Chaos sublime
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Ce livre est l'histoire d'une amitié, puisqu'il est issu de vingt ans de conversations avec Paolo Conti, écrivain et journaliste italien. II est né aussi du besoin de comprendre les processus de création contemporains, en tenant compte des passions politiques et sociales de notre temps qui ont bouleversé et bouleverseront notre façon d'habiter la ville.
Chaos sublime
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Ce livre est l'histoire d'une amitié, puisqu'il est issu de vingt ans de conversations avec Paolo Conti, écrivain et journaliste italien. II est né aussi du besoin de comprendre les processus de création contemporains, en tenant compte des passions politiques et sociales de notre temps qui ont bouleversé et bouleverseront notre façon d'habiter la ville.
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L'espace et l'architecture
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Cette réflexion sur l’espace est l’aboutissement d’une longue carrière. Elle est destinée à tous ceux qui s’intéressent à l’architecture, étudiants, professionnels, profanes aussi bien. C’est toute une culture humaniste que l’architecte propose, destinée d’abord à la construction quotidienne de soi-même.
L'espace et l'architecture
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Cette réflexion sur l’espace est l’aboutissement d’une longue carrière. Elle est destinée à tous ceux qui s’intéressent à l’architecture, étudiants, professionnels, profanes aussi bien. C’est toute une culture humaniste que l’architecte propose, destinée d’abord à la construction quotidienne de soi-même.
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The heavens on earth : observatories and astronomies in nineteeth-century science and culture
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This book explores the place of the observatory in nineteenth-century science and culture. Astronomy was a core pursuit for observatories, but usually not the only one. It belonged to a larger group of "observatory sciences" that also included geodesy, meteorology, geomagnetism, and even parts of physics and statistics. These pursuits coexisted in the nineteenth-century(...)
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The heavens on earth : observatories and astronomies in nineteeth-century science and culture
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This book explores the place of the observatory in nineteenth-century science and culture. Astronomy was a core pursuit for observatories, but usually not the only one. It belonged to a larger group of "observatory sciences" that also included geodesy, meteorology, geomagnetism, and even parts of physics and statistics. These pursuits coexisted in the nineteenth-century observatory; this collection surveys them as a coherent whole. Broadening the focus beyond the solitary astronomer at his telescope, it illuminates the observatory’s importance to technological, military, political, and colonial undertakings, as well as in advancing and popularizing the mathematical, physical, and cosmological sciences. The contributors examine "observatory techniques" developed and used not only in connection with observatories but also by instrument makers in their workshops, navy officers on ships, civil engineers in the field, and many others. These techniques included the calibration and coordination of precision instruments for making observations and taking measurements; methods of data acquisition and tabulation; and the production of maps, drawings, and photographs, as well as numerical, textual, and visual representations of the heavens and the earth. They also encompassed the social management of personnel within observatories, the coordination of international scientific collaborations, and interactions with dignitaries and the public. The state observatory occupied a particularly privileged place in the life of the city. With their imposing architecture and ancient traditions, state observatories served representative purposes for their patrons, whether as symbols of a monarch’s enlightened power, a nation’s industrial and scientific excellence, or republican progressive values.
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Benjamin for architects
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Walter Benjamin has become a decisive reference point for a whole range of critical disciplines, as he constructed a unique and provocative synthesis of aesthetics, politics and philosophy. Examining Benjamin’s contributions to cultural criticism in relation to the works of Max Ernst, Adolf Loos, Le Corbusier and Sigfried Giedion, this book also situates Benjamin’s(...)
Benjamin for architects
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Walter Benjamin has become a decisive reference point for a whole range of critical disciplines, as he constructed a unique and provocative synthesis of aesthetics, politics and philosophy. Examining Benjamin’s contributions to cultural criticism in relation to the works of Max Ernst, Adolf Loos, Le Corbusier and Sigfried Giedion, this book also situates Benjamin’s work within more recent developments in architecture and urbanism. This is a concise account of the relevance of Walter Benjamin’s writings to architects, locating Benjamin’s critical work within the context of contemporary architecture and urbanism.
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Bourdieu for architects
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Bourdieu spent much of his life attempting to understand cultural consumption and production through detailed empirical research that included studies of dwellings, art, museums, photography and aesthetics. This book introduces the architectural reader to Bourdieu's key writings on culture and outlines the ways in which they offer powerful practical tools and novel(...)
Bourdieu for architects
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Bourdieu spent much of his life attempting to understand cultural consumption and production through detailed empirical research that included studies of dwellings, art, museums, photography and aesthetics. This book introduces the architectural reader to Bourdieu's key writings on culture and outlines the ways in which they offer powerful practical tools and novel conceptual frameworks for understanding architectural value, taste, and practice.
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An examination of the changing face of UC Berkeley's College of Environmental Design throughout the 20th Century. Just as constant evolution is inherent in the practice and history of design, the College of Environmental Design's steady metamorphosis incited by social and cultural changes, advancements in the design field and faculty contributions, is well documented in(...)
Design on the edge: A century of teaching architecture at the University of California, Berkeley 1903-2003
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An examination of the changing face of UC Berkeley's College of Environmental Design throughout the 20th Century. Just as constant evolution is inherent in the practice and history of design, the College of Environmental Design's steady metamorphosis incited by social and cultural changes, advancements in the design field and faculty contributions, is well documented in this book. This compilation of essays and historical documents features contributions from such notable faculty members as Christopher Alexander, Michael Bell, Charles Eames, Dan Solomon, William Wurster and many others.
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L'empire du kitsch
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" Art et littérature populaires et commerciaux faits de chromos, de couvertures de magazines, d'illustrations, d'images publicitaires, de littérature à bon marché, de bandes dessinées, de musique de bastringue, de danse à claquettes, de films hollywoodiens, etc. ". C'est ainsi que Clement Greenberg définissait le kitsch. Suffit-il pour autant de dénigrer le kitsch, de le(...)
L'empire du kitsch
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" Art et littérature populaires et commerciaux faits de chromos, de couvertures de magazines, d'illustrations, d'images publicitaires, de littérature à bon marché, de bandes dessinées, de musique de bastringue, de danse à claquettes, de films hollywoodiens, etc. ". C'est ainsi que Clement Greenberg définissait le kitsch. Suffit-il pour autant de dénigrer le kitsch, de le vilipender pour le rendre détestable aux yeux de celui qui, selon l'expression d'Hermann Broch, aime à le " produire " et à le " consommer " quel qu'en soit le prix ? Certes non, car rien, à l'heure où triomphent le libéralisme libertaire et l'individualisme postmoderne, n'est en mesure de freiner son expansion et d'atténuer sa puissance séductrice. Et c'est bien cette offensive que Valérie Arrault tente de démasquer. Subtilement, elle analyse avec humour les rapports parfois ambigus, d'attraction et de répulsion mêlées, qu'exercent le phénomène Las Vegas, le richissime objet transitionnel qu'est la poupée Barbie et Disneyland, ce monde féerique et fantasmatique de Mickey dans lequel, comme le notait déjà Walter Benjamin, l'homme d'aujourd'hui est assuré de ne vivre aucune véritable expérience esthétique et intellectuelle. Mieux encore : l'art contemporain le plus actuel se fait kitsch, comme le montrent les oeuvres et les actions de Jeff Koons ou de Pierre et Gilles, attestant la puissance hégémonique du phénomène et signant ainsi sa victoire planétaire.
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Bringing together Baudrillard’s most accomplished and perceptive commentators, this book assesses his legacy for the twenty-first century. It includes two essays by Baudrillard: a previously unpublished work entitled ‘The vanishing point of communication,’ and one of Baudrillard’s final texts, ‘On disappearance’, a veritable tour de force that serves as a culmination of(...)
Jean Baudrillard: fatal theories
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Bringing together Baudrillard’s most accomplished and perceptive commentators, this book assesses his legacy for the twenty-first century. It includes two essays by Baudrillard: a previously unpublished work entitled ‘The vanishing point of communication,’ and one of Baudrillard’s final texts, ‘On disappearance’, a veritable tour de force that serves as a culmination of his theoretical trajectory and a provocation to a new generation of thinkers. Employing Baudrillard’s key concepts, such as simulation, disappearance, and symbolic exchange, and deploying his most radical strategies, such as escalation, seduction, and fatality, the volume’s contributors offer a series of thought-provoking analyses of everything from art to politics, and from laughter to terror.
Le rythme en architecture
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Le rythme en architecture, a été publié en 1923, la même année que Vers une architecture de Le Corbusier. Cette brève traversée de l’histoire de l’architecture, à la recherche de modèles susceptibles d’accompagner les transformations sociales modernes, s’appuie sur la notion de rythme, considéré comme le fondement du langage architectural. La théorie de Guinzbourg marque(...)
Le rythme en architecture
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Le rythme en architecture, a été publié en 1923, la même année que Vers une architecture de Le Corbusier. Cette brève traversée de l’histoire de l’architecture, à la recherche de modèles susceptibles d’accompagner les transformations sociales modernes, s’appuie sur la notion de rythme, considéré comme le fondement du langage architectural. La théorie de Guinzbourg marque l’irruption de l’histoire et de la culture dans la conception même de l’architecture.
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Patterns and structure
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This collection of writings and criticisms by structural engineer and Princeton University professor Guy Nordenson, brings together previously published essays on structural engineering, architecture, design, and seismic research from 1973 to 2008. Nordenson's essays provide the unique viewpoint of the structural engineer and design collaborator, adding context that(...)
Patterns and structure
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This collection of writings and criticisms by structural engineer and Princeton University professor Guy Nordenson, brings together previously published essays on structural engineering, architecture, design, and seismic research from 1973 to 2008. Nordenson's essays provide the unique viewpoint of the structural engineer and design collaborator, adding context that relates not only to the history of architecture and engineering, but locates these fields in a larger network of cultural relevance.
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