More than design
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Featuring more than 1,100 collection objects selected by the curatorial staff, Smithsonian Design Library, and designer Irma Boom, Making Design is organized entirely by Boom’s visual sequencing of images; her design and the curators’ essays weave parallel narratives throughout the book.
More than design
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Featuring more than 1,100 collection objects selected by the curatorial staff, Smithsonian Design Library, and designer Irma Boom, Making Design is organized entirely by Boom’s visual sequencing of images; her design and the curators’ essays weave parallel narratives throughout the book.
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Cabinet 54: the accident
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Cabinet issue 54, with a special section on "The Accident," features Greg Siegel on the concept of the "decent interval," the amount of time a structure is expected to function before its "accidental" collapse or failure; Jeffrey Schnapp on a philosophy of motorcycle racing and accidents; Dorion Sagan on magic tricks and the production of apparently accidental miracles,(...)
Cabinet 54: the accident
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Cabinet issue 54, with a special section on "The Accident," features Greg Siegel on the concept of the "decent interval," the amount of time a structure is expected to function before its "accidental" collapse or failure; Jeffrey Schnapp on a philosophy of motorcycle racing and accidents; Dorion Sagan on magic tricks and the production of apparently accidental miracles, and Andrea Reti on the slow-moving horror of the Boston Molasses Disaster.
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Cabinet 55: love
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Love was classically thought to come in four distinct varieties--agape (spiritual love), eros (physical passion), philia (friendship) and storge (familial affection). It might be argued that with modernity, one of these--eros--has come to dominate our landscape, where romance and its obstacles inform so many of our cultural narratives and consumer fantasies. Nonetheless,(...)
Cabinet 55: love
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Love was classically thought to come in four distinct varieties--agape (spiritual love), eros (physical passion), philia (friendship) and storge (familial affection). It might be argued that with modernity, one of these--eros--has come to dominate our landscape, where romance and its obstacles inform so many of our cultural narratives and consumer fantasies. Nonetheless, all of these modalities of love continue to structure the relationships that govern human societies. Cabinet issue 55, with a special section on "Love," features Christopher Turner on the "celestial bed" of eighteenth-century proto-sexologist James Graham; Margaret Gordon on epistolary friendships; and Olga Lemerova on the love between humans and their pets. Elsewhere in the issue: Sasha Archibald on the decorative fabric or leather patches worn in the seventeenth century to conceal facial blemishes; D. Graham Burnett on watermarks; and Babak Sadr on how zoos perform annual inventories of their animals, both countable and uncountable.
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Hand-carved and hand-painted, these sculptural works overturn the notion of the readymade while uncovering wit and poetry in everyday things. Edited and sequenced by Fischli himself, the book features 140 objects, depicting such humble and seemingly inauspicious items as power tools, shipping pallets, stained paintbrushes and buckets. The foldout cover depicts the(...)
Peter Fischli David Weiss : polyurethane obects
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Hand-carved and hand-painted, these sculptural works overturn the notion of the readymade while uncovering wit and poetry in everyday things. Edited and sequenced by Fischli himself, the book features 140 objects, depicting such humble and seemingly inauspicious items as power tools, shipping pallets, stained paintbrushes and buckets. The foldout cover depicts the sculptures as they are exhibited, in arrangements that evoke the distinctive disarray of an artist's studio.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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This volume of Oase, a thematic journal on architecture, urbanism and landscape design, focuses on a generation of modern architects-- Fernand Pouillon, Kay Fisker, Fernando Tavora, Giovanni Muzio and others--who have remained in the shadow of their famous contemporaries but managed to develop entirely unique approaches.
Oase 92: codes and continuities
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This volume of Oase, a thematic journal on architecture, urbanism and landscape design, focuses on a generation of modern architects-- Fernand Pouillon, Kay Fisker, Fernando Tavora, Giovanni Muzio and others--who have remained in the shadow of their famous contemporaries but managed to develop entirely unique approaches.
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Big sign - Little building
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All the works selected for Big Sign-Little Building explore new interpretations of landscape that synthesize art and architecture. Artists include Charlotte Posenenske, Ed Ruscha, Claes Oldenburg, Allan D'Arcangelo, Robert Smithson and Jeff Wall.
Big sign - Little building
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All the works selected for Big Sign-Little Building explore new interpretations of landscape that synthesize art and architecture. Artists include Charlotte Posenenske, Ed Ruscha, Claes Oldenburg, Allan D'Arcangelo, Robert Smithson and Jeff Wall.
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In this special issue, famed Dutch architects Winy Maas, Jacob van Rijs and Nathalie de Vries, collectively known as MVRDV, take centre stage. Based in Rotterdam, the office has had its fingers on the pulse of global solutions to contemporary issues in architecture and urbanism for two decades and counting. Featuring detailed profiles of more than 20 top projects,(...)
El Croquis 173: MVRDV (2003-2014)
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In this special issue, famed Dutch architects Winy Maas, Jacob van Rijs and Nathalie de Vries, collectively known as MVRDV, take centre stage. Based in Rotterdam, the office has had its fingers on the pulse of global solutions to contemporary issues in architecture and urbanism for two decades and counting. Featuring detailed profiles of more than 20 top projects, including Copenhagen’s Gemini Residences, Busan Cinema Complex, Gangnam Shopping Centre, the new Market Hall in Rotterdam and Parkrand Apartments in Amsterdam, plus an essay by Aaron Betsky and a conversation with MVRDV and Charles Bessard and Nanne de Ru of Powerhouse Company.
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AA Diploma honors 2013
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Since the founding of the AA Diploma degree almost a century ago, the AA has awarded a special prize each year to the student or students whose graduating project offers work of an exceptionally high standard. The resulting Diploma Honours projects are then traditionally exhibited at the AA at the start of the following academic year. To commemorate this ritual, this new(...)
AA Diploma honors 2013
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Since the founding of the AA Diploma degree almost a century ago, the AA has awarded a special prize each year to the student or students whose graduating project offers work of an exceptionally high standard. The resulting Diploma Honours projects are then traditionally exhibited at the AA at the start of the following academic year. To commemorate this ritual, this new annual series will be published in tandem with the AA exhibition, and in addition to the design projects themselves (this year by four students: Friedrich Grafling, Ja Kyung Kim, Mond Qu and Antoine Vaxelaire), the book contains a short commentary by each of the students' AA tutors.
Contemporary Architecture
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Alt+1000, le festival de photographie contemporaine qui a lieu dans le village de montagne de Rossinière, dans les Préalpes suisses, réunit les oeuvres d'artistes travaillant sur une même thématique. En 2013, les travaux s'articulent autour de la notion d'altitude. Les dispositifs sont variés et ouvrent des réflexions sur l'espace, le territoire et la question d'échelle.(...)
Alt + 1000, festival de photographie : high altitude
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Alt+1000, le festival de photographie contemporaine qui a lieu dans le village de montagne de Rossinière, dans les Préalpes suisses, réunit les oeuvres d'artistes travaillant sur une même thématique. En 2013, les travaux s'articulent autour de la notion d'altitude. Les dispositifs sont variés et ouvrent des réflexions sur l'espace, le territoire et la question d'échelle. Que ce soit dans les travaux des lauréats du concours ou ceux dans d'artistes invités, la notion d'altitude se retrouve dans des travaux photographiques aux lectures multiples, à vocation artistique, documentaire ou conceptuelle.
Theory of Photography
Liberté n.305, automne 2014
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Nouveau numéro en librairie!
Liberté n.305, automne 2014
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Nouveau numéro en librairie!
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