Gaudi : album cientifico
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Gaudí’s buildings would very soon become one of the most portrayed images on postcards of the period in Barcelona. This book compiles –with scientific rigour– some of those postcards that would be sent around the world with their senders’ messages and the universal message of Gaudian architecture.
Gaudi : album cientifico
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Gaudí’s buildings would very soon become one of the most portrayed images on postcards of the period in Barcelona. This book compiles –with scientific rigour– some of those postcards that would be sent around the world with their senders’ messages and the universal message of Gaudian architecture.
Architecture Monographs
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Si la villa Noailles telle que l'a photographiée Jacqueline Salmon, si ces images fixes n'en ont pas moins leur "photogénie", au sens où l'entendaient Germaine Dullac ou Jean Epstein autant que Mallet-Stevens, il ne s'agit pas tant, de la qualité de la prise de vue ou de celle du tirage que de ce qu'y ajoute, en termes temporels autant que narratifs, la dynamique,(...)
Robert Mallet-Stevens et la villa Noailles à Hyères
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Si la villa Noailles telle que l'a photographiée Jacqueline Salmon, si ces images fixes n'en ont pas moins leur "photogénie", au sens où l'entendaient Germaine Dullac ou Jean Epstein autant que Mallet-Stevens, il ne s'agit pas tant, de la qualité de la prise de vue ou de celle du tirage que de ce qu'y ajoute, en termes temporels autant que narratifs, la dynamique, immédiatement perceptible mais mesurable en années, liée à la ruine - désormais stoppée - des lieux et à la poussée corrélative de la végétation, autant que celle qui procède, par inférence, de la succession même de ces images et de leur enchaînement calculé : du lever du jour à la tombée de la nuit, que signale l'obscurcissement progressif du site et l'allumage en fin de course des luminaires, la promenade (je n'ai pas dit le parcours, dont la notion impliquerait un cheminement réglé) est comme rythmée par la fuite des heures. Mais ceci ne serait rien encore si cette promenade qui aura eu pour fruit une telle séquence d'images, ne renouait, dans son cours apparemment imprévisible, avec ce qui pourrait bien avoir été (j'en forme l'hypothèse au vu de ces photographies) la dynamique propre de l'ouvrage, à le viser dans son développement architectural autant que programmatique. La réussite - si c'est là le mot qui convient : disons l'efficace - de la prise de vues se mesurant à celle (la prise conceptuelle) qu'elle assure sur l'objet, dans son opération même. Ce qui doit s'entendre dans le double sens qu'autorise la syntaxe : soit qu'on ait égard à l'opération qui est le fait de la photographie, ou que l'on prête attention à ce que celle-ci donne à voir du fonctionnement d'un objet dont la ruine agit en fait comme un révélateur.
Architecture Monographs
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In this book, Harry Mallgrave examines architectural discourse within its social and political context. He explores the philosophical and conceptual evolution of its ideas, discusses the relation of theory to the practice of building, and, most importantly, considers the words of the architects themselves as they contentiously shaped Western architecture. He also(...)
Modern architectural theory : a historical survey, 1673-1968
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In this book, Harry Mallgrave examines architectural discourse within its social and political context. He explores the philosophical and conceptual evolution of its ideas, discusses the relation of theory to the practice of building, and, most importantly, considers the words of the architects themselves as they contentiously shaped Western architecture. He also examines the compelling currents of French rationalist and British empiricist thought, radical reformation of the theory during the Enlightenment, and intellectual ambitions and historicist debates of the ninteenth century, and the distinctive varieties of modern theory in the twentieth century up to the profound social upheaval of the 1960s.
Architectural Theory
Alvar Aalto
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The preeminent Finnish architect Alvar Aalto developed in the postwar years an architectural language all his own, characterized by curved walls, singlepitched roofs, and inventive combinations of wood and brick. He was also engaged in design at all scales, from the planning of cities, including Helsinki, to the design of furniture and glassware. This book provides a(...)
Alvar Aalto
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The preeminent Finnish architect Alvar Aalto developed in the postwar years an architectural language all his own, characterized by curved walls, singlepitched roofs, and inventive combinations of wood and brick. He was also engaged in design at all scales, from the planning of cities, including Helsinki, to the design of furniture and glassware. This book provides a brief but comprehensive look at Aalto’s life, works, theory, and relevance for the twenty-first century.
Architecture Monographs
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Cities participate in the production of meaning by providing places populated with objects for words to refer to. Inscriptions on these objects (labels, billboards, newspapers, graffiti) provide another layer of meaning. And today, the flow of digital information - from one device to another in the urban scene - creates a digital network that also exists in physical(...)
Architectural Theory
January 1900, Cambridge, Mass.
Placing words : symbols, space and the city
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Cities participate in the production of meaning by providing places populated with objects for words to refer to. Inscriptions on these objects (labels, billboards, newspapers, graffiti) provide another layer of meaning. And today, the flow of digital information - from one device to another in the urban scene - creates a digital network that also exists in physical space. "Placing Words" examines this emerging system of spaces, flows, and practices in a series of short essays - snapshots of the city in the twenty-first century. Mitchell questions the necessity of flashy downtown office towers in an age of corporate web sites. He casts the shocked-and-awed Baghdad as a contemporary Guernica. He describes architectural makeovers throughout history, listing Le Corbusier's Fab Five Points of difference between new and old architecture, and he discusses the architecture of Manolo Blahniks. He pens an open letter to the Secretary of Defense recommending architectural features to include in torture chambers. He compares Baudelaire, the Parisian flaneur, to Spiderman, the Manhattan traceur. He describes the iPod-like galleries of the renovated MoMA and he recognizes the camera phone as the latest step in a process of image mobilization that began when artists stopped painting on walls and began making pictures on small pieces of wood, canvas, or paper. The endless flow of information, he makes clear, is not only more pervasive and efficient than ever, it is also generating new cultural complexities.
Architectural Theory
Building simply
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In a time of loud gestures and ostentation unpretentious buildings, which have been reduced to the essentials with no superfluous decoration, are soothing in their purity. This new volume in the series In Detail demonstrates the breadth and complexity of the issues involved in building simply, from functional and economic demands, through ecological and energy-related(...)
Building simply
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In a time of loud gestures and ostentation unpretentious buildings, which have been reduced to the essentials with no superfluous decoration, are soothing in their purity. This new volume in the series In Detail demonstrates the breadth and complexity of the issues involved in building simply, from functional and economic demands, through ecological and energy-related aspects, to design and construction requirements. "Building Simply" can be read and applied in many ways. In the face of the sheer wealth of possibilities available today and the ever quicker changes in design and style, it is a creative process which does justice to the nature and quality of the materials used and gives rise to unique projects through an economy of means and resources. The project section documents a comprehensive range of international examples, from simple wooden bridges, to pavilions, residential buildings, workshops, and warehouses.
Green Architecture
Toits et murs végétaux
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Les toits d'herbage ont caractérisé l'architecture populaire de nombreuses régions du globe pendant des siècles. Avec le réchauffement de notre planète et les phénomènes extrêmes qui l'accompagnent et afin de privilégier une meilleure qualité de vie et de l'environnement de la population, les toits et les murs végétaux se sont multipliés ces dernières années. De fait,(...)
Green Architecture
April 2005, Parc St-Joseph
Toits et murs végétaux
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Les toits d'herbage ont caractérisé l'architecture populaire de nombreuses régions du globe pendant des siècles. Avec le réchauffement de notre planète et les phénomènes extrêmes qui l'accompagnent et afin de privilégier une meilleure qualité de vie et de l'environnement de la population, les toits et les murs végétaux se sont multipliés ces dernières années. De fait, l'intégration de plantes vivantes dans l'environnement construit
Green Architecture
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Prefabricated construction is a hot topic in architecture these days, and for good reason. Prospective homebuilders around the world are gravitating to prefab as an environmentally responsible and cost-effective way to achieve that holiest of grails: an affordable, well-designed house. If you're hoping to jump onto this bandwagon or are just interested in what prefab(...)
Prefabricated Architecture
February 2006, New York
Prefab prototypes : site-specific design for offsite construction
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Prefabricated construction is a hot topic in architecture these days, and for good reason. Prospective homebuilders around the world are gravitating to prefab as an environmentally responsible and cost-effective way to achieve that holiest of grails: an affordable, well-designed house. If you're hoping to jump onto this bandwagon or are just interested in what prefab building really entails, "Prefab prototypes" is required reading. While other prefab books on the market show what can be done, dangling pretty pictures of affordable homes before your starry eyes, "Prefab prototypes" takes you to the next step — it shows you how. Architects Mark Anderson and Peter Anderson have been working with prefab buildings for more than fifteen years. With "Prefab prototypes", they break prefab down into six systems, from most flexible to most complicated — panelized wood framing, sandwich paneling, steel framing, timber framing, concrete systems, and modular systems. Each chapter delves into the benefits and drawbacks of its respective method, and features detailed plans, sections, and photographs of projects they've completed that use each of these systems. The resulting book is both a lush depiction of their prefab output as well as an in-depth analysis that will prepare you for taking the plunge into prefab building.
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February 2006, New York
Prefabricated Architecture
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Architects Jesse Reiser and Nanako Umemoto have been generating some of the most provocative thinking in the field for nearly twenty years. With "Atlas of novel tectonics", Reiser+Umemoto hone in on the many facets of architecture and illuminate their theories with thought and simplicity. The Atlas is organized as an accumulation of short chapters that address the(...)
Architecture Monographs
February 2006, New York
Reiser + Umemoto: Atlas of novel tectonics
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Architects Jesse Reiser and Nanako Umemoto have been generating some of the most provocative thinking in the field for nearly twenty years. With "Atlas of novel tectonics", Reiser+Umemoto hone in on the many facets of architecture and illuminate their theories with thought and simplicity. The Atlas is organized as an accumulation of short chapters that address the workings of matter and force, material science, the lessons of art and architectural history, and the influence of architecture on culture (and vice versa). Reiser+Umemoto see architectural design as a series of problem situations, and each chapter is an argument devoted to a specific condition or case. Influenced by a wide range of fields and phenomena —Brillat-Savarin's classic "The physiology of taste" is one of their primary models—the authors provide a cross-section of thinking and inspiration. The result is both an elucidation of the concepts that guide Reiser+Umemoto through their own design process and a series of meditations on topics that have formed their own sense as architects. "Atlas of novel tectonics" offers an entirely fresh perspective on subjects that are generally taken for granted, and does so with a welcome punch and energy. Jesse Reiser and Nanako Umemoto are the founding partners of Reiser+Umemoto RUR, an architectural firm based in New York City. Their work encompasses a wide range of scales, from furniture design to landscape and infrastructure.
Architecture Monographs
Winka Dubbeldam : AT-INdex
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European emigrés have been changing the face of modern American architecture for decades. Winka Dubbeldam surely belongs to that long list of practitioners. Working across scales — from a New York skyscraper to a rural house — the Dutch-born architect has established herself as one of the most provocative figures in the field by seamlessly integrating function and form,(...)
Winka Dubbeldam : AT-INdex
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European emigrés have been changing the face of modern American architecture for decades. Winka Dubbeldam surely belongs to that long list of practitioners. Working across scales — from a New York skyscraper to a rural house — the Dutch-born architect has established herself as one of the most provocative figures in the field by seamlessly integrating function and form, technology and comfort, city and home. Folded glass facades, intelligent building cores, and interactive environments highlight the work of her progressive, process-based studio/laboratory, Archi-Tectonics. As much resource as monograph, "Archi-Tectonics Index" explores Dubbeldam's intense, research-laden approach to over twenty projects, including the highly acclaimed From HardWare to SoftForm exhibition, Aida Hair Salon, and Gipsy Trail Residence. Incisive essays by Detlef Mertins, Javier Barreiro Cavestany, and Michael Speaks complement lush photographs, informative diagrams, and her compelling designs.
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