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Helmut Jahn´s latest buildings are the result of interdisciplinary thinking taken a step further: they represent a symbiotic collaboration between architecture, engineering and building technology. The credo of this form of architecture engineering is transparency, openness and inner flexibility, and instrumental in its development are among others, Helmut Jahn, Werner(...)
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septembre 2002, Basel
Helmut Jahn : architecture engineering
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Helmut Jahn´s latest buildings are the result of interdisciplinary thinking taken a step further: they represent a symbiotic collaboration between architecture, engineering and building technology. The credo of this form of architecture engineering is transparency, openness and inner flexibility, and instrumental in its development are among others, Helmut Jahn, Werner Sobek and Matthias Schuler. This innovative team has taken up the challenge of turning optimum technical solutions into intelligent and resource-saving constructions, creating internationally acclaimed architecture of the very highest technical and aesthetical quality: "Modern buildings make the highest demands of technology. And it is not the architect who fulfils them but the engineer" (Helmut Jahn) This volume documents in detail a large number of recent projects in Europe, the USA and Asia by Helmut Jahn, Werner Sobek and Matthias Schuler including the European Union Headquarters in Charlemagne, Munich Airport Center, the Sony Centre in Berlin, the airport Cologne/Bonn, office buildings for the Deutsch Post in Bonn, Shanghai International Expo Centre, Bishopsgate (London), MANN (Chicago), New Bangkok International Airport, Illinois Institute of Technology Campus Center, and Shenzhen Convention and Exhibit Center.
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Images of the Mediatheque have widely circulated in architectural media since 1995, when Toyo Ito's competition project revealed a new structural prototype (or archi-type) which expressed the will to incorporate the notions of mobility and fluidity into space and structure. Second in the series of "Verb monographs", this book presents the process of design and(...)
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septembre 2002, Barcelona
Toyo Ito : Sendai Mediatheque
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Images of the Mediatheque have widely circulated in architectural media since 1995, when Toyo Ito's competition project revealed a new structural prototype (or archi-type) which expressed the will to incorporate the notions of mobility and fluidity into space and structure. Second in the series of "Verb monographs", this book presents the process of design and construction of this prototype throughout these years, leading to the building's use as of the beginning of 2001, and reflects on the project's ambition to integrate the real and the virtual worlds - or, in Ito's words, the primitive body of natural flow and the virtual body of electronic flow. Long after its completion, the Mediatheque is still under construction.
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This is the first publication of Steven Holl's water-colours. The 365 water-colours in diary form represent American architect's creative process. The water-colours show Steven Holl's highly individual methods, developed over many years and containing his first ideas and sketches for all major buildings and competition projects. Holl is known for his sculptural(...)
Steven Holl : written in water
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This is the first publication of Steven Holl's water-colours. The 365 water-colours in diary form represent American architect's creative process. The water-colours show Steven Holl's highly individual methods, developed over many years and containing his first ideas and sketches for all major buildings and competition projects. Holl is known for his sculptural architecture and his genuine use of light, qualities ideally suited to water-colour technique.
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Rafael Vinoly
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Rafael Viñoly is arguably our most consummate practitioner of architecture; Herbert Muschamp of the New York Times calls him "the most elegant architect now practicing in the United States," one whose powerful buildings "quicken your awareness of the present and its untapped possibilities." In a breathtaking list of major commissions, Viñoly has taken projects of an(...)
Rafael Vinoly
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Rafael Viñoly is arguably our most consummate practitioner of architecture; Herbert Muschamp of the New York Times calls him "the most elegant architect now practicing in the United States," one whose powerful buildings "quicken your awareness of the present and its untapped possibilities." In a breathtaking list of major commissions, Viñoly has taken projects of an often conventional nature-conference centers, recital halls, exhibition halls, sports facilities-and transformed them into unconvential works of beauty, notable for their lucidity, and often breathtaking technical prowess. This encyclopedic monograph, designed by Lars Müller in the same spirit as his "Peter Zumthor: Works", is the first on Viñoly, and includes projects in the United States, Argentina, Egypt, Korea, and Japan. Featured are the recently opened Kimmel Performing Arts Center-the new home of the Philaldelphia Orchestra, the Pittsburgh Convention Center, the Climate Prediction Center on the Palisades, the Princeton University Stadium, and the dazzling Tokyo Forum-the gracefully expressive building Muschamp describes as "an absolutist building, perfectly realized." An essay by Joan Ockman, Director of the Buell Center of American Architecture at Columbia University, introduces Viñoly's work, which is copiously documented in more than 500 color images and drawings.
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Paul Rudolph : the late work
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The light- and breeze-filled modern houses in Florida of the 1950s -- featured in Paul Rudolph: The Florida Houses -- and the hard-lined silhouette of Yale's Art and Architecture Building (1962) are the two images that come to mind when one thinks of Paul Rudolph. Yet few people know the work of the last decades of his life, from the 1970s through the 90s. Published here(...)
Paul Rudolph : the late work
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The light- and breeze-filled modern houses in Florida of the 1950s -- featured in Paul Rudolph: The Florida Houses -- and the hard-lined silhouette of Yale's Art and Architecture Building (1962) are the two images that come to mind when one thinks of Paul Rudolph. Yet few people know the work of the last decades of his life, from the 1970s through the 90s. Published here for the first time, Rudolph's final works are explored through his masterful pencil drawings, models, and photographs, as well as the last interview of his life with architect Peter Blake. In a book that considers these projects in the context of his early success, Roberto de Alba explores the architect's buildings designed from 1969 to 1996 and includes an astonishing variety of projects, many built, such as houses, towers, bungalows, chapels, corporate buildings, and urban plans of a monumental scale. All show the complicated interplay of space, light, and mass that are the trademarks of Rudolph's genius. Through de Alba's close contact with the architect before his death, Rudolph's own vision is conveyed in descriptive texts and accompanying images. Paul Rudolph: The Late Work is designed as a companion volume to The Florida Houses, and is the second in a planned three-volume set of the complete works of this legendary architect.
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The process of investigation, analysis, and testing makes architecture research office (ARO) as much a laboratory as a design firm. Extensive photography of the completed works is coupled with thorough documentation of the design process to illustrate the interdependence between ARO's rigorous design method and their innovative designs. Critical essays by Stan Allen,(...)
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février 2003, New York / Chicago
ARO : architecture research office
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The process of investigation, analysis, and testing makes architecture research office (ARO) as much a laboratory as a design firm. Extensive photography of the completed works is coupled with thorough documentation of the design process to illustrate the interdependence between ARO's rigorous design method and their innovative designs. Critical essays by Stan Allen, Sheila Kennedy, Philip Nobel, Guy Nordensen, and Sarah Whiting discuss various aspects of ARO's work.
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Josef Frank : life and work
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Educated in Vienna just after the turn of the century, Frank became the leader of the younger generation of architects in Austria after the First World War. But Frank fell from grace when he emerged as a forceful critic of the extremes of modern architecture and design during the early 1930s. Dismissing the demands for a unified modern style, Frank insisted that it was(...)
Josef Frank : life and work
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Educated in Vienna just after the turn of the century, Frank became the leader of the younger generation of architects in Austria after the First World War. But Frank fell from grace when he emerged as a forceful critic of the extremes of modern architecture and design during the early 1930s. Dismissing the demands for a unified modern style, Frank insisted that it was pluralism, not uniformity, that most characterized life in the new machine age. He called instead for a more humane modernism, one that responded to people's everyday needs and left room for sentimentality and historical influences. He was able to put these ideas into practice when, in 1933, he was forced to leave Vienna for Sweden. There his work came to define Swedish (or Scandinavian) modern design. For more than thirty years he was the chief designer for the Stockholm furnishings firm Svenskt Tenn, producing colorful, cozy, and eclectic designs that provided a refreshing alternative to the architectural mainstream of the day and presaged the coming revolt against modernism in the 1960s.
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Chandigarh, destinée lors de l'indépendence de l'Inde à devenir la capitale du Punjab, permet à Le Corbusier de matérialiser ses théories : créer une ville où l'on peut harmonieusement vivre, travailler, développer son corps et son esprit. Actes d'un colloque entièrement consacré à la ville indienne, cette ouvrage invite à une large réflexion sur la question encore non(...)
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mai 2002, Paris
Chandigarh : la ville indienne de Le Corbusier
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Chandigarh, destinée lors de l'indépendence de l'Inde à devenir la capitale du Punjab, permet à Le Corbusier de matérialiser ses théories : créer une ville où l'on peut harmonieusement vivre, travailler, développer son corps et son esprit. Actes d'un colloque entièrement consacré à la ville indienne, cette ouvrage invite à une large réflexion sur la question encore non résolue de l'achèvement de la place administrative du Capitole. Maquettes, dessins, plans, mais aussi peintures, sculptures et tapisseries rendent compte de cette épopée.
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Succédant à une première monographie publiée en 1988, cet ouvrage fait le point sur l'oeuvre d'Adrien Fainsilber entre 1986 et 2002. Au cours de cette période, l'agence amorce une nouvelle étape avec la création d'AFA, Adrien Fainsilber et associés. Elle s'ouvre sur les images de la Géode et s'achève par la bibliothèque municipale à vocation régionale de Marseille(...)
Adrien Fainsilber & associés / 1986-2002
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Succédant à une première monographie publiée en 1988, cet ouvrage fait le point sur l'oeuvre d'Adrien Fainsilber entre 1986 et 2002. Au cours de cette période, l'agence amorce une nouvelle étape avec la création d'AFA, Adrien Fainsilber et associés. Elle s'ouvre sur les images de la Géode et s'achève par la bibliothèque municipale à vocation régionale de Marseille terminée au printemps 2003. Au total, seize réalisations représentatives des récents travaux de l'architecte sont présentées ici. Leur variété - musées, hôpitaux, bâtiments scolaires et universitaires, logements, bureaux ou schémas d'urbanisme - permet de dégager les principes déterminants de l'oeuvre. Une introduction critique, une bibliographie et une chronologie plus exhaustive complètent l'ouvrage.
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Sullivanesque offers a visual and historical tour of a unique facet of modern American architecture derived from Louis Sullivan. Masterfully framed by the author's photographs of Sullivanesque buildings in Chicago and throughout the Midwest, Ronald E. Schmitt's in-depth exploration of the Sullivanesque tells the story of its evolution from Sullivan's intellectual and(...)
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août 2002, Champaign, Illinois
Sullivanesque : urban architecture and ornamentation
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Sullivanesque offers a visual and historical tour of a unique facet of modern American architecture derived from Louis Sullivan. Masterfully framed by the author's photographs of Sullivanesque buildings in Chicago and throughout the Midwest, Ronald E. Schmitt's in-depth exploration of the Sullivanesque tells the story of its evolution from Sullivan's intellectual and aesthetic foundations to its place as a form of commercial vernacular. The book also includes an inventory of Sullivanesque buildings.
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