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Spanning a range of positions on beauty — both for and against — this anthology assembles the key texts on the controversy and situates the debate over the revival of beauty in the broader context of the history of ideas and artistic practice. Writers: Theodor Adorno, Alexander Alberro, Rasheed Araeen, Art & Language, Benjamin H. D. Buchloh, T. J. Clark, Mark Cousins,(...)
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April 2009, Cambridge (MA), London
Beauty
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Spanning a range of positions on beauty — both for and against — this anthology assembles the key texts on the controversy and situates the debate over the revival of beauty in the broader context of the history of ideas and artistic practice. Writers: Theodor Adorno, Alexander Alberro, Rasheed Araeen, Art & Language, Benjamin H. D. Buchloh, T. J. Clark, Mark Cousins, Arthur C. Danto, Jacques Derrida, Thierry de Duve, Fredric Jameson, Christoph Grunenberg, Dave Hickey, Suzanne Perling Hudson, Caroline A. Jones, John Roberts, Elaine Scarry, Wendy Steiner, Paul Wood
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Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000.
Material London, ca. 1600 / edited by Lena Cowen Orlin.
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Kathrin Böhm : art on the scale of life / edited by Gerrie van Noord, Paul O'Neill, and Mick Wilson.
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330 pages, 10 unnumbered pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
London : Sternberg Press ; Helsinki : PUBLICS ; London : The Showroom ; Gothenburg : HDK-Valand, [2023], [Cambridge, Mass.]: Distributed by The MIT Press ; [London] : Art Data ; [Dijon, France] : Les presses du réel, ©2023
Kathrin Böhm : art on the scale of life / edited by Gerrie van Noord, Paul O'Neill, and Mick Wilson.
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London : Sternberg Press ; Helsinki : PUBLICS ; London : The Showroom ; Gothenburg : HDK-Valand, [2023], [Cambridge, Mass.]: Distributed by The MIT Press ; [London] : Art Data ; [Dijon, France] : Les presses du réel, ©2023
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Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2017]
Canadian painters in a modern world, 1925-1955 : writings and reconsiderations / Lora Senechal Carney.
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Using language - speaking and understanding it - is a defining ability of human beings, woven into all human activity. It is therefore inevitable that it should be deeply implicated in the design, production, and use of buildings. Building legislation, design guides, competition and other briefs, architectural criticism, teaching and scholarly material, and the media all(...)
Architectural Theory
November 2001, London
The words between the spaces : buildings and language
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Using language - speaking and understanding it - is a defining ability of human beings, woven into all human activity. It is therefore inevitable that it should be deeply implicated in the design, production, and use of buildings. Building legislation, design guides, competition and other briefs, architectural criticism, teaching and scholarly material, and the media all produce their characteristic texts. The authors use texts about such projects as Berlin's new Reichstag, Scotland's new Parliament, and the Auschwitz concentration camp museum to clarify the interaction between texts, design, critical debate, and response.
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November 2001, London
Architectural Theory
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Block by Block is a far-ranging collection of essays about Jane Jacobs from an impressive group of writers and cultural critics including Marshall Berman, Malcolm Gladwell, Adam Gopnik, Paul Goldberger, Tama Janowitz, Ben Katchor, Phillip Lopate, Luc Sante, Bill "Reverend Billy" Talen, Colson Whitehead, and Tom Wolfe. This impressive lineup of contributors discusses the(...)
Urban Theory
January 2008, Princeton
Block by Block. Jane Jacobs and the Future of New York
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Block by Block is a far-ranging collection of essays about Jane Jacobs from an impressive group of writers and cultural critics including Marshall Berman, Malcolm Gladwell, Adam Gopnik, Paul Goldberger, Tama Janowitz, Ben Katchor, Phillip Lopate, Luc Sante, Bill "Reverend Billy" Talen, Colson Whitehead, and Tom Wolfe. This impressive lineup of contributors discusses the contemporary relevance of Jacobs's ideas about large-scale redevelopment, gentrification, and activism. While their viewpoints on these issues may differ, they continue the important debate begun by Jacobs about the challenges facing New York and other great cities everywhere.
Urban Theory
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Vienna is a Central European metropolis with a two-thousand-year history and a future as centre of a region of prosperous economic growth. It is also a city that has traditionally stood for high quality architecture and always been at the hub of the international debate on modern architecture. Exemplary on an international level is the current policy on the part of the(...)
Architecture since 1900, Europe
December 2005, Wien, New York
Vienna : new urban architecture
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Vienna is a Central European metropolis with a two-thousand-year history and a future as centre of a region of prosperous economic growth. It is also a city that has traditionally stood for high quality architecture and always been at the hub of the international debate on modern architecture. Exemplary on an international level is the current policy on the part of the urban planners to achieve quality even in large scale urban renewal projects and areas of urban development. The reader is offered an insight into current realizations and projects in the sector.
Architecture since 1900, Europe
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In "Forest and garden", Melanie L. Simo ranges through a period of landscape history that has been underexamined, between Olmsted and mid-twentieth-century modernism, when the contours of the debate were formed and the landscape professions came of age. Simo's book spans half a century, from the year that Charles Sprague Sargent's influential "Garden and Forest" magazine(...)
Forest and gardens : traces of wildness in a modernizing land, 1897-1949
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In "Forest and garden", Melanie L. Simo ranges through a period of landscape history that has been underexamined, between Olmsted and mid-twentieth-century modernism, when the contours of the debate were formed and the landscape professions came of age. Simo's book spans half a century, from the year that Charles Sprague Sargent's influential "Garden and Forest" magazine ceased publication in 1897 to the appearance in 1949 of two unusual books about land and landscape—Aldo Leopold's "Sand County Almanac" and Jens Jensen's "The Clearing" —that marked the beginning of a new ecological awareness.
Landscape Theory
Nick Cave: Until
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"Until" takes readers inside Nick Cave's newest work. This illustrated book takes us inside of one of his iconic sculptures with an immersive environment populated by a dazzling array of found objects, echoing some of Cave's and America's most confounding dilemmas: gun violence, racial inequality, injustice within our cities police departments, and death. An installation(...)
Contemporary Art Monographs
May 2017
Nick Cave: Until
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"Until" takes readers inside Nick Cave's newest work. This illustrated book takes us inside of one of his iconic sculptures with an immersive environment populated by a dazzling array of found objects, echoing some of Cave's and America's most confounding dilemmas: gun violence, racial inequality, injustice within our cities police departments, and death. An installation diary and numerous images reveal how an idea becomes reality. "Until" also incorporates special appearances by dancers, singer/ songwriters, and poets, as well as community forums, and opportunities for public debate and engagement.
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Border conditions
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This book presents the first results of research initiated for the architecture Masters programme at Delft University of Technology. It focusses on the spatial impact of socio-political developments, with an emphasis on mapping the contemporary urban milieu. Current debate surrounding borders in architecture is explored throughout the book, from conflict zones to marginal(...)
Border conditions
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This book presents the first results of research initiated for the architecture Masters programme at Delft University of Technology. It focusses on the spatial impact of socio-political developments, with an emphasis on mapping the contemporary urban milieu. Current debate surrounding borders in architecture is explored throughout the book, from conflict zones to marginal urban areas; from Gibraltar, Kaliningrad and Kiev to Benidorm, Marseille and Rotterdam. A selection of projects shows how mapping can be used to register and interpret urban processes, and how these design principles act as catalysts for architectural interventions.
Urban Theory