The work of Office DA is diverse in scope and scale, ranging from the design of interiors to the broader scale of urban design and infrastructure. Their award-winning residences and public buildings can be found all over their world. The firm has been particularly active in the architectural and critical production surrounding the reconstruction ...
On October 3, 2003, the Liberty Cell Center, the new home of the Liberty Bell, was opened to the public. The building, designed by Bohlin Cywinski Jackson, is one of the highlights of Philadelphia's reconfigured Independence Mall. This book offers a close look at the building. It presents an extensive set of reproductions and photographs, ...
We see so many mediocre office building designs that it is easy to forget just how complex and innovative a well-made one can be. Such is the case with the headquarters for the Belgian financial firm CNP (Compagnie Nationale a Portefeuille) in Charleroi, Belgium. Designed by the office of Belgian architect Philippe Samyn, the CNP Headquarters is a ...
Written in Paris after the days of student revolt in May 1968 and before the devastation of the AIDS epidemic, this book is emblematic of a wild and adventurous strain of 1970s theoretical writing that attempted to marry theory, politics, sexuality, pleasure, experimentation and humour. Debunking all humanist mythology about the grandeur of ...
The Fayez S. Sarofim Research Building, home of The Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine for the Prevention of Human Diseases (IMM), is an important milestone in a body of work committed to exemplary design and sustainability in pursuit of buildings that are truly restorative for human beings and the planet. The progressive leadership ...
A school of nursing must embody compassion and ease, protection and inspiration. This book highlights the architectural interpretation of these properties in the BNIM- and Lake/Flato-designed School of Nursing at the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston. The space is a state-of-the-art center for learning, research, student service ...
A number of architectural works recently completed internationally exhibit a particular sensibility best described by the term "monolithic". Some of these works have already acquired a certain notoriety, primarily as a result of their strong physical presence in important urban settings. Others are still under construction or have yet to be ...
Shaping the City: Studies in Urban Design, History and Theory takes on important themes and debates in urban design and the critical ideas that have driven them in the context of particular cities, at important moments in their development. This is a wide-ranging collection of case studies featuring a variety of perspectives in the field, with ...
Claude-Nicolas Ledoux's engraving Coup d'oeil du theatre Besancon, in which the architect's building is seen reflected in the eye of a viewer, is the centerpiece of in this intellectual archaeology. Rodolphe el-Khoury's close reading of Ledoux's celebrated icon uses it to excavate the foundations of architectural transparency, Modernism's most ...
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