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Schindler Manifesto
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The distribution of the Schindler’s manifesto remains uncertain. This was an obligatory step in the life of a young European avant-gardist, and it probably passed from hand to hand. The interest paid to this text today is retrospective. It is an opportunity to go back over the training and early working life of an important architect who is still little-known. What(...)
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The distribution of the Schindler’s manifesto remains uncertain. This was an obligatory step in the life of a young European avant-gardist, and it probably passed from hand to hand. The interest paid to this text today is retrospective. It is an opportunity to go back over the training and early working life of an important architect who is still little-known. What(...)
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Architectural Theory
Architectural Theory
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July 2023
July 2023
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Schindler Manifesto
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The distribution of the Schindler’s manifesto remains uncertain. This was an obligatory step in the life of a young European avant-gardist, and it probably passed from hand to hand. The interest paid to this text today is retrospective. It is an opportunity to go back over the training and early working life of an important architect who is still little-known. What conception of architecture did the young Schindler stand up for in this his first text? Would the beginning of his career follow this doctrinal commitment? How did such Viennese convictions travel to the USA?
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The distribution of the Schindler’s manifesto remains uncertain. This was an obligatory step in the life of a young European avant-gardist, and it probably passed from hand to hand. The interest paid to this text today is retrospective. It is an opportunity to go back over the training and early working life of an important architect who is still little-known. What conception of architecture did the young Schindler stand up for in this his first text? Would the beginning of his career follow this doctrinal commitment? How did such Viennese convictions travel to the USA?
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July 2023
July 2023
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Publiés initialement dans Architectural Design entre 1973 et 1975, la série des sept articles intitulée Collective Design rappelle l’essence collective de l’architecture. Au constat d’une fragmentation culturelle de la société jugée inéluctable, les Smithson interrogent la dimension politique de leur travail à un moment charnière de leur carrière. | Between 1973 and 1975,(...)
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Publiés initialement dans Architectural Design entre 1973 et 1975, la série des sept articles intitulée Collective Design rappelle l’essence collective de l’architecture. Au constat d’une fragmentation culturelle de la société jugée inéluctable, les Smithson interrogent la dimension politique de leur travail à un moment charnière de leur carrière. | Between 1973 and 1975,(...)
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Collective Design : Alison & Peter Smithson
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Publiés initialement dans Architectural Design entre 1973 et 1975, la série des sept articles intitulée Collective Design rappelle l’essence collective de l’architecture. Au constat d’une fragmentation culturelle de la société jugée inéluctable, les Smithson interrogent la dimension politique de leur travail à un moment charnière de leur carrière. | Between 1973 and 1975, Alison and Peter Smithson, published a series of seven articles in Architectural Design questioning the unity of the architectural form, as well as their commitment as architects. In recognition of the inevitable cultural fragmentation of society, they question the collective dimension of their work and their relationship with the community.
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Publiés initialement dans Architectural Design entre 1973 et 1975, la série des sept articles intitulée Collective Design rappelle l’essence collective de l’architecture. Au constat d’une fragmentation culturelle de la société jugée inéluctable, les Smithson interrogent la dimension politique de leur travail à un moment charnière de leur carrière. | Between 1973 and 1975, Alison and Peter Smithson, published a series of seven articles in Architectural Design questioning the unity of the architectural form, as well as their commitment as architects. In recognition of the inevitable cultural fragmentation of society, they question the collective dimension of their work and their relationship with the community.
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January 2026
January 2026
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"Suspensions of Perception" is a major historical study of human attention and its volatile role in modern Western culture. It argues that the ways in which we intently look at or listen to anything result from crucial changes in the nature of perception that can be traced back to(...)
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"Suspensions of Perception" is a major historical study of human attention and its volatile role in modern Western culture. It argues that the ways in which we intently look at or listen to anything result from crucial changes in the nature of perception that can be traced back to(...)
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Suspensions of perception : attention, spectacle, and modern culture
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"Suspensions of Perception" is a major historical study of human attention and its volatile role in modern Western culture. It argues that the ways in which we intently look at or listen to anything result from crucial changes in the nature of perception that can be traced back to the second half of the nineteenth century. Focusing on the period from about 1880 to 1905, Jonathan Crary examines the connections between the modernization of subjectivity and the dramatic expansion and industrialization of visual/auditory culture. At the core of his project is the paradoxical nature of modern attention, which was both a fundamental condition of individual freedom, creativity, and experience and a central element in the efficient functioning of economic and disciplinary institutions as well as the emerging spaces of mass consumption and spectacle. Crary approaches these issues through multiple analyses of single works by three key modernist painters--Manet, Seurat, and Cézanne--who each engaged in a singular confrontation with the disruptions, vacancies, and rifts within a perceptual field. Each in his own way discovered that sustained attentiveness, rather than fixing or securing the world, led to perceptual disintegration and loss of presence, and each used this discovery as the basis for a reinvention of representational practices. Suspensions of Perception decisively relocates the problem of aesthetic contemplation within a broader collective encounter with the unstable nature of perception--in psychology, philosophy, neurology, early cinema, and photography. In doing so, it provides a historical framework for understanding the current social crisis of attention amid the accelerating metamorphoses of our contemporary technological culture.
Suspensions of perception : attention, spectacle, and modern culture
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"Suspensions of Perception" is a major historical study of human attention and its volatile role in modern Western culture. It argues that the ways in which we intently look at or listen to anything result from crucial changes in the nature of perception that can be traced back to the second half of the nineteenth century. Focusing on the period from about 1880 to 1905, Jonathan Crary examines the connections between the modernization of subjectivity and the dramatic expansion and industrialization of visual/auditory culture. At the core of his project is the paradoxical nature of modern attention, which was both a fundamental condition of individual freedom, creativity, and experience and a central element in the efficient functioning of economic and disciplinary institutions as well as the emerging spaces of mass consumption and spectacle. Crary approaches these issues through multiple analyses of single works by three key modernist painters--Manet, Seurat, and Cézanne--who each engaged in a singular confrontation with the disruptions, vacancies, and rifts within a perceptual field. Each in his own way discovered that sustained attentiveness, rather than fixing or securing the world, led to perceptual disintegration and loss of presence, and each used this discovery as the basis for a reinvention of representational practices. Suspensions of Perception decisively relocates the problem of aesthetic contemplation within a broader collective encounter with the unstable nature of perception--in psychology, philosophy, neurology, early cinema, and photography. In doing so, it provides a historical framework for understanding the current social crisis of attention amid the accelerating metamorphoses of our contemporary technological culture.
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October 1999, Cambridge
October 1999, Cambridge
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Architectural Theory
Architectural Theory
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The dominant architectures in our culture of development consist of generic protocols for building offices, airports, houses, and highways. For Keller Easterling these organizational formats are not merely the context of design efforts. They are the design. Bridging the gap between architecture and infrastructure, Easterling views architecture as part of an ecology of(...)
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The dominant architectures in our culture of development consist of generic protocols for building offices, airports, houses, and highways. For Keller Easterling these organizational formats are not merely the context of design efforts. They are the design. Bridging the gap between architecture and infrastructure, Easterling views architecture as part of an ecology of(...)
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Organization space : landscapes, highways, and houses in America
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The dominant architectures in our culture of development consist of generic protocols for building offices, airports, houses, and highways. For Keller Easterling these organizational formats are not merely the context of design efforts. They are the design. Bridging the gap between architecture and infrastructure, Easterling views architecture as part of an ecology of interrelationships and linkages, and she treats the expression of organizational character as part of the architectural endeavor. Easterling also makes the case that these organizational formats are improvisational and responsive to circumstantial change, to mistakes, anomalies, and seemingly illogical market forces. By treating these irregularities opportunistically, she offers architects working within the customary development protocols new sites for making and altering space. By showing the reciprocal relations between systems of thinking and modes of designing, Easterling establishes unexpected congruencies between natural and built environments, virtual and physical systems, highway and communication networks, and corporate and spatial organizations. She frames her unconventional notion of site not in terms of singular entities, but in terms of relationships between multiple sites that are both individually and collectively adjustable.
Organization space : landscapes, highways, and houses in America
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The dominant architectures in our culture of development consist of generic protocols for building offices, airports, houses, and highways. For Keller Easterling these organizational formats are not merely the context of design efforts. They are the design. Bridging the gap between architecture and infrastructure, Easterling views architecture as part of an ecology of interrelationships and linkages, and she treats the expression of organizational character as part of the architectural endeavor. Easterling also makes the case that these organizational formats are improvisational and responsive to circumstantial change, to mistakes, anomalies, and seemingly illogical market forces. By treating these irregularities opportunistically, she offers architects working within the customary development protocols new sites for making and altering space. By showing the reciprocal relations between systems of thinking and modes of designing, Easterling establishes unexpected congruencies between natural and built environments, virtual and physical systems, highway and communication networks, and corporate and spatial organizations. She frames her unconventional notion of site not in terms of singular entities, but in terms of relationships between multiple sites that are both individually and collectively adjustable.
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November 1999, Cambridge
November 1999, Cambridge
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In this book, Richard Hill examines the many-faceted relationship between aesthetic theory and architecture. Grounding his arguments in the practical issues related to building - the demands of site, materials, labor force, the nature of the commission - Hill expands our understanding and enjoyment of architecture. The book opens with an analysis of the relationship(...)
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In this book, Richard Hill examines the many-faceted relationship between aesthetic theory and architecture. Grounding his arguments in the practical issues related to building - the demands of site, materials, labor force, the nature of the commission - Hill expands our understanding and enjoyment of architecture. The book opens with an analysis of the relationship(...)
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Designs and their consequences
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In this book, Richard Hill examines the many-faceted relationship between aesthetic theory and architecture. Grounding his arguments in the practical issues related to building - the demands of site, materials, labor force, the nature of the commission - Hill expands our understanding and enjoyment of architecture. The book opens with an analysis of the relationship between buildings, drawings, and designs. Hill suggests that architectural drawings are essentially pictures of physical objects, although initially they may be imagined ones, and he considers the implications of this for architects and builders. He discusses the notion of "architectural experience" that has been important in the development of modern architecture, and the notion of "seeing as" that has been developed for other visual arts and that illuminates a range of architectural meaning. Asking how architecture can be expressive of a range of human states and qualities, Hill tests the idea that our ability to see the expressive aspects of buildings relates to our ability to see meaning in the faces and demeanor of other people. In the final section of the book, the author focuses on modern architecture's central aim to deepen the connection between usefulness and design, explores recent intense criticism of this outlook, and assesses the strengths and weaknesses of this body of criticism.
Designs and their consequences
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In this book, Richard Hill examines the many-faceted relationship between aesthetic theory and architecture. Grounding his arguments in the practical issues related to building - the demands of site, materials, labor force, the nature of the commission - Hill expands our understanding and enjoyment of architecture. The book opens with an analysis of the relationship between buildings, drawings, and designs. Hill suggests that architectural drawings are essentially pictures of physical objects, although initially they may be imagined ones, and he considers the implications of this for architects and builders. He discusses the notion of "architectural experience" that has been important in the development of modern architecture, and the notion of "seeing as" that has been developed for other visual arts and that illuminates a range of architectural meaning. Asking how architecture can be expressive of a range of human states and qualities, Hill tests the idea that our ability to see the expressive aspects of buildings relates to our ability to see meaning in the faces and demeanor of other people. In the final section of the book, the author focuses on modern architecture's central aim to deepen the connection between usefulness and design, explores recent intense criticism of this outlook, and assesses the strengths and weaknesses of this body of criticism.
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August 1999, New Haven
August 1999, New Haven
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Edited and presented by Sanford Kwinter and Bruce Mau.
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Edited and presented by Sanford Kwinter and Bruce Mau.
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Pandemonium : the rise of predatory locales in the postwar world
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Edited and presented by Sanford Kwinter and Bruce Mau.
Pandemonium : the rise of predatory locales in the postwar world
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Edited and presented by Sanford Kwinter and Bruce Mau.
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December 1999, New York
December 1999, New York
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The arcades project
The arcades project
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Conceived in Paris in 1927 and still in progress when Benjamin fled the Occupation in 1940, "The Arcades Project" (in German, "Das Passagen-Werk") is a monumental ruin, meticulously constructed over the course of thirteen years--"the theater," as Benjamin(...)
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Conceived in Paris in 1927 and still in progress when Benjamin fled the Occupation in 1940, "The Arcades Project" (in German, "Das Passagen-Werk") is a monumental ruin, meticulously constructed over the course of thirteen years--"the theater," as Benjamin(...)
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The arcades project
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Conceived in Paris in 1927 and still in progress when Benjamin fled the Occupation in 1940, "The Arcades Project" (in German, "Das Passagen-Werk") is a monumental ruin, meticulously constructed over the course of thirteen years--"the theater," as Benjamin called it, "of all my struggles and all my ideas." Focusing on the arcades of nineteenth-century Paris, glass-roofed rows of shops that were early centers of consumerism, Benjamin presents a montage of quotations from, and reflections on, hundreds of published sources, arranging them in thirty-six categories with descriptive rubrics such as "Fashion," "Boredom," "Dream City," "Photography," "Catacombs," "Advertising," "Prostitution," "Baudelaire," and "Theory of Progress." His central preoccupation is what he calls the commodification of things, a process in which he locates the decisive shift to the modern age. "The Arcades Project" is Benjamin's effort to represent and to critique the bourgeois experience of nineteenth-century history, and, in so doing, to liberate the suppressed "true history" that underlay the ideological mask.
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Conceived in Paris in 1927 and still in progress when Benjamin fled the Occupation in 1940, "The Arcades Project" (in German, "Das Passagen-Werk") is a monumental ruin, meticulously constructed over the course of thirteen years--"the theater," as Benjamin called it, "of all my struggles and all my ideas." Focusing on the arcades of nineteenth-century Paris, glass-roofed rows of shops that were early centers of consumerism, Benjamin presents a montage of quotations from, and reflections on, hundreds of published sources, arranging them in thirty-six categories with descriptive rubrics such as "Fashion," "Boredom," "Dream City," "Photography," "Catacombs," "Advertising," "Prostitution," "Baudelaire," and "Theory of Progress." His central preoccupation is what he calls the commodification of things, a process in which he locates the decisive shift to the modern age. "The Arcades Project" is Benjamin's effort to represent and to critique the bourgeois experience of nineteenth-century history, and, in so doing, to liberate the suppressed "true history" that underlay the ideological mask.
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November 1999, Cambridge, Mass.
November 1999, Cambridge, Mass.
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Field event / field space
Field event / field space
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A collection of two and three dimensional studies describing an architecture and urbanism which proceeds from the idea of field or ground as the basis for a radical architecture. Collecting together detailed studies of the urbanisms of central European cities and cities of the former East Block, Field Event/Field Space takes a critical view of contemporary(...)
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A collection of two and three dimensional studies describing an architecture and urbanism which proceeds from the idea of field or ground as the basis for a radical architecture. Collecting together detailed studies of the urbanisms of central European cities and cities of the former East Block, Field Event/Field Space takes a critical view of contemporary(...)
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Field event / field space
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A collection of two and three dimensional studies describing an architecture and urbanism which proceeds from the idea of field or ground as the basis for a radical architecture. Collecting together detailed studies of the urbanisms of central European cities and cities of the former East Block, Field Event/Field Space takes a critical view of contemporary urban ideas, proposing stategies which counter the dominant paradigm of an oppositional Modernism.
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A collection of two and three dimensional studies describing an architecture and urbanism which proceeds from the idea of field or ground as the basis for a radical architecture. Collecting together detailed studies of the urbanisms of central European cities and cities of the former East Block, Field Event/Field Space takes a critical view of contemporary urban ideas, proposing stategies which counter the dominant paradigm of an oppositional Modernism.
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January 1998, London
January 1998, London
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Grace and architecture
Grace and architecture
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Through a constructive way of looking at the timing of architecture, this reference explores the myths of a critical history. The featured ideas are made more concrete and specific by focusing the enquiry on a forgotten building outside Helsinki — Espoonlahti Church — designed by the architects Timo and Tuomo Suomalainen.
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Through a constructive way of looking at the timing of architecture, this reference explores the myths of a critical history. The featured ideas are made more concrete and specific by focusing the enquiry on a forgotten building outside Helsinki — Espoonlahti Church — designed by the architects Timo and Tuomo Suomalainen.
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Grace and architecture
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Through a constructive way of looking at the timing of architecture, this reference explores the myths of a critical history. The featured ideas are made more concrete and specific by focusing the enquiry on a forgotten building outside Helsinki — Espoonlahti Church — designed by the architects Timo and Tuomo Suomalainen.
Grace and architecture
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Through a constructive way of looking at the timing of architecture, this reference explores the myths of a critical history. The featured ideas are made more concrete and specific by focusing the enquiry on a forgotten building outside Helsinki — Espoonlahti Church — designed by the architects Timo and Tuomo Suomalainen.
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February 1998, Helsinki
February 1998, Helsinki
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Fontaine, Viollet-le-Duc, Hankar, Horta, Guimard,Tony Garnier, Le Corbusier.
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Fontaine, Viollet-le-Duc, Hankar, Horta, Guimard,Tony Garnier, Le Corbusier.
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Les bâtisseurs d'avenir : portraits d'architectes XIXe-XXe siècle
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Fontaine, Viollet-le-Duc, Hankar, Horta, Guimard,Tony Garnier, Le Corbusier.
Les bâtisseurs d'avenir : portraits d'architectes XIXe-XXe siècle
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Fontaine, Viollet-le-Duc, Hankar, Horta, Guimard,Tony Garnier, Le Corbusier.
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October 1998, Paris
October 1998, Paris
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Architectural Theory
Architectural Theory
