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"This is an experiential architecture, not a theoretical one. It is grounded in reality, not in abstract dogma, yet it seeks the transcendent, every bit as earnestly - perhaps even more so - then architecture that is built on pure theory. It is the way space, texture, light, materials actually feel that motivates these architects, and it is their skill at manipulating(...)
Olsen Sundberg Kunding Allen : connecting architecture, art, and craft in twelve residential projects
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"This is an experiential architecture, not a theoretical one. It is grounded in reality, not in abstract dogma, yet it seeks the transcendent, every bit as earnestly - perhaps even more so - then architecture that is built on pure theory. It is the way space, texture, light, materials actually feel that motivates these architects, and it is their skill at manipulating these elements that gives their work the rigor and strength it possesses. This architecture is marked by a sense of a self-assured and sensual presence, shaped by light, texture, materiality and scale. It should almost go without saying at this point that in an age in which most architects actively seek to achieve the identity of a "look," Olson Sundberg's work eschews simple similarities. Certain principles are evident from one building to another, as is the absence of direct historical replication, but consistency is not the same as a packageable style. Indeed, a single, easily identifiable style is something that these architects not only do not have but seem actively to discourage, as if its presence could be taken as a sign that their firm was not sufficiently cognizant of the widely varying demands that are inherent in different clients' programs, sites and esthetic preferences. They seem determined to prove that consistency of belief need not yield similarity of visual appearance – and that it is possible to produce a coherent body of work that does not look precisely the same." Excerpted from the introduction written by Paul Goldberger.
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Modernism and the posthumanist subject : the architecture of Hannes Meyer and Ludwig Hilberseimer
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Drawing both on the work of modern theorists like Georg Lukacs, Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, and Siegfried Kracauer and on more recent poststructuralist thought, Hays creates an entirely new method of reading architectural production. Challenging much of the traditional wisdom about modernism and the avant-garde, Hays argues that a rigorously(...)
Modernism and the posthumanist subject : the architecture of Hannes Meyer and Ludwig Hilberseimer
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Drawing both on the work of modern theorists like Georg Lukacs, Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, and Siegfried Kracauer and on more recent poststructuralist thought, Hays creates an entirely new method of reading architectural production. Challenging much of the traditional wisdom about modernism and the avant-garde, Hays argues that a rigorously articulated 'posthumanist' position was actually developed in the modernist architecture of Hannes Meyer and Ludwig Hilberseimer. He reinterprets their buildings, projects, and writings as constructions of this new category of subjectivity.
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mai 1995, Cambridge, Mass.
Théorie de l’architecture
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"I have a weakness for a touch of red" is a selection of essays on the art and architecture of Portugal by Yehuda Safran, who has been a professor at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University and Pratt Institute, as well as the director of Potlach journal. Safran, who has previously written books on Adolf Loos, Mies van der(...)
I have a weakness for a touch of red: essays on architecture and Portugal
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"I have a weakness for a touch of red" is a selection of essays on the art and architecture of Portugal by Yehuda Safran, who has been a professor at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University and Pratt Institute, as well as the director of Potlach journal. Safran, who has previously written books on Adolf Loos, Mies van der Rohe, Anthony Gormley and Anish Kapoor, is not himself Portuguese; he writes here from the perspective of a traveler, enamored with the work of major architects Alvaro Siza and Eduardo Souto de Moura and artist Pedro Cabrita Reis, among others. In an interview with the Portuguese website Virose, Safran said of Siza: “there is always a Portuguese accent to it, but he is really addressing universal architectural issues. The great poet writes normally in his own language."
Théorie de l’architecture
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Architectural production today encompasses myriad documents that defy the traditional conventions of the profession. This book examines 33 artefacts involved in the design and construction of contemporary architecture. Its definition of architectural documents is expansive – not just working drawings, but correspondence, contracts, mock-ups and models, journalism, photos,(...)
Better together: (33) Documents of contemporary Australian architecture & their associated short stories
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Architectural production today encompasses myriad documents that defy the traditional conventions of the profession. This book examines 33 artefacts involved in the design and construction of contemporary architecture. Its definition of architectural documents is expansive – not just working drawings, but correspondence, contracts, mock-ups and models, journalism, photos, and other formats that address the unique processes of modern architectural production. With a cross-section of work by Australian architects, including Andrew Power, Studio Bright, Sibling Architecture, Richard Stampton, and others, presented in a short story format to unravel the artefacts’ inner lives.
Architecture contemporaine
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Constructed as a series of five essays around the themes of beauty, culture, emotion, the experience of architecture, and artistic play, this book draws upon a broad range of discussions taking place in philosophy, psychology, biology, neuroscience, and anthropology, and in doing so questions what implications these discussions hold for architectural design.
Architecture and embodiment: the implications of the new sciences and humanities for design
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Constructed as a series of five essays around the themes of beauty, culture, emotion, the experience of architecture, and artistic play, this book draws upon a broad range of discussions taking place in philosophy, psychology, biology, neuroscience, and anthropology, and in doing so questions what implications these discussions hold for architectural design.
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This extensive publication provides the first chronological presentation of 20th century Austrian architecture in English. Using over 100 carefully selected buildings the roots, traditions and conditions from which Austrian architecture has (...)
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Architecture in Austria : a survey of the 20th century
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This extensive publication provides the first chronological presentation of 20th century Austrian architecture in English. Using over 100 carefully selected buildings the roots, traditions and conditions from which Austrian architecture has developed are made accessible. A concise overview of building activities in the 20th century is conveyed, using over 900 documents, largely unpublished photographs and sketches, drawings and models. A particularly important feature of this chronological survey lies in highlighting Austria's contribution to contemporary architecture.
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juillet 1999, Basel
Sweaterlodge
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SweaterLodge, un projet de Pechet and Robb Studio de Vancouver, a été sélectionné par un concours national avec jury pour représenter le Canada à l’édition 2006 de la Biennale de Venise en architecture. La 10ième édition de cette Biennale, qui est la plus prestigieuse manifestation d’architecture du monde, sera présentée de septembre à novembre 2006, à Venise en(...)
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décembre 2006, Ottawa
Sweaterlodge
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SweaterLodge, un projet de Pechet and Robb Studio de Vancouver, a été sélectionné par un concours national avec jury pour représenter le Canada à l’édition 2006 de la Biennale de Venise en architecture. La 10ième édition de cette Biennale, qui est la plus prestigieuse manifestation d’architecture du monde, sera présentée de septembre à novembre 2006, à Venise en Italie. SweaterLodge explore l’influence de la culture des loisirs et de la nature sur la vie urbaine à Vancouver. L’élément majeur de SweaterLodge est un abri géant en molleton Polarfleece fait de fibres plastiques provenant de canettes recyclées. Suspendu à l’intérieur du pavillon canadien, ce vêtement abrite les visiteurs, comme un grand cocon orange. Les visiteurs qui entrent dans ce grand chandail peuvent assister à des projections de films numériques montrant des capsules d’une ville où nature sauvage et vie urbaine s’entremêlent. Chaque projection est activée par un spectateur qui pédale sur un vélo stationnaire : plus il pédale vite, plus la bande vidéo passe rapidement. Les caisses d’expédition et les bagages utilisés pour le transport de l’exposition se transformeront pour devenir le mobilier du pavillon, SweaterLodge présupposant un avenir où les objets seront polyvalents : un chandail se convertit en abri, des bagages deviennent des sofas, et des vélos, des projecteurs. Ces éléments mis ensemble brossent le portrait d’une ville où le culte de la nature et la culture urbaine s’imbriquent le plus souvent de manière riche et surprenante.
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The concepts of "Indonesian architecture" and "architecture in Indonesia" are both quite difficult to pin down. For the architecture of this small country incorporates influences from many important cultures--from India, China and the Middle East to countries in the West--and is therefore extremely multifaceted. In fact, one might reasonably ask whether a "real"(...)
juillet 2007, Rotterdam
The past in the present : Architecture in Indonesia
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The concepts of "Indonesian architecture" and "architecture in Indonesia" are both quite difficult to pin down. For the architecture of this small country incorporates influences from many important cultures--from India, China and the Middle East to countries in the West--and is therefore extremely multifaceted. In fact, one might reasonably ask whether a "real" Indonesian architecture actually exists, even with reference to the country's vernacular work, which is highly diverse from an ethnic perspective in and of itself. The quest for an authentic Indonesian architecture has in fact been the subject of debate among architects there for many years, especially in regards to the work has been exported to other countries--in particular, its former colonizer, the Netherlands. (In fact, there is even a name for the hybrid style that originated during that era: Indische).This very nicely designed collection of illustrated essays, which features a special section of pictures and drawings of colonial architecture, provides a real sense of the diversity of building in modern-day Indonesia--while at the same time recognizing that such a perspective cannot be productive without taking history into account. With chapters on Modern Indonesian architecture, vernacular traditions, mosques, the effect of the Chinese diaspora, hybrid historic/contemporary Balinese architecture, the colonial period, Indische architecture and Art Deco and more, this publication provides an amazing overview and a long-overdue investigation of Indische work. Preface by Aaron Betsky.
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For fifteen years, three architects—James Cathcart, Frank Fantauzzi, and Terence van Elslander—from three different cities have held an ongoing collaboration, creating installations and other works of innovation and art about the act of building. Pamphlet Architecture 25: Gravity catalogs a cross section of their many works, from the portable toilets installed in the(...)
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octobre 2003, New York
Pamphlet architecture # 25 : gravity
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For fifteen years, three architects—James Cathcart, Frank Fantauzzi, and Terence van Elslander—from three different cities have held an ongoing collaboration, creating installations and other works of innovation and art about the act of building. Pamphlet Architecture 25: Gravity catalogs a cross section of their many works, from the portable toilets installed in the facade of New York's StoreFront for Art and Architecture to "Big Orbits," a giant solid and a giant void constructed from 4600 shipping palettes. Although strongly conceptual, their work reminds us that a primary function of architecture is to engage the public.
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Bernd Evers a soutenu sa thèse de doctorat en histoire de l'art avant de choisir une carrière de bibliothécaire. De 1985 à 2006, il a dirigé la Kunstbibliothek der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin. Il a publié de nombreux articles sur les sciences des bibliothèques. Son domaine de recherches comporte en particulier la théorie architecturale du 17e au 19e siècle.
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juillet 2006, Köln, New York, London
Théorie de l'architecture, de la Renaissance à nos jours
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Bernd Evers a soutenu sa thèse de doctorat en histoire de l'art avant de choisir une carrière de bibliothécaire. De 1985 à 2006, il a dirigé la Kunstbibliothek der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin. Il a publié de nombreux articles sur les sciences des bibliothèques. Son domaine de recherches comporte en particulier la théorie architecturale du 17e au 19e siècle.
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