2G: Fala Atelier (Porto)

2G: Fala Atelier (Porto) PDF Author: Pedro Bandeira
Publisher: Walther Konig Verlag
ISBN: 9783960985952
Category : Architectural practice
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Fala is a young architecture practice founded in 2013 in Porto, and led by Filipe Magalhães, Ana Luisa Soares and Ahmed Belkhodja. Hedonistic yet restrained, the studio takes lightness and joy very seriously. Their projects can be characterized by a strong tendency towards autonomy, or better: towards an emerging independence of architectural language. Many of the refurbishment projects in Porto were initiated by private investors, trying to make a fortune by real estate speculation. After the economic crisis of 2008 the downtowns of Porto and Lisbon were confronted with a rampant boom in tourism. Speculation was propelled by special governmental measures such as the relief of a far-reaching protection against dismissal or the easy availability of golden visas. This may be the reason why some of Fala's projects come across like topical declinations of the same program: separation of auxiliary functions from the main space, zoning of the plan, opening and staging of the view onto a small courtyard.

Full Spectrum

Full Spectrum PDF Author: Elena Manferdini
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000907953
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 145

Book Description
Colour is architecture’s sharpest tool in the box. It has indexed everything from the feminine, cosmetic and vulgar to the pure, intrinsic and embodied. Colour has played a central role in the history of architecture. From the polychromy of the ancients to the great white interiors of high modernism. The figurative flourishes of postmodernism to the embedded sublime of contemporary building systems and facades. In contemporary architecture, colour has emerged as something powerful, both a mode of working and a political proposition. The second digital age has brought a fundamental shift in how architects engage colour. Employing the full range of colour puts forth a projective mode of action. It aids the democratisation of visual culture: opening the field to enable subjectivities, bring in new references and embrace new voices. This book explores the function of colour in contemporary architecture and argues it is not to present a vision of an idealised other world, but to prompt new imaginaries. Take in the full spectrum. Features: 100 Architects, Maya Alam, David Batchelor, Galo Canizares, Courtney Coffman, Fala Atelier, Marcelyn Gow, Sauerbruch Hutton, Sam Jacobs, Carolyn Kane, Guto Requena, Paulette Singley, Amanda Williams and Mimi Zeiger.

Bruther

Bruther PDF Author: Javier Augstín Rojas
Publisher: Walther Konig
ISBN: 9783960981022
Category : Architectural firms
Languages : en
Pages : 160

Book Description
The latest in the 2G Architecture series focuses on the Parisian based practice Bruther. Bruther is a French architectural studio based in Paris. Stéphanie Bru and Alexandre Theriot opened their office in 2007, at the very beginning of what capitalists call a 'crisis' and Marxists might define as new round of 'primitive accumulation and dispossession'. Having grown up and trained during the heyday of the French welfare state and inspired by the optimism of the early European Union, Bru and Theriot are well aware of the pressure that the political shift to the right, social inequality and insecurity about the future of Europe are exerting on public institutions. Bruther stands for a specific architecture, adapted to the needs of each project in order to offer maximal living conditions. Adaptability and evolutivity of the building are fundamentals in the office practice. Since 2007, Bruther have developed national and international projects such as Cultural and Sport Center Saint-Blaise (2014), Helsinki Central Library (2013) and New Generation Research Center (2015).

2G Essays: Smiljan Radic

2G Essays: Smiljan Radic PDF Author: Smiljan Radic
Publisher: Walther Konig Verlag
ISBN: 9783960984870
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
This compilation of essays by the Chilean architect Smiljan Radic covers 20 years of written production. The texts were written for various reasons: on the occasion of the publication of a book, as lectures or to accompany an exhibition.

Aldo Rossi and the Spirit of Architecture

Aldo Rossi and the Spirit of Architecture PDF Author: Diane Ghirardo
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300234937
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 277

Book Description
This beautifully illustrated book provides a crucial new look at Aldo Rossi's built work in relationship to his writings, drawings, and product design, and explores his contributions to the architecture in postwar Italy.

Renzo Piano: The Complete Logbook

Renzo Piano: The Complete Logbook PDF Author: Renzo Piano
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 0500343101
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
The most up-to-date complete illustrated account of the work of one of the world’s most influential architects, in his own words Renzo Piano has created some of the most emblematic buildings of our age, including the New York Times Building in New York City, the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, the Shard in London, and the Parco della Musica in Rome. Here, Renzo Piano himself—whose many international awards include the prestigious Pritzker Prize—presents in his own words the works on which he has built his reputation over a span of fifty years. Over one hundred works are featured, accompanied by over one thousand images of Piano’s work around the world including new photographs, drawings, and sketches, both intimate and authoritative, all with commentaries by the architect that combine personal anecdote and technical description with original insights. No other architecture book will appeal to such a broad range of professionals and general readers alike. This is an unmatched introduction to the work of one of the world’s most influential and inspiring architects.

End Street

End Street PDF Author: Noel McKenna
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780648680116
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 80

Book Description
Noel McKenna?s ?End Street? is published on the occasion of an eponymous exhibition at Niagara Galleries in Melbourne. The artist works in a variety of media, including oil, enamel and watercolour, lithography and etching, ceramic and metal. He is known for offbeat depictions of everyday scenes, often including displaced objects, people, and animals. The book features paintings, prints, drawings, ceramics, and wooden tables inset with ceramic tiles ? all of which explore the domestic space we inhabit. Especially dogs and cats feature prominently in many of McKenna?s works, and act as poignant symbols of companionship and the bond between humans and animals. 00Exhibition: Niagara Galleries, Melbourne, Australia (22.10.-16.11.2019).

Naive Intention

Naive Intention PDF Author: Pezo von Ellrichshausen
Publisher: Actar D, Inc.
ISBN: 1638408505
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 189

Book Description
Introduced by an essay about the vague contradiction between intentionality and chance, necessity and accident, reason and futility, authorship and anonymity, the book presents a selection of images that inform Pezo von Ellrichshausen’s cross production between art, architecture and academia. Each page contains a single picture and a brief caption describing it. Beyond a comprehensive depiction of the individual works, the monograph underlines transversal notions of inventory, format, scale, regulation and value within the pictorial representation. In the fashion of a personal album, each drawing, painting, photograph, model or building, evokes the mental world behind the couple's production. This volume could be read both as a collection of ideas, one after another, or as the same one that persists over time.

Swimming Pool

Swimming Pool PDF Author: Maria Svarbova
Publisher: NHP Publishing
ISBN: 9789187815157
Category : Photography of interiors
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Sterile, geometric beauty of old pools, many built in the Socialist era, set the tone for these photographs.
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