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Titre:
Elements

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Architecture is a strange mixture of persistence and flux, an amalgamation of elements - some that have been around for over 5,000 years and others that were (re)invented yesterday. The fact that these elements change independently of each other, according to different cycles and economies, and for different reasons, turns each building into a complex collage of the archaic and the current, the site-specific and the standard, mechanical smoothness and the spontaneous. Only by looking at the elements under a wide lens can we recognize the cultural preferences, forgotten symbolism, technological advances, mutations triggered by intensifying global exchange, climatic adaptions, political calculations, regulatory requirements, new digital regimes, and, somewhere in the mix - the ideas of the architect that constitute the practice of architecture today. A collection of these essential elements into 15 books in a package launched at the 2014 Venice Biennale that allows us to look through a microscope at the real fundamentals of our buildings and see again the essential design techniques used by any architect, anywhere, anytime.

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New York délire

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Manhattan est l’arène où se joue le dernier acte du monde occidental. Avec l’explosion démographique et l’invasion des nouvelles technologies, Manhattan, depuis le milieu du XIXe siècle, est devenu le laboratoire d’une nouvelle culture – celle de la congestion –; une île mythique où se réalise l’inconscient collectif d’un nouveau mode de vie métropolitain, une usine de l’artificiel où naturel et réel ont cessé d’exister. Ce livre est un «manifeste rétroactif», une interprétation de la théorie informulée, sous-jacente au développement de Manhattan; c’est le récit des intrigues d’un urbanisme qui, des origines à Coney Island jusqu’aux théoriciens du gratte-ciel, a fait exploser la grille d’origine. Ce livre, polémique et prémonitoire (publié en 1978), illustre les relations entre un univers métropolitain mutant et la seule architecture qu’il puisse produire.

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New York délire

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"New York délire" est un «manifeste rétroactif», une interprétation de la théorie informulée, sous-jacente au développement de Manhattan; c'est le récit des intrigues d'un urbanisme qui, des origines à Coney Island jusqu'aux théoriciens du gratte-ciel, a fait exploser la grille d'origine. Ce livre, polémique et prémonitoire (publié en 1978), illustre les relations entre un univers métropolitain mutant et la seule architecture qu'il puisse produire. Il dit aussi que, souvent, l'architecture génère la culture.

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Delirious New York

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In this fanciful volume, Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas, founder of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (O.M.A.), both analyzes and celebrates New York City. By suggesting the city as the site for an infinite variety of human activities and events--both real and imagined--the essence of the metropolitan lifestyle, its "culture of congestion" and its architecture are revealed in a brilliant new light. "Manhattan," Koolhaas writes, "is the 20th century's Rosetta stone . . . occupied by architectural mutations (Central Park, the Skyscraper), utopian fragments (Rockefeller Center, the U.N. Building), and irrational phenomena (Radio City Music Hall)." Filled with fascinating facts, as well as photographs, postcards, maps, watercolors, and drawings, the vibrancy of Koolhaas's poignant exploration of Gotham equals the heady, frenetic energy of the city itself. Revised and redesigned edition of this classic.

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Rem Koolhaas: elements of architecture

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"Elements of Architecture" focuses on the fragments of the rich and complex architectural collage. Window, façade, balcony, corridor, fireplace, stair, escalator, elevator: the book seeks to excavate the micro-narratives of building detail.The result is no single history, but rather the web of origins, contaminations, similarities, and differences in architectural evolution, including the influence of technological advances, climatic adaptation, political calculation, economic contexts, regulatory requirements, and new digital opportunities. It’s a guide that is long overdue—in Koolhaas’s own words, “Never was a book more relevant—at a moment where architecture as we know it is changing beyond recognition.” Derived, updated, and expanded from Koolhaas's exhaustive and much-lauded exhibition at the 2014 Venice Architecture Biennale, this is an essential toolkit to understanding the fundamentals that comprise structure around the globe. Designed by Irma Boom and based on research from the Harvard Graduate School of Design, the 2,600-page monograph contains essays from Rem Koolhaas, Stephan Trueby, Manfredo di Robilant, and Jeffrey Inaba; interviews with Werner Sobek and Tony Fadell (of Nest); and an exclusive photo essay by Wolfgang Tillmans.

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Rem Koolhaas / Hans Ulrich Obrist : the conversation series 4

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In this traditional paperback, critic and curator Hans Ulrich Obrist teams up with Dutch avant-garde architect and paradigm-shifting intellectual, Rem Koolhaas, for a discussion of Koolhaas's work in China, his designs for Prada, architecture as metaphor, and the development of urbanism in the slipstream of globalization.

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S,M,L,XL

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"S,M,L,XL" combines a critical selection of the remarkable visionary design work produced over the past 20 years by the Dutch firm Office for Metropolitan Architecture (O.M.A.) and its acclaimed founder, Rem Koolhaas, with a wide variety of startling and poetic writings. The inventive collaboration between Koolhaas and designer Bruce Mau is a graphic overture that weaves together architectural projects, photos and sketches, diary excerpts, personal travelogues, fairy tales, and fables, as well as critical essays on contemporary architecture and society. The book’s title is also its framework: projects and essays are arranged according to scale. While Small and Medium address issues ranging from the domestic to the public, Large focuses on what Koolhaas calls 'the architecture of Bigness.' Extra Large features projects at the urban scale, along with the seminal essay 'What Ever Happened to Urbanism?' and other studies of the contemporary city. Running throughout the book is a 'dictionary' of an adventurous new Koolhaasian language - an assemblage of definitions, commentaries, and quotes from hundreds of literary, cultural, artistic, and architectural references.

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Rem Koolhaas, OMA + AMO / Spaces for Prada

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''Source Books in Architecture No.14: Rem Koolhaas / OMA + AMO Spaces for Prada'' is the most recent volume in the Source Books in Architecture series. Among the topics discussed in the book are the long-standing relationship with Prada and how the early objectives in that relationship have both maintained and shifted. An underlying theme to the conversations held with students and faculty of the Knowlton School community is the topic of architect-client relationships, their history, their problems, and how they have contributed to the discipline over time. Explicitly, a focus of the conversation is a number of projects that OMA has developed or completed with Prada, a large number of which are installation-scale environments that manifest in the form of runway shows and exhibitions. The challenge of such projects is to retain a commitment to the political and cultural agenda that OMA embeds in the larger and permanent buildings. Given the ephemerality and role of these environments as literal backgrounds to highlighted events, the projects are ideal scenarios in which to develop an architecture that lacks the permanence of buildings while still carrying potency and contributing to larger cultural discussions involving, for example, event, place, concept, product, staging, the crowd, lighting, and materiality. Source Books in Architecture No.14 contains project documentation from the OMA and Prada archives, transcripts from Koolhaas’ conversations with students at the Knowlton School at The Ohio State University, and commentary and critique from architects, critics, and theorists.

Titre:
Paris - Les Halles

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Une description détaillée des enjeux d’un grand projet et des propositions de quatre grandes équipes d'architectes. Trente ans après l’aménagement du quartier des Halles, la Ville de Paris a engagé une réflexion sur ce site afin de réaliser un processus de requalification du lieu. Dans ce cadre, la SEM Paris Centre a été mandatée pour conduire les études préalables à ce projet d’aménagement qui concerne différents acteurs : la région, la ville de Paris, la société civile du Forum des Halles de Paris qui est propriétaire des espaces commerciaux, etc. Cet ouvrage présente les enjeux pour les différents partenaires mais également les projets des 4 grandes équipes d'architectes en compétition : AJN – Jean Nouvel, MVRDV – Winy Maas, OMA – Rem Koolhaas et SEURA – David Mangin. Comme l'explique Jean Nouvel : « Le réaménagement du quartier des Halles est un grand projet, non dans le sens où ce terme fut employé pour la Bibliothèque de France ou l'Opéra Bastille, mais parce qu'il concerne une question complexe et centrale : requalifier un quartier qui, de centre de la capitale, est devenu par la grâce d'un nœud ferroviaire et métropolitain, le centre de l'Ile de France ». L'ensemble des projets a été présenté lors d’une exposition publique au Forum des Halles et a fait l’objet d’une concertation avec les associations représentatives des riverains et des usagers.

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Harvard Design School guide to shopping : project on the city 2

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