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Jan van Toorn is one of the most significant and influential Dutch graphic designers to have emerged since the early 1960s. While graphic design often does little more than give unthinking visual form to the status quo, Van Toorn focused on meaning rather than smooth stylistic expression and developed critical alternatives to the usual design world conventions. Van(...)
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Jan van Toorn is one of the most significant and influential Dutch graphic designers to have emerged since the early 1960s. While graphic design often does little more than give unthinking visual form to the status quo, Van Toorn focused on meaning rather than smooth stylistic expression and developed critical alternatives to the usual design world conventions. Van(...)
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Jan Van Toorn critical practice
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Jan van Toorn is one of the most significant and influential Dutch graphic designers to have emerged since the early 1960s. While graphic design often does little more than give unthinking visual form to the status quo, Van Toorn focused on meaning rather than smooth stylistic expression and developed critical alternatives to the usual design world conventions. Van Toorn aligned himself with the reflexive tradition of art and communication exemplified by Brecht and Godard. His designs persistently call attention to their status as visual contrivances, obliging the viewer to make an effort to process their complexities. Van Toorn wanted the public to measure the motives of both the client and the designer who mediates the client’s message against their own experiences of the world. He hoped in this way to stimulate a more active and sceptical view of art, communication, media ownership and society. Projects such as Van Toorn’s posters and catalogues for the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven and his long-running series of calendars for the printing firm Mart.Spruijt are powerful demonstrations of graphic design used as a means of commentary and as a tool of critique. Later, as director of the Jan van Eyck Academy, Van Toorn drew together all the strands of his critical practice into a multi-levelled educational initiative that urged designers to think harder about design’s role in shaping contemporary reality.
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Jan van Toorn is one of the most significant and influential Dutch graphic designers to have emerged since the early 1960s. While graphic design often does little more than give unthinking visual form to the status quo, Van Toorn focused on meaning rather than smooth stylistic expression and developed critical alternatives to the usual design world conventions. Van Toorn aligned himself with the reflexive tradition of art and communication exemplified by Brecht and Godard. His designs persistently call attention to their status as visual contrivances, obliging the viewer to make an effort to process their complexities. Van Toorn wanted the public to measure the motives of both the client and the designer who mediates the client’s message against their own experiences of the world. He hoped in this way to stimulate a more active and sceptical view of art, communication, media ownership and society. Projects such as Van Toorn’s posters and catalogues for the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven and his long-running series of calendars for the printing firm Mart.Spruijt are powerful demonstrations of graphic design used as a means of commentary and as a tool of critique. Later, as director of the Jan van Eyck Academy, Van Toorn drew together all the strands of his critical practice into a multi-levelled educational initiative that urged designers to think harder about design’s role in shaping contemporary reality.
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January 1900, Rotterdam
January 1900, Rotterdam
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Graphic Designers, Monographs
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136 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (chiefly color) ; 29 cm
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Oxford : John Wiley & Sons, 2020.
Oxford : John Wiley & Sons, 2020.
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The landscapists : redefining landscape relations / guest-edited by Ed Wall.
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136 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (chiefly color) ; 29 cm
The landscapists : redefining landscape relations / guest-edited by Ed Wall.
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Oxford : John Wiley & Sons, 2020.
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222 pages : illustrations, charts, facsimiles, plans ; 27 cm + 1 measuring card (9 x 20 cm)
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Antwerp : Flanders Architecture Institute, 2017.
Antwerp : Flanders Architecture Institute, 2017.
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Dom Hans van der Laan : a house for the mind : a design manual on Roosenberg Abbey / Caroline Voet ; editing and coordination, Bart Decroos, Ilse Degerickx, Bart Tritsmans ; photography, Friederike von Rauch [and five others] ; translation and copy-editing, InOtherWords translation & editing, D'Laine Camp & Pierre Bouvier.
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Dom Hans van der Laan : a house for the mind : a design manual on Roosenberg Abbey / Caroline Voet ; editing and coordination, Bart Decroos, Ilse Degerickx, Bart Tritsmans ; photography, Friederike von Rauch [and five others] ; translation and copy-editing, InOtherWords translation & editing, D'Laine Camp & Pierre Bouvier.
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Antwerp : Flanders Architecture Institute, 2017.
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London : London Topographical Society, 2018., ©2018
London : London Topographical Society, 2018., ©2018
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The Stone Gallery panorama : Lawrence Wright's view of the City of London from St Paul's Cathedral, c. 1948-56 / by Hubert Pragnell, Patricia Hardy & Elain Harwood ; edited by Sheila O'Connell.
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The Stone Gallery panorama : Lawrence Wright's view of the City of London from St Paul's Cathedral, c. 1948-56 / by Hubert Pragnell, Patricia Hardy & Elain Harwood ; edited by Sheila O'Connell.
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London : London Topographical Society, 2018., ©2018
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[16 ], 608 pages, 32 leaves of plates : illustrations, plans ; 11 x 17 cm
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Franckfurt ; und Leipzig : Zu finden bey Christian-Weidmann : Gedruckt bey Georg Heinrich-Müllern in Gera, 1677.
Franckfurt ; und Leipzig : Zu finden bey Christian-Weidmann : Gedruckt bey Georg Heinrich-Müllern in Gera, 1677.
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Der Verschantzte Turenne, oder, Gründliche alt-und neue Kriegs-Bau-Kunst : worinnen aus den benöthigten Fundamenten einer vortheilhafften : ungemeinen und meist Geometrischen Arithmetic, und Gründlichen Vollständigen Geometrie, mit einem gantz neu-erfundenen so bequemen und universalen Instrument, dass man zu alleryley Geometrischen und Astronomischen Praxibus noch nie dergleichen gehabt : uber die Niederländische oder Frentagische Fortification noch sechs gantz andere neu-und mehr verstärckte Befestigungs-Arten der besten Ingenieurs ietziger Zeit deutlich für Incipienten und gründlich für Practicanter / anweiset Johann Heinrich Behr ...
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[16 ], 608 pages, 32 leaves of plates : illustrations, plans ; 11 x 17 cm
Der Verschantzte Turenne, oder, Gründliche alt-und neue Kriegs-Bau-Kunst : worinnen aus den benöthigten Fundamenten einer vortheilhafften : ungemeinen und meist Geometrischen Arithmetic, und Gründlichen Vollständigen Geometrie, mit einem gantz neu-erfundenen so bequemen und universalen Instrument, dass man zu alleryley Geometrischen und Astronomischen Praxibus noch nie dergleichen gehabt : uber die Niederländische oder Frentagische Fortification noch sechs gantz andere neu-und mehr verstärckte Befestigungs-Arten der besten Ingenieurs ietziger Zeit deutlich für Incipienten und gründlich für Practicanter / anweiset Johann Heinrich Behr ...
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Franckfurt ; und Leipzig : Zu finden bey Christian-Weidmann : Gedruckt bey Georg Heinrich-Müllern in Gera, 1677.
Franckfurt ; und Leipzig : Zu finden bey Christian-Weidmann : Gedruckt bey Georg Heinrich-Müllern in Gera, 1677.
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One of the delights of life is the discovery and rediscovery of patterns of order and beauty in nature—designs revealed by slicing through a head of cabbage or an orange, the forms of shells and butterfly wings. These images are awesome not just for their beauty alone, but because they suggest an order underlying their growth, a harmony existing in nature. What does it(...)
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One of the delights of life is the discovery and rediscovery of patterns of order and beauty in nature—designs revealed by slicing through a head of cabbage or an orange, the forms of shells and butterfly wings. These images are awesome not just for their beauty alone, but because they suggest an order underlying their growth, a harmony existing in nature. What does it(...)
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January 1900, Boston, London
January 1900, Boston, London
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Power of limits: Proportional harmonies in nature, art and architecture
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One of the delights of life is the discovery and rediscovery of patterns of order and beauty in nature—designs revealed by slicing through a head of cabbage or an orange, the forms of shells and butterfly wings. These images are awesome not just for their beauty alone, but because they suggest an order underlying their growth, a harmony existing in nature. What does it mean that such an order exists; how far does it extend? The Power of Limits was inspired by those simple discoveries of harmony. The author went on to investigate and measure hundreds of patterns—ancient and modern, minute and vast. His discovery, vividly illustrated here, is that certain proportions occur over and over again in all these forms. Patterns are also repeated in how things grow and are made—by the dynamic union of opposites—as demonstrated by the spirals that move in opposite directions in the growth of a plant. The joining of unity and diversity in the discipline of proportional limitations creates forms that are beautiful to us because they embody the principles of the cosmic order of which we are a part; conversely, the limitlessness of that order is revealed by the strictness of its forms. The author shows how we, as humans, are included in the universal harmony of form, and suggests that the union of complementary opposites may be a way to extend that harmony to the psychological and social realms as well.
Power of limits: Proportional harmonies in nature, art and architecture
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One of the delights of life is the discovery and rediscovery of patterns of order and beauty in nature—designs revealed by slicing through a head of cabbage or an orange, the forms of shells and butterfly wings. These images are awesome not just for their beauty alone, but because they suggest an order underlying their growth, a harmony existing in nature. What does it mean that such an order exists; how far does it extend? The Power of Limits was inspired by those simple discoveries of harmony. The author went on to investigate and measure hundreds of patterns—ancient and modern, minute and vast. His discovery, vividly illustrated here, is that certain proportions occur over and over again in all these forms. Patterns are also repeated in how things grow and are made—by the dynamic union of opposites—as demonstrated by the spirals that move in opposite directions in the growth of a plant. The joining of unity and diversity in the discipline of proportional limitations creates forms that are beautiful to us because they embody the principles of the cosmic order of which we are a part; conversely, the limitlessness of that order is revealed by the strictness of its forms. The author shows how we, as humans, are included in the universal harmony of form, and suggests that the union of complementary opposites may be a way to extend that harmony to the psychological and social realms as well.
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January 1900, Boston, London
January 1900, Boston, London
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224 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 29 cm
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New York : W.W. Norton & Co., ©2010.
New York : W.W. Norton & Co., ©2010.
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Great public squares : an architect's selection / Robert F. Gatje.
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Great public squares : an architect's selection / Robert F. Gatje.
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New York : W.W. Norton & Co., ©2010.
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The New Inquiry 2017
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Cambridge, Massachusetts : MIT Press, 2013.
Cambridge, Massachusetts : MIT Press, 2013.
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A vast machine : computer models, climate data, and the politics of global warming.
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Cambridge, Massachusetts : MIT Press, 2013.
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Even when an architectural drawing does not show any human figures, we can imagine many different characters just off the page: architects, artists, onlookers, clients, builders, developers, philanthropists—working, observing, admiring, arguing. In ''Stories from architecture,'' Philippa Lewis captures some of these personalities through reminiscences, anecdotes,(...)
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Even when an architectural drawing does not show any human figures, we can imagine many different characters just off the page: architects, artists, onlookers, clients, builders, developers, philanthropists—working, observing, admiring, arguing. In ''Stories from architecture,'' Philippa Lewis captures some of these personalities through reminiscences, anecdotes,(...)
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Stories from architecture: Behind the lines at Drawing Matter
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Even when an architectural drawing does not show any human figures, we can imagine many different characters just off the page: architects, artists, onlookers, clients, builders, developers, philanthropists—working, observing, admiring, arguing. In ''Stories from architecture,'' Philippa Lewis captures some of these personalities through reminiscences, anecdotes, conversations, letters, and monologues that collectively offer the imagined histories of twenty-five architectural drawings. Some of these untold stories are factual, like Frank Lloyd Wright’s correspondence with a Wisconsin librarian regarding her $5,000 dream home, or letters written by the English architect John Nash to his irascible aristocratic client. Others recount a fictional, if credible, scenario by placing these drawings—and with them their characters—into their immediate social context. For instance, the dilemmas facing a Regency couple who are considering a move to a suburban villa; a request from the office of Richard Neutra for an assistant to measure Josef von Sternberg’s Rolls-Royce so that the director’s beloved vehicle might fit into the garage being designed by his architect; a teenager dreaming of a life away from parental supervision by gazing at a gadget-filled bachelor pad in Playboy magazine; even a policeman recording the ground plans of the house of a murder scene. The drawings, reproduced in color, are all sourced from the Drawing Matter collection in Somerset, UK, and are fascinating objects in themselves; but Lewis shifts our attention beyond the image to other possible histories that linger, invisible, beyond the page, and in the process animates not just a series of archival documents but the writing of architectural history.
Stories from architecture: Behind the lines at Drawing Matter
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Even when an architectural drawing does not show any human figures, we can imagine many different characters just off the page: architects, artists, onlookers, clients, builders, developers, philanthropists—working, observing, admiring, arguing. In ''Stories from architecture,'' Philippa Lewis captures some of these personalities through reminiscences, anecdotes, conversations, letters, and monologues that collectively offer the imagined histories of twenty-five architectural drawings. Some of these untold stories are factual, like Frank Lloyd Wright’s correspondence with a Wisconsin librarian regarding her $5,000 dream home, or letters written by the English architect John Nash to his irascible aristocratic client. Others recount a fictional, if credible, scenario by placing these drawings—and with them their characters—into their immediate social context. For instance, the dilemmas facing a Regency couple who are considering a move to a suburban villa; a request from the office of Richard Neutra for an assistant to measure Josef von Sternberg’s Rolls-Royce so that the director’s beloved vehicle might fit into the garage being designed by his architect; a teenager dreaming of a life away from parental supervision by gazing at a gadget-filled bachelor pad in Playboy magazine; even a policeman recording the ground plans of the house of a murder scene. The drawings, reproduced in color, are all sourced from the Drawing Matter collection in Somerset, UK, and are fascinating objects in themselves; but Lewis shifts our attention beyond the image to other possible histories that linger, invisible, beyond the page, and in the process animates not just a series of archival documents but the writing of architectural history.
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October 2021
October 2021
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