Bartlett designs
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The Bartlett School of Architecture at UCL is one of the world’s leading places at which to study and teach architecture. This book is a collection of the very best of student work from the last decade. Through a detailed presentation of over 170 student projects, each succinctly explained by the individual tutors concerned, the book shows how architectural designs and(...)
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The Bartlett School of Architecture at UCL is one of the world’s leading places at which to study and teach architecture. This book is a collection of the very best of student work from the last decade. Through a detailed presentation of over 170 student projects, each succinctly explained by the individual tutors concerned, the book shows how architectural designs and ideas can creatively address some of the world’s most pressing urban and social problems through buildings and other forms of architectural invention. The wide range of projects on show deal inventively with such important issues as cultural identity, housing, climate change, health and public space, as well as architectural concerns with the imagination of exciting forms and aesthetic languages.
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The book gathers every building of Serrano's career to date, spanning Brazil, France, Singapore and Nicaragua as well as Mexico, and paying special homage to two of his Mexico City masterpieces, the campus of the Universidad Iberoamericana, and Terminal 2 of the International Airport. Serrano's maturity of language and consistency of craftsmanship shine in all of his(...)
Francisco Serrano: complete works
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The book gathers every building of Serrano's career to date, spanning Brazil, France, Singapore and Nicaragua as well as Mexico, and paying special homage to two of his Mexico City masterpieces, the campus of the Universidad Iberoamericana, and Terminal 2 of the International Airport. Serrano's maturity of language and consistency of craftsmanship shine in all of his designs, ranging from corporate buildings to condominiums to housing developments.
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Featured here are four of Dudler’s high-rises, which show his brilliant approach to applying modernist ideas in the context of big-city architecture. In a Frankfurt neighborhood near downtown and the banking district, Dudler refurbished two high-rises located next to each other, fusing the structures into an urban ensemble which epitomizes unity and the quiet elegance of(...)
Max Dudler: High-rise buildings
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Featured here are four of Dudler’s high-rises, which show his brilliant approach to applying modernist ideas in the context of big-city architecture. In a Frankfurt neighborhood near downtown and the banking district, Dudler refurbished two high-rises located next to each other, fusing the structures into an urban ensemble which epitomizes unity and the quiet elegance of its surroundings. This publication also looks at Dudler’s two high-rise projects in Zurich: the esteemed Sunrise Tower (the former IBM building) and the Hagenholzstrasse ensemble.
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Mexico is full of great public spaces, especially the plazas that form the heart of most cities. But modern Mexico has also fallen in love with the shopping mall. This book examines the work of Grupo Arquitech, a Mexican architectural firm with a unique vision of the shopping mall as a new public space. A series of large-scale projects undertaken since the early nineties(...)
Grupo Arquitech Juan José Sanchez Aedo: The shopping mall as a new public space
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Mexico is full of great public spaces, especially the plazas that form the heart of most cities. But modern Mexico has also fallen in love with the shopping mall. This book examines the work of Grupo Arquitech, a Mexican architectural firm with a unique vision of the shopping mall as a new public space. A series of large-scale projects undertaken since the early nineties give shape to a new way of understanding this typology as well as to the task of resolving the complex issues of designing such multi-faceted spaces. Features an engaging essay on the firm’s projects, and another on the history of shopping centers from the nineteenth century to the present.
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Mangiarotti
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From the 50s Angelo Mangiarotti has been one of the protagonists in the international architecture, design, and sculpture scene. More than 100 projects, conceived in 50 years of professional activity, are presented in this book through original documents, often previously unpublished, from the Archivio Studio Mangiarotti in Milan. Drawings, models, design objects,(...)
Architecture, monographies
septembre 2009
Mangiarotti
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From the 50s Angelo Mangiarotti has been one of the protagonists in the international architecture, design, and sculpture scene. More than 100 projects, conceived in 50 years of professional activity, are presented in this book through original documents, often previously unpublished, from the Archivio Studio Mangiarotti in Milan. Drawings, models, design objects, photographs and sculptures are the evidences of Mangiarotti’s search for the object’s intrinsic aesthetic quality as an “objective” characteristic of its very material.
Architecture, monographies
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Yes is more is the first monograph of its kind devoted exclusively to the trailblazing practice of BIG, a Copenhagenbased group of architects, designers and thinkers operating within the fields of architecture, urbanism, research and development. BIG shows how its members respond to the polymorphous demands, complex rules and highly specialized knowledge of(...)
BIG - Yes is more: an archicomic on architectural evolution
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Yes is more is the first monograph of its kind devoted exclusively to the trailblazing practice of BIG, a Copenhagenbased group of architects, designers and thinkers operating within the fields of architecture, urbanism, research and development. BIG shows how its members respond to the polymorphous demands, complex rules and highly specialized knowledge of society, creating tangible solutions through artistic processes: solutions that time and again attract the interest of the population at large while earning the respect of aficionados across the globe. YES IS MORE speaks the language of popular culture, allowing the sublime to shine through in the commonplace. It enables readers to gain insights into Big s processes, methods and results through the most approachable and populist means of communication the cartoon.
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More than sixty buildings in cities including Berlin, Cologne, Hanoi, and Shanghai are featured in this book on the world renowned firm gmp. Detailed descriptions of each of the structures include photographs, plans, drawings, and illuminating commentary by one of the firm's founders, Meinhard von Gerkan. Particular attention is given to gmp's most celebrated projects,(...)
Von Gerkan, Marg und Partner: architecture 2003-2007
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More than sixty buildings in cities including Berlin, Cologne, Hanoi, and Shanghai are featured in this book on the world renowned firm gmp. Detailed descriptions of each of the structures include photographs, plans, drawings, and illuminating commentary by one of the firm's founders, Meinhard von Gerkan. Particular attention is given to gmp's most celebrated projects, such as the Berlin Central Station, an awe-inspiring cathedral of glass and steel; Shenzhen's Convention Center, considered the city's crystal palace; the Berlin Olympic Stadium; and the Christian Church in Beijing.
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With 400 images and drawings, this book presents architect Alvar Aalto's famous library in Vyborg, Russia, and the international efforts since 1994 to restore it. Within this extraordinary example of modernist design, its original plans dating from 1927 and constructed with modifications between 1933-1935 is a catalogue of innovative concepts that reflect Aalto's most(...)
Alvar Aalto library in Vyborg: Saving a modern masterpiece
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With 400 images and drawings, this book presents architect Alvar Aalto's famous library in Vyborg, Russia, and the international efforts since 1994 to restore it. Within this extraordinary example of modernist design, its original plans dating from 1927 and constructed with modifications between 1933-1935 is a catalogue of innovative concepts that reflect Aalto's most mature and influential work.
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Italo Rota was born in 1953 in Milan and graduated from the Milan Polytechnic Institute in 1982. In 1980, he and Gae Aulenti created the plans for the Musee d’Orsay and the Centre Beaubourg in Paris. In 1990, he initiated the planning for the Center for Postgraduate Studies at Columbia University. His return to Italy marked the beginning of a highly creative phase,(...)
Italo Rota: projects, works, visions 1997-2007
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Italo Rota was born in 1953 in Milan and graduated from the Milan Polytechnic Institute in 1982. In 1980, he and Gae Aulenti created the plans for the Musee d’Orsay and the Centre Beaubourg in Paris. In 1990, he initiated the planning for the Center for Postgraduate Studies at Columbia University. His return to Italy marked the beginning of a highly creative phase, including projects that ranged from museum installations, the "Maison Cavalli" (the showroom-cafés in Miami, Milan, and Moscow), to a series of public buildings in Italy and India. This book focuses on a recent decade of Rota’s work and is aimed at professionals and lovers of architecture, fashion, and design.
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décembre 2008
Stanton Williams
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Not only does this book delve into the architectural and design practices of the company but it also explores the people, art and philosophy behind the firm’s success. Stanton Williams: Volume comprehensively profiles this innovative, highly unique architectural firm through informed essays and interviews. The book is handsomely illustrated with specially commissioned(...)
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octobre 2009
Stanton Williams
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Not only does this book delve into the architectural and design practices of the company but it also explores the people, art and philosophy behind the firm’s success. Stanton Williams: Volume comprehensively profiles this innovative, highly unique architectural firm through informed essays and interviews. The book is handsomely illustrated with specially commissioned photography by architectural photographer Hélène Binet.
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