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This broad selection of Swiss architecture, graphic design, and design from 1950 to 2006 demonstrates that in this context, playful humor and clarity are by no means opposites, but a highly unusual duo of qualities that mingle and interpenetrate. The question addressed by this publication is : are these examples from three professions, various regions and languages, and a(...)
décembre 2006, Baden
Playfully rigid : Swiss archtiecture, graphic design, product design, 1950-2006
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This broad selection of Swiss architecture, graphic design, and design from 1950 to 2006 demonstrates that in this context, playful humor and clarity are by no means opposites, but a highly unusual duo of qualities that mingle and interpenetrate. The question addressed by this publication is : are these examples from three professions, various regions and languages, and a period of more than fifty years bound together by a common denominator? No parade of luxury items, but talents and ideas finding material expression and clients with the courage to embrace new "inventions", presented with examples from architecture, graphic design, and design : movie theaters, swimming pools, pedestrian bridges, gas stations, posters, journals, record and CD covers, books, web design, furniture, and the legendary TEE train (Trans-Europe Express). This publication is accompanied by an exhibition at the Kornhausforum in Bern, which then goes on to additional locations throughout the world.
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Architecture now ! vol. 2
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The fine line between art and architecture is rapidly becoming harder to perceive. With the aid of sophisticated computer programs, today's most innovative architects are working on designs so conceptual they could not be realized in the physical world. Nevertheless, these sorts of forward-thinking projects are an important influence on the architectural climate. At(...)
Architecture now ! vol. 2
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The fine line between art and architecture is rapidly becoming harder to perceive. With the aid of sophisticated computer programs, today's most innovative architects are working on designs so conceptual they could not be realized in the physical world. Nevertheless, these sorts of forward-thinking projects are an important influence on the architectural climate. At the dawn of the 21st century, architecture is entering a paradigm shift; no longer can it be completely distinguished from art. Be they built from bytes or bricks, the projects in this book represent the imagination of the planet's most talented and creative architects.
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mai 2007, London
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En prélude à l’ouverture de la Cité de l¹architecture au Palais de Chaillot en 2007, Beaux Arts magazine s¹attache à faire le point sur cette discipline. Des principaux courants, aussi bien techniques que conceptuels, qui ont marqué l¹histoire de l¹architecture au XXe siècle, que faut-il retenir ? Cet ouvrage retrace grandes étapes et moments-clés pour comprendre la(...)
janvier 2007, Boulogne
Qu'est-ce que l'architecture aujourd'hui?
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En prélude à l’ouverture de la Cité de l¹architecture au Palais de Chaillot en 2007, Beaux Arts magazine s¹attache à faire le point sur cette discipline. Des principaux courants, aussi bien techniques que conceptuels, qui ont marqué l¹histoire de l¹architecture au XXe siècle, que faut-il retenir ? Cet ouvrage retrace grandes étapes et moments-clés pour comprendre la création architecturale contemporaine et répondre à la question inaugurale «Qu¹est-ce que l¹architecture ?» Ce numéro présente également une sélection de 50 architectes internationaux, des stars incontournables aux jeunes talents qui comptent sur la scène architecturale contemporaine : leur biographie, leur portrait et leurs principales réalisations commentées par les plus grands spécialistes de l¹architecture.
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janvier 2007, Boulogne
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This book surveys two centuries of Russian history through a succession of ambitious architectural projects designed for a single construction site in central Moscow. Czars, Bolshevik rulers, and contemporary Russian leaders alike have dreamed of glorious monuments to themselves and their ideologies on this site. The history of their efforts reflects the story of the(...)
septembre 2007, New Haven London
The holy place : Architecture, ideology, and history in Russia
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This book surveys two centuries of Russian history through a succession of ambitious architectural projects designed for a single construction site in central Moscow. Czars, Bolshevik rulers, and contemporary Russian leaders alike have dreamed of glorious monuments to themselves and their ideologies on this site. The history of their efforts reflects the story of the nation itself and its repeated attempts to construct or reconstruct its identity and to repudiate or resuscitate emblems of the past.
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Flexible architecture adapts to new uses, responds to change rather than stagnating, and is motive rather than static. Understanding how it has been conceived, designed, made, and used helps us understand its potential in solving current and future problems associated with technological, social, and economic change. This book explores the whole genre of flexible(...)
juin 2007
Flexible : Architecture that responds to change
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Flexible architecture adapts to new uses, responds to change rather than stagnating, and is motive rather than static. Understanding how it has been conceived, designed, made, and used helps us understand its potential in solving current and future problems associated with technological, social, and economic change. This book explores the whole genre of flexible architecture buildings that are intended to respond to evolving situations in their form, operation, or location. Crossing the boundaries between architecture, interior design, product design, and furniture design, this innovative book is the first to deal with the entire scope of the topic.
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In this book Gwendolyn Wright contends that American Modernism is not merely a branch of the European Modern Movement brought across the Atlantic by émigrés and often misinterpreted, but rather an exciting and evolving hybrid of distinctive ambitions, sensibilities and cultures. From early suburbs and skyscrapers in the aftermath of the Civil War to Art Deco and other(...)
septembre 2007, London
USA: modern architecture in history
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In this book Gwendolyn Wright contends that American Modernism is not merely a branch of the European Modern Movement brought across the Atlantic by émigrés and often misinterpreted, but rather an exciting and evolving hybrid of distinctive ambitions, sensibilities and cultures. From early suburbs and skyscrapers in the aftermath of the Civil War to Art Deco and other experiments that flourished in the 1920s, to postmodernism and major new projects of today, Wright explains the dynamic relationships between social and political issues, broad cultural trends and changing concepts of modern life.
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25 maisons et 15 portraits d'architectes et designers. A travers la visite de 25 maisons conçues par des architectes et des décorateurs novateurs, on voit la maison du Sud changer peu à peu d'aspect. Si les amoureux des vieilles pierres ont appris à aménager de nouveaux espaces très contemporains au sein d'une vieille bastide ou d'une ferme, certains architectes(...)
mai 2007, Genève
Architectures contemporaines en Provence
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25 maisons et 15 portraits d'architectes et designers. A travers la visite de 25 maisons conçues par des architectes et des décorateurs novateurs, on voit la maison du Sud changer peu à peu d'aspect. Si les amoureux des vieilles pierres ont appris à aménager de nouveaux espaces très contemporains au sein d'une vieille bastide ou d'une ferme, certains architectes proclament leur différence en construisant des villas radicalement contemporaines. Jardins, terrasses et patios reflètent une nouvelle approche, souvent basée sur une technologie de pointe et une meilleure connaissance de la topographie des lieux. La vision traditionnelle de la maison provençale se renouvelle au profit d'une construction logique et rationnelle réalisée avec des matériaux nobles et bruts : le bois, le verre, l'acier et le béton se fondent au paysage provençal, dans un souci croissant du respect de la nature et de l'environnement.
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mai 2007, Genève
Inventing American modernism : Joseph Hudnut, Walter Gropius, and the Bauhaus legacy at Harvard
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From the late 1930s to the early 1950s, the Harvard Graduate School of Design played a crucial role in shaping a new modern architecture and the modern city. Architects, planners, teachers, and students from all over the world looked to the new GSD, with its celebrated faculty and curriculum, for the path to modern design. While the school’s significance is widely(...)
avril 2007, Charlottesville, London
Inventing American modernism : Joseph Hudnut, Walter Gropius, and the Bauhaus legacy at Harvard
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From the late 1930s to the early 1950s, the Harvard Graduate School of Design played a crucial role in shaping a new modern architecture and the modern city. Architects, planners, teachers, and students from all over the world looked to the new GSD, with its celebrated faculty and curriculum, for the path to modern design. While the school’s significance is widely recognized by architectural historians, most studies have concentrated on the Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius and his transformation of Harvard's old Beaux-Arts School of Architecture into a "Harvard-Bauhaus," a radically new school with a single outlook. In "Inventing American modernism", Jill Pearlman argues that Gropius did not effect these changes alone and, further, that the GSD was not merely an offshoot of the Bauhaus. She offers a crucial missing piece to the story — and to the history of modern architecture — by focusing on Joseph Hudnut, the school’s dean and founder. After heading the architecture school at the University of Virginia, and then at Columbia University, Hudnut created the GSD at Harvard in 1936, before Gropius was appointed, and he headed the school until 1953, the year after Gropius resigned. From the beginning, Hudnut gave the GSD its modern pedagogical direction, and he continued to oversee its curriculum and staffing for the next seventeen years. Although originally an admirer of Gropius's work and theories, Hudnut came to clash with him over the control of the direction of modern architecture and planning in the United States Gropius won the battle, but Pearlman shows that, had the GSD followed the path Hudnut wanted, modern architecture and the modern city might well have been different. In his role as public intellectual, Hudnut wielded an influence that reached outside the university, distinguished by his encouraging people to participate in the architectural and urbanistic matters that affected their lives. A story involving European modernists such as Marcel Breuer, Martin Wagner, and Christopher Tunnard, as well as a number of other architects, city planners, and landscape architects, this book is more than the study of a single school; it is a look at the origins of modernism at a defining moment in the history of twentieth-century architecture.
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Ce livre a un personnage et un seul. Ce personnage est une ville, ce qui n'est pas si fréquent pour un livre : Montpellier, ancestrale cité du Languedoc, huitième ville française, dynamique pôle méditerranéen, référence scientifique de niveau mondial. Montpellier est allée plus loin et plus vite que ne l'espéraient ceux qui la favorisèrent dans les années 1960. Car sa(...)
février 2007, La Tour d'Aigues
Montpellier, une ville au coeur qui bat
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Ce livre a un personnage et un seul. Ce personnage est une ville, ce qui n'est pas si fréquent pour un livre : Montpellier, ancestrale cité du Languedoc, huitième ville française, dynamique pôle méditerranéen, référence scientifique de niveau mondial. Montpellier est allée plus loin et plus vite que ne l'espéraient ceux qui la favorisèrent dans les années 1960. Car sa vieille culture de la diversité et de la tolérance, son savoir - lier entreprises et sciences, son cadre architectural et naturel, tout concourt, avec une gestion municipale ambitieuse et portée vers l'avenir, à ce que la cité prenne en main sa propre transformation. La ville depuis croît en hommes mais aussi en savoir et en capacité à faire rêver. Ce livre est écrit pour les jeunes et les moins jeunes, ceux qui sont nés ici, ceux qui viennent d'ailleurs, les arrivants anciens ou récents qui chaque année migrent par milliers. Un livre aussi pour les estivants fidèles et les exilés qui voudraient revenir, et peut-être un peu aussi pour les vacanciers, ne serait-ce que les touristes d'une nuit, et pour ce gros tiers de la population française qui prétend vouloir vivre un jour à Montpellier, parfois sans même avoir visité une seule fois la ville. Ce livre est écrit pour tous ceux qui aiment Montpellier, qu'ils y vivent ou qu'ils en rêvent. Il dresse un portrait de la ville, cherche à en saisir l'histoire, le peuplement, la morphologie, les enjeux, mais aussi l'esprit, car je crois qu'on peut parler, ici particulièrement, d'un singulier esprit des lieux. A partir de là, on pourra essayer de saisir une part de l'avenir, si on peut le prévoir.
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février 2007, La Tour d'Aigues
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This book presents a number of experimental projects to gain experience in communication design as a symbolic and public practice. It proceeds from a critical position vis-à-vis the customary mediation of information. This is more necessary than ever now that design operates in the entertaining and marketing spectacle organized by the neo-liberal world order as an(...)
janvier 2007, Amsterdam/Rotterdam
Jan van Toorn design's delight
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This book presents a number of experimental projects to gain experience in communication design as a symbolic and public practice. It proceeds from a critical position vis-à-vis the customary mediation of information. This is more necessary than ever now that design operates in the entertaining and marketing spectacle organized by the neo-liberal world order as an instrument for the colonization of human existence. Unlike the classic form of visual communication, the dialogic approach is a connective model of visual rhetoric with a polemic nature and polyphonic visual form. A storytelling structure that seeks to reveal the opposing elements of the message and opts for active interpretation by the spectator.
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janvier 2007, Amsterdam/Rotterdam