Will Alsop: book 1
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Beginning with Alsop's student days at the Architectural Association in London, the book traces the architect's development through study abroad, competitions, collaborations with artists and fellow architects, early projects and built works up to 1990.
September 2001, London
Will Alsop: book 1
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Beginning with Alsop's student days at the Architectural Association in London, the book traces the architect's development through study abroad, competitions, collaborations with artists and fellow architects, early projects and built works up to 1990.
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"The City, Seen As a Garden of Ideas" is a survey of Cook’s career-long project to reinvigorate the city as we know it. A series of meditations on contemporary urban conditions in cities as diverse as Tokyo, Edinburgh, and Santa Monica, this volume also functions as an informal memoir in which Cook reveals the influences and motivations behind his works and recent(...)
Peter Cook : the city, seen as a garden of ideas
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"The City, Seen As a Garden of Ideas" is a survey of Cook’s career-long project to reinvigorate the city as we know it. A series of meditations on contemporary urban conditions in cities as diverse as Tokyo, Edinburgh, and Santa Monica, this volume also functions as an informal memoir in which Cook reveals the influences and motivations behind his works and recent projects. Included among the projects are housing at Lutzowplatz, Berlin; the winning competition design for the museum at Bad Deutsches Altenberg, Austria (both in collaboration with Christine Hawley); and the winning competition design for the Kunsthaus, a museum in Graz, Austria (in collaboration with Colin Fournier). Finally, a collection of projects and texts created especially for this monograph completes this presentation of Cook’s work.
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CAC : Hadid Studio Yale
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In spring 2000, as the Eero Saarinen Visiting Professor at Yale University, Zaha Hadid led an intense studio on the topic of the contemporary art center. Such centers are proliferating across the United States and around the world, yet their architectural form remains abstract and open-ended, subject to continual reinterpretation. Hadid’s studio - one leader, three studio(...)
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In spring 2000, as the Eero Saarinen Visiting Professor at Yale University, Zaha Hadid led an intense studio on the topic of the contemporary art center. Such centers are proliferating across the United States and around the world, yet their architectural form remains abstract and open-ended, subject to continual reinterpretation. Hadid’s studio - one leader, three studio assistants, twelve students, and numerous critics - interpreted the contemporary art center as an invitation to experiment with new forms of public space. Specific contemporary works of art became the programme for a series of radical architectural concepts that expand the space of the art, taking on the scale and materiality of full-scale architectural constructs. The studio - and this volume - was divided into ten segments, addressing such issues as programme analysis, spatialities, system conditions, current contemporary art centers, building types, sites, and linearities. Each segment is represented by original renderings, including computer images. The accompanying text is drawn from transcripts of the studio reviews by the critics: Robert A. M. Stern, dean of the Yale School of Architecture; Terence Riley and Paola Antonelli of the Museum of Modern Art; and architects, critics, and scholars Jeffrey Kipnis, Thomas Krens, Sulan Kolatan, William MacDonald, Fabian Marcaccio, Rebeca Mendez, Paola Sanguinetti, Joseph Giovannini, Marc Cousins, Greg Lynn, and Gail Witwer.
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May 2002, New York
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Constantin Boym : une figure d'exeption dans l'univers du design. Né en Russie, émigré aux USA, Boym a fait de la culture populaire américaine sa principale source d'inspiration. D'objets du quotidien, il tire des formes subtiles et fines. Travaillant pour des compagnies comme Authentics, Swatch, Swarovski ou Vitra, il a réalisé des projets qui vont du fauteuil à(...)
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November 2005, Lausanne
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Constantin Boym : une figure d'exeption dans l'univers du design. Né en Russie, émigré aux USA, Boym a fait de la culture populaire américaine sa principale source d'inspiration. D'objets du quotidien, il tire des formes subtiles et fines. Travaillant pour des compagnies comme Authentics, Swatch, Swarovski ou Vitra, il a réalisé des projets qui vont du fauteuil à l'assiette-souvenir en passant par des boîtes de conservation et de rangement, des tapis de bain ou encore une montre. Constantin Boym : an execptional figure in the design world. Born in Russia, an émigré to the USA, Boym has made American culture his prime source of inspiration. From everyday objects he extracts fine, subtle forms. Working for such fcompanies as Authentics, Swatch, Swarovski and Vitra, he has carried out projects ranging from an armchair to a souvenir plate, by way of storage boxes, bath mats and a watch. In his "Buildings of Disaster" series he reproduces in miniature buildings that have become associated with tragedy : Twin Towers. Tunnel de l'Alma, Chernobyl. Était à $53.95 / Was $53.95
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In 1825 the Erie Canal, connecting the Atlantic with the American heartland via the Great Lakes, was completed, and in 1861 the Civil War, disrupting American unity, began. This volume examines the exhilarating period between these two far-reaching events. The(...)
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October 2000, New York
Art and the empire city : New York, 1825-1861
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In 1825 the Erie Canal, connecting the Atlantic with the American heartland via the Great Lakes, was completed, and in 1861 the Civil War, disrupting American unity, began. This volume examines the exhilarating period between these two far-reaching events. The Erie Canal turned the port of New York into the gateway to the United States, ushering in a time of enormous growth and change for the city of New York. Still very much a work in progress, New York became both an international economic and cultural center: it was transformed into what contemporary observers variously termed the Empire City, the Great Emporium, and the Empress City of the West. The cultural component of this transformation was as significant as its economic aspect. Highly skilled artists and craftsmen working in New York, both native born and immigrant, grew in number, and institutions devoted to the arts emerged and flourished. With Broadway at its heart, the Great Emporium developed into the nation’s major manufacturing and retailing center, the depot for luxury goods made in and around the city and imported from Europe. The complex story of the proliferation of the arts in New York and the evolution of an increasingly discerning audience for those arts during the antebellum period is the focus of this book, which accompanies a major exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. In essays that will interest scholars as well as a more general audience, specialists from the Metropolitan Museum, the Museum of the City of New York, and the University of California at Berkeley bring new research and insights to bear on a broad range of subjects. Their texts offer both historical and cultural contexts and explore the city’s development as a nexus for the marketing and display of art, as well as private collecting; landscape painting viewed against the background of tourism; new departures in sculpture, architecture, and printmaking; the birth of photography; New York as a fashion center; shopping for home decorations; changing styles in furniture; and the evolution of the ceramics, glass, and silver industries. This volume is lavishly illustrated in color and black and white, providing reproductions of the more than three hundred works in the exhibition as well as comparative material. A checklist of works in the exhibition, a bibliography, and an index are included.
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Young asian architects
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This second volume of a new series about young architects introduces to the projects of 57 young and innovative architects from India to Australia. The book features key architectural works in the form of luscious images and insightful descriptions. An index with contact information of the architects is also enclosed.
December 2006, Collogne
Young asian architects
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This second volume of a new series about young architects introduces to the projects of 57 young and innovative architects from India to Australia. The book features key architectural works in the form of luscious images and insightful descriptions. An index with contact information of the architects is also enclosed.
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Walking into a space designed by David Rockwell is like walking into another world. He and his New York firm Rockwell Group create public spaces that aim straight for our infatuation with escapism. Whether it's the four-star restaurant Nobu; the hip boutique hotel W; or the boisterous Mohegan casino, theirs is an architecture that uses immersion as a tool to transport us(...)
Pleasure : the architecture and design of rockwell group
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Walking into a space designed by David Rockwell is like walking into another world. He and his New York firm Rockwell Group create public spaces that aim straight for our infatuation with escapism. Whether it's the four-star restaurant Nobu; the hip boutique hotel W; or the boisterous Mohegan casino, theirs is an architecture that uses immersion as a tool to transport us away from ordinary environments. The work of Rockwell Group stands out among that of other modern masters for its undiluted populism and immediate gratification. Pleasure is the first book to examine the theaters, hotels, stadiums, restaurants, casinos, and other public spaces across the country that have positioned Rockwell Group as one of America's most powerful firms. With provocative analysis from the most notable educators, artists, critics, and design tastemakers of our day, the book is a riveting re-working of the traditional architectural monograph format. Pleasure will appeal not just to architects and designers of all types, but also to the wide spectrum of people who are seduced by the destination spaces it creates.
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The commercial architecture created by Wayne McAllister (1907-2000) is responsible for much of the character of Southern California. His Fred-and-Ginger nightclubs and glinting-steel-and-blazing-neon circular drive-ins brought Hollywood to life. His Sands Hotel in Las Vegas became the home of the Rat Pack; the mythology of Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, and Sammy Davis Jr.(...)
February 2007, Layton
The leisure architecture of Wayne McAllister
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The commercial architecture created by Wayne McAllister (1907-2000) is responsible for much of the character of Southern California. His Fred-and-Ginger nightclubs and glinting-steel-and-blazing-neon circular drive-ins brought Hollywood to life. His Sands Hotel in Las Vegas became the home of the Rat Pack; the mythology of Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, and Sammy Davis Jr. owes a great deal to the swank glamour of the Copa Room and the Sands Hotel, one of McAllister's finest.
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February 2007, Layton
Jardiniers
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«Jardiniers» donnent un visage et la parole à ceux qui créent des jardins et qui, souvent, disparaissent derrière leurs créations. Professionnels ou amateurs, dix-neuf jardiniers de diverses nationalités se retrouvent dans ce livre et font dialoguer, au-delà des pays, et grâce aux photographies de Bruno Suet, leurs jardins : Patrick Blanc, Alan Bloom, Érik Borja, Fernando(...)
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«Jardiniers» donnent un visage et la parole à ceux qui créent des jardins et qui, souvent, disparaissent derrière leurs créations. Professionnels ou amateurs, dix-neuf jardiniers de diverses nationalités se retrouvent dans ce livre et font dialoguer, au-delà des pays, et grâce aux photographies de Bruno Suet, leurs jardins : Patrick Blanc, Alan Bloom, Érik Borja, Fernando Caruncho, Gilles Clément, Randoll Coate, Didier Courbot, Éléonore Cruse, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Kathryn Gustafson, Claude Lafon, Éric Ossart & Arnaud Maurières, Piet Oudolf, Hugues Peuvergne, Dan Pearson, Alain Richert, Barbara Wirth, Jacques Wirtz.
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Open 13 2007
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With the rise of less formal, more personal media outlets like YouTube and blogs, the mass media is no longer our only public forum. This issue of the Dutch architectural journal Open investigates these new user-tailored media, asking, "What are the opportunities for artistic practices and critical forms of publicness"�
Open 13 2007
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With the rise of less formal, more personal media outlets like YouTube and blogs, the mass media is no longer our only public forum. This issue of the Dutch architectural journal Open investigates these new user-tailored media, asking, "What are the opportunities for artistic practices and critical forms of publicness"�
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