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Gathering an immense amount of information into a single volume, MVRDV’s Agendas on Urbanism lends an inside look at how this research-driven Dutch practice engages globally to supply innovative solutions to today’s architectural and urban issues. Opening with a preface by Winy Maas entitled “Where is Urbanism”, this dense monograph then proceeds to give detailed(...)
Design peak 13: MVRDV, agendas on urbanism
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Gathering an immense amount of information into a single volume, MVRDV’s Agendas on Urbanism lends an inside look at how this research-driven Dutch practice engages globally to supply innovative solutions to today’s architectural and urban issues. Opening with a preface by Winy Maas entitled “Where is Urbanism”, this dense monograph then proceeds to give detailed overviews of more than 45 masterplans developed for various cities and municipalities located throughout the world. Includes a critical essay by Jeroen Zuidgeest as well as biographical information on MVRDV founders Winy Maas, Jacob van Rijs and Nathalie de Vries.
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Established in 1988, Shuhei Endo Architect Institute has long been actively pursuing escaping gravity’s constraints through its work and use of cutting-edge technology. However, despite being labelled a progressive architect, Endo Shuhei is careful to remain sensitive to the functions and social qualities demanded of his buildings. Included in this comprehensive monograph(...)
5-1 design peak: Shuhei Endo Architect Institute
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Established in 1988, Shuhei Endo Architect Institute has long been actively pursuing escaping gravity’s constraints through its work and use of cutting-edge technology. However, despite being labelled a progressive architect, Endo Shuhei is careful to remain sensitive to the functions and social qualities demanded of his buildings. Included in this comprehensive monograph are diverse critical essays by, among others, Aaron Betsky, Kenneth Frampton, Kazukiyo Matsuba and Hiroyuki Suzuki, plus an in-depth interview with Frederic Migayrou. More than 30 projects are also detailed, including his signature Bubbletechture, Springtechture and Gravitechture designs.
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As the 1960s became The Sixties, architect Horace Gifford executed a remarkable series of beach houses that transformed the terrain and culture of New York’s Fire Island. Gifford’s serene 1960s pavilions provided refuge from a hostile world, while his exuberant post-Stonewall, pre-AIDS masterpieces orchestrated bacchanals of liberation. Blending cultural and architectural(...)
Fire island modernist : Horace Gifford and the architecture of seduction
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As the 1960s became The Sixties, architect Horace Gifford executed a remarkable series of beach houses that transformed the terrain and culture of New York’s Fire Island. Gifford’s serene 1960s pavilions provided refuge from a hostile world, while his exuberant post-Stonewall, pre-AIDS masterpieces orchestrated bacchanals of liberation. Blending cultural and architectural history, Fire Island Modernist ponders a fascinating era through an overlooked architect whose life, work and colorful milieu trace the operatic arc of a lost generation, and still resonate with artistic and historical import.
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The book discusses and analyzes this concept in detail, presenting trueto- scale floor plans, cross-sections, architectural views, and other information. The Monospace concept which is based on a process of creative reduction down to essentials, i.e. simplexity is adaptive rather than normative or prescriptive, and based on probabilities rather than determinism. It(...)
Brunet Saunier Architecture: monospace and simplexity
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The book discusses and analyzes this concept in detail, presenting trueto- scale floor plans, cross-sections, architectural views, and other information. The Monospace concept which is based on a process of creative reduction down to essentials, i.e. simplexity is adaptive rather than normative or prescriptive, and based on probabilities rather than determinism. It respects energy, even when it sometimes uses it. It takes the individual s experience into account, and starts from the position of the subject. It also permits changing perspectives.
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Philharmonie: Hans Scharoun
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Rising from the ashes of World War II, the new concert hall for the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, designed by Hans Scharoun (1893-1972), has become the symbol of democratic Germany. This publication present the drawings from the Scharoun Archive that detail the construction of the Philharmonie's complex composition.
Philharmonie: Hans Scharoun
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Rising from the ashes of World War II, the new concert hall for the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, designed by Hans Scharoun (1893-1972), has become the symbol of democratic Germany. This publication present the drawings from the Scharoun Archive that detail the construction of the Philharmonie's complex composition.
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Though stylistically distinct, the architects Solano Benítez (born 1963) and Javier Coravalán (born 1962) are brought together by the cultural context of their mutual homeland, Paraguay. In this publication they demonstrate that, given its natural resources and local economy, Paraguay is ready to project its next phase of development without repeating the failures of(...)
Paraguay : Abu & Font House, Surubi house
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Though stylistically distinct, the architects Solano Benítez (born 1963) and Javier Coravalán (born 1962) are brought together by the cultural context of their mutual homeland, Paraguay. In this publication they demonstrate that, given its natural resources and local economy, Paraguay is ready to project its next phase of development without repeating the failures of modernism's ideals of progress.
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In this volume, Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto (born 1971) elucidates his architectural vision via more than 120 models, accompanied by observations and questions on the philosophy that each structure expresses. An appendix presents an email correspondence conducted by the architect with the residents of his detached houses, who describe the functionality of the(...)
Sou Fujimoto : Futurospective architecture
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In this volume, Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto (born 1971) elucidates his architectural vision via more than 120 models, accompanied by observations and questions on the philosophy that each structure expresses. An appendix presents an email correspondence conducted by the architect with the residents of his detached houses, who describe the functionality of the buildings and their feelings about living there.
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Jovis' Portfolio series presents the work of innovative, international architects in the informal style of a magazine. This new volume is the first monograph, outside of Japan, to examine the ideas of Atsushi Kitagawara (born 1951), known for his expressionistic architectural style that celebrates the experience of space without losing sight of functional requirements.
Atsushi Kitagawara architects
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Jovis' Portfolio series presents the work of innovative, international architects in the informal style of a magazine. This new volume is the first monograph, outside of Japan, to examine the ideas of Atsushi Kitagawara (born 1951), known for his expressionistic architectural style that celebrates the experience of space without losing sight of functional requirements.
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Fernand Pouillon
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Fernand Pouillon (1912-1986) est assurément la figure la plus romanesque du XXe siècle. Les fastes de sa vie privée et ses démêlés judiciaires ont défrayé la chronique. Ils ont aussi motivé l'écriture de deux ouvrages cultes, Les Pierres sauvages (1964) et Mémoires d'un architecte (1968), qui révèlent un remarquable conteur. L'oeuvre bâtie, elle, est exceptionnelle par(...)
Fernand Pouillon
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Fernand Pouillon (1912-1986) est assurément la figure la plus romanesque du XXe siècle. Les fastes de sa vie privée et ses démêlés judiciaires ont défrayé la chronique. Ils ont aussi motivé l'écriture de deux ouvrages cultes, Les Pierres sauvages (1964) et Mémoires d'un architecte (1968), qui révèlent un remarquable conteur. L'oeuvre bâtie, elle, est exceptionnelle par son ampleur, ses qualités de composition et de construction. Mis au ban de sa profession pour avoir osé défier l'industrie du béton armé, Fernand Pouillon a démontré, en Provence d'abord, puis en Algérie, dans la région parisienne et en Iran, la compatibilité de la construction en pierre de taille et du logement de masse. La reconstruction du Vieux-Port de Marseille, la résidence Climat de France à Alger, celles du Point-du-Jour à Boulogne-Billancourt et du Parc à Meudon constituent aujourd'hui des repères importants dans l'histoire de l'habitat. Cet ouvrage propose un regard nouveau sur l'architecte et présente des projets, ignorés ou méconnus : maisons industrialisées, plan d'urbanisme de Créteil et projet d'extension de Saint-Tropez... Il apporte quantité d'éléments inédits sur l'oeuvre, qui se révèle plus que jamais d'une extraordinaire riche et d'une étonnante diversité.
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GA : Kengo Kuma 2006-2012
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This large-format monograph on the famed Japanese architect covers six years of theory and practice through an exhaustive look at over 60 projects, from large (V at Dundee, Sanlitum SOHO in Beijing) to small (Sake no Hana in London, Lake House). Kengo Kuma is known for achieving a new kind of transparency in architecture, and is not bound by using only traditional light(...)
GA : Kengo Kuma 2006-2012
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This large-format monograph on the famed Japanese architect covers six years of theory and practice through an exhaustive look at over 60 projects, from large (V at Dundee, Sanlitum SOHO in Beijing) to small (Sake no Hana in London, Lake House). Kengo Kuma is known for achieving a new kind of transparency in architecture, and is not bound by using only traditional light materials. Included is his essay, Small Architecture, which gives valuable insight into his view that great disasters, not the progress of technology, have been architectures driving force throughout history, with the most recent example being the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011.
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