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From a converted printing house in Rotterdam and the experimental minds therein that brought you the Pig City project (an analysis of the pork industry’s manufacturing conditions) comes KM3, another contribution from the iconoclastic idea lab and architecture firm MVRDV. The office, which for more than a decade has been studying density as it relates to contemporary life(...)
MVRDV : KM3 excursions on capacities
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From a converted printing house in Rotterdam and the experimental minds therein that brought you the Pig City project (an analysis of the pork industry’s manufacturing conditions) comes KM3, another contribution from the iconoclastic idea lab and architecture firm MVRDV. The office, which for more than a decade has been studying density as it relates to contemporary life and architecture, bases its theories for the uses of space on complex data. Classic projects include the gravity-defying WoZoCo home for the eldery in Amsterdam, the headquarters for public broadcasting company VPRO in Hilversum, the Dutch pavilion for World Expo 2000 in Hanover, and the Housing Silo in Amsterdam. The firm’s buildings overthrow the primacy of an architectural "footprint" for more innovative and varied spatial paradigms. A follow-up to the publication of FARMAX, which sought to question and analyze the growing suburban "greyness" of the Netherlands and to propose new ways of thinking about the homogenization of landscape, KM3 extends that idea to a three-dimensional model, one that "generates space instead of consuming it" and encourages variety in form. This book explores three different strategies each in Rotterdam and Amsterdam on their spatial and technical capacity for creating a "3D city," one of cantilevers and underground connections, airiness and, most of all, diverse spaces. This is thinking at the forefront of a new urbanism. DVD with software and films included.
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At home : Heren 5 architects
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Aimed at a wider audience than most usual architectural studies, this book presents seven diverse residential projects designed by the architectural practice Heren 5. A key reference point in their design process is the concept “at home”, and how this feeling along with different desires for privacy and community can be effectively translated into a building design. Each(...)
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août 2005, Amsterdam
At home : Heren 5 architects
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Aimed at a wider audience than most usual architectural studies, this book presents seven diverse residential projects designed by the architectural practice Heren 5. A key reference point in their design process is the concept “at home”, and how this feeling along with different desires for privacy and community can be effectively translated into a building design. Each project comes accompanied with project documentation and an interview with the residents.
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Located in New York City since 1972, Peter L. Gluck and Partners is known for its integrity of design and sensitivity to the relationship between architectural form and context. Rather than specializing in a particular building type or specific architectural style, the firm provides appropriate responses to often difficult and conflicting requirements, and has designed(...)
Peter L. Gluck and partners: the modern impulse
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Located in New York City since 1972, Peter L. Gluck and Partners is known for its integrity of design and sensitivity to the relationship between architectural form and context. Rather than specializing in a particular building type or specific architectural style, the firm provides appropriate responses to often difficult and conflicting requirements, and has designed buildings throughout the United States, ranging from houses, schools, religious buildings, and community centers to hotels, corporate interiors, university buildings, and historic restorations. This extensive overview of the firm's practice includes architectural drawings, digital and physical models, and photographs of finished projects.
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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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Based in Los Angeles, Tom Wiscombe heads an internationally recognised architecture practice, known for its powerful massing, graphic qualities, and tectonic inventiveness. His team’s approach stems from their theory of the flat ontology of architecture, which imagines architecture – and the world – as a set of discrete, lively entities that exist democratically on a flat(...)
Tom Wiscombe Architecture: Objects, models, worlds
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Based in Los Angeles, Tom Wiscombe heads an internationally recognised architecture practice, known for its powerful massing, graphic qualities, and tectonic inventiveness. His team’s approach stems from their theory of the flat ontology of architecture, which imagines architecture – and the world – as a set of discrete, lively entities that exist democratically on a flat plane. In this imposing monograph, the practice challenges the discipline of architecture to reimagine its place in contemporary culture. A body of work produced over the last decade is presented as part of a constellation of objects, ideas, precedents, and references and articulated with humour and clarity.
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A groundbreaking work of modernity in Porto, the FEP faculty building is a hidden architectural masterpiece, designed by Alfredo Viana de Lima in the 1960s. Through photographs especially taken by Joa~o Carmo Simo~es and edited drawings, this book shows why the project has been, a silent reference for generations of Portuguese architects.
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octobre 2023
Alfredo Viana de Lima: FEP Faculty Building, Porto
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A groundbreaking work of modernity in Porto, the FEP faculty building is a hidden architectural masterpiece, designed by Alfredo Viana de Lima in the 1960s. Through photographs especially taken by Joa~o Carmo Simo~es and edited drawings, this book shows why the project has been, a silent reference for generations of Portuguese architects.
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Publié à l’occasion de l’exposition Pierre Thibault : Habiter le lieu, présentée du 9 septembre au 5 novembre 2023 à la Fondation Grantham pour l’art et l’environnement, cet ouvrage rassemble des dessins, des croquis, des aquarelles de Pierre Thibault, architecte québécois de renommée internationale et un essai de Lesley Johnstone, commissaire de l’exposition. Cette(...)
Les Cahiers de la Fondation, no. 07 : Pierre Thibault, habiter le lieu/ inhabiting the site
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Publié à l’occasion de l’exposition Pierre Thibault : Habiter le lieu, présentée du 9 septembre au 5 novembre 2023 à la Fondation Grantham pour l’art et l’environnement, cet ouvrage rassemble des dessins, des croquis, des aquarelles de Pierre Thibault, architecte québécois de renommée internationale et un essai de Lesley Johnstone, commissaire de l’exposition. Cette publication témoigne de l’esprit qui animait l’Atelier Pierre Thibault au moment de la conception de la Fondation Grantham (2015-2019); projet architectural qui s’inscrit dans la continuité de la maison des Abouts (2001-2005), sise sur le lot voisin. Dans son texte, Lesley Johnstone décrit ce lieu magique qui entoure les deux bâtiments, conçus sur une période de quinze ans par Pierre Thibault et dont Michel Paradis et Bernard Landriault, cofondateurs de la Fondation Grantham, en sont les propriétaires. On parle d’un lieu où les artistes, les architectes et les chercheur·euse·s sont invité·e·s à contribuer à la réflexion en permanente évolution sur les relations entre l’art et l’environnement. Son texte relate également de la pratique de Pierre Thibault dont la démarche de conception place en interaction de façon constante l’être humain et le territoire à habiter.
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