Actar aug 2016 (3 résultats)

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - Over the last 15 years AZC's architectural work has developed through a diverse rangeof experiences. This book, Time for Play, presents exhibition pavilions, temporaryinstallations, and ideas competitions - a mix of built and un-built projects.'Today's situation promotes innovation, supports creativity and enriches projects, calling on our intelligence. We are forced to take a new look at practices and uses, to consider different ways of doing things, to think about the humanity of a place; and all this when we still find it so hard to understand community needs, and even more so to keep up with changing society. Faced with a changing world, they propose solutions that are novel in their shape, use, cost and temporality. This project is realistic and realisable. The architects put their intelligence and skill not into regurgitating conventional solutions but into inventing new ones. They have left behind the stagnant reproduction of the city and shapes of the 19th century, repetition of a past time, and moved on to building in response to our times. Is this modernity Does this project mark a new era, as did Paris Plage in 2002, or the subsequent shifting developments along the Left Bank of the Seine ' Jean-Pierre Charbonneau - 2015.…

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - Against the Grain, features the work of three studios of the Louis I. KahnVisiting Assistant Professors at Yale.Marcelo Spina and Georgina Huljich in 'Brutal Beauty: Piles, Monolithsand the Incongruous Whole' explored ways to make mute icons throughmonolithic form so that the buildings were foreign to their contextand difficult to read formally for a film center in Los Angeles. DanWood in 'Boulevard Triumphant: ecological infrastructure, architecture,modernization, and the image of the city' a studio for a civic centerin Gabon that challenged the architectural language in Africa beyondthe clichés and nostalgia to create an architecture that embodied a newambition. Lisa Gray and Alan Organschi in 'Timber Innovation District:new timber technologies and contemporary high performance woodarchitecture' researched wood as a material for larger-scale projects for a siteon New Haven's working waterfront, with projects ranging from bridges tomanufacturing facilities and multi-family housing.…

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - CAZA: 2011-15, the inaugural monograph of the Brooklyn-based design studio CAZA, celebrates the first five years of the firm, and includes photographs, drawings, building descriptions, essays, and conversations that relate to CAZA's global architecture and design practice. The book opens with a photo essay by world-renowned photographer Iwan Baan, who documented CAZA's first internationally acclaimed project, the 100 Walls Church, in Cebu City, Philippines.With offices in Brooklyn, New York; Bogotá, Colombia; Lima, Peru; and Manila, Philippines, CAZA has emerged as a risk-taking, forward-thinking studio working on a mixture of residential, civic, and corporate projects that are shaping the built environment in cities around the world. The launch of CAZA: 2011-15 will coincide with the opening of La Biennale di Venezia in May 2016, with a special installation at Palazzo Mora in Venice, which will subsequently travel to various cities around the world.…