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This is a guide to the style of houses built in the 1930s.
Tradition continued to dominate the outside while inside art deco
was all the rage. It contains many photographs and detailed
drawings.
From the pre-war Viennese Werkbund Estate (designed by the likes of
Gerrit Rietveld and Adolf Loos), the post-war Swiss Siedlung Halen
(by Atelier 5) to more recent builds such as the Medina Complex in
Eindhoven (Neave Brown), Modernist Estates: Europe showcases 15
housing schemes through archival and contemporary photography,
alongside a series of interviews with current residents. This
beautifully designed book takes an inside look at how these estates
are inhabited today and examines the differences and similarities
between estates across Europe.
Form and resistance are the essence of all architectural work. This
is especially clear in the interaction between the effect and
construction method of façades. They orchestrate the transition
between interior and exterior worlds, they manifest the underlying
approach and the way buildings behave towards their surroundings.
In their articulation of engineering and aesthetics, supporting and
loads, proportion and practicality, and rhythm and materiality,
they reflect both varying production methods and social value
systems. The architect Lando Rossmaier worked with students at the
University of Lucerne to study the range of architectural means of
construction and expression with respect to Swiss townhouse
façades. This anthology presents a selection of around 80
buildings with sensitively developed tectonics, dating from the
20th-century to the present day, all of which have formed a
backdrop for an urban way of life for decades. Like a manual, the
effect is demonstrated using a photographic portrait and a
description of the construction method, using detailed tectonic
isometrics. The collection is supplemented by ten projects by
contemporary Swiss architects, with essays on their understanding
of tectonics. Text in German. Articles: Dr. Bettina Köhler, Roger
Boltshauser, Buol & Zünd Architekten, Edelaar Mosayebi
Inderbitzin Architekt*innen, Enzmann Fischer Partner Architekten,
Joos & Mathys Architekten, Käferstein & Meister
Architekten, Knapkiewicz & Fickert Architekten, Loeliger Strub
Architektur, Lütjens Padmanabhan Architekt*innen, Bosshard Vaquer
Architekten, Caruso St John Architects
The quintessential New England barn-photogenic, full of character,
and framed by flaming autumn foliage-is an endangered species. Of
some 30,000 barns in Vermont alone, nearly a thousand a year are
lost to fire, collapse, or bulldozers. Thomas Durant Visser's field
guide to the barns, silos, sugar houses, granaries, tobacco barns,
and potato houses of New England is an attempt to document not just
their structure but their traditions and innovations before the
surviving architectural evidence of this rich rural heritage is
lost forever.
A recognized authority on historic barn preservation, Visser has
combed the six-state region for representative barns and
outbuildings, and 200 of his photographs are reproduced here. The
text, which includes accounts from 18th- and 19th-century
observers, describes key architectural characteristics, historic
uses, and geographic distribution as well as specific features like
timbers and frames, sheathings, doors, and cupolas. From English
barns to bank barns, from ice houses to outhouses, these
irreplaceable assets, Visser writes, "linger as vulnerable
survivors of the past. Yet before these buildings vanish, each has
a story to tell." Travelers, residents, and scholars alike will
find Visser's text invaluable in uncovering, understanding, and
appreciating the stories inherent in these dwindling cultural
artifacts.
The construction of the apartment block at number 24, rue Nungesser
et Coli in Paris, between 1931 and 1934, was an important milestone
for Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret. It was the first opportunity
offered to them in France to put to the test theories on urbanism
and architecture, which they had been working on since the 1920s
("cinq points de l'architecture moderne"), and marks an important
stage on the path to Brutalism. And it is of all the more interest
because of the apartment and art studio Le Corbusier designed for
the top two floors of the building and in which he lived from 1934
until his death in 1965. Historical documents and drawings make
this handy-sized volume an invaluable guide for visitors and a
practical introduction for all architectural enthusiasts.
On the occasion of Tennessee's Bicentennial, four distinguished
authors offer new insights and a broader appreciation of the
classical influences that have shaped the architectural, cultural,
and educational history of its capital city.
Nashville has been many things: frontier town, Civil War
battleground, New South mecca, and Music City, U.S.A. It is
headquarters for several religious denominations, and also the home
of some of the largest insurance, healthcare, and publishing
concerns in the country. Located culturally as well as
geographically between North and South, East and West, Nashville is
centered in a web of often-competing contradictions.
One binding image of civic identity, however, has been
consistent through all of Nashville's history: the classical Greek
and Roman ideals of education, art, and community participation
that early on led to the city's sobriquet, "Athens of the West,"
and eventually, with the settling of the territory beyond the
Mississippi River, the "Athens of the South."
Illustrated with nearly a hundred archival and contemporary
photographs, "Classical Nashville" shows how Nashville earned that
appellation through its adoption of classical metaphors in several
areas: its educational and literary history, from the first
academies through the establishment of the Fugitive movement at
Vanderbilt; the classicism of the city's public architecture,
including its Capitol and legislative buildings; the evolution of
neoclassicism in homes and private buildings; and the history and
current state of the Parthenon, the ultimate symbol of classical
Nashville, replete with the awe-inspiring 42-foot statue of Athena
by sculptor Alan LeQuire.
Perhaps Nashville author John Egerton best captures the essence
of this modern city with its solid roots in the past. He places
Nashville "somewhere between the 'Athens of the West' and 'Music
City, U.S.A., ' between the grime of a railroad town and the glitz
of Opryland, between Robert Penn Warren and Robert Altman."
Nashville's classical identifications have always been
forward-looking, rather than antiquarian: ambitious, democratic,
entrepreneurial, and culturally substantive. "Classical Nashville"
celebrates the continuation of classical ideals in present-day
Nashville, ideals that serve not as monuments to a lost past, but
as sources of energy, creativity, and imagination for the future of
a city.
Zweisprachige Ausgabe(deutsch/englisch): Armin Linkes
Nachtaufnahmen zeigen die Leerstelle der Bauakademie als Teil einer
Schinkel-Spur im Berliner Stadtraum: Die rudimentare Replik der
Gebaudeecke provoziert Fragen nach der ku nftigen Nutzung und
Gestalt dieses zentralen Orts. Trotz der gegenwartigen
Bundestagsmehrheit fu r eine Rekonstruktion der historischen
Fassaden - analog zur gerade fertiggestellten Schlosskopie des
Humboldt Forums - gibt es unter Architekt*innen und in der Berliner
Stadtgesellschaft deutlich differenziertere Vorstellungen zum
Umgang mit der Bauakademie. Es regt sich Widerstand gegen eine
Vereinnahmung dieser wichtigen Institution und Bauaufgabe durch
eine Reprasentationspolitik, die unter dem Motto "So viel Schinkel
wie moeglich" mehr historische Spuren zu verwischen droht als sie
vorgeblich sichtbar machen will. Zu einem kritischen Zeitpunkt
liefert Bauakademie Berlin konzeptuelle Perspektiven fu r eine
zeitgenoessische Bauakademie in Form von Texten,
Architekturzeichnungen und Ku nstlerfotos. Mit Texten von Sandra
Bartoli, Stefanie Endlich, Tanja Scheffler, Dubravka Sekulic, Axel
Sowa, Stephan Tru by English description: Armin Linke's night
photography reveals the vacancy of the Bauakademie as a trace of
Schinkel in Berlin's urban fabric. The rudimentary replica of the
corner construction raises questions about the future use and form
of this centrally located site. Despite current majority support in
Parliament for a reconstruction of the historical envelope
analogous to the recently completed Humboldt Forum there are
clearly more differentiated ideas among architects and urban
society in Berlin about the future of the Bauakademie building.
There is strong resistance to the appropriation of this important
institution and building task by representational politics, that
actually threaten to obscure more historical traces than they are
supposed to make visible with the motto "As much Schinkel as
possible". At this important moment, Bauakademie Berlin offers
conceptual perspectives for a contemporary Bauakademie in the form
of texts, architectural drawings, and artist's photographs. With
texts by Sandra Bartoli, Stefanie Endlich, Philipp Oswalt, Tanja
Scheffler, Dubravka Sekulic, Axel Sowa, Stephan Truby, and Andreas
Zeese. Photographs by Armin Linke and Gili Merin
A fascinating guide to homemade shelter presents images and ideas
culled from across the globe, including bottle homes in the Nevada
desert, tree houses on the South China Sea, Japanese stilt houses,
and much, much more. Original.
Peter Baumberger and Karin Stegmeier are young architects who have
produced high-quality Zurich housing in recent years. In addition
to their highly refined residential architecture, they have
designed inspired buildings such as the extension to the Dietlikon
village school or the extension to the primary school centre in
Laufen. Text in English and German.
In Istanbul, urban transformation and housing production processes
are so intricately entwined and intertwined that they elicit a
plethora of predictable and unexpected subject matters to be
studied holistically. This book provides an insight into the
scales, thresholds, and dilemmas of housing transformations in
Istanbul from past to present, with a focus on cause-and-effect
relationships. It scrutinizes Istanbul from new perspectives as the
primary scene, target, and playground for neoliberal market acts
and actors, on the one hand, and seeks to shed light on future
prospects with regard to housing needs and expectations of
twenty-first century users in line with the unique dynamics of
Istanbul, a city without ends, on the other hand.
Powerful, memorable architecture in response to diverse conditions
and briefs, conceived and developed by the Geneva architectural
couple Kristina Sylla Widmann and Marc Widmann: this volume
presents five school buildings and facilities with a high
architectural quality, as well as several outstanding residential
and administrative buildings. Text in English and German.
Zweisprachige Ausgabe (deutsch/englisch) / Bilingual edition
(English/German) Lieferkettenprobleme und Arbeitskraftemangel
aufgrund der COVID-19-Pandemie sorgen fur einen anhaltenden
weltweiten Fertigstellungsruckgang. Trotz dieser Herausforderungen
wurden in den letzten beiden Jahren uber 1000 Hochhauser mit einer
Mindesthoehe von 100 Metern errichtet, jedes dritte davon in China.
Best High-Rises 2022/23 prasentiert 34 der spannendsten kurzlich
fertiggestellten Hochhausprojekte, die sich weltweit durch Design,
Nachhaltigkeit, Energie- und Kosteneffizienz sowie
nutzer*innenfreundliche Gestaltung auszeichnen. Jedes dieser
Projekte wird umfassend anhand von Fotos und Planen vorgestellt.
Der Internationale Hochhaus Preis wird alle zwei Jahre vergeben. Zu
den bisherigen Gewinner*innen zahlen u. a. OMA (2020), Benjamin
Romano (2018), BIG (2016), Stefano Boeri (2014), Ingenhoven
Architects (2012), WOHA (2010) und Foster and Partners (2008).
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