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Over 20 years ago, architect Renzo Piano established his firm and dubbed it the Renzo Piano Building Workshop (RPBW)--a name that recalls the art studios of the Renaissance, where the master artist worked closely and actively with his apprentices. Students have always been an active component of the Building Workshop, functioning in a team with experienced architects and(...)
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mars 2004, Humlebaek
Renzo Piano Building Workshop
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Over 20 years ago, architect Renzo Piano established his firm and dubbed it the Renzo Piano Building Workshop (RPBW)--a name that recalls the art studios of the Renaissance, where the master artist worked closely and actively with his apprentices. Students have always been an active component of the Building Workshop, functioning in a team with experienced architects and other experts, contributing to an international array of projects from two studio bases: one in Paris and one in Genoa, Italy. This small, intimate publication presents essays on both the Building Workshop and Piano himself, together with photographs of the two studios and of completed RPBW structures.
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In the Aoyama district of Tokyo, a mixed-use neighborhood of low-rise buildings where not a square meter of land has been left unoccupied, the Swiss architecture team of Herzog & de Meuron has built a new store for Prada. In this chunky, silvery book, they meticulously illustrate the creative process that led to the realization of "a house and a plaza," a tall and narrow(...)
Herzog & de Meuron : Prada Aoyama Tokyo
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In the Aoyama district of Tokyo, a mixed-use neighborhood of low-rise buildings where not a square meter of land has been left unoccupied, the Swiss architecture team of Herzog & de Meuron has built a new store for Prada. In this chunky, silvery book, they meticulously illustrate the creative process that led to the realization of "a house and a plaza," a tall and narrow kaleidoscope-like structure that houses a two-story retail space and multiple levels of offices, backed by an outdoor space for the public--a rarity in crowded Tokyo. The finished structure, encased in a visually porous shell or skin, is as decorative as it is architectural--or as architectural as it is decorative--and is both metaphorically and literally linked to its surrounding environment, and to the idea of the garment. Here is the story of a theoretically and structurally complex building told lovingly and simply by its architects, through words, models, sketches, photographs, and architectural renderings.
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mars 2004, Milan
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Presented in this monograph are over 100 of Graves' built and unbuilt projects of the past eight years, generously illustrated with photographs, plans, and the architect's evocative coloured sketches.
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décembre 2003, New York
Michael Graves : buildings and projects, 1995-2003
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Presented in this monograph are over 100 of Graves' built and unbuilt projects of the past eight years, generously illustrated with photographs, plans, and the architect's evocative coloured sketches.
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This book is on Philip Webb (1831-1915), a key figure in the arts & crafts movement and a leading member of the pre-raphaelite circle,who has since emerged as one of the most important architects of the nineteen century. It provides a comprehensive account of Webb's design philosophy, his architectural work and his influence, while also telling his fascinating life story.
Phlip Webb : pioneer of arts & craft architecture
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This book is on Philip Webb (1831-1915), a key figure in the arts & crafts movement and a leading member of the pre-raphaelite circle,who has since emerged as one of the most important architects of the nineteen century. It provides a comprehensive account of Webb's design philosophy, his architectural work and his influence, while also telling his fascinating life story.
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avril 2004, Chichester
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Ce livre explore les itinéraires cachés qui traversent la pensée et fondent les projets de l’architecture. On trouve, dans ce recueil des textes récents de l’architecte, sa préoccupation pour les problèmes du monde contemporain et ses interrogations sur les valeurs qui le façonnent. Il y parle de son engagement en tant qu’architecte pour le futur de nos villes, de la(...)
Au-delà de l'architecture : Massimiliano Fuksas
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Ce livre explore les itinéraires cachés qui traversent la pensée et fondent les projets de l’architecture. On trouve, dans ce recueil des textes récents de l’architecte, sa préoccupation pour les problèmes du monde contemporain et ses interrogations sur les valeurs qui le façonnent. Il y parle de son engagement en tant qu’architecte pour le futur de nos villes, de la nécessité de préserver les centres, de rendre vivables les banlieues, de détruire la laideur et de construire en hauteur. Cet ouvrage regroupe des entretiens, des conférences et des essais de Massimiliano Fuksas datant de 1994 à 2001, réunis par l’auteur qui analyse les différentes facettes de la réflexion de l’architecte dans une introduction. Il a également réalisé, spécialement pour l’ouvrage, un long entretien avec Massimiliano Fuksas.
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Since 1995, Dhaka-based architecture firm Kashef Chowdhury / URBANA has produced an astonishing collection of works of divergent scales, typologies, and contexts located in one of the most meteorologically challenging regions in the world. A hospital introduced into an economy decimated by rising oceans, a shelter against cyclones in Bangladesh’s southern coastal region,(...)
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janvier 2026
Meditations in entropy: The work of Kashef Chowdhury / URBANA in Bangladesh
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Since 1995, Dhaka-based architecture firm Kashef Chowdhury / URBANA has produced an astonishing collection of works of divergent scales, typologies, and contexts located in one of the most meteorologically challenging regions in the world. A hospital introduced into an economy decimated by rising oceans, a shelter against cyclones in Bangladesh’s southern coastal region, and architectural interventions in one of the world’s densest metropolitan areas: Kashef Chowdhury / URBANA’s designs are incisive, critical responses to varied issues and urgencies rooted in the belief that architecture must be a reflection of, and sympathetic to, increasingly fragile ecological conditions. ''Meditations in Entropy'' is the first full monograph on the work of Kashef Chowdhury / URBANA. It features 18 of the firm’s realized designs in detail through photographs by acclaimed architectural photographer Hélène Binet as well as numerous plans, drawings, sketches, and other images. Perceptive essays are contributed by the distinguished critics and historians Kenneth Frampton, Robert McCarter, William J. R. Curtis, and Philip Ursprung, and by Ainun Nishat, a renowned water resource and climate change specialist. An illustrated catalogue of Kashef Chowdhury / URBANA’s projects and realized buildings rounds off this beautifully designed volume.
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Hans Hollein (1934–2014), Austria’s only Pritzker Prize laureate and a self-proclaimed avant-gardist of the 1960s, was a meticulous curator of his own work throughout his life. At the same time, the reception of this work was often overshadowed by Hollein’s immense personality. "Hollein calling: Architectural dialogues" explores the Hollein phenomenon from a contemporary(...)
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janvier 2024
Hollein calling: Architectural dialogues
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Hans Hollein (1934–2014), Austria’s only Pritzker Prize laureate and a self-proclaimed avant-gardist of the 1960s, was a meticulous curator of his own work throughout his life. At the same time, the reception of this work was often overshadowed by Hollein’s immense personality. "Hollein calling: Architectural dialogues" explores the Hollein phenomenon from a contemporary perspective. In dialogue with the positions of a younger generation, this book revaluates and brings back into the current discourse Hollein’s thinking and designs. The first part offers interviews with fifteen European firms in which they talk about their relationship to Hollein and his oeuvre, ranging from profound knowledge or selective admiration of specific aspects to skepticism and criticism. Topics such as cultural identity, visual worlds, design tools, and architecture as an independent cultural production run as a thread through these conversations. The second part features a selection of Hollein’s buildings through sketches, models, photographs, prototypes, and documents from the Archive Hans Hollein, Az W and MAK, Vienna—many of which are published here for the first time—as well as new contextualizing texts. The two sections are connected by a grid of key terms formed from pertinent texts and images.
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La cifra identitaria della produzione di Paulo Mendes da Rocha si origina nelle geometrie del suo pensiero creativo, per poi tradursi in poetica del costruire, espressa in un’architettura di sorprendente essenzialità compositiva e sapere tecnico, in grado di accompagnare il divenire delle società. Pur radicate nella realtà contingente, e incessantemente alimentate dalla(...)
Paulo Mendes da Rocha : Architetture des divenire
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La cifra identitaria della produzione di Paulo Mendes da Rocha si origina nelle geometrie del suo pensiero creativo, per poi tradursi in poetica del costruire, espressa in un’architettura di sorprendente essenzialità compositiva e sapere tecnico, in grado di accompagnare il divenire delle società. Pur radicate nella realtà contingente, e incessantemente alimentate dalla quotidianità del contesto, le opere del progettista brasiliano esprimono le sue capacità trasformative, proiettandosi in nuove spazialità, sino ad interpretare, con coerenza costante, i sentimenti di un popolo e di un’era. Nel presentare la figura di Mendes da Rocha rimarcando l’attenzione su alcuni aspetti sostanziali del suo fare architettonico, quali la riflessione sull’urbano, la metodologia progettuale e la sapienza costruttiva, il volume approfondisce tre opere della contemporaneità. Copertura di Praça do Patriarca, SESC 24 de Maio e Museu Nacional dos Coches sono presentati come emblemi della sua visione dinamica, immaginifica e al contempo realistica, alla quale va associato il carattere durevole delle sue realizzazioni, qui lette in un perenne divenire.
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Aino and Alvar Aalto together founded Artek and created some of the most celebrated objects and buildings of the twentieth century. Through letters, documents, drawings, and family photographs, Alvar and Aino’s grandson tells the stories of their life together, in Finland and abroad, drawing on many of the never-before-published letters they sent to each other and to(...)
Aino and Alvar Aalto: A life together
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Aino and Alvar Aalto together founded Artek and created some of the most celebrated objects and buildings of the twentieth century. Through letters, documents, drawings, and family photographs, Alvar and Aino’s grandson tells the stories of their life together, in Finland and abroad, drawing on many of the never-before-published letters they sent to each other and to family, friends, and colleagues, until Aino’s death in 1949. The first monograph to specifically examine and celebrate the life and work of Aino and Alvar as a shared endeavour, this personal and intimate look at the unconventional lives of one of the most influential design couples of the twentieth century has been warmly and accessibly written by Aino and Alvar’s grandson, who has drawn on the family’s largely unpublished archive, including personal letters, snapshots, and sketches.
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The first monograph of the collected works of architect Tezzo Nishizawa introduces 30 projects across three typologies: art exhibitions, museums, and residences. The publication begins with a series of photographs that illustrate the unique perspective and philosophy underlying and linking these works. Following that are detailed plans and commentaries on each project,(...)
Tezzo Nishizawa: Chance favors the prepared mind
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The first monograph of the collected works of architect Tezzo Nishizawa introduces 30 projects across three typologies: art exhibitions, museums, and residences. The publication begins with a series of photographs that illustrate the unique perspective and philosophy underlying and linking these works. Following that are detailed plans and commentaries on each project, where the images and drawings serve to reveal the architect’s methodology and thought. A postscript by Nishizawa touches on the relationship between exhibition layouts and architectural design, in which the architect also elaborates on the reasons for his particular interest in collaborative design.
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