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In the period following World War II, eminent Mexican architects such as Juan O’Gorman and Luis Barragán pioneered the adaptation of an international narrative in housing design to their own cultural environment. Seven decades on, Mexican architecture, and housing design in particular, is experiencing a renaissance and gaining unparalleled international attention owing to(...)
novembre 2022
Nueva Vivienda: New housing paradigms in Mexico
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In the period following World War II, eminent Mexican architects such as Juan O’Gorman and Luis Barragán pioneered the adaptation of an international narrative in housing design to their own cultural environment. Seven decades on, Mexican architecture, and housing design in particular, is experiencing a renaissance and gaining unparalleled international attention owing to the ideas and ambitions of a new generation of architects. Mexico’s architects are making a strong contribution to a global discourse grounded in local economic and cultural issues, as well as environmental concerns. This volume features twenty-two exceptional housing projects in Mexico from the last ten years. Featuring a series of conversations among architects, developers, and researchers, the book illuminates the local context for these projects, highlighting their designers’ new ideas and their contribution to reimagining housing typologies.
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Cet un ouvrage est issu d’un roadtrip d’étude de trois mois, mené par trois jeunes femmes architectes, dans l’Est américain. Il rend compte de leur périple et présente douze thématiques qui regroupent constructions traditionnelles et contemporaines, témoignant toutes d’un «bon sens» constructif et écologique. Le livre rend compte de leur découverte in situ de modèles(...)
What about vernacular ?
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Cet un ouvrage est issu d’un roadtrip d’étude de trois mois, mené par trois jeunes femmes architectes, dans l’Est américain. Il rend compte de leur périple et présente douze thématiques qui regroupent constructions traditionnelles et contemporaines, témoignant toutes d’un «bon sens» constructif et écologique. Le livre rend compte de leur découverte in situ de modèles architecturaux redevenus inspirants par les savoir-faire artisanaux convoqués, la beauté naturelle des matériaux utilisés et l’absence de défi technologique. Leur travail fait ressortir d’une part la nécessité de prendre le temps de regarder pour comprendre et sentir les lieux, et celle de se constituer une sorte de «bibliothèque» de sensations, et d’autre part les vertus formatrices des voyages, sources de rencontres, d’échanges et d’expériences dynamisantes.
Bien sûr, Chicago
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Le projet d’Adolf Loos pour le Chicago Tribune fait toujours énigme. L’architecte se place à contre-courant du formalisme moderne, « qui demain déjà sera obsolète ». Il prend l’arrogance du commanditaire au pied de la lettre pour mieux la révéler. Il raille les désirs de l’époque en proposant d’installer, si les limites de hauteur pouvaient être abolies un jour, une(...)
Bien sûr, Chicago
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Le projet d’Adolf Loos pour le Chicago Tribune fait toujours énigme. L’architecte se place à contre-courant du formalisme moderne, « qui demain déjà sera obsolète ». Il prend l’arrogance du commanditaire au pied de la lettre pour mieux la révéler. Il raille les désirs de l’époque en proposant d’installer, si les limites de hauteur pouvaient être abolies un jour, une statue de tribun romain assis au sommet de la colonne dorique. Il avertit pourtant?: ce projet ne contredit en rien ses positions théoriques antérieures à propos de l’ornement. Loos nous avait alertés. La tour n’est pas un archétype, elle est un artefact.
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Celebrated as the world’s most innovative city in 2013, Medellín is the quintessential symbol for urban metamorphosis. What makes it a reference model lies as much in its exceptional public facilities and infrastructure as it does in the socially driven, progressive urban policies and bold formats for cooperation. Medellín: Topography of Knowledg is an exhibition and(...)
Medellin: topography of knowledge
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Celebrated as the world’s most innovative city in 2013, Medellín is the quintessential symbol for urban metamorphosis. What makes it a reference model lies as much in its exceptional public facilities and infrastructure as it does in the socially driven, progressive urban policies and bold formats for cooperation. Medellín: Topography of Knowledg is an exhibition and programme that will investigate and disseminate lessons from the Medellín Model, bringing together the diverse range of actors behind it.
Civitas: Sao Paulo
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This illustrated monograph explores the city-building aspirations of the Brazilian modern masters through their buildings in Sao Paulo. Works by Vilanova Artigas, Lina Bo Bardi, Salvador Candia, Rino Levi, Oscar Niemeyer and Paulo Mendes da Rocha were designed in response to the chaotic growth of one of the world's largest metropolises. ''CIVITAS'' brings together for the(...)
Civitas: Sao Paulo
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This illustrated monograph explores the city-building aspirations of the Brazilian modern masters through their buildings in Sao Paulo. Works by Vilanova Artigas, Lina Bo Bardi, Salvador Candia, Rino Levi, Oscar Niemeyer and Paulo Mendes da Rocha were designed in response to the chaotic growth of one of the world's largest metropolises. ''CIVITAS'' brings together for the first time a unique collection of nineteen buildings, proposing a fresh take on them through new photographs especially taken for the book and graphic elements re-drawn by the author. Some of the works are today references in the urban public space, underlining the contemporary relevance of this architecture.
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The most ''African'' of the Brazilian villages in the south of Bahia bears a Swiss name. Helvécia was founded 200 years ago by Swiss and German colonists, and the coffee grown on its vast estates produced great wealth for them. This would not have been possible without exploitation: in the mid-19th century, for every 200 white colonists, there were 2,000 slaves of African(...)
janvier 2023
Helvécia: A Swiss colonial history in Brazil
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The most ''African'' of the Brazilian villages in the south of Bahia bears a Swiss name. Helvécia was founded 200 years ago by Swiss and German colonists, and the coffee grown on its vast estates produced great wealth for them. This would not have been possible without exploitation: in the mid-19th century, for every 200 white colonists, there were 2,000 slaves of African origin. Black people still make up the majority of the population today; many do not know the origins of their community. With great sensitivity and in dialogue with the inhabitants, Swiss photographer Dom Smaz goes in search of traces of the past, capturing the lives of the local people. Smaz’s pictures and text contributions by Shalini Randeria, among others, allow a new look at history and the origins of Switzerland’s wealth, revealing global histories of interconnectedness and power relations of the past that continue into the present.
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Ernest Hemingway once said of Nelson Algren's writing that "you should not read it if you cannot take a punch." The prose poem, "Chicago: City on the Make," filled with language that swings and jabs and stuns, lives up to those words. In this sixtieth anniversary edition, Algren presents 120 years of Chicago history through the lens of its "nobodies nobody knows" the(...)
Nelson Algren : Chicago, city on the make - 60th anniversary edition
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Ernest Hemingway once said of Nelson Algren's writing that "you should not read it if you cannot take a punch." The prose poem, "Chicago: City on the Make," filled with language that swings and jabs and stuns, lives up to those words. In this sixtieth anniversary edition, Algren presents 120 years of Chicago history through the lens of its "nobodies nobody knows" the tramps, hustlers, aging bar fighters, freed death-row inmates, and anonymous working stiffs who prowl its streets.