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Le contemporain se généralise. On a tendance à classer les bâtiments en deux catégories élémentaires : les bâtiments privés comme les maisons d'habitation, et les bâtiments publics, comme les gares ferroviaires, les salles de concert ou les musées. Les bâtiments publics ont leurs limites propres: qu'il s`agisse d un palais de justice, d'un aéroport, d'un stade ou d'un campus universitaire, les questions de style, de fonction ou de coûts se posent clairement. La résolution de ces tensions n'est qu'une des nombreuses questions qui entrent en jeu lorsqu'il s'agit de définir une architecture publique. Cet ouvrage explore les réponses les plus créatives à ces questions, et à d'autres connexes, et montre comment, ces dernières années, l'architecture publique a subi un formidable bouleversement, un véritable réveil esthétique. Là où la norme était aux formes résolument classiques et guindées, l'audace esthétique et l'innovation sont de plus en plus récompensées, après que des architectes renommés, comme Herzog & de Meuron ou Jean Nouvel aient ouvert la voie à une nouvelle génération de bâtiments vraiment publics, une architecture qui concilie un accès ouvert au plus grand nombre et une esthétique autrefois réservée à une minorité. "Public Architecture Now" met ici l'accent sur cette nouvelle architecture publique, innovante et surprenante, en train d'émerger dans le monde entier, de l'Espagne à la Norvège, en passant par le Chili, la Chine et les États-Unis. h(19/08/10)ttp://www.evene.fr/livres/livre/philip-jodidio-public-architecture-now--43490.php (19/08/10)

Public buildings --- Architecture --- Public architecture --- Architecture, Modern --- Architecture publique --- Architecture contemporaine --- Bâtiment public --- Panorama mondial --- Public architecture - Pictorial works

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From the mighty halls of ancient Alexandria to a camel bookmobile on the Kenyan-Somali border, human beings have had a long, enraptured relationship with libraries. Like no other concept and like no other space, the collection of knowledge, learning, and imagination offers a sense of infinite possibility. It's the unrivaled realm of discovery, where every faded manuscript or mighty clothbound tome might reveal a provocative new idea, a far-flung fantasy, an ancient belief, a religious conviction, or a whole new way of being in the world. In this new photographic journey, Massimo Listri travels to some of the oldest and finest libraries to reveal their architectural, historical, and imaginative wonder. Through great wooden doors, up spiraling staircases, and along exquisite, shelf-lined corridors, he leads us through outstanding private, public, educational, and monastic libraries, dating as far back as 766. Between them, these medieval, classical, baroque, rococo, and 19th-century institutions hold some of the most precious records of human thought and deed, inscribed and printed in manuscripts, volumes, papyrus scrolls, and incunabula. In each, Listri's poised images capture the library's unique atmosphere, as much as their most prized holdings and design details. Featured libraries include the papal collections of the Vatican Apostolic Library, Trinity College Library, home to the Book of Kells and Book of Durrow, and the priceless holdings of the Laurentian Library in Florence, the private library of the powerful House of Medici, designed by Michelangelo. With meticulous descriptions accompanying each featured library, we learn not only of the libraries' astonishing holdings - from which highlights are illustrated - but also of their often lively, turbulent, or controversial pasts. Like Altenburg Abbey in Austria, an outpost of imperial Catholicism repeatedly destroyed during the European wars of religion. Or the Franciscan monastery in Lima, Peru, with its horde of archival Inquisition documents. At once a bibliophile beauty pageant, an ode to knowledge, and an evocation of the particular magic of print, Listri Libraries is above all a cultural-historical pilgrimage to the heart of our halls of learning, to the stories they tell, as much as those they gather in printed matter along polished shelves.

Library buildings --- Library architecture --- Libraries --- Libraries. --- Library architecture. --- Library buildings. --- History. --- History --- Library planning and design --- Book history --- libraries [buildings] --- book history --- Bibliotheekbouw --- Boekgeschiedenis --- bibliotheken [gebouwen] --- boekgeschiedenis --- Library buildings - Pictorial works --- Library architecture - Pictorial works --- Libraries - History

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L'ouvrage "accompagne une rétrospective de premier plan à la fondation LUMA à Arles, au parc des Ateliers d'Arles". Il traite de onze modèles d'habitations préfabriquées conçues par Jean Prouvé." Ferronnier de formation, Jean Prouvé se considérait davantage comme ingénieur-constructeur que comme concepteur-architecte. Dans sa large production, qui s'étend du luminaire au mobilier, en passant par les stands d'exposition et les rayonnages, ses constructions modulaires occupent une place importante. Des textes mettant son œuvre en situation sont accompagnés d'images d'archives et d'autres plus contemporaines, de dessins et de notes manuscrites, ainsi que d'un portfolio de photographies représentant les douze maisons montées à Arles.

Constructions provisoires --- Constructions d'urgence --- Constructions préfabriquées --- Prouvé, Jean --- Modular coordination (Architecture) --- Buildings, Prefabricated --- Buildings, Temporary --- Architecture, Modern --- Criticism and interpretation --- Modular coordination (Architecture) - Pictorial works --- Buildings, Prefabricated - Pictorial works --- Buildings, Temporary - Pictorial works --- Architecture, Modern - 20th century - Pictorial works --- Prouvé, Jean - Criticism and interpretation --- Constructions préfabriquées --- Prouvé, Jean --- Prouvé, Jean,

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The book is a compendium of homes, including apartments and single-family houses, that have been remodeled to suit contemporary lifestyle needs. Rehabilitations of living spaces are often done to reanimate existing constructions that, over time, have become impractical, if not obsolete. The challenge is to adapt these existing buildings to contemporary standards while maintaining what might still be useful or what we like about them. Most old buildings are very compartmentalized, reflecting the human habits of their time and the available building technology. Nowadays, we like to live in much more open and airy spaces--and new building methods allow for the removal of walls that ultimately free up space. We renovate and upgrade living spaces to various degrees, ranging anywhere from upgrading fixtures and appliances to removing and reconstructing walls and expanding buildings. While extensive work is sometimes required, these rehabilitations can result in stunning transformations. Many add comfort and increase utility, not to mention that the investment generally adds value to the property. This inspirational book showcases a range of rehabilitated projects, from ones that begin by totally stripping out interiors to a clean slate, to less extensive work that might be limited to cosmetic changes or simple finish and fixture upgrades. Existing dwellings have proved themselves flexible to changing necessities, and they are key to the regeneration of our living environment.

72.025.5 --- Architectuur ; hergebruik van gebouwen --- Hergebruik van gebouwen ; 21ste eeuw --- Architectuur ; renovatie ; restauratie --- Trefwoord --- Constructions --- Architecture intérieure --- Mouvement moderne (architecture) --- Réfection --- Rénovation --- Réfection. --- Rénovation. --- Dwellings --- Architecture, Domestic --- Interior architecture --- Buildings --- Interior decoration --- Remodeling --- Conservation and restoration --- Repair and reconstruction --- Dwellings - Remodeling --- Architecture, Domestic - Conservation and restoration --- Architecture, Domestic - Designs and plans --- Architecture, Domestic - Pictorial works --- Interior architecture - Designs and plans --- Buildings - Repair and reconstruction --- Interior decoration - Pictorial works --- Interior architecture - Pictorial works --- Architecture intérieure --- Réfection --- Rénovation.

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Access and accessibility are central themes in architecture and urbanism. Moreover, access is a key concept in many other areas such as knowledge and education, healthcare etc. This book deals with this world of access in architecture, city planning, and neighboring fields. Access and accessibility are central themes in architecture and urbanism. The goal is to make buildings accessible both horizontally and vertically, as well as to provide them with technical infrastructure. But the aim is also to ensure the accessibility of whole streets, routes, parks, and squares, and even entire cities and regions. Today, access is a key concept in the most disparate areas of life. Thus, it is also a matter of access to knowledge and education, access to knowledge media like the Internet, access to healthcare, access to languages, etc. In thirteen articles, this book deals with this world of access in architecture, city planning, and neighboring fields. Topics include ensuring the accessibility of entire urban areas, renewing that of areas that were previously utilized differently, including the general populace in concept planning, and how architecture can help provide access to a better quality of life.

Color in architecture -- Pictorial works. --- Color in design -- Pictorial works. --- Architecture --- Universal design --- Barrier-free design --- City planning --- Architecture and society --- Decorative Arts --- Visual Arts --- Art, Architecture & Applied Arts --- Human factors --- Architecture and society. --- Barrier-free design. --- City planning. --- Universal design. --- Human factors. --- Lifespan design --- Design --- Lifetime homes --- Cities and towns --- Civic planning --- Land use, Urban --- Model cities --- Redevelopment, Urban --- Slum clearance --- Town planning --- Urban design --- Urban development --- Urban planning --- Land use --- Planning --- Art, Municipal --- Civic improvement --- Regional planning --- Urban policy --- Urban renewal --- Access to buildings for people with disabilities --- Accessibility for people with disabilities --- Architecture and the handicapped --- Architecture and the physically handicapped --- People with disabilities and architecture --- Human factors in architecture --- Human engineering --- Buildings --- Architecture and sociology --- Society and architecture --- Sociology and architecture --- Government policy --- Management --- Environmental engineering --- Social aspects