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Comme toutes les espèces vivantes, toutes les cultures humaines ont eu leur propre monde. La modernité occidentale, à partir du XVIIe siècle, est le seul paradigme qui ait privé le sujet humain de cosmicité, en reléguant « le monde » à l’état d’objet. Au siècle dernier, cela aboutit à ce que l’architecte Rem Koolhaas a nommé junkspace, l'« espace foutoir ». Par-delà la(...)
Recosmiser la Terre : quelques leçons péruviennes
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Comme toutes les espèces vivantes, toutes les cultures humaines ont eu leur propre monde. La modernité occidentale, à partir du XVIIe siècle, est le seul paradigme qui ait privé le sujet humain de cosmicité, en reléguant « le monde » à l’état d’objet. Au siècle dernier, cela aboutit à ce que l’architecte Rem Koolhaas a nommé junkspace, l'« espace foutoir ». Par-delà la détérioration de l'environnement, cette acosmie globalisée atteint aujourd'hui au cosmocide. Au Pérou, comme dans tous les pays colonisés ou en développement, ne faut-il pas alors s’inspirer de la cosmicité des communautés autochtones ? Mais peut-on faire face aux réalités contemporaines et à venir ? Et créativement « recosmiser » l'existence humaine sur la Terre ?
Architectural Theory
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"HOME, l’habitat ouvert et sur-mesure" conçu par l’architecte Pascal Gontier, est un nouveau type de logement collectif capable d’offrir à ses occupants des appartements adaptés à leurs besoins et à leurs désirs. La démarche qui le permet appelle une implication active des futurs habitants. La méthode BOB, ses règles de composition et sa bibliothèque des éléments de(...)
Home : habitat ouvert et sur mesure
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"HOME, l’habitat ouvert et sur-mesure" conçu par l’architecte Pascal Gontier, est un nouveau type de logement collectif capable d’offrir à ses occupants des appartements adaptés à leurs besoins et à leurs désirs. La démarche qui le permet appelle une implication active des futurs habitants. La méthode BOB, ses règles de composition et sa bibliothèque des éléments de façade laissent libre cours à l’imagination de chacun, tout en garantissant un ensemble harmonieux.
Residential Architecture
Building views
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The minimalist window has known a remarkable success for nearly two decades, pursuing and extending the legacy of a major icon of Modern Architecture — the horizontal sliding window and the glass window/wall. Starting from the worldwide experience of Jofebar, a thirty-year-old company in the field of metalworking, structural glass and minimalist windows, this book(...)
Building views
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The minimalist window has known a remarkable success for nearly two decades, pursuing and extending the legacy of a major icon of Modern Architecture — the horizontal sliding window and the glass window/wall. Starting from the worldwide experience of Jofebar, a thirty-year-old company in the field of metalworking, structural glass and minimalist windows, this book proposes to build different views on the contemporary window, architecture and construction. Contributors — including architects, critics, photographers, writers, entrepreneurs and academics — offer a rich and unexpected set of insightful texts and beautiful images.
Contemporary Architecture
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In 1929, the great Swiss historian and architecture critic Sigfried Giedion (1888–1968)—later the author of the classics "Space, Time and Architecture" (1941) and "Mechanization Takes Command" (1948)—issued Befreites Wohnen (Liberated Dwelling), a small but vocal architecture manifesto and an early expression of modernist housing ideology. From the vision of an(...)
Sigfried Giedion: Liberated dwelling (Befreites Wohnen)
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In 1929, the great Swiss historian and architecture critic Sigfried Giedion (1888–1968)—later the author of the classics "Space, Time and Architecture" (1941) and "Mechanization Takes Command" (1948)—issued Befreites Wohnen (Liberated Dwelling), a small but vocal architecture manifesto and an early expression of modernist housing ideology. From the vision of an international architectural modernism (a mission with which Giedion was involved as the first secretary-general of the International Congresses of Modern Architecture, between 1928 and 1959) to debates on the industrialization of construction processes and their impact on public housing, Liberated Dwelling expresses the dreams and anxieties of early 20th-century modernist architecture.
Architectural Theory
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''Canadian Contemporary'' is a compilation title offering comprehensive insight into Canada's residential architecture realm as it currently stands. Photographs and detailed plans highlight an array of designs from some of the country's most talented contemporary architects. Each project is a unique example of the different ways each firm/architect interprets and caters(...)
Canadian contemporary: the northern home
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''Canadian Contemporary'' is a compilation title offering comprehensive insight into Canada's residential architecture realm as it currently stands. Photographs and detailed plans highlight an array of designs from some of the country's most talented contemporary architects. Each project is a unique example of the different ways each firm/architect interprets and caters to the types of lifestyles that inhabit their work. Adaptable spaces and savvy design solutions reflect a strong focus of the integration of modern day life into Canadian homes. With an introduction by acclaimed Professor or Architecture, Avi Friedman, this book presents the latest trends in Canadian living and residential home design.
Architecture in Canada
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This publication contains 110 photos including 40+ historic images from McCord Museum’s Notman Collection and other private and public archives. Maps, timelines, interesting facts and figures plus an extensive bibliography.
On and around Montreal's three mountains: the green heart of the city
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This publication contains 110 photos including 40+ historic images from McCord Museum’s Notman Collection and other private and public archives. Maps, timelines, interesting facts and figures plus an extensive bibliography.
Architecture de Montréal
Legorreta guide
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An icon of Mexican architecture alongside Luis Barragán, Ricardo Legorreta (1931–2011) founded Legorreta Arquitectos in the 1960s, creating what Kenneth Frampton called a"critical regionalism," expressed in the revival of colonial typologies and intensive use of color. This book offers a guide to his main achievements.
Legorreta guide
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An icon of Mexican architecture alongside Luis Barragán, Ricardo Legorreta (1931–2011) founded Legorreta Arquitectos in the 1960s, creating what Kenneth Frampton called a"critical regionalism," expressed in the revival of colonial typologies and intensive use of color. This book offers a guide to his main achievements.
Architecture Monographs
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Álvaro’s Siza’s public housing projects, designed at great scale and complexity against the backdrop of the Portuguese Revolution, obliged him to articulate a position that was nuanced and ideologically forceful. Such projects developed over long periods, in response to shifts in policy, funding and political climate. For an architect whose work develops always through(...)
Seven early sketchbooks: Álvaro Siza Vieira
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Álvaro’s Siza’s public housing projects, designed at great scale and complexity against the backdrop of the Portuguese Revolution, obliged him to articulate a position that was nuanced and ideologically forceful. Such projects developed over long periods, in response to shifts in policy, funding and political climate. For an architect whose work develops always through the iterative sketch, this challenging process, combined with the scale and cultural ambition of the projects themselves, produced the densest imaginable mass of drawings.
Architecture Monographs
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"The Continuous Monument", developed by the Italian collective Superstudio during summer 1969, is one of the most known visionary projects within the history of architecture. In sketchbooks Number 11 and 12, dated over a few months between May and November 1969, much of the story of the Continuous Monument emerges – as it were, fully-fledged – from its first conception as(...)
Sketchbook 12 and the continuous monument: Adolfo Natalini
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"The Continuous Monument", developed by the Italian collective Superstudio during summer 1969, is one of the most known visionary projects within the history of architecture. In sketchbooks Number 11 and 12, dated over a few months between May and November 1969, much of the story of the Continuous Monument emerges – as it were, fully-fledged – from its first conception as a belt around Florence, and its later ambitious circumnavigation of the globe, to its diffident public manifestation – at the scale of a gallery – for the first of the two exhibitions in Graz in 1969. The drawings became the basis of the now better-known Superstudio collages.
Architecture Monographs
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L’exemple le plus célèbre du principe de conception de logements résidentiels modernistes mis au point par Le Corbusier se situe à Marseille et a été construit entre 1947 et 1952. En 2006, Jean-Marc Drut a restauré méticuleusement un appartement acheté dans l’immeuble, un projet qui a suscité l'intérêt des fans du travail de Le Corbusier. L'idée est alors venue(...)
Architecture Monographs
January 2015
La cellule Le Corbusier : L'Unité d'habitation de Marseille
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L’exemple le plus célèbre du principe de conception de logements résidentiels modernistes mis au point par Le Corbusier se situe à Marseille et a été construit entre 1947 et 1952. En 2006, Jean-Marc Drut a restauré méticuleusement un appartement acheté dans l’immeuble, un projet qui a suscité l'intérêt des fans du travail de Le Corbusier. L'idée est alors venue d'approfondir l'analyse graphique de la réalité matérielle et des détails de l'appartement, et de publier les résultats de la recherche. Cette publication, qui correspond à la forme du volume republié de « L'architecture vivante » sur E.1027 House by the Sea, comprend de nouveaux documents et illustrations.
Architecture Monographs