Ways of hearing
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In this book, Damon Krukowski examines how the switch from analog to digital audio is changing our perceptions of time, space, love, money, and power. In ''Ways of Hearing''- modeled on ''Ways of Seeing,'' John Berger's influential 1972 book on visual culture- Krukowski offers readers a set of tools for critical listening in the digital age. Just as ''Ways of Seeing''(...)
Ways of hearing
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In this book, Damon Krukowski examines how the switch from analog to digital audio is changing our perceptions of time, space, love, money, and power. In ''Ways of Hearing''- modeled on ''Ways of Seeing,'' John Berger's influential 1972 book on visual culture- Krukowski offers readers a set of tools for critical listening in the digital age. Just as ''Ways of Seeing'' began as a BBC television series, ''Ways of Hearing'' is based on a six-part podcast produced for the groundbreaking public radio podcast network Radiotopia. Inventive uses of text and design help bring the message beyond the range of earbuds.
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Paradise Lost
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''Paradise lost'' is one of the greatest epic poems in the English language. It tells the story of the Fall of Man, a tale of immense drama and excitement, of rebellion and treachery, of innocence pitted against corruption, in which God and Satan fight a bitter battle for control of mankind's destiny. The struggle ranges across three worlds - heaven, hell, and earth - as(...)
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''Paradise lost'' is one of the greatest epic poems in the English language. It tells the story of the Fall of Man, a tale of immense drama and excitement, of rebellion and treachery, of innocence pitted against corruption, in which God and Satan fight a bitter battle for control of mankind's destiny. The struggle ranges across three worlds - heaven, hell, and earth - as Satan and his band of rebel angels plot their revenge against God. At the centre of the conflict are Adam and Eve, motivated by all too human temptations, but whose ultimate downfall is unyielding love.
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A dymaxion cookbook homage to Buckminster Fuller, featuring John Cage’s macrobiotic recipes, Margaret Mead’s cucumber salad and more. Buckminster Fuller is globally known as a design scientist, architect, author, poet, engineer and a true visionary. On his 86th birthday he received the cookbook ''Synergetic Stew'' as a surprise present from his friends and admirers,(...)
Synergetic Stew: explorations in dymaxion dining
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A dymaxion cookbook homage to Buckminster Fuller, featuring John Cage’s macrobiotic recipes, Margaret Mead’s cucumber salad and more. Buckminster Fuller is globally known as a design scientist, architect, author, poet, engineer and a true visionary. On his 86th birthday he received the cookbook ''Synergetic Stew'' as a surprise present from his friends and admirers, who share recipes along with personal anecdotes and humorous recollections of Fuller (for example, a reminiscence about Bucky’s love for tea in all its variations). Scattered throughout the book are enticing texts and poems from Fuller himself, including even a recipe for tomato ice cream.
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Tadao Ando is one of the best-known and most influential contemporary architects with a minimalistic aesthetic and love of natural materials like glass and concrete--proof that less is more. This volume features ten houses and examines his approach to these designs. Viewed as a collection, these houses serve to demonstrate the wide range of Ando's prodigious genius(...)
Tadao Ando: living with light
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Tadao Ando is one of the best-known and most influential contemporary architects with a minimalistic aesthetic and love of natural materials like glass and concrete--proof that less is more. This volume features ten houses and examines his approach to these designs. Viewed as a collection, these houses serve to demonstrate the wide range of Ando's prodigious genius through striking photographs. Characteristics of his work include large expanses of unadorned architectural concrete walls combined with wooden or stone floors and large windows. He uses simple methods to solve complicated and small spaces and turns them into spaces with breathtaking landscapes.
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Get your sh*t together
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This is the first book that exclusively features recent artwork in color by British artist David Shrigley. This volume celebrates Shrigley's absurd, deadpan sensibility through both his signature drawing style and accompanying text. Organized by chapters with titles such as Stupid, Nonsense, Dirt, Fear, Paranoia, Love, and Self Delusion, this collection is sure to delight(...)
Get your sh*t together
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This is the first book that exclusively features recent artwork in color by British artist David Shrigley. This volume celebrates Shrigley's absurd, deadpan sensibility through both his signature drawing style and accompanying text. Organized by chapters with titles such as Stupid, Nonsense, Dirt, Fear, Paranoia, Love, and Self Delusion, this collection is sure to delight die-hard Shrigley fans and new ones alike. This is the largest-format book to date on Shrigley's prolific work, and features design details such as a ribbon marker with one of his mordant sayings printed on it, as well as hand-written, humorous essays throughout.
Graphic Designers, Monographs
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This publication is a collection of “favorite” designs as selected by 80 graphic designers, typographers, teachers, scholars, writers and design impresarios. Designers have preferences, like modern over postmodern, serif over sans serif, decorative over minimal, but designers could not be engaged in design practice if they did not love design. The reasons for such a(...)
I heart design, featuring 80 remarkable graphic designs
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This publication is a collection of “favorite” designs as selected by 80 graphic designers, typographers, teachers, scholars, writers and design impresarios. Designers have preferences, like modern over postmodern, serif over sans serif, decorative over minimal, but designers could not be engaged in design practice if they did not love design. The reasons for such a charged emotion varies from individual to individual, but there are certain commonalities regarding form, function, outcome, and more. Design triggers something in all of us that may be solely aesthetic or decidedly content-driven, but in the final analysis, we are drawn to it through the heart.
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C3 329: Aires Mateus
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Modern architecture and historical heritage do not often go hand in hand. This issue looks at a love and hate relationship between modern architecture and historical ornaments. How can modern architecture be enriched by the past? And what lessons may architects learn from past examples? Special attention is also paid to the changing social functions of today's modern(...)
C3 329: Aires Mateus
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Modern architecture and historical heritage do not often go hand in hand. This issue looks at a love and hate relationship between modern architecture and historical ornaments. How can modern architecture be enriched by the past? And what lessons may architects learn from past examples? Special attention is also paid to the changing social functions of today's modern cities. Projects include: Inter-Municipal school in Saint-Denis by AAVP Architecture, the Social Housing in Terrassa by Flores & Prats Arquitects, Le Lorrain Residential Complex by MDW Architecture, and the Lucien Rose Complex in Rennes by Atelier du Pont.
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Ghada Amer
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With subjects as delicate and personal as pleasure and love, Ghada Amer shows that it is possible to resist a conventional representation of women in art. Referencing pornography and other popular vehicles directed at a heterosexual male audience, Amer's embroidery-based work contrasts traditional female handicraft with mainstream popular culture. Going even further,(...)
Ghada Amer
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With subjects as delicate and personal as pleasure and love, Ghada Amer shows that it is possible to resist a conventional representation of women in art. Referencing pornography and other popular vehicles directed at a heterosexual male audience, Amer's embroidery-based work contrasts traditional female handicraft with mainstream popular culture. Going even further, several pictorial works refer to well-known artists such as Ingres and Picasso. Taking works from the canon as her starting point, the artist observes the idealizing narrative construction of Western art history, indulging in a conventional presentation of an image of women that satisfies a voyeuristic gaze.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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Fifteen projects by Japanese architects are presented in this volume, which explores a mixed group of new buildings brought together under the theme of mass. Each work is illustrated through photos and drawings, and accompanied by detailed project data and description. Among the featured buildings are Okidai House by kenta eto, Studio Velocity’s Forest House in the City,(...)
Mass: details in Japan architecture
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Fifteen projects by Japanese architects are presented in this volume, which explores a mixed group of new buildings brought together under the theme of mass. Each work is illustrated through photos and drawings, and accompanied by detailed project data and description. Among the featured buildings are Okidai House by kenta eto, Studio Velocity’s Forest House in the City, T-Nursery by Uchida Architect Design Office, Spiral Roof by Koji Kudo, Shugoin by Love Architecture Inc., Takato Tamagami’s Northern Nautilus, Zushi Apartment by K2YT, and others. The works, all of which are situated in Japan, commonly feature monolithic forms and closed facades.
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287 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2013]
Various small books : referencing various small books by Ed Ruscha / edited and compiled by Jeff Brouws, Wendy Burton, and Hermann Zschiegner ; text by Phil Taylor with an essay by Mark Rawlinson.
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Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2013]