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Suburban Discipline
Historically, suburbia has been defined in relation to the city. Today, however, the city is no longer the undisputed arbiter for civilization; suburbia has infiltrated urban culture worldwide, shaping both its aspirations and its fears. Beneath an advertised serenity, poetry and violence, romance and pornography, organic gardens and toxic wastes are all nestled into the naturalistic settings of the suburb. What are the rituals and customs of the contemporary suburb? Is it possible to describe suburban culture without relying on typical urban comparisons? How is suburban culture changing as a result of being plugged into a global market of expanding proportions? Suburban Discipline, the second book (after "Mortal City") in our series from StoreFront for Art and Architecture, answers these questions through a series of critical essays. Keller Easterling, a professor of architecture at Columbia University and co-author of "Seaside", contributes an essay on the Appalachian Trail. Hannia Gmez, architecture critic for El Nacional in Caracas, provides a study on the Hanging Suburbs of Caracas. Also included is a photo-essay on Rem Koolhaas's Lille project.
Guide suisse de l'architecture du paysage
Ce guide de l'architecture du paysage en Suisse, présente près de 450 projets paysagers différents, allant du jardin, familial au parc classique, via la place' urbaine ou le " sentier suisses, et provenant de toutes les régions du pays et de toutes les époques (12e - 2le siècle), Riche de plus de 350 photographies couleurs ou noir/blanc et de 100 dessins et plans, il concentre passé et présent de l'architecture du paysage suisse en un large panorama sélectionné, et présenté par groupe de cantons, d'ouest en est du pays suivant l'ordre des codes postaux. Publié par la fédération suisse des architectes paysagistes, en coopération avec la Société d'histoire de l'art en Suisse, de la Fondation suisse pour - l'architecture du paysage et de la filière " architecture des paysages " de l'Ecole d'ingénieurs de Cullier, cet ouvrage sans équivalent en langue française s'impose à tous les architectes paysagistes comme une référence en la matière. S'adressant également à un large public intéressé, très richement illustré, il contribue à mieux faire connaître les objets les plus remarquables de l'architecture du paysage en Suisse.
Abstraction and Transcendence
This thesis introduces Tadao Ando, a well-known Japanese architect, who is currently working on an emerging concept in the discourse of architecture, and is opening an approach of high sensibility (sensual, reflective, flexible, and complex, sensitively matching with every moment of life) and conceptualism (rational, logically approaching truth) that is widely considered one of the most important ways of thinking and designing architecture.In the introduction chapter, Tadao Ando's is introduced as a master of architecture and as a critic. Secondly, his goals, objectives, concepts and strategies are outlined. These aspects are grouped and developed into major themes. Those themes will later b...
Modern Architecture in Czechoslovakia and Other Writings
This series offers a range of heretofore unavailable writings in English translation on the subjects of art, architecture, and aesthetics.Teige's principal work on modernism, now in English for the first time, is supplemented by a selection of his other writings on art and architecture.
Authenticity in Architectural Heritage Conservation
The book contributes to a recontextualization of authenticity by investigating how this value is created, reenacted, and assigned. Over the course of the last century, authenticity figured as the major parameter for the evaluation of cultural heritage. It was adopted in local and international charters and guidelines on architectural conservation in Europe, South and East Asia. Throughout this period, the concept of authenticity was constantly redefined and transformed to suit new cultural contexts and local concerns. This volume presents colonial and postcolonial discourses, opinions, and experiences in the field of architectural heritage conservation and the use of site-specific practices ...
Settings and Stray Paths
These collected works represent twenty-five years of study of the designed landscape which the author here takes to include gardens, cemeteries, plazas and other shared spaces. Asking essential questions about the nature of order and its perception, this book includes in its impressive scope analyses of both historic and modern works with a geographical distribution that extends across Europe, Asia and North America. With unique depth in many areas of study, Treib brings his expertise to bear on a range of inter-related and mutually influential issues within the subject, taking in an assessment of the lives and contributions of a number of leading figures in the field, the contents of a landscape and the meanings ascribed to it, and a theoretical formulation of the ideas from which or by which landscape architecture is produced.
