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Un livre inédit et étonnant sur l’architecture version petit format. Une sélection passionnante, accessible et instructive des structures architecturales infiniment petites imaginées au cours des dernières décennies. L’ouvrage présente 300 projets réalisés dans le monde entier, notamment en Chine, en Corée, au Japon, en Amérique du Sud et du Nord et en Europe. Un ouvrage(...)
Nanotecture: édifices miniatures
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Un livre inédit et étonnant sur l’architecture version petit format. Une sélection passionnante, accessible et instructive des structures architecturales infiniment petites imaginées au cours des dernières décennies. L’ouvrage présente 300 projets réalisés dans le monde entier, notamment en Chine, en Corée, au Japon, en Amérique du Sud et du Nord et en Europe. Un ouvrage de référence visuel documenté et divertissant destiné aux architectes, aux designers et aux personnes qui s’intéressent à la construction contemporaine dans son environnement.
Miniature Architecture
Le Corbusier conférencier
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On connait Le Corbusier architecte, peintre, designer, théoricien... Ce livre aborde un aspect sans doute moins connu de sa personnalité, celui de conférencier, qui eut une importance capitale dans sa carrière. Tout au long de sa vie, des années 1920 jusqu'aux années 1960, Le Corbusier prononce des conférences dans le monde entier: en Europe bien sûr, à Paris, Madrid,(...)
Le Corbusier conférencier
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On connait Le Corbusier architecte, peintre, designer, théoricien... Ce livre aborde un aspect sans doute moins connu de sa personnalité, celui de conférencier, qui eut une importance capitale dans sa carrière. Tout au long de sa vie, des années 1920 jusqu'aux années 1960, Le Corbusier prononce des conférences dans le monde entier: en Europe bien sûr, à Paris, Madrid, Barcelone, Genève, Zurich, Stockholm, Oslo, Anvers, Rome, Prague, Moscou, mais aussi à Alger, aux États-Unis et en Amérique Latine.
Architecture Monographs
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De Luister van het Land - 2008 I was invited by Galerie 37 Spaarnestad to make new work with material from the Spaarnestad Photo archive, one of the largest pressarchives in Europe. De Luister van het Land is a caleidoscopic collection of over 250 photographs in which I interweaved old photographic narratives with my personal image in an installation on imagination and(...)
De luister van het land Koen Hauser
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De Luister van het Land - 2008 I was invited by Galerie 37 Spaarnestad to make new work with material from the Spaarnestad Photo archive, one of the largest pressarchives in Europe. De Luister van het Land is a caleidoscopic collection of over 250 photographs in which I interweaved old photographic narratives with my personal image in an installation on imagination and ephemerality. Next to the exhibition I created a book with graphic designer Bart de Baets.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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Now in paperback, this book introduces an important and largely neglected subject and considers conservation methods in a global context. It traces the history of some of the great floors of Europe. Authorities, archaeologists, architects and archivists consider the latest methods of recording and repairing historic floors, including those of cathedrals, country houses(...)
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Historic floors : their care and conservation
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Now in paperback, this book introduces an important and largely neglected subject and considers conservation methods in a global context. It traces the history of some of the great floors of Europe. Authorities, archaeologists, architects and archivists consider the latest methods of recording and repairing historic floors, including those of cathedrals, country houses and other public buildings. Management policies to protect floors in over-visited sites are considered and historic features particularly at risk, are identified.
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This selection of groundbreaking essays offers an overdue reassessment of the aims and intentions of European architecture and urbanism over the period 1880-1960. It pursues those stimuli to human creativity - myth, history, spirituality - which have not been admitted to the standard histories of twentieth-century architecture and urbanism. Nine chapters by distinguished(...)
Modernism and the spirit of the city
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This selection of groundbreaking essays offers an overdue reassessment of the aims and intentions of European architecture and urbanism over the period 1880-1960. It pursues those stimuli to human creativity - myth, history, spirituality - which have not been admitted to the standard histories of twentieth-century architecture and urbanism. Nine chapters by distinguished scholars focus on the city as the dominant generator of social, political and cultural institutions and structures in late nineteenth and twentieth-century Europe.
Urban Theory
Dutch design meets bamboo
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This book consists of three parts. The first part contains the result of the design workshop "Bamboo labs", supplemented with the designers personal comments. The second part consists of an introduction on bamboo as a plant and as a material, and an analysis of the causes of the low market share of bamboo products in Western Europe. The thrid part is dedicated to the(...)
Industrial Design
May 2007
Dutch design meets bamboo
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This book consists of three parts. The first part contains the result of the design workshop "Bamboo labs", supplemented with the designers personal comments. The second part consists of an introduction on bamboo as a plant and as a material, and an analysis of the causes of the low market share of bamboo products in Western Europe. The thrid part is dedicated to the structure and the proceedings of the 2Bamboo labs", which formed the core of the project.
Industrial Design
Flexible Visual Systems
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This publication sums up 10 years of research of Dr. Martin Lorenz at the University of Barcelona, 20 years of developing systems at TwoPoints.Net, and 18 years of teaching systems at over 10 design universities throughout Europe. If you would place system design into a curriculum it would be the foundation course, putting you in the right mindset. The systemic approach(...)
Flexible Visual Systems
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This publication sums up 10 years of research of Dr. Martin Lorenz at the University of Barcelona, 20 years of developing systems at TwoPoints.Net, and 18 years of teaching systems at over 10 design universities throughout Europe. If you would place system design into a curriculum it would be the foundation course, putting you in the right mindset. The systemic approach can be applied to any discipline, from corporate design, communication design, user experience design to textile design.
Graphic Design and Typography
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An original and absorbing cross-disciplinary look at the many-layered connections between architecture and engineering in the 19th century, this book will captivate anyone interested in how the style of the modern city evolved when iron became the primary building material used. Extensively illustrated with photos and schematics, this book takes the reader into the(...)
Materials and Lighting
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Before steel : the introduction of structural iron and its consequences
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An original and absorbing cross-disciplinary look at the many-layered connections between architecture and engineering in the 19th century, this book will captivate anyone interested in how the style of the modern city evolved when iron became the primary building material used. Extensively illustrated with photos and schematics, this book takes the reader into the massive social transformation and increased industrialization of Europe through the 1800s, showing how the new, formable building materials re-defined architecture.
Materials and Lighting
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Endlessly diverse, bookplates (also called ex libris, Latin for "from the books of") are small decorative labels to be pasted inside a book's cover to express personal ownership. Originating in their modern printed form in 16th-century Germany, where books were highly valuable and treasured, bookplates became an art form practiced by artists across Europe and beyond. This(...)
Ex Libris: the art of bookplates
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Endlessly diverse, bookplates (also called ex libris, Latin for "from the books of") are small decorative labels to be pasted inside a book's cover to express personal ownership. Originating in their modern printed form in 16th-century Germany, where books were highly valuable and treasured, bookplates became an art form practiced by artists across Europe and beyond. This book traces the evolution of bookplate design over time and across national boundaries, showcasing 100 key examples of ex libris art.
Book Design
The battle for modernism: Quadrante and the politicization of architecture discourse in facist Italy
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The other side of twentieth-century architectural history in Italy and Europe. Quadrante rallied supporters and organized the most prominent practitioners and benefactors of Italian rationalism into a coherent movement that advanced the cause of specific currents of modern architecture in interwar Italy. Through a detailed study of Quadrante and its circle of architects,(...)
The battle for modernism: Quadrante and the politicization of architecture discourse in facist Italy
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The other side of twentieth-century architectural history in Italy and Europe. Quadrante rallied supporters and organized the most prominent practitioners and benefactors of Italian rationalism into a coherent movement that advanced the cause of specific currents of modern architecture in interwar Italy. Through a detailed study of Quadrante and its circle of architects, critics, artists, and patrons, the book investigates the relationship between modern architecture and fascist political practices in Italy during Benito Mussolini's regime (1922-1943).
Architectural Theory