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While the potential of agency is most frequently taken to be the power and freedom to act for oneself, for the architectural community this also involves the power and responsibility to act as intermediaries on behalf of others. Presenting current thinking from practitioners and scholars from around the world, this book asks for a more active relationship between the(...)
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January 2010
Agency: working with uncertain architecture
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While the potential of agency is most frequently taken to be the power and freedom to act for oneself, for the architectural community this also involves the power and responsibility to act as intermediaries on behalf of others. Presenting current thinking from practitioners and scholars from around the world, this book asks for a more active relationship between the humanities, the architectural profession, and society. Considering issues of architectural research as an agency of transformation, this book explores how humanities research can better contribute towards understanding current architectural needs.
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Formerly grounded in values of craftsmanship, in the skilled making of products, ‘quality’ is now associated with the management of administrative or technical processes. Its appreciation, once based in the exercise of individual judgement and taste, is now often founded on supposedly objective systems of evaluation. Practitioners of design are under pressure to(...)
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January 2010
Quality out of control: standards for measuring architecture
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Formerly grounded in values of craftsmanship, in the skilled making of products, ‘quality’ is now associated with the management of administrative or technical processes. Its appreciation, once based in the exercise of individual judgement and taste, is now often founded on supposedly objective systems of evaluation. Practitioners of design are under pressure to quantify ‘quality’, but it is questionable whether it is possible or even desirable to do so. This book considers this important issue, looking at how quality is defined,appreciated, evaluated, managed, and produced. With contributions from eminent architects and architectural critics, this book is for architects, academics, students and anyone interested in what architectural quality is, and how it may be achieved.
Architectural Theory
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Bringing to light the debt twentieth-century modernist architects owe to the vernacular building traditions of the Mediterranean region, this book considers architectural practice and discourse from the 1920s to the 1980s. The essays here situate Mediterranean modernism in relation to concepts such as regionalism, nationalism, internationalism, critical regionalism, and(...)
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January 2010
Modern architecture and the Mediterranean: vernacular dialogues and contested identities
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Bringing to light the debt twentieth-century modernist architects owe to the vernacular building traditions of the Mediterranean region, this book considers architectural practice and discourse from the 1920s to the 1980s. The essays here situate Mediterranean modernism in relation to concepts such as regionalism, nationalism, internationalism, critical regionalism, and postmodernism - an alternative history of the modern architecture and urbanism of a critical period in the twentieth century.
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This book is a follow-up to Hertzberger's Lessons for Students in Architecture published in 1991. Similar in approach to the earlier book, it aims to trace some of the sources for, and examples of, the author's architectural projects of the last 10 years.
Space and the architect, lessons in architecture 2
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This book is a follow-up to Hertzberger's Lessons for Students in Architecture published in 1991. Similar in approach to the earlier book, it aims to trace some of the sources for, and examples of, the author's architectural projects of the last 10 years.
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Objectivity
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Objectivity has a history, and it is full of surprises. In Objectivity, Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison chart the emergence of objectivity in the mid-nineteenth-century sciences—and show how the concept differs from its alternatives, truth-to-nature and trained judgment. This is a story of lofty epistemic ideals fused with workaday practices in the making of scientific(...)
Objectivity
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Objectivity has a history, and it is full of surprises. In Objectivity, Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison chart the emergence of objectivity in the mid-nineteenth-century sciences—and show how the concept differs from its alternatives, truth-to-nature and trained judgment. This is a story of lofty epistemic ideals fused with workaday practices in the making of scientific images. From the eighteenth through the early twenty-first centuries, the images that reveal the deepest commitments of the empirical sciences—from anatomy to crystallography—are those featured in scientific atlases, the compendia that teach practitioners what is worth looking at and how to look at it. Galison and Daston use atlas images to uncover a hidden history of scientific objectivity and its rivals. Whether an atlas maker idealizes an image to capture the essentials in the name of truth-to-nature or refuses to erase even the most incidental detail in the name of objectivity or highlights patterns in the name of trained judgment is a decision enforced by an ethos as well as by an epistemology.
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Architectural Theory
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Shortly after Storefront for Art and Architecture was founded in 1982, director Kyong Park began circulating a regular 'newsletter' among the gallery's friends and followers in New York City. Sent by mail to a list of up to 3,000 people, this news-sheet/poster served to inform New Yorkers on upcoming exhibitions, events and programs in the gallery; it also served as a(...)
Storefront newsprints 1982-2009
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Shortly after Storefront for Art and Architecture was founded in 1982, director Kyong Park began circulating a regular 'newsletter' among the gallery's friends and followers in New York City. Sent by mail to a list of up to 3,000 people, this news-sheet/poster served to inform New Yorkers on upcoming exhibitions, events and programs in the gallery; it also served as a reader or exhibition guide of sorts, offering critical contextualizations to the exhibitions on display at Storefront. Over time, the archive of Storefront's Newsprints grew to become the most complete historical documentation of the gallery's programs since its earliest days. 'Storefront Newsprints 1982-2009' is comprised of reproductions of over 154 newsletters, many of which contain otherwise unpublished texts by artists, architects and theorists such as Vito Acconci, Lebbeus Woods, Michael Sorkin, Beatriz Colomina, Michael Webb and Eyal Weizman, among others.
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From I to J
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A woman writes letters to a man who is in prison. Coixet has created an installation based on Berger’s book From a to X, with the collaboration of architect Benedetta Tagliabue and some of the most acclaimed actresses working in film today. The book is accompanied by a DVD PAL format, which includes a selection of letters from the novel From A to X read by Monica(...)
From I to J
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A woman writes letters to a man who is in prison. Coixet has created an installation based on Berger’s book From a to X, with the collaboration of architect Benedetta Tagliabue and some of the most acclaimed actresses working in film today. The book is accompanied by a DVD PAL format, which includes a selection of letters from the novel From A to X read by Monica Bellucci, Sophie Calle, Patricia Clarkson, Penélope Cruz, Julie Delpy, Isabelle Huppert, Henning Mankell, Maria de Medeiros, Sarah Polley, Tilda Swinton, Leonor Watling and Carme Elias, as well as the recording of Isabel Coixet’s interview with John Berger.
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C'est l'histoire d'un petit bout de terre au coeur de Tel-Aviv, sur lequel est bâti aujourd'hui le centre commercial Dizengoff Center ; qui était auparavant Nordia, le quartier de baraquements des immigrés polonais immortalisé par Yaacov Shabtaï dans Pour inventaire ; qui était auparavant une étendue de vignes, de sables et d'orangeraies appartenant à un grand(...)
Place Dizengoff, une dramaturgie urbaine
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C'est l'histoire d'un petit bout de terre au coeur de Tel-Aviv, sur lequel est bâti aujourd'hui le centre commercial Dizengoff Center ; qui était auparavant Nordia, le quartier de baraquements des immigrés polonais immortalisé par Yaacov Shabtaï dans Pour inventaire ; qui était auparavant une étendue de vignes, de sables et d'orangeraies appartenant à un grand propriétaire terrien arabe de Jaffa : Adib Mahmad Hinawi. Lequel est mystérieusement assassiné à l'arme blanche, le 3 novembre 1939, dans une rue de Jaffa... De ce crime "originel" à l'explosion d'un autobus en 1996, Tamar Berger livre une passionnante enquête sur la naissance d'une jeune métropole, véritable généalogie urbaine d'un territoire ultrasensible : Tel-Aviv. Flânerie littéraire et historique hantée par Walter Benjamin et Charles Baudelaire, réflexion poétique et politique sur la ville, un document d'une richesse unique, entre histoire littéraire, archéologie familiale et saga immobilière, enquête cadastrale et analyse géopolitique.
Architectural Theory
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Presenting the first formulation of the central subject, this volume challenges major assumptions long held by Western art historians and provides new ways of thinking about, looking at, and understanding Byzantine art in its broadest geographic and chronological framework, from A.D. 300 to the early nineteenth century.
Architecture as icon: Perception and representation of architecture in Byzantine art
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Presenting the first formulation of the central subject, this volume challenges major assumptions long held by Western art historians and provides new ways of thinking about, looking at, and understanding Byzantine art in its broadest geographic and chronological framework, from A.D. 300 to the early nineteenth century.
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Ruskin on Venice
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Venice represented John Ruskin’s ideal of civic society—“The Paradise of Cities,” where culture, government, and faith existed in creative harmony. Robert Hewison traces Ruskin’s long and intricate relationship with the city. He shows how Ruskin shed his earlier Romantic vision of the city and developed a harder, clearer conception of neglected Gothic Venice through an(...)
Ruskin on Venice
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Venice represented John Ruskin’s ideal of civic society—“The Paradise of Cities,” where culture, government, and faith existed in creative harmony. Robert Hewison traces Ruskin’s long and intricate relationship with the city. He shows how Ruskin shed his earlier Romantic vision of the city and developed a harder, clearer conception of neglected Gothic Venice through an intense study of the city's physical fabric that would change the international understanding of the city. Drawing on the rich resources of Ruskin’s drawings, architectural notebooks, and manuscripts, Hewison offers insights into both Ruskin and nineteenth-century Venice and reveals how Ruskin’s work and his connection with the city from youth to old age have helped to shape the image of the Venice we know today.
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