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On lit dans cet ouvrage comment le projet d'espace donne du sens, mais aussi prend du sens à l'être, même en son absence. Toute sémiotique s'inscrit dans l'espace, de proche en proche, puis un peu plus loin, jusqu'à l'absence. Et c'est bien la force de l'espace architectural, force formelle qui s'oppose aux forces matérielles d'attraction et de répulsion, que de donner(...)
Le sens de l'espace : Le project architectural
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On lit dans cet ouvrage comment le projet d'espace donne du sens, mais aussi prend du sens à l'être, même en son absence. Toute sémiotique s'inscrit dans l'espace, de proche en proche, puis un peu plus loin, jusqu'à l'absence. Et c'est bien la force de l'espace architectural, force formelle qui s'oppose aux forces matérielles d'attraction et de répulsion, que de donner sens en articulant présence et absence. Établissant une continuité entre la chose sensible et l'idée que l'on en a. l'espace architectural est relation autant qu'intervalle, connexion autant qu'intercalation, conjonction autant que disjonction. Il faut le franchir, mais on peut le parcourir. Vide, panoptique, il donne à voir; peuplé de corps divers, labyrinthique, il donne à chercher. L'espace architectural est ainsi un mode d'organisation de l'être au monde.
Théorie de l’architecture
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In the rapidly changing profession of architecture, Thinking Practice presents an extraordinary examination of the increasingly dynamic relationships between academic research, teaching and practice. This book brings together a unique and diverse collection of writings by leading academics and theorists who are also practising architects.
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septembre 2007, London
Thinking Practice: reflections on architectural research and building work
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In the rapidly changing profession of architecture, Thinking Practice presents an extraordinary examination of the increasingly dynamic relationships between academic research, teaching and practice. This book brings together a unique and diverse collection of writings by leading academics and theorists who are also practising architects.
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World City
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Cities around the world are striving to be global. This book tells the story of one of them, and in so doing raises questions which are essential for all cities. These questions concern identity, place, and political responsibility in the changing geographies of our times. The book also tells the story of the rise of a new class, of deepening inequality, and of the(...)
Théorie de l’architecture
septembre 2007, Cambridge, Malden
World City
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Cities around the world are striving to be global. This book tells the story of one of them, and in so doing raises questions which are essential for all cities. These questions concern identity, place, and political responsibility in the changing geographies of our times. The book also tells the story of the rise of a new class, of deepening inequality, and of the geographical imaginations that are mobilised to legitimate the increasing dominance of these powerful metropoles. In so doing, it sets the global city in its wider geographical and political context. World City focuses its account on London, one of the greatest of these global cities. London is a city of delight and of creativity, of the generation of vast wealth and of acute poverty. It also presides over a country increasingly divided between North and South and over a neo-liberal form of globalisation the deregulation, financialisation and commercialisation of all aspects of life that results in an evermore unequal world.World City explores how we can understand this complex narrative and asks a question that should be asked of any city: what does this place stand for? This book will appeal to students of human geography, politics and sociology as well as to the general reader.
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A l'heure de la "mondialisation" et de la mobilité généralisée, alors même que les sociétés modernes ont tendance à occulter le contenu anthropologique de l'espace, comment rendre compte de la complexité des espaces vécus ? De la dimension culturelle des territoires ? Car la banalité des espaces ordinaires recouvre une dimension cosmologique : nos espaces quotidiens, à(...)
Anthropologie de l'espace : Habiter, fonder, distribuer, transformer
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A l'heure de la "mondialisation" et de la mobilité généralisée, alors même que les sociétés modernes ont tendance à occulter le contenu anthropologique de l'espace, comment rendre compte de la complexité des espaces vécus ? De la dimension culturelle des territoires ? Car la banalité des espaces ordinaires recouvre une dimension cosmologique : nos espaces quotidiens, à différentes échelles (domicile, quartier, ville, territoire), sont empreints de règles, obéissent à des conventions, répondent à des valeurs, le plus souvent implicites. La démarche de l'auteure pour répondre à ces interrogations s'ancre ici dans une réflexion sur les formes et les usages de l'espace dans différentes sociétés. Car si toutes partagent des "universaux", Fonder, Habiter, Classer et Distribuer, Transformer et Reformuler, pour autant, ces opérations communes se déclinent de diverses manières que l'ouvrage examine, montrant comment s'instaurent, aujourd'hui comme hier, ces liens entre espaces et sociétés. Ainsi, l'auteure analyse notamment la rencontre et le renforcement des rapports en France, après Mai 1968, entre sciences sociales, architecture et urbanisme. Destiné aux étudiants, chercheurs, professionnels opérant dans et sur l'espace, mais aussi aux citadins "ordinaires", ce travail leur apportera les outils indispensables à une appréhension globale de la problématique anthropologique des espaces.
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From the Gothic to the contemporary, glass has transformed the structural, formal, and philosophical principles of architecture. In "The glass state", Annette Fierro views the many meanings of transparency in architecture. Specifically, she analyzes the transparent monumental buildings that were built in Paris between 1981 and 1998 as part of Francois Mitterrand's program(...)
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The glass state: the technology of the spectacle, Paris 1981-1998
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From the Gothic to the contemporary, glass has transformed the structural, formal, and philosophical principles of architecture. In "The glass state", Annette Fierro views the many meanings of transparency in architecture. Specifically, she analyzes the transparent monumental buildings that were built in Paris between 1981 and 1998 as part of Francois Mitterrand's program of Grands Projets. The Grands Projets provide a rare opportunity to study a finite set of buildings constructed of similar materials, in the same time period, in a specific urban landscape, and with related ideological missions. Fierro employs a "discourse of the detail," in which the smallest architectural detail manifests the political, theoretical, and urban contexts of the building's design and construction. She examines the paradox of the most pared down architectural configurations being used to support the most complex meanings. Intrinsic to Mitterrand's glass buildings in Paris, for example, is a political concept: the metaphor of accessibility as a means of breaking open cultural institutions previously closed to the public. In addition to the structures of the Grands Projets - the Institut du Monde Arabe, the Grande and Petite Pyramides du Louvre, the glass greenhouses at utopian park projects at La Villette and André Citroën and the Bibliotheque nationale de France - Fierro discusses the Fondation Cartier and two precedent structures, the Centre Georges Pompidou and the Eiffel Tower.
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In this long-awaited work, Dalibor Vesely proposes an alternative to the narrow vision of contemporary architecture as a discipline that can be treated as an instrument or commodity. In doing so, he offers an account of the ontological and cultural foundations of modern architecture and, consequently, of the nature and cultural role of architecture through history.(...)
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octobre 2006, Cambridge (MA), London
Architecture in the age of divided representation : the question of creativity in the shadow of production
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In this long-awaited work, Dalibor Vesely proposes an alternative to the narrow vision of contemporary architecture as a discipline that can be treated as an instrument or commodity. In doing so, he offers an account of the ontological and cultural foundations of modern architecture and, consequently, of the nature and cultural role of architecture through history. Vesely's argument, structured as a critical dialogue, discovers the first plausible anticipation of modernity in the formation of Renaissance perspective. Understanding this notion of perspective against the background of the medieval philosophy of light, he argues, leads to an understanding of architectural space as formed by typical human situations and by light before it is structured geometrically. The central part of the book addresses the question of divided representation - the tension between the instrumental and the communicative roles of architecture - in the period of the baroque, when architectural thinking was seriously challenged by the emergence of modern science. Vesely argues that to resolve the dilemma of modernity - reconciling the inventions and achievements of modern technology with the human condition and the natural world - we can turn to architecture and its latent capacity to reconcile different levels of reality, its ability to relate abstract ideas and conceptual structures to the concrete situations of everyday life. Vesely sees the restoration of this communicative role of architecture as the key to the restoration of architecture as the topological and corporeal foundation of culture; what the book is to our literacy, he argues, architecture is to culture as a whole. He concludes by proposing a new poetics of architecture that will serve as a framework for the restoration of the humanistic role of architecture in the age of technology.
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Heidegger's hut
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"This is the most thorough architectural 'crit' of a hut ever set down, the justification for which is that the hut was the setting in which Martin Heidegger wrote phenomenological texts that became touchstones for late-twentieth-century architectural theory." --from the foreword by Simon Sadler Beginning in the summer of 1922, philosopher Martin Heidegger(...)
Théorie de l’architecture
octobre 2006, Cambridge / London
Heidegger's hut
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"This is the most thorough architectural 'crit' of a hut ever set down, the justification for which is that the hut was the setting in which Martin Heidegger wrote phenomenological texts that became touchstones for late-twentieth-century architectural theory." --from the foreword by Simon Sadler Beginning in the summer of 1922, philosopher Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) occupied a small, three-room cabin in the Black Forest Mountains of southern Germany. He called it "die Hütte" ("the hut"). Over the years, Heidegger worked on many of his most famous writings in this cabin, from his early lectures to his last enigmatic texts. He claimed an intellectual and emotional intimacy with the building and its surroundings, and even suggested that the landscape expressed itself through him, almost without agency. In Heidegger's Hut, Adam Sharr explores this intense relationship of thought, place, and person. Heidegger's mountain hut has been an object of fascination for many, including architects interested in his writings about "dwelling" and "place." Sharr's account--the first substantive investigation of the building and Heidegger's life there--reminds us that, in approaching Heidegger's writings, it is important to consider the circumstances in which the philosopher, as he himself said, felt "transported" into the work's "own rhythm." Indeed, Heidegger's apparent abdication of agency and tendency toward romanticism seem especially significant in light of his troubling involvement with the Nazi regime in the early 1930s. Sharr draws on original research, including interviews with Heidegger's relatives, as well as on written accounts of the hut by Heidegger and his visitors. The book's evocative photographs include scenic and architectural views taken by the author and many remarkable images of a septuagenarian Heidegger in the hut taken by the photojournalist Digne Meller-Markovicz. There are many ways to interpret Heidegger's hut--as the site of heroic confrontation between philosopher and existence; as the petit bourgeois escape of a misguided romantic; as a place overshadowed by fascism; or as an entirely unremarkable little building. Heidegger's Hut does not argue for any one reading, but guides readers toward their own possible interpretations of the importance of "die Hütte."
Théorie de l’architecture
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Comment comprendre l'architecture? Comment rendre compte de ce qui est à la fois expérience perceptive, projet artistique, décision d'urbanisme et choix politique? " Le plan et le détail " expose la philosophie d'un nouvel esprit architectural, déconstruit et remodèle les convictions et les notions sur lesquelles se fonde le travail de l'architecte : la valeur du plan,(...)
Le plan et le détail : une philosophie de l'architecture et de la ville
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Comment comprendre l'architecture? Comment rendre compte de ce qui est à la fois expérience perceptive, projet artistique, décision d'urbanisme et choix politique? " Le plan et le détail " expose la philosophie d'un nouvel esprit architectural, déconstruit et remodèle les convictions et les notions sur lesquelles se fonde le travail de l'architecte : la valeur du plan, la construction du cadre de l'habitat, l'insertion du bâti dans le tissu urbain, la relation de l'architecture et de l'urbanisme, le rationalisme technique, l'invention du détail. L'auteur permet de repenser les problèmes généraux de l'espace urbain aujourd'hui - dans un dialogue serré et fécond avec de grands créateurs du XX°siècle, et avec leurs oeuvres : Loos et Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe, Louis Kahn, Aldo Rossi, Peter Eisenman, et Rem Koolhaas. Fortement documenté, et illustré (52 illustrations et photographies noir et blanc; 8 planches couleurs).
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Architecte urbaniste, Nicolas Michelin prend la parole et témoigne du rôle de l’architecte face aux enjeux majeurs de la société aujourd’hui. En prise avec l’actualité - crise des banlieues, développement durable -, mais aussi avec les conditions d’exercice de l’architecture - contrainte des programmes, standardisation des typologies, poids des normes, carcan des(...)
Avis : propos sur l'architecture, la ville, l'environnement
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Architecte urbaniste, Nicolas Michelin prend la parole et témoigne du rôle de l’architecte face aux enjeux majeurs de la société aujourd’hui. En prise avec l’actualité - crise des banlieues, développement durable -, mais aussi avec les conditions d’exercice de l’architecture - contrainte des programmes, standardisation des typologies, poids des normes, carcan des budgets - les textes réunis ici sont l’expression de préoccupations et de réflexions sur le rôle de l’architecte aujourd’hui. Avant-propos de Catherine Pierre.
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Collection of lectures, presented at various occasions over the last twenty years, wherein Antonio Monestiroli argues for the need of a theory of design based on a unitary viewpoint on architecture in a time when such a viewpoint seems to be lost.
The metope and the triglyph : nine lectures in architecture
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Collection of lectures, presented at various occasions over the last twenty years, wherein Antonio Monestiroli argues for the need of a theory of design based on a unitary viewpoint on architecture in a time when such a viewpoint seems to be lost.
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