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Ant Farm
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Including a text by Caroline Maniaque, a conversation between Chip Lord and Pierre Huyghe, and a conversation between Bernard Blistène and Marie-Ange Braye, work annotations by Émilie Retailleau & Camille de Singly. Dedicated to the influential group of artists and architects of the American counter-culture, ‘Ant Farm' provides an overview of the groups projects, from(...)
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Including a text by Caroline Maniaque, a conversation between Chip Lord and Pierre Huyghe, and a conversation between Bernard Blistène and Marie-Ange Braye, work annotations by Émilie Retailleau & Camille de Singly. Dedicated to the influential group of artists and architects of the American counter-culture, ‘Ant Farm' provides an overview of the groups projects, from(...)
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décembre 2007, Orléans, France
décembre 2007, Orléans, France
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Ant Farm
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Including a text by Caroline Maniaque, a conversation between Chip Lord and Pierre Huyghe, and a conversation between Bernard Blistène and Marie-Ange Braye, work annotations by Émilie Retailleau & Camille de Singly. Dedicated to the influential group of artists and architects of the American counter-culture, ‘Ant Farm' provides an overview of the groups projects, from the mythical ‘Cadillac Ranch' to ‘The House of the Century', and from ‘Media Burn' to ‘Eternal Frame'. The group's projects are based as much on conceptual art practices, as on architecture, theatre or literature. Published on the occasion of an retrospective exhibition at the FRAC Centre, Orléans, this book is filled with photographs of works and performances, essays and interviews.
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Including a text by Caroline Maniaque, a conversation between Chip Lord and Pierre Huyghe, and a conversation between Bernard Blistène and Marie-Ange Braye, work annotations by Émilie Retailleau & Camille de Singly. Dedicated to the influential group of artists and architects of the American counter-culture, ‘Ant Farm' provides an overview of the groups projects, from the mythical ‘Cadillac Ranch' to ‘The House of the Century', and from ‘Media Burn' to ‘Eternal Frame'. The group's projects are based as much on conceptual art practices, as on architecture, theatre or literature. Published on the occasion of an retrospective exhibition at the FRAC Centre, Orléans, this book is filled with photographs of works and performances, essays and interviews.
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décembre 2007, Orléans, France
décembre 2007, Orléans, France
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The work of Landa Garcià Landa published in this book are a good sampling of the best of recent Mexican architecture. The firm has created a rigorous and sensual body of work that brings together a solid legacy of influences, ideas and reflections in buildings that honor their structure and materials and explain their genesis through sophisticated details. The heroic age(...)
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The work of Landa Garcià Landa published in this book are a good sampling of the best of recent Mexican architecture. The firm has created a rigorous and sensual body of work that brings together a solid legacy of influences, ideas and reflections in buildings that honor their structure and materials and explain their genesis through sophisticated details. The heroic age(...)
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février 2007, Monterrey
février 2007, Monterrey
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Landa Garcia Landa Arquitectos, Monterrey, México
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The work of Landa Garcià Landa published in this book are a good sampling of the best of recent Mexican architecture. The firm has created a rigorous and sensual body of work that brings together a solid legacy of influences, ideas and reflections in buildings that honor their structure and materials and explain their genesis through sophisticated details. The heroic age of Latin American architecture remains alive in these buildings, which, with gravity and precision, are articulating a new landscape for Monterrey, Mexico.
Landa Garcia Landa Arquitectos, Monterrey, México
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The work of Landa Garcià Landa published in this book are a good sampling of the best of recent Mexican architecture. The firm has created a rigorous and sensual body of work that brings together a solid legacy of influences, ideas and reflections in buildings that honor their structure and materials and explain their genesis through sophisticated details. The heroic age of Latin American architecture remains alive in these buildings, which, with gravity and precision, are articulating a new landscape for Monterrey, Mexico.
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février 2007, Monterrey
février 2007, Monterrey
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In this electrifying showcase of Max Dudler's power stations, Energy Buildings traces the public works constructions of a man who has mastered the architectural square. Credited as one of the formative minds behind the New Berlin, Dudler's residential work at Gendarmenmarkt, and his transformer substation at Lutzoplatz, reveal cubes that are based in a rational(...)
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In this electrifying showcase of Max Dudler's power stations, Energy Buildings traces the public works constructions of a man who has mastered the architectural square. Credited as one of the formative minds behind the New Berlin, Dudler's residential work at Gendarmenmarkt, and his transformer substation at Lutzoplatz, reveal cubes that are based in a rational(...)
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septembre 2007, Zürich
septembre 2007, Zürich
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Max Dudler: Energy Buildings Bewag/Vattenfall
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In this electrifying showcase of Max Dudler's power stations, Energy Buildings traces the public works constructions of a man who has mastered the architectural square. Credited as one of the formative minds behind the New Berlin, Dudler's residential work at Gendarmenmarkt, and his transformer substation at Lutzoplatz, reveal cubes that are based in a rational architectural evaluation of what is absolutely necessary. Four walls. No frills. As evidenced in the 22 plans included in Energy Buildings, Dudler's core strength is his conceptual backbone, where projects for Vattenfall Europe AG begin as drawings on a page. Beginning with his work for Bewag in the late 80s, the book crisply describes the rise of an architect of the new Germany, a place where an architectural idea is only as strong as the gracefulness of its execution.In this electrifying showcase of Max Dudler's power stations, Energy Buildings traces the public works constructions of a man who has mastered the architectural square. Credited as one of the formative minds behind the New Berlin, Dudler's residential work at Gendarmenmarkt, and his transformer substation at Lutzoplatz, reveal cubes that are based in a rational architectural evaluation of what is absolutely necessary. Four walls. No frills. As evidenced in the 22 plans included in Energy Buildings, Dudler's core strength is his conceptual backbone, where projects for Vattenfall Europe AG begin as drawings on a page. Beginning with his work for Bewag in the late 80s, the book crisply describes the rise of an architect of the new Germany, a place where an architectural idea is only as strong as the gracefulness of its execution.
Max Dudler: Energy Buildings Bewag/Vattenfall
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In this electrifying showcase of Max Dudler's power stations, Energy Buildings traces the public works constructions of a man who has mastered the architectural square. Credited as one of the formative minds behind the New Berlin, Dudler's residential work at Gendarmenmarkt, and his transformer substation at Lutzoplatz, reveal cubes that are based in a rational architectural evaluation of what is absolutely necessary. Four walls. No frills. As evidenced in the 22 plans included in Energy Buildings, Dudler's core strength is his conceptual backbone, where projects for Vattenfall Europe AG begin as drawings on a page. Beginning with his work for Bewag in the late 80s, the book crisply describes the rise of an architect of the new Germany, a place where an architectural idea is only as strong as the gracefulness of its execution.In this electrifying showcase of Max Dudler's power stations, Energy Buildings traces the public works constructions of a man who has mastered the architectural square. Credited as one of the formative minds behind the New Berlin, Dudler's residential work at Gendarmenmarkt, and his transformer substation at Lutzoplatz, reveal cubes that are based in a rational architectural evaluation of what is absolutely necessary. Four walls. No frills. As evidenced in the 22 plans included in Energy Buildings, Dudler's core strength is his conceptual backbone, where projects for Vattenfall Europe AG begin as drawings on a page. Beginning with his work for Bewag in the late 80s, the book crisply describes the rise of an architect of the new Germany, a place where an architectural idea is only as strong as the gracefulness of its execution.
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septembre 2007, Zürich
septembre 2007, Zürich
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Alvar Aalto: his life
Alvar Aalto: his life
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The writer Göran Schildt, who was born in 1917, was a close conversational companion for Alvar Aalto. Schildt has written a number of books about his architect friend, of which the 3 volume monograph, which has been translated into many languages, has become a basic source for research and writing on Aalto. This work, Alvar Aalto, his life, brings together the(...)
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The writer Göran Schildt, who was born in 1917, was a close conversational companion for Alvar Aalto. Schildt has written a number of books about his architect friend, of which the 3 volume monograph, which has been translated into many languages, has become a basic source for research and writing on Aalto. This work, Alvar Aalto, his life, brings together the(...)
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Alvar Aalto: his life
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The writer Göran Schildt, who was born in 1917, was a close conversational companion for Alvar Aalto. Schildt has written a number of books about his architect friend, of which the 3 volume monograph, which has been translated into many languages, has become a basic source for research and writing on Aalto. This work, Alvar Aalto, his life, brings together the biographical aspects of the monograph under single covers.
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The writer Göran Schildt, who was born in 1917, was a close conversational companion for Alvar Aalto. Schildt has written a number of books about his architect friend, of which the 3 volume monograph, which has been translated into many languages, has become a basic source for research and writing on Aalto. This work, Alvar Aalto, his life, brings together the biographical aspects of the monograph under single covers.
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septembre 2007, Jyväskylä
septembre 2007, Jyväskylä
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Alvar Aalto: sunila 1936-54
Alvar Aalto: sunila 1936-54
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Among the main sources of Aalto's extensive output were commissions he obtained from Finnish industrialists, especially people in the wood and paper industries. These projects were extensive and multi-faceted, involving not only factories but office and residential buildings. Aalto's industrial architecture ranged from extensive neighbourhood planning to villas for upper(...)
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Among the main sources of Aalto's extensive output were commissions he obtained from Finnish industrialists, especially people in the wood and paper industries. These projects were extensive and multi-faceted, involving not only factories but office and residential buildings. Aalto's industrial architecture ranged from extensive neighbourhood planning to villas for upper(...)
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septembre 2007, Helsinki
septembre 2007, Helsinki
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Alvar Aalto: sunila 1936-54
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Among the main sources of Aalto's extensive output were commissions he obtained from Finnish industrialists, especially people in the wood and paper industries. These projects were extensive and multi-faceted, involving not only factories but office and residential buildings. Aalto's industrial architecture ranged from extensive neighbourhood planning to villas for upper management and modest wooden houses for workers. This volume examines Aalto's role in the service of Finnish industry with particular emphasis on the industrial and residential aspects of the Sunila project.
Alvar Aalto: sunila 1936-54
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Among the main sources of Aalto's extensive output were commissions he obtained from Finnish industrialists, especially people in the wood and paper industries. These projects were extensive and multi-faceted, involving not only factories but office and residential buildings. Aalto's industrial architecture ranged from extensive neighbourhood planning to villas for upper management and modest wooden houses for workers. This volume examines Aalto's role in the service of Finnish industry with particular emphasis on the industrial and residential aspects of the Sunila project.
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septembre 2007, Helsinki
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This book presents an overview of the work of Le Corbusier, considered by many to be the most important architect of the twentieth century. Incorporating the most recent scholarly research, it illuminates aspects of his work that are particularly relevant to today's discourse.
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This book presents an overview of the work of Le Corbusier, considered by many to be the most important architect of the twentieth century. Incorporating the most recent scholarly research, it illuminates aspects of his work that are particularly relevant to today's discourse.
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octobre 2007, Rotterdam
octobre 2007, Rotterdam
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Le Corbusier - The Art of Architecture
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This book presents an overview of the work of Le Corbusier, considered by many to be the most important architect of the twentieth century. Incorporating the most recent scholarly research, it illuminates aspects of his work that are particularly relevant to today's discourse.
Le Corbusier - The Art of Architecture
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This book presents an overview of the work of Le Corbusier, considered by many to be the most important architect of the twentieth century. Incorporating the most recent scholarly research, it illuminates aspects of his work that are particularly relevant to today's discourse.
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octobre 2007, Rotterdam
octobre 2007, Rotterdam
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Jean Prouvé : bâtisseur
Jean Prouvé : bâtisseur
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Avant de devenir designer et architecte, Jean Prouvé (1901-1984) est ferronnier. Le métal occupe d’ailleurs une place centrale dans toute sa production. Installé à Nancy, il retient de cette école un désir de nouveauté et d’innovation. Lors de l’Exposition internationale des Arts décoratifs de 1925, le modernisme lui fait forte impression, et il participe en 1929 à la(...)
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Avant de devenir designer et architecte, Jean Prouvé (1901-1984) est ferronnier. Le métal occupe d’ailleurs une place centrale dans toute sa production. Installé à Nancy, il retient de cette école un désir de nouveauté et d’innovation. Lors de l’Exposition internationale des Arts décoratifs de 1925, le modernisme lui fait forte impression, et il participe en 1929 à la(...)
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Jean Prouvé : bâtisseur
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Avant de devenir designer et architecte, Jean Prouvé (1901-1984) est ferronnier. Le métal occupe d’ailleurs une place centrale dans toute sa production. Installé à Nancy, il retient de cette école un désir de nouveauté et d’innovation. Lors de l’Exposition internationale des Arts décoratifs de 1925, le modernisme lui fait forte impression, et il participe en 1929 à la création de l’Union des artistes modernes. Ses réalisations sont caractérisées par une recherche de fonctionnalité et de simplicité décorative. Il conçoit des éléments d’architecture et collabore avec des architectes comme R. Mallet-Stevens, T. Garnier, E. Beaudouin et M. Lods. Il commence alors à industrialiser sa production et à produire du mobilier en série. Après la Seconde Guerre mondiale et la mise au point de ses premières maisons préfabriquées, il travaille à la conception de bâtiments. Cet ouvrage s’attache au constructeur que fut Jean Prouvé, et propose une analyse détaillée de plusieurs de ses édifices emblématiques, comme le pavillon de l’aluminium ou la maison qu’il se construisit en 1954 à Nancy.
Jean Prouvé : bâtisseur
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Avant de devenir designer et architecte, Jean Prouvé (1901-1984) est ferronnier. Le métal occupe d’ailleurs une place centrale dans toute sa production. Installé à Nancy, il retient de cette école un désir de nouveauté et d’innovation. Lors de l’Exposition internationale des Arts décoratifs de 1925, le modernisme lui fait forte impression, et il participe en 1929 à la création de l’Union des artistes modernes. Ses réalisations sont caractérisées par une recherche de fonctionnalité et de simplicité décorative. Il conçoit des éléments d’architecture et collabore avec des architectes comme R. Mallet-Stevens, T. Garnier, E. Beaudouin et M. Lods. Il commence alors à industrialiser sa production et à produire du mobilier en série. Après la Seconde Guerre mondiale et la mise au point de ses premières maisons préfabriquées, il travaille à la conception de bâtiments. Cet ouvrage s’attache au constructeur que fut Jean Prouvé, et propose une analyse détaillée de plusieurs de ses édifices emblématiques, comme le pavillon de l’aluminium ou la maison qu’il se construisit en 1954 à Nancy.
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janvier 2017
janvier 2017
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Collaborating with residents, Burkina Faso architect Francis Kéré places social and historical needs at the heart of his design thinking More than almost any other contemporary architect, Burkina Faso–born Diébédo Francis Kéré (born 1965) stands for the social and cultural possibilities of architecture: the innovative aspect of his work lies in his reliance on local(...)
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Collaborating with residents, Burkina Faso architect Francis Kéré places social and historical needs at the heart of his design thinking More than almost any other contemporary architect, Burkina Faso–born Diébédo Francis Kéré (born 1965) stands for the social and cultural possibilities of architecture: the innovative aspect of his work lies in his reliance on local(...)
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Francis Kéré: radically simple
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Collaborating with residents, Burkina Faso architect Francis Kéré places social and historical needs at the heart of his design thinking More than almost any other contemporary architect, Burkina Faso–born Diébédo Francis Kéré (born 1965) stands for the social and cultural possibilities of architecture: the innovative aspect of his work lies in his reliance on local residents. Kéré first made a name for himself in 2008 with his designs for Christoph Schlingensief’s Opera Village Africa, and since then he has received numerous international awards (including the 2004 Aga Khan Award for Architecture), primarily for his building projects in his native Burkina Faso.
Francis Kéré: radically simple
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Collaborating with residents, Burkina Faso architect Francis Kéré places social and historical needs at the heart of his design thinking More than almost any other contemporary architect, Burkina Faso–born Diébédo Francis Kéré (born 1965) stands for the social and cultural possibilities of architecture: the innovative aspect of his work lies in his reliance on local residents. Kéré first made a name for himself in 2008 with his designs for Christoph Schlingensief’s Opera Village Africa, and since then he has received numerous international awards (including the 2004 Aga Khan Award for Architecture), primarily for his building projects in his native Burkina Faso.
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avril 2017
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Cities structure our lives, resources, interactions, and identities. From Sebastiano Serlio to Rem Koolhaas, architects have used the metaphor of theater, presenting the city as stage, a comic set for comic acts, delirious city for delirious subjects, generic city for generic subjects, and so on. Today, however, we are social anywhere, actors onstage and off. So what(...)
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Cities structure our lives, resources, interactions, and identities. From Sebastiano Serlio to Rem Koolhaas, architects have used the metaphor of theater, presenting the city as stage, a comic set for comic acts, delirious city for delirious subjects, generic city for generic subjects, and so on. Today, however, we are social anywhere, actors onstage and off. So what(...)
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A Situation constructed from loose and overlapping social and architectural aggregates: MOS Venice Biennale 2016
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Cities structure our lives, resources, interactions, and identities. From Sebastiano Serlio to Rem Koolhaas, architects have used the metaphor of theater, presenting the city as stage, a comic set for comic acts, delirious city for delirious subjects, generic city for generic subjects, and so on. Today, however, we are social anywhere, actors onstage and off. So what happens when the city no longer structures us, or when basic urban elements—streets, buildings, facades, and addresses—have been augmented, superimposed, and untethered by or replaced through technology? First presented at the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale, A Situation Constructed from Loose and Overlapping Social and Architectural Aggregates is a playful investigation into urban alternatives. Employing neither the holistic worldview of mapping nor the isolated islands of architectural typology, MOS imagines a proposal where the city is everywhere.…
A Situation constructed from loose and overlapping social and architectural aggregates: MOS Venice Biennale 2016
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Cities structure our lives, resources, interactions, and identities. From Sebastiano Serlio to Rem Koolhaas, architects have used the metaphor of theater, presenting the city as stage, a comic set for comic acts, delirious city for delirious subjects, generic city for generic subjects, and so on. Today, however, we are social anywhere, actors onstage and off. So what happens when the city no longer structures us, or when basic urban elements—streets, buildings, facades, and addresses—have been augmented, superimposed, and untethered by or replaced through technology? First presented at the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale, A Situation Constructed from Loose and Overlapping Social and Architectural Aggregates is a playful investigation into urban alternatives. Employing neither the holistic worldview of mapping nor the isolated islands of architectural typology, MOS imagines a proposal where the city is everywhere.…
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février 2017
février 2017
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Architecture, monographies
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Chaos and culture: Renzo Piano Building Workshop and the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural center
Chaos and culture: Renzo Piano Building Workshop and the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural center
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In 2006 the Stavros Niarchos Foundation announced its gift of a new cultural center in Athens to house both Greek National Library and the Greek National Opera House within a forty-acre landscaped public park. Two years later, with designers and engineers in place and the project underway, the Greek economy collapsed. In "Chaos and culture", Victoria Newhouse weaves a(...)
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In 2006 the Stavros Niarchos Foundation announced its gift of a new cultural center in Athens to house both Greek National Library and the Greek National Opera House within a forty-acre landscaped public park. Two years later, with designers and engineers in place and the project underway, the Greek economy collapsed. In "Chaos and culture", Victoria Newhouse weaves a(...)
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Chaos and culture: Renzo Piano Building Workshop and the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural center
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In 2006 the Stavros Niarchos Foundation announced its gift of a new cultural center in Athens to house both Greek National Library and the Greek National Opera House within a forty-acre landscaped public park. Two years later, with designers and engineers in place and the project underway, the Greek economy collapsed. In "Chaos and culture", Victoria Newhouse weaves a fascinating narrative of how a philanthropist and an extraordinary design team became convinced that architecture could serve as a beacon of hope amid Greece’s economic crisis and political upheaval. With meticulous methodology of primary research, interviews with designers, and historic context, Newhouse describes the decade-long process leading to the creation of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center (SNFCC), an $800 million dollar project that became the symbol of recovery and survival. The Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center (SNFCC) cannot but assume unusual cultural significance, standing as it does on a hill in view of the Parthenon (to the north) and Faliro Bay (to the south). Newhouse further situates the project within the modern history of Athens, beginning with Greece’s independence in 1832, and reaches back much earlier to describe two-thousand-year old cemeteries unearthed on the site. Aerial views by the photographer Iwan Baan are among the 200 photographs and drawings documenting the process and context of the SNFCC.
Chaos and culture: Renzo Piano Building Workshop and the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural center
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In 2006 the Stavros Niarchos Foundation announced its gift of a new cultural center in Athens to house both Greek National Library and the Greek National Opera House within a forty-acre landscaped public park. Two years later, with designers and engineers in place and the project underway, the Greek economy collapsed. In "Chaos and culture", Victoria Newhouse weaves a fascinating narrative of how a philanthropist and an extraordinary design team became convinced that architecture could serve as a beacon of hope amid Greece’s economic crisis and political upheaval. With meticulous methodology of primary research, interviews with designers, and historic context, Newhouse describes the decade-long process leading to the creation of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center (SNFCC), an $800 million dollar project that became the symbol of recovery and survival. The Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center (SNFCC) cannot but assume unusual cultural significance, standing as it does on a hill in view of the Parthenon (to the north) and Faliro Bay (to the south). Newhouse further situates the project within the modern history of Athens, beginning with Greece’s independence in 1832, and reaches back much earlier to describe two-thousand-year old cemeteries unearthed on the site. Aerial views by the photographer Iwan Baan are among the 200 photographs and drawings documenting the process and context of the SNFCC.
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mai 2017
mai 2017
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