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The architects Valentin Bearth & Andreas Deplazes, from Chur, have an impressive oeuvre to their credit, an oeuvre that has grown continuously over the past ten years. Their architecture is free of all repetition and stereotyped convention, and it cannot be classified in any category of trendy architecture. Each work responds to the place and the numerous parameters upon(...)
Spacepieces : Valentin Bearth & Andrea Deplazes / de aedibus 1
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The architects Valentin Bearth & Andreas Deplazes, from Chur, have an impressive oeuvre to their credit, an oeuvre that has grown continuously over the past ten years. Their architecture is free of all repetition and stereotyped convention, and it cannot be classified in any category of trendy architecture. Each work responds to the place and the numerous parameters upon which each specific architectural task is based.
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Since the beginning of the 1990s, Miroslav Šik has been recognised as one of the actively innovative and analytical spirits of the Swiss and German-speaking architectural discussion. His architecture is not spectacular, nor does he flirt with short-lived architectural trends. In a manner of speaking, Miroslav Šik seeks the subversive and powerful middle path between banal(...)
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January 1900, Luzern
Old-new : Miroslav Šik / de aedibus 2
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Since the beginning of the 1990s, Miroslav Šik has been recognised as one of the actively innovative and analytical spirits of the Swiss and German-speaking architectural discussion. His architecture is not spectacular, nor does he flirt with short-lived architectural trends. In a manner of speaking, Miroslav Šik seeks the subversive and powerful middle path between banal and over-ambitious architecture. His interest and attention is focused on the people who live in the buildings and populate the cites, and he is concerned with the necessary rather than the superfluous. The book introduces three recent works by the Zurich architect and professor at the ETH Zurich in subtle photographs by Christian Kerez and Walter Mayr, accompanied by plans. The high-quality texts draw attention to architectural cross-references and plumb the depths of the attributes of a powerful new whole that has emerged from a building complex. Selected texts by Miroslav Šik document the foundations of his rich theoretical basis.
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The first volume of this little series of books introduces work by the Lucerne architects Niklaus Graber and Christoph Steiger. A school, a multi-purpose hall, a community centre and an illustrated list of other buildings and competition projects provide an overview of the architectural quest of the 36-year-old architects.
Niklaus Graber & Christoph Steiger / anthologie 1
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The first volume of this little series of books introduces work by the Lucerne architects Niklaus Graber and Christoph Steiger. A school, a multi-purpose hall, a community centre and an illustrated list of other buildings and competition projects provide an overview of the architectural quest of the 36-year-old architects.
Architecture Monographs
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This architect from Rome is one of the younger generation of Italian architects who possesses a wide knowledge of the architectural debate and is firmly dedicated to a qualitative and innovative resurrection of architecture in Italy. He is known, among other reasons, for his analyses of the cultural situation and the profession of the contemporary architect in the(...)
Towards an architecture of today / panta rhei 1
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This architect from Rome is one of the younger generation of Italian architects who possesses a wide knowledge of the architectural debate and is firmly dedicated to a qualitative and innovative resurrection of architecture in Italy. He is known, among other reasons, for his analyses of the cultural situation and the profession of the contemporary architect in the internationally renowned architectural magazine "Domus", as well as for his activities as deputy editor-in-chief of this journal from 1992 to 1996. In this book, Nicola Di Battista analyses the discipline of architecture and the architect's profession, developing principles of a new orientation from a beneficial distance and with a clear overview.
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Mallorca Boom
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The transformation that has taken place in Mallorca during the last 50 years was unimaginable, especially for elderly residents. However, the last decade has been the one in which the island suffered a lack of control more centred on speculation and not so much on necessity. Certainly Mallorca depends on tourism (no other alternative, providing similar or better(...)
Architecture since 1900, Europe
January 1900, Barcelona
Mallorca Boom
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The transformation that has taken place in Mallorca during the last 50 years was unimaginable, especially for elderly residents. However, the last decade has been the one in which the island suffered a lack of control more centred on speculation and not so much on necessity. Certainly Mallorca depends on tourism (no other alternative, providing similar or better prospects, has been presented yet). Aware of the need, we built a territory too fast. In this book, a look from the outside is proposed, taken by people with a relationship to the island, with an affection for it, but who, from a distance, can offer a fresher opionion of what could happen. Texts are provided by architects, designers, biolgists, etc. Photographs are by Jordi Bernado.
Architecture since 1900, Europe
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The architecture of Ablinger, Vedral & partner is always a transformation from nature to personnal habitat in the spatial-climatic and techno-biological sense : the feeling of space and an advanced knowledge of contruction are in harmony with the lasting and natural treatment of building materials.
Architecture Monographs
January 1900, Salzburg
Sonnseiten
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The architecture of Ablinger, Vedral & partner is always a transformation from nature to personnal habitat in the spatial-climatic and techno-biological sense : the feeling of space and an advanced knowledge of contruction are in harmony with the lasting and natural treatment of building materials.
Architecture Monographs
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Presents a number of public art projects from the last year in Lower Austria. Covers temporary projects, exhibitions and interventions that take public spaces as their theme.
Contemporary Art Monographs
January 1900, Wien
Public art Lower Austria : volume 7
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Presents a number of public art projects from the last year in Lower Austria. Covers temporary projects, exhibitions and interventions that take public spaces as their theme.
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January 1900, Wien
Contemporary Art Monographs
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ArchiCAD has been on the market since 1984 and has firmly established itself among the available CAD software packages. Continuous product development has vbroadened the program's possible spectrum of work applications. Therefore, this book provides comprhensive background information and descriptions of the many tools, functions and processes, that explain and document(...)
January 1900, Vienna
ArchiCAD best practices : the virtual building revealed
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ArchiCAD has been on the market since 1984 and has firmly established itself among the available CAD software packages. Continuous product development has vbroadened the program's possible spectrum of work applications. Therefore, this book provides comprhensive background information and descriptions of the many tools, functions and processes, that explain and document their many practical, research and educationl uses.
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January 1900, Vienna
Typography papers 6
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This issue focuses on the reconstruction and reinvention of the classical letter in Italy in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. It includes a previously unpublished article by the late Nicolete Gray. This reproduces, in 26 full-page illustrations, an unsigned and undated (late fifteenth century) manuscript of an alphabet of capital letters, presently in the Newberry(...)
Typography papers 6
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This issue focuses on the reconstruction and reinvention of the classical letter in Italy in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. It includes a previously unpublished article by the late Nicolete Gray. This reproduces, in 26 full-page illustrations, an unsigned and undated (late fifteenth century) manuscript of an alphabet of capital letters, presently in the Newberry Library, Chicago, and provides the first analysis of this important document. Other articles here are the first English translation of the late Giovanni Mardersteig’s seminal essay of 1959 (‘L.B. Alberti e la rinascita del carattere lapidario romano nel quattrocento’), and James Mosley on Giovan Francesco Cresci’s formative influence on the form of Western handwriting, and hence on typefaces, and on the inscriptional capitals which appeared on new buildings in Rome between 1585 and 1590. Paul Stiff contributes a piece on ‘Designing public letters in fifteenth-century Florence’.
Graphic Design and Typography
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The unexpected discovery of very ancient quarries, still burried under tons of rubble, that laid the path of a motorway under construction in western France suggested the possibility of transforming them into Land Art. The creative process by Bernard Lassus provides a wonderful opportunity for a close observation, illustrated by his own photographs and drawings, of his(...)
Landscape Architecture, Monographs
January 1900, Washington
The crazannes quarries by Bernard Lassus : an essay analyzing the creation of a landscape
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The unexpected discovery of very ancient quarries, still burried under tons of rubble, that laid the path of a motorway under construction in western France suggested the possibility of transforming them into Land Art. The creative process by Bernard Lassus provides a wonderful opportunity for a close observation, illustrated by his own photographs and drawings, of his landscape design approach which is opening new directions for landscape design beyond the motorway. It shows how an artist calls upon his own life experience and upon his understanding of the ethical and esthetic issues of landscape design to create a stunning landscape.
Landscape Architecture, Monographs