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Eugène de Mirecourt
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A beautifully illustrated single-project monograph on the
innovative design process and creation of a flagship lakeside
resort in central China, the Hilton Wuhan Optics Valley resort,
this book showcases the chronological project phases, from the
early-stage site preparations, design and engineering parameters,
through to final construction and completion. The resort is a
business and convention center, as well as a prime hub for
political and business activities. There are dedicated spaces for
meetings and receptions, a full suite of leisure facilities, such
as a large spa area, an indoor heated swimming pool, an outdoor
swimming pool, a gym, a cycling route, a lakeside basketball court,
and a tennis court. The hotel component of the resort comprises
luxury guest rooms and suites, all with private balconies
overlooking a beautiful lake, a convention centre with a huge
zero-pillar banquet hall, and an outdoor ceremonial lawn. Hilton
Wuhan Optics Valley is featured by its innovative design. Tightly
knit around the core site, the layout is characterised by a central
symmetry and a clear separation of the external and the internal
areas. The creative use of a cluster of courtyards interlacing each
other characterises the hotel lobby. The functional areas are thus
separated so that the guests can enjoy an experience of unique
spaces typically offered only by small hotels. The design of the
facade drew inspiration from Jing-chu culture clean lines, delicate
details, traditional textures and natural materials and imparts a
sense of understated luxury and otherworldly elegance, allowing the
architecture of the hotel to perfectly blend into the natural
environment around Yanxi Lake. This book is a unique reference and
useful guide for architects, engineers and designers of resorts, or
related typologies.
The internationally renowned Finnish architect and designer
Alvar Aalto (1898-1976) created several landmarks of modern design
in the United States. The first, the Finland Pavilion at the New
York World's Fair in 1939, introduced his pioneering style to the
country and established his reputation among his American peers.
Subsequent designs produced in the United States marked major
turning points in his evolving position as an architect. His
commissioned project for the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology's Baker House dormitory (completed 1949) features an
undulating facade of red brick, a material that references the
building's Boston surroundings. Aalto's fan-shaped plan for the
Mount Angel Abbey Library (completed 1970) in St. Benedict, Oregon,
his consummate exploration of the library type, capitalizes on the
local terrain and the use of natural light.
Aalto's designs had a lasting impact on American modernism, but
his experiences in America also profoundly influenced his own
stylistic development. "Aalto and America" is a detailed survey of
this beneficial relationship, with contributions by fifteen
international experts who explore these key designs in relation to
larger themes in international politics, architectural culture,
housing research, and modern criticism and design.
One of Texas's most talented architects in the late nineteenth
century, James Riely Gordon may have been the nation's most
prolific designer of county courthouses. Though Gordon's Texas
courthouses made his reputation, they represent only half of a
career in which we see reflected many issues and events shaping
American architecture. Most notable were the effort among
architects to organize their craft as a profession, the
controversial Office of the Supervising Architect of the United
States Treasury, the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition, and the
City Beautiful Movement. Situating Gordon's career, Meister focuses
on the public architecture, the pursuit of which took Gordon from
San Antonio to Dallas and on to Chicago and New York City as he
secured commissions in nine states. Competition was fierce, and
Gordon often had to defend his reputation against scandalous
charges leveled by jealous architects and unscrupulous politicians.
In his interdisciplinary approach, Meister examines political,
cultural, and economic forces for their impact on the finished
buildings as well as on Gordon's career and exposes the political
and legal wrangling so often attendant to the construction of
buildings that serve as the nexus for their communities.
Vincent van Gogh becomes only 37 years old. Only the last 10 years
of his life he is engaged in painting. Restlessly and exhausting he
travels through the Netherlands, Belgium, Great Britain and France.
Together with his colleagues Cezanne, Toulouse-Lautrec and Gauguin
he is regarded today as one of the most important artists of the
expressionism movement. This comic guide, written and drawn by
Willi Bloss, catches the main marks of the master's life and refers
optically to the unerring style that van Gogh used for his sketches
How Gyorgy Kepes, the last disciple of Bauhaus modernism, became
the single most significant artist within a network of scientific
experts and elites. Gyorgy Kepes (1906-2001) was the last disciple
of Bauhaus modernism, an acolyte of Laszlo Moholy-Nagy and a
self-styled revolutionary artist. But by midcentury, transplanted
to America, Kepes found he was trapped in the
military-industrial-aesthetic complex. In this first book-length
study of Kepes, John Blakinger argues that Kepes, by opening the
research laboratory to the arts, established a new paradigm for
creative practice: the artist as technocrat. First at Chicago's New
Bauhaus and then for many years at MIT, Kepes pioneered
interdisciplinary collaboration between the arts and sciences-what
he termed "interthinking" and "interseeing." Kepes and his
colleagues-ranging from metallurgists to mathematicians-became part
of an important but little-explored constellation: the Cold War
avant-garde. Blakinger traces Kepes's career in the United States
through a series of episodes: Kepes's work with the military on
camouflage techniques; his development of a visual design pedagogy,
as seen in the exhibition The New Landscape and his book The New
Landscape in Art and Science; his encyclopedic Vision + Value
series; his unpublished magnum opus, the Light Book; the Center for
Advanced Visual Studies (CAVS), an art-science research institute
established by Kepes at MIT in 1967; and the Center's proposals for
massive environmental installations that would animate the urban
landscape. CAVS was entangled in the antiwar politics of the late
1960s, as many students and faculty protested MIT's partnerships
with defense contractors-some of whom had ties to the Center. In
attempting to "undream" the Bauhaus into existence in the postwar
world, Kepes faced profound resistance. Generously illustrated,
drawing on the vast archive of Kepes's papers at Stanford and MIT's
CAVS Special Collection, this book supplies a missing chapter in
our understanding of midcentury modern and Cold War visual culture.
Le Corbusier (1887-1965) is one the most influential architects of
the 20th century. In the Scandinavian countries, his influence is
arguably most pronounced in the writings and art of the Danish
experimentalist Asger Jorn (1914-1973). Their collaboration on Le
Corbusier's pavilion for the 1937 Paris World Exhibition sparked
Jorn's lifelong fascination with the great architect and with
architecture more broadly as an inherently public form of art. At
the same time, Le Corbusier began revealing his work in visual art
and started to move from a rational, technological approach to
architecture, towards a more poetic, materialist one. Published in
collaboration with the Museum Jorn, Silkeborg, What Moves Us?
focuses specifically on the reception of Le Corbusier in
Scandinavia, with the relationship between Jorn and Le Corbusier as
a thematic thread. The book first highlights the architect's change
of direction and subsequently takes readers through his influence
on the young artist. The book's distinguished contributors explore
the relationships that emerged among their artistic theories and
practices, including Jorn's later critique of Le Corbusier.Essays
also explore the wider influence of Le Corbusier on Scandinavian
architecture and urbanisation and consider Le Corbusier alongside
the Danish architect Jorn Oberg Utzon and the Aarhus Brutalism
movement.
Here is the account, in storybook form with illustrations by the
author, of two artists and how they settled in northern New Mexico
to try their skill at designing and building adobe houses.
Als ein globales Phanomen des 19. Jahrhunderts belegt das Maurische
Revival die Faszination westlicher Architekten fur das islamische
Erbe von al-Andalus. Dieses spielte eine zentrale Rolle im Werk
Carl von Diebitschs (1819-1869), der als einer der ersten deutschen
Architekten die nasridischen Bauten Granadas, die spektakularen
Palaste der Alhambra, den Alcazar von Sevilla und die
Moschee-Kathedrale von Cordoba in den Jahren 1846-1847 vor Ort
studierte und ihren ornamentalen Reichtum in zahlreichen
Bleistiftskizzen und Aquarellen festhielt. Vom 27. Oktober 2017 bis
zum 10. Januar 2018 werden Carl von Diebitschs Architekturstudien
und Bauentwurfe im Rahmen der im Architekturmuseum der Technischen
Universitat Berlin stattfindenden Ausstellung "A Fashionable Style.
Carl von Diebitsch und das Maurische Revival" erstmals in
Deutschland gezeigt. Die vorliegende Publikation wurde begleitend
zur Ausstellung konzipiert und bietet einen vertiefenden Blick auf
die gezeigten Exponate und thematischen Schwerpunkte. Der Fokus
liegt dabei auf Carl von Diebitschs Jahren an der Berliner
Bauakademie, seinen Studien zur islamischen Architektur von
al-Andalus und seinen neo-maurischen Bauten und Interieurs in
Deutschland und Kairo. Weitere Aspekte sind der Loewenhof als
Nukleus des Alhambra-Stils und seine Transformation im 19.
Jahrhundert, Owen Jones' international gefeierter Alhambra Court
von 1854, die serielle Reproduktion nasridischer Architektur und
Ornamentik in Form von Gipsabgussen, Architekturmodellen und
Moebelstucken oder die Bedeutung von Stuck und Eisen im Werk des
preussischen Architekten. Als innovativer Erneuerer gelang Carl von
Diebitsch die Revitalisierung der nasridischen Baukunst und ihrer
Herstellungsverfahren, die er von Berlin aus in die Welt trug.
Selected research projects and architecture exploring the role of
design within complex social, political and environmental
conditions Toshiko Mori is a New York-based architect and Professor
in the Practice of Architecture at the Harvard University Graduate
School of Design for many years. As a long-time member of the World
Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on the Future of Cities,
Mori led research and inquiry into sustainable architecture,
enhancing cities' livability, and creating efficient urban
services. Mori is also on the board of Dassault Systems, a company
connecting technology to environment and life science. And she has
founded the platform VisionArc, a think tank dedicated to exploring
the role of design within complex social and environmental issues.
This book will focus on TMA's projects based on research, and the
impact of socially valuable projects to society. The book will
illustrate how the observation of the architect operates as opposed
to how the imagination of the architect manifests itself. Different
chapters in the book are describing various ways of approaching the
task of observation. Seven chapters are divided into specific
projects and provide a look at the hidden thought processes that
can take place behind the ideas, solutions, and physical
manifestations or architecture. Presented projects include the
Portable Concert Hall, called Paracoustica, which is an ongoing
nonprofit work to come up with an affordable and sharable concert
hall among many constituents in remote and underserved community;
the Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research focusing on
socialization among scientists as a new model of work that promotes
further discovery and teamwork. And i.e. the research on the role
of libraries in the future using the example of the Brooklyn Public
Library Central Branch. Another chapter is dedicated to the
vernacular typology development in Senegal with the Albers
Foundation, and the research on social spaces for collaborative
educational environments.
The Pritzker Prize is the most prestigious international prize for
architecture. Architect includes all 42 recipients of the Pritzker
Prize, and captures in pictures and their own words their
awe-inspiring achievements. Organized in reverse chronological
order by laureate each chapter features four to six of the
architect's major works, including museums, libraries, hotels,
places of worship, and more. The text, culled from notebooks,
interviews, articles, and speeches illuminates the architects'
influences and inspirations, personal philosophy, and aspirations
for his own work and the future of architecture. The book includes
More than 1000 stunning photographs, blueprints, sketches, and CAD
drawings. Architect offers an unprecedented view into the minds of
some of the most creative thinkers, dreamers, and builders of the
last three decades and reveals that buildings are political,
emotional, and spiritual.
In 2016, Dario Franchini and Diego Calderon founded two offices,
one in Lugano and one in London. Since then, they have completed a
number of small conversions and buildings with an experimental
character. For the Palazzo del Cinema in Locarno, they carried out
a relatively large conversion project including heightening
measures. Their interventions are both precise and clinical. Text
in English and German.
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One of the main concerns of Brussels-based architecture firm A.2R.C
is the continuing urbanisation of the city of Brussels. Critical of
attempts over the years to 'modernise' Brussels, A.2R.C's aim is to
pursue the reintegration of the city by offering full architectural
services for the transformation, restoration and readaptation of
notable buildings. A.2R.C's expertise extends to new construction,
particularly large-scale, mixed-use urban ensembles, and it also
has a reputation as one of Europe's most experienced firms in newly
built and renovated theatre buildings. This book explores the work
of a firm dedicated to the future of one of Europe's most historic
and beautiful cities.
By retracing Frank Lloyd Wright's footsteps on journeys he made
beyond his homeland of the USA, this book explores his global
ambitions and his lasting legacy and offers an original and
contemporary view of Wright and his architecture. While Lloyd
Wright is perceived as the quintessential American architect, in
fact he was well-travelled, and these six journeys were to develop
and promote his globalising 'organic' philosophy. The author takes
off first to Japan and Germany to explore the way Wright's visits
to these countries informed and framed his 'Prairie House' period.
He then travels to Russia and the UK, where Wright presented his
global 'Usonian' manifesto. The final two chapters pursue Wright to
Italy and the Middle East as part of his 'Legacy' period. The book
is beautifully illustrated with Wright's own sketches and
photographs, as well as some historical photographs of Wright's
original journeys and works. The author meets people who are living
and coping with Wright's 'organic' architecture today and asks them
whether their homes are still true to Wright's intent or whether
there is something else that made their home particular.By
considering Wright beyond America, his architecture is critiqued
against different cultural settings so that it can be evaluated as
emerging from a new globalised era of architectural production. The
author reflects on Frank Lloyd Wright as an early promoter of
globalisation - in fact, as the first 'global architect'.
A documentation of the details and ornamentation used by John Gaw
Meem in his architecture in the Southwest. Copiously illustrated
with photographs, plans and diagrams.
The murals of the Saint Francis Auditorium of the Museum of Fine
Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico were dedicated in 1918 when the Museum
of Fine Arts was the subject of great festivities held for the
grand opening of the building, financed by private capital and
State money. The murals themselves are in excellent condition and
effectively grace the handsome auditorium. Their meaning is not
obvious; in only three of them does Saint Francis appear. One
inevitably wonders why the other subjects were selected; who made
the decisions as to the subjects; who gave the commission and when;
what artists did what for which pictures? What was the impact of
the unexpected death of the principal artist before the murals were
completed? These questions, but above all the meaning of the cycle
of pictures, instigated the author's research and are responsible
for clarifying Santa Fe's heritage of these extraordinary pictures.
Carl Sheppard taught at the University of Michigan, UCLA, and
the University of Minnesota where he was also Chair of the
Department. In New Mexico he concentrated on the period of the
first two decades of the twentieth century. The University of New
Mexico Press published his book "Creator of the Santa Fe Style:
Isaac Hamilton Rapp, Architect." The volume won the Gaspar Perez de
Villagra Award for an outstanding publication in 1988. Previously
Dr. Sheppard published primarily in the early Medieval field as
well as occasionally on subjects of modern art.
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