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Faithful to a radical understanding of the profession, the recipients of the latest Pritzker Prize have over three decades developed a highly committed architecture that has managed to translate the social and environmental concerns of our times into a simple but powerful language. On the occasion of their winning the prestigious award, Arquitectura Viva presents Lacaton(...)
El Croquis Lacaton & Vassal extended reprint
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Faithful to a radical understanding of the profession, the recipients of the latest Pritzker Prize have over three decades developed a highly committed architecture that has managed to translate the social and environmental concerns of our times into a simple but powerful language. On the occasion of their winning the prestigious award, Arquitectura Viva presents Lacaton & Vassal. 1991–2021, that gathers thirty of the French practice’s most acclaimed works and projects. Four articles written by Luis Fernández-Galiano, Richard Scoffier, François Chaslin, and Enrique Sobejano complement the selection.
Architecture Monographs
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This book analyzes the form and function of the final building designed by Louis I. Kahn (1901–1974): the Yale Center for British Art. As the Center’s first director, author Jules David Prown was instrumental in Kahn’s selection as the new building’s architect in 1969. He was present throughout the processes of planning and construction until the year of Kahn’s death,(...)
On center: The late architectural philosophy of Louis I. Kahn, Yale Center for British Art
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This book analyzes the form and function of the final building designed by Louis I. Kahn (1901–1974): the Yale Center for British Art. As the Center’s first director, author Jules David Prown was instrumental in Kahn’s selection as the new building’s architect in 1969. He was present throughout the processes of planning and construction until the year of Kahn’s death, three years before the Center opened. Relying on direct quotations from Kahn, and using photographs and drawings, Prown distills and articulates the architect’s philosophy as it is embodied in the Center. Beginning with this volume, the series 'On Center' will explore the collections, history, and professional activities of the Yale Center for British Art.
Architecture Monographs
Pre-fab living
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Efficient and inexpensive to produce, pre-fabricated homes are an ideal solution to the financial and environmental costs facing the modern homeowner. Their extremely versatile format also makes them adaptable to all kinds of locations, be it a secluded off-the-grid setting or a dense urban area. This survey of the world’s most innovative pre-fab houses explores the(...)
Pre-fab living
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Efficient and inexpensive to produce, pre-fabricated homes are an ideal solution to the financial and environmental costs facing the modern homeowner. Their extremely versatile format also makes them adaptable to all kinds of locations, be it a secluded off-the-grid setting or a dense urban area. This survey of the world’s most innovative pre-fab houses explores the full range of possibilities, suitable for anyone interested in clever and creative home-building solutions—no architectural degree required. From carbon-neutral houses to plug-and-play dwellings and converted shipping containers, each chapter explores the varied and exciting ways that people are using pre-fabricated technology to address contemporary challenges.
Prefabricated Architecture
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The Dulwich Picture Gallery in the south of London was the world’s first purpose-built public art gallery. Founded in 1811, when Sir Francis Bourgeois RA bequeathed his collection of old masters "for the inspection of the public," it opened its famous building designed by John Soane in 1817. To mark the museum’s bicentenary in 2017, Dulwich Picture Gallery commissioned(...)
Pricegore & Yinka Ilori: Dulwich Pavilion
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The Dulwich Picture Gallery in the south of London was the world’s first purpose-built public art gallery. Founded in 1811, when Sir Francis Bourgeois RA bequeathed his collection of old masters "for the inspection of the public," it opened its famous building designed by John Soane in 1817. To mark the museum’s bicentenary in 2017, Dulwich Picture Gallery commissioned the first temporary summer pavilion on its grounds. For the second edition of the Dulwich Pavilion in 2019, the commission was awarded to London-based architects Dingle Price and Alex Gore in collaboration with British artist Yinka Ilori. This elegant large-format book documents this piece of built poetry in a series of striking atmospheric photographs by Sophie Roycroft. Concise essays by Job Floris and Sumayya Vally situate the project within its social, political, and cultural context and are complemented by technical details and selected plans and drawings on and inside the book’s cover.
Architecture Monographs
Atelier Deshaus 2001-2020
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Shanghai-based Atelier Deshaus, founded in 2001 as one of the first private architectural firms in China, is also one of the country’s most distinguished and innovative design studios. The firm made its name worldwide in 2014 with the much-acclaimed West Bund site for Shanghai’s Long Museum, which has since been followed by a series of further museum and other art-related(...)
Atelier Deshaus 2001-2020
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Shanghai-based Atelier Deshaus, founded in 2001 as one of the first private architectural firms in China, is also one of the country’s most distinguished and innovative design studios. The firm made its name worldwide in 2014 with the much-acclaimed West Bund site for Shanghai’s Long Museum, which has since been followed by a series of further museum and other art-related projects. Such cultural and community buildings of various scales are the main focus of Atelier Deshaus, who deliberately eschew the usual commercial construction tasks in China. Their strong buildings are developed from reading the sites with special attention paid to the preservation of Shanghai’s industrial heritage after decades of a tabula rasa policy in the city’s urban development. At the core of this book are Atelier Deshaus’s twenty most important designs from 2001 to 2020. They are documented in detail through plans and images as well as concise explanatory texts by the architects. In an extensive conversation with Hubertus Adam, the firm’s principals Liu Yichun and Chen Yifeng offer insights into their way of thinking, their understanding of Chinese tradition, their relation to art, and the challenges of working as a nongovernmental office in China. Additional essays place Atelier Deshaus in the context of contemporary international architecture and discuss their key projects with regards to constructive qualities and atmosphere.
Architecture Monographs
L'Homme et sa maison
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Figure pionnière et incontournable de la géographie française, Pierre Deffontaines publie ce texte majeur en 1972, peu de temps avant sa mort.Le géographe a alors dans ses bagages de « voyageur actif » d'innombrables lectures, carnets de terrain et dessins sur le vif; de quoi nourrir abondamment plusieurs monographies régionales mais, surtout, donner corps à cet ambitieux(...)
L'Homme et sa maison
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Figure pionnière et incontournable de la géographie française, Pierre Deffontaines publie ce texte majeur en 1972, peu de temps avant sa mort.Le géographe a alors dans ses bagages de « voyageur actif » d'innombrables lectures, carnets de terrain et dessins sur le vif; de quoi nourrir abondamment plusieurs monographies régionales mais, surtout, donner corps à cet ambitieux volume sur la diversité des hommes au prisme de leur « marque essentielle » : la maison.De branchages ou de pierre, souterraines ou dominantes, bourgeoises ou agraires, groupées ou dispersées… les habitations des cinq continents sont ici répertoriées dans un souci d'exhaustivité et de description méthodique. Toutes spécifiques et adaptées à leur milieu, elles apparaissent sous la plume de ce passionné comme des structures dont la trame répond aux exigences d'ordre physique, économique et symbolique de leurs occupants.Sous-tendu par la conscience d'une uniformisation progressive de l'habitat et de la fin annoncée des modes de vie traditionnels, ce travail de synthèse s'entend comme une entreprise de recueil des principales empreintes humaines avant que ne s'éteigne un monde séculaire.Mais outre un précieux témoignage historique teinté d'ethnographie, les pages illustrées de ce classique de la géographie humaine recèlent entre leurs lignes un enseignement remarquable; une leçon magistrale sur la science, sinon l'art, de l'attentive observation.« La maison est le reflet de la vie des hommes, de leur effort physique, de leur pensée, de leur état social, de leur degré d'évolution. » Pierre Deffontaines
Residential Architecture
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"Andrea Palladio in Los Angeles" is a monograph of twenty-one new Palladian projects set in present-day Los Angeles. Accompanied by critical essays and meticulously redrawn projects from Palladio's seminal text, "I Quattro Libri dell'Architettura," the publication examines Los Angeles' complex urban and cultural context through the guise of Palladian proportion,(...)
Andrea Palladio in Los Angeles
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"Andrea Palladio in Los Angeles" is a monograph of twenty-one new Palladian projects set in present-day Los Angeles. Accompanied by critical essays and meticulously redrawn projects from Palladio's seminal text, "I Quattro Libri dell'Architettura," the publication examines Los Angeles' complex urban and cultural context through the guise of Palladian proportion, typology, and ideology. Andrea Palladio is known equally for his built work as he is for his written work, the influence of which is clearly felt on the course of architecture in America. Despite the fact that he was born less than two decades after the discovery of America and would, quite clearly, never build in Los Angeles, this publication offers suggestions of what might have been had Palladio made it to the Pacific. The inaugural issue of PAX, "Andrea Palladio in Los Angeles," will deal with these two historically distant but thematically intimate topics in search of a richer and more productive reading of both.
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Melting landscape
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This publication is part of architect Kei Kaihoh’s exhibit at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2021. In the form of a card set, ''Melting landscape'' presents 53 sketches with related infos, explanations and ideas written on the back of each card. ''What does snow mean to the people living in Yasuzuka, and to us? Why do people live in heavy snowfall areas? How to(...)
Melting landscape
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This publication is part of architect Kei Kaihoh’s exhibit at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2021. In the form of a card set, ''Melting landscape'' presents 53 sketches with related infos, explanations and ideas written on the back of each card. ''What does snow mean to the people living in Yasuzuka, and to us? Why do people live in heavy snowfall areas? How to understand the harshness and beauty of snow?” Snow is always full of contradictions and complexities. This project will explore the possibility of coexistence between people and snow by approaching the true nature of snow through images created by video director Tomoko Mikanagi.
Architecture Monographs
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In this book, one of the founders of the legendary Viennese collective of architects and artists, sets out his intellectual cosmos and examines his performances, objects, and architectural works in terms of their contemporary relevance. Luftschlosser compiles photographs and texts from the Zamp Kelp archive, putting them together with collages, drawings, memories, and(...)
Zamp Kelp: Prospector : Casting Eye on Haus-Rucker-Co and Post-Haus-Rucker
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In this book, one of the founders of the legendary Viennese collective of architects and artists, sets out his intellectual cosmos and examines his performances, objects, and architectural works in terms of their contemporary relevance. Luftschlosser compiles photographs and texts from the Zamp Kelp archive, putting them together with collages, drawings, memories, and essays written specially for the book. Science-fiction stories and biographical notes as well as freshly edited essays—some of them previously unpublished—on architecture, landscape, the city, space, and virtuality contribute to a comprehensive portrait of the visionary architect, Utopian, and professor.
Architecture Monographs
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"Voices of the land: Indigenous design and planning from the prairies" produced by the Indigenous Design and Planning Students’ Association (IDPSA), of the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Manitoba. IDPSA was founded in Fall 2019, as a platform to host honest conversations around inclusion and representation. In an effort to broaden the lens of Indigenous(...)
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Voices of the land : Indigenous design and planning from the prairies
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"Voices of the land: Indigenous design and planning from the prairies" produced by the Indigenous Design and Planning Students’ Association (IDPSA), of the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Manitoba. IDPSA was founded in Fall 2019, as a platform to host honest conversations around inclusion and representation. In an effort to broaden the lens of Indigenous design and planning, IDPSA actively seeks to incorporate Indigenous values within the design community through advocating for culturally informed initiatives, programs, and curriculum. This book features 16 Indigenous students, representing a range of nations across Turtle Island, and spanning all four departments (Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Interior Design, and City Planning) from the Faculty of Architecture. In it, you will read profiles of their members, faculty, and alumni, along with their artistic visions and designs. The intention with this publication is to ensure that these important conversations on inclusion and representation in design education continue throughout Turtle Island.
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