Author: Jean-Paul Curnier
Publisher: Editions Norma
ISBN:
Category : Installations (Art)
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Né à Paris en 1955, Yann Kersalé obtient le diplôme national supérieur d'expression plastique à l'école des beaux-arts de Quimper en 1978. Utilisant la lumière comme d'autres se servent de la terre ou de la peinture, il choisit la nuit, lieu d'élection du sensible, comme terrain d'expérimentation. Depuis, avec une extraordinaire vitalité créatrice, Kersalé élabore des centaines de projets in situ et d'Expéditions-lumière, encéphalogramme lumineux de l'océan, détournements d'objets de haute technologie, interventions sur des ouvrages d'art ou des architectures mythiques. Les plus grands architectes font appel à lui. Helmut Jahn lui commande les lumières du Sony Center à Berlin, des aéroports de Bangkok et de Chicago. Pour Jean Nouvel, il conçoit les pulsations rouges de la verrière de l'Opéra de Lyon, la mise en lumière du musée du Quai Branly à Paris, de la tour Agbar à Barcelone. S'élevant contre l'illumination brutale au sodium qui défigure les monuments, il crée à Nantes, à Rennes ou encore pour les installations portuaires de Saint-Nazaire, des fictions lumineuses, travail narratif sur l'âme et la mémoire des villes. Ce travail ne va pas sans l'invention de nouveaux concepts d'éclairages, Objets-lumière comme les greffons lumineux, objets légers qui jouent sur la scansion, sur l'apparition, projets poétiques aux références multiples, dans lesquels l'esprit de liberté et de provocation de Kersalé est toujours perceptible.
Yann Kersalé
Author: Jean-Paul Curnier
Publisher: Editions Norma
ISBN:
Category : Installations (Art)
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Né à Paris en 1955, Yann Kersalé obtient le diplôme national supérieur d'expression plastique à l'école des beaux-arts de Quimper en 1978. Utilisant la lumière comme d'autres se servent de la terre ou de la peinture, il choisit la nuit, lieu d'élection du sensible, comme terrain d'expérimentation. Depuis, avec une extraordinaire vitalité créatrice, Kersalé élabore des centaines de projets in situ et d'Expéditions-lumière, encéphalogramme lumineux de l'océan, détournements d'objets de haute technologie, interventions sur des ouvrages d'art ou des architectures mythiques. Les plus grands architectes font appel à lui. Helmut Jahn lui commande les lumières du Sony Center à Berlin, des aéroports de Bangkok et de Chicago. Pour Jean Nouvel, il conçoit les pulsations rouges de la verrière de l'Opéra de Lyon, la mise en lumière du musée du Quai Branly à Paris, de la tour Agbar à Barcelone. S'élevant contre l'illumination brutale au sodium qui défigure les monuments, il crée à Nantes, à Rennes ou encore pour les installations portuaires de Saint-Nazaire, des fictions lumineuses, travail narratif sur l'âme et la mémoire des villes. Ce travail ne va pas sans l'invention de nouveaux concepts d'éclairages, Objets-lumière comme les greffons lumineux, objets légers qui jouent sur la scansion, sur l'apparition, projets poétiques aux références multiples, dans lesquels l'esprit de liberté et de provocation de Kersalé est toujours perceptible.
Publisher: Editions Norma
ISBN:
Category : Installations (Art)
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Né à Paris en 1955, Yann Kersalé obtient le diplôme national supérieur d'expression plastique à l'école des beaux-arts de Quimper en 1978. Utilisant la lumière comme d'autres se servent de la terre ou de la peinture, il choisit la nuit, lieu d'élection du sensible, comme terrain d'expérimentation. Depuis, avec une extraordinaire vitalité créatrice, Kersalé élabore des centaines de projets in situ et d'Expéditions-lumière, encéphalogramme lumineux de l'océan, détournements d'objets de haute technologie, interventions sur des ouvrages d'art ou des architectures mythiques. Les plus grands architectes font appel à lui. Helmut Jahn lui commande les lumières du Sony Center à Berlin, des aéroports de Bangkok et de Chicago. Pour Jean Nouvel, il conçoit les pulsations rouges de la verrière de l'Opéra de Lyon, la mise en lumière du musée du Quai Branly à Paris, de la tour Agbar à Barcelone. S'élevant contre l'illumination brutale au sodium qui défigure les monuments, il crée à Nantes, à Rennes ou encore pour les installations portuaires de Saint-Nazaire, des fictions lumineuses, travail narratif sur l'âme et la mémoire des villes. Ce travail ne va pas sans l'invention de nouveaux concepts d'éclairages, Objets-lumière comme les greffons lumineux, objets légers qui jouent sur la scansion, sur l'apparition, projets poétiques aux références multiples, dans lesquels l'esprit de liberté et de provocation de Kersalé est toujours perceptible.
Skyscrapers
Author: Matthew Wells
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300106793
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
An investigation of thirty skyscrapers from around the world—both recently built and under construction—that explains the structural principles behind their creation
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300106793
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
An investigation of thirty skyscrapers from around the world—both recently built and under construction—that explains the structural principles behind their creation
Codex
Author: Paul Ardenne
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9783764369668
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Rudy Ricciotti was born in 1952 in Algier. He studied in Geneva and Marseilles before opening his own architectural office in Bandol (Bouches-du-Rhone) in 1980. His early works are characterized by a radical, carefree approach, displaying a variety of forms and full of energy. Since the beginning of the 1990s Ricciotti has been influenced by the Arte Povera and his buildings have become more austere and functional, making use of minimalist and "lowtech" solutions. With the opening of the concert hall in Potsdam, and the construction of a foot bridge in Seoul, Ricciotti has finally found international recognition. Our publication is a detailed yet critical analysis of his work to date. The first monograph on the work of Rudy Ricciotti whose architecture is extravagant yet radiates Mediterranean simplicity, is powerfully expressive yet gently ironic.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9783764369668
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Rudy Ricciotti was born in 1952 in Algier. He studied in Geneva and Marseilles before opening his own architectural office in Bandol (Bouches-du-Rhone) in 1980. His early works are characterized by a radical, carefree approach, displaying a variety of forms and full of energy. Since the beginning of the 1990s Ricciotti has been influenced by the Arte Povera and his buildings have become more austere and functional, making use of minimalist and "lowtech" solutions. With the opening of the concert hall in Potsdam, and the construction of a foot bridge in Seoul, Ricciotti has finally found international recognition. Our publication is a detailed yet critical analysis of his work to date. The first monograph on the work of Rudy Ricciotti whose architecture is extravagant yet radiates Mediterranean simplicity, is powerfully expressive yet gently ironic.
Visioning Technologies
Author: Graham Cairns
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1317001397
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Visioning Technologies brings together a collection of texts from leading theorists to examine how architecture has been, and is, reframed and restructured by the visual and theoretical frameworks introduced by different ‘technologies of sight’ – understood to include orthographic projection, perspective drawing, telescopic devices, photography, film and computer visualization, amongst others. Each chapter deals with its own area and historical period of expertise, organized sequentially to mark out and analyse the historical evolution of how architecture has been transformed by technologically induced shifts in human perception from the 15th century until today. This book underlines the way in which architectural forms and design processes have developed historically in conjunction with the systems of sight we manufacture technologically and suggests this continues today. Paradoxically, it is premised on the argument that these technological systems tend, in their initial formulations, to obtain ever greater realism in our visualizations of the physical world.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1317001397
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Visioning Technologies brings together a collection of texts from leading theorists to examine how architecture has been, and is, reframed and restructured by the visual and theoretical frameworks introduced by different ‘technologies of sight’ – understood to include orthographic projection, perspective drawing, telescopic devices, photography, film and computer visualization, amongst others. Each chapter deals with its own area and historical period of expertise, organized sequentially to mark out and analyse the historical evolution of how architecture has been transformed by technologically induced shifts in human perception from the 15th century until today. This book underlines the way in which architectural forms and design processes have developed historically in conjunction with the systems of sight we manufacture technologically and suggests this continues today. Paradoxically, it is premised on the argument that these technological systems tend, in their initial formulations, to obtain ever greater realism in our visualizations of the physical world.
Sensi/able Spaces
Author: Edward H. Huijbens
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1527566439
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
The book SENSI/ABLE SPACES focuses on the ways in which space, art and the environment interlace and interact, dealing with the perception and conception of spaces in the built as well as natural environment. The book brings together a wide range of academics, from the physical sciences, social sciences and humanities, as well as artists who have an interest in the way space is sensed, understood and reconfigured. Spaces today are continually being reconstituted and reformulated in various ways, often relying on notions of what is sensible, narrowly defined by groups with an ideological agenda of some kind or vested economic interests. These sensible factors often obscure and ignore notions of the sensable-that which people perceive through the senses while being-in spaces. Space is a topic equally of various academic fields, such as geography, philosophy, sociology, anthropology, physics, bilology, and many more. But space is also the subject of - or a frame for - any artist, whose work is neither academic, in any standard sense of the term, and yet heavily theoretical or speculative.
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1527566439
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
The book SENSI/ABLE SPACES focuses on the ways in which space, art and the environment interlace and interact, dealing with the perception and conception of spaces in the built as well as natural environment. The book brings together a wide range of academics, from the physical sciences, social sciences and humanities, as well as artists who have an interest in the way space is sensed, understood and reconfigured. Spaces today are continually being reconstituted and reformulated in various ways, often relying on notions of what is sensible, narrowly defined by groups with an ideological agenda of some kind or vested economic interests. These sensible factors often obscure and ignore notions of the sensable-that which people perceive through the senses while being-in spaces. Space is a topic equally of various academic fields, such as geography, philosophy, sociology, anthropology, physics, bilology, and many more. But space is also the subject of - or a frame for - any artist, whose work is neither academic, in any standard sense of the term, and yet heavily theoretical or speculative.
The Art of Precast Concrete
Author: David Bennett
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3764376686
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
As a building material, precast concrete allows a wide range of sculptural forms and design options. By treating the surface in various ways, fascinating textures and fine finishes can be produced. This book provides a systematic overview of the variety of applications for such concrete elements throughout Europe. Author David Bennett provides in-depth information on newly developed, especially lightweight forms of concrete such as GRC (Glass-Fibre Reinforced Concrete), Ductal and CRC (Compact Reinforced Composite). A selection of some 24 projects which are of particular significance, are documented in detail and provide a wealth of inspiring design ideas. The appendix comprises an overview of the building practices in the individual European countries and the availability of concrete elements. Amongst the buildings documented are the Scottish Parliament Building in Edinburgh by Enric Miralles Benedetta Tagliabue, the Synagogue in Dresden by Wandel, Hoefer, Lorch + Hirsch, and the Mexican Embassy in Berlin by González de León.
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3764376686
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
As a building material, precast concrete allows a wide range of sculptural forms and design options. By treating the surface in various ways, fascinating textures and fine finishes can be produced. This book provides a systematic overview of the variety of applications for such concrete elements throughout Europe. Author David Bennett provides in-depth information on newly developed, especially lightweight forms of concrete such as GRC (Glass-Fibre Reinforced Concrete), Ductal and CRC (Compact Reinforced Composite). A selection of some 24 projects which are of particular significance, are documented in detail and provide a wealth of inspiring design ideas. The appendix comprises an overview of the building practices in the individual European countries and the availability of concrete elements. Amongst the buildings documented are the Scottish Parliament Building in Edinburgh by Enric Miralles Benedetta Tagliabue, the Synagogue in Dresden by Wandel, Hoefer, Lorch + Hirsch, and the Mexican Embassy in Berlin by González de León.
Colour for Architecture Today
Author: Tom Porter
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1134719833
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
What role does colour play in our built environment? How are our attitudes to colour changing? What potential do new technologies bring for the use of colour and light in architecture? Combining real examples from practice with colour theory, this book will help you to fully understand the role and impact of colour in our urban spaces. Contributions from leading architects Will Alsop, Legorreta and Legorreta, John Outram, Sauerbruch Hutton and Neuterlings Riedijk accompany those from artists Alain Bony and Yann Kersalé, and from colour researchers such as Kristina Enberg and Anders Hård, who developed the Natural Colour System. Topics include: how and why we see colour methodologies in the documentation of traditional colours the development of new urban palettes recent colour psychology research the effect of light levels on human behaviour dramatic colour effects achievable with light guidelines for future deployment of colour in the built environment. This is a sequel to the immensely influential Colour for Architecture, published in 1976. Much has changed in 30 years; new cutting edge technologies and materials have emerged allowing architects to experiment with colour and light in an energy efficient and sustainable way, paving the way for a more colourful and exciting built environment.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1134719833
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
What role does colour play in our built environment? How are our attitudes to colour changing? What potential do new technologies bring for the use of colour and light in architecture? Combining real examples from practice with colour theory, this book will help you to fully understand the role and impact of colour in our urban spaces. Contributions from leading architects Will Alsop, Legorreta and Legorreta, John Outram, Sauerbruch Hutton and Neuterlings Riedijk accompany those from artists Alain Bony and Yann Kersalé, and from colour researchers such as Kristina Enberg and Anders Hård, who developed the Natural Colour System. Topics include: how and why we see colour methodologies in the documentation of traditional colours the development of new urban palettes recent colour psychology research the effect of light levels on human behaviour dramatic colour effects achievable with light guidelines for future deployment of colour in the built environment. This is a sequel to the immensely influential Colour for Architecture, published in 1976. Much has changed in 30 years; new cutting edge technologies and materials have emerged allowing architects to experiment with colour and light in an energy efficient and sustainable way, paving the way for a more colourful and exciting built environment.
Under Construction: Logics of Urbanism in the Gulf Region
Author: Steffen Wippel
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317005287
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
Interdisciplinary in approach, this volume explores and deciphers the symbolic value and iconicity of the built environment in the Arab Gulf Region, its aesthetics, language and performative characteristics. Bringing together a range of studies by artists, curators and scholars, it demonstrates how Dubai appeared - at least until the financial crisis - to be leading the construction race and has already completed a large number of its landmark architecture and strategic facilities. In contrast, cities like the Qatari capital Doha still appear to be heavily ’under construction’ and in countries like the Sultanate of Oman, ultra-luxury tourism projects were started only recently. While the construction of artificial islands, theme parks and prestige sport facilities has attracted considerable attention, much less is known about the region’s widespread implementation of innovative infrastructure such as global container ports, free zones, inter-island causeways and metro lines. This volume argues that these endeavours are not simply part of a strategy to prepare for the post-oil era for future economic survival and prosperity in the Lower Gulf region, but that they are also aiming to strengthen identitarian patterns and specific national brands. In doing so, they exhibit similar, yet remarkably diverse modes of engaging with certain global trends and present - questionably - distinct ideas for putting themselves on the global map. Each country aims to grab attention with regard to the world-wide flow of goods and capital and thus provide its own citizens with a socially acceptable trajectory for the future. By doing that, the countries in the Gulf are articulating a new semiotic and paradigm of urban development. For the first time, this volume maps these trends in their relation to architecture and infrastructure, in particular by treating them as semiotics in their own right. It suggests that recent developments in this region of the world not only represen
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317005287
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
Interdisciplinary in approach, this volume explores and deciphers the symbolic value and iconicity of the built environment in the Arab Gulf Region, its aesthetics, language and performative characteristics. Bringing together a range of studies by artists, curators and scholars, it demonstrates how Dubai appeared - at least until the financial crisis - to be leading the construction race and has already completed a large number of its landmark architecture and strategic facilities. In contrast, cities like the Qatari capital Doha still appear to be heavily ’under construction’ and in countries like the Sultanate of Oman, ultra-luxury tourism projects were started only recently. While the construction of artificial islands, theme parks and prestige sport facilities has attracted considerable attention, much less is known about the region’s widespread implementation of innovative infrastructure such as global container ports, free zones, inter-island causeways and metro lines. This volume argues that these endeavours are not simply part of a strategy to prepare for the post-oil era for future economic survival and prosperity in the Lower Gulf region, but that they are also aiming to strengthen identitarian patterns and specific national brands. In doing so, they exhibit similar, yet remarkably diverse modes of engaging with certain global trends and present - questionably - distinct ideas for putting themselves on the global map. Each country aims to grab attention with regard to the world-wide flow of goods and capital and thus provide its own citizens with a socially acceptable trajectory for the future. By doing that, the countries in the Gulf are articulating a new semiotic and paradigm of urban development. For the first time, this volume maps these trends in their relation to architecture and infrastructure, in particular by treating them as semiotics in their own right. It suggests that recent developments in this region of the world not only represen
Frequency Standards and Metrology
Author: Lute Maleki
Publisher: World Scientific
ISBN: 981283821X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 597
Book Description
The Symposium on Frequency Standards and Metrology is an event held approximately every seven years, and is regarded as the premier conference in the field of advanced clocks and oscillators together with their applications in science and metrology. This series began with the first meeting at Universiteacute; Laval, Quebec Canada in 1971, and the last one was held in 2001 at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland. The 7th Symposium on Frequency Standards and Metrology is scheduled for October 5ndash;11, 2008 at the Asilomar Conference Grounds in Pacific Grove, California, USA. The Symposium is intended as a forum for bringing together international scientists and technologists engaged in the development of precise frequency standards and clocks, the study of their underlying physics, and their applications in metrology and tests of fundamental laws. The symposium has been traditionally held in a venue that promotes exchange of information on emerging ideas and latest achievements in the field, with a single-session approach which includes oral presentations by invitation, poster session(s) and keynote talks from internationally-recognized speakers. The program also includes social and other events aimed at promoting the exchange of technical and scientific information.
Publisher: World Scientific
ISBN: 981283821X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 597
Book Description
The Symposium on Frequency Standards and Metrology is an event held approximately every seven years, and is regarded as the premier conference in the field of advanced clocks and oscillators together with their applications in science and metrology. This series began with the first meeting at Universiteacute; Laval, Quebec Canada in 1971, and the last one was held in 2001 at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland. The 7th Symposium on Frequency Standards and Metrology is scheduled for October 5ndash;11, 2008 at the Asilomar Conference Grounds in Pacific Grove, California, USA. The Symposium is intended as a forum for bringing together international scientists and technologists engaged in the development of precise frequency standards and clocks, the study of their underlying physics, and their applications in metrology and tests of fundamental laws. The symposium has been traditionally held in a venue that promotes exchange of information on emerging ideas and latest achievements in the field, with a single-session approach which includes oral presentations by invitation, poster session(s) and keynote talks from internationally-recognized speakers. The program also includes social and other events aimed at promoting the exchange of technical and scientific information.
Eco-Towers
Author: K. Al-Kodmany
Publisher: WIT Press
ISBN: 1784660175
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 501
Book Description
Eco-Towers introduces readers to groundbreaking designs, most progressive projects, and innovative ways of thinking about a new generation of green skyscrapers that could provide solutions to crises the world faces today including climate change, depleting resources, deteriorating ecology, population increase, decreasing food supply, urban heat island effect, pollution, deforestation, and more. The book suggests that the eco-tower culminates the cultural and technological evolutions of the 21st century by building and improving on the experiences of earlier designs of skyscrapers and philosophies particularly green, sustainable, and ecological. It argues that the true green skyscraper is the one that engages successfully with its larger urban context by establishing symbiotic relationships with the social, economic, and environmental aspects. Since tall buildings are becoming larger and taller, serving greater number of people, and exerting higher demand on the environment and existing infrastructure, any improvements in their design and construction will significantly enhance urban conditions. The book elucidates how green skyscrapers better serve tenants, mitigate environmental impacts, and improve integration with the city infrastructure. It explains how skyscrapers’ long life cycle offers the greatest justifications for recycling precious resources, and makes it a worthwhile to employ green features in constructing new skyscrapers and retrofitting existing ones. Subsequently, the book explores new designs that are employing cutting-edge green technologies at a grand scale including water-saving technologies, solar panels, helical wind turbines, sunlight-sensing LED lights, rainwater catchment systems, graywater and blackwater recycling systems, seawater-powered air conditioning, and the like. In the future, new building materials and smart technologies will continue to offer innovative design approaches to sustainable tall buildings with new aesthetics, referred to as “eco-iconic” skyscrapers.
Publisher: WIT Press
ISBN: 1784660175
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 501
Book Description
Eco-Towers introduces readers to groundbreaking designs, most progressive projects, and innovative ways of thinking about a new generation of green skyscrapers that could provide solutions to crises the world faces today including climate change, depleting resources, deteriorating ecology, population increase, decreasing food supply, urban heat island effect, pollution, deforestation, and more. The book suggests that the eco-tower culminates the cultural and technological evolutions of the 21st century by building and improving on the experiences of earlier designs of skyscrapers and philosophies particularly green, sustainable, and ecological. It argues that the true green skyscraper is the one that engages successfully with its larger urban context by establishing symbiotic relationships with the social, economic, and environmental aspects. Since tall buildings are becoming larger and taller, serving greater number of people, and exerting higher demand on the environment and existing infrastructure, any improvements in their design and construction will significantly enhance urban conditions. The book elucidates how green skyscrapers better serve tenants, mitigate environmental impacts, and improve integration with the city infrastructure. It explains how skyscrapers’ long life cycle offers the greatest justifications for recycling precious resources, and makes it a worthwhile to employ green features in constructing new skyscrapers and retrofitting existing ones. Subsequently, the book explores new designs that are employing cutting-edge green technologies at a grand scale including water-saving technologies, solar panels, helical wind turbines, sunlight-sensing LED lights, rainwater catchment systems, graywater and blackwater recycling systems, seawater-powered air conditioning, and the like. In the future, new building materials and smart technologies will continue to offer innovative design approaches to sustainable tall buildings with new aesthetics, referred to as “eco-iconic” skyscrapers.