Form defining strategies
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This book examines experimental design methodologies in the field of architecture and their implementation in academic settings. Theoretical considerations by guest essayists and numerous examples of conceptual designs complement the holistic approach to the subject matter. The studies collected here emerged during a weekly workshop with architecture students at the(...)
Form defining strategies
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This book examines experimental design methodologies in the field of architecture and their implementation in academic settings. Theoretical considerations by guest essayists and numerous examples of conceptual designs complement the holistic approach to the subject matter. The studies collected here emerged during a weekly workshop with architecture students at the Technical University of Darmstadt.
Experimentale architecture
Montréal une île des villes
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CE livre présente en deux cents photos d'archives privées et publiques, une vision rétrospective de l'histoire des municipalités qui ont permis le développement de l'île de Montréal, prise globalement et non pas en fonction de la seule ville de Montréal.
Montréal une île des villes
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CE livre présente en deux cents photos d'archives privées et publiques, une vision rétrospective de l'histoire des municipalités qui ont permis le développement de l'île de Montréal, prise globalement et non pas en fonction de la seule ville de Montréal.
Architecture de Montréal
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This highly-anticipated publication presents the final comprehensive design for Sections 1 and 2 of the High Line, by Field Operations and Diller Scofidio + Renfro. This full-color book includes design renderings, maps, and photographs depicting the High Line from its construction in the 1930s through its current re-construction into New York City's most-anticipated new(...)
Designing the high line: Gansevoort street to 30th street
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This highly-anticipated publication presents the final comprehensive design for Sections 1 and 2 of the High Line, by Field Operations and Diller Scofidio + Renfro. This full-color book includes design renderings, maps, and photographs depicting the High Line from its construction in the 1930s through its current re-construction into New York City's most-anticipated new public space.
Architecture Monographs
Neues Museum
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The Neues Museum - an important mid-nineteenth century example of Neoclassical architecture and the centerpiece of Berlin's Museum Island - was badly damaged during World War II. From 1997-2009, British architect David Chipperfield worked to restore the structure - which was originally completed by Friedrich August Stueler in 1859 - to its pre-war function. Located behind(...)
Architecture Monographs
September 2009
Neues Museum
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The Neues Museum - an important mid-nineteenth century example of Neoclassical architecture and the centerpiece of Berlin's Museum Island - was badly damaged during World War II. From 1997-2009, British architect David Chipperfield worked to restore the structure - which was originally completed by Friedrich August Stueler in 1859 - to its pre-war function. Located behind the Altes Museum, the space housed the Egyptian Collection. Chipperfield's controversial plans followed a principle of conservation (or amalgamation) rather than reconstruction; he preserved the skeleton of the original building, with its elaborate finishes, attractive brickwork, frescoes and ornamentation, merging and contrasting these characteristics with his own subtle interpolations of clean white lines and quiet geometrical structures. The results are astounding, setting new standards in the field and opening up exciting possibilities for museum conversions. This volume celebrates Chipperfield's work in a series of images by the Berlin-based architectural photographer Friederike von Rauch. Von Rauch is well known for her unusual and exacting approach to architectural photography : eschewing digital technology and only using natural light, she presents a crisp and vibrant series of images that eloquently tell the story of Chipperfield's unorthodox but successful restoration.
Architecture Monographs
Dwelling: Accordia
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Dwelling describes the design and architecture the new residential quarter in Cambridge, a multi-award winning green project. Accordia won 2008 Stirling Prize. Previously, no Stirling Prize had been awarded for housing developments. This new residential quarter in Cambridge provides a new model for communal living. With 22 different house and apartment types on a tight(...)
Dwelling: Accordia
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Dwelling describes the design and architecture the new residential quarter in Cambridge, a multi-award winning green project. Accordia won 2008 Stirling Prize. Previously, no Stirling Prize had been awarded for housing developments. This new residential quarter in Cambridge provides a new model for communal living. With 22 different house and apartment types on a tight semi-urban site, Accordia is a high-density scheme which replaces the standard pocket garden approach with a series of exhilarating public greens, communal gardens and intimate outside/inside spaces created by rooftop terraces and internal courtyards.
Architecture Monographs
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Millions of people in New York and New Jersey consider the Hudson River as familiar as their own backyard yet only have a superficial knowledge of the landscape and land use of this river's waterfront. This book deepens readers' understanding with an aerial portrait of the river’s shores from the Battery, at the southernmost tip of Manhattan, to the river's origin near(...)
Up river: man-made sites of interest on the Hudson from the Battery to Troy
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Millions of people in New York and New Jersey consider the Hudson River as familiar as their own backyard yet only have a superficial knowledge of the landscape and land use of this river's waterfront. This book deepens readers' understanding with an aerial portrait of the river’s shores from the Battery, at the southernmost tip of Manhattan, to the river's origin near Albany. Focusing on man-made sites rarely seen by those who travel along the river’s banks — some of which can only be seen aerially — the book showcases the shore area’s vanishing (or vanished) avenues, prisons, power plants, quarries, parks, condos, and redevelopments.
Green Architecture
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The sampling of identical elements along with close attention to the choice of materials and issues of sustainability, are themes which consistently return in the architectural designs of Branimir Medic and Pero Puljiz. The two architects, both trained in Croatia and The Netherlands, have followed their own unusual, yet distinct paths since winning the Prix de Rome in the(...)
Architecture Monographs
December 2009
Medic and Puljiz: different repetitions, buildings and projects
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The sampling of identical elements along with close attention to the choice of materials and issues of sustainability, are themes which consistently return in the architectural designs of Branimir Medic and Pero Puljiz. The two architects, both trained in Croatia and The Netherlands, have followed their own unusual, yet distinct paths since winning the Prix de Rome in the early nineties, which has included partnerships in office of Architekten Cie in Amsterdam. ‘Different Repetitions’ demonstrates through texts and images their multi-sided design talent but also the general cohesiveness of their projects undertaken from the office building Acanthus in Amsterdam to the Cultural Centre in Tianjin, China.
Architecture Monographs
Le Corbusier's Villa Shodhan
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Shodhan Villa was built in the mid-1950s in the Indian city of Ahmedabad in the state Gujarath. This book presents the rare photographs of the house that, in many ways, represents the a peak in 20th century's greatest architect working.
Architecture Monographs
August 2009
Le Corbusier's Villa Shodhan
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Shodhan Villa was built in the mid-1950s in the Indian city of Ahmedabad in the state Gujarath. This book presents the rare photographs of the house that, in many ways, represents the a peak in 20th century's greatest architect working.
Architecture Monographs
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Architect and McGill University alumnus Moshe Safdie speaks about his work, the ideas behind it, how it fits into the contemporary practice of architecture, and its implications beyond the field. Megascale, Order & Complexity is the 2007 David J. Azrieli Lecture in Architecture at the School of Architecture, McGill University.
Moshe Safdie, megascale, order and complexity
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Architect and McGill University alumnus Moshe Safdie speaks about his work, the ideas behind it, how it fits into the contemporary practice of architecture, and its implications beyond the field. Megascale, Order & Complexity is the 2007 David J. Azrieli Lecture in Architecture at the School of Architecture, McGill University.
Architecture Monographs
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Le patrimoine change. Depuis son ancêtre, le monument historique, jusqu'à ses plus récentes incarnations de trésors de l'humanité, il révèle, tout autant que l'histoire ou la culture qu'il symbolise, les relations variables entre l'homme et le monde.
Des régimes d'authenticité: essai sur la mémoire patrimoniale
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Le patrimoine change. Depuis son ancêtre, le monument historique, jusqu'à ses plus récentes incarnations de trésors de l'humanité, il révèle, tout autant que l'histoire ou la culture qu'il symbolise, les relations variables entre l'homme et le monde.
Architecture du Québec