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Some fifteen years of architectural production by David Chipperfield have been brought together in this double edition of El Croquis, which combines the earlier numbers 87 and 120. A total of 53 projects are examined, accompanied by plans, elevations, full page photographs and introductory texts. Also includes two interviews with Chipperfield and an essay by Aaron Betsky.
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Claus and Kaan Architects
Hans Ibeling ,
David Chipperfield , and
Andreas Deplazes
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ASIN: 9056622285
Release Date: 2002-05-02 |
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Behind the trim facades of studied solidity and restraint are intriguing projects which merit more attention than they attract. Archis
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Old Europe is beginning to show signs of renewed vitality, to judge from the results of this latest edition of the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture: Mies van der Rohe Award 2003. Not only were 269 works selected; not only are the number of competing countries steadily increasing, especially in Eastern Europe; but the standard of the entries, particularly of the winning projects and the 40 runners-up, are arguably the most impressive ever. Of special note is the predominance of projects that address new sites and/or new programs. The winning project encompasses all this and more: Zaha Hadid's tram station in Strasbourg is at once a strategy, something open-ended, playful, imperfect, intelligent, and playful. But it is also resolved and unafraid to identify with conventional architectural qualities. Additionally, this year's jury has singled out Jrgen Mayer as the most promising young designer in Europe for his first work, the Scharnhauser Park town hall. Other works shortlisted by the jury include the Chassa Park Apartments by Xaveer De Geyter Architects, the Palais de Tokyo by Lacaton & Vassal Architects, and Hagen Island by MVRDV. Accompanying photographs and plans of the 41 nominated projects are essays by some of architecture's most important critics.
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2g N.34 Sergision Bates (2G: International Architecture Review)
David Chipperfield ,
Philip Ursprung ,
Adrian Forty , and
Peter Allison
Manufacturer: Gustavo Gili
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ASIN: 8425220238 |
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Chipperfield's Circus
David Jamieson
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ASIN: 1872904092 |
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Federico Motta, Milan, 2005. First Edition. Hardback. No Dustjacket. 4to. Illustrated boards. Issued without dust jacket. Copiously illustrated in colour throughout. Architecture. Italian and English texts. ISBN: 887179544X Pages: 384
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David Chipperfield: Architectural Works 1990-2002
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ASIN: 3764369531 |
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David Chipperfield worked for both Richard Rogers and Foster Associates before establishing his own practice in 1984. Often erroneously thought of as a minimalist architect, he has become one of the most conceptionally complex architects working today, thanks to the diversity and depth of his realized projects. Amongst his highly acclaimed projects are the River & Rowing Museum which was his first major commission in England, the Knight House, or the masterplan for the Museum Island in Berlin. More recently his projects include the Villa in Berlin-Schöneberg and the elegant office building in Düsseldorf. Chipperfield is also active in Milan, Venice, Madrid, the USA, and Japan. Beautifully designed by Quentin Newark this book presents with over 60 projects Chipperfield´s complete oeuvre. An essay focuses on his creative process and the architect's considerations on the architectonic development over the last decades. Jonathan Keates and Kenneth Frampton analyse key aspects of Chipperfield´s architecture.
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David Chipperfield: Zusammenspiel: Ernsting Service Center
Manufacturer: Poligrafa
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ASIN: 8434310376
Release Date: 2004-08-02 |
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The peaceful monolithic language of Chipperfield's architecture is evidenced in his design for the third and final building in a complex for the German clothing retailer Ernsting. Chipperfield's building stands on a greenfield site in the small town of Coesfeld-Lette, just west of Mnster; its companions are two distribution centers built in the late 1990s by Fabio Reinhardt and Bruno Reichlin with Santiago Calatrava, and by Shilling Architects. Chipperfield's structure completes the Ernsting compound and provides office space for business and retail managers as well as a Research & Development department. Christian Richters' and Edmund Sumner's photographs of Chipperfield's architecture reveal its harmonious relationship with the organic curves of Peter Wirtz's landscape design, while Jay Wolke's photographic studies of the workplace illustrate the highly successful collaboration between client and architect that created a freedom-filled place for Ernsting's employees to think and work.
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Obras selectas del patrimonio artistico universitario
Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
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ASIN: 9685800138 |
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The perfect practical introduction to photographing and "videoing" horses and a valuable money-earning reference book.
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Focus on sports: Photographing action
Richard P Turner
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Photographing sports
Massimo Cappon
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Smile for the camera. (photographing Special Olympics athletes) (Behind the Scenes) (The 1991 ISSOG: Special Olympics International): An article from: Palaestra
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This digital document is an article from Palaestra, published by Challenge Publications Limited on January 1, 1992. The length of the article is 685 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: Smile for the camera. (photographing Special Olympics athletes) (Behind the Scenes) (The 1991 ISSOG: Special Olympics International)
Author: Ron Davis
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Palaestra (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 1, 1992
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Volume: v8
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Through Green-Colored Glasses: Enviromentalism Reconsidered
Wilfred Beckerman
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A former member of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution reveals the flaws in alarmist environmental movement arguments.
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We should not be taken for a ride by the environmentalists.......1998-08-26
Through Green-Colored Glasses: Environmentalism Reconsidered
Wilfred Beckerman
"We should not be taken for a ride by the environmentalist movement's predictions that we are one the verge of environmental catastrophe," writes Wilfred Beckerman in the Cato Institute book, Through Green-Colored Glasses: Environmentalism Reconsidered.
Beckerman, an Emeritus Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford, and a former member of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution, has written this volume as a sequel to his widely acclaimed In Defense of Economic Growth, which originally appeared in 1974. Like its predecessor, Through Green-Colored Glasses, which was published in England last year under the title Small Is Stupid: Blowing the Whistle on the Greens, has garnered significant praise. The Economist stated that its "arguments are piercing" and Nature remarked, "Environmentalists tempted to ignore Wilfred Beckerman's latest book better think again. . . . Beckerman has written a thoughtful book as well as an entertaining one."
He explodes a number of myths currently advanced by radical environmentalists, including the assertion that natural resource depletion is imminent and the never-ending claims regarding global warming. He contrasts those supposed "threats" to the environment with the very real ecological problems that face Third World countries and concludes that economic growth is the only way those areas will be able to develop the technology and wealth needed to handle their problems. In addition, he insightfully discusses the question of what society owes future generations.
Beckerman believes the argument regarding natural resource depletion is "flawed in every respect." It is "at variance with the whole of historical experience, and it takes no account of the way that societies adapt to change in the demands and supplies of materials." Defending his position, he cites numerous examples of how the market has dealt with temporary resource shortages, such as the development of synthetic rubber during World War II and the creation of plastic as a replacement for various metals.
While acknowledging that global warming "has to be taken seriously," Beckerman maintains that it is "no cause for alarm or dramatic action." If dramatic action were taken, the effects on human welfare would be horrendous--even more horrendous perhaps than the effects of global warming itself. "With the global-warming problem," Beckerman writes, "society is faced with the choice between (i) accepting some remote and unquantifiable possibility of sharp climatic change in the longer run with possibly severe economic effects and (ii) certain economic and social catastrophe if draconian policies are adopted to avoid it."
The ecological problems of the Third World, Beckerman contends, are a direct result of the low level of economic development those countries have achieved. They simply have not produced the technology necessary for environmental protection, nor have they accumulated the wealth to buy it from abroad. And to do either one, they must first industrialize and grow--paradoxically, the exact thing that many Western environmentalists lament. He writes, "The best--and no doubt the only--route by which these countries can overcome their appalling environmental problems is to become richer."
One of the most vexing philosophical problems facing those who write on the environment is what, if any, moral obligations society has toward future generations. Is it necessary, for example, to leave the environment completely unaltered, or even approximately so, as many environmentalists argue? Beckerman contends that such a proposition is overly simplistic and narrow in focus. While it is conceivable that we could leave posterity a relatively unchanged environment, doing so would be too costly, not only to us, but to future generations as well.
Beckerman leaves the reader with the following thought: "Above all, we should not be panicked into the sort of drastic action urged on us by many environmental activists. . . . In short, the message of this book is that we have time to think. What is needed is the will to do so."
"Environmentalists tempted to ignore Wilfred Beckerman's latest book had better think again...Beckerman has written a thoughtful book as well as an entertaing one." -Nature
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