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Du plus profond de chaque territoire, leur architecture témoigne, en tant que “fragment du monde”, d’une vision renouvelée de notre avenir. C’est dans ce contexte que Jana Revedin, architecte et professeur, a créé en 2007 le “Global Award for Sustainable Architecture”. Cet ouvrage illustre le travail des lauréats 2009 et 2010 (Sami Rintala, Studio Mumbaï, Diébédo Francis(...)
Green Architecture
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Sustainable design II : vers une nouvelle éthique pour l'architecture et la ville
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Du plus profond de chaque territoire, leur architecture témoigne, en tant que “fragment du monde”, d’une vision renouvelée de notre avenir. C’est dans ce contexte que Jana Revedin, architecte et professeur, a créé en 2007 le “Global Award for Sustainable Architecture”. Cet ouvrage illustre le travail des lauréats 2009 et 2010 (Sami Rintala, Studio Mumbaï, Diébédo Francis Kéré, Patrick Bouchain et Loïc Julienne, Thomas Herzog, Junya Ishigami, Steve Bear, Giancarlo Mazzanti, Troppo Architects et Snohetta). La première partie de chaque chapitre présente les architectes en retraçant les conditions de leur engagement, en expliquant la démarche que chacun a construite au sein de la société où il vit et en mettant en lumière ce que son expérience apporte au débat mondial. La seconde partie présente deux ou trois projets qui illustrent particulièrement cette démarche et sont porteurs d’enseignements.
Green Architecture
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As living conditions among the world's poor continue to decline, with more and more people occupying slums and shantytowns, architects and artists are attempting to apply new models of collaboration and sustainability to social crisis. Moderators of Change: Architecture That Helps showcases 20 international projects by architects, designers and artists that provide(...)
Moderators of change: architecture that helps
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As living conditions among the world's poor continue to decline, with more and more people occupying slums and shantytowns, architects and artists are attempting to apply new models of collaboration and sustainability to social crisis. Moderators of Change: Architecture That Helps showcases 20 international projects by architects, designers and artists that provide socially responsible models of urban design. By inviting users to collaborate in the design and building process, and by working with new economic models, these practitioners have realized projects that have had profound, positive effects with just a minimum investment of money and materials. This book includes schools, libraries, gardens, conversions and art projects, as well as essays by Regina Bittner, Carson Chan, Luis Fernandez-Galiano, Ronald Rael, Anne Schmedding and Christian Welzbacher.
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Urban constellations
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Cities are an unprecedented focus of attention : over half the world now lives in them, culture and politics are significantly shaped by them, and they are also focal points for new relationships between nature, technology and human bogy. This essay collection brings together a range of international scholarship on cities, urbanization and urban culture.
Urban constellations
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Cities are an unprecedented focus of attention : over half the world now lives in them, culture and politics are significantly shaped by them, and they are also focal points for new relationships between nature, technology and human bogy. This essay collection brings together a range of international scholarship on cities, urbanization and urban culture.
Urban Theory
Alessandro Mendini
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Published on the occasion of his eightieth birthday, this catalogue gives an overview of the 40-year career of the provocative Italian designer and architect Alessandro Mendini, encompassing objects, furniture, interior decorations, paintings, installations and works of architecture.
Alessandro Mendini
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Published on the occasion of his eightieth birthday, this catalogue gives an overview of the 40-year career of the provocative Italian designer and architect Alessandro Mendini, encompassing objects, furniture, interior decorations, paintings, installations and works of architecture.
Design Monographs
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The Viennese architect Michael Wallraff has spent years examining the use of vertical spaces in the city's fabric and devising new ways of fostering public spaces. This first overview of Wallraff's projects and ideas explains the principles of his practice, also addressing the broader issue of population density in cities.
Michael Wallraff : Vertical public space
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The Viennese architect Michael Wallraff has spent years examining the use of vertical spaces in the city's fabric and devising new ways of fostering public spaces. This first overview of Wallraff's projects and ideas explains the principles of his practice, also addressing the broader issue of population density in cities.
Public Space
Iceland and architecture?
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Until comparatively recently, Iceland's architecture was determined by the lack of native trees on the island, which led to extraordinary clay structures covered in turf. With the invention of concrete, further stylistic leaps occurred--and again when Iceland briefly became one of Europe's richest countries. This volume surveys Iceland's unique conditions for architecture.
Iceland and architecture?
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Until comparatively recently, Iceland's architecture was determined by the lack of native trees on the island, which led to extraordinary clay structures covered in turf. With the invention of concrete, further stylistic leaps occurred--and again when Iceland briefly became one of Europe's richest countries. This volume surveys Iceland's unique conditions for architecture.
Architecture since 1900, Europe
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Theaters have always been an essential part of the urban landscape in Europe; where new theaters spring up, they signal that regeneration is underway in a particular district. The Hamburg firm PFP Architekten is a leader in the field of innovative theater architecture. This volume surveys the firm's numerous theaters with photographs, plans, essays and interviews with the(...)
Jörg Friedrich PFP architekten: Theaters
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Theaters have always been an essential part of the urban landscape in Europe; where new theaters spring up, they signal that regeneration is underway in a particular district. The Hamburg firm PFP Architekten is a leader in the field of innovative theater architecture. This volume surveys the firm's numerous theaters with photographs, plans, essays and interviews with the buildings' users.
Commercial interiors, Building types
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Throughout the past 15 years, Siv Helen Stangeland and Reinhard Kropf have been at the forefront of “relational design”--an architectural philosophy that combines human, environmental and methodological factors. Relational Spaces traces this approach through projects such as Pulpit Rock Mountain Lodge, Geopark and their contribution to Manifesta 7.
Helen and Hard architects: relational spaces
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Throughout the past 15 years, Siv Helen Stangeland and Reinhard Kropf have been at the forefront of “relational design”--an architectural philosophy that combines human, environmental and methodological factors. Relational Spaces traces this approach through projects such as Pulpit Rock Mountain Lodge, Geopark and their contribution to Manifesta 7.
Architecture Monographs
Quite good houses
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Instead of an architecture that astounds or awes us, what would a "quite good" architecture look like? Quite Good Houses looks at a selection of more than 100 ordinary European homes, photographed by Oda Pälmke. Upon closer inspection, these residences seem quirkier than expected, or reveal little architectural eccentricities that lend them charm and homeliness.
Quite good houses
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Instead of an architecture that astounds or awes us, what would a "quite good" architecture look like? Quite Good Houses looks at a selection of more than 100 ordinary European homes, photographed by Oda Pälmke. Upon closer inspection, these residences seem quirkier than expected, or reveal little architectural eccentricities that lend them charm and homeliness.
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Photographer, designer, architect and author on topics ranging from winter sports to the history of photography, Carlo Mollino (1905–1973) accomplished himself in a dizzying array of fields. The diversity and scale of his output often makes it seem somewhat daunting, but this volume coheres Mollino’s prolificness into an appetizing and eminently approachable whole, by(...)
Carlo Mollino: maniera moderna
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Photographer, designer, architect and author on topics ranging from winter sports to the history of photography, Carlo Mollino (1905–1973) accomplished himself in a dizzying array of fields. The diversity and scale of his output often makes it seem somewhat daunting, but this volume coheres Mollino’s prolificness into an appetizing and eminently approachable whole, by examining it across five inventively themed chapters: “Choreography,” “Montage,” “Publications,” “Display” and “Appropriations.” “Choreography” looks at Mollino’s love of motion in his customizations of airplanes and racing cars and his designs for the Lutrario dance hall in Turin. The “Montage” chapter examines Mollino’s architectural photomontages and other uses of photography; “Publications” reproduces a wealth of Mollino first editions, magazine spreads and works on paper; “Display” reveals the influence of Surrealism on Mollino’s interior displays, and also includes his erotic Polaroids; and “Appropriation” looks at his photographs of interior décor.
Design Monographs