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The house of stone is the kind of project that happens only rarely : a house built to the highest standards of craftsmanship with the full support of the client, who acted as a patron of architecture in almost a Renaissance sense. This publication documents in full its making. It covers the initial phase of the project, the invited competition between Meili + Peter and(...)
Marcel Meili, Marcus Peter Architects Zurich : the house of stone
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The house of stone is the kind of project that happens only rarely : a house built to the highest standards of craftsmanship with the full support of the client, who acted as a patron of architecture in almost a Renaissance sense. This publication documents in full its making. It covers the initial phase of the project, the invited competition between Meili + Peter and Peter Zumthor, and contains a detailed description of the concepts underlying the design. A particular focus is the relation between the structural and the technical aspects of the project, which is described through engineering and working drawings as well as photographs of the house under construction.
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Essai sur l'art
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Si aujourd'hui, grâce à des traductions tardives, parues jusqu'à un siècle après leur version originale, Riegl et Panofsky ont enfin été intégrés en France dans l'histoire et la réflexion sur l'art, il est stupéfiant de constater que l'oeuvre qui est à l'origine de leur relativisme historique et de leur conception des arts visuels comme mode créatif et spécifique de la(...)
Essai sur l'art
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Si aujourd'hui, grâce à des traductions tardives, parues jusqu'à un siècle après leur version originale, Riegl et Panofsky ont enfin été intégrés en France dans l'histoire et la réflexion sur l'art, il est stupéfiant de constater que l'oeuvre qui est à l'origine de leur relativisme historique et de leur conception des arts visuels comme mode créatif et spécifique de la connaissance demeure totalement ignorée dans notre pays. C'est assez dire la lacune que vient combler la traduction de trois essais sur l'art de Fiedler, respectivement parus en en 1876, 1878, et 1887. Ceux-ci ne mettent pas seulement en perspective critique l'approche de l'art^par la philosophie antique, puis moderne : ils éclairent aussi les problématiques de notre époque dans les deux domaines de la peinture et de l'architecture.
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May 2002, Besançon
Architectural Theory
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Cet ouvrage sur la mémoire du paysage trace l'histoire de la forme urbaine de ce centre-ville: récit d'une genèse, il parcourt l'histoire du quartier où les rues, les îlots, le parcellaire, la silhouette des bâtiments et le mobilier urbain ont, au fil du temps, généré les significations que les perceptions, les représentations et les mémoires ont étayées, du XVIIième(...)
La mémoire du paysage. Histoire de la forme urbaine d'un centre-ville : Saint-Roch, Québec
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Cet ouvrage sur la mémoire du paysage trace l'histoire de la forme urbaine de ce centre-ville: récit d'une genèse, il parcourt l'histoire du quartier où les rues, les îlots, le parcellaire, la silhouette des bâtiments et le mobilier urbain ont, au fil du temps, généré les significations que les perceptions, les représentations et les mémoires ont étayées, du XVIIième siecle jusqu'à aujourd'hui.
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May 2001, Laval
Architecture du Québec
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The author investigates the ways in which innovative and alternative technologies may be exploited to produce new design approaches, widening designers' horizons and increasing their ability to create appropriate settings for contemporary life.
Spirit of the machine : technology as an inspiration in architectural design
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The author investigates the ways in which innovative and alternative technologies may be exploited to produce new design approaches, widening designers' horizons and increasing their ability to create appropriate settings for contemporary life.
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October 2001, West Sussex
Engineering Structures
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Green architecture
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This volume cuts across cultures and building typologies, and includes architecture from diverse geographical regions. There are special features on South Africa, Australia, Singapore, Hong Kong, the Netherlands and North America, as well as essential introductory essays. Work is brought together from disparate parts of the world, with little-known buildings being(...)
Green architecture
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This volume cuts across cultures and building typologies, and includes architecture from diverse geographical regions. There are special features on South Africa, Australia, Singapore, Hong Kong, the Netherlands and North America, as well as essential introductory essays. Work is brought together from disparate parts of the world, with little-known buildings being published alongside those of world-famous architects. The book is interspersed with "Green Questionnaires" which offer a unique insight into the views of premier international acrhitects on this subject.
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August 2001, London
Green Architecture
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Another Reason is a bold and innovative study of the intimate relationship between science, colonialism, and the modern nation. Gyan Prakash, one of the most influential historians of India writing today, explores in fresh and unexpected ways the complexities, contradictions, and profound importance of this relationship in the history of the subcontinent. He reveals how(...)
Another reason: science and the imagination of modern India
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Another Reason is a bold and innovative study of the intimate relationship between science, colonialism, and the modern nation. Gyan Prakash, one of the most influential historians of India writing today, explores in fresh and unexpected ways the complexities, contradictions, and profound importance of this relationship in the history of the subcontinent. He reveals how science served simultaneously as an instrument of empire and as a symbol of liberty, progress, and universal reason--and how, in playing these dramatically different roles, it was crucial to the emergence of the modern nation.
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August 1999
Arch Middle East
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Freitag bags have been an overwhelming success in the struggle between brands. This "messenger Bag" created by the Swiss bothers Daniel and Markus Freitag has become an urban cult product. The bags originate in an ironc and ecologically critical approach: the bags are cut from used lorry tarpaulins and tailor-made on a small scale with used bicycle inner tubes and(...)
Freitag : individual recycled freeway bags
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Freitag bags have been an overwhelming success in the struggle between brands. This "messenger Bag" created by the Swiss bothers Daniel and Markus Freitag has become an urban cult product. The bags originate in an ironc and ecologically critical approach: the bags are cut from used lorry tarpaulins and tailor-made on a small scale with used bicycle inner tubes and safety belts. This publication describes the history of the product and asks questions about economic, ecological, and sociocultural contexts, espressing the aesthetics of a generation that is as vain as it is critical of consumerism. The book's spine is made of the same type of lorry tarpaulin as is used for the bags, thus each book's spine is unique.
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December 2001,
Design Monographs
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Toyo Ito is one of the foremost architects working today. His architecture makes innovative use of steel and aluminium and includes such buildings as the White U House and the Eggs of Winds in Tokyo. This volume focuses on his Mediathèque in Sendai. This newly completed structure, which houses a library, art gallery, cinema, lecture theatre, and cybercafé, is predicated(...)
Case : Toyo Ito - Sendai Mediatheque
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Toyo Ito is one of the foremost architects working today. His architecture makes innovative use of steel and aluminium and includes such buildings as the White U House and the Eggs of Winds in Tokyo. This volume focuses on his Mediathèque in Sendai. This newly completed structure, which houses a library, art gallery, cinema, lecture theatre, and cybercafé, is predicated on the idea that the users of the building occupy a media/ information landscape or “digital ecology. ”Through a series of extraordinary technical advances, floors supported by a system of occupiable hollow tubes and sophisticated information and media networks, the building creates an environment in which people can engage in cultural activities both internally (within the structure) and externally (through digital connections to the world at large). This volume investigates the evolution of the structure through a series of essays by experts on media, architectural technology, and digital culture.
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Norman Foster : works 1
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This survey of more than forty years of work demonstrates how, over a period of tremendous social and technological transformation, Foster and Partners continue to adhere to the themes and concerns that have always shaped their work. Richly illustrated with photographs and drawings, and featuring text by Norman Foster, this catalogue explores all aspects of the practice’s(...)
Architecture Monographs
October 2002, Munich, Berlin, London and New York
Norman Foster : works 1
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This survey of more than forty years of work demonstrates how, over a period of tremendous social and technological transformation, Foster and Partners continue to adhere to the themes and concerns that have always shaped their work. Richly illustrated with photographs and drawings, and featuring text by Norman Foster, this catalogue explores all aspects of the practice’s achievements as urban planners, architects, and industrial designers. In addition to airports, railway stations, bridges, museums, universities, offices and private houses, the book includes designs of telecommunications and energy infrastructures, street furniture and smaller household items.
Architecture Monographs
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Le deux cent cinquantième anniversaire de l'un des plus beaux ensembles urbains du XVIIIe siècle, la place Stanislas de Nancy, ancienne place Royale restaurée et rendue au piéton en 2005, offre l'occasion au musée des Beaux-Arts d'une vaste exposition consacrée, aux villes européennes entre 1720 et 1770. Après les transformations du XVIIe siècle qui libérèrent la ville du(...)
De l'Esprit des villes : Nancy et l'Europe urbaine au siècle des Lumières 1720-1770
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Le deux cent cinquantième anniversaire de l'un des plus beaux ensembles urbains du XVIIIe siècle, la place Stanislas de Nancy, ancienne place Royale restaurée et rendue au piéton en 2005, offre l'occasion au musée des Beaux-Arts d'une vaste exposition consacrée, aux villes européennes entre 1720 et 1770. Après les transformations du XVIIe siècle qui libérèrent la ville du carcan de ses remparts et avant les grands bouleversements des révolutions, tant politiques, économiques, philosophiques qu'esthétiques, au XVIIIe la cité s'affirme par son élégance et sa beauté dans une série de places et de bâtiments publics, d'aménagements et de promenades urbaines : en ce siècle, l'urbanisme s'appelle encore embellissement. Plans, estampes, dessins, maquettes anciennes, sculptures et peintures illustrent ainsi cet âge d'or urbain, partout manifeste en Europe, de Paris à Rome, de Nancy à Lisbonne, de Rennes à Saint-Pétersbourg, Cent quatre-vingt-cinq rouvres provenant de nombreuses collections françaises et étrangères permettent ainsi d'appréhender des thèmes essentiels de l'histoire de la ville au XVIIIe siècle : la mise en scène du pouvoir (places royales, villes-résidences...), le discours sur les monuments publics (églises, hôtels de ville, fontaines), la vie économique, les bouleversements volontaires ou subis, le théâtre et la fête urbaine. Mise en images et en mots par les plus beaux esprits du temps et les pinceaux des plus talentueux vedutistes (Bellotto, Canaletto, Pannini, Guardi...), la vie de ces cités révèle ses multiples facettes dans ce catalogue richement illustré, rédigé par les plus éminents spécialistes de l'histoire des arts et de l'architecture.
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