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Wood is one of the most popular and desirable building materials on the contemporary scene, its special qualities serving as a reminder of our connection to the physical world in an era where virtual reality has crept into almost every facet of day-to-day life. Featured here are over thirty examples of the most expressive and inventive uses of wood in design and(...)
Wood : new directions in design and architecture
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Wood is one of the most popular and desirable building materials on the contemporary scene, its special qualities serving as a reminder of our connection to the physical world in an era where virtual reality has crept into almost every facet of day-to-day life. Featured here are over thirty examples of the most expressive and inventive uses of wood in design and architecture from all over the world. An inviting fireplace perch set beneath shelves of natural maple that stretch to the ceiling; a striking geometric studio sits nestled, half-hidden amidst the swampy creeks and overgrown scrub oaks that grow along Florida's eastern seaboard. In over 360 spectacular photos, from Tadao Ando's Museum of Wood to Edward Cullinan's Westminster Lodge, each building is remarkably fresh and distinctly original. Wood serves not only as a document of present ingenuity in the craft, but as a signpost pointing toward an entirely new direction in architecture.
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January 2002, San Francisco
Green Architecture
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This book is the celebration of small buildings, those unexpected structures that make us momentarily pause to ponder their meaning, or our own meaning, or simply to appreciate the elegance of their creation. From the spectrum of functions and styles of these structures, it is clear that size imposes no limits on creativity, and utility is no constraint to beauty.(...)
Miniature Architecture
November 2001, London
XS : big ideas, small buildings
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This book is the celebration of small buildings, those unexpected structures that make us momentarily pause to ponder their meaning, or our own meaning, or simply to appreciate the elegance of their creation. From the spectrum of functions and styles of these structures, it is clear that size imposes no limits on creativity, and utility is no constraint to beauty. Thonking small is a wonderfully constructive exercise.
Miniature Architecture
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This book features twenty recently built houses that have been designed by some of today's leading architects and presents more than 200 colour photographs and plans.
Residential Architecture
November 2001, New York
House : American houses for the new century
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This book features twenty recently built houses that have been designed by some of today's leading architects and presents more than 200 colour photographs and plans.
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November 2001, New York
Residential Architecture
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Avec neuf fusains d'Henri Gaudin.
Rythme et arts : les fins de l'architecture
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Avec neuf fusains d'Henri Gaudin.
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May 2001, Lecques
Architectural Theory
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Extensively illustrated, the catalog contains an essay by the artistic director, Okwui Enwezor, contributions from members of the Documenta11 team, and texts written by invited authors from different fields, such as art history, philosophy, or theory. All artists are featured with illustrations of representative works, and the documentation of selected artists’ projects(...)
January 1900, Ostfildern
Documenta_11 exhibition catalogue
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Extensively illustrated, the catalog contains an essay by the artistic director, Okwui Enwezor, contributions from members of the Documenta11 team, and texts written by invited authors from different fields, such as art history, philosophy, or theory. All artists are featured with illustrations of representative works, and the documentation of selected artists’ projects and writings facilitate an additional insight into the processes of creative thought and the mechanisms of reception at stake in the making of the exhibition. Short guide also available.
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January 1900, Ostfildern
La ville en creux
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La ville est-elle constituée par ses bâtiments ou par l'espace qu'ils déterminent et que l'auteur dit «en creux» : ses places, ses promenades, ses boulevards? Ce sont ces espaces que nous arpentons, dans lesquels nous respirons, que nous percevons avec tout notre corps. Leur complexité est à l'origine d'un processus dynamique qui donne sa forme à la ville. L'auteur(...)
La ville en creux
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La ville est-elle constituée par ses bâtiments ou par l'espace qu'ils déterminent et que l'auteur dit «en creux» : ses places, ses promenades, ses boulevards? Ce sont ces espaces que nous arpentons, dans lesquels nous respirons, que nous percevons avec tout notre corps. Leur complexité est à l'origine d'un processus dynamique qui donne sa forme à la ville. L'auteur replace dans l'histoire de la ville la lente constitution de ces espaces. Avec son expérience d'architecte, d'urbaniste et d'élu local, il en a cherché les fondements, étudiant plus particulièrement quelques espaces connus, tel le forum de Rome, notamment dans leur dimensions instrumentale et symbolique. Il donne aussi quelques clés pour que les espaces publics soient ouverts à la diversité sans perdre la nécessaire unité.
Urban Theory
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From the Studebaker and the Slinky(r) to the TWA terminal and paintings by Willem de Kooning and Mark Rothko, 1940 to 1960 was a compelling era for the arts in America. Artists and designers responded to the atomic-age anxieties of the postwar period with "vital" forms-organic imagery and biomorphic shapes based on nature. These forms proliferated during the optimism of(...)
Interior Design
October 2001, New York
Vital forms : American art and design in the atomic age, 1940 - 1960
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From the Studebaker and the Slinky(r) to the TWA terminal and paintings by Willem de Kooning and Mark Rothko, 1940 to 1960 was a compelling era for the arts in America. Artists and designers responded to the atomic-age anxieties of the postwar period with "vital" forms-organic imagery and biomorphic shapes based on nature. These forms proliferated during the optimism of the late '40s and '50s prosperity, in Tupperware(r) and the Hula Hoop as well as Eames chairs and Calder mobiles. Examining visual arts from an interdisciplinary perspective, "Vital Forms" focuses on the development and ascendancy of organic imagery. Essays placing the works in historical context are by Paul Boyer, Martin Filler, Mildred Friedman, and Karal Ann Marling.
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October 2001, New York
Interior Design
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Perfect Acts of Architecture
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Between 1977 and 1987, a sluggish world economy that all but curtailed new building moved the most talented architects into teaching positions. In the academic environment, graphic experimentation proliferated and architects encountered an intellectual scene filled with passionate debates about philosophy, criticism, and social thought. This set the stage for an eruption(...)
Architecture since 1900, Europe
September 2001, New York
Perfect Acts of Architecture
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Between 1977 and 1987, a sluggish world economy that all but curtailed new building moved the most talented architects into teaching positions. In the academic environment, graphic experimentation proliferated and architects encountered an intellectual scene filled with passionate debates about philosophy, criticism, and social thought. This set the stage for an eruption of "paper architecture" of incomparable beauty and depth. Perfect Acts of Architecture identifies the preeminent achievements of five architects working during that turbulent period: Peter Eisenman, Rem Koolhaas, Daniel Libeskind, Thom Mayne, and Bernard Tschumi. Catalogue of the exhibition at the Wexner Center for the Arts.
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September 2001, New York
Architecture since 1900, Europe
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Louis Kahn
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Photographs by Roberto Schezen.
Louis Kahn
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Photographs by Roberto Schezen.
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October 2001, New york
Architecture Monographs
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Rachel Whiteread (b. 1963) creates spare, poetic sculptures that challenge perceptions of the commonplace. Working from everyday domestic items, she casts - in rubber, concrete, plaster, and polyester resin - the negative spaces inside closets and underneath beds, sinks, bathtubs, and chairs. Now, in what may be her most personal project to date, the Turner Prize-winning(...)
Contemporary Art Monographs
October 2001, New York
Rachel Whiteread : transient spaces
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Rachel Whiteread (b. 1963) creates spare, poetic sculptures that challenge perceptions of the commonplace. Working from everyday domestic items, she casts - in rubber, concrete, plaster, and polyester resin - the negative spaces inside closets and underneath beds, sinks, bathtubs, and chairs. Now, in what may be her most personal project to date, the Turner Prize-winning artist has been commissioned by Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin to make two large-scale casts from distinct spaces in a London building that she recently purchased to become her home and studio. Although the building has a history as both a synagogue and a factory, it is a product of austere postwar architecture, lacking many of the traditional embellishments associated with such structures. This fully illustrated volume documents Whiteread's process as she creates casts from this religious-cum-industrial-cum-personal space, which blurs boundaries between the spiritual and secular, as well as the public and private.
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October 2001, New York
Contemporary Art Monographs