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Thom Mayne is a deeply theoretical and conceptual architect whose built work and that of the firm Morphosis can be seen worldwide. This volume offers, for the first time ever, an exhaustive look at the models upon which all the rest has been built, and is, as well, an essential history of the work of Mayne and Morphosis. A forty-plus-year office retrospective and a love(...)
M³ : modeled works, archive 1972-2022
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Thom Mayne is a deeply theoretical and conceptual architect whose built work and that of the firm Morphosis can be seen worldwide. This volume offers, for the first time ever, an exhaustive look at the models upon which all the rest has been built, and is, as well, an essential history of the work of Mayne and Morphosis. A forty-plus-year office retrospective and a love letter to models, their process and concepts, and those that made them, the book considers at once the evolution of the model and that of the work of the firm. It features small-scale dwellings, such as the early and award-winning Sedlack Residence in Venice, California—a single room and study set atop a one-car garage—to Unicorn Island, a mixed-use master plan including a transit station, university campus, commerical and office buildings, parks, and green space in Chengdu, China.
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Long a pioneer in architecture, Emilio Ambasz has retained a belief in the environment, or rather the larger ecology, as fundamental in viewing the world: as the author notes in the introduction, "his philosophy of ‘green over gray’ may often have fallen on deaf ears at the height of Postmodernism, but it today seems profoundly relevant." And it is in the context of today(...)
Emilio Ambasz: Curating a new nature
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Long a pioneer in architecture, Emilio Ambasz has retained a belief in the environment, or rather the larger ecology, as fundamental in viewing the world: as the author notes in the introduction, "his philosophy of ‘green over gray’ may often have fallen on deaf ears at the height of Postmodernism, but it today seems profoundly relevant." And it is in the context of today that the book considers his work and its three main areas of concentration—architecture, industrial design, curating—with an aim of shining a light on the interdisciplinary nature of the work as a whole. Featuring built and manufactured designs that have achieved iconic fame and challenged others to approach new ways of reconciling architecture and nature, the book also considers Ambasz’s work as curator at MoMA and his ongoing influence and legacy.
Architecture, monographies
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Learn all about the world of architecture in only 100 words! This book explores the most iconic buildings from around the world as well as the history of architecture, from basic huts to incredible skyscrapers. From columns to pyramids, each of the carefully chosen 100 words has its own 100-word long description and colorful illustration, providing a fascinating(...)
100 things to know about architecture
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Learn all about the world of architecture in only 100 words! This book explores the most iconic buildings from around the world as well as the history of architecture, from basic huts to incredible skyscrapers. From columns to pyramids, each of the carefully chosen 100 words has its own 100-word long description and colorful illustration, providing a fascinating introduction to amazing architecture from throughout history. From the familiar to the jaw-dropping, the medieval to ultra-modern, this is an inspiring look at some of architecture's greatest developments.
Littérature jeunesse
Experiencing Olmsted: The enduring legacy of Frederick Law Olmsted's North American landscapes
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Frederick Law Olmsted is the father of American landscape architecture. His firm, and the successor firms that sprung from it, worked through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to shape some of our most beloved green spaces, including national, state, and city parks, suburban neighborhoods, and academic campuses. He is most famous for creating New York’s Central and(...)
novembre 2022
Experiencing Olmsted: The enduring legacy of Frederick Law Olmsted's North American landscapes
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Frederick Law Olmsted is the father of American landscape architecture. His firm, and the successor firms that sprung from it, worked through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to shape some of our most beloved green spaces, including national, state, and city parks, suburban neighborhoods, and academic campuses. He is most famous for creating New York’s Central and Prospect Parks, Stanford University’s campus, and the Capitol Grounds. What is less known and surprising about his legacy is that he worked widely across North America. By highlighting 200 iconic landscapes, many of which are still open to the public today,"Experiencing Olmsted" brings a fresh approach to the firms’ work and philosophy. It highlights not only grand city parks, but also other public venues born out of a desire for social equity. Olmsted was an early voice for parks as democratic spaces that could be reached on foot by a large percentage of any city’s populace. He viewed parks as restorative places—what he termed "the lungs of a city." Brimming with contemporary and archival photography as well as original drawings and plans, this truly remarkable record brings these places to vivid life.
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Donnacona, Membertou, Anadabijou, Tessouat, Langlade, Pontiac et Kondiaronk sont les personnages centraux de ce livre. Aucun d’eux n’a laissé de témoignage direct de sa vie ni de trace écrite, aucun d’eux n’a eu la vanité de soigner son image pour la postérité. Il a été terriblement facile d’enterrer leur importance politique et d’effacer de la mémoire collective leurs(...)
Littérature et poésie
décembre 2022
Ils étaient l'Amérique : De remarquables oubliés tome 3
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Donnacona, Membertou, Anadabijou, Tessouat, Langlade, Pontiac et Kondiaronk sont les personnages centraux de ce livre. Aucun d’eux n’a laissé de témoignage direct de sa vie ni de trace écrite, aucun d’eux n’a eu la vanité de soigner son image pour la postérité. Il a été terriblement facile d’enterrer leur importance politique et d’effacer de la mémoire collective leurs aspirations. C’est l’histoire en miettes d’un choc entre deux mondes, dont on dit à tort que l’un était ancien et l’autre nouveau, qui est racontée dans cette mosaïque de textes courts et poétiques. Avec ce livre, Serge Bouchard et Marie-Christine Lévesque terminent la trilogie des « Remarquables oubliés », dont le premier tome était consacré à des femmes exceptionnelles (« Elles ont fait l’Amérique ») et le second à des coureurs des bois légendaires (« Ils ont couru l’Amérique »).
Littérature et poésie
50:50 Words for reuse
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This is a compilation of the dialects of reuse. Its proposition is that an obsolete entity is not only a site of depredation, it is a condition for mediation: a location for research and design processes for meaningful change through reuse. In other words, the creative re-designation of all existing matter. This publication characterises centuries of these practices, and(...)
50:50 Words for reuse
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This is a compilation of the dialects of reuse. Its proposition is that an obsolete entity is not only a site of depredation, it is a condition for mediation: a location for research and design processes for meaningful change through reuse. In other words, the creative re-designation of all existing matter. This publication characterises centuries of these practices, and specifies their relevance to the 21st century. Our time will be characterised by its responses to the challenge of climate emergency, and to the need for social justice. It is a resource: lexicon of language, an expression of vocabularies, and a glossary of terms used to distinguish the transformation of the existing, into something new.
Théorie de l’architecture
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S’il est indéniable que les droits et les acquis des femmes ont fait un bond vertigineux depuis plus d’un siècle en Occident, il n’en reste pas moins que la lutte pour l’égalité femme/homme n’est pas un chemin pavé de roses où les droits les plus fondamentaux sont sanctuarisés et acquis pour toujours. Aujourd’hui l’art n’est plus un interdit lorsqu’on naît de sexe féminin(...)
décembre 2022
Les femmes artistes sont (de plus en plus) dangereuses
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S’il est indéniable que les droits et les acquis des femmes ont fait un bond vertigineux depuis plus d’un siècle en Occident, il n’en reste pas moins que la lutte pour l’égalité femme/homme n’est pas un chemin pavé de roses où les droits les plus fondamentaux sont sanctuarisés et acquis pour toujours. Aujourd’hui l’art n’est plus un interdit lorsqu’on naît de sexe féminin mais ce n’est pas pour autant que les obstacles sont tous levés. Ces femmes ont des destins extraordinaires, la force morale et psychique dont elles ont du faire preuve pour continuer à créer malgré les épreuves force l’admiration comme le constat qu’elles n’ont pas mis leur énergie à se faire connaître mais plutôt à persévérer.
Newcastle, Endless
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This is a collection of lyrics and lyrical reflections upon the endlessly embroiled landscape of the city: it reveals a poetic landscape infused with the effects of topography and technology upon its architecture, language, politics and planning. It is a love poem of sorts, one dedicated to the modernist dream. In common with Alex Niven’s recent prose concerning the(...)
Newcastle, Endless
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This is a collection of lyrics and lyrical reflections upon the endlessly embroiled landscape of the city: it reveals a poetic landscape infused with the effects of topography and technology upon its architecture, language, politics and planning. It is a love poem of sorts, one dedicated to the modernist dream. In common with Alex Niven’s recent prose concerning the possibilities of "a new form of radical culture beyond the idea of England", this publication fuses scholarship with meditation, experience with imagination, memory with speculation, inviting us to "pause our vortex for a moment to consider im/possibilities". A utopia of actual places is revealed in the photographs of Euan Lynn and in the poet’s elliptical observations of a situation where, "here and there/everything is open".
Théorie de l’architecture
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''Part of a city: The work of Neave Brown Architect'' explores the ethos and ideas of the Anglo-American architect Neave Brown (1929-2018), winner of the RIBA Gold Medal 2017. Part of a City gets its title from Brown’s Gold Medal acceptance speech, when he observed: ''We weren’t making housing, we were making part of a city.'' The book brings together his writing and(...)
Architecture, monographies
décembre 2022
Part of a city: The work of Neave Brown Architect
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''Part of a city: The work of Neave Brown Architect'' explores the ethos and ideas of the Anglo-American architect Neave Brown (1929-2018), winner of the RIBA Gold Medal 2017. Part of a City gets its title from Brown’s Gold Medal acceptance speech, when he observed: ''We weren’t making housing, we were making part of a city.'' The book brings together his writing and design projects, including his celebrated large-scale urban housing work for Camden Council, and the later projects in Italy and The Netherlands, the latter undertaken in private practise with David Porter. Part of a City re-presents original critiques from the 1960s and 1970s by prominent figures such as Reyner Banham, Bob Maxwell, Christopher Woodward and Ed Jones, with new writing by architects and critics including Kenneth Frampton, Jonathan Sergsion, Simon Henley, Paul Karakuservic and Peter Barber.
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Produced in the same format & size as ''On intricacy,'' ''Change is the reality'' is the second book in Canalside Press's Modern Architecture in Reflection series. It explores the ethos and ideas of Irish architect Robin Walker (1924-1991), a partner in the RIBA Gold Medal winning Dublin practice of Scott Tallon Walker. Produced in concert with Walker's son, the architect(...)
Change is the reality: The work of Robin Walker Architect
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Produced in the same format & size as ''On intricacy,'' ''Change is the reality'' is the second book in Canalside Press's Modern Architecture in Reflection series. It explores the ethos and ideas of Irish architect Robin Walker (1924-1991), a partner in the RIBA Gold Medal winning Dublin practice of Scott Tallon Walker. Produced in concert with Walker's son, the architect and teacher Simon Walker, ''Change is the reality'' is an archive of Robin's articles and lectures, presented alongside new and original photographs of a number of his seminal projects, including Bothar Bui, An Bord Failte, UCD restaurant, house at Kinsale, etc. The book also includes essays by Simon Walker and Patrick Lynch, Elizabeth Hatz, Tom de Paor, Douglas Carson and Laura Evans.
Théorie de l’architecture