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Part monograph, part manifesto, "Christian Wassmann: Sun Path House and Other Cosmic Architectures" is the first comprehensive publication on the Swiss designer and architect (born 1974). Centered around the Sun Path House in Miami Beach (2015), this book presents projects originating from Wassmann’s interest in the interconnections of the arts, his love for geometry and(...)
Architecture Monographs
February 2018
Christian Wassmann: Sun Path House and other cosmic architectures
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Part monograph, part manifesto, "Christian Wassmann: Sun Path House and Other Cosmic Architectures" is the first comprehensive publication on the Swiss designer and architect (born 1974). Centered around the Sun Path House in Miami Beach (2015), this book presents projects originating from Wassmann’s interest in the interconnections of the arts, his love for geometry and his awareness of the cosmos. Illustrated with examples of Wassmann’s projects and unrealized ideas, this volume draws parallels between current technologies, ancient knowledge and sustainable materials while highlighting sensibilities far beyond the visible.
Architecture Monographs
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Like many stylistic terms in architecture, the exact parameters denoted by the word “Brutalism” are difficult to precisely pin down. Brutalism is a style which was particularly prominent during the late 1960s and early 1970s. The emphasis on harsh geometric forms and unadorned rough concrete and brick have resulted in very strong feelings of hate or love for these(...)
Brutalist architecture in Winnipeg
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Like many stylistic terms in architecture, the exact parameters denoted by the word “Brutalism” are difficult to precisely pin down. Brutalism is a style which was particularly prominent during the late 1960s and early 1970s. The emphasis on harsh geometric forms and unadorned rough concrete and brick have resulted in very strong feelings of hate or love for these buildings. This tour documents a number of Brutalist style buildings in Winnipeg and explores their genesis, as well as the place of Brutalism in the history of the city.
Architecture in Canada
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In The Aesthetics of Disappearance, Paul Virilio traces out the relationship of biological optics to the technological ''production of appearance.'' In the perceptual gaps demanding illusions of continuity, Virilio posits a hyper-opportunity for the production of art in speed. Jumping from Old Testament parable to the history of contemporary cinema, to the history of(...)
The aesthetics of disappearance
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In The Aesthetics of Disappearance, Paul Virilio traces out the relationship of biological optics to the technological ''production of appearance.'' In the perceptual gaps demanding illusions of continuity, Virilio posits a hyper-opportunity for the production of art in speed. Jumping from Old Testament parable to the history of contemporary cinema, to the history of philosophy and contemporary technology, Virilio teleports among an irregular constellation of high-speed artifice where love is a motion faster than light and the paradoxes of empiricism mire science in ''motion without mobility.''
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Critical Theory
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How is being a professional skateboarder different from being, say, a professional golfer? Veteran skate journalist and the former editor of SkateBoarder magazine, Sean Mortimer has interviewed the top skaters of all time to answer that question in meaningful and often humorous ways. Tony Hawk, Stacy Peralta, Lance Mountain, and Rodney Mullen are a handful of the skaters(...)
Stalefish, skateboard culture from the rejects who made it
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How is being a professional skateboarder different from being, say, a professional golfer? Veteran skate journalist and the former editor of SkateBoarder magazine, Sean Mortimer has interviewed the top skaters of all time to answer that question in meaningful and often humorous ways. Tony Hawk, Stacy Peralta, Lance Mountain, and Rodney Mullen are a handful of the skaters who opine on sacking yourself, skate-induced ulcers, and the various ways in which skating ruins your love life. Including compelling photographs, this book documents the gritty oral history of professional skating like no other book.
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Kourtney Roy: The tourist
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''The Tourist'' contains all the Roy hallmarks we love and expect: auto-portraiture, a filmic approach, her characteristic colour palette, as well as a tension between the witty and the sinister, the conventional and the unorthodox, the glamour and the sleaze. And we are not disappointed to find that the boundaries between fantasy and reality are blurred. But what(...)
Kourtney Roy: The tourist
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''The Tourist'' contains all the Roy hallmarks we love and expect: auto-portraiture, a filmic approach, her characteristic colour palette, as well as a tension between the witty and the sinister, the conventional and the unorthodox, the glamour and the sleaze. And we are not disappointed to find that the boundaries between fantasy and reality are blurred. But what elevates ''The Tourist'' is the exceptional crafting of the point where we leave our extensional world and enter her intensional one. Roy creates a visual metaphor for a world we believe we know.
Photography monographs
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Alberto Manguel examines how literary characters live with us from childhood on. Throughout the years, they change their identities and emerge from behind their stories to teach us about the complexities of love, loss, and the world itself. Manguel’s favorite characters include Jim from ''Huckleberry Finn,'' Phoebe from ''The Catcher in the Rye,'' Job and Jonah from the(...)
Fabulous monsters: Dracula, Alice, Superman, and other literary friends
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Alberto Manguel examines how literary characters live with us from childhood on. Throughout the years, they change their identities and emerge from behind their stories to teach us about the complexities of love, loss, and the world itself. Manguel’s favorite characters include Jim from ''Huckleberry Finn,'' Phoebe from ''The Catcher in the Rye,'' Job and Jonah from the Bible, Little Red Riding Hood and Captain Nemo, Hamlet’s mother, and Dr. Frankenstein’s maligned Monster. Sharing his unique powers as a reader, Manguel encourages us to establish our own literary relationships.
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I hate the Lake District
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"I Hate the Lake District" offers a different vision of the rural environment from those found in much contemporary nature writing. Based on the author's trips around North West England, the book engages with nuclear power and nuclear war, slavery, imperialism, ghosts, love, God, cockroaches, and the sheer violence and contingency of “nature” itself—of which the human(...)
I hate the Lake District
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"I Hate the Lake District" offers a different vision of the rural environment from those found in much contemporary nature writing. Based on the author's trips around North West England, the book engages with nuclear power and nuclear war, slavery, imperialism, ghosts, love, God, cockroaches, and the sheer violence and contingency of “nature” itself—of which the human presence is merely a part. Each chapter starts with an account of a visit to a place in this remote part of England, the deep north, but digresses and wanders through multifarious themes and subjects.
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I met a penguin
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Readers are introduced to a lion who lives happily with his friends on an island until, one day, stung by a friend's criticism of his abilities as a fisherman, the lion drifts out to sea to think. He lands at the South Pole, where he meets what one contemporary review called "a paragon of a penguin." When the lion finds himself home again, he looks back: "I met a penguin(...)
I met a penguin
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Readers are introduced to a lion who lives happily with his friends on an island until, one day, stung by a friend's criticism of his abilities as a fisherman, the lion drifts out to sea to think. He lands at the South Pole, where he meets what one contemporary review called "a paragon of a penguin." When the lion finds himself home again, he looks back: "I met a penguin as strong as an elephant, as gentle as a dove, as pretty as a peacock, and I fell in love."
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[Place of publication not identified] : Lateral Addition, 2015.
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[Place of publication not identified] : Lateral Addition, 2015.
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767 pages : color illustrations ; 18 cm
Stuttgart : Axel Menges, ©2010.
Figures : a pictorial journal, 2000-2002 / Rob Krier ; with contributions by Ann Holyoke Lehmann, Vesna Andonovic.
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Stuttgart : Axel Menges, ©2010.