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« Décarbonation de l'économie », « énergies renouvelables », « transition écologique », etc., le discours des principales associations, ONG et personnalités du « mouvement climat », de Cyril Dion à Bon Pote, rejoint en grande partie celui des entreprises et des États, de plus en plus nombreux à promettre d'atteindre la « neutralité carbone » d'ici 2030 ou 2050. Dans les(...)
Mensonges renouvelables & capitalisme décarboné
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« Décarbonation de l'économie », « énergies renouvelables », « transition écologique », etc., le discours des principales associations, ONG et personnalités du « mouvement climat », de Cyril Dion à Bon Pote, rejoint en grande partie celui des entreprises et des États, de plus en plus nombreux à promettre d'atteindre la « neutralité carbone » d'ici 2030 ou 2050. Dans les faits, le désastre écologique continue imperturbablement, et est même aggravé par l'extractivisme nécessaire au développement des énergies dites « renouvelables » et des technologies dites « propres » ou « vertes » en général. Comment en sommes-nous arrivés là? Et comment retrouver un mouvement écologiste digne de ce nom?
Architectural Theory
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For over a decade, Brooklyn-based architecture firm SO–IL has been envisioning houses and other projects in between and adjacent to domestic spaces. Reflecting on the state of housing design today, often constrained by pressures of production, SO–IL approaches these projects with generous experimentation. They adapt and adjust the architectural and physical "body(...)
So-Il: In depth. Urban domesticities today
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For over a decade, Brooklyn-based architecture firm SO–IL has been envisioning houses and other projects in between and adjacent to domestic spaces. Reflecting on the state of housing design today, often constrained by pressures of production, SO–IL approaches these projects with generous experimentation. They adapt and adjust the architectural and physical "body languages" of domesticity while operating through the framing and occupation of liminal spaces. The projects featured in "In Depth" represent SO-IL’s attempt to "hack" the codes, cores, courts and corridors; to stretch and inhabit "inefficiencies"; to turn the old stones and bring fragments of buried treasures from the past into the present; to question if housing for all should be the yardstick for the shelters of our souls; and to ask the future generations what kind of home we should design for them.
Architecture Monographs
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For the first time, Swiss architecture firm Christ & Gantenbein present a comprehensive catalog of their work. The three-volume monograph captures their architectural endeavors from 1998 to 2023, including an annotated retrospective of the design, planning and execution of over 160 projects.
Christ & Gantenbein: Projects I–III
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For the first time, Swiss architecture firm Christ & Gantenbein present a comprehensive catalog of their work. The three-volume monograph captures their architectural endeavors from 1998 to 2023, including an annotated retrospective of the design, planning and execution of over 160 projects.
Architecture Monographs
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De la grotte au repaire de brigands, de la "chambre à soi" de Virginia Woolf à la cabane dans les bois de Thoreau, de notre jardin à notre lit, cet essai explore les abris auxquels nous rêvons et qui nous font rêver. Aspiration au retrait autant qu'appel à s'ouvrir, nos refuges sont des chrysalides : ils donnent forme à notre imaginaire. Parce qu'elle échappe à(...)
Refuges : Une poétque de l'abri
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De la grotte au repaire de brigands, de la "chambre à soi" de Virginia Woolf à la cabane dans les bois de Thoreau, de notre jardin à notre lit, cet essai explore les abris auxquels nous rêvons et qui nous font rêver. Aspiration au retrait autant qu'appel à s'ouvrir, nos refuges sont des chrysalides : ils donnent forme à notre imaginaire. Parce qu'elle échappe à l'injonction de transparence, la part de nous qui s'y loge est le berceau de notre intime création. Trouver son refuge c'est inventer un espace pour raconter son histoire, comme les enfants construisent leur cabane pour échafauder de nouveaux mondes.
Architectural Theory
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"Living places" is an innovative approach to home construction that benefits both people and planet, and a valuable model that thrives on collaboration. The concept’s lessons demonstrate how to construct healthy buildings using readily available materials and technologies. Its scalability and feasibility aspire to influence the housing sector by assessing prototypes and(...)
Contemporary Architecture
January 2024
Living places: Principles and insights for a new way of thinking buildings
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"Living places" is an innovative approach to home construction that benefits both people and planet, and a valuable model that thrives on collaboration. The concept’s lessons demonstrate how to construct healthy buildings using readily available materials and technologies. Its scalability and feasibility aspire to influence the housing sector by assessing prototypes and integrating valuable knowledge into the construction industry at large. This book offers a comprehensive look at this approach through the voices of the project’s main partners, its shareable data, and a description of the process and method that can create change where it is most needed – a manual of tools and insights.
Contemporary Architecture
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How a protean mathematical object, the graph, ushered in new images, tools, and infrastructures for design and catalyzed a digital future for architecture. In "Graph vision", Theodora Vardouli offers a fresh history of architecture's early entanglements with modern mathematics and digital computing by focusing on a hidden protagonist: the graph. Fueled by iconoclastic(...)
Graph vision: Digital architecture's skeletons
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How a protean mathematical object, the graph, ushered in new images, tools, and infrastructures for design and catalyzed a digital future for architecture. In "Graph vision", Theodora Vardouli offers a fresh history of architecture's early entanglements with modern mathematics and digital computing by focusing on a hidden protagonist: the graph. Fueled by iconoclastic sentiments and skepticism of geometric depiction, architects, she explains, turned to the skeletal underpinnings of their work, and with it the graph, as a site of representation, operation, and political possibility. Taking the reader on an enthralling journey through a polyvalent mathematical entity, Vardouli combines close readings of graphs' architectural manifestations as images, tools, and infrastructures for design with original archival work on research centers that spearheaded mathematical and computational approaches to architecture.
Digital Architecture
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Although he was not widely known during his lifetime, Carlo Scarpa (1906-1978) has in the past-half century become one of the most revered of modern architects. His passion for integrating the ancient with the modern, the natural with the built environment, and the sensual qualities of glass, wood and stone, makes him the perfect architect for this moment, when the(...)
Carlo Scarpa: the complete buildings
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Although he was not widely known during his lifetime, Carlo Scarpa (1906-1978) has in the past-half century become one of the most revered of modern architects. His passion for integrating the ancient with the modern, the natural with the built environment, and the sensual qualities of glass, wood and stone, makes him the perfect architect for this moment, when the preservation of historic buildings and sensitivity to environmental impact is of supreme importance.
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Event-cities 5 : poetics
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"Event-Cities 5" is the fifth and final volume in the MIT Press series documenting recent built and unbuilt projects by renowned architect Bernard Tschumi. This volume expands on the theoretical preoccupations that have shaped Tschumi's work in practice and pedagogy. In this volume, Tschumi embarks on what he calls a “poetics” that addresses both the rational elaboration(...)
Event-cities 5 : poetics
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"Event-Cities 5" is the fifth and final volume in the MIT Press series documenting recent built and unbuilt projects by renowned architect Bernard Tschumi. This volume expands on the theoretical preoccupations that have shaped Tschumi's work in practice and pedagogy. In this volume, Tschumi embarks on what he calls a “poetics” that addresses both the rational elaboration of work and the irrational eruption of inexplicable elements in architectural projects. How do chance, intuition, and analogy, among other elements, intersect with the logical play of concept, context, and program to generate innovative and informed design? Highlights of this volume include circular building projects, works with suspended gardens and floating rectangular masses, superposed structures created via surrealist tactics, an immense educational research complex in France that hovers between building and urban design, a museum in China made from intersecting conic shapes, and a project for a cultural center in Italy that is structured as an investigation into courtyards and facades.
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The feeling of space
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Place is something real, but space is generally conceived as abstract and immaterial. In ''The Feeling of Space'', Christopher Bardt explores this damaging modern binary and traces the contradictory impulses that have dematerialized our sense of space through history: fear and wonder; a yearning for the infinite and the intimate; and the need for autonomy and for(...)
The feeling of space
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Place is something real, but space is generally conceived as abstract and immaterial. In ''The Feeling of Space'', Christopher Bardt explores this damaging modern binary and traces the contradictory impulses that have dematerialized our sense of space through history: fear and wonder; a yearning for the infinite and the intimate; and the need for autonomy and for belonging. Using rich illustrations and examinations of art, technology, and philosophy, Bardt argues that if we can get back to first feeling space, then we can treat space as the substance that gives agency to our intersubjectivity—our exchange of conscious and unconscious thoughts.
Architectural Theory
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The first English anthology of the writings of the British-Italian architect, editor, critic, and educator Ernesto Rogers (1909–1969), ''The Hero of Doubt'' showcases the intellectual power and scope of one of the most influential yet, paradoxically, unrecognized exponents of the modern movement in Europe. These essays, edited by Roberta Marcaccio and newly translated(...)
Architectural Theory
January 2025
The hero of doubt: selected writings of Ernesto Nathan Rogers
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The first English anthology of the writings of the British-Italian architect, editor, critic, and educator Ernesto Rogers (1909–1969), ''The Hero of Doubt'' showcases the intellectual power and scope of one of the most influential yet, paradoxically, unrecognized exponents of the modern movement in Europe. These essays, edited by Roberta Marcaccio and newly translated from the Italian, reveal how, more than any other architect of the twentieth century, Rogers positioned himself as a mediator between the heroic generation of the modern masters and the younger intellectuals who went on to shape the contextualist turns of architectural postmodernism in the 1970s.
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