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Samuel Zipp sheds new light on the rise and fall of New York's urban renewal in the decades after World War II. Focusing on four iconic "Manhattan projects"--the United Nations building, Stuyvesant Town, Lincoln Center, and the great swaths of public housing in East Harlem--Zipp unearths a host of forgotten stories and characters that flesh out the conventional history of(...)
juin 2010
Manhattan projects: The rise and fall of urban renewal in Cold War New York
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Samuel Zipp sheds new light on the rise and fall of New York's urban renewal in the decades after World War II. Focusing on four iconic "Manhattan projects"--the United Nations building, Stuyvesant Town, Lincoln Center, and the great swaths of public housing in East Harlem--Zipp unearths a host of forgotten stories and characters that flesh out the conventional history of urban renewal. He shows how boosters hoped to make Manhattan the capital of modernity and a symbol of American power, but even as the builders executed their plans, a chorus of critics revealed the dark side of those Cold War visions, attacking urban renewal for perpetuating deindustrialization, racial segregation, and class division; for uprooting thousands, and for implanting a new, alienating cityscape. Cold War-era urban renewal was not merely a failed planning ideal, Zipp concludes, but also a crucial phase in the transformation of New York into both a world city and one mired in urban crisis.
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Il fallait bien l'audace d'une ville, Metz et sa communauté d'agglomération, et d'une volonté culturelle, celle du Centre Pompidou à Paris, pour mener à bien cet enjeu que représente le Centre Pompidou-Metz. Pari architectural, avec le choix d'une équipe résolument tournée vers l'avenir dans sa singularité écologique, Shigeru Ban/jean de Gastines/Philip Gumuchdjian. Pari(...)
juin 2010
Centre Pompidou-Metz: L'esprit du lieu
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Il fallait bien l'audace d'une ville, Metz et sa communauté d'agglomération, et d'une volonté culturelle, celle du Centre Pompidou à Paris, pour mener à bien cet enjeu que représente le Centre Pompidou-Metz. Pari architectural, avec le choix d'une équipe résolument tournée vers l'avenir dans sa singularité écologique, Shigeru Ban/jean de Gastines/Philip Gumuchdjian. Pari culturel avec cette affirmation résolue de la pluridisciplinarité et d'une connivence voulue entre la création sous toutes ses formes et le public. À la croisée des routes européennes, cette nouvelle institution affiche tout à la fois la marque d'une modernité déterminée et la volonté du pluriculturalisme
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Larry Bennett calls contemporary Chicago the third city to distinguish it from its two predecessors: the first city, a sprawling industrial center whose historical arc ran from the Civil War to the Great Depression; and the second city, the Rustbelt exemplar of the period from around 1950 to 1990. The third city features a dramatically revitalized urban core, a shifting(...)
septembre 2010
The third city: Chicago and American urbanism
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Larry Bennett calls contemporary Chicago the third city to distinguish it from its two predecessors: the first city, a sprawling industrial center whose historical arc ran from the Civil War to the Great Depression; and the second city, the Rustbelt exemplar of the period from around 1950 to 1990. The third city features a dramatically revitalized urban core, a shifting population mix that includes new immigrant streams, and a growing number of middle-class professionals working in new economy sectors. It is also a city utterly transformed by the top-to-bottom reconstruction of public housing developments and the ambitious provision of public works like Millennium Park. It is, according to Bennett, a work in progress spearheaded by Richard M. Daley, a self-consciously innovative mayor whose strategy of neighborhood revitalization and urban renewal is a prototype of city governance for the twenty-first century. The Third City ultimately contends that to understand Chicago under Daley’s charge is to understand what metropolitan life across North America may well look like in the coming decades.
Lost Chicago
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This book explores the architectural and cultural history of this American city, a city whose architectural heritage was recklessly squandered during the second half of the twentieth century. David Garrard Lowe’s lively prose and over 270 rare photographs and prints, illuminate the decades when Gustavus Swift and Philip D. Armour ruled the greatest stockyards in the(...)
octobre 2010
Lost Chicago
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This book explores the architectural and cultural history of this American city, a city whose architectural heritage was recklessly squandered during the second half of the twentieth century. David Garrard Lowe’s lively prose and over 270 rare photographs and prints, illuminate the decades when Gustavus Swift and Philip D. Armour ruled the greatest stockyards in the world; when industrialists and entrepreneurs such as Cyrus McCormick, Potter Palmer, George Pullman, and Marshall Field made Prairie Avenue and State Street the rivals of New York City’s Fifth Avenue; and when Louis Sullivan, Daniel Burnham, and Frank Lloyd Wright were designing buildings. Here are the mansions and grand hotels, the office buildings that met technical perfection (including the first skyscraper), and the stores, trains, movie palaces, parks, and racetracks that thrilled residents and tourists alike before falling victim to the wrecking ball of progress.
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L’essentiel sur les édifices contemporains (1955-2008) les plus marquants qui font la singularité architecturale de la Suisse, entre rigueur et innovation, entre territorialité et mondialisation.
juillet 2010
Architectures contemporaines: Suisse
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L’essentiel sur les édifices contemporains (1955-2008) les plus marquants qui font la singularité architecturale de la Suisse, entre rigueur et innovation, entre territorialité et mondialisation.
Modern architecture A-Z
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Each architect's entry features a portrait, quote and short biography as well as a description of important works, historical context and general approach; illustrations include numerous drawings, photographs and floor plans. The book's A to Z entries cover not only architects but also groups, movements and styles from the 18th to the 21st centuries.
juillet 2010
Modern architecture A-Z
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Each architect's entry features a portrait, quote and short biography as well as a description of important works, historical context and general approach; illustrations include numerous drawings, photographs and floor plans. The book's A to Z entries cover not only architects but also groups, movements and styles from the 18th to the 21st centuries.
Architecture now! 7
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This publication includes a broad variety of projects from around the world, as well as some works of art that have a direct relation to architecture, from the likes of Giacomo Costa or Shinro Ohtake. It also explores how the recent economic downturn has led to fewer large-scale projects, but has also stimulated creative thinking, as architects find new ways to work(...)
juillet 2010
Architecture now! 7
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This publication includes a broad variety of projects from around the world, as well as some works of art that have a direct relation to architecture, from the likes of Giacomo Costa or Shinro Ohtake. It also explores how the recent economic downturn has led to fewer large-scale projects, but has also stimulated creative thinking, as architects find new ways to work imaginatively inside budget constraints.
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Located in the Czech Republic, the city of Zlín is a curious example of civic planning in which domestic living, education and recreation were all geared towards a single goal : the profitability of the Bata shoe company, one of the first footwear manufacturers to operate globally. In spring 2009, a symposium initiated by Zipp/German-Czech Cultural Projects, in(...)
novembre 2010
A utopia of modernity : Zlin, revisiting Bata's functional city
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Located in the Czech Republic, the city of Zlín is a curious example of civic planning in which domestic living, education and recreation were all geared towards a single goal : the profitability of the Bata shoe company, one of the first footwear manufacturers to operate globally. In spring 2009, a symposium initiated by Zipp/German-Czech Cultural Projects, in cooperation with The Brno House of Arts, the Regional Gallery of Fine Arts in Zlín and the National Gallery in Prague, and attended by scholars and local experts, addressed the example of Zlín as a potential model for the future of urban planning and architecture. This anthology presents articles by architects, sociologists and urban theorists on the phenomenon that is Zlín. Plans, photographs, and film stills highlight the unique aesthetic qualities of this model city that complies with no architectural paradigm of the past century.
The power of pro bono
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The Power of Pro Bono presents 40 pro bono design projects across the country. The clients include grassroots community organizations like the Homeless Prenatal Program of San Francisco, as well as national and international nonprofits, among them Goodwill, Habitat for Humanity, KIPP Schools and Planned Parenthood. These public-interest projects were designed by a range(...)
octobre 2010
The power of pro bono
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The Power of Pro Bono presents 40 pro bono design projects across the country. The clients include grassroots community organizations like the Homeless Prenatal Program of San Francisco, as well as national and international nonprofits, among them Goodwill, Habitat for Humanity, KIPP Schools and Planned Parenthood. These public-interest projects were designed by a range of award-winning practices, from SHoP Architects in New York and Studio Gang in Chicago, to young studios including Stephen Dalton Architects in Southern California and Hathorne Architects in Detroit, to some of the largest firms in the country, such as Gensler, HOK and Perkins + Will. This book is inspired and informed by the advocacy and design work of Public Architecture, a national nonprofit founded in 2002 by San Francisco-based architect John Peterson.
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Des bureaux de poste de campagne aux hôtels des postes monumentaux, des centres de tri urbains aux gigantesques plateformes industrielles contemporaines, La Poste possède un patrimoine architectural remarquable tant par sa variété que pas sa qualité, mis en lumière dans cet ouvrage de référence. L'architecture postale s'inscrit ainsi dans l'histoire durable(...)
septembre 2010
Architecture postale: Une histoire en mouvement
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Des bureaux de poste de campagne aux hôtels des postes monumentaux, des centres de tri urbains aux gigantesques plateformes industrielles contemporaines, La Poste possède un patrimoine architectural remarquable tant par sa variété que pas sa qualité, mis en lumière dans cet ouvrage de référence. L'architecture postale s'inscrit ainsi dans l'histoire durable qu'entretiennent les Français avec La Poste. Depuis les années 1880, adoptant les styles architecturaux qui se sont succédés tout au long du XXe siècle., La Poste a construit un parc immobilier dont la richesse est avant tout celle d'une exceptionnelle diversité au service des métiers qui la constituent. Une histoire qui reflète les mutations techniques, esthétiques, économiques et sociales de la France du XIXe au XXIe siècle. Une histoire émaillée de figures renommées de l'architecture de François-Charles le Cœur à Claude Prouvé, en passant par Léon Azéma, Joseph Bukiet ou encore Louis Arretche. D'autres grands noms s'invitent également ici, Jean-Christophe Ballot, Yann Charbonnier et Stéphane Couturier, trois grands photographes d'art contemporain, nous offrent leur regard sur des bâtiments emblématiques de l'architecture postale.