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The catalogue for an exhibition at MAXXI curated by Pippo Ciorra and Jean-Louis Cohen, this book is an homage to Bruno Zevi, the notable architect, historian, lecturer, critic, politician, and designer. Moreover, it is a reflection on the contemporary Italian architectures that Zevi supported and promoted during his 50-year career through his extensive writing and(...)
Zevi's architects: history and counter-history of Italian architecture
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The catalogue for an exhibition at MAXXI curated by Pippo Ciorra and Jean-Louis Cohen, this book is an homage to Bruno Zevi, the notable architect, historian, lecturer, critic, politician, and designer. Moreover, it is a reflection on the contemporary Italian architectures that Zevi supported and promoted during his 50-year career through his extensive writing and criticism. Featuring 35 architects, the book’s drawings, models, and other visual materials clarify the key role Zevi played in the post-war architectural debate in Italy, highlighting the importance of the relationship between architecture and politics and his social passion and presence in the nation’s civic history.
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Focused on post-labor, psychopathology, and plasticity of human mind and body, this book introduces insight, critiques, and propositions in the area of “self-design,” ranging from design and architecture to science, media, history, philosophy, and contemporary art. The field of design has radically expanded. As a practice, design is no longer limited to the world of(...)
Superhumanity: Post-labor, psychopathology, plasticity
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Focused on post-labor, psychopathology, and plasticity of human mind and body, this book introduces insight, critiques, and propositions in the area of “self-design,” ranging from design and architecture to science, media, history, philosophy, and contemporary art. The field of design has radically expanded. As a practice, design is no longer limited to the world of material objects, but rather extends from carefully crafted individual looks and online identities, to the surrounding galaxies of personal devices, new materials, interfaces, networks, systems, infrastructures, data, chemicals, organisms, and genetic codes.
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The publication begins from the Andrea Branzi’s reflection on the relationship civility-design, from the Radical’s research on mass-production civilization to the 'infinite territories', proposing new territories able to interpret and anticipate the new dynamics of society. In particular, if the first chapters review the historical/critical works of Andrea Branzi and of(...)
E=mc2 The project in the age of relativity
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The publication begins from the Andrea Branzi’s reflection on the relationship civility-design, from the Radical’s research on mass-production civilization to the 'infinite territories', proposing new territories able to interpret and anticipate the new dynamics of society. In particular, if the first chapters review the historical/critical works of Andrea Branzi and of Radical Movement, the last opens a new parenthesis of research, right now never expressed: the issues ignored by Modernity, like life, death, destiny and the sacred: themes which underline the new drama and the fracture between tragedy and normality, between consumerism and death, between theology and technology, between the silence of reason and the voice of an irrational reality.
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LA Forum reader: from the archives of the Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design
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The "LA Forum Reader" brings together three decades of discursive writings and publications on architecture, urbanism, and Los Angeles culled from the archives of the Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design. Published under thematic sections: Experiments, Detours, Hunches, and Santa Anas, with interludes dedicated to Art and Architecture, Downtown, and the(...)
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LA Forum reader: from the archives of the Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design
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The "LA Forum Reader" brings together three decades of discursive writings and publications on architecture, urbanism, and Los Angeles culled from the archives of the Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design. Published under thematic sections: Experiments, Detours, Hunches, and Santa Anas, with interludes dedicated to Art and Architecture, Downtown, and the long-running LA Forum Newsletter, the collected essays and interviews track an uneven and lesser-known history of experimental architecture, postmodern geographies, and alternative urbanism in L.A. as told by the city’s key designers and thinkers.
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''Graphic Assembly'' unearths the role played by montage and collage in the development of architectural culture over the past century, revealing their unexamined yet crucial significance. Craig Buckley brings together experimental architectural practices based in London, Paris, Vienna, and Florence, showing how breakthroughs in optical media and printing technologies(...)
Graphic assembly: Montage, media, and experimental architecture in the 1960s
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''Graphic Assembly'' unearths the role played by montage and collage in the development of architectural culture over the past century, revealing their unexamined yet crucial significance. Craig Buckley brings together experimental architectural practices based in London, Paris, Vienna, and Florence, showing how breakthroughs in optical media and printing technologies enabled avant-garde architects to reimagine their field.
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"Key Modern Architects" provides an accessible and thought-provoking introduction to the work of the most significant architects of the modern era. Fifty short chapters introduce fifty key architects, from Le Corbusier to Aldo Van Eyck to Zaha Hadid, exploring their most influential buildings and developing a critique of each architect's work within a broader cultural and(...)
Key modern architects: 50 short histories of modern architecture
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"Key Modern Architects" provides an accessible and thought-provoking introduction to the work of the most significant architects of the modern era. Fifty short chapters introduce fifty key architects, from Le Corbusier to Aldo Van Eyck to Zaha Hadid, exploring their most influential buildings and developing a critique of each architect's work within a broader cultural and historical context.
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The making of shadows is an act as old as architecture itself. From the gloom of the medieval hearth through to the masterworks of modernism, shadows have been an essential yet neglected presence in architectural history. "Shadow-Makers" tells for the first time the history of shadows in architecture. It weaves together a rich narrative – combining close readings of(...)
Shadow-makers: a cultural history of shadows in architecture
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The making of shadows is an act as old as architecture itself. From the gloom of the medieval hearth through to the masterworks of modernism, shadows have been an essential yet neglected presence in architectural history. "Shadow-Makers" tells for the first time the history of shadows in architecture. It weaves together a rich narrative – combining close readings of significant buildings both ancient and modern with architectural theory and art history – to reveal the key places and moments where shadows shaped architecture in distinctive and dynamic ways. It shows how shadows are used as an architectural instrument of form, composition, and visual effect, while also exploring the deeper cultural context – tracing differing conceptions of their meaning and symbolism, whether as places of refuge, devotion, terror, occult practice, sublime experience or as metaphors of the unconscious.
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Comment faire collaborer des étudiants ne parlant pas la même langue, sur un programme commun d'hommage à Carlos Cáceres Sobrea, artiste et enseignant en architecture ? Par la réalisation de maquettes, de dessins, par la découverte d'une oeuvre à travers deux expositions, par l'exploration de quatre éléments structurants : une ville, une maison, un homme et un site...
Expériences pédagogiques : Workshop La Plata 01
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Comment faire collaborer des étudiants ne parlant pas la même langue, sur un programme commun d'hommage à Carlos Cáceres Sobrea, artiste et enseignant en architecture ? Par la réalisation de maquettes, de dessins, par la découverte d'une oeuvre à travers deux expositions, par l'exploration de quatre éléments structurants : une ville, une maison, un homme et un site...
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What do outer space capsules, submarines and office buildings have in common? Each was conceived as a closed system- a self-sustaining physical environment demarcated from its surroundings by a boundary prohibiting the transfer of matter or energy. As partial reconstructions of the world in time and space, closed systems identify and implement the basic materials(...)
The architecture of closed worlds: Or, what is the power of shit?
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What do outer space capsules, submarines and office buildings have in common? Each was conceived as a closed system- a self-sustaining physical environment demarcated from its surroundings by a boundary prohibiting the transfer of matter or energy. As partial reconstructions of the world in time and space, closed systems identify and implement the basic materials necessary for the sustenance of life. From the space program to countercultural architectural groups experimenting with autonomous living, ''The Architecture of Closed Worlds'' documents a disciplinary transformation and the rise of a new environmental consciousness.
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Le style international
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C’est quelque temps après la célèbre exposition du Museum of Modern Art de New York « Modern Architecture : International Exhibition », qu’a paru en 1932 le livre de Henry-Russell Hitchcock et Philip Johnson "The International Style : Architecture since 1922" qui en constitue le prolongement durable. Il s’agissait de faire connaître au public américain les développements(...)
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Le style international
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C’est quelque temps après la célèbre exposition du Museum of Modern Art de New York « Modern Architecture : International Exhibition », qu’a paru en 1932 le livre de Henry-Russell Hitchcock et Philip Johnson "The International Style : Architecture since 1922" qui en constitue le prolongement durable. Il s’agissait de faire connaître au public américain les développements récents de l’avant-garde notamment européenne ; les auteurs avaient pu observer lors de voyages les nouvelles recherches de Alvar Aalto, André Lurçat, E.G.?Asplund, Erich Mendelsohn, Erik Bryggman, Hans Scharoun, J.J.P.?Oud, Josef Albers, Le Corbusier, Marcel Breuer, Mies van der Rohe, Otto Eisler ou Walter Gropius qui le premier avait déjà réuni en 1925 les exemples récents les plus significatifs de l’architecture européenne et nord-américaine. Le projet du livre, s’attachant à illustrer et à défendre l’architecture moderne d’avant-garde, participait d’un mouvement général qui tendait à une codification architecturale.
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