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Five North American architects : an anthology

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This publication brings together five architectural practices that, while all distinct, share a particular sensibility for the impact of craftsmanship and climate on the generation of form, as well as a concern for the expressive tactility of material and the effect of light on the articulation of structure. Designed with detail, the book offers an indepth survey of recent work by Steven Holl (New York), Rick Joy (Tucson), John and Patricia Patkau (Vancouver), Stanley Saitowitz (San Francisco), and Brigitte Shim and Howard Sutcliffe (Toronto). The regional specificity of the work is considered against a larger North American context, allowing one to assess the practice of its architecture today.

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Sketches for a national history museum

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This book presents various designs for a National History Museum in the Netherlands. Kenneth Frampton and Hans Ibelings wrote essays on good museum architecture, researchers at the Berlage Institute made sketches, and three young European architecture firms, 51N4E, Baukuh, and Monadnock, submitted plans to encourage thinking about new museum architecture.

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Som journal 7

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Som journal 7 includes the essays “Notes on the Techno-Aesthetic Evolution of High-Rise Form, 1896–1997” by Kenneth Frampton, “The Myth of Natural Growth II” by Thomas van Leeuwan, “Building Tall” by William Baker, “Emergence and the Power of One” by Mark Sarkisian, and “How the Leopard Got Its Spots: Lever House as a Skyscraper” by Nicholas Adams.

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Custom and innovation, John Miller + Partners

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Custom and Innovation: John Miller + Partners is the first publication devoted to the work of John Miller + Partners, and explores Miller’s work from his student days at the Architectural Association, to his present practice as a multi-award winning firm. The book provides an insight into the contemporary fascination with museum buildings as well as the revived interest on post-war modernism both in Europe and the USA.

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Francisco Serrano: complete works

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The book gathers every building of Serrano's career to date, spanning Brazil, France, Singapore and Nicaragua as well as Mexico, and paying special homage to two of his Mexico City masterpieces, the campus of the Universidad Iberoamericana, and Terminal 2 of the International Airport. Serrano's maturity of language and consistency of craftsmanship shine in all of his designs, ranging from corporate buildings to condominiums to housing developments.

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SOM journal 6

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SOM Journal 6 features Thomas Herzog on solar energy; a reprint of Manuel de Solà Morales's pivotal text on urban planning; Robert Polidori's photo essay documenting the slums surrounding the Mumbai airport; the Director of the Glasgow School of Art discussing the seminal building of Charles Rennie Mackintosh; and much else.

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Building Brasilia

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‘From nothing; from nothing to construction.’ Thus Marcel Gautherot, the ideal architectural photographer, recalled his epic undertaking in the late 1950s – photographing every step of the construction of the city of Brasilia, from untouched grassland to modern capital. Gautherot had studied architecture and design, and was influenced by Le Corbusier and other modernist architects as well as the political radicalism of the interwar period. Postwar, however, he devoted his life to travel and photography, taking with him the formal rigour of modernism but also a sympathy for ordinary people that was to help him in his work. After moving to Brazil in 1940, he forged many friendships and partnerships, most notably with Oscar Niemeyer, the chief architect of Brasilia. Indeed, Gautherot recorded most of Niemeyer’s work as his photographer of choice. It was, however, in Brasilia – the high point of the careers of both Niemeyer and chief urban planner Lucio Costa – that the photographer’s art of light and shadow reached its zenith. Gautherot repeatedly visited Brasilia, photographing not only every stage of construction, but also the faces and homes of the workers who worked on the construction sites and satellite cities in the making. The result is a monumental photo essay on this triumph of urban planning and architecture. Here, for the first time, the photographs are collected to form a portfolio of Gautherot’s work in Brasilia, and it pays due tribute to this great Franco-Brazilian artist in the centenary of his birth and on the fiftieth anniversary of Brasilia’s inauguration.

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SOM, architecture of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (1997-2008)

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This volume presents work from the late 1990s and 2000s. In an era of true globalization in design and commerce, SOM has come to occupy a unique place in American and international architecture. Recognized for the exceptional quality of its architectural design and urban planning, the firm is also renowned for its clients, an eminent group of businesses and institutions. In the years 1997–2008, the period represented in this monograph, SOM’s steadfast dedication to a modern expression has produced an important series of works at all scales, in a variety of typologies, in countries around the world.

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Grands architectes et maisons Américaines des XXe et XXie siècles

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Présentation de 44 maisons réalisées de 1908 à 2007 qui ont marqué l'histoire de l'architecture résidentielle américaine et l'histoire de l'architecture moderne et contemporaine.

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Neues Museum Berlin, David Chipperfield architects

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This book documents David Chipperfield's most important project to date: the Neues Museum, centerpiece of the Berlin Museumsinsel. Photographs taken in natural light by Candida Hofer show the rooms after their completion and before they were furnished. Hofer's images are complemented by texts from well-known architects, architectural historians, art historians and conservation architects highlighting the fundamental principles of the project. An interview with David Chipperfield gives insight into the problems surrounding the work.