Architecture/Astrology
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Artist Dan Graham and writer Jessica Russell's playful Architecture/Astrology considers some of the most important and innovative figures in the world of architecture from an angle few would expect: their star signs. Originally published as a column for Domus magazine, Graham and Russell's book integrates critical analysis with astrology and mythology to offer alternative(...)
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Artist Dan Graham and writer Jessica Russell's playful Architecture/Astrology considers some of the most important and innovative figures in the world of architecture from an angle few would expect: their star signs. Originally published as a column for Domus magazine, Graham and Russell's book integrates critical analysis with astrology and mythology to offer alternative perspectives on the work and personalities of artist/architects including Frank Gehry (a restless, dreamy Pisces), Frank Lloyd Wright (a romantic Gemini with one foot in the past and the other in the future), Eero Saarinen (a dynamic, dramatic Leo) and Le Corbusier (a logical, balanced Libra). With accompanying illustrations by Mieko Meguro.
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The century of bed
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The Century of the Bed addresses the use of the bed as an office and workspace. How can we define and reexamine the bed as an architectural space? This publication offers insight into the diverse artistic research on this topic.
Architectural Theory
February 2015
The century of bed
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The Century of the Bed addresses the use of the bed as an office and workspace. How can we define and reexamine the bed as an architectural space? This publication offers insight into the diverse artistic research on this topic.
Architectural Theory
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Reinhold Martin’s Mediators is a series of linked meditations on the globalized city. Focusing on infrastructural, technical, and social systems, Martin explores how the aesthetics and the political economy of cities overlap and interact. He discusses a range of subjects, including the architecture of finance written into urban policy, regimes of enumeration that remix(...)
Mediators: aesthetics, politics, and the City
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Reinhold Martin’s Mediators is a series of linked meditations on the globalized city. Focusing on infrastructural, technical, and social systems, Martin explores how the aesthetics and the political economy of cities overlap and interact. He discusses a range of subjects, including the architecture of finance written into urban policy, regimes of enumeration that remix city and country, fictional ecologies that rewrite biopolitics, the ruins of socialism strewn amid the transnational commons, and memories of revolution stored in everyday urban hardware. For Martin, these mediators—the objects, processes, and imaginaries from which these phenomena emerge—serve to explain disparate fragments of a global urbanity.
Architectural Theory
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Cet ouvrage réunit les rares textes autographes de Carlo Scarpa et une expographie détaillée, de l'immédiat Après-guerre aux années 1970. Il rend compte de sa pensée artistique globale comme de ses qualités scénographiques. Ses réalisations pour la Biennale de Venise, ses monographies de Piet Mondrian et Marcel Duchamp, ses collaborations avec Lucio Fontana et Arturo(...)
Carlo Scarpa: l'art d'exposer
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Cet ouvrage réunit les rares textes autographes de Carlo Scarpa et une expographie détaillée, de l'immédiat Après-guerre aux années 1970. Il rend compte de sa pensée artistique globale comme de ses qualités scénographiques. Ses réalisations pour la Biennale de Venise, ses monographies de Piet Mondrian et Marcel Duchamp, ses collaborations avec Lucio Fontana et Arturo Martini et ses interventions dans de nombreux monuments historiques dessinent le parcours de l'un des architectes les plus subtils et originaux du XXe siècle, dont la prolifique carrière a profondément renouvelé l'art de l'exposition.
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Si ses créations architecturales mondialement célèbres ont fait la renommée de Rudy Ricciotti, son franc-parler est tout aussi mythique. L'ouvrage En vain ! en est une illustration. L'architecte y égrenne ses considérations, tantôt mordantes, tantôt admiratives, mais toujours percutantes, au sujet de cinquante-neuf personnalités, d'Andy Warhol à Ettore Sottsass en(...)
En vain!
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Si ses créations architecturales mondialement célèbres ont fait la renommée de Rudy Ricciotti, son franc-parler est tout aussi mythique. L'ouvrage En vain ! en est une illustration. L'architecte y égrenne ses considérations, tantôt mordantes, tantôt admiratives, mais toujours percutantes, au sujet de cinquante-neuf personnalités, d'Andy Warhol à Ettore Sottsass en passant par Pierre Soulages, Francis Bacon ou Claude Viallat. Ainsi, Malevitch se voit-il qualifier d' « assassin », tandis qu'Oscar Niemeyer se retrouve « à la droite de Dieu » mais « vit en enfer à cause de la bétonnière », tandis que Beuys est réduit à un « piètre pilote, dompteur de coyotes et grand reporter au Wall Street Journal ».
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Staging disorder
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The publication develops a thesis on contemporary photography at a point when we are currently witnessing a shift away from a critical discourse that has been preoccupied by theoretical concerns related to artifice and illusion. Staging Disorder sits alongside an exhibition and symposium curated by Christopher Stewart (Associate Professor in Photography, Faculty of(...)
Staging disorder
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The publication develops a thesis on contemporary photography at a point when we are currently witnessing a shift away from a critical discourse that has been preoccupied by theoretical concerns related to artifice and illusion. Staging Disorder sits alongside an exhibition and symposium curated by Christopher Stewart (Associate Professor in Photography, Faculty of Design, Architecture and Built Environment, University of Technology Sydney) and Dr Esther Teichmann (Senior Lecturer in Photography, LCC, UAL).
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''The Architecture Reader'' brings together for the first time texts written by architects of international esteem. Encompassing two thousand years of building history, ''The Architecture Reader'' includes 40 key texts from Alberti, Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier, Gropius, Venturi, Gehry, and many more. The writings address persistent concerns in architecture and design,(...)
The architecture reader: essential writings from Vitrivius to the present
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''The Architecture Reader'' brings together for the first time texts written by architects of international esteem. Encompassing two thousand years of building history, ''The Architecture Reader'' includes 40 key texts from Alberti, Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier, Gropius, Venturi, Gehry, and many more. The writings address persistent concerns in architecture and design, including the role of the architect and the relationship of architecture to nature, art, and science.
Architectural Theory
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The Age Of Earthquakes is a quick-fire paperback, harnessing the images, language and perceptions of our unfurling digital lives. The authors offer five characteristics of the Extreme Present; invent a glossary of new words to describe how we are truly feeling today; and ‘mindsource’ images and illustrations from over 30 contemporary artists. Wayne Daly’s striking graphic(...)
Architectural Theory
May 2015
The age of earthquakes : a guide to the extreme present
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The Age Of Earthquakes is a quick-fire paperback, harnessing the images, language and perceptions of our unfurling digital lives. The authors offer five characteristics of the Extreme Present; invent a glossary of new words to describe how we are truly feeling today; and ‘mindsource’ images and illustrations from over 30 contemporary artists. Wayne Daly’s striking graphic design imports the surreal, juxtaposed, mashed mannerisms of screen to page.
Architectural Theory
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Cities, estates and routing systems develop, change constantly and fundamentally cannot be planned. Claims to ownership, land and building regulations, planning decisions and political interventions make it difficult for settlement structures to adapt to constantly changing requirements to such an extent that meaningful and totally ecological use of the surface of the(...)
Occupying and connecting: thoughts on territories and spheres of influence with particular reference to human settlement
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Cities, estates and routing systems develop, change constantly and fundamentally cannot be planned. Claims to ownership, land and building regulations, planning decisions and political interventions make it difficult for settlement structures to adapt to constantly changing requirements to such an extent that meaningful and totally ecological use of the surface of the earth is becoming increasingly difficult, although new techniques and flexible planning models mean that a connection could be found with the self-designing processes of urban-development history.
Architectural Theory
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Una città in forma di palazzo : dans le dernier tiers du Quattrocento, à Urbino, Mantoue ou Milan, des princes voulurent faire de leur résidence des cités idéales, à l’écart de la ville mais s’imposant à elle, l’ordonnant. Ils suivaient en cela la leçon d’Alberti, qui avait fait de son De re aedificatoria un traité non pas de l’art de bâtir, mais de sa politisation. Car(...)
De l'éloquence architecturale
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Una città in forma di palazzo : dans le dernier tiers du Quattrocento, à Urbino, Mantoue ou Milan, des princes voulurent faire de leur résidence des cités idéales, à l’écart de la ville mais s’imposant à elle, l’ordonnant. Ils suivaient en cela la leçon d’Alberti, qui avait fait de son De re aedificatoria un traité non pas de l’art de bâtir, mais de sa politisation. Car l’architecture humaniste devenait un art de la persuasion. Elle était chargée d’exprimer ce que les mots n’osaient pas encore dire : l’absolutisation du pouvoir princier. Ce petit livre confronte cette folle ambition au déniaisement machiavélien, rappelant que s’il existe un langage architectural, alors celui-ci ménage aussi des non-dits, suscite des incompréhensions, trahit des lapsus.
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