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335 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Montréal : Canadian Centre for Architecture ; Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2000.
Anxious modernisms : experimentation in postwar architectural culture / edited by Sarah Williams Goldhagen and Rej́ean Legault ; [essays by] Maristella Casciato [and others].
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Montréal : Canadian Centre for Architecture ; Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2000.
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Cette deuxième édition des Cahiers du Laboratoire d’Étude de l’Architecture Potentielle propose une réflexion sur l’un des problèmes centraux du Mouvement moderne et de la critique postmoderne : la tension entre l’hétéronomie et l’autonomie en architecture. This second edition of the LEAP Research Notebooks examines one of the central problems of the Modern Movement and(...)
Du potentiel de l'hétéronomie et de l'autonomie en architecture / On the potential of heteronomy and autonomy in architecture
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Cette deuxième édition des Cahiers du Laboratoire d’Étude de l’Architecture Potentielle propose une réflexion sur l’un des problèmes centraux du Mouvement moderne et de la critique postmoderne : la tension entre l’hétéronomie et l’autonomie en architecture. This second edition of the LEAP Research Notebooks examines one of the central problems of the Modern Movement and of its subsequent postmodern critique: the tension between heteronomy and autonomy in architecture.
Architectural Theory
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During the 1980s and 1990s, German-Swiss architecture gained worldwide acclaim on account of its constructional and aesthetic coherence. The production purported an ethical orientation, seeking a sense of stability in reaction to postmodern relativism. Irina Davidovici discusses the cultural and theoretical conditions of this architecture as facets of one artistic and(...)
Forms of practice : German-Swiss architecture, 1980-2000
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During the 1980s and 1990s, German-Swiss architecture gained worldwide acclaim on account of its constructional and aesthetic coherence. The production purported an ethical orientation, seeking a sense of stability in reaction to postmodern relativism. Irina Davidovici discusses the cultural and theoretical conditions of this architecture as facets of one artistic and cultural phenomenon, illustrating the main themes with in-depth case studies and topical essays.
Architecture since 1900, Europe
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xxxix, 256 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
London ; New York : Routledge, 2002.
A shock to thought : expressions after Deleuze and Guattari / edited by Brian Massumi.
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London ; New York : Routledge, 2002.
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168 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Munich ; New York : Prestel, ©1995.
Functionalist design : an ongoing history / George H. Marcus.
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168 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
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Munich ; New York : Prestel, ©1995.
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67 pages : illustrations ; 30 cm
Berlin : Kiepert KG, ©1986.
Klassizismus heute / Baldur Köster.
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67 pages : illustrations ; 30 cm
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Berlin : Kiepert KG, ©1986.
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xv, 311 pages : color and black and white illustrations, plans (some color) ; 27 cm.
Fayetteville, Ark. : University of Arkansas Press, 2019., ©2019
Louis I. Kahn : the Nordic latitudes / Per Olaf Fjeld and Emily Randall Fjeld.
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xv, 311 pages : color and black and white illustrations, plans (some color) ; 27 cm.
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Fayetteville, Ark. : University of Arkansas Press, 2019., ©2019
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160 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
London ; New York : Merrell Publishers in association with Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2006., ©2006
Ettore Sottsass : architect and designer / Ronald T. Labaco ; with contributions by Dennis P. Doordan [and 3 others].
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160 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
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London ; New York : Merrell Publishers in association with Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2006., ©2006
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In a time when corruption is receiving increasing media coverage and when many claim to wage a war on corruption, this book brings up the need for a problematisation and an increased understanding of the different manifestations , the vicissitudes, of corruption is tightly related to modernity and exploring possible ancient, postmodern and psychoanalytic critiques of the(...)
Graphic Design and Typography
September 2008, Stockholm
The vicissitudes of corruption: degeneration, transgression, jouissance
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In a time when corruption is receiving increasing media coverage and when many claim to wage a war on corruption, this book brings up the need for a problematisation and an increased understanding of the different manifestations , the vicissitudes, of corruption is tightly related to modernity and exploring possible ancient, postmodern and psychoanalytic critiques of the modern understanding of corruption, the book throws light on different ways in which corruption can be thought.
Graphic Design and Typography
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This publication brings together texts by Canadian artist Ken Lum. They include a letter to an editor, diary entries, articles, catalogue essays, curatorial statements, and more. Along the way, the reader learns about late modern, postmodern, and contemporary art practices, as well as debates around issues like race, class, and monumentality. Penetrating, insightful, and(...)
Everything is relevant: writings on art and life, 1991-2018
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This publication brings together texts by Canadian artist Ken Lum. They include a letter to an editor, diary entries, articles, catalogue essays, curatorial statements, and more. Along the way, the reader learns about late modern, postmodern, and contemporary art practices, as well as debates around issues like race, class, and monumentality. Penetrating, insightful, and often moving, Lum’s writings are essential for understanding his varied practice, which has often been prescient of developments within contemporary art.
Art Theory