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Oscar-Riera-Ojeda-Spring-2017.Pdf Buenos Aires www.oropublishers.com [email protected] New York Hong Kong Shenzen contents 29 Clear Light 42 Sand to Spectacle - The Dubai Mall 57 Architecture with and without front list The Architecture of Lauretta Vinciarelli DP Architects Le Corbusier José Oubrerie Architecte 12 Harry Seidler: The Exhibition 30 Figures 43 Contemporanea Organizing, Curating, Designing, Essays on Contemporary Architecture Giovanni Presutti 58 Unexpect and Producing a World Tour The Works of Michael Ryan Architects 31 City for City 44 Sagrada Familia Chasing the Sky 59 City Works 5 13 City College Architectural Center 1995-2015 Gaudi’s Unfinished Masterpiece 20 Stories of Women in Architecture Geometry, Construction and Site Student Work 2010-2011 The City College of New York 14 Environmental Modernism 32 Surfaced 45 Designwajskol Bernard and Anne Spitzer The Architecture of STRANG The Formation of Twisted Structures School of Architecture The Work of SYSTEMarchitects 46 WOW 15 BEDMaR & SHi 60 Ineffable Experiential Design for a Architecture, Computation and In the Tropics 33 A Clear View Changing World How Glass Buildings in the Inner the Inexpressible 16 Figueras Polo Stables City Transformed a Neighborhood 47 Campo Baeza 61 5 in Five Estudio Ramos Complete Works Reinventing Tradition in 34 Prototyping Architecture: Chancery Lane Contemporary Living - Bedmar & Shi 17 The Solar Roofpod 48 The Bali Villas BEDMaR & SHi An Educational Design-Build Research Project Bedmar & Shi 62 New Architecture in the 18 House Equanimity Emerging World 35 City Works 7 49 Make Alive Projects by Andrew Bromberg, Aedas Joseph N. Biondo Student Work 2012-2013 Prototypes for Responsive Architectures The City College of New York 63 Heirlooms to Live in 19 Rockhouse Bernard and Anne Spitzer 50 5 in Five - Second Revised Edition Homes in a New - Regional Vernacular Max Strang School of Architecture Reinventing Tradition in Hutker Architects Contemporary Living 20 The House of the Infinite 36 Displaced Bedmar & Shi Alberto Campo Baeza 64 Generic Specific Continuum Llonch+Vidalle Architecture Julio Salcedo / Scalar Architecture 51 Concrete Ideas 21 L4 House 37 Beyond Petropolis Material to Shape a City Luciano Kruk 65 States of Architecture in the Designing a Practical Utopia Twenty-First Century in Nueva Loja 52 22 Shanghai Ten Folio Kerry Hill New Directions from the Shanghai World Expo Architectural Association School of Crafting Modernism Architecture Visiting School 38 City Works 6 66 City Works 3 Student Work 2011-2012 53 The Legacy Student Work 2008-2009 The City College of New York New Housing New York The City College of New York Bernard and Anne Spitzer Best Practices in Affordable, Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture Sustainable, Replicable School of Architecture back list Housing Design The Landscape Architecture 67 City Works 4 39 54 eastwest 26 On the Tarmac of Paul Sangha Student Work 2009-2010 Nabil Gholam Architects Rules, line-work, shadows and space The City College of New York Bernard and Anne Spitzer 40 In Situ 55 City Sink 27 Dialogues in Space School of Architecture George Ranalli,Works & Projects Carbon Cycle Wendell Burnette Architects Infrastructure for our Built Environments 68 Research & Design 41 Beyond Context Faculty Work - The City College of New York 28 The Built Idea The Work of 56 Ralph Johnson of Perkins+Will Bernard and Anne Spitzer Alberto Campo Baeza Atelier Arcau Architects Ralph Johnson of Perkins+Will School of Architecture At Oscar Riera Ojeda Publishers we hace one clear mission: we are determined to make a substantial cultural contribution with each one of our books. We are an international team of designers, writers, editors and industry professionals with an extensive record of accomplishment, who are committed to the advancement of knowledge in various fields of design and the production of quality books as creative artifacts. We believe that architecture and design are critically important disciplines that affect every aspect of our lives on scales ranging from the monumental to the personal. We equally believe that the ideas enshrined in these disciplines must be communicated to as wide an audience as possible, in the most articulate and coherent manner possible. Architects and designers are only as good as their ideas and, given that they shape homes, neighborhoods, cities and entire countries, changing and improving lives even as they provoke and cause controversy, they should be given an appropriate medium for them to be heard, considered and discussed. We want to provide this medium. Although we have our own vision and direction, our role as publishers is to give equal exposure to a wide variety of ideologies and philosophies that consistently and intelligently aim to respond to the realities and issues that affect the world we live in. front list Harry Seidler: The Exhibition Chasing the Sky Organizing, Curating, Designing, and 20 Stories of Women in Architecture Producing a World Tour Introduction by Dean Dewhirst Foreword by Maryam Gusheh Authored by Vladimir Belogolovsky Edited by Dean Dewhirst 8 x 10 in / 203 x 254 mm 8,6 x 11,2 in / 220 x 285 mm´ Book Size: Book Size: Portrait Portrait Format: Format: 192 278 Pages: Pages: English English Language: Language: 400 216 Photographs: Photographs: 50 25 Illustrations: Illustrations: US & Canada Rights Available World Rights Available Rights: Rights: Edition Weight Price ISBN Edition Weight Price ISBN Hardcover 1.3 kg US$40 / €36 / £26 978-1-946226-10-5 Softcover 1.0 kg US$ 39.95 / € 37 / £ 32 978-1-946226-02-0 Hardcover in Slipcase 1.4 kg USD $50 / €44 / £33 978-1-946226-11-2 Vladimir Belogolovsky’s Harry Seidler: The Exhibition leaves no stone unturned in documenting Chasing the Sky, is a book that showcases twenty of Australia’s leading women in architecture. his ongoing, four years in the making to date, world tour exhibition, Harry Seidler: Painting Toward Chasing the Sky is the second book in the ‘20 Stories’ series, with each edition featuring different Architecture. It examines the blurry boundaries between art and architecture and how these aspects of the architecture industry. disciplines inspire one another by bringing to focus the work of Vienna-born Australian modernist Harry Seidler and his creative collaborations with a dozen of world-renowned architects and artists. In Chasing the Sky the concentrated voice of some of Australia’s most dynamic practitioners, Curator of 20 Seidler exhibitions and author of Harry Seidler: Lifework (Rizzoli, 2014), Belogolovsky and their substantial projects, compel us to strive for just such possibility; for equitable and vital provides detailed insights into the project from beginning to end: pitching initial exhibition idea to architectural careers in our immediate reach. Distilled in this volume is a palpable sense of women at the client, developing its concept, arranging the tour, preparing the content, designing individual work in architecture, of the joys and challenges of a creative profession and the culture of making. exhibitions, managing installations, presenting the lecture, initiating new collaborations and projects. The book’s focus on a single touring exhibition is unprecedented; it explores what typical exhibition Common themes and questions run across the volume to reveal commonalities and differences. catalogues miss entirely – spatial engagement with the content by the public. In its attempt to We hear varied views on education, craft and technology; on collaboration and inventive processes; present various aspects of a single exhibition the book raises fundamental curatorial issues beyond on formative influences and entrepreneurship; and, on the relationship between architecture and the project in question. society. As acclaimed individuals and as a diverse collective, they offer an incisive glimpse into the richness of contemporary Australian architecture, of the spirit that galvanises the profession and cultivates its future buoyancy. 12 13 Environmental Modernism Environmental Modernism The Architecture of The Architecture of [STRANG] Environmental Modernism Environmental Modernism BEDMaR & SHi Edited by Oscar Riera Ojeda Introduction by Robert McCarter Interview by John T. O’Connor The Architecture of [ ] Principal Photography by Claudia Uribe Touri STRANG The work of [STRANG] is beautifully explored in this robust monograph which highlights the firm’s site-specific and climate- The Architecture of STRANG driven designs. The ability to create stunning architectural In the Tropics designs while maintaining an acute awareness of the surrounding environment has come to define their work. Under the creative direction of Max Strang FAIA, the Miami-based firm continues to advance many of the timeless concepts set forth by the famed Sarasota School of Architecture. Strang’s early exposure to that mid-century modernist movement resulted in a deep respect for structures that are intimately connected to their surroundings as Volume I – Thirty Years they celebrate the Florida climate. This first monograph of Strang’s work contains a collection of conceptual drawings, text and professional photography that Volume 2 – Signapore Houses underscores the ongoing relevance and importance of regional modernist design. It is the architectural responses to site and climate that infuse the specific designs with character and identity, resulting in a uniquely Floridian version of modernism. [ STRANG ] ISBN-13: 978-988-12250-2-3 9 7 8 9 8 8 1 2 2 5 0 2 Introduction by Robert McCarter Interview
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