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For the first time, this book gives a comprehensive account of Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s urban projects. It presents preparatory drawings, collages and models for many little-known works from the artists’ early career, some of which were never carried out, such as the planned wrapping of several New York City skyscrapers, as well as the spectacular large-scale projects(...)
Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Urban projects
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For the first time, this book gives a comprehensive account of Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s urban projects. It presents preparatory drawings, collages and models for many little-known works from the artists’ early career, some of which were never carried out, such as the planned wrapping of several New York City skyscrapers, as well as the spectacular large-scale projects of later years, such as the wrapping of the Pont Neuf bridge in Paris in 1985, the wrapping of the Reichstag building in Berlin in 1995 and the 2005 installation The Gates in New York’s Central Park. In two detailed essays, the authors of the book explore Christo’s extraordinary talent for drawing and investigate the artists’ ambivalent perspective on urban space, which oscillates between a powerful critique of the city’s impersonal modernism and a tribute to the liberal, democratic use of urban areas.
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This publication explores the ways in which the development of the built environment has contributed to health and well-being problems and how the physical design of the places we live in may support, or constrain, healthy lifestyle choices. It sets out how understanding these relationships more fully may lead to policy and practice that reduces health inequalities,(...)
Healthy cities: Design for well-being
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This publication explores the ways in which the development of the built environment has contributed to health and well-being problems and how the physical design of the places we live in may support, or constrain, healthy lifestyle choices. It sets out how understanding these relationships more fully may lead to policy and practice that reduces health inequalities, increases well-being and allows people to live more flourishing, fulfilling lives. It examines the consequences of ‘car orientated’ design, the ‘toxic’ High Street, and poor quality, cramped housing; and the importance of nature in cities, and of initiatives such as community gardening, healthy food programmes and Park Run. It questions whether Heritage is always conducive to well-being and offers lessons from holistic and innovative programmes from the UK, North America and Australia which have successfully improved community and individual health and well-being.
Théorie de l’urbanisme
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Le petit livre de New York
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Quelle femme servit de modèle à la statue de la Liberté ? Pourquoi surnomme-t-on Wall Street la Bourse de New York ? Quel est le premier gratte-ciel Art déco de New York ? Combien d'ouvriers trouvèrent-ils la mort durant la construction du Brooklyn Bridge ? Quel immeuble iconique fut traité par la presse de « maigre part de tarte » ? Que se passe-t-il sur Times Square(...)
Le petit livre de New York
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Quelle femme servit de modèle à la statue de la Liberté ? Pourquoi surnomme-t-on Wall Street la Bourse de New York ? Quel est le premier gratte-ciel Art déco de New York ? Combien d'ouvriers trouvèrent-ils la mort durant la construction du Brooklyn Bridge ? Quel immeuble iconique fut traité par la presse de « maigre part de tarte » ? Que se passe-t-il sur Times Square chaque soir du réveillon ? Pourquoi Broadway est-elle la seule grande avenue à traverser Manhattan en diagonale ? Combien de livres trouve-t-on dans la Public Library de la 5th Avenue ? Combien de temps a-t-on mis pour créer Central Park ? Où peut-on aller à la plage à New York ?... Ce petit album illustré d'images anciennes raconte l'histoire de la plus grande cité américaine à travers ses monuments, ses rues et ses quartiers.
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Guides des villes
Unseen city
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No matter where we live city, country, oceanside, ormountains?there are wonders that we walk past every day. "Unseen City" widens the pinhole of our perspective by allowing us to view the world from the high-altitude eyes of a turkey vulture and the distinctly low-altitude eyes of a snail. The narrative allows us to eavesdrop on the comically frenetic life of a squirrel(...)
Unseen city
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No matter where we live city, country, oceanside, ormountains?there are wonders that we walk past every day. "Unseen City" widens the pinhole of our perspective by allowing us to view the world from the high-altitude eyes of a turkey vulture and the distinctly low-altitude eyes of a snail. The narrative allows us to eavesdrop on the comically frenetic life of a squirrel and peer deep into the past with a ginkgo biloba tree. Each of these organisms has something unique to tell us about our neighborhoods and, chapter by chapter, "Unseen City" takes us on a journey that is part nature lesson and part love letter to the world’s urban jungles. With the right perspective, a walk to the subway can be every bit as entrancing as a walk through a national park.
Littérature jeunesse
Studio 44
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Studio 44 Architects is one of the largest private architectural firms in St Petersburg and in Russia. Founded in 1991 and led by Nikita Yavein, the company now employs over 140 highly qualified specialists, including architects, restoration experts, structural designers and engineers. Studio 44 has won over sixty prestigious awards and implemented over twenty-five public(...)
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Studio 44
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Studio 44 Architects is one of the largest private architectural firms in St Petersburg and in Russia. Founded in 1991 and led by Nikita Yavein, the company now employs over 140 highly qualified specialists, including architects, restoration experts, structural designers and engineers. Studio 44 has won over sixty prestigious awards and implemented over twenty-five public and residential building projects, including Ladozhsky Railway Station, the Atrium Business Centre at Nevsky 25, Nevsky 38 and Linkor business centres, the Grand Palace shopping gallery, the Novy Peterhof hotel and the Boris Eifman Dance Academy in St Petersburg; the Palace of Schoolchildren in Astana (Kazakhstan); and the Olympic Park Railway Station in Sochi. Studio 44 designed the new museum complex of the State Hermitage Museum in the General Staff Building (Stage 1, 2010) that was profiled in the book 'The Hermitage XXI' (Thames & Hudson, 2014).
Architecture, monographies
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Programmatic alchemy recipes. This is the character that could sum up all the production of BIG (Bjarke Ingels Group), a young studio which has already become a reference in the shrewd use of factors that affect contemporary architecture. Starting his career in OMA and PLOT, in 2005 Ingels decided to found his own practice in Copenhagen and its production has only(...)
AV proyectos 043 : dossier BIG
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Programmatic alchemy recipes. This is the character that could sum up all the production of BIG (Bjarke Ingels Group), a young studio which has already become a reference in the shrewd use of factors that affect contemporary architecture. Starting his career in OMA and PLOT, in 2005 Ingels decided to found his own practice in Copenhagen and its production has only experienced increases ever since. Projects include the Greenland National Park in Nuuk, the Vilhelmsro Primary School in Asminderoed, the Danish Maritime Museum in Copenhagen, a Waste Treatment Plant in Copenhagen, Residences in Hualien, the Stockholm Sphere Master Plan, Loop City in Copenhagen. Also projects by Cloud 9 for the El Bulli Foundation in Gerona, SUMA Arquitectura with a Library and Multipurpose Center on Fuerteventura, Rafael de La-Hoz with a High-Speed Train Station in Huelva and more.
Revues
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Founded in 2009, Paris-based PARC Architectes has risen to prominence, winning awards and accolades in its native France and beyond. Just as important as its design work is PARC Architectes’s research on contemporary architecture and urbanism, laid out in the essay « Le Parc Planetaire » ("The Planetary Park"), published in the firm’s own journal, PRAGMA, and on its blog,(...)
Parc Architects: architecture as environment
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Founded in 2009, Paris-based PARC Architectes has risen to prominence, winning awards and accolades in its native France and beyond. Just as important as its design work is PARC Architectes’s research on contemporary architecture and urbanism, laid out in the essay « Le Parc Planetaire » ("The Planetary Park"), published in the firm’s own journal, PRAGMA, and on its blog, CRAPZINE. This first book to focus on PARC Architectes, " Architecture as environment" features fifteen foundational designs by the firm, chosen to reflect the firm’s credo that the environment has to become a matter of architecture. At the interface of art and science, PARC Architectes’s designs are installations rather than mere structures, enabling adequate responses to contextual and conceptual issues in the construction of contemporary human environments. In addition to brief essays, the book also includes one hundred illustrations, including many in full colour.
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Examinar os cruzamentos entre as culturas do livro e da arquitectura expõe eixos ao longo dos quais o conhecimento circula entre páginas e edifícios e, de novo, regressa aos livros. Seja na celebração de construções específicas ou na produção de livros singulares, as páginas e a impressão são manipuladas para transmitir ideias arquitectónicas. Ao dissecar uma(...)
Uma anatomia do livro de arquitectura
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Examinar os cruzamentos entre as culturas do livro e da arquitectura expõe eixos ao longo dos quais o conhecimento circula entre páginas e edifícios e, de novo, regressa aos livros. Seja na celebração de construções específicas ou na produção de livros singulares, as páginas e a impressão são manipuladas para transmitir ideias arquitectónicas. Ao dissecar uma quantidade substancial de livros através de cinco ferramentas conceptuais – textura, superfície, ritmo, estrutura e escala –, André Tavares analisa as qualidades materiais dos livros para avaliar a forma como se entrelaçam com o conhecimento da arquitectura. A história detalhada de Befreites Wohnen, de Sigfried Giedion, e as duas encarnações do Crystal Palace, em Hyde Park e Sydenham, oferecem um pano de fundo que nos confronta não apenas com o desenvolvimento do livro industrializado, mas também com a sua configuração enquanto poderoso instrumento de comunicação e conhecimento.
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Publications du CCA
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Debrisphere is a yet-unnamed stratum of Earth's crust, a supra-stratum of the Lithosphere. It contains the worldwide man-made landscapes: the artificial mountains of Germany, the “blooming deserts” of Israel, the military coral reefs of China and the United States, and other similar constructions around the world resulted from, or still serving, conflict and war. The(...)
Debrisphere: Landscape as an extension of the military imagination
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Debrisphere is a yet-unnamed stratum of Earth's crust, a supra-stratum of the Lithosphere. It contains the worldwide man-made landscapes: the artificial mountains of Germany, the “blooming deserts” of Israel, the military coral reefs of China and the United States, and other similar constructions around the world resulted from, or still serving, conflict and war. The artist's book by Anca Benera and Arnold Estefan is published as an extension to their eponymous installation, presented for the first time in the frame of “Natural Histories. Traces of the Political” exhibition at MUMOK Vienna in 2017. Alongside the artists' case studies, which include Ariel Sharon Park, Teuflesberg, Diego Garcia, Johnston Atoll and the Spartly Islands, the publication includes four republished texts by Andrew Chubb, Hito Steyerl and Eyal Weizman, and newly commissioned texts by Noit Banai, Maja & Reuben Fowkes and Raluca Voinea.
L'écologie de l'architecure
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Amsterdam-based landscape architect Michael van Gessel has been working with, rather than against, nature for the past three decades. He expresses his ethos by quoting the English author and landscape architect Joseph Spence: "Respect for the past, combined with a curiosity for what is and a feeling for what could be. This is the dynamo that starts the engine of the(...)
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Michael Van Gessel: Landscape Architect: Invisible work
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Amsterdam-based landscape architect Michael van Gessel has been working with, rather than against, nature for the past three decades. He expresses his ethos by quoting the English author and landscape architect Joseph Spence: "Respect for the past, combined with a curiosity for what is and a feeling for what could be. This is the dynamo that starts the engine of the design." Accordingly, van Gessel embraces a diversity of projects, from private gardens to urban planning. He supervised the renovation of Amsterdam's Vondel Park, drew up the master plan to restore the landscaping around Utretch's Castle De Haar and managed to integrate the inner courtyards of the Ministry of Agriculture in The Hague into the urban fabric. This comprehensive volume places van Gessel's myriad approaches into context and illuminates his pivotal role in the formation of contemporary Dutch landscape architecture.