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Sustainable design and ecological building are the most significant global challenges for the design profession. To meet new building regulations and national targets for carbon emissions, all future buildings will be judged on their ‘green’ merits. For architects to maintain a competitive edge in a global market, innovation is now key; the design of new processes,(...)
November 2011
AD : experimental green strategies
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Sustainable design and ecological building are the most significant global challenges for the design profession. To meet new building regulations and national targets for carbon emissions, all future buildings will be judged on their ‘green’ merits. For architects to maintain a competitive edge in a global market, innovation is now key; the design of new processes, technologies and materials that combat carbon emissions and improve the sustainable performance of buildings are paramount. Contemporary practices have responded by setting up multi- disciplinary internal research and development teams, with offices such as Foster + Partners, HOK and Aedas setting the bar for ground-breaking research and development. The aim of internal groups is often to adapt and create new technologies and materials and to borrow ways of working from other disciplines, to focus on innovation rather than incrementally increasing performance or efficiency. This title offers insights into how a wide range of established and emerging practices are rising to meet these challenges. In pursuit of integrated sustainability and low-energy building, material and formal innovation and new tools and technologies, it illustrates that the future of architecture is evolving in an exchange of ideas across disciplines. Incorporating the creation of new knowledge about ecological building within the profession, it also identifies the emergence of a collective will to seek out new routes that build in harmony with the environment.
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Les auteurs s'interrogent sur les origines du traité et expliquent les motifs qui incitent, depuis plus de cinq siècles, les architectes et les maîtres d'oeuvre à prendre la plume. Regroupés selon les pays et les époques qui les ont vu naître, les écrits de Leon Battista Alberti, Andrea Palladio, Marc-Antoine Laugier, Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, John Shute, Johann Bernhard(...)
Théorie de l'architecture : de la Renaissance à nos jours
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Les auteurs s'interrogent sur les origines du traité et expliquent les motifs qui incitent, depuis plus de cinq siècles, les architectes et les maîtres d'oeuvre à prendre la plume. Regroupés selon les pays et les époques qui les ont vu naître, les écrits de Leon Battista Alberti, Andrea Palladio, Marc-Antoine Laugier, Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, John Shute, Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach, Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright, Aldo Rossi et Rem Koolhaas, pour n'en citer que quelques-uns, sont abondamment illustrés et commentés.
History since 1900, Reference Books
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This innovative and unique book is a visual guide to the buildings that surround us, naming all the visible architectural features so that, unlike other architectural dictionaries, the reader doesn't have to know the name before looking it up.
February 2012
Reading architecture: a visual lexicon
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This innovative and unique book is a visual guide to the buildings that surround us, naming all the visible architectural features so that, unlike other architectural dictionaries, the reader doesn't have to know the name before looking it up.
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After the Holocaust, the empty, silent spaces of bombed-out synagogues, cemeteries, and Jewish districts were all that was left of Jewish life in many German and Polish cities. What happened to this scarred landscape after the war, and how Germans, Poles, and Jews encountered these ruins over the past sixty years, is the story this book tells.
Shattered spaces: encountering Jewish ruins in postwar Germany and Polland
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After the Holocaust, the empty, silent spaces of bombed-out synagogues, cemeteries, and Jewish districts were all that was left of Jewish life in many German and Polish cities. What happened to this scarred landscape after the war, and how Germans, Poles, and Jews encountered these ruins over the past sixty years, is the story this book tells.
History since 1900, Reference Books
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Il fallait bien l'audace d'une ville, Metz et sa communauté d'agglomération, et d'une volonté culturelle, celle du Centre Pompidou à Paris, pour mener à bien cet enjeu que représente le Centre Pompidou-Metz. Pari architectural, avec le choix d'une équipe résolument tournée vers l'avenir dans sa singularité écologique, Shigeru Ban/jean de Gastines/Philip Gumuchdjian. Pari(...)
Centre Pompidou-Metz: L'esprit du lieu
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Il fallait bien l'audace d'une ville, Metz et sa communauté d'agglomération, et d'une volonté culturelle, celle du Centre Pompidou à Paris, pour mener à bien cet enjeu que représente le Centre Pompidou-Metz. Pari architectural, avec le choix d'une équipe résolument tournée vers l'avenir dans sa singularité écologique, Shigeru Ban/jean de Gastines/Philip Gumuchdjian. Pari culturel avec cette affirmation résolue de la pluridisciplinarité et d'une connivence voulue entre la création sous toutes ses formes et le public. À la croisée des routes européennes, cette nouvelle institution affiche tout à la fois la marque d'une modernité déterminée et la volonté du pluriculturalisme
History since 1900, Reference Books
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Larry Bennett calls contemporary Chicago the third city to distinguish it from its two predecessors: the first city, a sprawling industrial center whose historical arc ran from the Civil War to the Great Depression; and the second city, the Rustbelt exemplar of the period from around 1950 to 1990. The third city features a dramatically revitalized urban core, a shifting(...)
The third city: Chicago and American urbanism
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Larry Bennett calls contemporary Chicago the third city to distinguish it from its two predecessors: the first city, a sprawling industrial center whose historical arc ran from the Civil War to the Great Depression; and the second city, the Rustbelt exemplar of the period from around 1950 to 1990. The third city features a dramatically revitalized urban core, a shifting population mix that includes new immigrant streams, and a growing number of middle-class professionals working in new economy sectors. It is also a city utterly transformed by the top-to-bottom reconstruction of public housing developments and the ambitious provision of public works like Millennium Park. It is, according to Bennett, a work in progress spearheaded by Richard M. Daley, a self-consciously innovative mayor whose strategy of neighborhood revitalization and urban renewal is a prototype of city governance for the twenty-first century. The Third City ultimately contends that to understand Chicago under Daley’s charge is to understand what metropolitan life across North America may well look like in the coming decades.
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Lost Chicago
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This book explores the architectural and cultural history of this American city, a city whose architectural heritage was recklessly squandered during the second half of the twentieth century. David Garrard Lowe’s lively prose and over 270 rare photographs and prints, illuminate the decades when Gustavus Swift and Philip D. Armour ruled the greatest stockyards in the(...)
Lost Chicago
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This book explores the architectural and cultural history of this American city, a city whose architectural heritage was recklessly squandered during the second half of the twentieth century. David Garrard Lowe’s lively prose and over 270 rare photographs and prints, illuminate the decades when Gustavus Swift and Philip D. Armour ruled the greatest stockyards in the world; when industrialists and entrepreneurs such as Cyrus McCormick, Potter Palmer, George Pullman, and Marshall Field made Prairie Avenue and State Street the rivals of New York City’s Fifth Avenue; and when Louis Sullivan, Daniel Burnham, and Frank Lloyd Wright were designing buildings. Here are the mansions and grand hotels, the office buildings that met technical perfection (including the first skyscraper), and the stores, trains, movie palaces, parks, and racetracks that thrilled residents and tourists alike before falling victim to the wrecking ball of progress.
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L’essentiel sur les édifices contemporains (1955-2008) les plus marquants qui font la singularité architecturale de la Suisse, entre rigueur et innovation, entre territorialité et mondialisation.
Architectures contemporaines: Suisse
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L’essentiel sur les édifices contemporains (1955-2008) les plus marquants qui font la singularité architecturale de la Suisse, entre rigueur et innovation, entre territorialité et mondialisation.
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Modern architecture A-Z
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Each architect's entry features a portrait, quote and short biography as well as a description of important works, historical context and general approach; illustrations include numerous drawings, photographs and floor plans. The book's A to Z entries cover not only architects but also groups, movements and styles from the 18th to the 21st centuries.
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Modern architecture A-Z
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Each architect's entry features a portrait, quote and short biography as well as a description of important works, historical context and general approach; illustrations include numerous drawings, photographs and floor plans. The book's A to Z entries cover not only architects but also groups, movements and styles from the 18th to the 21st centuries.
Architecture now! 7
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This publication includes a broad variety of projects from around the world, as well as some works of art that have a direct relation to architecture, from the likes of Giacomo Costa or Shinro Ohtake. It also explores how the recent economic downturn has led to fewer large-scale projects, but has also stimulated creative thinking, as architects find new ways to work(...)
Architecture now! 7
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This publication includes a broad variety of projects from around the world, as well as some works of art that have a direct relation to architecture, from the likes of Giacomo Costa or Shinro Ohtake. It also explores how the recent economic downturn has led to fewer large-scale projects, but has also stimulated creative thinking, as architects find new ways to work imaginatively inside budget constraints.
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