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Lire l'architecture : lexique visuel 2e éd.

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Né d’une démarche originale, ce lexique visuel vous permettra de découvrir, de comprendre et d’apprécier les bâtiments qui nous entourent. Cette nouvelle édition est enrichie des dernières innovations architecturales. Des photographies couleur et des dessins annotés illustrent et détaillent chaque type d’édifice, leurs structures, leurs matériaux et leurs détails architecturaux. Tous les grands types et styles de bâtiments sont abordés : des cathédrales aux gratte-ciel, de l’Antiquité à l’époque contemporaine. Un glossaire des termes architecturaux essentiels vient compléter l’ouvrage.

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Les styles en architecture : guide visuel

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Si vous vous êtes déjà demandé comment reconnaître au premier coup d'oeil le style d'un bâtiment ou ce qui distingue le gothique rayonnant du gothique flamboyant, ce guide visuel est fait pour vous. Avec près de 300 photos, il dresse un panorama des grandes périodes de l'architecture et de leurs styles. Chacun d'eux est défini en fonction de spécificités communes (formelles, géographiques, culturelles ou idéologiques) puis identifié grâce à six caractéristiques clés (un certain type de fenêtre ou de moulure décorative, un choix spécifique de matériaux...), toutes illustrées par un édifice emblématique.

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The manifesto house: Buildings that changed the future of architecture

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Most houses are the product of multiple layers of norms and expectations built up over time, whether methods, materials, and technologies or social, cultural, economic, and political pressures. Yet at various moments houses have been built that break with the past and do something different—houses that stand outside of these expectations and instead are conceived to embody whole new theories or agendas. We call these "manifesto houses." For the first time, this compelling thread in the history of architecture is surveyed by Owen Hopkins. He brings together a collection of twenty-one such manifesto houses, exploring the visions for architecture conjured by Andrea Palladio, Eileen Gray, Frank Lloyd Wright, Harry Seidler, Lina Bo Bardi, Anupama Kundoo, and Sou Fujimoto, among others. "The manifesto house" looks in detail at the ideas and ambitions embodied in each house, the contexts that shaped them, and their impact and influence on the future of architecture.

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AD Multispace: Architecture at the dawn of the metaverse

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Multispace exists at the intersection of the physical and digital, and in the blurring of their previously clear dividing lines. Multispace is not a single space, but a hybrid space where, in effect, we occupy multiple spaces simultaneously. We enter it on a Zoom call, when we are in our office and in a meeting with 20 people; when we are cycling down a country lane whilst racing against thousands of others who also use the Strava app; when we are watching a TV show while live tweeting; or, perhaps most literally, when wandering around the local park looking for creatures that only appear on a smartphone screen. A fundamental question of this AD is why the phenomena that multispace describes are of concern to architects. The answer is that multispace points to a situation that is at root an architectural one. Offering both a collective and highly personalised experience, static and dynamically customisable, and above all at the same time public and private, multispace lies at the centre of a set of tensions, concerns and preoccupations at the core of our conception of architecture as theory and practice. It is the messy space between, with rough and uneven edges that are constantly shifting.

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Reading architecture: a visual lexicon

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This innovative and unique book is a visual guide to the buildings that surround us, naming all the visible architectural features so that, unlike other architectural dictionaries, the reader doesn't have to know the name before looking it up.

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Lire l'architecture: lexique visuel

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Guide visuel permettant de décrypter l'architecture de tout bâtiment, cet ouvrage tout en photos, en dessins techniques et en couleurs recense non seulement les différents types de bâtiments (du temple classique aux constructions les plus récentes) mais aussi leurs structures (des colonnes et piliers aux armatures métalliques) ou encore leurs différents éléments (murs et surfaces, portes et fenêtres, toitures et escaliers).

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Architectural styles: a visual guide

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Have you ever wondered what the difference is between Gothic and Gothic Revival, or how to distinguish between Baroque and Neoclassical? This guide makes extensive use of photographs to identify and explain the characteristic features of nearly 300 buildings. The result is a clear and easy-to-navigate guide to identifying the key styles of western architecture from the classical age to the present day.

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From the shadows: the architecture and afterlife of Nicholas Hawksmoor

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Hawksmoor wasn’t always appreciated, however: for decades after his death, he was seen as at best a second-rate talent. From the Shadows tells the story of the resurrection of his reputation, showing how over the years his work was ignored, abused, and altered—and, finally, recovered and celebrated. It is a story of the triumph of talent and of the power of appreciative admirers like T. S. Eliot, James Stirling, Robert Venturi, and Peter Ackroyd, all of whom played a role in the twentieth-century recovery of Hawksmoor’s reputation.

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AD: Multiform, Architecture in an age of transition

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This issue of AD posits that this re-examination and redeployment of postmodernist approaches is the architectural attempt to reflect, grapple with and make sense of the current political and economic situation.

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Postmodern architecture: less is a bore

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This book takes its subtitle from Postmodernist icon Robert Venturi's spirited response to Mies van der Rohe's dictum that ‘less is more'. One of the 20th century's most controversial styles, Postmodernism began in the 1970s, reached a fever pitch of eclectic non-conformity in the 1980s and 90s, and after nearly 40 years is now enjoying a newfound popularity. 'Postmodern Architecture' showcases examples of the movement in a rainbow of hues and forms from around the globe.