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The NKTP (People’s Commissariat for Heavy Industry) Sanatorium was commissioned in 1934 by Grigory Ordzhonikidze, one of Stalin’s closest allies and head of the Commissariat for Heavy Industry (he committed suicide after falling out with Stalin in 1937, the year of the sanatorium’s completion). Despite the prevailing ideology that sought to outlaw modernism in favour of(...)
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Architecture of the NKTP Sanatorium in Kislovodsk
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The NKTP (People’s Commissariat for Heavy Industry) Sanatorium was commissioned in 1934 by Grigory Ordzhonikidze, one of Stalin’s closest allies and head of the Commissariat for Heavy Industry (he committed suicide after falling out with Stalin in 1937, the year of the sanatorium’s completion). Despite the prevailing ideology that sought to outlaw modernism in favour of Stalinist neoclassicism, architect Moisei Ginzburg, with a team that included Ivan Leonidov, Evgeny Popov and Nikolai Paliudov, succeeded in creating an architectural ensemble that essentially retained its modernist integrity – and today remains a masterpiece of 1930s modernism – while making only minor concessions to the new Stalinist orthodoxy.
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There are around 1850 public playgrounds (Spielplätze) in Berlin, a number so large, with renovations and equipment replacements happening so frequently that a definitive overview of them would be impossible. This publication catalogues and comprehend the design and distribution of these distinct and beautiful public works, so quintessential in the harmonious development(...)
The impossible Berlin playgrounds guide
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There are around 1850 public playgrounds (Spielplätze) in Berlin, a number so large, with renovations and equipment replacements happening so frequently that a definitive overview of them would be impossible. This publication catalogues and comprehend the design and distribution of these distinct and beautiful public works, so quintessential in the harmonious development of a child as a person.
Architecture préfabriquée
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Présentation de nombreuses maisons d'habitation préfabriquées à travers le monde, de leurs façades et de leurs intérieurs.
Architecture préfabriquée
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Présentation de nombreuses maisons d'habitation préfabriquées à travers le monde, de leurs façades et de leurs intérieurs.
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Over the past one hundred years, the office has been integral to the development of modern society. It has shaped the architecture of our cities, the behavior of our organizations, and the everyday movements of millions of people. In 2020, however, the global pandemic brought our attendance in the office to an abrupt halt and triggered a complete reevaluation of the(...)
octobre 2022
Unworking: The reinvention of the modern office
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Over the past one hundred years, the office has been integral to the development of modern society. It has shaped the architecture of our cities, the behavior of our organizations, and the everyday movements of millions of people. In 2020, however, the global pandemic brought our attendance in the office to an abrupt halt and triggered a complete reevaluation of the purpose of the workplace. This book offers a panoramic view of the office and explores what happens next. The authors advance a manifesto for “unworking”—unlearning old habits and rituals established for an outdated office and crafting and creating new ones fit for an age of digital technology, design innovation, and diverse workforces.
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Créée par l'architecte Paul Perrin et inaugurée à Genève en 1920, l'Alhambra est une salle de spectacle dédiée au septième art. Les auteurs retracent l'histoire de ce bâtiment public ainsi que son rôle dans la vie culturelle et associative de la ville.
L'Alhambra, une salle polyvalente historique
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Créée par l'architecte Paul Perrin et inaugurée à Genève en 1920, l'Alhambra est une salle de spectacle dédiée au septième art. Les auteurs retracent l'histoire de ce bâtiment public ainsi que son rôle dans la vie culturelle et associative de la ville.
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The analysis of sanitary spaces and places dedicated to personal care, as in a privacy observatory, helps with the in-depth assessment of social changes, allowing us to determine how the lives of users can be improved, how conflicts of use in public places can be resolved between populations of different sexes and ages, and how the quality of public and private health can(...)
janvier 2023
Intimacy exposed: toilets, bathrooms, restrooms
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The analysis of sanitary spaces and places dedicated to personal care, as in a privacy observatory, helps with the in-depth assessment of social changes, allowing us to determine how the lives of users can be improved, how conflicts of use in public places can be resolved between populations of different sexes and ages, and how the quality of public and private health can be enhanced. Observing these issues pushes us to explore the forms and meanings of bathrooms and private spaces in relation to their different functions, including those of transgressive and informal meeting places and spaces of inevitable and forced social coexistence. This book constitutes a new step in this field of research, presenting a series of scientific and artistic interventions that proves the diverse range of uses to which ''wet rooms'' can be put in social life, the evolution of the use of furniture, and the new meanings of details and objects in domestic bathrooms and public toilets. The texts, largely written for the 2018 symposium ''Intimacy Exposed: Toilet, Bathroom, Restroom'' (organized by the Department of Interior Architecture at HEAD – Genève) present a practice-based study of the recent past of modernist technologies and a vision of the future of personal and collective practices regarding the realm of the toilet.
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In twelve essays, this book examines the spatial typologies and global phenomena that have defined the office in the last half century. Topics include the return of the work club, the rise of the corporate festival, the way of the charismatic guru, the shattering of the time clock, and the design of playgrounds for work. Photographic essays by Iwan Baan provide a visual(...)
octobre 2022
The office of good intentions. Human(s) Work
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In twelve essays, this book examines the spatial typologies and global phenomena that have defined the office in the last half century. Topics include the return of the work club, the rise of the corporate festival, the way of the charismatic guru, the shattering of the time clock, and the design of playgrounds for work. Photographic essays by Iwan Baan provide a visual post-occupancy report on a range of canonical office projects, such as Marcel Breuer’s IBM campus in Florida and the Ford Foundation’s urban garden in Manhattan. Four intervening catalogs offer collections of experimental workplace products, augural advertisements for office building components, digital office components, and renderings of speculative workplaces; each catalog bridges the reality of the office and how we imagine its alternatives. This book is a theoretical backdrop for architects as much as it is for businesspeople and employees. With curiosity and skepticism, it looks at the spaces and solutions that have been designed for human work, tracing the transformation from work to occupation, from punch cards to “playbor,” from today’s lived experience to tomorrow’s unpredictable, imagined futures.
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This volume investigates how learning spaces are evolving to be made more engaging, flexible and all-around better suited to today’s challenges and opportunities. It offers some of the most novel insights into the design and performance of new environments that are better adapted to contemporary pedagogical practices. This book sheds light on over 40 projects worldwide,(...)
octobre 2022
Where we learn: Reimagining educational spaces
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This volume investigates how learning spaces are evolving to be made more engaging, flexible and all-around better suited to today’s challenges and opportunities. It offers some of the most novel insights into the design and performance of new environments that are better adapted to contemporary pedagogical practices. This book sheds light on over 40 projects worldwide, ranging from kindergartens, schools and universities to libraries, study cafes and museums. Geared towards readers interested in understanding the broader impact of design on the human experience, the book highlights imaginative projects while remaining grounded in practical contexts and real-world settings.
Le crépuscule des cinémas
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Simon Edelstein parcourt le monde depuis douze ans sur les traces des cinémas abandonnés aux USA, en France, en Italie, en Inde, au Maroc, à Cuba. Il s’est rendu dans plus de trente pays, patrouillant à travers les quartiers lointains de nombreuses villes pour retrouver sur les façades usées par le temps et l’oubli les stigmates de leurs splendeurs passées. Si la foule du(...)
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Le crépuscule des cinémas
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Simon Edelstein parcourt le monde depuis douze ans sur les traces des cinémas abandonnés aux USA, en France, en Italie, en Inde, au Maroc, à Cuba. Il s’est rendu dans plus de trente pays, patrouillant à travers les quartiers lointains de nombreuses villes pour retrouver sur les façades usées par le temps et l’oubli les stigmates de leurs splendeurs passées. Si la foule du samedi soir ne converge plus vers ces cinémas endormis sous la poussière des ans, ils dévoilent sous l’objectif d’Edelstein la belle archéologie de leurs façades, de leurs entrées, de leurs vastes salles de navires à la dérive. Ce livre est un hommage à ce qui demeure de l’âge d’or des salles de cinémas du monde entier. Mais aussi à leur silence et à leur résistance.
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De la Suède à l’Australie en passant par l’Égypte, l’Inde ou la Colombie, ce livre célèbre les plus anciens et les plus grandioses de ces sanctuaires, mais également leurs plus jeunes et plus petits héritiers, et s'intéresse au rôle primordial de ces enceintes de la mémoire. Car les bibliothèques sont bien plus qu'un simple amoncèlement de livres. Elles constituent les(...)
novembre 2022
Les plus belles bibliothèques du monde
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De la Suède à l’Australie en passant par l’Égypte, l’Inde ou la Colombie, ce livre célèbre les plus anciens et les plus grandioses de ces sanctuaires, mais également leurs plus jeunes et plus petits héritiers, et s'intéresse au rôle primordial de ces enceintes de la mémoire. Car les bibliothèques sont bien plus qu'un simple amoncèlement de livres. Elles constituent les archives de notre connaissance, des lieux d'étude et de rencontre, mais aussi un symbole et le témoignage vivant des sociétés qui les ont construites. Découvrez les différentes audaces architecturales auxquelles elles ont donné lieu, des palais baroques ou rococos aux micro-bibliothèques en plastique recyclé, et les pépites les plus improbables qui existent entre les deux.