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Concrete Concept takes architecture admirers on a tour of the world's most impressive, celebrated and controversial Brutalist buildings. Featuring 50 international examples (built between the 1950s to 1970s), it skips from one country to the next to illustrate why utilitarian concrete buildings grew to become both the most hotly contested and fashionable architectural(...)
Concrete concept: brutalist buildings around the world
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Concrete Concept takes architecture admirers on a tour of the world's most impressive, celebrated and controversial Brutalist buildings. Featuring 50 international examples (built between the 1950s to 1970s), it skips from one country to the next to illustrate why utilitarian concrete buildings grew to become both the most hotly contested and fashionable architectural style in history. Building descriptions cover key details about the building as well as a context for its original use, public reception and current status.
Architecture contemporaine
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Since the late 1970s, Dutch artist Joke Robaard has accumulated a collection of fashion images—a vast archive of photographs from fashion magazines and other media sources, concentrated on posture, context, background, narrative, image, text and textile. Since 2014, together with art critic Camiel van Winkel, Robaard has been reassembling and rereading her archive to(...)
février 2019
Archive species: bodies, habits, practices
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Since the late 1970s, Dutch artist Joke Robaard has accumulated a collection of fashion images—a vast archive of photographs from fashion magazines and other media sources, concentrated on posture, context, background, narrative, image, text and textile. Since 2014, together with art critic Camiel van Winkel, Robaard has been reassembling and rereading her archive to explore the historical, political and social information embedded in these images, and considering how this content emerges in her own artistic and photographic work.
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Oneplanetarchitecture is the design philosophy Thomas Rau, the founder and director of RAU, developed over the recent years. It implies a broad approach towards the building task taking into account the material and immaterial needs of users, the place, the society, and the planet earth. Therefore the process as such is a central part in the work of RAU which always(...)
Oneplanetarchitecture: The architecture of RAU
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Oneplanetarchitecture is the design philosophy Thomas Rau, the founder and director of RAU, developed over the recent years. It implies a broad approach towards the building task taking into account the material and immaterial needs of users, the place, the society, and the planet earth. Therefore the process as such is a central part in the work of RAU which always results in a unique concept which is imbedded into the building's social and urban context.
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février 2011
Architecture, monographies
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This publication provides not only a chronological survey of Barragan's surviving work, but also a look at three urban realities that provided the context of his work. Cited as an inspiration by contemporary architects Tadao Ando, Frank Gehry and Rem Koolhaas, among others, Barragan succeeded in creating his own version of modernism, infused with the warmth and vibrancy(...)
Barragàn guide, second edition
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This publication provides not only a chronological survey of Barragan's surviving work, but also a look at three urban realities that provided the context of his work. Cited as an inspiration by contemporary architects Tadao Ando, Frank Gehry and Rem Koolhaas, among others, Barragan succeeded in creating his own version of modernism, infused with the warmth and vibrancy of his native Mexico. This second edition updates the previous edition with new photos and a more comprehensive bibliography.
Architecture, monographies
Fallingwater 75th anniversay
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This volume commemorates the seventy-fifth anniversary of arguably the most significant private residence of the twentieth century. With new photography commissioned especially for this book, this volume captures the masterpiece by legendary architect Frank Lloyd Wright following its recent restoration. With new authoritative texts on Fallingwater’s history, structure,(...)
Fallingwater 75th anniversay
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This volume commemorates the seventy-fifth anniversary of arguably the most significant private residence of the twentieth century. With new photography commissioned especially for this book, this volume captures the masterpiece by legendary architect Frank Lloyd Wright following its recent restoration. With new authoritative texts on Fallingwater’s history, structure, restoration, and collections, including the house’s relationship to its setting and its importance to the sustainability movement; its meaning in the context of Wright’s body of work.
Architecture, monographies
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Covering transactive planning, radical planning, the concept of the Good City, civil society, rethinking poverty and the diversity of planning cultures, this collection of Friedmann's most important and influential essays tells a story about how the evolution of thinking about planning over several decades has helped to shape its practice. With each essay given a new(...)
Insurgencies: Essays in planning theory
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Covering transactive planning, radical planning, the concept of the Good City, civil society, rethinking poverty and the diversity of planning cultures, this collection of Friedmann's most important and influential essays tells a story about how the evolution of thinking about planning over several decades has helped to shape its practice. With each essay given a new introduction to establish its context and importance, this is an ideal text for the study of planning theory and history.
Théorie de l’urbanisme
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Jean Nouvel, Rem Koolhaas, Bjarke Ingels and Norman Foster all these cutting-edge architects have at some time used comic strips to present their projects or reflected on the socio-political context that shaped them. Bricks and Balloons brings together a wealth of architectural projects that reach out to the world of comics, many published here for the first time. The(...)
Bricks & Balloons: architecture in comic-strip form
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Jean Nouvel, Rem Koolhaas, Bjarke Ingels and Norman Foster all these cutting-edge architects have at some time used comic strips to present their projects or reflected on the socio-political context that shaped them. Bricks and Balloons brings together a wealth of architectural projects that reach out to the world of comics, many published here for the first time. The book is based on first-hand information collected during dozens of interviews with architects and comic strip artists.
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On the new
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On the New looks at the economies of exchange and valuation that drive modern culture's key sites: the intellectual marketplace and the archive. As ideas move from one context to another, newness is created. This continuous shifting of the line that separates the valuable from the worthless, culture from profanity, is at the center of Boris Groys's investigation which(...)
On the new
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On the New looks at the economies of exchange and valuation that drive modern culture's key sites: the intellectual marketplace and the archive. As ideas move from one context to another, newness is created. This continuous shifting of the line that separates the valuable from the worthless, culture from profanity, is at the center of Boris Groys's investigation which aims to map the uncharted territory of what constitutes artistic innovation and what processes underpin its recognition and appropriation.
Théorie/ philosophie
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In this illustrated volume, Maria Antonietta Crippa and Françoise Caussé explore the particular set of circumstances that led to one of the twentieth century’s most famous exponents of urbanism creating an ethereal space of worship perched atop a remote hill in the French countryside. Putting the chapel into its historical context and exploring the controversies and(...)
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novembre 2014
Le Corbusier : the chapel of Notre-Dame du Haut at Ronchamp
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In this illustrated volume, Maria Antonietta Crippa and Françoise Caussé explore the particular set of circumstances that led to one of the twentieth century’s most famous exponents of urbanism creating an ethereal space of worship perched atop a remote hill in the French countryside. Putting the chapel into its historical context and exploring the controversies and arguments that have surrounded and continue to surround it, the book also features new photographs that capture the genius of Le Corbusier’s design.
Architecture, monographies
Disobedient objects
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From political activism comes the art of protest, symbols, and designs that defy standard definitions. This timely book shows how objects can change the world by out-designing authority. It focuses on the period from 1980 to the present, a time that brought new technologies and political challenges to protest movements. Provocative and engaging, this book showcases how(...)
Disobedient objects
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From political activism comes the art of protest, symbols, and designs that defy standard definitions. This timely book shows how objects can change the world by out-designing authority. It focuses on the period from 1980 to the present, a time that brought new technologies and political challenges to protest movements. Provocative and engaging, this book showcases how artists have produced work within the context of social movements, which become the vibrant engines for ingenuity and collective creativity.
Théorie du design