St phane Beel Architect

Stephane Beel made his surprising debut in 1985 with a house in Zoersel, in which he brilliantly transformed all the details of the site to create an extraordinary home. Since then he has pulled off several similar feats. At Villa M. in Zedelgem, he converted an overgrown farmhouse garden into an inhabitable enclosed structure, and in 1996, he transformed a dairy farm in Eekio, Belgium into an office building. This book includes an essay by Bekaert, a conversation between Beel, Mil de Kooning, and Verschaffel, and a complete list of Beel's work.

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St phane Beel Architecten

This is the long-awaited overview of the recent works of architect Stéphane Beel. As productive and

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Intermediate Natures

Michel Desvigne is no doubt the most high-profile French landscape architect working today. He collaborates with architects like Richard Rogers, Norman Foster, Renzo Piano, Ieoh Ming Pei, Herzog and de Meuron, and Jean Nouvel, and his projects are synonymous with a strong strategic and conceptual component, influenced by insights from geography. Traffic projects also play an important role in his work – they underscore the competence of landscape architecture in matters of city planning. This thematic monograph documents the key elements of Desvigne’s work in individual chapters: processes of transformation, geography, territory, urban structures, and public squares. Each of these themes is vividly illustrated by selected projects, including the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts, the French Ministry of Culture in Paris, and Keio University in Tokyo.

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Contemporary Architects of the Low Countries

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Urban Planning in Sub Saharan Africa

Cities in Sub-Saharan Africa are unequally confronted with social, economic and environmental challenges, particularly those related with population growth, urban sprawl, and informality. This complex and uneven African urban condition requires an open discussion of past and current urban planning practices and future reforms. Urban Planning in Sub-Saharan Africa gives a broad perspective of the history of urban planning in Sub-Saharan Africa and a critical view of issues, problems, challenges and opportunities confronting urban policy makers. The book examines the rich variety of planning cultures in Africa, offers a unique view on the introduction and development of urban planning in Sub-Saharan Africa, and makes a significant contribution against the tendency to over-generalize Africa’s urban problems and Africa’s urban planning practices. Urban Planning in Sub-Saharan Africa is written for postgraduate students and advanced undergraduates, researchers, planners and other policy makers in the multidisciplinary field of Urban Planning, in particular for those working in Spatial Planning, Architecture, Geography, and History.

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Architects Today

This volume offers both an introduction to and an insight into key contemporary architects as well as giving a snapshot of the varied nature of architecture today. For each architect there are details of their life and work and illustrations of their most representative and iconic buildings.

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The City as a Global Political Actor

This book engages with the thorny question of global urban political agency. It critically assesses the now popular statement that in the context of paralysed and failing nation state governments, cities can and will provide leadership in addressing global challenges. Cities can act politically on the global scale, but the analysis of global urban political agency needs to be firmly embedded in the field of urban studies. Collectively, the chapters in this volume contextualize urban agency in time and space and pluralize it by looking at how urban agency is nurtured through coalitions between a wide range of public and private actors. The authors develop and critically assess the conceptual underpinnings of the notion of global urban political agency from a variety of theoretical and disciplinary perspectives. The second part contains several (theoretically informed) empirical analyses of global urban political agency in cities around the globe. This book geographically expands analysis by looking beyond global cities in diverse contexts. It is highly recommended reading for scholars in the fields of international relations and urban studies who are looking for an interdisciplinary and empirically grounded understanding of global urban political agency, in a diversity of contexts and a plurality of forms.

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Annales de l architecture en Flandre

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Xaveer de Geyter Architects 12 Projects

Essays by Geert Bekaert, Kristiaan Borret, Wouter Davidts, Roemer Van Toorn and Dave Wendt.

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Hunch

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A Critical History of Contemporary Architecture

This book provides a comprehensive, critical overview of the developments in architecture from 1960 to 2010. The first section provides a presentation of major movements in architecture after 1960, and the second, a geographic survey that covers a wide range of territories around the world. This book not only reflects the different perspectives of its various authors, but also charts a middle course between the 'aesthetic' histories that examine architecture solely in terms of its formal aspects, and the more 'ideological' histories that subject it to a critique that often skirts the discussion of its formal aspects.

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Flanders Architectural Yearbook 02 03

An overview of 2002-2003 architecture trends is presented by the Flemish Institute for Architects (VAI), in this 2004 edition of the Flanders Architectural Yearbook.

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Precedents in Architecture

A timely update of the architectural classic on design analysis Precedents in Architecture, Fourth Edition provides a vocabulary for architectural analysis that illuminates the works of leading architects and aids architects and designers in creating their own designs. Thirty-eight leading architects are represented in this updated edition through an analysis of more than 100 buildings that are assessed using a diagrammatic technique applicable to any building. This impressive collection includes fourteen new buildings and seven new, innovative architects distinguished by the strength, quality, and interest of their designs. It delivers valuable guidance in analyzing architectural history as an evolutionary process by exploring the commonality of design ideas reflected in a broad range of structures by internationally renowned architects. Both novices and seasoned professionals will find Precedents in Architecture, Fourth Edition to be a very useful tool for enriching their design vocabulary and for the ongoing assessment of buildings found in today's evolving landscape.

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European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture Mies Van Der Rohe Award

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Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals

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X D G A Xaveer de Geyter 1992 2005

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The Low Countries

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Contemporary architecture in Bruges

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European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture

"Includes works by Snøhetta, Studio Up, Atelier Marc Barani, Grafton, RCR, Studio Fukasa, Ateliers Jean Nouvel, BIG with JDS, David Chipperfield, Coop Himmelb(L)au, Dominique Perrault, FOA, Herreros Arquitectos, Jakob+MacFarlane, JLCG, Lacaton & Vassal, LIN, MGM, MVRDV, Neutelings Riedijk, nijiric + arhitekti, OAB with Patrick Genard, OFIS with multiPlan, Studio Grnada, Zaha Hadid and many more."--Page 4 of cover.

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Selected Architecture

Architects, students, and aficionados of current culture will value this book's in-depth, inside information on many of the most critically acclaimed structures of our decade.

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