Asnières : quartier de Seine
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La ZAC Asnières Bords de Seine est la première opération de restructuration de la partie est de la ville d’Asnières-sur-Seine. À terme, le nouveau quartier, situé au pied de la station de RER « Les Grésillons » de la ligne C, accueillera environ 5 000 personnes. Cette reconversion d’un ancien site industriel de plus de 8 hectares a été confiée en 2005 à Eiffage(...)
août 2011
Asnières : quartier de Seine
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La ZAC Asnières Bords de Seine est la première opération de restructuration de la partie est de la ville d’Asnières-sur-Seine. À terme, le nouveau quartier, situé au pied de la station de RER « Les Grésillons » de la ligne C, accueillera environ 5 000 personnes. Cette reconversion d’un ancien site industriel de plus de 8 hectares a été confiée en 2005 à Eiffage Aménagement par la Ville d’Asnières. L’ouvrage rend compte de cette opération d’envergure au moyen d’un texte retraçant l’histoire du quartier et de son réaménagement, d’interviews avec les personnages clés du projet et d’une iconographie fournie mêlant images d’archives, perspectives, photos aériennes montrant la progression du chantier et reportage sur la vie de ce nouveau quartier, notamment par Luc Boegly.
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Mathematics has always been a vital tool in the architect's trade, but the last fifteen years have seen a sharp rise in the power of computers and has led to computational abilities far beyond anything previously available. Modern design software and computing power have changed the traditional role of geometry in architecture and opened up new possibilities enabled by(...)
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Mathematics has always been a vital tool in the architect's trade, but the last fifteen years have seen a sharp rise in the power of computers and has led to computational abilities far beyond anything previously available. Modern design software and computing power have changed the traditional role of geometry in architecture and opened up new possibilities enabled by topology, non-Euclidean geometry, and other areas of mathematics. This new title in the Architectural Design series explores fascinating issues in modern design, most importantly the impact of mathematics on contemporary design creativity.
You were never in Chicago
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In 1952 the New Yorker published a three-part essay by A. J. Liebling in which he dubbed Chicago the “Second City.” From garbage collection to the skyline, nothing escaped Liebling’s withering gaze. Among the outraged responses from Chicago residents was one that Liebling described as the apotheosis of such criticism: a postcard that read, simply, “You were never in(...)
décembre 2012
You were never in Chicago
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In 1952 the New Yorker published a three-part essay by A. J. Liebling in which he dubbed Chicago the “Second City.” From garbage collection to the skyline, nothing escaped Liebling’s withering gaze. Among the outraged responses from Chicago residents was one that Liebling described as the apotheosis of such criticism: a postcard that read, simply, “You were never in Chicago.” Neil Steinberg has lived in and around Chicago for more than three decades — ever since he left his hometown of Berea, Ohio, to attend Northwestern — yet he remains fascinated by the dynamics captured in Liebling’s anecdote. In You Were Never in Chicago Steinberg weaves the story of his own coming-of-age as a young outsider who made his way into the inner circles and upper levels of Chicago journalism with a nuanced portrait of the city that would surprise even lifelong residents. Steinberg takes readers through Chicago’s vanishing industrial past and explores the city from the quaint skybridge between the towers of the Wrigley Building, to the depths of the vast Deep Tunnel system below the streets. He deftly explains the city’s complex web of political favoritism and carefully profiles the characters he meets along the way, from greats of jazz and journalism to small-business owners just getting by. Throughout, Steinberg never loses the curiosity and close observation of an outsider, while thoughtfully considering how this perspective has shaped the city, and what it really means to belong.
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Paru à Paris en 1918, l'ouvrage est une tentative pour marier les vertus visionnaires du socialisme utopique avec les nécessités pratiques du socialisme de gouvernement, une réflexion de fond sur l'urbanisme avec les contraintes administratives et techniques de l'époque. Il dessine ce qui pourrait être la source d'un plan général pour une reconstruction concertée, à la(...)
février 2014
Villes et villages français après la Grande Guerre: aménagement, restauration, embellissement, extension
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Paru à Paris en 1918, l'ouvrage est une tentative pour marier les vertus visionnaires du socialisme utopique avec les nécessités pratiques du socialisme de gouvernement, une réflexion de fond sur l'urbanisme avec les contraintes administratives et techniques de l'époque. Il dessine ce qui pourrait être la source d'un plan général pour une reconstruction concertée, à la fois respectueuse du passé, consciente des enjeux actuels et ouverte aussi bien aux considérations esthétiques qu'au développement économique espéré.
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Unfinished Utopia is a social and cultural history of Nowa Huta, dubbed Poland's "first socialist city" by Communist propaganda of the 1950s. Work began on the new town, located on the banks of the Vistula River just a few miles from the historic city of Kraków, in 1949. By contrast to its older neighbor, Nowa Huta was intended to model a new kind of socialist modernity(...)
octobre 2013
Unfinished utopia: Nowa Huta, Stalinism, and Polish Society, 1949-56
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Unfinished Utopia is a social and cultural history of Nowa Huta, dubbed Poland's "first socialist city" by Communist propaganda of the 1950s. Work began on the new town, located on the banks of the Vistula River just a few miles from the historic city of Kraków, in 1949. By contrast to its older neighbor, Nowa Huta was intended to model a new kind of socialist modernity and to be peopled with "new men," themselves both the builders and the beneficiaries of this project of socialist construction.
Small architecture now !
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Over the years, talented architects have occasionally indulged themselves with the challenge of designing small but perfectly formed buildings. Today, with reduced budgets, many architects have turned in a more focused way to creating works that may be in diminutive in their dimensions, but which are definitely big when it comes to trendsetting ideas. Whether in Japanese(...)
juin 2014
Small architecture now !
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Over the years, talented architects have occasionally indulged themselves with the challenge of designing small but perfectly formed buildings. Today, with reduced budgets, many architects have turned in a more focused way to creating works that may be in diminutive in their dimensions, but which are definitely big when it comes to trendsetting ideas. Whether in Japanese cities, where large sites are hard to come by, or at the frontier between art and architecture, small buildings present many advantages, and push their designers to do more with less.
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Alexander Eisenschmidt and Jonathan Mekinda have brought together a diverse pool of curators, artists, architects, historians, critics, and theorists to produce a multifarious portrait of the "Second City."
février 2013
Chicagoisms: the city catalyst for architectural speculation
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Alexander Eisenschmidt and Jonathan Mekinda have brought together a diverse pool of curators, artists, architects, historians, critics, and theorists to produce a multifarious portrait of the "Second City."
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Le livre regroupe les actes et discussions des deux colloques organisés par l’Ecole Cantonale d’Art du Valais : « Art et architecture, un contrat ? » et « Constructions, identités : le pavillon, l’art et l’architecture ». Il s’agit d’explorer les rapports, croisements et collaborations entre art et architecture dans deux situations architecturales spécifiques : le « Kunst(...)
Pavilions: art in architecture
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Le livre regroupe les actes et discussions des deux colloques organisés par l’Ecole Cantonale d’Art du Valais : « Art et architecture, un contrat ? » et « Constructions, identités : le pavillon, l’art et l’architecture ». Il s’agit d’explorer les rapports, croisements et collaborations entre art et architecture dans deux situations architecturales spécifiques : le « Kunst am Bau » (l’intégration artistique dans l’architecture) et le pavillon national des biennales d’art, d’architecture et des expositions universelles.
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The book is organized chronologically and presents buildings from all genres, covering more than two millennia of architectural history. Each building is featured in an essay filled with information on the construction, as well as the social, political, cultural, and geographical considerations of the architect.
septembre 2013
Discovering architecture: how the world's great buildings were designed and built
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The book is organized chronologically and presents buildings from all genres, covering more than two millennia of architectural history. Each building is featured in an essay filled with information on the construction, as well as the social, political, cultural, and geographical considerations of the architect.
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From Rome’s Parthenon to Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia; from the ancient village of Petra to Beijing’s Forbidden City; from New York’s Empire State Building to the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, this collection of 100 milestones of architectural history explores how they changed the course of architecture. Why do some buildings stand the test of time? What makes a building(...)
février 2015
The buildings that revolutionized architecture
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From Rome’s Parthenon to Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia; from the ancient village of Petra to Beijing’s Forbidden City; from New York’s Empire State Building to the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, this collection of 100 milestones of architectural history explores how they changed the course of architecture. Why do some buildings stand the test of time? What makes a building unique, or groundbreaking? How do function, environment, and technology impact an architect’s vision? These questions and more are succinctly addressed in this wide-ranging tour of 100 of the world’s most important manmade structures. This compilation spans the ancient to the modern eras and represents nearly every continent.