Cet architecte britannique est réputé pour ses conceptions modernistes et fonctionnalistes. Son travail se caractérise par des formes audacieuses et l'intégration de la technologie dans les bâtiments. L'approche de Rogers en matière de conception implique souvent l'exposition de la structure et des services du bâtiment, créant ainsi un espace dynamique et ouvert. Il met l'accent sur l'impact social de l'architecture et sa capacité à améliorer la vie des gens.
Focusing on the conception of the Centre Pompidou, this book offers a unique exploration through previously unpublished archives from the Renzo Piano Building Workshop. It provides insights into the architectural vision and creative process behind this iconic cultural landmark, showcasing the evolution of its design and the collaborative efforts involved in its realization.
By the year 2025, three-quarters of the world's population will live in cities. In these lectures, one of Britain's most prominent architects attempts to show how a city can respect both people and the environment through urban planning.
From ancient and classical masterpieces to contemporary, cutting-edge buildings, architecture has defined our world throughout history. Drawing its examples from all around the globe, Architecture: The Whole Story is a richly illustrated and comprehensive account of the architects, plans, designs and constructions that over the centuries have most engaged our minds, inspired our imaginations and raised our spirits. For everyone who has ever wished for greater insight into the art of building design, Architecture: The Whole Story provides the analytical tools to appreciate to the fullest the variety of architectural achievement and the built environment in the world.
The crisis of modern architecture is part of a much larger crisis involving the whole question of the way we live and how we use the resources of our planet. This book deals with this topic.
Oliver Twist naît orphelin dans l'Angleterre du XIXe siècle. Mal nourri, exploité dès ses plus jeunes années, le pauvre garçon endure tout avec patience. Mais il refuse un jour les traitements injustes qu'il subit et fuit vers Londres. Epuisé, affamé, il est recueilli par une bande de jeunes voleurs. Il découvre alors un autre monde, tout aussi cruel, où la ruse et la force sont les meilleures armes. Le destin cessera-t-il de s'acharner contre Oliver ? A l'occasion de la sortie en salles du film de Roman Polanski, Le Livre de Poche Jeunesse propose une nouvelle traduction d'Oliver Twist par Michel Laporte, qui restitue toute la fraîcheur et le rythme, la tendresse et l'ironie du chef-d'œuvre de Charles Dickens.
Written by the well-known architectural critic Kenneth Powell, this new monograph provides a richly illustrated overview and an ideal introduction to the works of Richard Rogers internationally renowned office. Founded in 1977, with offices in London, Barcelona and Tokyo, RRP has a long-established reputation for high-tech and energy-efficient designs. Famous as the architects of the Centre Pompidou in Paris (together with Renzo Piano), and for the iconic Lloyd’s of London, the practice’s recent projects include the transformation of the Las Arenas bullring in Barcelona, the new Library of Birmingham, Heathrow Airport’s Terminal 5 and Madrid’s Barajas Airport expansion. This comprehensive survey also covers RRP’s substantial masterplanning projects, such as the Lu Jia Zui district in Shanghai and the masterplan for the Greenwich Peninsula in London. Richard Rogers is the Pritzker Prize Winner 2007.
On average, from 2000 to 2025, Britain will need almost four million additional households. How can these be provided without the endless "development" of the countryside, or stretching already strained urban resources? This work tackles these issues.
An analysis of how the Web practices politics in the way it makes information available, with a plan to make the Internet a collision space for alternative accounts of reality.
Proposing a methodological outlook for social & cultural scholarly research on the Web this book seeks to move Internet research beyond the study of online culture
Book four sees Lord Croft not only having to contend with an attempt by the Chinese Triads and the Nigerian drug Lords to take over the drugs trade in England but also an attempt by an unscrupulous Italian count to break up his marriage to Janet, his longsuffering wife. Lord Croft's ways of a sexual predator continue unabated, meeting up with previous mistresses as well as new ones. Obtaining a commercial pilot's license and extending his charter activities to include air and sea add new challenges in this fight for survival in the underworld of drug trafficking and intrigue.