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par Bosley, Edward R.

Phaidon

2003 -

Disponible - 70"19" GREE 2

Niveau 3 - Arts

Résumé : Charles and Henry Greene are key figures of the American Arts and Crafts movement. This large-scale monograph on the Greenes' life and complete range of works features new scholarship, newly commissioned photography, and previously unpublished archival material including recently discovered projects. Charles and Henry Greene's work is concentrated in California - where they practised architecture together from 1906-22 before establishing separate offices - and they have become closely identified with the popular regionalist "Craftsman" style. The elegant houses of their peak period, such as the Gamble, Blacker and Thorsen houses, are masterful in their design and execution. No detail was overlooked: the whole interior including furniture, fittings, and glasswork, as well as the building (down to pegs, airvents, and bracing) were conceived as an organic whole, and finished exquisitely. Following the lead of the chronology of their intertwined personal and professional lives, the monograph begins with how the two brothers were raised to be architects and to practice together. they were sent to MIT (then the finest architecture school in America), where their natural artistic skills were combined with an excellent technical grounding, before apprenticing with liberal architects in Boston. After establishing their own practice together they quickly allied themselves with the progressive Arts and Craft movement, a movement they were soon to be shaping as much as responding to. Their distinctive and innovative designs were all-encompassing, treating every component of a house (both inside and out) as an element to be designed. Their work drew prestigious and wealthy clients, but their high fees and exacting (and therefore slow) process eventually led to the break down of their joint practice. The projects of their individual offices, while excellent examples of the Arts and Crafts style, never reached the same aesthetic and architectural level as the fruits of their symbiotic partnership.Table des matières Yankee forebears; Midwest boys; to make pleasurable those things; a California house; trees of life, stones of art; the elusive client; guarding a legacy; in seaside Bohemia; "with the beautiful in mind...".

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Autumn's sun

par Connors, Loren (1949-....)

Blank forms editions

2019 -

Disponible - 780.61 CONN 1

Niveau 3 - Musiques et documents parlés

Résumé : One of the world's most singular guitarists, Loren Connors is among few living musicians whose prolific body of work can be said to be wholly justified in its plenitude. On more than 100 records across almost four decades, Connors has wrung distinct shades of ephemeral blues from his guitar, its sound ever-shifting while remaining unmistakably his own. From his early, splintered take on the Delta bottleneck style through his song-based albums with Suzanne Langille and on to the painterly abstraction that defines his current work, Connors has earned the admiration of many, leading to collaborations with the likes of John Fahey, Jim O'Rourke, Keiji Haino, and Kim Gordon.In the mid-80s, Connors took a partial break from music and focused instead on the art of haiku, for which he received the Lafcadio Hearn Award in 1987. With his wife Suzanne Langille he also co-wrote an article on blues and haiku, "The Dancing Ear," published in the Haiku Society of America's journal. It was during this period that Connors penned the material that appears in Autumn's Sun, a chapbook first published by Thurston Moore and Byron Coley's Glass Eye in 1999. The text features diary excerpts from 1987, lyrically fragmented observations interspersed with haiku-like poems that paint an idyllic impression of the passing seasons in his home of New Haven, Connecticut. With synesthetic perception, Connors gazes from tranquil domestic streets. Sycamore, elm, and catalpa trees are activated by the breeze and made to rustle in unison with their natural and artificial surroundings, including the howling dogs from which Connors derived his 'Mazzacane' moniker. As summer fades to winter, Connors portrays death as an undramatic certitude, the flux of his own maturation reflected in musings on his son's. Like his music, Autumn's Sun is tender without being sentimental, conjuring those rare, delicate moments when time stands still.This edition includes "The Dancing Ear" and an introduction by Lawrence Kumpf

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Guide d'architecture : Venise : Constructions et projets après 1950

par Kusch, Clemens F. (1963-) ; Gelhaar, Anabel (1970-)

DOM publishers

2014 -

Disponible - 724.407 KUS

Niveau 3 - Arts

Résumé : Venise s’est développée ces dernières années comme Mecque de la communauté architecturale internationale. A l’ombre de la place Saint-Marc, du pont Rialto et du palais des Doges, l’élite de l’art de construire contemporain se fête lors de la Biennale et présente l’exposition d’architecture la plus reconnue de notre époque. De manière étonnante, il n’existe pas de guide à l’heure actuelle traitant de l’architecture moderne du plus grand musée à ciel ouvert du monde. Ce guide d’architecture est une invitation à la découverte du Venise d’après 1950 à l’écart des sentiers touristiques. Les chemins et ballades en bateau mènent vers de nouveaux complexes d’habitations et vers des entrepôts portuaires reconvertis, à des oeuvres de Carlo Scarpa, Tadao Ando et David Chipperfield. Des projets de constructions neuves controversés comme des barrières de protection contre la montée des eaux et des transformations spectaculaires comme pour la Fondaco dei Tedeschi par Rem Koolhaas sont de même abordés dans ce guide pratique qui vous accompagnera dans votre voyage. Les auteurs présentent, à côté des projets non réalisés de Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier et Louis Kahn, tous les pavillons des Biennales construits ces six dernières décennies.Biographical NoteClemens F. Kusch (1963), a suivi des études d’architecture à l’Université de Venise (IUAV). Diplômé en 1993, depuis professeur invité à l’Université de Venise. Architecte contact pour des agences allemandes, entre autres gmp (von Gerkan, Marg und Partner) et pour curateurs de la Biennale de Venise, correspondant pour des journaux allemands, coordinateur depuis 2009 du projet pour la reconstruction du château de Berlin. Anabel Gelhaar (1970) a suivi des études d’architecture à l’Université de Venise (IUAV). A travaillé pendant plusieurs années à l’IUAV studi & progetti de l’Université de Venise comme dans de nombreuses agences internationales, entre autres Anthony Ng (Hong Kong), collaboratrice depuis 2007 chez cfk_architetti dans le domaine de la scénographie d’exposition et comme rédactrice.

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