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The forced polarity between form and function in considerations of architecture - opposing art to social interests, ethics to poetic expression - obscures the deep connections between ethical and poetical values in architectural tradition. Architecture has been, and must continue to be, writes Alberto Pérez-Gómez, built upon love. Modernity has rightly rejected past(...)
Théorie de l’architecture
janvier 2006, Cambridge, Mass.
Built upon love : architectural longing after ethics and aesthetics
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The forced polarity between form and function in considerations of architecture - opposing art to social interests, ethics to poetic expression - obscures the deep connections between ethical and poetical values in architectural tradition. Architecture has been, and must continue to be, writes Alberto Pérez-Gómez, built upon love. Modernity has rightly rejected past architectural excesses, but, Pérez-Gómez argues, the materialistic and technological alternatives it proposes do not answer satisfactorily the complex desire that defines humanity. True architecture is concerned with far more than fashionable form, affordable homes, and sustainable development; it responds to a desire for an eloquent place to dwell- one that lovingly provides a sense of order resonant with our dreams. In "Built upon love" Pérez-Gómez uncovers the relationship between love and architecture in order to find the points of contact between poetics and ethics - between the architect's wish to design a beautiful world and architecture's imperative to provide a better place for society. Eros, as first imagined by the early lyric poets of classical Greece, is the invisible force at the root of our capacity to create and comprehend the poetic image. Pérez-Gómez examines the nature of architectural form in the light of eros, seduction, and the tradition of the poetic image in Western architecture. He charts the ethical dimension of architecture, tracing the connections between philia - the love of friends that entails mutual responsibility among equals - and architectural program. He explores the position of architecture at the limits of language and discusses the analogical language of philia in modernist architectural theory. Finally, he uncovers connections between ethics and poetics, describing a contemporary practice of architecture under the sign of love, incorporating both eros and philia.
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Walter Benjamin n'a jamais cru que pratiquer la "critique de l'art" dispensât d'être philosophe. Au contraire, la critique n'a d'autre lieu que la philosophie sous sa forme la plus épurée. Les diverses contributions de ce recueil donne une image très cohérente et homogène de la personnalité et de la pensée de Benjamin.
Théorie de l’architecture
janvier 2006, Paris
Walter Benjamin : critique philosophique de l'art
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Walter Benjamin n'a jamais cru que pratiquer la "critique de l'art" dispensât d'être philosophe. Au contraire, la critique n'a d'autre lieu que la philosophie sous sa forme la plus épurée. Les diverses contributions de ce recueil donne une image très cohérente et homogène de la personnalité et de la pensée de Benjamin.
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janvier 2006, Paris
Théorie de l’architecture
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This book examines the inherent mysticism common to architecture around the world. The author, a leader in the Arts and Crafts Movement, explores the intentions behind structure and form. In so doing, he reveals the esoteric principles behind such grand buildings as St. Paul’s Cathedral, the Taj Mahal, and the Palace of Versailles. Originally published in 1892, this was(...)
Architecture mysticism and myth
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This book examines the inherent mysticism common to architecture around the world. The author, a leader in the Arts and Crafts Movement, explores the intentions behind structure and form. In so doing, he reveals the esoteric principles behind such grand buildings as St. Paul’s Cathedral, the Taj Mahal, and the Palace of Versailles. Originally published in 1892, this was among the earliest studies of the correlation of mysticism and the design process. Its examination of customs, myths, and folktales of many civilizations demonstrates that buildings reflect secrets that lie deeply embedded in the human psyche, related to ancient and universal symbolism. 30 black-and-white illustrations.
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This book focuses on the spatial character of the city. A brief survey of the history of urban development leads to the proposal of a methodology for the design of urban space, concentrating on the relationship of four elements: patterns, narratives, monuments and spaces. The book addresses the current debate regarding urban regeneration through the proposal of a(...)
Urban ethics : design in the contemporary city
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This book focuses on the spatial character of the city. A brief survey of the history of urban development leads to the proposal of a methodology for the design of urban space, concentrating on the relationship of four elements: patterns, narratives, monuments and spaces. The book addresses the current debate regarding urban regeneration through the proposal of a flexible framework for the analysis of urban context and the integration of new interventions to create sustainable cities. This work draws on the dual expertise of historical research and design experience. Although contemporary practice in urbanism has many sources of design guidelines it lacks a theory which provides a flexible approach to the complexities of most urban situations. This book aims to provide a theoretical framework which looks beyond the style obsession of urban makeovers to the fundamental elements of city-making. The book will feature historical analysis, theoretical coherence, contemporary case studies, good illustrations and a physical context for citizenship.
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Written specifically as a teaching text and authored by a team of leading academics in the field, this is the first book to bring together the key issues of rapid urbanisation with approaches to planning and housing. Outlining and explaining core concepts from ‘informal settlements’ to ‘sustainability’, it focuses on the rapid urbanization of developing countries with(...)
Théorie de l’urbanisme
octobre 2005, London / New York
Planning and housing in the rapidly urbanising world
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Written specifically as a teaching text and authored by a team of leading academics in the field, this is the first book to bring together the key issues of rapid urbanisation with approaches to planning and housing. Outlining and explaining core concepts from ‘informal settlements’ to ‘sustainability’, it focuses on the rapid urbanization of developing countries with case studies from Latin America, Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. The impact of rapid urbanization and associated globalization on land-use and housing is described and analyzed with reference to the particular issues of poverty, health and the environment of these areas. Providing an accessible introduction to the key issues as well as enhancing current theoretical debates and exploring practical applications, this book is an essential resource for students and researchers in this area.
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octobre 2005, London / New York
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Visions of the city
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"Visions of the city" is a dramatic history of utopian urbanism in the twentieth century. It explores radical demands for new spaces and ways of living, and considers their effects on planning, architecture and struggles to shape urban landscapes. The author critically examines influential utopian approaches to urbanism in western Europe associated with such figures as(...)
Visions of the city
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"Visions of the city" is a dramatic history of utopian urbanism in the twentieth century. It explores radical demands for new spaces and ways of living, and considers their effects on planning, architecture and struggles to shape urban landscapes. The author critically examines influential utopian approaches to urbanism in western Europe associated with such figures as Ebenezer Howard and Le Corbusier, uncovering the political interests, desires and anxieties that lay behind their ideal cities. He also investigates avant-garde perspectives from the time that challenged these conceptions of cities, especially from within surrealism. At the heart of this richly illustrated book is an encounter with the explosive ideas of the situationists. Tracing the subversive practices of this avant-garde group and its associates from their explorations of Paris during the 1950s to their alternative visions based on nomadic life and play, David Pinder convincingly explains the significance of their revolutionary attempts to transform urban spaces and everyday life. He addresses in particular Constant's New Babylon, finding within his proposals a still powerful provocation to imagine cities otherwise. The book not only recovers vital moments from past hopes and dreams of modern urbanism. It also contests current claims about the 'end of utopia', arguing that reconsidering earlier projects can play a critical role in developing utopian perspectives today. Through the study of utopian visions, it aims to rekindle elements of utopianism itself.
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Dessin / chantier
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La figure de l'architecte issue de la Renaissance repose sur la séparation du savoir et du faire, de l'artisanat et de l’art mais dans le même temps apparaissent les indices d’une rupture profonde inaugurée par le capitalisme naissant. Dépassant les catégories habituelles, "Dessin/chantier" cherche à analyser comment se produit la valeur dans un monde dominé par la(...)
Dessin / chantier
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La figure de l'architecte issue de la Renaissance repose sur la séparation du savoir et du faire, de l'artisanat et de l’art mais dans le même temps apparaissent les indices d’une rupture profonde inaugurée par le capitalisme naissant. Dépassant les catégories habituelles, "Dessin/chantier" cherche à analyser comment se produit la valeur dans un monde dominé par la marchandise. Le propos tranche par son approche idéologique à l’opposé du libéralisme actuel. L’auteur est marqué par les luttes des années 60 au Brésil, par la violence faite aux ouvriers bâtissant Brasilia. Alors le voici parti à la recherche d’une autre pratique de l’architecture et de son édification, une pratique heureuse passant par un changement radical des rapports de production. Avant-propos de Vincent Michel.
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S'appuyant sur l'expérience professionnelle issue d'une triple carrière simultanée d'architecte, d'urbaniste et d'ingénieur-conseil en génie civil, l'auteur investigue les étapes et composantes tant rationnelles que subjectives de la création architecturale, en mettant en évidence les modalités de la complémentarité indissociable entre ces deux démarches. Il apporte(...)
Créativité et rationalisme en architecture
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S'appuyant sur l'expérience professionnelle issue d'une triple carrière simultanée d'architecte, d'urbaniste et d'ingénieur-conseil en génie civil, l'auteur investigue les étapes et composantes tant rationnelles que subjectives de la création architecturale, en mettant en évidence les modalités de la complémentarité indissociable entre ces deux démarches. Il apporte ainsi un éclairage nouveau sur les concepts de créativité et d'inventivité, en distinguant clairement l'approche de l'architecte de celle de l'ingénieur. Il en déduit des propositions opérationnelles pour assurer aux futurs architectes une formation adaptée aux exigences contemporaines de l'architecture, et pour restaurer le rôle de maître d'œuvre que la tradition et la logique professionnelle.
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How does architecture relate to 17th century Dutch painting? Architects Ricardo Flores and Eva Prats analyze the painting of Pieter De Hooch to discover housing design trends of the time, a period which marks when everyday life started to be represented in art. This was the starting point for an architecture workshop at the University of New South Wales in Sydney,(...)
Through the canvas:architecture inside Dutch paintings
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How does architecture relate to 17th century Dutch painting? Architects Ricardo Flores and Eva Prats analyze the painting of Pieter De Hooch to discover housing design trends of the time, a period which marks when everyday life started to be represented in art. This was the starting point for an architecture workshop at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, proposing new architectural designs through examining De Hooch's art.
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janvier 2009
Théorie de l’art
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This critique of towns and cities draws on examples form across Western Europe, South Africa, and the U.S.A. to examine both public and private sector development practices, controls, and policies.
Théorie de l’urbanisme
octobre 1997, London
Planning for urban quality : urban design in towns and cities
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This critique of towns and cities draws on examples form across Western Europe, South Africa, and the U.S.A. to examine both public and private sector development practices, controls, and policies.
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octobre 1997, London
Théorie de l’urbanisme