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This publication considers the architecture, landscape, and town plans of thirty-one counties west of Blue Mountain and north to Lake Erie, including cities and communities big and small. The first comprehensive look at the built environment in this large and varied territory, the volume spans the years from the late eighteenth century through to the first decade of the(...)
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Buildings of Pennsylvania: Pittsburgh and western Pennsylvania
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This publication considers the architecture, landscape, and town plans of thirty-one counties west of Blue Mountain and north to Lake Erie, including cities and communities big and small. The first comprehensive look at the built environment in this large and varied territory, the volume spans the years from the late eighteenth century through to the first decade of the new millennium and reveals a range of architectural surprises. The authors discuss exemplary and everyday buildings and places — Harmonist villages, Carnegie libraries, river communities, amusement parks, farms and barns, the crossroads of Breezewood, and Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater among them — and canvass the scores of bridges, railroads, and inclines that cross the region's rivers, hills, and mountains. Descriptions of close to 150 of the commonwealth's small settlements, from coal patches to pike towns, capture the intense dialogue between industry and agriculture that typifies western Pennsylvania. Close to 400 illustrations, including photographs, maps, and drawings, bring the nearly 800 entries to life.
Modern architecture A-Z
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Each architect's entry features a portrait, quote and short biography as well as a description of important works, historical context and general approach; illustrations include numerous drawings, photographs and floor plans. The book's A to Z entries cover not only architects but also groups, movements and styles from the 18th to the 21st centuries.
juillet 2010
Modern architecture A-Z
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Each architect's entry features a portrait, quote and short biography as well as a description of important works, historical context and general approach; illustrations include numerous drawings, photographs and floor plans. The book's A to Z entries cover not only architects but also groups, movements and styles from the 18th to the 21st centuries.
The power of pro bono
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The Power of Pro Bono presents 40 pro bono design projects across the country. The clients include grassroots community organizations like the Homeless Prenatal Program of San Francisco, as well as national and international nonprofits, among them Goodwill, Habitat for Humanity, KIPP Schools and Planned Parenthood. These public-interest projects were designed by a range(...)
octobre 2010
The power of pro bono
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The Power of Pro Bono presents 40 pro bono design projects across the country. The clients include grassroots community organizations like the Homeless Prenatal Program of San Francisco, as well as national and international nonprofits, among them Goodwill, Habitat for Humanity, KIPP Schools and Planned Parenthood. These public-interest projects were designed by a range of award-winning practices, from SHoP Architects in New York and Studio Gang in Chicago, to young studios including Stephen Dalton Architects in Southern California and Hathorne Architects in Detroit, to some of the largest firms in the country, such as Gensler, HOK and Perkins + Will. This book is inspired and informed by the advocacy and design work of Public Architecture, a national nonprofit founded in 2002 by San Francisco-based architect John Peterson.
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L'architecture du XXe siècle aura révolutionné les milieux urbains. A travers le monde, des villes se sont transformées en mégapoles dépassant toutes les dimensions connues, alors que d'autres se réduisent et se vident. Que ce soit dans le foisonnement sauvage de Tokyo ou dans la rigueur haussmannienne de Paris, chaque rue, chaque bâtiment, chaque espace vert n'existe(...)
août 2010
Urbanisme et architecture: Le XXe siècle
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L'architecture du XXe siècle aura révolutionné les milieux urbains. A travers le monde, des villes se sont transformées en mégapoles dépassant toutes les dimensions connues, alors que d'autres se réduisent et se vident. Que ce soit dans le foisonnement sauvage de Tokyo ou dans la rigueur haussmannienne de Paris, chaque rue, chaque bâtiment, chaque espace vert n'existe que comme partie d'un ensemble. Urbanisme & architecture le XXe siècle visite les métropoles du monde et retrace leur évolution dans une histoire ponctuée de soubresauts parfois dramatiques. Depuis Gropius, Le Corbusier et Wright jusqu'à Piano, Ando et Coop HimmelB(I)au, les architectes et urbanistes les plus marquants de l'époque sont présentés avec leurs travaux. Cet ouvrage met en évidence la manière avec laquelle l'urbanisme et l'architecture participent à une redéfinition constante de la ville.
On the Irish waterfront
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Site of the world's busiest and most lucrative harbor throughout the first half of the twentieth century, the Port of New York was also the historic preserve of Irish American gangsters, politicians, longshoremen's union leaders, and powerful Roman Catholic pastors. This is the demimonde depicted to stunning effect in Elia Kazan's On the Waterfront (1954) and into which(...)
septembre 2009
On the Irish waterfront
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Site of the world's busiest and most lucrative harbor throughout the first half of the twentieth century, the Port of New York was also the historic preserve of Irish American gangsters, politicians, longshoremen's union leaders, and powerful Roman Catholic pastors. This is the demimonde depicted to stunning effect in Elia Kazan's On the Waterfront (1954) and into which James T. Fisher takes readers in this remarkable and engaging historical account of the classic film's backstory.
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Every house has a history, and this book tells the often intimate stories of some remarkable buildings and their architects and clients. Concise, with informative texts, the publication features many illustrations, including specially commissioned photographs as well as floor plans and drawings, and offers a detailed documentation, which includes a bibliography,(...)
novembre 2009
The iconic house : architectural masterworks since 1900
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Every house has a history, and this book tells the often intimate stories of some remarkable buildings and their architects and clients. Concise, with informative texts, the publication features many illustrations, including specially commissioned photographs as well as floor plans and drawings, and offers a detailed documentation, which includes a bibliography, gazetteers and a list of houses by type, whether Arts and Crafts or Art Nouveau, Modernist or Minimalist, High-Tech or vernacular.
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French cultural historian DeJean presents an entertaining account of how home life was virtually reinvented in Paris from 1670 to 1765 as sofas, running water and flush toilets appeared in modern residences: the city became a giant workshop in which inventions in the arts and crafts and innovative technologies were tried out. Louis XIV's and Louis XV's royal mistresses(...)
septembre 2009
The age of comfort: when Paris discovered casual and the modern home began
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French cultural historian DeJean presents an entertaining account of how home life was virtually reinvented in Paris from 1670 to 1765 as sofas, running water and flush toilets appeared in modern residences: the city became a giant workshop in which inventions in the arts and crafts and innovative technologies were tried out. Louis XIV's and Louis XV's royal mistresses displayed a bold vision for integrating architecture, interior decor and fashion, thus influencing modern comfort. In private mansions, French architects subdivided interior space to allow for varying degrees of privacy. As bathing became a pleasurable, commonplace activity, tubs became more comfortable and were redesigned as decorative objects in their own right. Men fell in love with the superexpensive flush toilet; the sofa—created by the architect Meissonnier—attained instant celebrity status; and interior decoration became a subset of the new architecture of private life as Parisians discovered that domestic interiors should be the expression of their personal taste.
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Une sélection de réalisations contemporaines (1951-2005) les plus marquantes qui font la singularité architecturale du Japon, entre modernisme international et permanence de l'inspiration orientale.
janvier 2010
Japon : architectures contemporaines
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Une sélection de réalisations contemporaines (1951-2005) les plus marquantes qui font la singularité architecturale du Japon, entre modernisme international et permanence de l'inspiration orientale.
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L'Atlas Phaidon de l architecture contemporaine mondiale, publié en 2004, fut un fantastique succès. Cinq ans après sa publication, cette toute nouvelle édition, l'Atlas Phaidon de l'architecture mondiale du XXIe siècle, réunit dans un seul et même volume 1037 ouvrages architecturaux remarquables construits depuis 2000 à travers 89 pays dans le monde par 653 architectes(...)
Atlas Phaidon de l'architecture mondiale du du XXIe siècle
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L'Atlas Phaidon de l architecture contemporaine mondiale, publié en 2004, fut un fantastique succès. Cinq ans après sa publication, cette toute nouvelle édition, l'Atlas Phaidon de l'architecture mondiale du XXIe siècle, réunit dans un seul et même volume 1037 ouvrages architecturaux remarquables construits depuis 2000 à travers 89 pays dans le monde par 653 architectes et agences d architecture. L'ouvrage présente tous les types de bâtiments possibles, depuis les plus petites maisons individuelles ou l abribus, jusqu aux projets de construction à grande échelle tels que musées, usines ou aéroports, dans le monde entier. Pour chaque projet, l'Atlas présente les données clés : maître d ouvrage, superficie, coût de la construction et, nouveauté par rapport au précédent atlas, les coordonnées précises permettant de localiser le bâtiment via Google Earth ®. Illustré par de nombreux plans, coupés et élévations ainsi que des photographies intérieures et extérieures, chacun des bâtiments est décrit et analysé dans un texte court et clair qui souligne à la fois les singularités du projet et les contraintes auxquelles les plus grands architectes actuels comme ceux de la jeune génération ont trouvé des solutions pertinentes et innovantes.
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During a tumultuous period in the 1960s and 70s, a new generation of architects began their careers amidst a period of profound social change, new conditions for architecture and the city and lasting changes to popular and critical forms of cultural production. First Works tells the story of this period and reassesses the conditions of architecture and the beginnings of(...)
décembre 2009
First works: emerging architectural experimentation of the 1960s and 1970s
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During a tumultuous period in the 1960s and 70s, a new generation of architects began their careers amidst a period of profound social change, new conditions for architecture and the city and lasting changes to popular and critical forms of cultural production. First Works tells the story of this period and reassesses the conditions of architecture and the beginnings of architectural careers through a selection of projects undertaken during the 60s and 70s. The book, accompanying a major travelling exhibition, presents a single key early project, in the form of models, sketches, photographs and drawings, by 20 young architectural practices, including Archigram, Aldo Rossi, Robert Venturi, Renzo Piano, Peter Eisenman, Herzog & de Meuron and Zaha Hadid. Alongside these ‘first works’, 20 invited critics, including Kenneth Frampton, Sylvia Lavin and Pier Vittorio Aureli, offer contemporary commentaries on these projects and their place within the architects’ subsequent careers.