Editions Hyx : Architecture and art books

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HORS COLLECTION

JAKOB + MACFARLANE
Les Docks

Price : 30 €
ISBN : 978-2-910385-70-5
Bilingual edition (Fr/En)

RESTITUTIONS

REYNER BANHAM
L'Architecture de l'environnement bien tempéré

Price : 30 €
ISBN : 978-2-910385-67-5
French edition only

COLLECTION SCRIPT

Art ++

Price : 25 €
ISBN : 978-2-910385-51-4
French edition

Les Docks, the project designed by the architecture firm JAKOB + MACFARLANE, is one of the most original architectural works built in Paris in recent years. Standing beside the Seine, the “Cité de la Mode et du Design” gathers Under one roof the Institut Français de la Mode (French Fashion Institute), shops, eateries and a space for events. It has become an emblem of the capital’s identity and culture...

Today’s architectural thinking is focused on the major issues of ecology, environmental standards, growth and urban management. Now published for the first time in French, The Architecture of Well-Tempered Environmentis a classic of architectural criticism on the relation between environment and architecture. Published in 1964 and revised in 1984, this book makes an important contribution to current debate on contemporary architecture, in which the rapport between ecology and habitat is transforming the definition of architecture...

Since the late 1990s, a “back to programming” movement in the production of digital artworks has been gaining momentum. Although the artist is no longer obliged to also be a programmer to be able to utilize computers, as was the case in the “pioneering days” of computer generated art in the 1960s and ’70s, writing one’s own code is becoming a contemporary way to assert a certain intellectual and creative independence...