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The contributors to this book explore how dynamic displays of costume have helped visualize certain key concerns of modernity, such as movement, time, transience and gender identity. Above all, the essays highlight the immense transformative potential of costume and fashion, both in the moving image and beyond.
Birds of paradise : costume as cinematic spectacle
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The contributors to this book explore how dynamic displays of costume have helped visualize certain key concerns of modernity, such as movement, time, transience and gender identity. Above all, the essays highlight the immense transformative potential of costume and fashion, both in the moving image and beyond.
Fashion Design
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This publication looks at 25 trailblazing projects, including the Brooklyn Superhero Supply Co., which helps young people with writing skills (while also selling superhero gear); Tcho, a participatory chocolate manufacturer in San Francisco; and various collectively founded or structured supermarkets, hospitals, theaters and even internet providers throughout the United(...)
Compendium for the civic economy: what our cities, towns and neighbourhoods should learn from 25 trailblazers
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This publication looks at 25 trailblazing projects, including the Brooklyn Superhero Supply Co., which helps young people with writing skills (while also selling superhero gear); Tcho, a participatory chocolate manufacturer in San Francisco; and various collectively founded or structured supermarkets, hospitals, theaters and even internet providers throughout the United Kingdom and mainland Europe.
Urban Theory
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This handbook presents a selection of the most significant integrative, autonomously organized housing projects in Europe today, from barrier-free renovations of old buildings in Berlin, to communal living for the elderly in Stockholm, to zero-emissions cooperatives in Vienna. CoHousing Cultures also includes in-depth discussions and photographs of all relevant projects.
Cohousing cultures: handbook for self-organized, community-oriented and sustainable housing
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This handbook presents a selection of the most significant integrative, autonomously organized housing projects in Europe today, from barrier-free renovations of old buildings in Berlin, to communal living for the elderly in Stockholm, to zero-emissions cooperatives in Vienna. CoHousing Cultures also includes in-depth discussions and photographs of all relevant projects.
Collective Housing
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New Nordic Architecture & Identity offers a critical exploration of the current global interest in Nordic-ness, attempting to determine whether certain special “Nordic” features recur in architecture, and whether this involves a fundamental formal idiom that is regularly reinterpreted. Is there a Nordic architectural identity? And if so, how has this Nordic identity(...)
New Nordic architecture and identity
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New Nordic Architecture & Identity offers a critical exploration of the current global interest in Nordic-ness, attempting to determine whether certain special “Nordic” features recur in architecture, and whether this involves a fundamental formal idiom that is regularly reinterpreted. Is there a Nordic architectural identity? And if so, how has this Nordic identity developed in relation to the rest of the world? This volume looks at buildings by Snøhetta, Jarmund/Vignaes, Lassila Hirvilammi, Johan Celsing, Lundgaard & Tranberg, Bjarke Ingels Group and Studio Granda, highlighting their new uses of “traditional” Nordic materials.
Architecture since 1900, Europe
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Global urbanization, demographic change and the requirements of sustainability and competitiveness call for new solutions to ever-diminishing urban space. In this logbook-style publication, six universities and colleges, and 25 doctoral students draw up innovative, sustainable solutions for the development of metropolitan regions throughout Germany.
Spatial research lab : the logbook
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Global urbanization, demographic change and the requirements of sustainability and competitiveness call for new solutions to ever-diminishing urban space. In this logbook-style publication, six universities and colleges, and 25 doctoral students draw up innovative, sustainable solutions for the development of metropolitan regions throughout Germany.
Architecture since 1900, Europe
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Since 2004, Open has conducted an interdisciplinary investigation into the changing conditions of public space, fostering new ideas about the public sphere and focusing on the impact of current processes of privatization, mediatization and globalization on society and cultural production. This volume collects key texts from Open, published between 2004 and 2012.
Open! Key texts 2004-2012 : art culture & the public domain
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Since 2004, Open has conducted an interdisciplinary investigation into the changing conditions of public space, fostering new ideas about the public sphere and focusing on the impact of current processes of privatization, mediatization and globalization on society and cultural production. This volume collects key texts from Open, published between 2004 and 2012.
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OASE 88 examines the role of the architecture exhibition as a site of production. Bridging theory and practice, and relating historical examples to contemporary concerns, it considers the exhibition as a medium for experimentation.
Oase 88 : exhibitions showing and producing architecture
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OASE 88 examines the role of the architecture exhibition as a site of production. Bridging theory and practice, and relating historical examples to contemporary concerns, it considers the exhibition as a medium for experimentation.
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OASE 89 explores the production and interpretation of midsize cities--a typically European phenomenon that is contrasted here with the Asian megacity. The midsize city is envisaged as a more durable model for contemporary concerns--one that more successfully preserves historical and geographic identity.
OASE 89: the mid-size city as a european urban condition and strategy
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OASE 89 explores the production and interpretation of midsize cities--a typically European phenomenon that is contrasted here with the Asian megacity. The midsize city is envisaged as a more durable model for contemporary concerns--one that more successfully preserves historical and geographic identity.
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Le dossier de ce numéro porte sur l'abbaye de Cluny et son environnement urbain - sa connaissance, sa restauration et sa mise en valeur - et est rédigé par les principaux acteurs qui, à divers titres, ont contribué à une nouvelle perception du site. Parmi les autres chantiers traités, on citera la restauration exemplaire de deux édifices antiques emblématiques : la Maison(...)
Monumental 2012, semestriel 2: l'abbaye de Cluny
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Le dossier de ce numéro porte sur l'abbaye de Cluny et son environnement urbain - sa connaissance, sa restauration et sa mise en valeur - et est rédigé par les principaux acteurs qui, à divers titres, ont contribué à une nouvelle perception du site. Parmi les autres chantiers traités, on citera la restauration exemplaire de deux édifices antiques emblématiques : la Maison carrée de Nîmes et la Porte noire de Besançon ; les récents travaux menés à l'hôtel de Sully, à Paris (siège du Centre des monuments nationaux), ou encore les phares, objet d'une récente campagne de protection du ministère de la Culture.
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Japan House
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A double-volume compendium of homes by Japanese architects, this publication profiles more than 50 diverse residential projects by 29 architects and offices. Each example is presented through diverse, full-colour photographs and architectural drawings, plus technical data and an explanatory text. Brief biographies of the architects also accompany the projects, which(...)
Japan House
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A double-volume compendium of homes by Japanese architects, this publication profiles more than 50 diverse residential projects by 29 architects and offices. Each example is presented through diverse, full-colour photographs and architectural drawings, plus technical data and an explanatory text. Brief biographies of the architects also accompany the projects, which represent a wide spectrum of approaches, contexts and solutions involving both the contemporary Japanese urban environment and its important socio-cultural aspects.
Contemporary Asian Architecture