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Visions volume 1 : Musée des Arts Contemporains au Grand-Hornu

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Favoriser par la diffusion et la promotion l'émergence d'une conscience plus fine, plus juste, plus sensible de notre cadre de vie et de l'importance que revêt sa qualité dans le bien-être collectif et individuel, tel est l'objectif que s'assigne Visions , une collection consacrée aux architectures publiques contemporaines en Communauté française de Belgique. L'ouverture du MAC's offre l'occasion d'illustrer le premier volume de la collection.

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The intimacy of making: three historical sites in Korea

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In 'The Intimacy of Making', London-based Swiss-French photographer Hélène Binet takes us on a visual journey through a world of stone, walls and gardens to depict and celebrate the Korean art of making, and to discover traditional Korean architecture through a Western lens. In Binet’s photographs, which were taken over the course of the last three years, we encounter three typologies of traditional architecture in South Korea: the Confucian school and sacred site of Byeongsan Seowon; the garden and tea house Soswaewon; and the Jongmyo shrine. Her camera unites the natural surrounds and the built structures to convey the atmosphere of these three sites.

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Zaha Hadid architects : Pierres vives

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This book documents the ten-year creation of Pierres Vives, an imposing new public building by world-renowned architect Zaha Hadid. It explores the architect’s design choices, allowing a deep understanding of the work and thought behind the structure.

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Urban flotsam : stirring the city

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The manner in which global trends affect cities and increase the instability in local environments with their own dynamics, is like letting a rising river loose on a house. Global trends create urban flotsam. Urban flotsam and its complex dynamics form a second skin of the earth. How is this second skin visible and how can it be put to use in the quest for new urban planning tools and policies? Who gives it form and sustains its organization? 'Urban Flotsam' is a book that attempts to answer these questions through examples, but in doing so it postulates the need for a more consistent way of answering them. The book addresses this need through the formation of an outline for a methodology. This methodology consists of four major parts: 1. How to see manifestations of global influences on local environments? 2. How to model them? 3. How to develop and communicate scenarios on the basis of this knowledge? 4. How to implement scenarios? The book contains a manifesto for a general debate of these issues, a more poetic setting of the theme of the second skin of the earth as urban phenomenon, short theoretical introductions to individual issues, case studies undertaken in urban situations and didactic exercises to demonstrate the need for research in a pedagogical context. The book is the first major publication by Chora architecture and urbanism, an independent research laboratory. Chora has built up a body of knowledge and experience through workshops, commissions, teaching and self-initiated studies which has led to the formulation of the methodology and practice outlined in 'Urban Flotsam'. Chora postulates that drastic reforms or innovations are necessary within the practice and education of architecture, urban design and urban planning in order to meet the challenges of the second skin and the demands of its inhabitants. Together with the artist Jeanne van Heeswijk it calls for a new practice called 'urban curation'.

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Un pont à part / A distant bridge

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Cet ouvrage explore le chef-d'oeuvre de l'ingénieur Sergio Musmeci et de sa femme, l'architecte Zénaïde Zanini: le pont sur le Basento à Potenza. Réalisé entre les années 60 et 70, le pont illustre une manière radicalement différente d'aborder la conception en ingénierie, emblématique des techniques inventées par Musmeci pour confronter les problématiques de reconstruction qui émergent dans l'Italie de l'après-guerre.

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Kashef Chowdhury: The Friendship Centre

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The Friendship Centre in Gaibandha, Bangladesh, was built for the local NGO Friendship, which provides services for poor citizens of the region. Built by Dhaka-based architect Kashef Mahboob Chowdhury, it was designed to provide an inviting and accessible space for those who use the Centre’s services. This book looks closely at the Centre’s design and construction.

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Zaha Hadid: Heydar Aliyev Centre

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This publication is devoted to the new cultural center designed by Zaha Hadid in the Azerbaijani capital of Baku. The building houses a variety of institutions under one roof. With this design, the renowned architect won the architecture competition in 2007. Inside its surface of fiberglass-reinforced concrete the building contains an auditorium that seats over a thousand, a conference center, a museum, and a library.

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Utzon uncovered: Revisiting Jørn Utzon's masterwork on Mallorca

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In 2012, Danish architect Lise Juel completed the restoration of fellow Dane Jørn Utzon's residence on the Spanish island of Mallorca, known as Can Lis. 'Uncovering Utzon' is a series of pensées by Juel describing the process of restoring the architect's unique construction for the Utzon Foundation.Accompanying Juel's evocative account are the equally evocative images of the house by architectural photographer Hélène Binet. Together, Juel's personal account and Binet's photography illustrate the undeniable power of this rough-hewn Modernist architectural landmark.