Igloo
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Après l'exposition d'une analyse exhaustive sur la conception et le mode de construction traditionnelle de l'igloo, cet ouvrage rassemble les œuvres d'architectes, décorateurs et artistes du monde entier qui se sont servis de cette singulière coupole de neige pour concevoir certains de leurs projets. Une compilation fondamentale qui met en évidence les liens entre le(...)
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Après l'exposition d'une analyse exhaustive sur la conception et le mode de construction traditionnelle de l'igloo, cet ouvrage rassemble les œuvres d'architectes, décorateurs et artistes du monde entier qui se sont servis de cette singulière coupole de neige pour concevoir certains de leurs projets. Une compilation fondamentale qui met en évidence les liens entre le vernaculaire et le design contemporain, établit une piste intéressante pour la recherche architectonique et se présente comme un hommage à une forme constructive millénaire en voie de disparition.
Architecture écologique
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In 1950, only 30 percent of the world's population lived in cities. By 2007, the planet's population has doubled, and today, as many people live in cities as populated the entire planet in 1950. Eighty percent of the planet's greenhouse gases are created by these energy-intensive urban centers. Thus, the key to creating climate change solutions resides with cities.(...)
Urban meltdown: cities, climate change and politics as usual
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In 1950, only 30 percent of the world's population lived in cities. By 2007, the planet's population has doubled, and today, as many people live in cities as populated the entire planet in 1950. Eighty percent of the planet's greenhouse gases are created by these energy-intensive urban centers. Thus, the key to creating climate change solutions resides with cities. Author and Ottawa city councilor Clive Doucet provides a razor-sharp insider's perspective, stating his central theme: "It's not about planning. It's about politics." Climate change is proceeding so quickly not for lack of knowledge, but because politicians who deviate from the car-based sprawl model cannot get elected. Urban Meltdown describes how we got here, why we got here, and what can be done about it, as evidenced by the author's observations that: Economic growth has no built-in environmental accountability. Until the political thinking about growth and the progress model itself is changed, our environmental concerns will never be properly addressed. We need a new governance paradigm at all three levels. The cautionary tale of how the 1960s tried to take us down a different route failed, not for lack of leadership but because the system didn't permit it. Urban Meltdown reveals, castigates, and inspires. This is an important book for anyone who cares about thinking differently, acting differently, and making a difference. Clive Doucet is an urban activist, well-known journalist, best-selling author, and the first poet ever elected to Ottawa City Council.
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Frey
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Lorsque Albert Frey (1903-1998) a quitté sa Suisse natale pour les Etats-Unis, en 1930, ce fut en emportant l'influence de son mentor, Le Corbusier. L'innovatrice Aluminaire House, développée avec A. L. Kocher, fut exposée en 1932 par Henry-Russell Hitchcock et Philip Johnson lors de la légendaire exposition « Le style international : l architecture depuis 1922 », au(...)
Architecture, monographies
octobre 2008, Hong Kong, Köln, Tokyo, Paris, Londres
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Lorsque Albert Frey (1903-1998) a quitté sa Suisse natale pour les Etats-Unis, en 1930, ce fut en emportant l'influence de son mentor, Le Corbusier. L'innovatrice Aluminaire House, développée avec A. L. Kocher, fut exposée en 1932 par Henry-Russell Hitchcock et Philip Johnson lors de la légendaire exposition « Le style international : l architecture depuis 1922 », au Musée d Art Moderne de New York, comme une illustration rare du mouvement en Amérique. Peu après Frey découvrit le désert californien, où il s'établit et réalisa la plus grande partie de son oeuvre. Cherchant tout au long de sa vie de nouvelles manières de construire, et travaillant également sur les matériaux préfabriqués, il publia régulièrement les résultats de ses recherches. Son talent visionnaire et ses demeures élégantes et clairement structurées ont fait de lui le fondateur du « modernisme du désert ».
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Candela
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Cette monographie de Félix Candela (1919-1997) se consacre à l architecture mexicaine moderne et à son influence internationale. A travers d'audacieuses expériences utilisant des matériaux tels que le béton armé, diverses méthodes d'optimisation des coûts de construction, Candela est parvenu à réaliser non seulement des constructions de grande qualité, mais une(...)
Architecture, monographies
octobre 2008, Hong Kong, Köln, London, Los Angeles, Madrid
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Cette monographie de Félix Candela (1919-1997) se consacre à l architecture mexicaine moderne et à son influence internationale. A travers d'audacieuses expériences utilisant des matériaux tels que le béton armé, diverses méthodes d'optimisation des coûts de construction, Candela est parvenu à réaliser non seulement des constructions de grande qualité, mais une architecture réussie et prestigieuse. Ses impressionnantes réalisations géométriques incluent non seulement des immeubles industriels mais aussi des églises, des restaurants, des bâtiments universitaires ou des complexes sportifs. C'est la résolution des problèmes de manière poétique, parfois bizarre, mais illustrant comment l'ingénierie peut mener à l'architecture expressionniste, que ce livre invite à découvrir.
Architecture, monographies
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Drawn from the contributions to the 9th international “Consciousness Reframed” research conference held at University of Applied Arts Vienna in 2008, this publication aims for a timely re-definition of contemporary syncretic inquiries into the fields of art, science, technology and society through theory and practice alike, reframing the concept of innovation in its(...)
New realities: being syncretic
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Drawn from the contributions to the 9th international “Consciousness Reframed” research conference held at University of Applied Arts Vienna in 2008, this publication aims for a timely re-definition of contemporary syncretic inquiries into the fields of art, science, technology and society through theory and practice alike, reframing the concept of innovation in its relationship to progress and change within the context of perception and its transformation. It comprises a wide range of outstanding expertise and insights of artists, architects, performers, musicians, writers, scientists, and scholars. Among the authors from at least 20 countries are most prominently Roy Ascott, Gerald Bast, Jim Gimzewski, Pierre Lévy, Ryohei Nakatsu, Michael Punt, Ruth Schnell, Barbara Maria Stafford, Alfred Vendl, Victoria Vesna and Peter Weibel. The publication includes full papers and a DVD, edited by Ruth Schnell, with short video extracts of the event and accompanying visual reference.
Théorie de l’architecture
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"An industry manager who left his white-blue, silver-shimmering world of car bodywork and dove into the pitch-black, mysterious world of architecture for the first time during a competition asked me one day: "Ms Rau, why do architects actually wear black?" Although I was wearing black and I am an architect I didn’t have a spontaneous answer, so I responded: "Ask the other(...)
Why do architects wear black?
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"An industry manager who left his white-blue, silver-shimmering world of car bodywork and dove into the pitch-black, mysterious world of architecture for the first time during a competition asked me one day: "Ms Rau, why do architects actually wear black?" Although I was wearing black and I am an architect I didn’t have a spontaneous answer, so I responded: "Ask the other architects!" That was in 2001, and it is why this small book came to be. I have asked the question at an international level and whenever it seems appropriate ever since. The sometimes amusing and other times programmatic or hair-splitting answers I have received over the last seven years are listed chronologically in this little black volume. Read, and please, don’t ask me why architects wear black!"
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octobre 2008, New York
Théorie de l’architecture
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With the publication of the Dymaxion House in 1929, Buckminster Fuller became an overnight sensation in the world of American architecture. It was an uncompromising design and spectacularly novel. The living areas were hexagonal and attached around a central supply tower, and the multistory interior was fully climate-controlled. The house was conceived as completely(...)
Fuller houses: R. Buckminster Fuller's dymaxion dwellings
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With the publication of the Dymaxion House in 1929, Buckminster Fuller became an overnight sensation in the world of American architecture. It was an uncompromising design and spectacularly novel. The living areas were hexagonal and attached around a central supply tower, and the multistory interior was fully climate-controlled. The house was conceived as completely self-sufficient – all the necessary supply modules were contained in the tower, including water and wastewater, energy production, and air filters. The rooms were equipped with the most modern furnishings and fixtures. The approximately 150 m2 house weighed just 3 tons, cost no more than a car, and was designed to be constructed and dismantled anytime and anywhere.
Architecture, monographies
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Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983) was an architect, engineer, geometrician, cartographer, philosopher, futurist, inventor of the famous geodesic dome, and one of the most brilliant thinkers of his time. For more than five decades, he set forth his comprehensive perspective on the world’s problems in numerous essays, which offer an illuminating insight into the(...)
Operating manual for spaceship earth
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Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983) was an architect, engineer, geometrician, cartographer, philosopher, futurist, inventor of the famous geodesic dome, and one of the most brilliant thinkers of his time. For more than five decades, he set forth his comprehensive perspective on the world’s problems in numerous essays, which offer an illuminating insight into the intellectual universe of this renaissance man. These texts remain surprisingly topical even today, decades after their initial publication.
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Snøhetta works
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Snøhetta is a leading team of architects in Norway with offices in Oslo and New York. This first-ever publication to document their work presents and illustrates the most important current and completed projects of these architects, who have been active internationally for fifteen years, and contains texts by various authors. Projects include the Library of Alexandria(...)
Snøhetta works
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Snøhetta is a leading team of architects in Norway with offices in Oslo and New York. This first-ever publication to document their work presents and illustrates the most important current and completed projects of these architects, who have been active internationally for fifteen years, and contains texts by various authors. Projects include the Library of Alexandria (2002), the New Opera House in Oslo (2008), and the Gateway Project in Ras Al-Khaimah, Dubai. Snøhetta’s works and projects revolve around a collaboration and interchange between various disciplines.
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To continue to develop existing building types and do so in an intelligent way is one of the crucial tasks in the field of residential building. For the success of the individual design as well as for ensuring that tried and tested structures can be utilized, repeated, and varied in a wide range of situations, a deeper understanding of the underlying types is(...)
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novembre 2008, Basel, Boston, Berlin
Town houses: a housing typology
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To continue to develop existing building types and do so in an intelligent way is one of the crucial tasks in the field of residential building. For the success of the individual design as well as for ensuring that tried and tested structures can be utilized, repeated, and varied in a wide range of situations, a deeper understanding of the underlying types is indispensable. For this typology of residential buildings, the authors have developed systematic new presentations of the most innovative types. Each individual volume lays out the possibilities for using and transforming a particular form of residential structure. The third volume deals with the types of the townhouse. It will address the following topics among others: single- versus multistory construction, density, privacy versus publicity, and the connection of living and working. Within each type, variants are distinguished according to how they organize space, their number of floors, etc. The range of possible solutions is presented in uniform ground plans newly drawn to scale.
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