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This monograph presents a comprehensive overview of the designs and finished projects by the architectural firm, De Zwarte Hond [The Black Dog] (formerly Karelse Van der Meer Architecten). De Zwarte Hond, with offices in Groningen and Rotterdam, has one of most extensive and eclectic portfolios of built projects in the Netherlands. The firm is distinctive for its(...)
Architecture, monographies
novembre 2004, Rotterdam
Dutch realist : De Zwarte Hond - Karelse Van der Meer Architecten
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This monograph presents a comprehensive overview of the designs and finished projects by the architectural firm, De Zwarte Hond [The Black Dog] (formerly Karelse Van der Meer Architecten). De Zwarte Hond, with offices in Groningen and Rotterdam, has one of most extensive and eclectic portfolios of built projects in the Netherlands. The firm is distinctive for its down-to-earth design mentality, inspired by the conviction that the best design is the result of a thorough study of the requirements, programme and context of each project. The book examines De Zwarte Hond’s design process, dealing with their concern for craftsmanship and research, and provides a complete overview of hundreds of their projects.
Architecture, monographies
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L'évolution de la littérature et des arts est communément envisagée comme une succession de ruptures, dont chacune définit une école ou un mouvement dit d'avant-garde : le romantisme, le réalisme, le symbolisme, le surréalisme, le Nouveau Roman, etc. Mais, à l'aube du XXIe siècle, il serait temps de s'interroger sur la face cachée de ce récit : celle des continuités et(...)
Les arrières-gardes au XXe siècle : l'autre face de la modernité esthétique
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L'évolution de la littérature et des arts est communément envisagée comme une succession de ruptures, dont chacune définit une école ou un mouvement dit d'avant-garde : le romantisme, le réalisme, le symbolisme, le surréalisme, le Nouveau Roman, etc. Mais, à l'aube du XXIe siècle, il serait temps de s'interroger sur la face cachée de ce récit : celle des continuités et des retours, de la tradition et des arrière-gardes, qui s'inscrivent dans les marges, voire à contre-courant de la téléologie généralement acceptée. Cet ouvrage a pour ambition de renouveler profondément notre perception de l'histoire littéraire et artistique du XXe siècle en mettant en évidence un concept jusque-là ignoré.
Théorie de l’architecture
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Cet ouvrage présente 60 projets de recyclage architectural réalisés depuis 1975 et regroupés en neuf chapitres selon la fonction d'origine des bâtiments.
Recyclage architectural à Québec : 60 réalisations créatives
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Cet ouvrage présente 60 projets de recyclage architectural réalisés depuis 1975 et regroupés en neuf chapitres selon la fonction d'origine des bâtiments.
Architecture du Québec
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Cell phones, automatic teller machines, and the Internet have incontrovertibly become part of our daily lives, indistinguishable from other components of our habitual everyday activity. Life does not seem to have been fundamentally changed by these hi-tech, information-giving tools of convenience--or has it? Have we, unawares, become accustomed to a new way of living? And(...)
Théorie de l’architecture
septembre 2004, Berlin
Dot city : relational urbanism and new media in the Bauhaus Kolleg
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Cell phones, automatic teller machines, and the Internet have incontrovertibly become part of our daily lives, indistinguishable from other components of our habitual everyday activity. Life does not seem to have been fundamentally changed by these hi-tech, information-giving tools of convenience--or has it? Have we, unawares, become accustomed to a new way of living? And how can designers make creative use of these new digital possibilities? This publication of the Fourth International Bauhaus Kolleg--a year-long thematic graduate session run by the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation--offers strategies for employing digital media to integrate the unpredictable and the unplanned into urban existence. "Dot.City" asks and answers many questions: Can the use of information and communication technology counteract the continuous processes of devaluation, the loss of urban identity, the lack of multifunctional networks? Can the activation and implementation of new social techniques of knowledge production compensate for missing economical impulses and functions? How do such processes generate new species of urban values? Is it possible to re-program local social resources using intelligent network technologies? What do urban action areas designed for this purpose look like? And how can urban information spheres and physical urban spaces penetrate each other?
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septembre 2004, Berlin
Théorie de l’architecture
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Gary Chang : suitcase house
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Casting a question mark upon the proverbial image of home, Gary Chang's Suitcase House attempts to rethink the nature of intimacy, privacy, spontaneity, and flexibility. Chang's uncanny prototype proposes a 40-meter long empty rectangular space built on wood strata, flexibly divisible by a series of sliding and folding partitions. That in and of itself is hardly(...)
Architecture, monographies
août 2004, Hong Kong
Gary Chang : suitcase house
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Casting a question mark upon the proverbial image of home, Gary Chang's Suitcase House attempts to rethink the nature of intimacy, privacy, spontaneity, and flexibility. Chang's uncanny prototype proposes a 40-meter long empty rectangular space built on wood strata, flexibly divisible by a series of sliding and folding partitions. That in and of itself is hardly earth-shattering. But lift a pneumatic panel in the floor and up pops a bathroom, a kitchen, a bedroom, cabinets. It's pop-up book meets designer living, and all in 250 square meters of space. A playful game for homeowners, the Suitcase House was designed along with 11 other radical houses for the Artists Commune project near the Great Wall in Beijing. Foreword by Liane Lefaivre.
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août 2004, Hong Kong
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Since 1974, when his very first built house, which he designed as a student, was honored with the most important Belgian architecture award, Jo Crepain has developed an impressive body of work. Most of these structures can be found in Belgium, especially the earlier ones; later assignments have ranged throughout the Netherlands. The large diversity and continuous(...)
Architecture, monographies
août 2004, Oostkamp
Jo Crepain : architect '73 - '03
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Since 1974, when his very first built house, which he designed as a student, was honored with the most important Belgian architecture award, Jo Crepain has developed an impressive body of work. Most of these structures can be found in Belgium, especially the earlier ones; later assignments have ranged throughout the Netherlands. The large diversity and continuous innovation evident in his architectural oeuvre can be understood as a consequence of an incessant search--and one which has yielded some of the most striking structures in recent Belgian architectural history. For Crepain, building is in the first place a psychological phenomenon, and a house is the last place left on earth where we can hope to recover a piece of paradise lost--not only for an elite few, but for as many people as possible. This hefty monograph considers a lifetime of work, from 1973 to 2003, presenting dozens of individual projects through textual descriptions, photographs, and floor plans, as well as extended essays on different periods of Crepain's output.
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août 2004, Oostkamp
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Books have to share attention with other media of potent performance and attraction. A parallel exists between the vast proliferation and incredible intricacy of program in the new library, and the equally explosive multiplication of information media and social obligations that have to be accommodated with. Our ambition is to redefine the Library as an institution no(...)
Seattle public library : OMA/LMN
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Books have to share attention with other media of potent performance and attraction. A parallel exists between the vast proliferation and incredible intricacy of program in the new library, and the equally explosive multiplication of information media and social obligations that have to be accommodated with. Our ambition is to redefine the Library as an institution no longer exclusively dedicated to the book, but as an information store where all potent form of media - new and old - are presented equally and legibly. -OMA/LMN
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Who owns the water?
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Industrialization and population growth have brought about a global water crisis. Nature can no longer compensate the exploitation of our freshwater and our oceans. One billion people have no reliable access to clean drinking water; two billion live in precarious hygienic conditions. Famine, poverty, epidemics, and infant mortality are closely linked with the water(...)
Who owns the water?
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Industrialization and population growth have brought about a global water crisis. Nature can no longer compensate the exploitation of our freshwater and our oceans. One billion people have no reliable access to clean drinking water; two billion live in precarious hygienic conditions. Famine, poverty, epidemics, and infant mortality are closely linked with the water crisis. Social, ecological, political, and economic conflicts obstruct efforts to resolve the global water crisis. Water is an instrument of power. The key question reads: Is water a commodity or is free access to water an inalienable human right? By approaching water from a phenomenological perspective, Who owns the Water? seeks to persuade the reader that an element that is constantly flowing and changing defies all claims to own it, be they political or economic, and is instead the responsibility of the entire international community.
Architecture écologique
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Yoshio Taniguchi was selected from among an elite field of international architects to design The Museum of Modern Art's new building - his first commission outside his native Japan. This volume, which accompanies an exhibition of the same name highlights the project and eight others. Designed by Massimo Vignelli, the book features an essay by Terence Riley, The Philip(...)
Yoshio Taniguchi : nine museums
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Yoshio Taniguchi was selected from among an elite field of international architects to design The Museum of Modern Art's new building - his first commission outside his native Japan. This volume, which accompanies an exhibition of the same name highlights the project and eight others. Designed by Massimo Vignelli, the book features an essay by Terence Riley, The Philip Johnson Chief Curator of Architecture and Design at MoMA, that examines the many overlapping contexts that inform Taniguchi's approach to architecture and the art of building, with an emphasis on The Museum of Modern Art's new building.
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novembre 2004, New York
Architecture, monographies
Digital media revisited
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Arguing that "first encounters" have already applied traditional theoretical and conceptual frameworks to digital media, the contributors to this book call for "second encounters," or a revisiting. Digital media are not only objects of analysis but also instruments for the development of innovative perspectives on both media and culture. Drawing on insights from literary(...)
Théorie de l’architecture
septembre 2004, Cambridge, Mass.
Digital media revisited
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Arguing that "first encounters" have already applied traditional theoretical and conceptual frameworks to digital media, the contributors to this book call for "second encounters," or a revisiting. Digital media are not only objects of analysis but also instruments for the development of innovative perspectives on both media and culture. Drawing on insights from literary theory, semiotics, philosophy, aesthetics, ethics, media studies, sociology, and education, the contributors construct new positions from which to observe digital media in fresh and meaningful ways. Throughout they explore to what extent interpretation of and experimentation with digital media can inform theory. It also asks how our understanding of digital media can contribute to our understanding of social and cultural change.
Théorie de l’architecture