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Dans « La poudre d'escampette » (premier tome d'une nouvelle saga photographique et littéraire), Pascal Bastien photographie sa vie en argentique au Rolleiflex. Plein d'humour et de poésie, il nous fait rentrer dans les déboires de la cinquantiane. Génération silencieuse et obéissante aux injonctions du devoir et des emmerdements. Entre les enfants qui grandissent et les(...)
Pascal Bastien : La poudre d'escampette
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Dans « La poudre d'escampette » (premier tome d'une nouvelle saga photographique et littéraire), Pascal Bastien photographie sa vie en argentique au Rolleiflex. Plein d'humour et de poésie, il nous fait rentrer dans les déboires de la cinquantiane. Génération silencieuse et obéissante aux injonctions du devoir et des emmerdements. Entre les enfants qui grandissent et les parents qui vieillissent, la marge de la liberté se rédiut pour chacun d'entre nous...
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Sous le vent de la mer
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« Je me rendis compte que la mer elle-même devait être le personnage central de mon récit, que je le veuille ou non. Car la mer, tenant pouvoir de vie et de mort sur chacune de ses créatures, de la plus petite à la plus grande, allait inévitablement pénétrer chaque page. » À la fin des années 1930, une jeune biologiste marine passionnée de littérature imagine un projet(...)
October 2024
Sous le vent de la mer
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« Je me rendis compte que la mer elle-même devait être le personnage central de mon récit, que je le veuille ou non. Car la mer, tenant pouvoir de vie et de mort sur chacune de ses créatures, de la plus petite à la plus grande, allait inévitablement pénétrer chaque page. » À la fin des années 1930, une jeune biologiste marine passionnée de littérature imagine un projet inédit : raconter la mer du point de vue des espèces qui la peuplent. Paru en 1941, ce grand récit polyphonique et poétique est le premier livre de Rachel Carson. C’est aussi son préféré.
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Les modèles urbains qui traversent les époques et dessinent nos territoires sont la résultante concrète de choix politiques. Ils organisent nos modes de vie et ne se limitent pas à la traduction dans la ville de gestes architecturaux et de grandes théories. Pour François Rieussec, la ville doit se situer loin des idéologies. La montée en puissance rapide de la question(...)
L'urbanisme des solutions: Repenser l'aménagement du territoire
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Les modèles urbains qui traversent les époques et dessinent nos territoires sont la résultante concrète de choix politiques. Ils organisent nos modes de vie et ne se limitent pas à la traduction dans la ville de gestes architecturaux et de grandes théories. Pour François Rieussec, la ville doit se situer loin des idéologies. La montée en puissance rapide de la question environnementale et la multiplicité de ses dimensions ne peuvent se satisfaire de simplismes. Contre la tentation du modèle, la transition urbaine s'impose. Elle revient humblement, mais avec détermination et méthode, à qualifier l'espace que nous désirons habiter, à concilier l'espace des autres et l'espace commun. Aménager, c'est avant tout anticiper ensemble.
Urban Theory
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Terres frontalières . La frontera . La nouvelle mestiza . Voici enfin traduit en français Borderlands/La Frontera, le chef-d'oeuvre de la féministe chicana Gloria Anzaldúa, le livre fondateur de la pensée queer décoloniale états-unienne.. Ce livre hybride mêle les genres [essai et poésie] et les langues [anglais, différentes formes d'espagnol et quelques touches de langue(...)
Terres frontalières, la frontera
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Terres frontalières . La frontera . La nouvelle mestiza . Voici enfin traduit en français Borderlands/La Frontera, le chef-d'oeuvre de la féministe chicana Gloria Anzaldúa, le livre fondateur de la pensée queer décoloniale états-unienne.. Ce livre hybride mêle les genres [essai et poésie] et les langues [anglais, différentes formes d'espagnol et quelques touches de langue indigène aztèque), pour mieux évoquer l'existence méconnue et précaire de celleux qui vivent entre deux mondes, à la frontière entre les cultures et les langues : les Chicanx dans la culture anglo-saxonne, les femmes dans la culture hispanique, les lesbiennes dans le monde hétéronormé, etc. Pour Anzaldúa, la frontière ne délimite pas des espaces, géographiques ou symboliques. Au contraire, elle crée de nouveaux territoires, les Borderlands. Dans ces « Terres frontalières » se construit une identité autre, « la nouvelle mestiza », qui rend possibles des façons inédites d'être au monde.
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October 2024
Social
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From standout homes like Patkau Architects' latest Vancouver gem to the groundbreaking residential neighbourhood of East Bayfront in Toronto and new approaches for densifying the single-family house, the Jan/Feb 2025 issue celebrates the exciting directions that home design and housing are moving in.
Azure 308
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From standout homes like Patkau Architects' latest Vancouver gem to the groundbreaking residential neighbourhood of East Bayfront in Toronto and new approaches for densifying the single-family house, the Jan/Feb 2025 issue celebrates the exciting directions that home design and housing are moving in.
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Most modern buildings are built from diverse materials, but few confront their manifold composition as a question of both design and performance. This book takes a close look at a series of global building traditions and contemporary practices to uncover the possibilities and challenges of working with mixed materials. Visually stunning, color-coded drawings reveal the(...)
Materials and Lighting
November 2024
Heterogeneous constructions: Studies in mixed material architecture
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Most modern buildings are built from diverse materials, but few confront their manifold composition as a question of both design and performance. This book takes a close look at a series of global building traditions and contemporary practices to uncover the possibilities and challenges of working with mixed materials. Visually stunning, color-coded drawings reveal the materials and construction for every project. Through case studies, design experiments and writings, the authors examine the opportunities of heterogeneous construction for contemporary, sustainable, circular, and culturally situated architecture. With contributions by Jeannette Kuo, Ajay Manthripragada, and Jesús Vassallo, and photography by Naho Kubota. Graphic design by Andrew LeClair.
Materials and Lighting
Modernism in Africa: the architecture of Angola, Ghana, Mozambique, Nigeria, South Africa 1930-1970
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Many African countries are home to extraordinary architecture that is virtually unknown. There are interpretations of Art Deco, International Style, Brutalism as well as of African vernacular architecture. Climate-responsive buildings with a fluidity of interior and exterior spaces play a large role. While many of these 20th century architects were of European origin,(...)
Modernism in Africa: the architecture of Angola, Ghana, Mozambique, Nigeria, South Africa 1930-1970
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Many African countries are home to extraordinary architecture that is virtually unknown. There are interpretations of Art Deco, International Style, Brutalism as well as of African vernacular architecture. Climate-responsive buildings with a fluidity of interior and exterior spaces play a large role. While many of these 20th century architects were of European origin, they were deeply influenced by their surroundings and found original, site-specific expressions, often in collaboration with African architects. A focus of the construction activities were educational buildings which played an important role for these young nations that mostly gained their independence in the 1960s. While some of the documented buildings have been restored, others are still awaiting reconstruction.
Modernism
Foster + Partners
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Founded in London in 1967 by Norman Foster, the firm Foster + Partners has been synonymous with high-tech architecture and ground-breaking projects in urban planning, engineering and design for more than five decades. The monograph presents 11 selected exciting works from recent times. They range from smaller buildings, such as the winery near Bordeaux, to large-scale(...)
Foster + Partners
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Founded in London in 1967 by Norman Foster, the firm Foster + Partners has been synonymous with high-tech architecture and ground-breaking projects in urban planning, engineering and design for more than five decades. The monograph presents 11 selected exciting works from recent times. They range from smaller buildings, such as the winery near Bordeaux, to large-scale projects, such as the Tocumen International Airport in Panama. Construction details and axonometries, sketches, photos and texts reflect the great structural engineering expertise of Foster + Partners. In interviews and essays, companions of the office founder, partners and project participants speak.
Architecture Monographs
City, climate and architecture: A theory of collective practice, Volume 1. Revised second edition
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The publication rethinks climate control – a key concern of the discipline of architecture – through the lens of city climate phenomena over the course of the 20th century. Based on a history of climate control on urban scales, it promotes the integration of indoors and outdoors in order to reduce environmental and thermal loads in cities. Just as heating and cooling(...)
City, climate and architecture: A theory of collective practice, Volume 1. Revised second edition
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The publication rethinks climate control – a key concern of the discipline of architecture – through the lens of city climate phenomena over the course of the 20th century. Based on a history of climate control on urban scales, it promotes the integration of indoors and outdoors in order to reduce environmental and thermal loads in cities. Just as heating and cooling practices inside the buildings are affecting the (urban) climate outdoors, urban heat islands are influencing the energy requirements and thermal conditions inside the buildings. While the first part of the book focuses on the interwar period in Europe, the publication’s second part considers examples from all over the globe, tracing the growing significance of ecological thinking for the design of urban environments.
Green Architecture
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How can buildings be integrated into the landscape? How is architecture conceivable in flood-prone areas or parched landscapes? The title ‘Traces’ addresses these and other questions. It thematises how ‘reading’, observing and recording space and landscape determine an architectural design in different landscape contexts. It provides insights into an approach to(...)
Landscape Theory
December 2024
Traces: Reading of landscape. Spuren: Lesen von landschaften
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How can buildings be integrated into the landscape? How is architecture conceivable in flood-prone areas or parched landscapes? The title ‘Traces’ addresses these and other questions. It thematises how ‘reading’, observing and recording space and landscape determine an architectural design in different landscape contexts. It provides insights into an approach to architectural design. Using selected works created at the Chair of Design and Creation under the direction of Prof. Uta Graff at TUM Munich, certain aspects take centre stage. Colour illustrations of artefacts and models, project descriptions and essays document the various issues.
Landscape Theory