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The legendary fourth CIAM congress took place aboard a ship on the Mediterranean Sea in 1933. Led by Le Corbusier, Cornelis van Eesteren and Sigfried Giedion and themed the “Functional City”, the universal programmatic agenda it produced is considered to be a pinnacle of urbanism. Participants analysed 34 cities on the basis of maps specially produced for the congress,(...)
Atlas of the functional city: CIAM 4 and comparative urban analysis
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The legendary fourth CIAM congress took place aboard a ship on the Mediterranean Sea in 1933. Led by Le Corbusier, Cornelis van Eesteren and Sigfried Giedion and themed the “Functional City”, the universal programmatic agenda it produced is considered to be a pinnacle of urbanism. Participants analysed 34 cities on the basis of maps specially produced for the congress, and the results were shown at an exhibition in Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum in 1935. Plans for a publication were interrupted by the war, and the material has until now remained unpublished. This systematic overview of the CIAM 4 city maps offers new perspectives at a crucial moment for urbanism today.
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Les 100 mots de la ville
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Ce livre n’entend pas être un simple lexique. Il invite, au gré des mots – «bidonville», «Dubaï», «toilettes publiques», «aéroport» –, à une promenade sur la planète urbaine. Flânant entre réalités et utopies, les auteurs croisent des approches sociologiques, philosophiques, écologiques, juridiques, cinématographiques pour mieux donner à comprendre les ressorts de la vie(...)
Les 100 mots de la ville
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Ce livre n’entend pas être un simple lexique. Il invite, au gré des mots – «bidonville», «Dubaï», «toilettes publiques», «aéroport» –, à une promenade sur la planète urbaine. Flânant entre réalités et utopies, les auteurs croisent des approches sociologiques, philosophiques, écologiques, juridiques, cinématographiques pour mieux donner à comprendre les ressorts de la vie citadine et inventer les territoires urbains de demain.
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Conceived by Atelier Hoko, this booklet approaches uncovering implicit conditions that exist in our experience of the everyday. The term “secondary” refers to material and immaterial conditions and sensations that humans are not conscious of in their interaction with things and the immediate surroundings. In so doing, the independent research lab hopes to draw upon a(...)
Science of the secondary 2 : cup
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Conceived by Atelier Hoko, this booklet approaches uncovering implicit conditions that exist in our experience of the everyday. The term “secondary” refers to material and immaterial conditions and sensations that humans are not conscious of in their interaction with things and the immediate surroundings. In so doing, the independent research lab hopes to draw upon a renewed sensibility towards living. This instalment analyses the act of drinking from a cup in exceeding detail, through photos, diagrams and texts. Atelier Hoko developed this programme in response to questions on how design today can move beyond its perceived perimeters.
Design Theory
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With 'Apple' as the subject of the first publication from the research programme 'Science of the Secondary', Atelier HOKO presents an inquiry into our behaviours and experiences observed through our interaction with the humble fruit. From the very moment we set our eyes on the apples that are displayed in the fruit stall to the strangely familiar memory of an apple within(...)
Science of the secondary 1 : apple
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With 'Apple' as the subject of the first publication from the research programme 'Science of the Secondary', Atelier HOKO presents an inquiry into our behaviours and experiences observed through our interaction with the humble fruit. From the very moment we set our eyes on the apples that are displayed in the fruit stall to the strangely familiar memory of an apple within us, this book offers an alternative insight into things that are not yet discovered.
Design Theory
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Architectural Topographies is a critical dictionary for architects and landscape architects in which the graphic lexicon can be read from a beginning, the ground, to a conclusion, the specific case studies. Meant as a tool to help you recognise, analyse, choose, and invent solutions, the book's key words refer to the physical and material relationship between construction(...)
Architectural topographies: a graphic lexicon of how buildings touch the ground
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Architectural Topographies is a critical dictionary for architects and landscape architects in which the graphic lexicon can be read from a beginning, the ground, to a conclusion, the specific case studies. Meant as a tool to help you recognise, analyse, choose, and invent solutions, the book's key words refer to the physical and material relationship between construction and ground; to where and how the link is built; to the criteria, methods, and tools used to know and transform the ground; and to the possible approaches to the place and their implications on the way the earth is touched.
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Est-il possible de créer deux capitales dans une même ville, alors que celle-ci est relativement petite (moins d’un million d’habitants)? Comment les deux nations peuvent-elles se partager cet espace, qui est moins étendu que Paris intra-muros? Pour comprendre les stratégies qu’Israéliens et Palestiniens déploient pour occuper la terre à Jérusalem, l’ouvrage s’intéresse(...)
Jérusalem: bâtir deux villes en une
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Est-il possible de créer deux capitales dans une même ville, alors que celle-ci est relativement petite (moins d’un million d’habitants)? Comment les deux nations peuvent-elles se partager cet espace, qui est moins étendu que Paris intra-muros? Pour comprendre les stratégies qu’Israéliens et Palestiniens déploient pour occuper la terre à Jérusalem, l’ouvrage s’intéresse à son urbanisme. Il en ressort que les projets urbains ne sont pas tous commandés par la compétition entre les deux peuples pour la souveraineté territoriale, mais qu’ils découlent aussi d’autres motifs et d’autres influences, notamment économiques et internationales.
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Œuvre inspirée du jeune historien de l’art Nicolas B. Jacquet, ce livre est une vaste entreprise de réflexion qui, outre une approche philosophique du concept de modernité, propose une mise en perspective des grands courants de l’architecture avec, pour objectif, de préciser les contours de ce que serait une architecture « hypermoderne ».
Le langage hypermoderne de l'architecture
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Œuvre inspirée du jeune historien de l’art Nicolas B. Jacquet, ce livre est une vaste entreprise de réflexion qui, outre une approche philosophique du concept de modernité, propose une mise en perspective des grands courants de l’architecture avec, pour objectif, de préciser les contours de ce que serait une architecture « hypermoderne ».
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Architectural Theory
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The Metabolic Landscape navigates the disciplines of art, science and philosophy to picture and interpret the planet?s current state of ?metabolic distress?. Humankind?s search for more powerful sources of energy to sustain an urbanising existence has created an energy transition that, while hugely beneficial to human existence, is now being identified as a source of(...)
The metabolic landscape: perception, practice and the energy transition
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The Metabolic Landscape navigates the disciplines of art, science and philosophy to picture and interpret the planet?s current state of ?metabolic distress?. Humankind?s search for more powerful sources of energy to sustain an urbanising existence has created an energy transition that, while hugely beneficial to human existence, is now being identified as a source of harm. Just as metabolic disease refers to energy-sourced medical problems, so too the planet, the authors propose, is showing increasing signs of metabolic distress.
Landscape Theory
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This book provides a straightforward guide to understanding contemporary art based on the concept of the tabula rasa – a clean slate and a fresh mind. Ossian Ward presents a six-step program that gives readers new ways of looking at some of the most challenging art being produced today.
Ways of looking: how to experience contemporary art
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This book provides a straightforward guide to understanding contemporary art based on the concept of the tabula rasa – a clean slate and a fresh mind. Ossian Ward presents a six-step program that gives readers new ways of looking at some of the most challenging art being produced today.
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Qui a peur de Susan Sontag?
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A l'occasion des dix ans de la mort de Susan Sontag, Corinne Rondeau revient sur le parcours et l'engagement de cette femme hantée par un tourment que seule l'écriture parvenait à apaiser. Parcours en quelques pages, cet instantané d'une oeuvre permet d'en indiquer les pistes principales, entre littérature et engagement, féminisme et eros, écriture et photographie.
Qui a peur de Susan Sontag?
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A l'occasion des dix ans de la mort de Susan Sontag, Corinne Rondeau revient sur le parcours et l'engagement de cette femme hantée par un tourment que seule l'écriture parvenait à apaiser. Parcours en quelques pages, cet instantané d'une oeuvre permet d'en indiquer les pistes principales, entre littérature et engagement, féminisme et eros, écriture et photographie.
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