Le projet de réaménagement du musée d'Art moderne de Paris, confié à h2o architectes, est documenté par les photographes Stéphane Chalmeau et Myr Muratet. Il est introduit par Fabrice Hergott, directeur du musée, et raconté par Anaël Pigeat, journaliste et critique d'art. L'artiste Laëtitia Badaut Haussmann a également donné sa vision de la temporalité du projet.
Boltshauser Architekten, basé à Zurich, qui gère également une succursale à Munich, est l'une des entreprises de design suisses les plus prospères et les plus idiosyncratiques. L'examen précis des matériaux et de leur potentiel constructif se conjugue dans leurs constructions à une profonde compréhension des enjeux écologiques. Beaucoup de leurs projets ont remporté des prix internationaux. Cette publication passe en revue 12 des bâtiments clés et récents de Boltshauser Architekten dans une présentation en trois étapes du plan, de la photographie et du croquis. Les images atmosphériques du photographe d'architecture italo-suisse Luca Ferrario, les dessins artistiques réalisés à la main de Roger Boltshauser, ainsi que les sections, les axonométries et les plans d'étage produisent une image multicouche de l'oeuvre du cabinet.
Le développement résidentiel est au centre des projets de l'agence suisse Pool Architekten. Ce livre présente une vaste sélection de plans et d'images de projets de logements conçus par Pool, ainsi que des essais thématiques et des études visuelles et typologiques conduites en collaboration avec des étudiants de l'Université technique de Berlin.
Après Venise et Israël, léditeur Parks poursuit sa série dont chaque volume explore un territoire dans sa spécificité, pour voir comment les bâtiments sy insèrent, sy confrontent, et constituent parfois des frontières dans le paysage. Suivant un projet de recherche à lEPFL (Bâle), cette étude se concentre sur lexemple du Portugalses grandes villes littorales, puis ses montagnes intérieures, son sytème agro-forestier traditionnel unique appelé le Montado, et enfin la côte ibérique. Louvrage se termine avec une sélection de 19 projets détudiants.
Explore restored Swiss architectural landmark the Obere Schiedhalde through photographs and essays written in both German and English.
Lux Guyer (1894-1955) was the first female architect to establish her own studio in Switzerland in 1924. One of her key designs is the Obere Schiedhalde, a single-family home above Küsnacht near Zurich. Completed in 1929 and temporarily occupied by Guyer and her family, it is a variation of her legendary SAFFA-Haus of 1928. Between 2012 and 2018, the building and the surrounding garden were extensively and carefully restored by Basel-based architecture firm Christ & Gantenbein together with Sven Richter, cofounder of Richter Tobler Architects in Basel. Working in close collaboration with the Canton of Zurich's office for the preservation of historic monuments, they also called in experts for a historically conscious overhaul of the building.
Together with the current owners, the architects made it their mission to not only preserve this significant architectural monument of Swiss Modernism but also make it accessible to the public through this book. Conceived by graphic designers Ludovic Balland and Annina Schepping, Lux Guyer-Obere Schiedhalde offers in-depth documentation of the renovated Obere Schiedhalde. Two hundred photographs of the house, garden, interior details, and furniture, as well as historic and newly drawn plans are supplemented with texts in German and English that tell the story of the building and the entire undertaking of its restoration.
Une monographie bilingue anglais-français de l'agence parisienne SCAU en 14 projets, parmi lesquels le stade Vélodrome à Marseille, le ministère de l'environnement à Paris ou encore l'hôtel Wendel à Paris. Les projets détaillés sont accompagnés de photographies de Cyrille Weiner et d'un texte d'Aurélien Bellanger.
Re-using entire parts and components of existing buildings in the construction of new structures has become highly topical in European architecture discourse. Re-using elements that could last for decades longer, rather than destroying them, offers huge potentials in saving increasingly scarce resources and in cost reduction. Moreover, it makes construction more climate-friendly through deep cuts in energy consumption and the emission of greenhouse gasses. For millennia, disused buildings have been cannibalised for the construction of new ones. Yet in today's world, what is known as circular architecture raises a multitude of questions and challenges with regard to technology, safety, energy, and to legal aspects.
This book is a unique compendium of circular architecture. It explores comprehensively and in detail all the questions and challenges that architects and engineers face with circular architecture designs. It is based on the case study of the K.118 project in Winterthur, Switzerland's largest building to date that consists mainly of re-used parts. Since its outset in 2018, the K.118 project has been evaluated within the framework of an interdisciplinary research with regard to aspects of design and engineering, energy, economy, processes, and legal issues. This volume presents the results in striking visuals and concise essays, supplemented by illuminating conversations between experts.
When African Modernism was first published in 2015, it was showered with international praise and has been sought after ever since it went out of print in 2018. Marking Park Books' 10th anniversary, this landmark book will now be available again.
Over the course of the 1950s and 1960s, most African countries gained independence from their respective colonial powers. Architecture became one of the principal means by which the newly formed states expressed their national identity. African Modernism investigates the close relationship between architecture and nation-building in Ghana, Senegal, Cote d'Ivoire, Kenya, and Zambia. It features 100 buildings with brief descriptive texts, images, site plans, selected floor plans and sections. The vast majority of images were taken by Iwan Baan and Alexia Webster especially for the book's first edition, documenting the buildings in their present state. Each country is portrayed through an introductory text and a timeline of historic events. Additional essays on specific aspects and topics of postcolonial Africa, likewise richly illustrated with images and documents, round out this outstanding volume.
An unconventional guide for revolutionary school design by Paris-based Gaëtan Le Penhuel Architectes & Associés.
Paris-based Gaëtan Le Penhuel Architectes & Associés have made their name in the field with revolutionary designs of school buildings for nearly 30 years. Based on this wealth of experience, Gaëtan Le Penhuel presents ABC: Schools of the Future. Best Design Practices, a compact and charming guide to developing school buildings for the future that meet the needs of students.
Each chapter focuses on one key part of these structures, such as the classroom, the schoolyard, the hallway, the auditorium, and more. In conversation with architectural publicist Alice Dubet, Le Penhuel outlines pathways to better school architecture and points out obstacles to overcome and mistakes to avoid. Quentin Vijoux's illustrations provide easy visual access to the concepts of Gaëtan Le Penhuel Architectes & Associés--not only for architects and teachers but also for students and their parents.
Au sud de Genève, la rivière Aire coule au milieu d'un paysage qui fut autrefois agricole jusqu'à ce qu'on décide de l'endiguer au XIXe siècle. Appauvrissant au fur et à mesure des années les variétés de faune et flore peuplant les lieux, il fut décidé en 2001 de renaturaliser la rivière pour pallier ce désastre écologique. L'association d'entreprises Superpositions chargée du projet a appliqué la méthode « d'imagination topographique », combinant le canal construit avec un nouvel environnement pastoral. Ce livre documente cette réalisation avec des photographies, des dessins et des textes de Jean-Marc Besse, Lorette Coen, Gerorges Descombes, G. Mathias Kondolf, Elissa Rosenberg, Gilles A. Tiberghien et Marc Treib.
Au-delà d'une opposition simpliste centre/périphérie, le concept de métropole horizontale révèle la condition dispersée comme un atout potentiel, plutôt qu'une limite, pour la construction d'une dimension urbaine durable et innovante. The Horizontal Metropolis étudie cette notion à travers l'analyse d'exemples réalisés aux États-Unis, en Italie et en Suisse. L'étude met en évidence les avantages du concept et sa pertinence sous les aspects économiques, écologiques et sociaux.
Cette monographie de bâtiment est consacrée aux nouveaux locaux de l'école HEC à Saclay, construits par David Chipperfield et Martin Duplantier. Il s'agit de la première construction de Chipperfield en France, rendue remarquable par son implantation sur un site en plein développement, gagné sur la campagne. Létude est accompagnée de photos de Cyrille Weiner, dentretiens avec les architectes, et dun texte du directeur de HEC, Peter Todd.
Les photographies de nouveaux appartements encore vide sont une forme commune de représentation architecturale. Elles constituent un genre à part, dans un état entre le bâtiment désormais terminé et l'occupation des lieux qui n'a pas commencé. Publié en adéquation avec l'exposition présentée au Pavillon suisse à la Biennale d'architecture de Venise 2018, House Tour nous emmène dans un voyage visuel à travers l'intérieur des résidences suisses contemporaines et nous pousse à réfléchir sur cette architecture stéréotypée : quelles sont les logiques cachées dernière ce genre de représentation lisse ?
CARTHA est un projet éditorial fondé en 2014 et conçu comme un terrain déchange et de réflexion autour de larchitecture et de la société. Chaque année différentes recherches sont publiées dans le magazine en ligne avant dêtre rassemblées dans un livre. En 2016 CARTHA a été invité à participer à la triennale darchitecture de Lisbonne. Composé de trois numéros différents et complémentaires, ce volume reprend la thématique de la triennale, à savoir la notion de forme, et en explore les différentes facettes théoriques et pratiques.
Cet atlas de plans, dessins et études d?images sur différentes typologies de bâtiments révèle la pédagogie du studio design EAST dans le cadre du diplôme d?architecture de l?EPFL de Lausanne. Le livre documente l?évolution du processus de création des premiers projets jusqu?aux plus récents, avec également des textes, des photos et des essais du célèbre photographe suisse Joël Tettamanti, ainsi qu?une interview de l?architecte espagnol Rafael Moneo.
A truly unique perspective on their own work: Swiss-American architectural studio agps, with offices in Zurich and Los Angeles, has delved deep into their archive and woven a visual thread of some 160 illustrations that guides readers through this new book. Literally Out of the Box, from archival box and model crates, models, model photos, small hand-drawn studies, visualisations, but also photographs of realised buildings have re-emerged, covering agps' entire work of decades of practice.
The images are organised according to 13 keywords: spatial configurations that characterise agps' core design concepts and summarise central elements of their ideas. At the same time, they are terms that define the formal presence of their designs. The result is a multifaceted and inspiring insight into the work of an international firm that proves just how important spatial constellations are for the formulation of good architecture. Essays by Sabine von Fischer as well as by Marc Angelil and Cary Siress, along with an index of all featured buildings and projects, round off this unique volume.
How do our cities evolve, what forces drive their evolution, and how exactly do they change as a result? Zurich-based architecture firm EM2N has been working on urban transformation processes ever since its establishment in 1997. Initially, the firm's main focus was on the greater Zurich area, yet in recent years they have also developed and realised projects in Berlin, Brussels, and Hamburg. Over time, a diverse body of work has grown, more than half of which consists of conversions of existing buildings, resulting in numerous successes and a few failures, small structures and large-scale complexes, quick decisions and slow processes. What unites the designs, projects, and texts featured in this first monograph on EM2N is a profound interest in the concept of the city as an exciting, contradictory, and above all productive space of human life that the founding partners Mathias Muller and Daniel Niggli have maintained throughout their 25 years of collaboration.
In EM2N - City Factory they offer a self-critical review of their achievements and also speak about learning processes, personal interests, and conceptual approaches to future tasks in ever-changing cities. This is supplemented with contributions from fellow architects and friends as well as with a wealth of photographs, plans, drawings, and other illustrations.
At a time when architectural and urban studies are moving towards seeking to accept and understand informal neighbourhoods rather than ignoring or eradicating them, the need for experiments on the ground is becoming increasingly urgent. In recent years, a growing number of architects and urban designers have committed themselves to the idea that these settlements are here to stay and require selective intervention in order to achieve better living conditions.
This book contributes to the development of new architectural approaches to informal neighbourhoods and to a better understanding of human habitats that relates spatial issues to broader economic and political questions. The contributors analyse feasible and effective practical actions located in Africa, Latin America and India, drawing upon empiric work to contextualise concrete neighbourhoods. Complementing essays explore the deeply intertwined nature of spatial practice, cultural identity and social engagement. A conversation between contributors Julia King, Paulo Moreira, Elisa Silva, AbdouMaliq Simone, and Ines Weizman, moderated by Matthew Barac, rounds out this volume.
A revolutionary collection of extraterrestrial designs from Vienna's LIQUIFER Systems Group.
Conquering the extremes: LIQUIFER Systems Group, a design and research firm based in Vienna and Bremen, has been addressing the issue of human life on Earth and elsewhere in the universe for two decades. Their work demonstrates how considerate technology-based design solutions and careful use of available resources can enable us to live in space. Their concepts, feasibility studies, and technological developments all deal with the key issue of scarcity that defines life everywhere: on Mars, on the Moon, in orbit, as well as on Earth. LIQUIFER Systems Group's projects range from a simulated Mars mission in Spain's Rio Tinto region and the interior design for the habitation module of the planned Gateway space station to the EDEN ISS mobile greenhouse in Antarctica and biogenerative studies in which microbes are integrated into buildings to generate energy and recycle materials.
LIQUIFER. Living Beyond Earth is the first book to present the practice's groundbreaking work. It features detailed plans and drawings that are supplemented with essays by renowned American space architects Brent Sherwood and Christina Ciardullo. With spectacular images and visualizations, it enables readers to delve into the visionary world of Europe's leading space design firms.
Since antiquity, Italy has been the origin of key themes of Western architecture and culture, many of which have evolved in exemplary and universally valid ways. Many of these continue to provide an inspiring frame of reference until today. Emulating the tradition and itinerary of the classic Grand Tour of European aristocrats, this comprehensive and visually appealing book takes a nuanced look at Italy today. Around the aspect of housing as a hub, it offers new narratives and positions on current issues and developments that are highly relevant also outside Italy.
In the format of a graphic and textual atlas, the volume explores Italy at various scales. Zooming in and out of themes, cities, and regions, it allows for associative and non-linear comprehension and reflection. Housing is examined as a complex construct, acted upon by diverging interests and needs as well as historical legacies. The spatial aspect of living, with its huge impact on the limited resource of land and the landscape, is the starting point for the proposals and strategies the book offers. Its audience reaches beyond the professional architecture community, aiming at anyone with an interest in the much-debated topic of (affordable) housing and in 21st-century Italy.
