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| Title: A Home of Ones Own / Emigrierte Architekten und ihre Häuser |
| Sub-title: Émigré Architects and Their Houses. 19201960 |
| Edited by: Burcu Dogramaci, Andreas Schatzke |
| ISBN10-13: 386905008X : 9783869050089 |
| Text in English & German. When architects design a house for themselves, the often tense relationship between clients and builders is usually absent. That is why in many such buildings the architect-designers artistic stance and political position, preferences and antipathies, temperament and character are more pronounced than usual. Moreover the architectural theories, debates and trends of an epoch also leave their traces in them in a particular way. We encounter both attachment to tradition and commitment to the avant-garde, willingness to experiment and pragmatism, distinctive artistry and views shaped by the fact that a building is also a product of engineering. And last but not least, expressed in their houses are the personal life circumstances of the people concerned, or the messages the houses are meant to convey above and beyond their actual purpose: as a 'manifesto', as the 'self-portrait' of the architect, but also as an advertising tool or as a sign of connection to specific milieux or positions. Building for oneself has a special connotation under the conditionsof migration and exile. Among the most prominent examples are the private homes of Rudolph Schindler in West Hollywood (1921/22), Richard Neutra in Los Angeles (1932), Walter Gropius in Lincoln, Massachusetts (1937/1938), Ernst May near Nairobi (1937/1938), Bruno Taut in Istanbul (1937/1938), Ernö Goldfinger in London (19371939), Marcel Breuer in New Canaan, Connecticut (1938/1939 and 1947/1948), Josep LluĂs Sert in Lattingtown, New York (19471950) and Max Cetto in Mexiko-Stadt (1948/1949). What expression could voluntary migration or forced change of location find in these buildings? To what extent do the architects other buildings differ from such 'homes of ones own' in a foreign country, to use an expression borrowed and modified from Virginia Woolf? The book is a collection of contributions by internationally renowned authors and examines not only the buildings themselves but also other aspects of the topic that have hitherto received little attention. |
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Pages: 204
Size: 235x285mm
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| Published: Edition Axel Menges (D) - October 2018 |
| Format: Hardback |
| Subjects: Art & design styles: Modernist design & Bauhaus : History of architecture |
| List Price: 59.90 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: In Stock
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| Title: 1 of: 220 |
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| Title: Act of Creation & the Spirit of a Place |
| Sub-title: A Holistic-Phenomenological Approach to Architecture |
| By (author): Nili Portugali |
| ISBN10-13: 3936681058 : 9783936681055 |
| NOMINATED FOR THE RIBA INTERNATIONAL BOOK AWARD 2007. In this book Nili Portugali, presents her particular interpretation of the holistic-phenomenological worldview in theory and in practice, a worldview which stands in recent years at the forefront of the scientific discourse, and is tightly related to Buddhist philosophy. The purpose of architecture is first and foremost to create a human environment for human beings. The real challenge of current architectural practice is to make the best use of the potential inherent in our modern technological age. Yet, modern society has lost the value of man and thus created a feeling of alienation between man and the environment. Contemporary architecture sought to dissociate itself from the world of emotions and connect the design process to the world of ideas, thus creating a rational relation between building and man, devoid of any emotion. Portugali argues that in order to change the feeling of the environment and create places and buildings we really feel at home' and want to live in, what is needed is not a change of style or fashion, but a transformation of the mechanistic worldview underlying current thought and approaches. Based on Christopher Alexander's basic assumption that behind human architecture there are universal and eternal codes common to us all as human beings, and that there is absolute truth underlying beauty and comfort, Portugali demonstrates how this approach, as well as her unique planning process stemming from it (based on the way things actually exist already on site) generates that common spiritual experience people undergo in buildings endowed with soul, no matter where or from what culture they come from. That she demonstrates through a variety of her buildings and projects (with over 600 color illustrations and drawings), in relation to the physical, cultural and social reality of the place they were planned and built on, an Israeli reality which reflects a unique interface between the orient and the west, a cultural interface she personally represents. The book is valuable to architects, artists, scientists, philosophers and anyone who cares about the quality and beauty of the environment we live in. |
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"There is no other book quite like this one, it really is singular and worthy of your close attention." -- The RIBA Bookshops.
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"It is not every day that a book is published which describes the world view of an Israeli architect with a fascinating body of work and a structured thesis about how architecture should be practiced here, Such is Nili Portugali's book." -- Books Supplement, 'Ha'aretz', December 13, 2006.
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Pages: 248
Size: 220x280mm
Illustrations: 596 colour & b/w illus
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| Published: Edition Axel Menges (D) - May 2006 |
| Format: Hardback |
| Subjects: Theory of architecture |
| List Price: 39.90 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: In Stock
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| Title: 2 of: 220 |
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| Title: Albrecht Ade |
| Sub-title: Painted with Light -- Photages |
| By (author): Gottfried Knapp |
| ISBN10-13: 3932565509 : 9783932565502 |
| Text in English and German. Albrecht Ade's 'photages', created with special light techniques, have nothing in common with the 'photocollages' or 'photomontages' of the 20th century. When artists as different as El Lissitzky, John Heartfield, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Raoul Hausmann or Hannah Höch constructed futuristically bold, surreal or satirical images from photographic materials as a response to quotations from reality cut out and then stuck into Cubist 'papiers collĂ©s' by Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso, they worked mainly with someone else's material, with trouvailles. In contrast, Ade uses only his own material for his combination images, and his method for mounting images, for 'editing them into each other', does not need of scissors and paste either. He cultivates the usually involuntary effect of double exposure, a hazard from the days of analogue photography. He controls the chances of pictorial superimposition and confusion, artfully and purposefully arranging his own, deliberately positioned images among and on top of each other, using a technically elaborate matching and omission process. Ade, as well as teaching at the Stuttgart Akademie der Bildenden KĂ"nste, has intensively promoted cinematic animation techniques in his years as director of the Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film, and since 1990, as founder-director of the Filmakademie in Ludwigsburg, has allowed animated film and camera arts to develop in the greatest possible breadth, in fact has helped to win the Ludwigsburg model the highest artistic respect in the film world. This all suggests how inventively and ingeniously his creative output mingles artistically creative and elaborately echnical ideas and fascinations. Photography as a creative method for fine art -- something the pioneers of photography dreamed of in the 19th century -- becomes reality in Albrecht Ade's 'photages'. |
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Pages: 96
Size: 240x285mm
Illustrations: 60 colour illus
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| Published: Edition Axel Menges (D) - January 2006 |
| Format: Hardback |
| Subjects: Individual photographers |
| List Price: 36.00 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: In Stock
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| Title: 3 of: 220 |
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| Title: Alfredo Arribas, Seat-Pavillon, Wolfsburg |
| By (author): Ralf Lange |
| ISBN10-13: 3930698447 : 9783930698448 |
| Text in English and Spanish. In 2000 the Autostadt, a show park for the Volkswagen group and its subsidiaries from Seat via Audi to Bentley and Lamborghini, opened in Wolfsburg. Alfredo Arribas designed the Seat Pavilion, and has brought off the brilliant trick of making an essentially reticent building into the focal point of the Autostadt. The structure is like a snail shell, forbidding and closed with the exception of a band of windows that seems to rise directly out of the surface of the lake on the Autostadt site. The irregular curve of the ground plan is reminiscent of a leaf or other forms borrowed from nature. Access is via two elegant ramps floating over the water and the site and thrusting straight into the centre of the pavilion: a homage to the old master, Le Corbusier. And then inside we are confronted with a surprise-packed exhibition landscape: a dazzling synthesis of acoustic and visual impressions that cast their spell over visitors as they walk round. Alfredo Arribas was a provocative newcomer on the architectural scene in Barcelona in the late eighties and is now an international success. He was probably predestined for this job like no other architect. He showed a highly personal flair for presenting spaces and goods from the outset, attracting early attention with his designs for discotheques and bars like the enormous Louie Vega (1988) discotheque, or the Torres de Avila (1990). The expressive tower for the Marugame Hirai Museum (1993) is also part of this creative phase, where forms did not necessarily have to be justified by functional logic. But Arribas' architecture changed into its business suit for the very next commissions. For example, even bankers in their pin-stripe suits feel perfectly at home in the cafeteria he designed for Norman Foster's Commerzbank headquarters in Frankfurt. Arribas is working on two large projects at present: a family entertainment centre in Bari and the Cite des Musiques Vivantes in Montlucon. |
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Pages: 52
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| Published: Edition Axel Menges (D) - August 2002 |
| Format: Hardback |
| Subjects: Theory of architecture : Individual architects & architectural firms : Public buildings: civic, commercial, industrial, e : Western Continental Europe : Germany |
| List Price: 24.00 Pounds Sterling |
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| Title: 4 of: 220 |
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| Title: Alsfeld |
| Sub-title: Opus 29 |
| Introduction by: Peer Zietz Photographs by: Uwe RĂĽdenburg |
| ISBN10-13: 3930698293 : 9783930698295 |
| In 1975, the European Year of Protection of Ancient Monuments, Alsfeld in Upper Hesse acquired model-town status, along with Berlin, Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Xanten and Trier in Germany. In this way the Council of Europe was acknowledging the long tradition of monument protection in a place where an astonishingly large number of historic buildings have survived. There are numerous tightly-packed timber-frame buildings in the medieval ground plan of the town, some built as long ago as the 14th century. The market place, forming the centre of the town with town hall, Weinhaus (wine house) and Hochzeitshaus (wedding house), is one of the most important complexes of its kind in Germany. The town hall, built in a way that inspired many of its German successors, was to have been pulled down in 1878 by order of the town council. It was not until residents protested that preservation and restoration of what is now the symbol of the town were assured, providing the first example of Alsfeld's tradition in this field. Even today ensembles of unique unity are to be found in its main streets. There is almost nowhere else where one can form such a good impression of a small German medieval town than here. |
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Pages: 60
Size: 300x280mm
Illustrations: 60 illustrations
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| Published: Edition Axel Menges (D) - September 1997 |
| Format: Hardback |
| Subjects: Architecture |
| List Price: 24.00 Pounds Sterling |
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| Title: 5 of: 220 |
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| Title: And the alley she whitewashed in light blue |
| Sub-title: The secret of all those timeless places where one feels »at home« |
| By (author): Nili Portugali |
| ISBN10-13: 3869050276 : 9783869050270 |
| If someone asked me: what is the film about, I would have to say: It is really about the essence of human life! I find it incredibly beautiful! It is really a moving experience ... I think it is obviously art built and master full ..." (Prof. Howard Davis, University of Oregon, on my film and the alley she whitewashed in light blue.) At a time of existential threat to the physical and human environment we live in, architect and film maker Nili Portugali takes the readers through a poetic essay and a spectacular photo gallery, extracted from her awarded new film, into a deeply intimate journey of memories in the Galilean holy "Kabbala" city of Tsefat. A childhood journey that unfolds gradually from her present holistic / Buddhist / phenomenological point of view to a discovery of profound universal insights of what is the secret of all those timeless places endowed with beauty and soul where one feels "at home"? And what is that "one pure art of making" that creates them? At any culture at any place and at any time. |
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Pages: 172
Size: 240x190mm
Illustrations: 220 colour illus.
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| Published: Edition Axel Menges (D) - February 2022 |
| Format: Hardback |
| Subjects: Theory of art : Architecture : Films, cinema : Philosophy of religion : Buddhism : Cultural studies : Jewish studies : Sociology & anthropology |
| List Price: 36.00 Pounds Sterling |
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| Title: 6 of: 220 |
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| Title: Androgynos |
| Sub-title: The Male-Female in Art and Architecture |
| By (author): Gunther Feuerstein |
| ISBN10-13: 3930698749 : 9783930698745 |
| This book deals with elemental basic architectural questions: the age-old subject of antithesis and thesis, unity and duality, contrast and harmony. |
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Pages: 240
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| Published: Edition Axel Menges (D) - November 1994 |
| Format: Hardback |
| Subjects: Architecture |
| List Price: 46.00 Pounds Sterling |
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Qty Available: 15 |
| Title: 7 of: 220 |
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| Title: Arcaid Images |
| Sub-title: Architectural Photography Awards 20122015 |
| Text by: Lynne Bryant, Amy Croft, Paul Finch |
| ISBN10-13: 3936681996 : 9783936681994 |
| We live in a visual age where everyone considers him- or herself to be a photographer, and 1.8 billion images are posted online each day. User-generated content has been used in a myriad of high-profile advertisements. Like a lottery winner, the amateur photographer may achieve a one-off lucky shot by being in the right place at the right time. This feeds the illusion that professional photographs can be achieved without any great effort and that anyone can do it. Arcaid Images is a world-leading resource for imagery of the built environment and is used globally by advertisers, architects, publishers and educators. It represents a diverse range of photographers worldwide who focus their cameras on architecture, homes, heritage and destinations. Arcaid images was founded on the work of architect-turned-photographer Richard Bryant, making the photography of architecture of particular interest. The Arcaid Images Architectural Photography Awards aims to draw attention to the expertise of this specialist, architectural, area of photography. And the World Architecture Festival exemplifies the need for the best architectural photography. Over 2000 professionals from more than 145 countries gather annually to show and appraise each others work. The overriding common language is the photographic image. Projects with better images make strong initial impact, and the more prosaic the building type, the more important it is to capture the essence of the scheme and not merely record it. Photography has long been the means of communicating architecture. The earliest known photograph by French scientist Joseph Nicéphore Niépce, taken with a camera obscura in the late 1820s, was architectural. This photograph, taken from an upstairs window of the family home, was a record of the courtyard and outbuildings an architectural subject. The medium may have changed from a bitumen-coated plate to a memory card, but the technology is only a means to an end. It is the interpretation, the eye and the creativity of the photographer that the Arcaid Images Architectural Photography Awards are focusing on. The World Architecture Festival had the vision to see the value of the awards by giving it a platform, and working with the Sto company has extended the overall visibility of the awards. This book seeks to record, celebrate and give a permanence to the first four years of the Arcaid Architectural Photography Awards. Whilst attending an exhibition of images from the awards offers members of the public a time-limited opportunity to share in appreciation of the selected images, the physicality of a book extends that opportunity both temporally and geographically. Lynne Bryant is director of Arcaid Images, Amy Croft is curator of Sto Werkstatt and Paul Finch is editorial director of the The Architectural Review and programme director of the World Architecture Festival. |
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Pages: 96
Size: 300x280mm
Illustrations: 70 illus
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| Published: Edition Axel Menges (D) - May 2016 |
| Format: Hardback |
| Subjects: Architecture |
| List Price: 35.90 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: In Stock
Qty Available: 2 |
| Title: 8 of: 220 |
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| Title: Architecture of East Australia |
| Edited by: Bill MacMahon |
| ISBN10-13: 3930698900 : 9783930698905 |
| In 1840 Sir Thomas Mitchell, Surveyor General of the British Crown, chose a rocky promontory on Sydney harbour for his home. He built a cottage in the style of Gothic Revival, popularised in England by Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin and documented in popular copy books shipped with his baggage from his home country. The house perfectly expresses the imaginative dislocation of European culture into the romantic wilderness. Whether they came out of duty, like Mitchell, or in the hope of opportunity, the European immigrants viewed Australia as a "terra nullius", as an empty land, a vacant space waiting to receive a model of Christian civilisation. It took a century to realise that the dream did not comfortably fit the continent. The story of Australian architecture might be said to parallel the endeavours of Australians to adapt and reconcile themselves with their home and neighbours. It is the story of 200 years of coming to terms with the land: of adaptation, insight and making do. Early settlers were poorly provisioned, profoundly ignorant of the land and richly prejudiced towards its peoples. They pursued many paths over many terrains. From the moist temperate region of Tasmania with heavy Palladian villas to the monsoonal north with open, lightweight stilt houses, the continent has induced most different regional building styles. The buildings included within this guide extend from the first examples of Australian architecture by convict architect Francis Greenway to the works by today's rising generation. It covers not only buildings by such famous architects as Walter Burley Griffin, Harry Seidler, Jørn Utzon, John Andrews, Philip Cox and Glenn Murcutt, but also many high-quality works by less known exponents of the profession. Photographs by the renowned Max Dupain and the present proprietor of his firm, Eric Sierins, including many especially commissioned for this book, support the text. Contributing authors have supplied material where vital local knowledge is essential. |
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Pages: 256
Size: 160x220mm
Illustrations: 455 illus
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| Published: Edition Axel Menges (D) - September 1998 |
| Format: Hardback |
| Subjects: History of architecture |
| List Price: 24.00 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: Temporarily Out of Stock, more expected soon |
| Title: 9 of: 220 |
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| Title: Architecture of Paris |
| By (author): Andrew Ayers |
| ISBN10-13: 393069896X : 9783930698967 |
| When not directly shaping the fabric of Paris themselves, its rulers have always kept tight control over the activities of others, with the result that Paris has developed under some of the strictest building regulations of any major city. Despite Paris's much vaunted reputation as the cultural salon of Europe, a certain suspicion towards foreign architectural imports has characterised its development, and outside influences have always been adapted to local needs and indigenous modes of expression, a tradition which carried on until the post-war era and arguably continues today. The last decades of the 20th century have witnessed a rush to modernise and adapt a crumbling fabric to the exigencies of the electronic age. |
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Pages: 416
Size: 161x222mm
Illustrations: 312 illus
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| Published: Edition Axel Menges (D) - April 2003 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: History of architecture : France |
| List Price: 28.00 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: Temporarily Out of Stock, more expected soon |
| Title: 10 of: 220 |
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