La ville au cinéma
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Ce volume explore pour la première fois de façon systématique en langue française la représentation de la ville à l’écran. Plus de 85 auteurs, universitaires cinéphiles et critiques internationaux, ont rédigé cette « biographie croisée » de la ville et du cinéma. Cette encyclopédie est construite en cinq parties : « Filmer, montrer, représenter » (Lumière, Décor,(...)
La ville au cinéma
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Ce volume explore pour la première fois de façon systématique en langue française la représentation de la ville à l’écran. Plus de 85 auteurs, universitaires cinéphiles et critiques internationaux, ont rédigé cette « biographie croisée » de la ville et du cinéma. Cette encyclopédie est construite en cinq parties : « Filmer, montrer, représenter » (Lumière, Décor, Histoire, Montage, Musique de film...) ; « Genres et écoles » (Film noir, Science-fiction, Banlieue, Western...) ; Lieux et personnages (30 courts textes personnels d’Aéroport à Voisinage) ; Villes cinématographiques (55 portraits d’Abidjan à Washington, en passant par Buenos Aires, New York, Taipei...) et 50 cinéastes urbains (50 notices biographiques de Woody Allen à Wong Kar-wai).
Urban Theory
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Travel the cities of the world alongside some of their oldest citizens, exploring the trees of Buenos Aires to Berlin, San Francisco to Sydney, in this visually stunning, modern glossary of our city trees. Through finding a Kentucky yellowwood in Hannover, the 1,000-year-old olive trees in Athens or even the world’s tallest trees that line the West Coast of North America,(...)
Urban arboreal; a modern glossary of city trees
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Travel the cities of the world alongside some of their oldest citizens, exploring the trees of Buenos Aires to Berlin, San Francisco to Sydney, in this visually stunning, modern glossary of our city trees. Through finding a Kentucky yellowwood in Hannover, the 1,000-year-old olive trees in Athens or even the world’s tallest trees that line the West Coast of North America, we come to learn the hidden histories of places that are wrapped up in these botanical giants. Brought to life by beautiful artwork, Urban Arboreal is an ode to urban trees and the cherished place they hold in the hearts of city dwellers – not least because they are vital to the very air we breathe.
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In the life of cities
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What is it that gives places their individual qualities and defines the life of a city? Architects and urbanists are accustomed to describing and creating the organizational structures, the layouts and physical attributes of our cities. But what are the relations between the design of a city—its form—and the life engendered by that form? Responding to this question is the(...)
In the life of cities
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What is it that gives places their individual qualities and defines the life of a city? Architects and urbanists are accustomed to describing and creating the organizational structures, the layouts and physical attributes of our cities. But what are the relations between the design of a city—its form—and the life engendered by that form? Responding to this question is the inspiration for In the Life of Cities. Contributors from a wide range of fields address the role and life of cities as diverse as Baku, Buenos Aires, Cairo, Detroit, Jakarta, Johannesburg, Mumbai, Paris, Quito, St. Petersburg, Tel Aviv, Tirana, and Toronto. Portfolios of contemporary photography present the layered realities of urban life today.
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The "Precisions", as the book is commonly known, emerged from a spontaneous and exuberant series of 10 lectures Le Corbusier gave in Buenos Aires in 1929, reflecting a new maturity in his thinking. They contain some of his most compelling aphorisms, covering technique as the basis of architecture, the human scale in design, furniture, the private house, apartments and(...)
Le Corbusier: precisions on the present state of architecture and city planning
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The "Precisions", as the book is commonly known, emerged from a spontaneous and exuberant series of 10 lectures Le Corbusier gave in Buenos Aires in 1929, reflecting a new maturity in his thinking. They contain some of his most compelling aphorisms, covering technique as the basis of architecture, the human scale in design, furniture, the private house, apartments and office buildings, the city, the League of Nations competition, teaching architecture. As he spoke, Le Corbusier improvised colour drawings on large sheets of paper. The drawings and lectures are unique in their eloquent and concise summary of his philosophy of architecture and urban design, stating the principles that informed his work from the 1920s on.
Architectural Theory
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In 2008, Leonardo Finotti was invited by MoMA's chief curator, Barry Bergdoll, to be part of a tribute exhibition for a landmark survey of modern architecture in Latin America shown in 1955. He began a commissioned work that led him directly into an immersive experience lasting the past eight years. ''Latin American Modern Architecture'' is part of an ongoing series by(...)
Leonardo Finotti: Latin American modern architecture
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In 2008, Leonardo Finotti was invited by MoMA's chief curator, Barry Bergdoll, to be part of a tribute exhibition for a landmark survey of modern architecture in Latin America shown in 1955. He began a commissioned work that led him directly into an immersive experience lasting the past eight years. ''Latin American Modern Architecture'' is part of an ongoing series by one of the leading architectural photographers worldwide. It presents nearly eighty images of Finotti's photographic vision of undiscovered Latin American modern architecture and offers an important overview of the region. Collecting visits, stories, experiences, and photographs, the research took place in diverse latitudes, eight of them published in this book: Montevideo, Buenos Aires, Valparaiso, Sa o Paulo, Bogota , Caracas, Me xico City, and Havana.
Photography monographs
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De l’Iran à la Chine, de Beyrouth à Rio, des îles Grecques au Texas, Philippe Trétiack parcourt le monde pour y récolter autant de règles d’architecture que d’histoires. En voici 56, échevelées, dures et exotiques, concrètes et désopilantes. Après son fameux Faut-il pendre les architectes ? nous voici pris sous le feu de snippers à Abidjan, envoûtés par une danseuse du(...)
L'architecture à toute vitesse
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De l’Iran à la Chine, de Beyrouth à Rio, des îles Grecques au Texas, Philippe Trétiack parcourt le monde pour y récolter autant de règles d’architecture que d’histoires. En voici 56, échevelées, dures et exotiques, concrètes et désopilantes. Après son fameux Faut-il pendre les architectes ? nous voici pris sous le feu de snippers à Abidjan, envoûtés par une danseuse du ventre au Caire, précipités dans des émeutes à Buenos Aires, ficelés dans un side-car de compétition, terrifiés par le Président Poutine à Moscou… Manuel de globe-trotter et de déconstruction mené à cent à l’heure, L’Architecture à toute vitesse fait de l’irrévérence une vertu, et transforme l’architecture en une réflexion personnelle sur un monde absurde où les portes claquent comme des coups de feu.
Architectural Theory
Envie de villes
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Sylvie Andreu a animé durant l’été 2011 une chronique sur France Culture intitulée Envie de Ville. Elle y faisait intervenir des photographes, des poètes, des architectes, afin qu’ils parlent des villes qui leur tiennent à coeur, racontant leurs premières impressions, leurs souvenirs, et les images qu’ils en ont ramenés. Ce petit ouvrage reprend les vingt-cinq(...)
Envie de villes
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Sylvie Andreu a animé durant l’été 2011 une chronique sur France Culture intitulée Envie de Ville. Elle y faisait intervenir des photographes, des poètes, des architectes, afin qu’ils parlent des villes qui leur tiennent à coeur, racontant leurs premières impressions, leurs souvenirs, et les images qu’ils en ont ramenés. Ce petit ouvrage reprend les vingt-cinq chroniques, cinq par continent, diffusées sur France Culture, afin de prolonger le plaisir, de découvrir ou de redécouvrir ces portraits de villes et leurs porte-paroles. Que ce soit des villes touristiques comme Tokyo, Le Caire et Buenos Aires, ou des villes plus secrètes et intimes, comme Astana ou Meknès, l’objectif de cet ouvrage est de laisser parler ces artistes afin qu’ils nous fassent découvrir la ville qui les touche, leur vision et leur manière de l’appréhender.
Urban Theory
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As every year for more than three decades, and coinciding now with the 40th anniversary of AV magazine, the Yearbook 2025 gathers in a double issue a selection of 25 works which now include, as in the previous edition, buildings by Spanish studios in other countries – Belgium, Italy, Romania, Germany, Norway, Argentina, and Taiwan –, taking stock of the growing(...)
AV Monographs 271-272 : Spain yearbbook 2025
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As every year for more than three decades, and coinciding now with the 40th anniversary of AV magazine, the Yearbook 2025 gathers in a double issue a selection of 25 works which now include, as in the previous edition, buildings by Spanish studios in other countries – Belgium, Italy, Romania, Germany, Norway, Argentina, and Taiwan –, taking stock of the growing recognition Spanish architecture enjoys beyond our borders. Thus, prominent projects like the new stadium of the Real Madrid, by L35 with gmp and Ribas & Ribas, the refurbishment of the Atarazanas in Seville by Guillermo Vázquez Consuegra, the university building in Pozuelo de Alarcón (Madrid) by Emilio Tuñón, and the Financial Center in Almería by Ayala Arquitectos are published with others like the station by Benedetta Tagliabue in Naples, the museum by Juan Herreros near Buenos Aires, the exhibition center in Liège by Francisco Mangado, the hotel by Nieto Sobejano in Munich, and the building by Barozzi Veiga in Kiefersfelden.
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In City/Art anthropologists, literary and cultural critics, a philosopher, and an architect explore how creative practices continually reconstruct the urban scene in Latin America. The contributors, all Latin Americanists, describe how creativity—broadly conceived to encompass urban design, museums, graffiti, film, music, literature, architecture, performance art, and(...)
City/art: the urban scene in Latin America
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In City/Art anthropologists, literary and cultural critics, a philosopher, and an architect explore how creative practices continually reconstruct the urban scene in Latin America. The contributors, all Latin Americanists, describe how creativity—broadly conceived to encompass urban design, museums, graffiti, film, music, literature, architecture, performance art, and more—combines with nationalist rhetoric and historical discourse to define Latin American cities. Taken together, the essays model different ways of approaching Latin America’s urban centers not only as places that inspire and house creative practices but also as ongoing collective creative endeavors themselves. The essays range from an examination of how differences of scale and point of view affect people’s experience of everyday life in Mexico City to a reflection on the transformation of a prison into a shopping mall in Uruguay, and from an analysis of Buenos Aires’ preoccupation with its own status and cultural identity to a consideration of what Miami means to Cubans in the United States.
Public Space
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Between 1969 and 1974, Lucy Lippard curated four exhibitions of contemporary art, which have become renowned as her “numbers shows.” Each took the population of the city in which it was shown as its title: 557,087 in Seattle, 955,000 in Vancouver, 2,972,453 in Buenos Aires and c. 7,500, which opened in Valencia, California, before touring the U.S. and then traveling to(...)
From conceptualism to feminism: Lucy Lippard’s numbers shows,1969-74
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Between 1969 and 1974, Lucy Lippard curated four exhibitions of contemporary art, which have become renowned as her “numbers shows.” Each took the population of the city in which it was shown as its title: 557,087 in Seattle, 955,000 in Vancouver, 2,972,453 in Buenos Aires and c. 7,500, which opened in Valencia, California, before touring the U.S. and then traveling to London. From Conceptualism to Feminism follows Lippard’s curatorial trajectory, analyzing her transition from a writer about art to a maker of exhibitions, and tracing her growing political engagement and involvement with feminism. Extensive photographic material is complemented by a major new essay by Cornelia Butler and interviews with Lucy Lippard, Seth Siegelaub and with artists in c. 7,500. The volume also includes an analysis of artists’ initiatives in Argentina, which give a context for Lippard’s emerging political consciousness. From Conceptualism to Feminism is the third publication in Afterall’s Exhibition Histories series, which investigates exhibitions that have shaped the way contemporary art is experienced, made and discussed.
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