Gunnar Asplund
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Although a contemporary of Walter Gropius and Le Corbusier, Asplund pursued an architecture that does not fit easily into their view of Modernism as a movement that rejected the applied styles and ornamentation of the nineteenth century. Instead, Asplund was at ease with classical or vernacular elements blending with modernist ideals, and displayed a sensitive(...)
Gunnar Asplund
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Although a contemporary of Walter Gropius and Le Corbusier, Asplund pursued an architecture that does not fit easily into their view of Modernism as a movement that rejected the applied styles and ornamentation of the nineteenth century. Instead, Asplund was at ease with classical or vernacular elements blending with modernist ideals, and displayed a sensitive understanding of the relationship between architecture and its surrounding landscape. His abilities are amply demonstrated in masterpieces like the Woodland Cemetery. In 1915 Asplund and Sigurd Lewerentz won the competition to plan a new cemetery for Stockholm. Their romantic plan, in which a symbolically straight, narrow pathway abruptly curves blindly away into the forest, and with open fields capped by burial-mound-like hillocks, earned both of them further commissions for buildings within the cemetery. Asplund’s Woodland Chapel of 1920 is tucked into the forest and uses classical elements such as Doric columns, but sparingly and in unusual ways, while manipulating scale in ways that further the spiritual and contemplative nature of the building. The Crematorium and Monument Hall of 1935 are dignified and powerful, unornamented but not austere, to offer comfort to those who use them. The Gothenburg Law Courts, another critical work which was finally completed in 1937, shows how Asplund relates the architecture of Modernism to a historical plan and façade. Buildings such as the architect’s own summer house at Stennäs and the crematoria at Kviberg and Skövde, dating from the later part of his life when he had begun to embrace Modernism, still show traditional classical and vernacular influences and are evidence that not all forms of Modernism constituted a fresh start.
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Renzo Piano on tour
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Renzo Piano – winner of the Pritzker Prize, 1998 – is an architect whose work seems increasingly relevant to our times. Always challenging and surprising, each new design never fails to be innovative and exciting and to capture the imagination of his admirers. One of the few architects to be intimately involved in each stage of a building’s development, from its concept(...)
Renzo Piano on tour
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Renzo Piano – winner of the Pritzker Prize, 1998 – is an architect whose work seems increasingly relevant to our times. Always challenging and surprising, each new design never fails to be innovative and exciting and to capture the imagination of his admirers. One of the few architects to be intimately involved in each stage of a building’s development, from its concept and masterplan to its construction and detailing, Renzo’s insights into his own projects are revealing and insightful. In this new publication, the reader is offered the rare opportunity to experience the key buildings of the Workshop with Renzo Piano himself. Featuring approximately 25 built projects, Renzo Piano introduces each building through personal text, followed by a photographic guide which takes the reader from the external to the internal of each project on a frame by frame tour. Projects featured range from urban works such as the Potsdamer Platz masterplan, to the acclaimed Beyeler Foundation and the Jean Marie Tjibaou Cultural Centre in New Caledonia. The Renzo Piano Building Workshop is characterized by its sensitivity to site and local tradition as well as by its combination of traditional materials and techniques with those from the cutting edge of technology.
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novembre 2004, London
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"Emilio Ambasz" is a monograph devoted to the internationally celebrated architect and designer who is known for designs that skilfully unite architecture and city landscapes and showcase spatial and urbanistic proposals of an absolute originality. Ambasz creates urban complexes that rise like volcanoes of glass-works of architecture that are natural landscapes and(...)
Emilio Ambasz : a technological Arcadia
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"Emilio Ambasz" is a monograph devoted to the internationally celebrated architect and designer who is known for designs that skilfully unite architecture and city landscapes and showcase spatial and urbanistic proposals of an absolute originality. Ambasz creates urban complexes that rise like volcanoes of glass-works of architecture that are natural landscapes and gardens that turn into artificial mechanisms. This monograph documents the creative world of this New York-based architect-designer in both large- and small-scale designs: from the crystalline complex of the San Antonio Botanical Center in Texas (1982) to the Aqua Dove Mineral Water Bottle and an opaque and granite office tower in Phoenix (1998). Ambasz is a master designer at the height of his genius and this book focuses on his more recent works throughout North America.
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This extravagantly conceived and designed publication comprises four volumes of differing sizes that offer multiple perspectives on more than a hundred projects and over twenty years at the vanguard of architecture. • "Major and Recent Projects" is a large-scale presentation of Hadid’s recently built work and famed paintings • "Projects Documentation" is the only(...)
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novembre 2004, New York
Zaha Hadid : the complete works
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This extravagantly conceived and designed publication comprises four volumes of differing sizes that offer multiple perspectives on more than a hundred projects and over twenty years at the vanguard of architecture. • "Major and Recent Projects" is a large-scale presentation of Hadid’s recently built work and famed paintings • "Projects Documentation" is the only book to offer detailed descriptions and illustrations of Hadid's complete buildings and projects. • "Models and Sketches" is a selection of the architect’s groundbreaking exploration in perspective • "Essays and References" features essays by international critics, an appreciation by maverick Peter Cook and an exhaustive reference section, which includes a bibliography and project data.
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novembre 2004, New York
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This publication comprehensively examines this contemporary master's career, beginning with his education in Valencia and Zurich, and continuing with the origins and development of his celebrated body of work, including the architect's furniture designs, sculpture, and drawing.
Santiago Calatrava : the complete works
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This publication comprehensively examines this contemporary master's career, beginning with his education in Valencia and Zurich, and continuing with the origins and development of his celebrated body of work, including the architect's furniture designs, sculpture, and drawing.
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novembre 2004, New York
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Jacq. de Brouwer
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There are few architects who are as adept as the Dutch architect Jacq. de Brouwer at creating such powerful architecture with such economy of means. His work exemplifies a rare purity. The work of De Brouwer stands outside the main currents in Dutch architecture, in which there is an over-emphasis on the production of seductive superficies. From the Dutch perspective(...)
Jacq. de Brouwer
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There are few architects who are as adept as the Dutch architect Jacq. de Brouwer at creating such powerful architecture with such economy of means. His work exemplifies a rare purity. The work of De Brouwer stands outside the main currents in Dutch architecture, in which there is an over-emphasis on the production of seductive superficies. From the Dutch perspective his approach to architecture is remarkably unfashionable, perhaps even old-fashioned, while in a European context there are architects such as Cruz & Ortiz and Peter Zumthor who occupy similar positions. The abstraction of De Brouwers architecture means that his work is both unruly and intriguing. In his work he cuts to the essential core with determination and precision. He banishes all distraction, whether it be the trends and fashions in the profession, or the interference in the environment for which he is designing. This monograph provides a chronological overview of the most important works created by De Brouwer since the mid-1980s.
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novembre 2004, Rotterdam
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This monograph presents a comprehensive overview of the designs and finished projects by the architectural firm, De Zwarte Hond [The Black Dog] (formerly Karelse Van der Meer Architecten). De Zwarte Hond, with offices in Groningen and Rotterdam, has one of most extensive and eclectic portfolios of built projects in the Netherlands. The firm is distinctive for its(...)
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novembre 2004, Rotterdam
Dutch realist : De Zwarte Hond - Karelse Van der Meer Architecten
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This monograph presents a comprehensive overview of the designs and finished projects by the architectural firm, De Zwarte Hond [The Black Dog] (formerly Karelse Van der Meer Architecten). De Zwarte Hond, with offices in Groningen and Rotterdam, has one of most extensive and eclectic portfolios of built projects in the Netherlands. The firm is distinctive for its down-to-earth design mentality, inspired by the conviction that the best design is the result of a thorough study of the requirements, programme and context of each project. The book examines De Zwarte Hond’s design process, dealing with their concern for craftsmanship and research, and provides a complete overview of hundreds of their projects.
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L'évolution de la littérature et des arts est communément envisagée comme une succession de ruptures, dont chacune définit une école ou un mouvement dit d'avant-garde : le romantisme, le réalisme, le symbolisme, le surréalisme, le Nouveau Roman, etc. Mais, à l'aube du XXIe siècle, il serait temps de s'interroger sur la face cachée de ce récit : celle des continuités et(...)
Les arrières-gardes au XXe siècle : l'autre face de la modernité esthétique
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L'évolution de la littérature et des arts est communément envisagée comme une succession de ruptures, dont chacune définit une école ou un mouvement dit d'avant-garde : le romantisme, le réalisme, le symbolisme, le surréalisme, le Nouveau Roman, etc. Mais, à l'aube du XXIe siècle, il serait temps de s'interroger sur la face cachée de ce récit : celle des continuités et des retours, de la tradition et des arrière-gardes, qui s'inscrivent dans les marges, voire à contre-courant de la téléologie généralement acceptée. Cet ouvrage a pour ambition de renouveler profondément notre perception de l'histoire littéraire et artistique du XXe siècle en mettant en évidence un concept jusque-là ignoré.
Théorie de l’architecture
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Cet ouvrage présente 60 projets de recyclage architectural réalisés depuis 1975 et regroupés en neuf chapitres selon la fonction d'origine des bâtiments.
Recyclage architectural à Québec : 60 réalisations créatives
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Cet ouvrage présente 60 projets de recyclage architectural réalisés depuis 1975 et regroupés en neuf chapitres selon la fonction d'origine des bâtiments.
Architecture du Québec
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Cell phones, automatic teller machines, and the Internet have incontrovertibly become part of our daily lives, indistinguishable from other components of our habitual everyday activity. Life does not seem to have been fundamentally changed by these hi-tech, information-giving tools of convenience--or has it? Have we, unawares, become accustomed to a new way of living? And(...)
Théorie de l’architecture
septembre 2004, Berlin
Dot city : relational urbanism and new media in the Bauhaus Kolleg
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Cell phones, automatic teller machines, and the Internet have incontrovertibly become part of our daily lives, indistinguishable from other components of our habitual everyday activity. Life does not seem to have been fundamentally changed by these hi-tech, information-giving tools of convenience--or has it? Have we, unawares, become accustomed to a new way of living? And how can designers make creative use of these new digital possibilities? This publication of the Fourth International Bauhaus Kolleg--a year-long thematic graduate session run by the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation--offers strategies for employing digital media to integrate the unpredictable and the unplanned into urban existence. "Dot.City" asks and answers many questions: Can the use of information and communication technology counteract the continuous processes of devaluation, the loss of urban identity, the lack of multifunctional networks? Can the activation and implementation of new social techniques of knowledge production compensate for missing economical impulses and functions? How do such processes generate new species of urban values? Is it possible to re-program local social resources using intelligent network technologies? What do urban action areas designed for this purpose look like? And how can urban information spheres and physical urban spaces penetrate each other?
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septembre 2004, Berlin
Théorie de l’architecture