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Twenty-one works and projects are thoroughly explored in this publication which in the words of Steven Holl aims to "investigate aspects of porosity and light, the fusion of architecture, urbanism and landscape and ultimately the fusion of matter and spirit". This well documented publication features alongside better known buildings, recent projects such as the 'Sail(...)
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Twenty-one works and projects are thoroughly explored in this publication which in the words of Steven Holl aims to "investigate aspects of porosity and light, the fusion of architecture, urbanism and landscape and ultimately the fusion of matter and spirit". This well documented publication features alongside better known buildings, recent projects such as the 'Sail(...)
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December 2006, Tokyo
December 2006, Tokyo
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Steven Holl : luminosity / porosity
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Twenty-one works and projects are thoroughly explored in this publication which in the words of Steven Holl aims to "investigate aspects of porosity and light, the fusion of architecture, urbanism and landscape and ultimately the fusion of matter and spirit". This well documented publication features alongside better known buildings, recent projects such as the 'Sail Hybrid' project, Belgium, the 'Swiss Ambassador's Residence', Washington and the 'Nelson Atkins Museum of Art', in Missouri, USA.
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Twenty-one works and projects are thoroughly explored in this publication which in the words of Steven Holl aims to "investigate aspects of porosity and light, the fusion of architecture, urbanism and landscape and ultimately the fusion of matter and spirit". This well documented publication features alongside better known buildings, recent projects such as the 'Sail Hybrid' project, Belgium, the 'Swiss Ambassador's Residence', Washington and the 'Nelson Atkins Museum of Art', in Missouri, USA.
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December 2006, Tokyo
December 2006, Tokyo
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Etablis à Brigue depuis 1952, les architectes Heidi et Peter Wenger considèrent qu'il ne saurait y avoir de " théorie " de l'architecture, et fondent leur recherche autant sur la pratique du chantier et de la construction que sur le ressenti que leur procurent les espaces créés. Ils ont cependant créé des méthodes de développement du projet originales et sont les auteurs(...)
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Etablis à Brigue depuis 1952, les architectes Heidi et Peter Wenger considèrent qu'il ne saurait y avoir de " théorie " de l'architecture, et fondent leur recherche autant sur la pratique du chantier et de la construction que sur le ressenti que leur procurent les espaces créés. Ils ont cependant créé des méthodes de développement du projet originales et sont les auteurs(...)
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Heidi & Peter pour la vie wenger architectes
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Etablis à Brigue depuis 1952, les architectes Heidi et Peter Wenger considèrent qu'il ne saurait y avoir de " théorie " de l'architecture, et fondent leur recherche autant sur la pratique du chantier et de la construction que sur le ressenti que leur procurent les espaces créés. Ils ont cependant créé des méthodes de développement du projet originales et sont les auteurs d'une réflexion approfondie des échanges entre architecture chinoise et architecture européenne. Cette monographie, qui leur est dédiée, et qui offre un large espace à leurs textes, se focalise sur les choix architecturaux, existentiels et techniques du couple, et plus particulièrement sur les constructions expérimentales élaborées pour leur propre usage, comme leur maison-atelier de Brigue et leur chalet Trigon (1955), parfaites illustrations de leurs préoccupations constructives et de l'ensemble de leur œuvre. Parallèlement à leur activité d'architectes, les époux Wenger ont poursuivi une activité d'enseignants. Heidi porte une très grande attention à l'écriture, et Peter a consacré de longues recherches à des variantes de structures comprimées-tendues, " tensegrity " ; sa production photographique de grande qualité éclaire l'ensemble de la démarche du couple.
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Etablis à Brigue depuis 1952, les architectes Heidi et Peter Wenger considèrent qu'il ne saurait y avoir de " théorie " de l'architecture, et fondent leur recherche autant sur la pratique du chantier et de la construction que sur le ressenti que leur procurent les espaces créés. Ils ont cependant créé des méthodes de développement du projet originales et sont les auteurs d'une réflexion approfondie des échanges entre architecture chinoise et architecture européenne. Cette monographie, qui leur est dédiée, et qui offre un large espace à leurs textes, se focalise sur les choix architecturaux, existentiels et techniques du couple, et plus particulièrement sur les constructions expérimentales élaborées pour leur propre usage, comme leur maison-atelier de Brigue et leur chalet Trigon (1955), parfaites illustrations de leurs préoccupations constructives et de l'ensemble de leur œuvre. Parallèlement à leur activité d'architectes, les époux Wenger ont poursuivi une activité d'enseignants. Heidi porte une très grande attention à l'écriture, et Peter a consacré de longues recherches à des variantes de structures comprimées-tendues, " tensegrity " ; sa production photographique de grande qualité éclaire l'ensemble de la démarche du couple.
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January 2007, Lausanne
January 2007, Lausanne
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Peter Zumthor Therme Vals
Peter Zumthor Therme Vals
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Therme Vals, the spa complex built in the Swiss Alps by celebrated architect Peter Zumthor, became an icon of contemporary architecture soon after its opening in 1996. Inspired by the spa’s majestic surroundings, Zumthor built the structure on the sharp grade of an Alpine mountain slope with grass-topped roofs to mimic Swiss meadows, captured here in a series of sumptuous(...)
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Therme Vals, the spa complex built in the Swiss Alps by celebrated architect Peter Zumthor, became an icon of contemporary architecture soon after its opening in 1996. Inspired by the spa’s majestic surroundings, Zumthor built the structure on the sharp grade of an Alpine mountain slope with grass-topped roofs to mimic Swiss meadows, captured here in a series of sumptuous(...)
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Peter Zumthor Therme Vals
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Therme Vals, the spa complex built in the Swiss Alps by celebrated architect Peter Zumthor, became an icon of contemporary architecture soon after its opening in 1996. Inspired by the spa’s majestic surroundings, Zumthor built the structure on the sharp grade of an Alpine mountain slope with grass-topped roofs to mimic Swiss meadows, captured here in a series of sumptuous images. Peter Zumthor Therme Vals, the only book-length study of this singular building, features the architect’s own original sketches and plans for its design as well as Hélène Binet’s striking photographs of the structure. Architectural scholar Sigrid Hauser contributes an essay on such topics as “Artemis/Diana,” “Baptism,” “Mikvah,” and “Spring”—drawing out the connections between the elemental nature of the spa and mythology, bathing, and purity. Annotations by Peter Zumthor on his design concept and the building process elucidate the structure’s symbiotic relationship to its natural surroundings, revealing, for example, why he insisted on using locally quarried stone. Therme Vals’s scenic design elements, and Zumthor’s contributions to this book, reflect the architect’s commitment to the essential and his disdain for needless architectural flourishes. This lavishly illustrated volume about the spa that catapulted a remote Swiss village onto the international architecture scene will entrance all enthusiasts of contemporary design.
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Therme Vals, the spa complex built in the Swiss Alps by celebrated architect Peter Zumthor, became an icon of contemporary architecture soon after its opening in 1996. Inspired by the spa’s majestic surroundings, Zumthor built the structure on the sharp grade of an Alpine mountain slope with grass-topped roofs to mimic Swiss meadows, captured here in a series of sumptuous images. Peter Zumthor Therme Vals, the only book-length study of this singular building, features the architect’s own original sketches and plans for its design as well as Hélène Binet’s striking photographs of the structure. Architectural scholar Sigrid Hauser contributes an essay on such topics as “Artemis/Diana,” “Baptism,” “Mikvah,” and “Spring”—drawing out the connections between the elemental nature of the spa and mythology, bathing, and purity. Annotations by Peter Zumthor on his design concept and the building process elucidate the structure’s symbiotic relationship to its natural surroundings, revealing, for example, why he insisted on using locally quarried stone. Therme Vals’s scenic design elements, and Zumthor’s contributions to this book, reflect the architect’s commitment to the essential and his disdain for needless architectural flourishes. This lavishly illustrated volume about the spa that catapulted a remote Swiss village onto the international architecture scene will entrance all enthusiasts of contemporary design.
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February 2007
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Mémoires d'un piéton
Mémoires d'un piéton
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Piéton, Jean Cimon l’est par choix. Parcourant les rues de Québec, il manifeste son amour pour la marche et le ski de fond, de même que son inquiétude devant l’agression grandissante d’une civilisation automobile délirante. Il constate avec tristesse l’étalement urbain et dénonce la destruction d’un patrimoine immobilier. Urbaniste et citoyen engagé, il mène un combat de(...)
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Piéton, Jean Cimon l’est par choix. Parcourant les rues de Québec, il manifeste son amour pour la marche et le ski de fond, de même que son inquiétude devant l’agression grandissante d’une civilisation automobile délirante. Il constate avec tristesse l’étalement urbain et dénonce la destruction d’un patrimoine immobilier. Urbaniste et citoyen engagé, il mène un combat de(...)
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Mémoires d'un piéton
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Piéton, Jean Cimon l’est par choix. Parcourant les rues de Québec, il manifeste son amour pour la marche et le ski de fond, de même que son inquiétude devant l’agression grandissante d’une civilisation automobile délirante. Il constate avec tristesse l’étalement urbain et dénonce la destruction d’un patrimoine immobilier. Urbaniste et citoyen engagé, il mène un combat de tous les instants pour promouvoir le développement des transports en commun. Alors que la capitale s’apprête à fêter les 400 ans de sa fondation,- ses mémoires constituent un précieux document qui fait écho à l’actualité- et traite de l’histoire urbaine de Québec.
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Piéton, Jean Cimon l’est par choix. Parcourant les rues de Québec, il manifeste son amour pour la marche et le ski de fond, de même que son inquiétude devant l’agression grandissante d’une civilisation automobile délirante. Il constate avec tristesse l’étalement urbain et dénonce la destruction d’un patrimoine immobilier. Urbaniste et citoyen engagé, il mène un combat de tous les instants pour promouvoir le développement des transports en commun. Alors que la capitale s’apprête à fêter les 400 ans de sa fondation,- ses mémoires constituent un précieux document qui fait écho à l’actualité- et traite de l’histoire urbaine de Québec.
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February 2007, Québec
February 2007, Québec
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Architecture du Québec
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Peut-être fallait-il un choc tel que la crise écologique actuelle pour nous amener à modifier nos modes de vie et nos façons de penser. Et quel choc! Réchauffement climatique, pollution de l’air, des eaux et des sols, disparition d’espèces, la situation semble de plus en plus inquiétante pour notre survie et celle de la planète. Nombreux sont ceux et celles qui craignent(...)
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Peut-être fallait-il un choc tel que la crise écologique actuelle pour nous amener à modifier nos modes de vie et nos façons de penser. Et quel choc! Réchauffement climatique, pollution de l’air, des eaux et des sols, disparition d’espèces, la situation semble de plus en plus inquiétante pour notre survie et celle de la planète. Nombreux sont ceux et celles qui craignent(...)
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Écodesign : des solutions pour la planète : l'aventure du New Alchemy Institute
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Peut-être fallait-il un choc tel que la crise écologique actuelle pour nous amener à modifier nos modes de vie et nos façons de penser. Et quel choc! Réchauffement climatique, pollution de l’air, des eaux et des sols, disparition d’espèces, la situation semble de plus en plus inquiétante pour notre survie et celle de la planète. Nombreux sont ceux et celles qui craignent maintenant qu’à moins d’un changement de cap rapide et résolu, les effets destructeurs des activités humaines sur la biosphère ne soient irréversibles. Pourtant, il existe des alternatives viables pour réduire notre empreinte écologique. Depuis des décennies, des chercheurs de divers horizons observent, inventent et testent différents moyens de permettre aux humains de combler leurs besoins de nourriture, d’énergie, de logement, tout en respectant leur environnement. Nancy J. Todd est l’une de ces pionnières. Comment utiliser les déchets pour rendre une terre à nouveau fertile, quels matériaux de construction peuvent se fondre dans l’environnement, comment se servir de l’énergie solaire et éolienne? Leurs observations et leur travail empirique sont guidés par ce principe intangible : la nature renferme une multitude de solutions ; à l’humain d’être à l’écoute et de s’en servir dans son activité quotidienne. Ce récit, empreint d’humour et de sensibilité, fait vivre la naissance de l’écodesign, 40 ans de découvertes inspirées par les forces étonnantes de la nature. Ce livre montre qu’il est possible de changer notre impact sur la planète et donne des outils pour y arriver. Reste à savoir pourquoi nous ne passons pas à l’action... ...si une poignée d’individus comme les membres du New Alchemy et d’Ocean Arks ont réussi à apprendre à protéger et restaurer la Terre, imaginez ce qui pourrait se produire si des communautés, des États, des pays et des alliances internationales consacraient leurs énergies à la préservation de la vie sur la planète.
Écodesign : des solutions pour la planète : l'aventure du New Alchemy Institute
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Peut-être fallait-il un choc tel que la crise écologique actuelle pour nous amener à modifier nos modes de vie et nos façons de penser. Et quel choc! Réchauffement climatique, pollution de l’air, des eaux et des sols, disparition d’espèces, la situation semble de plus en plus inquiétante pour notre survie et celle de la planète. Nombreux sont ceux et celles qui craignent maintenant qu’à moins d’un changement de cap rapide et résolu, les effets destructeurs des activités humaines sur la biosphère ne soient irréversibles. Pourtant, il existe des alternatives viables pour réduire notre empreinte écologique. Depuis des décennies, des chercheurs de divers horizons observent, inventent et testent différents moyens de permettre aux humains de combler leurs besoins de nourriture, d’énergie, de logement, tout en respectant leur environnement. Nancy J. Todd est l’une de ces pionnières. Comment utiliser les déchets pour rendre une terre à nouveau fertile, quels matériaux de construction peuvent se fondre dans l’environnement, comment se servir de l’énergie solaire et éolienne? Leurs observations et leur travail empirique sont guidés par ce principe intangible : la nature renferme une multitude de solutions ; à l’humain d’être à l’écoute et de s’en servir dans son activité quotidienne. Ce récit, empreint d’humour et de sensibilité, fait vivre la naissance de l’écodesign, 40 ans de découvertes inspirées par les forces étonnantes de la nature. Ce livre montre qu’il est possible de changer notre impact sur la planète et donne des outils pour y arriver. Reste à savoir pourquoi nous ne passons pas à l’action... ...si une poignée d’individus comme les membres du New Alchemy et d’Ocean Arks ont réussi à apprendre à protéger et restaurer la Terre, imaginez ce qui pourrait se produire si des communautés, des États, des pays et des alliances internationales consacraient leurs énergies à la préservation de la vie sur la planète.
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January 2007, Montréal
January 2007, Montréal
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Green Architecture
Green Architecture
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«La désobéissance de l'architecte» est, par le biais de la conversation, une sorte de biographie de Renzo Piano qui, de Gênes, nous mène au Centre Pompidou, à Paris, de la Potsdamer Platz de Berlin à l'auditorium de Rome, du Centre culturel Jean-Marie Djibaou, en Nouvelle-Calédonie, au musée de Sarajevo, mais c'est aussi le manifeste d'un créateur enthousiaste, frondeur(...)
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«La désobéissance de l'architecte» est, par le biais de la conversation, une sorte de biographie de Renzo Piano qui, de Gênes, nous mène au Centre Pompidou, à Paris, de la Potsdamer Platz de Berlin à l'auditorium de Rome, du Centre culturel Jean-Marie Djibaou, en Nouvelle-Calédonie, au musée de Sarajevo, mais c'est aussi le manifeste d'un créateur enthousiaste, frondeur(...)
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Renzo Piano : la désobéissance de l'architecte
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«La désobéissance de l'architecte» est, par le biais de la conversation, une sorte de biographie de Renzo Piano qui, de Gênes, nous mène au Centre Pompidou, à Paris, de la Potsdamer Platz de Berlin à l'auditorium de Rome, du Centre culturel Jean-Marie Djibaou, en Nouvelle-Calédonie, au musée de Sarajevo, mais c'est aussi le manifeste d'un créateur enthousiaste, frondeur et réaliste, ouvert à toutes les disciplines, qui compte des amis dans tous les domaines de la création et poursuit une véritable réflexion sociale sur les villes et les banlieues, enrichie d'une réflexion éthique et esthétique sur le sens que nous entendons donner à nos vies.
Renzo Piano : la désobéissance de l'architecte
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«La désobéissance de l'architecte» est, par le biais de la conversation, une sorte de biographie de Renzo Piano qui, de Gênes, nous mène au Centre Pompidou, à Paris, de la Potsdamer Platz de Berlin à l'auditorium de Rome, du Centre culturel Jean-Marie Djibaou, en Nouvelle-Calédonie, au musée de Sarajevo, mais c'est aussi le manifeste d'un créateur enthousiaste, frondeur et réaliste, ouvert à toutes les disciplines, qui compte des amis dans tous les domaines de la création et poursuit une véritable réflexion sociale sur les villes et les banlieues, enrichie d'une réflexion éthique et esthétique sur le sens que nous entendons donner à nos vies.
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December 2006, Paris
December 2006, Paris
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Architectural Theory
Architectural Theory
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Andreas Horlitz: works
Andreas Horlitz: works
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The first monograph on Andreas Horlitz's work over a quarter century covers an engaging richness of artistic strategies. After beginning as a prizewinning photographer, Horlitz turned to word-and-picture constructions, experiments with Xerox reproductions, and, recently, mirror-and-light works and architecturally related, site-specific projects. Throughout his career,(...)
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The first monograph on Andreas Horlitz's work over a quarter century covers an engaging richness of artistic strategies. After beginning as a prizewinning photographer, Horlitz turned to word-and-picture constructions, experiments with Xerox reproductions, and, recently, mirror-and-light works and architecturally related, site-specific projects. Throughout his career,(...)
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Andreas Horlitz: works
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The first monograph on Andreas Horlitz's work over a quarter century covers an engaging richness of artistic strategies. After beginning as a prizewinning photographer, Horlitz turned to word-and-picture constructions, experiments with Xerox reproductions, and, recently, mirror-and-light works and architecturally related, site-specific projects. Throughout his career, language, either textual or scientific, has figured large--in one case as large as a six-story installation incorporating the sleep research of Alexander Borb ly, who has recorded his daily activity patterns since 1982 using a monitor strapped permanently to his wrist. These immensely inventive images and structures are discussed in essays by Klaus Honnef, Irene Netta, Sibylle Omlin, Hans Scheurer, and Stephan Trescher.
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The first monograph on Andreas Horlitz's work over a quarter century covers an engaging richness of artistic strategies. After beginning as a prizewinning photographer, Horlitz turned to word-and-picture constructions, experiments with Xerox reproductions, and, recently, mirror-and-light works and architecturally related, site-specific projects. Throughout his career, language, either textual or scientific, has figured large--in one case as large as a six-story installation incorporating the sleep research of Alexander Borb ly, who has recorded his daily activity patterns since 1982 using a monitor strapped permanently to his wrist. These immensely inventive images and structures are discussed in essays by Klaus Honnef, Irene Netta, Sibylle Omlin, Hans Scheurer, and Stephan Trescher.
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August 2005, Nurnberg
August 2005, Nurnberg
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Architecture Monographs
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A prominent practitioner, an influential theorist, and an esteemed educator, the architect Peter Eisenman today stands at the center of architectural discourse and debate. This book, a companion volume to "Eisenman inside out : selected writings, 1963–1988", gathers a selection of his later writings. In these texts Eisenman undertakes theoretical analyses, close readings(...)
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A prominent practitioner, an influential theorist, and an esteemed educator, the architect Peter Eisenman today stands at the center of architectural discourse and debate. This book, a companion volume to "Eisenman inside out : selected writings, 1963–1988", gathers a selection of his later writings. In these texts Eisenman undertakes theoretical analyses, close readings(...)
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Architecture Monographs
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April 2007, New Haven, London
April 2007, New Haven, London
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Peter Eisenman : written into the void, selected writings, 1990-2004
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A prominent practitioner, an influential theorist, and an esteemed educator, the architect Peter Eisenman today stands at the center of architectural discourse and debate. This book, a companion volume to "Eisenman inside out : selected writings, 1963–1988", gathers a selection of his later writings. In these texts Eisenman undertakes theoretical analyses, close readings of his own works, and innovative assessments of the designs and writings of other architects and critics. In an introduction to the volume, Jeffrey Kipnis looks closely at Eisenman’s approach toward language and writing, a practice in which architecture itself becomes a form of written theory, as well as at his context within a critical canon that includes Jacques Derrida and Rosalind Krauss. Presenting the range of Eisenman’s important contributions to architectural theory, this collection of nineteen essays provides insight into the architect’s own understandings and methodologies and offers provocative challenges for his readers.
Peter Eisenman : written into the void, selected writings, 1990-2004
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A prominent practitioner, an influential theorist, and an esteemed educator, the architect Peter Eisenman today stands at the center of architectural discourse and debate. This book, a companion volume to "Eisenman inside out : selected writings, 1963–1988", gathers a selection of his later writings. In these texts Eisenman undertakes theoretical analyses, close readings of his own works, and innovative assessments of the designs and writings of other architects and critics. In an introduction to the volume, Jeffrey Kipnis looks closely at Eisenman’s approach toward language and writing, a practice in which architecture itself becomes a form of written theory, as well as at his context within a critical canon that includes Jacques Derrida and Rosalind Krauss. Presenting the range of Eisenman’s important contributions to architectural theory, this collection of nineteen essays provides insight into the architect’s own understandings and methodologies and offers provocative challenges for his readers.
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April 2007, New Haven, London
April 2007, New Haven, London
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Media art histories
Media art histories
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Digital art has become a major contemporary art form, but it has yet to achieve acceptance from mainstream cultural institutions; it is rarely collected, and seldom included in the study of art history or other academic disciplines. In MediaArtHistories, leading scholars seek to change this. They take a wider view of media art, placing it against the backdrop of art(...)
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Digital art has become a major contemporary art form, but it has yet to achieve acceptance from mainstream cultural institutions; it is rarely collected, and seldom included in the study of art history or other academic disciplines. In MediaArtHistories, leading scholars seek to change this. They take a wider view of media art, placing it against the backdrop of art(...)
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Digital art has become a major contemporary art form, but it has yet to achieve acceptance from mainstream cultural institutions; it is rarely collected, and seldom included in the study of art history or other academic disciplines. In MediaArtHistories, leading scholars seek to change this. They take a wider view of media art, placing it against the backdrop of art history. Their essays demonstrate that today's media art cannot be understood by technological details alone; it cannot be understood without its history, and it must be understood in proximity to other disciplines--film, cultural and media studies, computer science, philosophy, and sciences dealing with images. Contributors trace the evolution of digital art, from thirteenth-century Islamic mechanical devices and eighteenth-century phantasmagoria, magic lanterns, and other multimedia illusions, to Marcel Duchamp's inventions and 1960s kinetic and op art. They reexamine and redefine key media art theory terms--machine, media, exhibition--and consider the blurred dividing lines between art products and consumer products and between art images and science images. Finally, MediaArtHistories offers an approach for an interdisciplinary, expanded image science, which needs the "trained eye" of art history.
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Digital art has become a major contemporary art form, but it has yet to achieve acceptance from mainstream cultural institutions; it is rarely collected, and seldom included in the study of art history or other academic disciplines. In MediaArtHistories, leading scholars seek to change this. They take a wider view of media art, placing it against the backdrop of art history. Their essays demonstrate that today's media art cannot be understood by technological details alone; it cannot be understood without its history, and it must be understood in proximity to other disciplines--film, cultural and media studies, computer science, philosophy, and sciences dealing with images. Contributors trace the evolution of digital art, from thirteenth-century Islamic mechanical devices and eighteenth-century phantasmagoria, magic lanterns, and other multimedia illusions, to Marcel Duchamp's inventions and 1960s kinetic and op art. They reexamine and redefine key media art theory terms--machine, media, exhibition--and consider the blurred dividing lines between art products and consumer products and between art images and science images. Finally, MediaArtHistories offers an approach for an interdisciplinary, expanded image science, which needs the "trained eye" of art history.
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March 2007, Cambridge
March 2007, Cambridge
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Architectural Theory
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Imagining MIT
Imagining MIT
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In the 1990s, MIT began a billion-dollar building program that transformed its outdated, run-down campus into an architectural showplace. Funded by the high-tech boom of the 1990s and driven by a pent-up demand for new space, MIT's ambitious rebuilding produced five major works of architecture: Kevin Roche's Zesiger Sports and Fitness Center, Steven Holl's Simmons Hall,(...)
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In the 1990s, MIT began a billion-dollar building program that transformed its outdated, run-down campus into an architectural showplace. Funded by the high-tech boom of the 1990s and driven by a pent-up demand for new space, MIT's ambitious rebuilding produced five major works of architecture: Kevin Roche's Zesiger Sports and Fitness Center, Steven Holl's Simmons Hall,(...)
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Imagining MIT
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Summary:
In the 1990s, MIT began a billion-dollar building program that transformed its outdated, run-down campus into an architectural showplace. Funded by the high-tech boom of the 1990s and driven by a pent-up demand for new space, MIT's ambitious rebuilding produced five major works of architecture: Kevin Roche's Zesiger Sports and Fitness Center, Steven Holl's Simmons Hall, Frank Gehry's Stata Center, Charles Correa's Brain and Cognitive Science Complex, and Fumihiko Maki's still-unrealized project for the Media Laboratory. In Imagining MIT, William Mitchell (who served as architectural adviser to MIT president Charles Vest) offers a critical, behind-the-scenes view of MIT's new buildings and the complex processes that produced them. The story is not simply one of commissions, projects, CAD, and hardhats; it is about all the forces that come into play--including money, politics, institutional dynamics, and ideology--when a major university campus is imagined, designed, and built. Lavishly illustrated with architectural photographs, drawings, plans, and models, with color images throughout, Imagining MIT shows both the opportunities and the obstacles facing architectural production and city building at the dawn of a new millennium.
Imagining MIT
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Price:
$25.95
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Summary:
In the 1990s, MIT began a billion-dollar building program that transformed its outdated, run-down campus into an architectural showplace. Funded by the high-tech boom of the 1990s and driven by a pent-up demand for new space, MIT's ambitious rebuilding produced five major works of architecture: Kevin Roche's Zesiger Sports and Fitness Center, Steven Holl's Simmons Hall, Frank Gehry's Stata Center, Charles Correa's Brain and Cognitive Science Complex, and Fumihiko Maki's still-unrealized project for the Media Laboratory. In Imagining MIT, William Mitchell (who served as architectural adviser to MIT president Charles Vest) offers a critical, behind-the-scenes view of MIT's new buildings and the complex processes that produced them. The story is not simply one of commissions, projects, CAD, and hardhats; it is about all the forces that come into play--including money, politics, institutional dynamics, and ideology--when a major university campus is imagined, designed, and built. Lavishly illustrated with architectural photographs, drawings, plans, and models, with color images throughout, Imagining MIT shows both the opportunities and the obstacles facing architectural production and city building at the dawn of a new millennium.
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Publication:
May 2007, Cambridge / London
May 2007, Cambridge / London
Subject:
Architectural Theory
Architectural Theory
