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Titre:
Young British architects

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This book features 14 younger architectural practices together with their most admired buildings and projects: Shed KM, Liverpool; Weston Williamson, London; Haworth Tompkins, London; Niall McLaughlin, London; Caruso St John, Walsall; Eric Parry, Cambridge; Patrick Davies, Cardiff; Foreign Office Architects, London/New York/Yokohama; Bauman Lyons, Bridlington; AHMM, Walsall; Stephen Hodder, Oxford; Richard Murphy, Edinburgh/Dundee; FAT, London; Birds Portchmouth Russum, Chichester. Each office is portrayed in detail, documenting several projects and including biographical information.

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FRS Yorke and the evolution of English modernism

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Between the early 1930s and 1950s, modernist architecture underwent a spectacular change of fortune in Britain – from a small-scale avant-garde movement, to the official, state-funded architectural idiom of the post-1945 Welfare State. FRS Yorke (1906–62) was an architect who completely followed that trajectory. His book "The modern house" (1934) placed his detailed knowledge of European architecture as an introduction to modern architecture for generations of architects, and provided inspiration for his own designs. But it was only after World War II, and the social and political change which came in its wake, that Yorke was able to turn his reputation as a modernist into commercial success. As his pre-War contemporaries gave up architecture or moved abroad, his practice – Yorke, Rosenberg and Mardall – drew on his experience of working on large, state-funded construction projects during the War, and participated in the transformation of Britain’s social and physical fabric with its new housing, hospitals, schools, universities and airports. This book concludes with a memoir by David Allford, who worked with Yorke and Yorke, Rosenberg and Mardall from 1952 until 1989.

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...ismes : comprendre l'architecture

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Voici l’ouvrage d’initiation à l’architecture et aux contextes physiques et sociaux qui la sous-tendent. Pratique et facile à consulter, ce petit guide présente les différents courants architecturaux qui ont marqué les siècles et les civilisations, de l’impérialisme à l’écologisme. Chaque courant est traité en deux pages qui comportent une introduction, la liste des principaux architectes qui y sont associés, les bâtiments importants qui y sont rattachés, une liste de mots-clés ainsi que des illustrations qui en montrent les intérêts particuliers.

Titre:
Richard Rogers: inside out

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Richard Rogers (b. 1933) is one of the world’s most distinguished architects, as well as a powerful advocate for the role of architecture and urban design in improving everyday lives. Famous for his “inside out” architectural style, Rogers is known for such landmarks as the Centre Pompidou in Paris and the Lloyd’s building in London. This volume explores the origins of and influences on Rogers’s thinking and explains how his wide-ranging interests inform his design process. With contributions from major figures in a range of fields, as well as a new interview with Richard Rogers, this book shows why his work continues to be fresh, challenging, and inventive.

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...isms : understanding architectural styles

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A guide of architectural history spans from the ancient Greeks, Romans, and the Renaissance up to the present day. Each spread is devoted to a distinct architectural movement and explains when it first emerged, the historical period to which it applies, the principal disputes over its applicability, and illustrates important structures, practitioners, key words, and distinctive features. From Hellenic Classicism and Expressionism to Brutalism and Blobism, with many stops along the way, these sixty well illustrated and clearly defined "isms" help put all of the "built environments" of the world into context.