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A serious effort to document the changing landscape in the design professions and to make this information available to various constituencies and stakeholder groups as part of an effort to educate as well as bridge the gap between academia and practice.
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novembre 2003, San Francisco
Reconfiguration in the study and practice of design and architecture
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A serious effort to document the changing landscape in the design professions and to make this information available to various constituencies and stakeholder groups as part of an effort to educate as well as bridge the gap between academia and practice.
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This book is a cutting edge study exploring the field of the conception and the tectonic making of place as it impinges in, and thus changes, the site in which it is set. It examines the attitudes to both nature and the built environment of the designer, the client and the society in which an intervention (be it architecture, landscape design or a piece of art) is made.(...)
Constructing place : mind and matter
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This book is a cutting edge study exploring the field of the conception and the tectonic making of place as it impinges in, and thus changes, the site in which it is set. It examines the attitudes to both nature and the built environment of the designer, the client and the society in which an intervention (be it architecture, landscape design or a piece of art) is made. The legacy of the Modernist view of nature and the environment is also addressed, and the degree to which such ideas continue to impinge on contemporary interventions is assessed. These topics are addressed through the methodologies of history, theory, philosophy and psychology. The book forges new collaborative ideas in an interdisciplinary way, including essays on architecture, planning, landscape and philosophy (particularly applied aesthetics).
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According to Paul Shepheard, architecture is the rearranging of the world for human purposes. Sculpture, machines, and landscapes are all architecture -- every bit as much as buildings are. In his writings, Shepheard examines old assumptions about architecture and replaces the critical theory of the academic with the active theory of the architect-citizen enamored of the(...)
Artificial love : a story of machines and architecture
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According to Paul Shepheard, architecture is the rearranging of the world for human purposes. Sculpture, machines, and landscapes are all architecture -- every bit as much as buildings are. In his writings, Shepheard examines old assumptions about architecture and replaces the critical theory of the academic with the active theory of the architect-citizen enamored of the world around him. Artificial Love weaves together three stories about architecture into one. The first, about machines as architecture, leads to speculations about technology and the human condition and to the assertion that machines are the sculptures of today. The second story is about the ways that architecture reflects the tribal and personal desires of those who make it. In the West, ideas of community, multiculturalism, and globalization compete furiously, leaving architecture to exist as it always has, as the past in the present. The third story features individual people experiencing their lives in the context of architecture. Here, Shepheard borrows the rhetorical device of Shakespeare's seven ages of man to propose that each person's life imitates the accumulating history of the human species. Shepheard's version of the history of humans is a technological one, in which machines become sculpture and sculpture becomes architecture. For Shepheard, our machines do not separate us from nature. Rather, our technology is our nature, and we cannot but be in harmony with nature. The change that we have wrought in the world, he says, is a wonderful and powerful thing.
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"Megaprojects and Risk" provides the first detailed examination of the phenomenon of megaprojects. It is a fascinating account of how the promoters of multi-billion dollar megaprojects systematically and self-servingly misinform parliaments, the public and the media in order to get projects approved and built. It shows, in unusual depth, how the formula for approval is an(...)
Théorie de l’architecture
janvier 2003, Cambridge
Megaprojects and risk: an anatomy of ambition
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"Megaprojects and Risk" provides the first detailed examination of the phenomenon of megaprojects. It is a fascinating account of how the promoters of multi-billion dollar megaprojects systematically and self-servingly misinform parliaments, the public and the media in order to get projects approved and built. It shows, in unusual depth, how the formula for approval is an unhealthy cocktail of underestimated costs, overestimated revenues, undervalued environmental impacts and overvalued economic development effects. This results in projects that are extremely risky, but where the risk is concealed from MPs, taxpayers and investors. The authors not only explore the problems but also suggest practical solutions drawing on theory, experience and hard, scientific evidence from the several hundred projects in twenty nations and five continents that illustrate the book. Accessibly written, it will be the standard reference for students, scholars, planners, economists, auditors, politicians and interested citizens for many years to come.
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"Suspensions of Perception" is a major historical study of human attention and its volatile role in modern Western culture. It argues that the ways in which we intently look at or listen to anything result from crucial changes in the nature of perception that can be traced back to(...)
Suspensions of perception: attention, spectacle, and modern culture
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"Suspensions of Perception" is a major historical study of human attention and its volatile role in modern Western culture. It argues that the ways in which we intently look at or listen to anything result from crucial changes in the nature of perception that can be traced back to the second half of the nineteenth century. Focusing on the period from about 1880 to 1905, Jonathan Crary examines the connections between the modernization of subjectivity and the dramatic expansion and industrialization of visual/auditory culture. At the core of his project is the paradoxical nature of modern attention, which was both a fundamental condition of individual freedom, creativity, and experience and a central element in the efficient functioning of economic and disciplinary institutions as well as the emerging spaces of mass consumption and spectacle. Crary approaches these issues through multiple analyses of single works by three key modernist painters--Manet, Seurat, and Cézanne--who each engaged in a singular confrontation with the disruptions, vacancies, and rifts within a perceptual field. Each in his own way discovered that sustained attentiveness, rather than fixing or securing the world, led to perceptual disintegration and loss of presence, and each used this discovery as the basis for a reinvention of representational practices. Suspensions of Perception decisively relocates the problem of aesthetic contemplation within a broader collective encounter with the unstable nature of perception--in psychology, philosophy, neurology, early cinema, and photography. In doing so, it provides a historical framework for understanding the current social crisis of attention amid the accelerating metamorphoses of our contemporary technological culture.
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août 2001, Cambridge
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Au cours de son exposé, Bernard Huet développe une série d'analyses qui se dessinent progressivement les contours et l'évolution de la théorie de l'architecture au XXe siècle. La lecture de ce texte ouvre à la pensée vivante et complexe d'un architecture à la personalité exceptionelle.
Sur un état de la théorie de l'architecture au XXe siècle
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Au cours de son exposé, Bernard Huet développe une série d'analyses qui se dessinent progressivement les contours et l'évolution de la théorie de l'architecture au XXe siècle. La lecture de ce texte ouvre à la pensée vivante et complexe d'un architecture à la personalité exceptionelle.
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Louis Kahn : essential texts
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A thoughtful selection of the celebrated architect's speeches and writings. This unique anthology draws from Louis Kahn's speeches, essays, and interviews—some never previously published—to capture the evolution and central tenets of the influential American architect's thinking, from his early work of the 1940s to his death in 1974.
Louis Kahn : essential texts
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A thoughtful selection of the celebrated architect's speeches and writings. This unique anthology draws from Louis Kahn's speeches, essays, and interviews—some never previously published—to capture the evolution and central tenets of the influential American architect's thinking, from his early work of the 1940s to his death in 1974.
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Le temple dorique, qui ouvre l’histoire de l’architecture et de la cité, n’a pas été érigé pour se protéger des prédateurs et de l’intempérie : pour répondre à ce besoin légitime, l’édifice suffit. L’architecture, elle, révèle l’élément premier, l’ordre. L’architecture grave-t-elle dans le marbre tout le fondement de la civilisation occidentale ? C'est à cette(...)
Le temple : l'ordre de la terre et du ciel
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Le temple dorique, qui ouvre l’histoire de l’architecture et de la cité, n’a pas été érigé pour se protéger des prédateurs et de l’intempérie : pour répondre à ce besoin légitime, l’édifice suffit. L’architecture, elle, révèle l’élément premier, l’ordre. L’architecture grave-t-elle dans le marbre tout le fondement de la civilisation occidentale ? C'est à cette question que le livre s’attache à répondre.
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avril 2003, Paris
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Nicholas Howe contemplates how places create and gather their stories and how, in turn, a sense of place locates the stories of our own lives. Howe begins with a description of Buffalo, that city on an inland sea where he grew up. He gives us a fresh Paris, viewed from the river below. And he depicts Oklahoma as a site of open lands and dislocation--a place of coming(...)
Théorie de l’architecture
janvier 1900, Princeton and Oxford
Across an inland sea : writing in place form Buffalo to Berlin
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Nicholas Howe contemplates how places create and gather their stories and how, in turn, a sense of place locates the stories of our own lives. Howe begins with a description of Buffalo, that city on an inland sea where he grew up. He gives us a fresh Paris, viewed from the river below. And he depicts Oklahoma as a site of open lands and dislocation--a place of coming and going. Howe then turns to Chartres, a traditional location of pilgrimage, to ask what other sites might still be capable of compelling visitors in secular time. He portrays Berlin as a scene of twentieth-century history--and a city that helped him make sense of his American life. Finally, he writes about Columbus, Ohio, as home. Vividly rendering the places he has known, Howe meditates on the weight of home, the temptations of the metropolis, the fact of dislocation, the unraveling of history, the desire to remake ourselves through voyage, and the wonder of the familiar. In ways that too often elude travel writers, it is place that holds our imagination, that inspires much of our art and literature. Across an Inland Sea evokes the various senses of place that can fill and haunt a life--and ultimately give life its form and meaning.
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Cet ouvrage rassemble une vingtaine d'articles et de conférences. Le groupement est thématique. «Perception de l'architecture, matériaux, avant-gardes, maison de l'architecte, contruction du lieu par l'architecture, fondation d'une école à Lausanne», ainsi s'articule la table des matières. Disséminés dans des revues et des catalogues d'exposition, les textes sont repris(...)
Motion, émotions : thèmes d'histoire et d'architecture
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Cet ouvrage rassemble une vingtaine d'articles et de conférences. Le groupement est thématique. «Perception de l'architecture, matériaux, avant-gardes, maison de l'architecte, contruction du lieu par l'architecture, fondation d'une école à Lausanne», ainsi s'articule la table des matières. Disséminés dans des revues et des catalogues d'exposition, les textes sont repris sans retouche ni complément bibliographique. Le livre vise moins un effet de fragmentation qu'un témoignage obsessif à l'état brut.
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