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Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe: Third and updated edition

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Ludwig Mies van der Rohe was one of the leading figures of twentieth-century architecture. With in-depth, scholarly essays, photographs, and plans, this book traces the multifaceted development of his work, including his first Berlin buildings, his villa projects, his work at the Bauhaus in the 1930s, and his American projects of the postwar years. Jean-Louis Cohen was the director of the Institut francais d'architecture until 2003 and is currently a professor at New York University. He has an established reputation as a leading international historian of architecture. His broad and encompassing perspective makes this book a reliable and comprehensive introduction to the work of Mies van der Rohe.

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L'architecture entre pratique et connaissance scientifique

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Publié sous la direction de Jean-Louis Cohen, cet ouvrage est le premier de la nouvelle collection « Recherche & architecture », éditée par le Bureau de la recherche architecturale, urbaine et paysagère (Braup), du ministère de la Culture. La politique du Braup vise à soutenir les publications scientifiques issues des unités de recherche des Écoles nationales supérieures en architecture. Ces publications proviennent de rapports de recherche, de thèses de doctorat ou de colloques organisés par les écoles et sont destinées à la communauté scientifique, aux étudiants, aux professionnels ou à un public plus large encore. L’objectif étant d’assurer une visibilité aux recherches menées dans les écoles et de participer à la reconnaissance de l’architecture en tant que discipline.

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Casablanca : colonial myths and architectural ventures

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Celebrated by colonial writers, filmed by Hollywood, magnet for Europeans and Moroccans, Casablanca is above all an exceptional collection of urban spaces, houses, and gardens. While it is true that Casablanca developed as a port city well before the introduction of the French in 1907, it unquestionably ranks among the most significant urban creations of the twentieth century, attracting remarkable teams of architects and planners. Their commissions came from clients who were interested in innovation and modernization, thereby fostering the emergence of Casablanca as a laboratory for legislative, technological, and visual experimentation. Having studied the city for ten years, Jean-Louis Cohen and Monique Eleb trace, from the late nineteenth century to the early 1960s, the rebirth of a once-forgotten port and its metamorphosis into a teeming metropolis that is an amalgam of Mediterranean culture from Tunisia, Algeria, Spain, and Italy. The extensive presentation of the significant buildings of this hybrid city -- where, alongside the French, Muslim and Jewish Moroccan patrons commissioned provocative buildings -- is drawn from French and Moroccan archives, including hundreds of previously unpublished photographs.

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The lost vanguard

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The Lost Vanguard documents the work of modernist architects in the Soviet Union during the years following the 1917 revolution and civil war. In little more than a decade, some of the most radical buildings of the twentieth century were completed by a small group of architects who developed a new architectural language in support of new social goals of communal life. Rarely published and virtually inaccessible until the collapse of the Soviet regime, these important buildings have remained unknown and unappreciated. Richard Pare's photographs reveal the powerful forms of these structures, some still in use but many now abandoned and decayed. Massive industrial complexes like the Dnieper River Dam and MoGES, which supplies electricity to the city of Moscow; vast communal houses for workers, including Ginzburg's Narkomfin; commercial buildings and government offices; and smaller clubs and theaters were all built in this brief period. In an incisive essay, architectural historian Jean-Louis Cohen surveys the history of the period, providing a context for the emergence of this startling new architecture in parallel to contemporary experiments in Europe.

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Le tour de Paris: les promenades aériennes de Roger Henrard

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Étonnante rencontre que celle qui s'est accomplie dans les airs pendant plus de deux décennies entre un homme, un avion et Paris. L'homme, Roger Henrard, mène la vie de l'industriel, du pilote et du photographe.

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Luminous buildings : architecture of the night

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At the 1889 World’s Fair in Paris, the newly erected Eiffel Tower became one of the first icons of illuminated architecture, a nocturnal "lighthouse." It was not until decades later, in the 1920s, when a building’s evening façade became a central issue for residential and commercial architects, who began to look for avant-garde and aesthetically striking ways to light up their ever-taller works in all the major cities of the world. Both European and American architects wanted to distance their buildings from the garish electric signage that had come to dominate the street-level cityscape, so they worked with more delicately colored floodlights. Contemporary architects use many of the same techniques today, aided by technological advances that allow them to be implemented in particularly dramatic ways. "Luminous Buildings: Architecture of the NIght" opens a dialogue on the often overlooked but exciting connections between architecture, technology and light, offering points of reference in historical buildings and utopias, more recent designs, paintings and photographs of nighttime facades, and scholarly texts.

Titre:
Mies van der Rohe

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This book records the stages of the architect's distinguished career from the Bauhaus to Chicago, from Detroit to Montreal, and finally to New York and the famous Seagram Building.

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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.

Titre:
Warchitecture

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un atelier d'architecture de Jean-Louis Cohen à l'École d'architecture de l'Université de Montréal.