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Czech Republic
Beyond Architainment: Emerging Architects, Volume 3
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Otto Kapfinger (Author)
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Springer (Editor)
Emerging Architecture 3 präsentiert Bauten und Projekte von riccione, Holz Box Tirol, one room huber/meinhart, franz sam, Feyferlik / Fritzer, weichlbauer/ortis, AllesWirdGut, PPAG Anna Popelka Georg Poduschka, RATAPLAN und pool. Der dritte Band dieser Reihe ergänzt die vorangehenden zu einer "österreichischen Trilogie". Die Vielfalt profunder Haltungen in der jüngeren Generation zwischen Wien und Vorarlberg, Tirol und Steiermark ist nun durch insgesamt 30 vorgestellte Teams prägnant umrissen. Die folgenden Sichtungen werden die Perspektive erweitern und auch Bauten und Teams aus den Nachbarländern umfassen. Das Motto "Beyond Architainment? kommentiert die generelle Tendenz der Auswahl. Emerging Architecture sucht nicht nach spektakulären Novitäten. Das hysterische Propagieren und Verabschieden von Stilen und Slogans im Sinne des medialen Ausreizens der "Ökonomie der Aufmerksamkeit? dominiert heute die publizistische Realität der Baukunst. Dies fordert natürlich konträre Standpunkte heraus. Emerging Architecture ist in diesem Sinn keine Modeschau, sondern ein Schaufenster für Architekturen, die das Abbildbare hinter sich lassen. Die Wirklichkeit der hier gezeigten Baukunst ist nicht das, was den Raum so fotogen auffüllt, sondern primär das, was diese Räume - konkret, sinnlich und nachhaltig nutzbar - im Fluss des Lebens in Gang setzen.
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Germany
Czech Cubism
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A. Ed. Von Vegesack (Author)
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Alexander von Vegesack (Editor)
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Princeton Architectural Press (Editor)
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Germany
Architektur Indeutschland/Architecture in Germany (DAM Annual)
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Deutsches Architektur Museum (Dam) (Editor)
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Frankfurt/M (Editor)
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Ingeborg Flagge (Editor)
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Prestel Publishing (Editor)
The newest volume of this important annual survey of German architecture focuses on spiritual spaces, most notably Christian churches built in the past year. It also provides new critical perspectives by some of the most exciting young architects working today. Superbly photographed from all angles, these spaces embody heavenly as well as earthly concerns, traditional sensibilities and cutting-edge vision. Nearly three hundred color photographs and drawings illustrate the newest edition of a significant reference work that is as attractive as it is informative.
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Germany
German Architecture for a Mass Audience
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Kathleen James-Chakraborty (Author)
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Routledge (Editor)
Using a social approach to explain the formal aspects of early twentieth-century architecture, this book demonstrates that the move away from historical styles and towards an engagement with space was predicted in part by a shift in the public for architecture. By the 1910s German architects and their patrons addressed the working and lower middle classes in buildings which they hoped would, by being experienced in the same way regardless of social station, help transcend the countries deep political divisions. divisions. The author vividly illustrates the ways in which buildings designed by many of Germany's most celebrated twentieth-century architects, such as Max Berg, Bruno Taut, Peter Behrens, Otto Bartning, Dominikus Bohm, Heinrich Tessenow, Albert Speer, Hans Henslemann and Hans Scharoun were embedded in widely held beliefs about the power of architecture to influence society. Shared by architects and patrons across the political spectrum, these ideas inspired their attempts literally to build community.
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Japan
New Architecture Berlin 1990-2000
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Andreas Gottlieb Hempel (Contributor)
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Martin Kieren (Contributor)
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Jovis/Deutsches Architektur Zentrum Berlin (Editor)
Contributions by Andreas Gottlieb Hempel, Martin Kieren.
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Japan
Architecture in Japan (Architecture (Taschen))
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Philip Jodidio (Author)
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Taschen (Editor)
Contemporary architecture by country TASCHEN's new architecture series brings a unique perspective to world architecture, highlighting architectural trends by country. Each book features 15 to 20 architects?from the firmly established to the up-and-coming?with the focus on how they have contributed to very recent architecture in the chosen nation. Entries include contact information and short biographies in addition to copiously illustrated descriptions of the architects? or firms? most significant recent projects. Crossing the globe from country to country, this new series celebrates the richly hued architectural personality of each nation featured. Architects/firms included: Hitoshi Abe Tadao Ando Jun Aoki Shigeru Ban Masaki Endoh Shuhei Endo Hiroshi Hara Arata Isozaki Toyo Ito Waro Kishi Kengo Kuma Fumihiko Maki Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa / S A N A A Yoshio Taniguchi Tezuka Architects Makoto Sei Watanabe Makoto Yokomizo
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Japan
Contemporary Japanese Architects (Big Series : Architecture and Design)
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Dirk Meyhofer (Author)
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Benedikt Taschen Verlag (Editor)
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Mexico
Tokyo Houses
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Kyoko Asakura (Author)
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Nasple (Author)
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Te Neues Publishing Company (Editor)
Simplicity isn?t just a matter of taste in Japan?it?s a part of the culture. But within that aesthetic there?s a lot of room for diversity. This photographic sampling of some of Tokyo?s most exciting and beautiful apartments displays that diversity in surprising and innovative ways. The clutter-free rooms are filled with warm, muted colors and natural objects; they make use of such traditional materials as rice paper, tatami, wood, ceramics and stone. Yet in every corner is a wonderful surprise: a whimsical chair, a rock garden set into the floor, an Art Deco flourish in the bathroom, a rustic bamboo ladder propped on one wall. Gleaming high-tech lives in congenial harmony with old and traditional, and gentle hues are punctuated by bright spots of color. Photographed in full color and from vantage points that accentuate the seamless transitions between them, these dwellings exude a nourishing calm that belies the city?s frenetic energy. Floor plans and text round out this visual tour of 50 apartments that shows how ingenuity and imagination can transform four walls into an oasis of serenity and elegance.
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Netherlands
Modernity and the Architecture of Mexico
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Ricardo Legoretta (Foreword)
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Edward R. Burian (Editor)
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University of Texas Press (Editor)
Since the mid 1970s, there has been an extraordinary renewal of interest in early modern architecture, both as a way of gaining insight into contemporary architectural culture and as a reaction to neoconservative postmodernism. This book undertakes a critical reappraisal of the notion of modernity in Mexican architecture and its influence on a generation of Mexican architects whose works spanned the 1920s through the 1960s. Nine essays by noted architects and architectural historians cover a range of topics from broad-based critical commentaries to discussions of individual architects and buildings. Among these are the architects Enrique del Moral, Juan O'Gorman, Carlos Obregón Santacilia, Juan Segura, Mario Pani, and the campus and stadium of the Cuidad Universitaria in Mexico City. Relatively little has been published in English regarding this era in Mexican architecture. Thus, Modernity and the Architecture of Mexico will play a groundbreaking role in making the underlying assumptions, ideological and political constructs, and specific architect's agendas known to a wide audience in the humanities. Likewise, it should inspire greater appreciation for this undervalued body of works as an important contribution to the modern movement.
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