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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
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This volume brings together comprehensive excerpts from the catalogues documenting the design practice research of eighteen architects who were invited to participate in the inventional research program at RMIT University, a program initiated in 1987 and focused on practioners who have developed a body of work demonstrating mastery in their field.
The practice of of practice 2: research in the medium of design
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This volume brings together comprehensive excerpts from the catalogues documenting the design practice research of eighteen architects who were invited to participate in the inventional research program at RMIT University, a program initiated in 1987 and focused on practioners who have developed a body of work demonstrating mastery in their field.
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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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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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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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This book chronicles the most influential ideas that have shaped architecture. Entertaining and intelligent, it provides a concise history of the subject, and is also a fascinating resource to dip into. Arranged in a broadly chronological order to show the development of architecture, the ideas that comprise the book include innovative and influential concepts,(...)
100 ideas that changed architecture
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This book chronicles the most influential ideas that have shaped architecture. Entertaining and intelligent, it provides a concise history of the subject, and is also a fascinating resource to dip into. Arranged in a broadly chronological order to show the development of architecture, the ideas that comprise the book include innovative and influential concepts, technologies, techniques and movements.
History since 1900, Reference Books
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"Typology", volume 2 of the new series Christ & Gantenbein Review, presents more than 150 buildings located in Rome, New York, Hong Kong and Buenos Aires that have been analysed by the chair of Emanuel Christ and Christoph Gantenbein at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich. This selective and subjective inventory of metropolitan and essentially anonymous(...)
History since 1900, Reference Books
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Review N. 2 : Typology, Hong Kong, Rome, New York, Buenos Aires
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"Typology", volume 2 of the new series Christ & Gantenbein Review, presents more than 150 buildings located in Rome, New York, Hong Kong and Buenos Aires that have been analysed by the chair of Emanuel Christ and Christoph Gantenbein at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich. This selective and subjective inventory of metropolitan and essentially anonymous 20th-century building production provides a basis for urban project creation. In this new book, the buildings are documented with floor plans, axonometric projections, recent photographs and key information. The theoretical essay by Emanuel Christ and Christoph Gantenbein and four texts by other authors explain the interactions between the contexts, especially the governing urban rule sets and the buildings, and show the potential for the design of a contemporary urban architecture.
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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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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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Elucidating the history of world architecture--from the pyramids of Egypt and the temples of Greece to the ecological architecture of today--for both student and general readership, this ambitious book presents key buildings and styles in a passionate and engaged style. Pavlos Lefas emphasizes the contemporary applications of past architectural practices worldwide,(...)
Architecture: a historical perspective
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Elucidating the history of world architecture--from the pyramids of Egypt and the temples of Greece to the ecological architecture of today--for both student and general readership, this ambitious book presents key buildings and styles in a passionate and engaged style. Pavlos Lefas emphasizes the contemporary applications of past architectural practices worldwide, thematizing his chronology into such topics as architecture and mathematics, scale, utopia, minimalism, grids, tall buildings and landscape architecture.
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Cet ouvrage propose deux éclairages de la région grenobloise : celui des engagements et des coups de coeur de ses habitants et celui des images et des symboles qui cristallisent ces élans sur des valeurs partagées. Ces regards croisés sont alimentés par des experts qui donnent la parole à des sportifs, à des montagnards, à des acteurs de la vie économique, sociale et culturelle.
Réinventer la ville : regards croisés sur Grenoble
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Cet ouvrage propose deux éclairages de la région grenobloise : celui des engagements et des coups de coeur de ses habitants et celui des images et des symboles qui cristallisent ces élans sur des valeurs partagées. Ces regards croisés sont alimentés par des experts qui donnent la parole à des sportifs, à des montagnards, à des acteurs de la vie économique, sociale et culturelle.
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