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Nature has always furnished stimulating ideas for the design of architecture, both vernacular and in the work of major architects. Inspired by Nature: Plants looks at how the plant world serves as a useful source of inspiration, whether intentional or inconscious, for great contemporary architecture. Accompanying the images of built examples, ranging from houses to(...)
mai 2008, New York, London
Inspired by nature plants, the building/botany collection
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Nature has always furnished stimulating ideas for the design of architecture, both vernacular and in the work of major architects. Inspired by Nature: Plants looks at how the plant world serves as a useful source of inspiration, whether intentional or inconscious, for great contemporary architecture. Accompanying the images of built examples, ranging from houses to hotels, schools, and commercial and industrial projects, are botanical drawings and an explanation of why natural forms make good models for structure. The visual analogies underline how architects can find elegant solution and create new, sustainable, and efficient architectonic forms by the close and unsderstanding observation of nature.
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A mesmerizing return to the memory-nest of Rachel Lichtenstein's heartland. By listening with such care and sympathetic attention, she teases out the voices of the living and the dead. Here is a mapping to set beside mayhew and Jack London, a valid attempt to identify eternal verities in a place that is vanishing, reinventing itself, even as she walks across it' Ian Sinclair
août 2007, London, New York
On Brick Lane
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A mesmerizing return to the memory-nest of Rachel Lichtenstein's heartland. By listening with such care and sympathetic attention, she teases out the voices of the living and the dead. Here is a mapping to set beside mayhew and Jack London, a valid attempt to identify eternal verities in a place that is vanishing, reinventing itself, even as she walks across it' Ian Sinclair
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août 2007, London, New York
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Through extensive picture material as well as project-related text annotations, this book features recently built and realized projects that - in addition to their exceptional architectural quality - make a notable contribution to a liveable and sustainable future, such as Morphosis, Steven Holl Architects, Sauerbruch Hutton, SMC Alsop, Rural Studio, Urban-Think Tank,(...)
avril 2008, Berlin
Architecture of change: sustainability and humanity in the built environment
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Through extensive picture material as well as project-related text annotations, this book features recently built and realized projects that - in addition to their exceptional architectural quality - make a notable contribution to a liveable and sustainable future, such as Morphosis, Steven Holl Architects, Sauerbruch Hutton, SMC Alsop, Rural Studio, Urban-Think Tank, Architecture of Humanity,and many more. The book also includes essays by and interviews with internationally renowned experts in architecture, science, economics, and politics such as Saskia Sassen, Klaus Toepfer, Yung Ho Chang, and others. Table of contents, index of projects, Biographies.
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The urban and cultural climate of Rotterdam changed radically between 1970 and 2000. Opinions differ about what the most important changes were, and when they occurred. "Imagine a metropolis" shows that it was first and foremost a new perspective on Rotterdam that stimulated the development of the city during this period. If the Rotterdam of 1970 was still a city with an(...)
octobre 2007, Rotterdam
Imagine a metropolis : Rotterdam's creative class, 1970-2000
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The urban and cultural climate of Rotterdam changed radically between 1970 and 2000. Opinions differ about what the most important changes were, and when they occurred. "Imagine a metropolis" shows that it was first and foremost a new perspective on Rotterdam that stimulated the development of the city during this period. If the Rotterdam of 1970 was still a city with an identity crises that wanted to be small rather than large and cosy rather than commercial, by 2000 Rotterdam had the image of the most metropolitan of all Dutch cities. Artists and other cultural practitioners – a group these days termed the ‘creative class’ – were the first to advance this metropolitan vision, thereby paving the way for the New Rotterdam that would begin to take concrete shape at the end of the 1980s. "Imagine a metropolis" goes on to show that this New Rotterdam is returning to its nineteenth-century identity and the developments of the inter-war years and the period of post-war reconstruction.
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The author describes and analyzes the architecture of the palaces, synagogues, railroad stations, and department stores that architects and developers designed and built in Paris, Vienna, Budapest, Berlin, New York, Chicago and other cities. This richly illustrated history begins with the dramatic changes in nineteenth-century society and culture that liberated the first(...)
janvier 2004, Jersey city
The Jewish contribution to modern architecture 1830-1930
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The author describes and analyzes the architecture of the palaces, synagogues, railroad stations, and department stores that architects and developers designed and built in Paris, Vienna, Budapest, Berlin, New York, Chicago and other cities. This richly illustrated history begins with the dramatic changes in nineteenth-century society and culture that liberated the first generation of Jews from the ghettos of Venice, Prague, and Frankfurt. It concludes with the modernism of the 1920s and 1930s. The book combines family history, urban history, and the history of architecture and architects with a history of Jews and Jewish thought.
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As Timothy Leary's tune-in-turn-on-drop-out message spread across the country, idealistic and anarchic enclaves mushroomed with names like Drop City and Morning Star - many experimenting with alternative forms of energy, recycling, and means of sustainability. For the first time, in rich documentary illustration material, these ephemeral spaces are brought together in(...)
Spaced out: crash pads, hippie communes, infinity machines, and other radical environments of the psychedelic sixties
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As Timothy Leary's tune-in-turn-on-drop-out message spread across the country, idealistic and anarchic enclaves mushroomed with names like Drop City and Morning Star - many experimenting with alternative forms of energy, recycling, and means of sustainability. For the first time, in rich documentary illustration material, these ephemeral spaces are brought together in this book. Many of the photographs have never been published before. They are explained and displayed in detail by an extensive text by acclaimed author Alistair Gordon.
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Au-delà de l'étude des techniques et matériaux utilisés dans les constructions animales, comparée aux exemples d'architecture, cet ouvrage introduit des informations sur les comportements animaux en relation avec leur habitat.
février 2008, Paris
Analogies architecture animale
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Au-delà de l'étude des techniques et matériaux utilisés dans les constructions animales, comparée aux exemples d'architecture, cet ouvrage introduit des informations sur les comportements animaux en relation avec leur habitat.
Britain's Lost Cities
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The destruction meted out on Britain's city center during the 20th century, by the combined efforts of the Luftwaffe and brutalist city planners, is legendary. Medieval churches, Tudor alleyways, Georgian terraces, and Victorian theatres vanished forever, to be replaced by a gruesome landscape of concrete office blocks and characterless shopping malls. Now, for the first(...)
Britain's Lost Cities
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The destruction meted out on Britain's city center during the 20th century, by the combined efforts of the Luftwaffe and brutalist city planners, is legendary. Medieval churches, Tudor alleyways, Georgian terraces, and Victorian theatres vanished forever, to be replaced by a gruesome landscape of concrete office blocks and characterless shopping malls. Now, for the first time, architectural historian Gavin Stamp shows exactly what has been lost. Reproduced in this haunting volume are hundreds of top-quality photographs of cities, showing streets and buildings that are gone forever. The accompanying text traces their creation and destruction, remembering the massive campaign to save the Euston Arch, wantonly demolished in 1962, and mourning the loss of lovely medieval Coventry, which was already doomed by the city planners even before German air raids intervened. Alternately fascinating, enraging, and heartbreaking, this is an extraordinary evocation of Britain's architectural past, and a much-needed reminder of the importance of preserving heritage.
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Cet ouvrage présente plus d'une centaine de bâtiments célèbres du XXe siècle, dont certaines oeuvres emblématiques des grands maîtres comme Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright, Mies van der Rohe ou Alvar Aalto, et celle d'architectes contemporains tels Norman Foster, Frank Ghery ou Rem Koolhaas. L'introduction offre une rapide vue d'ensemble de l'évolution de(...)
100 bâtiments majeurs du XXe siècle: plans, coupes et élévations
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Cet ouvrage présente plus d'une centaine de bâtiments célèbres du XXe siècle, dont certaines oeuvres emblématiques des grands maîtres comme Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright, Mies van der Rohe ou Alvar Aalto, et celle d'architectes contemporains tels Norman Foster, Frank Ghery ou Rem Koolhaas. L'introduction offre une rapide vue d'ensemble de l'évolution de l'architecture au XXe siècle, avec une attention particulière aux questions d'organisation spactiale.
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Looking at European architecture: a critical view is the outcome of a process which brings together architects, historians and curators to provide an overview of European architectural criticism. Its objective is to encompass the concerns of writers and practicioners within the 27 Member States of the European Union at the start if this millennium. For each country, there(...)
février 2008, Brussels
Looking at European architecture: a critical view
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Looking at European architecture: a critical view is the outcome of a process which brings together architects, historians and curators to provide an overview of European architectural criticism. Its objective is to encompass the concerns of writers and practicioners within the 27 Member States of the European Union at the start if this millennium. For each country, there is a text published in the original language and translated into English.