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L'architecture du XXe siècle aura révolutionné les milieux urbains. A travers le monde, des villes se sont transformées en mégapoles dépassant toutes les dimensions connues, alors que d'autres se réduisent et se vident. Que ce soit dans le foisonnement sauvage de Tokyo ou dans la rigueur haussmannienne de Paris, chaque rue, chaque bâtiment, chaque espace vert n'existe(...)
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August 2010
Urbanisme et architecture: Le XXe siècle
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L'architecture du XXe siècle aura révolutionné les milieux urbains. A travers le monde, des villes se sont transformées en mégapoles dépassant toutes les dimensions connues, alors que d'autres se réduisent et se vident. Que ce soit dans le foisonnement sauvage de Tokyo ou dans la rigueur haussmannienne de Paris, chaque rue, chaque bâtiment, chaque espace vert n'existe que comme partie d'un ensemble. Urbanisme & architecture le XXe siècle visite les métropoles du monde et retrace leur évolution dans une histoire ponctuée de soubresauts parfois dramatiques. Depuis Gropius, Le Corbusier et Wright jusqu'à Piano, Ando et Coop HimmelB(I)au, les architectes et urbanistes les plus marquants de l'époque sont présentés avec leurs travaux. Cet ouvrage met en évidence la manière avec laquelle l'urbanisme et l'architecture participent à une redéfinition constante de la ville.
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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.
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Modernism ushered in some of the most exciting innovations in art and literature, from Fauvism, Cubism, and Dada, to the novels of James Joyce and Franz Kafka, to such provocative works as Marcel Duchamp's "Fountain." But Modernism also left many people puzzled in its wake. How can a routine bathroom fixture be considered a work of art? Shouldn't a novel have a beginning,(...)
Modernism: a very short introduction
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Modernism ushered in some of the most exciting innovations in art and literature, from Fauvism, Cubism, and Dada, to the novels of James Joyce and Franz Kafka, to such provocative works as Marcel Duchamp's "Fountain." But Modernism also left many people puzzled in its wake. How can a routine bathroom fixture be considered a work of art? Shouldn't a novel have a beginning, a middle, and an end--or at least a story? In this publication, Christopher Butler provides a coherent account of Modernism across various aesthetic and cultural fields. Butler examines how and why Modernism began, explaining what it is and showing how virtually all aspects of 20th and 21st century life have been influenced by its aesthetic legacy. Butler considers several aspects of modernism, including some classic modernist works, movements and notions of the avant garde, and the idea of "progress" in art. Finally, Butler sheds light on modernist ideas of the self, subjectivity, irrationalism, people and machines, and the political dimensions of modernism as a whole.
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Chicago: A biography
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Chicago traces the city’s storied past, from the explorations of Joliet and Marquette in 1673 to the new wave of urban pioneers today. The city’s great industrialists, reformers, and politicians—and, indeed, the many not-so-great and downright notorious—animate this book, from Al Capone and Jane Addams to Mayor Richard J. Daley and President Barack Obama.
Chicago: A biography
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Chicago traces the city’s storied past, from the explorations of Joliet and Marquette in 1673 to the new wave of urban pioneers today. The city’s great industrialists, reformers, and politicians—and, indeed, the many not-so-great and downright notorious—animate this book, from Al Capone and Jane Addams to Mayor Richard J. Daley and President Barack Obama.
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The Sourcebook of Contemporary Architecture presents sixty noteworthy case studies that showcase a complete and diverse range of structures worldwide. Each case study includes a succinct description of the project at hand, listing its name, client, and location and presenting its unique objectives, challenges, and solutions.
Sourcebook of contemporary architecture
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The Sourcebook of Contemporary Architecture presents sixty noteworthy case studies that showcase a complete and diverse range of structures worldwide. Each case study includes a succinct description of the project at hand, listing its name, client, and location and presenting its unique objectives, challenges, and solutions.
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This publication uses the physical evidence of community plans, building typologies and structural systems, and landscape to gain an understanding of the five great migrations that settled William Penn's Commonwealth. The rising industrial culture found its aesthetic counterpart in the architecture of Frank Furness who turned the dross of industry into the gold of design;(...)
Buildings of Pennsylvania: Philadelphia and eastern Pennsylvania
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This publication uses the physical evidence of community plans, building typologies and structural systems, and landscape to gain an understanding of the five great migrations that settled William Penn's Commonwealth. The rising industrial culture found its aesthetic counterpart in the architecture of Frank Furness who turned the dross of industry into the gold of design; his values continued through his students William L. Price and George Howe and on into the late twentieth century in the careers of Louis Kahn and Robert Venturi. In addition to Philadelphia, the book surveys the rival German-influenced small cities of the Piedmont, the brief but flourishing of wealth in the twin coal country cities, and a host of secondary county towns and villages that carry on vernacular building traditions overlaid with metropolitan architecture serving regional and national clients. This volume includes a glossary, bibliography, and over 400 illustrations (photographs, maps, and drawings). It is a volume in the Buildings of the United States series of the Society of Architectural Historians.
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This publication considers the architecture, landscape, and town plans of thirty-one counties west of Blue Mountain and north to Lake Erie, including cities and communities big and small. The first comprehensive look at the built environment in this large and varied territory, the volume spans the years from the late eighteenth century through to the first decade of the(...)
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April 2011
Buildings of Pennsylvania: Pittsburgh and western Pennsylvania
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This publication considers the architecture, landscape, and town plans of thirty-one counties west of Blue Mountain and north to Lake Erie, including cities and communities big and small. The first comprehensive look at the built environment in this large and varied territory, the volume spans the years from the late eighteenth century through to the first decade of the new millennium and reveals a range of architectural surprises. The authors discuss exemplary and everyday buildings and places — Harmonist villages, Carnegie libraries, river communities, amusement parks, farms and barns, the crossroads of Breezewood, and Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater among them — and canvass the scores of bridges, railroads, and inclines that cross the region's rivers, hills, and mountains. Descriptions of close to 150 of the commonwealth's small settlements, from coal patches to pike towns, capture the intense dialogue between industry and agriculture that typifies western Pennsylvania. Close to 400 illustrations, including photographs, maps, and drawings, bring the nearly 800 entries to life.
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Will Pryce unveils a world of beauty and genius in this unparalleled, specially photographed survey of the world's architectural master- pieces. More than 350 color photographs celebrate the finest buildings from over two thousand years of civilization: Hagia Sophia, the Gothic cathedrals of Europe, Islamic masterworks at Isfahan, the Taj Mahal, the Palace of Westminster,(...)
World architecture : the masterworks
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Will Pryce unveils a world of beauty and genius in this unparalleled, specially photographed survey of the world's architectural master- pieces. More than 350 color photographs celebrate the finest buildings from over two thousand years of civilization: Hagia Sophia, the Gothic cathedrals of Europe, Islamic masterworks at Isfahan, the Taj Mahal, the Palace of Westminster, Gehry s iconic Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, and much more. There are some eighty buildings featured, more than forty of which receive in-depth attention in detailed photo essays. Pryce's accompanying texts and commentaries provide an extra dimension of understanding for the contexts in which they were created, and of the evolution of architecture through history.
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Si tout bâtiment emblématique se retrouve sous les feux des projecteurs des médias lors de son inauguration, il est plus rare qu'il suscite encore leur intérêt a posteriori. Pourtant, l'architecture est par essence durable! À l'occasion du dixième anniversaire du Parlement européen de Strasbourg, ses auteurs d'AS.Architecture-Studio souhaitent ici revenir sur la(...)
Parlement européen de Strasbourg : AS.Architecture-Studio, 1999 - 2009
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Si tout bâtiment emblématique se retrouve sous les feux des projecteurs des médias lors de son inauguration, il est plus rare qu'il suscite encore leur intérêt a posteriori. Pourtant, l'architecture est par essence durable! À l'occasion du dixième anniversaire du Parlement européen de Strasbourg, ses auteurs d'AS.Architecture-Studio souhaitent ici revenir sur la destinée architecturale, urbaine, paysagère, régionale, sociale et politique de cette prestigieuse institution internationale.
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Vizzion Europe est une société internationale de développement immobilier basée à Bruxelles et dans différents pays européens.Dans un objectif d'émulation et de curiosité pour l'urbanisme remarquable des villes européennes, Vizzion Europe a décidé de créer un prix destiné aux étudiants en architecture, en avant-dernière ou dernière année de leur cursus scolaire. Le but du(...)
European architecture competition vizzion awards
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Vizzion Europe est une société internationale de développement immobilier basée à Bruxelles et dans différents pays européens.Dans un objectif d'émulation et de curiosité pour l'urbanisme remarquable des villes européennes, Vizzion Europe a décidé de créer un prix destiné aux étudiants en architecture, en avant-dernière ou dernière année de leur cursus scolaire. Le but du prix Vizzion Europe 2008/2009 est de sensibiliser les futurs architectes au développement d'une architecture et d'un urbanisme respectueux de l'environnement et des spécificités locales.
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