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Constructed geographies: Paulo Mendes da Rocha

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One of the most acclaimed architects working in Brazil since the mid-twentieth century, Paulo Mendes da Rocha (1928–2021) began building in the 1950s, championing an approach often associated with "Brutalism" but expanding well beyond it. This retrospective catalogue is the first major publication on Mendes da Rocha since the establishment of his archive at the Casa da Arquitectura in 2021. A team of international scholars provides a comprehensive view of the architect’s trajectory and the collective dimension of his work, along with thematic essays. Mendes da Rocha’s identity as a South American architect interested in the geographic relation between nature and culture is underlined. The book’s contributors explore his concern with the social and anthropogenic impact of the continent’s development, as well as its colonial past and postcolonial future.

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Liquid stone : new architecture in concrete

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Produced at a rate of five billion cubic yards per year, concrete is the second most widely consumed substance on earth, after water. It is ubiquitous and easily taken for granted as the stuff of sidewalks and roads, power plants and parking garages. Concrete is also, however, a favored material of cutting- edge architects and engineers, who value not only its versatility and strength but its unlimited potential for imaginative expression. A hybrid substance made from cement, water, sand, and mineral aggregates, concrete–or liquid stone–has no intrinsic form. In the hands of talented designers, its ultimate appearance is dictated by the framework into which it is poured and the color, texture, or pattern applied to its surface. In a series of essays by top architects, engineers, and scholars, " Liquid stone " explores the nature of concrete, its past and future, from technical, artistic, and historical perspectives. Over thirty buildings by leading international architects including Jean Nouvel, Herzog – de Meuron, Zaha Hadid, Steven Holl, Norman Foster, and Santiago Calatrava are presented through detailed descriptions, photographs, and technical drawings.

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Paris Moderne 1914-1945

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En paix ou en guerre, le Paris de la première moitié du XX? siècle vibre d’énergie fébrile. Les imaginations les plus débridées s’expriment dans des formes nouvelles dont les créateurs viennent de l’Europe entière. Le défi de l’industrie et les attentes du marché nourrissent l’architecture et l’ ensemble des disciplines artistiques, qui donnent son visage quotidien à une ville délibérément moderne. Ce foisonnement est retracé selon le principe d’un dictionnaire, de la lettre « A », comme la photographe Laure Albin-Guillot, à la lettre « Z », comme le critique d’art Christian Zervos, en passant par Josephine Baker, Marcel Carné, Coco Chanel, Le Corbusier, Fernand Léger, Adolf Loos, Charlotte Perriand, Helena Rubinstein ou Tristan Tzara. Près de cent entrées composent un portrait sous forme de kaléidoscope amplement illustré. Un reportage photographique d’Antonio Martinelli donne à voir ce que le paysage architectural et urbain d’aujourd’hui révèle du Paris d’il y a cent ans.

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Above Paris : the aerial survey of Roger Henrard

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Between the years 1950 and 1972, when Paris was in the twilight of its classical period, pilot and photographer Roger Henrard preserved the city he knew and loved from the seat of a single-engine American army surplus Piper Cub. Henrard used a high-speed plate camera to systematically document the city from its outskirts to its centre. His photographs show not only Paris's stations, museums, department stores, and housing projects but also its urban fabric and interconnections - the tightly knit medieval districts as well as the rectilinear geometry of the Haussmanian boulevards. "Above Paris" is Henrard's study of the urban landscape of Paris and its best-known monuments. Images, grouped by themes such as the course of the Seine, the main roads, the stations, and the neighborhoods of Paris give a clear overview of the city's layout. Maps at the beginning of each chapter orient the reader.

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Encyclopédie Perret

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Auguste Perret est sans conteste l’une des grandes figures de l’architecture du XXe siècle. Cet ouvrage très complet adopte la forme d’une encyclopédie thématique pour présenter les principaux projets de ce précurseur, les notions qu’il a utilisées, ainsi que le tissu de ses relations sociales et professionnelles.

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OASE 87, Alan Colquhoun: Architecture, historian, critic

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OASE 87 is dedicated to the work of British architect Alan Colquhoun, situated within today’s debate on architecture criticism. The issue presents not only the different themes that Colquhoun addressed in his work, but also the various positions taken in his career as scholar, critic and practitioner. Alan Colquhoun managed for decades to link his practical experiences with a particular way of thinking about architecture history and theory. Colquhoun’s work illustrates that architecture – even today – needs its own theory and cultural position.

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L'Architecture au futur depuis 1889

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Une histoire de l’architecture du XXe siècle en un volume. Écrite par un éminent spécialiste de l’architecture et de l’urbanisme, également auteur, critique, commissaire d’expositions et professeur reconnu. L’ouvrage présente constructions, projets, plans, croquis et publications de maîtres célèbres et de personnalités redécouvertes.

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Architecture en uniforme : projeter et construire pour la Seconde Guerre mondiale

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Contrairement à ce que suggèrent la plupart des histoires, la Seconde Guerre mondiale à été un moment fondamental dans la modernisation tant théorique que pratique de l'architecture. Architecture en uniforme ouvre de nouvelles perspectives sur l'histoire architecturale de la guerre, rendant compte des épisodes qui se sont succédé entre le bombardement de Guernica en 1937 et celui d'Hiroshima en 1945, et qui ont conduit à la suprématie définitive des langages modernes. Les thèmes parcourus, comme le rôle des villes dans la guerre aérienne, les nouveaux bâtiments des usines, la participation directe de l'architecture à la guerre, les mégaprojets et les développements dans la vie civile après la guerre, révèlent l'ampleur de la contribution des architectes à tous les aspects de la mobilisation totale de ces années douloureuses.

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Architecture in uniform: designing and building for the Second World War

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Contrary to what is suggested by most historical accounts, the Second World War was a key moment in the modernisation of architectural theory and practice. Architecture in Uniform offers a new perspective on the architectural history of the war, documenting a series of episodes that took place between the bombings of Guernica in 1937 and Hiroshima in 1945, leading to the definitive supremacy of modernism in architecture. It discusses topics such as the role of cities in the air war, the new buildings erected for industrial production, architecture's participation in actual warfare, and wartime mega-projects and post-war developments in the civilian sphere, revealing the extent of the contribution made by architects to all aspects of the mobilisation that characterised the war years.

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Scenes of the world to come: European architecture and the American challenge, 1893-1960

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Published in concert with a major exhibition at the CCA in 1995, ''Scenes of the World to Come'' analyses the global structures and thematic strategies according to which American architectural forms and urban models migrated to the Old Continent, bringing the promise of a new architecture and, along with it, the threat of a dissolution of European identity. The text traces the assimilation of American models in the various countries of Europe: in Germany, where the discipline of urban planning was founded; in futurist and fascist Italy; in France, where the Beaux-Arts tradition was profoundly shaken by contact with America; in avant-garde and Stalinist Russia; and in Great Britain after 1945.