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Along with increasing environmental awareness, the size of timber constructions being built, also in an urban context, is getting bigger. Detail presents a broad range of modern timber constructions.
Detail 1/2 2012: timber construction
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Along with increasing environmental awareness, the size of timber constructions being built, also in an urban context, is getting bigger. Detail presents a broad range of modern timber constructions.
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Volume 30: privatize!
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What used to be collective care is rapidly becoming private responsibility. Is privatization the one-size-fits-all solution to every (financial) problem? Can addressing collective needs be thought of as the sum total of numerous private initiatives? And will the 'retreat' of government and state be compensated by other ways to organize the complex organism called society?(...)
Volume 30: privatize!
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What used to be collective care is rapidly becoming private responsibility. Is privatization the one-size-fits-all solution to every (financial) problem? Can addressing collective needs be thought of as the sum total of numerous private initiatives? And will the 'retreat' of government and state be compensated by other ways to organize the complex organism called society? Volume maps realities, enlists challenges and presents some options.
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OASE 85 examines how the cultural changes of our era affect architecture and urban planning, in essays by Michiel Dehaene and Els Vervloessem, John Habraken, Thierry Lagrange, Yeoryia Manolopoulou, Dimitri Messu, Erik and Ronald Rietveld, Iris Schutten, Hannes Schwertfeger and Tom Vandeputte.
Oase #85: productive uncertainty, indeterminacy in spatial design, planning and management
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OASE 85 examines how the cultural changes of our era affect architecture and urban planning, in essays by Michiel Dehaene and Els Vervloessem, John Habraken, Thierry Lagrange, Yeoryia Manolopoulou, Dimitri Messu, Erik and Ronald Rietveld, Iris Schutten, Hannes Schwertfeger and Tom Vandeputte.
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Oase #86 Barok / Baroque
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In OASE 86, the architecture of the baroque is revisited and assessed with specific regards to its relevance for modern and contemporary architecture. On the basis of several historical studies, this issue examines how the complex geometric compositions, surface treatments and semantic operations of the baroque might be connected to contemporary design practice.
Oase #86 Barok / Baroque
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In OASE 86, the architecture of the baroque is revisited and assessed with specific regards to its relevance for modern and contemporary architecture. On the basis of several historical studies, this issue examines how the complex geometric compositions, surface treatments and semantic operations of the baroque might be connected to contemporary design practice.
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"Open" 22 investigates how transparency and secrecy are intertwined in modern-day society and explores how they relate to the public and the civic, using WikiLeaks as a test case. The contributors consider transparency as fetish and the ideal of the free flow of information.
Open 22, Transparency : publicity and secrecy in the age of Wikileaks
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Cabinet 45: Games
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In the nineteenth century, Marx rejected the notion of homo sapiens, offering instead homo faber to indicate how consciousness follows from the primary activity of making. Against this, a certain ludic tradition has imagined a homo ludens, humans defined through their relationship with games and play. Cabinet 45 features Joshua Glenn on H.G. Wells’ “Floor Games”; D.(...)
Cabinet 45: Games
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In the nineteenth century, Marx rejected the notion of homo sapiens, offering instead homo faber to indicate how consciousness follows from the primary activity of making. Against this, a certain ludic tradition has imagined a homo ludens, humans defined through their relationship with games and play. Cabinet 45 features Joshua Glenn on H.G. Wells’ “Floor Games”; D. Graham Burnett on games played by game theorists; Barbara Levine and Jessica Helfand on dexterity games; James Trainor on the lost world of “adventure” playgrounds; Dana Katz on Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt’s “Oblique Strategies”; an interview with Bertell Ollman, inventor of the board game “Class Struggle”; and Jeff Dolven on poems as games. Elsewhere in the issue: Helen Larsson on the history of applause; Wayne Koestenbaum’s legendary “Legend” column; Naomi Muller on eating the zoo animals in Berlin during World War II; Jeremy Crichton on “spite” houses; and much more.
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This issue includes: Jeffrey Kipnis on Reiser + Umemoto's 0-14 tower; Anthony Vidler on Colin Rowe's review of La Tourette; Todd Gannon on Jason Payne's "Rawhide: The New Shingle Style" at SCI-Arc; Charles Jencks on contextual counterpoint in recent work of Herzog & de Meuron and Edouard François; Craig Buckley on Lacaton & Vassal's transformation of Bois-le-Pretre tower(...)
Log 24, winter/spring 2012: architecture criticism
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This issue includes: Jeffrey Kipnis on Reiser + Umemoto's 0-14 tower; Anthony Vidler on Colin Rowe's review of La Tourette; Todd Gannon on Jason Payne's "Rawhide: The New Shingle Style" at SCI-Arc; Charles Jencks on contextual counterpoint in recent work of Herzog & de Meuron and Edouard François; Craig Buckley on Lacaton & Vassal's transformation of Bois-le-Pretre tower in Paris; Sylvia Lavin on Piplotti Rist's installation at the Wexner Center; Daniel Sherer on Preston Scott Cohen's Tel Aviv Museum; and many other contributions from Rome, Athens, Ningbo, London, New York, and Los Angeles.
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In 1980s, Dutch architectural design was stigmatized as “SuperDutch” or even as “pragmatic”. In the roaring 90s, this all changed as Holland became known as the architectural playground for young designers around the globe. In this Issue of A+U takes a closer look at architectural trends over the last 10 years in the Netherlands. What is the current state of Dutch(...)
A+U 496: architecture in the Netherlands 2000-2011
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In 1980s, Dutch architectural design was stigmatized as “SuperDutch” or even as “pragmatic”. In the roaring 90s, this all changed as Holland became known as the architectural playground for young designers around the globe. In this Issue of A+U takes a closer look at architectural trends over the last 10 years in the Netherlands. What is the current state of Dutch architecture? And how has the global economic crisis inspired the Dutch architectural landscape? In addition to the 30 featured works, a special list of a hundred selected buildings is also highlighted. Architects featured are Claus en Kaan, Rapp+ Rapp, Wiel Arets, NL Architects and Concrete.
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Mousse 32 February - March
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In this issue… Stan Douglas has a fascinating method for producing his series: identification. For “Midcentury Studio”, Douglas dons the garb of a Canadian news photographer and war veteran. In a conversation with Monika Szewczyk, the artist discusses this work and the recent “Disco Angola”. Elisabeth Lebovici converses with Barbara Hammer to retrace the(...)
Mousse 32 February - March
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In this issue… Stan Douglas has a fascinating method for producing his series: identification. For “Midcentury Studio”, Douglas dons the garb of a Canadian news photographer and war veteran. In a conversation with Monika Szewczyk, the artist discusses this work and the recent “Disco Angola”. Elisabeth Lebovici converses with Barbara Hammer to retrace the artist’s career and delve into two recent works, one on Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore, the other on Maya Deren, touching on themes of gender, role and discrimination. In Buffalo, in March 1984, Susan Krane and Bruce Jenkins interviewed Hollis Frampton, shortly before his death. The tapes, which Jenkins has retrieved from his archives 28 years later, offer an extraordinary conversation/performance of the American artist in LOST & FOUND. And much more...
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October 139
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At the forefront of art criticism and theory, October focuses critical attention on the contemporary arts—film, painting, music, media, photography, performance, sculpture, and literature—and their various contexts of interpretation. Examining relationships between the arts and their critical and social contexts, October addresses a broad range of readers.(...)
October 139
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At the forefront of art criticism and theory, October focuses critical attention on the contemporary arts—film, painting, music, media, photography, performance, sculpture, and literature—and their various contexts of interpretation. Examining relationships between the arts and their critical and social contexts, October addresses a broad range of readers. Original, innovative, provocative, each issue presents today’s artistic, intellectual, and critical vanguard. Rosalind Krauss, Annette Michelson, George Baker, Yve-Alain Bois, Benjamin H. D. Buchloh, Leah Dickerman, Devin Fore, Hal Foster, Denis Hollier, David Joselit, Carrie Lambert-Beatty, Mignon Nixon, and Malcolm Turvey, Editors
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