Understanding architecture
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Understanding Architecture addresses the basic principles of architecture. The volume is organized in 12 series of chapters based on a key architectural themes - including space, time, matter, gravity, light, silence, dwelling, ritual, memory, landscape, and place. Each chapter begins with an introductory essay, and includes a wide variety of historical examples from(...)
October 2012
Understanding architecture
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Understanding Architecture addresses the basic principles of architecture. The volume is organized in 12 series of chapters based on a key architectural themes - including space, time, matter, gravity, light, silence, dwelling, ritual, memory, landscape, and place. Each chapter begins with an introductory essay, and includes a wide variety of historical examples from around the world, followed by in-depth analysis of 6 key buildings that further exemplify the theme of that chapter.
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The Clyfford Still Museum in Denver was created as a home for the artistic vision of American painter Clyfford Still (1904–1980), who helped spearhead the Abstract Expressionist movement. This publication presents the initial conception of the museum to its ultimate realization. A rich collection of stories, artifacts, documents and conversations trace the evolution of(...)
Architecture Monographs
November 2012
Clyfford Still Museum: Allied Works Architecture
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The Clyfford Still Museum in Denver was created as a home for the artistic vision of American painter Clyfford Still (1904–1980), who helped spearhead the Abstract Expressionist movement. This publication presents the initial conception of the museum to its ultimate realization. A rich collection of stories, artifacts, documents and conversations trace the evolution of the building and Allied Works’ unique creative process, with new essays and photographs that examine its particular significance within contemporary architectural discourse.
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Grafton Architects
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Dublin-based Grafton Architects (founded by Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara in 1978) has built up an impressive body of work over its 40-year history, ranging from houses in Ireland to public buildings in Italy, France, the UK, and Peru. In this long-overdue study, respected architectural writer and critic Robert McCarter presents 60 of Grafton's built and unbuilt(...)
Grafton Architects
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Dublin-based Grafton Architects (founded by Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara in 1978) has built up an impressive body of work over its 40-year history, ranging from houses in Ireland to public buildings in Italy, France, the UK, and Peru. In this long-overdue study, respected architectural writer and critic Robert McCarter presents 60 of Grafton's built and unbuilt projects and brings to light their principled and ethical approach, which is committed to making a profound difference to the lives of their buildings' users.
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Aldo van Eyck
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Aldo van Eyck (1918–1999) was a Dutch architect, writer, and teacher who helped redefine Modern architecture in the second half of the 20th century. As an advocate for architecture’s engagement with history, culture, climate, and the lived human experience of buildings and urban spaces, he created designs that privileged place and the daily rituals in the lives of its(...)
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Aldo van Eyck
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Aldo van Eyck (1918–1999) was a Dutch architect, writer, and teacher who helped redefine Modern architecture in the second half of the 20th century. As an advocate for architecture’s engagement with history, culture, climate, and the lived human experience of buildings and urban spaces, he created designs that privileged place and the daily rituals in the lives of its inhabitants over universal ideals. In this volume, enlivened by 300 illustrations from the Aldo van Eyck archive, Robert McCarter provides the first comprehensive study of van Eyck’s 50-year career since his death, guiding readers through the architect’s buildings and unrealized projects, with a focus on the interior spatial experience and on the design and construction processes.
Steven Holl
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This in-depth monograph is devoted to one of the leading United States architects on the contemporary scene: Steven Holl (b.1947). Illustrated with hundreds of colour photographs and Holl's own watercolours, the book introduces the artist's personality and works, and the studio he founded in 1976, Steven Holl architects.
Steven Holl
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This in-depth monograph is devoted to one of the leading United States architects on the contemporary scene: Steven Holl (b.1947). Illustrated with hundreds of colour photographs and Holl's own watercolours, the book introduces the artist's personality and works, and the studio he founded in 1976, Steven Holl architects.
Architecture Monographs
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A covetable new study on the work of Finnish architect Alvar Aalto, one of the twentieth-centuries most popular and accessible masters. Clear, concise and compact, this complete overview of Aalto explores all his major works, including their environmental, cultural and social contexts.
Aalto
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A covetable new study on the work of Finnish architect Alvar Aalto, one of the twentieth-centuries most popular and accessible masters. Clear, concise and compact, this complete overview of Aalto explores all his major works, including their environmental, cultural and social contexts.
Architecture Monographs
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Wiel Arets: Autobiographical References opens up a unique and richly layered view of the architectural work and thinking of this internationally renowned Dutch architect. Underlying Arets’ practice, research and teaching is his concept of “a wonderful world”, an optimistic outlook on how the world will evolve in the next 75 years. In an innovative layout by designer Irma(...)
Wiel Arets: autobiographical references
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Wiel Arets: Autobiographical References opens up a unique and richly layered view of the architectural work and thinking of this internationally renowned Dutch architect. Underlying Arets’ practice, research and teaching is his concept of “a wonderful world”, an optimistic outlook on how the world will evolve in the next 75 years. In an innovative layout by designer Irma Boom, portfolios of 60 exemplary projects and designs by his studio are presented alongside lectures and debates between Arets and other thinkers and practitioners.
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In architecture, as in food, local is an idea whose time has come. Of course, the idea of an architecture that responds to site; draws on local building traditions, materials, and crafts; and strives to create a sense of community is not new. Yet, the way it has evolved in the past few years is indeed defining a new movement. From the rammed-earth houses of Rick Joy and(...)
July 2013
Local architecture: building place, craft, and community
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In architecture, as in food, local is an idea whose time has come. Of course, the idea of an architecture that responds to site; draws on local building traditions, materials, and crafts; and strives to create a sense of community is not new. Yet, the way it has evolved in the past few years is indeed defining a new movement. From the rammed-earth houses of Rick Joy and Pacific Northwest timber houses of Tom Kundig, to the community-built structures of Rural Studio and Francis Kere, designers everywhere are championing an architecture that exists from, in, and for a specific place.
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Since 1995, Dhaka-based architecture firm Kashef Chowdhury / URBANA has produced an astonishing collection of works of divergent scales, typologies, and contexts located in one of the most meteorologically challenging regions in the world. A hospital introduced into an economy decimated by rising oceans, a shelter against cyclones in Bangladesh’s southern coastal region,(...)
Architecture Monographs
January 2026
Meditations in entropy: The work of Kashef Chowdhury / URBANA in Bangladesh
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Since 1995, Dhaka-based architecture firm Kashef Chowdhury / URBANA has produced an astonishing collection of works of divergent scales, typologies, and contexts located in one of the most meteorologically challenging regions in the world. A hospital introduced into an economy decimated by rising oceans, a shelter against cyclones in Bangladesh’s southern coastal region, and architectural interventions in one of the world’s densest metropolitan areas: Kashef Chowdhury / URBANA’s designs are incisive, critical responses to varied issues and urgencies rooted in the belief that architecture must be a reflection of, and sympathetic to, increasingly fragile ecological conditions. ''Meditations in Entropy'' is the first full monograph on the work of Kashef Chowdhury / URBANA. It features 18 of the firm’s realized designs in detail through photographs by acclaimed architectural photographer Hélène Binet as well as numerous plans, drawings, sketches, and other images. Perceptive essays are contributed by the distinguished critics and historians Kenneth Frampton, Robert McCarter, William J. R. Curtis, and Philip Ursprung, and by Ainun Nishat, a renowned water resource and climate change specialist. An illustrated catalogue of Kashef Chowdhury / URBANA’s projects and realized buildings rounds off this beautifully designed volume.
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Louis I Kahn
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Louis I. Kahn (1901-1974) a exercé une influence majeure sur l'architecture mondiale de la seconde moitié du XXe siècle. Cet ouvrage propose une présentation approfondie du travail de l'architecte à travers l'étude chronologique de ses œuvres ainsi que l'examen des thème fondamentaux qui l'ont guidé et leur évolution tout au long de sa carrière. Chacun des principaux(...)
Louis I Kahn
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Louis I. Kahn (1901-1974) a exercé une influence majeure sur l'architecture mondiale de la seconde moitié du XXe siècle. Cet ouvrage propose une présentation approfondie du travail de l'architecte à travers l'étude chronologique de ses œuvres ainsi que l'examen des thème fondamentaux qui l'ont guidé et leur évolution tout au long de sa carrière. Chacun des principaux bâtiments de Kahn, qu'ils aient été réalisés ou qu'ils soient restés à l'état de projet, y sont analysés, depuis le processus de conception et les idées maîtresses jusqu'aux techniques et matériaux employés, avant de continuer par une " traversée " des espaces eux-mêmes, suivant ainsi le souci premier de Kahn : l'espace intérieur et ce qu'il communique à son occupant. Chaque projet, accompagné de nombreuses photographies qui traduisent l'esprit animant l'œuvre de Kahn, est en outre doté d'un dossier illustré retraçant et documentant l'élaboration conceptuelle et les sources d'inspiration et idées qui ont conduit au projet définitif. Robert McCarter expose, à travers ce texte qui fait autorité, de quelle manière Louis I. Kahn a redéfini l'architecture moderne. Richement documenté, cet ouvrage propose une sélection de dessins originaux et de photographies provenant des Louis I. Kahn Archives ainsi que des plans redessinés récemment. Il comprend également des écrits inédits de Kahn ainsi que la publication, pour la première fois, de la chronologie intégrale de ses réalisations et projets, établie par William Whitaker, conservateur en chef des Louis I. Kahn Archives. Cette monographie constitue ainsi un ouvrage de référence essentiel consacré à ce grand nom de l'architecture.
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