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The Italian engineer, architect and builder Pier Luigi Nervi is responsible for some of the world's architectural masterpieces including St. Mary Cathedral in San Francisco, George Washington Bus Terminal in New York and Victoria Square Tower in Montreal. This book provides a complete overview of this prolific and versatile master of twentieth-century architecture,(...)
Pier Luigi Nervi: Architecture as challenge
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The Italian engineer, architect and builder Pier Luigi Nervi is responsible for some of the world's architectural masterpieces including St. Mary Cathedral in San Francisco, George Washington Bus Terminal in New York and Victoria Square Tower in Montreal. This book provides a complete overview of this prolific and versatile master of twentieth-century architecture, examining his career from its outset in the early 1920s up to the 1970s. In addition to a range of Nervi's buildings and public projects, the publication presents his pioneering research into technologies and construction materials.
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Architecture of community
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In The Architecture of Community, Krier has reconsidered and expanded writing from his 1998 book Architecture: Choice or Fate. Here he refines and updates his thinking on the making of sustainable, humane, and attractive villages, towns, and cities. The book includes drawings, diagrams, and photographs of his built works, which have not been widely seen until now. The(...)
Architecture of community
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In The Architecture of Community, Krier has reconsidered and expanded writing from his 1998 book Architecture: Choice or Fate. Here he refines and updates his thinking on the making of sustainable, humane, and attractive villages, towns, and cities. The book includes drawings, diagrams, and photographs of his built works, which have not been widely seen until now. The book contains descriptions and images of the author’s built and unbuilt projects, including the Krier House and Tower in Seaside, Florida, as well as the town of Poundbury in England.
L'humain et la ville
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Stroll celebrates Toronto's details at the speed of walking and, in so doing, helps us to better get to know its many neighbourhoods, taking us from well-known spots like the CN Tower and Pearson Airport to the overlooked corners of Scarborough and all the way to the end of the Leslie Street Spit in Lake Ontario. Features thirty-two walks, a flâneur manifesto, a foreword(...)
Stroll: Psychogeographic walking tours of Toronto
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Stroll celebrates Toronto's details at the speed of walking and, in so doing, helps us to better get to know its many neighbourhoods, taking us from well-known spots like the CN Tower and Pearson Airport to the overlooked corners of Scarborough and all the way to the end of the Leslie Street Spit in Lake Ontario. Features thirty-two walks, a flâneur manifesto, a foreword by architecture critic John Bentley Mays, dozens of hand-drawn maps by Marlena Zuber and a full-colour fold-out orientation map of Toronto.
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Zaha Hadid : recent project
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Since the last GA publication devoted to her work in 2007, Zaha Hadid Architects has grown by over 50%. This compendium features 21 recent and current global projects by Hadid, including the Sunrise Tower Kuala Lumpur, the London Aquatics Centre for the 2012 Olympics, and the new waterfront of Reggio Calabria, Italy. Also included is an essay by Patrik Schumacher, an(...)
Zaha Hadid : recent project
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Since the last GA publication devoted to her work in 2007, Zaha Hadid Architects has grown by over 50%. This compendium features 21 recent and current global projects by Hadid, including the Sunrise Tower Kuala Lumpur, the London Aquatics Centre for the 2012 Olympics, and the new waterfront of Reggio Calabria, Italy. Also included is an essay by Patrik Schumacher, an interview with Hadid, and a feature on her 2010 exhibition in Zurich, 'Zaha Hadid and Suprematism', which explored the impact of the early twentieth century Russian avant-garde on Hadid's architectural vision.
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septembre 2010
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CLOG 9 : Miami
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This issue presents the beginning of a critical discussion on contemporary architecture in a city with a short but vibrant past and exciting future—Miami. Miami invented a strand of mid- century Modernism, epitomized the design aesthetic of the 1980s, hosted the major intellectual center of the New Urbanism movement, and is now providing opportunities to a new (and(...)
CLOG 9 : Miami
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This issue presents the beginning of a critical discussion on contemporary architecture in a city with a short but vibrant past and exciting future—Miami. Miami invented a strand of mid- century Modernism, epitomized the design aesthetic of the 1980s, hosted the major intellectual center of the New Urbanism movement, and is now providing opportunities to a new (and hungry) crop of international architects in projects like the Miami Beach Convention Center, Coconut Grove, the New World Center, One Thousand Museum Tower, the Perez Art Museum Miami, 1111 Lincoln Road, and more.
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The big princess
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A simple fairy tale meets bold, geometric art in this fresh, witty story from Japan. Once upon a time, a king and queen discover among their flowers a lovely and very tiny princess perched on a leaf. Overjoyed to have found a daughter, they fashion for her a single-feather bed and watch as she grows large enough to sleep in a ring box, a teacup, and a teddy bear’s lap.(...)
The big princess
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A simple fairy tale meets bold, geometric art in this fresh, witty story from Japan. Once upon a time, a king and queen discover among their flowers a lovely and very tiny princess perched on a leaf. Overjoyed to have found a daughter, they fashion for her a single-feather bed and watch as she grows large enough to sleep in a ring box, a teacup, and a teddy bear’s lap. But still the princess keeps growing and growing, until her head pokes through the top of even the tallest tower.
Littérature jeunesse
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Ce livre présente les principaux projets de l'architecte américain : le Guggenheim Museum à New York, la Price Tower à Bartlesville, le Marin County Center à San Rafael, en Californie, Unity Temple à Oak Park, dans l'Illinois, le Florida Southern College à Lakeland, en Floride, et Taliesin West, à Scottsdale, en Arizona. On trouvera aussi d'étonnantes images d'archives de(...)
Frank Lloyd Wright, bâtiments publics
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Ce livre présente les principaux projets de l'architecte américain : le Guggenheim Museum à New York, la Price Tower à Bartlesville, le Marin County Center à San Rafael, en Californie, Unity Temple à Oak Park, dans l'Illinois, le Florida Southern College à Lakeland, en Floride, et Taliesin West, à Scottsdale, en Arizona. On trouvera aussi d'étonnantes images d'archives de superbes bâtiments démolis, tel l'Imperial Hotel à Tokyo et Midway Gardens à Chicago, ainsi que des dessins de Wright d'inspiration visionnaire, dont ceux de l'Opéra de Bagdad et du gratte-ciel Mile High, Illinois, pour ne citer qu'eux.
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Architectural ensemble : football stadium, sports building and residential towers, Allmend Luzern
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This book presents the Allmend football stadium, including images and plans. Two critiques study the architecturally valuable ensemble in detail.
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Architectural ensemble : football stadium, sports building and residential towers, Allmend Luzern
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This book presents the Allmend football stadium, including images and plans. Two critiques study the architecturally valuable ensemble in detail.
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Building the Great Cathedrals / François Icher ; translated from the French by Anthony Zielonka.
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200 pages : color illustrations ; 32 cm
New York : Harry N. Abrams, ©1998.
Building the Great Cathedrals / François Icher ; translated from the French by Anthony Zielonka.
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New York : Harry N. Abrams, ©1998.
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281 pages : illustrations (some color), facsimiles, portraits (some color), photographs ; 28 cm
New York, New York : The Metropolitan Museum of Art, [2022], New Haven, Connecticut ; London : Yale University Press, Verona, Italy : Trifolio, ©2022
Bernd & Hilla Becher / Jeff L. Rosenheim ; essays by Gabriele Conrath-Scholl, Virginia Heckert, Lucy Sante ; interview with Max Becher ; translations from German by Elisabeth Lauffer.
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New York, New York : The Metropolitan Museum of Art, [2022], New Haven, Connecticut ; London : Yale University Press, Verona, Italy : Trifolio, ©2022