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This volume explores the interconnected social, sustainable and spatial principles that underpin the design of more environmentally conscientious buildings and places, illustrated through models, drawings and images of selected key projects by the award-nominated London-based architecture practice Mæ. Each project outlines beneficial strategies for creating more(...)
Mae: Towards a resilient architecture
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This volume explores the interconnected social, sustainable and spatial principles that underpin the design of more environmentally conscientious buildings and places, illustrated through models, drawings and images of selected key projects by the award-nominated London-based architecture practice Mæ. Each project outlines beneficial strategies for creating more sustainable designs, achieving social equity and working within our planet's limits to elevate the human spirit in the long-term. This book posits strategies to design buildings and places that enrich culture and society, offering insight from researchers and practitioners, as well as richly illustrated documentation of key architectural schemes that put these principles into practice. It is a call to arms for ways to create more environmentally regenerative architecture, applying its ideas to architectural practice worldwide.
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A l'occasion des cinquante ans de Prelco, entreprise suisse spécialisée dans le béton préfabriqué, des entretiens et des tables rondes consacrés à son histoire, à ses différents projets ainsi qu'au futur de la préfabrication en béton.
Prelco : L'art de la préfrabrication
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A l'occasion des cinquante ans de Prelco, entreprise suisse spécialisée dans le béton préfabriqué, des entretiens et des tables rondes consacrés à son histoire, à ses différents projets ainsi qu'au futur de la préfabrication en béton.
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Carlana Mezzalira Pentimalli designed two important public buildings in the ancient city center of Bressanone, South Tyrol. Just over five hundred meters apart, the two works, the Music School, and the Public Library allowed for reasoning about the city's architecture, exercising a method made up of ideas that look at the peculiarities of places. In a historical period in(...)
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janvier 2023
Carlana Mezzalira Pentimalli: Luoghi Comuni
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Carlana Mezzalira Pentimalli designed two important public buildings in the ancient city center of Bressanone, South Tyrol. Just over five hundred meters apart, the two works, the Music School, and the Public Library allowed for reasoning about the city's architecture, exercising a method made up of ideas that look at the peculiarities of places. In a historical period in which the image—by virtue of its visual impact even before its meaning—has taken on the role of the main channel of communication, the Luogo Comune ("common place")—understood both as a meeting space and as the lowest common denominator of an "essential language"—might provide the interval of reflection necessary to start asking some simple, elementary questions about what surrounds us. Within this publishing project, the authors talk about the passage of time, the concept of place and method through the anthropological approach underpinning the photographs taken by Armin Linke in several site visits made in the cities of Treviso, Brixen and Munich, between 2020 and 2021.
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L'œuvre « dessinée » de Peter Märkli peut être étudiée indépendamment de son œuvre construite. Parfois, on retrouve ces dessins dans ses œuvres réalisées mais, en général, il s'agit plutôt de projets ou plus précisément de thèmes de projets en puissance. Pour Märkli, le dessin est un traitement sensible de stimuli et de suggestions, une appropriation personnelle d'une(...)
Peter Märkli: Dessins, disegni
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L'œuvre « dessinée » de Peter Märkli peut être étudiée indépendamment de son œuvre construite. Parfois, on retrouve ces dessins dans ses œuvres réalisées mais, en général, il s'agit plutôt de projets ou plus précisément de thèmes de projets en puissance. Pour Märkli, le dessin est un traitement sensible de stimuli et de suggestions, une appropriation personnelle d'une expérience. Ses dessins montrent parfois des marques d'effacement, d'hésitation. Ils sont lisibles en superposition et permettent de multiples niveaux de lecture, en épaisseur, en profondeur : il s'agit clairement d'une recherche de réponses. L'idée s'y décline en variations : couleur, proportions, hiérarchies, ordre, pleins et vides, mouvement. La feuille dessinée est donc le lieu où l'idée n'est pas « simplement » représentée ou décrite, mais plutôt ce chemin tortueux où elle naît, se développe et se précise. Après « Peter Märkli. À la recherche d'un langage », publié en 2019 par Cosa Mentale, Caryatide, propose à nouveau une étude approfondie de l'œuvre de Peter Märkli. Le livre « Peter Märkli. Dessins, disegni » se présente comme une réédition (édition franco-italienne), augmentée et mise à jour avec des planches inédites, de l'ouvrage original paru chez Quart Verlag en 2015 (édition anglo-allemande). Le livre est constitué d'une sélection du corpus de 700 dessins collectés au fil des ans par Peter Märkli lui-même. Les dessins sont accompagnés de huit essais écrits par des auteurs liés à Peter Märkli.
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Despite the fact that he shaped Venice and its contemporary form, Eugenio Miozzi remains a little-known figure. Yet both locals and visitors experience his legacy every day, in particular when they cross his bridges: from the Ponte della Libertà, to the Ponte dell’Accademia; from the various bridges over the Rio Nuovo, to the exemplary Ponte degli Scalzi. Miozzi, chief(...)
Eugenio Miozzi: Modern Venice between innovation and tradition 1931-1969
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Despite the fact that he shaped Venice and its contemporary form, Eugenio Miozzi remains a little-known figure. Yet both locals and visitors experience his legacy every day, in particular when they cross his bridges: from the Ponte della Libertà, to the Ponte dell’Accademia; from the various bridges over the Rio Nuovo, to the exemplary Ponte degli Scalzi. Miozzi, chief engineer of the Commune of Venice from 1931 to 1954, carried out a large number of works and projects, including a vast modernist parking garage and the Casino on the Lido. The prolific engineer-architect played a role in the development of the Teatro La Fenice, made plans for the restoration of the city and the extension of the Tronchetto, and designed a translagoon road and a motorway from Venice to Munich. These projects and the others presented in this illustrated volume represent Miozzi’s tireless efforts to guarantee the city’s survival by combining its centuries-old traditions with a spirit of innovation.
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Greene & Greene
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Charles and Henry Greene created the definitive houses of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. Raised to be architects, the Greene brothers were educated together at MIT, where their natural artistic skills blossomed in concert with an excellent practical education. While they practised architecture jointly in Southern California from 1906 to 1922 they achieved a(...)
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octobre 2003, London / New York
Greene & Greene
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Charles and Henry Greene created the definitive houses of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. Raised to be architects, the Greene brothers were educated together at MIT, where their natural artistic skills blossomed in concert with an excellent practical education. While they practised architecture jointly in Southern California from 1906 to 1922 they achieved a powerful symbiosis, resulting in some of the most beautifully crafted houses in America. The elegant works of their peak period, such as the Gamble, Blacker and Thorsen houses, are masterful in their design and execution. No detail was overlooked: every element of the interior, including furniture, fittings and glasswork, as well as the building structure (down to pegs, air-vents and bracing) was conceived as an organic whole, and finished exquisitely. No hint of conflict was ever recorded between the gentlemanly brothers, yet their intertwined professional lives ultimately diverged into a physical separation and distinct design vocabularies. Even so, the automatic bond between the brothers was never completely severed, and they continued to consult each other on projects for the rest of their lives. This critical monograph, which charts the brothers’ careers (together and apart), is illustrated with superb new photography and draws on a wealth of previously unpublished archival material.
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Testament
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Wright publie ‘A Testament' à l’âge de 90 ans, alors qu’il a déjà publié une autobiographie. Autant dire que ce texte se concentre sur l’activité architecturale plutôt que sur les aspects personnels et dresse un bilan de son œuvre. Auteur de nombreux textes théoriques, Wright s’efforce ici de diffuser sa pensée, avec notamment une présentation synthétique des neufs(...)
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Wright publie ‘A Testament' à l’âge de 90 ans, alors qu’il a déjà publié une autobiographie. Autant dire que ce texte se concentre sur l’activité architecturale plutôt que sur les aspects personnels et dresse un bilan de son œuvre. Auteur de nombreux textes théoriques, Wright s’efforce ici de diffuser sa pensée, avec notamment une présentation synthétique des neufs principes fondateurs de l’architecture organique et de faire connaître ses réalisations. Comprenant des illustrations détaillées sur 66 bâtiments et projets, ce livre peut en outre être reçu comme une véritable monographie sur un architecte qui a exercé une influence considérable sur tous les courants du siècle. Traduit de l’anglais et présenté par Claude Massu.
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Périphériques’ frequent participation in the international ArchiLab exhibition in Orléans and their contribution to the Architecture Biennale 2002 in Venice are sure signs of the national and international recognition which they are receiving. In 2000, Birkhäuser first published an overview of their architectural work entitled M.I.N.N.E.S.O.T.A. now out of print, and the(...)
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juin 2003, Paris / Basel
News : Périphériques Architects
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Périphériques’ frequent participation in the international ArchiLab exhibition in Orléans and their contribution to the Architecture Biennale 2002 in Venice are sure signs of the national and international recognition which they are receiving. In 2000, Birkhäuser first published an overview of their architectural work entitled M.I.N.N.E.S.O.T.A. now out of print, and the time has come to document their latest works. This new volume describes Périphériques´ most recent buildings and projects. Amongst the realised buildings are the Maisons Icone and MR, the transformation of the Place Furstenberg in Paris, the Café Charbon in Paris, and no doubt the high point is the Cabinet d’art graphique at the Centre Georges Pompidou. Also included are a number of fascinating new projects such as the Small Towers in Tsumari, Japan, the concept for the Habitat shops in Paris and the urban plans for the new Parisian Cité Universitaire.
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Japanese architect Shuhei Endo can be defined as an architect of steel, since he distinctly favors this material in the buildings he designs, continually experimenting with its infinite possibilities. His works are apparently weightless: undulating sheets of steel are twisted into spirals and wrapped around buildings in overlapping layers, like petals of flowers, or(...)
Shuhei Endo : paramodern architecture
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Japanese architect Shuhei Endo can be defined as an architect of steel, since he distinctly favors this material in the buildings he designs, continually experimenting with its infinite possibilities. His works are apparently weightless: undulating sheets of steel are twisted into spirals and wrapped around buildings in overlapping layers, like petals of flowers, or arranged on different levels to create a membrane around open spaces. This approach is most evident in the "great roofs" that house Endo-designed offices, such as Rooftecture N (Nisinomiya, Hyogo, 1998), or spaces for relaxation and meetings, such as Rooftecture T (Fukui, 1997), as well as private homes, such as Springtecture H (Harima, 1998) and Rooftecture M (Maruoka, 2001). Born in 1960 in Shiga Prefecture, Japan, he graduated in 1986 from the Kyoto School of Art and then joined the Osamu Ishii & Biken Associates architectural studio. In 1988 he founded the Shuhei Endo Institute in Osaka and began teaching at Kinki University, Kobe Design University, and the Fukui Institute of Technology.
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Architecte, décorateur, créateur de mobilier, élève et collaborateur de Victor Horta, disciple de Frank Llyod Wright, Antoine Courtens (1899-1969) est le principal représentant de l'Art Déco en Belgique. Il est l'auteur du domaine Estérel dans les Laurentides au Canada.
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janvier 2003, Bruxelles
Antoine Courtens : créateur art déco
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Architecte, décorateur, créateur de mobilier, élève et collaborateur de Victor Horta, disciple de Frank Llyod Wright, Antoine Courtens (1899-1969) est le principal représentant de l'Art Déco en Belgique. Il est l'auteur du domaine Estérel dans les Laurentides au Canada.
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