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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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(...)
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 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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October 2000, New York
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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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Nick Waplington has been taking photographs in and around Truth or Consequences, a small town in New Mexico, for nearly ten years. Typical and unremarkable in many ways, the town voted to change its name to that of a celebrated radio quiz show in 1950. Waplington records the town behind the extraordinary name, the lives of its people and the landscape they live in while(...)
Truth or Consequences : a personal history of American photography from the last century
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Nick Waplington has been taking photographs in and around Truth or Consequences, a small town in New Mexico, for nearly ten years. Typical and unremarkable in many ways, the town voted to change its name to that of a celebrated radio quiz show in 1950. Waplington records the town behind the extraordinary name, the lives of its people and the landscape they live in while at the same time constructing a personal tribute to American photography, paying homage to such great pioneers of the genre as Edward Weston and Walker Evans.
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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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Architecture in spain
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Delayed by the Spanish Civil War and the ensuing dictatorship under Franco, the emergence of modernity in Spain may have been late in coming, but today's young architects are making up for lost time in a spectacular way. Original personalities like César Manrique Cabrera marked a move toward the modern in the 1960s while Richard Bofill's innovative work in the 70s helped(...)
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November 2007, Hong Kong, Köln, London, Los Angeles, Madrid
Architecture in spain
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Delayed by the Spanish Civil War and the ensuing dictatorship under Franco, the emergence of modernity in Spain may have been late in coming, but today's young architects are making up for lost time in a spectacular way. Original personalities like César Manrique Cabrera marked a move toward the modern in the 1960s while Richard Bofill's innovative work in the 70s helped bring Spanish architecture to the world stage. In the 1990s, architects such as Rafael Moneo and Santiago Calatrava began to create the look of contemporary architecture in Spain as we know it today. From a modern interpretation of a bullring to cutting-edge green architecture, the book covers a dizzying variety of architectural innovation.
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Central to the work of Robert A. M. Stern is a commitment to architecture that reinterprets the past to serve contemporary life. Buildings and Towns explores the application of that principle to a wide range of building types, including libraries, university buildings, cultural centers, offices, health care facilities, courthouses, and recreational complexes completed(...)
November 2007, New York
Robert A.M. Stern buildings and towns
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Central to the work of Robert A. M. Stern is a commitment to architecture that reinterprets the past to serve contemporary life. Buildings and Towns explores the application of that principle to a wide range of building types, including libraries, university buildings, cultural centers, offices, health care facilities, courthouses, and recreational complexes completed throughout the world over the past twenty years. The sequel to the highly successful Robert A. M. Stern: Buildings (1996), this volume also incorporates master plans for towns and campuses.
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November 2007, New York
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.