Toyo Ito 1971-1986
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Ce catalogue montre une des premières expositions de Toyo Ito organisées à l'Institut de technologie de Shibaura. Il présente une collection de documents, comprenant les modifications apportées aux plans des maisons de Nakano Honmachi, ainsi que des travaux de construction de logements peu populaires.
Architecture Monographs
February 2025
Toyo Ito 1971-1986
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Ce catalogue montre une des premières expositions de Toyo Ito organisées à l'Institut de technologie de Shibaura. Il présente une collection de documents, comprenant les modifications apportées aux plans des maisons de Nakano Honmachi, ainsi que des travaux de construction de logements peu populaires.
Architecture Monographs
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Conceived as an emotional compendium of small, function-specific enclosures and temporary structures, ‘'Typology of Intimacy'’ proposes the booth as the embodiment of intimacy through the voices of an eclectic group of people. Through a series of in-depth interviews and contributions from researchers, artists, architects, and writers, it formulates the core of an ongoing(...)
Typology of intimacy. An emotional catalog of booths
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Conceived as an emotional compendium of small, function-specific enclosures and temporary structures, ‘'Typology of Intimacy'’ proposes the booth as the embodiment of intimacy through the voices of an eclectic group of people. Through a series of in-depth interviews and contributions from researchers, artists, architects, and writers, it formulates the core of an ongoing artistic and architectural investigation into the entanglement of space and emotion. With contributions by David Bergé, Carla Ferrando, Balts Projects, Mirko Zardini, Cynthia Davidson, Nikos Magouliotis, Girão Lima Arquitectos, Dawn Nilo, Lev Bratishenko, Mariana Siracusa, TAB Collective, Manuel Henriques, and more.
Architectural Theory
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An architecture book in a radical new format, ‘'MANGARCHITECTURE'’ comprises seven short manga stories by seven artists, each based on a different project by Tokyo-based architect Yasutaka Yoshimura. The manga creators use Yoshimura’s work as a springboard for wildly imaginative interpretations that simultaneously hint at new possibilities for architecture. In addition to(...)
Mangarchitecture: Absence of an architect
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An architecture book in a radical new format, ‘'MANGARCHITECTURE'’ comprises seven short manga stories by seven artists, each based on a different project by Tokyo-based architect Yasutaka Yoshimura. The manga creators use Yoshimura’s work as a springboard for wildly imaginative interpretations that simultaneously hint at new possibilities for architecture. In addition to the manga stories, the book presents building drawings, designs, and data, as well as commentary on each project by Yoshimura. Completing the volume is an essay by the architect and a thought-provoking dual chronology of the history of manga and architecture in Japan.
Contemporary Architecture
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Sex and jazz, liquor and gambling: Montreal in the early twentieth century was a city that offered an exceptional nighttime scene in North America. By mid-century that scene came under scrutiny, and Montreal’s influential mayor Jean Drapeau would be elected for the first time on a reformist platform that promised to end corruption. Over more than three decades, Drapeau(...)
Montreal after dark: nighttime regulation and the pursuit of a global city
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Sex and jazz, liquor and gambling: Montreal in the early twentieth century was a city that offered an exceptional nighttime scene in North America. By mid-century that scene came under scrutiny, and Montreal’s influential mayor Jean Drapeau would be elected for the first time on a reformist platform that promised to end corruption. Over more than three decades, Drapeau would endeavour to transform Montreal into a world-class global city by regulating its nightlife. "Montreal after dark" chronicles the spaces where nighttime regulations were enforced and contested. City authorities understood the night as enabling disorder, and they reorganized policing and crafted bylaws to gain control over it. Police and politicians mutually reinforced each other’s drive to morally cleanse the urban landscape, especially for international events like Expo 67 and the 1976 Olympics.
Architecture de Montréal
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Plusieurs estiment que le développement problématique des villes durant les Trente Glorieuses fut le résultat des idées des urbanistes modernistes. Réinventer Montréal considère qu’il est temps de revoir ce récit historique qui dépeint les urbanistes du passé en vilains technocrates pro-croissance en revisitant l’héritage des plans modernistes d’après-guerre. Frédéric(...)
Réinventer Montréal: Ambitions et revers de trois urbanistes des Trentes Glorieuses
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Plusieurs estiment que le développement problématique des villes durant les Trente Glorieuses fut le résultat des idées des urbanistes modernistes. Réinventer Montréal considère qu’il est temps de revoir ce récit historique qui dépeint les urbanistes du passé en vilains technocrates pro-croissance en revisitant l’héritage des plans modernistes d’après-guerre. Frédéric Mercure Jolette retrace les idées et les actions de trois urbanistes ayant œuvré à repenser le développement de Montréal dans les années 1960, soit Hans Blumenfeld, Jean-Claude La Haye et Claude Robillard. À partir d’un examen de leurs archives personnelles et des plans et des documents d’urbanisme qu’ils ont réalisés, l’ouvrage met en lumière la nature de l’expertise qu’ils prétendent construire et la manière dont ils s’en revendiquent. Réinventer Montréal reconstruit la logique interne, les projets, les hésitations, les contrariétés et les débats – notamment avec Jane Jacobs et les partisans du tournant participatif – qui ponctuent leur parcours intellectuel respectifs et, parallèlement, l’ouvrage forge une interprétation plus générale du destin de l’urbanisme moderniste.
Architecture de Montréal
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These photos are accompanied by drawings and three parallel conversations between Luis Callejas and Matteo Ghidoni, Elisa Cattaneo, and Jørgen Tandberg. The photographs were taken during three trips between Norway and Colombia. Most photos were done using the same 35 mm lens, avoiding wide angles encompassing each small space’s totality. The conversations were triggered(...)
Houses in forest clearings: LCLA office
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These photos are accompanied by drawings and three parallel conversations between Luis Callejas and Matteo Ghidoni, Elisa Cattaneo, and Jørgen Tandberg. The photographs were taken during three trips between Norway and Colombia. Most photos were done using the same 35 mm lens, avoiding wide angles encompassing each small space’s totality. The conversations were triggered later by the photographs as opposed to direct experience; these images and conversations address the parallels between the construction of a house, a clearing, and the construction of an image. The houses were designed by LCLA office in found, edited, and constructed forest clearings.
Architecture Monographs
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Building a skyscraper requires more than steel and concrete—it takes a wide array of people, each with their particular skills. In Autobiography of a Skyscraper, legendary developer Francis Greenburger offers an unprecedented behind-the-scenes look at the construction of Chicago's 1000M tower, describing the way almost 1,000 people—from concrete workers to concierges,(...)
Autobiography of a skyscraper
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Building a skyscraper requires more than steel and concrete—it takes a wide array of people, each with their particular skills. In Autobiography of a Skyscraper, legendary developer Francis Greenburger offers an unprecedented behind-the-scenes look at the construction of Chicago's 1000M tower, describing the way almost 1,000 people—from concrete workers to concierges, architects to investors—transformed an empty lot into a 74-story landmark. "Real estate isn't about property; it's about people," Greenburger reflects in this book that, throughout, underscores his point. This is the story of an Italian immigrant who bet his family's entire inheritance on a hole in the ground; of window installers dancing on narrow ledges 800 feet above Michigan Avenue; of a chief concierge managing a community of 700 residents across 80,000 square feet of amenities; and of the safety manager who "babysits grown men" to keep them safe hundreds of feet in the air.
Contemporary Architecture
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The iconic Edith Farnsworth House is a singular glass home designed by Mies van der Rohe. But the oft-told history of the house overwrites Farnsworth’s role as Mies’s collaborator and antagonist while falsely portraying her as the architect’s angry ex-lover. Nora Wendl’s audacious work of creative nonfiction explodes the sex-and-real-estate myth surrounding the Edith(...)
Almost nothing: Reclaiming Edith Farnsworth
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The iconic Edith Farnsworth House is a singular glass home designed by Mies van der Rohe. But the oft-told history of the house overwrites Farnsworth’s role as Mies’s collaborator and antagonist while falsely portraying her as the architect’s angry ex-lover. Nora Wendl’s audacious work of creative nonfiction explodes the sex-and-real-estate myth surrounding the Edith Farnsworth House and its two central figures. An eminent physician and woman of letters, Farnsworth left a rich trove of correspondence, memoirs, and photographs that Wendl uses to reconstruct her voice. Farnsworth’s memories and experiences alternate with Wendl’s thoughts on topics like misogyny and professional ambition to fashion a lyrical examination of love, loneliness, beauty, and the search for the divine.
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Henry Kalen: Photographer
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Henry Kalen was one of Canada’s most distinguished architectural photographers. His work for prominent Winnipeg architectural firms in the 1960s and 1970s portrayed a stylish, modern, and changing city. This book provides a glimpse of Kalen’s vast body of work photographing Winnipeg’s built environment during the optimistic mid-twentieth century. His photographs have(...)
Architecture in Canada
November 2024
Henry Kalen: Photographer
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Henry Kalen was one of Canada’s most distinguished architectural photographers. His work for prominent Winnipeg architectural firms in the 1960s and 1970s portrayed a stylish, modern, and changing city. This book provides a glimpse of Kalen’s vast body of work photographing Winnipeg’s built environment during the optimistic mid-twentieth century. His photographs have given us the definitive images of many of the city’s most iconic buildings.
Architecture in Canada
Manitoba Women in Design
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''Manitoba Women in Design'' tells the story of women’s contributions to Manitoba’s built environment during the twentieth century. These women worked as architects, interior designers, landscape architects, planners, and engineers. Their legacies can be traced across the province. Despite this, many of these women and their contributions have been erased from(...)
Manitoba Women in Design
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''Manitoba Women in Design'' tells the story of women’s contributions to Manitoba’s built environment during the twentieth century. These women worked as architects, interior designers, landscape architects, planners, and engineers. Their legacies can be traced across the province. Despite this, many of these women and their contributions have been erased from architecture and design histories. This highly illustrative book begins the process of addressing these exclusions by showcasing the lives and careers of some of these notable women.
Architecture in Canada