Archigram: The magazine
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Inspired by comic-book culture, Pop art, psychedelia, the space race, sci-fi, Constructivism and Buckminster Fuller, the hugely influential British collective Archigram was the epitome of 1960s avant-garde architecture. Their self-published, lo-fi but materially ingenious magazine Archigram, begun in 1961, announced their ideas for such visionary concepts as "Walking(...)
Archigram: The magazine
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Inspired by comic-book culture, Pop art, psychedelia, the space race, sci-fi, Constructivism and Buckminster Fuller, the hugely influential British collective Archigram was the epitome of 1960s avant-garde architecture. Their self-published, lo-fi but materially ingenious magazine Archigram, begun in 1961, announced their ideas for such visionary concepts as "Walking City," "Plug-In City" and "Instant City." It also served to connect the international avant-garde of the 1960s. Archigram forged links with the Metabolists in Japan, Frei Otto, Utopie and Haus-Rucker-Co in Europe, and Buckminster Fuller in the US. They were also championed by critics such as Charles Jencks and Reyner Banham, who brought Archigram's famous fourth pop-up issue to the US in 1966. Today "Archigram" is one of the rarest major small-press publications of the 1960s, with individual issues selling for a minimum of $600.
Théorie de l’architecture
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Since the 1980s, critical regionalism has been globally celebrated for imbuing modern architecture with local sensibilities. After rising to international stardom, however, several critical regionalists soon began to erect distinctive albeit “placeless” buildings around the world. Aris Konstantinidis (1913–1993), a Greek architect less well known outside of his home(...)
Critical Regionalism Abroad: Aris Konstantinidis without Greece
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Since the 1980s, critical regionalism has been globally celebrated for imbuing modern architecture with local sensibilities. After rising to international stardom, however, several critical regionalists soon began to erect distinctive albeit “placeless” buildings around the world. Aris Konstantinidis (1913–1993), a Greek architect less well known outside of his home country, instead propagated his vision of regional modernism to global audiences on his own terms through his publishing and teaching beyond national borders. This operative history of his life and work outside Greece unveils the potential for alternative practices of critical regionalism abroad.
Architecture, monographies
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Drawing on the United Nations' assertion that "the climate crisis is mainly a water crisis," this thought-provoking book compiles over 100 key terms defined by contemporary thinkers in science, philosophy, politics, activism and architecture. These terms—such as Water Rights, Hydrocatharsis, Decommodification of Water and Liquid Modernity—form a vital lexicon to guide(...)
Architecture écologique
octobre 2025
100 words for water: A Projective Ecosocial Vocabulary
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Drawing on the United Nations' assertion that "the climate crisis is mainly a water crisis," this thought-provoking book compiles over 100 key terms defined by contemporary thinkers in science, philosophy, politics, activism and architecture. These terms—such as Water Rights, Hydrocatharsis, Decommodification of Water and Liquid Modernity—form a vital lexicon to guide transformative action and foster a more symbiotic relationship with water. Structured as a collaborative exploration, the book combines scientific insight, philosophical depth and architectural vision to redefine how we engage with water socially, politically and ecologically. Illustrated with cartographic case studies, the volume offers vivid and hopeful scenarios for reshaping human–water interdependence. Through its diverse contributors and an interdisciplinary approach, "100 Words for Water" challenges readers to rethink water management and design as the foundation of a resilient, multispecies future.
Architecture écologique
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Through a collection of essays and case studies, ''Water Works'' shows over sixty careful responses to flooding, draught, pollution, extraction and other issues around freshwater. Divided into seven themes: Purity, Wild, Scale, Representation, Violence, Infrastructure and Commerce, ''Water Works'' allows us to learn from places and makers that build on the intricate(...)
Water works: Eco-social design
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Through a collection of essays and case studies, ''Water Works'' shows over sixty careful responses to flooding, draught, pollution, extraction and other issues around freshwater. Divided into seven themes: Purity, Wild, Scale, Representation, Violence, Infrastructure and Commerce, ''Water Works'' allows us to learn from places and makers that build on the intricate relationships between people and other life forms, materials and (infra)structures. Critically blending knowledge derived from craft, art, science and ecology, these works ask: what are sensible ways to embrace and connect with water? Through wading, floating, testing and tasting, how can we generate more desirable ecosocial relations? In facing large-scale engineering, climate change, privatization and other forms of water violence, these works are an invitation to design together with water as a site and medium for ecosocial renewal.
Architecture écologique
Rewriting Alberti
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Much has been written about Renaissance architect Leon Battista Alberti’s mantra of part-to-whole as one of the continuing conditions of architecture. While this underlying thesis has often been repeated in the annals of architectural history and theory, architects have rarely questioned the idea. In ''Rewriting Alberti'', architect Peter Eisenman suggests, however, that(...)
Théorie de l’architecture
octobre 2025
Rewriting Alberti
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Much has been written about Renaissance architect Leon Battista Alberti’s mantra of part-to-whole as one of the continuing conditions of architecture. While this underlying thesis has often been repeated in the annals of architectural history and theory, architects have rarely questioned the idea. In ''Rewriting Alberti'', architect Peter Eisenman suggests, however, that Alberti provoked a radical discourse beyond the part-to-whole dialogue featured in his Ten Books of Architecture. Eisenman’s in-depth analysis of Alberti’s five built works reveals a disjunction between the architect’s buildings and theoretical writings, suggesting a new relationship of form to meaning based on the fragmentation of homogeneous space. ''Rewriting Alberti'' includes contributions by Pier Vittorio Aureli, Mario Carpo, and Daniel Sherer. Carpo, an architectural historian and critic, theorizes that Alberti’s work initiated an idea of the discipline as a notational system akin to contemporary computational logics. By way of comparison, Sherer, an architectural historian, reconsiders critic Manfredo Tafuri’s readings of Alberti, and architect and theorist Aureli draws on Alberti to propose another idea of the architectural “project.”
Théorie de l’architecture
The architect and the animal
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In ''The Architect and the Animal'', 26 different architects look at how 26 different animals, from A to Z, have found their way into modern architectural discourse. The animal was typically approached in this discourse not through its various cultural or symbolic identities but as a body examined under a formalistic scientific lens. In this volume, the authors explore a(...)
The architect and the animal
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In ''The Architect and the Animal'', 26 different architects look at how 26 different animals, from A to Z, have found their way into modern architectural discourse. The animal was typically approached in this discourse not through its various cultural or symbolic identities but as a body examined under a formalistic scientific lens. In this volume, the authors explore a less operative—and more meaningful—understanding of animal references and representations in twentieth-century architecture.
Théorie de l’architecture
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Five lesser-known buildings by Frank Gehry which laid the foundations for his international breakthrough a decade later, portrayed by the renowned architectural photographer Johan Dehlin. This publication revisits some of Frank Gehry's lesser-known early works, built in the late 1970s and early 1980s. During this period, Gehry experimented with low-cost construction and(...)
Five Buildings by Frank Gehry
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Five lesser-known buildings by Frank Gehry which laid the foundations for his international breakthrough a decade later, portrayed by the renowned architectural photographer Johan Dehlin. This publication revisits some of Frank Gehry's lesser-known early works, built in the late 1970s and early 1980s. During this period, Gehry experimented with low-cost construction and "off the shelf" materials in creating a series of highly inventive projects in the Los Angeles area.
Architecture, monographies
The art of building
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‘'Simplicity of life is not a misery, but the very foundation of refinement?: a sanded floor and whitewashed walls, and the green trees?; or a grimy palace amid the smoke with a regiment of housemaids always working ; which, think you, is the most refined?’' William Morris (1834–1896) was a poet, designer and political activist. He campaigned against the human and(...)
The art of building
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‘'Simplicity of life is not a misery, but the very foundation of refinement?: a sanded floor and whitewashed walls, and the green trees?; or a grimy palace amid the smoke with a regiment of housemaids always working ; which, think you, is the most refined?’' William Morris (1834–1896) was a poet, designer and political activist. He campaigned against the human and environmental costs of industrial mass production and viewed the arts as central to creating a better society. In these essays, Morris develops his philosophy of simplicity, equality and care for nature in relation to architecture, displaying the integrated vision of culture which has led to Morris being viewed as a forerunner to both the Bauhaus and today’s environmental movements.
Théorie de l’architecture
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When Ise Gropius (1897–1983) embarked on a three-month trip to Japan with her husband, architect Walter Gropius, in 1954, she proved to be a gifted chronicler. In detailed reports – her only known cohesive writings from the post-war period – she vividly describes the country and its people. With keen wit and understanding, she comments on everything from discussions about(...)
Cooking up dinner speeches: Ise Gropius in Japan
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When Ise Gropius (1897–1983) embarked on a three-month trip to Japan with her husband, architect Walter Gropius, in 1954, she proved to be a gifted chronicler. In detailed reports – her only known cohesive writings from the post-war period – she vividly describes the country and its people. With keen wit and understanding, she comments on everything from discussions about reconstruction, lectures, and the Bauhaus exhibition in Tokyo, to evening parties, the role of Japanese women, Zen Buddhism, and the local cuisine. Extensively annotated by art historian and editor Almut Grunewald, this volume publishes Ise’s travelogues in facsimile for the first time.
Théorie de l’architecture
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Julian, 73 ans, de l’arrondissement de Verdun à Montréal, s’est suicidé après avoir reçu un avis d’expulsion de son nouveau propriétaire. Cela faisait plus de quarante ans qu’il habitait au même endroit et il ne pouvait envisager de recommencer sa vie ailleurs. Certains ont dit qu’il a été victime de la gentrification de son quartier. Pourrait-on en conclure que celle-ci(...)
Gentrifications et résistances à Montréal
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Julian, 73 ans, de l’arrondissement de Verdun à Montréal, s’est suicidé après avoir reçu un avis d’expulsion de son nouveau propriétaire. Cela faisait plus de quarante ans qu’il habitait au même endroit et il ne pouvait envisager de recommencer sa vie ailleurs. Certains ont dit qu’il a été victime de la gentrification de son quartier. Pourrait-on en conclure que celle-ci – comprise comme un processus de recomposition sociale de l’espace résidentiel – tue ? Afin d’analyser les dynamiques et les conséquences sociales de la gentrification à Montréal, ainsi que les formes de résistance qu’elle rencontre, cet ouvrage regroupe des textes de spécialistes de l’urbanisme, des mouvements sociaux et de l’histoire sociale. Il fait également entendre la voix de porte-parole d’organismes de lutte pour le droit au logement à Montréal et au Québec. Des analyses riches et variées offrant matière à réflexion et qui sauront convaincre de la nécessité de s’engager dans ce débat de société.
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