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Das neue Haus in Stuttgart.
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71, [1] pages : illustrations (chiefly color), plans, portraits ; 28 cm
Baden-Württemberg : Allianz Versicherungs - AG, 1990.
Das neue Haus in Stuttgart.
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Baden-Württemberg : Allianz Versicherungs - AG, 1990.
Friso Kramer's chair
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Dutch designer Friso Kramer (born 1922) is an important pioneer of industrial design. The celebrated Revolt Chair, which he designed for manufacturer Ahrend/De Cirkel in 1953, is a classic in the history of industrial design in the Netherlands. From its introduction, the chair was considered highly innovative and soon won a place in classrooms, offices and homes around(...)
Friso Kramer's chair
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Dutch designer Friso Kramer (born 1922) is an important pioneer of industrial design. The celebrated Revolt Chair, which he designed for manufacturer Ahrend/De Cirkel in 1953, is a classic in the history of industrial design in the Netherlands. From its introduction, the chair was considered highly innovative and soon won a place in classrooms, offices and homes around the world. Kramer used steel plating for the frame, creating an essentially indestructible product – one of the first chairs to be mass produced.
Industrial Design
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SOM has long been known for innovation, experimentation, design excellence, and technical mastery, for an abiding interest in the contributions that buildings can make to the life of cities, and for a collaborative approach that extends to all aspects of the design and construction processes. This volume, which presents work from the 1960’s and early 1970’s, reproduces a(...)
SOM, architecture of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (1963-1973)
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SOM has long been known for innovation, experimentation, design excellence, and technical mastery, for an abiding interest in the contributions that buildings can make to the life of cities, and for a collaborative approach that extends to all aspects of the design and construction processes. This volume, which presents work from the 1960’s and early 1970’s, reproduces a monograph first published in 1974. Since the early 1950’s, SOM has ranked among the leading architectural offices in the United States.
Architecture Monographs
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This book presents a collection of the works of architecture designed by Gio Ponti in Milan between 1925 and 1971. There are around forty buildings. Apart from a few works that have undergone radical alterations, these houses, churches, and offices have been left as they were, a delightful heritage for the Milanese who have been living and working in them or just looking(...)
Gio Ponti and Milan: a guide to the works 1920-1970
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This book presents a collection of the works of architecture designed by Gio Ponti in Milan between 1925 and 1971. There are around forty buildings. Apart from a few works that have undergone radical alterations, these houses, churches, and offices have been left as they were, a delightful heritage for the Milanese who have been living and working in them or just looking at them for almost a century. The book contains a map of Milan with all Ponti’s buildings.
Architecture Monographs
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Atelier Ten is a London-based engineering practice with offices around the world. For twenty-five years they have specialized in sustainable design, collaborating with such architects as Grimshaw, Hopkins, Wilkinson Eyre and Robert A. M. Stern. Among their most famous projects are Gardens by the Bay in Singapore, Tour Carpe Diem near Paris, the San Francisco Museum of(...)
Atelier Ten: invisible architecture
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Atelier Ten is a London-based engineering practice with offices around the world. For twenty-five years they have specialized in sustainable design, collaborating with such architects as Grimshaw, Hopkins, Wilkinson Eyre and Robert A. M. Stern. Among their most famous projects are Gardens by the Bay in Singapore, Tour Carpe Diem near Paris, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and Federation Square in Melbourne. Photographs, drawings and diagrams, combined with explanatory text, provide an insight into Atelier Ten's pioneering green engineering.
Architecture Monographs
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Rooms You May Have Missed reclaims the significance of inhabitation and is for that reason a collection of domestic spaces—entry porticos, kitchens, bedrooms, closets, dining rooms, courtyards, gardens, vestibules, living rooms, offices, dens and washrooms—as reinvented in the work of two very different architects: Umberto Riva in Milan and Bijoy Jain in Mumbai. Common to(...)
Rooms you may have missed: Bijoy Jain, Umberto Riva
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Rooms You May Have Missed reclaims the significance of inhabitation and is for that reason a collection of domestic spaces—entry porticos, kitchens, bedrooms, closets, dining rooms, courtyards, gardens, vestibules, living rooms, offices, dens and washrooms—as reinvented in the work of two very different architects: Umberto Riva in Milan and Bijoy Jain in Mumbai. Common to their practices is a genuine concern for the details that support living in and our common rituals of waking, bathing, eating, entertaining and sleeping.
CCA Publications
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Central to the work of Robert A. M. Stern is a commitment to architecture that reinterprets the past to serve contemporary life. Buildings and Towns explores the application of that principle to a wide range of building types, including libraries, university buildings, cultural centers, offices, health care facilities, courthouses, and recreational complexes completed(...)
November 2007, New York
Robert A.M. Stern buildings and towns
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Central to the work of Robert A. M. Stern is a commitment to architecture that reinterprets the past to serve contemporary life. Buildings and Towns explores the application of that principle to a wide range of building types, including libraries, university buildings, cultural centers, offices, health care facilities, courthouses, and recreational complexes completed throughout the world over the past twenty years. The sequel to the highly successful Robert A. M. Stern: Buildings (1996), this volume also incorporates master plans for towns and campuses.
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November 2007, New York
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Experimentation and innovation are essential to the work of Jacques Ferrier. Extensive projects such as the waterworks in Joinville or the redesign of the Renault grounds in Guyancourt have contributed to his reputation. He has currently been commissioned to do a large number of projects including the completion of the Air France offices and ateliers in Orly, industrial(...)
Architecture Monographs
March 2004, Basel
Useful - Utiles : Jacques Ferrier, architectures : the poetry of useful things - la poésie des choses utiles
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Experimentation and innovation are essential to the work of Jacques Ferrier. Extensive projects such as the waterworks in Joinville or the redesign of the Renault grounds in Guyancourt have contributed to his reputation. He has currently been commissioned to do a large number of projects including the completion of the Air France offices and ateliers in Orly, industrial buildings in Bordeaux and Valenciennes, and the College de France in Paris. Much in demand in France, he is now gaining international recognition.
Architecture Monographs
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'Footprint 17' addresses the architectural production of those in inconspicuous offices and unexciting departments who contribute their insights and experience to the making of architecture, the formulation of architectural history, and the politics of architectural design and theory. Footprint 17 explores the intellectual frameworks, didactic practices, research methods(...)
Footprint 17: the 'bread and butter' of architecture: investigating everyday practices
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'Footprint 17' addresses the architectural production of those in inconspicuous offices and unexciting departments who contribute their insights and experience to the making of architecture, the formulation of architectural history, and the politics of architectural design and theory. Footprint 17 explores the intellectual frameworks, didactic practices, research methods and analytical instruments that develop the disciplinary focus beyond the work of the “prime mover,” and the relevance of salaried architects and institutional agencies in shaping the spatial and social practices of the everyday.
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Caza: 2011-2015
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CAZA: 2011-15, the inaugural monograph of the design studio CAZA, celebrates the first five years of the firm, and includes photographs, drawings, building descriptions, essays, and conversations that relate to CAZA’s global architecture and design practice. With offices in Brooklyn, New York; Bogotá, Colombia; Lima, Peru; and Manila, Philippines, CAZA has emerged as a(...)
Caza: 2011-2015
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CAZA: 2011-15, the inaugural monograph of the design studio CAZA, celebrates the first five years of the firm, and includes photographs, drawings, building descriptions, essays, and conversations that relate to CAZA’s global architecture and design practice. With offices in Brooklyn, New York; Bogotá, Colombia; Lima, Peru; and Manila, Philippines, CAZA has emerged as a risk-taking, forward-thinking studio working on a mixture of residential, civic, and corporate projects that are shaping the built environment in cities around the world.
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