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L’originalité même de cet ouvrage précis, documenté, neuf dans le champ de la critique architecturale, tient en sa capacité à démontrer que le lieu – c’est-à-dire l’espace singulier – a été travaillé et transformé par l’architecture à travers l’histoire, les cultures et les styles de toutes les époques, de tous les pays. Le lieu qui n’est jamais neutre permet, et mieux(...)
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janvier 1900, Paris
Édifier : l'architecture et le lieu
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L’originalité même de cet ouvrage précis, documenté, neuf dans le champ de la critique architecturale, tient en sa capacité à démontrer que le lieu – c’est-à-dire l’espace singulier – a été travaillé et transformé par l’architecture à travers l’histoire, les cultures et les styles de toutes les époques, de tous les pays. Le lieu qui n’est jamais neutre permet, et mieux encore favorise, promeut un projet d’espace qui trouve dans l’architecture une résolution stable à travers la production et la cristallisation d’une forme lorsque celle-ci s’associe sur la durée à ses environnements naturel et social. « Le lieu est un espace inscrit, qualifié, valorisé. » Au moment où les villes historiques semblent vouées à disparaître dans des agglomérations qui ne sont plus des lieux parce qu’y vivre ensemble devient impossible, ces dernières « expriment » l’absence du projet par lequel elles se sont extraites du vide, se sont développées et se sont étendues sur un vaste territoire par la puissance (symbolique, imaginaire…) issue de la volonté d’édifier. Loin de ressasser un passé désormais révolu, défait par les coups de boutoir d’une modernité aujourd’hui dévastatrice, les auteurs ont pointé la radicalité du phénomène de destruction du projet de la ville en tant que lieu propre de l’édifier. Grâce à une recherche féconde menée depuis plusieurs années, à une grande érudition, et à un savoir puisant ses exemples dans le patrimoine architectural mondial, ils nous invitent à considérer l’édifier comme une dimension essentielle de notre existence.
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Belgian architect Wim Cuyvers considers architecture not as a goal but more as a tool with which a result can be reached. This publication, with a glow in the dark cover, presents a collection of his writings from the last five years, that introduce us to his manner of looking at architecture, his literary inspirations and his passions.
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Belgian architect Wim Cuyvers considers architecture not as a goal but more as a tool with which a result can be reached. This publication, with a glow in the dark cover, presents a collection of his writings from the last five years, that introduce us to his manner of looking at architecture, his literary inspirations and his passions.
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Shopping was as important in the Renaissance as it is today. This fascinating and original book breaks new ground in the area of Renaissance material culture, focusing on the marketplace and such related topics as middle-class to courtly consumption, the provision of foodstuffs, and the acquisition of antiquities and holy relics. The book investigates how men and women of(...)
Shopping in the Renaissance : consumer cultures in Italy 1400-1600
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Shopping was as important in the Renaissance as it is today. This fascinating and original book breaks new ground in the area of Renaissance material culture, focusing on the marketplace and such related topics as middle-class to courtly consumption, the provision of foodstuffs, and the acquisition of antiquities and holy relics. The book investigates how men and women of different social classes went to the streets, squares, and shops to buy goods they needed and wanted on a daily—or a once-in-a-lifetime—basis, during the Renaissance period.
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Utopias and architecture
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Utopian thought, though commonly characterized as projecting a future without a past, depends on golden models for re-invention of what is. Through a detailed and innovative re-assessment of the work of three architects who sought to represent a utopian content in their work and a consideration of the thoughts of a range of leading writers, Coleman offers the reader a (...)
Utopias and architecture
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Utopian thought, though commonly characterized as projecting a future without a past, depends on golden models for re-invention of what is. Through a detailed and innovative re-assessment of the work of three architects who sought to represent a utopian content in their work and a consideration of the thoughts of a range of leading writers, Coleman offers the reader a perspective of idealism in architectural design. With unparalleled depth and focus of vision on the work of Le Corbusier, Louis I Kahn and Aldo Van Eyck, this book persuasively challenges predominant assumptions in current architectural discourse, forging a new approach to the invention of welcoming built environments and transcending the limitations of both the postmodern and hyper-modern stance and orthodox modernist architecture.
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The collaboration between Pablo Neruda and German Rodriguez Arias was centred in Chile in two phases, from 1943 to 1948, and from 1953 to 1957. During these periods the poet commissioned Rodriguez Arias to design seven houses and various pieces of furniture.
Théorie de l’architecture
septembre 2005, Barcelona
Neruda - Rodrigez Arias : houses for a poet / Cases per a un poeta / casa para un poeta
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The collaboration between Pablo Neruda and German Rodriguez Arias was centred in Chile in two phases, from 1943 to 1948, and from 1953 to 1957. During these periods the poet commissioned Rodriguez Arias to design seven houses and various pieces of furniture.
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"Two minds" is a major volume exploring and critiquing the subject of collaboration between artists and architects. Interest and activity in this field is growing rapidly, making this book a timely consideration of an important phenomenon. The book documents 18 projects funded through the RSA Art for Architecture scheme and focuses on work by internationally renowned(...)
Two minds : artists and architects in collaboration
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"Two minds" is a major volume exploring and critiquing the subject of collaboration between artists and architects. Interest and activity in this field is growing rapidly, making this book a timely consideration of an important phenomenon. The book documents 18 projects funded through the RSA Art for Architecture scheme and focuses on work by internationally renowned figures such as Mark Dion, Chris Ofili, David Adjaye and Herzog & de Meuron, alongside that of emerging practitioners. As well as containing in depth case studies, "Two minds" features commissioned essays by Philip Ursprung and Cara Mullio which explore key issues surrounding collaborative practice. A range of topics are discussed, including the high level of support for art and architecture schemes in German speaking areas of Europe, the recent move of many so-called ‘gallery’ artists into the public domain and new ways of working that are opened up through collaboration.
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Architecture critic Philip Nobel takes us deep into the inner workings of Ground Zero, tracing the redevelopment of this battleground construction site from smoke-shrouded ruin to controversial master plan. Nobel gathers the huge cast of players at war with one another: real estate developers; grieving families; ambitious politicians; and most of all the architects, in(...)
Sixteen acres : architecture and the outrageous struggle for the future of ground zero
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Architecture critic Philip Nobel takes us deep into the inner workings of Ground Zero, tracing the redevelopment of this battleground construction site from smoke-shrouded ruin to controversial master plan. Nobel gathers the huge cast of players at war with one another: real estate developers; grieving families; ambitious politicians; and most of all the architects, in the national spotlight as never before, charged with satisfying impossible demands and reconciling a sacred zone with daily life. By turns tragic and comic, "Sixteen acres" is a riveting story of high culture and low dealings, confronting the essential questions: Can buildings provide meaning? Are modern architects up to the job? What are the limits of architecture?
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L'un écrit, l'autre bâtit. Ils se connaissent depuis vingt ans et parlent ensemble de leurs passions communes : la poésie, l'architecture. C'est l'événement du 11 Septembre qui ouvre ce dialogue sur cette interrogation béante face à laquelle cela nous a laissé : à quelle destruction avons nous assisté ce jour-là ? Est-ce la fin d'un monde, et de quel monde ? L'un(...)
Théorie de l’architecture
novembre 2005, Paris
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L'un écrit, l'autre bâtit. Ils se connaissent depuis vingt ans et parlent ensemble de leurs passions communes : la poésie, l'architecture. C'est l'événement du 11 Septembre qui ouvre ce dialogue sur cette interrogation béante face à laquelle cela nous a laissé : à quelle destruction avons nous assisté ce jour-là ? Est-ce la fin d'un monde, et de quel monde ? L'un propose, l'autre répond, le premier reprend, le second argumente. Peut-on penser sans le langage ? Pourquoi, comment a-t-on inventé la rue ? le café ? la place ? Comment Apollinaire et Picasso se sont-ils rencontrés ? Qu'est-ce qu'un rêve prémonitoire pour un écrivain ? pour un architecte ? La musique est-elle de même essence que l'architecture ? C'est Hélène Bleskine qui a pensé, originellement, à cette rencontre, et son introduction permet aussi de comprendre pourquoi ces deux-là devaient nécessairement se rencontrer, et pourquoi Philippe Sollers et Christian de Portzamparc, qu'ils évoquent la Chine ou les tours de New York ont en commun plus qu'une langue... un espace poétique.
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The book of touch
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From the tortures of the Inquisition to the corporeal comforts of modernity and from the tactile therapies of Asian medicine to the virtual tactility of cyberspace, The Book of Touch offers excursions into a sensory territory both foreign and familiar. How are masculine and feminine identities shaped by touch? What are the tactile experiences of the blind, or the(...)
Théorie de l’architecture
septembre 2005, Oxford New York
The book of touch
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From the tortures of the Inquisition to the corporeal comforts of modernity and from the tactile therapies of Asian medicine to the virtual tactility of cyberspace, The Book of Touch offers excursions into a sensory territory both foreign and familiar. How are masculine and feminine identities shaped by touch? What are the tactile experiences of the blind, or the autistic? How is touch developed differently across cultures? What are the boundaries of pain and pleasure? Is there a politics of touch? Bringing together classic writings and new work, this is an essential guide for anyone interested in the body, the senses and the experiential world.
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In Empire of the Senses the senses are considered as cultural systems. Bringing together classic pieces by key thinkers--from Marshall McLuhan and Alain Corbin to Susan Stewart and Oliver Sacks--as well as newly commissioned articles, this path-breaking book provides a comprehensive overview of the "sensual revolution," where all manner of disciplines converge. Its aim is(...)
Empire of the Senses : The sensual culture reader
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In Empire of the Senses the senses are considered as cultural systems. Bringing together classic pieces by key thinkers--from Marshall McLuhan and Alain Corbin to Susan Stewart and Oliver Sacks--as well as newly commissioned articles, this path-breaking book provides a comprehensive overview of the "sensual revolution," where all manner of disciplines converge. Its aim is to enhance our understanding of the role of the senses in history and across cultures by overturning the hegemony of vision in contemporary theory and demonstrating that all senses play a role in mediating cultural experience. It asks provocative questions that most of us take for granted. Are there, for example, only five senses, or is this assumption a Western construct? This radical contribution to revisioning cultural studies will be essential reading for anyone hoping to understand the full complexity of how we experience our world.
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