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"Many norths: spatial practice in a polar territory" charts the unique spatial realities of Canada’s Arctic region, an immense territory populated with small, dispersed communities. The region has undergone dramatic transformations in the name of sovereignty, aboriginal affairs management, resources, and trade, among others. For most of the Arctic’s modern history,(...)
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Many norths: spatial practice in a polar territory
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"Many norths: spatial practice in a polar territory" charts the unique spatial realities of Canada’s Arctic region, an immense territory populated with small, dispersed communities. The region has undergone dramatic transformations in the name of sovereignty, aboriginal affairs management, resources, and trade, among others. For most of the Arctic’s modern history, architecture, infrastructure, and settlements have been the tools of colonialism. Today, tradition and modernity are intertwined. Northerners have demonstrated remarkable adaptation and resilience as powerful climatic, social, and economic pressures collide. This unprecedented book documents—through the themes of urbanism, architecture, mobility, monitoring, and resources—the multiplicity of norths that appear and the spatial practices employed to negotiate it. Using innovative drawings, maps, timelines, as well as essays and interviews, Many Norths reveals a distinct northern vernacular.
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An enthusiast’s guide to exploring historic houses of England, this informative book, now in paperback, also enables readers to discover more about the history of their own houses. Users can learn to interpret domestic architecture, identify period styles, uncover the origins of a building, and understand why rooms are arranged in particular sequences, why window and(...)
Houses: an architectural guide
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An enthusiast’s guide to exploring historic houses of England, this informative book, now in paperback, also enables readers to discover more about the history of their own houses. Users can learn to interpret domestic architecture, identify period styles, uncover the origins of a building, and understand why rooms are arranged in particular sequences, why window and chimney designs change through history, or why staircases are presented in a certain fashion. Color photography and informative line drawings illustrate the explanations and provide a rich visual history of domestic architecture from the earliest surviving dwellings to the most avant-garde developments.
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Tout au long du XXe siècle, les architectes ont repensé notre rapport à l'espace. De Eiffel, premier grand utilisateur du métal, à Forster, maître du verre, en passant par Le Corbusier, qui a changé notre regard sur l'habitat, ces artistes ont bouleversé nos modes de représentation, de vie, en s'adaptant à l'époque ou en la devançant. Cet ouvrage analyse la façon dont(...)
L'architecture moderne et contemporaine
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Tout au long du XXe siècle, les architectes ont repensé notre rapport à l'espace. De Eiffel, premier grand utilisateur du métal, à Forster, maître du verre, en passant par Le Corbusier, qui a changé notre regard sur l'habitat, ces artistes ont bouleversé nos modes de représentation, de vie, en s'adaptant à l'époque ou en la devançant. Cet ouvrage analyse la façon dont plus de cinquante architectes ont modifié notre relation à l'habitat.
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The story of architecture
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In this sweeping history, from the Stone Age to the present day, Witold Rybczynski shows how architectural ideals have been affected by technological, economic, and social changes—and by changes in taste. The host of examples ranges from places of worship such as Hagia Sophia and Brunelleschi’s Duomo to living spaces such as the Katsura Imperial Villa and the Alhambra,(...)
The story of architecture
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In this sweeping history, from the Stone Age to the present day, Witold Rybczynski shows how architectural ideals have been affected by technological, economic, and social changes—and by changes in taste. The host of examples ranges from places of worship such as Hagia Sophia and Brunelleschi’s Duomo to living spaces such as the Katsura Imperial Villa and the Alhambra, national icons such as the Lincoln Memorial and the Sydney Opera House, and skyscrapers such as the Seagram Building and Beijing’s CCTV headquarters. Rybczynski’s narrative emphasizes the ways that buildings across time and space are united by the human desire for order, meaning, and beauty.This is the story of architecture’s physical manifestation of the universal aspiration to celebrate, honor, and commemorate, and an exploration of the ways that each building is a unique product of patrons, architects, and builders.
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The architecture of patterns
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This book tracks the definitions and applications of patterns in a number of fields, and suggests how contemporary patterns might be used in design. Drawing on historical material and recent case studies, it gives shape to patterns’ emerging potential. The Architecture of Patterns provides an updated definition of patterns that is at once precise and expansive—one that(...)
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August 2010
The architecture of patterns
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This book tracks the definitions and applications of patterns in a number of fields, and suggests how contemporary patterns might be used in design. Drawing on historical material and recent case studies, it gives shape to patterns’ emerging potential. The Architecture of Patterns provides an updated definition of patterns that is at once precise and expansive—one that allows their sensory, ephemeral, and iterative traits to be taken as seriously as their functional, everlasting, and essential ones.
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Aux côtés des incontournables Jean Nouvel, Dominique Perrault, Christian de Portzamparc, Frank Gehry, Richard Meier, Daniel Libeskind, Massimiliano Fuksas ou encore Mario Botta, une nouvelle génération d'architectes se fait une place. Concernés par l'environnement et le rôle de l'architecture dans la société contemporaine, ils se jouent des formes et des couleurs et(...)
September 2010
Les nouveaux maîtres de l'architecture: Bâtiments & espaces publics, résidences privées
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Aux côtés des incontournables Jean Nouvel, Dominique Perrault, Christian de Portzamparc, Frank Gehry, Richard Meier, Daniel Libeskind, Massimiliano Fuksas ou encore Mario Botta, une nouvelle génération d'architectes se fait une place. Concernés par l'environnement et le rôle de l'architecture dans la société contemporaine, ils se jouent des formes et des couleurs et revisitent les styles traditionnels. Cet ouvrage présente les travaux de 25 architectes et paysagistes à découvrir absolument.
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The latest edition of this annual volume featuring the best in German architecture focuses on showrooms, museums, residential, and commercial buildings. The DAM yearbook features numerous photographs, plans, and drawings of 23 projects brought together in a format that allows for close inspection and inspiration. The projects presented in the book are accompanied by(...)
November 2010
Deutsches architektur Jahrbuch: German architecture annual 2010-2011
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The latest edition of this annual volume featuring the best in German architecture focuses on showrooms, museums, residential, and commercial buildings. The DAM yearbook features numerous photographs, plans, and drawings of 23 projects brought together in a format that allows for close inspection and inspiration. The projects presented in the book are accompanied by numerous illustrations, basic specs, and brief architectural analyses. The main project presented in the book-the reconstruction and renovation of the Neues Museum in Berlin by David Chipperfield Architects-illustrates the contemporary approach to reconstructing historic buildings by incorporating new elements into the old.
Harward GSD platform 2
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This book provides a sampling of the most salient research and design explorations undertaken at the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) during the 2008-2009 academic year. Organized thematically, the publication identifies underlying congruencies among studio work, theses, research, lectures, conferences, and writings to unfold some of the many critical ideas and(...)
Harward GSD platform 2
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This book provides a sampling of the most salient research and design explorations undertaken at the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) during the 2008-2009 academic year. Organized thematically, the publication identifies underlying congruencies among studio work, theses, research, lectures, conferences, and writings to unfold some of the many critical ideas and interests currently being explored in the School. Ranging in scope from detailed material fabrication to large-scale territorial and infrastructural strategies, the work spans a broad and diverse set of geographies and scenarios. In documenting this work, the publication archives and disseminates the rich intellectual momentum of the GSD.
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C'est la République de Weimar au cours des années 1918 à 1933 qui propulsa Berlin au zénith. Ainsi, le Berlin des années vingt a donné naissance à une culture qui a totalement vécu de la politisation. Il y germait des utopies qui, en cette époque de crise, traçaient des perspectives de progrès. La communication prenait son essor dans les sphères populaires par le biais(...)
Berlin, les années vingt: art et culture 1918-1933
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C'est la République de Weimar au cours des années 1918 à 1933 qui propulsa Berlin au zénith. Ainsi, le Berlin des années vingt a donné naissance à une culture qui a totalement vécu de la politisation. Il y germait des utopies qui, en cette époque de crise, traçaient des perspectives de progrès. La communication prenait son essor dans les sphères populaires par le biais de la photo, du cinéma, des affiches, de l'agit-prop, du cabaret et des variétés. Grâce à ces techniques, ces millions de Berlinois ne formaient plus une masse mais des citoyens : ils acquéraient à la fois un accès et une dignité à la culture. Ces évolutions venaient de la masse, mais il y avait une avant-garde pour les faire entrer dans les pratiques et les prémices des beaux-arts. Il suffit d'aligner quelques noms, George Grosz, Otto Dix, Raoul Hausmann, John Heartfield, Hannah Höch pour l'aventure Dada ; Fritz Lang, Ernst Lubitsch pour le cinéma et la photographie ; Mies van der Rohe, Moholy-Nagy, Lissitzky pour les grandes conquêtes utopistes ou fonctionnelles de l'architecture, du design et de l'oeuvre d'art totale, pour prendre la mesure de ces années de révolutions et de créations tous azimuts.
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Le grand Paris est un roman
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«Le projet tout autour de Paris : comment regarder autrement, ne pas se résigner. La grande capitale est malmenée par les écarts entre les mondes inscrits dans son territoire. Paris mille fois écrite, merveilleusement. Alors, ouvrir les frontières, tout autour de Paris, rêver à un vaste chantier, oui, aller se promener tout autour, oublier qu'il existe un périphérique au(...)
Le grand Paris est un roman
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«Le projet tout autour de Paris : comment regarder autrement, ne pas se résigner. La grande capitale est malmenée par les écarts entre les mondes inscrits dans son territoire. Paris mille fois écrite, merveilleusement. Alors, ouvrir les frontières, tout autour de Paris, rêver à un vaste chantier, oui, aller se promener tout autour, oublier qu'il existe un périphérique au tracé symbolique de la séparation. C'est une invitation au voyage, tout près, pas si loin, presque proche, toucher du doigt. C'est un projet en mouvement, lent, compliqué, comment écrire ce qui nous entoure, nous perce le coeur, nous révolte, et puis nous ravit aussi. Côtoyer les mondes différents comme dans les faubourgs, rêver d'une extension des faubourgs, marcher, prendre un vélo, découvrir, se donner rendez-vous, aller au théâtre, au concert, au cinéma, aller manger, habiter, aller et venir, ici et là-bas... Faire tomber les murs.» Avec des photographies de Chris marker, des textes de Béatrice Castoriano, François Bon, Grand Corps malade, Roland Castro, Jean-Pierre Le Dantec et plusieurs autres.
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