Parc de la Villette, Paris
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The participants in the 1982 architecture competition for the Parc de la Villette in Paris saw submissions by a range of architects including Bernard Tschumi, Elia Zenghelis, Franco Purini, Franco Zagari, Giampiero Donin, Gilbert Lezenès, Jacques Gouvernec, Jean Aubert, Jean Nouvel, Jean-Pierre Raynaud, Kisho Kurokawa, Leonardo Ricci, Maria Grazia Dallerba, Maurizio Baruffi, OMA, Pierre Soria, Rem Koolhaas, Roberto de Santi, Salvatore Dierna, Team Zoo and Zaha Hadid.

The winner of the competition was Bernard Tschumi in partnership with Colin Fournier. The Parc de la Villette is the third-largest park in Paris with 35.5 hectares, located in the 19th arrondissement.
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  Inspirations.  
worlds of planet earth
A set of photos from different places on Earth. 2018
Carlo Scarpa
jardin des sculptures. C Scarpa
The loft bar
Concept project of loft bar.
Holodeck
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Mechanical Suprematist
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The shape of clouds
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penccil: This was 2017
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serpentine 2017
exhibition, schauspiel köln, cologne. steelobjects, ceramic reliefs.
BS1
temporary accessible sculpture.
Le Drugstore Brand Identity
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BKM/Barozzi/Veiga
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Fallingwater
Modernist Architecture by Frank Lloyd Wright
Green Architecture…. Is it blessing or curse!!
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Library
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Glowscape
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Lattice
Architectural structures. Mario Gagliardi 2006
Kenzo Tange
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The Menu
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Organic Public
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Books of Memory: Gianpaolo Pagni
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Food Architecture
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Jean Lurçat
Jean Lurcat, painter, poet and ceramicist, great renovator of contemporary French tapestry, produced...
Sky Walk
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Pillars
Consisting of connected bricks whose relative position can be altered by changing underlying paramet...
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Brazil Modernism
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Struth: Nature & Politics
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In Orbit
"When I look at these complex layers of translucent lines and spheres, I am reminded of models of th...
Tom Ngo
"Common sense and conventional practice prohibits the evolution of architecture. Through reproducing...
Future Architecture
Future Architecture Platform is a European program which promotes talents in architecture. Future A...
Superstudio, Superproduction, Superconsumption
Superarchitecture is the architecture of superproduction, of superconsumption, of superinduction to ...
Heartbeat, Heartseat
Heartbeat consists of a massive heart glowing to the rhythm of a strong, deep and low frequency hear...
Swarm fabrication: Kokkugia / Roland Snooks
We have a fascination with the impact of new technologies on architecture and construction. We are f...
Spatial Clusters
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Une Cité Industrielle by Tony Garnier
Tony Garnier designed the plans of an ideal city during his stay at the Villa Médicis from 1899 to ...
L’ITALIA CI GUARDIA
On the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the birth of the Italian Republic, 40 masters of photogra...
The Glass House
"This house was Philip Johnson's autobiography—all of his interests were visible, and all of his a...
Francois Morellet 1926 - 2016
Since he first began making work in the 1950s, Morellet has been engaged in creating work which has ...
Design & Politics
Photo series "design and politics" by Philippe Jarrigeon, photographer and publisher, born in 1982 i...
Xavier Antin: Printing at Home
A printer manual to disturb and disrupt the printing process. Xavier Antin, born in 1981, lives and ...
Julius Shulman: Visual Drama
"Julius had an eye for visual drama. With modernist buildings, he loved capturing the strong lines s...
Bird´s Nest
I am often struck by the nests that crows build using clothes hangers. Hangers are not only durable ...
Mimicry and Makeshift
Two future visions for urbanism and ownership: Mimicry city - where everything wants to be owned. As...
Colliding Worlds
Architectural models of small planets appear in unexpected places. (C) Mario Gagliardi 2007
Jean-Jaques Lequeu
Jean-Jacques Lequeu (1757-1825) worked as a draughtsman at Rouen, and from 1779 in Paris at the Cad...
Rayan Ayash
Rayan Ayash is a Fashion Photographer based in New York & Paris.
Amor Vacui
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Archispecture
Architectural studies. Mario Gagliardi 2007-2010.
Carreaux
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Small Buildings
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The end of history - La fin de l´histoire
"Belief in progress is irresistible. In flattering the eye it blinds us. Standing in the middle of t...
Tamara
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Blast
Naoya Hatakeyama was born in 1958 in Iwate Prefecture, Japan. Hatakeyama, a student of Kiyoji Otsuji...
Royère
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Bring the outside in: The houses of Joseph Eichler
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Harrison and Abramovitz
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“Modern man has become a cog in a very complex society. We live in a society that praises individu...
Manufactured Landscapes
We've created landscapes dense with human history, layered with the traces of our experience and cri...
Alain Georges Frank Jacquet
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PAISAJES DE L'EMPORDÀ
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VEOVEO
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SÚBER
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Casa Sperimentale
One of the most visionary built experiments of 20th century architecture was created through the per...
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Paris
Paris 2019. (C) Mario Gagliardi
Calatrava : Sculptures
Sculptures by architect Santiago Calatrava.
PIXelated Cube
experiment idea materialmatters architecture
CAMOUFLAGE ARCHITECTURE
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Collaborative City Planning
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Structures
Architectural studies, Mario Gagliardi 2002-2004.
Dreaming of Skyscrapers
Mario Gagliardi 2006.
Alessandro Mendini 1931-2019
For Alchimia, design is a cyle: everything that will have to happen has already happened, and the im...
Terror Architecture -18th Century Prisons
In the late 1770s, there was a particular interest in the development of not only scientific and rhe...
Kunio Makaewa
Kunio Maekawa was a master of Japanese modernist architecture. He learned under Le Corbusier and was...
Digital Biology
Interior studies for public indoor spaces merging digital and biological environments. Wall modules ...
Territorium: Ars - Techne-Krafts-Cosmovisión
Colección de imágenes que soportan investigación a nivel de postgrado: Maestría Estudios Territ...
Fashion, Food, Transport
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