Contre l'architecture
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Contre l’Architecture est une charge érudite contre l'esprit dans lequel travaillent les grands architectes. A travers une multitude d'exemples, New York, Tirana, Barcelone, ou encore Paris et ses banlieues, l'auteur stigmatise les fourvoiements d'une profession qui, selon lui, a dénaturé sa fonction. L'architecture est devenue un jeu formel où l'on a perdu de vue le(...)
Contre l'architecture
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Contre l’Architecture est une charge érudite contre l'esprit dans lequel travaillent les grands architectes. A travers une multitude d'exemples, New York, Tirana, Barcelone, ou encore Paris et ses banlieues, l'auteur stigmatise les fourvoiements d'une profession qui, selon lui, a dénaturé sa fonction. L'architecture est devenue un jeu formel où l'on a perdu de vue le bien public, ce qui est désastreux pour la ville et ses habitants. Franco La Cecla s’insurge contre la transformation des villes en « marques » labellisées, et insiste sur la nécessité de repenser l’espace urbain et les pratiques architecturales afin de protéger et d’améliorer nos conditions de vie. La crise des banlieues, la détérioration de l'environnement, l'épuisement des ressources, tout devrait nous pousser à réagir pour éviter que nos villes deviennent inhabitables.
Architectural Theory
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Cet ouvrage dévoile l’ampleur de la pensée et des effets de l’urbaphobie dans différents contextes nationaux. Il offre au lecteur une somme de références dont l’ambition est de convaincre des enjeux scientifiques, économiques et sociaux de ce phénomène encore peu considéré dans la réflexion et la pratique urbaine.
Antiurbain: Origines et conséquences de l'urbaphobie
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Cet ouvrage dévoile l’ampleur de la pensée et des effets de l’urbaphobie dans différents contextes nationaux. Il offre au lecteur une somme de références dont l’ambition est de convaincre des enjeux scientifiques, économiques et sociaux de ce phénomène encore peu considéré dans la réflexion et la pratique urbaine.
Urban Theory
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As a critic, stalwart nonconformist and champion of utopian architecture, Austrian architect Raimund Abraham (1933-2010) made one of the most significant contributions to contemporary architecture in 2002, with the construction of the Austrian Cultural Forum Building in New York. Following his tragic death in 2010, that year's Vienna Architecture Conference was held in(...)
In the absence of Raimund Abraham : Vienna architecture conference 2010
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As a critic, stalwart nonconformist and champion of utopian architecture, Austrian architect Raimund Abraham (1933-2010) made one of the most significant contributions to contemporary architecture in 2002, with the construction of the Austrian Cultural Forum Building in New York. Following his tragic death in 2010, that year's Vienna Architecture Conference was held in his honor. This publication documents the keynote lecture, speeches and discussions held throughout the conference given by architects and artists such as Vito Acconci, Peter Cook, Kenneth Frampton, Peter Kubelka, Andrea Lenardin Madden, Thom Mayne, Jonas Mekas, Eric Owen Moss, Peter Noever, Wolf D. Prix, Alexis Rochas, Michael Rotondi, Elfie Semotan and Lebbeus Woods. The publication also includes a DVD of Abraham's now-famous last lecture, “The Profanation of Solitude,” given at the Southern California Institute of Architecture, only hours before his untimely death.
Architectural Theory
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This periodical is an international, scholarly forum for all architects, planners, engineers, anthropologists, and geographers founded in 2009. Candide publishes research on architecture twice a year in German and English, responding to the growing demand for a medium that can foster and engage the culture of knowledge specific to architecture. Each issue contains five(...)
Candide. Journal for architectural knowledge no. 3
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This periodical is an international, scholarly forum for all architects, planners, engineers, anthropologists, and geographers founded in 2009. Candide publishes research on architecture twice a year in German and English, responding to the growing demand for a medium that can foster and engage the culture of knowledge specific to architecture. Each issue contains five sections – Essay, Analysis, Project, Encounters and Fiction –, challenging authors to approach architecture in multiple ways, observing, critiquing, speculating, narrating. Articles are selected through a double blind peer review.
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Dorian Lynskey is one of the most prominent music critics writing today. With 33 Revolutions Per Minute, he offers a researched history of protest music in the twentieth century and beyond. From Billie Holiday and Woodie Guthrie to Bob Dylan and the Clash to Green Day and Rage Against the Machine, 33 Revolutions Per Minute is a fascinating portrait of a century of popular(...)
33 Revolutions per minute: A history of protest songs, from Billie Holiday to Green Day
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Dorian Lynskey is one of the most prominent music critics writing today. With 33 Revolutions Per Minute, he offers a researched history of protest music in the twentieth century and beyond. From Billie Holiday and Woodie Guthrie to Bob Dylan and the Clash to Green Day and Rage Against the Machine, 33 Revolutions Per Minute is a fascinating portrait of a century of popular music that tried to change the world.
Acoustics
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En trois essais décisifs, Rem Koolhaas nous oblige à tourner la tête vers ce que nos villes sont devenues. Qu’est-ce qu’un paysage urbain ? Comment le décrire ? Comment s’y repérer ? Et que peut être aujourd’hui le travail de l’urbaniste ? Ces questions, Koolhaas ne les adresse pas aux spécialistes mais aux femmes et aux hommes qui vivent dans les villes, qui marchent(...)
Junkspace
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En trois essais décisifs, Rem Koolhaas nous oblige à tourner la tête vers ce que nos villes sont devenues. Qu’est-ce qu’un paysage urbain ? Comment le décrire ? Comment s’y repérer ? Et que peut être aujourd’hui le travail de l’urbaniste ? Ces questions, Koolhaas ne les adresse pas aux spécialistes mais aux femmes et aux hommes qui vivent dans les villes, qui marchent dans les villes, qui veulent respirer dans les villes.
Urban Theory
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The Sourcebook of Contemporary Architecture presents sixty noteworthy case studies that showcase a complete and diverse range of structures worldwide. Each case study includes a succinct description of the project at hand, listing its name, client, and location and presenting its unique objectives, challenges, and solutions.
Sourcebook of contemporary architecture
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The Sourcebook of Contemporary Architecture presents sixty noteworthy case studies that showcase a complete and diverse range of structures worldwide. Each case study includes a succinct description of the project at hand, listing its name, client, and location and presenting its unique objectives, challenges, and solutions.
History since 1900, Reference Books
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For over a decade now, Gmür & Geschwentner Architekten have worked in the area of urban residential development. Exploiting their intuition for context and for the needs of users, they design buildings tailored to specific locales, each characterized by two principal traits: a conspicuous delight in narrating the residential biography of the respective town, and a sensual(...)
Gmür & Geschwentner Architekten: lost in transformation
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For over a decade now, Gmür & Geschwentner Architekten have worked in the area of urban residential development. Exploiting their intuition for context and for the needs of users, they design buildings tailored to specific locales, each characterized by two principal traits: a conspicuous delight in narrating the residential biography of the respective town, and a sensual approach to color in space. Through selected works, the exhibition “Secrets of Dwelling: What Drives the Hermit Crab into the Cozy Sanctum?” suggests how residential development can be straightforward and functional on the one hand, yet individualistic and personalized on the other.
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this international edition of the first full-color, full-size facsimile of the original 1913 collaboration between the poet Blaise Cendrars and the artist Sonia Delaunay that came to define the modern artist’s book and stands as one of the most beautiful books ever created. Made after an original copy in the collection of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at(...)
La Prose du Transsiberien et de la Petite Jehanne de France
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this international edition of the first full-color, full-size facsimile of the original 1913 collaboration between the poet Blaise Cendrars and the artist Sonia Delaunay that came to define the modern artist’s book and stands as one of the most beautiful books ever created. Made after an original copy in the collection of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University, the replica makes a modernist icon available to collectors, teachers, and others with an interest in poetry, art, and book making.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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EBV Architects is an architectural practice founded by Fabrizio Barozzi and Alberto Veiga devoted to architecture, urbanism and interior design for both the public and private sector. The experience accumulated from the collaboration for years with renowned architects has allowed setting up a practice where investigation plays a leading role. Further projects include a(...)
Darco 17: Studio Barozzi Veiga
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EBV Architects is an architectural practice founded by Fabrizio Barozzi and Alberto Veiga devoted to architecture, urbanism and interior design for both the public and private sector. The experience accumulated from the collaboration for years with renowned architects has allowed setting up a practice where investigation plays a leading role. Further projects include a concert hall in Águilas, the Ribera de Duero Headquarters in Roa, an auditorium in Elche, a bank in Rovereto, a student centre in Brescia, and the rehabilitation of the Santa Clara palace in the historic centre of Úbeda.
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