#books #architecture | Data-driven design and construction : 25 strategies for capturing, analyzing and applying building data

Data-driven design and construction : 25 strategies for capturing, analyzing and applying building data / Randy Deutsch.
Hoboken, New Jersey : Wiley, 2015.
ISBN 9781118898703
/ EN / Libros / Arquitectura – Infomática / Arquitectura – Práctica / Construcción – Informática
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-72:681.3 DAT
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1125151975

In this comprehensive book, Professor Randy Deutsch has unlocked and laid bare the twenty-first century codice nascosto of architecture. It is data. Big data. Data as driver. This book offers us the chance to become informed and knowledgeable pursuers of data and the opportunities it offers to making architecture a wonderful, useful, and smart art form."--The Foreword by James Timberlake, FAIA Written for architects, engineers, contractors, owners, and educators, and based on today's technology and practices, Data-Driven Design and Construction: 25 Strategies for Capturing, Applying and Analyzing Building Data addresses how innovative individuals and firms are using data to remain competitive while advancing their practices. seeks to address and rectify a gap in our learning, by explaining to architects, engineers, contractors and owners--and students of these fields--how to acquire and use data to make more informed decisions. documents how data-driven design is the new frontier of the convergence between BIM and architectural computational analyses and associated tools. is a book of adaptable strategies you and your organization can apply today to make the most of the data you have at your fingertips. Data-Driven Design and Construction was written to help design practitioners and their project teams make better use of BIM, and leverage data throughout the building lifecycle.

#books #interiordesign | Interior design course : principles, practices and techniques for the aspiring designer

Interior design course : principles, practices and techniques for the aspiring designer / Tomris Tangaz.
London : Thames & Hudson, 2018 / Ed. revised.
144 p. : il.
ISBN 9780500294475
/ EN / Libros / Arquitectura interior / Decoración interior
ehuBiblioteca BCG A-747 INT
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1076545092

Here is the ultimate book for the aspiring interior designer, now revised and substantially updated to reflect the latest developments in digital design, best research and mapping practices, and the continued importance of hand drawing. Covering every possible aspect of interior design, this intensive course explains basic principles through tutorials, projects and case studies. Each project is a guide through the different challenges of the design process, teaching you how to develop and model ideas, construct technical drawings and illustrate design proposals with three-dimensional drawings. Whether you are decorating your home or taking up interior design professionally, you will find this book an invaluable and inspirational reference. 

Whether you are keen to develop your interest in interior design and build your skills, or to pursue a career and begin a portfolio, then this book is for you. Specifically designed to cover all aspects of interior design, this intensive course introduces the practice of basic design principles through set projects. Inspiration and imagination are the first key steps to starting your study. Whatever your background, this course will encourage your individual creativity and help you to explore and further your own design ideas.

#livres #architecture | 57 Métal, Métal 57 : l'histoire d'une mutation

57 Métal, Métal 57 : l'histoire d'une mutation / Francis Rambert.
Orléans : HYX, 2018.
249 p. : il.
ISBN 9782373820058
/ FR / Libros / Arquitectura – Conservación y restauración / Arquitectura – Siglo XX – Francia / Construcciones industriales / Monumentos históricos – Rehabilitación
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-725.4 CIN
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1121629124

De Claude Vasconi à Dominique Perrault, cet ouvrage raconte à travers de nombreux témoignages et deux essais, l'histoire du 57 Métal, bâtiment emblématique du patrimoine industriel réalisé par l'architecte Claude Vasconi (1940-2009) pour le groupe automobile Renault, à Boulogne-Billancourt. Le 57 Métal (1981-1984), promis à la démolition après une première reconversion signée Jakob+MacFarlane (2001-2004), va se transformer en Métal 57, futur siège de BNP Paribas Real Estate, sur le site de Boulogne-Billancourt, avec l'architecte Dominique Perrault.

#books #architecture | Poolologie des Wohnens = Poolology of housing

Poolologie des Wohnens = Poolology of housing / pool Architekten ; Vorwort = foreword: Martin Steinmann ; [Texte = tests, Raphael Frei, Matthias Heinz, Simone Jeska].
Zürich : Park Books, 2019. 
440 p. : il.
ISBN 9783038600886
/ DE / EN / Libros / Arquitectura – Dibujos y planos / Arquitectura doméstica / pool Architekten
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-728.1 POO
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1127567179

Residential development is a central focus of renowned Swiss office pool Architekten. This book presents an extensive selection of plans and images of pool's housing projects alongside thematic essays as well as visual and typological studies that pool conducted together with students of the TU Berlin.

#libros #arquitectura | Francisco Pardo : imperfecciones = imperfections

Francisco Pardo : imperfecciones = imperfections / textos = texts, Hernán Díaz Alonso, Luca Molinari, Alejandro Hernández.
[Ciudad de México] : Arquine, 2019.
240 p. : il.
ISBN 9786079489472
/ EN / EN / Libros / Arquitectura – Siglo XXI – México / Francisco Pardo
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-72PARDO FRA
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1126770876

Since 2015, Mexican architect Francisco Pardo has run his own practice in fast-growing and fast-changing Mexico City. His projects have reflected how Mexico is transforming the idea of the Latin American city: part ancient, part colonial, part futuristic. His Havre 69 project, created with his partner from architecture firm at103, Julio Amezcua, repurposes a 100-year-old residence for upper-middle-class families into offices, 12 separate residences, a bakery and a restaurant. On the one hand, Pardo exposes large sections of brick and maintains the original tile, while on the other, he builds modernist concrete and glass boxes that frame the original façade. Likewise, the architect's Milan44 project takes an autoparts store in a warehouse in the Roma neighborhood of Mexico City and creates a vertical urban market that brings the storefront street level onto each level of the structure. The architecture of Francisco Pardo reflects a fresh direction in the vast project of building Latin America into the future.

#books #architecture | Modern construction case studies : emerging innovation in building techniques

Modern construction case studies : emerging innovation in building techniques / Andrew Watts.
Basel : Birkhäuser, [2019] / 2nd ed.
223 p. . il.
ISBN 9783035617726
/ EN / Libros / Arquitectura – Detalles / Arquitectura – Innovaciones / Fachadas / Muros
huBiblioteka BCG A-692.2 MOD
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1126588860

‘Modern Construction Case Studies’ focuses on the interface between the design of facades, structures and environments of 12 building projects, all developed by Newtecnic. The Author compares facade technologies, particularly in the way they interface with structure and MEP (mechanical, electrical, plumbing services) in complex projects, to provide insights into the design process for building envelopes. Each envelope technology is described with an emphasis on one of three aspects: geometry, construction and performance. The analysis links the 12 case studies by comparing their structural and environmental performance. The aim is achieved by analyzing typical bays which are representative of each project and which illustrate the implications of using different building envelope technologies.

#liburuak #historia | Euskal Herriko gazteluak. Bizkaia

Euskal Herriko gazteluak. Bizkaia / Antton Arrieta Valverde.
[S.l.] : Antton Arrieta Valverde, 2019.
276 p. : il.
ISBN 9788409137954
/ EUS / Libros / Castillos – Bizkaia / País Vasco – Historia – 0500-1500 (Edad Media)
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-728.81 EUS
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1126314223

Gutxi batzuk ikusgarriak dira; beste batzuk harri-meta bilakatu dira, eta beste asko zeharo desagertu, are "gaztelu" leku-izenik utzi gabe ere, baina Euskal Herrian Erdi Aroan bazeuden gazteluak. Lehen kronikari kristau (castellum) edo musulmanen (hisn) idatzietatik dakigunez, Erdi Aro osoan hemen izan dira, lurraldeak babesten edo beren herritarrak mendean hartzen -beraz, gure historian txertatzen-, eta artilleria garatu arte erabili dira. Ondoren, eraikin militarrak su armen aurka egokitu behar izan ziren, eta gaztelu-eredua desagertu zen. Tamalez, gutxi batzuek izan zuten mofua zutik jarraitzeko Erdi Arotik aurrera. Liburu hau Euskal Herriko gazteluen errolda orokorraren bigarren emaitza da, Arabakoaren ondoren, Bizkaiari dagokiona. Bestalde, baliabideak biltzeko lanetan ari garelarik, etorriko dira Gipuzkoakoa, Iparraldekoa eta Nafarroa Garaikoa ere. Liburu honetan, eta bildumako guztietan, hiru atal bereizi ditugu: lehenak frogatutako gazteluak jasotzen ditu (Bizkaian 20); bigarrenak, gaztelu gehiago aurkitzeko aukerak (aipuak, leku-izenak, leinuen gotorlekuak, lan arkeologikoen txostenak...), azkenik, izenen jatorria edo aipua argituta, gaztelu izateko aukerarik gabe geratu direnak ere badaude, eta horiek osatzen dute lanaren hirugarren atala. Gaztelu modura onartzeko ahalegin edo asmo horretan, arkitekturaren ikuspuntua hobetsi dugu, eta Euskaltzaindiaren hitzetara hurbildu gara eraikina zehaztearren, baina Erdi Arora mugaturik: "Harresiz, murru gotorrez, dorrez eta kidekoez babestu eta sendotutako eraikina edo eraikin-multzoa".

#books #architecture | Concrete structures in Grisons : Identity - Materiality – Structures

Betonbauten in Graubünden : Identität, Materialität, Konstruktion = Concrete structures in Grisons : Identity - Materiality – Structures / [Herausgeber Daniel Reisch ; Autoren Andrea Deplazes, Daniel Reisch, Armando Ruinelli].
München : Detail, 2019.
153 p. : il. 
Ed. bilingüe alemán - inglés.
ISBN 9783955534882
/ DE / EN / Libros / Arquitectura – Siglo XXI – Suiza / Construcción de hormigón armado
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-624.012.45 BET
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1126588448

The Swiss canton of Grisons impresses with an overwhelming landscape and outstanding new architecture. The material concrete has a long tradition there in the deliberate confrontation with history, material, scale, and construction. It goes without saying that impressive buildings of innovative material aesthetics blend into the rugged rock formations of the surroundings. While the versatility of wood is evoked elsewhere today, the quality of concrete is revived here.The book provides a deep insight into the history, materiality and construction of this fascinating material in the Grisons tradition and makes you want to travel there to be inspired by the quality of the 20 project examples presented.

• Local identity through architecture
• Concrete as an identity-establishing material in the tradition of Grisons

#monograficos #arquitectura | El Croquis 201 | Caruso ST John : 2013-2019 : la cualidad física del espacio

Caruso ST John : 2013-2019 : la cualidad física del espacio = the physical quality of space / [editores y directores Fernando Márquez Cecilia y Richard Levene].
Madrid : El Croquis, 2019.
302 p. : principalmente il.
Ed. bilingüe español - inglés.
Serie: El Croquis ; 201.
ISBN 978841200343
/ ES / EN / Monográficos / Arquitectura – Siglo XXI / Caruso St John Architects
ehuBiblioteka BCG Referencia A-72(082) *CRO/201
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1123217357

This monographic issue of the magazine features recent work by Caruso St John, the London-based architectural firm established in 1990 by Adam Caruso and Peter St John. Focusing on projects completed between 2013 and 2019, the overview also includes a critical and personal analysis by the partners and an interview by British architect and designer Liza Fior. It features no less than 25 projects of all scales and covering a range of types, from Newport Street Gallery, the Latvian Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Liverpool Philharmonic Hall, to the Canterbury Cathedral organ loft, a private house in the mountains, and the Peterloo Massacre Memorial.

#monograficos #arquitectura | AV monografías 220 | Vector Architects : cosmopolitan vernacular

Vector Architects : cosmopolitan vernacular / director = editor, Luis Fernández-Galiano.
Madrid : Arquitectura Viva, 2019.
111 p. : il. 
Ed. bilingüe español - inglés.
Serie: AV Monografías ; 220.
ISBN 9788409168996
/ ES / EN / Monográficos / Arquietctura – Siglo XXI – China / Vector Architects
ehuBiblioteka BCG Referencia A-72(082) *AVM/220
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1135320032

Vector Architects, founded by Gong Dong (Beijing, 1972) has become one of the key architectural offices in China. Their work is distinguished by its careful attention to context, a deep respect for landscape and the natural environment, the contemporary reinterpretation of Chinese building traditions, and the conscientious use of natural light as a project tool. With these ingredients the studio envisions and designs intimate and emotional spaces, as those that can be found in the sixteen projects, all of them in China, featured in this monograph. The list includes works like the Alila Yangshuo Hotel, the Seashore Library and Chapel, the Captain’s House, and the Changjiang Art Museum.

#monograficos #arquitectura | AV monografías 218-219 | Kengo Kuma : 2014-2019

Kengo Kuma : 2014-2019 / director, Luis Fernández-Galiano.
Madrid : Arquitectura Viva, 2019.
215 p. : principalmente il. 
Ed. bilingüe español- inglés.
Serie: AV monografías ; 218-219. 
ISBN 9788409146383
/ ES / EN / Monográficos / Arquitectura – Siglo XXI – Japón / Kengo Kuma
ehuBiblioteka BCG Referencia A-72(082) *AVM/218-219
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1126788200

It is not easy to name an architect who can invent as much, and as poetically and rigorously, as Kengo Kuma. This issue of AV Monographs takes stock of his firm’s extensive output of the past five years through 32 works and 8 projects, presenting them in five groups. From the New National Stadium of Japan which is nearing completion for the Olympic Games to the competition the studio won recently to extend the Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon, via works like the Victoria & Albert Museum in Scotland, the Cultural Village in the Portland Japanese Garden, the refurbishment of a traditional courtyard-house in Beijing or the Camper Store in Barcelona. This taxonomy gives a good idea of the scope of his ambition.

#books #architecture #art | The Giedion world : Siegfried Giedion and Carola Giedion-Welcker in dialogue

The Giedion world : Siegfried Giedion and Carola Giedion-Welcker in dialogue / [edited by] Almut Grunewald.
Zurich : Scheidegger & Spiess, 2019.
419 p. : il.
ISBN 9783858818195
/ EN / Libros / Arquitectura – Historia / Arquitectura – Siglo XX / Arte – Siglo XX / Carola Giedion-Welcker / Sigfried Giedion
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-7GIEDION GIE
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1127050636

Sigfried Giedion (1888-1968) and Carola Giedion-Welcker (1893-1979) were among the most distinguished and influential scholars of art and architectural history during the 20th century's earlier dacades. Of particular impact was their role in connecting leading protagonists of modernism in architecture, art, and literature, such as Alvar Aalto, Hans Arp, Constantin Brancusi, Marcel Breuer, Max Ernst, Walter Gropius, Barbara Hepworth, Le Corbusier, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Piet Mondrian, or Sophie Taeuber-Arp. The discourses they initiated, for example on the New Vision in photography or a 'Synthesis of Arts', have lost nothing of their relevance and provide new starting points through to the present day. The estate of Sigfried and Carola Giedion-Welcker is today kept in Zurich at ETH Zurich's Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture, the Swiss Institute for Art Research, the University of Zurich's Institute of Romance Studies, and the James Joyce Foundation. It comprises some 16,000 letters, 10,000 photographic prints and negatives, a wealth of other papers, and a vast library. This new book offers a re-evaluation of Sigfried and Carola Giedion-Welcker's work, impact, and lasting significance. The editor and contributors were the first to draw fully on the estate, which has been opened entirely to researchers only recently. Featuring a vast number of previously unpublished documents and other images alongside excerpts from the extensive correspondence the two maintained with their artist friends and colleagues in academia, it provides a unique and manifold insight into the 'Giedion universe'.

#books #architecture | DOM Basics 85 | Boris Iofan : architect behind the Palace of the Soviets

Boris Iofan : architect behind the Palace of the Soviets / Maria Kostyuk ; with contributions by Alessandro de Magistris, Federica Patti and Elena Zheludkova.
Berlin : DOM, 2019.
319 p. : il.
Serie: Basics (DOM) ; 85.
ISBN 9783869223124
/ EN / Libros / Arquitectura – Siglo XX – URSS / Boris Mikhaĭlovich Iofan
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-72IOFAN BOR
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1121582478

Boris Iofan is best known as the architect behind the Palace of the Soviets. Yet his style was not limited to the ­Socialist ­Classicism that flourished under Stalin. Rather, Iofan’s archi­tectural language boldly evolved throughout his lifetime: from his eclectic beginnings in Rome, to the grandeur of the wedding-cake style in the 1930s, and finally, to his incorporation of concrete panels under the Khrushchev government. This book presents a collection of essays, photographs, floor plans, sketches, and drawings that chart the development of the archi­tect’s variegated career which spanned nearly six decades.

#books #architecture | Almost nothing : 100 artists comment on the work of Mies van der Rohe

Almost nothing : 100 artists comment on the work of Mies van der Rohe / Christian Bjone (ed.).
Zurich, Switzerland : Park Books, 2019.
238 p. : il.
ISBN 9783038600800
/ EN / Libros / Arquitectura – Siglo XX / Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-72MIES ALM
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1122551246

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886-1969) is undoubtedly one of the most significant and influential architects ever. To the present day, his designs and realised buildings, as well as his thinking and writings, continue to initiate many controversial debates on the achievements and failures of modern architecture. Yet not only architects and urban designers have been inspired or appalled by Mies. This new book demonstrates that his influence reaches far beyond the boundaries of professional architecture. ‘Almost Nothing’ collects work by 100 painters, sculptors, photographers, film directors, designers, cartoonists, and architects who comment on the buildings, designs, and statements by, or images of, the legendary architect. The works also form a 100-fold re-interpretation of Mies van der Rohe's life and oeuvre. New York-based architect and writer Christian Bjone in his accompanying text provides rich background information on the individual artists and the depicted art works. The book's title refers to a statement by Mies himself on one of his celebrated masterpieces, Crown Hall on IIT campus in Chicago, which ingeniously combines simplicity with complexity.

#books #art | Léger : modern art and the metropolis

Léger : modern art and the metropolis / edited by Anna Vallye ; essays by Christian Derouet, Maria Gough, Spyros Papapetros, Anna Vallye, and Jennifer Wild.
Philadelphia, PA : Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2013.
xv, 275 p. : il.
Published on the occasion of the exhibition Fernand Léger and the Modern City, Philadelphia Museum of Art, October 14, 2013-January 5, 2014.
ISBN 9780876332450 / 9780300197662
/ EN / Libros / Fernand Léger / Modernismo (Arte) / Pintura – Siglo XX - Francia
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-75LEGER LEG
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/916516373

An insightful look at the dynamic relationship between modern art and modern urban life in 1920s Paris through the lens of Fernand Léger’s masterpiece ‘The City’. With his landmark 1919 painting ‘The City’, Fernand Léger (1881–1955) inaugurated a vitally experimental decade during which he and others redefined the practice of painting in confrontation with the forms of cultural production that were central to urban life, ranging from graphic and advertising design to theater, dance, film, and architecture. This catalogue casts new light on the painting (reproducing all of its studies together for the first time), the avant-garde use of print media, and Léger’s fascination with cinema and architecture, and contextualizes a network of international avant-gardes—including Blaise Cendrars, Le Corbusier, Jean Epstein, Piet Mondrian, Amédée Ozenfant, Francis Picabia, and Theo van Doesburg—in relation to Léger. Featuring nearly 250 images of paintings, architectural designs, models, posters, set designs, and film stills and an anthology of relevant historical texts not previously published in English, this handsome volume conveys the spirit of experimentation of the 1920s. Scholars in the fields of art, architecture, and film history offer a deeper understanding of the relationship between art and the modern urban experience that defined this significant chapter in the history of modern art.

#books #architecture | Junya Ishigami : Serpentine Pavilion 2019

Junya Ishigami : Serpentine Pavilion 2019 / editors, Amira Gad, Natalia Grabowska.
London: Koenig Books, 2019.
268 p. : il.
ISBN 9783960986379
/ EN / Libros / Catálogos / Arquitectura – Siglo XXI – Japón / Arquitectura – Siglo XXI – Gran Bretaña / Construcciones provisionales / Exposiciones – Construcciones / Jun’ya Ishigami / Serpentine Gallery (Londres)
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-725.91 SER
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1127909294

This catalogue is published on the occasion of the 19th Serpentine Pavilion designed by Junya Ishigami. The publication presents an overview of Ishigami’s past projects, together with an extensive documentation of sketches and research material for the Serpentine Pavilion. Isabelle Gaudefroy, Director of Programing at Fondation Cartier, introduces Ishigami’s projects from the past decades and makes connections between his past projects and the design for the Serpentine Pavilion. Beatrice Galilee has written about Ishigami’s key concepts and ideas that he has been exploring in his practice. An interview between Hans Ulrich Obrist and Junya Ishigami offers the unfiltered voice of the architect, in which he talks about past and future projects as well as architecture in general.

Ishigami’s design for the Serpentine Pavilion 2019 takes inspiration from roofs, the most common architectural feature used around the world.The design of pavilion is made by arranging slates to create a single canopy roof that appears to emerge from the ground of the surrounding park.Within, the interior of the Pavilion is an enclosed cave-like space, a refuge for contemplation. For Ishigami, the Pavilion articulates his ‘free space’ philosophy in which he seeks harmony between man-made structures and those that already exist in nature.

Imagen: Plataforma Arquitectura

DOCUMENTACIÓN
Junya Ishigami diseñará el Serpentine Pavilion 2019.
Katherine Allen | Plataforma Arquitectura, 2019-02-14
https://www.plataformaarquitectura.cl/cl/911500/junya-ishigami-disenara-el-serpentine-pavilion-2019
El Serpentine Pavilion diseñado por Junya Ishigami toma forma en Londres.
Eric Baldwin | Plataforma Arquitectura, 2019-06-18
https://www.plataformaarquitectura.cl/cl/919345/el-serpentine-pavilion-disenado-por-junya-ishigami-toma-forma-en-londres

#books #architecture | Open studio : the work of Robert A.M. Stern Architects

Open studio : the work of Robert A.M. Stern Architects / Robert A.M. Stern ; edited by Shannon Hohlbein and Peter Morris Dixon.
New York : The Monacelli Press, 2018.
1 v. : il.
ISBN 9781580935180
/ EN / Libros / Arquitectura – Siglo XXI – Estados Unidos / Fotografía de arquitectura
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-77.033 OPE https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1127575793

Open Studio offers a window into the methods and unique culture of an architecture firm that has achieved international success. Curated illustrations of hand sketches, study models, design sessions, and site visits pull back the curtain on the creative collaboration behind the scenes at Robert A.M. Stern Architects. Nearly 100 pages of photographs of finished work, including academic buildings, museums, houses, apartment houses, and office towers, demonstrate the firm's ability to realize modern buildings in a wide variety of stylistic vocabularies through a commitment to fundamental principles of architecture and a respect for context and history. Founded in 1969, the 250-person New York-based Robert A.M. Stern Architects has received numerous awards for design excellence from the American Institute of Architects, the Congress for the New Urbanism, the Urban Land Institute, the Society for College and University Planning, and the Institute of Classical Architecture and Art.

#books #architecture | Judd & CH : Donald Judd & Switzerland-Schweiz

Judd & CH : Donald Judd & Switzerland-Schweiz / Herausgeber ALU Menziken ; Texte von Simon Baier ... [et al.].
Berlin : Hatje Cantz, 2019.
206 p. : il.
Ed. bilingüe alemán – inglés
ISBN 9783775745499
/ DE / EN / Libros / ALU Menziken Holding / Arquitectura – Siglo XX – Suiza / Arte – Siglo XX / Donald Judd / Muebles - Diseño
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-749.1 JUD
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1126764741

[.de] Donald Judd (1928 – 1994), eine der prägendsten Figuren der westlichen Nachkriegskunst, hatte eine enge Verbindung zur Schweiz: Von Beginn der 1970er Jahre bis zu seinem Tod realisierte der amerikanische Künstler bedeutende Ausstellungen in der Schweiz und schuf am Vierwaldstättersee ein außergewöhnliches architektonisches Werk. Darüber hinaus entstanden in Kooperation mit Schweizer Industriebetrieben zahlreiche Arbeiten, allen voran die »Menziken pieces«. Der vorliegende Band beleuchtet die Zusammenarbeit des Künstlers mit der Alu Menziken AG sowie anderen Schweizer Unternehmen und nähert sich dem Zusammenhang von Person, Werk und Land, ergänzt durch eine Betrachtung der heutigen Relevanz des Künstlers. Zu Wort kommen Zeitgenossen Judds, die sein Werk persönlich und professionell begleiteten; zahlreiche Fotos bieten einen erweiterten Überblick über Judds »Schweizer Jahre«.

[.en] Donald Judd (1928-94) was closely connected to Switzerland. From the early 1970s until his death, the American artist produced significant exhibitions there; more importantly, though his residences in Marfa and New York are legendary, less well-known is the hotel at Eichholteren which Judd transformed into an extraordinary residence on the banks of Lake Lucerne that tests the tensions and affinities between Swiss architecture and Judd's doctrines. Judd also collaborated with Swiss industrial firms to produce numerous artworks and design pieces, notably the Menziken Pieces. This new volume sheds light on the artist's collaborations with Swiss manufacturing firm Alu Menziken AG, and other Swiss companies. Donald Judd & Switzerland also examines the artist's continuing influence in Swiss art and design. In addition, Judd's contemporaries in Switzerland offer an expanded picture of Judd's Swiss years.

#books #architecture | Close-up : Ruch & Partner Architects 1994-2018

Close-up : Ruch & Partner Architects 1994-2018 / with texts by Hans-Jörg Ruch and Franz Wanner ; photographs by Filippo Simonetti.
Zurich : Scheidegger & Spiess, 2018.
422 p. : il.
ISBN 9783858817976
/ EN / Libros / Arquitectura – Siglo XX – Suiza / Arquitectura – Siglo XXI – Suiza / Ruch & Partner Architekten
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-72RUCH RUC
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1126996370

Swiss architect Hans-Jörg Ruch has gained international renown with his conversions of historic houses in the Engadin. In Close-up these contemporary interventions in farmhouses and mansions are presented as part of the entire body of work created by his office Ruch & Partners since 1994. Apartment buildings and private homes, hotels, museums and other public buildings, infrastructure designs, and entire housing developments are featured in atmospheric large-format photographs, selected plans, and concise texts.

#books #architecture | OMA-Rem Koolhaas : a critical reader from 'Delirious New York' to 'S,M,L,XL'

OMA-Rem Koolhaas : a critical reader from 'Delirious New York' to 'S,M,L,XL' / Christophe van Gerrewey (ed.).
Basel : Birkhäuser, 2019.
[32] p. de il., 423 p.
ISBN 9783035619775
/ EN / Libros / Arquitectura – Siglo XX / Office for Metropolitan Architecture / Rem Koolhaas
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-72KOOLHAAS OMA
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1126995172

The activities of Rem Koolhaas and his staff were widely discussed even before the foundation of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture in 1975. Today, many contributions on the work of OMA can be found in the international architectural press, including Koolhaas' own writings. The book contains about 150 selected texts-interviews, feature articles, essays, lead articles, reviews, letters, introductions, appraisals, and competition reports that have been compiled for the first time. This compilation not only provides a fresh and critical view of the oeuvre of one the most important contemporary architects, but also represents an account of the debate on architectural and urban design in recent decades.