Claude-Nicolas Ledoux Works: Decoration of Café militaire (or Café Godeau), rue Saint-Honoré, Paris, 1762 (Musée Carnavalet, Paris) Château de Mauperthuis (Seine-et-Marne), 1763 (destroyed) Hôtel du président Hocquart, 66 rue de la Chaussée-d’Antin, Paris, 1764-1765 (destroyed) Hôtel d’Hallwyll, 28 rue Michel-le-Comte [fr] and 15 rue de Montmorency, Paris, 1766: It is the only private construction of Ledoux which remains in the capital. Hôtel d’Uzès, rue Montmartre, Paris, 1767 […]
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Neoclassical Architecture references: Neoclassical Architecture (Britannica) Order (Britannica) Claude-Nicolas Ledoux
The first wave of Vietnamese architects are mostly trained in the Beaux-Arts tradition. We can cite some names like Nguyen Nhu Y, Nguyen Cao Luyen, Ta My Duat and so on references: The role of the first generation of Vietnamese architects Những nhà kiến trúc Việt Nam đầu tiên: họ là ai?
This book constitutes the 9th volume of Alexander’s series on his rethinking of the profession and its practice. It contemplates on architecture as meaningful place for people. Alexander starts the discussion with an argument that “our world is dominated by the order we create,” yet we tend to overlook the basic definition of ‘order’ itself. […]
reference: Petite Encyclopedie de l’Architecture | Architecture preromane en Europe – fin du X siecle – milieu du XI siecle Au seuil d’un nouveau millenaire … Il determine le depassement du modele byzantin et l’abandon du langage formel de l’Antiquite classique: la colonne est remplacee par le pilier, les surfaces aux murs epais entendues comme […]
Annette Kim is a professor at MIT, who conducted a research on Saign sidewalk in …. Her practice Sidewalk Lab is … references: Saigoneer: Expert: Saigon’s Sidewalks a Model for Other Cities Polis: Three Questions: Annette Kim of M.I.T Sidewalk Lab
reference: list of buildings: No 8 Chân Cầm st videos Thai Cong’s Indochina Interior Design This video shows a new interior construction for a villa in Hanoi in Indochina style, with marble flooring and wall, dark wood trims, rattan furniture and so on.
(original text) EXPERIMENTAL GREEN STRATEGIES Defining new ways in which architects are responding to the challenge of creating sustainable architecture, Experimental Green Strategies presents a state of the art in applied ecological, architectural research. But can a building be “ecological”? How can architects in practice carry out “research”? Is “green” building a designer’s problem, or […]
Patrick Pinnell is …
American Postwar Housing problem The Case Study House Program “embraced a belief that the modernist ideals could be part of the postwar home.”