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The Unite in Marseille (1945-1952) was a pioneering achievement at
a time when social housing in the post WWII years posed an immense
problem. Freed from restrictive regulations for the first time Le
Corbusier was able to put into practice his concept of modern
social housing. A milestone of modern architecture and subject of
controversial debate, the Unite in Marseille continues to attract
numerous visitors and students of architecture. This volume is the
latest addition to Birkhauser's series of guides to Le Corbusier's
most acclaimed buildings, and includes an additional chapter on his
Unites in Reze-les-Nantes, Briey en Foret, Firminy and Berlin. The
author, a practising architect and well known le Corbusier
specialist, lives in Marseille and teaches at the Ecole
d'architecture de Marseille-Luminy.
Rem Koolhaas has been part of the international avant-garde since
the nineteen-seventies and has been named the Pritzker Architecture
Prize for the year 2000. This book, which builds on six canonical
Koolhaas projects, traces the discursive practice behind the design
methods used by Koolhaas and his office OMA. It uncovers recurring
key themes-such as wall, void, montage, trajectory, infrastructure,
and shape-that have structured this design discourse over the span
of Koolhaas's oeuvre. The book moves beyond the six core pieces, as
well: It explores how these identified thematic design principles
manifest in other works by Koolhaas as both practical
re-applications and further elaborations. In addition to Koolhaas's
individual genius, these textual and material layers are accounted
for shaping the very context of his work's relevance. By comparing
the design principles with relevant concepts from the architectural
Zeitgeist in which Koolhaas has operated, the study moves beyond
its specific subject-Rem Koolhaas-and provides novel insight into
the broader history of architectural ideas.
Charismatic architect Simon Duval's iconic designs brilliantly
express the dreams of his clients and his peers. His successes
bring international acclaim and publicity which place him in pole
position, but an envious self-appointed rival, Catherine Quaid,
casts a long shadow over his life and his professional career.
Stan Allen is an architect and educator who has won global acclaim,
primarily for his work in town planning and his influential 1996
essay Field Conditions. His new book Situated Objects shows a
unique facet of his creative process: a selection of small
buildings and projects on rural sites, most of them situated within
the landscape of the Hudson Valley, New York. They demonstrate an
approach to architecture that engages in a dialogue with this
partly wild and wholly non-urban environment that lies just outside
the gates of New York City. The projects are presented in drawings
and a rich array of images by celebrated photographer Scott
Benedict. They are arranged in three thematic categories:
Outbuildings, Material Histories, and New Natures, supplemented by
the architect's writings and essays contributed by Helen Thomas and
Jesus Vassallo. The first book on Stan Allen's buildings, Situated
Objects highlights Allen's personal engagement with American
material traditions, the conventions of architectural drawing, and
the challenge of building with nature.
Villa Vuoto, located in the north hills of Pittsburgh, is home to
Matthew Schlueb and his architectural studio, dedicated to the
design of private residences. His belief that a home is the most
intimate of all space is the foundation for his practice, which he
defends in this autobiographical collection of writings. Originally
intended to provide insight into the factors that shaped his own
family's house, this book ended up a search for the essence of a
home, an exploration of his own creative process, and ultimately
locating the source of creativity itself ...hidden in the
imagination of a child.
From 1926 to 1930 Heinz (1902-1996) and Bodo Rasch (1903-1995) was
a highly creative team of architects, furniture designers,
typographers and book designers. The brothers were early
"networkers", providing a visionary source of ideas which they
developed in a rash of projects as major protagonists of the New
Architecture. Their early suspended dwellings and bold ideas for
modular or air inflated house constructions are unique in 20th
century architectural history. This publication focuses on a
selection of their early work in the MoMA in New York and the CCA
in Montreal and yields insights into the brother's collaboration.
The selection is augmented by container, suspended and pneumatic
architecture by more than 20 famous architectural firms like
Archigram, Egon Eiermann, Foster + Partners, COOP HIMMELB(L)AU,
Bertrand Goldberg, Kengo Kuma et al, which in turn place the great
creative potential of the Rasch brothers in a new light. In
addition five contemporary artists discover their inspiring moments
in a current context and establish new relationships between ideas
from the past and visions for the future.
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2014 Reprint of 1926 Edition. Full facsimile of the original
edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. "The
Autobiography of an Idea" is an account of Sullivan's career and
his architectural theories. Sullivan was a spokesman for the reform
of architecture, an opponent of historical eclecticism, and did
much to remake the image of the architect as a creative
personality. His own designs are characterized by richness of
ornament. His importance lies in his writings as well as in his
architectural achievements. These writings, which are subjective
and metaphorical, suggest directions for architecture, rather than
explicit doctrines or programs. Sullivan himself warned of the
danger of mechanical theories of art.
The Benefits and uses of a Photo Album for a Baby Boy. A Baby Boy's
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photos can have a profound impact on later life, and organizing
them in an album improves that effect. The most immediate use of
baby photos is for later embarrassment. As your baby boy rapidly
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photos, in addition to being precious memories, are a potential
countermeasure against any of a teenage boy's potential
transgressions. Is his party getting to loud? Break out the album
and watch the tears.
The paintings in this book depict 'object-type' - general yet
specific, generic yet designed, familiar yet estranged. They are
'Purist' forms depicted in a still life landscape. The compositions
employ overlap, convergence and diminution to imply depth resulting
in the creation of the illusion of perspectival space. However,
through the use of juxtaposition, superimposition and ambiguity of
scale the perspectival effect is impaired. The result is a blurring
of distinction between foreground and background that encourages a
reading of pattern that reinforces the presence of the surface
plane. A conflict is encouraged between the deep space and the
shallow space - between the creation of implied space through
perspective and the reinforcement of the surface plane through
pattern. A multiple reading is fostered that rewards the careful
observer.
2014 Reprint of 1947 Edition. Full facsimile of the original
edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Louis
Henry Sullivan was one of the foremost American architects, and has
been called the "father of skyscrapers" and "father of modernism."
He is considered by many as the creator of the modern skyscraper,
was an influential architect and critic of the Chicago School, was
a mentor to Frank Lloyd Wright, and an inspiration to the Chicago
group of architects who have come to be known as the Prairie
School. Along with Henry Hobson Richardson and Wright, Sullivan is
one of "the recognized trinity of American architecture." This
collection of his writings includes other essays in additional to
the book length "Kindergarten Chats." The are: Characteristics and
Tendencies of American Architecture What is the Just Subordination,
in Architectural Design, of Details to Mass? Ornament in
Architecture Emotional Architecture as Compared to Intellectual The
Tall Office Building Artistically Considered The Young Man in
Architecture Education What is Architecture: A Study in the
American People of Today
Juggle and Hide is award-winning writer Sharon van Ivan's dizzying
story of her unconventional, often harrowing, sometimes hilarious
life. With a childhood split between time with her alcoholic mother
in Akron, Ohio and her bookie dad in Brooklyn, New York, as well as
other challenging family members along the way, she was destined to
find comfort on the edge and in the company of highly creative and
self-destructive individuals. Hers is a story of getting drunk and
getting sober, of triumphs and failures in her work as an actor and
screenwriter, and of exhilarating love affairs, including her
twenty-year relationship with the renowned artist Charles Pfahl.
Quirky and compelling, Juggle and Hide is a must read, engaging on
many levels. Sharon van Ivan takes the reader for a roller coaster
ride into the depths of personal tragedy and unexpected outcomes.
Exhibition, February 28 To April 29, 1962.
Text in German & English. The architect is at all times also an
artist. How otherwise would he be able to tame the
three-dimensionality of space and subdue the urges of physics and
structural mechanics with the creations of his fantasy? This
creativity is however mostly restricted purely to its own field. In
this respect, Rob Krier, born in 1938 in Grevenmacher, Luxembourg,
is indeed the proverbial exception that proves the rule. Besides
his actual profession, which demands his daily attention, Krier has
for years also made a vocation of his love of art, one which he
nurtures parallel to his work. Fine art could stand in dialogue
with architecture and it is Krier's ambition to have iconographic
themes brought into the latter, so that they might speak equally to
both the occupants of a building and to bystanders and move them to
thoughtful reflection. In the works of Mies van der Rohe it is not
rare that one finds naturalistic figures from, for example,
Aristide Maillol or Wilhelm Lehmbruck -- as an anthropomorphic
contrast to the strict geometry of the architecture, notes Rob
Krier in the comments on his journal. If one is already aware of
the realisation of his masterful architectural accomplishments
through projects such as Potsdam-Kirchsteigfeld (1991 to 1997), De
Resident in The Hague (1993-2001), Noorderhof in Amsterdam
(1994-99), Veste Brandevoort near Helmond (since 1995), Citadel
Broekpolder near Beverwijk (2000-04), or the Cite Judiciaire in
Luxembourg (1992-2008) -- be assured, Krier's artistic skills are
in no way inferior to his architectural work. Quite the contrary:
as a sculptor and illustrator, too, Rob Krier brings together
extraordinarily musical qualities and incorporates them into his
work: his bronze The Jumper was erected in Montpellier in 2004, the
Cowering Woman ten years earlier on Berlin's Friedrichstrasse, the
four metre-high duo Bosch i Alsina and Papasseit on Moll de la
Fusta in Barcelona in 1992.
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photo book is one good way to do this. When the twins are growing
up it might be helpful to have three pictures albums. If you have
three albums then you can have one album dedicated to each twin,
and have one album with pictures of them together. This way when
the twins grow up they will be able to see pictures that are just
about them and not tied to the fact that they are a twin.
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