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New architecture in London presents a richly facetted range of contemporary urban designs. Social and political forces require more than just cosmetic packaging for new buildings. The façade as a public face plays a complex role here. While facades used to perform a static, representative guide, the requirements today focus on communication and interactivity.(...)
Scratching the surface : new London facades by London architects
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New architecture in London presents a richly facetted range of contemporary urban designs. Social and political forces require more than just cosmetic packaging for new buildings. The façade as a public face plays a complex role here. While facades used to perform a static, representative guide, the requirements today focus on communication and interactivity. "Scratching the surface" surveys the current state of affairs and documents today’s technical possibilities. The book – which can be used as a guide due to its handy format – shows state-of-the-art façade construction.
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This book is a one-stop guide to the world’s greatest architectural achievements. Comprehensive and concise, it contains reviews of the most influential structures ever built worldwide. Covering a diverse array of architectural traditions and construction styles–from the bold and brash to the spiritual and reserved, from Angkor Wat to the Parthenon, from Frank Lloyd(...)
1001 buildings you must see before you die : The world's finest architectural masterpieces
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This book is a one-stop guide to the world’s greatest architectural achievements. Comprehensive and concise, it contains reviews of the most influential structures ever built worldwide. Covering a diverse array of architectural traditions and construction styles–from the bold and brash to the spiritual and reserved, from Angkor Wat to the Parthenon, from Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater to Frank Gehry’s Bilbao Guggenheim–the book celebrates the vision and achievement of world architecture. Entries are organized chronologically and include essential information on the featured building, as well as the social, political, cultural, and geographical considerations that influenced the design. Stunning illustrations and photographs highlight the technical feats and aesthetic brilliance of architects past and present. This comprehensive collection is an accessible reference for anyone interested in the history of architecture.
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Qu'est-ce qu'une capitale dès lors que l'Europe entend se construire au-delà des modèles des États nationaux? Comment l'idée européenne peut-elle s'incarner dans les édifices et les modes d'investissement urbain qui la représentent? Les contributions réunies dans ce volume offrent des éléments de refléxion essentiels pour l'avenir de Bruxelles en ce qui concerne tant les(...)
Bruxelle l'Européene: Capitale de qui? Ville de qui?
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Qu'est-ce qu'une capitale dès lors que l'Europe entend se construire au-delà des modèles des États nationaux? Comment l'idée européenne peut-elle s'incarner dans les édifices et les modes d'investissement urbain qui la représentent? Les contributions réunies dans ce volume offrent des éléments de refléxion essentiels pour l'avenir de Bruxelles en ce qui concerne tant les aménagements urbains qui marquent la présence européenne dans le ville que son identité et le sort de ses habitants. What does it mean to be a capital when Europe is extending and establishing itself beyond the models of nation states? How can the European idea be embodied in the buildings and urban investment processes which represent it? The contributions in this volume offer essential matter for reflection on the future of Brussels with regard to its urban development which marks the European presence in the city as well as its identity and the condition of its inhabitants
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The residences featured in this book are fine examples of the splendor and enchantment of Mediterranean architecture. They have been selected to pay homage to the various cultures that contribute to this resplendence and to illustrate the perfect fusion between tradition and modernism.
Mediterranean living | Vivre au bord de la méditerranée | Mediterranes wohnen
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The residences featured in this book are fine examples of the splendor and enchantment of Mediterranean architecture. They have been selected to pay homage to the various cultures that contribute to this resplendence and to illustrate the perfect fusion between tradition and modernism.
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Vicente Guallart, pioneer of new media, examines the technological, social and cultural changes in our information society for new urban building. Presenting the last 15 years of his work, this book investigates architecture’s ability to construct systems for inhabitable environments in diverse environmental, social, and economic conditions. He crosses boundaries through(...)
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Geologics: geography information architecture
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Vicente Guallart, pioneer of new media, examines the technological, social and cultural changes in our information society for new urban building. Presenting the last 15 years of his work, this book investigates architecture’s ability to construct systems for inhabitable environments in diverse environmental, social, and economic conditions. He crosses boundaries through collaborations in geology, sociology, engineering, economics, software and interface design. The projects follow a "natural" logic, referring to components originating in nature, as well as to environmental systems.
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Ciel pur, soleil ardent, mer étincelante donnent au littoral méditerranéen une qualité de vie particulière qui se reflète pleinement dans les vingt-cinq maisons contemporaines présentées ici. Du sud de l'Espagne au nord de l'Afrique, de la Côte d'Azur aux îles grecques, ces créations architecturales constituent une source d'inspiration pour les architectes et tous ceux(...)
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Méditerrannée moderne
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Ciel pur, soleil ardent, mer étincelante donnent au littoral méditerranéen une qualité de vie particulière qui se reflète pleinement dans les vingt-cinq maisons contemporaines présentées ici. Du sud de l'Espagne au nord de l'Afrique, de la Côte d'Azur aux îles grecques, ces créations architecturales constituent une source d'inspiration pour les architectes et tous ceux qui souhaitent adapter au monde actuel l'art de vivre méditerranéen. Chaque villa a sa personnalité, mais toutes se caractérisent par la pureté de leurs lignes, l'équilibre de leurs volumes et une manière originale d'abolir les frontières entre espace intérieur et monde extérieur.
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The fact that there is Gypsy architecture may surprise quite a few people, for Gypsies are regarded as nomads who roam through the world and settle now here, now there, never stay long in one place, and consider everything that normal citizens find important to be an unreasonable restriction of their freedom. Nevertheless, in southeastern Europe, there exists a(...)
juillet 2007, Stuttgart, London
Gypsy architecture : house of the Roma in Eastern Europe
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The fact that there is Gypsy architecture may surprise quite a few people, for Gypsies are regarded as nomads who roam through the world and settle now here, now there, never stay long in one place, and consider everything that normal citizens find important to be an unreasonable restriction of their freedom. Nevertheless, in southeastern Europe, there exists a remarkable architecture created by Gypsies. It seems to have been created from a dream : unreal, abstruse, and colourful, it is a composition of all the architectural styles of this world. Uninfluenced by any deeper knowledge of architectural culture, each family head chose the style, size and finishings on the basis of his own personal tastes or memories of travels, houses and things seen in other countries. The result has been the creation of bizarre and fantastic jumbles of buildings that it is hard to classify in terms of western stylistic features. Very often the houses are the result of enormous jigsaw puzzles created from an assembly of images or photographs of various different buildings, and their execution precisely follows these crazy guidelines, perhaps because they are incomprehensible to those carrying out the project. Otherwise, how could one possibly explain Indian-style roofs crowning neoclassical buildings, mansard roofs on structures of improbable style, Frenchified Chinese pagodas, heterogeneous assemblies of diverse and contrasting elements. The structures, the villas gradually soften their bizarre and fantastic imagery the closer they are built to European countries. Undoubtedly, the cultural influence of neighbouring countries already immersed in the culture and lifestyle of Europe has helped to "contaminate" the owners and bring their dwellings, the expression of their wishes, more into line with the ruling culture. What, however, remains staggering is the quality of the execution of the complex decorations, of the architectural elements and buildings that are very often contrasting, of widely differing façades surmounted by steepling roofs of no practical use whose only function is to represent, through their lack of proportion and absolute needlessness, the financial and social power of the family. Besides pieces of sculpture that are undoubtedly ritual and symbolic and originating from Indian culture, suns with spiny rays, various forms of pinnacle, geometrical moons, zoomorphic decorations,the tops of the roofs bear metalwork inscriptions giving the date of building and the name of the family or that of the wife, symbolizing a desire for display and the proclamation of ownership.
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L'architecture flexible s'adapte aux nouveaux usages, répond au changement plutôt que de le rejeter, est mobile plutôt que statique. C'est un concept innovant, interdisciplinaire et multifonctionnel qui, par conséquent, se situe au cœur des questions de création contemporaine. Analyser comment elle est conçue, dessinée, faite et utilisée nous permet de comprendre sa(...)
Flexible : une architecture pour répondre au changement
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L'architecture flexible s'adapte aux nouveaux usages, répond au changement plutôt que de le rejeter, est mobile plutôt que statique. C'est un concept innovant, interdisciplinaire et multifonctionnel qui, par conséquent, se situe au cœur des questions de création contemporaine. Analyser comment elle est conçue, dessinée, faite et utilisée nous permet de comprendre sa capacité à résoudre les problèmes actuels et futurs, liés aux évolutions techniques, sociales et économiques. Flexible : une architecture pour répondre au changement explore dans son ensemble ce genre architectural établissant son arrière-plan historique, son potentiel dans le cadre de différents environnements domestiques ou urbains, ainsi que la conception, l'esthétique et la réalisation d'exemples contemporains significatifs. Traversant les frontières entre architecture, design de produits et architecture d'intérieur, cet ouvrage est le premier à traiter la totalité de ce champ de plus en plus dynamique et vital de la pratique architecturale.
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Gritty Brits presents the work of six emerging architectural practices--all based in London, and all building within the complex setting of the British capital. Featuring the work of Adjaye/Associates, Caruso St John Architects, FAT [Fashion Architecture Taste], Níall McLaughlin Architects, muf and Sergison Bates architects, this succinct and vibrant study investigates(...)
juin 2007, Pittsburg
Gritty Brits : new London architecture
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Gritty Brits presents the work of six emerging architectural practices--all based in London, and all building within the complex setting of the British capital. Featuring the work of Adjaye/Associates, Caruso St John Architects, FAT [Fashion Architecture Taste], Níall McLaughlin Architects, muf and Sergison Bates architects, this succinct and vibrant study investigates five projects from each practice in photographs, drawings and plans.
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Eastern modernist architecture of the 60s and 70s is moving away from the specialized focus of international architecture debates and becoming a subject of discussion within the broader context of general interest. The excellent photos in the book convey the flair of an era in which planning was obviously the product of a collective vision, more so than is the case today.(...)
décembre 2007, New York
Eastmodern : architecture and design of the 1960s and 1970 in Slovakia
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Eastern modernist architecture of the 60s and 70s is moving away from the specialized focus of international architecture debates and becoming a subject of discussion within the broader context of general interest. The excellent photos in the book convey the flair of an era in which planning was obviously the product of a collective vision, more so than is the case today. The photographic and documentation project compiled by Herta Hurnaus, who lives in Vienna, and the architects Benjamin Konrad and Maik Novotny analyzes the work of prominent Slovakian architects of the time in a photographic documentary and an "oral history. The monumental prestigious buildings are above all the most impressive at first glance, with their features that display parallels to the sculptural designs of popular contemporary offices. The illustrated book contains short interviews in an appendix and address architects and all those who are fascinated the aesthetic of the time.