Hansaviertel portraits
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A former debris-strewn wasteland in the inner city—some 300 out of 343 residential buildings were destroyed during the Second World War—the Hansaviertel is one of the most defining architecture projects of the postwar period in Berlin. In 1952, an international ideas competition was held under the title die stadt von morgen (the city of tomorrow); more than fifty(...)
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A former debris-strewn wasteland in the inner city—some 300 out of 343 residential buildings were destroyed during the Second World War—the Hansaviertel is one of the most defining architecture projects of the postwar period in Berlin. In 1952, an international ideas competition was held under the title die stadt von morgen (the city of tomorrow); more than fifty architects presented plans for the rebuilding of West Berlin, including leading practitioners of Western modernist architecture like Alvar Aalto, Werner Düttmann, Egon Eiermann, Walter Gropius, Arne Jacobsen, Oscar Niemeyer, and Max Taut. Construction based on their designs in the redevelopment area began in 1956. The result was a neighborhood designed for people and their needs—largely without predetermined paths, with lots of greenery, flexible floor plans, space for small businesses, and facilities for everyday needs. Visiting the area and its people today, one can still feel the designers’ visionary resolve to establish new ways of residential living. Locals are united by their fascination with architecture and design and their love for their neighborhood, which over the decades has developed an authentic patina and now stands as witness to a key chapter in the city’s more recent history.
Transforming Barcelona
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This unique book, written by local experts in the city, deals with the transformation of Barcelona during the last twenty years. Barcelona has been held up as a model of urban planning and economic regeneration amongst built environment professionals. The redesign of square parks and streets throughout the city in the 1980's first attracted attention and praise and then(...)
Transforming Barcelona
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This unique book, written by local experts in the city, deals with the transformation of Barcelona during the last twenty years. Barcelona has been held up as a model of urban planning and economic regeneration amongst built environment professionals. The redesign of square parks and streets throughout the city in the 1980's first attracted attention and praise and then the 1992 Olympics hosted in the city raised international awareness. The city received many awards and accolades including a Gold Medal from the RIBA. The selection of writings is well illustrated throughout with maps, drawings and photographs and will be of interest to architects, planners and urban designers as well as those interested in the social and economic impacts of regeneration.
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L’architecture est, concrètement, l’« art de construire ». Pourtant on ne la considère souvent que sous son aspect abstrait d’art du design ou de la composition. Les architectes, anciennement « chef charpentiers » ou maçons, sont peu à peu devenus des designers. Cette évolution a vu grandir le fossé entre les idées et leur réalisation, malgré d’occasionnelles tentatives(...)
Formes et matériaux dans l'architecture
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L’architecture est, concrètement, l’« art de construire ». Pourtant on ne la considère souvent que sous son aspect abstrait d’art du design ou de la composition. Les architectes, anciennement « chef charpentiers » ou maçons, sont peu à peu devenus des designers. Cette évolution a vu grandir le fossé entre les idées et leur réalisation, malgré d’occasionnelles tentatives pour renverser la tendance, notamment avec le mouvement des Arts and Crafts au XIXe siècle. Après un siècle consacré pour l’essentiel aux débats sur la forme et l’espace, le monde de l’architecture connaît aujourd’hui un intérêt renouvelé pour les matériaux, alors même que les progrès technologiques semblent renforcer la tendance à l’abstraction. Par compensation, ce phénomène entraîne une amélioration des qualités matérielles des bâtiments. L’architecte possède aujourd’hui un contrôle direct sur l’atelier et le site de construction, ce qui lui permet de rapprocher les processus d’imagination et de construction. Après une brève introduction, le livre s’ouvre sur trois chapitres historiques et critiques : « matériaux de construction », « surfaces et forme » et « nature des matériaux ». Six chapitres plus courts suivent : « les matériaux en place », « les matériaux dans le temps », « les jonctions », « la finition », « le sens », « les surfaces ». Un débat sur le futur des différents matériaux de l’architecture contemporaine clôt l’ouvrage.
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In the Netherlands, for decades a bastion of modernism, neomodernism and supermodernism, a contemporary traditionalism has been causing a stir since the 1990s. Instead of innovation, today's traditionalists tap into what is already there, drawing from the past and preferring means that have already proved their worth. In Hans Ibelings's book contemporary traditionalism,(...)
Unmodern architecture : contemporary traditionalism in the Netherlands
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In the Netherlands, for decades a bastion of modernism, neomodernism and supermodernism, a contemporary traditionalism has been causing a stir since the 1990s. Instead of innovation, today's traditionalists tap into what is already there, drawing from the past and preferring means that have already proved their worth. In Hans Ibelings's book contemporary traditionalism, stripped of all populistic and moralistic arguments for and against, is analysed from different angles. Ibelings places contemporary traditionalism in an international and historical perspective. In so doing, the book answers the question of what contemporary traditionalism has to offer a 21st-century society.
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This book takes the reader on a tour of the concept behind the Ulm School, its 15 years of life and its legacy. The look at the past also follows the long path taken by German design, starting with the Bauhaus, before emigrating to the USA and eventually returning to its roots. The authors illustrate the role the School continues to play by pointing out everyday products(...)
août 2003, Berlin
The Ulm school of design : beginnings of a project of unyielding modernity
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This book takes the reader on a tour of the concept behind the Ulm School, its 15 years of life and its legacy. The look at the past also follows the long path taken by German design, starting with the Bauhaus, before emigrating to the USA and eventually returning to its roots. The authors illustrate the role the School continues to play by pointing out everyday products designed by HfG teachers and alumni, e.g the Lufthansa corporate design and the ICE train, to name but two examples. There is also a look at some visionary projects that the School never realized. On the theoretical level, the book begins and concludes with a discussion of international modernism in philosophy and design, culminating in the question of its future, especially in terms of architecture and our environment.
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In 2003, the jury which comprised Greg Lynn, William Mitchell (MIT), Gerhard Schmitt (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology), Nobuyuki Yoshida, (A+U), Birger Sevaldson (Ocean-north) and other distinguished architects, awarded the Far Eastern International Digital Design Award (FEIDAD) for the third time. This book presents the 80 best projects which architects,(...)
Developing digital architecture : 2002 FEIDAD award
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In 2003, the jury which comprised Greg Lynn, William Mitchell (MIT), Gerhard Schmitt (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology), Nobuyuki Yoshida, (A+U), Birger Sevaldson (Ocean-north) and other distinguished architects, awarded the Far Eastern International Digital Design Award (FEIDAD) for the third time. This book presents the 80 best projects which architects, students and designers coming from 25 different countries had entered in the competition.
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Avec des références littéraires pour fil conducteur, cet essai tente de faire un point sur l'architecture dans la nouvelle capitale allemande. Il aborde successivement les spécificités de la ville, les constructions architecturales remarquables depuis le XIXe siècle, l'hétérogénéité des styles architecturaux et la question de l'identité nationale et culturelle de sa population.
Berlin : une ville en suspens
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Avec des références littéraires pour fil conducteur, cet essai tente de faire un point sur l'architecture dans la nouvelle capitale allemande. Il aborde successivement les spécificités de la ville, les constructions architecturales remarquables depuis le XIXe siècle, l'hétérogénéité des styles architecturaux et la question de l'identité nationale et culturelle de sa population.
New architecture in Britain
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Architects increasingly operate on a global scene, and just as numerous British architects have proved highly successful at winning projects abroad, so architects from Europe, the United States and the Far East are making their mark in Britain. One thinks, for example, of Daniel Libeskind’s Imperial War Museum and Tadao Ando’s new square and pavilion project, both in(...)
septembre 2003, London / New York
New architecture in Britain
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Architects increasingly operate on a global scene, and just as numerous British architects have proved highly successful at winning projects abroad, so architects from Europe, the United States and the Far East are making their mark in Britain. One thinks, for example, of Daniel Libeskind’s Imperial War Museum and Tadao Ando’s new square and pavilion project, both in Manchester, or of Frank Gehry’s Cancer Care Centre in Dundee. Well-known British practices such as Future Systems, Alsop Architects and Nicholas Grimshaw & Partners also inevitably feature prominently in the international story of the country’s recent architectural renaissance, but so too do newer, smaller practices, including many based outside the capital. This book describes and illustrates over 100 outstanding projects, both large and small, from around Britain – none completed earlier than 2001, and some still under construction or at planning stage. Covering every conceivable building type, from houses, offices and department stores to theatres, heritage sites and museums, this book makes a contribution to the continuing debate about the role of architecture in forging a new environment and underpinning the growth of a healthy society.
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This second volume of "The details of modern architecture" continues the study of the relationships of the ideals of design and the realities of construction in modern architecture, beginning in the late 1920s and extending to the present day. It contains a wealth of new information on the construction of modern architecture at a variety of scales from minute details to(...)
octobre 2003, Cambridge, Mass.
The details of modern architecture volume 2 : 1928 to 1988
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This second volume of "The details of modern architecture" continues the study of the relationships of the ideals of design and the realities of construction in modern architecture, beginning in the late 1920s and extending to the present day. It contains a wealth of new information on the construction of modern architecture at a variety of scales from minute details to general principles. There are over 500 illustrations, including 130 original photographs and 230 original axonometric drawings, arranged to explain the technical, aesthetic, and historical aspects of the building form. Most of the modern movements in architecture have identified some paradigm of good construction, arguing that buildings should be built like Gothic cathedrals, like airplanes, like automobiles, like ships, or like primitive dwellings. Ford examines the degree to which these models were followed, either in spirit or in form, and reveals much about both the theories and techniques of modern architecture, including the extent to which the current constructional theories of high tech and deconstruction are dependent on the traditional modernist paradigms, as well as the ways in which all of these theories differ from the realities of modern building. Individual chapters treat the work of Eliel and Eero Saarinen, Eric Gunnar Asplund, Richard Neutra, Alvar Aalto, Le Corbusier, and Louis Kahn, as well as the Case Study, high tech, postmodern, and deconstructivist architects. Among the individual buildings documented are Eliel Saarinen's Cranbrook School, Asplund's Woodland Cemetery, Fuller's Dymaxion house, the Venturi house, the Eames and other Case Study houses, the concrete buildings of Le Corbusier, Aalto's Säynätsalo Town Hall, and Kahn's Exeter Library and Salk Institute.
Digital tectonics
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"Digital Tectonics" outlines an emerging paradigm in architectural design – a renewed interest in structure and a growing synergy between architects and engineers. This has been facilitated by the use of digital technologies, which are affording ever greater insights into the structural behaviour of buildings and enabling the fabrication and assembly of increasingly(...)
février 2004, Chichester
Digital tectonics
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"Digital Tectonics" outlines an emerging paradigm in architectural design – a renewed interest in structure and a growing synergy between architects and engineers. This has been facilitated by the use of digital technologies, which are affording ever greater insights into the structural behaviour of buildings and enabling the fabrication and assembly of increasingly complex forms. "Digital Tectonics" charts this new development, with contributions from some of the world’s leading architects, engineers and theorists.