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The city of Homs, like so many places in Syria, has suffered mass destruction since the war began in 2011. So far, the architectural response to the crisis has focused on ''cultural heritage'', ancient architecture, and the external displacement of refugees, often neglecting the everyday lives of Syrians and the buildings that make up their homes and communities. In(...)
Domicide: Architecture, war and the destruction of home in Syria
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The city of Homs, like so many places in Syria, has suffered mass destruction since the war began in 2011. So far, the architectural response to the crisis has focused on ''cultural heritage'', ancient architecture, and the external displacement of refugees, often neglecting the everyday lives of Syrians and the buildings that make up their homes and communities. In ''Domicide'', Ammar Azzouz uses the notion of the 'home' to address the destruction in cities like Homs, the displacement of Syrian people both externally and internally, and to explore how cities can be rebuilt without causing further damage to the communities that live there. Drawing on interviews with those working in the built environment professions, both inside and outside of Syria, but also Syrians from other backgrounds who have become architects in their own way as they were forced to repair and rebuild their homes by themselves, Domicide offers fresh insight into the role of the architect during time of war, and explores how the future reconstruction of cities should mirror the wants and needs, the traditions and ways of living, of local communities. Focusing on Homs but offering a blueprint for other urban areas of conflict across Syria and the wider world, the book is essential reading for researchers in architecture, urban planning, heritage studies and conflict studies.
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Despite growing calls for global architectural histories, the historiography of modern architecture remains depicted predominantly by Western figures, narratives, and experiences. This publication takes a different approach by uncovering previously overlooked histories and contributions that shaped the Arab world’s modern built environment. It considers projects from the(...)
Arab modern: Architectrure and the project of independence
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Despite growing calls for global architectural histories, the historiography of modern architecture remains depicted predominantly by Western figures, narratives, and experiences. This publication takes a different approach by uncovering previously overlooked histories and contributions that shaped the Arab world’s modern built environment. It considers projects from the Arabian Gulf, the Levant, and North Africa during a critical moment when several Arab countries were entering a new phases of post-colonial nation-building. From both within and outside the architectural profession, a multifaceted exchange of ideas informed architectural thinking in the wake of independence.
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Les nouvelles Athènes
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La culture grecque, éteinte depuis longtemps, même en Grèce, est ressuscitée et revit à Florence», s'exclame Poliziano, une des grandes figures marquantes de la Renaissance italienne. Présentée comme une «nouvelle Athènes», Florence devient à son tour le modèle de quelques-uns des grands centres culturels aux XVIIIe et XIXe siécles au nord des Alpes. Dresde, Weimar,(...)
Les nouvelles Athènes
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La culture grecque, éteinte depuis longtemps, même en Grèce, est ressuscitée et revit à Florence», s'exclame Poliziano, une des grandes figures marquantes de la Renaissance italienne. Présentée comme une «nouvelle Athènes», Florence devient à son tour le modèle de quelques-uns des grands centres culturels aux XVIIIe et XIXe siécles au nord des Alpes. Dresde, Weimar, Munich ou Edimbourg deviennent, à l'apogée de leur rayonnement, des «nouvelles Athènes» ou des «nouvelles Florence». Le but de l'ouvrage d'André Reszler est d'esquisser l'histoire des grands mythes culturels de l'Europe moderne à travers ses réalisations successives...
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Le projet tectonique
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La tectonique s'offre aujourd'hui comme une façon d'interroger le dialogue culturel entre conception et construction. Cet ouvrage rassemble les contributions d'architectes, d'artistes, d'historiens, de philosophes et de pédagogues autour du «projet tectonique» dont ils tirent une quintessence troublante et enrichissante: la fonction constructive est aussi une fiction(...)
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octobre 2005, Gollion
Le projet tectonique
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La tectonique s'offre aujourd'hui comme une façon d'interroger le dialogue culturel entre conception et construction. Cet ouvrage rassemble les contributions d'architectes, d'artistes, d'historiens, de philosophes et de pédagogues autour du «projet tectonique» dont ils tirent une quintessence troublante et enrichissante: la fonction constructive est aussi une fiction constructive. Ce premier volume issu des Grands Ateliers se veut également l'acte inaugural d'une production durable relative aux questionnements engendrés par la rencontre, encore peu sensible il y a dix ans, entre l'art de contruire - qui appartient à un secteur de production encore traditionnel - et les nouvelles technologies de conception et de communication.
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Les situationnistes sont un groupe d'insurgés utopistes, de théoriciens radicaux, d'artistes novateurs, d'activistes déterminés qui, dès les années 1950, ont dénoncé les mécanismes d'aliénation de la société de consommation. A l'heure où la notion de " société des loisirs " émerge, Guy Debord, figure de proue des situationnistes, oppose celle de " société du spectacle ",(...)
Les situationnstes : l'utopie incarnée
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Les situationnistes sont un groupe d'insurgés utopistes, de théoriciens radicaux, d'artistes novateurs, d'activistes déterminés qui, dès les années 1950, ont dénoncé les mécanismes d'aliénation de la société de consommation. A l'heure où la notion de " société des loisirs " émerge, Guy Debord, figure de proue des situationnistes, oppose celle de " société du spectacle ", le spectacle étant défini comme " le règne autocratique de l'économie marchande ayant accédé à un statut de souveraineté irresponsable ". Etre situationniste consiste à lutter sans trêve contre l'aliénation sous toutes ses formes - une lutte révolutionnaire qui a connu son heure de gloire en mai 1968.
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novembre 2004, Paris
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Western society is being terrorized by fear. Whether concerning national security, road safety or the protection of public health, every form of risk is meant to be spread, accounted for or eradicated. The safety and security obsession is leaving behind ever more visible traces, especially in public space. Speed bumps, smoke-free zones and surveillance cameras serve a(...)
Fear & space : the view of young designers in the Netherlands
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Western society is being terrorized by fear. Whether concerning national security, road safety or the protection of public health, every form of risk is meant to be spread, accounted for or eradicated. The safety and security obsession is leaving behind ever more visible traces, especially in public space. Speed bumps, smoke-free zones and surveillance cameras serve a society where prevention is the order of the day. This second book in the Group portraits series -a collaboration between the Netherlands architecture fund and the Netherlands foundation for visual arts, design and architecture (Fonds BKVB) - once again brings together four groups of young designers around a highly topical theme. As a sequel to the successful "City branding" book, this publication explores the various aspects of fear and prevention and considers the impact on contemporary urban space in four chapters. All the stops are pulled out: text, photography, research and design alternate in a thought-provoking sequence. This publication is the result of intensive research into the presence of fear in our Western society and the role that architecture might play herein. It is therefore an instrument for students, researchers, architects and policy-makers who are concerned with security issues.
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This architect from Rome is one of the younger generation of Italian architects who possesses a wide knowledge of the architectural debate and is firmly dedicated to a qualitative and innovative resurrection of architecture in Italy. He is known, among other reasons, for his analyses of the cultural situation and the profession of the contemporary architect in the(...)
Towards an architecture of today / panta rhei 1
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This architect from Rome is one of the younger generation of Italian architects who possesses a wide knowledge of the architectural debate and is firmly dedicated to a qualitative and innovative resurrection of architecture in Italy. He is known, among other reasons, for his analyses of the cultural situation and the profession of the contemporary architect in the internationally renowned architectural magazine "Domus", as well as for his activities as deputy editor-in-chief of this journal from 1992 to 1996. In this book, Nicola Di Battista analyses the discipline of architecture and the architect's profession, developing principles of a new orientation from a beneficial distance and with a clear overview.
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The world : who wants it?
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"The World: Who Wants It?" proposes a concrete plan, albeit satirical, for re-establishing world peace. Set in the near present, the $100 billion that has been pledged by the United States to address the world's wrongs is used to advocate consumptive restraint and to seek new American Values, thus lessening the fury of the Third World against America's apparent wastage,(...)
The world : who wants it?
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"The World: Who Wants It?" proposes a concrete plan, albeit satirical, for re-establishing world peace. Set in the near present, the $100 billion that has been pledged by the United States to address the world's wrongs is used to advocate consumptive restraint and to seek new American Values, thus lessening the fury of the Third World against America's apparent wastage, misuse of resources, vice, and militaristic bombast. In this vision of a new world order, International policy largely focuses on the rebuilding of the city of Jerusalem so as to accommodate all the hope and aspirations of the three Abrahamic faiths, Christianity, Islam, and Judaism. The starting point for Ben Nicholson's restructuring of the world is that what was remarkable about the World Trade Center is that its given name purported to suggest that the building was the center of world trade. When the towers were removed they took along with them a myriad of links and responsibilities that course throughout the globe, touching every aspect of life. It is ultimately immaterial what the shape and size of the rebuilt World Trade Center will be, unless the whole world is simultaneously rethought and restructured along with the reconstruction. What would the new world order be?
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Malcolm Quantrill made his first visit to Finland half a century ago as a young student from the University of Liverpool, England. Since 1983 Quantrill has published six books on Finnish modern architecture and, in recognition of his contributions to architectural history and theory, he has been the Distinguished Professor of Architecture at Texas A+M University in the(...)
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janvier 1900, Helsinki
The unmade bed of architecture : exchanges between Matti K. Mäkinen and Malcolm Quantrill
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Malcolm Quantrill made his first visit to Finland half a century ago as a young student from the University of Liverpool, England. Since 1983 Quantrill has published six books on Finnish modern architecture and, in recognition of his contributions to architectural history and theory, he has been the Distinguished Professor of Architecture at Texas A+M University in the USA since 1986. Quantrill and Mäkinen have collaborated since 1987, one result being Quantrill's book in honour of Academician Reima Pietilä, One Man's Odyssey in Search of Finnish Architecture (1988). Matti K. Mäkinen is a prominent Finnish architect who served as Director General of the National Board of Public Building from 1985 until 1994. He has published several books and articles on architecture and urban design. Professor Mäkinen is a former President of The Finnish Association of Architects SAFA and an honorary member of the professional institutes of architects in the USA (FAIA) and in Hungary (MÈSZ). Here the authors engage in dialogues as they explore the present state of architecture and its culture. Under such headings as The Balthusian Dilemma, Stealing a Gem, Heroes and Statues, The Elephant and the Butterfly, they address their theme of The Unmade Bed of Architecture.
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janvier 1900, Helsinki
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The story of the development of artificial light in the 19th century is not only a history of its technology but a revelation of how that technology helped forge modern consciousness. The range of subjects includes the political symbolism of streetlamps, the rise of nightlife and the shop window, and the importance of the salon in the bourgeois culture.
Disenchanted night : the industrialization of light in the nineteenth century
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The story of the development of artificial light in the 19th century is not only a history of its technology but a revelation of how that technology helped forge modern consciousness. The range of subjects includes the political symbolism of streetlamps, the rise of nightlife and the shop window, and the importance of the salon in the bourgeois culture.
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