idea, investing millions of dollars in home shelters of every conceivable material and design. Bomboozled charts the panic-fueled evolution of the shelter from a well-stocked basement pantry to a full-fledged (and often completely decorated) home addition, laying bare the buried truths of America’s family fallout shelter obsession.
Bomboozled : how the U.S. governmenrt misled itself and its people into believing they could survive a nuclear attack
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Conceived by a misguided government seeking to quiet the fears of an anxious public, the concept of the “Family Fallout Shelter” was Cold War paranoia at its finest, a massive bit of “propaganda by architecture” that has no more truth behind it than the absurd notion of “duck and cover.” Inundated with government-sponsored films, posters, booklets, traveling caravans and exhibitions, the American family bought into the idea, investing millions of dollars in home shelters of every conceivable material and design. Bomboozled charts the panic-fueled evolution of the shelter from a well-stocked basement pantry to a full-fledged (and often completely decorated) home addition, laying bare the buried truths of America’s family fallout shelter obsession.
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Acapulco's striking Sunset Chapel overlooks its surrounding garden and the magnificent bay through slatted concrete walls; the light and view pour into this mysterious and stark building, which stands like a modern-day Stonehenge. The Chapel of La Estancia in Cuernavaca is a glass pavilion, like a diamond at the center of a lush colonial-style garden. Both of these recent(...)
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Acapulco's striking Sunset Chapel overlooks its surrounding garden and the magnificent bay through slatted concrete walls; the light and view pour into this mysterious and stark building, which stands like a modern-day Stonehenge. The Chapel of La Estancia in Cuernavaca is a glass pavilion, like a diamond at the center of a lush colonial-style garden. Both of these recent(...)
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BNKR Architectura : Capillas chapel
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Acapulco's striking Sunset Chapel overlooks its surrounding garden and the magnificent bay through slatted concrete walls; the light and view pour into this mysterious and stark building, which stands like a modern-day Stonehenge. The Chapel of La Estancia in Cuernavaca is a glass pavilion, like a diamond at the center of a lush colonial-style garden. Both of these recent projects by the young BNKR Architectural firm, headed by Stephen and Sebastian Suarez, are featured in this slim but significant book. Photographs, plans and models are included; these chapels are clearly a sign that these brothers are continuing a significant career.
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Acapulco's striking Sunset Chapel overlooks its surrounding garden and the magnificent bay through slatted concrete walls; the light and view pour into this mysterious and stark building, which stands like a modern-day Stonehenge. The Chapel of La Estancia in Cuernavaca is a glass pavilion, like a diamond at the center of a lush colonial-style garden. Both of these recent projects by the young BNKR Architectural firm, headed by Stephen and Sebastian Suarez, are featured in this slim but significant book. Photographs, plans and models are included; these chapels are clearly a sign that these brothers are continuing a significant career.
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Lingezegen is a large park between Nijmegen and Arnhem with several functions: housing, agriculture and recreation. In Summer School Lingezegen students from different disciplines addressed the identity of the park in construction, their assignment was to stretch its social and natural boundaries. The publication reports on the three editions (2008-2010) of the summer(...)
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Lingezegen is a large park between Nijmegen and Arnhem with several functions: housing, agriculture and recreation. In Summer School Lingezegen students from different disciplines addressed the identity of the park in construction, their assignment was to stretch its social and natural boundaries. The publication reports on the three editions (2008-2010) of the summer(...)
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Lingezegren park : summer school
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Lingezegen is a large park between Nijmegen and Arnhem with several functions: housing, agriculture and recreation. In Summer School Lingezegen students from different disciplines addressed the identity of the park in construction, their assignment was to stretch its social and natural boundaries. The publication reports on the three editions (2008-2010) of the summer school and gives inspiration to residents, policy makers, spatial designers and recreationists. It also serves as a guide for those who wish to to tackle comparable issues in similar areas.
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Lingezegen is a large park between Nijmegen and Arnhem with several functions: housing, agriculture and recreation. In Summer School Lingezegen students from different disciplines addressed the identity of the park in construction, their assignment was to stretch its social and natural boundaries. The publication reports on the three editions (2008-2010) of the summer school and gives inspiration to residents, policy makers, spatial designers and recreationists. It also serves as a guide for those who wish to to tackle comparable issues in similar areas.
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SAM Architekten 01
SAM Architekten 01
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This volume is an attempt to take a closer look at the planning and execution stages of past and ongoing projects of SAM architects. It is a search for a greater understanding of one's own working processes; processes that in a practice such as theirs are often quite automatic, yet which need to be called into question each time new projects are undertaken. In line with(...)
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This volume is an attempt to take a closer look at the planning and execution stages of past and ongoing projects of SAM architects. It is a search for a greater understanding of one's own working processes; processes that in a practice such as theirs are often quite automatic, yet which need to be called into question each time new projects are undertaken. In line with(...)
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SAM Architekten 01
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This volume is an attempt to take a closer look at the planning and execution stages of past and ongoing projects of SAM architects. It is a search for a greater understanding of one's own working processes; processes that in a practice such as theirs are often quite automatic, yet which need to be called into question each time new projects are undertaken. In line with this premise, the limited number of projects selected for this publication can be seen as prototypical of the development process pursued by SAM's architectural practice. They exemplify their inquiring and open approach, and the breadth of challenges they face. SAM see architecture not as a style reflected in the repeated production of images, but as an evolutionary process - a process that is subject to the logic of design and construction.
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This volume is an attempt to take a closer look at the planning and execution stages of past and ongoing projects of SAM architects. It is a search for a greater understanding of one's own working processes; processes that in a practice such as theirs are often quite automatic, yet which need to be called into question each time new projects are undertaken. In line with this premise, the limited number of projects selected for this publication can be seen as prototypical of the development process pursued by SAM's architectural practice. They exemplify their inquiring and open approach, and the breadth of challenges they face. SAM see architecture not as a style reflected in the repeated production of images, but as an evolutionary process - a process that is subject to the logic of design and construction.
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