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A timely overview of the pioneering work of the acclaimed Irish architectural practice Dublin-based Grafton Architects (founded by Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara in 1978) has built up an impressive body of work over its 40-year history, ranging from houses in Ireland to public buildings in Italy, France, the UK, and Peru. In this long-overdue study, respected architectural writer and critic Robert McCarter presents 60 of Grafton's built and unbuilt projects and brings to light their principled and ethical approach, which is committed to making a profound difference to the lives of their buildings' users.
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MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects, the influential and award-winning firm based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, have an international reputation. Producing a wide range of projects both in Canada and further afield, they work in a sophisticated modern vernacular idiom, drawing inspiration from a rich local heritage of building types and reinterpreting them according to the best practices of 21st-century architecture. It is above all for their dignified and beautiful houses perched on the wild, rocky coasts of Nova Scotia that the firm is recognized. Overlooking the Atlantic Ocean, this remarkable body of work is based around a number of plan types that answer to the particular local climate: open to the sun but sheltered from the winds, and built using traditional materials that are allowed to weather, these dwellings embody the architects' engagement with their unique surroundings and material culture. This new monograph covers MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects' complete work. Introductions by renowned architectural writers set the scene, while individual projects are illustrated through evocative photographs and detailed plans and drawings. What emerges is a celebration of an architecture that is both practical and deeply poetic.
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"André Bruyère (1912-1998) fut un architecte singulier. Par les douloureux méandres de sa biographie. Par sa formation chez Auguste Perret qui ne déposa guère de traces dans son travail, ce qui en fait à certains égards une sorte d'autodidacte, nourri par la proximité d'Émile Aillaud et du milieu de la mode. Par son ton aussi, sa causticité, sa façon d'être une manière de poète, d'homme de lettres, de rebelle en marge de sa profession. Par son écriture surtout, son esthétique acquise au fil des années, son architecture personnelle et très identifiable mélange de justesse d'approche, d'intuition ergonomique, de goût profane pour le sacré et la magie. Mélange de préciosité aussi, de sensualité et d'élégance formelle. Une élégance construite et maintenue malgré les traumatismes de la vie, malgré la cruauté qui fut celle de son siècle. Son oeuvre est rare hôtelière (La Caravelle en Guadeloupe), hospitalière (un centre pour les déportés et prisonniers de guerre à Fleury-Mérogis, un pavillon pour le grand âge à Ivry-sur-Seine), un bel ensemble de logements (à Sausset-les-Pins), quelques maisons dont la sienne dans les Alpilles et un projet de gratte-ciel en forme d'oeuf qu'il promena du plateau Beaubourg à Manhattan puis à Marseille, aux abords du fort Saint-Jean. Elle est sou .le et tendre. Collaborateur d'André Bruyère au début des années soixante-dix, François Chaslin est critique d'architecture. Il a été rédacteur en chef de L'Architecture d'aujourd'hui et a collaboré au Monde, au Nouvel Observateur, à Libération et El Pais, et à plus d'une centaine de revues. Il a produit Métropolitains, émission hebdomadaire de France Culture, participé à divers catalogues, ouvrages collectifs et monographies et publié notamment Les Paris de François Mitterrand (Gallimard, 1985), Une haine monumentale (Descartes & Cie, 1997), Deux conversations avec Rem Koolhaas et caetera (Sens & Tonka, 2001), Jean Nouvel critiques (lnfolio, 2008), Paris, carnet périphérique (Créaphis, 2011) et Un Corbusier (Seuil, 2015)."--Page 4 of cover.

• Andrea Palladio.--Lorenzo Bernini.--Inigo Jones.--Jacques François Mansart.--Ange Jacques Gabriel.--Christopher Wren.--Bibliography (p. 187-189)

Halvard Solness has arrived at the pinnacle of his career. He has just been awarded the prestigious Master Builder award, his beautiful wife still loves him, his beautiful secretary still flirts with him and Prince Charles is coming to open his new building tomorrow. Then a knock at the door propels Solness' past into everyone's future. The only way is down.Zinnie Harris's contemporary take on Henrik Ibsen's classic, The Master Builder, premiered at West Yorkshire Playhouse in September 2017.
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This title is first published in 1892. Ibsen's study of the price of ambition resonates ever stronger today. Halvard Solness, a middle-aged architect, has clawed his way to prominence. His single-minded focus on his job, however, has hardened him and prevented him from having any meaningful relationship. With the arrival of Hilda Wangel, a young woman who has idolized Solness for years, the fire of pride and arrogance is stoked and Solness is encouraged to make one final, fateful grand gesture.
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