Simply design
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Amid the ascent of sustainability as a primary criterion in current architectural practice, the status of aesthetics has become a curiously fraught topic. Simply Design explores the tension between these criteria across five themed chapters: “Revealing Place,” “Programming,” “Forming and Joining,” “Choreographing” and “Staging.”
Simply design
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Amid the ascent of sustainability as a primary criterion in current architectural practice, the status of aesthetics has become a curiously fraught topic. Simply Design explores the tension between these criteria across five themed chapters: “Revealing Place,” “Programming,” “Forming and Joining,” “Choreographing” and “Staging.”
Architectural Theory
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Embracing that which could dominate us-the city, infrastructure, overpopulation and social chaos-has been part of the process of Steven Holl Architects as the office has taken on work of increasing complexity and scale in China over the past decade. The projects featured in this book play a serious game with scale and the dynamic between micro and macro. In content and(...)
Urban hopes: made in China by Steven Holl
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Embracing that which could dominate us-the city, infrastructure, overpopulation and social chaos-has been part of the process of Steven Holl Architects as the office has taken on work of increasing complexity and scale in China over the past decade. The projects featured in this book play a serious game with scale and the dynamic between micro and macro. In content and format the book reflects such juxtaposition, featuring large format images and graphic documentation of Steven Holl's recent works realized in China alongside critiques and analyses offered by a new generation of theorists.
Architecture Monographs
AA book 2013 : projects
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Projects Review offers an overview of the AA's 2012/13 academic year. Accompanying the school’s end-of-year show, it features hundreds of drawings, models, installations, photographs and other materials documenting the world’s most international and experimental school of architecture.
AA book 2013 : projects
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Projects Review offers an overview of the AA's 2012/13 academic year. Accompanying the school’s end-of-year show, it features hundreds of drawings, models, installations, photographs and other materials documenting the world’s most international and experimental school of architecture.
Contemporary Architecture
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Wang Shu incarne pleinement la capacité de l’architecte à plonger ses racines dans les traditions et les cultures les plus riches et les plus anciennes, dans les techniques les plus traditionnelles. Il y puise des forces pour une créativité contemporaine adaptée au monde d’aujourd’hui, qui témoigne de préoccupations sociales, d’un souci esthétique permanent, et d’une(...)
Wang Shu: construire un monde différent conforme aux principes de la nature
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Wang Shu incarne pleinement la capacité de l’architecte à plonger ses racines dans les traditions et les cultures les plus riches et les plus anciennes, dans les techniques les plus traditionnelles. Il y puise des forces pour une créativité contemporaine adaptée au monde d’aujourd’hui, qui témoigne de préoccupations sociales, d’un souci esthétique permanent, et d’une prise en compte des objectifs du développement durable. Il a reçu le Prix Pritzker 2012.
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In this volume, Hans Stimmann summarises the townhouse's political strategies, roots in architectural history and theoretical concepts. The author also analyses around fifty examples and situates them in their urban context.
Townhouses: construction and design manual
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In this volume, Hans Stimmann summarises the townhouse's political strategies, roots in architectural history and theoretical concepts. The author also analyses around fifty examples and situates them in their urban context.
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May 2013
Residential Architecture
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The largely unknown oeuvre of the Philippine architect Leandro V. Locsin (1928-1994) embodies the search for identity in the built environment. Having completed his studies, Locsin opened his practice in 1953 in the capital Manila which, after the aerial attacks by the Allied forces for the liberation of the Philippines from Japanese occupation, had been almost(...)
Leandro Valencia Locsin: Filipino architect
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The largely unknown oeuvre of the Philippine architect Leandro V. Locsin (1928-1994) embodies the search for identity in the built environment. Having completed his studies, Locsin opened his practice in 1953 in the capital Manila which, after the aerial attacks by the Allied forces for the liberation of the Philippines from Japanese occupation, had been almost completely destroyed. The reconstruction, as well as technical innovations and favorable political and economic conditions, made it possible for him to design a wide range and large number of projects, including hotels, commercial buildings, churches, cultural venues, and public buildings. His work combines inspiration from modernism with local traditions and comprises a total of 245 projects, of which more than half were completed. The book presents a selection of the most important buildings and projects.
Architecture Monographs
Visible Invisible
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This bilingual French-English publication retraces the "Visible, Invisible" exhibition, curated by Nicolas Dorval-Bory and Guillaume Ramillien, held in 2022 at the Versailles School of Architecture, as part of the second edition of the Île-de-France Architecture and Landscape Biennale (BAP!2). In the image of the eponymous exhibition, the editorial project presents a(...)
Visible Invisible
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This bilingual French-English publication retraces the "Visible, Invisible" exhibition, curated by Nicolas Dorval-Bory and Guillaume Ramillien, held in 2022 at the Versailles School of Architecture, as part of the second edition of the Île-de-France Architecture and Landscape Biennale (BAP!2). In the image of the eponymous exhibition, the editorial project presents a series of inspiring opportunities, via the display and analysis of international contemporary practices, aiming to rethink the act of inhabiting the world in the era of the Anthropocene and the crises that are shaking it. These recent reflections draw upon architectural experimentation from the 1960s, symbols of an ecological awakening within the discipline and a reassessment of the precepts of Modernism. "In the face of ecological emergency, how can new architectural forms emerge from locally available materials and energy?"
Green Architecture
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Almost all of the seventeen texts in this anthology revolve around the same topic: drawing. There are subtle variations in the inception and focus of each essay, but they can be read as a unique, continuous monologue that keeps going back to that same core idea, almost compulsively. Flores & Prats believe in the capacity of drawing by hand to generate multiple and complex(...)
2G Essays: Flores & Prats: Drawing without erasing and other essays
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Almost all of the seventeen texts in this anthology revolve around the same topic: drawing. There are subtle variations in the inception and focus of each essay, but they can be read as a unique, continuous monologue that keeps going back to that same core idea, almost compulsively. Flores & Prats believe in the capacity of drawing by hand to generate multiple and complex strata of knowledge about a space or a place, so they use it to guide the successive steps in their design process. Their obsession with drawing is a form of optimistic resistance, founded on the belief that the tools of architectural representation, if used with intensity, rigour and passion, can still help us decipher the world that surrounds us.
Architecture Monographs
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The Aedes exhibition and catalogue ''Two Towers,'' dedicated to Álvaro Siza, commemorates his 90th anniversary as one of the most important living architects and a major contributor to contemporary architecture. Siza is famous for his handmade sketches, in which he captures complex situations in order to ease their understanding and resolution. They establish a dialectic(...)
Two towers: 90 years Alvaro Siza
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The Aedes exhibition and catalogue ''Two Towers,'' dedicated to Álvaro Siza, commemorates his 90th anniversary as one of the most important living architects and a major contributor to contemporary architecture. Siza is famous for his handmade sketches, in which he captures complex situations in order to ease their understanding and resolution. They establish a dialectic rapport between his creative intuition and the material detailing of quality construction. Both the catalog and exhibition illuminate Siza's passion for towers and his fascination with reaching for the sun, while simultaneously focusing on two case studies and their diverging traits: one is taller and the other is shorter, one is private, and the other is public, one is for dwelling, and the other is for protection, one is urban, and the other is rural, one is in reinforced concrete and the other in lightweight steel frame.
Architecture Monographs
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Presented by ETH Studio Jan De Vylder, Carrousel Confessions Confusion is a series revealing both the authors’ personal interests and the studio’s own pursuits in the form of confessions. This instalment invites Adam Caruso, who established Caruso St John Architects with Peter St John in 1990. Since then, the practice has built throughout Europe, with projects ranging in(...)
Architecture de Montréal
June 2023
Adam Caruso: Mount Royal. Carousel confessions.
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Presented by ETH Studio Jan De Vylder, Carrousel Confessions Confusion is a series revealing both the authors’ personal interests and the studio’s own pursuits in the form of confessions. This instalment invites Adam Caruso, who established Caruso St John Architects with Peter St John in 1990. Since then, the practice has built throughout Europe, with projects ranging in scale from major urban developments and cultural venues to interventions in complex historic settings. Caruso reflects on his experiences growing up in Montreal and visiting Mount Royal every week with his family, the mountain located directly west of downtown and one of the city’s largest greenspaces.
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