A landscape of events
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In "A Landscape of Events", the celebrated French architect, urban planner, and philosopher Paul Virilio focuses on the cultural chaos of the 1980s and 1990s. It was a time, he writes, that reflected the "cruelty of an epoch, the hills and dales of daily life, the usual clumps of habits and commonplaces." Urban disorientation, the machines of war, and the acceleration(...)
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In "A Landscape of Events", the celebrated French architect, urban planner, and philosopher Paul Virilio focuses on the cultural chaos of the 1980s and 1990s. It was a time, he writes, that reflected the "cruelty of an epoch, the hills and dales of daily life, the usual clumps of habits and commonplaces." Urban disorientation, the machines of war, and the acceleration of events in contemporary life are Virilio's ongoing concerns. He explores them in events ranging from media coverage of the Gulf War to urban rioting and lawlessness. Some will see Virilio as a pessimist discouraged by "the acceleration of the reality of time," while others will find his recording of "atypical events" to be clairvoyant.
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Le centre, image du monde
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Dans toute civilisation, le «centre» est le fondement du sanctuaire. Tout plan a certes pour base la géométrie. Toutefois, l'image du monde n'est pas dans ce point idéal tracé au compas. S'il séduit ceux qui tiennent à donner une expression graphique aux nombres, les rêveurs cherchent ailleurs un coeur. Analysant de nombreux édifices sacrés à travers le monde(...)
Le centre, image du monde
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Dans toute civilisation, le «centre» est le fondement du sanctuaire. Tout plan a certes pour base la géométrie. Toutefois, l'image du monde n'est pas dans ce point idéal tracé au compas. S'il séduit ceux qui tiennent à donner une expression graphique aux nombres, les rêveurs cherchent ailleurs un coeur. Analysant de nombreux édifices sacrés à travers le monde (pyramides, temples, églises médiévales), Myriam Philibert montre que le cercle suppose des extensions, un sommet comme axe vertical et la magie du plan comme développement horizontal.
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Un amateur d'architecture
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Ce livre revêt une forme autobiographique explorant les origines d'un goût constant pour l'architecture. Histoire d'un chemin que conduit l'amateur vers son point de vue pour tenir une parole critique, dans la Ville devenue destin, horizon dominant.
Un amateur d'architecture
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Ce livre revêt une forme autobiographique explorant les origines d'un goût constant pour l'architecture. Histoire d'un chemin que conduit l'amateur vers son point de vue pour tenir une parole critique, dans la Ville devenue destin, horizon dominant.
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mai 2001, Paris
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Eccentric spaces
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Like all of Robert Harbison's works, "Eccentric Spaces" is a hybrid, informed by the author's interests in art, architecture, fiction, poetry, landscape, geography, history, and philosophy. The subject is the human imagination and the mysterious interplay between the (...)
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Like all of Robert Harbison's works, "Eccentric Spaces" is a hybrid, informed by the author's interests in art, architecture, fiction, poetry, landscape, geography, history, and philosophy. The subject is the human imagination and the mysterious interplay between the imagination and the spaces it has made for itself to live in: gardens, rooms, buildings, streets, museums and maps, fictional topographies, and architectures. The book is a lesson in seeing and sensing the manifold forms created by the mind for its own pleasure. Palaces and haunted houses, Victorian parlors, Renaissance sculpture gardens, factories, hill-towns, ruins, cities, even novels and paintings constructed around such environments: these are the spaces over which the author broods. Brilliantly learned, deliberately remote in form from conventional scholarship, "Eccentric Spaces" is a magical book, an intellectual adventure, a celebration. Originally published in 1977.
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avril 2000, Cambridge, Mass.
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Au sommaire : retour sur une consultation de concepteurs (Frédéric Pousin); la marge et le plein: un lieu de vie pour les tsiganes (Marie-Hèlène Giraud); Du champs de bataille au paysage de guerre (Martin Warne); Des talisman de pierre : les sources ésotériques de l'architecture militaire (Assia Houhou)...
Les carnets du paysage no 5 : printemps/été 2000
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Au sommaire : retour sur une consultation de concepteurs (Frédéric Pousin); la marge et le plein: un lieu de vie pour les tsiganes (Marie-Hèlène Giraud); Du champs de bataille au paysage de guerre (Martin Warne); Des talisman de pierre : les sources ésotériques de l'architecture militaire (Assia Houhou)...
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juin 2000, Versailles
Théorie du paysage
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After the city
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The city's reign over our senses, our moods, our very ways of being is outmoded. The suburban metropolis has superseded the city. The new building materials are non-material: electricity, telephony, weather, time, and so forth. Consequently, according to Lars Lerup, architecture and architects must be rethought. Until now, architects have been trained to serve the(...)
After the city
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The city's reign over our senses, our moods, our very ways of being is outmoded. The suburban metropolis has superseded the city. The new building materials are non-material: electricity, telephony, weather, time, and so forth. Consequently, according to Lars Lerup, architecture and architects must be rethought. Until now, architects have been trained to serve the elite few, as reflected in a belief in customization and the uniqueness of each project. Instead, Lerup holds, architectural educators should promote teamwork and the design of authorless objects, combined with an integration of design and practice. Before we can rethink the architectural curriculum, however, we must rethink the metropolis. And rethink the metropolis is just what Lerup does. In an intellectually far-ranging yet intensely personal manner, he moves from contemplation of the form and philosophical implications of the Pantheon to a discussion of how Levittown residents seek and create community. The result is an exhilarating work with profound practical implications. Unlike the many who view suburbia with paranoid dismay, Lerup takes an optimistic view of the new, open metropolis--for him not the site of unavoidable uniformity and mediocrity, but an exciting new frontier.
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mai 2000, Cambridge, Mass.
Théorie de l’urbanisme
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Disciple, ami et associé de le Corbusier, André Wogenscky a mis en pratique sa vision d'une architecture active, vivante, puisant ses formes dans la vie de l'homme et de son milieu physique à travers ses nombreuses constructions.
Théorie de l’architecture
octobre 2000, Paris
André Wogenscky : raisons profondes de la forme
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Disciple, ami et associé de le Corbusier, André Wogenscky a mis en pratique sa vision d'une architecture active, vivante, puisant ses formes dans la vie de l'homme et de son milieu physique à travers ses nombreuses constructions.
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octobre 2000, Paris
Théorie de l’architecture
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Davis focuses on the great drama of how Latinos are attempting to translate their urban demographic ascendancy into effective social power. Pundits are now unanimous that Spanish-surname voters are the sleeping giant of US politics. Though the overall vote in the 1996 elections(...)
Magical urbanism : Latinos reinvent the U.S. big city
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Davis focuses on the great drama of how Latinos are attempting to translate their urban demographic ascendancy into effective social power. Pundits are now unanimous that Spanish-surname voters are the sleeping giant of US politics. Though the overall vote in the 1996 elections declined significantly, the Latino share rose by a spectacular 16%. Yet electoral mobilization alone is unlikely to redress the increasing income and opportunity gaps between urban Latinos and suburban non-Hispanic whites. Thus in Los Angeles and elsewhere, the militant struggles of Latino workers and students are reinventing the American left. "Magical Urbanism" is fascinating reading for anyone who wants to grasp the future of urban America.
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juin 2000, New York
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The architect and theorist Walter Curt Behrendt (1884-1945) worked on public housing and urban development as a designer and administrator for the German government after World War I. From 1925 to 1926 he edited the journal "Die Form" for the German Werkbund (...)
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janvier 2000, Los Angeles
The victory of the new building style
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The architect and theorist Walter Curt Behrendt (1884-1945) worked on public housing and urban development as a designer and administrator for the German government after World War I. From 1925 to 1926 he edited the journal "Die Form" for the German Werkbund and led an articulate and well-orchestrated campaign in support of the Modern Movement. A friend and colleague of Lewis Mumford, he immigrated in 1934 to the United States, where he taught courses on city planning and housing at Dartmouth College and the University of Buffalo. "The Victory of the New Building Style" (1927)—his principal theoretical work in German and the precursor to Modern Building, which he wrote in English—presents a revisionist conception of style that places equal emphasis on form and function. Behrendt calls for architects to return to basic geometries and to articulate explicitly the new social and economic realities. Now available in English for the first time, this incisive treatise boldly advocates international modernism to the general public. Introduction by Detlef Mertins and translation by Harry Francis Mallgrave
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janvier 2000, Los Angeles
Théorie de l’architecture
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Writing from inside the discipline of architecture, rather than from the more common extrapolations from the history of painting and philosophy, Alberto Pérez-Gómez and Louise Pelletier focus on the implications of the tool of perspective (and the hegemony of(...)
Théorie de l’architecture
octobre 2000, Cambridge, Mass.
Architectural representation and the perspective hinge
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Writing from inside the discipline of architecture, rather than from the more common extrapolations from the history of painting and philosophy, Alberto Pérez-Gómez and Louise Pelletier focus on the implications of the tool of perspective (and the hegemony of vision) for architectural representation. Their primary thesis is that tools of representation have a direct influence on the conceptual development of projects and generation of forms, and that there are alternatives to the reductive working methods of most contemporary practice. The book examines textual evidence across a broad historical period, concentrating on the relationship between drawing and architectural space in the period from the seventh century to the twentieth century. The book discusses such issues as optical correction and the nature of architectural drawing in selected treatises, revealing the complexity and potential contradiction inherent in any linear history of representation. The authors' ultimate aim is to probe the possibilities of the constructed world as a poetic translation, rather than prosaic transcription, of its representations. First published in cloth in 1997.
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octobre 2000, Cambridge, Mass.
Théorie de l’architecture