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This book is based on a series of ten interviews of Philip Johnson conducted by Robert A.M. Stern in 1985. The transcripts are accompanied by many documentary and archival photographs and some drawings to illustrate the subjects of the conversations. Rarely cloistering himself to commit his ideas to paper, Johnson spent a lifetime in dialogue with the world around him.
Architecture Monographs
November 2008, New York
The Philip Johnson tapes: interviews by Robert A.M. Stern
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This book is based on a series of ten interviews of Philip Johnson conducted by Robert A.M. Stern in 1985. The transcripts are accompanied by many documentary and archival photographs and some drawings to illustrate the subjects of the conversations. Rarely cloistering himself to commit his ideas to paper, Johnson spent a lifetime in dialogue with the world around him.
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Habiter en milieu naturel
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Dans Habiter en milieu naturel, Claude Phaneuf nous livre presque deux décennies d'expériences de vie à la campagne au cours desquelles il a concrétisé l'achat et la réfection d'un chalet,la copropriété de chalets sur des terrains sous bail de villégiature et finalement la construction d'une résidence permanente en milieu naturel. Il nous rapporte des éléments de ses(...)
Habiter en milieu naturel
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Dans Habiter en milieu naturel, Claude Phaneuf nous livre presque deux décennies d'expériences de vie à la campagne au cours desquelles il a concrétisé l'achat et la réfection d'un chalet,la copropriété de chalets sur des terrains sous bail de villégiature et finalement la construction d'une résidence permanente en milieu naturel. Il nous rapporte des éléments de ses trois projets sur les rives de différents lacs où il a rencontré diverses embûches pour lesquelles il a cherché et appliqué des solutions judicieuses.
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Architects Ben van Berkel and Caroline Bos from the Amsterdam office UNStudio are undeniable stars on the international architectural scene. In their interdisciplinary united net of experts they promote creative and integral design processes, aiming to further the progressive path of contemporary architecture. The outcome is dynamic buildings like the Magnet Resonance(...)
UNStudio
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Architects Ben van Berkel and Caroline Bos from the Amsterdam office UNStudio are undeniable stars on the international architectural scene. In their interdisciplinary united net of experts they promote creative and integral design processes, aiming to further the progressive path of contemporary architecture. The outcome is dynamic buildings like the Magnet Resonance Institute at the University of Utrecht or the Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart; buildings of extreme conceptual and technical complexity and conviction that also offer a rare level of architectural experience. Surely one of the office’s qualities is the fact that a sense of atmosphere and beauty is never neglected in these buildings and objects designed with artistic fervour.
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Swiss architect Hans-Jörg Ruch has made an international name for himself with his thrillingly designed buildings and restorations. Based in St. Moritz since 1989, his specialty has been the reconstruction of the grand farmhouses and homesteads of the Alpine Engadin in southeast Switzerland--an architect's dream environment as an epic stage for architectural experiment.(...)
Architecture Monographs
August 2008, Zurich
Historic houses in th engadin: architectural interventions by Hans-Jörg Ruch
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Swiss architect Hans-Jörg Ruch has made an international name for himself with his thrillingly designed buildings and restorations. Based in St. Moritz since 1989, his specialty has been the reconstruction of the grand farmhouses and homesteads of the Alpine Engadin in southeast Switzerland--an architect's dream environment as an epic stage for architectural experiment. Through Ruch's bold interventions, the character of these Engadin houses enters into a fresh interplay with the traditional architecture of that region and with the spectacular backdrop surrounding them. Ten of Ruch's interventions are presented in this book for the first time, illustrated with more than 200 large-format photographs and plans. Supplementing these photographs is a personal text by Ruch, in which he outlines his philosophy, explains his approach to individual projects and presents the construction materials as they are revealed in the course of reconstruction.
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Yona Friedman
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Paris-based architect and theorist Yona Friedman's 2008-09 Musée dans la rue project places provocative mini-museums--agglomer-ations of Plexiglass cubes and parallelepipeds placed on top of one another--on the streets of major European cities, where they may be adapted by anyone who wishes to make their mark.
Yona Friedman
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Paris-based architect and theorist Yona Friedman's 2008-09 Musée dans la rue project places provocative mini-museums--agglomer-ations of Plexiglass cubes and parallelepipeds placed on top of one another--on the streets of major European cities, where they may be adapted by anyone who wishes to make their mark.
Architecture Monographs
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Upon completing the eponymous Le Corbusier Building in Berlin in 1958, the pioneering Modernist architect Le Corbusier described the building as rising up to, a monumental size without taking from any of its parts their respect for the individual, physical and subjective dimension. Le Corbusier had confronted Berliners, in their divided city, with his concept of communal(...)
Typ Berlin: Le Corbusier's building in Charlottenburg
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Upon completing the eponymous Le Corbusier Building in Berlin in 1958, the pioneering Modernist architect Le Corbusier described the building as rising up to, a monumental size without taking from any of its parts their respect for the individual, physical and subjective dimension. Le Corbusier had confronted Berliners, in their divided city, with his concept of communal living--a 17-story reinforced-concrete building containing 557 apartments, with only nine corridors to provide access to all of them. Le Corbusier's "machine for living" still influences the inhabitants of the building, yet no matter the architect's intention, it is ultimately the building's residents that give a house its life. Ethnologist and photographer Bärbel Högner was well aware of this when she moved into the Le Corbusier building as artist-in-residence in 2007. Her findings are published in this stunning volume, which features images of the interplay between residents and Le Corbusier's architectural masterwork.
Architecture Monographs
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This fascinating book deals with the intersecting lives and careers of two visionary European architects in the first half of the 20th century. Erich Mendelsohn, steeped in German culture, is a convinced Zionist deeply aware of his ancient Judaic roots. Hendricus Wijdeveld, a Dutch Catholic, is proud of his 'Aryan' ancestry, but is married to a Jewish wife. In a(...)
Architectural Theory
January 2008, Berlin
Through a clouded glass: Mendelsohn, Wideveld, and the Jewish Connection
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This fascinating book deals with the intersecting lives and careers of two visionary European architects in the first half of the 20th century. Erich Mendelsohn, steeped in German culture, is a convinced Zionist deeply aware of his ancient Judaic roots. Hendricus Wijdeveld, a Dutch Catholic, is proud of his 'Aryan' ancestry, but is married to a Jewish wife. In a penetrating and wide-ranging analysis their enduring friendship is examined.
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The Dolder Grand
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In 2009, the Dolder Grand celebrates its first birthday following a four-year remodelling by Foster+Partners. To mark the occasion, this publication outlines the history of an iconic institution, steeped in tradition, from its beginnings as a Kurhaus in 1899 to its present-day reincarnation. Photographers from the Zurich studio nave have documented the entire project(...)
The Dolder Grand
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In 2009, the Dolder Grand celebrates its first birthday following a four-year remodelling by Foster+Partners. To mark the occasion, this publication outlines the history of an iconic institution, steeped in tradition, from its beginnings as a Kurhaus in 1899 to its present-day reincarnation. Photographers from the Zurich studio nave have documented the entire project throughout every stage of the refurbishment, charting the scope of the hotel’s metamorphosis. They portray the people who made it all possible and also allow them to speak for themselves. The resulting narrative in pictures and words is not simply a linear documentation, but a rich and complex tapestry in which text and image are interwoven with a lyricism that brings the architecture to life on the pages of the book. Journalist Judith Wyder complements the photographs with anecdotes that give a many-facetted insight into the operational logistics behind the scenes in the day-to-day running of the hotel. In addition, she details the painstaking restoration work, the history of the hotel itself and the names of some of its most famous guests. Dutch novelist Cees Nooteboom has contributed an essay in which he describes the hotel as a microcosm and a home away from home, musing on how guests tend to take possession of the hotels they stay in.
Architecture Monographs
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In this volume, the numerous excerpts, preliminary notes, accompanying drawings, and photographs that Le Corbusier produced in connection with his lectures are presented and contextualized by one of the leading experts on the great architect. In them we see modernism at work. Always a great rhetorician and a master at staging his own persona, Le Corbusier takes the(...)
The rhetoric of modernism: Le Corbusier as a lecturer
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In this volume, the numerous excerpts, preliminary notes, accompanying drawings, and photographs that Le Corbusier produced in connection with his lectures are presented and contextualized by one of the leading experts on the great architect. In them we see modernism at work. Always a great rhetorician and a master at staging his own persona, Le Corbusier takes the arguments and strategies, seminal ideas and most convincing highlights and fuses them into an architectural conception that every advanced architectural position and practice must still come to terms with today.
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Paul Howell, a planning consultant and key player in the Montreal Olympic Organizing Committee, offers an insider's perspective on how a vast, complex, expensive, and highly politicized event was organized within the constraints imposed by limited resources, an unyielding deadline, and intense pressures from international and local special interest groups. He looks at(...)
The Montréal Olympics : an insider's view of organizing a self-financing Games
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Paul Howell, a planning consultant and key player in the Montreal Olympic Organizing Committee, offers an insider's perspective on how a vast, complex, expensive, and highly politicized event was organized within the constraints imposed by limited resources, an unyielding deadline, and intense pressures from international and local special interest groups. He looks at both the struggles and what went uniquely right in Montreal, setting the record straight on operations, political involvement, and finance, including details of the well-publicized multi-billion dollar deficit that was misrepresented by the press and misunderstood by the public for decades. For students of organizations the Montreal 1976 Games were a watershed - the first example of a large-scale sports endeavour that applied formal project management using computers as well as critical path planning and scheduling. Focusing on this historic event to illustrate issues of organization, structure, planning, and execution, Howell offers valuable insights not only for those involved in planning Vancouver 2010 and future Games but for anyone involved in ad hoc planning on a massive scale.
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