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TRANSITIONS. Space in the Dispersed City
Author: Juel-Christiansen, Carsten & Gilbert Hansen
Country: Denmark
Language: English
Year Published: 2000
No. of pages: 224
Illustrations: 41 Color Illustrations. 90 B&W Illustrations.
Binding: Softbound
Size: 11”x 9 1/2”
Weight: 3.00
ISBN: 8798728040
Biblio/Bio: Cat. of exh.
Code: 4198
Price: $95.00
This book constitutes an extended, in-depth catalog of the Danish contribution to the 7th international Architectural Biennale. A truly impressive catalog that explores the role of architectural coherence, spatial quality and human dignity in the design of a city. With the spread of large-scale enterprise, cities are now experiencing the onslaught of standardization. However, this book focuses on the transitions between such areas as these transitions are charged with urban architectonic potential. They contain an openness because they are situated on the periphery of the administrative and economic systems. This magnificent book contains articles by the likes of Michel Foucault, Vittorio Gregotti, and Louis I. Kahn, as well as recommendations by nine renowned architects, each of whom attempt to resolve this collective assignment about the potentiality of transitions.
TRÄDGÅRDENS RUM (Garden Spaces).
Author: Christel Kvant and Heidi Palmgren
Country: Sweden
Language: Swedish
Year Published: 1999
No. of pages: 189
Illustrations: 127 Color Illustrations. 3 B&W Illustrations.
Binding: Hardbound
Size: 9”x 7 1/2”
Weight: 2.00
ISBN: 9151837064
Biblio/Bio: Index. Bibl.
Code: 3605
Price: $39.50
A garden can be a small portion of this world that we can manage and have control over. Through this book, you can realize your dreams of a lush, yet cosy garden, where bountiful plantlife creates a world unto itself. Learn to help your plants fully envelop this space, including the floors, walls, and roofs. A beautiful and practical book, full of inspirational photographs and plans for all different types of gardens.
TWENTIETH-CENTURY HOUSES. Frank Lloyd Wright: Falling Water. Alvar Aalto: Villa Mairea. Charles and Ray Eames: Eames House.
Author: McCarter, Robert
Country: England
Language: English
Year Published: 1999
No. of pages: 182
Illustrations: 47 Color Illustrations. 247 B&W Illustrations.
Binding: Hardbound with Cloth Spine
Size: 12”sq
Weight: 4.00
ISBN: 714838705
Biblio/Bio: Bibl.
Code: 5495
Price: $49.50
Each house in this book represents a high point - and, in the case of Fallingwater, perhaps the high point - of the oeuvre of their designers. They are grandly sited or grandly executed, sometimes both, and they each invite examination into the relationship not just between architecture and nature but also between man and nature. The other houses here are Alvar Aalto’s Villa Mairea in Noormarkku, Finland and Charles and Ray Eames’ House in Pacific Palisades, California. Plans and elevations included.
UNIVERSAL VERSUS INDIVIDUAL THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE 1960’S. International Conference on the Research of Modern Architecture
Author: Korvenmaa, Pekka, Esa Laaksonen eds.
Country: Finland
Language: English
Year Published: 2002
No. of pages: 151
Illustrations: 85 B&W Illustrations.
Binding: Softbound
Size: 9”x 8 1/2”
Weight: 2.00
ISBN: 9525371158
Biblio/Bio: Bios.
Code: 5508
Price: $69.50
This publication contains the keynote lectures delivered in Jyväskylä, Finland, on 8/30-9/1, 2002 at the Alvar Aalto International Conference on the Research of Modern Architecture, the theme of the conference was to bring together researchers and professionals in architecture to reflect upon and discuss the architecureal legacy of the 1960’s. The aim is to explore the material and intellectual realm of this turbulent decade so rich in universal, overriding concepts and unheeding individualism. Includes the following articles: Claes Caldenby: A twofold movement. Swedish architecture in the 1960s between production adapted building and the “haven of beauty”. Beatriz Colomina: Enclosed by Images: The Eameses’ Multimedia Architecture. Dennis P. Doordan: From the Cold War to Postmodernism: Arhitectural Criticism in the 1960s. Adrian Forty: The Sixties: Architecture’s Best Years ? Mart Kalm: Sauna-Party at the Summer Cottage: Soviet Estonians play at being Western. Marc Treib: Regional Modernism in Northern California.
UNKNOWN ST. PETERSBURG, THE. Architecture from 1917 to 1956
Author: Mørch, Andreas Trier
Country: Denmark
Language: English
Year Published: 2003
No. of pages: 158
Illustrations: 226 B&W Illustrations.
Binding: Hardbound
Size: 12”x 9 1/2”
Weight: 2.00
ISBN: 8787136473
Biblio/Bio: Bibl.
Code: 5652
Price: $105.00
The book’s purpose is to identify, analyse and make accessible a number of outstanding works from a neglected period in the history of architecture. The author, who is both an architect and excellent photographer, gives an account of the architectural ideals and realities in St. Petersburg in the first half of the 20th century. The aim is to present a picture of what by Danish standards is a paradoxical and quite fascinating era in the history of architecture, one when political ambitions were almost inversely proportional to economic resources. 51 striking buildings have been selected - presented is the collection of material which took place on site, comprising of photographs of the individual buildings, architectural drawings and analyses of the buildings. Register of buildings and architects included.