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"Wallpaper* city guides" present an edited list of the best a location has to offer the design-conscious traveller, whether you are staying for 48 hours or five days, visiting for business or vacation. "Wallpaper* city guides" are compiled by the magazine’s travel experts, both by in-house editors, and correspondents who actually live in the highlighted cities, providing(...)
Wallpaper city guide : Buenos Aires
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"Wallpaper* city guides" present an edited list of the best a location has to offer the design-conscious traveller, whether you are staying for 48 hours or five days, visiting for business or vacation. "Wallpaper* city guides" are compiled by the magazine’s travel experts, both by in-house editors, and correspondents who actually live in the highlighted cities, providing up-to-the-minute information. They are published on the occasion of the magazine’s 10th anniversary and highlight its mission to present the best in new design and sophisticated travel.
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In 1949 the construction of the Sexto Panteón, an underground necropolis containing 150,000 burial plots, was launched. This monumental brutalist-style cemetery is the first and largest experimentation of modern architecture applied to the funerary field, and yet it remains relatively unknown. Ítala Fulvia Villa (1913–1991), the project’s architect, was one of Argentina’s(...)
Chacarita Moderna: The Brutalist Necropolis of Buenos Aires
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In 1949 the construction of the Sexto Panteón, an underground necropolis containing 150,000 burial plots, was launched. This monumental brutalist-style cemetery is the first and largest experimentation of modern architecture applied to the funerary field, and yet it remains relatively unknown. Ítala Fulvia Villa (1913–1991), the project’s architect, was one of Argentina’s first female architects and urban planners, a pioneer of South American modernism who also contributed to Le Corbusier’s master plan for Buenos Aires. In this book, French architect Léa Namer rediscovers the necropolis through an in-depth investigation and feminist re-reading of this unique site and its creator.
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Les «Wallpaper* city guides» proposent au voyageur amateur de design, un choix rigoureux des meilleures adresses qu'une ville peut offrir, dans une mise en pages sobre et élégante. Précis et pratiques, ils réunissent toutes les informations nécessaires pour vous faire découvrir de l'intérieur les villes les plus enivrantes du monde.
Wallpaper* city guide : Buenos Aires (édition française)
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Les «Wallpaper* city guides» proposent au voyageur amateur de design, un choix rigoureux des meilleures adresses qu'une ville peut offrir, dans une mise en pages sobre et élégante. Précis et pratiques, ils réunissent toutes les informations nécessaires pour vous faire découvrir de l'intérieur les villes les plus enivrantes du monde.
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Published to accompany the first US museum exhibition of the work of German-born Grete Stern and Argentinean Horacio Coppola, From Bauhaus to Buenos Aires explores the individual accomplishments and parallel developments of two of the foremost practitioners of avant-garde photography in Europe and Latin America. The book traces their artistic development from the late(...)
Grete Stern & Horacio Coppola: from Bauhaus to Buenos Aires
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Published to accompany the first US museum exhibition of the work of German-born Grete Stern and Argentinean Horacio Coppola, From Bauhaus to Buenos Aires explores the individual accomplishments and parallel developments of two of the foremost practitioners of avant-garde photography in Europe and Latin America. The book traces their artistic development from the late 1920s, when Stern established a pioneering commercial studio, ringl + pit, with her friend Ellen (Rosenberg) Auerbach, and Coppola began groundbreaking experimentations with photography in his native Argentina, to their joint studies at the Bauhaus and travels through Europe in the early 1930s, through the mid-1950s, by which time they had firmly established the foundations of modern photography in Buenos Aires.
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Throughout the early twentieth century, waves of migration brought working-class people to the outskirts of Buenos Aires. This prompted a dilemma: Where should these restive populations be situated relative to the city’s spatial politics? Enter Antonio Bonet, a Catalan architect inspired by the transatlantic modernist and surrealist movements. Ana María León follows(...)
Modernity for the masses: Antonio Bonet's Dreams for Buenos Aires
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Throughout the early twentieth century, waves of migration brought working-class people to the outskirts of Buenos Aires. This prompted a dilemma: Where should these restive populations be situated relative to the city’s spatial politics? Enter Antonio Bonet, a Catalan architect inspired by the transatlantic modernist and surrealist movements. Ana María León follows Bonet's decades-long, state-backed quest to house Buenos Aires's diverse and fractious population. Working with totalitarian and populist regimes, Bonet developed three large-scale housing plans, each scuttled as a new government took over. Yet these incomplete plans—Bonet's dreams—teach us much about the relationship between modernism and state power. This volume finds in Bonet's projects the disconnect between modern architecture’s discourse of emancipation and the reality of its rationalizing control. Although he and his patrons constantly glorified the people and depicted them in housing plans, Bonet never consulted them. Instead he succumbed to official and elite fears of the people's latent political power. In careful readings of Bonet's work, León discovers the progressive erasure of surrealism's psychological sensitivity, replaced with an impulse, realized in modernist design, to contain the increasingly empowered population.
Théorie de l’urbanisme
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"Typology", volume 2 of the new series Christ & Gantenbein Review, presents more than 150 buildings located in Rome, New York, Hong Kong and Buenos Aires that have been analysed by the chair of Emanuel Christ and Christoph Gantenbein at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich. This selective and subjective inventory of metropolitan and essentially anonymous(...)
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Review N. 2 : Typology, Hong Kong, Rome, New York, Buenos Aires
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"Typology", volume 2 of the new series Christ & Gantenbein Review, presents more than 150 buildings located in Rome, New York, Hong Kong and Buenos Aires that have been analysed by the chair of Emanuel Christ and Christoph Gantenbein at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich. This selective and subjective inventory of metropolitan and essentially anonymous 20th-century building production provides a basis for urban project creation. In this new book, the buildings are documented with floor plans, axonometric projections, recent photographs and key information. The theoretical essay by Emanuel Christ and Christoph Gantenbein and four texts by other authors explain the interactions between the contexts, especially the governing urban rule sets and the buildings, and show the potential for the design of a contemporary urban architecture.
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This book analyzes the relation of public memory to history, forgetting, and selective memory in three late-twentieth-century cities that have confronted major social or political traumas : Berlin, Buenos Aires, and New York.
Present pasts : urban palimpsests and the politics of memory
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This book analyzes the relation of public memory to history, forgetting, and selective memory in three late-twentieth-century cities that have confronted major social or political traumas : Berlin, Buenos Aires, and New York.
Théorie de l’urbanisme
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Marco D’Anna a fait un périple de plus de six ans sur les traces de Corto Maltese en compagnie de l’écrivain Marco Steiner. De Djibouti au lac Baïkal, de Venise à Buenos Aires, il a capté des lieux, des atmosphères, des moments magiques, comme ceux qui ne cessent de hanter quiconque a pénétré dans l’univers d’Hugo Pratt.
Marco d'Anna: le marin et le photographe
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Marco D’Anna a fait un périple de plus de six ans sur les traces de Corto Maltese en compagnie de l’écrivain Marco Steiner. De Djibouti au lac Baïkal, de Venise à Buenos Aires, il a capté des lieux, des atmosphères, des moments magiques, comme ceux qui ne cessent de hanter quiconque a pénétré dans l’univers d’Hugo Pratt.
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This publication provides an overview of the work of Swiss-born, Argentinian-based photographer Gian Paolo Minelli, with an emphasis on series from the last decade--from props left behind in the abandoned Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires to his portraits of illegal immigrants in Rome.
Gian Paolo Minelli: The skin of the cities
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This publication provides an overview of the work of Swiss-born, Argentinian-based photographer Gian Paolo Minelli, with an emphasis on series from the last decade--from props left behind in the abandoned Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires to his portraits of illegal immigrants in Rome.
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Much of the history of Argentina is reflected in the story of the Buenos Aires harbor. In this sixth volume in the Case series, the editors have sought to critically assess the key urban intervention that is Puerto Madero, integrating varied perspectives - both professional and ideological.
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février 2007, Munich, Berlin, London, New York
Case: Puerto Madero waterfront
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Much of the history of Argentina is reflected in the story of the Buenos Aires harbor. In this sixth volume in the Case series, the editors have sought to critically assess the key urban intervention that is Puerto Madero, integrating varied perspectives - both professional and ideological.
Théorie de l’urbanisme