Recherche

Titre:
Jun Aoki : complete works 1, 1991-2004

Actions:

• Acheter ce livre

Prix:
$102.95
(disponible sur commande)

Résumé:
Includes the Mamihara Bridge, Fukushima Lagoon Museum, Mitsubishi Motors Showroom, Aomori Museum of Fine Art, Louis Vuitton Stores, and more.

Titre:
Sharing Tokyo: Artifice and the social world

Actions:

• Acheter ce livre

Prix:
$60.00
(disponible sur commande)

Résumé:
The book questions how ''artifice'' and the ''social world'' can be mutually and constructively integrated so that the contemporary urban space can be shared by all. Taking the example of Tokyo, it takes up the two major traits in urban transformation – the large-scale development model on the one hand, and the small-scale model of neighborhood development or preservation on the other – and instead seeks alternative ideas and new strategies. A variety of innovative practices are presented by a diverse group of contributors including renowned scholars, architects, urbanists, and photographers from Japan and the US, and the research team at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. While the discourses and architectural works presented deal with the specificity of Tokyo, they were carefully selected to formulate together a collection of insights, new perspectives, and speculative experiments in urbanism and architecture that can also be used in other contexts.

Titre:
The color black: Antinomies of a color in architecture and art

Actions:

• Acheter ce livre

Prix:
$60.00
(disponible sur commande)

Résumé:
This publication from acclaimed architect and critic Mohsen Mostafavi traces a theoretical and visual narrative through architecture's relationship with the colour black. Bringing together a rich inventory of images, it illuminates this connection by considering parallel developments in global art practices with references ranging from Japanese screens to Rothko, Adolf Loos to Norman Foster, Hans Holbein to Derek Jarman. Alongside these renowned touchpoints, Mostafavi draws on a little-known and highly distinctive text by the Marxist German art historian Max Raphael, based on a collection of historic paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Contemporaneous with the evolution of black paintings by New York's Abstract Expressionists, Raphael's essay offers a drastically contrasting approach to the same multivalent subject. The book is completed by Rapahel's luminous essay, published in its entirety for the first time in an English translation by Pamela Johnston, as well as conversations with Swiss architect Peter Märkli, whose work with the colour black is informed by Raphael's writings, and Theaster Gates. By juxtaposing the present with the recent and distant past, this book provides a many-layered reading of the colour black ? and of colour more widely ? in relation to contemporary architectural thinking and practice.

Titre:
Structure as space

Actions:

• Acheter ce livre

Prix:
$104.00
(disponible sur commande)

Résumé:
This publication focuses on the work of the Swiss engineer Jürg Conzett, who has contributed more than most to redefining the role of structural engineering and its relation to architecture.

Titre:
Revitalizing Japan: Architecture, Urbanization, and Degrowth

Actions:

• Acheter ce livre

Prix:
$60.00
(disponible en magasin)

Résumé:
This book features innovative and productive responses, in the form of architectural design and thinking, to the shift in Japan’s social condition under demographic changes that are evident in regional cities. These responses also demonstrate the new wave of architectural practice in Japan, focused on the challenges of degrowth. The shrinking and aging of the population is exacerbating the social decline in the regional cities of Japan. While excluded from the market-driven metropolitan areas, architects of the young generation are beginning to build ways of revitalizing regional cities through innovative design or new ways of practicing. This book features works by seven named or unnamed younger architects in Japan that preempt architectural responses to the post-growth condition, a gripping essay by community designer Ryo Yamazaki, and a captivating photo documentation by Kenta Hasegawa. Keynote essay by Toyo Ito.

Titre:
Instigations: engaging architecture, landscape and the city

Actions:

• Acheter ce livre

Prix:
$60.00
(disponible sur commande)

Résumé:
The creative imagination is not solely based on the intuitive capacities of individuals. One of the tasks of design education is to help provide the tools, techniques, and methods that enhance constructed imagination. At the same time, the modes and practices of design need to confront the challenges of our contemporary societies. The commitment to societal engagement through design excellence is at the core of the pedagogy at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. This volume celebrating the first seventy-five years of the GSD presents episodes in a rich history along with selected looks at current and future lines of teaching and research; these views reveal the constant oscillation between the pragmatic realities and the imagined yet never realized ideal that lies at the heart of design. The aspirations of the famous architecture school are demonstrated through a series of ideas, projects, practices–INSTIGATIONS–that reflect the mission for the GSD to reimagine and construct better futures.

Titre:
In the life of cities

Actions:

• Acheter ce livre

Prix:
$60.00
(disponible sur commande)

Résumé:
What is it that gives places their individual qualities and defines the life of a city? Architects and urbanists are accustomed to describing and creating the organizational structures, the layouts and physical attributes of our cities. But what are the relations between the design of a city—its form—and the life engendered by that form? Responding to this question is the inspiration for In the Life of Cities. Contributors from a wide range of fields address the role and life of cities as diverse as Baku, Buenos Aires, Cairo, Detroit, Jakarta, Johannesburg, Mumbai, Paris, Quito, St. Petersburg, Tel Aviv, Tirana, and Toronto. Portfolios of contemporary photography present the layered realities of urban life today.

Titre:
Nicholas Hawksmoor: London churches

Actions:

• Acheter ce livre

Prix:
$50.00
(disponible sur commande)

Résumé:
"British architect Nicholas Hawksmoor (approx. 1661-1736) is recognized as one of the major contributors to the traditions of British and European architectural culture. Nevertheless, there is insufficient visual documentation and analysis of his work. Nicholas Hawksmoor: London Churches reconsiders his architecture in relation to urbanism. The publication focuses on a series of important London churches the architect designed during the early part of the eighteenth century

Titre:
Ecological urbanism

Actions:

• Acheter ce livre

Prix:
$59.00
(disponible sur commande)

Résumé:
The book brings together design practitioners and theorists, economists, engineers, artists, policy makers, environmental scientists, and public health specialists, with the goal of reaching a more robust understanding of ecological urbanism and what it might be in the future.

Titre:
Candilis, Josic, Woods, Schiedhelm : Free University Berlin

Actions:

• Acheter ce livre

Prix:
$58.95
(disponible sur commande)

Résumé:
This extensive study of the Free University looks at the formative ideas leading to the design, the role of Shadrach Woods, and the influence of the building on a generation of architects. The texts are accompanied by specially commissioned photographs.