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Oscar Niemeyer est l'homme qui, dans les années 50, a réalisé un des rêves les plus fous de ce siècle : Brasilia. Dessinant et édifiant la nouvelle capitale du Brésil, l'architecte brésilien s'attache pourtant plus à la force de la poésie qu'à celle de la technique. Cette confession ou manifeste esthétique éclaire d'un jour nouveau les chemins de la création de l'architecte.

Architectes --- Niemeyer, Oscar, --- Fonctionnalisme (Architecture) --- Biographies --- Niemeyer Soares, Oscar, --- Architecture --- Niemeyer, Oscar --- Architecture. --- Architectes ; - Brésil ; - Biographies --- Fonctionnalisme (Architecture) - Brésil --- Niemeyer Soares, Oscar, - 1907 --- -Architectes --- -Architectes ; - Brésil ; - Biographies

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What are the challenges architects face when designing dwelling spaces of a limited size? And what can these projects tell us about architecture - and architectural principles - in general? In BIG little house, award-winning architect Donna Kacmar introduces twenty real-life examples of small houses. Each project is under 1,000 square feet (100 square meters) in size and, brought together, the designs reveal an attitude towards materiality, light, enclosure and accommodation which is unique to minimal dwellings. While part of a trend to address growing concerns about minimising consumption and lack of affordable housing, the book demonstrates that small dwellings are not always simply the result of budget constraints but constitute a deliberate design strategy in their own right. Highly illustrated and in full-colour throughout, each example is based on interviews with the original architect and accompanied by detailed floor plans. This ground-breaking, beautifully designed text offers practical guidance to any professional architect or homeowner interested in small scale projects.

houses --- small --- Private houses --- Petits espaces (habitations) --- Maisons d'architectes --- Maisons d'architectes.

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Cet ouvrage propose une présentation de l'oeuvre de Le Corbusier dans la chronique sociale, politique et architecturale du XXe siècle. L'intense sociabilité de l'architecte est mise en avant. Ses amitiés, ses amours, ses entreprises de séduction déployées dans le monde de l'industrie ou de la politique sont relatées et soutenues par de nombreux documents provenant d'archives privées. ©Electre 2015

Architects --- Architecture, Modern --- Architectes --- Architecture --- Le Corbusier, --- Biography --- Biography.

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This, the first full biography of pioneering modernist landscape architect Cornelia Hahn Oberlander, chronicles both the designer's personal trajectory--she fled Nazi Germany in 1938 & was a member of the first class of Harvard Graduate School of Design women--and the development of an aesthetic informed by ecological preservation concerns that would strongly influence many landscape architects of succeeding generations.Cornelia Hahn Oberlander is one of the most important landscape architects of the twentieth century, yet despite her lasting influence, few outside the field know her name. Her work has been instrumental in the development of the late-twentieth-century design ethic, and her early years working with architectural luminaries such as Louis Kahn and Dan Kiley prepared her to bring a truly modern-and audaciously abstract-sensibility to the landscape design tradition.Susan Herrington draws upon archival research, site analyses, and numerous interviews with Oberlander and her collaborators to offer the first biography of this adventurous and influential landscape architect. Born in 1921, Oberlander fled Nazi Germany at the age of eighteen with her family, going on to become one of the few women to graduate from Harvard University's Graduate School of Design in the late 1940s. For six decades she has practiced socially responsible and ecologically sensitive planning for public landscapes, including the 1970s design of the Robson Square landscape and its adjoining Provincial Law Courts-one of Vancouver's most famous spaces.Herrington places Oberlander within a larger social and aesthetic context, chronicling both her personal and professional trajectory and her work in New York, Philadelphia, Vancouver, Seattle, Berlin, Toronto, and Montreal.Oberlander is a progenitor of some of the most significant currents informing landscape architecture today, particularly in the area of ecological focus. In her thorough biography, Herrington draws much-deserved attention to one of the truly important figures in landscape architecture.

Architectes paysagistes --- Shoah --- Juives --- Femmes --- Rescapés --- Oberlander, Cornelia Hahn.

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Thomas Balsley is a renowned American landscape architect whose NYC-based studio is responsible for some of the most notable and richly awarded spaces throughout the U.S. and Far East. This volume of selected works displays the sweeping range of that work over the past 25 years; consisting of public and private parks, plazas, campuses, and waterfronts and attests to the extraordinary level of design excellence that has defined his international reputation and that of his studio. Working in the margins of the city grid, scraps of land and post-industrial waterfronts, his unique fusion of nature, culture and process have produced vibrant public spaces, urban miracles both large and small, provocative and sublime, and has established himself as a leader in his field and champion of the sustainable and livable urban environment. His award-winning and iconic designs can be found in Dallas? Main Street Garden, Cleveland?s Perk Park, Tampa?s Curtis Hixon Park, Tokyo?s Gate City and World Trade Centers in Osaka and Guiyang, China. In NYC alone, his robust portfolio of over one hundred landscapes includes 13 blocks along the Hudson River called Riverside Park South, Gantry Park, Hunter?s Point South along the East River across from the United Nations, Peggy Rockefeller Plaza, and Balsley Park on Manhattan?s 57th Street, named in his honor. His teaching and speaking engagements at Harvard?s GSD, University of Pennsylvania, the National Building Museum, Seoul National University, etc., together with a wealth of media exposure and publications, including ?Thomas Balsley: The Urban Landscape?, have exposed his work to a broader international audience. Tom has recently been selected to become the 13th recipient of the coveted ASLA Design Medal in recognition of his body of exception design work at a sustained level.

Architecture durable --- Architecture du paysage --- Architectes américains --- Balsley, Thomas