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Aalto's career overlapped both chronologically and ideologically with those of Le Corbusier and Mies van der Rohe, but his commitment to a humanitarian ideal, inspired by nature, set him apart from his purist Modernist contemporaries. His beautiful buildings, including the Paimio Sanatorium, Villa Mairea, Jyvaskla Worker's Club, Church of the Three Crosses and Baker House(...)
Architecture, monographies
avril 2007, London
Alvar Aalto : trough the eyes of shigeru ban
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Aalto's career overlapped both chronologically and ideologically with those of Le Corbusier and Mies van der Rohe, but his commitment to a humanitarian ideal, inspired by nature, set him apart from his purist Modernist contemporaries. His beautiful buildings, including the Paimio Sanatorium, Villa Mairea, Jyvaskla Worker's Club, Church of the Three Crosses and Baker House Dormitory, with their curving facades, careful interaction of wood, concrete and brick, and innovative uses of emerging technologies, show the touch of a true master. With contributions from Colin St John Wilson (architect of the British Library), Juhani Pallasmaa (Aalto specialist at the University of Technology, Helsinki), as well as an exclusive interview with Shigeru Ban, Alvar Aalto: Through the Eyes of Shigeru Ban offers a refreshing new take on Aalto's architecture and design. Added to this, three new translations of Aalto's own writings provide an insight into the workings of his mind, and the theoretical and philosophical discussions that he was engaging with in the 1920s and 30s. Beautifully illustrated, Alvar Aalto: Through the Eyes of Shigeru Ban features stunning new images by photographer Judith Turner, whose abstract interpretation of Aalto's work brings out the poetry of his buildings, and shows them in a whole new light. Hitherto unseen archive images from the Aalto foundation are also published for the first time, making this a truly unique publication. The environmental concerns of the twenty-first century mean that Aalto’s legacies have become ever more apparent. This timely retrospective pays tribute to one of the great masters of architecture and is essential reading for architects, designers and anyone interested in the origins of contemporary architecture and culture.
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avril 2007, London
Architecture, monographies
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Toronto : design city
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At a time when modern architecture has become a means for cities to up their game and raise their cultural profile on the world stage, Toronto is coming into its own. Fully entrenched in a design renaissance that is dramatically changing the face and space of the city, Toronto is now a welcome playground for celebrated local talent and international star architects. While(...)
Architecture du Canada
mars 2007, Chichester
Toronto : design city
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At a time when modern architecture has become a means for cities to up their game and raise their cultural profile on the world stage, Toronto is coming into its own. Fully entrenched in a design renaissance that is dramatically changing the face and space of the city, Toronto is now a welcome playground for celebrated local talent and international star architects. While some cities can be immediately defined by a specific style, Toronto is distinguished instead by a fusion of contemporary architecture, heritage preservation and sustainable urban design. A true mosaic of architecture and culture, Toronto is a city learning to recognise and celebrate its diversity – it is a city set to rediscover itself. "Design city : Toronto" showcases over thirty exemplary contemporary interior and architectural projects, both complete and underway. These range from hip restaurants and bars by Toronto-based practices to major institutional buildings completed by the likes of Will Alsop, Behnisch, Behnisch & Partners, Foster and Partners, Frank Gehry, Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg and Daniel Libeskind. Written in an engaging and lively manner, the book is illustrated with new photography by Tom Arban. It also provides a neighbourhood overview and biographies of featured designers.
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mars 2007, Chichester
Architecture du Canada
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L'enseignement de Las Vegas
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" L'enseignement de Las Vegas constitue une documentation brillante sur notre temps, un compte rendu, sous un angle théorique, de notre héritage architectural et un ouvrage qui se sert de l'histoire d'une manière intelligente, habile et créatrice :c'est rare. Voilà donc un livre à contester, à critiquer, mais qu'il faut lire. Tous ces petits points de controverse(...)
Théorie de l’architecture
mars 2007, Sprimont
L'enseignement de Las Vegas
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" L'enseignement de Las Vegas constitue une documentation brillante sur notre temps, un compte rendu, sous un angle théorique, de notre héritage architectural et un ouvrage qui se sert de l'histoire d'une manière intelligente, habile et créatrice :c'est rare. Voilà donc un livre à contester, à critiquer, mais qu'il faut lire. Tous ces petits points de controverse s'enroulent en une spirale débouchant sur des questions philosophiques où la nature même de l'architecture est impliquée. " Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians. Ce livre, publié pour la première fois en américain en 1971, est devenu un ouvrage essentiel dans la théorie de l'architecture. Son influence est comparable a celle de Vers une architecture de Le Corbusier.
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mars 2007, Sprimont
Théorie de l’architecture
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La culture au pluriel
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Voici les chemins pluriels qu'emprunte la culture commune pour échapper à ses maîtres, rêver de bonheur, affronter la violence, habiter les formes sociales du savoir, se glisser à l'école ou à l'université, donner forme neuve au présent et produire ces voyages de l'esprit sans lesquels il n'est point de liberté. Avec lucidité, avec une étonnante justesse, cet essai(...)
La culture au pluriel
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Voici les chemins pluriels qu'emprunte la culture commune pour échapper à ses maîtres, rêver de bonheur, affronter la violence, habiter les formes sociales du savoir, se glisser à l'école ou à l'université, donner forme neuve au présent et produire ces voyages de l'esprit sans lesquels il n'est point de liberté. Avec lucidité, avec une étonnante justesse, cet essai dessine les figures possibles d'une invention sociale, en un geste politique plein de tendresse pour la foule anonyme.
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août 2006, Paris
Théorie de l’architecture
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Is there a greener gender ? Studies show that women are more likely than men to support environmental causes through voting, activism, and consumer choices. What are the implications for the disign industry ? Does sustainable design have special appeal for women, and do they in turn offer something unique to the field ? In Women in Green : Voices of Sustainable Design,(...)
Architecture écologique
mai 2007, Bainbridge Island
Women in green : voices of sustainable design
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Is there a greener gender ? Studies show that women are more likely than men to support environmental causes through voting, activism, and consumer choices. What are the implications for the disign industry ? Does sustainable design have special appeal for women, and do they in turn offer something unique to the field ? In Women in Green : Voices of Sustainable Design, Kira Gould and Lance Hosey explore these questions through informal conversations with architects, designers, consultants, policymakers, educators, and students. What they find is that women may be changing how we all see our world and our work.
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mai 2007, Bainbridge Island
Architecture écologique
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The first in-depth biographical study of the brilliant but elusive architect who fundamentally redefined twentieth-century architecture. Now ranked with Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier, and Mies van der Rohe, Louis I. Kahn brought a reverence for history back into modern architecture while translating it into a uniquely contemporary idiom. Drawing on more than one(...)
Louis I. Kahn : beyond time and style
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The first in-depth biographical study of the brilliant but elusive architect who fundamentally redefined twentieth-century architecture. Now ranked with Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier, and Mies van der Rohe, Louis I. Kahn brought a reverence for history back into modern architecture while translating it into a uniquely contemporary idiom. Drawing on more than one hundred interviews with colleagues, coworkers, clients, and family members and illustrated with many previously unpublished photographs, this book documents the uniquely American rise of a poor immigrant to the pinnacle of the international architectural world. It illuminates the richly diverse personal relationships Kahn had with such clients as Jonas Salk and Paul Mellon, and the romantic entanglements that mystified even those closest to him. While celebrating the genius of Kahn's art, the book provides an invaluable portrait of the man who created it.
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mars 2007, New York, London
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In a Yale advanced studio, students designed projects that would tranform Garibaldi Repubblica, a neglected site in Milan, into a vital urban place.
Architecture contemporaine
septembre 2006, New Haven, London
Poetry, property, and place 01
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In a Yale advanced studio, students designed projects that would tranform Garibaldi Repubblica, a neglected site in Milan, into a vital urban place.
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septembre 2006, New Haven, London
Architecture contemporaine
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Italian journey
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Goethe’s account of his passage through Italy from 1786 to 1788 is a great travel chronicle as well as a candid self-portrait of a genius in the grip of spiritual crisis.
Italian journey
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Goethe’s account of his passage through Italy from 1786 to 1788 is a great travel chronicle as well as a candid self-portrait of a genius in the grip of spiritual crisis.
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avril 1992, London
Théorie de l’architecture
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La maison Mélancolie
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Je voudrais exprimer, et si possible illustrer cette affirmation : les maisons sont les lieux du monde (de notre petit monde) où prospèrent le plus somptueusement les nourritures et les poisons de l'amour. Sa pompe et ses indignités. Les maisons sont des couveuses à regrets, remords, amertumes, autant que des refuges pour les passions de l'amour. (J'appelle passions de(...)
La maison Mélancolie
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Je voudrais exprimer, et si possible illustrer cette affirmation : les maisons sont les lieux du monde (de notre petit monde) où prospèrent le plus somptueusement les nourritures et les poisons de l'amour. Sa pompe et ses indignités. Les maisons sont des couveuses à regrets, remords, amertumes, autant que des refuges pour les passions de l'amour. (J'appelle passions de l'amour les flambées aussi bien que les braises, les flammes claires, la cendre). Les maisons sont les formidables cachettes où entreposer la vraie vie.
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avril 2007, Paris
Théorie de l’architecture
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2 G Eduardo Arroyo
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In recent years the Madrid school has gone through a renewal that is generating an architecture which is especially interested in what is done on the other side of the Spanish frontier. Without losing sight of a rich local tradition, the many different architecture studios of Madrid -like Ábalos and Herreros, Tuñón and Mansilla, Soriano and Palacios, Cero9, Acebo and(...)
Architecture, monographies
avril 2007, Barcelona
2 G Eduardo Arroyo
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In recent years the Madrid school has gone through a renewal that is generating an architecture which is especially interested in what is done on the other side of the Spanish frontier. Without losing sight of a rich local tradition, the many different architecture studios of Madrid -like Ábalos and Herreros, Tuñón and Mansilla, Soriano and Palacios, Cero9, Acebo and Alonso, Aranguren and Gallegos, Nieto and Sobejano- are displaying a much fresher and more active approach in terms of defining new advances for contemporary Spanish architecture than their compatriots of the Barcelona School. As part of this, Eduardo Arroyo and the members of the Madrid studio no.mad arquitectos occupy an important place within the new Spanish architecture. Despite having built very little (a day nursery in Sondika, a square and a stadium in Barakaldo, and a single-family house on the outskirts of Madrid), Eduardo Arroyo is a key figure for understanding the new directions that not only Spanish, but also European, architecture is taking. This new 41st issue of the magazine 2G presents all his studio’s built work and some of its more recent projects, a total oeuvre that moves between the fiercest pragmatism and rigour, a playful geometry, the value of architecture as part of the landscape, and constructional responsibility.
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avril 2007, Barcelona
Architecture, monographies