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Lignes d'horizon : l'architecture et son site

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Depuis la découverte de la caverne, les hommes n’ont cessé d’utiliser les formations géologiques qu’offre notre planète. Il a fallu cependant attendre une date récente pour que des avancées dans le domaine de l’ingénierie structurelle permettent de considérer la surface de la terre comme un élément architectural à part entière. La prise de conscience de la raréfaction des ressources naturelles et l’influence grandissante des architectes paysagistes ont également incité certains créateurs parmi les plus prestigieux à inventer des formes qui s’intègrent à la topographie naturelle d’un lieu, la déploient, la subliment et à créer ce que l’on pourrait appeler des gratteterre en opposition aux gratte-ciel. Du terminal de tramway de Zaha Hadid en France à la bibliothèque d’Alexandrie de Snøhetta en Egypte, de la maison nichée dans une colline du Pays de Galles de Future Systems au Spencer Theatre d’Antoine Predock aux Etats- Unis, les cinquante projets présentés dans ce livre révèlent l’importance de cette nouvelle voie architecturale.

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Three California houses : the homes of Max Palevsky

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This book showcases three architecturally private residences, now owned by and home to the art collections of Max Palevsky. Each house has either been restored or reworked by a well-known contemporary architect to make a showplace for the artwork. The three houses together encapsulate the twentieth-century architectural history of Southern California. Presented in detail are the Palm Spring House, by Craig Ellwood; the extravagant Malibu Spanish-style House with interior renovations Ettore Sottsass; and the opulent Beverly Hills House of the 1920s by George Washington Smith, with interiors reworked recently Coy Howard.

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Landscrapers : building with the land

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Ever since the discovery of the cave, humans have made use of nature’s geological formations. Only recently, however, have developments in structural engineering made it possible to engage the earth’s surface as a building element in its own right. With an increasing awareness of our planet’s limited natural resources, the most acclaimed architectural practices from around the world are building into the earth and merging man-made forms with the contours of the land. The results are at once preternatural and breathtaking. From Zaha Hadid’s Tram Terminal in France to Snøhetta’s Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Egypt, from Future System’s hill-burrowing house in Wales to Antoine Predock’s Spencer Theater in the United States, over fifty projects displayed here expose the breadth and depth of this new direction in architecture. Aaron Betsky first considers our historical preoccupation with communing with the land through building, then four central chapters – ‘Engineered Utopias’, ‘Caves and Caverns’, ‘Unfolding the Land’ and ‘A New Nature’ – explore the ways in which ‘geotecture’ responds to, becomes a part of and yet remains distinctive within our natural landscape.

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Icons : magnets of meaning

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Published in conjunction with a major exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, this striking volume explores selected icons as benchmarks for the current state of design and suggests new ways to look at the interconnectedness of design, consumer culture, and the aesthetics of desire.

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Re-naturalisation

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As Aaron Betsky notes in his introductory essay, that while Guallart is an active member of what has been called emergent architecture, his practice goes further, generating a body of work that emerges from both physical and social – both real and digital – structures. While the architect himself suggests that the end purpose of architecture is not (solely) to build, but also to define environments where human life can be organised. To support these observations, such projects as Denia Mountain, the Spanish Pavilion for Shanghai Expo 2010, the Keelung Maritime Plaza and Fugee Port in Taiwan, the Cambrils Sea Apartments and the Sociopolis Masterplan, Valencia are examined. Seventeen works and projects are presented in total, accompanied by essays, texts, photographs and elaborate technical drawings. Texts in English/Chinese

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Out there: architecture beyond building, volume 5: manifestos. La Biennale di Venezia, 11. Mostra Internazionale die Architettura

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Exclusively available in single volumes at the CCA Bookstore. Atelier Bow-Wow / Aaron Betsky / Coop Himelb(l)au / Diller Scofidio + Renfro / Droog & Kesselskramer / Massimiliano Fuksas / Frank Gehry / Vincente Guallart / Greg Lynn / Winy Maas (MVRDV) / Philippe Rahm / Ben van Berkel, Caroline Bos (UNStudio) and more.

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Out there: architecture beyond building, volume 3: experimental architecture. La Biennale di Venezia, 11. Mostra Internazionale die Architettura

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Exclusively available in single volumes at the CCA Bookstore. 2012 Architecten / Ecologicstudio / Estudio Teddy Cruz / Faustino, Bureau des Mésarchitectures / Zaha Hadid Architects / Herzog & DeMeuron and Ai Weiwei / LOT-EK / Map Office / R & SIE + DS / Topotek 1 / Madelon Vriesendorp / Lebbeus Woods, and many more. Each displayed at least on a double page.

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Out there: architecture beyond building, volume 2: hall of fragments. La Biennale di Venezia, 11. Mostra Internazionale die Architettura

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Exclusively available in single volumes at the CCA Bookstore. This volume documents the film installation withing the exhibition, which features film excerpts of "Metropolis" by Fritz Lang, "La cité des enfants perdus" by Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet, "Waterworld" by Kevin Reynolds, "The Lord of the Rings" by Peter Jackson, "The Truman Show" by Peter Weir, and many more.

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Out there: architecture beyond building, volume 1: installations. La Biennale di Venezia, 11. Mostra Internazionale die Architettura

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Exclusively available in single volumes at the CCA Bookstore. Asymptote Architecture / Atelier Bow-Wow / Barkow Leibinger / Nigel Coates / Coop Himmelb(l)au / Diller Scofidio + Renfro / Droog & Kesselskramer / Massimiliano & Doriana Fuksas / Gehry Partners, LLP, and many more, each contribution displayed on at least a double page.

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Studio 44

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Studio 44 Architects is one of the largest private architectural firms in St Petersburg and in Russia. Founded in 1991 and led by Nikita Yavein, the company now employs over 140 highly qualified specialists, including architects, restoration experts, structural designers and engineers. Studio 44 has won over sixty prestigious awards and implemented over twenty-five public and residential building projects, including Ladozhsky Railway Station, the Atrium Business Centre at Nevsky 25, Nevsky 38 and Linkor business centres, the Grand Palace shopping gallery, the Novy Peterhof hotel and the Boris Eifman Dance Academy in St Petersburg; the Palace of Schoolchildren in Astana (Kazakhstan); and the Olympic Park Railway Station in Sochi. Studio 44 designed the new museum complex of the State Hermitage Museum in the General Staff Building (Stage 1, 2010) that was profiled in the book 'The Hermitage XXI' (Thames & Hudson, 2014).