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Challenging the pervasive idea that corporate capitalism corrupted the idealism of modernist architecture in the postwar era, this publication shows that architecture’s wartime partnership with corporate America was founded on shared anxieties and ideals. Business and architecture were brought together in innovative ways, as shown by Shanken’s reading of magazine(...)
Architectural Theory
February 2009, Minneapolis, London
194X : architecture, planning, and consumer culture on the american home front
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Challenging the pervasive idea that corporate capitalism corrupted the idealism of modernist architecture in the postwar era, this publication shows that architecture’s wartime partnership with corporate America was founded on shared anxieties and ideals. Business and architecture were brought together in innovative ways, as shown by Shanken’s reading of magazine advertisements for Revere Copper and Brass, U.S. Gypsum, General Electric, and other companies that prominently featured the work of leading progressive architects, including Louis I. Kahn, Eero Saarinen, and Walter Gropius.
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In this book the author offers a critical, philosophical, and historical inquiry into the characteristics and consequences of this consumer subculture. For Azuma, one of Japan’s leading public intellectuals, otaku culture mirrors the transformations of postwar Japanese society and the nature of human behavior in the postmodern era. He traces otaku’s ascendancy to the(...)
Otaku: Japan's Database Animals
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In this book the author offers a critical, philosophical, and historical inquiry into the characteristics and consequences of this consumer subculture. For Azuma, one of Japan’s leading public intellectuals, otaku culture mirrors the transformations of postwar Japanese society and the nature of human behavior in the postmodern era. He traces otaku’s ascendancy to the distorted conditions created in Japan by the country’s phenomenal postwar modernization, its inability to come to terms with its defeat in the Second World War, and America’s subsequent cultural invasion. More broadly, Azuma argues that the consumption behavior of otaku is representative of the postmodern consumption of culture in general, which sacrifices the search for greater significance to almost animalistic instant gratification.
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In this publication, Edgerton retells the fascinating story of how perspective emerged in early fifteenth-century Florence, growing out of an artistic and religious context in which devout Christians longed for divine presence in their daily lives. And yet, ironically, its discovery would have a profound effect not only on the history of art but on the history of science(...)
The mirror, the window, and the telescope : how Renaissance linear perspective changed our vision of the universe
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In this publication, Edgerton retells the fascinating story of how perspective emerged in early fifteenth-century Florence, growing out of an artistic and religious context in which devout Christians longed for divine presence in their daily lives. And yet, ironically, its discovery would have a profound effect not only on the history of art but on the history of science and technology, ultimately undermining the very medieval Christian cosmic view that gave rise to it in the first place.
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Vito Acconci is well-known as a concept and performing artist who was far ahead of his time. In 2003, he realized one of his first architectural projects : for his artist-and-gallerist friend Kenny Schachter he designed the multifunctional gallery space conTEMPorary in New York. This experimental space became programmatic for their further collaboration, up to their(...)
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June 2005, Wien / New York
Art becomes architecture becomes art : a conversation between
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Vito Acconci is well-known as a concept and performing artist who was far ahead of his time. In 2003, he realized one of his first architectural projects : for his artist-and-gallerist friend Kenny Schachter he designed the multifunctional gallery space conTEMPorary in New York. This experimental space became programmatic for their further collaboration, up to their latest project in King’s Cross, London. Over the past years, Vito Acconci has moved towards architecture. Today’s Acconci Studio covers planning for such diverse projects as the Skateboard Park in San Juan, the Inside-Out Bookstore for Documenta X, or an urban planning for Tel Aviv. Vito Acconci and Kenny Schachter met for two discussions in London and Basel in 2004 and 2005.
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Claude Parent
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L'hypothèse de la " Fonction oblique " préconisant la fixation de la vie des hommes sur les plans inclinés, fut énoncée en 1964 par Claude Parent et Paul Virilio. Les textes qui vont suivre en présentent l'explication, tendent à parvenir à une globalisation des solutions de concentration urbaine et illustrent par certains exemples concrets les possibilités illimitées de(...)
Claude Parent
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L'hypothèse de la " Fonction oblique " préconisant la fixation de la vie des hommes sur les plans inclinés, fut énoncée en 1964 par Claude Parent et Paul Virilio. Les textes qui vont suivre en présentent l'explication, tendent à parvenir à une globalisation des solutions de concentration urbaine et illustrent par certains exemples concrets les possibilités illimitées de cette nouvelle prise de possession de l'espace. Encore faut-il se prémunir contre une tendance naturelle à la nouveauté, car lorsque l'on connaît les principes essentiels de la fonction oblique, on s'aperçoit que cette proposition a préexisté dans le passé à des époques très éloignées dans le temps, très différentes dans l'option morale ou économique, et qu'elle a donné naissance à des formulations concrètes dont l'archéologie nous porte témoignage irrécusable. Depuis la Turquie du septième millénaire avant Jésus-Christ jusqu'aux villages actuels du Sud Algérien, un passé de la fonction oblique existe. Ce passé a eu ou conserve sa vérité, sa réalité sociologique. C'est à ce titre qu'il est permis de " découvrir " d'imaginer dans le passé, cette " archéologie du futur ", aussi bien qu'il est possible dans le présent de détecter les " germes " en pensée ou en acte d'une futurologie, c'est-à-dire d'une science de la découverte de l'avenir de l'humanité, dans la mesure où cet avenir n'est ni imposé, ni subi par les deux parties contractantes : la population, les créateurs-inventeurs mais intégré de par l'imagination des uns à l'usage de l'autre. On doit lire le passé comme un futur à découvrir.
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January 2005, Paris
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Les cabanes, contrairement à ce que pourrait laisser croire l’étymologie, ne sont pas de « petites maisons » : elles sont sans solutions de continuité avec les architectures dont elles sont supposées être l’origine. Fragiles et singulières, elles sont construites sans plan préconçu. Elles abritent des individus qui ne s’y installent pas, n’y habitent jamais véritablement.(...)
Notes sur la nature, la cabane et quelques autres choses
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Les cabanes, contrairement à ce que pourrait laisser croire l’étymologie, ne sont pas de « petites maisons » : elles sont sans solutions de continuité avec les architectures dont elles sont supposées être l’origine. Fragiles et singulières, elles sont construites sans plan préconçu. Elles abritent des individus qui ne s’y installent pas, n’y habitent jamais véritablement. Aux marges des villes et des sociétés, elles recomposent une certaine idée de la nature à laquelle nous désirons nous confronter tout en la craignant. Cette ambivalence fondamentale fait de la cabane un lieu de contradictions où coexistent le haut et le bas, l’ouvert et le fermé, le mobile et l’immobile, le jeu et le sérieux, la vie et la mort.
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Untitled Space
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Contributors : Maaike Bleeker, Jeroen Boomgaard, Joost Meuwissen, Jell Post, Vincent van Rossem, Michael Snitker, Paul Toornend, Wouter Vanstiphout.
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January 2005, Amsterdam
Untitled Space
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Contributors : Maaike Bleeker, Jeroen Boomgaard, Joost Meuwissen, Jell Post, Vincent van Rossem, Michael Snitker, Paul Toornend, Wouter Vanstiphout.
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The Paul Virilio reader
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If nothing else, the war in Iraq and the 1991 Gulf War have taught us much about media and technology as key players in how war is waged, packaged for public consumption, and exported in real time to the rest of the globe. A critic of the art of technology, Paul Virilio has keenly observed that media images quite often constitute a strategy of war and that accident is(...)
The Paul Virilio reader
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If nothing else, the war in Iraq and the 1991 Gulf War have taught us much about media and technology as key players in how war is waged, packaged for public consumption, and exported in real time to the rest of the globe. A critic of the art of technology, Paul Virilio has keenly observed that media images quite often constitute a strategy of war and that accident is becoming indistinguishable from attack. For more than fifty years Virilio has offered incisive and provocative criticism on technology and its moral, political, and cultural implications. Yet until now, much of his work, originally published in French, remains elusive in full English translation. "The Paul Virilio Reader" collects for the first time English extracts reflecting the entire range of Virilio’s diverse career. The book’s introduction demonstrates that Virilio has produced an important—if controversial—“theory at the speed of light” that uncannily illuminates the impact of new information and communications technologies in a world that collapses time and distance as never before. The inventor of “dromology,” which views speed as a defining concept for contemporary civilization, Virilio is noted for his proclamation that the logic of ever-increasing acceleration lies at the heart of the organization and transformation of the contemporary world. Arranged chronologically, "The Paul Virilio Reader" illustrates the development and interconnectedness of Virilio’s work. Each extract is prefaced by bibliographical and contextual commentary, and the book includes an innovative guide to reading Virilio.
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Surrealism and architecture
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"Surrealism and architecture" examines a long overlooked topic : the relationship of surrealist thought to architectural theory and practice. This is a historically informed examination of architecture's perceived absence in surrealist thought, surrealist tendencies in the theories and projects of modern architecture and the place of surrealist thought in contemporary(...)
Surrealism and architecture
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"Surrealism and architecture" examines a long overlooked topic : the relationship of surrealist thought to architectural theory and practice. This is a historically informed examination of architecture's perceived absence in surrealist thought, surrealist tendencies in the theories and projects of modern architecture and the place of surrealist thought in contemporary design methods and theories.
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Why do we have such extraordinarily powerful responses toward the images and pictures we see in everyday life? Why do we behave as if pictures were alive, possessing the power to influence us, to demand things from us, to persuade us, seduce us, or even lead us astray? According to W. J. T. Mitchell, we need to reckon with images not just as inert objects that convey(...)
What do pictures want? : the lives and loves of images
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Why do we have such extraordinarily powerful responses toward the images and pictures we see in everyday life? Why do we behave as if pictures were alive, possessing the power to influence us, to demand things from us, to persuade us, seduce us, or even lead us astray? According to W. J. T. Mitchell, we need to reckon with images not just as inert objects that convey meaning but as animated beings with desires, needs, appetites, demands, and drives of their own. "What Do Pictures Want?" explores this idea and highlights Mitchell's innovative and profoundly influential thinking on picture theory and the lives and loves of images. Ranging across the visual arts, literature, and mass media, Mitchell applies characteristically brilliant and wry analyses to Byzantine icons and cyberpunk films, racial stereotypes and public monuments, ancient idols and modern clones, offensive images and found objects, American photography and aboriginal painting. Opening new vistas in iconology and the emergent field of visual culture, he also considers the importance of Dolly the Sheep - who, as a clone, fulfills the ancient dream of creating a living image - and the destruction of the World Trade Center on 9/11, which, among other things, signifies a new and virulent form of iconoclasm. "What Do Pictures Want?" offers an immensely rich and suggestive account of the interplay between the visible and the readable. A work by one of our leading theorists of visual representation, it will be a touchstone for art historians, literary critics, anthropologists, and philosophers alike.
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