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Cet ouvrage propose la traduction française de la conférence Silence and Light que Louis I. Kahn tient à Zurich le 12 février 1969 à l'EPF, lors de l'inauguration de l'exposition de ses travaux. Empreinte d'une grande spiritualité, cette conférence d'un architecte qui a contribué à mettre en crise le Mouvement moderne traite du sens de la création architecturale, avec ses(...)
Louis I. Kahn : silence and light -- actualité d'une pensée
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Cet ouvrage propose la traduction française de la conférence Silence and Light que Louis I. Kahn tient à Zurich le 12 février 1969 à l'EPF, lors de l'inauguration de l'exposition de ses travaux. Empreinte d'une grande spiritualité, cette conférence d'un architecte qui a contribué à mettre en crise le Mouvement moderne traite du sens de la création architecturale, avec ses implications sur la démarche de l'architecte, le regard qu'il porte sur son action et sa finalité et, par extension, sur le monde.
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septembre 2000, Lausanne
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Art and technics
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mai 2000, New York
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Haussmann le grand
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Son nom évoque la norme bourgeoise de l'appartement parisien si prisé des agents immobiliers. Mais l'oeuvre d'Haussmann est autrement plus vaste. Durant dix-sept années d'un gigantesque chantier, le préfet de la Seine a fait de Paris la capitale la plus moderne de son temps, traçant la perspective des avenues, aménageant les espaces verts, organisant la distribution de(...)
Haussmann le grand
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Son nom évoque la norme bourgeoise de l'appartement parisien si prisé des agents immobiliers. Mais l'oeuvre d'Haussmann est autrement plus vaste. Durant dix-sept années d'un gigantesque chantier, le préfet de la Seine a fait de Paris la capitale la plus moderne de son temps, traçant la perspective des avenues, aménageant les espaces verts, organisant la distribution de l'eau et du gaz, créant les égouts.
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juin 2000, Paris
Théorie de l’urbanisme
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Picking up where his best-selling City of Bits left off, Mitchell argues that we must extend the definitions of architecture and urban design to encompass virtual places as well as physical ones, and interconnection by means of telecommunication links as well as by pedestrian (...)
E-topia : "Urban life, Jim -- but not as we know it"
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Picking up where his best-selling City of Bits left off, Mitchell argues that we must extend the definitions of architecture and urban design to encompass virtual places as well as physical ones, and interconnection by means of telecommunication links as well as by pedestrian circulation and mechanized transportation systems. He proposes strategies for the creation of cities that not only will be sustainable but will make economic, social, and cultural sense in an electronically interconnected and global world. The new settlement patterns of the twenty-first century will be characterized by live/work dwellings, 24-hour pedestrian-scale neighborhoods rich in social relationships, and vigorous local community life, complemented by far-flung configurations of electronic meeting places and decentralized production, marketing, and distribution systems. Neither digiphile nor digiphobe, Mitchell advocates the creation of e-topias--cities that work smarter, not harder.
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"Sidewalk Critic" collects over 50 of Mumford's writings that were originally published in the New Yorker between 1931 and 1940. These seminal essays focus almost exclusively on the New York metropolitan area, providing an unusual glimpse into one of the formative (...)
Sidewalk critic : Lewis Mumford's writings on New York
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"Sidewalk Critic" collects over 50 of Mumford's writings that were originally published in the New Yorker between 1931 and 1940. These seminal essays focus almost exclusively on the New York metropolitan area, providing an unusual glimpse into one of the formative decades in the city's history. They cover all aspects of New York's architecture, including museums, theaters, bridges, tenements, parks, and recreational areas, and they range from a short musing on a midtown luncheonette to an extended series on Rockefeller Center. This is the first paperbbound edition of the 1998 clothbound edition.
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septembre 2000, New York
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Architect Charles Moore (1925-1993) was not only celebrated for his designs; he was also an admired writer and teacher. Though he wrote clearly and passionately about places, he was perhaps unique in avoiding the tone and stance of the personal manifesto. Through his buildings, books, and travels, Moore consistently sought insights into the questions that always underlie(...)
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novembre 2000, Cambridge, Mass.
You have to pay for the private life : selected essays by Charles W. Moore
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Architect Charles Moore (1925-1993) was not only celebrated for his designs; he was also an admired writer and teacher. Though he wrote clearly and passionately about places, he was perhaps unique in avoiding the tone and stance of the personal manifesto. Through his buildings, books, and travels, Moore consistently sought insights into the questions that always underlie architecture and design: What does it mean to make a place, and how do we inhabit those places? How do we continue to build upon but respect the landscape? How do we reconcile democracy and private land ownership? What is original? What is taste? What is the relationship between past and present? How do we involve inhabitants in making places? Finally, what is public life? As the world becomes smaller, and the uniqueness of places and landscapes gives way to sameness, Moore's celebration of the vernacular and of the surprising are more relevant than ever. The pieces in this book span the years 1952 to 1993 and engage a myriad of topics and movements, such as contextualism, community participation, collaboration, environmentally sensitive design, and historic preservation. The essays in this book reflect as well Moore's scholarship, humanism, urbanity, and great wit.
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novembre 2000, Cambridge, Mass.
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The new civic art
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Patterned on "The American Vitruvius: An Architect's Handbook of Civic Art" (1922), one of the most successful and well-known architecture books ever published, "The New Civic Art", with 1,200 new illustrations and all new text for over 1,000 entries, exemplifies the very best urban planning and town design. This entirely new book thoroughly details the most important(...)
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septembre 2002, New York
The new civic art
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Patterned on "The American Vitruvius: An Architect's Handbook of Civic Art" (1922), one of the most successful and well-known architecture books ever published, "The New Civic Art", with 1,200 new illustrations and all new text for over 1,000 entries, exemplifies the very best urban planning and town design. This entirely new book thoroughly details the most important recent trends as well as time-honored precedents. It includes information drawn from over 200 international sources. Information has been selected to make this volume the essential encyclopedic reference and textbook for decades to come.
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Nature and architecture
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This book explores the natural origin of architectural archetypes; the column, the house, the wall, the door, the temple, the tower, etc. Evolving from research carried out in the sixties, this volume not only examines the differences and similarities between natural and architectural forms, but it also draws comparisons between natural forms and the(...)
Nature and architecture
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This book explores the natural origin of architectural archetypes; the column, the house, the wall, the door, the temple, the tower, etc. Evolving from research carried out in the sixties, this volume not only examines the differences and similarities between natural and architectural forms, but it also draws comparisons between natural forms and the precepts and ideas that characterized architecture of different cultures.
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octobre 2000, Milan
Théorie de l’architecture
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The issue of race in architecture is a com-plicated and often divisive one. Traditional methods of architectural history and theory tend to attribute a city's civic and cultural identity to the dominant culture. Ignored are more marginal cultures without a tradition of public building, often preventing a complete understanding of the city and the forces that shape(...)
Sites of memory : perspectives on architecture and race
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The issue of race in architecture is a com-plicated and often divisive one. Traditional methods of architectural history and theory tend to attribute a city's civic and cultural identity to the dominant culture. Ignored are more marginal cultures without a tradition of public building, often preventing a complete understanding of the city and the forces that shape it. These essays explore the historic and contemporary effects of race upon the development of the built environment, and examine the myths and realities of America's racial landscapes. Its multidisciplinary approach identifies and interprets the black cultural landscape, examining its visual, spatial, and ideological dimensions. Contributors to this collection include Nathaniel Belcher, Felicia Davis, Sheryl Tucker deVasquez, K. Ian Grandison, Bradford Grant, Walter Hood, Lesley Lokko, Mabel O. Wilson, and Amy Weisser.
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février 2001, New York
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Urban Visions presumes that understanding our urban experience is a prerequisite for envisioning what it could be; radically, they might be the same. This book accepts that visions—more articulate currently in disciplines and media other than architecture and planning—need not always be heroic or grand. But our experience of the city does occur in something that is(...)
Urban visions : experiencing and envisioning the city
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Urban Visions presumes that understanding our urban experience is a prerequisite for envisioning what it could be; radically, they might be the same. This book accepts that visions—more articulate currently in disciplines and media other than architecture and planning—need not always be heroic or grand. But our experience of the city does occur in something that is designed—be it by architects, planners, or more often and anonymously by larger societal or cultural forces. It is an intricate construction in which physical, cultural, commercial, historical, ideological, and personal presences can coincide. In assembling work by distinguished authors from different disciplines and countries, Urban Visions puts forth a patient examination of what urban experience is and of the city’s necessity, with explicit and implicit propositions about what it could be.
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