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Ayline Olukman conjugue le temps au présent. Elle invite le monde entier à prendre part à la décision de l'instant. Avec ses photographies, elle restitue avec bonheur toutes les étapes de son propre cheminement visuel, installant une temporalité nouvelle, extensible à l'infini, comme une route qui ne semble vouloir s'arrêter. La musique revêt une importance particulière(...)
Ayline Olukman: small eternity
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Ayline Olukman conjugue le temps au présent. Elle invite le monde entier à prendre part à la décision de l'instant. Avec ses photographies, elle restitue avec bonheur toutes les étapes de son propre cheminement visuel, installant une temporalité nouvelle, extensible à l'infini, comme une route qui ne semble vouloir s'arrêter. La musique revêt une importance particulière dans sa vie d'artiste ; elle est présente in/consciemment au moment de la prise de vue, que les artistes de sa B.O mentale s'appellent Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Radiohead ou Blonde Redhead. Emmanuel Abela a cherché dans ses images une source commune à ses inspirations éventuelles : il a identifié la figure angélique d'une Amérique flamboyante, mais dont le parcours tragique annonce le déclin ; il raconte un songe, songe ultime : le songe de Gram Parsons.
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ECAL chez Le Corbusier
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L’une des plus prestigieuses écoles d’art au monde définit un nouveau paradigme pédagogique en décloisonnant les disciplines architecture et design industriel. ECAL chez Le Corbusier est un hommage au grand architecte pour marquer les 125 ans de sa naissance. C’est aussi et surtout une rencontre entre un maître et des élèves – entre Le Corbusier et les étudiants de(...)
ECAL chez Le Corbusier
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L’une des plus prestigieuses écoles d’art au monde définit un nouveau paradigme pédagogique en décloisonnant les disciplines architecture et design industriel. ECAL chez Le Corbusier est un hommage au grand architecte pour marquer les 125 ans de sa naissance. C’est aussi et surtout une rencontre entre un maître et des élèves – entre Le Corbusier et les étudiants de l’ECAL/École cantonale d'art de Lausanne. Imaginer puis produire des objets pour la Villa « Le Lac » de Le Corbusier, à Corseaux, tel est le projet conçu par Elric Petit, responsable du Bachelor en Design industriel à l'ECAL, et Chris Kabel, professeur à l'ECAL. Le projet dépasse vite le cadre d’un enseignement classique : le potentiel du site, l’inventivité mise en œuvre dans ce travail et la qualité des réalisations ont conduit naturellement à l’idée d’une exposition in situ. Les contraintes liées au lieu (proximité du lac, intégration du paysage) et à la nature du bâtiment (premier exemple d’architecture moderne de Suisse, monument historique d’importance nationale) se sont révélées une véritable gageure pour les étudiants et ont joué un rôle de révélateur de talents.
Group Exhibitions
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Picking up on architecture’s tradition of teaching professional experience to students through conversation, this book provides insight into the ideas, methods, and memories of Günther Vogt, and questions the attitude that this innovative landscape architect adopts towards his profession. With reference to five different locations, Günther Vogt speaks about current themes(...)
August 2012
Vogt architects: Landscape as a cabinet of curiosities
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Picking up on architecture’s tradition of teaching professional experience to students through conversation, this book provides insight into the ideas, methods, and memories of Günther Vogt, and questions the attitude that this innovative landscape architect adopts towards his profession. With reference to five different locations, Günther Vogt speaks about current themes of landscape architecture and its relationship to architecture and the city, about his teaching at the ETH Zürich, and about the work of Vogt Landscape Architects; he describes his perception of the landscape as a cabinet of curiosities, tells how he collects various phenomena and individual elements, relates them to each other and rearranges them. And in the reader’s mind’s eye unfolds a cosmos, in which the lack of wholeness of nature seems to be a gain rather than a loss.
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From Camp to City examines the theme of the refugee camp in the context of urbanism and architecture. Using the examples of the refugee camps in the Algerian desert in which Sahrawis originally from the Western Sahara have been living for 35 years, the book looks at the “urban” aspects of these settlements. In contrast to the standard way of seeing refugee camps as scenes(...)
From camp to city : refugee camps of the Western Sahara
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From Camp to City examines the theme of the refugee camp in the context of urbanism and architecture. Using the examples of the refugee camps in the Algerian desert in which Sahrawis originally from the Western Sahara have been living for 35 years, the book looks at the “urban” aspects of these settlements. In contrast to the standard way of seeing refugee camps as scenes of human misery and despair, the examination concentrates on how people live and dwell in refugee camps, on how they work, move around, and enjoy themselves, and looks at the spaces and structures that are created in the process. With numerous images and texts, individual aspects of urban life are presented and analyzed in the different chapters. As an examination of a “borderline case” of urbanity, the publication does not ignore the problematic aspects of this theme, but on the contrary: its potential explosiveness is further underscored by the focus on a “vocabulary of the urban.” It allows an understanding of the camps as a political project. The publication is based on research studies of the ETH Studio Basel, Institute of Contemporary Urbanism at the ETH Zurich.
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In the 1920s and 1930s, the Villa Foscari in Venice, better known as La Malcontenta, became a meeting place for intellectuals, artists, and members of the nobility such as Serge Diaghilev, Boris Kochno, Serge Lifar, Winston Churchill, Robert Byron, Diana Cooper, and Le Corbusier. It was an era of inspiring encounters between aristocrats, the avantgarde, snobs, and(...)
Tumult and order : Malcontenta, 1924-1939
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In the 1920s and 1930s, the Villa Foscari in Venice, better known as La Malcontenta, became a meeting place for intellectuals, artists, and members of the nobility such as Serge Diaghilev, Boris Kochno, Serge Lifar, Winston Churchill, Robert Byron, Diana Cooper, and Le Corbusier. It was an era of inspiring encounters between aristocrats, the avantgarde, snobs, and intellectuals that ended when Italy entered World War II. Antonio Foscari recounts this lively period in the building’s history and talks about its then owner, Bertie Landsberg, and his friends Catherine de Rochegude, Baroness of Erlanger, and Paul Rodocanachi, who not only lovingly renovated the villa, but made it such a lively place for the first time. The text is complemented by numerous photographs dating from this exciting time that convey an impression of what was happening in the villa in those days.
Architectural Theory
The private Palladio
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Andrea Palladio’s Renaissance villa architecture is still admired for its elegance and harmony, but little is known about the person behind the buildings. Experienced Palladio researcher Guido Beltramini has worked meticulously on material from historical documents about Palladio’s person and life, and assembled a full picture of the architect. The Private Palladio(...)
The private Palladio
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Andrea Palladio’s Renaissance villa architecture is still admired for its elegance and harmony, but little is known about the person behind the buildings. Experienced Palladio researcher Guido Beltramini has worked meticulously on material from historical documents about Palladio’s person and life, and assembled a full picture of the architect. The Private Palladio follows his career, his rise from being the ordinary miller’s son Pietro della Gondola to become the architect Andrea Palladio. Beltramini does not just explore Palladio’s origins, his training as a stonemason, and his complex relationship with powerful clients and scholars, but also his private life: his jovial character, his life as a married man with five children, and not least his profound conviction that architecture can and must enrich life.
Architecture Monographs
AV 152: global school
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This instalment of the AV Monographs series offers a thorough examination of current trends in school design, profiling the complex relationship between architectural space and educational objectives. With an introductory text by Luis Fernández-Galiano and essay by Richard Ingersoll, insightful in its pointedly global take on new school construction, this issue provides(...)
AV 152: global school
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This instalment of the AV Monographs series offers a thorough examination of current trends in school design, profiling the complex relationship between architectural space and educational objectives. With an introductory text by Luis Fernández-Galiano and essay by Richard Ingersoll, insightful in its pointedly global take on new school construction, this issue provides various examples of educational institutions realized in a wide range of locations, from the West Bank to Cape Town, and from Oslo to Barcelona.
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C3 331: library opens
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In this issue of C3 the diversity of new libraries is in the spotlight, with examples from Kanazawa (JP), Turku (FI), Hradec Králové (CZ), and Scottsdale, Arizona (US), to name a few. The Hiroshi Senju Museum Karuizawa by the Office of Ryue Nishizawa is also covered in detail, and an interview with the Spanish office of Fuses-Viader Arquitectes precedes overviews of(...)
C3 331: library opens
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In this issue of C3 the diversity of new libraries is in the spotlight, with examples from Kanazawa (JP), Turku (FI), Hradec Králové (CZ), and Scottsdale, Arizona (US), to name a few. The Hiroshi Senju Museum Karuizawa by the Office of Ryue Nishizawa is also covered in detail, and an interview with the Spanish office of Fuses-Viader Arquitectes precedes overviews of several of their most notable projects.
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A+U 497 : Recent projects
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The biannual publication from de Appel arts centre in Amsterdam, F.R. DAVID focuses on the status of (reading and) writing in contemporary art practice. Includes contributions by Adam Chodzko, H.G. Widdowson, Marjorie Perloff, Kirschner & Panos, Lydia Davis and Dan Lepard, among others.
F.R. David 9 Spring 2012: this is not new of course
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The biannual publication from de Appel arts centre in Amsterdam, F.R. DAVID focuses on the status of (reading and) writing in contemporary art practice. Includes contributions by Adam Chodzko, H.G. Widdowson, Marjorie Perloff, Kirschner & Panos, Lydia Davis and Dan Lepard, among others.
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