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Devant l'inflation des images de la ville, il importe de mettre en oeuvre un questionnement scientifique, susceptible d'éclairer leur rôle dans le développement des savoirs et des pratiques de l'intervention spatiale. Trois disciplines sont ici principalement interrogées pour traiter de la construction des figurations urbaines, de leurs effets, de leurs modes de(...)
Figures de la ville et construction des savoirs : architecture, urbanisme, géographie
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Devant l'inflation des images de la ville, il importe de mettre en oeuvre un questionnement scientifique, susceptible d'éclairer leur rôle dans le développement des savoirs et des pratiques de l'intervention spatiale. Trois disciplines sont ici principalement interrogées pour traiter de la construction des figurations urbaines, de leurs effets, de leurs modes de circulation : l'architecture, l'urbanisme et la géographie.
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L'hypothèse de la " Fonction oblique " préconisant la fixation de la vie des hommes sur les plans inclinés, fut énoncée en 1964 par Claude Parent et Paul Virilio. Les textes qui vont suivre en présentent l'explication, tendent à parvenir à une globalisation des solutions de concentration urbaine et illustrent par certains exemples concrets les possibilités illimitées de(...)
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L'hypothèse de la " Fonction oblique " préconisant la fixation de la vie des hommes sur les plans inclinés, fut énoncée en 1964 par Claude Parent et Paul Virilio. Les textes qui vont suivre en présentent l'explication, tendent à parvenir à une globalisation des solutions de concentration urbaine et illustrent par certains exemples concrets les possibilités illimitées de cette nouvelle prise de possession de l'espace. Encore faut-il se prémunir contre une tendance naturelle à la nouveauté, car lorsque l'on connaît les principes essentiels de la fonction oblique, on s'aperçoit que cette proposition a préexisté dans le passé à des époques très éloignées dans le temps, très différentes dans l'option morale ou économique, et qu'elle a donné naissance à des formulations concrètes dont l'archéologie nous porte témoignage irrécusable. Depuis la Turquie du septième millénaire avant Jésus-Christ jusqu'aux villages actuels du Sud Algérien, un passé de la fonction oblique existe. Ce passé a eu ou conserve sa vérité, sa réalité sociologique. C'est à ce titre qu'il est permis de " découvrir " d'imaginer dans le passé, cette " archéologie du futur ", aussi bien qu'il est possible dans le présent de détecter les " germes " en pensée ou en acte d'une futurologie, c'est-à-dire d'une science de la découverte de l'avenir de l'humanité, dans la mesure où cet avenir n'est ni imposé, ni subi par les deux parties contractantes : la population, les créateurs-inventeurs mais intégré de par l'imagination des uns à l'usage de l'autre. On doit lire le passé comme un futur à découvrir.
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Théorie de l’architecture
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Les cabanes, contrairement à ce que pourrait laisser croire l’étymologie, ne sont pas de « petites maisons » : elles sont sans solutions de continuité avec les architectures dont elles sont supposées être l’origine. Fragiles et singulières, elles sont construites sans plan préconçu. Elles abritent des individus qui ne s’y installent pas, n’y habitent jamais véritablement.(...)
Notes sur la nature, la cabane et quelques autres choses
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Les cabanes, contrairement à ce que pourrait laisser croire l’étymologie, ne sont pas de « petites maisons » : elles sont sans solutions de continuité avec les architectures dont elles sont supposées être l’origine. Fragiles et singulières, elles sont construites sans plan préconçu. Elles abritent des individus qui ne s’y installent pas, n’y habitent jamais véritablement. Aux marges des villes et des sociétés, elles recomposent une certaine idée de la nature à laquelle nous désirons nous confronter tout en la craignant. Cette ambivalence fondamentale fait de la cabane un lieu de contradictions où coexistent le haut et le bas, l’ouvert et le fermé, le mobile et l’immobile, le jeu et le sérieux, la vie et la mort.
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Untitled Space
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Contributors : Maaike Bleeker, Jeroen Boomgaard, Joost Meuwissen, Jell Post, Vincent van Rossem, Michael Snitker, Paul Toornend, Wouter Vanstiphout.
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janvier 2005, Amsterdam
Untitled Space
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Contributors : Maaike Bleeker, Jeroen Boomgaard, Joost Meuwissen, Jell Post, Vincent van Rossem, Michael Snitker, Paul Toornend, Wouter Vanstiphout.
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The Japanese dry landscape garden has long attracted - and long baffled - viewers from the West. While museums across the United States are replicating these "Zen rock gardens" in their courtyards and miniature versions of the gardens are now office decorations, they remain enigmatic, their philosophical and aesthetic significance obscured. "Reading Zen in the Rocks", the(...)
Reading Zen in the rocks : the Japanese dry landscape garden
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The Japanese dry landscape garden has long attracted - and long baffled - viewers from the West. While museums across the United States are replicating these "Zen rock gardens" in their courtyards and miniature versions of the gardens are now office decorations, they remain enigmatic, their philosophical and aesthetic significance obscured. "Reading Zen in the Rocks", the classic essay on the karesansui garden by French art historian François Berthier, has now been translated by Graham Parkes, giving English-speaking readers a concise, thorough, and beautifully illustrated history of these gardens. Berthier's guided tour of the famous garden of Ryoanji (Temple) in Kyoto leads him into an exposition of the genre, focusing on its Chinese antecedents and affiliations with Taoist ideas and Chinese landscape painting. He traces the roles of Shinto and Zen Buddhism in the evolution of the garden and also considers how manual laborers from the lowest classes in Japan had a hand in creating some of its highest examples. Parkes contributes an equally original and substantive essay which delves into the philosophical importance of rocks and their "language of stone," delineating the difference between Chinese and Japanese rock gardens and their relationship to Buddhism. Together, the two essays compose one of the most comprehensive and elegantly written studies of this haunting garden form. "Reading Zen in the Rocks" is fully illustrated with photographs of all the major gardens discussed, making it a handsome addition to the library of anyone interested in gardening, Eastern philosophy, and the combination of the two that the karesansui so superbly represents.
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How do the living maintain relations to the dead? Why do we bury people when they die? And what is at stake when we do? In "The dominion of the dead", Robert Pogue Harrison considers the supreme importance of these questions to Western civilization, exploring the many places where the dead cohabit the world of the living-the graves, images, literature, architecture, and(...)
The dominion of the dead
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How do the living maintain relations to the dead? Why do we bury people when they die? And what is at stake when we do? In "The dominion of the dead", Robert Pogue Harrison considers the supreme importance of these questions to Western civilization, exploring the many places where the dead cohabit the world of the living-the graves, images, literature, architecture, and monuments that house the dead in their afterlife among us. This work devotes particular attention to the practice of burial. Harrison contends that we bury our dead to humanize the lands where we build our present and imagine our future. As long as the dead are interred in graves and tombs, they never truly depart from this world, but remain, if only symbolically, among the living. Spanning a broad range of examples, from the graves of our first human ancestors to the empty tomb of the Gospels to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Harrison also considers the authority of predecessors in both modern and premodern societies. Through inspired readings of major writers and thinkers such as Vico, Virgil, Dante, Pater, Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Rilke, he argues that the buried dead form an essential foundation where future generations can retrieve their past, while burial grounds provide an important bedrock where past generations can preserve their legacy for the unborn.
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In 1949, Beijing still retained nearly all of its time-honoured character and magnificence. But when Chairman Mao rejected the proposal to build a new capital for the People's Republic of China and decided to stay in the ancient city, he initiated a long struggle to transform Beijing into a shining beacon of socialism. So began the remaking of the city into a modern(...)
Remaking Beijing : Tiananmen Square and the creation of a political space
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In 1949, Beijing still retained nearly all of its time-honoured character and magnificence. But when Chairman Mao rejected the proposal to build a new capital for the People's Republic of China and decided to stay in the ancient city, he initiated a long struggle to transform Beijing into a shining beacon of socialism. So began the remaking of the city into a modern metropolis rife with monuments, public squares, exhibition halls, and government offices. Wu Hung grew up in Beijing and experienced much of the city's makeover firsthand. In this lavishly illustrated work, he offers a vivid, often personal account of the struggle over Beijing's reinvention, drawing particular attention to Tiananmen Square - the most sacred space in the People's Republic of China. "Remaking Beijing" considers the square's transformation from a restricted imperial domain into a public arena for political expression, from an epic symbol of socialism into a holy relic of the Maoist regime, and from an official and monumental complex into a site for unofficial and antigovernment demonstrations. Wu Hung also explores how Tiananmen Square has become a touchstone for official art in modern China - as the site for Mao's monumental portrait, as the location of museums narrating revolutionary history, and as the grounds for extravagant National Day parades celebrating the revolutionary masses. He then shows how in recent years the square has inspired artists working without state sponsorship to create paintings, photographs, and even performances that reflect the spirit of the 1989 uprisings and pose a forceful challenge to official artworks and the socio-political system that supports them.
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'OverHolland - architectural studies for Dutch cities' is a series published by the Department of Architecture at Delft University of Technology. The field of architectural research covered by the series includes both typological and morphological urban studies and the question of architectural intervention in Dutch cities.
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mars 2005, Amsterdam
OverHolland 1 -Architectonische studies voor de Hollandse stad
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'OverHolland - architectural studies for Dutch cities' is a series published by the Department of Architecture at Delft University of Technology. The field of architectural research covered by the series includes both typological and morphological urban studies and the question of architectural intervention in Dutch cities.
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'Lessons' begins with Risselada's and Tupker's own student years, in which the famous Forum-group dominated the architectural debate with the illustrous Dick Apon, Jaap Bakema, Aldo van Eyck, Joop Hardy and Herman Hertzberger. International influences discussed in 'Lessons' come from designers like Charles and Ray Eames, Alison and Peter Smithson, John Hejduk, Peter(...)
Théorie de l’architecture
avril 2005, amsterdam
Lessons : Tupker\Risselada : a double portrait of dutch architectural education, 1953\2003
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'Lessons' begins with Risselada's and Tupker's own student years, in which the famous Forum-group dominated the architectural debate with the illustrous Dick Apon, Jaap Bakema, Aldo van Eyck, Joop Hardy and Herman Hertzberger. International influences discussed in 'Lessons' come from designers like Charles and Ray Eames, Alison and Peter Smithson, John Hejduk, Peter Eisenman and Tadao Ando, and from the historians Emil Kaufmann, Colin Rowe, Charles Jencks and Beatriz Colomina. 'Lessons' also gives an account of the work by students of Risselada and Tupker.
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If there is something in architecture that is difficult to describe then it is space, but it is in the spatial quality of architecture and its use that its essence is encapsulated. There is, however, surprising little evidence of this in current architectural debate, because of all the consideration for visual appearance. In "Revisions of space", architect Dick van(...)
Revisions of space : an architectural manual
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If there is something in architecture that is difficult to describe then it is space, but it is in the spatial quality of architecture and its use that its essence is encapsulated. There is, however, surprising little evidence of this in current architectural debate, because of all the consideration for visual appearance. In "Revisions of space", architect Dick van Gameren shows how the spatial quality of architecture is connected with densification and programmatic diversity: in buildings, around buildings and in the urban context. He does this by using a selection of unusual historic examples and his own work. The book could be described as a manual for architecture - how one can look at architecture and how, as a designer, to deal with it - as well as a personal appeal for more consideration for one of the essential components of architecture. Thanks to the choice of historical examples, this book can also be read as an unconventional cross-section of the history of architecture.
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