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So much writing about architecture tends to evaluate it on the basis of its intentions: how closely it corresponds to the artistic will of the designer, the technical skills of the builder, or whether it reflects the spirit of the place and time in which it was built, making it not much more than the willful (or even subconscious) assemblage of objects that result from(...)
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So much writing about architecture tends to evaluate it on the basis of its intentions: how closely it corresponds to the artistic will of the designer, the technical skills of the builder, or whether it reflects the spirit of the place and time in which it was built, making it not much more than the willful (or even subconscious) assemblage of objects that result from design and construction techniques. Renowned writer and thinker David Leatherbarrow argues for a richer and more profound, but also simpler, way of thinking about architecture, namely on the basis of how it performs.
Théorie de l’architecture
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C'est en 1984 que Jean Lecouls, Didier Escande et Michel Cousin s'associent pour créer Sopic, une société destinée à oeuvrer dans l'immobilier à l'échelle nationale et internationale.
Sopic Architecture et citoyenneté
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C'est en 1984 que Jean Lecouls, Didier Escande et Michel Cousin s'associent pour créer Sopic, une société destinée à oeuvrer dans l'immobilier à l'échelle nationale et internationale.
Théorie de l’architecture
X-Ray architecture
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How our medical obsessions and the image of the body influence modern architecture. This book explores the impact of medical discourse and diagnostic technologies on the formation, representation and reception of modern architecture. It challenges the normal understanding of modern architecture by proposing that the architecture of the early 20th century was shaped by the(...)
X-Ray architecture
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How our medical obsessions and the image of the body influence modern architecture. This book explores the impact of medical discourse and diagnostic technologies on the formation, representation and reception of modern architecture. It challenges the normal understanding of modern architecture by proposing that the architecture of the early 20th century was shaped by the dominant medical obsession of its time: tuberculosis and its primary diagnostic tool, the X-ray.
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Green architecture today
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Thirty international architects are selected for the leading role they’ve played in the professional development of modern sustainable architecture. Residential and commercial projects are offered as examples of the best new ideas in green living. 'Green Architecture today' presents an intriguing spectrum of offerings. Large-scale photos and detail shots are accompanied(...)
Green architecture today
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Thirty international architects are selected for the leading role they’ve played in the professional development of modern sustainable architecture. Residential and commercial projects are offered as examples of the best new ideas in green living. 'Green Architecture today' presents an intriguing spectrum of offerings. Large-scale photos and detail shots are accompanied by diagrams of sustainable features such as active and passive cooling and heating systems.
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Signal. Image. Architecture.
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Architecture is immersed in an immense cultural experiment called imaging. ?Yet the technical status and nature of that imaging must be reevaluated. What happens to the architectural mind when it stops pretending that electronic images of drawings made by computers are drawings? When it finally admits that imaging is not drawing, but is instead something that has already(...)
Signal. Image. Architecture.
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Architecture is immersed in an immense cultural experiment called imaging. ?Yet the technical status and nature of that imaging must be reevaluated. What happens to the architectural mind when it stops pretending that electronic images of drawings made by computers are drawings? When it finally admits that imaging is not drawing, but is instead something that has already obliterated drawing?
Architecture numérique
Architecture and dystopia
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As a response to the profound crisis of Western culture the emerged in the 1960s, radical artists from Italy, Austria, England and Japan called into question the foundations of modernist utopias. They transmuted the difficulties of capitalism into a repertory of startling images that revealed the disturbing realities of consumer society, even in those places still(...)
Architecture and dystopia
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As a response to the profound crisis of Western culture the emerged in the 1960s, radical artists from Italy, Austria, England and Japan called into question the foundations of modernist utopias. They transmuted the difficulties of capitalism into a repertory of startling images that revealed the disturbing realities of consumer society, even in those places still resistant to the penetration of modern architecture, such as Superstudio and Archizoom’s Florence. Their model, though exhausted in the space of experimentation, went on to inspire a generation of architects, from the High Tech movement to Rem Koolhaas.. In the light of these examples, how to define a unified 'dystopian' method of design, i.e. a common ground for an architecture that, by its very nature, seems to resist systematization? Are the most recognizable architectural expressions of this theoretical framework — characterized by brazen displays of technology and structures of overwhelming scale — merely isolated cases, albeit of particular iconic power? Or do they belong to a wider landscape of antirational architectural projects? And to what extent are these disturbing expressions premised on the utopian tradition or, better yet, the conceptual model of 'negative thought'? The goal of this book is to respond to such questions, thus initiating an open dialogue about the legitimacy of this critical category.
Théorie de l’architecture
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Des structures primaires aux créations contemporaines, le rouge apparaît comme l’une des couleurs les plus traditionnelles et en même temps les plus avant-gardistes du monde construit. Ce livre présente une sélection de 150 édifices rouges – du Petersen Automotive Museum de LA et sa façade rouge cerise et argent au Musée historique d’État de Moscou et ses murs rouge(...)
Rouge : architecture monochrome
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Des structures primaires aux créations contemporaines, le rouge apparaît comme l’une des couleurs les plus traditionnelles et en même temps les plus avant-gardistes du monde construit. Ce livre présente une sélection de 150 édifices rouges – du Petersen Automotive Museum de LA et sa façade rouge cerise et argent au Musée historique d’État de Moscou et ses murs rouge brique. Cet ouvrage invite à apprécier d’une autre manière le monde construit, avec pour seul et unique critère l’esthétique de la couleur rouge.
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Architecture of defeat
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Kengo Kuma's ''Architecture of defeat,'' now available in English for the first time, explores events and architectural trends in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries in both Japan and beyond. It brings together a collection of essays which Kuma wrote after disasters such as the destruction of the World Trade Center in New York City on 9/11 and the earthquake and(...)
Architecture of defeat
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Kengo Kuma's ''Architecture of defeat,'' now available in English for the first time, explores events and architectural trends in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries in both Japan and beyond. It brings together a collection of essays which Kuma wrote after disasters such as the destruction of the World Trade Center in New York City on 9/11 and the earthquake and tsunami that obliterated much of the built landscape on Japan’s northern shore in a matter of minutes in 2011. Asking if we have been building in a manner that is too self-confident or arrogant, he examines architecture’s intrinsic- and often problematic- relationship to the powerful forces of contemporary politics, economics, consumerism, and technology, as well as its vital ties to society.
Théorie de l’architecture
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Bernard Rudofsky steps outside the narrowly defined discipline that has governed our sense of architectural history and discusses the art of building as a universal phenomenon. He introduces the reader to communal architecture--architecture produced not by specialists but by the spontaneous and continuing activity of a whole people with a common heritage, acting within a(...)
Architecture without architects
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Bernard Rudofsky steps outside the narrowly defined discipline that has governed our sense of architectural history and discusses the art of building as a universal phenomenon. He introduces the reader to communal architecture--architecture produced not by specialists but by the spontaneous and continuing activity of a whole people with a common heritage, acting within a community experience. A prehistoric theater district for a hundred thousand spectators on the American continent and underground towns and villages (complete with schools, offices, and factories) inhabited by millions of people are among the unexpected phenomena he brings to light. The beauty of "primitive" architecture has often been dismissed as accidental, but today we recognize in it an art form that has resulted from human intelligence applied to uniquely human modes of life. Indeed, Rudofsky sees the philosophy and practical knowledge of the untutored builders as untapped sources of inspiration for industrial man trapped in his chaotic cities.
Théorie de l’architecture
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L’architecture est un art ignoré. Par son texte et ses illustrations, l’ouvrage de Bruno Zevi constitue non seulement une histoire thématique de l’architecture depuis les Grecs jusqu’à Le Corbusier et Wright, mais surtout une explication de cet art. Qu’est-ce qui est de l’architecture? Qu’est-ce qui n’en est pas? L’intérêt de ce volume est de nous révéler cette notion(...)
Apprendre à voir l'architecture
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L’architecture est un art ignoré. Par son texte et ses illustrations, l’ouvrage de Bruno Zevi constitue non seulement une histoire thématique de l’architecture depuis les Grecs jusqu’à Le Corbusier et Wright, mais surtout une explication de cet art. Qu’est-ce qui est de l’architecture? Qu’est-ce qui n’en est pas? L’intérêt de ce volume est de nous révéler cette notion d’espace, élément fondamental de l’architecture.
Théorie de l’architecture