Ces ondes qui nous entourent
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Et si les téléphones mobiles étaient les nouvelles cigarettes ? Quand il s'agit de discréditer les études scientifiques, les méthodes de l'industrie des télécommunications d'aujourd'hui ressemblent étrangement à celles de l'industrie du tabac d'autrefois. Réagissant à la décision de l'Organisation mondiale de la santé de classer désormais les rayonnements émis par les(...)
Ces ondes qui nous entourent
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Et si les téléphones mobiles étaient les nouvelles cigarettes ? Quand il s'agit de discréditer les études scientifiques, les méthodes de l'industrie des télécommunications d'aujourd'hui ressemblent étrangement à celles de l'industrie du tabac d'autrefois. Réagissant à la décision de l'Organisation mondiale de la santé de classer désormais les rayonnements émis par les téléphones cellulaires comme « possiblement cancérogènes », en 2011, l'industrie des télécommunications n'a pas tardé à répliquer qu'il n'existait pas de « preuves concluantes » de la nocivité de ces rayonnements pour les humains, confortant ainsi les autorités dans leur refus d'adopter des normes de sécurité plus sévères. Lignes électriques, systèmes Wi-Fi, téléphones intelligents, fours à micro-ondes, ampoules électriques et autres objets d'usage courant... Le Dr Martin Blank nous dit pourtant qu'il y a lieu de s'inquiéter, car nous sommes exposés à un bombardement d'ondes comme jamais auparavant dans l'histoire de l'humanité. Dans cet essai percutant, l'auteur fait le point sur les connaissances scientifiques en ce qui concerne les effets biologiques d'une exposition à des rayonnements électromagnétiques non ionisants et non thermiques, et ce, à des niveaux bien en deçà des normes en vigueur. En matière de santé publique, cet expert international est d'avis que le principe de précaution devrait s'imposer. Avouant qu'il se passerait difficilement de son téléphone intelligent, le Dr Martin Blank reconnaît les bienfaits des nouvelles technologies et montre comment il est possible de s'en protéger tout en continuant d'en bénéficier. Clair, rigoureux et accessible, cet ouvrage est un incontournable pour bien comprendre les enjeux et les intérêts en cause en matière de rayonnement électromagnétique.
Green Architecture
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Première réalisation d'ampleur de l'architecte, ce centre d'accueil et d'hébergement pour sans-abri présente nombre d'innovations : entièrement hermétique, il comporte 1.000 mètres carrés de vitrages sans ouvrant. Histoire architecturale, sociale et sociologique de ce bâtiment emblématique du mouvement moderne et de sa restauration menée de 2011 à 2015.
La cité de refuge : Le Corbusier et Pierre Jeanneret. L'usine à guérir
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Première réalisation d'ampleur de l'architecte, ce centre d'accueil et d'hébergement pour sans-abri présente nombre d'innovations : entièrement hermétique, il comporte 1.000 mètres carrés de vitrages sans ouvrant. Histoire architecturale, sociale et sociologique de ce bâtiment emblématique du mouvement moderne et de sa restauration menée de 2011 à 2015.
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Morphosis. Designpeak series
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Morphosis is headed by Thom Mayne, 2005 winner of the Pritzker Prize. The eighteen projects presented in this volume were all conceived within the past seven years, and have been selected to illustrate the continuation of Mayne’s interest in an architecture of complexity – one that promotes difference, the pursuit of ambiguity, inclusion, the coexistence of apparent(...)
Morphosis. Designpeak series
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Morphosis is headed by Thom Mayne, 2005 winner of the Pritzker Prize. The eighteen projects presented in this volume were all conceived within the past seven years, and have been selected to illustrate the continuation of Mayne’s interest in an architecture of complexity – one that promotes difference, the pursuit of ambiguity, inclusion, the coexistence of apparent contradictions, imperfection, and more. Through diverse programmes, the chosen works reveal the scope of the practice’s research and design activity. Included are the Perot Museum, Cornell University’s Bill & Melinda Gates Hall, China’s National Art Museum, Quay Quarter Sydney, and ENI Headquarters in Italy.
Architecture Monographs
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'Reflections, UNStudios Small Stuff', presents a selection of interiors, installations, pavilions and industrial designs from the last 20 years. The 30 projects are organized in pairs that form each others mirror image, illustrating the idea of reflection and its manifold meanings at literal and symbolic levels. Scattered throughout the book are statements by Ben van(...)
UNStudio: reflections / small stuff
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'Reflections, UNStudios Small Stuff', presents a selection of interiors, installations, pavilions and industrial designs from the last 20 years. The 30 projects are organized in pairs that form each others mirror image, illustrating the idea of reflection and its manifold meanings at literal and symbolic levels. Scattered throughout the book are statements by Ben van Berkel and Caroline Bos expressing the thoughts behind each design. These texts bear witness to the theoretical richness and versatility at the basis of UNStudios highly particular approach to architecture and design.
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Josef Plecnik: Zacherlhaus
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The Zacherlhaus is one of the most important buildings created by the Otto Wagner School. Built between 1900 and 1913, and designed for its owner Johann Zacherl by Joesef Plenik, it was the first combined residential and commercial building of modern style in the historic inner city. This generously illustrated publication documents the building and its thorough(...)
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April 2016
Josef Plecnik: Zacherlhaus
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The Zacherlhaus is one of the most important buildings created by the Otto Wagner School. Built between 1900 and 1913, and designed for its owner Johann Zacherl by Joesef Plenik, it was the first combined residential and commercial building of modern style in the historic inner city. This generously illustrated publication documents the building and its thorough renovation, which will be completed in 2015.
Architecture Monographs
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'Architecture's Odd Couple', traces the historical threads connecting 20th century architects Frank Lloyd Wright and Philip Johnson, and offers readers a distinct perspective on the era they so enlivened with their designs. Featuring many of the structures that defined modern space--from Fallingwater to the Guggenheim, from the Glass House to the Seagram Building--this(...)
Architecture's odd couple: Frank Lloyd Wright and Philip Johhnson
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'Architecture's Odd Couple', traces the historical threads connecting 20th century architects Frank Lloyd Wright and Philip Johnson, and offers readers a distinct perspective on the era they so enlivened with their designs. Featuring many of the structures that defined modern space--from Fallingwater to the Guggenheim, from the Glass House to the Seagram Building--this book presents an arresting portrait of modern architecture's odd couple and how they shaped the American landscape by shaping each other.
Architectural Theory
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Ce dernier tome conclut le cycle des correspondances familiales de Le Corbusier. Les années 1947-1965 sont marquées par ses plus grands succès architecturaux, mais aussi par ses chagrins intimes les plus déchirants. A l’aube de ses soixante ans, Le Corbusier engage une fois de plus son atelier dans une dynamique de projets qu’il mène parallèlement à un travail critique et(...)
Le Corbusier, correspondance : lettre à la famille 1947-1965
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Ce dernier tome conclut le cycle des correspondances familiales de Le Corbusier. Les années 1947-1965 sont marquées par ses plus grands succès architecturaux, mais aussi par ses chagrins intimes les plus déchirants. A l’aube de ses soixante ans, Le Corbusier engage une fois de plus son atelier dans une dynamique de projets qu’il mène parallèlement à un travail critique et théorique sur les nouveaux enjeux de l’architecture. De la mise en chantier de Chandigarh à la réalisation du Carpenter center d’Harvard, ses voyages se multiplient et donnent lieu à une correspondance nourrie où se dessinent ses premiers dialogues avec la mort – qu’accentueront la disparition de son épouse et de sa mère – mais aussi ses réflexions sur la pérennisation de son oeuvre.
Architecture Monographs
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'Voyage Le Corbusier' collects for the first time a compendium of sketchbook drawings and watercolors of Charles-Edouard Jeanneret—a young student who would become the modernist architect Le Corbusier. Between 1907 and 1911, Jeanneret traveled throughout Europe and the Mediterranean, carrying an array of drawing supplies and documenting all that he saw: classical ruins,(...)
Voyage Le Corbusier: drawing on the road
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'Voyage Le Corbusier' collects for the first time a compendium of sketchbook drawings and watercolors of Charles-Edouard Jeanneret—a young student who would become the modernist architect Le Corbusier. Between 1907 and 1911, Jeanneret traveled throughout Europe and the Mediterranean, carrying an array of drawing supplies and documenting all that he saw: classical ruins, details of interiors, vibrant landscapes, and the people and objects that populated them. Jacob Brillhart excavates the "visual thinking" of the twentieth century's architect, reproducing a selection of 175 drawings from these early sketchbooks.
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Sou Fujimoto
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Occasionally an architect emerges whose vision is so fresh that it causes us to reconsider the very nature of architecture. Sou Fujimoto is one of those architects. Guided by instinct and keen observation, he casts convention aside. Instead he blurs boundaries and routinely rethinks basic building blocks. Both comfortably familiar and curiously enigmatic, Fujimoto's(...)
Sou Fujimoto
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Occasionally an architect emerges whose vision is so fresh that it causes us to reconsider the very nature of architecture. Sou Fujimoto is one of those architects. Guided by instinct and keen observation, he casts convention aside. Instead he blurs boundaries and routinely rethinks basic building blocks. Both comfortably familiar and curiously enigmatic, Fujimoto's dynamic work grabs our attention then lingers on in our minds.
Architecture Monographs
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Founding principal Annabelle Selldorf was born in Cologne, Germany and educated at the Pratt Institute and Syracuse University. The firm launched into international prominence with the opening of New York's Neue Galerie in 2001. Since, Selldorf Architects has become known for galleries, cultural projects, and as well as private homes. More recently, the firm has made its(...)
Selldorf Architects: portfolio and projects
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Founding principal Annabelle Selldorf was born in Cologne, Germany and educated at the Pratt Institute and Syracuse University. The firm launched into international prominence with the opening of New York's Neue Galerie in 2001. Since, Selldorf Architects has become known for galleries, cultural projects, and as well as private homes. More recently, the firm has made its mark with Sims Municipal Recycling in Brooklyn in 2013. The design and construction won an Award for Excellence in Design from the Public Design Commission. In 2014, Selldorf Architects received the commission to build the expansion of the Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego. This book begins with an extensive conversation between Tom Eccles and Annabelle Selldorf, as well as an essay by architecture critic Ian Volner. A newly-shot, full color portfolio by renowned photographer Todd Eberle is complimented by an in-depth look at the story behind 30 selected projects, including architectural plans and sketches.
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