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This book presents a wide range of the innovative building materials that are currently being developed, as well as their applications for today's architecture. It introduces architects to new approaches to sophisticated building concepts that are made possible by the use of high-tech building materials. Chapters include Reinforced, Glass Fibers, Carbon Fibers, Natural(...)
Made of: New materials sourcebook for architecture and design
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This book presents a wide range of the innovative building materials that are currently being developed, as well as their applications for today's architecture. It introduces architects to new approaches to sophisticated building concepts that are made possible by the use of high-tech building materials. Chapters include Reinforced, Glass Fibers, Carbon Fibers, Natural Fibers, Sandwiches, Honeycombs, and Foams.
Matériaux et éclairage
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Now more than ever, architects and designers are crossing aesthetic borders, and redefining craft to suit their own creative needs, philosophies, and expectations—often by commenting upon or challenging it. Featuring twenty-five residential, commercial, and institutional projects—by major international design figures as well as the relatively unknown and(...)
Re:crafted: Interpretations of craft in contemporary architecture and interiors
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Now more than ever, architects and designers are crossing aesthetic borders, and redefining craft to suit their own creative needs, philosophies, and expectations—often by commenting upon or challenging it. Featuring twenty-five residential, commercial, and institutional projects—by major international design figures as well as the relatively unknown and up-and-coming—this volume looks at what constitutes the craft influence in contemporary architecture and design.
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Ornament is currently acquiring a new status in architecture. Parametric design and digital production of building components are radically altering its role. The free forms of ornament are no longer antithetical to the constructive geometry of a building; rather, both are designed and produced according to the same logic and using the same tools. This book gives a(...)
The articulate surface: Ornament and technology in contemporary architecture
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Ornament is currently acquiring a new status in architecture. Parametric design and digital production of building components are radically altering its role. The free forms of ornament are no longer antithetical to the constructive geometry of a building; rather, both are designed and produced according to the same logic and using the same tools. This book gives a systematic account of the technologies employed in the production of ornament and the strategies of its application today, examining a range of international built examples.
Ornementation
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In Traditional Japanese Architecture, author Mira Locher explores the development, construction, function and symbolism inherent in historic architectural elements. From roofs, walls and floors to door pulls and kettle hangers, this book situates these elements firmly within the natural environment and traditional culture of Japan.
Traditional Japanese architecture: An exploration of elements and forms
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In Traditional Japanese Architecture, author Mira Locher explores the development, construction, function and symbolism inherent in historic architectural elements. From roofs, walls and floors to door pulls and kettle hangers, this book situates these elements firmly within the natural environment and traditional culture of Japan.
Histoire jusqu'à 1900, Asie
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Après la cité antique, la ville médiévale, après l'espace urbain de la Renaissance, le XIXe siècle apporte un nouveau changement. L'architecture et l'urbanisme deviennent les agents et les serviteurs de la révolution industrielle, celle du fer et du charbon, du béton et de l'électricité. Les hommes bâtissent alors de nouvelles villes en un bouleversement de styles et(...)
Histoire de l'architecture et de l'urbanisme modernes: 1. idéologies et pionniers 1800-1910
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Après la cité antique, la ville médiévale, après l'espace urbain de la Renaissance, le XIXe siècle apporte un nouveau changement. L'architecture et l'urbanisme deviennent les agents et les serviteurs de la révolution industrielle, celle du fer et du charbon, du béton et de l'électricité. Les hommes bâtissent alors de nouvelles villes en un bouleversement de styles et d'habitudes qui prennent parfois les couleurs de l'utopie... Ce volume montre et explique l'habitat humain dans ses réalisations et ses projets, de l'aube des temps contemporains jusqu'à nos jours. Une irremplaçable synthèse illustrée, comprenant un index des noms cités.
Modernisme
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People Meet in Architecture is the official catalog of the 12th International Architecture Biennale. The idea of Kazuyo Sejima for this Biennale is to restart the discussion about architecture and its role in civilization, thus helping people relate to architecture while helping architecture relate to people and helping people relate to themselves.
People meet in architecture: Biennale Architettura 2010, official catalog
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People Meet in Architecture is the official catalog of the 12th International Architecture Biennale. The idea of Kazuyo Sejima for this Biennale is to restart the discussion about architecture and its role in civilization, thus helping people relate to architecture while helping architecture relate to people and helping people relate to themselves.
Expositions collectives
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Contemporary South Africain architecture in a landscape of transition explores the ways in which local architects have contributed to change in this country through their work and to the development of a new sense of cultural identity. The focus is on buildings that create beauty from utility and need, that respect their place in the landscape, that connect people to(...)
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Contemporary South African architecture in a landscape of transition
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Contemporary South Africain architecture in a landscape of transition explores the ways in which local architects have contributed to change in this country through their work and to the development of a new sense of cultural identity. The focus is on buildings that create beauty from utility and need, that respect their place in the landscape, that connect people to their social and physical environment, and that unlock the potential of cities to amaze and astound. This book will bring South African architecture to the center of the international architectural debate.
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Focusing on the correspondence between the period's built environments and its literary pursuits, Building Romanticism argues that at this turbulent moment in British history a number of politically charged and aesthetically resonant architectural spaces, both real and imagined, negotiated intense anxieties about shifting notions of gender and sexuality, increased class(...)
Building romanticism : literature and architecture in Nineteenth-Century Britain
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Focusing on the correspondence between the period's built environments and its literary pursuits, Building Romanticism argues that at this turbulent moment in British history a number of politically charged and aesthetically resonant architectural spaces, both real and imagined, negotiated intense anxieties about shifting notions of gender and sexuality, increased class mobility, the individual's uncertain place in history, challenges to the British national character and to the project of nation building, and the very form and function of art itself.
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The year 1973 marked a turning point in American strategic interest in the Middle East and in Israel’s social, economic and political structures. This publication examines the constructed environments that emerged as a result, through contemporary visual commentary, historical materials and architectural texts written in both Israel and the U.S.
Aircraft carrier: American ideas and Israeli architecturees after 1973
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The year 1973 marked a turning point in American strategic interest in the Middle East and in Israel’s social, economic and political structures. This publication examines the constructed environments that emerged as a result, through contemporary visual commentary, historical materials and architectural texts written in both Israel and the U.S.
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this monograph presents the work of Bijoy Jain and his team at Studio Mumbai Work-Place in India. Bijoy Jain’s efforts to create buildings of cultural and ecological significance are displayed in five residential buildings built in the tropical state of Maharashtra, on the coast of the Arabian Sea, and in the Himalayan Mountains. The book also features an interview with(...)
Bijoy Jain: sprirt of nature wood architecture award 2012
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this monograph presents the work of Bijoy Jain and his team at Studio Mumbai Work-Place in India. Bijoy Jain’s efforts to create buildings of cultural and ecological significance are displayed in five residential buildings built in the tropical state of Maharashtra, on the coast of the Arabian Sea, and in the Himalayan Mountains. The book also features an interview with master carpenter Jeevaram Suthar and an accompanying essay by Jain about Studio Mumbai’s moral and ethical approach to architecture and carpentry.
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