À travers le mur
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Jean-Charles Depaule propose une analyse de l'architecture domestique aussi bien que des pratiques sociales et culturelles associées à la notion de seuil. De nombreuses citations littéraires viennent compléter la compréhension de tous les dispositifs architecturaux spécifi ques au monde oriental (avec notamment des textes d'écrivains tels que Naguib Mahfouz, Mahmoud(...)
À travers le mur
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Jean-Charles Depaule propose une analyse de l'architecture domestique aussi bien que des pratiques sociales et culturelles associées à la notion de seuil. De nombreuses citations littéraires viennent compléter la compréhension de tous les dispositifs architecturaux spécifi ques au monde oriental (avec notamment des textes d'écrivains tels que Naguib Mahfouz, Mahmoud Darwish, Iskandar Habache...).
Architectural Theory
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Publié en 1932, ce livre s'inscrit au cœur du débat sur la création du «Grand Paris» et fait immédiatement référence. André Morizet propose une histoire fouillée, documentée, systématique d'un siècle de métamorphoses de Paris.
Du vieux Paris au Paris moderne: Haussmann et ses prédécesseurs
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Publié en 1932, ce livre s'inscrit au cœur du débat sur la création du «Grand Paris» et fait immédiatement référence. André Morizet propose une histoire fouillée, documentée, systématique d'un siècle de métamorphoses de Paris.
Urban Theory
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In 1970, Henri Lefebvre put forward the radical hypothesis of the complete urbanization of society, a circumstance that in his view required a radical shift from the analysis of urban form to the investigation of urbanization processes. Drawing together classic and contemporary texts on the "urbanization question", this book explores various theoretical, epistemological,(...)
Implosions/Explosions: towards a study of planetary urbanization
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In 1970, Henri Lefebvre put forward the radical hypothesis of the complete urbanization of society, a circumstance that in his view required a radical shift from the analysis of urban form to the investigation of urbanization processes. Drawing together classic and contemporary texts on the "urbanization question", this book explores various theoretical, epistemological, methodological and political implications of Lefebvre's hypothesis. It assembles a series of analytical and cartographic interventions that supersede inherited spatial ontologies (urban/rural, town/country, city/non-city, society/nature) in order to investigate the uneven implosions and explosions of capitalist urbanization across places, regions, territories, continents and oceans up to the planetary scale.
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Oda Pälmke: Facades
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In this volume, the German architect Oda Pälmke demonstrates that the most expressive sides of houses are not always those that were originally designed as façades. Pälmke has established herself as a connoisseur of the overlooked and the ordinary in architecture, as her previous volume, Quite Good Houses, demonstrates. Here, she asks the viewer to imagine seemingly(...)
Oda Pälmke: Facades
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In this volume, the German architect Oda Pälmke demonstrates that the most expressive sides of houses are not always those that were originally designed as façades. Pälmke has established herself as a connoisseur of the overlooked and the ordinary in architecture, as her previous volume, Quite Good Houses, demonstrates. Here, she asks the viewer to imagine seemingly unspectacular side walls and temporary modifications as the faces of buildings, locating a wealth of possibilities in the marginal and the incomplete.
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The future of architecture
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Internationally acclaimed Dutch architect Herman Hertzberger (born 1932), an early proponent and practitioner of the so-called school of "structuralism" (sustainable buildings that can evolve to meet their users' changing needs), invited colleagues and students to reflect on the future of architecture. In the resulting book, Hertzberger, Anna Heringer, Jean-Philippe(...)
The future of architecture
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Internationally acclaimed Dutch architect Herman Hertzberger (born 1932), an early proponent and practitioner of the so-called school of "structuralism" (sustainable buildings that can evolve to meet their users' changing needs), invited colleagues and students to reflect on the future of architecture. In the resulting book, Hertzberger, Anna Heringer, Jean-Philippe Vassal and other contributors champion architecture that is low-impact and adaptable. They call for structures that place human comfort and functionality above decoration and egotistical statements.
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Architects & mimetic rivalry
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Humans are imitative beings. The imitation of preferred masters and forms is natural to artists and architects but also the root cause of their conflicts and rivalries, leading to what René Girard has called 'mimetic rivalry'. Architects & Mimetic Rivalry is a discussion of the effects of this broad yet unrecognized phenomenon on the architects and architecture of today.
Architectural Theory
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Architects & mimetic rivalry
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Humans are imitative beings. The imitation of preferred masters and forms is natural to artists and architects but also the root cause of their conflicts and rivalries, leading to what René Girard has called 'mimetic rivalry'. Architects & Mimetic Rivalry is a discussion of the effects of this broad yet unrecognized phenomenon on the architects and architecture of today.
Architectural Theory
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An approach to migration from an architectural angle through design, research and conversations by influential architects, curators, artists, sociologists, musicians etc about how migration has inspired or affected them.
Architectural Theory
June 2013
Spatial murmuring: migration of spaces and ideas
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An approach to migration from an architectural angle through design, research and conversations by influential architects, curators, artists, sociologists, musicians etc about how migration has inspired or affected them.
Architectural Theory
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Constantly changing technology and growing communication networks give us ever more choices and options. However, every technological innovation has its counterpart: catastrophe looms. Dread is an essential, potentially productive element of our consciousness, and a defining characteristic of the present-day human condition. However dark and fatalistic its(...)
Dread, the Dizziness of freedom
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Constantly changing technology and growing communication networks give us ever more choices and options. However, every technological innovation has its counterpart: catastrophe looms. Dread is an essential, potentially productive element of our consciousness, and a defining characteristic of the present-day human condition. However dark and fatalistic its connotations, through its dialectical coupling of caution and transgression, paralysis and overdrive, it allows imagining the world differently, offering glimpses of the ineffable. This book is a peripheral exploration of dread wherein contributors reflect upon the concept’s potentialities from a contemporary viewpoint.
Critical Theory
The self-sufficient city
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Internet has changed our lives but it has not changed our cities, yet. Any technological revolution is paired with radical transformations in life styles. This book outlines a blueprint for the world to come, a world built around cities and their renewed capabilities to became productive again.
The self-sufficient city
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Internet has changed our lives but it has not changed our cities, yet. Any technological revolution is paired with radical transformations in life styles. This book outlines a blueprint for the world to come, a world built around cities and their renewed capabilities to became productive again.
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Catalyst: conditions
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This volume examines one year of research and pedagogy at the University of Virginia School of Architecture, engaged in the conditions of the built environment, relative to 3 states of Flux, Stasis and Crisis. The questions we ask are: What is the impact of design on the forces that shape our contemporary reality? To what extent do contingencies of time and place impact(...)
Catalyst: conditions
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This volume examines one year of research and pedagogy at the University of Virginia School of Architecture, engaged in the conditions of the built environment, relative to 3 states of Flux, Stasis and Crisis. The questions we ask are: What is the impact of design on the forces that shape our contemporary reality? To what extent do contingencies of time and place impact our practice, and in return how effective is our response in re-shaping the same contingencies? Contributions: Ghazal Abbasy-Asbagh, Inaki Alday, Robin Dripps, Rebecca Hora, Ryan Metcalf, Matthew Pinyan
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