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Why architects still draw
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Why would an architect reach for a pencil when drawing software and AutoCAD are a click away? Use a ruler when 3D-scanners and GPS devices are close at hand? In Why Architects Still Draw, Paolo Belardi offers an elegant and ardent defense of drawing by hand as a way of thinking. Belardi is no Luddite; he doesn't urge architects to give up digital devices for watercolors(...)
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Why would an architect reach for a pencil when drawing software and AutoCAD are a click away? Use a ruler when 3D-scanners and GPS devices are close at hand? In Why Architects Still Draw, Paolo Belardi offers an elegant and ardent defense of drawing by hand as a way of thinking. Belardi is no Luddite; he doesn't urge architects to give up digital devices for watercolors(...)
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Why architects still draw
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Why would an architect reach for a pencil when drawing software and AutoCAD are a click away? Use a ruler when 3D-scanners and GPS devices are close at hand? In Why Architects Still Draw, Paolo Belardi offers an elegant and ardent defense of drawing by hand as a way of thinking. Belardi is no Luddite; he doesn't urge architects to give up digital devices for watercolors and a measuring tape. Rather, he makes a case for drawing as the interface between the idea and the work itself. A drawing, Belardi argues, holds within it the entire final design. It is the paradox of the acorn: a project emerges from a drawing-even from a sketch, rough and inchoate-just as an oak tree emerges from an acorn. Citing examples not just from architecture but also from literature, chemistry, music, archaeology, and art, Belardi shows how drawing is not a passive recording but a moment of invention pregnant with creative possibilities.
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Why would an architect reach for a pencil when drawing software and AutoCAD are a click away? Use a ruler when 3D-scanners and GPS devices are close at hand? In Why Architects Still Draw, Paolo Belardi offers an elegant and ardent defense of drawing by hand as a way of thinking. Belardi is no Luddite; he doesn't urge architects to give up digital devices for watercolors and a measuring tape. Rather, he makes a case for drawing as the interface between the idea and the work itself. A drawing, Belardi argues, holds within it the entire final design. It is the paradox of the acorn: a project emerges from a drawing-even from a sketch, rough and inchoate-just as an oak tree emerges from an acorn. Citing examples not just from architecture but also from literature, chemistry, music, archaeology, and art, Belardi shows how drawing is not a passive recording but a moment of invention pregnant with creative possibilities.
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March 2014
March 2014
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Architectural Theory
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In Buildings Must Die, Stephen Cairns and Jane Jacobs look awry at core architectural concerns. They examine spalling concrete and creeping rust, contemplate ruins old and new, and pick through the rubble of earthquake-shattered churches, imploded housing projects, and demolished Brutalist office buildings. Their investigation of the death of buildings reorders(...)
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In Buildings Must Die, Stephen Cairns and Jane Jacobs look awry at core architectural concerns. They examine spalling concrete and creeping rust, contemplate ruins old and new, and pick through the rubble of earthquake-shattered churches, imploded housing projects, and demolished Brutalist office buildings. Their investigation of the death of buildings reorders(...)
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Buildings must die : a perverse view of architecture
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In Buildings Must Die, Stephen Cairns and Jane Jacobs look awry at core architectural concerns. They examine spalling concrete and creeping rust, contemplate ruins old and new, and pick through the rubble of earthquake-shattered churches, imploded housing projects, and demolished Brutalist office buildings. Their investigation of the death of buildings reorders architectural notions of creativity, reshapes architecture’s preoccupation with good form, loosens its vanities of durability, and expands its sense of value. It does so not to kill off architecture as we know it, but to rethink its agency and its capacity to make worlds differently.
Buildings must die : a perverse view of architecture
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In Buildings Must Die, Stephen Cairns and Jane Jacobs look awry at core architectural concerns. They examine spalling concrete and creeping rust, contemplate ruins old and new, and pick through the rubble of earthquake-shattered churches, imploded housing projects, and demolished Brutalist office buildings. Their investigation of the death of buildings reorders architectural notions of creativity, reshapes architecture’s preoccupation with good form, loosens its vanities of durability, and expands its sense of value. It does so not to kill off architecture as we know it, but to rethink its agency and its capacity to make worlds differently.
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April 2014
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The usual history of architecture is a grand narrative of soaring monuments and heroic makers. But it is also a false narrative in many ways, rarely acknowledging the personal failures and disappointments of architects. In Bleak Houses, Timothy Brittain-Catlin investigates the underside of architecture, the stories of losers and unfulfillment often ignored by an(...)
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The usual history of architecture is a grand narrative of soaring monuments and heroic makers. But it is also a false narrative in many ways, rarely acknowledging the personal failures and disappointments of architects. In Bleak Houses, Timothy Brittain-Catlin investigates the underside of architecture, the stories of losers and unfulfillment often ignored by an(...)
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Bleak houses: disappointment and failure in architecture
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The usual history of architecture is a grand narrative of soaring monuments and heroic makers. But it is also a false narrative in many ways, rarely acknowledging the personal failures and disappointments of architects. In Bleak Houses, Timothy Brittain-Catlin investigates the underside of architecture, the stories of losers and unfulfillment often ignored by an architectural criticism that values novelty, fame, and virility over fallibility and rejection.
Bleak houses: disappointment and failure in architecture
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The usual history of architecture is a grand narrative of soaring monuments and heroic makers. But it is also a false narrative in many ways, rarely acknowledging the personal failures and disappointments of architects. In Bleak Houses, Timothy Brittain-Catlin investigates the underside of architecture, the stories of losers and unfulfillment often ignored by an architectural criticism that values novelty, fame, and virility over fallibility and rejection.
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March 2014
March 2014
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In this book, Shundana Yusaf examines the ways that broadcasting placed architecture at the heart of debates on democracy. Undaunted by the challenge of talking about space and place in disembodied voices over a nonvisual medium, designers and critics turned the wireless into an arena for debates about the definitions of the architect and architecture, the difficulties of(...)
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In this book, Shundana Yusaf examines the ways that broadcasting placed architecture at the heart of debates on democracy. Undaunted by the challenge of talking about space and place in disembodied voices over a nonvisual medium, designers and critics turned the wireless into an arena for debates about the definitions of the architect and architecture, the difficulties of(...)
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Broadcasting buildings: architecture on the wireless, 1927-1945
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In this book, Shundana Yusaf examines the ways that broadcasting placed architecture at the heart of debates on democracy. Undaunted by the challenge of talking about space and place in disembodied voices over a nonvisual medium, designers and critics turned the wireless into an arena for debates about the definitions of the architect and architecture, the difficulties of town and country planning after the breakup of large country estates, the financing of the luxury market, the expansion of local governing power, and tourism.
Broadcasting buildings: architecture on the wireless, 1927-1945
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In this book, Shundana Yusaf examines the ways that broadcasting placed architecture at the heart of debates on democracy. Undaunted by the challenge of talking about space and place in disembodied voices over a nonvisual medium, designers and critics turned the wireless into an arena for debates about the definitions of the architect and architecture, the difficulties of town and country planning after the breakup of large country estates, the financing of the luxury market, the expansion of local governing power, and tourism.
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March 2014
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Aluminum shaped the twentieth century. It enabled high-speed travel and gravity-defying flight. It was the material of a streamlined aesthetic that came to represent modernity. And it became an essential ingredient in industrial and domestic products that ranged from airplanes and cars to designer chairs and artificial Christmas trees. It entered modern homes as(...)
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Aluminum shaped the twentieth century. It enabled high-speed travel and gravity-defying flight. It was the material of a streamlined aesthetic that came to represent modernity. And it became an essential ingredient in industrial and domestic products that ranged from airplanes and cars to designer chairs and artificial Christmas trees. It entered modern homes as(...)
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Aluminium dreams: the making of light modernity
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Aluminum shaped the twentieth century. It enabled high-speed travel and gravity-defying flight. It was the material of a streamlined aesthetic that came to represent modernity. And it became an essential ingredient in industrial and domestic products that ranged from airplanes and cars to designer chairs and artificial Christmas trees. It entered modern homes as packaging, foil, pots and pans and even infiltrated our bodies through food, medicine, and cosmetics. In Aluminum Dreams, Mimi Sheller describes how the materiality and meaning of aluminum transformed modern life and continues to shape the world today.
Aluminium dreams: the making of light modernity
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Aluminum shaped the twentieth century. It enabled high-speed travel and gravity-defying flight. It was the material of a streamlined aesthetic that came to represent modernity. And it became an essential ingredient in industrial and domestic products that ranged from airplanes and cars to designer chairs and artificial Christmas trees. It entered modern homes as packaging, foil, pots and pans and even infiltrated our bodies through food, medicine, and cosmetics. In Aluminum Dreams, Mimi Sheller describes how the materiality and meaning of aluminum transformed modern life and continues to shape the world today.
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March 2014
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Hohl a 20 ans et arpente la ville en compagie d’autres artistes en exil, tout aussi fauchés, le long d'un axe place de Clichy-La Villette ou Montmartre- Montparnasse. Gares, bordels, brasseries, dancings de troisième zone, abattoirs, banlieues et hôtels meublés où caresser ses illusions de gloire sont les points de repère de cette société de l'ombre qui passe son temps à(...)
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Hohl a 20 ans et arpente la ville en compagie d’autres artistes en exil, tout aussi fauchés, le long d'un axe place de Clichy-La Villette ou Montmartre- Montparnasse. Gares, bordels, brasseries, dancings de troisième zone, abattoirs, banlieues et hôtels meublés où caresser ses illusions de gloire sont les points de repère de cette société de l'ombre qui passe son temps à(...)
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Paris 1926: la société de minuit
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Hohl a 20 ans et arpente la ville en compagie d’autres artistes en exil, tout aussi fauchés, le long d'un axe place de Clichy-La Villette ou Montmartre- Montparnasse. Gares, bordels, brasseries, dancings de troisième zone, abattoirs, banlieues et hôtels meublés où caresser ses illusions de gloire sont les points de repère de cette société de l'ombre qui passe son temps à boire, marcher et débusquer des coins inexplorés. Mais rapidement le désir de montagne devient pour Hohl une obsession : il se prépare aux pages qu'il écrira l'été 1926 et qui seront le point de départ de son chef-d'oeuvre, Ascension. Paris 1926 est le journal, à la forme assez libre, d’artistes en formation : chaque membre du groupe informel et cosmopolite (peintre, sculpteur, architecte, poète) apporte l'oeil et la sensibilité liés à son art, faisant profiter l'ensemble des secrets de tel immeuble, tel canal ou tel paysage. C'est aussi une ébouriffante galerie de portraits acérés et cruels, tant pour les amis de Hohl que pour les touristes en goguette ou les types de la vie parisienne.
Paris 1926: la société de minuit
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Hohl a 20 ans et arpente la ville en compagie d’autres artistes en exil, tout aussi fauchés, le long d'un axe place de Clichy-La Villette ou Montmartre- Montparnasse. Gares, bordels, brasseries, dancings de troisième zone, abattoirs, banlieues et hôtels meublés où caresser ses illusions de gloire sont les points de repère de cette société de l'ombre qui passe son temps à boire, marcher et débusquer des coins inexplorés. Mais rapidement le désir de montagne devient pour Hohl une obsession : il se prépare aux pages qu'il écrira l'été 1926 et qui seront le point de départ de son chef-d'oeuvre, Ascension. Paris 1926 est le journal, à la forme assez libre, d’artistes en formation : chaque membre du groupe informel et cosmopolite (peintre, sculpteur, architecte, poète) apporte l'oeil et la sensibilité liés à son art, faisant profiter l'ensemble des secrets de tel immeuble, tel canal ou tel paysage. C'est aussi une ébouriffante galerie de portraits acérés et cruels, tant pour les amis de Hohl que pour les touristes en goguette ou les types de la vie parisienne.
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November 2012
November 2012
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The Eyes of the Skin has become a classic of architectural theory and consists of two extended essays. The first surveys the historical development of the ocular-centric paradigm in western culture since the Greeks, and its impact on the experience of the world and the nature of architecture. The second examines the role of the other senses in authentic architectural(...)
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The Eyes of the Skin has become a classic of architectural theory and consists of two extended essays. The first surveys the historical development of the ocular-centric paradigm in western culture since the Greeks, and its impact on the experience of the world and the nature of architecture. The second examines the role of the other senses in authentic architectural(...)
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Pallasmaa : the eyes of the skin, architecture and the senses (3rd edition)
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The Eyes of the Skin has become a classic of architectural theory and consists of two extended essays. The first surveys the historical development of the ocular-centric paradigm in western culture since the Greeks, and its impact on the experience of the world and the nature of architecture. The second examines the role of the other senses in authentic architectural experiences, and points the way towards a multi-sensory architecture which facilitates a sense of belonging and integration.
Pallasmaa : the eyes of the skin, architecture and the senses (3rd edition)
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The Eyes of the Skin has become a classic of architectural theory and consists of two extended essays. The first surveys the historical development of the ocular-centric paradigm in western culture since the Greeks, and its impact on the experience of the world and the nature of architecture. The second examines the role of the other senses in authentic architectural experiences, and points the way towards a multi-sensory architecture which facilitates a sense of belonging and integration.
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June 2012
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Today, spaces no longer represent a bourgeois haven; nor are they the sites of a classical harmony between work and leisure, private and public, the local and the global. The house is not merely a home but a position for negotiations with multiple spheres — the technological as well as the physical and the psychological. In A Topology of Everyday Constellations, Georges(...)
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Today, spaces no longer represent a bourgeois haven; nor are they the sites of a classical harmony between work and leisure, private and public, the local and the global. The house is not merely a home but a position for negotiations with multiple spheres — the technological as well as the physical and the psychological. In A Topology of Everyday Constellations, Georges(...)
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A topology of everyday constellations
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Today, spaces no longer represent a bourgeois haven; nor are they the sites of a classical harmony between work and leisure, private and public, the local and the global. The house is not merely a home but a position for negotiations with multiple spheres — the technological as well as the physical and the psychological. In A Topology of Everyday Constellations, Georges Teyssot considers the intrusion of the public sphere into private space, and the blurring of notions of interior, privacy, and intimacy in our societies. He proposes that we rethink design in terms of a new definition of the practices of everyday life. Teyssot considers the door, the window, the mirror, and the screen as thresholds or interstitial spaces that divide the world in two: the outside and the inside. Thresholds, he suggests, work both as markers of boundaries and as bridges to the exterior. The stark choice between boundary and bridge creates a middle space, an in-between that holds the possibility of exchanges and encounters. If the threshold no longer separates public from private, and if we can no longer think of the house as a bastion of privacy, Teyssot asks, does the body still inhabit the house — or does the house, evolving into a series of microdevices, inhabit the body?
A topology of everyday constellations
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Today, spaces no longer represent a bourgeois haven; nor are they the sites of a classical harmony between work and leisure, private and public, the local and the global. The house is not merely a home but a position for negotiations with multiple spheres — the technological as well as the physical and the psychological. In A Topology of Everyday Constellations, Georges Teyssot considers the intrusion of the public sphere into private space, and the blurring of notions of interior, privacy, and intimacy in our societies. He proposes that we rethink design in terms of a new definition of the practices of everyday life. Teyssot considers the door, the window, the mirror, and the screen as thresholds or interstitial spaces that divide the world in two: the outside and the inside. Thresholds, he suggests, work both as markers of boundaries and as bridges to the exterior. The stark choice between boundary and bridge creates a middle space, an in-between that holds the possibility of exchanges and encounters. If the threshold no longer separates public from private, and if we can no longer think of the house as a bastion of privacy, Teyssot asks, does the body still inhabit the house — or does the house, evolving into a series of microdevices, inhabit the body?
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March 2013
March 2013
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Architectural Theory
Architectural Theory
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Ce livre est le premier entretien accordé par Philippe Starck. Il nous entraîne, au gré des mots et sous la forme d'un abécédaire déstructuré, dans un univers mental, imaginatif et créatif fertile. Réflexions personnelles, expériences vécues et analyses étayées s'entremêlent et révèlent une pensée complexe, provocatrice et novatrice. Écologie et politique, jeunesse et(...)
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Ce livre est le premier entretien accordé par Philippe Starck. Il nous entraîne, au gré des mots et sous la forme d'un abécédaire déstructuré, dans un univers mental, imaginatif et créatif fertile. Réflexions personnelles, expériences vécues et analyses étayées s'entremêlent et révèlent une pensée complexe, provocatrice et novatrice. Écologie et politique, jeunesse et(...)
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Philippe Starck : impression d'ailleurs, avec Gilles Vanderpooten
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Ce livre est le premier entretien accordé par Philippe Starck. Il nous entraîne, au gré des mots et sous la forme d'un abécédaire déstructuré, dans un univers mental, imaginatif et créatif fertile. Réflexions personnelles, expériences vécues et analyses étayées s'entremêlent et révèlent une pensée complexe, provocatrice et novatrice. Écologie et politique, jeunesse et culture, art et science. Philippe Starck nous livre un regard décalé et acéré sur les enjeux du monde qui vient et propose des voies pour le changer. Cet ouvrage offre une plongée dans l'esprit d'un grand créateur. Le texte circule entre autoportrait, parti pris et questionnement philosophique.
Philippe Starck : impression d'ailleurs, avec Gilles Vanderpooten
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Ce livre est le premier entretien accordé par Philippe Starck. Il nous entraîne, au gré des mots et sous la forme d'un abécédaire déstructuré, dans un univers mental, imaginatif et créatif fertile. Réflexions personnelles, expériences vécues et analyses étayées s'entremêlent et révèlent une pensée complexe, provocatrice et novatrice. Écologie et politique, jeunesse et culture, art et science. Philippe Starck nous livre un regard décalé et acéré sur les enjeux du monde qui vient et propose des voies pour le changer. Cet ouvrage offre une plongée dans l'esprit d'un grand créateur. Le texte circule entre autoportrait, parti pris et questionnement philosophique.
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December 2012
December 2012
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Global Ends: Towards The Beginning explores the uncertain and de-centred nature of architecture and the global/local dynamic involved in both its perception and production in a post-9/11, post-Great East Japan Earthquake world. Taking views from several accomplished architects spread across all corners of the globe (Tom Kundig, Junya Ishigami, Kerry Hill, Sean(...)
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Global Ends: Towards The Beginning explores the uncertain and de-centred nature of architecture and the global/local dynamic involved in both its perception and production in a post-9/11, post-Great East Japan Earthquake world. Taking views from several accomplished architects spread across all corners of the globe (Tom Kundig, Junya Ishigami, Kerry Hill, Sean(...)
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Global ends: towards the beginning
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Global Ends: Towards The Beginning explores the uncertain and de-centred nature of architecture and the global/local dynamic involved in both its perception and production in a post-9/11, post-Great East Japan Earthquake world. Taking views from several accomplished architects spread across all corners of the globe (Tom Kundig, Junya Ishigami, Kerry Hill, Sean Godsell, Smiljan Radic, Paulo David and RCR Aranda Pigem Vilalta Arquitectes), it focuses on the paradigm shift we are witnessing today, with collective creativity springing from far-flung regions and local solutions that are perhaps adaptable to global issues.
Global ends: towards the beginning
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Global Ends: Towards The Beginning explores the uncertain and de-centred nature of architecture and the global/local dynamic involved in both its perception and production in a post-9/11, post-Great East Japan Earthquake world. Taking views from several accomplished architects spread across all corners of the globe (Tom Kundig, Junya Ishigami, Kerry Hill, Sean Godsell, Smiljan Radic, Paulo David and RCR Aranda Pigem Vilalta Arquitectes), it focuses on the paradigm shift we are witnessing today, with collective creativity springing from far-flung regions and local solutions that are perhaps adaptable to global issues.
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December 2012
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