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This monograph presents a comprehensive overview of the designs and finished projects by the architectural firm, De Zwarte Hond [The Black Dog] (formerly Karelse Van der Meer Architecten). De Zwarte Hond, with offices in Groningen and Rotterdam, has one of most extensive and eclectic portfolios of built projects in the Netherlands. The firm is distinctive for its(...)
Architecture Monographs
November 2004, Rotterdam
Dutch realist : De Zwarte Hond - Karelse Van der Meer Architecten
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This monograph presents a comprehensive overview of the designs and finished projects by the architectural firm, De Zwarte Hond [The Black Dog] (formerly Karelse Van der Meer Architecten). De Zwarte Hond, with offices in Groningen and Rotterdam, has one of most extensive and eclectic portfolios of built projects in the Netherlands. The firm is distinctive for its down-to-earth design mentality, inspired by the conviction that the best design is the result of a thorough study of the requirements, programme and context of each project. The book examines De Zwarte Hond’s design process, dealing with their concern for craftsmanship and research, and provides a complete overview of hundreds of their projects.
Architecture Monographs
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Comment émerge le désir de communauté ? Comment s'établit la cité ? A partir du mythe de Coyote et de ses compères, Philippe Madec déroule avec nous le fil des permanences premières, depuis la cosmogonie des Indiens d'Amérique du Nord jusqu'à la volonté universelle des hommes d'habiter la Terre ensemble.
Le coyote, le petit renard, le geai et le pou
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Comment émerge le désir de communauté ? Comment s'établit la cité ? A partir du mythe de Coyote et de ses compères, Philippe Madec déroule avec nous le fil des permanences premières, depuis la cosmogonie des Indiens d'Amérique du Nord jusqu'à la volonté universelle des hommes d'habiter la Terre ensemble.
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Le problème de l'évolution spatiale, territoriale et socioculturelle des villes maritimes et portuaires du sud-ouest et de l'ouest de l'Océan Indien ( Zanzibar, Moroni, Mamoudzou, Mahajanga, Toamasina, Antsiranana, Saint-Denis de la Réunion, Port-Louis) constitue cette étude. Celle-ci s'organise, non seulement autour de l'interaction espace, architecture et société, mais(...)
Paysages urbains et lieux de vie : étude diachronique des villes maritimes insulaires de sud-ouest et de l'ouest de l'océan Indien
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Le problème de l'évolution spatiale, territoriale et socioculturelle des villes maritimes et portuaires du sud-ouest et de l'ouest de l'Océan Indien ( Zanzibar, Moroni, Mamoudzou, Mahajanga, Toamasina, Antsiranana, Saint-Denis de la Réunion, Port-Louis) constitue cette étude. Celle-ci s'organise, non seulement autour de l'interaction espace, architecture et société, mais aussi autour de l'importance que revêt le territoire dans le cadre du développement urbain, caractérisé aussi par la diversité des populations qui les structurent.
Urban Theory
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Le concept de patrimoine englobe, certes, celui de monument historique mais en le dépassant très largement à la fois quantitativement et qualitativement. Quantitativement puisque, par delà les artefacts, le patrimoine peut concerner une langue, une tradition, un savoir faire. Mais qualitativement aussi dans la mesure où la mise en évidence de la valeur patrimoniale d'un(...)
May 2004, Saint-Étienne
Variations autour du patrimoine : un cas d'école, le Forez
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Le concept de patrimoine englobe, certes, celui de monument historique mais en le dépassant très largement à la fois quantitativement et qualitativement. Quantitativement puisque, par delà les artefacts, le patrimoine peut concerner une langue, une tradition, un savoir faire. Mais qualitativement aussi dans la mesure où la mise en évidence de la valeur patrimoniale d'un lieu, d'un événement ou d'un fait a souvent non seulement échappé aux structures officielles chargées de l'identification et de la préservation des monuments historiques mais s'est parfois imposée à elles. Ce fut particulièrement le cas en Forez, après qu'il soit passé de la gloire apportée par L'Astrée d'Honoré d'Urfé (XVIIe-XVIIIe siècles) à l'oubli quand ce n'était pas à l'opprobre de la " ville noire " (XIXe-XXe siècles). Or, voilà que depuis quelques décennies ce territoire et ses habitants, longtemps " sans histoire " pour certains, non seulement découvrent leur passé mais le valorisent comme un patrimoine dont la richesse est désormais reconnue. Cela étant, le propos de cet ouvrage n'est pas celui d'un inventaire ou d'un guide au sens traditionnel du terme, mais plutôt celui d'une sorte de manuel du processus de " patrimonialisation ". C'est la raison pour laquelle, après avoir consacré le premier chapitre au concept lui-même de patrimoine et à ce qui le différencie si nettement de celui de monument historique qu'il englobe néanmoins, les suivants abordent les conditions dans lesquelles est apparu et s'est développé ce qui est aujourd'hui perçu comme le patrimoine forézien.
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Pour qui découvre la Bretagne, une évidence s’impose : la plupart des maisons construites au cours des dernières décennies présentent un air de parenté qui caractérise désormais le paysage. Ce néo-régionalisme peut intriguer : et si ces maisons faisaient écran au démantèlement du monde dont elles se prétendent héritières et garantes…
La maison ou l'identité galvaudée
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Pour qui découvre la Bretagne, une évidence s’impose : la plupart des maisons construites au cours des dernières décennies présentent un air de parenté qui caractérise désormais le paysage. Ce néo-régionalisme peut intriguer : et si ces maisons faisaient écran au démantèlement du monde dont elles se prétendent héritières et garantes…
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November 2003, Rennes
History until 1900
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Robert Venturi exploded onto the architectural scene in 1966 with a radical call to arms in "Complexity and Contradiction". Further accolades and outrage ensued in 1972 when Venturi and Denise Scott Brown (along with Steven Izenour) analyzed the Las Vegas strip as an archetype in "Learning from Las Vegas". Now, for the first time, these two observer-designer-theorists(...)
Architectural Theory
October 2004, Cambridge, Mass.
Architecture as signs and systems for a mannerist time
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Robert Venturi exploded onto the architectural scene in 1966 with a radical call to arms in "Complexity and Contradiction". Further accolades and outrage ensued in 1972 when Venturi and Denise Scott Brown (along with Steven Izenour) analyzed the Las Vegas strip as an archetype in "Learning from Las Vegas". Now, for the first time, these two observer-designer-theorists turn their iconoclastic vision onto their own remarkable partnership and the rule-breaking architecture it has informed. The views of Venturi and Scott Brown have influenced architects worldwide for nearly half a century. Pluralism and multiculturalism; symbolism and iconography; popular culture and the everyday landscape; generic building and electronic communication are among the many ideas they have championed. Here, they present both a fascinating retrospective of their life work and a definitive statement of its theoretical underpinnings. Accessible, informative, and beautifully illustrated, Architecture as Signs and Systems is a must for students of architecture and urban planning, as well as anyone intrigued by these seminal cultural figures. Venturi and Scott Brown have devoted their professional lives to broadening our view of the built world and enlarging the purview of practitioners within it. By looking backward over their own life work, they discover signs and systems that point forward, toward a humane Mannerist architecture for a complex, multicultural society.
Architectural Theory
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This illustrated book establishes the towering influence of the scientist Victor Regneault (1810-1878)in the earliest decades of photography, a period of experimentation ripe with artistic, commercial, and scientific possibility. Regneault has a double significance to the early history of photography, as the first leader of the Société française de photographie (S.F.P.)(...)
Victor Regnault and the advance of photography : the art of avoiding errors
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This illustrated book establishes the towering influence of the scientist Victor Regneault (1810-1878)in the earliest decades of photography, a period of experimentation ripe with artistic, commercial, and scientific possibility. Regneault has a double significance to the early history of photography, as the first leader of the Société française de photographie (S.F.P.) and as the maker of more than two hundred calotype (paper negative) portraits and landscapes.
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In "Jacques Henri Lartigue : the invention of an artist", Kevin Moore puts to rest the long-held myth of Lartigue as a naive boy genius whose creations were based on instinct alone. Moore begins by exploring the milieu in which Lartigue became a photographer, examining his father's crutial role in teaching him the techniques as well as the larger context of the(...)
Jacques Henri Lartigue : the invention of an artist
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In "Jacques Henri Lartigue : the invention of an artist", Kevin Moore puts to rest the long-held myth of Lartigue as a naive boy genius whose creations were based on instinct alone. Moore begins by exploring the milieu in which Lartigue became a photographer, examining his father's crutial role in teaching him the techniques as well as the larger context of the turn-of-the-century craze for amateur photography.
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October 2004, Princeton
Photography monographs
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Published in connection of the centennial of the artist's birth, this book draws on Noguchi's letters, his reminescences, and interviews with his friends and colleagues to cast a new light on his youth, his creativity and his relationships. During his sixty-year career, there is hardly a genre that Noguchi failed to explore. He produced more than 2,500 works of(...)
The life of Isamu Noguchi : journey without borders
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Published in connection of the centennial of the artist's birth, this book draws on Noguchi's letters, his reminescences, and interviews with his friends and colleagues to cast a new light on his youth, his creativity and his relationships. During his sixty-year career, there is hardly a genre that Noguchi failed to explore. He produced more than 2,500 works of sculpture, designed furniture, lamps and stage sets, crated dramatic public gardens all over the world; and pioneered the development of environmental art. This biography, first published in Japanese, traces Isamu Noguchi's lifelong journey across the artistic and cultural borders in search of his personal identity.
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September 2004, Princeton
Design Monographs
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In 'The world in Venice', Bronwen Wilson brings to a fore an unprecedented range of printed images and archival materials pertaining to Venice and Venitian life. Her analysis is informed by a rich selection of historical and art historical litterature and conceptualized through the strategic use of theoretical debates.
History until 1900
November 2004, Toronto, Buffalo, London
The world in Venice : print, the city, & early modern identity
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In 'The world in Venice', Bronwen Wilson brings to a fore an unprecedented range of printed images and archival materials pertaining to Venice and Venitian life. Her analysis is informed by a rich selection of historical and art historical litterature and conceptualized through the strategic use of theoretical debates.
History until 1900