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From Egypt and Classical Greece and Rome through the building booms of the Gothic era and the Renaissance, and from the Industrial Revolution to the present era of digital modeling, Building: 3,000 Years of Design, Engineering, and Construction, charts centuries of innovations in engineering and building construction. This comprehensive and heavily illustrated volume,(...)
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From Egypt and Classical Greece and Rome through the building booms of the Gothic era and the Renaissance, and from the Industrial Revolution to the present era of digital modeling, Building: 3,000 Years of Design, Engineering, and Construction, charts centuries of innovations in engineering and building construction. This comprehensive and heavily illustrated volume,(...)
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Building: 3000 years of design, engineering and construction
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From Egypt and Classical Greece and Rome through the building booms of the Gothic era and the Renaissance, and from the Industrial Revolution to the present era of digital modeling, Building: 3,000 Years of Design, Engineering, and Construction, charts centuries of innovations in engineering and building construction. This comprehensive and heavily illustrated volume, aimed at students and young professionals as well as general readers, explores the materials, classic texts, instruments, and theories that have propelled modern engineering, and the famous and not-so-famous buildings designed through the ages, from the Parthenon to Chartres Cathedral and the dome of St. Peter's, from eighteenth-century silk mills in England to the Crystal Palace, and on to the first Chicago high-rises, the Sydney Opera House, and the latest "green" skyscrapers.
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From Egypt and Classical Greece and Rome through the building booms of the Gothic era and the Renaissance, and from the Industrial Revolution to the present era of digital modeling, Building: 3,000 Years of Design, Engineering, and Construction, charts centuries of innovations in engineering and building construction. This comprehensive and heavily illustrated volume, aimed at students and young professionals as well as general readers, explores the materials, classic texts, instruments, and theories that have propelled modern engineering, and the famous and not-so-famous buildings designed through the ages, from the Parthenon to Chartres Cathedral and the dome of St. Peter's, from eighteenth-century silk mills in England to the Crystal Palace, and on to the first Chicago high-rises, the Sydney Opera House, and the latest "green" skyscrapers.
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Typography papers 6
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This issue focuses on the reconstruction and reinvention of the classical letter in Italy in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. It includes a previously unpublished article by the late Nicolete Gray. This reproduces, in 26 full-page illustrations, an unsigned and undated (late fifteenth century) manuscript of an alphabet of capital letters, presently in the Newberry(...)
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This issue focuses on the reconstruction and reinvention of the classical letter in Italy in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. It includes a previously unpublished article by the late Nicolete Gray. This reproduces, in 26 full-page illustrations, an unsigned and undated (late fifteenth century) manuscript of an alphabet of capital letters, presently in the Newberry(...)
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This issue focuses on the reconstruction and reinvention of the classical letter in Italy in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. It includes a previously unpublished article by the late Nicolete Gray. This reproduces, in 26 full-page illustrations, an unsigned and undated (late fifteenth century) manuscript of an alphabet of capital letters, presently in the Newberry Library, Chicago, and provides the first analysis of this important document. Other articles here are the first English translation of the late Giovanni Mardersteig’s seminal essay of 1959 (‘L.B. Alberti e la rinascita del carattere lapidario romano nel quattrocento’), and James Mosley on Giovan Francesco Cresci’s formative influence on the form of Western handwriting, and hence on typefaces, and on the inscriptional capitals which appeared on new buildings in Rome between 1585 and 1590. Paul Stiff contributes a piece on ‘Designing public letters in fifteenth-century Florence’.
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This issue focuses on the reconstruction and reinvention of the classical letter in Italy in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. It includes a previously unpublished article by the late Nicolete Gray. This reproduces, in 26 full-page illustrations, an unsigned and undated (late fifteenth century) manuscript of an alphabet of capital letters, presently in the Newberry Library, Chicago, and provides the first analysis of this important document. Other articles here are the first English translation of the late Giovanni Mardersteig’s seminal essay of 1959 (‘L.B. Alberti e la rinascita del carattere lapidario romano nel quattrocento’), and James Mosley on Giovan Francesco Cresci’s formative influence on the form of Western handwriting, and hence on typefaces, and on the inscriptional capitals which appeared on new buildings in Rome between 1585 and 1590. Paul Stiff contributes a piece on ‘Designing public letters in fifteenth-century Florence’.
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May 2004, London
May 2004, London
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Graphic Design and Typography
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Acclaimed Los Angeles architect Franklin D. Israel (1945–1996) created innovative residential projects and office interiors that made him one of the most talked-about designers of his generation. In this vivid account, architectural historian Todd Gannon draws on archival resources, analyses of Israel’s buildings, and recent interviews with the architect’s colleagues,(...)
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Acclaimed Los Angeles architect Franklin D. Israel (1945–1996) created innovative residential projects and office interiors that made him one of the most talked-about designers of his generation. In this vivid account, architectural historian Todd Gannon draws on archival resources, analyses of Israel’s buildings, and recent interviews with the architect’s colleagues,(...)
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Franklin D. Israel: A life in architecture
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Acclaimed Los Angeles architect Franklin D. Israel (1945–1996) created innovative residential projects and office interiors that made him one of the most talked-about designers of his generation. In this vivid account, architectural historian Todd Gannon draws on archival resources, analyses of Israel’s buildings, and recent interviews with the architect’s colleagues, clients, and contemporaries, including Frank Gehry, Thom Mayne, and Robert A. M. Stern. Gannon traces Israel’s development from his early years and career on the East Coast to his formative world travels and residence at the American Academy in Rome. The author guides readers through the Los Angeles architectural context, Israel’s influential teaching at UCLA, his dalliance with Hollywood, and the personal motivations behind his architecture and design work—all aspects of an influential career that was cut short by his death from AIDS-related complications at the age of fifty.
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Acclaimed Los Angeles architect Franklin D. Israel (1945–1996) created innovative residential projects and office interiors that made him one of the most talked-about designers of his generation. In this vivid account, architectural historian Todd Gannon draws on archival resources, analyses of Israel’s buildings, and recent interviews with the architect’s colleagues, clients, and contemporaries, including Frank Gehry, Thom Mayne, and Robert A. M. Stern. Gannon traces Israel’s development from his early years and career on the East Coast to his formative world travels and residence at the American Academy in Rome. The author guides readers through the Los Angeles architectural context, Israel’s influential teaching at UCLA, his dalliance with Hollywood, and the personal motivations behind his architecture and design work—all aspects of an influential career that was cut short by his death from AIDS-related complications at the age of fifty.
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February 2025
February 2025
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This volume edited on the occasion of the exhibition at MAXXI - Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo in Rome from 25 October 2024 to 16 March 2025, curated by the world-renowned studio Diller Scofidio + Renfro. The exhibition and thus the catalogue intends to address the theme of movement not so much as a possibility for a building to move from one place to another(...)
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This volume edited on the occasion of the exhibition at MAXXI - Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo in Rome from 25 October 2024 to 16 March 2025, curated by the world-renowned studio Diller Scofidio + Renfro. The exhibition and thus the catalogue intends to address the theme of movement not so much as a possibility for a building to move from one place to another(...)
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Restless architecture: Diller Scofidio + Renfro
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This volume edited on the occasion of the exhibition at MAXXI - Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo in Rome from 25 October 2024 to 16 March 2025, curated by the world-renowned studio Diller Scofidio + Renfro. The exhibition and thus the catalogue intends to address the theme of movement not so much as a possibility for a building to move from one place to another as an internal property of architecture: buildings that change configuration, that have mobile elements, that swell or turn to accommodate more or fewer visitors. The ability to move or change like a transformer is also a recurring feature of the work of Diller and Scofidio (later DS+R), who often also used movement as a platform to connect art and architecture, combining the concepts of building and installation in an experimental (and very productive) way.
Restless architecture: Diller Scofidio + Renfro
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This volume edited on the occasion of the exhibition at MAXXI - Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo in Rome from 25 October 2024 to 16 March 2025, curated by the world-renowned studio Diller Scofidio + Renfro. The exhibition and thus the catalogue intends to address the theme of movement not so much as a possibility for a building to move from one place to another as an internal property of architecture: buildings that change configuration, that have mobile elements, that swell or turn to accommodate more or fewer visitors. The ability to move or change like a transformer is also a recurring feature of the work of Diller and Scofidio (later DS+R), who often also used movement as a platform to connect art and architecture, combining the concepts of building and installation in an experimental (and very productive) way.
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January 2025
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Charles Garnier
Charles Garnier
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Architecte immense et prolifique, Charles Garnier est resté très mal connu jusqu'à ce jour. Celui qui, par la construction de l'Opéra, a mieux qu'un autre symbolisé la civilisation brillante du Second Empire, a subi la même défaveur que le régime de Napoléon III, si bien que de rares études rendent compte des bâtiments qu'il a construits. Cet ouvrage en présente la(...)
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Architecte immense et prolifique, Charles Garnier est resté très mal connu jusqu'à ce jour. Celui qui, par la construction de l'Opéra, a mieux qu'un autre symbolisé la civilisation brillante du Second Empire, a subi la même défaveur que le régime de Napoléon III, si bien que de rares études rendent compte des bâtiments qu'il a construits. Cet ouvrage en présente la(...)
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Charles Garnier
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Architecte immense et prolifique, Charles Garnier est resté très mal connu jusqu'à ce jour. Celui qui, par la construction de l'Opéra, a mieux qu'un autre symbolisé la civilisation brillante du Second Empire, a subi la même défaveur que le régime de Napoléon III, si bien que de rares études rendent compte des bâtiments qu'il a construits. Cet ouvrage en présente la biographie et l'œuvre complet, depuis son grand prix de Rome jusqu'au casino de Monte-Carlo, aux thermes de Vittel, aux villas de Bordighera et à l'église de La Capelle-en-Thiérache. Par cette évocation, c'est tout le monde des financiers, promoteurs immobiliers, constructeurs de chemins de fer et même éditeurs qui se profile, mais aussi celui de cette pléiade d'artistes dont Garnier avait fait ses collaborateurs. Richement illustré, l'ouvrage comprend en annexe un catalogue de l'œuvre.
Charles Garnier
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Architecte immense et prolifique, Charles Garnier est resté très mal connu jusqu'à ce jour. Celui qui, par la construction de l'Opéra, a mieux qu'un autre symbolisé la civilisation brillante du Second Empire, a subi la même défaveur que le régime de Napoléon III, si bien que de rares études rendent compte des bâtiments qu'il a construits. Cet ouvrage en présente la biographie et l'œuvre complet, depuis son grand prix de Rome jusqu'au casino de Monte-Carlo, aux thermes de Vittel, aux villas de Bordighera et à l'église de La Capelle-en-Thiérache. Par cette évocation, c'est tout le monde des financiers, promoteurs immobiliers, constructeurs de chemins de fer et même éditeurs qui se profile, mais aussi celui de cette pléiade d'artistes dont Garnier avait fait ses collaborateurs. Richement illustré, l'ouvrage comprend en annexe un catalogue de l'œuvre.
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July 2003, Paris
July 2003, Paris
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Cabinet 29 Sloth
Cabinet 29 Sloth
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Items of interest for balkers, Bartlebys, benchwarmers, and boondogglers: - Dan Rosenberg on busy idleness - Marina van Zuylen on the intellectual history of lassitude - Christopher Turner on vasectomania and other cures for sloth - A history of the recline of civilization - Sina Najafi interviews Pierre Saint-Amand on the loafers of the Enlightenment - At(...)
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Items of interest for balkers, Bartlebys, benchwarmers, and boondogglers: - Dan Rosenberg on busy idleness - Marina van Zuylen on the intellectual history of lassitude - Christopher Turner on vasectomania and other cures for sloth - A history of the recline of civilization - Sina Najafi interviews Pierre Saint-Amand on the loafers of the Enlightenment - At(...)
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Items of interest for balkers, Bartlebys, benchwarmers, and boondogglers: - Dan Rosenberg on busy idleness - Marina van Zuylen on the intellectual history of lassitude - Christopher Turner on vasectomania and other cures for sloth - A history of the recline of civilization - Sina Najafi interviews Pierre Saint-Amand on the loafers of the Enlightenment - At long last, a CliffsNotes for Cabinet! And ample additional material for dawdlers, deadbeats, derelicts, dodgers, and do-nothings: - Mark Morris on gingerbread houses - Joshua Foer on time without clocks - Carolyn de la Peña on Gustav Zander’s Stairmaster prototypes - San Keller’s artist project, set in a Rome sunglass shop - Brian Dillon on the water cure - Emily Roysdon opines on opal - Margaret Wertheim interviews Kenneth Libbrecht on snowflake formation - Alexander R. Galloway and McKenzie Wark play a Guy Debord game - Frances Richard and Emilie Clark discuss the lives of women natural historians
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Items of interest for balkers, Bartlebys, benchwarmers, and boondogglers: - Dan Rosenberg on busy idleness - Marina van Zuylen on the intellectual history of lassitude - Christopher Turner on vasectomania and other cures for sloth - A history of the recline of civilization - Sina Najafi interviews Pierre Saint-Amand on the loafers of the Enlightenment - At long last, a CliffsNotes for Cabinet! And ample additional material for dawdlers, deadbeats, derelicts, dodgers, and do-nothings: - Mark Morris on gingerbread houses - Joshua Foer on time without clocks - Carolyn de la Peña on Gustav Zander’s Stairmaster prototypes - San Keller’s artist project, set in a Rome sunglass shop - Brian Dillon on the water cure - Emily Roysdon opines on opal - Margaret Wertheim interviews Kenneth Libbrecht on snowflake formation - Alexander R. Galloway and McKenzie Wark play a Guy Debord game - Frances Richard and Emilie Clark discuss the lives of women natural historians
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July 2008, New York
July 2008, New York
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From the Pantheon in Rome to the Zollverein in Essen, “vital architecture” describes buildings with a future value, buildings whose architecture determines and guarantees their lifespan. The spatial quality of such buildings is the core of their value and sustainability, even--or especially--when their use changes. Vital Architecture focuses on the clients, users,(...)
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From the Pantheon in Rome to the Zollverein in Essen, “vital architecture” describes buildings with a future value, buildings whose architecture determines and guarantees their lifespan. The spatial quality of such buildings is the core of their value and sustainability, even--or especially--when their use changes. Vital Architecture focuses on the clients, users,(...)
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Vital architecture: tools for durability
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From the Pantheon in Rome to the Zollverein in Essen, “vital architecture” describes buildings with a future value, buildings whose architecture determines and guarantees their lifespan. The spatial quality of such buildings is the core of their value and sustainability, even--or especially--when their use changes. Vital Architecture focuses on the clients, users, architects and designers of such buildings. Written by Ruurd Roorda and Bas Kegge, the book documents and interprets 20 of these vital buildings with plans, sections, diagrams and photographs by Roel Backaert. Offering a spatial analysis of both instantly recognizable architectural icons and common, everyday existing buildings drawn from a period ranging from the beginning of the Christian era to the present, Vital Architecture develops a methodology to account for the lifespan of buildings, and offers inspiration for creating something for the future.
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From the Pantheon in Rome to the Zollverein in Essen, “vital architecture” describes buildings with a future value, buildings whose architecture determines and guarantees their lifespan. The spatial quality of such buildings is the core of their value and sustainability, even--or especially--when their use changes. Vital Architecture focuses on the clients, users, architects and designers of such buildings. Written by Ruurd Roorda and Bas Kegge, the book documents and interprets 20 of these vital buildings with plans, sections, diagrams and photographs by Roel Backaert. Offering a spatial analysis of both instantly recognizable architectural icons and common, everyday existing buildings drawn from a period ranging from the beginning of the Christian era to the present, Vital Architecture develops a methodology to account for the lifespan of buildings, and offers inspiration for creating something for the future.
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August 2016
August 2016
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Architectural Theory
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Bernard Zehrfuss
Bernard Zehrfuss
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Première édition, deuxième numéros de la collection Carnets d'architectes, bibliographie. Cet ouvrage est la première monographie consacrée à Bernard Zehrfuss Grand Prix de Rome en 1939, qui dirige la reconstruction de la Tunisie et s'engage très tôt dans la modernité pour se rallier aux modes de production les plus novateurs. Figure majeure de l'architecture de la(...)
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Première édition, deuxième numéros de la collection Carnets d'architectes, bibliographie. Cet ouvrage est la première monographie consacrée à Bernard Zehrfuss Grand Prix de Rome en 1939, qui dirige la reconstruction de la Tunisie et s'engage très tôt dans la modernité pour se rallier aux modes de production les plus novateurs. Figure majeure de l'architecture de la(...)
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Bernard Zehrfuss
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Première édition, deuxième numéros de la collection Carnets d'architectes, bibliographie. Cet ouvrage est la première monographie consacrée à Bernard Zehrfuss Grand Prix de Rome en 1939, qui dirige la reconstruction de la Tunisie et s'engage très tôt dans la modernité pour se rallier aux modes de production les plus novateurs. Figure majeure de l'architecture de la seconde moitié du XXe siècle en France, il est l'auteur ou le coauteur de quelques-uns des bâtiments les plus marquants de l'après-guerre. On citera notamment l'imprimerie Mame à Tours, l'usine Renault de Flins, le siège de l'Unesco à Paris, le CNIT à la Défense ou, plus tard, le musée de la Civilisation gallo-romaine à Lyon. Au fil de ces projets, Zehrfuss collabore avec les plus grands ingénieurs ou constructeurs de son temps (Jean Prouvé, Pier Luigi Nervi).
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Première édition, deuxième numéros de la collection Carnets d'architectes, bibliographie. Cet ouvrage est la première monographie consacrée à Bernard Zehrfuss Grand Prix de Rome en 1939, qui dirige la reconstruction de la Tunisie et s'engage très tôt dans la modernité pour se rallier aux modes de production les plus novateurs. Figure majeure de l'architecture de la seconde moitié du XXe siècle en France, il est l'auteur ou le coauteur de quelques-uns des bâtiments les plus marquants de l'après-guerre. On citera notamment l'imprimerie Mame à Tours, l'usine Renault de Flins, le siège de l'Unesco à Paris, le CNIT à la Défense ou, plus tard, le musée de la Civilisation gallo-romaine à Lyon. Au fil de ces projets, Zehrfuss collabore avec les plus grands ingénieurs ou constructeurs de son temps (Jean Prouvé, Pier Luigi Nervi).
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October 2008, Gollion
October 2008, Gollion
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This book explores a uniquely Roman type of building, the palazzina—a four- or five-story residential structure of the most meticulous design, built during the Italian economic miracle between the 1950s and ’70s. ''A Beautiful Game'' focuses on the extraordinarily imaginative entrances of these buildings. Over many years, Heiner Thofern (born 1959) photographed(...)
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This book explores a uniquely Roman type of building, the palazzina—a four- or five-story residential structure of the most meticulous design, built during the Italian economic miracle between the 1950s and ’70s. ''A Beautiful Game'' focuses on the extraordinarily imaginative entrances of these buildings. Over many years, Heiner Thofern (born 1959) photographed(...)
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Heiner Thofern: A Beautiful Game. Roman Entrances
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This book explores a uniquely Roman type of building, the palazzina—a four- or five-story residential structure of the most meticulous design, built during the Italian economic miracle between the 1950s and ’70s. ''A Beautiful Game'' focuses on the extraordinarily imaginative entrances of these buildings. Over many years, Heiner Thofern (born 1959) photographed palazzine during his evening wanderings throughout the north and west districts of Rome. It was the intricately conceived and constructed entrances, realized mostly through collaborations between architects and artists, that particularly caught his eye. ''A Beautiful Game'' reveals the varied treasures of Thofern’s photographic archive, a rich collection that allows us to examine the particular sense of play and passion for beauty that shapes this era of Italian creativity, a delight in la bella figura, and a desire to constantly reinvent the possibilities of design and architecture.
Heiner Thofern: A Beautiful Game. Roman Entrances
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This book explores a uniquely Roman type of building, the palazzina—a four- or five-story residential structure of the most meticulous design, built during the Italian economic miracle between the 1950s and ’70s. ''A Beautiful Game'' focuses on the extraordinarily imaginative entrances of these buildings. Over many years, Heiner Thofern (born 1959) photographed palazzine during his evening wanderings throughout the north and west districts of Rome. It was the intricately conceived and constructed entrances, realized mostly through collaborations between architects and artists, that particularly caught his eye. ''A Beautiful Game'' reveals the varied treasures of Thofern’s photographic archive, a rich collection that allows us to examine the particular sense of play and passion for beauty that shapes this era of Italian creativity, a delight in la bella figura, and a desire to constantly reinvent the possibilities of design and architecture.
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April 2023
April 2023
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Comment un rocher stérile face à la prospère cité d'Avignon prend rang pendant le Moyen Age comme l'un des enjeux politiques les plus disputés des provinces du Sud. Comment, la papauté ayant fixé son séjour d'exil à Avignon, Villeneuve se voit élue par la cour pontificale comme son lieu de villégiature préféré. Comment enfin, sur fond général de décadence et de ruine(...)
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Comment un rocher stérile face à la prospère cité d'Avignon prend rang pendant le Moyen Age comme l'un des enjeux politiques les plus disputés des provinces du Sud. Comment, la papauté ayant fixé son séjour d'exil à Avignon, Villeneuve se voit élue par la cour pontificale comme son lieu de villégiature préféré. Comment enfin, sur fond général de décadence et de ruine(...)
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December 2006, Paris
December 2006, Paris
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Villeneuve-lès-Avignon : histoire artistique et monumentale d'une villégiature pontificale
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Comment un rocher stérile face à la prospère cité d'Avignon prend rang pendant le Moyen Age comme l'un des enjeux politiques les plus disputés des provinces du Sud. Comment, la papauté ayant fixé son séjour d'exil à Avignon, Villeneuve se voit élue par la cour pontificale comme son lieu de villégiature préféré. Comment enfin, sur fond général de décadence et de ruine après le retour de la curie à Rome, trois fondations religieuses réussissent à fixer à Villeneuve, à la fin du Moyen Age puis pendant l'âge classique, une vitalité artistique de premier plan. Croisant l'étude des textes anciens et l'observation archéologique, l'enquête, couche après couche, explore et met en lumière l'un des plus riches gisements patrimoniaux de la France méridionale avec, pour objet principal, la reconstitution du cadre matériel de la société curiale au temps de la papauté avignonnaise.
Villeneuve-lès-Avignon : histoire artistique et monumentale d'une villégiature pontificale
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Comment un rocher stérile face à la prospère cité d'Avignon prend rang pendant le Moyen Age comme l'un des enjeux politiques les plus disputés des provinces du Sud. Comment, la papauté ayant fixé son séjour d'exil à Avignon, Villeneuve se voit élue par la cour pontificale comme son lieu de villégiature préféré. Comment enfin, sur fond général de décadence et de ruine après le retour de la curie à Rome, trois fondations religieuses réussissent à fixer à Villeneuve, à la fin du Moyen Age puis pendant l'âge classique, une vitalité artistique de premier plan. Croisant l'étude des textes anciens et l'observation archéologique, l'enquête, couche après couche, explore et met en lumière l'un des plus riches gisements patrimoniaux de la France méridionale avec, pour objet principal, la reconstitution du cadre matériel de la société curiale au temps de la papauté avignonnaise.
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December 2006, Paris
December 2006, Paris
