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Le verre, substance changeante et spectaculaire qui permet à la lumière d'entrer dans les édifices, a de tout temps suscité une fascination presque mystique. L'architecture moderne y a fait appel afin d'élever des constructions minimalistes, exalter les partis architecturaux privilégiant la légèreté et l'enveloppe polyvalente, et éclairer largement l'intérieur des(...)
Nouvelle archtiecture de verre
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Le verre, substance changeante et spectaculaire qui permet à la lumière d'entrer dans les édifices, a de tout temps suscité une fascination presque mystique. L'architecture moderne y a fait appel afin d'élever des constructions minimalistes, exalter les partis architecturaux privilégiant la légèreté et l'enveloppe polyvalente, et éclairer largement l'intérieur des bâtiments. Cependant, ce n'est qu'au cours des quinze dernières années que le potentiel de l'architecture de verre s'est pleinement concrétisé. «Nouvelle architecture de verre» montre qu'une esthétique de l'architecture de verre se développe depuis les années 1990, esthétique qui s'intéresse à la possibilité de «construire avec la lumière» et non plus à la seule «légèreté de construction» prônée par l'école moderne. Cultivant ses attributs d'opacité, de divulgation, de mystère et d'ombre, cette nouvelle architecture de verre, dont l'ambition trouverait son origine directe dans le Crystal Palace de 1851, s'affirme comme une expérience multisensorielle. Un texte introductif retrace les moments décisifs de l'utilisation du verre dans l'architecture, puis évoque l'importance des artistes du verre dans la seconde moitié du XXe siècle et les progrès accomplis par la technologie du verre ces dernières années. Suivent vingt-cinq exemples récents d'architecture de verre, qu'accompagnent les photographies en couleurs commandées spécialement pour le livre à Dennis Gilbert, photographe d'architecture renommé. Parmi ces projets réalisés dans le monde entier figurent la Torre Agbar de Jean Nouvel à Barcelone, la DZ Bank de Frank Gehry à Berlin, le Centre Kursaal de Rafael Moneo à Saint-Sébastien, la Great Court du British Museum de Foster & Partners à Londres et le Kimmel Art Centre de Rafael Vinoly à Philadelphie.
Materials and Lighting
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Lundi 2 octobre 2006, au matin. Bernard Arnaud, président de Louis Vuitton Moët Hennessy (LVMH), convoque toute la presse française et internationale avenue Montaigne, à Paris. En présence de ses partenaires publics, représentés par le ministre français de la Culture et le maire de Paris, Monsieur Arnaud annonce que Frank Gehry bâtira, sur une parcelle du Jardin(...)
L'architecture d'aujourd'hui 367 : temporaire
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Lundi 2 octobre 2006, au matin. Bernard Arnaud, président de Louis Vuitton Moët Hennessy (LVMH), convoque toute la presse française et internationale avenue Montaigne, à Paris. En présence de ses partenaires publics, représentés par le ministre français de la Culture et le maire de Paris, Monsieur Arnaud annonce que Frank Gehry bâtira, sur une parcelle du Jardin d’acclimatation, un édifice qui accueillera la nouvelle Fondation Louis Vuitton. “Un rêve” s’exclame le maître d’ouvrage. “Un nuage tout en verre”, corrige l’architecte en regrettant publiquement qu’il ne puisse pas “bâtir ses croquis”. Le rêve nuageux, censé séduire et provoquer la curiosité, coûtera 100 millions d’euros. Il y a quarante ans Guy Debord écrivait : “Quand les pseudo-fêtes vulgarisées, parodies du dialogue et du don, incitent à un surplus de dépense économique, elles ne ramènent que la déception toujours compensée par la promesse d’une déception nouvelle. Le temps de la survie moderne doit, dans le spectacle, se vanter d’autant plus hautement que sa valeur d’usage s’est réduite.” Une fois édifiés, tous les rêves et les nuages se calcifient. Et lorsque l’attention du public est lassée, ces bâtisses passent à l’arrière-plan où elles devront affronter changements d’usage et opérations de reconversion. Aucune des œuvres présentées dans ce numéro n’a coûté 100 millions d’euros. Même pas une fraction de cette somme faramineuse. Prometteuses de l’intensité et de présence, elles se veulent fugitives, évanescentes, passagères ou temporaires. Elles assument, jusqu’au bout, la logique de notre temps. Elles sont spectaculaires, mais n’occupent leurs terrains que sur une courte durée. Elles sont, selon une formule de l’agence Kühn Malvezzi, des “monuments momentanés”. Architectures du désir, elles ont su remporter une adhésion spontanée et il est fort probable qu’elles se gravent durablement dans la mémoire collective.
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January 2007, Paris
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Beginning with agoraphobia and claustrophobia in the late nineteenth century, followed by shell shock and panic fear after World War I, phobias and anxiety came to be seen as the mental condition of modern life. They became incorporated into the media and arts, in particular the (...)
Warped space : art, architecture, and anxiety in modern culture
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Beginning with agoraphobia and claustrophobia in the late nineteenth century, followed by shell shock and panic fear after World War I, phobias and anxiety came to be seen as the mental condition of modern life. They became incorporated into the media and arts, in particular the spatial arts of architecture, urbanism, and film. This "spatial warping" is now being reshaped by digitalization and virtual reality. Anthony Vidler is concerned with two forms of warped space. The first, a psychological space, is the repository of neuroses and phobias. This space is not empty but full of disturbing forms, including those of architecture and the city. The second kind of warping is produced when artists break the boundaries of genre to depict space in new ways. Vidler traces the emergence of a psychological idea of space from Pascal and Freud to the identification of agoraphobia and claustrophobia in the nineteenth century to twentieth-century theories of spatial alienation and estrangement in the writings of Georg Simmel, Siegfried Kracauer, and Walter Benjamin. Focusing on current conditions of displacement and placelessness, he examines ways in which contemporary artists and architects have produced new forms of spatial warping. The discussion ranges from theorists such as Jacques Lacan and Gilles Deleuze to artists such as Vito Acconci, Mike Kelley, Martha Rosler, and Rachel Whiteread. Finally, Vidler looks at the architectural experiments of Frank Gehry, Coop Himmelblau, Daniel Libeskind, Greg Lynn, Morphosis, and Eric Owen Moss in the light of new digital techniques that, while relying on traditional perspective, have radically transformed the composition, production, and experience of architecture.
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Beginning with agoraphobia and claustrophobia in the late nineteenth century, followed by shell shock and panic fear after World War I, phobias and anxiety came to be seen as the mental condition of modern life. They became incorporated into the media and arts, in particular the (...)
Warped space : art, architecture, and anxiety in modern culture
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Beginning with agoraphobia and claustrophobia in the late nineteenth century, followed by shell shock and panic fear after World War I, phobias and anxiety came to be seen as the mental condition of modern life. They became incorporated into the media and arts, in particular the spatial arts of architecture, urbanism, and film. This "spatial warping" is now being reshaped by digitalization and virtual reality. Anthony Vidler is concerned with two forms of warped space. The first, a psychological space, is the repository of neuroses and phobias. This space is not empty but full of disturbing forms, including those of architecture and the city. The second kind of warping is produced when artists break the boundaries of genre to depict space in new ways. Vidler traces the emergence of a psychological idea of space from Pascal and Freud to the identification of agoraphobia and claustrophobia in the nineteenth century to twentieth-century theories of spatial alienation and estrangement in the writings of Georg Simmel, Siegfried Kracauer, and Walter Benjamin. Focusing on current conditions of displacement and placelessness, he examines ways in which contemporary artists and architects have produced new forms of spatial warping. The discussion ranges from theorists such as Jacques Lacan and Gilles Deleuze to artists such as Vito Acconci, Mike Kelley, Martha Rosler, and Rachel Whiteread. Finally, Vidler looks at the architectural experiments of Frank Gehry, Coop Himmelblau, Daniel Libeskind, Greg Lynn, Morphosis, and Eric Owen Moss in the light of new digital techniques that, while relying on traditional perspective, have radically transformed the composition, production, and experience of architecture.
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June 2000, Cambridge, Mass.
Architectural Theory
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When it comes to determining the relative quality of architecture, who is best equipped to make the distinctions? Is it the public who lives in and among the buildings? The people who commission and pay for the buildings? Art historians? Or architects themselves? These provocative essays take up the questions of what people value in architecture and how changing(...)
Architectural Theory
April 2007, Mineapolis London
Judging architectural value
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When it comes to determining the relative quality of architecture, who is best equipped to make the distinctions? Is it the public who lives in and among the buildings? The people who commission and pay for the buildings? Art historians? Or architects themselves? These provocative essays take up the questions of what people value in architecture and how changing values influence opinions about it. In the intriguing opening essay, Michael Benedikt makes an argument for the role of architects in the delineation of value in architecture. He discusses the differences between icon and canon, a theme threaded through many of the essays. In addition to unexpected analyses of buildings such as Eero Saarinen’s Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Paul Rudolph’s Art and Architecture Building at Yale University, and the work of Antoni Gaudí and Frank Gehry, the collection includes a clear-eyed look at the role of architecture in addressing social problems. Ultimately, these essays assert that judging architecture requires more than a refined sensibility. Buildings also need to be evaluated by their impact on the people living within and around them. Contributors: John Beardsley, Harvard Design School; Michael Benedikt, U of Texas, Austin; Tim Culvahouse, California College of the Arts; Lisa Finley, California College of the Arts; Kurt W. Forster, Bauhaus-Universität, Weimar, Germany; Kenneth Frampton, Columbia U; Diane Ghirardo, U of Southern California; Charles Jencks; David Leatherbarrow, U of Pennsylvania; Nancy Levinson; Hélène Lipstadt; Juhani Pallasmaa, Helsinki U of Technology; Timothy M. Rohan, U of Massachusetts, Amherst; Roger Scruton; Daniel Willis, Pennsylvania State U. William S. Saunders is editor of Harvard Design Magazine and assistant dean for external relations at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design. He is the author of Modern Architecture: Photographs by Ezra Stoller and editor of three other Harvard Design Magazine Readers. Michael Benedikt is Hal Box Chair in Urbanism and director of the Center for American Architecture and Design at the School of Architecture at the University of Texas at Austin.
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At its opening on July 16, 2004, Chicago’s Millennium Park was hailed as one of the most important millennium projects in the world. “Politicians come and go; business leaders come and go,” proclaimed mayor Richard M. Daley, “but artists really define a city.” Part park, part outdoor art museum, part cultural center, and part performance space, Millennium Park is now an(...)
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April 2006, Chicago, London
Millennium park : creating a Chicago landscape
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At its opening on July 16, 2004, Chicago’s Millennium Park was hailed as one of the most important millennium projects in the world. “Politicians come and go; business leaders come and go,” proclaimed mayor Richard M. Daley, “but artists really define a city.” Part park, part outdoor art museum, part cultural center, and part performance space, Millennium Park is now an unprecedented combination of distinctive architecture, monumental sculpture, and innovative landscaping. Including structures and works by Frank Gehry, Anish Kapoor, Jaume Plensa, and Kathryn Gustafson, the park represents the collaborative efforts of hundreds to turn an unused railroad yard in the heart of the city into a world-class civic space—and, in the process, to create an entirely new kind of cultural philanthropy. Timothy Gilfoyle here offers a biography of this phenomenal undertaking, beginning before 1850 when the site of the park, the “city’s front yard,” was part of Lake Michigan. Gilfoyle studied the history of downtown; spent years with the planners, artists, and public officials behind Millennium Park; documented it at every stage of its construction; and traced the skeins of financing through municipal government, global corporations, private foundations, and wealthy civic leaders. The result is an illustrated testament to the park, the city, and all those attempting to think and act on a monumental scale. And underlying Gilfoyle’s history is also a revealing study of the globalization of art, the use of culture as an engine of economic expansion, and the nature of political and philanthropic power. Born out of civic idealism, raised in political controversy, and maturing into a symbol of the new Chicago, Millennium Park is truly a twenty-first-century landmark, and it now has the history it deserves.
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Today, the physical scale model is a centrepiece for design education, celebrated practices and architecture’s public relations. The development of digital fabrication devices has made model manufacture even more pervasive. The physical model is the most accessible form of architectural communication. Clients and the general public seem to immediately respond to and(...)
Architecture and the miniature : models
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Today, the physical scale model is a centrepiece for design education, celebrated practices and architecture’s public relations. The development of digital fabrication devices has made model manufacture even more pervasive. The physical model is the most accessible form of architectural communication. Clients and the general public seem to immediately respond to and understand the model, over blueprints and computer simulations. Many architects use finished models for presentations, competitions and exhibitions. Others also embrace sketch models as quick, economic and flexible generative tools. It is only with the rise of the virtual that the advantages and disadvantages of more traditional models can be fully evaluated. As attested by this book, we are now at an important watershed for the model in architecture. Practitioners and educators alike are seeking to fully understand the multiplicity of model types and how they might be strategically deployed at appropriate stages in the design process. The historic role that the model has played is outlined with attention paid to Alberti, John Soane, the Bauhaus and education reforms. A cultural history is offered by examining models in the guise of toys, food, cinema, product design, souvenirs, narrative and art. Model theories are considered and tied to specific examples in the field. New technologies and creative combinations of traditional model-making techniques are evaluated. Kinetic, multi-media, nightscape and interdisciplinary models reveal the broad scope and exceptional versatility offered by this important tool. Models: Architecture and the Miniature focuses on current model use and experimentation by architects across the globe including David Chipperfield, Peter Eisenman, Frank Gehry, Zaha Hadid, Coop Himmelb(l)au, Daniel Libeskind, Greg Lynn and UN Studio.
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Les îles - réelles, artificielles et métaphoriques - ont toujours été fascinantes. Mises en évidence par leur isolation, les constructions contemporaines à proximité de l'eau, voire sur l'eau, dépassent les frontières pour créer une architecture insulaire impressionnante, parfois même audacieuse. Comptant une cinquantaine de projets, Îles présente des créations(...)
Îles, architecture contemporaine sur l'eau / Islands, contemporary architecture on water
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Les îles - réelles, artificielles et métaphoriques - ont toujours été fascinantes. Mises en évidence par leur isolation, les constructions contemporaines à proximité de l'eau, voire sur l'eau, dépassent les frontières pour créer une architecture insulaire impressionnante, parfois même audacieuse. Comptant une cinquantaine de projets, Îles présente des créations d'architectes reconnus tels que Jean Nouvel, Frank O. Gehry, Renzo Piano, ou Foster + Partners, et propose une découverte fascinante de l'architecture flottante actuelle, future et lointaine.
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In January 2007, Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), formally announced a project to develop Saadiyat, an offshore island. The aim of the project is to create a 'culture island' where visitors can enjoy both the natural environment and culture; the cultural district which is to be the core of the project will be composed of five cultural facilities(...)
Tadao Ando Outside Japan 2
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In January 2007, Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), formally announced a project to develop Saadiyat, an offshore island. The aim of the project is to create a 'culture island' where visitors can enjoy both the natural environment and culture; the cultural district which is to be the core of the project will be composed of five cultural facilities such as museums and theaters. The participating architects are Frank O. Gehry, Jean Nouvel, Zaha Hadid and Tadao Ando.
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The projects in this volume illustrate the latest tendencies in collective housing. The works of Jean Nouvel, Massimiliano Fuksas, Frank O. Gehry, Claus & Kaan, MVRDV, Santiago Calatrava, Toyo Ito, and Carlos Ferrater, to name just a few of the architects included in this book, provide stimulating answers, solutions, unexpected points of view and proposals that will(...)
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The projects in this volume illustrate the latest tendencies in collective housing. The works of Jean Nouvel, Massimiliano Fuksas, Frank O. Gehry, Claus & Kaan, MVRDV, Santiago Calatrava, Toyo Ito, and Carlos Ferrater, to name just a few of the architects included in this book, provide stimulating answers, solutions, unexpected points of view and proposals that will without doubt influence the conception of residential architecture in the century to come.
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May 2002, Barcelona
Collective Housing