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The tale of tomorrow: utopian architecture in the modernist realm

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The retro-futuristic epoch is one of the most visually spectacular in architecture's history. This book compiles radical ideas and visionary structures. The notion of utopia proves as diverse as it does universal. From exuberant master plans to singular architectural expressions, the rise of the utopian architectural movement in the 1960s and 1970s represents a critical shift in ideology away from mid-century traditionalism. This period shakes off the conformity and conventions of the 1950s in favor of a more experimental post-war agenda. Marked by groundbreaking reinterpretations of both the single family house as well as more large scale developments, the embrace of utopian and generally progressive thinking mirrored the cultural revolution of the times. These daring, charming, futuristic, and hopeful designs were not isolated to a particular part of the world. Visionary voices longing for a fresh approach to architecture began appearing across France, Japan, the United States, and beyond. The Tale of Tomorrow documents this prolific era in architecture--a time when anything felt possible as architects began to think further and further outside the box. 'The Tale of Tomorrow' focuses exclusively on built manifestations of utopian ideas. Highlighting well-known projects as well as the more obscure, the collection of utopian approaches compiled here maintain their visual power and infectious optimism nearly half a century later. These experimental structures, both large and small, appear in everyday places in stark contrast to their far-from-utopian contexts.

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Liquid spaces: scenography, installations and spatial experiences

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The line between art and commerce is fluid; the quality of the experience is all that matters. Artists, scenographers, and architects, as well as interior and exhibition designers create these extraordinary situations. Liquid Spaces presents the most innovative concepts, most radical designers, and most demanding clients. Those who manage to create incomparable event spaces with local and international appeal, and those responsible for adding the next destination of must-see locations to the map.

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Installations by architects : experiments in building and design

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Form defining strategies

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This book examines experimental design methodologies in the field of architecture and their implementation in academic settings. Theoretical considerations by guest essayists and numerous examples of conceptual designs complement the holistic approach to the subject matter. The studies collected here emerged during a weekly workshop with architecture students at the Technical University of Darmstadt.

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Architecture without place, 1968/2008 : unbuilt visionary, ephemeral architecture & installations

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The exhibition 'Architectures without Place (1968-2008)' presents a series of works that either were never built or no longer exist : a vast field which ranges from theoretical speculations, visionary prefigurings and ideas competitions to modified projects, ephemeral installations and botched buildings. This variegated realm of the unbuilt (or of the now non-existent) allows us to analyse the conceptual heritage of a long period of Catalonian cultural history; in other words, it lets us dissect forty years of architecture produced locally, highlighting the prevailing ideas at each step of the way. This is a heterogeneous field of project design in which converge other disciplines fuelled by a powerful desire to articulate and transform space : comics, theatre, film, ephemeral installations and the visual arts in general.

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Villes imaginaires et construction fictives: quand l'art s'empare de l'architecture

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Cet ouvrage présente le travail de plus d’une centaine d’artistes qui tous proposent des créations dans lesquelles le thème de l’architecture, du bâti, joue un rôle central. Sculptures, installations, dessins, peintures, collages et photomontages ne sont que quelques-unes des nombreuses techniques utilisées par ces artistes pour exprimer leur vision de la chose construite, qu’il s’agisse d’une maison, d’une église, d’un immeuble, ou plus largement de la rue ou de la ville. Propositions, critiques, hommages, questionnements abondent dans ces projets qui, en définitive, racontent l’histoire de lieux, réels ou fictifs, utopiques ou tragiques, et révèlent l’importance du rôle de l’architecture dans notre culture visuelle.

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AA Agendas 9 : Making pavilions

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This book features the experimental pavilion projects carried by the AA's Intermediate Unit 2 over the past six years. Over the past six years the students of the Architectural Association's Intermediate Unit 2 have designed and built a series of experimental pavilions. Structured to follow a year in the life of the unit, this book presents the processes of the pavilions' design and production, from concept ideas to workshop fabrication. Essays by the unit's tutors, Charles Walker and Martin Self, explain the ambitions and pedagogic basis of the programme, rooted in the idea of experiential learning. Through the voices of students, tutors and anonymous critics, both the educational validity of this innovative design-build programme and its architectural output is explored.

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Îles, architecture contemporaine sur l'eau / Islands, contemporary architecture on water

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Les îles - réelles, artificielles et métaphoriques - ont toujours été fascinantes. Mises en évidence par leur isolation, les constructions contemporaines à proximité de l'eau, voire sur l'eau, dépassent les frontières pour créer une architecture insulaire impressionnante, parfois même audacieuse. Comptant une cinquantaine de projets, Îles présente des créations d'architectes reconnus tels que Jean Nouvel, Frank O. Gehry, Renzo Piano, ou Foster + Partners, et propose une découverte fascinante de l'architecture flottante actuelle, future et lointaine.

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L'architecture des limites

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hitecture des limites présente 45 édifices construits dans des milieux inhospitaliers qui témoignent de ces limites de l'architecture. D'un refuge dans le désert de l'Arizona à un centre de recherches marines flottant, d'un " coffre à graines " norvégien à une station scientifique du pôle Sud, chacun des projets présentés comporte un tableau rappelant l'altitude, les précipitations et les températures moyennes du site. Un choix de photographies, complété de croquis, de plans et de rendus informatiques, permet de restituer le projet dans son environnement. L'ouvrage est divisé en cinq chapitres : chaleur, froid, altitude, eau, espace.

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Néo rétro

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Deux livres en un : une histoire concise du graphisme et un portfolio du meilleur de la création graphique néo rétro.