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Cet ouvrage se tient en équilibre entre pratique expérimentale et réflexions théoriques. C'est d'abord l'histoire d'un rêve qui finit par devenir réalité, tout au long d'une série de projets qui utilisent l'air comme matériau de construction. C'est ensuite une réflexion sur l'architecture énergétique. On ne le sait pas assez, mais l'histoire fourmille d'exemples(...)
L'architecture de la bulle d'air
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Cet ouvrage se tient en équilibre entre pratique expérimentale et réflexions théoriques. C'est d'abord l'histoire d'un rêve qui finit par devenir réalité, tout au long d'une série de projets qui utilisent l'air comme matériau de construction. C'est ensuite une réflexion sur l'architecture énergétique. On ne le sait pas assez, mais l'histoire fourmille d'exemples d'expérimentations dans l'utilisation de l'air, visant à la maîtrise de l'environnement et à la construction d'un climat protégé. Le moment est peut-être venu d'en commencer l'inventaire. Après la présentation de quelques exemples d'espaces d'architecture conçus grâce à des appareils parmi les plus surprenants, ce livre se poursuit par la formulation d'un « Manifeste de l'architecture de l'air ». Il se conclut par une réflexion autour de « l'architecture de la bulle d'air », après la mise au point d'une expérience d'architecture énergétique intermittente.
Architectural Theory
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Chaos and anarchy represent the opposite pole to an ordered life. Nothing works any more, everything is devastated, everything is falling apart. City walls, buildings that once afforded protection, have fallen victim to the excesses of armed conflict. In Ruins, the author delivers a detailed assessment of ruins as a phenomenon in architecture, landscape design, fine(...)
Ruins: reflexions about violence, chaos and transience
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Chaos and anarchy represent the opposite pole to an ordered life. Nothing works any more, everything is devastated, everything is falling apart. City walls, buildings that once afforded protection, have fallen victim to the excesses of armed conflict. In Ruins, the author delivers a detailed assessment of ruins as a phenomenon in architecture, landscape design, fine art, film and the media. The result is an extraordinarily intense contribution to the theme of transience.
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Le souffle du plein air: histoire d'un projet pédagogique et architectural novateur (1904-1952)
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Plusieurs édifices remarquables sont nés de son développement, comme l'école de plein air d'Amsterdam de Jan Duiker ou celle de Suresnes d'Eugène Beaudouin et Marcel Lods. En nous offrant ici la première synthèse de l'histoire internationale du mouvement des écoles de plein air, Anne-Marie Châtelet dévoile les fils culturels, programmatiques et techniques qui situent ces(...)
Le souffle du plein air: histoire d'un projet pédagogique et architectural novateur (1904-1952)
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Plusieurs édifices remarquables sont nés de son développement, comme l'école de plein air d'Amsterdam de Jan Duiker ou celle de Suresnes d'Eugène Beaudouin et Marcel Lods. En nous offrant ici la première synthèse de l'histoire internationale du mouvement des écoles de plein air, Anne-Marie Châtelet dévoile les fils culturels, programmatiques et techniques qui situent ces bâtiments scolaires emblématiques dans le débat sur l'architecture moderne, le renouveau de la pédagogie et les progrès de la médecine et de l'hygiène.
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The stone of Oxford offers a critical look at many of the neglected or overlooked aspects of this world famous city. Illustrated with the author's own photographs and drawings, this publication enlightens the reader on many aspects of recent architecture and town planning.
The stones of Oxford: Conjectures on a cockleshell
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The stone of Oxford offers a critical look at many of the neglected or overlooked aspects of this world famous city. Illustrated with the author's own photographs and drawings, this publication enlightens the reader on many aspects of recent architecture and town planning.
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Architectural Theory
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Why Don't American Cities Burn? traces the collision of urban transformation with the rightward-moving social politics of late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century America. He shows how the bifurcation of black social structures produced a new African American inequality and traces the shift from images of a pathological black "underclass" to praise of the(...)
Why don't American cities burn?
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Why Don't American Cities Burn? traces the collision of urban transformation with the rightward-moving social politics of late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century America. He shows how the bifurcation of black social structures produced a new African American inequality and traces the shift from images of a pathological black "underclass" to praise of the entrepreneurial poor who take advantage of new technologies of poverty work to find the beginning of the path to the middle class. He explores the reasons American cities since the early 1970s have remained relatively free of collective violence while black men in bleak inner-city neighborhoods have turned their rage inward on one another rather than on the agents and symbols of a culture and political economy that exclude them. The book ends with a meditation on how the political left and right have come to believe that urban transformation is inevitably one of failure and decline abetted by the response of government to deindustrialization, poverty, and race. How, Katz asks, can we construct a new narrative that acknowledges the dark side of urban history even as it demonstrates the capacity of government to address the problems of cities and their residents? How can we create a politics of modest hope?
Urban Theory
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Les architectes sont-ils nuls ? Beaucoup le pensent.Devant le spectacle affligeant de la Bibliothèque de France, la désolation des quartiers sur dalle, à Montparnasse, Beaugrenelle, Euralille, la prétention du ministère des Finances, la pesante médiocrité de l’Opéra Bastille, la folie des grandeurs du quartier « Odysseum » de Montpellier, les quartiers de barres et de(...)
Faut-il pendre les architectes?
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Les architectes sont-ils nuls ? Beaucoup le pensent.Devant le spectacle affligeant de la Bibliothèque de France, la désolation des quartiers sur dalle, à Montparnasse, Beaugrenelle, Euralille, la prétention du ministère des Finances, la pesante médiocrité de l’Opéra Bastille, la folie des grandeurs du quartier « Odysseum » de Montpellier, les quartiers de barres et de tours…, on ne peut que faire chorus avec la foule. Pourtant le jugement est expéditif. L’architecte est un bouc émissaire facile. Il y a d’autres coupables : maires mégalomanes, entreprises déficientes, fait du prince, concours biaisés, juridiction écrasante, pots-de-vin, inculture des maîtres d’ouvrages et poujadisme du public. Faut-il pendre les architectes ? dresse le constat sévère d’un milieu et d’un système qui n’en finissent pas de produire des erreurs monumentales. Les architectes qui s’en sortent n’en sont que plus méritants. On peut se pendre à leur cou.
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"Art and the City" explores the contentious relationship between civic politics and visual culture in Los Angeles. Struggles between civic leaders and modernist artists to define civic identity and control public space highlight the significance of the arts as a site of political contest in the twentieth century.
Art and the city : civic imagination and cultural authority in Los Angeles
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"Art and the City" explores the contentious relationship between civic politics and visual culture in Los Angeles. Struggles between civic leaders and modernist artists to define civic identity and control public space highlight the significance of the arts as a site of political contest in the twentieth century.
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Gastronomy meets art in a new series, On the Table, edited by the provocative, genre-straddling Swedish writer Charlotte Birnbaum. The first publication is a new translation of a 17th-century text describing three spectacular banquets that greeted Queen Christina of Sweden when she visited Rome in 1668. Antonio degli Effetti was on the scene, and described all three(...)
On the table : three banquets for a queen
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Gastronomy meets art in a new series, On the Table, edited by the provocative, genre-straddling Swedish writer Charlotte Birnbaum. The first publication is a new translation of a 17th-century text describing three spectacular banquets that greeted Queen Christina of Sweden when she visited Rome in 1668. Antonio degli Effetti was on the scene, and described all three feasts in their sumptuous glory, detailing the lavish preparations for the celebrations and the dining experience itself, designed by Bernini, no less! The original text, dotted with quotations from Ovid's Metamorphoses and Virgil's Aeneid, is placed in today's context by a foreword and two essays by Birnbaum. Was it dinner or was it 300-year-old performance art?
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Cornerstones
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This publication compiles a series of essays on contemporary art written by leading art historians and experts. The majority of the essays were first presented in lecture format at Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Art (Rotterdam, the Netherlands). Bringing together both historical and intuitive approaches, these essays reflect the wealth of the exchange that(...)
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This publication compiles a series of essays on contemporary art written by leading art historians and experts. The majority of the essays were first presented in lecture format at Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Art (Rotterdam, the Netherlands). Bringing together both historical and intuitive approaches, these essays reflect the wealth of the exchange that exists between theoretical writing and artistic thinking, sharing the fascination that each of these authors has with both the work of an artist and how this work functions in relation to larger contexts and broader ideas.
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The Immaterial
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In ''The Immaterial'', French social philosopher André Gorz (1923–2007) argues that the economic boom that accelerated in the 1990s and crashed so spectacularly in 2008 was based largely on an immaterial consumption of symbols and ideas, as capitalism tried to overcome the crisis of the formally industrial regime by throwing itself into a new, so-called knowledge economy.(...)
The Immaterial
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In ''The Immaterial'', French social philosopher André Gorz (1923–2007) argues that the economic boom that accelerated in the 1990s and crashed so spectacularly in 2008 was based largely on an immaterial consumption of symbols and ideas, as capitalism tried to overcome the crisis of the formally industrial regime by throwing itself into a new, so-called knowledge economy. In this volume, Gorz argues instead for the creation of a true knowledge economy. This economy would be based on zero-cost exchange and pooled resources, and knowledge would be treated as humanity's common property. Currently, in order to exploit knowledge and turn it into capital, the capitalist enterprise privatizes specialized knowledge and claims ownership through private licenses and copyright. But as Gorz shows, the traditional foundations of such capitalist economics have begun to crumble because of the immaterial nature of this new form of product, which makes it almost impossible to measure in monetary terms.
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