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Architects Ben van Berkel and Caroline Bos from the Amsterdam office UNStudio are undeniable stars on the international architectural scene. In their interdisciplinary united net of experts they promote creative and integral design processes, aiming to further the progressive path of contemporary architecture. The outcome is dynamic buildings like the Magnet Resonance(...)
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Architects Ben van Berkel and Caroline Bos from the Amsterdam office UNStudio are undeniable stars on the international architectural scene. In their interdisciplinary united net of experts they promote creative and integral design processes, aiming to further the progressive path of contemporary architecture. The outcome is dynamic buildings like the Magnet Resonance Institute at the University of Utrecht or the Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart; buildings of extreme conceptual and technical complexity and conviction that also offer a rare level of architectural experience. Surely one of the office’s qualities is the fact that a sense of atmosphere and beauty is never neglected in these buildings and objects designed with artistic fervour.
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janvier 1900
Architecture, monographies
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Swiss architect Hans-Jörg Ruch has made an international name for himself with his thrillingly designed buildings and restorations. Based in St. Moritz since 1989, his specialty has been the reconstruction of the grand farmhouses and homesteads of the Alpine Engadin in southeast Switzerland--an architect's dream environment as an epic stage for architectural experiment.(...)
Architecture, monographies
août 2008, Zurich
Historic houses in th engadin: architectural interventions by Hans-Jörg Ruch
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Swiss architect Hans-Jörg Ruch has made an international name for himself with his thrillingly designed buildings and restorations. Based in St. Moritz since 1989, his specialty has been the reconstruction of the grand farmhouses and homesteads of the Alpine Engadin in southeast Switzerland--an architect's dream environment as an epic stage for architectural experiment. Through Ruch's bold interventions, the character of these Engadin houses enters into a fresh interplay with the traditional architecture of that region and with the spectacular backdrop surrounding them. Ten of Ruch's interventions are presented in this book for the first time, illustrated with more than 200 large-format photographs and plans. Supplementing these photographs is a personal text by Ruch, in which he outlines his philosophy, explains his approach to individual projects and presents the construction materials as they are revealed in the course of reconstruction.
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Yona Friedman
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Paris-based architect and theorist Yona Friedman's 2008-09 Musée dans la rue project places provocative mini-museums--agglomer-ations of Plexiglass cubes and parallelepipeds placed on top of one another--on the streets of major European cities, where they may be adapted by anyone who wishes to make their mark.
Architecture, monographies
janvier 1900, Milano
Yona Friedman
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Paris-based architect and theorist Yona Friedman's 2008-09 Musée dans la rue project places provocative mini-museums--agglomer-ations of Plexiglass cubes and parallelepipeds placed on top of one another--on the streets of major European cities, where they may be adapted by anyone who wishes to make their mark.
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Upon completing the eponymous Le Corbusier Building in Berlin in 1958, the pioneering Modernist architect Le Corbusier described the building as rising up to, a monumental size without taking from any of its parts their respect for the individual, physical and subjective dimension. Le Corbusier had confronted Berliners, in their divided city, with his concept of communal(...)
Typ Berlin: Le Corbusier's building in Charlottenburg
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Upon completing the eponymous Le Corbusier Building in Berlin in 1958, the pioneering Modernist architect Le Corbusier described the building as rising up to, a monumental size without taking from any of its parts their respect for the individual, physical and subjective dimension. Le Corbusier had confronted Berliners, in their divided city, with his concept of communal living--a 17-story reinforced-concrete building containing 557 apartments, with only nine corridors to provide access to all of them. Le Corbusier's "machine for living" still influences the inhabitants of the building, yet no matter the architect's intention, it is ultimately the building's residents that give a house its life. Ethnologist and photographer Bärbel Högner was well aware of this when she moved into the Le Corbusier building as artist-in-residence in 2007. Her findings are published in this stunning volume, which features images of the interplay between residents and Le Corbusier's architectural masterwork.
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This scholarly study of the relationship between the visionary German-Jewish and Dutch-Catholic Modernist architects Erich Mendelsohn and Hendrik Wijdeveld, respectively, is a moving and gripping narrative that will appeal to academics and laymen alike.
The architecture of Jong Soung Kimm: exploring tectonic space
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This scholarly study of the relationship between the visionary German-Jewish and Dutch-Catholic Modernist architects Erich Mendelsohn and Hendrik Wijdeveld, respectively, is a moving and gripping narrative that will appeal to academics and laymen alike.
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The Dolder Grand
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In 2009, the Dolder Grand celebrates its first birthday following a four-year remodelling by Foster+Partners. To mark the occasion, this publication outlines the history of an iconic institution, steeped in tradition, from its beginnings as a Kurhaus in 1899 to its present-day reincarnation. Photographers from the Zurich studio nave have documented the entire project(...)
The Dolder Grand
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In 2009, the Dolder Grand celebrates its first birthday following a four-year remodelling by Foster+Partners. To mark the occasion, this publication outlines the history of an iconic institution, steeped in tradition, from its beginnings as a Kurhaus in 1899 to its present-day reincarnation. Photographers from the Zurich studio nave have documented the entire project throughout every stage of the refurbishment, charting the scope of the hotel’s metamorphosis. They portray the people who made it all possible and also allow them to speak for themselves. The resulting narrative in pictures and words is not simply a linear documentation, but a rich and complex tapestry in which text and image are interwoven with a lyricism that brings the architecture to life on the pages of the book. Journalist Judith Wyder complements the photographs with anecdotes that give a many-facetted insight into the operational logistics behind the scenes in the day-to-day running of the hotel. In addition, she details the painstaking restoration work, the history of the hotel itself and the names of some of its most famous guests. Dutch novelist Cees Nooteboom has contributed an essay in which he describes the hotel as a microcosm and a home away from home, musing on how guests tend to take possession of the hotels they stay in.
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In this volume, the numerous excerpts, preliminary notes, accompanying drawings, and photographs that Le Corbusier produced in connection with his lectures are presented and contextualized by one of the leading experts on the great architect. In them we see modernism at work. Always a great rhetorician and a master at staging his own persona, Le Corbusier takes the(...)
The rhetoric of modernism: Le Corbusier as a lecturer
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In this volume, the numerous excerpts, preliminary notes, accompanying drawings, and photographs that Le Corbusier produced in connection with his lectures are presented and contextualized by one of the leading experts on the great architect. In them we see modernism at work. Always a great rhetorician and a master at staging his own persona, Le Corbusier takes the arguments and strategies, seminal ideas and most convincing highlights and fuses them into an architectural conception that every advanced architectural position and practice must still come to terms with today.
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J. Mayer H.
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The members of J. Mayer H. Architects, founded in Berlin in 1996 by Jürgen Mayer, have already won a number of awards for their extraordinary work--for example, their very first building won the Mies van der Rohe Emerging Architect Prize in 2003. Their structures bulge and pop inorganically in a style that aims to go, as Mayer puts it, "beyond the blob." In recent years(...)
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février 2009, Ostfildern
J. Mayer H.
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The members of J. Mayer H. Architects, founded in Berlin in 1996 by Jürgen Mayer, have already won a number of awards for their extraordinary work--for example, their very first building won the Mies van der Rohe Emerging Architect Prize in 2003. Their structures bulge and pop inorganically in a style that aims to go, as Mayer puts it, "beyond the blob." In recent years the firm has created a furor with attention-getting buildings such as the new commons for the Universität Karlsruhe, the ADA 1 offices in Hamburg and the Metropol Parasol, a gigantic structure for the marketplace in the heart of old Seville. Edited by Henry Urbach, this is the first book to present J. Mayer H. Architects' entire oeuvre, tracking the firm's constructions from the research stage through design to project development and culminating in the actual building itself.
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« Ce qui crée en réalité une atmosphère architectonique, dit Peter Zumthor, c’est cette densité et cette atmosphère uniques, ce sentiment de présence, de bien-être, de cohérence, de beauté, qui m’envoûtent et me font vivre et expérimenter ce que je n’aurais pas vécu autrement.» L’architecte met toute sa passion dans la conception de bâtiments qui créent ce type d’effet.(...)
Atmosphères : environnements architecturaux - ce qui m'entoure
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« Ce qui crée en réalité une atmosphère architectonique, dit Peter Zumthor, c’est cette densité et cette atmosphère uniques, ce sentiment de présence, de bien-être, de cohérence, de beauté, qui m’envoûtent et me font vivre et expérimenter ce que je n’aurais pas vécu autrement.» L’architecte met toute sa passion dans la conception de bâtiments qui créent ce type d’effet. Mais comment y parvient-il ? Dans cet ouvrage comportant neuf courts chapitres illustrés, il raconte – sous forme d’auto-analyse – ce qu’il a à l’esprit lorsqu’il cherche à créer l’atmosphère de ses maisons. Ce sont des images d’espaces et de constructions qui le touchent, aussi bien que certains morceaux de musique ou encore des livres. Cette poétique de l’architecture née de la composition et de la « présence » des matériaux, du jeu des proportions et des effets de lumière permet au lecteur de saisir la quintessence de tout processus de conception.
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I.M. Pei : complete works
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When I. M. Pei was awarded the Pritzker Prize in 1983, the jury said he had "given this century some of its most beautiful interior spaces and exterior forms." This publication, the first and definitive survey of the master architect, attests to this statement by showcasing Pei’s transcendent, sculptural forms in over fifty projects and more than 300 illustrations,(...)
janvier 1900, New York
I.M. Pei : complete works
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When I. M. Pei was awarded the Pritzker Prize in 1983, the jury said he had "given this century some of its most beautiful interior spaces and exterior forms." This publication, the first and definitive survey of the master architect, attests to this statement by showcasing Pei’s transcendent, sculptural forms in over fifty projects and more than 300 illustrations, culminating in the last works he is currently completing.