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This book takes a look at recent work from Kohn Pedersen Fox, one of the most acclaimed international architecture firms. The practice was formed in 1976 in New York, and rapidly made its mark on international architecture with buildings such as the 333 Wacker Drive in Chicago (1979-1983) and the DG Bank Headquarters in Frankfurt (1986-1993). They went on to become one(...)
KPF : vision and process, Europe 1990-2002
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This book takes a look at recent work from Kohn Pedersen Fox, one of the most acclaimed international architecture firms. The practice was formed in 1976 in New York, and rapidly made its mark on international architecture with buildings such as the 333 Wacker Drive in Chicago (1979-1983) and the DG Bank Headquarters in Frankfurt (1986-1993). They went on to become one of the most creative and productive offices worldwide and in particular made a name for themselves in the field of skyscraper construction. This volume presents some 19 selected buildings and projects under construction. The focus of the book is the work of KPF London who has gained prominence in recent years with a number of imaginative and technically advanced buildings. Among the projects included are: Thames Court London, World Trade Centre in Amsterdam, Rothermere American Institute in Oxford, ENDESA Headquarters in Madrid, House of Representatives on Cyprus. All are documented with colour illustrations, technical plans and explanatory texts, which show that KPF´s reputation amongst the best is well-deserved.
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Throughout his career, the influential art photographer Jeff Wall has written periodically on a variety of subjects--from the work of his Vancouver colleagues, to the art of such diverse figures as Edouard Manet, On Kawara, and Dan Graham, to the important role of photography in Conceptual art. Wall's own work takes center stage in the many interviews he has granted over(...)
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February 2007, New York
Jeff Wall : selected essays and interviews
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Throughout his career, the influential art photographer Jeff Wall has written periodically on a variety of subjects--from the work of his Vancouver colleagues, to the art of such diverse figures as Edouard Manet, On Kawara, and Dan Graham, to the important role of photography in Conceptual art. Wall's own work takes center stage in the many interviews he has granted over the past two decades. Both the essays and the interviews are indispensable to the study of Wall's work, which will be the subject of a major American traveling retrospective, with stops in New York, Chicago and San Francisco, throughout 2007. Thanks to Wall's wide-ranging curiosity, nimble mind, and articulate voice, the texts are also of considerable interest outside of the context of his own oeuvre. This generous selection of 14 essays and 23 interviews from the past 25 years is the first collection of Wall's texts to be published in English, and as such, is an instant collector's item. This affordable volume also includes 120 black-and-white illustrations for reference purposes.
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Ongoing use of fossil fuels, the development of industrial zones in city centers, and even our growing reliance on air conditioners have led to extreme climate swings. Now an urgent public concern, global warming alarms ever more people—and yet most of them still hesitate to identify a workable plan of action. Approaching the problem head-on, "Solar Guerilla" highlights a(...)
Solar Guerilla: constructive responses to climate change
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Ongoing use of fossil fuels, the development of industrial zones in city centers, and even our growing reliance on air conditioners have led to extreme climate swings. Now an urgent public concern, global warming alarms ever more people—and yet most of them still hesitate to identify a workable plan of action. Approaching the problem head-on, "Solar Guerilla" highlights a number of programs, architects, and companies that are already active in such cities as Chicago, Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Tel Aviv. In a series of case studies, this book focuses on efficient strategies implemented at the local level, where collaboration within communities may be the key to effectively combating environmental damage. As companies like China’s Turenscape and Israel’s Electreon thrive alongside programs such as Chicago’s Third Nature approach to its famous riverwalk, the local efforts begin to yield global results. As "Solar Guerilla" demonstrates, these and other initiatives may be the best way to counter the emotional fatigue and physical disasters that currently plague us in our all-too-rapidly-changing urban environment.
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Little golden America
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"Odnoetazhnya Amerika" ("One-Storied America") First published in the U.S.S.R. 1936. Little Golden America. First published in England in 1944. Translated from the Russian by Charles Malamuth This is one of the most popular books ever published in the Soviet Union. It remains popular in Russia today. Americans cannot figure out what makes it so popular. It is a good book,(...)
Little golden America
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"Odnoetazhnya Amerika" ("One-Storied America") First published in the U.S.S.R. 1936. Little Golden America. First published in England in 1944. Translated from the Russian by Charles Malamuth This is one of the most popular books ever published in the Soviet Union. It remains popular in Russia today. Americans cannot figure out what makes it so popular. It is a good book, interesting and well written, but does not contain anything so outstanding as to make it the most popular book ever written. Yet almost every Russian seems to have read or to be familiar with "Little Golden America."It describes the adventures of the two authors, Ilya Ilf and Eugene Petrov, who arrived in New York City on the passenger ship Normandie. After one month in New York, they bought a car and started traveling around the United States. They went to Chicago and San Francisco and then swept back through the Southern States. When they arrived back in New York to return to Europe, they said that they had traveled ten thousand miles.
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Louis Sullivan's idea
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The story of Louis H. Sullivan is considered one of the great American tragedies. While Sullivan reshaped architectural thought and practice and contributed significantly to the foundations of modern architecture, he suffered a sad and lonely death. Many have since missed his aim: that of bringing buildings to life. What mattered most to Sullivan were not the buildings(...)
Louis Sullivan's idea
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The story of Louis H. Sullivan is considered one of the great American tragedies. While Sullivan reshaped architectural thought and practice and contributed significantly to the foundations of modern architecture, he suffered a sad and lonely death. Many have since missed his aim: that of bringing buildings to life. What mattered most to Sullivan were not the buildings but the philosophy behind their creation. Once, he unconcernedly stated that if he lived long enough, he would get to see all of his works destroyed. He added: "Only the idea is the important thing." In ''Louis Sullivan's Idea,'' Chicago architectural historian Tim Samuelson and artist/writer Chris Ware present Sullivan's commitment to his discipline of thought as the guiding force behind his work, and this collection of photographs, original documentation, and drawings all date from the period of Sullivan's life, 1856-1924, that many rarely or have never seen before. The book includes a full-size foldout facsimile reproduction of Louis Sullivan's last architectural commission and the only surviving working drawing done in his own hand.
Architecture Monographs
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Les bas-relief en céramique de Ronan Bouroullec. Depuis le début des années 2000, le travail de Ronan et Erwan Bouroullec apparaît comme l'un des plus représentatifs du dynamisme du design français. Travaillant en duo depuis 1998, les deux frères dessinent aujourd'hui pour de nombreux industriels (Vitra, Kvadrat, Issey Miyake, Cappellini...), tout en poursuivant une(...)
Bas-Reliefs / Bas-Reliefs Détails
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Les bas-relief en céramique de Ronan Bouroullec. Depuis le début des années 2000, le travail de Ronan et Erwan Bouroullec apparaît comme l'un des plus représentatifs du dynamisme du design français. Travaillant en duo depuis 1998, les deux frères dessinent aujourd'hui pour de nombreux industriels (Vitra, Kvadrat, Issey Miyake, Cappellini...), tout en poursuivant une activité de recherche expérimentale au sein de la Galerie kreo. Ils ont aussi travaillé sur les projets architecturaux de Camper, Issey Miyake, Kvadrat, etc. Plusieurs expositions monographiques leur ont été consacrées : Design Museum de Londres en 2002, Museum of Contemporary Art de Los Angeles, musée Boijmans van Beuningen de Rotterdam et de La Piscine, musée d'Art et d'Industrie de Roubaix en 2004, Villa Noailles, Hyeres en 2008, Grand Hornu, Belgique en 2009, une quadruple exposition à Rennes en 2016... Leurs créations appartiennent aux collections d'institutions telles que le Musée national d'art moderne – Centre Pompidou et le Musée des Arts Décoratifs à Paris, le Museum of Modern Art de New York, l'Art Institute de Chicago, le Design Museum de Londres ou encore le musée Boijmans van Beuningen de Rotterdam.
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Vivian Maier
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Il aura fallu le hasard de la découverte de son corpus photographique en 2007 dans un garde-meuble aux États-Unis pour que le public puisse connaître Vivian Maier. Elle naît à New-York en 1926. Son père est d'origine austro-hongroise et sa mère est française, ce qui la conduit à séjourner à plusieurs reprises en France dans sa jeunesse. Elle commence à exercer le métier(...)
Vivian Maier
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Il aura fallu le hasard de la découverte de son corpus photographique en 2007 dans un garde-meuble aux États-Unis pour que le public puisse connaître Vivian Maier. Elle naît à New-York en 1926. Son père est d'origine austro-hongroise et sa mère est française, ce qui la conduit à séjourner à plusieurs reprises en France dans sa jeunesse. Elle commence à exercer le métier de gouvernante d'enfants dès 1951, d'abord à New-York puis, jusque dans les années 1990 à Chicago, où elle s'éteint au printemps 2009. Cette passion qui l'habite et qui deviendra une activité presque quotidienne, l'élève aujourd'hui au rang des plus grands photographes emblématiques de la Street Photography, et la fait figurer dans l'histoire de la photographie aux côtés de Diane Arbus, Robert Frank, Helen Levitt ou Garry Winogrand. Son œuvre est constituée de plus de 120 000 images photographiques, de films super 8 et 16 mm, d'enregistrements divers, de photographies éparses, et d'une multitude de pellicules non développées, comme autant de trouvailles fascinantes.
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Abalos & Herreros fonds, 1920-2009.
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Kertész : made in USA
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André Kertész fait partie de ces photographes cultes tout comme le sont Doisneau, Corbeau et Cartier Bresson. Né en 1894 à Budapest, André Kertész a inspiré un grand nombre de nos photographes contemporains par la qualité et la diversité de son travail. Après quelques années passées en France, c’est à New-York qu’il va s’installer pour travailler pour plusieurs magazines.(...)
Kertész : made in USA
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André Kertész fait partie de ces photographes cultes tout comme le sont Doisneau, Corbeau et Cartier Bresson. Né en 1894 à Budapest, André Kertész a inspiré un grand nombre de nos photographes contemporains par la qualité et la diversité de son travail. Après quelques années passées en France, c’est à New-York qu’il va s’installer pour travailler pour plusieurs magazines. Son regard sur l’architecture, l’ombre et les distorsions le font se distinguer dans de nombreuses expositions à Paris, au Museum of Modern Art de New-York (1964), Tokyo (1965), Stockholm (1967), Invité d’honneur à Arles (1974), Centre Georges Pompidou (1977), University of Salford (1980), Jérusalem, Musée Israël (1980), Norfolk Chrysler Museum (1982), New-York Susan Halder Gallery (1982), Grand international de la photographie (1982), Art Institute of Chicago (1985), Metropolitan Museum of Art of New-York (1985). André Kertész est de ces grands qui ont su travailler sans cesse pour contribuer à donner à la photographie ses lettres de noblesse dans le domaine de l’art et inspirer toute une génération de grands photographes qui témoignent dans cet ouvrage de tout le talent d’André Kertész et de son incontournable influence.
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Eugène Atget, Jacques Henri Lartigue, André Kertész, Brassaï, Henri Cartier- Bresson, Robert Doisneau—some of the greatest photographers of Paris—were relatively unknown when they began their most innovative work. Not yet burdened with conventional career expectations, they found the city the perfect environment in which to invent and develop an entirely new approach to(...)
Paris : photographs from a time that was
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Eugène Atget, Jacques Henri Lartigue, André Kertész, Brassaï, Henri Cartier- Bresson, Robert Doisneau—some of the greatest photographers of Paris—were relatively unknown when they began their most innovative work. Not yet burdened with conventional career expectations, they found the city the perfect environment in which to invent and develop an entirely new approach to conceiving the photographic image. In the 1920s and 1930s, the generation of photographers after Atget responded not only to the physical city itself but also to a new sensibility of time as a spontaneous act. Masterworks by these now-famous visionaries of the medium are featured in this book of photographs of Paris from the 1850s to the 1950s, drawn from the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago. David Travis introduces the book with an essay on how these photographers inherited the culture of walking in and observing Paris from Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Charles Baudelaire, and the boulevard flâneurs of the late nineteenth century. Their acceptance and celebration of the fluidity of the city’s street life became the chief virtue of their profession as photojournalists for the new illustrated magazines that would eventually make them famous.
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