Architecture of community
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In The Architecture of Community, Krier has reconsidered and expanded writing from his 1998 book Architecture: Choice or Fate. Here he refines and updates his thinking on the making of sustainable, humane, and attractive villages, towns, and cities. The book includes drawings, diagrams, and photographs of his built works, which have not been widely seen until now. The(...)
Architecture of community
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In The Architecture of Community, Krier has reconsidered and expanded writing from his 1998 book Architecture: Choice or Fate. Here he refines and updates his thinking on the making of sustainable, humane, and attractive villages, towns, and cities. The book includes drawings, diagrams, and photographs of his built works, which have not been widely seen until now. The book contains descriptions and images of the author’s built and unbuilt projects, including the Krier House and Tower in Seaside, Florida, as well as the town of Poundbury in England.
L'humain et la ville
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Val d’Europe, la ville nouvelle qui s’édifie à proximité des parcs d’attraction de Disney à Marne la Vallée, vient d’inaugurer une nouvelle place unique en son genre en France, la place de Toscane. Celle-ci est inspirée de la célèbre place médiévale de la ville de Lucca, la piazza anfiteatro, qui épouse la forme de l’ancien amphithéâtre dont elle occupe le site. Elle a(...)
Architecture, monographies
février 2008, Bruxelles
Pier Carlo Bontempi: Piazza Nuova
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Val d’Europe, la ville nouvelle qui s’édifie à proximité des parcs d’attraction de Disney à Marne la Vallée, vient d’inaugurer une nouvelle place unique en son genre en France, la place de Toscane. Celle-ci est inspirée de la célèbre place médiévale de la ville de Lucca, la piazza anfiteatro, qui épouse la forme de l’ancien amphithéâtre dont elle occupe le site. Elle a été dessinée par un grand architecte de Parme, Pier Carlo Bontempi. De forme ovale, elle accueille des commerces mais aussi des appartements qui donnent sur sa superbe fontaine en pierre et sur de calmes patios intérieurs. Elle constitue un nouveau pôle d’animation de la ville nouvelle vers lequel convergent une galerie commerciale et des rues. A proximité immédiate de la nouvelle place de la Mairie avec laquelle elle s’articule, elle forme un ensemble qui témoigne de la renaissance de l’urbanisme en France. L’architecte Pier Carlo Bontempi, architecte et designer diplômé de l’Université de Florence, a installé son agence dans une superbe maison de campagne à proximité de Parme. De nombreuses publications ont été consacrées à ses créations et il a été lauréat de nombreux concours. En 2000, il a reçu le prestigieux prix américain John Burgee. Il a remporté le concours pour la réalisation de la place de Toscane en 2002.
Architecture, monographies
Architects & mimetic rivalry
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Humans are imitative beings. The imitation of preferred masters and forms is natural to artists and architects but also the root cause of their conflicts and rivalries, leading to what René Girard has called 'mimetic rivalry'. Architects & Mimetic Rivalry is a discussion of the effects of this broad yet unrecognized phenomenon on the architects and architecture of today.
Théorie de l’architecture
juin 2013
Architects & mimetic rivalry
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Humans are imitative beings. The imitation of preferred masters and forms is natural to artists and architects but also the root cause of their conflicts and rivalries, leading to what René Girard has called 'mimetic rivalry'. Architects & Mimetic Rivalry is a discussion of the effects of this broad yet unrecognized phenomenon on the architects and architecture of today.
Théorie de l’architecture
Drawing for architecture
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Architect Léon Krier's doodles, drawings, and ideograms make arguments in images, without the circumlocutions of prose. Drawn with wit and grace, these clever sketches do not try to please or flatter the architectural establishment. Rather, they make an impassioned argument against what Krier sees as the unquestioned doctrines and unacknowledged absurdities of(...)
septembre 2009
Drawing for architecture
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Architect Léon Krier's doodles, drawings, and ideograms make arguments in images, without the circumlocutions of prose. Drawn with wit and grace, these clever sketches do not try to please or flatter the architectural establishment. Rather, they make an impassioned argument against what Krier sees as the unquestioned doctrines and unacknowledged absurdities of contemporary architecture. In an age of energy crisis, he writes (and his drawings show), we "build in the wrong places, in the wrong patterns, materials, densities, and heights, and for the wrong number of dwellers"; a return to traditional architectures and building and settlement techniques can be the means of ecological reconstruction. Each of Krier's provocative and entertaining images is worth more than a thousand words of theoretical abstraction.