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Aeolian Winds and the Spirit in Renaissance Architecture introduces new dimensions of thinking about architectural theory. Investigating Renaissance pneumatic architecture with respect to other disciplines of arts and sciences, the collected essays substantiate the thesis that pneuma (air, wind, spirit, soul) is a fundamental link for establishing harmony among the human(...)
Aeolian winds and the spirit in renaissance architecture
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Aeolian Winds and the Spirit in Renaissance Architecture introduces new dimensions of thinking about architectural theory. Investigating Renaissance pneumatic architecture with respect to other disciplines of arts and sciences, the collected essays substantiate the thesis that pneuma (air, wind, spirit, soul) is a fundamental link for establishing harmony among the human body, a building, and the cosmos. While much of sixteenth and seventeenth century scholarship has been devoted to the mathematics of ideal architecture, the book proves that essence, wind and ventilation are all part of the classical principles of building, and that one of the primary goals of Renaissance architects was to enhance the powers of pneuma so as to foster the art of well-being. This volume, written by leading architectural historians and scholars, delineates ancient and Renaissance theories and practice of pneumatology, and indicates a link to contemporary environmental questions. It examines Anaximenes, Hippocrates, Galen, Trento, Romano, Alberti, Serlio, Palladio, Scamozzi and other thinkers and humanists. Moreover, the essays illustrate the most famous examples of hygienico-therapeutic villas, including Rotonda, La Rocca Pisana and Eolia, a pneumatic model of Renaissance Venetian architecture.
Théorie de l’architecture
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Taking a radical position counter to many previous histories and theories of the interior, domesticity and the home, "The emergence of the interior" considers how the concept and experience of the domestic interior have been formed from the beginning of the nineteenth century. It considers the interior's emergence in relation to the thinking of Walter Benjamin and Sigmund(...)
The emergence of the interior : architecture, modernity, domesticity
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Taking a radical position counter to many previous histories and theories of the interior, domesticity and the home, "The emergence of the interior" considers how the concept and experience of the domestic interior have been formed from the beginning of the nineteenth century. It considers the interior's emergence in relation to the thinking of Walter Benjamin and Sigmund Freud, and, through case studies, in architecture's trajectories toward modernism. The book argues that the interior emerged with a sense of 'doubleness', being understood and experienced as both a spatial and an image-based condition. Incorporating perspectives from architecture, critical history and theory, and psychoanalysis, "The emergence of the interior" will be of interest to academics and students of the history and theory of architecture and design, social history, and cultural studies.
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"Olympic cities" provides the first full overview of the changing relationship between cities and the Olympic events since 1896. With eighteen specially commissioned and original essays written by a team of authors from the U.K. and overseas, it explores the historical experience of staging the Olympics from the point of view of the host city.
Olympic cities : city agendas, planning, and the World's games, 1896-2012
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"Olympic cities" provides the first full overview of the changing relationship between cities and the Olympic events since 1896. With eighteen specially commissioned and original essays written by a team of authors from the U.K. and overseas, it explores the historical experience of staging the Olympics from the point of view of the host city.
Théorie de l’urbanisme
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Never before have so many people lived in an urban environment: More than half the world's current population does, and that number is expected to rise to two-thirds by 2050. The contemporary city is the arena where all of the diverse forms of power and the far-reaching impacts of globalization must interact. This situation confronts us with issues that are more urgent(...)
Théorie de l’urbanisme
août 2007, Rotterdam
Visionary power : Producing the contemporary city
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Never before have so many people lived in an urban environment: More than half the world's current population does, and that number is expected to rise to two-thirds by 2050. The contemporary city is the arena where all of the diverse forms of power and the far-reaching impacts of globalization must interact. This situation confronts us with issues that are more urgent than ever before: What is the contemporary city? Who and what "produces" it? Which forces steer its development? What is the potential role of the architect?This volume draws together research about the foundations of the contemporary city; discusses forces that have a bearing on its development; formulates the challenges for today's architects and urban planners; and presents strategies with which they can operate in the midst of this interplay of forces, on the basis of topical, coherent visions for the twenty-first century city.
Théorie de l’urbanisme
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In response to the contentious process surrounding the selection of a design for the World Trade Center site, the use of spectacular buildings to brand cities and institutions, and the dizzying transformations of the skylines of Shanghai and Dubai, public awareness of architecture and design has perhaps never been higher. At the same time, architecture itself is(...)
Théorie de l’architecture
novembre 2007, Minneapolis
The new architectural pragmatism
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In response to the contentious process surrounding the selection of a design for the World Trade Center site, the use of spectacular buildings to brand cities and institutions, and the dizzying transformations of the skylines of Shanghai and Dubai, public awareness of architecture and design has perhaps never been higher. At the same time, architecture itself is undergoing an identity crisis as it confronts fundamental issues: the effect of digital technology on design, the pervasive impact of global capitalism, and whether to embrace or resist popular media and taste. The New Architectural Pragmatism collects the most provocative, penetrating, and influential attempts by leading theorists and practitioners in the field to define what architectural practice should be at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Written in the aftermath of modernism’s utopian impulse and postmodernism’s detached playfulness, the essays gathered here express and critique a new spirit of cultural and political engagement with contemporary society. Interrogating the architect’s social responsibility, the contributors deliberate about how much we should ask of architecture and suggest that in the coming century, architecture must be at once flexible and robust, responsive and self-directed.
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Strategically situated at the gateway to the Mississippi River yet standing atop a former swamp, New Orleans was from the first what geographer Peirce Lewis called an "impossible but inevitable city." How New Orleans came to be, taking shape between the mutual and often contradictory forces of nature and urban development, is the subject of "An unnatural metropolis".(...)
An unatural metropolis : wresting New Orleans from nature
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Strategically situated at the gateway to the Mississippi River yet standing atop a former swamp, New Orleans was from the first what geographer Peirce Lewis called an "impossible but inevitable city." How New Orleans came to be, taking shape between the mutual and often contradictory forces of nature and urban development, is the subject of "An unnatural metropolis". Craig E. Colten traces engineered modifications to New Orleans's natural environment from 1800 to 2000 and demonstrates that, though all cities must contend with their physical settings, New Orleans may be the city most dependent on human-induced transformations of its precarious site. In a new preface, Colten shows how Hurricane Katrina exemplifies the inability of human artifice to exclude nature from cities and he urges city planners to keep the environment in mind as they contemplate New Orleans's future. Urban geographers frequently have portrayed cities as the antithesis of nature, but in "An unnatural metropolis", Colten introduces a critical environmental perspective to the history of urban areas. His amply illustrated work offers an in-depth look at a city and society uniquely shaped by the natural forces it has sought to harness.
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Théorie de l’urbanisme
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Gardens contain time, culture, and nature. They are powerful symbolic spaces onto which a society can project its ideals, either to conjure or contrive cultural change, rooting them in the flow of natural processes. Five authors explore the variety of relationships between garden making and cultural change in Argentina, the Caribbean, Mexico, and the United States. They(...)
Gardens and Cultural Change: a Pan-American Perspective
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Gardens contain time, culture, and nature. They are powerful symbolic spaces onto which a society can project its ideals, either to conjure or contrive cultural change, rooting them in the flow of natural processes. Five authors explore the variety of relationships between garden making and cultural change in Argentina, the Caribbean, Mexico, and the United States. They show how gardens express popular cultural invention and attempts at political manipulation, as well as provide places of cultural resistance by subjugated people. Issues of identity and ideology; political coercion and resistance apply equally throughout the continent, inviting a renewed attention to gardens as places where cultural identities are forged and contested.
Théorie du paysage
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All we need
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On the occasion of Luxemburg European Capital of Culture 2007, the exhibition All We Need is being mounted on the subject of needs, resources, and fairness. The exhibition’s point of departure is the ten needs of every person as formulated by the economist Manfred Max-Neef: subsistence, protection, affection, participation, recreation, creativity, understanding, identity,(...)
All we need
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On the occasion of Luxemburg European Capital of Culture 2007, the exhibition All We Need is being mounted on the subject of needs, resources, and fairness. The exhibition’s point of departure is the ten needs of every person as formulated by the economist Manfred Max-Neef: subsistence, protection, affection, participation, recreation, creativity, understanding, identity, freedom, and transcendence. Each of these needs has a single area of the exhibition devoted to it: Survive, Protect, Love, Stand Up, Relax, Create, Understand, Choose, Dream. The book mirrors the exhibition with photographs and texts and provides additional windows on the complex subject with introductory texts on the exhibition, resources, and fairness. An extensive collage of texts and images illustrates the needs, supplemented by journalistic and art-historical images and philosophical quotations that do not appear in the exhibition itself. The catalogue is designed by the well-known graphic designer Emanuel Tschumi.
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juin 2007, Luxembourg
Théorie de l’architecture
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Life is a building site : not just since the German film of that name was released, the building site has been a popular metaphor for the patchwork plans of contemporary life. The phenomenon of the building site runs through our everyday lives, but it largely remains behind construction site fences. This volume looks behind the barriers and focuses on the building site as(...)
Construction site : metamorphoses in the city
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Life is a building site : not just since the German film of that name was released, the building site has been a popular metaphor for the patchwork plans of contemporary life. The phenomenon of the building site runs through our everyday lives, but it largely remains behind construction site fences. This volume looks behind the barriers and focuses on the building site as such for the first time. With authoritative information and reflection from a variety of perspectives, some quite surprising, the building site is presented as an extraordinary place in the city and as a microcosm that operates under heavy pressures of time and costs. With essays on specific building sites such as the megaproject Sihlcity in Zurich or the La Défense building site in Paris, interviews with architects and construction managers, and impressive illustrations, the book leaps into a gap in the urban landscape. The publication is rounded out by artistic, photographic interventions like those of Miklos Gaals, who is known for his photographs that turn urban scenes into toys.
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Rudy Ricciotti : HQE
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Un texte rebelle face au diktat inacceptable théorisé par les technocrates à l'heure de l'environnement prétexte. Un cri de colère et de révolte. Un pamphlet brûlant et dérangeant. Une remise à plat, sans faux plis, de l'expertise environnementale et de ses génuflexions serviles. Grand Prix National d'architecture 2006, Rudy Ricciotti part en guerre contre le pervers et(...)
Rudy Ricciotti : HQE
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Un texte rebelle face au diktat inacceptable théorisé par les technocrates à l'heure de l'environnement prétexte. Un cri de colère et de révolte. Un pamphlet brûlant et dérangeant. Une remise à plat, sans faux plis, de l'expertise environnementale et de ses génuflexions serviles. Grand Prix National d'architecture 2006, Rudy Ricciotti part en guerre contre le pervers et périlleux syndrome HQE. Trois lettres glacées pour signifier aux élus et aux maîtres d'œuvre le label «Haute Qualité Environnementale». «Avant fermeture définitive de la raison», comme il l'écrit avec rage, Rudy Ricciotti apporte sa réponse à un maire confronté aux héritiers d'Ubu et de Kafka. Sans se préoccuper des appréciations oiseuses des sempiternels petits marquis de la culture - ce qui peut aller du banal «trublion sudiste» au troublant «social traître» -, Rudy Ricciotti engage la polémique avec la terrifiante radicalité qui lui est coutumière. Et naturellement, il défend le béton et le rude, face aux maniéristes et aux idéologues abscons de la norme environnementale. En filigrane lumineux à son argumentation belliqueuse et rigoureuse, Ricciotti dénonce la prise en otage de la légitimité démocratique par la technocratie. Et il désigne du regard les ridicules et leurs thuriféraires niais.
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mars 2007, Marseille
Théorie de l’architecture