Rob Mallet-Stevens 1917-1940
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Les écrits de Rob Mallet-Stevens (1886-1945) avant la guerre de 1914-1918 révèlent son admiration pour la Sécession viennoise qu'il découvre dans l'hôtel particulier de sa tante, Suzanne Stevens-Stoclet, édifié à Bruxelles par l'architecte autrichien Josef Hoffmann. Il écrit sur le théâtre et est aussi le premier à s'intéresser à l'architecture au Japon. Après la Grande(...)
Rob Mallet-Stevens 1917-1940
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Les écrits de Rob Mallet-Stevens (1886-1945) avant la guerre de 1914-1918 révèlent son admiration pour la Sécession viennoise qu'il découvre dans l'hôtel particulier de sa tante, Suzanne Stevens-Stoclet, édifié à Bruxelles par l'architecte autrichien Josef Hoffmann. Il écrit sur le théâtre et est aussi le premier à s'intéresser à l'architecture au Japon. Après la Grande Guerre, son centre d'intérêt se déplace vers le 7e art. Il réalise les décors de quelque vingt films et devient une personnalité reconnue dans le domaine des décors de cinéma. Cette implication va avoir un effet simplificateur sur sa propre architecture. Il se distingue de ses confrères modernistes par une attention soutenue aux arts appliqués, au vitrail, au fer forgé, à la sculpture. En 1925 il atteint la notoriété avec la construction d'une villa pour les Noailles à Hyères, suivie par l'inauguration en 1927 à Auteuil d'une rue qui porte son nom. Fruit d'un travail intense de recherche de textes disséminés dans de nombreuses publications, certaines rarissimes, ce recueil donne accès à la pensée critique d'un des grands architectes européens de son époque.
Architecture, monographies
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Jean Marc Ibos et Myrto Vitart, dans le silence quasi monacal de leur agence parisienne, élaborent avec un soin minutieux quelques-unes des plus rigoureuses et en même temps sensibles architectures urbaines de ces dernières années. Peu importe le programme : musée, caserne de pompiers ou logements, toutes leur réalisations présentent les mêmes caractéristiques :(...)
"6 + 6" : Jean-Marc Ibos et Myrto Vitart
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Jean Marc Ibos et Myrto Vitart, dans le silence quasi monacal de leur agence parisienne, élaborent avec un soin minutieux quelques-unes des plus rigoureuses et en même temps sensibles architectures urbaines de ces dernières années. Peu importe le programme : musée, caserne de pompiers ou logements, toutes leur réalisations présentent les mêmes caractéristiques : implantation parfaite, plans rigoureux, enveloppe raffinée, facture impeccable. Pas de hiérarchie, « noble » ou prosaïque, chaque programme fait l’objet de la même attention. Ibos et Vitart ne cherchent pas à construire des icônes. Leur centre d’intérêt est ailleurs : produire ce que l’on pourrait appeler des bâtiments civils faits pour durer et témoigner de leur époque. Des édifices qui ne cherchent pas à perturber mais à entrer en sympathie avec leur milieu, à y introduire ou préserver une forme de sérénité urbaine. Associant un grand rigueur à une extrême sensibilité, Ibos et Vitart conçoivent des architectures solides, rationnelles mais en même temps chargées d’une forte identité. Singulières dans leur expressivité contemporaine elles savent pourtant se rendre familières, accessibles, d’où leur capacité à résister au temps.
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Part aphorism and part manifesto, this book by Canadian architect Reza Aliabadi (RZLBD) references his ideas and thoughts about space. He suggests ‘the empty room’ as the very essence of architecture, and ‘the spatial experience’ as its highest mandate. Reza revisits architecture –not as the walls that enclose the space– but rather the space in-between the walls. What he(...)
Reza Aliabadi:The empty room, fragmented thoughts on space
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Part aphorism and part manifesto, this book by Canadian architect Reza Aliabadi (RZLBD) references his ideas and thoughts about space. He suggests ‘the empty room’ as the very essence of architecture, and ‘the spatial experience’ as its highest mandate. Reza revisits architecture –not as the walls that enclose the space– but rather the space in-between the walls. What he calls an “anti-architecture” of invisible voids. As Kahn always said: “Architecture comes from the making of a room”. This book starts with this, the very desire to dwell in a space in its most basic form — a room. Through short passages and aphorisms, this text revisits space as the only protagonist, the very foundation, and the sole essence of architecture. It affects your perception of space, it makes you to look at architecture differently — most likely to see the invisible.
Théorie de l’architecture
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This book documents the experiences of Montrealers past and present, creating a portrait of the storied city unlike any other. Drawn from the celebrated column in Maisonneuve magazine, this anthology features Canadian writers chronicling a quintessential part of local life. Narrated with the intimacy of journal entries, each letter bridges the playful and profound. In(...)
Letters from Montréal: Tales of an exceptional city
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This book documents the experiences of Montrealers past and present, creating a portrait of the storied city unlike any other. Drawn from the celebrated column in Maisonneuve magazine, this anthology features Canadian writers chronicling a quintessential part of local life. Narrated with the intimacy of journal entries, each letter bridges the playful and profound. In early dispatches, Melissa Bull ditches a boyfriend over pétanque in Parc Laurier; Sean Michaels watches Arcade Fire lose Battle of the Bands; Deborah Ostrovsky frets over the sublime sophistication of the Plateau’s French children. More recently, Ziya Jones spends a summer herding sheep through Parc du Pélican; Eva Crocker performs in a “fake orgasm choir” at the Rialto Theatre; and André Picard takes a pause from the pandemic by running up Mount Royal.
Architecture de Montréal
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Following "Adjaye: Works 1995-2007", this second volume looks back on the impressive portfolio of work created by architect David Adjaye between 2007 and 2015. During the years covered in this book, the acclaimed architect embraced expansive projects, taking him outside Europe to work on major ventures, such as the Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver and the Moscow(...)
Adjaye: Works 2007-2015. House, pavilions, installations, buildings
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Following "Adjaye: Works 1995-2007", this second volume looks back on the impressive portfolio of work created by architect David Adjaye between 2007 and 2015. During the years covered in this book, the acclaimed architect embraced expansive projects, taking him outside Europe to work on major ventures, such as the Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver and the Moscow School of Management Skolkovo. Designing buildings around the world, including two projects connected with the post-Katrina reconstruction program in New Orleans, Adjaye carefully tailored his approach to each place, sensitive to the important role architecture plays in affirming a sense of community and identity. This volume brings together these recent projects and presents them with new analyses and personal insights from the architect, including detailed drawing and site plans and stunning color photography, demonstrating the originality of Adjaye’s talents.
Architecture, monographies
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Featuring nineteen home-building and design strategies that are direct, original, and often surprisingly simple, this volume presents a mix of new technology and time-tested vernacular methods that will change the way we think about “home.” Each strategy features carefully selected and generously illustrated projects that put ideas into practice, offering real-world(...)
Houses that can save the world
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Featuring nineteen home-building and design strategies that are direct, original, and often surprisingly simple, this volume presents a mix of new technology and time-tested vernacular methods that will change the way we think about “home.” Each strategy features carefully selected and generously illustrated projects that put ideas into practice, offering real-world solutions regardless of location or size. With ideas and houses that span the globe, including developing regions in Asia, Africa, and South America, this highly illustrated volume shines a spotlight on everything from new techniques to creative reuse of existing buildings and materials.
Architecture résidentielle
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This publication presents contributions from the symposium ''Constructive Futures – Beyond Concrete'', which marked the start of the academic year 2021/2022 at the School of Architecture of the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland. Its aim is to explore constructive and future-oriented solutions beyond our professional comfort zones and provide(...)
Beyond concrete: Strategies for a post-fossil Baukultur
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This publication presents contributions from the symposium ''Constructive Futures – Beyond Concrete'', which marked the start of the academic year 2021/2022 at the School of Architecture of the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland. Its aim is to explore constructive and future-oriented solutions beyond our professional comfort zones and provide the opportunity to reflect on where the construction and planning industry currently stands. Why does a fundamental change seem inevitable? With an eye towards our limited resources, we must also rethink approaches and nurture a design culture that finds new ways to deal with building materials.
Architecture écologique
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The Villa Tugendhat, designed by Mies van der Rohe in 1928, is an icon of architectural modernism and a UNESCO World Heritage site. This book tells the true story of the large family connected to it, who rose to prominence through industrial textile manufacturing. It traces the transformations in the life of the family, from their roots in a Jewish ghetto to part of the(...)
Behind the glass: The Villa Tugendhat and its family
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The Villa Tugendhat, designed by Mies van der Rohe in 1928, is an icon of architectural modernism and a UNESCO World Heritage site. This book tells the true story of the large family connected to it, who rose to prominence through industrial textile manufacturing. It traces the transformations in the life of the family, from their roots in a Jewish ghetto to part of the wealthy bourgeoisie in the Austro-Hungarian Empire to adaptation in interwar independent Czechoslovakia and flight in the face of Nazi invasion. Michael Lambek examines the generation born in the first decade of the twentieth century, especially Grete Tugendhat – Lambek’s maternal grandmother – who commissioned, inhabited, championed, and relinquished the distinctive modern house.The book also provides unpublished correspondence between Martin Heidegger and Ernst Tugendhat, Grete’s son, as well as a description of the impact of a 2017 family reunion.
Théorie de l’architecture
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In nineteenth-century Canada, the Square Mile was an elite residential district in Montreal that represented a dramatic new concentration of wealth. Montreal's Square Mile chronicles the history of the Square Mile, including the diverse and far-reaching sources of its making and its twentieth-century transformations. Bringing together the work of leading scholars from(...)
Architecture de Montréal
mai 2023
Montreal's Square Mile: the making and transformation of a colonial metropole
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In nineteenth-century Canada, the Square Mile was an elite residential district in Montreal that represented a dramatic new concentration of wealth. Montreal's Square Mile chronicles the history of the Square Mile, including the diverse and far-reaching sources of its making and its twentieth-century transformations. Bringing together the work of leading scholars from a wide range of historical investigation fields, this collection tells the story of the Square Mile from its origins to its decline. Spanning the interconnected worlds of family and home life, business and high politics, architecture and urban redevelopment, this interdisciplinary and richly illustrated volume presents a new account of the history of the Square Mile and an investigation of its impact beyond the immediate urban environment.
Architecture de Montréal
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A place comes into existence through the depth of relationships that underwrite a physical location with layers of sedimented names. In this volume scholars and artists conduct varied forms of place-based inquiry to demonstrate why place matters. The volume brings into conversation photographic projects and essays that revitalize the study of landscape. Contributors(...)
Théorie de l’architecture
décembre 2022
Place matters: critical topographies in word and image
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A place comes into existence through the depth of relationships that underwrite a physical location with layers of sedimented names. In this volume scholars and artists conduct varied forms of place-based inquiry to demonstrate why place matters. The volume brings into conversation photographic projects and essays that revitalize the study of landscape. Contributors engage the study of place through an approach that Jonathan Bordo and Blake Fitzpatrick call critical topography: the way that we understand critical thought to range over a place, or how thought and symbolic forms invent place through text and image as if initiated by an X marking the spot. Critical topography’s tasks are to mediate and to diminish the gap between representation and referent, to be both in the world and about the world; to ask what place is this, what are its names, where am I, how and with what responsibilities may I be here?
Théorie de l’architecture