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Kenneth Frampton: L'altro Movimento Moderno

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Questo libro nasce da una serie di lezioni tenute da Kenneth Frampton a Mendrisio, all’Accademia di architettura dell’Università della Svizzera italiana, ed è dedicato all’analisi del Movimento Moderno, una corrente progettuale complessa e assai variegata nelle sue molteplici manifestazioni. Il libro è organizzato in 18 capitoli dedicati ciascuno a un architetto – da Schindler a Jacobsen, da Neutra a Bill, da Duiker a Krejcar –, del quale si dà una breve introduzione storico-biografica e si analizza un’opera di riferimento.

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Michael Webb: two journeys

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The artist Michael Webb, trained as an architect, operates at the intersection of art and architecture and is widely known for creatively exploring the outer limits of drawing techniques, including orthographic and perspectival projection systems. He is a founding member of Archigram, which formed at the Architectural Association in London in the early 1960s. The legendary avant-garde group is known for their fantastical projects that were often interpreted as critiques of contemporary architectural theory and practice. "Two Journeys" is the first comprehensive monograph on Webb’s oeuvre and assembles sixty years of the artist’s work into a continuously evolving narrative about the multifaceted relationships among the built environment, landscape, and moving vehicles. He investigates these relationships through the act of drawing using notions of time, space, and speed, which are artfully mediated by the precision of mathematics and tempered by abstraction.

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Kashef Chowdhury: The Friendship Centre

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The Friendship Centre in Gaibandha, Bangladesh, was built for the local NGO Friendship, which provides services for poor citizens of the region. Built by Dhaka-based architect Kashef Mahboob Chowdhury, it was designed to provide an inviting and accessible space for those who use the Centre’s services. This book looks closely at the Centre’s design and construction.

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Reflected transparency: contemporary architects working in glass

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Reflected Transparency presents the recent photography of Erieta Attali in a beautifully printed medium-format book. A rare look at celebrated buildings, the work embraces the aesthetic effects of glass in contemporary architecture. The photographs include the work of Kisho Kurokawa, Kazuo Sejima, Coop Himmelb(l)au, Bernard Tschumi, and others. In addition to being a presentation of the work of an acclaimed photographer, Reflected Transparency is also an indispensible primer for architects and architectural students interested in the effects of transparency, both literal and phenomenal.

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Le Corbusier

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Une monographie attendue, celle de l'un des grands critiques et historiens de l'architecture, sur l'un des architectes les plus influents de notre siècle.

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Modern architecture, 4th edition

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This acclaimed survey of modern architecture and its origins has become a classic since it first appeared in 1980. For the fourth edition Kenneth Frampton has added a major new section that explores the effects of globalization on architecture in recent years and examines the phenomenon of international celebrity architects who are increasingly active all over the world. The bibliography has been updated and expanded, making this volume more complete and indispensable than ever.

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World architecture : a critical mosaic 1900-2000

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Volume 1: Canada and the United States

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Peter Pran : an architecture of poetic movement

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With a statement by Daniel Libeskind.

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Technology, place & architecture : the Jerusalem seminar in architecture

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This volume documents the 1992, 1994 and 1996 sessions of the Jerusalem Seminar in Architecture, a forum where the world's most distinguished architects and critics gather to present their work and to discuss pressing issues in architectural practice today. Each section includes the architects' edited presentations illustrated with photographs, plans, and drawings. This book also features essays by critics and biographies of the participants.

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Le Corbusier

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Le Corbusier is probably the most famous and certainly the most controversial architect of the twentieth century. His impact on the urban fabric around us and on the way we live has been gigantic because of the richness and variety of his work and his passionately expressed philosophy of architecture. Weaving through his long and prolific life are certain recurrent themes — his perennial drive toward new types of dwelling, from the early white villas to the U'ité d'Habitation at Marseille; his evolving concepts of urban form, including the Plan Voisin of 1925 with its cruciform towers imposed on the city of Paris and his work at Chandigarh in India; and his belief in a new technocratic order. The distinguished critic and historian Kenneth Frampton reexamines all these facets of his artistic and philosophical worldview in the light of recent discoveries, and presents us with a Le Corbusier for the twenty-first century.