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Few twentieth-century writers on architecture and design have enjoyed the renown of Reyner Banham. Born and trained in England and a U.S. resident starting in 1976, Banham wrote incisively about American and European buildings and culture. Now readers can enjoy a chronological cross-section of essays, polemics, and reviews drawn from more than three decades of Banham's(...)
A critic writes : essays by Reyner Banham
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Few twentieth-century writers on architecture and design have enjoyed the renown of Reyner Banham. Born and trained in England and a U.S. resident starting in 1976, Banham wrote incisively about American and European buildings and culture. Now readers can enjoy a chronological cross-section of essays, polemics, and reviews drawn from more than three decades of Banham's writings. The volume, which includes discussions of Italian Futurism, Adolf Loos, Paul Scheerbart, and the Bauhaus as well as explorations of contemporary architecture by Frank Gehry, James Stirling, and Norman Foster, conveys the full range of Banham's belief in industrial and technological development as the motor of architectural evolution. Banham's interests and passions ranged from architecture and the culture of pop art to urban and industrial design. In brilliant analyses of automobile styling, mobile homes, science fiction films, and the American predilection for gadgets, he anticipated many of the preoccupations of contemporary cultural studies. Los Angeles, the city that Banham commemorated in a book and a film, receives extensive attention in essays on the Santa Monica Pier, the Getty Museum, Forest Lawn cemetery, and the ubiquitous freeway system. Eminently readable, provocative, and entertaining, this book is certain to consolidate Banham's reputation among architects and students of contemporary culture. For those acquainted with his writing, it offers welcome surprises as well as familiar delights. For those encountering Banham for the first time, it comprises the perfect introduction.
Architectural Theory
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First published in 1968, the AIA Guide to New York City has long been the definitive guide to the city's architecture. Moving through all five boroughs, neighborhood by neighborhood, it offers a complete overview of New York's significant places, past and present. The fifth edition continues to include places of historical importance - including extensive coverage of the(...)
AIA guide to New York City, fifth edition
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First published in 1968, the AIA Guide to New York City has long been the definitive guide to the city's architecture. Moving through all five boroughs, neighborhood by neighborhood, it offers a complete overview of New York's significant places, past and present. The fifth edition continues to include places of historical importance - including extensive coverage of the World Trade Center site - while also taking full account of the construction boom of the past 10 years, a boom that has given rise to an unprecedented number of new buildings by such architects as Frank Gehry, Norman Foster, and Renzo Piano. All of the buildings included in the Fourth Edition have been revisited and re-photographed and much of the commentary has been re-written, and coverage of the outer boroughs - particularly Brooklyn - has been expanded. Famed skyscrapers and historic landmarks are detailed, but so, too, are firehouses, parks, churches, parking garages, monuments, and bridges. Boasting more than 3000 new photographs, 100 enhanced maps, and thousands of short entries, the guide is arranged geographically by borough, with each borough divided into sectors and then into neighborhood. Extensive commentaries describe the character of the divisions.
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The sketch is a window into the architects mind. As creative designers, architects are interested in how other architects, particularly successful ones, think through the use of drawings to approach their work. Historically designers have sought inspiration for their own work through an insight into the minds and workings of people they often regard as geniuses. This(...)
Architects' drawings: a selection of sketches by world famous archittects through history
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The sketch is a window into the architects mind. As creative designers, architects are interested in how other architects, particularly successful ones, think through the use of drawings to approach their work. Historically designers have sought inspiration for their own work through an insight into the minds and workings of people they often regard as geniuses. This collection of sketches aims to provide this insight. Here for the first time, a wide range of world famous architects' sketches from the Renaissance to the present day can be seen in a single volume. The sketches have been selected to represent the concepts or philosophies of the key movements in architecture in order to develop an overall picture of the role of the sketch in the development of architecture. The book illustrates the work of designers as diverse as Andrea Palladio, Erich Mendelsohn, Sir Edwin Lutyens, Gianlorenzo Bernini, Le Corbusier, Michelangelo, Alvar Aalto, Sir John Soane, Francesco Borromini, Walter Gropius, and contemporary architects Tadao Ando, Zaha Hadid and Frank Gehry to name but a few. Each chronologically placed sketch is accompanied by text providing details about the architect’s life, a look at the sketch in context, and the connection to specific buildings where appropriate. Style, media and meaning are also discussed, developing an explanation of the architect’s thinking and intentions.
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L'architecture du XXe siècle
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Ce livre dresse un portrait de l'architecture contemporaine, de Frank Lloyd Wright à Antoni Gaudí, en passant par Frank O. Gehry ou Shigeru Ban, et beaucoup, beaucoup d'autres. Illustré par des centaines de photos grand format ainsi que par des dessins et des plans, l'ouvrage s'organise en chapitres classés par ordre chronologique, qui offrent une bonne remise en(...)
Contemporary Architecture
November 2013
L'architecture du XXe siècle
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Ce livre dresse un portrait de l'architecture contemporaine, de Frank Lloyd Wright à Antoni Gaudí, en passant par Frank O. Gehry ou Shigeru Ban, et beaucoup, beaucoup d'autres. Illustré par des centaines de photos grand format ainsi que par des dessins et des plans, l'ouvrage s'organise en chapitres classés par ordre chronologique, qui offrent une bonne remise en perspective. L'appendice biographique regroupe les plus grands architectes du siècle comme les nouveaux talents d'aujourd'hui.
Contemporary Architecture
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Des projets réalisés par Jean Nouvel, Norman Foster, Zaha Hadid, Frank O. Gehry, Eric Owen Moss, Dominique Perrault, Murphy/Jahn, Mecanoo, Tadao Ando, Shigeru Ban, Toyo Ito, Fumihiko Maki, Kenzo Tange, César Pelli et Enric Miralles. Avec plus de 2500 illustrations et plans.
Architecture since 1900, Europe
February 2005, Barcelona
Atlas : architecture contemporaine 1.0
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Des projets réalisés par Jean Nouvel, Norman Foster, Zaha Hadid, Frank O. Gehry, Eric Owen Moss, Dominique Perrault, Murphy/Jahn, Mecanoo, Tadao Ando, Shigeru Ban, Toyo Ito, Fumihiko Maki, Kenzo Tange, César Pelli et Enric Miralles. Avec plus de 2500 illustrations et plans.
Architecture since 1900, Europe
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Besides a special feature on the Biennale in Venice, GA Document also presents the Musashino University Library by Sou Fujimoto, the Cleveland Clinic by Frank O. Gehry, the Museum Liaunig by Quercraft, the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2010 by Jean Nouvel and the Lee Ufan Museum by Tandao Ando.
GA Document 114: Venice Biennale
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Besides a special feature on the Biennale in Venice, GA Document also presents the Musashino University Library by Sou Fujimoto, the Cleveland Clinic by Frank O. Gehry, the Museum Liaunig by Quercraft, the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2010 by Jean Nouvel and the Lee Ufan Museum by Tandao Ando.
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Eminent Architects collects Ingrid von Kruse’s intimate portraits of practicing architects--among them Tadao Ando, David Chipperfield, Peter Eisenman, Norman Foster, Frank O. Gehry, Zaha Hadid, Rem Koolhaas, Phyllis Lambert, Daniel Libeskind, Richard Meier, Oscar Niemeyer, I.M. Pei, Dominique Perrault, Richard Rogers, SANAA, Álvaro Siza, Robert Venturi and Denise Scott(...)
Eminent architects seen by Ingrid Von Kruse
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Eminent Architects collects Ingrid von Kruse’s intimate portraits of practicing architects--among them Tadao Ando, David Chipperfield, Peter Eisenman, Norman Foster, Frank O. Gehry, Zaha Hadid, Rem Koolhaas, Phyllis Lambert, Daniel Libeskind, Richard Meier, Oscar Niemeyer, I.M. Pei, Dominique Perrault, Richard Rogers, SANAA, Álvaro Siza, Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown. A selection of sketches and models completes this ambitious undertaking.
Architecture Monographs
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In 1999 over a period of eight months, the Tadao Ando Laboratory, part of the Department of Architecture from the University of Tokyo, invited a number of guest speakers to talk about their experiences as young architects. The architects were Renzo Piano, Jean Nouvel, Ricardo Legorreta, Frank O. Gehry, I.M. Pei and Dominique Perrault. This is a record of these talks.(...)
Architecture since 1900, Europe
December 1999, Tapei
World architects in their twenties
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In 1999 over a period of eight months, the Tadao Ando Laboratory, part of the Department of Architecture from the University of Tokyo, invited a number of guest speakers to talk about their experiences as young architects. The architects were Renzo Piano, Jean Nouvel, Ricardo Legorreta, Frank O. Gehry, I.M. Pei and Dominique Perrault. This is a record of these talks. Taiwanese/French/English.
Architecture since 1900, Europe
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Nous consacrons, comme pour le Bois et Paris, deux dossiers successifs de Techniques & Architecture au même thème, celui du Paysage. Ce choix est justifié par l’ampleur de la demande des maîtrises d’ouvrage privées et publiques et par la qualité des réalisations. Il l’est aussi parce que le rôle et les missions du paysagiste ne cessent de s’étendre. De la ville au(...)
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November 2006, Paris
Techniques & architecture 486 : paysage 1 / landscape 1
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Nous consacrons, comme pour le Bois et Paris, deux dossiers successifs de Techniques & Architecture au même thème, celui du Paysage. Ce choix est justifié par l’ampleur de la demande des maîtrises d’ouvrage privées et publiques et par la qualité des réalisations. Il l’est aussi parce que le rôle et les missions du paysagiste ne cessent de s’étendre. De la ville au péri-urbain et la campagne, chacun attend de lui qu’il intègre à son projet spécificités culturelles et sociales, ce qui est déjà là et qu’il tente par sa capacité créatrice de réconcilier les activités humaines avec la nature et ses incroyables richesses, tout en les sauvegardant, nouveau passeur et trait d’union entre aujourd’hui et demain. Le premier Dossier consacré au Paysage fait le point sur la notion même et sur celle de paysagiste, pointe les domaines de compétences de ce dernier. Les réalisations et projets présentés rendent compte du foisonnement des programmes, montrent qu’il n’est pas d’espaces où les créativités de la nature et de l’homme ne puissent se croiser. Le prochain Dossier consacré au Paysage (à paraître en janvier 2007) mettra l’accent sur le développement durable en matière de paysage, la culture technique afférente, à travers des réalisations très variées, au croisement de l’aménagement et de l’urbanisme. Le Dossier du premier numéro consacré au Paysage est, comme à l’accoutumée, encadré par l’Agenda des principales activités culturelles et professionnelles du monde de l’architecture et du design. La rubrique Journal détaille la dernière exposition d’Archilab et commente le projet de Frank Gehry pour LVMH à Paris. La rubrique Actualité, particulièrement fournie, analyse les résultats d’Europan 8, la dernière Biennale de Venise et plusieurs réalisations, en particulier, celle du Musée des Arts décoratifs à Paris.
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The internationally acclaimed architect Rafael Moneo is known to be a courageous architect. His major works include the Houston Museum of Fine Art, Davis Art Museum at Wellesley College, the Stockholm Museum of Modern Art and Architecture, and the Potzdammer Platz Hotel in Berlin. Now Moneo will be known as a daring critic as well. In this book he looks at eight of his(...)
Theoretical anxiety and design strategies in the work of eight contemporary architects
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The internationally acclaimed architect Rafael Moneo is known to be a courageous architect. His major works include the Houston Museum of Fine Art, Davis Art Museum at Wellesley College, the Stockholm Museum of Modern Art and Architecture, and the Potzdammer Platz Hotel in Berlin. Now Moneo will be known as a daring critic as well. In this book he looks at eight of his contemporaries -- all architects of international stature -- and discusses the theoretical positions, technical innovations, and design contributions of each. Moneo's discussion of these eight architects -- James Stirling, Robert Venturi, Aldo Rossi, Peter Eisenman, Alvaro Siza, Frank Gehry, Rem Koolhaas, and the partnership of Jacques Herzog and Pierre De Meuron -- has the colloquial, engaging tone of a series of lectures on modern architecture by a master architect; the reader hears not the dispassionate theorizing of an academic, but Moneo's own deeply held convictions as he considers the work of his contemporaries. Discussing each of the eight architects in turn, Moneo first gives an introductory profile, emphasizing intentions, theoretical concerns, and construction procedures. He then turns to the work, offering detailed critical analyses of the works he considers to be crucial for an informed understanding of this architect's work. The many images he uses to illustrate his points resemble the rapid-fire flash of slides in a lecture, but Moneo's perspective is unique among lecturers. These profiles are not what Moneo calls the "tacit treatises" that can be found on the shelves of a university library, but lively encounters of architectural equals. More than 500 illustrations accompany the text.
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Architectural Theory