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Compact houses
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This exhaustively documented sourcebook will be invaluable for professionals and students of Architecture, Interior Design, Interior Decoration and Furniture Design. Featuring thorough technical information – ground plans, materials, specifications on furniture and fixtures – this book provides information on every aspect of the design process from the ground up. These(...)
Compact houses
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This exhaustively documented sourcebook will be invaluable for professionals and students of Architecture, Interior Design, Interior Decoration and Furniture Design. Featuring thorough technical information – ground plans, materials, specifications on furniture and fixtures – this book provides information on every aspect of the design process from the ground up. These homes are streamlined inside and out, with dozens of never-before-seen solutions in storage and an array of ingenious design solutions for furniture and fixtures that serve an array of purposes.
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November 2004, Barcelona
Residential Architecture
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La visite du monument
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Les monuments portent un message. Que se passe-t-il lorsque des voyageurs découvrent les édifices et les parcourent ? Au moment de la visite, en effet, le message porté par le monument s’actualise et acquiert une signification. Cette dernière change au cours des siècles en fonction des modes de visite que privilégie la société du temps. Dans ce volume consacré aux Actes(...)
Architectural Theory
September 2004, Clermont-Ferrand
La visite du monument
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Les monuments portent un message. Que se passe-t-il lorsque des voyageurs découvrent les édifices et les parcourent ? Au moment de la visite, en effet, le message porté par le monument s’actualise et acquiert une signification. Cette dernière change au cours des siècles en fonction des modes de visite que privilégie la société du temps. Dans ce volume consacré aux Actes d’un colloque international tenu à Clermont-Ferrand, historiens, conservateurs et spécialistes de l’architecture ont exploré les différentes dimensions de la question à partir d’exemples choisis dans un temps long, allant de l’Antiquité grecque à la période la plus contemporaine. Ils ont traité à la fois des recommandations édictant les règles de la «bonne visite » (portées, par exemple, par les guides de voyage) et des pratiques, telles que les Mémoires des contemporains, ou l’observation de l’utilisation d’Internet aujourd’hui, permettent de les reconstituer. Ce point de vue original permet de renouveler la réflexion sur l’usage social du patrimoine.
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September 2004, Clermont-Ferrand
Architectural Theory
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Ambiances en débats
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Très présente dans le langage quotidien, la notion d’ambiance a trouvé une forme plus précise dans l’enseignement de l’architecture et du génie civil. Elle connaît aussi aujourd’hui un regain de popularité dans les discours sur la ville. Plutôt que d’apporter une formalisation théorique et définitive de la notion «d’ambiance architecturale et urbaine», Ambiances en débats(...)
Architectural Theory
June 2004,
Ambiances en débats
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Très présente dans le langage quotidien, la notion d’ambiance a trouvé une forme plus précise dans l’enseignement de l’architecture et du génie civil. Elle connaît aussi aujourd’hui un regain de popularité dans les discours sur la ville. Plutôt que d’apporter une formalisation théorique et définitive de la notion «d’ambiance architecturale et urbaine», Ambiances en débats la met à l’épreuve d’une réflexion collective structurée en six approches ouvertes sur un débat. Une position épistémologique claire et récurrente traverse néanmoins le livre. D’un savoir technologique et morcelé des ambiances, tout juste capable d’encadrer le projet architectural par des normes et inapte à aider la création architecturale en elle-même, il faut passer désormais à la compréhension complexe et unifiante de ce qu’est une ambiance concrète. C’est pour explorer ce paradoxe d’une pluralité sue mais vécue ou créée dans la singularité et le circonstanciel qu’Ambiances en débats se situe délibérément au carrefour des disciplines les plus diverses, de la philosophie à l’acoustique physique, de la sociologie à l’urbanisme ou à l’architecture, du domaine spéculatif de la recherche à celui de la conception pratique de l’espace.
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June 2004,
Architectural Theory
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Curated by noted architect and theorist Greg Lynn, 'Intricacy' gathers work by artists, designers, and architects that reflects an emerging sensibility characterized by "highly complex compositions of an almost organic intricacy with macroscopic holism, coherence, and synthesis, and microscopic variation and diversity." Participants include: Peter Eisenman and Preston(...)
Intricacy : a project by Greg Lynn FORM
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Curated by noted architect and theorist Greg Lynn, 'Intricacy' gathers work by artists, designers, and architects that reflects an emerging sensibility characterized by "highly complex compositions of an almost organic intricacy with macroscopic holism, coherence, and synthesis, and microscopic variation and diversity." Participants include: Peter Eisenman and Preston Scott Cohen, David Reed, Hussein Chalayan, Jesse Reiser, Nanako Umemoto, Karl Chu, Preston Scott Cohen, Farshid Moussavi, Alejandro Zaera-Polo, Chris Cunningham, Tom Friedman, Nader Tehrani, Greg Lynn, Peter Eisenman and Fabian Marcaccio amongst others.
Architecture Monographs
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This ambitious collection treating the Italian Fascists’ appropriation of the past for political purposes focuses on the role of the visual in the aim of fusing the past and the modern world in Mussolini’s Italy. With contributions by art historians and classicists, literary and intellectual historians, "Donatello among the Blackshirts" demonstrates that the Fascist(...)
Architectural Theory
September 2004, Ithaca
Donatello and the Blackshirts : history and modernity in the visual culture of fascist Italy
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This ambitious collection treating the Italian Fascists’ appropriation of the past for political purposes focuses on the role of the visual in the aim of fusing the past and the modern world in Mussolini’s Italy. With contributions by art historians and classicists, literary and intellectual historians, "Donatello among the Blackshirts" demonstrates that the Fascist regime appropriated not only Italy’s ancient Roman past but also the medieval, Renaissance, and even baroque eras, as well as its own recent history, in constructing a new myth of the nation. Every aspect of visual culture—from monumental architecture, sculpture, painting, and gardens to exhibitions, spectacles, films, medals, household items, and stamps—helped to link the past with modernity. As a result, Italy’s artistic traditions became familiar to all social classes throughout the peninsula. While this richly illustrated book concerns Fascist Italy, at the same time it also shows how Italy’s premodern artistic traditions have been passed down to the present through the filter of the Fascist era.
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September 2004, Ithaca
Architectural Theory
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In 1949, the forest magnate, H.R. MacMillan, opened an exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery entitled “Design for Living,” a show which brought together design and artistic communities to create four imaginary households for postwar Vancouverites. It also heralded an unprecedented level of cooperation between the province’s industry and its artists and craftspeople – a(...)
A Modern life : art and design in British Columbia, 1945-1960
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In 1949, the forest magnate, H.R. MacMillan, opened an exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery entitled “Design for Living,” a show which brought together design and artistic communities to create four imaginary households for postwar Vancouverites. It also heralded an unprecedented level of cooperation between the province’s industry and its artists and craftspeople – a relationship that seemed to hold great promise for the development of art, furniture, and craft in B.C. The celebration of the cooperative spirit between “architects, artists and designers,” between “potters, weavers and gardeners” is central to "A Modern Life", which examines the coming together of what were often very separate disciplines in post-World War II British Columbia, as well as the trend-setting design and use of materials that developed in the province, and the impact these had on the more traditional art community. "A Modern Life", demonstrates that the ideas of the artistic and design community as a whole during this vibrant period – an era of optimism and promise for the future, in a province that had reason to believe passionately in what was to come – have a continued relevance and importance for our understanding of the history of this community and the relationship of the built environment to the extraordinary landscape of British Columbia. With essays by Rachel Chinnery on ceramics, Scott Watson on fine arts, Alan Elder on collaboration, Allan Collier on wood and design, and Sherry McKay on architecture.
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October 2004, Vancouver
Architecture in Canada
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This exploration of Leonardo da Vinci's life and work identifies what it was that made him so unique and explains the phenomenon of the world's most celebrated genius who, 500 years on, still grips and inspires us. Martin Kemp offer us exceptional insights into what it was that made this Renaissance man so special, and the 'real' meaning behind such masterpieces as(...)
Leonardo
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This exploration of Leonardo da Vinci's life and work identifies what it was that made him so unique and explains the phenomenon of the world's most celebrated genius who, 500 years on, still grips and inspires us. Martin Kemp offer us exceptional insights into what it was that made this Renaissance man so special, and the 'real' meaning behind such masterpieces as The Mona Lisa and the Last Supper. Tracing Leonardo's career in all its variety, we learn of his unfulfilled dreams, relationships with powerful patrons, and the truth about his religious views. Kemp cuts through the dense veil of legend, challenges the myths, and offers an unparalleled portrait of this extraordinary man.
Architecture Monographs
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Old Montreal is a one-square-kilometre historic district located in the heart of one of North America's great cities. The old city centre offers a unique blend of history and heritage that spans thousands of years, from prehistoric encampments to architectural masterpieces of later days. Constantly changing throughout its history, the district nonetheless bears striking(...)
Architecture de Montréal
November 2004, Sainte-Foy
Old Montreal : history through heritage
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Old Montreal is a one-square-kilometre historic district located in the heart of one of North America's great cities. The old city centre offers a unique blend of history and heritage that spans thousands of years, from prehistoric encampments to architectural masterpieces of later days. Constantly changing throughout its history, the district nonetheless bears striking evidence of each major stage in its development. The authors explain how Old Montreal's diverse architectural heritage and many features of its urban landscape—archaeological remains, streets, squares, gardens, docks and public works of art—reveal so much about the district's past and the people who lived there. Each chapter covers a distinct historical period. The unfolding story traces how the historic district emerged as a powerful business district, casting its influence over the larger city, its region and even, in part, over the development of the continent. Recounted in an accessible manner, the history of Old Montreal comes alive with 270 illustrations, including colour photographs commissioned for this book.
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Le jardin Roger-Van den Hende est le jardin pédagogique de l'Université Laval. Il a pour mission de servir de laboratoire pratique pour les étudiants et les chercheurs de l'Université. C'est aussi un lieu d'éducation populaire et un espace vert très apprécié du public. Le présent guide explique avec de nombreux exemples, photographies, illustrations et tableaux tout ce(...)
Une visite au jardin Roger-Van den Hende : un parcours de l'évolution des végétaux
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Le jardin Roger-Van den Hende est le jardin pédagogique de l'Université Laval. Il a pour mission de servir de laboratoire pratique pour les étudiants et les chercheurs de l'Université. C'est aussi un lieu d'éducation populaire et un espace vert très apprécié du public. Le présent guide explique avec de nombreux exemples, photographies, illustrations et tableaux tout ce qu'on a besoin de savoir, à mesure que l'on découvre le très grand choix de plantes cultivées et indigènes du jardin Roger-Van den Hende.
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October 2003, Québec
Architecture du Québec
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Alejandro de la Sota
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Some of us love and feel simple architecture which we have achieved at great cost, because it can be achieved only through great sacrifice and discipline. -Alejandro de la Sota
Architecture Monographs
September 2004, Munich
Alejandro de la Sota
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Some of us love and feel simple architecture which we have achieved at great cost, because it can be achieved only through great sacrifice and discipline. -Alejandro de la Sota
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September 2004, Munich
Architecture Monographs