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Virtuous situations from the industrial past and some ideas for the ‘climatic metropolis’ to come (cases of Brussels and Paris) compiles examples and projections that question the shape given to the city and territory at a moment of paradigm shift. The rapid evolution of climate change is leading to a clear state of emergency that is going to redefine the values and(...)
CENTRAL office for architecture and urbanism & Maxime Delvaux
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Virtuous situations from the industrial past and some ideas for the ‘climatic metropolis’ to come (cases of Brussels and Paris) compiles examples and projections that question the shape given to the city and territory at a moment of paradigm shift. The rapid evolution of climate change is leading to a clear state of emergency that is going to redefine the values and forms of our society and its territories. Several signs of a gradual paradigm shift have appeared and citizen voices are being raised against a social model that is at odds with the environment. Looking towards the past, a fascinated reading of a city’s ability to transform itself radically when necessary, is proposed. The change, generated by the race towards industrialization and social emancipation, forced metropolises such as Brussels and Paris to develop new urban functions and logics. This evolution took shape in territories that were not yet highly urbanized, but also within the city itself, in negotiation with the existing context. A series of 23 situations from the industrial age draws a panorama of virtuous examples, illustrating an assumed cohabitation between the urban fabric and the infrastructural, productive and energy needs at a precise moment of radical change in Paris and Brussels. The development of the ‘climatic metropolis’ must imperatively be based on design values and principles capable of generating a common vision. In this perspective, we propose some ideas for reflection formalized by projects tied to the built stories from the past, outlining potential situations of a new state to come for the European city.
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On sait peu de choses sur le rôle de la musique dans le travail de Le Corbusier. On en sait également peu sur le travail architectural de Iannis Xenakis. Pourtant, cela fait soixante ans que Xenakis élabora la conception du Pavillon Philips de l'Exposition universelle de 1958 à Bruxelles : un pavillon éphémère aux formes organiques réalisé alors qu'il travaillait chez Le(...)
Le Corbusier & Iannis Xenakis : un dialogue architecture / musique
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On sait peu de choses sur le rôle de la musique dans le travail de Le Corbusier. On en sait également peu sur le travail architectural de Iannis Xenakis. Pourtant, cela fait soixante ans que Xenakis élabora la conception du Pavillon Philips de l'Exposition universelle de 1958 à Bruxelles : un pavillon éphémère aux formes organiques réalisé alors qu'il travaillait chez Le Corbusier, en même temps qu'il produisait ses premières compositions musicales. Objet multimédia avant l'heure, ce Pavillon intrigue toujours autant par les courbures de ses formes dans l'espace, que par les oeuvres électroniques dont il fut l'écrin. Plus encore, la rencontre des individualités collaborant au projet interpelle : faire un projet à plusieurs, c'est accepter les contradictions, les silences, les tensions. À travers l'analyse de documents originaux, certains inédits, cet ouvrage revient sur la place de la musique chez Le Corbusier, de l'architecture chez Iannis Xenakis, et nous aide à comprendre leur travail de collaboration en revenant sur la genèse du Pavillon Philips : appréhender les rapports entre architecture et musique chez Le Corbusier et Xenakis, c'est ainsi constater le choc entre le sens ancestral de la synthèse des arts dont hérite le XXe siècle et la modernité d'un projet réalisé au cours des années 1950.
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For Donna van Milligen Bielke architecture begins and ends with architecture. Even if she never mentions it explicitly, for her, architecture suffices to make architecture. Just as a language comprises all its words, including the ones that are rarely used, architecture is based on all its forms and manifestations. Wittingly or unwittingly, every architect stands in(...)
In Between: The urban architecture Of Donna Van Milligen Bielke
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For Donna van Milligen Bielke architecture begins and ends with architecture. Even if she never mentions it explicitly, for her, architecture suffices to make architecture. Just as a language comprises all its words, including the ones that are rarely used, architecture is based on all its forms and manifestations. Wittingly or unwittingly, every architect stands in relation to all architecture that has ever been made. Not every architect fully acknowledges this, but Van Milligen Bielke certainly does. In her work it is possible to see the depth of the discipline’s history.
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Stéphane Fernandez creates ''silent architecture'' that respects and invests in the landscape as it takes shape. A minimalist in expression with a maximalist’s attention to detail, the French architect centers his models, plans, and sketches on the search for materials, as well as the movement of bodies and the tensions generated between them. ''Imperfection—Atelier(...)
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Imperfection. Atelier Stéphane Fernandez
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Stéphane Fernandez creates ''silent architecture'' that respects and invests in the landscape as it takes shape. A minimalist in expression with a maximalist’s attention to detail, the French architect centers his models, plans, and sketches on the search for materials, as well as the movement of bodies and the tensions generated between them. ''Imperfection—Atelier Stéphane Fernandez'' is the first book to focus on Fernandez’s studio in Aix-en-Provence, Atelier Stéphane Fernandez, and it features five designs emblematic of his approach: a children’s pavilion in Saint-Raphaël, a media library in Carnoux, a dormitory and laboratory building in Banyuls-sur-Mer, a cultural center in Vertou, and a primary school in Cannes. The book includes a manifesto and essay by Fernandez, a conversation between Fernandez and architectural historian Éléonore Marantz, and more than one hundred color illustrations, including plans and photographs by Berlin-based photographer Schnepp Renou.
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A spectacular showcase of the leading-edge architectural designs from the multidisciplinary, Los Angeles-based design practice. Hernán Díaz Alonso is one of the most influential and innovative architects working today. Director of one of the leading architecture schools in the USA, his visionary schemes span all scales, from silverware to master plans. Founded by Alonso(...)
The Surreal Visions of Hernan Diaz Alonso/HDA-X
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A spectacular showcase of the leading-edge architectural designs from the multidisciplinary, Los Angeles-based design practice. Hernán Díaz Alonso is one of the most influential and innovative architects working today. Director of one of the leading architecture schools in the USA, his visionary schemes span all scales, from silverware to master plans. Founded by Alonso in 2001, Xefirotarch’s multidisciplinary design obsessions are based in an appreciation for mutant forms, which have been realized in designs for architecture, sculpture, products and design objects. This showcase of works presents the practice’s major designs since 2001, including plans for Helsinki Library, Budapest Museum and major architecture projects in Barcelona.
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The first book to explore the entire Salk Institute complex, which is often considered to be Kahn’s most important commission. An in-depth examination, focusing on the design development, including the built Laboratory building, the unbuilt Meeting House and Visiting Fellows residences and the overall site planning of the complex, with emphasis on Salk’s role in the(...)
The evolution of a building complex: Louis I. Kahn's Salk Institute for Biological Studies
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The first book to explore the entire Salk Institute complex, which is often considered to be Kahn’s most important commission. An in-depth examination, focusing on the design development, including the built Laboratory building, the unbuilt Meeting House and Visiting Fellows residences and the overall site planning of the complex, with emphasis on Salk’s role in the decision-making process.
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Groupe d’architectes italien parmi les plus influents de sa génération, Superstudio a profondément renouvelé, entre 1966 et 1978,? le langage et l’imaginaire de l’architecture, ouvrant la discipline à des pratiques conceptuelles et anticipant par le photomontage l’avènement d’un urbanisme du réseau et de la communication totale. L’ouvrage emprunte les chemins conceptuels(...)
Superstudio : la vie après l'architecture
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Groupe d’architectes italien parmi les plus influents de sa génération, Superstudio a profondément renouvelé, entre 1966 et 1978,? le langage et l’imaginaire de l’architecture, ouvrant la discipline à des pratiques conceptuelles et anticipant par le photomontage l’avènement d’un urbanisme du réseau et de la communication totale. L’ouvrage emprunte les chemins conceptuels du groupe afin de donner à voir autant la chronologie de l’œuvre qu’une transversalité intellectuelle pour saisir l’impact de cette pensée sur les fondements de l’architecture. Il présente aussi de manière exhaustive les formes fictionnelles d’écriture de l’architecture et offre un catalogue raisonné des œuvres du groupe.
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Built between 1954 and 1959, Stuttgart’s Romeo and Julia tower blocks defied the staggering banality of postwar German housing with bold colors and jagged triangular balconies. Designed by Hans Scharoun (1893–1972) toward the end of a career dedicated to experimentation and the development of a new and democratic style of architecture, Romeo and Julia constitute the most(...)
Hans Scharoun and the development of small apartment floor plans
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Built between 1954 and 1959, Stuttgart’s Romeo and Julia tower blocks defied the staggering banality of postwar German housing with bold colors and jagged triangular balconies. Designed by Hans Scharoun (1893–1972) toward the end of a career dedicated to experimentation and the development of a new and democratic style of architecture, Romeo and Julia constitute the most daring and original attempts to recalibrate the ''dwelling process.'' Drawing on a vast trove of previously unpublished materials held in the archives of the Akademie der Künste in Berlin, Markus Peter and Ulrike Tillmann offer unprecedented insight into Scharoun’s design process. His writings and lectures of several decades show him weaving together the diverse strands of research that were to form the basis for his floor plans. Inherently curious and undeterred by contradictions and complexity, Scharoun was unflagging in his efforts to build on his understanding of what housing is about. Romeo and Julia, with their innovative and socially responsive organization of space, thus mark the culmination of the architect’s profound and long-standing engagement with a fundamental human need.
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Raumlabor : Cantiere Barca
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Publication documenting a series of workshops involving Raumlabor, a Berlin-based group architects, and the youths of Barca, a neighbourhood in outskirts of Turin. The project, which advocates for the re-appropriation of the public space, saw the development of a series of inhabitable environmental installations.
Raumlabor : Cantiere Barca
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Publication documenting a series of workshops involving Raumlabor, a Berlin-based group architects, and the youths of Barca, a neighbourhood in outskirts of Turin. The project, which advocates for the re-appropriation of the public space, saw the development of a series of inhabitable environmental installations.
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Toshiharu Naka: Two cycles
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This book by architect Toshiharu Naka establishes specific concepts based on two systems: a “Social Cycle”, or a cycle coexisting with small economies, and an “Ecological Cycle”, or a cycle of natural energy and resources. He illustrates his macroscopic idea to integrate the two through his architectural works. Naka’s detailed speculation includes the live/work house,(...)
Toshiharu Naka: Two cycles
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This book by architect Toshiharu Naka establishes specific concepts based on two systems: a “Social Cycle”, or a cycle coexisting with small economies, and an “Ecological Cycle”, or a cycle of natural energy and resources. He illustrates his macroscopic idea to integrate the two through his architectural works. Naka’s detailed speculation includes the live/work house, places for spontaneous activity, landscapes of grouped houses, realising possibilities for fusion, and dynamic programme theory. He proposes intermediate areas as spaces for interaction with the outside, giving visibility to the social cycle, or as thermal environments, allowing the ecological cycle to become visible as well.
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