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PANORAMIC CITY, THE / PANORAMISKE BY, DEN. B No. 51
Author: Gilbert Hansen, Peter Mandal Hansen, and Thomas Birket-Smith, eds
Country: Denmark
Language: Danish/ English
Year Published: 1994
No. of pages: 119
Illustrations: 139 B&W Illustrations.
Binding: Softbound
Size: 11”x 9 1/2”
Weight: 2.00
ISBN: 1057820
Biblio/Bio:
Code: 2137
Price: $45.00
The panoramic city is described in articles and by condtributions from writers, photographrs and artists from Oslo and Brussels--two cities illustrating the panoramic urban type. Contributions on: urban space in the nineteenth century, the underground as the new Locus, writing the city, the panoramic vision, architecture and space in urban fragments, the city as semiotic place, photographic series on Oslo Townhall and The Palace of Justice in Brussels, panoramic pictures, comic strip, death and cemeteries as cultural phenomenons.
PARIS CONTEMPORARY ARCHITECTURE.
Author: Gleininger, Andrea, Gerhard Matzig, Sebastian Redecke, et al
Country:
Language: English
Year Published: 1997
No. of pages: 160
Illustrations: 126 Color Illustrations. 136 B&W Illustrations.
Binding: Hardbound with Jacket
Size: 10”X 9”
Weight: 3.00
ISBN: 3791316788
Biblio/Bio:
Code: 5266
Price: $29.50
This book focuses on buildings erected in the past ten years including projects which are still under construction. These are not just the internationally acclaimed architecural masterpieces such as Le Grand Louvre, the Parc de la Villette or the Bibliotheque Francois Metterrand, but also major context-related planing schemes such as the Bercy or the Andre Citroen parks. Projects designed to meet the everyday requirements of city-dwellers, such as government housing schemes and community developments have also been selected for inclusion. The book provides a critical analysis of both older and more recent developments in the Parisian cityscape in relation to their historical background, and reveals the impressive panorama of present-day, exemplary, architecural projects.
PETROL STATION, THE / BENSIN STASJONEN. A Visual History / En Visuell Historie
Author: Alv Skogstad Aamo
Country: Norway
Language: Norwegian/ English
Year Published: 1995
No. of pages: 127
Illustrations: 82 Color Illustrations. 131 B&W Illustrations.
Binding: Hardbound
Size: 10”x 9”
Weight: 2.00
ISBN: 8245200107
Biblio/Bio:
Code: 2660
Price: $55.00
No building ages faster than a gas station: every year new colors are launched, new pump roofs and new "design concepts.” This book remembers the gas stations in Norway from the past until now. Stations with beautiful facades, wrought iron railings, hedges and flowerbeds, attendants in uniforms who checked oil and washed windows. Never before had architects and marketeers cooperated so closely: stations became pure product wrappings which within their luminous logos and magical trademarks were to attract the attention of motorists as far away as possible. This is a journey back to the time, when the key words were simple, sober buildings radiating authenticity, charm and quite a lot of character.
PIANO, RENZO SPIRIT OF NATURE. Wood Architecture Award 2000
Author: Lehtimäki, Kristiina, eds
Country: Finland
Language: English
Year Published: 2000
No. of pages: 88
Illustrations: 65 Color Illustrations. 36 B&W Illustrations.
Binding: Softbound
Size: 9 1/2”x 8 1/2”
Weight: 1.00
ISBN: 9516826067
Biblio/Bio:
Code: 4924
Price: $45.00
The Wood in Culture Association was set up to promote and foster the use and image of timber. Subsequent to this the Association established the international Spirit of Nature Wood Architecture Award. The recipient of the First Awavd in 2000 is the Italian architect Renzo Piano. This beautifully illustrated book highlighting progressive architecture and presenting the unique qualities of wood, includes the Tijibaou Cultural Center, New Caledonia, Prometeo Musical Space, Venice and Milan, Italy; Menil Collection, Houston, Texas and many more.
PIECES URBAINES / NY FRANSK BYSCENOGRAFI. Urban Fragments New French Urban Scenography
Author: Skousbøll, Karin
Country: Denmark
Language: Danish/English
Year Published: 2002
No. of pages: 344
Illustrations: 57 Color Illustrations. 181 B&W Illustrations.
Binding: Softbound
Size: 9”x 8”
Weight: 3.00
ISBN: 8774072382
Biblio/Bio: Bibl. Bios.
Code: 5650
Price: $95.00
The author has followed the development of French architecture since the legendary rebellion in Paris in May 1968. Twenty-one years later an urban planning strategy emerged in parallel with the “les grands projects” which was called the “pieces urbaines” method, it welcomes the dynamism and natural fragmentation of the city as an alternative to total solutions. Coupled with flexibility and openness to diversity, unity becomes the goal of a process fuelled by creative challenge, rather than simplistic problem solving. The author draws on the works of 4 well-known architects to illustrate the method: Henri Ciriani, Henri Gaudin, Jean-Pieerre Buffi and Christian de Portzamparc, all distinctive personalities in the the theory and practice of architecture.