André Masson: coloriages
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Pour ses petits-enfants, le peintre André Masson avait fait des dessins destinés à être coloriés. Un certain nombre a été retrouvé et la couleur a été retirée. Reste le dessin original. Au-delà du jeu de coloriages, c'est à une véritable entrée dans son univers qu'André Masson nous invite avec ses héros fabuleux, ses mages soldats, ses bouffons dans des paysages peuplés(...)
André Masson: coloriages
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Pour ses petits-enfants, le peintre André Masson avait fait des dessins destinés à être coloriés. Un certain nombre a été retrouvé et la couleur a été retirée. Reste le dessin original. Au-delà du jeu de coloriages, c'est à une véritable entrée dans son univers qu'André Masson nous invite avec ses héros fabuleux, ses mages soldats, ses bouffons dans des paysages peuplés de comètes et d'animaux, de mers et de montagnes. D'un trait rapide, il jongle avec les soleils, joue avec les vagues et trace d'étranges visages. C'est aussi un document exceptionnel sur l'oeuvre d'un des plus grands artistes du XXème siècle.
Children's Books
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"A la fin, le Roi, lassé du beau et de la foule, se persuada qu'il voulait quelquefois du petit et de la solitude. Il chercha autour de Versailles de quoi satisfaire ce nouveau goût. Il visita plusieurs endroits; il parcourut les côteaux qui découvrent Saint-Germain et cette vaste plaine qui est au bas, où la Seine serpente et arrose tant de gros lieux et de richesses en(...)
Vues des jardins de Marly, le roi jardinier
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"A la fin, le Roi, lassé du beau et de la foule, se persuada qu'il voulait quelquefois du petit et de la solitude. Il chercha autour de Versailles de quoi satisfaire ce nouveau goût. Il visita plusieurs endroits; il parcourut les côteaux qui découvrent Saint-Germain et cette vaste plaine qui est au bas, où la Seine serpente et arrose tant de gros lieux et de richesses en quittant Paris". Telles furent, selon Saint-Simon, les origines de Marly, né d'un royal désir de se ménager le plus retiré des ermitages.
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Où va la neige
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Un regard neuf sur un événement simple : le déneigement. Des millions de mètres cubes de neige sont retirés chaque hiver des rues de nos grandes villes. Que fait-on de toute cette neige ? Patrick Evans décide de suivre un camion plein à ras bord et nous entraîne dans une aventure d'abord bien réelle, puis très fantaisiste. Il aboutit à une proposition à la fois écologique(...)
Où va la neige
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Un regard neuf sur un événement simple : le déneigement. Des millions de mètres cubes de neige sont retirés chaque hiver des rues de nos grandes villes. Que fait-on de toute cette neige ? Patrick Evans décide de suivre un camion plein à ras bord et nous entraîne dans une aventure d'abord bien réelle, puis très fantaisiste. Il aboutit à une proposition à la fois écologique et d'intérêt public : produire de gros cubes de glace pour rafraîchir les parcs en été !
Architecture de Montréal
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Young-Old examines contemporary architectural and urban mutations that have emerged as a consequence of one of the key demographic transformations of our time: aging populations. Distinguishing between different phases of old age, the book identifies the group known as the “young old” as a remarkable petri dish for experiments in subjectivity, collectivity, and(...)
Young-old: urban utopias of an aging society
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Young-Old examines contemporary architectural and urban mutations that have emerged as a consequence of one of the key demographic transformations of our time: aging populations. Distinguishing between different phases of old age, the book identifies the group known as the “young old” as a remarkable petri dish for experiments in subjectivity, collectivity, and environment. In investigating this field of latent urban and architectural novelty, Young-Old asserts both the escapist and emancipatory dimensions of these practices. Illustrated with drawings, maps, and photographs, the volume documents phenomena ranging from the continuous, golf-cart-accessible urban landscapes of the world’s largest retirement community in Florida and the mono-national urbanizaciones of “the retirement home of Europe” on Costa del Sol, to the Dutch-themed residential community at Huis Ten Bosch in the south of Japan.
Urban Theory
Le mythe de Haussmann
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Loin de retirer au Baron d'Empire autant qu'à l'ancien Préfet de Gironde Georges Eugène Haussmann sa contribution à l'aménagement du « Nouveau Paris », Pierre Pinon entend cependant relativiser le « mythe » résultant d'une lecture trop littérale et hagiographique de ses Mémoires. Paris ne s'est pas fait en un jour ni à sa seule arrivée en 1853. Dès les années 1840, il(...)
Le mythe de Haussmann
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Loin de retirer au Baron d'Empire autant qu'à l'ancien Préfet de Gironde Georges Eugène Haussmann sa contribution à l'aménagement du « Nouveau Paris », Pierre Pinon entend cependant relativiser le « mythe » résultant d'une lecture trop littérale et hagiographique de ses Mémoires. Paris ne s'est pas fait en un jour ni à sa seule arrivée en 1853. Dès les années 1840, il existe des commerçants, investisseurs, architectes et commissions qui réfléchissent à des scénarios d'alignement, d'élargissement ou de percée dans la Ville-Lumière. Et cela, sans oublier les velléités d'aménageur de Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte président de la République (dès 1848) et, plus encore, de l'Empereur Napoléon III après son retour émerveillé de l'Exposition de Londres en 1851...
Architectural Theory
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For a long time, Lucien Engels (1928) was a well-kept secret in the history of Belgian architecture. His oeuvre was unknown until it was discovered at the end of the twentieth century, long after his retirement as an architect. This book presents a wide selection of houses, public buildings, furniture and paintings by the dissident modernist Lucien Engels, whose work has(...)
Lucien Engels : architecture, art, design
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For a long time, Lucien Engels (1928) was a well-kept secret in the history of Belgian architecture. His oeuvre was unknown until it was discovered at the end of the twentieth century, long after his retirement as an architect. This book presents a wide selection of houses, public buildings, furniture and paintings by the dissident modernist Lucien Engels, whose work has since become a bestseller on the international design market.
Architecture Monographs
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"The Italian Interiors of Elsa Peretti" charts a voyage through two sumptuous homes of the late artist whose designs completely reshaped jewellery in the 20th century and are still worn by the world’s biggest stars today. Capturing the terracotta glow of these spaces, Estelle Hanania’s ethereal photography introduces us to the wilds of Torre Avoltore, a towering residence(...)
The Italian interiors of Elsa Peretti
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"The Italian Interiors of Elsa Peretti" charts a voyage through two sumptuous homes of the late artist whose designs completely reshaped jewellery in the 20th century and are still worn by the world’s biggest stars today. Capturing the terracotta glow of these spaces, Estelle Hanania’s ethereal photography introduces us to the wilds of Torre Avoltore, a towering residence in Porto Ercole, and invites us to retire to stately Rome, where Elsa grew up. An introductory essay by longtime collaborator Stefano Palumbo centres Elsa’s creative relationship with architect and designer Lorenzo Mongiardino, and a brief dispatch from photographer Dominique Nabokov closes the book with a memory of her 2001 visit to the tower.
Interior Design
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Are cancer rates higher or lower in rural communities? How can you know how much money to sock away for retirement when you don't know when you'll die? And where exactly did nineteenth-century novelists get their ideas? These are some of the fascinating questions Wainer invites readers to consider. Along the way he traces the origins and development of graphical display,(...)
Graphic Design and Typography
June 2009, Princeton / Oxford
Picturing the uncertain world: how to understand, communicate, and control uncertainty through graphical display
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Are cancer rates higher or lower in rural communities? How can you know how much money to sock away for retirement when you don't know when you'll die? And where exactly did nineteenth-century novelists get their ideas? These are some of the fascinating questions Wainer invites readers to consider. Along the way he traces the origins and development of graphical display, from William Playfair, who pioneered the use of graphs in the eighteenth century, to instances today where the public has been misled through poorly designed graphs.
Graphic Design and Typography
Hitoshi Hara: Yet
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Hiroshi Hara is not only known as an architect but also as an author on architecture and cities, amongst other the essay “Discrete City”. This publication is a chronological survey of all of his projects since the early sixties conceived but not yet realized. Starting in 1965 with his conceptual model displayed at the Environment Exhibition called the World of Yukotai(...)
Hitoshi Hara: Yet
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Hiroshi Hara is not only known as an architect but also as an author on architecture and cities, amongst other the essay “Discrete City”. This publication is a chronological survey of all of his projects since the early sixties conceived but not yet realized. Starting in 1965 with his conceptual model displayed at the Environment Exhibition called the World of Yukotai followed by The Hole in 1969 at the Biennale of Paris, his 80s projects in Paris for the Parc de la Villette and the Opera de la Bastille. Included are his Studies for Discrete City shown in 1997 at the Tokyo University Museum showing sketches used in his retirement lecture.
Architecture Monographs
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Thirty years ago, alternative communities swept the american nation. Today, with sustainability, peak oil and retirement concerns, people of all ages are reviving and expanding notions of cooperative living as new communities form and thrive. The Modern Utopian is an exploration of the alternative communities that fascinated a nation and redefined progressive culture(...)
The modern utopian: alternative communities of the '60s and '70s
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Thirty years ago, alternative communities swept the american nation. Today, with sustainability, peak oil and retirement concerns, people of all ages are reviving and expanding notions of cooperative living as new communities form and thrive. The Modern Utopian is an exploration of the alternative communities that fascinated a nation and redefined progressive culture in the ‘60s and ‘70s, documented by those who knew it and lived it. This photo-illustrated compilation of articles visits the fabled Drop City, Morningstar Ranch, Timothy Leary at Millbrook, Detroit’s Translove Energies, the still-thriving Twin Oaks and Stephen Gaskin’s Farm, and dozens of other across the nation.
Architectural Theory