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Norman Foster is responsible for a dozen or more of the most recognisable buildings of the last thirty years. Under his driven leadership, what is now called Foster and Partners has grown to an international firm with almost 1,000 employees, building astonishing constructions all over the world. Deyan Sudjic explores the nature of the impact that he has had on(...)
Norman Foster: a life in architecture
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Norman Foster is responsible for a dozen or more of the most recognisable buildings of the last thirty years. Under his driven leadership, what is now called Foster and Partners has grown to an international firm with almost 1,000 employees, building astonishing constructions all over the world. Deyan Sudjic explores the nature of the impact that he has had on architecture, and on the contemporary city. It traces his remarkable journey from the backstreets of Manchester, the determination with which he has built a global architectural practice, and his huge creative impact on what we see around us.
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Architectural postmodernism had a significant impact on the broader development of postmodern thought: Utopia’s Ghost is a critical reconsideration of their relationship. Combining discourse analysis, historical reconstruction, and close readings of buildings, projects, and texts from the 1970s and 1980s, Reinhold Martin argues that retheorizing postmodern architecture(...)
Utopia's ghost: architecture and postmodernism, again
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Architectural postmodernism had a significant impact on the broader development of postmodern thought: Utopia’s Ghost is a critical reconsideration of their relationship. Combining discourse analysis, historical reconstruction, and close readings of buildings, projects, and texts from the 1970s and 1980s, Reinhold Martin argues that retheorizing postmodern architecture gives us new insights into cultural postmodernism and its aftermath.
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Théorie de l’architecture
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Huts, nests, branches, tree trunks and crates—all wooden structures are potential inspiration for the work of the Dutch architecture firm Onix. This volume offers the firm's insights on what they call “thoughtful architecture.” Detailed drawings and photographs of the construction process for more than 20 structures showcase Onix's quest for novel timber applications.
Wood works Onix, architecture in wood
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Huts, nests, branches, tree trunks and crates—all wooden structures are potential inspiration for the work of the Dutch architecture firm Onix. This volume offers the firm's insights on what they call “thoughtful architecture.” Detailed drawings and photographs of the construction process for more than 20 structures showcase Onix's quest for novel timber applications.
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Written by an architect specializing in green materials and methods, this GreensSource book presents all of the information you need to design efficient, environmentally friendly, economical, and sustainable buildings.
Green architecture: advanced technologies and materials
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Written by an architect specializing in green materials and methods, this GreensSource book presents all of the information you need to design efficient, environmentally friendly, economical, and sustainable buildings.
Architecture écologique
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Current modes of residential design are facing challenges of both philosophy and form. Approaches that have prevailed in past decades no longer sustain new demands and require innovative rethinking. The need for a new outlook is propelled by fundamental changes to the environment, economy and society. Design for passive solar gain, solar-powered homes, minimising a(...)
Inspired homes: architecture for changing times
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Current modes of residential design are facing challenges of both philosophy and form. Approaches that have prevailed in past decades no longer sustain new demands and require innovative rethinking. The need for a new outlook is propelled by fundamental changes to the environment, economy and society. Design for passive solar gain, solar-powered homes, minimising a dwellings physical footprint, Net-Zero residences and preserving a sites natural assets are some of the strategies that the architects and builders featured in this book are integrating into their thought processes and design practices. Written by a world expert in the field,Inspired Homesoffers information on contemporary sustainable design concepts and illustrates them with examples of truly outstanding design.
Architecture résidentielle
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For this book, the Munich-based 03 Architects have invited the photographer Walter Mair for a dialogue on their work, concepts and methods. Mair documents 03 Architects' work with great sensitivity for their ideas, but also for the context which the buildings reflect and enable, and thereby reaches beyond the classic architectural documentation.
A dialogue between photography and architecture
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For this book, the Munich-based 03 Architects have invited the photographer Walter Mair for a dialogue on their work, concepts and methods. Mair documents 03 Architects' work with great sensitivity for their ideas, but also for the context which the buildings reflect and enable, and thereby reaches beyond the classic architectural documentation.
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How have architecture and design been represented in popular culture? How do these fictional reflections feed back into and influence 'the real world'? Archi.Pop: Architecture and Design in Popular Culture offers the first contemporary critical overview of this diverse and intriguing relationship in cultural forms including television, cinema, iconic buildings and(...)
Archi.pop: mediating architecture in popular culture
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How have architecture and design been represented in popular culture? How do these fictional reflections feed back into and influence 'the real world'? Archi.Pop: Architecture and Design in Popular Culture offers the first contemporary critical overview of this diverse and intriguing relationship in cultural forms including television, cinema, iconic buildings and everyday interiors, music and magazines.
Théorie de l’architecture
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Literature provides essential insights into how people experience, use and imagine places. In an accessible but scientifically aware manner, architect and author Klaske Havik (born 1975) argues that literary authors most effectively portray the concept of lived and experienced space, evoking memories and imaginations in their readers. Havik offers new methods for(...)
Urban literacy: reading and writing architecture
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Literature provides essential insights into how people experience, use and imagine places. In an accessible but scientifically aware manner, architect and author Klaske Havik (born 1975) argues that literary authors most effectively portray the concept of lived and experienced space, evoking memories and imaginations in their readers. Havik offers new methods for "reading" and "writing" places, from the architectural to the urban, by engaging with three particular techniques of literature: description, transcription and prescription.
Théorie de l’architecture
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Ce n'est que sur le tard que Robert Mallet-Stevens devint architecte, presque exclusivement pour des clients privés. Il n'en est pas moins considéré aujourd'hui comme l'une des figures majeures de l'architecture française de l'entre-deux-guerres, en tant que l'un des principaux représentants du Mouvement moderne. L'auteur retrace ici les points forts de la carrière de ce(...)
Robert Mallet-Stevens: agir pour l'architecture moderne
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Ce n'est que sur le tard que Robert Mallet-Stevens devint architecte, presque exclusivement pour des clients privés. Il n'en est pas moins considéré aujourd'hui comme l'une des figures majeures de l'architecture française de l'entre-deux-guerres, en tant que l'un des principaux représentants du Mouvement moderne. L'auteur retrace ici les points forts de la carrière de ce grand nom du Modernisme et revient notamment sur la construction de la Villa Cavrois à Croix, classée aux Monuments historiques depuis 1990.
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This publication is an examination of the inherent intrumentalization of architecture as a political weapon; research informs the development of a project which, rather than defusing these characteristics, attemps to integrate them with the scene of a political struggle.
Weaponized architecture : the impossibility of innocence
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This publication is an examination of the inherent intrumentalization of architecture as a political weapon; research informs the development of a project which, rather than defusing these characteristics, attemps to integrate them with the scene of a political struggle.
Théorie de l’architecture