Architecture
Dreams and disillusions
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Dreams and disillusions
Dreams + Disillusions explores the plethora of ideas and ideologies that have shaped and reshaped cities in profound ways. However, unlike a conventional title on the history of urbanism and architecture, its research fluctuates between the world of concrete reality...
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The Social dimension of social housing
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The Social dimension of social housing
Housing has become a key concern in most parts of today’s world, putting social housing again at the centre of public debate. However, it is not clear what the “social” in social housing actually means. This book sets out to...
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Adriano Olivetti : Écrits et discours
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Adriano Olivetti : Écrits et discours
Ce recueil vise à faire découvrir la figure d'Adriano Olivetti, un entrepreneur-intellectuel qui, à travers son usine de machines à écrire, a œuvré pour un renouveau de la société et de la culture italiennes après la Seconde Guerre mondiale. L'architecture...
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Archipelagic effects
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Archipelagic effects
Archipelagic Affects explores how art residencies nurture effective spaces to study the tangible and intangible cultural, historical, and geopolitical connections between different island countries. Conceived by Yornel J. Martínez Elías, researcher Emily Shin-Jie Lee, and in collaboration with Taiwanese novelist...
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Building BAST
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Building BAST
Building BAST dresse le portrait de BAST, Bureau Architectures Sans Titre, à travers 20 questions identiques posées à 20 personnes parmi les client.es, prestataires, ou collaborateur.rices de l’agence toulousaine. Au fil des réponses, émerge l’approche singulière d’une pratique architecturale attentive à son...
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Albert Frey: Inventive modernist
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Albert Frey: Inventive modernist
Inventive Modernist tracks the scope and significance of Frey’s career, from his early days in Paris working with Le Corbusier to his rise as the iconic architect of Palm Springs. With full access to Frey’s various archives, the book provides...
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Mies van der Rohe: An architect in his time
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Mies van der Rohe: An architect in his time
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe was a German-born American architect and designer whose work in Europe and North America has had an enduring influence on modern and contemporary architecture worldwide. During his sixty-year career, he fundamentally rethought architectural types that...
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Suburban alternatives: Survey of low-rise high-density housing projects in the US
The expression “low-rise high-density” refers to the ensembles of grouped housing units that maintain characteristics of the individual home, but whose compactness facilitates collective services and amenities, thereby reducing land consumption. These hybrid projects also generate a variety of housing...
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Philosophy of the home: Domestic space and happiness
A bedroom, a kitchen, a bathroom - are these rooms all that make a home? Not at all, argues Emanuele Coccia. The buildings we inhabit are of immense psychological and cultural significance. They play a decisive role in human flourishing...
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Gordon Matta-Clark: Doors, floors, doors
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Gordon Matta-Clark: Doors, floors, doors
Made in 1976 as part of "Rooms," the inaugural exhibition at PS1, Matta-Clark cut vertically aligned rectangular openings through three floors of PS1's building so that visitors standing in a third-floor classroom could look directly into the basement. Initially, Matta-Clark...
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Meet me by the fountain: An inside history of the mall
Few places have been as nostalgized, or as maligned, as malls. Since their birth in the 1950s, they have loomed large as temples of commerce, the agora of the suburbs. In their prime, they proved a powerful draw for creative...
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Complexity and contradiction in architecture
First published in 1966, and since translated into 16 languages, this remarkable book has become an essential document of architectural literature. A "gentle manifesto for a nonstraightforward architecture," Venturi’s Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture expresses in the most compelling and...
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The anthropocene style: Manifestes 6
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The anthropocene style: Manifestes 6
This manifesto, at the interface of architecture, aesthetics and engineering, calls for a return to the practical uses of interior decoration that were widespread before the 20th century. In the wake of fossil fuel–driven modernity, the efficiency of heating and...
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Why I do what I do: Twenty global curators speak
For this fourth volume of the series Thoughts on Curating, twenty renowned curators and collectives from across the globe write about a single exhibition or curatorial project they created that transformed their thinking and the way they have curated ever...
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Material cultures : material reform. Building for a post carbon future
Design and research practice Material Cultures brings together a series of short, incisive essays on the cultures, systems, and infrastructures that shape the architectural industry and the destructive ecologies it fosters. Texts centred around key topics including resources, maintenance, agriculture,...
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Proto-Habitat
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Proto-Habitat
One timber prefab building turns into a litany of conversations, research and essays on responsible yet habitable environments. The Proto-Habitat is both a theoretical and practical (built) experiment to explore ways of dwelling that are closer to contemporary lifestyles, and to...
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Evidence ensembles: DNA #24
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Evidence ensembles: DNA #24
Tracing the transition from the Holocene to the Anthropocene through a geological analysis of deep time on earth This book examines ways in which the physical archives of the Anthropocene can be made legible. Scientists, researchers and artists grapple...
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MOS: Laboratorio de Vivienda / Housing laboratory
Laboratorio de Vivienda presents the 32 projects selected and built, including research, drawings, and descriptions by the architects. It considers the problem of low-income housing by bringing thoughtful attention and expertise of architects, considering how these proposals, assembled into a...
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The Anatomy of the Architectural Book
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The Anatomy of the Architectural Book
The Anatomy of the Architectural Book examines approaches to structuring, constructing and designing architectural books and traces how they have changed over time. The discipline has been exposed to debates, just as building construction has been exposed to the charms...
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So-Il: In depth. Urban domesticities today
For over a decade, Brooklyn-based SO–IL has been envisioning houses, housings and other projects in between and adjacent to domestic spaces. Reflecting on the state of housing design today – often constrained by pressures of production – SO–IL approaches these...
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The city as a system: metabolic design for new urban forms and functions
A holistic vision of the urban body’s metabolic flows, needs and challenges. Difficult problems do not always require far-fetched solutions, but to arrive at the solution a change of perspective may be in order. The City as a System...
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Narrating the globe: The emergence of world histories of architecture
How notions of progress, beauty, and cultural superiority structured the genre of nineteenth-century world histories of architecture—and shaped the discipline as we know it today. The nineteenth century saw the emergence of a new genre of architectural writing: the...
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Graph vision: Digital architecture's skeletons
How a protean mathematical object, the graph, ushered in new images, tools, and infrastructures for design and catalyzed a digital future for architecture. In Graph Vision, Theodora Vardouli offers a fresh history of architecture's early entanglements with modern mathematics...
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Architecture follows fish: An amphibious history of the North Atlantic
Architecture Follows Fish is set in the North Atlantic, and its protagonist is fish. In this book author and architect André Tavares explores the notion of fishing architecture, a concept coined to describe architectural practices that are spawned by fisheries....
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Old materials, new climate: Traditional building materials in a changing world
Old Materials, New Climate: Traditional Building Materials in a Changing World is an accessible guidebook to understanding historic materials – how they were traditionally made, how they survived the test of time, and how changes in climate are now impacting materials...
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Álvaro Siza, Celui qui n’écrivait pas
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Álvaro Siza, Celui qui n’écrivait pas
Siza est à part. Indépendant, discret, il compte dans le monde de l'architecture parmi les plus grands et s'y est fait un nom à force de conviction profonde. Il parle à voix basse et porte sur les choses un regard...
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Tropical Modernism: Architecture and independence
Emerging in the death throes of colonial rule, the story of Tropical Modernism is one of politics and power, decolonization and defiance. Its leading proponents, British architects Jane Drew and Maxwell Fry, adapted a utopian Bauhaus-derived Modernist aesthetic to hot and...
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Living in Lisbon: An architectural view on housing challenges
Lisbon is being ravaged by an unprecedented housing crisis. The exponential increase of prices, the combined outcome of the financialisation of housing and the lack of continued investment of public policies, means that every Portuguese person is, or knows someone...
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Vitruve hors texte : Biographie d'un livre
Pour les architectes, le traité de Vitruve, écrit au Ier siècle av. J.C., fait figure de livre saint, aussi fondateur que mystérieux. A rebours de l'exégèse sans fin dont il a fait l'objet depuis sa redécouverte à la Renaissance, André...
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La maison japonaise depuis 1945
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La maison japonaise depuis 1945
Associant créativité et tradition, les maisons d'architecte construites au Japon depuis 1945 sont parmi les plus insolites et les plus fascinantes au monde. Soumis après-guerre à de strictes contraintes légales et spatiales, les architectes nippons n'ont en effet pas eu...
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Blockitecture Frank Lloyd Wright - Usonian
Build the world you want to see with Blockitecture®, a set of architectural building blocks by designer James Paulius. Cantilever and nest hexagonal blocks to create towers, cities, and dwellings. The Frank Lloyd Wright set is made in the style...
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Le style anthropocene
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Le style anthropocene
Ce manifeste, à la croisée de l’architecture, de l’esthétique et de l’ingénierie, appelle à réactiver le sens pratique de la décoration d'intérieur, tel qu’il existait avant le XXe siècle. Les fonctions climatiques des tapis, tapisseries, rideaux, miroirs ou paravents ont...
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