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marcosandmarjan is a studio that combines the practice and teaching of architecture, along with experimental design research at the Bartlett School of Architecture UCL. The unit and studio work has been widely published and exhibited. This includes the ‘Actions re Form’ exhibitions in Coimbra and Munique in 2002, the Rotterdam Biennial and the São Paulo Biennial in 2003,(...)
Marcosandmarjan : interfaces / intrafaces
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marcosandmarjan is a studio that combines the practice and teaching of architecture, along with experimental design research at the Bartlett School of Architecture UCL. The unit and studio work has been widely published and exhibited. This includes the ‘Actions re Form’ exhibitions in Coimbra and Munique in 2002, the Rotterdam Biennial and the São Paulo Biennial in 2003, and the participation in the `Metaflux´ exhibition at the Venice Biennale in 2004. They just finished two pavilions and the general layout for the 75th Lisbon Book Fair in Portugal and are currently developing a large entertainment complex in Beijing. With "Interfaces / Intrafaces" marcosandmarjan present for the first time a comprehensive monographic documentation of their work within the scope of the Consequence Book Series on Fresh Architecture. The book contains an introduction by Peter Cook and numerous colored illustrations.
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Alphabet city 10 : suspects
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What is the condition of the suspect in a post-9/11 world? Do perpetual detention, ubiquitous surveillance cameras, and the legal apparatus of the USA Patriot Act target suspects accurately or generate suspicion indiscriminately? "Suspect", the latest in a series from Alphabet City and the first in its new format of topical book-length magazines, gathers hard evidence(...)
Alphabet city 10 : suspects
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What is the condition of the suspect in a post-9/11 world? Do perpetual detention, ubiquitous surveillance cameras, and the legal apparatus of the USA Patriot Act target suspects accurately or generate suspicion indiscriminately? "Suspect", the latest in a series from Alphabet City and the first in its new format of topical book-length magazines, gathers hard evidence about the fate of the suspect in a culture of suspicion with contributions from writers, artists, and filmmakers. Their testimony takes a multiplicity of forms and formats. Among them:a 24-page color comic by graphic novelist Joey Dubuc asks the reader to make narrative choices in a web of surveillance, suspicion, and fear. Harper's contributor Mark Kingwell observes that while suspicion tries to isolate the suspect, in fact we are all the suspect. Slavoj Zizek reflects on the new cultural status of the suspect after Abu Ghraib. Philosopher George Bragues argues that even as the United Nations looks for ways to discipline "suspect nations," it simply cannot succeed under current international conditions. Alphabet City editor John Knechtel interviews Naomi Klein, author of No Logo, about the legal and political strategies of the Bush administration. Sylwia Chrostowska describes what happens, in the the 1970 Italian film Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion, when a corrupt official investigates himself. Screenwriter Timothy Stock and illustrator Warren Heise create a documentary in comic form about Critical Ensemble artist Steve Kurtz, charged under the bioterrorism provisions of the Patriot Act. Novelist Camilla Gibb portrays, in "Things Collapse," the terrifying effects of a "separating sickness" of unknown origin, which perhaps exists only in the fears of the population it strikes. And novelist Diana Fitzgerald Bryden follows her character Rafa Ahmed, a PFLP hijacker from the 1970s, as, many years later, she is to appear at a peace conference. Filmmaker Patricia Rozema, director of Mansfield Park and other films, contributes a 16-page film-in-a-book, "Suspect." Suspect is a non-partisan handbook on the mechanisms and machinations of suspicion for the twenty-first century national security state.
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Alphabet city no.13 : fuel
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In "Fuel", writers and artists imagine the transition to a carbon-free future: an architect plans "Velo-city," a network of elevated bikeways; a designer models a perfectly internalized, tail-chasing energy system; an urbanist examines the new "Oil Cities" in Dubai and Saudi Arabia; a photographer documents the social and environmental damage done by the oil industry in(...)
Alphabet city no.13 : fuel
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In "Fuel", writers and artists imagine the transition to a carbon-free future: an architect plans "Velo-city," a network of elevated bikeways; a designer models a perfectly internalized, tail-chasing energy system; an urbanist examines the new "Oil Cities" in Dubai and Saudi Arabia; a photographer documents the social and environmental damage done by the oil industry in Nigeria; and an architect proposes that oil rigs be turned into sanctuaries for marine and avian wildlife. Including a contribution by Montreal-based artist and writer Susannah Wesley.
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Each summer, London's Serpentine Gallery commissions an internationally acclaimed architect to design a temporary pavilion for its lawn. This volume documents the 2006 Serpentine Pavilion, co-designed by architect Rem Koolhaas and structural designer Cecil Balmond.
July 2008, Köln
Serpentine Gallery Pavillion 2006 : Rem Koolhaas and Cecil Balmond with Arup
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Each summer, London's Serpentine Gallery commissions an internationally acclaimed architect to design a temporary pavilion for its lawn. This volume documents the 2006 Serpentine Pavilion, co-designed by architect Rem Koolhaas and structural designer Cecil Balmond.
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Including an original text by the architect's duo: 'Our projects already exist, unwittingly, in our memories. They reappear unexpectedly, triggered by strange associations we are scarcely aware of.'
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May 2008, Berlin
Nieto Sobejano: arquitectura concreta
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Including an original text by the architect's duo: 'Our projects already exist, unwittingly, in our memories. They reappear unexpectedly, triggered by strange associations we are scarcely aware of.'
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Through the Zumtobel Group Award for Sustainability and Humanity in the Built Environment we are aiming to honour sustainable and humanitarian approaches in architecture and civil engineering and to create a greater awarness of the capabilities of architecture, as well as fostering innovative research work and initiatives in this field. The laureates of the Zumtobel(...)
Zumtobel group award for sustainability and humanity in the built environment 2007
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Through the Zumtobel Group Award for Sustainability and Humanity in the Built Environment we are aiming to honour sustainable and humanitarian approaches in architecture and civil engineering and to create a greater awarness of the capabilities of architecture, as well as fostering innovative research work and initiatives in this field. The laureates of the Zumtobel Group Award 2007 are Morphosis Santa Monica, USA with the San Francisco Federal Building in the category 'Built Environment' and Schlaich Bergermann Solar, Stuttgart, Germany, for the Solar Updraft Tower in the category 'Research and Initiative'.
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Yona Friedman: cities
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Center for Contemporary Art, CCA, Kitakyushu 'Cities can be poetic. So are people you meet and the cityscape you look on. Each of us walk in our own imaginary city meeting imaginary people. This book tries to be a tourist guide to such imaginary cities.' Yona Friedman
Yona Friedman: cities
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Center for Contemporary Art, CCA, Kitakyushu 'Cities can be poetic. So are people you meet and the cityscape you look on. Each of us walk in our own imaginary city meeting imaginary people. This book tries to be a tourist guide to such imaginary cities.' Yona Friedman
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This catalogue varies from the exhibition content and mirrors Ai Weiwei's position towards urban growth in China. His architectural interventions are visualized by interviews, great illustrations and documentary photographs made by Eduard Kögel.
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October 2007, Berlin
Ai Weiwei Beijing Fake Design in the Village
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This catalogue varies from the exhibition content and mirrors Ai Weiwei's position towards urban growth in China. His architectural interventions are visualized by interviews, great illustrations and documentary photographs made by Eduard Kögel.
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October 2007, Berlin
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The districts of Zurich are strongly intermixed, yet the metaphor of 'Zurich's Rooms' has asserted itself: in a playful manner, the urban districts, which determine Zurich's versatile profile, are assigned particular functions within the 'dwelling of Zurich'. Some relevant theses which have emerged in this context are elucidated in the framework of this catalogue.
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February 2008, Berlin
The seventh room / Das siebte zimmer
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The districts of Zurich are strongly intermixed, yet the metaphor of 'Zurich's Rooms' has asserted itself: in a playful manner, the urban districts, which determine Zurich's versatile profile, are assigned particular functions within the 'dwelling of Zurich'. Some relevant theses which have emerged in this context are elucidated in the framework of this catalogue.
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Frank Lloyd Wright's Darwin D. Martin House Visitors' Center Competition includes design proposals by ARO, Brian Healy, Schwartz/Silver, Office dA, and Toshiko Mori with essays by Paul Goldberger and Kent Kleinman.
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January 1900, Buffalo
On Wright Darwin D. Martin House visitor's center competition
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Frank Lloyd Wright's Darwin D. Martin House Visitors' Center Competition includes design proposals by ARO, Brian Healy, Schwartz/Silver, Office dA, and Toshiko Mori with essays by Paul Goldberger and Kent Kleinman.
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