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À partir de 1933, de nombreux intellectuels allemands débarquent aux États-Unis. Créateur du Bauhaus (qu'il dirige jusqu'en 1928), Walter Gropius émigre en 1937, rejoint l'année suivante par Mies van der Rohe, lui aussi directeur de l'école jusqu'à sa dissolution (1930-1933). Le premier arrive à la Graduate School of Design à Harvard, le second à l'Armour Institute of(...)
Un camouflage New Bauhaus: György Kepes et la militarisation de l'image
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À partir de 1933, de nombreux intellectuels allemands débarquent aux États-Unis. Créateur du Bauhaus (qu'il dirige jusqu'en 1928), Walter Gropius émigre en 1937, rejoint l'année suivante par Mies van der Rohe, lui aussi directeur de l'école jusqu'à sa dissolution (1930-1933). Le premier arrive à la Graduate School of Design à Harvard, le second à l'Armour Institute of Technology de Chicago. Débarqué dans cette ville en 1937, leur ancien professeur László Moholy Nagy y prend, sur proposition de Gropius, la direction du New Bauhaus... qui ferme brièvement l'année suivante ! Face à d'importantes difficultés, l'établissement n'aura alors de cesse, aux lendemains de Pearl Harbor, d'offrir à György Kepes l'opportunité de former des « camoufleurs industriels »...
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Ce film est le portrait d'une canadienne d'exception, animée par une passion sans pareille pour l'architecture. Phyllis Lambert, née Bronfman, est rattachée à quelques-unes des grandes réalisations du siècle dernier : du Seagram Building, à New York, dont elle obtint de son père qu'il en confiât la conception à ce grand maître de la modernité que fut Mies van der Rohe, en(...)
DVD Citizen Lambert / Jeanne d'architecture
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Ce film est le portrait d'une canadienne d'exception, animée par une passion sans pareille pour l'architecture. Phyllis Lambert, née Bronfman, est rattachée à quelques-unes des grandes réalisations du siècle dernier : du Seagram Building, à New York, dont elle obtint de son père qu'il en confiât la conception à ce grand maître de la modernité que fut Mies van der Rohe, en passant par le retour aux sources que représenta pour elle la guérilla qu'elle a menée pour sauver le Vieux-Montréal, jusqu'à la création de cette institution sans égale dans le monde qu'est le Centre Canadien d'Architecture. Il restait à en tirer un film : ce qu'à réussi Teri Wehn-Damisch, en suivant des voies elles-mêmes toutes de traverses.
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"Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins" - Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe Architecture creates the framework around our lives - it protects us from the elements and it gives us space to relax, to live and to work. Draw Me a House celebrates the power of architecture. An interactive colouring book for children, budding(...)
Draw me a house: architectural ideas, inspiration and colouring in
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"Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins" - Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe Architecture creates the framework around our lives - it protects us from the elements and it gives us space to relax, to live and to work. Draw Me a House celebrates the power of architecture. An interactive colouring book for children, budding architects and anyone interested in the built environment, it invites readers to think about, doodle and engage with architectural elements from Malian houses to New York skyscrapers. Draw a new top on the Chrysler building, design a deluxe doghouse, colour in a gargoyle and fix up the Parthenon. Look at the world around you in a different way. Get inspired by architecture!
Littérature jeunesse
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The iconic Edith Farnsworth House is a singular glass home designed by Mies van der Rohe. But the oft-told history of the house overwrites Farnsworth’s role as Mies’s collaborator and antagonist while falsely portraying her as the architect’s angry ex-lover. Nora Wendl’s audacious work of creative nonfiction explodes the sex-and-real-estate myth surrounding the Edith(...)
Almost nothing: Reclaiming Edith Farnsworth
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The iconic Edith Farnsworth House is a singular glass home designed by Mies van der Rohe. But the oft-told history of the house overwrites Farnsworth’s role as Mies’s collaborator and antagonist while falsely portraying her as the architect’s angry ex-lover. Nora Wendl’s audacious work of creative nonfiction explodes the sex-and-real-estate myth surrounding the Edith Farnsworth House and its two central figures. An eminent physician and woman of letters, Farnsworth left a rich trove of correspondence, memoirs, and photographs that Wendl uses to reconstruct her voice. Farnsworth’s memories and experiences alternate with Wendl’s thoughts on topics like misogyny and professional ambition to fashion a lyrical examination of love, loneliness, beauty, and the search for the divine.
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New Urban Housing
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Author Hilary French provides a comprehensive introduction to this building type, from its industrial beginnings in London and Paris to New York City’s Lower East Side and the 20th-century designs of Le Corbusier, Antonio Sant’Elia, and Mies van der Rohe. Lavishly illustrated, the book examines different formal typologies of urban housing: terrace and row houses,(...)
New Urban Housing
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Author Hilary French provides a comprehensive introduction to this building type, from its industrial beginnings in London and Paris to New York City’s Lower East Side and the 20th-century designs of Le Corbusier, Antonio Sant’Elia, and Mies van der Rohe. Lavishly illustrated, the book examines different formal typologies of urban housing: terrace and row houses, quadrangles and courtyards, city blocks and infill (or renovated and reused sites), and towers and slab blocks. Thirty-six case studies from fourteen countries are presented by architects including Steven Holl, Richard Meier, KoningEizenbergArchitecture, Eduardo Souto de Moura, and Renzo Piano. Each is illustrated in full color and is accompanied by detailed plans and sections that discuss the needs of the site and place the project in its surrounding context.
Logements collectifs
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In On the Animation of the Inorganic, Spyros Papapetros examines ideas about simulated movement and inorganic life during and after the turn of the twentieth century--a period of great technical innovation whose effects continue to reverberate today. Exploring key works of art historians such as Aby Warburg, Wilhelm Worringer, and Alois Riegl, as well as architects and(...)
On the animation of the inorganic: art, architecture, and the extension of life
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In On the Animation of the Inorganic, Spyros Papapetros examines ideas about simulated movement and inorganic life during and after the turn of the twentieth century--a period of great technical innovation whose effects continue to reverberate today. Exploring key works of art historians such as Aby Warburg, Wilhelm Worringer, and Alois Riegl, as well as architects and artists like Fernand Leger, Mies van der Rohe, and Salvador Dali, Papapetros tracks the evolution of the problem of animation from the fin de siecle through the twentieth century. He argues that empathy--the ability to identify with objects of the external world--was repressed by twentieth-century modernist culture, but it returned, projected onto inorganic objects such as machines, automobiles, and crystalline skyscrapers.
Théorie de l’architecture
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Avec Christopher Alexander, Brian Hanson, Michael Mehaffy, Terry M. Mikiten. "Le roi est nu": ce vieil adage est définitivement approprié au triste cas du déconstructivisme, car ce dernier n’est rien d’autre qu’un modernisme déguisé sous une autre forme. Les modernistes, notamment ceux du Bauhaus, voulaient la table rase ; se débarrasser de tout l’existant, tout en(...)
Anti-architecture et déconstruction
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Avec Christopher Alexander, Brian Hanson, Michael Mehaffy, Terry M. Mikiten. "Le roi est nu": ce vieil adage est définitivement approprié au triste cas du déconstructivisme, car ce dernier n’est rien d’autre qu’un modernisme déguisé sous une autre forme. Les modernistes, notamment ceux du Bauhaus, voulaient la table rase ; se débarrasser de tout l’existant, tout en revendiquant cependant certains liens avec le passé : le Parthénon (Jeanneret-Gris, alias Le Corbusier, etc.), le mouvement anglais Arts and Crafts (Pevsner, etc.) et le néoclassicisme prussien (Mies Van der Rohe), afin de donner une fausse parenté historique à leurs fins et à leurs créations. Aujourd’hui, ce sont les architectes déconstructivistes et leurs supporters qui se réclament de toutes sortes de liens et de précédents fumeux pour soutenir leurs travaux.
Théorie de l’architecture
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The German architect Rudolf Schwarz (1897–1961) numbers among the leading masters of church architecture in the twentieth century. Inspired by the Catholic Youth Movement, Schwarz designed more than forty religious buildings after 1924 and played an integral role in Cologne’s reconstruction in the aftermath of World War II. In addition, he made a name for himself as the(...)
Rudolf Schwarz: church architecture
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The German architect Rudolf Schwarz (1897–1961) numbers among the leading masters of church architecture in the twentieth century. Inspired by the Catholic Youth Movement, Schwarz designed more than forty religious buildings after 1924 and played an integral role in Cologne’s reconstruction in the aftermath of World War II. In addition, he made a name for himself as the author of fundamental texts on sacred architecture. Praised by Mies van der Rohe as “designed order full of meaning,” Schwarz’s architecture was intended to house religious contemplation. He became famous for his vast, light-filled spaces, minimalist in form yet overflowing with symbolism. This volume documents Schwarz’s transformative sacred buildings in Germany and Austria alongside his collaborations with visual artists such as Ewald Mataré and Georg Meistermann.
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Essential Modernism
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This wide-ranging survey showcases and analyzes the work of dozens of Modernist designers, from those who established the International Style in the 1920s and ‘30s through the groundbreaking practitioners of the mid-1940s. Modernism, with its powerful aesthetic and compelling philosophical framework, is the twentieth century’s most defining movement in design and the(...)
Essential Modernism
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This wide-ranging survey showcases and analyzes the work of dozens of Modernist designers, from those who established the International Style in the 1920s and ‘30s through the groundbreaking practitioners of the mid-1940s. Modernism, with its powerful aesthetic and compelling philosophical framework, is the twentieth century’s most defining movement in design and the applied arts. International architects and designers such as Alvar Aalto, Marcel Breuer, Eileen Gray, Le Corbusier, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and Frank Lloyd Wright revolutionized the built world and how we live in it. Their work rejected historical precedents, prioritizing function over tradition, and their experimentation with new forms, materials, and techniques transformed our living spaces and lifestyles and fundamentally changed the way we think about design.
Design, époques et styles
The Avery Review: Chicago
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The Avery Review, a digital journal about books, buildings, and other architectural media, makes its print debut with a thematic broadsheet edition about the city of Chicago. Coinciding with the inaugural Chicago Architectural Biennial, this issue addresses the historic imagination of the city (including figures of myth like Frank Lloyd Wright, Mies van der Rohe, and even(...)
The Avery Review: Chicago
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The Avery Review, a digital journal about books, buildings, and other architectural media, makes its print debut with a thematic broadsheet edition about the city of Chicago. Coinciding with the inaugural Chicago Architectural Biennial, this issue addresses the historic imagination of the city (including figures of myth like Frank Lloyd Wright, Mies van der Rohe, and even John Dillinger) and possibilities for the contemporary urban landscape (including discussions of placemaking, contemporary cultural monuments, and infrastructural parks). Selected pieces from the Avery Review's first year are republished alongside these commissioned essays on Chicago. Together these texts claim the critical essay as a space in which to test one's own intellectual commitments, to enter into and advance a conversation about the pasts and futures of urban architectural thought.
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