Paul Virilio

Frédéric Migayrou

Claude Parent

Synthèse exemplaire des recherches de Claude Parent et de Paul Virilio au sein du groupe Architecture Principe, Sainte-Bernadette-du-Banlay, bâtie en 1966, expérimente par la fonction oblique un nouveau rapport de l'homme à son environnement. Bâtiment provocateur en rupture avec la doxa architecturale des années 1960, expression du détournement de la forme des bunkers du Mur de l'Atlantique et d'une fracture du plan moderne, l'église de Nevers s'affirme comme l'une des premières architectures critiques de l'après- guerre. Servi par un ensemble inédit de textes et d'images, le présent ouvrage retrace l'histoire et la portée d'un chef d'oeuvre du XXe siècle qui se donne comme un repère essentiel dans le champ de la modernité. Bilingue français-anglais.

Nevers

Steven Holl

Arc en rêve centre d'architecture

Hani Rashid

Lise Anne Couture

Asymptote (New York, N.Y.)

Founded in New York in 1987, Asymptote is a highly regarded, innovative young firm whose avant-garde work includes building designs, urban planning proposals, gallery installations, and computer-generated imaging and environments. Asymptote's practice explores the meaning of architectural production in today's post-information age, when digital and telecommunications technology and an increasingly sophisticated media are radically changing our perception of space and time. In this first volume of their work, Asymptote presents fifteen speculative and experimental works and ten architectural projects, many of which were for prestigious international invited competitions. These include the new library for Alexandria, Egypt; the Moscow State Theater; a national courthouse for Groningen, the Netherlands; the Berlin Spreebogen, a new parliamentary precinct; and a proposal for a new city center in Lanciano, Italy. Also featured is Asymptote's award-winning design for the Los Angeles West Coast Gateway, a national monument commemorating Pacific Rim immigration. Their work has been exhibited in Paris, Berlin, London, Kyoto, Montréal, Los Angeles, Toronto, and New York. Hani Rashid and Lisa Anne Couture, Asymptote's principal's, introduce the book with a lyrical essay, an appeal for "a new architecture that is anticipatory, imperfect, and precisely misaligned." A critical essay by Frédéric Migayrou discusses Asymptote's practice in the context of contemporary architectural theory and practice.

Architecture at the Interval

Asymptote

Luke Pearson

Bob Sheil

Laura Allen

Drawing Futures brings together international designers and artists for speculations in contemporary drawing for art and architecture.Despite numerous developments in technological manufacture and computational design that provide new grounds for designers, the act of drawing still plays a central role as a vehicle for speculation. There is a rich and long history of drawing tied to innovations in technology as well as to revolutions in our philosophical understanding of the world. In reflection of a society now underpinned by computational networks and interfaces allowing hitherto unprecedented views of the world, the changing status of the drawing and its representation as a political act demands a platform for reflection and innovation. Drawing Futures will present a compendium of projects, writings and interviews that critically reassess the act of drawing and where its future may lie.Drawing Futures focuses on the discussion of how the field of drawing may expand synchronously alongside technological and computational developments. The book coincides with an international conference of the same name, taking place at The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, in November 2016. Bringing together practitioners from many creative fields, the book discusses how drawing is changing in relation to new technologies for the production and dissemination of ideas.

Speculations in Contemporary Drawing for Art and Architecture

Drawing Futures

Frédéric Migayrou

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