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Barcelona Brand New Fashion Designers ENThis book portrays the ModaFAD venture, a non-profit association formed by students, proto-designers, self-taught practitioners, stylists, multidisciplinary designers, sponsors and institutions, with a common goal: to launch emerging young Barcelona-based design talents into the fashion world. The book records the 25 editions of Modafad, with the inclusion of the most prominent designers which have emerged from each…
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Food for Thought. Thought for Food ENFood for Thought, edited by Vicente Todoli, director of the Tate Modern (London) and by Richard Hamilton, American contemporary pop-art legend, explores Adria's participation in Documenta 12 and the debates this has stimulated between the worlds of gastronomy and art. Food For Thought compiles the discussions of the artists, chefs, critics, gallerists, and curators who took part in two round tables at elBulli,…
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Vicente Guallart Geologics ENA new era demands a new architecture: Vicente Guallart, pioneer and producer of new media on architecture, examines the technological, social and cultural changes inherent in our current information society. He proposes, by means of his architecture, projects and writings, fresh ways for building in five distinct urban areas: the city, the periphery, the outskirts, the rural environment and cyberspace.
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Mies Van Der Rohe Award ENThe winners of the two categories of the 2005 Mies van der Rohe Architecture Price are both Dutch, and in these two projects from the same culture we can readily appreciate the fruits of the Netherlands policy in support for young architects. The projects in question are the Netherlands Embassy in Berlin by OMA, and the Basket Bar by NL Architects in the category of Emerging Architect Special mention.
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Diane Gray Mies Van der Rohe Award 2007Rok 2007 přinesl již 20. výročí udílení ceny „Mies van der Rohe Award“, která je považována za jedno z nejvýznamnějších ocenění v oblasti dnešní architektury. Tato cena respektuje velmi různorodou a bohatou škálu evropských...
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Frédéric Edelmann PositionsKniha představí více než 40 staveb čínských architektů, které vznikly v letech 2003 až 2008. Výběr reprezentuje novou generaci architektů tvořící v zemi, jejíž stavební tempo je v posledním desetiletí nezastavitelné...
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Farshid Moussave The Function of Form ENThe Function of Structure explores the production of singular affects through systems that relate form and content. This is an essential graphic manual on structural systems and their capacity to produce a variety of forms. Extracting their base geometric unit, a wide range of historical projects from the Medieval to the present are used as systems to proliferate different forms. The book distinguishes tessellation…
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Verb CrisisDalší pokračování pravidelného architektonického knižního magazínu tentokrát o krizi a rozporu mezi trhem, sociální politikou a architekturou na příkladu řady projektů a investigativního studia problému. Kniha přináší netradiční...