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Dezeen and publishers FIELL have teamed up to give away five copies Richard Rogers + Architects: From the House to the City, an overview of the architect’s work from the beginning of his career to the present day.

Divided into architectural themes, the book features Rogers’ early work from the Sixties and Seventies, his collaboration with Renzo Piano designing the Pompidou Centre in Paris and recent work produced by his current practice Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners.

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Here are more details from the publisher:

Richard Rogers + Architects From the House to the City

British architect Richard Rogers has been described as the last humanist, in recognition of his determination to create public spaces that encompass the diversity and complexity of the contemporary world. This book takes a look at the work of Rogers and his partners, from his early career in the Sixties and Seventies, to his collaboration with Renzo Piano on the design of the Pompidou Centre (1971-77), to numerous projects up to present day through his architectural practice, Richard Rogers Partnership (now Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners).

Rogers and his team use new materials and innovative techniques to build structures that are lightweight, transparent and environmentally friendly. His buildings create a seductive interplay of light and shadow and are simple to understand and use. In this book, projects executed by Richard Rogers and his partners are presented in sections devoted to the various architectural themes that define his work: legible; transparent; lightweight; systems; green; urban; public; together with sections on both early work and work in progress.

The Practice has won many awards including, exceptionally, the Stirling Prize for Terminal 4 Barajas Airport in 2006 and again in 2009 for Maggie’s London. Richard Rogers is the 2007 Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureate, the recipient of the RIBA Gold Medal in 1985 and winner of the 1999 Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation Medal.

Contents:

Exposed; Early Work; Public; Legible; Lightweight; Green; Timeline; Transparent; Systems; Urban; Cities and the Future; Work in Progress; Inside Out; Directors’ Biographies; Manifesto.

“Richard Rogers is a great architect. He is the only architect I know that can be a humanist at 9 o’clock in the morning, a builder at 11, a poet just before lunch and a philosopher at dinner time. This is what I call a great architect.” Renzo Piano

ISBN13: 9781906863111
ISBN: 1906863113
PUBLISHER: Fiell Publishing Ltd
TERRITORY: UK, Scandinavia, Italy & Arab states SIZE: 260 x 200mm
PAGES: 280
ILLUSTRATIONS: 107 b&w, 350 colour
PRICE: £24.95 Hardback

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With the help of Google Earth, Jeffrey Tribe has discovered 12 human heads emerging from the British coastline, as presented in his project, Headlands

As a kid growing up in Suffolk, I well remember my mum noting somewhat bitterly, as we gazed at the Look East weather report, how apt it was that the East Anglian coastline resembled the features of a grumpy old man. Her opinion of the locals was yet to soften after our family’s move south in the 60s.

Jeffrey Tribe, it seems, has had similar ideas – not about the taciturn nature of East Anglians, but about the resemblance of some parts of the UK coastline to human faces. Tribe, who is senior graphics lecturer at Bedford College, has worked the idea into a personal project which uses Google Earth to present 12 ‘Headlands’ alongside short narratives based on the location in the form of cigarette cards.

Each image, he says, is exactly as seen on Google Earth, with no retouching. A selection is shown here:

table made of MDF+OSB

Découverte du portfolio de Rik Oostenbroek, jeune graphiste autodidacte agé de seulement 20 ans et basé au Pays-Bas. Actuellement freelance et membre de Depthcore, il a déjà collaboré avec Mazda, Palm, Panasonic. De nombreux exemples de son travail dans la suite.

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Elle Decor, which lately has made us reconsider our lifelong bias against chandeliers in domestically scaled interiors, has a new editor-in-chief. Today former executive editor Michael Boodro officially takes the helm of Hachette Filipacchi’s art-savvy, idea-stuffed shelter magazine, one of the few to survive—and thrive—amidst the category’s recent implosion (R.I.P. Metropolitan Home, Domino, House and Garden, and O at Home). Boodro has completed a couple of stints as executive editor at Elle Decor, first from 2004 to 2006 and then again from 2009 to yesterday (and you’ll no doubt recall his tenure as editor-in-chief of Martha Stewart Living in the in-between time). He has also worked at publications including Culture + Travel, The New York Times Magazine and Vogue.

The in-house shuffle is Elle Decor‘s response to veteran editor Margaret Russell‘s departure to Condé Nast, where she has taken over for editorial endurance champ Paige Rense at Architectural Digest. “What Michael brings to the table is [the ability to] continuously take what Margaret has done and elevate it,” Robin Domeniconi, Elle and Elle Decor‘s new senior vice president and chief brand officer, told WWD. “It’s basically like we have this wonderful entrée—all we need to do is add a little salt and pepper and some spices.” Joining them in the proverbial kitchen will be Anita Sarsidi, who has been promoted from design and decoration editor to design director; Florentino Pamintuan, who has ascended from art director to creative director; and Vicky Lowry, who moves from her post as executive editor of elledecor.com to executive editor on the print side.

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