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Ce livre présente les photographies de Daphné Bengoa et Leo Fabrizio, fruit d’un projet mené en commun sur l’œuvre algérienne de l’architecte français Fernand Pouillon (1912-1986). Leo Fabrizio, muni d’un matériel imposant, s’est attaché à photographier le temps long et les bâtiments dans leur état actuel, tandis que Daphné Bengoa, de son côté, est entrée dans(...)
Fernand Pouillon et l’Algérie, bâtir à hauteur d'hommes
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Ce livre présente les photographies de Daphné Bengoa et Leo Fabrizio, fruit d’un projet mené en commun sur l’œuvre algérienne de l’architecte français Fernand Pouillon (1912-1986). Leo Fabrizio, muni d’un matériel imposant, s’est attaché à photographier le temps long et les bâtiments dans leur état actuel, tandis que Daphné Bengoa, de son côté, est entrée dans l’intimité des foyers et s’est plutôt intéressée au temps court, aux habitants des cités de Pouillon et aux travailleurs de ses complexes touristiques.
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This volume elucidates the process of how renowned architect Tadao Ando developed ideas for his projects. Primarily making use of his sketches and drawings, its approach is unique among anthologies on the Japanese architect. Published in a new and enlarged edition, the book consists of the original content plus eleven new projects, a new chronological table of Ando’s(...)
Tadao Ando 0: process and idea, expanded and revised edition
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This volume elucidates the process of how renowned architect Tadao Ando developed ideas for his projects. Primarily making use of his sketches and drawings, its approach is unique among anthologies on the Japanese architect. Published in a new and enlarged edition, the book consists of the original content plus eleven new projects, a new chronological table of Ando’s projects over a period of four decades, and a newly written text to accompany the revised edition.
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Contre le geste gratuit, contre l’équateur neutre, contre la transparence reine, Marc Barani élabore des formes scrupuleusement incarnées, diligentes à l’égard du sacré et du secret. Ponts, cimetières et logements intègrent moins un paysage qu’ils ne l’exhaussent. Ici, l’architecture est une épiphanie et la ligne d’horizon une maçonnerie.
Marc Barani, architecte : tenir lieu
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Contre le geste gratuit, contre l’équateur neutre, contre la transparence reine, Marc Barani élabore des formes scrupuleusement incarnées, diligentes à l’égard du sacré et du secret. Ponts, cimetières et logements intègrent moins un paysage qu’ils ne l’exhaussent. Ici, l’architecture est une épiphanie et la ligne d’horizon une maçonnerie.
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The book is an inquiry into the nature of changing paradigms in logistics. It aims to offer a cross-disciplinary platform for an exchange of ideas among artists, architects, historians, philosophers, engineers, and planners.
Contemporary Architecture
July 2019
Aesthetics and politics of logistics
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The book is an inquiry into the nature of changing paradigms in logistics. It aims to offer a cross-disciplinary platform for an exchange of ideas among artists, architects, historians, philosophers, engineers, and planners.
Contemporary Architecture
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A monograph on one of the most influential visionary architects of the twentieth century, Claude Parent, whose buildings and theoretical work directly influenced leading architects Hadid, Libeskind, Nouvel and Gehry.
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June 2019
Claude Parent: visionary architect
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A monograph on one of the most influential visionary architects of the twentieth century, Claude Parent, whose buildings and theoretical work directly influenced leading architects Hadid, Libeskind, Nouvel and Gehry.
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The election, in 1979, of a Conservative administration led by Margaret Thatcher effectively marked the end of Britain’s heroic era of social housing provision. Over the next four decades, successive governments put faith in the private sector’s capacity to build homes in the numbers Britain needs. Consistently, that faith proved unfounded. The resultant housing shortfall(...)
Project interrupted: lectures by British housing architects
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The election, in 1979, of a Conservative administration led by Margaret Thatcher effectively marked the end of Britain’s heroic era of social housing provision. Over the next four decades, successive governments put faith in the private sector’s capacity to build homes in the numbers Britain needs. Consistently, that faith proved unfounded. The resultant housing shortfall has sent property prices rocketing beyond the reach of younger people, and led to record levels of homelessness and rough sleeping. At a moment when Britain is finally beginning to confront the enormity of its housing crisis, ''Project Interrupted'' asks what we can learn from the experiences of a previous generation and hears from some of the most ambitious architects working in the field of housing today about the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead.
Residential Architecture
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Architecture, we like to believe, is an elevated art form that shapes the world as it pleases. Four Walls and a Roof challenges this notion, presenting a candid account of what it is really like to work as an architect. Drawing on his own tragicomic experiences in the field, Reinier de Graaf reveals the world of contemporary architecture in vivid snapshots: from suburban(...)
Four walls and a roof: the complex nature of a simple profession
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Architecture, we like to believe, is an elevated art form that shapes the world as it pleases. Four Walls and a Roof challenges this notion, presenting a candid account of what it is really like to work as an architect. Drawing on his own tragicomic experiences in the field, Reinier de Graaf reveals the world of contemporary architecture in vivid snapshots: from suburban New York to the rubble of northern Iraq, from the corridors of wealth in London, Moscow, and Dubai to garbage-strewn wastelands that represent the demolished hopes of postwar social housing. We meet oligarchs determined to translate ambitions into concrete and steel, developers for whom architecture is mere investment, and the layers of politicians, bureaucrats, consultants, and mysterious hangers-on who lie between any architectural idea and the chance of its execution. Four Walls and a Roof tells the story of a profession buffeted by external forces that determine—at least as much as individual inspiration—what architects design. Perhaps the most important myth debunked is success itself. To achieve anything, architects must serve the powers they strive to critique, finding themselves in a perpetual conflict of interest. Together, architects, developers, politicians, and consultants form an improvised world of contest and compromise that none alone can control.
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Human obsolescence is imminent. The factories of the future will be dark, staffed by armies of tireless robots. The hospitals of the future will have fewer doctors, depending instead on cloud-based AI to diagnose patients and recommend treatments. The homes of the future will anticipate our wants and needs and provide all the entertainment, food, and distraction we could(...)
Automation and utopia: human flourishing in a world without work
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Human obsolescence is imminent. The factories of the future will be dark, staffed by armies of tireless robots. The hospitals of the future will have fewer doctors, depending instead on cloud-based AI to diagnose patients and recommend treatments. The homes of the future will anticipate our wants and needs and provide all the entertainment, food, and distraction we could ever desire. To many, this is a depressing prognosis, an image of civilization replaced by its machines. But what if an automated future is something to be welcomed rather than feared? Work is a source of misery and oppression for most people, so shouldn’t we do what we can to hasten its demise? Automation and Utopia makes the case for a world in which, free from need or want, we can spend our time inventing and playing games and exploring virtual realities that are more deeply engaging and absorbing than any we have experienced before, allowing us to achieve idealized forms of human flourishing. The idea that we should “give up” and retreat to the virtual may seem shocking, even distasteful. But John Danaher urges us to embrace the possibilities of this new existence. The rise of automating technologies presents a utopian moment for humankind, providing both the motive and the means to build a better future.
Architectural Theory
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The objects of architecture are not simply inert assemblies of material - they are complex entities that unfold their potential agencies (whether political, social, or environmental) in equally complex ways. Exploring these forms of architectural agency has in recent years been a central aspect of the work of Andrés Jaque and the Office for Political Innovation, who, in(...)
Superpowers of scale: Office for Political Innovation
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The objects of architecture are not simply inert assemblies of material - they are complex entities that unfold their potential agencies (whether political, social, or environmental) in equally complex ways. Exploring these forms of architectural agency has in recent years been a central aspect of the work of Andrés Jaque and the Office for Political Innovation, who, in addition to their built works, pursue a research practice through the many other media of architectural production. Their projects are reactive, intervening on what already exists to demonstrate how design, politics, and criticality operate across different scales and at the intersection of multiple realities. Jaque’s performances, videos, and installations—and this book, which collects a range of recent research projects—bring new subjects into the fold of architecture, focusing on alternative actors, distributions of power and representation, and the sociocultural effects of architecture. These episodes address ideas like genetic manipulation, the necessary requeering of dequeered spaces of online interaction, and the selling of modern architectural comforts in order to subvert the field from within and to contest capitalism's flattening-out of public life.
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Kengo Kuma: Topography
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Kengo Kuma is a globally acclaimed Japanese architect whose prodigious output possesses an inherent respect and value of materials and environment, often creating a harmonious balance between building and landscape. He masterfully engages both architectural experimentation and traditional Japanese design with twenty-first-century technology, resulting in highly advanced(...)
Kengo Kuma: Topography
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Kengo Kuma is a globally acclaimed Japanese architect whose prodigious output possesses an inherent respect and value of materials and environment, often creating a harmonious balance between building and landscape. He masterfully engages both architectural experimentation and traditional Japanese design with twenty-first-century technology, resulting in highly advanced yet beautifully simple, gentle, human-scaled buildings. Often ranked among other esteemed architects, such as Shigeru Ban, Tadao Ando, Kazuyo Sejima, or Kenzo Tange, Kuma is always in search of new materials to replace concrete and steel, and seeks a new approach for architecture in a post-industrial society, fusing interior and exterior realms to make spaces that create a calming and tranquil atmosphere. Known for his prolific writing, Kuma is constantly re-engaging with different aspects of the architectural discipline, whether it be construction or representation in order to give further progress to his ideas. This volume showcases close to forty high-profile works by Kengo Kuma & Associates (based in Tokyo and Paris), focusing on some of his most recognised works, including the Asakusa Culture and Tourism Center in Tokyo, the Mont Blanc Base Camp project, the Great Bamboo Wall, as well as progress for the design for Tokyo's main stadium for the 2020 Olympic Games.
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