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For almost ten years, Samuel Mockbee, a recent McArthur "genius grant" recipient, and his architecture students at Auburn University have been designing and building striking houses and community buildings for impoverished residents of Alabama's Hale County. Using salvaged lumber and bricks, discarded tires, hay and waste cardboard bales, concrete rubble, coloured(...)
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février 2002, New York
Rural Studio : Samuel Mockbee and an architecture of decency
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For almost ten years, Samuel Mockbee, a recent McArthur "genius grant" recipient, and his architecture students at Auburn University have been designing and building striking houses and community buildings for impoverished residents of Alabama's Hale County. Using salvaged lumber and bricks, discarded tires, hay and waste cardboard bales, concrete rubble, coloured bottles, and old license plates, they create inexpensive buildings in a style Mockbee describes as "contemporary modernism grounded in Southern culture." In a time when architectural attention focuses on large, glossy urban projects and palatial homes, the Rural Studio provides an alternative of substance. In addition to being a social welfare venture, the Rural Studio is also and educational experiment and a prod to the architectural profession to act on its best instincts. By giving students hands-on experience in designing and building something real, it extends their education beyond paper architecture. And in scavenging and reusing a variety of unusual materials, it is a model of sustainable architecture. The work of the Rural Studio has struck such a chord--both architecturally and socially--that it has been featured on "Oprah," "Nightline," and "CBS News," as well as "Time" and "People" magazines.
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février 2002, New York
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LOT/EK urban scan
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The New York-based architectural firm LOT/EK (pronounced "low-tech") has made a distinctive mark on the architectural landscape through a series of seemingly whimsical projects that make a point of using prefabricated industrial materials in unexpected ways. In their hands, a shipping container can be transformed into a mobile working unit, a museum, or a restaurant. In(...)
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février 2002, New York
LOT/EK urban scan
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The New York-based architectural firm LOT/EK (pronounced "low-tech") has made a distinctive mark on the architectural landscape through a series of seemingly whimsical projects that make a point of using prefabricated industrial materials in unexpected ways. In their hands, a shipping container can be transformed into a mobile working unit, a museum, or a restaurant. In the process, they question our relation to the industrial environment and the artificiality of the urban landscape. LOT/EK: Urban Scan, the first and only monograph on the firm, is organized categorically and alphabetically. Twenty-three projects are presented in detail, including American Diner (a restaurant in a container), the InspiroTrainer (created for the Museum of Modern Art), Mixer (a cement mixer-cum-video immersion unit), the Meltzer Gallery, the Boon boutique, the MDU (Mobule Dwelling Unit), and the Goree Memorial and Museum. It also includes more than 1,000 photographs of infrastructural objects--everything from air conditioners to water tanks--that serve as the raw material and inspiration for this creative practice. Ada Tolla and Giuseppe Lignano, LOT/EK's founding partners, are natives of Naples, Italy. They opened their New York studio after graduating from Columbia University.
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février 2002, New York
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"Nanoarchitecture" presents eleven of John Johansen's most inspired visions: a floating conference centre, an apartment building that sprouts from the earth and grows on its own, a levitating auditorium. The projects in "Nanoarchitecture" are presented through a series of idiosyncratic models, drawings, and computer animations suggesting what it would be like to inhabit(...)
Nanoarchitecture : a new species of architecture
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"Nanoarchitecture" presents eleven of John Johansen's most inspired visions: a floating conference centre, an apartment building that sprouts from the earth and grows on its own, a levitating auditorium. The projects in "Nanoarchitecture" are presented through a series of idiosyncratic models, drawings, and computer animations suggesting what it would be like to inhabit these fantastic spaces.
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This monograph traces Ellwood'S personal history and provides a critical evaluation of his work.
California modern : the architecture of Craig Ellwood
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This monograph traces Ellwood'S personal history and provides a critical evaluation of his work.
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novembre 2001, New York
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What began as a simple letter--a mid-career architect's comments to a young writer--turned into a 32-year correspondence, by turns amusing, inflamed, and conciliatory. Frank Lloyd Wright and Lewis Mumford, two pivotal figures in 20th-century American architecture and urbanism, were both passionate writers, keenly aware of world events. Their 150 letters from 1926-1958(...)
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novembre 2001, New York
Frank Lloyd Wright + Lewis Mumford : thirty years of correspondence
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What began as a simple letter--a mid-career architect's comments to a young writer--turned into a 32-year correspondence, by turns amusing, inflamed, and conciliatory. Frank Lloyd Wright and Lewis Mumford, two pivotal figures in 20th-century American architecture and urbanism, were both passionate writers, keenly aware of world events. Their 150 letters from 1926-1958 covered a wide range of topics, including Wright's position in the history of American architecture and contemporary practice, their friends and rivals, the invention and spread of the International Style, and political events in Europe and the US. A fallout over isolationist politics in the early 1940s led to a 10-year gap in their exchange, and when it resumed the two were on an entirely different footing: Wright, the elder dean of American architecture at the height of his creative powers, and Mumford, an established critic in late middle age deeply committed to rebuilding a humanist outlook in the aftermath of World War II. Frank Lloyd Wright & Lewis Mumford offers an intimate look inside the minds and hearts of these two cultural giants, deepening our understanding of the men and the society they helped shape.
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novembre 2001, New York
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Paul Rudolph, one of the 20th century's most iconoclastic architects, is best known -- and most maligned--for his large "brutalist" buildings, like the Yale Art and Architecture Building. So it will surprise many to learn that early in his career he developed a series of houses that represent the unrivaled possibilities of a modest American modernism. With their(...)
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janvier 2002, New York
Paul Rudolph : the Florida houses
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Paul Rudolph, one of the 20th century's most iconoclastic architects, is best known -- and most maligned--for his large "brutalist" buildings, like the Yale Art and Architecture Building. So it will surprise many to learn that early in his career he developed a series of houses that represent the unrivaled possibilities of a modest American modernism. With their distinctive natural landscapes, local architectural precedents, and exploitation of innovative construction materials, the Florida houses, some eighty projects built between 1946 and 1961, brought modern architectural form into a gracious subtropical world of natural abundance. Like the locally inspired desert houses of another modern master, Albert Frey, Rudolph's Florida houses represent a distillation and reinterpretation of traditional architectural ideas developed to a high pitch of stylistic refinement. "Paul Rudolph: The Florida Houses" reveals all of Rudolph's early residential work. Along with Rudolph's personal essays and renderings, duotone photographs by Ezra Stoller and Joseph Molitor, and text by Joseph King and Christopher Domin, this new book conveys the lightness, timelessness, strength, materiality, and transcendency of Rudolph's work.
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janvier 2002, New York
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This engaging publication, written by prominent scholars of contemporary architecture and design, is the first to focus on the collaborative design process for Windshield, as revealed by the extensive Brown/Neutra correspondence, as well as on its role in modern American architecture. J. Carter Brown has contributed personal recollections about growing up in(...)
Richard Neutra's Windshield House
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This engaging publication, written by prominent scholars of contemporary architecture and design, is the first to focus on the collaborative design process for Windshield, as revealed by the extensive Brown/Neutra correspondence, as well as on its role in modern American architecture. J. Carter Brown has contributed personal recollections about growing up in Windshield. This book will accompany an exhibition that opens at the Harvard University Art Museums in November 2001, and will then travel to the RISD Museum, the Octagon Museum of the American Architectural Foundation, and the Armand Hammer Museum at UCLA.
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novembre 2001, New Haven
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Frederick J. Kiesler - architect, sculptor, painter, designer, set designer and art historian. Kiesler was tireless in his pursuit of a radical new concept of interior spaces: his dream was a polydimensional living space, an organic continuum in which colour, form(...)
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janvier 1900, Vienna
Frederick J. Kiesler : endless space
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Frederick J. Kiesler - architect, sculptor, painter, designer, set designer and art historian. Kiesler was tireless in his pursuit of a radical new concept of interior spaces: his dream was a polydimensional living space, an organic continuum in which colour, form and light, combined with magical and mythical themes, would create a unique cosmos. His so-called Endless House stayed with him all his life; although it was never realised it still fascinated and influenced other architects and artists more than many 'real' 20th century buildings. The publication "Endless Space" has been produced in cooperation with the Austrian Frederick and Lillian Kiesler Private Foundation.
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janvier 1900, Vienna
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The depiction of architecture through language: few contemporary architects have pursued this issue so pointedly and steadfastly as Wolf D. "Prix of the Vienna studio Coop Himmelb(l)au. Texts play a prominent role in the award-winning architectural office's creative output. Get off of my cloud" gathers together the first representative selection of writings including(...)
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janvier 1900, Ostfildern-Ruit
Get off of my cloud : Wolf D. Prix - CoopHimmelb(l)au - texts 1968-2005
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The depiction of architecture through language: few contemporary architects have pursued this issue so pointedly and steadfastly as Wolf D. "Prix of the Vienna studio Coop Himmelb(l)au. Texts play a prominent role in the award-winning architectural office's creative output. Get off of my cloud" gathers together the first representative selection of writings including programmatic contributions, aphorisms, interviews, polemics, speeches, and lectures. The texts, written in the time from 1968 to 2005, open a multitude of insights into the theoretical and artistic content of the expansive work of Coop Himmelb(l)au. They likewise illuminate the work of other architects and pose provocative questions for architecture, art, and politics.
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Dans ce volume, l'architecture du Renzo Piano Building Workshop est présentée de manière claire et accessible à travers un grand nombre de photographies et de dessins. Le texte de Peter Buchanan, qui fait autorité, est à la fois descriptif et analytique : il met en évidence les aspects les plus significatifs des réalisations de Renzo Piano tout en les reliant entre elles.(...)
Renzo Piano Building Workshop : oeuvres complètes volume 1
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Dans ce volume, l'architecture du Renzo Piano Building Workshop est présentée de manière claire et accessible à travers un grand nombre de photographies et de dessins. Le texte de Peter Buchanan, qui fait autorité, est à la fois descriptif et analytique : il met en évidence les aspects les plus significatifs des réalisations de Renzo Piano tout en les reliant entre elles. Les projets présentés sont également replacés dans le contexte de travaux antérieurs à la fondation du Renzo Piano Building Workshop et à son évolution récente.
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