$55.00
(disponible sur commande)
Résumé:
In ''The Villa'', James Ackerman explores villa building in the West from ancient Rome to twentieth-century France and America. In this wide-ranging book, he illuminates such topics as the early villas of the Medici, the rise of the Palladian villa in England, and the modern villas of Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier. Ackerman uses the phenomenon of the 'country place'(...)
The Villa: Form and ideology of country houses
Actions:
Prix:
$55.00
(disponible sur commande)
Résumé:
In ''The Villa'', James Ackerman explores villa building in the West from ancient Rome to twentieth-century France and America. In this wide-ranging book, he illuminates such topics as the early villas of the Medici, the rise of the Palladian villa in England, and the modern villas of Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier. Ackerman uses the phenomenon of the 'country place' as a focus for examining the relationships between urban and rural life, between building and the natural environment, and between architectural design and social, cultural, economic, and political forces. ''The villa,'' he reminds us, ''accommodates a fantasy which is impervious to reality.'' As city dwellers idealized country life, the villa, unlike the farmhouse, became associated with pleasure and asserted its modernity and status as a product of the architect’s imagination.
Théorie de l’architecture
$87.95
(disponible sur commande)
Résumé:
Shedding critical light on how the pressures of dislocation irrevocably altered the course of modernism, "Objects in exile" shows how artists and designers, forced into exile by circumstances beyond their control, changed in unexpected ways to meet the needs and contexts of an uncertain world.
Objects in exile: modern art and design across borders 1930-1960
Actions:
Prix:
$87.95
(disponible sur commande)
Résumé:
Shedding critical light on how the pressures of dislocation irrevocably altered the course of modernism, "Objects in exile" shows how artists and designers, forced into exile by circumstances beyond their control, changed in unexpected ways to meet the needs and contexts of an uncertain world.
Théorie de l’architecture
Writingplace journal for architecture and literature 7: Taking place, reflections on fieldwork
$58.00
(disponible sur commande)
Résumé:
The magazine 'Writingplace Journal for Architecture and Literature'' is an international, open-access, peer-reviewed journal on architecture and literature. This journal is a vehicle for the Writingplace platform to continue its exploration of the productive relationship between architecture and literature. This issue ''Taking Place'', brings to the fore a number of(...)
Théorie de l’architecture
mars 2024
Writingplace journal for architecture and literature 7: Taking place, reflections on fieldwork
Actions:
Prix:
$58.00
(disponible sur commande)
Résumé:
The magazine 'Writingplace Journal for Architecture and Literature'' is an international, open-access, peer-reviewed journal on architecture and literature. This journal is a vehicle for the Writingplace platform to continue its exploration of the productive relationship between architecture and literature. This issue ''Taking Place'', brings to the fore a number of reflections on fieldwork that recently took place in urban environments, exploring the moment when reflection turns into action.
Théorie de l’architecture
$30.95
(disponible en magasin)
Résumé:
Enquête sur l'histoire du tapis roulant, machine ayant investi tous les domaines du quotidien, des chaînes d'assemblage en usine aux tapis de caisse, en passant par les tapis de course. Héritier des grues à tympan antiques, du manège à plan incliné ou encore des moulins disciplinaires des prisons victoriennes, ce dispositif est considéré par l'auteur comme un symbole du(...)
Les chaînes sans fin: histoire illustrée du tapis roulant
Actions:
Prix:
$30.95
(disponible en magasin)
Résumé:
Enquête sur l'histoire du tapis roulant, machine ayant investi tous les domaines du quotidien, des chaînes d'assemblage en usine aux tapis de caisse, en passant par les tapis de course. Héritier des grues à tympan antiques, du manège à plan incliné ou encore des moulins disciplinaires des prisons victoriennes, ce dispositif est considéré par l'auteur comme un symbole du mythe progressiste.
Théorie de l’architecture
$33.00
(disponible en magasin)
Résumé:
Architettura è mestiere o spazio di autonomia del pensiero critico? E se è arte, come si configura il suo processo creativo e “produttivo”? In quella contraddizione le avanguardie storiche hanno dibattuto per affermarsi, spesso costruendo ideologie che la critica ha svelato, soprattutto quella degli anni settanta dello IUAV, poi ripresa da I. de Solà-Morales, dai(...)
Architettura : Saggio su storia, avanguardie e critica della ragion tecnica
Actions:
Prix:
$33.00
(disponible en magasin)
Résumé:
Architettura è mestiere o spazio di autonomia del pensiero critico? E se è arte, come si configura il suo processo creativo e “produttivo”? In quella contraddizione le avanguardie storiche hanno dibattuto per affermarsi, spesso costruendo ideologie che la critica ha svelato, soprattutto quella degli anni settanta dello IUAV, poi ripresa da I. de Solà-Morales, dai gruppi americani di “Oppositions” e di “Any”. Il saggio ripercorre le principali fasi di quel dibattito — che l’autore considera ormai esaurito — e auspica un ritorno alle origini dell’atto creativo che l’Architettura comunque rappresenta, anche in assenza di quelle “avanguardie” che gli architetti hanno da sempre (avuto) nel loro DNA.
Théorie de l’architecture
$58.95
(disponible en magasin)
Résumé:
''Who is the architect?'' explores how the figure of the architect has been constructed and challenged in recent years. Traditionally perceived as male, Western and individualistic, architects are now being urged to redefine themselves in a more diverse, inclusive manner. The publication discusses the need to challenge norms and establish caring as an essential quality in(...)
Building diversity: Who is the architect?
Actions:
Prix:
$58.95
(disponible en magasin)
Résumé:
''Who is the architect?'' explores how the figure of the architect has been constructed and challenged in recent years. Traditionally perceived as male, Western and individualistic, architects are now being urged to redefine themselves in a more diverse, inclusive manner. The publication discusses the need to challenge norms and establish caring as an essential quality in the architectural discourse. With the threat of environmental collapse and other societal challenges, the need for collective teamwork and empathy has become central in establishing a common understanding that includes all beings. ''Building diversity'' aims to tackle these issues and explore topics on diversity and equality in the architectural field's past, present and future. The publication features thoughts and ideas from a broad range of countries and diverse perspectives on the architectural field, contributing to a wider dialogue about inclusion, intersectionality and progress. ''Building diversity'' is not intended to provide concrete solutions but aims to stimulate discussion and open up venues for hosting dialogues pointing to possible paths and the expansion of perspectives. It is an important contribution to the ongoing conversation about diversity and equality in the architectural field.
Théorie de l’architecture
La fiction constructive
$34.95
(disponible en magasin)
Résumé:
L'architecte allemand Friedrich Schinkel appréciait d'une architecture qu'elle ait "l'apparence de sa construction". Creusons cette idée simple : on touche immédiatement l'une des problématiques fondamentales de l'architecture. Art non mimétique, elle n'a effectivement qu'elle-même pour modèle. Comment donc l'architecture s'imite-t-elle, telle est la question à laquelle,(...)
La fiction constructive
Actions:
Prix:
$34.95
(disponible en magasin)
Résumé:
L'architecte allemand Friedrich Schinkel appréciait d'une architecture qu'elle ait "l'apparence de sa construction". Creusons cette idée simple : on touche immédiatement l'une des problématiques fondamentales de l'architecture. Art non mimétique, elle n'a effectivement qu'elle-même pour modèle. Comment donc l'architecture s'imite-t-elle, telle est la question à laquelle, à travers la notion de style notamment, de nombreux théoriciens ont essayé de répondre. L'hypothèse de ce livre prolonge très directement ce questionnement. Elle consiste à dire que l'architecture entretient avec son substrat matériel une relation singulière, qui procède à la fois de la connivence et de la défiance, et qui définit selon les périodes, selon les créateurs, autant de stratégies particulières en matière de projet. En dix chapitres thématiques, l'auteur circonscrit le sens de cette spécularité énigmatique entre architecture et construction. Le matériau, le chantier, l'ornement, le projet, le détail, l'histoire... autant d'éclairages qui permettent de distinguer dans cette superposition à la fois évidente et complexe des modes particuliers d'apparaître, et qui révèlent le caractère spécifique de l'esthétique architecturale. Pour autant, le style ou la beauté ne constituent pas des données positives. C'est toute l'ambiguïté de cet art : exprimer, voire afficher l'artifice par lequel l'architecture, au sens propre, se dresse, tout en masquant cette dépendance par trop triviale.
Théorie de l’architecture
Obsolescence des ruines
$46.95
(disponible sur commande)
Résumé:
Il serait difficile de nier que les ruines occupent une place de plus en plus grande dans l'imaginaire de notre temps. Nous ne parlons pas ici des ruines antiques et gothiques, mais de l'espace délabré des villes contemporaines, comprenant les usines désaffectées, les gares abandonnées, tous les lieux oubliés de la modernité. L'aura noire d'une ville comme Detroit, Pompéi(...)
Obsolescence des ruines
Actions:
Prix:
$46.95
(disponible sur commande)
Résumé:
Il serait difficile de nier que les ruines occupent une place de plus en plus grande dans l'imaginaire de notre temps. Nous ne parlons pas ici des ruines antiques et gothiques, mais de l'espace délabré des villes contemporaines, comprenant les usines désaffectées, les gares abandonnées, tous les lieux oubliés de la modernité. L'aura noire d'une ville comme Detroit, Pompéi actuelle de la désindustrialisation, nimbe chaque bâtiment délaissé du monde. Elle est devenue en quelque temps la Mecque de l'exploration urbaine, dont le Detroit's Michigan Theater transformé en parking représente le cube de la Kaaba autour duquel tournoient les nouveaux pèlerins du Hajj de la dévastation urbaine. La ruine industrielle appartient encore pour une grande part au culte classique du monument effondré. Elle en rejoue la grandeur passée, l'évocation nostalgique de la civilisation fragile et mortelle. Dans les colonnes d'un temple ruiné ou dans les usines en friche, ce sont encore les beaux restes d'un Empire que l'on loue. Nous sommes entrés dans le troisième âge de la ruine. Après le temps des ruines antiques, puis celui ces ruines modernes, voici l'ère de la ruine instantanée, de la ruine du présent lui-même qui, née de l'urgence et vaincue par elle, ne dure plus, mais s'efface au moment même de son édification.
Théorie de l’architecture
$56.95
(disponible en magasin)
Résumé:
''Bedtime stories for architects'' is a compendium of texts, built works and graphic work by Peter Wilson. It offers glimpses of buildings by the German based office of BOLLES+WILSON, but it is not a monograph, it presents a cloud of discursive subjects and narratives, evidencing Wilson’s take on a wide range of academic, technical, cultural, and architectural issues. It(...)
Bedtime stories for Architects
Actions:
Prix:
$56.95
(disponible en magasin)
Résumé:
''Bedtime stories for architects'' is a compendium of texts, built works and graphic work by Peter Wilson. It offers glimpses of buildings by the German based office of BOLLES+WILSON, but it is not a monograph, it presents a cloud of discursive subjects and narratives, evidencing Wilson’s take on a wide range of academic, technical, cultural, and architectural issues. It has been called ‘tremendously cutting-edge’, perhaps because of the wry humor of the stories and Wilson’s witty and intelligent drawings – these extend to satirical portraits of – bankers, estate agents, property developers and a few OK people. Much of the book is organized alphabetically like a children’s book – A is for Albania, C is for Counterfactual Histories, G is for Guggenheim, M is for Malevich, O is for Olgiati, R is for Ritual. Counterfactual Histories (a concept from Borges) are paint-shop illustrated as surprising, poetic and enigmatic landscapes. ‘A Blue Review’ deconstructs a book on colour in architecture. Between the enigmatic graphic works are longer texts including Wilson’s extensive analysis of Studio Mumbai (first published in El Croquis), a longer investigation of the Swiss architect Valerio Olgiati and a history of Modernism in Wilson’s home country Australia.
Théorie de l’architecture
$54.00
(disponible sur commande)
Résumé:
The 1912 recognition of Albania as an entity on the international horizon is paralleled by our own initial encounter with this Balkan enigma (some fifteen years after the collapse of Albanian Communism). In both cases there were pre-histories to be taken on board and post-histories to be orchestrated. These are the parallel subjects of this book. Bolles+Wilson were one(...)
Some reasons for traveling to Albania
Actions:
Prix:
$54.00
(disponible sur commande)
Résumé:
The 1912 recognition of Albania as an entity on the international horizon is paralleled by our own initial encounter with this Balkan enigma (some fifteen years after the collapse of Albanian Communism). In both cases there were pre-histories to be taken on board and post-histories to be orchestrated. These are the parallel subjects of this book. Bolles+Wilson were one of three architectural offices invited to the international competition for a Masterplan to re-script the central axis of Tirana. They designed two rooms within the Rationalist edifice, one the office of Deputy Prime Minister Nico Paleshi, and nearby a room called ‚''Prime Minister’s Think Tank''.
Théorie de l’architecture