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Japanese architect Go Hasegawa engages some of today’s most relevant European architects in a series of conversations that touch upon the current and topical issues at play in architecture on the continent and globally. From asking Peter Märkli about the sense of history in his works, or illuminating the methods of economy used by Lacaton & Vassal, to discussing(...)
Go Hasegawa : conversations with European architects
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Japanese architect Go Hasegawa engages some of today’s most relevant European architects in a series of conversations that touch upon the current and topical issues at play in architecture on the continent and globally. From asking Peter Märkli about the sense of history in his works, or illuminating the methods of economy used by Lacaton & Vassal, to discussing multiplicity in architecture with Álvaro Siza, the book brims with insightful questions and answers from the field’s leading practitioners. Featuring interviews with Álvaro Siza, Valerio Olgiati, Peter Märkli, Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal, Pascal Flammer, and Kersten Geers and David Van Severen.
Architecture Monographs
Why density?
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What is density? This question is the starting point of an investigation into the nature of density in the contemporary urban environment. In analysing projects located throughout Europe, the research proposes that density is not about volumetric exploitation, but based on the interaction between three elements: agents, fluxes, and territory. This book documents the(...)
Why density?
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What is density? This question is the starting point of an investigation into the nature of density in the contemporary urban environment. In analysing projects located throughout Europe, the research proposes that density is not about volumetric exploitation, but based on the interaction between three elements: agents, fluxes, and territory. This book documents the findings, detailing individual buildings, cataloguing specific urban forms, and drawing conclusions as to performance and quality, also in an ecological sense. It also offers a case study concerning the former site of the Renault factory in Paris, examining how an experimental opportunity can lead to a vibrant piece of city.
Architectural Theory
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Louise Bourgeois' tapestry and needlepoint work deals with reparation in both a literal and metaphorical sense. In many of the works, fragmented tapestries are pieced together and repaired to create new sculptural forms. The recurring practices of weaving, stitching and mending express Bourgeois' identification with her childhood and the family business of tapestry(...)
Louise Bourgeois: the spider and the tapestries
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Louise Bourgeois' tapestry and needlepoint work deals with reparation in both a literal and metaphorical sense. In many of the works, fragmented tapestries are pieced together and repaired to create new sculptural forms. The recurring practices of weaving, stitching and mending express Bourgeois' identification with her childhood and the family business of tapestry restoration. Coupled with the medium of tapestry, Bourgeois' recurring motif of the spider symbolizes her mother, a weaver, and fully explores the complex relationship between mother and child. This publication includes archival photographs and facsimile documents from the Bourgeois family archive, as well as excerpts from the artist's psychoanalytical writings.
Contemporary Art Monographs
A book of things
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Jasper Morrison has the ability to bestow things with a distinctive style. His signature style is evident in many of the everyday objects that surround us. His repertoire of essential designs is characterized by simplicity yet complexity, as well as a sense of poetry and humor. Morrison works on a global scale and is one of the most influential product designers in(...)
A book of things
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Jasper Morrison has the ability to bestow things with a distinctive style. His signature style is evident in many of the everyday objects that surround us. His repertoire of essential designs is characterized by simplicity yet complexity, as well as a sense of poetry and humor. Morrison works on a global scale and is one of the most influential product designers in the world today. A Book of Things is a collection of products and projects across the broad spectrum of his activities and demonstrates the continuity of his interests and methods, which he describes in succinct texts.
Design Monographs
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Yoko Ando envisions textiles that are one with architecture. For buildings and the spaces they create, textiles are a medium as any other. Translucent sheets change how things look, something which varies with the nature of their transparency and relationship with light. Textiles are, in this sense, similar to light, as both exist between people and architecture, acting(...)
The textiles of Yoko Ando : weaving spaces and structures
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Yoko Ando envisions textiles that are one with architecture. For buildings and the spaces they create, textiles are a medium as any other. Translucent sheets change how things look, something which varies with the nature of their transparency and relationship with light. Textiles are, in this sense, similar to light, as both exist between people and architecture, acting as mediators – whether of the space, the materials, or the encompassing order. Ando’s textile designs thus create experiences within architecture, as part of the architecture itself. The book also includes a conversation between the designer and architect Toyo Ito.
Materials and Lighting
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Le vocabulaire du paysage et du jardin emprunte aujourd'hui à de multiples domaines : aux sciences et aux pratiques de la production de l'espace (géographie, urbanisme, architecture, génie civil), aux sciences de la nature et de la vie (écologie, biologie), aux technologies du vivant (horticulture, sylviculture, agronomie), aux sciences de l'homme et de la société(...)
Des mots de paysage et de jardin
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Le vocabulaire du paysage et du jardin emprunte aujourd'hui à de multiples domaines : aux sciences et aux pratiques de la production de l'espace (géographie, urbanisme, architecture, génie civil), aux sciences de la nature et de la vie (écologie, biologie), aux technologies du vivant (horticulture, sylviculture, agronomie), aux sciences de l'homme et de la société (histoire de l'art, anthropologie, sociologie, droit), aux arts plastiques, à la littérature et à la philosophie. Mais les mots du paysage et du jardin sont aussi très familiers : ce sont les mots de l'émotion, de la sensation, de l'impression et du sentiment. La plupart de ces mots sont utilisés par le plus grand nombre, car le goût pour les paysages et les jardins n'est plus aujourd'hui réservé à des privilégiés ; il s'est démocratisé. Ce dictionnaire est une première étape. Il ne cherche pas à borner ou à normaliser les langages des différents groupes professionnels concernés par le paysage et le jardin, mais à améliorer la compréhension mutuelle de ces derniers, aussi bien dans la pratique que dans l'enseignement et la recherche.
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Landscape Theory
Julio Cano Lasso: Natures
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Spanish architect Julio Cano Lasso (1920–1996) was celebrated for his rational and austerely engineered buildings as well as his commitment to designing social housing and urban infrastructure. Lasso’s buildings are practical, modern, and immediately recognisable for their bare-bones aesthetic. He was, in the real sense of the word, an eclectic; fusing diverse sources and(...)
Julio Cano Lasso: Natures
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Spanish architect Julio Cano Lasso (1920–1996) was celebrated for his rational and austerely engineered buildings as well as his commitment to designing social housing and urban infrastructure. Lasso’s buildings are practical, modern, and immediately recognisable for their bare-bones aesthetic. He was, in the real sense of the word, an eclectic; fusing diverse sources and periods in his built works. Featuring previously unpublished texts by authors such as William J.R. Curtis, Juhani Pallasmaa, Iñaki Ábalos, and Juan Navarro Baldeweg, as well as archival images complemented by recent photographs by Iwan Baan, this volume proudly presents Cano Lasso’s legacy.
Architecture Monographs
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When all else fails, when our compass is broken, there is one thing some of us have come to rely on: music really can give us a sense of something like home. With "It gets me home, this curving track," legendary music critic Ian Penman reaches for a vanished moment in musical history when cultures collided and a certain kind of cross-generational and "cross-colour"(...)
It gets me home, this curving track
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When all else fails, when our compass is broken, there is one thing some of us have come to rely on: music really can give us a sense of something like home. With "It gets me home, this curving track," legendary music critic Ian Penman reaches for a vanished moment in musical history when cultures collided and a certain kind of cross-generational and "cross-colour" awareness was born. His cast of characters includes the Mods, James Brown, Charlie Parker, Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, John Fahey, Steely Dan and Prince – black artists who were innovators, and white musicians who copied them for the mainstream.
Acoustics
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What can the senses of an attentive philosopher see, hear, and learn that can, in turn, teach us about living better lives? Perhaps it’s less a matter of asking what and more a matter of asking how. These latest reflections from Italy’s foremost philosopher form a sort of travelogue that chronicles Giorgio Agamben’s profound interior journey. Here, with unprecedented(...)
What I saw, heard, learned...
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What can the senses of an attentive philosopher see, hear, and learn that can, in turn, teach us about living better lives? Perhaps it’s less a matter of asking what and more a matter of asking how. These latest reflections from Italy’s foremost philosopher form a sort of travelogue that chronicles Giorgio Agamben’s profound interior journey. Here, with unprecedented immediacy, Agamben shares his final remarks, late-life observations, and reflections about his life that flashed before his eyes. What did he see in that brief flash? What did he stay faithful to? What remains of all those places, friends, and teachers?
Critical Theory
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With increasing intensity, CAAD (Computer Aided Architectural Design) is determining the daily work of today's architectural offices. Computers allow complex designs to be visualised and altered with great speed and accuracy; three-dimensional models can be created with simulation and animation possibilities, and links to the World Wide Web provide access to a flow of(...)
Information architecture : basis and future of CAAD
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With increasing intensity, CAAD (Computer Aided Architectural Design) is determining the daily work of today's architectural offices. Computers allow complex designs to be visualised and altered with great speed and accuracy; three-dimensional models can be created with simulation and animation possibilities, and links to the World Wide Web provide access to a flow of information. The author develops his thesis that these aspects do not just enable the creative process to be optimised in a quantitative sense but also qualitatively. Alongside the spatial and time dimensions, the new electronic possibilities provide a fifth dimension in architecture.
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