Naco: global design
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Dès la création de Naço, en 1991, son fondateur, l'architecte Marcelo Joulia savait, décidait que la seule architecture ne serait pas l'unique terrain d'aventures de l'agence. Mais, plus largement, tout ce qui compose notre environnement global, ses espaces, ses volumes et ses signes. Cette première monographie compréhensive présente l'oeuvre en nombreuses photographies,(...)
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avril 2008, Paris
Naco: global design
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Dès la création de Naço, en 1991, son fondateur, l'architecte Marcelo Joulia savait, décidait que la seule architecture ne serait pas l'unique terrain d'aventures de l'agence. Mais, plus largement, tout ce qui compose notre environnement global, ses espaces, ses volumes et ses signes. Cette première monographie compréhensive présente l'oeuvre en nombreuses photographies, illustrations colorées, et dessins parmis les chapitres 1. Au fil du temps, 2. Figures de proue, 3. Quéstion de peau, 4. Mémoire, 5. Flux et reflux, 6. L'Esprit des lieux, 7. La tentatioin baroque, 8. Navigations, 9. Exposer, s'exposer, 10. Exploration
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Form & formlessness
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Form and Formlessness is an experimental research project that investigates how aesthetic abstractions are developed through three approaches: An educational approach concerned with developing an aesthetic discipline, supporting a formgiving process aimed to create tangible artifacts. An art-based approach supporting an open exploration of distortion and formlessness. A(...)
Form & formlessness
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Form and Formlessness is an experimental research project that investigates how aesthetic abstractions are developed through three approaches: An educational approach concerned with developing an aesthetic discipline, supporting a formgiving process aimed to create tangible artifacts. An art-based approach supporting an open exploration of distortion and formlessness. A cross-disciplinary exploratory approach concerned with aesthetic experiences shared in laborations demonstrating complexity and transformation. The thesis offers methods and models that both support and challenge the normative concepts of beauty, with high relevance for teaching 3-D formgiving aesthetics and research by design methodologies.
Théorie du design
Reference #1
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Reference #1 is a limited edition print publication centered around an exploration of living design in recent history. The publication aims to highlight a myriad of approaches towards the topic, with subjects including the late Cristiano Toraldo di Francia of Superstudio, Ken Price, Polly Pocket, Stonehenge, Minitel, Japanese Demolition, and the Rosetta Stone, among(...)
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octobre 2021
Reference #1
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Reference #1 is a limited edition print publication centered around an exploration of living design in recent history. The publication aims to highlight a myriad of approaches towards the topic, with subjects including the late Cristiano Toraldo di Francia of Superstudio, Ken Price, Polly Pocket, Stonehenge, Minitel, Japanese Demolition, and the Rosetta Stone, among others. Contributors include Joan Didion, Takashi Homma, Superstudio, Charlotte Wales, Eric Wrenn, Blommers & Schumm, Joe Gebbia, Image Group, Alessandro Bava, Calla Henkel and Max Pitegoff, Maciek Pozoga, Octave Perrault, and Nancy Meyers, among others.
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This career-spanning monograph in two volumes presents the work of Vo Trong Nghia. His two main themes – green architecture and bamboo as a building material – form the basis of this celebration of his designs, which make clear reference to Vietnam’s troubled past and to the architect’s own adherence to the Five Precepts of Buddhism. From the Wind and Water Bar, his first(...)
Vo Trong Nghia : Building nature. Green/Bamboo
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This career-spanning monograph in two volumes presents the work of Vo Trong Nghia. His two main themes – green architecture and bamboo as a building material – form the basis of this celebration of his designs, which make clear reference to Vietnam’s troubled past and to the architect’s own adherence to the Five Precepts of Buddhism. From the Wind and Water Bar, his first foray into building with bamboo, to resorts, art installations and the pioneering residential series House for Trees, this volume is a timely exploration of what it means to build green.
Architecture, monographies
Memo for Nemo
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In this book, William Firebrace investigates human inhabitation of the undersea, both fictional and real. Beginning with Jules Verne's Captain Nemo—an undersea Renaissance man with a library of 12,000 volumes on his submarine—and proceeding through aquariums, undersea photography, artificial seas on land, nuclear-powered submarines, undersea film epics, giant squid, and(...)
Memo for Nemo
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In this book, William Firebrace investigates human inhabitation of the undersea, both fictional and real. Beginning with Jules Verne's Captain Nemo—an undersea Renaissance man with a library of 12,000 volumes on his submarine—and proceeding through aquariums, undersea photography, artificial seas on land, nuclear-powered submarines, undersea film epics, giant squid, and NASA satellites, Firebrace examines the undersea as a zone created by exploration and invention. Throughout, the history of undersea life is accompanied by an imagined undersea, envisioned by cultural figures ranging from Verne and Herman Melville to Orson Welles and Jimi Hendrix.
Trajets
The smartness mandate
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In this book, the authors suggest that "smartness" is not primarily a technology, but rather an epistemology. Through this lens, they offer a critical exploration of the practices, technologies, and subjects that such an understanding relies upon—above all, artificial intelligence and machine learning. They approach these not simply as techniques for solving problems of(...)
décembre 2022
The smartness mandate
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In this book, the authors suggest that "smartness" is not primarily a technology, but rather an epistemology. Through this lens, they offer a critical exploration of the practices, technologies, and subjects that such an understanding relies upon—above all, artificial intelligence and machine learning. They approach these not simply as techniques for solving problems of calculations, but rather as modes of managing life (human and other) in terms of neo-Darwinian evolution, distributed intelligences, and "resilience," all of which have serious implications for society, politics, and the environment.
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The eponymous catalogue for an exhibition by Swiss architects Gramazio & Kohler in collaboration with systems engineer Raffaello D'Andrea, shown at the Frac Centre in Orléans. The book presents a fascinating exploration of their perspectives and multidisciplinary interests, ranging from computational design and robots to material innovation, plus research on architecture,(...)
Gramazio & Kohler and D'Andrea: Flight assembled architecture
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The eponymous catalogue for an exhibition by Swiss architects Gramazio & Kohler in collaboration with systems engineer Raffaello D'Andrea, shown at the Frac Centre in Orléans. The book presents a fascinating exploration of their perspectives and multidisciplinary interests, ranging from computational design and robots to material innovation, plus research on architecture, system design and autonomous robotic technologies. Through detailed diagrams and texts, it gives insight into the exhibitions realisation in which an architectural installation was constructed by flying robots and reveals radical new ways of both thinking about and materialising architecture.
Architecture, monographies
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Concrete elegance two
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The scope for concrete in all its forms continues to evolve and surprise. Concrete Elegance Two - the second in a series of three books - highlights once again the inexhaustible material possibilities for creating visually uplifting architecture. The projects discussed in this book are varied and provide an exploration into concrete's versatility. The popular material(...)
Concrete elegance two
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The scope for concrete in all its forms continues to evolve and surprise. Concrete Elegance Two - the second in a series of three books - highlights once again the inexhaustible material possibilities for creating visually uplifting architecture. The projects discussed in this book are varied and provide an exploration into concrete's versatility. The popular material can be used for anything from kitchen worktops to house extensions. The book contains a summary of state of the art developments in casting smooth, double-storey high, board marked panels without compaction exemplified by the Lincoln City and County Museum.
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octobre 2006
Matériaux et éclairage
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Broadway avenue in downtown Los Angeles holds an extraordinary collection of twelve once-luxurious and now abandoned film-palaces, built between 1910 and 1931. In most cities worldwide, such a concentration of cinemas would have been demolished long ago - here however the buildings have survived the end of film-projection intact, some of their interiors ruined and gutted,(...)
Abandoned images: film and film's end
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Broadway avenue in downtown Los Angeles holds an extraordinary collection of twelve once-luxurious and now abandoned film-palaces, built between 1910 and 1931. In most cities worldwide, such a concentration of cinemas would have been demolished long ago - here however the buildings have survived the end of film-projection intact, some of their interiors ruined and gutted, others transformed and re-used as churches, nightclubs and storage spaces. Stephen Barber begins with an exploration of these remarkable derelicts, and broadens to ask questions about the abandonment of film itself.
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Constantly changing technology and growing communication networks give us ever more choices and options. However, every technological innovation has its counterpart: catastrophe looms. Dread is an essential, potentially productive element of our consciousness, and a defining characteristic of the present-day human condition. However dark and fatalistic its(...)
Dread, the Dizziness of freedom
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Constantly changing technology and growing communication networks give us ever more choices and options. However, every technological innovation has its counterpart: catastrophe looms. Dread is an essential, potentially productive element of our consciousness, and a defining characteristic of the present-day human condition. However dark and fatalistic its connotations, through its dialectical coupling of caution and transgression, paralysis and overdrive, it allows imagining the world differently, offering glimpses of the ineffable. This book is a peripheral exploration of dread wherein contributors reflect upon the concept’s potentialities from a contemporary viewpoint.
Théorie/ philosophie