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Dominique Perrault
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Il a été, à moins de 40 ans, l'architecte de la Bibliothèque nationale de France, l'ultime des " grands projets " initiés par François Mitterrand. Depuis, avec, entre autres, la piscine olympique et le vélodrome de Berlin, l'usine Aplix près de Nantes ou encore le Mariinsky II à Saint-Pétersbourg, Dominique Perrault, bien que prônant la " disparition de l'architecture " a(...)
Dominique Perrault
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Il a été, à moins de 40 ans, l'architecte de la Bibliothèque nationale de France, l'ultime des " grands projets " initiés par François Mitterrand. Depuis, avec, entre autres, la piscine olympique et le vélodrome de Berlin, l'usine Aplix près de Nantes ou encore le Mariinsky II à Saint-Pétersbourg, Dominique Perrault, bien que prônant la " disparition de l'architecture " a beaucoup conçu et édifié tout autour du monde. Adepte du " concept ", familier de l'architecture-manifeste, Perrault excelle aux jeux de masques. Chez lui, apparition, disparition, déréalisation, dématérialisation, traversées et fulgurances sont la chair même de l'architecture. Une architecture faite de temps, d'espace, de tension et d'énergie, que ce livre s'attache à décrypter, à dévoiler.
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April 2004, Paris
Architecture Monographs
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This publication provides an in-depth analysis of the building's design and its realisation. It includes line drawings by OMA illustrating the design's points of departure. The German photographer Candida Hofer presents the embassy building in a series of 40 photographs giving her personal perspective on its exterior and interior. The Parisian architecture critic(...)
The Dutch embassy in Berlin by OMA / Rem Koolhaas
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This publication provides an in-depth analysis of the building's design and its realisation. It includes line drawings by OMA illustrating the design's points of departure. The German photographer Candida Hofer presents the embassy building in a series of 40 photographs giving her personal perspective on its exterior and interior. The Parisian architecture critic François Chaslin analyses the building in an extensive and poetic essay.
Architecture Monographs
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It was their almost obsessive interest in mathematics, fascination with technique and pleasure in designing that caused Moshé Zwarts and Rein Jansma to join forces in 1990. Given the sheer size of their output, it is impossible not to be confronted regularly with projects by Zwarts & Jansma. The major infrastructure works like bridges, viaducts, tunnels, stadiums and(...)
Architecture Monographs
December 2003, Rotterdam
Zwarts & Jansma architecten : 52°22'21
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It was their almost obsessive interest in mathematics, fascination with technique and pleasure in designing that caused Moshé Zwarts and Rein Jansma to join forces in 1990. Given the sheer size of their output, it is impossible not to be confronted regularly with projects by Zwarts & Jansma. The major infrastructure works like bridges, viaducts, tunnels, stadiums and sports complexes loom large in our daily environment. What we often do not see is how ingeniously this work fits together and what processes brought it to that stage. In a conversation with collegue-architect Philippe Samyn this aspect is discussed in particular. Zwarts and Jansma themselves also describe in this book their often unusual sources of inspiration and motive forces. Yet for all that, the design process they follow is a rational one that since the 1980s has consistently featured the computer as a design resource. The book gives a complete overview of the work of Zwarts & Jansma Architects. A selection of thirty works are fully documented in site plans, floor plans, sections and details and of course text, plus photographs taken specially for this book by Rob 't Hart.
Architecture Monographs
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In the ten years since the first edition of "A Guide to Canadian Architectural Styles" was published, the heritage movement has gained strength, sensitizing many to the value of our architectural legacy. This new edition reflects an enriched understanding of architecture that focuses more on the visual and cultural setting of the built environment and less on individual(...)
Architecture in Canada
September 2003, Peterborough, Ontario
A guide to Canadian architectural styles, second edition
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In the ten years since the first edition of "A Guide to Canadian Architectural Styles" was published, the heritage movement has gained strength, sensitizing many to the value of our architectural legacy. This new edition reflects an enriched understanding of architecture that focuses more on the visual and cultural setting of the built environment and less on individual works seen in isolation. Today, we cherish the buildings that characterize the original Main Street / rue Principale - the bank building, the shops, the old hotel, the post office, the city hall. There is more recognition for older inner-city neighbourhoods, with their row housing, churches, and community halls as well as for our often romantic attachment to vernacular rural architecture. This interest in more ordinary-looking architecture marks both the democratization of Canada's heritage movement and its coming of age, for the value of these more modest structures lies in their unique ability to sustain a sense of identity. This book provides an essential profile of the origins and development of the many architectural styles across Canada, from early settlement to the postmodern period, and discusses special forms such as religious, civic, domestic, commercial, and industrial design. While remaining true to the accessible format of the first edition, the second offers updated and considerably expanded text, as well as many more illustrations.
Architecture in Canada
August Perret
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L'architecte Auguste Perret (1874-1954), précurseur du du mouvement moderne en France, a défini les fondements d'une nouvelle architecture pour le XXè siècle. Son travail a été profondément influencé par la technique de construction de l'ossature en béton armé. Abondamment illustrée de photographies en couleurs, de dessins, et de documents provenant des archives Perret,(...)
August Perret
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L'architecte Auguste Perret (1874-1954), précurseur du du mouvement moderne en France, a défini les fondements d'une nouvelle architecture pour le XXè siècle. Son travail a été profondément influencé par la technique de construction de l'ossature en béton armé. Abondamment illustrée de photographies en couleurs, de dessins, et de documents provenant des archives Perret, cette monographie comprend en annexe un essai d'Auguste Perret, "Contribution à une théorie de l'architecture", qui éclaire sa conception du métier d'architecte et ses principes artistiques et sociaux.
Architecture Monographs
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Philip Johnson converses with one of his colleagues and curator about art, artists, architects, the time in the 30s when he was director of architecture at the MOMA, his legendary exhibit "International Style" (1932), about Schwitters, Mondrian, Finsterlin, Warhol, Duchamp and his admiration for Mies van der Rohe. From this interview material, the artist Thomas Bayrle(...)
Architecture Monographs
September 2003, Köln
Layout : Philip Johnson in coversation with Rem Koolhaas and Hans Ulrich Obrist
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Philip Johnson converses with one of his colleagues and curator about art, artists, architects, the time in the 30s when he was director of architecture at the MOMA, his legendary exhibit "International Style" (1932), about Schwitters, Mondrian, Finsterlin, Warhol, Duchamp and his admiration for Mies van der Rohe. From this interview material, the artist Thomas Bayrle has woven an extraordinary book, taking as basis the layout of the New York Times and fleshing it out with text.
Architecture Monographs
The smart house
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Divided into three sections, "The Smart House" illustrates how technology is changing our homes. The book looks at three areas: Smart Technology, which examines five aspects of technology and how it's being integrated throughout the house: lighting design and window treatments; audio and video entertainment; voice and data management; security and access; and(...)
Residential Architecture
November 2003, New York
The smart house
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Divided into three sections, "The Smart House" illustrates how technology is changing our homes. The book looks at three areas: Smart Technology, which examines five aspects of technology and how it's being integrated throughout the house: lighting design and window treatments; audio and video entertainment; voice and data management; security and access; and environmental controls and energy management. Smart Materials, which shows new building materials such as titanium, electronic glass that can become transparent or opaque at the flick of a switch, polycarbonate materials, laser-perforated metals, all of which are changing the way homes are built and the ways in which we use and perceive spaces within these structures. Smart Design looks at more extravagant innovations such as swimming pools cantilevered in mid-air, windows that recreate digital views at night, interior spaces whose functions are transformed through architectural slight of hand and computer aided design, all of which point to new ways of thinking about how we live and how we use space in this increasingly space-challenged world. Case studies of ten recently constructed homes are detailed to illustrate each aspect of this technology and to show the full potential technology affords modern home design.
Residential Architecture
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À côté des maisons rurales ou urbaines qui appartiennent au patrimoine traditionnel, de nouvelles formes d’habitation sont apparues en Midi-Pyrénées au XXè siècle. À la ville comme à la campagne, ces maisons reflètent les courants sociaux et les choix esthétiques qui ont traversé cette époque : des demeures bourgeoises du début du siècle aux pavillons ouvriers, en(...)
Maisons d'habitation en Midi-Pyrénées
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À côté des maisons rurales ou urbaines qui appartiennent au patrimoine traditionnel, de nouvelles formes d’habitation sont apparues en Midi-Pyrénées au XXè siècle. À la ville comme à la campagne, ces maisons reflètent les courants sociaux et les choix esthétiques qui ont traversé cette époque : des demeures bourgeoises du début du siècle aux pavillons ouvriers, en passant par le développement massif de la maison individuelle et du prêt à habiter des dernières décennies. Les auteurs nous invitent à découvrir des maisons différentes le long d’itinéraires. Voilà l’occasion d’imaginer sa propre maison. Et de prendre conscience que l’on dessine un fragment des paysages et du patrimoine de demain. Les auteurs : Thomas Casel, Stéphane Couderc, Jean-François Gardène, Joël Laporte, Catherine Pinol, Claire Renault, et Corinne Triay.
Green Architecture
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This book tells the remarkable story of a cartoonist who made his dream come true in a building made of brick, glass and wood. The well-known cartoonist Joost Swarte designed the new Toneelschuur theatre in the historic city centre of Haarlem completely in his own characteristic style. The Delft firm of architects Mecanoo elaborated his outline drawing and turned his(...)
Architecture Monographs
January 2003, Rotterdam
Toneelschuur : Joost Swarte / Mecanoo Architects
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This book tells the remarkable story of a cartoonist who made his dream come true in a building made of brick, glass and wood. The well-known cartoonist Joost Swarte designed the new Toneelschuur theatre in the historic city centre of Haarlem completely in his own characteristic style. The Delft firm of architects Mecanoo elaborated his outline drawing and turned his sketch into a functional building. This book documents the unique and experimental project with sketches, drawings and photographs of the building, interior and many details. Henze Boekhout has recorded the new Toneelschuur theatre in a series of photographs, and Jan Tromp describes how the most beautiful theatre in the Netherlands was finally built after years of lobbying. Henk Döll provides a first-hand account of the unusual cooperation between artist and architect, and Paul Hefting writes on folly, play and utopian dreams, the elements that play a role in both Joost Swarte's drawings and the Toneelschuur theatre that has now materialised. The book is designed by Lex Reitsma.
Architecture Monographs
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Cet ouvrage réunit des textes qui permettent de prendre en compte des situations, vécues au Québec comme en France, où est intervenue l'approche "grand projet". Ils proposent d'évaluer la capacité des grands projets à produire des environnements urbains de qualité. Certes, cette notion de grand projet a une résonance bien différente au Québec et en France. Les(...)
Architecture de Montréal
October 2002, Sainte-Foy / Paris
Grands projets urbains et requalification
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Cet ouvrage réunit des textes qui permettent de prendre en compte des situations, vécues au Québec comme en France, où est intervenue l'approche "grand projet". Ils proposent d'évaluer la capacité des grands projets à produire des environnements urbains de qualité. Certes, cette notion de grand projet a une résonance bien différente au Québec et en France. Les différences et similitudes en terme de gestion de l'intégration des projets dans le tissu urbain local environnant retiennent l'attention car elles apparaissent fécondes pour l'approfondissement de la réflexion autour des espaces dégradés ou dévalorisés. Par-delà le récit de chacune des situations, deux questions ressortent de la lecture de l'ensemble des contributions. La première concerne l'évaluation des grands projets comme moyen de redéveloppement urbain. La seconde s'attache à sa gestion et à son insertion dans le cadre urbain existant. Avec la collaboration du Conseil scientifique de l'Université de Paris I.
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