Tokyo from Vancouver
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The affiliation between these two cities presumed by this book is hardly definitive, but offered up as simultaneously autobiographical and institutional. It represents an attempt to document the academic culture of a foreign study program, UBC SoA Tokyo, conducted in the winter of 2004 by the School of Architecture from the University of British Columbia.
Tokyo from Vancouver
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The affiliation between these two cities presumed by this book is hardly definitive, but offered up as simultaneously autobiographical and institutional. It represents an attempt to document the academic culture of a foreign study program, UBC SoA Tokyo, conducted in the winter of 2004 by the School of Architecture from the University of British Columbia.
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Jarmund/Vigsnaes Arkitekter
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Established in 1996, Norwegian office Jarmund/Vigsnæs Arkitekter (JVA) has gained worldwide recognition. Within their work can be detected a variety of elements, from Dutch pragmatism to Swiss atmospherics, and from Spanish abstraction to the American West Coast. Mari Hvattum combines an interview with her analysis of the practice. Included are notable projects such as(...)
Jarmund/Vigsnaes Arkitekter
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Established in 1996, Norwegian office Jarmund/Vigsnæs Arkitekter (JVA) has gained worldwide recognition. Within their work can be detected a variety of elements, from Dutch pragmatism to Swiss atmospherics, and from Spanish abstraction to the American West Coast. Mari Hvattum combines an interview with her analysis of the practice. Included are notable projects such as Dune House, Edge House, the Norwegian Ministry of Defence and the Oslo School of Architecture and Design, and many others.
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"Montréal : a written city in twelve parts" gathers twelve narratives from the latest group of participants in Ricardo Castro's Critical Writing Seminar in the graduate program in History and Theory at the McGill School of Architecture. Each piece varies in tone, structure, and conceptual flavour, reflecting a different way of experiencing Montréal.
Architecture de Montréal
septembre 2003, Montréal
Montréal : a written city in twelve pieces
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"Montréal : a written city in twelve parts" gathers twelve narratives from the latest group of participants in Ricardo Castro's Critical Writing Seminar in the graduate program in History and Theory at the McGill School of Architecture. Each piece varies in tone, structure, and conceptual flavour, reflecting a different way of experiencing Montréal.
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Good guys, wise guys, and putting up buildings : a life in construction / Samuel C. Florman.
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A DVD (duration 65'55") and a book introduce a fascinating work of architecture : the Freudenberg High School in Zürich, Switzerland (architect : Jacques Schader, 1959). The outstanding characteristic of the complex is the multifarious communicating structure that connects the individual sections. It is strong and sensitive at one and the same time : a clearly defined(...)
Jacques Schader, architect : Freudenberg 1959 - a masterpiece of European architecture
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A DVD (duration 65'55") and a book introduce a fascinating work of architecture : the Freudenberg High School in Zürich, Switzerland (architect : Jacques Schader, 1959). The outstanding characteristic of the complex is the multifarious communicating structure that connects the individual sections. It is strong and sensitive at one and the same time : a clearly defined square, inserted firmly but gently into the valuable wooded estate of an old villa park, resulting in a feascinating balance of concentration and spaciousness, of strictness and transparency, of a resolute sense of order and lightness. The elements : promenade ramps, layered volumes, interacting spatial sequences. The result : the tectonics of a modern acropolis. The origins of the architecture of the 1960s are articulated in this complex, in a condition in which its elements are not readily available constituents of a repertoire but genuine parts of a new whole. Previously priced at $64.50.
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Michael Wilford: Buildings and Projects 1992-2012 is written by Robert Maxwell, Emeritus Professor of Architecture at Princeton University, and author and academic Professor Anthony Vidler, Dean of Cooper Union School of Architecture. Original writing by Michael Wilford is also included, presenting the architect's work, together with his partners Laurence Bain, Russell(...)
Michael Wilford: buildings and projects, 1992-2012
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Michael Wilford: Buildings and Projects 1992-2012 is written by Robert Maxwell, Emeritus Professor of Architecture at Princeton University, and author and academic Professor Anthony Vidler, Dean of Cooper Union School of Architecture. Original writing by Michael Wilford is also included, presenting the architect's work, together with his partners Laurence Bain, Russell Bevington, and Manuel Schupp, in detail from both a historical and theoretical perspective. Michael Wilford: Buildings and Projects 1992-2012 features well-known projects including The Lowry and British Embassy in Berlin alongside hitherto largely unpublished projects such as The Singapore National Arts Center and Abando Transport Interchange in Bilbao.
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Le Corbusier and the occult
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Through exhaustive research that challenges long-held beliefs, J. K. Birksted's Le Corbusier and the Occult traces the structure of Le Corbusier's brand of modernist spatial and architectural ideas based on startling new documents in hitherto undiscovered family and local archives. Le Corbusier and the Occult thus answers the conundrum set by Reyner Banham (Birksted's(...)
Le Corbusier and the occult
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Through exhaustive research that challenges long-held beliefs, J. K. Birksted's Le Corbusier and the Occult traces the structure of Le Corbusier's brand of modernist spatial and architectural ideas based on startling new documents in hitherto undiscovered family and local archives. Le Corbusier and the Occult thus answers the conundrum set by Reyner Banham (Birksted's predecessor at the Bartlett School of Architecture) who, fifty years ago, wrote that Le Corbusier's book Towards a New Architecture "was to prove to be one of the most influential, widely read and least understood of all the architectural writings of the twentieth century."
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1100 architect
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For more than twenty years, David Piscuskas and Juergen Riehm, principals of 1100 Architect, have honed a distinctive architecture informed by proportion, materiality, light, and detail. The firm's designs do not adhere to any specific stylistic codes but do share an understated architectural signature: an elegance of proportion, an innovative yet direct use of materials,(...)
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octobre 2006, New York
1100 architect
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For more than twenty years, David Piscuskas and Juergen Riehm, principals of 1100 Architect, have honed a distinctive architecture informed by proportion, materiality, light, and detail. The firm's designs do not adhere to any specific stylistic codes but do share an understated architectural signature: an elegance of proportion, an innovative yet direct use of materials, a meticulous execution. A sequel to "1100 Architect" (1997), this new monograph includes more than twenty recent buildings and projects, notably Little Red School House and Elisabeth Irwin High School and the Irish Hunger Memorial, both in New York City, and the Naha City Gallery and Apartment House, in Japan. The firm’s work encompasses cultural, institutional, residential, and commercial work. In addition to a perceptive essay by a long-time observer of the firm’s work, the partners discuss five design elements essential to their practice: detail, materiality, effortlessness, permeability, and recognition.
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This book begins as a celebration of the work of Modernist architect Oscar Niemeyer, best known as the guiding genius behind Brasilia's spectacular architecture, and a leading designer of the United Nations headquarters. Niemeyer turned 102 in December 2009, and the intersection of that event with the 50th anniversary of Brasilia, in 2010, was reason enough to conduct a(...)
Oscar 102/ Brasilia 50: Eight casses in Brazil's architectural modernity
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This book begins as a celebration of the work of Modernist architect Oscar Niemeyer, best known as the guiding genius behind Brasilia's spectacular architecture, and a leading designer of the United Nations headquarters. Niemeyer turned 102 in December 2009, and the intersection of that event with the 50th anniversary of Brasilia, in 2010, was reason enough to conduct a studio at Rice University s School of Architecture on the Modernist master. Includes photos, schematics, drawings, renderings, reconstuctions and plans, From reconstructions of some furniture pieces by Niemeyer and his daughter Ana Maria; to a look at the typically Brazilian elements of Niemeyer s architecture; to proposals for as-yet-undeveloped quadrants of Brasilia.
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''Source Books in Architecture No.14: Rem Koolhaas / OMA + AMO Spaces for Prada'' is the most recent volume in the Source Books in Architecture series. Among the topics discussed in the book are the long-standing relationship with Prada and how the early objectives in that relationship have both maintained and shifted. An underlying theme to the conversations held with(...)
Rem Koolhaas, OMA + AMO / Spaces for Prada
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''Source Books in Architecture No.14: Rem Koolhaas / OMA + AMO Spaces for Prada'' is the most recent volume in the Source Books in Architecture series. Among the topics discussed in the book are the long-standing relationship with Prada and how the early objectives in that relationship have both maintained and shifted. An underlying theme to the conversations held with students and faculty of the Knowlton School community is the topic of architect-client relationships, their history, their problems, and how they have contributed to the discipline over time. Explicitly, a focus of the conversation is a number of projects that OMA has developed or completed with Prada, a large number of which are installation-scale environments that manifest in the form of runway shows and exhibitions. The challenge of such projects is to retain a commitment to the political and cultural agenda that OMA embeds in the larger and permanent buildings. Given the ephemerality and role of these environments as literal backgrounds to highlighted events, the projects are ideal scenarios in which to develop an architecture that lacks the permanence of buildings while still carrying potency and contributing to larger cultural discussions involving, for example, event, place, concept, product, staging, the crowd, lighting, and materiality. Source Books in Architecture No.14 contains project documentation from the OMA and Prada archives, transcripts from Koolhaas’ conversations with students at the Knowlton School at The Ohio State University, and commentary and critique from architects, critics, and theorists.
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