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Brutalisme

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Radio-Activities: Architecture and Broadcasting in Cold War Berlin

A historical and theoretical account of the city of Berlin from the intertwined perspectives of architecture, environmental, and media studies. In 1945, having occupied German territory, Soviet troops made two strategic moves: they dismantled the Deutschla ...

MIT Press2024

Le béton de réemploi, ressource territoriale à mobiliser

Corentin Jean Dominique Fivet, Maléna Bastien Masse, Célia Marine Küpfer

Plus que de tout autre matériau, le bâti suisse est fait de béton. Matériau aux nombreuses qualités, il est présent dans toute nouvelle construction, souvent en grande quantité. Malgré cela, des tonnes de béton sont quotidiennement démolies, pour des raiso ...

2022

The New Brutalism, invenzione di uno stile

Silvia Groaz

The concept of New Brutalism has been the victim of a series of misunderstandings, myths and aporias. The initial intentions, devoid of any principle or dogma, have passed from hand to hand. The original definitionâif only one can be identifiedâhas be ...

EPFL2021

The Tragedy of the Megastructure

Valentin Daniel Maurice Bourdon

Relating the megastructure to the issue of the Commons is a useful exercise to understand the success and the disappearance of what Peter Reyner Banham called the “dinosaurs of the Modern Movement”. All these large-scale constructions suffered the same fat ...

2018

The multiple lives of the “Unité d’Habitation” (1945-1967-2017). Repetition of their iconic value and differences in the construction systems, from their development to their case histories

Franz Graf

The Unités d’Habitation designed by Le Corbusier and André Wogenscky represent an exceptional moment in the development of the culture of housing in the 20th century1. Five examples of them were built – at Marseilles (1945-1952), Rezé (1948-1955), Berlin ( ...

Docomomo International and Docomomo Slovenia2018

Ragnar Östberg. Villa Geber, una casa nell'arcipelago

Chiara Monterumisi

ITA. Il principale obiettivo del libro è il superamento dell’univocità di interesse manifestata dalla critica per quella chef-d’oeuvre di Ragnar Östberg che è il Municipio di Stoccolma. Ciò si concretizza nel tentativo di delineare un nuovo apporto esegeti ...

Edibus Comunicazione2017

Shadows of the South. Venetian fragments from Ragnar Östberg’s travelogue

Chiara Monterumisi

After centuries of popularity, late 19th century educational travel began to change and lose something of the 18th century aristocratic Grand Tour. The South remained the focus of interest, the cradle of that culture from which Europe’s own had grown. Swed ...

2013

Le Corbusier: Béton Brut and Ineffable Space, 1940-1965

Roberto Gargiani, Anna Rosellini

Béton brut and ineffable space: two concepts defined by Le Corbusier after World War II that speak about a stronger dialogue between materials and artistic vision of his work. Invented to designate his own particular use of exposed concrete, béton brut is ...

EPFL Press, Routledge2011

Special Curve Patterns for Freeform Architecture

Bailin Deng

In recent years, freeform shapes are gaining more and more popularity in architecture. Such shapes are often challenging to manufacture, and have motivated an active research field called architectural geometry. In this thesis, we investigate patterns of s ...

Vienna University of Technology2011

VHD++ development framework: towards extendible, component based VR/AR simulation engine featuring advanced virtual character technologies

Daniel Thalmann, Michal Ponder

We present the architecture of the VHD++ real-time development framework that after several years of intensive research, design, and development effort has been released and enters its validation phase. We discuss the key aspects involved in architectural ...

IEEE Comput. Soc2003

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