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Par centaines de milliers, obéissant au mot d’ordre « Sortez ! » de Hu Jintao, les Chinois se ruent vers l’Afrique. Pour le pire parfois, pour le meilleur aussi. En échange de matières premières dont le continent noir regorge (pétrole, gaz, métaux, uranium, bois, poissons), l’Empire du Milieu développe l’Afrique et l’intègre dans la mondialisation. Pékin séduit de(...)
La Chinafrique : Pékin à la conquête du continent noir, nouvelle édition augmentée
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Par centaines de milliers, obéissant au mot d’ordre « Sortez ! » de Hu Jintao, les Chinois se ruent vers l’Afrique. Pour le pire parfois, pour le meilleur aussi. En échange de matières premières dont le continent noir regorge (pétrole, gaz, métaux, uranium, bois, poissons), l’Empire du Milieu développe l’Afrique et l’intègre dans la mondialisation. Pékin séduit de nombreux dictateurs – en ne posant aucune condition – avec des produits bon marché, drogue à forte accoutumance dans les pays pauvres jusque-là dépendants des produits occidentaux. Grâce à Pékin, l’Afrique, jadis victime de l’afro-pessimisme, vit un boum économique sans précédent. Pour la première fois, l’Afrique a le choix. Les Occidentaux, qui l’avaient laissé tomber, veulent y revenir. Seulement voilà, la place est souvent prise et des conflits se préparent… Qui sont ces aventuriers Chinois ? Dans quels pays vont-ils ? Pour y faire quoi ? Quel est le secret de leur succès ? Comment se passe la rencontre de ces deux mondes si différents ? Et avec quelles conséquences sur les droits de l’homme et l’environnement ? Pour répondre à ces questions, les auteurs ont parcouru quinze pays, sillonnant tout le continent à la rencontre de cette « Chinafrique », des forêts ratiboisées du Congo aux rivages venimeux du Nigeria, des sables militairement mouvants du Niger aux pipelines du Soudan, des souvenirs d’Egypte made in China aux restaurants gastronomiques de Douala, des campagnes misérables de la Chine à ce continent mystérieux qu’est l’Afrique pour les nouveaux aventuriers.
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This book examines the relationship between migrants and cities in a time of massive urban restructuring. It provides a new approach to the study of migrant settlement and transnational connection in which cities rather than nation-states, ethnic groups, or transnational communities serve as the starting point for comparative analysis. Neither negating nor privileging(...)
Locating migration: Rescaling cities and migrants
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This book examines the relationship between migrants and cities in a time of massive urban restructuring. It provides a new approach to the study of migrant settlement and transnational connection in which cities rather than nation-states, ethnic groups, or transnational communities serve as the starting point for comparative analysis. Neither negating nor privileging the nation-state, Locating Migration provides ethnographic insights into the various ways in which migrants and specific cities together mutually constitute and contest the local, national, and global.
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This compilation of texts written since 1986 reveals a parallel activity to Alejandro Zaera-Polo's professional life. The book is like a sniper's log, a register of events for the purpose of accumulating experience for future missions, be it academic or professional, trying to identify tendencies and to assess performances, rather than to establish truth. Written for(...)
July 2012
The sniper's log : architectural chronicles of Generation X
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This compilation of texts written since 1986 reveals a parallel activity to Alejandro Zaera-Polo's professional life. The book is like a sniper's log, a register of events for the purpose of accumulating experience for future missions, be it academic or professional, trying to identify tendencies and to assess performances, rather than to establish truth. Written for different media and formats (professional magazines, speaking engagements, and academic presentations), the texts are thread together as part of a biographical experience that reveals that theory is here primarily instrumental and seeks efficiency rather than truth. We do not theorise because we want to understand the deep truths of the world, but because we need to organise the realm where we operate, understand how reality works and find an effective way to perform within it.
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The last decade has witnessed a proliferation of artists whose primary medium is software. Algorithmic processes, harnessed through the medium of computer code, allow artists to generate increasingly complex visual forms that they otherwise might not have been able to imagine, let alone delineate. Form+Code in Design, Art, and Architecture is a non-technical introduction(...)
August 2010
Form + code in design, art, and architecture
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The last decade has witnessed a proliferation of artists whose primary medium is software. Algorithmic processes, harnessed through the medium of computer code, allow artists to generate increasingly complex visual forms that they otherwise might not have been able to imagine, let alone delineate. Form+Code in Design, Art, and Architecture is a non-technical introduction to the history, theory, and practice of software in the arts.
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Les écrits d'Aldo Rossi sont indissociables de son oeuvre graphique et architecturale. Cette autobiographie ne constitue pas un simple retour sur soi ou une abstraction théorique mais bien une création littéraire puisant dans l'imaginaire architectonique. Le dialogue qu'établit Rossi avec son propre passé et son travail, mêlant souvenirs d'enfance et réflexions(...)
Aldo Rossi : autobiographie scientifique
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Les écrits d'Aldo Rossi sont indissociables de son oeuvre graphique et architecturale. Cette autobiographie ne constitue pas un simple retour sur soi ou une abstraction théorique mais bien une création littéraire puisant dans l'imaginaire architectonique. Le dialogue qu'établit Rossi avec son propre passé et son travail, mêlant souvenirs d'enfance et réflexions philosophiques sur l'architecture, révèle ses principales, influences artistiques et littéraires, sa fascination pour la répétition, le collage, les transpositions ou son obsession pour le théâtre. L'écriture de Rossi est comme son architecture : nostalgique, austère, subtile et incisive à la fois, élégiaque.
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Flora Mirabilis showcases illustrations paired with fascinating stories of botanical exploration and trade through the ages. Unique "plant profiles" chronicle the especially remarkable roles each plant has played in matters of economics, politics, and taste.
Flora Mirabilis: How plants have shaped world knowledge, health, wealth, and beauty
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Flora Mirabilis showcases illustrations paired with fascinating stories of botanical exploration and trade through the ages. Unique "plant profiles" chronicle the especially remarkable roles each plant has played in matters of economics, politics, and taste.
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Les émigrants
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Avec un prégnant lyrisme teinté de mélancolie, Sebald se remémore - et inscrit dans nos mémoires - la trajectoire de quatre personnages de sa connaissance que l'expatriation (ils sont pour la plupart juifs d'origine allemande ou lituanienne) aura conduits - silencieux, déracinés, fantomatiques - jusqu'au désespoir et à la mort. Mêlant investigation et réminiscence,(...)
Les émigrants
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Avec un prégnant lyrisme teinté de mélancolie, Sebald se remémore - et inscrit dans nos mémoires - la trajectoire de quatre personnages de sa connaissance que l'expatriation (ils sont pour la plupart juifs d'origine allemande ou lituanienne) aura conduits - silencieux, déracinés, fantomatiques - jusqu'au désespoir et à la mort. Mêlant investigation et réminiscence, Sebald effleure les souvenirs avec une empathie de romancier, une patience d'archiviste, une minutie de paysagiste, pour y découvrir le germe du présent. A la lisière des faits et de la littérature, son écriture est celle du temps retrouvé.
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With her meticulous depictions of insect metamorphosis, Maria Sibylla Merian raised the standards of natural history illustration. Many of the drawings produced by Merian in the South American jungle were later published as hand-colored engravings in her book Metamorphosis of the Insects of Suriname (1705), which brought her widespread fame.
Insects & flowers: The art of Maria Sibylla Merian
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With her meticulous depictions of insect metamorphosis, Maria Sibylla Merian raised the standards of natural history illustration. Many of the drawings produced by Merian in the South American jungle were later published as hand-colored engravings in her book Metamorphosis of the Insects of Suriname (1705), which brought her widespread fame.
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The photographs by Richard Misrach assembled in this volume are a stark, affecting reminders of the physical and psychological impact of Hurricane Katrina as told by those on the ground, and seen through the lens of a contemporary master. Rather than simply surveying the damage, Misrach-who has photographed the region regularly since the 1970s, most notably for his(...)
September 2010
Richard Misrach: Destroy this memory
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The photographs by Richard Misrach assembled in this volume are a stark, affecting reminders of the physical and psychological impact of Hurricane Katrina as told by those on the ground, and seen through the lens of a contemporary master. Rather than simply surveying the damage, Misrach-who has photographed the region regularly since the 1970s, most notably for his ongoing "Cancer Alley" project-found himself drawn to the hurricane-inspired graffiti. "Destroy This Memory" presents previously unpublished and starkly compelling material, all of which Misrach shot with his 4 MP pocket camera while also working on a separate archive of over 1,000 photographs with his 8 x 10 large-format camera. Created between October and December 2005, this series of images serves as a potent, unalloyed document of the raw experiences of those left to fend for themselves in the aftermath of Katrina. With no essay, titles or even page numbers in the way, the words on these homes, cars and trees offer a searing testament that continues to speak volumes.
Morphosis: Recent project
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Projects include the Giant Group Campus in Shanghai, The Phare Tower at La Défense in Paris, the Perot Museum of Nature & Science in Dallas, the Kuala Lumpur Towers in Kuala Lumpur, the new U.S. Embassy in London, the Emerson College at the Los Angeles Center, the New Orleans National Jazz, the Taipei Pop Music Center, the Seoul Performing Arts Center, the King Abdullah(...)
Morphosis: Recent project
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Projects include the Giant Group Campus in Shanghai, The Phare Tower at La Défense in Paris, the Perot Museum of Nature & Science in Dallas, the Kuala Lumpur Towers in Kuala Lumpur, the new U.S. Embassy in London, the Emerson College at the Los Angeles Center, the New Orleans National Jazz, the Taipei Pop Music Center, the Seoul Performing Arts Center, the King Abdullah Petroleum Studies and Research Center in Riyadh. Also includes an interview with Thom Mayne from Morphosis.