Before / After: Álvaro Siza
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Conceived together with acclaimed architectural photographer Duccio Malagamba, the book reflects twenty compelling global projects personally selected by Siza, with each feature accompanied by the architect’s inspired hand drawings. The features are additionally illustrated by Malagamba’s photography, reflecting the enduring relationship between the two men for the last(...)
Before / After: Álvaro Siza
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Conceived together with acclaimed architectural photographer Duccio Malagamba, the book reflects twenty compelling global projects personally selected by Siza, with each feature accompanied by the architect’s inspired hand drawings. The features are additionally illustrated by Malagamba’s photography, reflecting the enduring relationship between the two men for the last three decades.
Architecture Monographs
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C’est le hasard qui a mis sur le chemin de Costantino Nivola, le peintre et architecte Le Corbusier dans une New York glaciale de l’hiver 1946. L’amitié, presque immédiate, qui naîtra alors dura vingt ans, jusqu’à la mort de Corbu en 1965. Ce volume présente un ensemble de textes inédits en français qui témoignent de cette amitié, mais aussi d’une proximité d’esprit ou(...)
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April 2024
Nivola – Le Corbusier : Une amitié créatrice
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C’est le hasard qui a mis sur le chemin de Costantino Nivola, le peintre et architecte Le Corbusier dans une New York glaciale de l’hiver 1946. L’amitié, presque immédiate, qui naîtra alors dura vingt ans, jusqu’à la mort de Corbu en 1965. Ce volume présente un ensemble de textes inédits en français qui témoignent de cette amitié, mais aussi d’une proximité d’esprit ou d’une commune idée du monde qui outrepasse et renforce la relation entre le maître affirmé et son disciple indiscipliné. Placée sous le signe du soleil, l’amitié créatrice de Nivola et Le Corbusier révèle à la fois un aspect inédit du grand architecte controversé et revient sur la relation entre sculpture et architecture, au cœur de leurs réflexions respectives.
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Machine à Amuser: the life and death of the Beistegui penthouse. Le Corbusier & Charles Jeanneret
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What does it take to build not only a house but a machine for amusement? "In Machine à Amuser", Wim van den Bergh chronicles the genesis of the famous penthouse of French-born Mexican millionaire bachelor Charles de Beistegui. The penthouse was planned and constructed by Le Corbusier & Pierre Jeanneret and built on a rooftop site on the Champs-Élysées between 1929–1932.(...)
Machine à Amuser: the life and death of the Beistegui penthouse. Le Corbusier & Charles Jeanneret
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What does it take to build not only a house but a machine for amusement? "In Machine à Amuser", Wim van den Bergh chronicles the genesis of the famous penthouse of French-born Mexican millionaire bachelor Charles de Beistegui. The penthouse was planned and constructed by Le Corbusier & Pierre Jeanneret and built on a rooftop site on the Champs-Élysées between 1929–1932. Retracing the evolution of this icon of modern architecture from the initial competition between Gabriel Guevrekian, André Lurc¸at, and Le Corbusier & Pierre Jeanneret up to the executed version, van den Bergh tells the story of a client's ambition to build a house devoted to entertaining on one of the most well-heeled streets of Paris. "Machine à Amuser" also examines the cultural milieu of artists and patrons that surrounded Beistegui and which ultimately determined the apartment's conception and use, including its rococo and surrealist-inspired interior decor. Drawing on a panoply of archival material, van den Bergh narrates the tensions that arose between client and architects as each vied for creative control of the project. As the book shows, while Le Corbusier, with his cousin Pierre Jeanneret, remained the official architects of the penthouse, its famed interior was ultimately designed by the client, Charles de Beistegui.
Architecture Monographs
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After achieving international acclaim as a painter and designer, El Lissitzky set out in 1924 to convince the world—and himself—that he was also an architect. He did this with a project for a "horizontal skyscraper," which he gave an obscure and untranslatable name: Wolkenbügel. Eight of these buildings, perched atop slender pillars, were intended to stand at major(...)
Wolkenbügel: El Lissitzky as architect
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After achieving international acclaim as a painter and designer, El Lissitzky set out in 1924 to convince the world—and himself—that he was also an architect. He did this with a project for a "horizontal skyscraper," which he gave an obscure and untranslatable name: Wolkenbügel. Eight of these buildings, perched atop slender pillars, were intended to stand at major intersections along Moscow's Boulevard Ring, integrating the flow of tramlines, subways, and elevators. In "Wolkenbügel", Richard Anderson explores Lissitzky's translation of visual and textual media into spatial ideas and offers an in-depth study of the surviving drawings and archival artifacts related to Lissitzky's most complex architectural proposal. This book offers a new and definitive account of how Lissitzky expanded the conceptual and representational tools available to the modern architect by drawing on many sources—including photography, typography, exhibition design, and even the elementary forms of the alphabet—to create the Wolkenbügel. Anderson shows how the production and reception of a paper project served to link key ideas and relationships that animated the worlds of art and architecture, offering a new view on received histories of the interwar avant-gardes. By attending to Lissitzky's singular architectural project, Anderson reveals the dynamics of internationality in the constitution of modern architectural culture in Europe.
Architecture Monographs
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We tend to think of architecture as a practice in permanence, but what if we looked instead for an architecture of transience? In "Things that move," Tim Anstey does just that: rather than assuming that architecture is, at a certain level, stationary, he considers how architecture moves subjects (referring to its emotive potential in the experience it creates); how it(...)
Things that move: A hinterland in architectural history
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We tend to think of architecture as a practice in permanence, but what if we looked instead for an architecture of transience? In "Things that move," Tim Anstey does just that: rather than assuming that architecture is, at a certain level, stationary, he considers how architecture moves subjects (referring to its emotive potential in the experience it creates); how it moves objects (referring to how it choreographs bodies in motion); and how it is itself moved (referring to the mixture of materials, laws, affordances, and images that introduce movement into any architectural condition). The first of the book's three sections, "Cargoes," highlights the mobile peripheries of architectural history through the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It asks what kinds of knowledge can be included in a discussion of architecture, noting the connections between discourses of the lithe and the technical, on the one hand, and those associated with the production of monumental, static compositions on the other. The second section, “Dispatches,” reinterprets early architectural theory by examining the Renaissance ideal of decorum, the nature of the architectural work, and the ways in which architects are constituted as authors. The last part of the book, “Vehicles,” considers building in terms of literal and metaphorical movement, using two cases from the twentieth century that investigate the relationship between architecture and cultural memory. Using a broadly forensic approach to connect details in otherwise disparate cases, "Things that move" is a breathtakingly capacious architectural account that will change the way readers understand buildings, their becoming, and their significance.
Architectural Theory
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To build is to destroy, writes Charlotte Malterre-Barthes. From steel bolts to concrete blocks to wood flooring to polyester insulation panels, every single component of the built environment is the product of extractive processes. Driven by greedy economies, the global enterprise of space production expands, impacting climate, earth, water, humans, and non-humans(...)
A moratorium on new construction
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To build is to destroy, writes Charlotte Malterre-Barthes. From steel bolts to concrete blocks to wood flooring to polyester insulation panels, every single component of the built environment is the product of extractive processes. Driven by greedy economies, the global enterprise of space production expands, impacting climate, earth, water, humans, and non-humans everywhere. However housing is both a human right and the mandate of design disciplines: How to navigate the need for housing versus the destructive practice of construction? To pause new construction—even if momentarily, creates a radical thinking framework for alternatives to the current regime of space production and its suspect growth imperative. Engaging with unsettling questions, "A moratorium on new construction" envisions a massive value shift for our existing stock.
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Midcentury houses today
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This expanded and updated edition of the 2014 classic focuses on the concentration of midcentury houses in New Canaan, Connecticut, built by noted architects including Marcel Breuer, Eliot Noyes, Philip Johnson, John Black Lee, and Edward Durell Stone. This new edition addresses the issue of preservation and adaptive reuse as a sustainable architectural strategy. A(...)
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April 2024
Midcentury houses today
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This expanded and updated edition of the 2014 classic focuses on the concentration of midcentury houses in New Canaan, Connecticut, built by noted architects including Marcel Breuer, Eliot Noyes, Philip Johnson, John Black Lee, and Edward Durell Stone. This new edition addresses the issue of preservation and adaptive reuse as a sustainable architectural strategy. A representative group of 17 houses reveals an evolving legacy, now adapting to contemporary life. Each is examined in detail, with plans, timelines, and both archival and new photography, capturing the clean, minimalist look of the initial construction and re-imagining by significant architects of our time. Today preservation and renovation of older buildings has new visibility as a sustainable approach. As the National Trust for Historic Preservation has said, "The greenest building is the one that is already built."
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Marcel Breuer, 2nd edition
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The complete monograph on the last of the first generation of Modernist architects, ''Breuer'' is the only book that examines both his design as well as his architecture, with detailed descriptions of his work – including commercial, residential, furniture, and unrealized projects, including all of his iconic furniture (such as the Wassily and Cesca chairs) and buildings(...)
Marcel Breuer, 2nd edition
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The complete monograph on the last of the first generation of Modernist architects, ''Breuer'' is the only book that examines both his design as well as his architecture, with detailed descriptions of his work – including commercial, residential, furniture, and unrealized projects, including all of his iconic furniture (such as the Wassily and Cesca chairs) and buildings (including the UNESCO Headquarters in Paris and the Whitney Museum in New York).
Architecture Monographs
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Exploring critical topics of material health in this era of climate crisis, "Material health" argues that there is an urgent need for new paths and practices in architecture and design in order to create healthier futures for everyone. From a multi-disciplinary perspective, it offers an overview of how design is taught and shapes our future, and how this could be(...)
Material health design frontiers: Parsons healthy materials lab
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Exploring critical topics of material health in this era of climate crisis, "Material health" argues that there is an urgent need for new paths and practices in architecture and design in order to create healthier futures for everyone. From a multi-disciplinary perspective, it offers an overview of how design is taught and shapes our future, and how this could be radically changed through a deeper understanding of the fundamental issues threatening our planet and human species.
Contemporary Architecture
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Comment « habiter » aujourd’hui et demain? Face aux multiples défis auxquels le monde est confronté – changement climatique, raréfaction des ressources, vieillissement démographique, migrations, crise sanitaire, disparités sociales –, nos lieux de vie sont amenés à se réinventer dans le respect de la planète, mais tout en préservant le patrimoine, l’esthétique ou encore(...)
Habiter durable : Au coeur des quartiers
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Comment « habiter » aujourd’hui et demain? Face aux multiples défis auxquels le monde est confronté – changement climatique, raréfaction des ressources, vieillissement démographique, migrations, crise sanitaire, disparités sociales –, nos lieux de vie sont amenés à se réinventer dans le respect de la planète, mais tout en préservant le patrimoine, l’esthétique ou encore l’harmonie intergénérationnelle. À l’aide d’exemples concrets, cet ouvrage s’attache à montrer que l’échelle du quartier dans lequel on habite, se déplace, travaille et se détend est pertinente pour agir, car ces morceaux de ville fonctionnent comme des rouages essentiels du métabolisme urbain. Ils informent sur les mécanismes en marche et sur les transformations à venir, mais, en tant que structures à dimension humaine, ils permettent également de penser la ville du point de vue des communautés, des familles, de l’individu. Ces quartiers durables à multiples facettes peuvent ainsi faire office de laboratoires pour expérimenter l’urbanisme du futur.
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