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Quelle relation y a-t-il entre vision pédagogique et construction scolaire ? Cette question est fondamentale pour comprendre les enjeux de l'architecture dans le milieu scolaire. Les écoles et jardins d'enfants qui se construisent actuellement doivent répondre aux exigences immédiates de la société contemporaine, mais également être conçus en pensant à l'avenir, étant(...)
janvier 2007, Gollion
Écoles et jardins d'enfants : projets et réalisations
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Quelle relation y a-t-il entre vision pédagogique et construction scolaire ? Cette question est fondamentale pour comprendre les enjeux de l'architecture dans le milieu scolaire. Les écoles et jardins d'enfants qui se construisent actuellement doivent répondre aux exigences immédiates de la société contemporaine, mais également être conçus en pensant à l'avenir, étant donné qu'ils seront encore fréquentés à la fin du XXIe siècle. Dans notre économie globale, l'importance de l'éducation est maintenant amplement reconnue. Les écoles et les jardins d'enfants suscitent l'intérêt d'un large public. Les théories pédagogiques évoluent sans cesse. La conception de l'environnement scolaire se transforme en conséquence. Cet ouvrage illustre les stratégies les plus récentes et leur réalisation. Avec une sélection de plus de 80 projets en Europe ; en Amérique et dans la région du Pacifique, il s'agit d'un guide essentiel pour tous ceux qui sont impliqués dans la conception des écoles et jardins d'enfants.
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The ugly buildings that characterize the modern landscape are inferior not only to the great cathedrals of medieval Europe and the temples of ancient Egypt and Greece, but even to lesser buildings of the more recent past. The great masterworks of our ancestors spoke to humanity’s higher nature. Architect Herbert Bangs reveals how today’s dysfunctional buildings bring out(...)
janvier 2007, Rochester
The return of sacred architecture : the golden ratio and the end of modernism
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The ugly buildings that characterize the modern landscape are inferior not only to the great cathedrals of medieval Europe and the temples of ancient Egypt and Greece, but even to lesser buildings of the more recent past. The great masterworks of our ancestors spoke to humanity’s higher nature. Architect Herbert Bangs reveals how today’s dysfunctional buildings bring out the worst in humanity, reinforcing that which is most base within us. He shows how, through the ancient laws of proportion and number, architecture once expressed the harmonious relationship between man and the cosmos. In early times, the architect worked within a sacred and esoteric tradition of creating structures through which human beings could gain insight into the nature of the divine reality. Today, that tradition has been abandoned in favor of narrowly defined utilitarian principles of efficiency and economy. In The Return of Sacred Architecture, Bangs provides the key to freeing architecture from the crude functionality of the twentieth century: the architects of the modern human landscape must find the deep-felt connection to the cosmos that guided the inner lives of those who built the temples of the past. The form of their buildings will then reflect the sacred patterns of geometry and proportion and bring forth greater harmony in the world.
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janvier 2007, Rochester
The new downtown library
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The past twenty years have seen a building boom for downtown public libraries. From Brooklyn to Seattle, architects, civic leaders, and citizens in major U.S. cities have worked to reassert the relevance of the central library. While the libraries’ primary functions—as public spaces where information is gathered, organized, preserved, and made available for use—have not(...)
janvier 2007, Minneapolis / London
The new downtown library
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The past twenty years have seen a building boom for downtown public libraries. From Brooklyn to Seattle, architects, civic leaders, and citizens in major U.S. cities have worked to reassert the relevance of the central library. While the libraries’ primary functions—as public spaces where information is gathered, organized, preserved, and made available for use—have not changed over the years, the processes by which they accomplish these goals have. These new processes, and the public debates surrounding them, have radically influenced the utility and design of new library buildings. In The New Downtown Library, Shannon Mattern draws on a diverse range of sources to investigate how libraries serve as multiuse public spaces, anchors in urban redevelopment, civic icons, and showcases of renowned architects like Rem Koolhaas, Cesar Pelli, and Enrique Norton. Mattern’s clear and careful analysis reveals the complexity of contemporary dialogues in library design, highlighting the roles that staff, the public, and other special interest groups play. Mattern also describes how the libraries manifest changing demographics, new ways of organizing collections and delivering media, and current philosophies of librarianship. By identifying unifying themes as well as examining the differences among various design projects, Mattern brings to light the social forces, as well as their architectural expressions, that form the essence of new libraries and their vital place in public life. Featured libraries are located in Brooklyn, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, Nashville, New York, Phoenix, Salt Lake City, San Antonio, San Francisco, Seattle, and Toledo.
School
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As a specific form of architecture, the school is an amalgam of its function and its history. Though recognizable across cultures, the schoolhouse nevertheless retains the distinctive markings of different nations and eras. School is the first book to examine this institutional building’s modern growth on a global scale. Ian Grosvenor and Catherine Burke demonstrate(...)
novembre 2006, London
School
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As a specific form of architecture, the school is an amalgam of its function and its history. Though recognizable across cultures, the schoolhouse nevertheless retains the distinctive markings of different nations and eras. School is the first book to examine this institutional building’s modern growth on a global scale. Ian Grosvenor and Catherine Burke demonstrate how school buildings help organize and manipulate time and space for teachers and students, using methods ranging from bells to lines to lesson plans. They reveal the ways in which schools, by their actual physical situation—surrounded by swathes of green or butting up against other urban structures, in neighborhoods stratified by class or segregated by race—make clear their place in society as fragmented sites of cultural memory and creation. The authors further consider how new technologies and continuing globalization will inevitably force us to rethink our notions of school—and school buildings. In the twenty-first century, these shifts represent a radically new context for education. School will provide stimulating reading for anyone interested in this extraordinary evolution of architecture and education. Ian Grosvenor is director of learning and teaching at the School of Education, University of Birmingham. Catherine Burke is lecturer in education in the School of Education, University of Leeds.
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Construit sur les plans de l’architecte Brongniart, l'hôtel de Monaco abrite l’Ambassade de Pologne à Paris depuis 1936.
janvier 1900, Paris
Ambassade de Pologne : hôtel de Monaco
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Construit sur les plans de l’architecte Brongniart, l'hôtel de Monaco abrite l’Ambassade de Pologne à Paris depuis 1936.
Authentic bistros of Paris
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With 51 bistros profiled.
octobre 2005, New York
Authentic bistros of Paris
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With 51 bistros profiled.
25 espaces de bureaux
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Les espaces de bureaux sont familiers et trop souvent sans surprise. Pourtant, en un peu plus d’un siècle, ils ont considérablement évolué. Aujourd’hui, au-delà des impératifs économiques et de la rationalisation des mètres carrés, les technologies innovantes ainsi que les enjeux environnementaux ouvrent la voie à de nouveaux modes de travail et à une architecture(...)
juin 2006, Paris
25 espaces de bureaux
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Les espaces de bureaux sont familiers et trop souvent sans surprise. Pourtant, en un peu plus d’un siècle, ils ont considérablement évolué. Aujourd’hui, au-delà des impératifs économiques et de la rationalisation des mètres carrés, les technologies innovantes ainsi que les enjeux environnementaux ouvrent la voie à de nouveaux modes de travail et à une architecture toujours plus audacieuse. À travers 25 projets réalisés dans le monde, ce livre présente un panorama des tendances architecturales actuelles et explore la diversité des espaces de travail : bureaux en blanc, paysagers ou cloisonnés, tours, locaux industriels transformés, lieux atypiques. Le bâtiment tertiaire doit s’intégrer dans son contexte, urbain ou naturel ; sa dimension symbolique sera la première carte de visite de l’entreprise. Il doit répondre à des exigences de fonctionnalité et de flexibilité mais aussi de confort. Enfin, les modes de travail eux-mêmes évoluent. Le bureau doit-il bannir toute fantaisie ? Des réalisations originales proposent un cadre convivial, inspiré d’autres lieux familiers – la rue, la maison ou la boutique. En effet, comment concevoir aujourd’hui des espaces tertiaires alors que la frontière même entre l’activité professionnelle et la vie en dehors tend à s’estomper ?
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This book explores in detail twenty-four churches in ten countries throughout Western Europe, built between 1900 and 1950. Contemporary photographs and floor plans help readers identify the unique characteristics of each building, and are complemented by texts outlining the churches' architectural highlights. The author discusses the Modernist period from its genesis in(...)
novembre 2006, Munich, Berlin, London, New York
European church architecture, 1900-1950 : towards modernity
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This book explores in detail twenty-four churches in ten countries throughout Western Europe, built between 1900 and 1950. Contemporary photographs and floor plans help readers identify the unique characteristics of each building, and are complemented by texts outlining the churches' architectural highlights. The author discusses the Modernist period from its genesis in the Art Nouveau movement, while theologians explore the subject of Catholic and Protestant liturgies and their relationships to the buildings. Together with its companion volume, "European church architecture 1950-2000", this survey is a milestone in the literature on ecclesiastical architecture.
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novembre 2006, Munich, Berlin, London, New York
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"Luxury Liners" presents an illustrated history of life on board enormous passnger ships. The book's organization mimics an actual crossing: the mountains of cargo crammed below decks before embarkation; the crossing itself, with entertainment that might include trained seals; the danger of shipwrecks; and finally, arrival.
septembre 2006, New York
Luxury liners : life on board
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"Luxury Liners" presents an illustrated history of life on board enormous passnger ships. The book's organization mimics an actual crossing: the mountains of cargo crammed below decks before embarkation; the crossing itself, with entertainment that might include trained seals; the danger of shipwrecks; and finally, arrival.
Toilets of the world
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Powder room, comfort station, privy, loo, dunny … the infinite variety of names we invent for this universal necessity, the toilet, is matched by an extraordinary variety of designs worldwide, from miniature log cabins in the Canadian wilderness to state-of-the-art cubicles in Japan, and from huts on stilts in the Caribbean to solar-powered sanitary ware in New Zealand.(...)
octobre 2006, London, New York
Toilets of the world
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Powder room, comfort station, privy, loo, dunny … the infinite variety of names we invent for this universal necessity, the toilet, is matched by an extraordinary variety of designs worldwide, from miniature log cabins in the Canadian wilderness to state-of-the-art cubicles in Japan, and from huts on stilts in the Caribbean to solar-powered sanitary ware in New Zealand. This light-hearted but highly informative photographic journey reveals the idiosyncrasy and inventiveness that characterize the construction of the humble toilet around the globe. Along the way, the reader encounters every possible permutation, from the traditional English ‘thunderbox’ to the Swazi thatched ‘beehive’ hut, and discovers the cultural and historical differences that can make our travels to other countries so enjoyable.