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Anchored by a magnificent set of drawings illustrating the final design of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park in New York City (1973/74, posthumously completed in 2012), "Louis I. Kahn: The Last Notebook" provides an intimate glimpse into the architect’s mind and design process. These private sketches and poetic reflections reveal Kahn’s spiritual understanding(...)
Louis I. Kahn: The last notebook
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Anchored by a magnificent set of drawings illustrating the final design of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park in New York City (1973/74, posthumously completed in 2012), "Louis I. Kahn: The Last Notebook" provides an intimate glimpse into the architect’s mind and design process. These private sketches and poetic reflections reveal Kahn’s spiritual understanding of architecture as inclusive of our total environment and shed new light on the architect’s influential philosophy for designing, building and conceiving architecture.
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This anthology aims to destabilize the limits of the discipline of architecture by focusing on the core concepts of inhabitation and displacement. This, by extension, centralizes the figure of the inhabitant and interrogates the limits of conventional architectural thinking. The editors shed light on the topic of displacement from interdisciplinary and international(...)
Architecture contemporaine
janvier 2022
Inhabiting displacement: architecture and authorship
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This anthology aims to destabilize the limits of the discipline of architecture by focusing on the core concepts of inhabitation and displacement. This, by extension, centralizes the figure of the inhabitant and interrogates the limits of conventional architectural thinking. The editors shed light on the topic of displacement from interdisciplinary and international perspectives. By rendering visible the practices of living and spatial appropriation, this volume also encourages critical engagement with questions of architectural production and authorship.
Architecture contemporaine
Fungal inspiration
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This book collates a marvellous compendium of mushrooms and their many facets through fascinating art and illustrations. Brimming with vibrant hues and fascinating forms, it shines a light on the lesser-known side of Mother Nature. Taking a closer look at the mycolic wonders that often escape the eye, each piece in this book is created by artists and creatives from around(...)
Fungal inspiration
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This book collates a marvellous compendium of mushrooms and their many facets through fascinating art and illustrations. Brimming with vibrant hues and fascinating forms, it shines a light on the lesser-known side of Mother Nature. Taking a closer look at the mycolic wonders that often escape the eye, each piece in this book is created by artists and creatives from around the globe who seek to convey and bring to life the wild beauty of fungi.
Faune et flore
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Photographers from across the globe chronicle Chile’s new architecture in wintertime Here, 15 leading architectural photographers- including Aryeh Kornfeld, Bleda y Rosa, Cristóbal Palma, David Bestué, Erieta Attali, Felipe Fontecilla, Guy Wenborne, Ignacio Acosta, Leonardo Finotti, Louise Oates and Iwan Baan- capture some of Chile’s most important works of contemporary(...)
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Winter: images of contemporary Chilean architecture
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Photographers from across the globe chronicle Chile’s new architecture in wintertime Here, 15 leading architectural photographers- including Aryeh Kornfeld, Bleda y Rosa, Cristóbal Palma, David Bestué, Erieta Attali, Felipe Fontecilla, Guy Wenborne, Ignacio Acosta, Leonardo Finotti, Louise Oates and Iwan Baan- capture some of Chile’s most important works of contemporary architecture during the winter months. The photographs dwell on details, textures, form and qualities of light and space, as well the dialogue between buildings and surrounding landscape.
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Historically, women architects were disappointingly absent in the news and at awards ceremonies, but now they are spearheading some of the most exciting and important projects in every corner of the globe. These profiles of fifty female architects bring to light some of those projects and highlight pioneering women architects. Each architect is introduced in double-page(...)
Raising the roof: women architects who broke through the glass ceiling
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Historically, women architects were disappointingly absent in the news and at awards ceremonies, but now they are spearheading some of the most exciting and important projects in every corner of the globe. These profiles of fifty female architects bring to light some of those projects and highlight pioneering women architects. Each architect is introduced in double-page spreads that include a brief biography, an overview of her philosophy and vision, and photographs of her most significant works.
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This monograph, the latest volume in Phaidon's documentation of John Pawson's career, hones in on the essential details that mark his distinctive architectural and aesthetic style. It groups a selection of his recent works into domestic projects, including his own house in rural England; extended sacred spaces; and repurposed structures, such as London's Design Museum.(...)
John Pawson: Anatomy of minimum
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This monograph, the latest volume in Phaidon's documentation of John Pawson's career, hones in on the essential details that mark his distinctive architectural and aesthetic style. It groups a selection of his recent works into domestic projects, including his own house in rural England; extended sacred spaces; and repurposed structures, such as London's Design Museum. Throughout its pages, this book explores Pawson's unique approach to proportion and light and his precise language of windows, doors, and walls.
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It is known that one and the same interior colouring will appear different in rooms with windows facing north or facing south. What is not known is how natural daylight from these two compass points affects perceived colour and the ways in which colour is experienced. The objective of this study is to describe the perceived colours to be expected in rooms with sunlight(...)
Daylight influence on colour design: empirical study on perceived colour and colour experience indoors
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It is known that one and the same interior colouring will appear different in rooms with windows facing north or facing south. What is not known is how natural daylight from these two compass points affects perceived colour and the ways in which colour is experienced. The objective of this study is to describe the perceived colours to be expected in rooms with sunlight and diffused light, and thus to develop a tool for colour design.
Rodney Graham: lightboxes
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This book, designed in close co-operation with the artist Rodney Graham, accompanies the exhibition at Museum Frieder Burda. It presents Graham's 36 photo light boxes from 2000 to the present, among them key works like the ''Newspaper Man.'' The central focus is on the manifold ways in which Graham has staged himself. He always gives the impression of a melancholy time(...)
Rodney Graham: lightboxes
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This book, designed in close co-operation with the artist Rodney Graham, accompanies the exhibition at Museum Frieder Burda. It presents Graham's 36 photo light boxes from 2000 to the present, among them key works like the ''Newspaper Man.'' The central focus is on the manifold ways in which Graham has staged himself. He always gives the impression of a melancholy time traveller, a modern-day Buster Keaton, negotiating the trials and tribulations of modern culture in various guises.
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Like almost no other artist of his generation, Canadian Jeff Wall (born in 1946) has focused on the potential of artistic composition, the boundaries between the genres of painting, photography, sculpture, and film, fiction and reality. This publication aims to take a fresh look at Wall's oeuvre, which has been so influential and had such an international impact, and to(...)
Jeff Wall: works from Munich collections
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Like almost no other artist of his generation, Canadian Jeff Wall (born in 1946) has focused on the potential of artistic composition, the boundaries between the genres of painting, photography, sculpture, and film, fiction and reality. This publication aims to take a fresh look at Wall's oeuvre, which has been so influential and had such an international impact, and to allow his works to be experienced in light of the recognition of photography as an art form.
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The color black
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Is there such a thing as "pure black"? In this book, Katrin Trautwein shows us how many shades of gray and different pigments can go into creating this special color, to which countless meanings are attached both in Western culture and other parts of the world. By means of high-grade screen prints, the publication makes the wide range of blacks tangible to the reader,(...)
The color black
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Is there such a thing as "pure black"? In this book, Katrin Trautwein shows us how many shades of gray and different pigments can go into creating this special color, to which countless meanings are attached both in Western culture and other parts of the world. By means of high-grade screen prints, the publication makes the wide range of blacks tangible to the reader, belying the notion that black is the mere absence of light.