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Political conflicts, humanitarian disasters, wars and migrations – we live in an age of global unrest and discontinuity. While official reactions consist in the search for means of stabilization and restraint, the dynamics of deregulation are giving rise to a situation characterized by global parallel systems: parallel architectures, parallel societies, parallel(...)
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Architectural Theory
Architectural Theory
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August 2008, Rotterdam
August 2008, Rotterdam
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Networked cultures: parallel architectures and the politics of space
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Political conflicts, humanitarian disasters, wars and migrations – we live in an age of global unrest and discontinuity. While official reactions consist in the search for means of stabilization and restraint, the dynamics of deregulation are giving rise to a situation characterized by global parallel systems: parallel architectures, parallel societies, parallel lives. This book offers an insight into the complex spatial and social realities of globalization, from city-like informal markets in Moscow and the post-war self-urbanization in Kosovo to the border economies of the Mediterranean and the parallel worlds of today’s burgeoning megacities. In this state of uncertainties, networks have become the most powerful tool in how we organize our lives. The emerging struggle between network formations produces a space that is both fragmented and contested, yet testifies to the creativity of its inhabitants. As a result, our cities have become topologies of overlapping realities and narratives as much as they are geographical entities. Networked Cultures traces these conflictual negotiations in dialogue with artists, architects, curators and theorists whose work explores possibilities for a multi-inhabitation of territories and narratives across cultural, social or geographic boundaries. Their shared knowledge and accompanying case studies provide stirring insights as well as imaginative encounters with a world of networks – our world. The enclosed DVD features conversations with the contributors to this book that follow the thematic strands along which the collaborative format of Networked Cultures has evolved: Network Creativity – Contested Spaces – Trading Places – Parallel Worlds.
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Political conflicts, humanitarian disasters, wars and migrations – we live in an age of global unrest and discontinuity. While official reactions consist in the search for means of stabilization and restraint, the dynamics of deregulation are giving rise to a situation characterized by global parallel systems: parallel architectures, parallel societies, parallel lives. This book offers an insight into the complex spatial and social realities of globalization, from city-like informal markets in Moscow and the post-war self-urbanization in Kosovo to the border economies of the Mediterranean and the parallel worlds of today’s burgeoning megacities. In this state of uncertainties, networks have become the most powerful tool in how we organize our lives. The emerging struggle between network formations produces a space that is both fragmented and contested, yet testifies to the creativity of its inhabitants. As a result, our cities have become topologies of overlapping realities and narratives as much as they are geographical entities. Networked Cultures traces these conflictual negotiations in dialogue with artists, architects, curators and theorists whose work explores possibilities for a multi-inhabitation of territories and narratives across cultural, social or geographic boundaries. Their shared knowledge and accompanying case studies provide stirring insights as well as imaginative encounters with a world of networks – our world. The enclosed DVD features conversations with the contributors to this book that follow the thematic strands along which the collaborative format of Networked Cultures has evolved: Network Creativity – Contested Spaces – Trading Places – Parallel Worlds.
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August 2008, Rotterdam
August 2008, Rotterdam
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As a follow-up of a first volume published in 2019 that built on years of thematic investigations, the book focuses on how the institution works out and on these questions by rethinking its tools and how it relates to others. ''The Museum Is Not Enough'' (no. 10–14) gathers conversations among curators, artists, academics, and architects on how institutions engage(...)
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As a follow-up of a first volume published in 2019 that built on years of thematic investigations, the book focuses on how the institution works out and on these questions by rethinking its tools and how it relates to others. ''The Museum Is Not Enough'' (no. 10–14) gathers conversations among curators, artists, academics, and architects on how institutions engage(...)
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CCA Publications
CCA Publications
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January 2022
January 2022
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The Museum Is Not Enough, Num.10-14
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As a follow-up of a first volume published in 2019 that built on years of thematic investigations, the book focuses on how the institution works out and on these questions by rethinking its tools and how it relates to others. ''The Museum Is Not Enough'' (no. 10–14) gathers conversations among curators, artists, academics, and architects on how institutions engage multiple contexts, objects, and perspectives: reflecting on strategies to unlearn and decentre established ways of seeing and doing; looking closely at how to describe and document archival sources while interrogating the stakes, and often the harm, in separating cultural objects from their context; questioning the relationship between institutions and “the public”; and discussing curatorial tools—and particularly film—that collapse research and display, observation and action, here and there. Underlying these reflections is the realization that the museum’s activity can’t be constructed from a fixed position. Unless the questions it deals with are observed from another angle, it is hard not to perpetuate the thinking that created them. The book responds to an urgent need to equip the institution to understand how things around it are rapidly changing, and the importance of conveying and discussing this instability. Here, the museum gets outside its physical walls to explore on-site, to talk with people, to connect and activate collaborators, to design conditions for different forms of dialogue to happen on the ground.
The Museum Is Not Enough, Num.10-14
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As a follow-up of a first volume published in 2019 that built on years of thematic investigations, the book focuses on how the institution works out and on these questions by rethinking its tools and how it relates to others. ''The Museum Is Not Enough'' (no. 10–14) gathers conversations among curators, artists, academics, and architects on how institutions engage multiple contexts, objects, and perspectives: reflecting on strategies to unlearn and decentre established ways of seeing and doing; looking closely at how to describe and document archival sources while interrogating the stakes, and often the harm, in separating cultural objects from their context; questioning the relationship between institutions and “the public”; and discussing curatorial tools—and particularly film—that collapse research and display, observation and action, here and there. Underlying these reflections is the realization that the museum’s activity can’t be constructed from a fixed position. Unless the questions it deals with are observed from another angle, it is hard not to perpetuate the thinking that created them. The book responds to an urgent need to equip the institution to understand how things around it are rapidly changing, and the importance of conveying and discussing this instability. Here, the museum gets outside its physical walls to explore on-site, to talk with people, to connect and activate collaborators, to design conditions for different forms of dialogue to happen on the ground.
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January 2022
January 2022
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CCA Publications
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"Borderwall as architecture" is an artistic and intellectual hand grenade of a book, and a timely re-examination of what the physical barrier that divides the United States of America from the United Mexican States is and could be. It is both a protest against the wall and a projection about its future. Through a series of propositions suggesting that the nearly seven(...)
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"Borderwall as architecture" is an artistic and intellectual hand grenade of a book, and a timely re-examination of what the physical barrier that divides the United States of America from the United Mexican States is and could be. It is both a protest against the wall and a projection about its future. Through a series of propositions suggesting that the nearly seven(...)
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Borderwall as architecture: a manifesto for the US-Mexico boundary
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"Borderwall as architecture" is an artistic and intellectual hand grenade of a book, and a timely re-examination of what the physical barrier that divides the United States of America from the United Mexican States is and could be. It is both a protest against the wall and a projection about its future. Through a series of propositions suggesting that the nearly seven hundred miles of wall is an opportunity for economic and social development along the border that encourages its conceptual and physical dismantling, the book takes readers on a journey along a wall that cuts through a “third nation”—the Divided States of America. On the way the transformative effects of the wall on people, animals, and the natural and built landscape are exposed and interrogated through the story of people who, on both sides of the border, transform the wall, challenging its existence in remarkably creative ways. Coupled with these real-life accounts are counterproposals for the wall, created by Rael’s studio, that reimagine, hyperbolize, or question the wall and its construction, cost, performance, and meaning. Rael proposes that despite the intended use of the wall, which is to keep people out and away, the wall is instead an attractor, engaging both sides in a common dialogue. Included is a collection of reflections on the wall and its consequences by leading experts Michael Dear, Norma Iglesias-Prieto, Marcello Di Cintio, and Teddy Cruz.
Borderwall as architecture: a manifesto for the US-Mexico boundary
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"Borderwall as architecture" is an artistic and intellectual hand grenade of a book, and a timely re-examination of what the physical barrier that divides the United States of America from the United Mexican States is and could be. It is both a protest against the wall and a projection about its future. Through a series of propositions suggesting that the nearly seven hundred miles of wall is an opportunity for economic and social development along the border that encourages its conceptual and physical dismantling, the book takes readers on a journey along a wall that cuts through a “third nation”—the Divided States of America. On the way the transformative effects of the wall on people, animals, and the natural and built landscape are exposed and interrogated through the story of people who, on both sides of the border, transform the wall, challenging its existence in remarkably creative ways. Coupled with these real-life accounts are counterproposals for the wall, created by Rael’s studio, that reimagine, hyperbolize, or question the wall and its construction, cost, performance, and meaning. Rael proposes that despite the intended use of the wall, which is to keep people out and away, the wall is instead an attractor, engaging both sides in a common dialogue. Included is a collection of reflections on the wall and its consequences by leading experts Michael Dear, Norma Iglesias-Prieto, Marcello Di Cintio, and Teddy Cruz.
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May 2017
May 2017
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Architectural Theory
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Ingénieur formé à l'architecture, Franck Boutté est de ceux qui considèrent l'environnement comme faisant partie intégrante des processus d'aménagement. C'est d'abord à ce titre, et pour saluer la qualité de ses interventions dans des projets emblématiques tels que ceux de l'Île de Nantes, des villes et quartiers marocains d'Anfa et Zenata - avec Bernard Reichen -, ou de(...)
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Ingénieur formé à l'architecture, Franck Boutté est de ceux qui considèrent l'environnement comme faisant partie intégrante des processus d'aménagement. C'est d'abord à ce titre, et pour saluer la qualité de ses interventions dans des projets emblématiques tels que ceux de l'Île de Nantes, des villes et quartiers marocains d'Anfa et Zenata - avec Bernard Reichen -, ou de(...)
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L'urbanisme, vecteur de transitions : Franck Boutté
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Ingénieur formé à l'architecture, Franck Boutté est de ceux qui considèrent l'environnement comme faisant partie intégrante des processus d'aménagement. C'est d'abord à ce titre, et pour saluer la qualité de ses interventions dans des projets emblématiques tels que ceux de l'Île de Nantes, des villes et quartiers marocains d'Anfa et Zenata - avec Bernard Reichen -, ou de Bordeaux Euratlantique que le jury du Grand Prix de l'urbanisme l'a choisi pour lauréat 2022. Mais ce choix tient également à l'originalité de sa démarche, qui associe la rigueur de la méthode scientifique et la souplesse de l'adaptation aux contextes territoriaux. S'appuyant sur la première, il identifie très en amont la spécificité écologique et le profil énergétique des territoires au travers d'une approche matricielle garante de cohérence entre les échelles ; quant à la seconde, elle prend corps sous la forme d'un urbanisme négocié et co-construit, soucieux des usages, misant sur le principe de mutualisation - entre autres énergétique - à l'origine de nouvelles réciprocités urbaines et territoriales. Ce travail, guidé par une recherche constante de résilience, de sobriété et de moyens pour protéger les villes du réchauffement climatique, entre en dialogue avec celui des six personnalités et collectifs sélectionnés cette année : Dominique Alba, Nicolas Détrie, Sébastien Marot, Claire Schorter, Simon Teyssou et TVK (Pierre Alain Trévelo et Antoine Viger-Kohler). Six voix fortes porteuses, chacune à leur manière, de transitions souhaitables, pour un Grand Prix qui, année après année, explore les facettes d'un monde professionnel de plus en plus rétif à la standardisation.
L'urbanisme, vecteur de transitions : Franck Boutté
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Ingénieur formé à l'architecture, Franck Boutté est de ceux qui considèrent l'environnement comme faisant partie intégrante des processus d'aménagement. C'est d'abord à ce titre, et pour saluer la qualité de ses interventions dans des projets emblématiques tels que ceux de l'Île de Nantes, des villes et quartiers marocains d'Anfa et Zenata - avec Bernard Reichen -, ou de Bordeaux Euratlantique que le jury du Grand Prix de l'urbanisme l'a choisi pour lauréat 2022. Mais ce choix tient également à l'originalité de sa démarche, qui associe la rigueur de la méthode scientifique et la souplesse de l'adaptation aux contextes territoriaux. S'appuyant sur la première, il identifie très en amont la spécificité écologique et le profil énergétique des territoires au travers d'une approche matricielle garante de cohérence entre les échelles ; quant à la seconde, elle prend corps sous la forme d'un urbanisme négocié et co-construit, soucieux des usages, misant sur le principe de mutualisation - entre autres énergétique - à l'origine de nouvelles réciprocités urbaines et territoriales. Ce travail, guidé par une recherche constante de résilience, de sobriété et de moyens pour protéger les villes du réchauffement climatique, entre en dialogue avec celui des six personnalités et collectifs sélectionnés cette année : Dominique Alba, Nicolas Détrie, Sébastien Marot, Claire Schorter, Simon Teyssou et TVK (Pierre Alain Trévelo et Antoine Viger-Kohler). Six voix fortes porteuses, chacune à leur manière, de transitions souhaitables, pour un Grand Prix qui, année après année, explore les facettes d'un monde professionnel de plus en plus rétif à la standardisation.
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January 2023
January 2023
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Urban Theory
Urban Theory
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Le sang ne se synthétise pas, ou pas encore. Concrètement, chaque année, 119 millions de poches de sang sont collectées dans le monde, permettant de soigner et de sauver des milliers de personnes souffrant de multiples maladies, de cancers ou victimes d’hémorragie. L’acte de donner son sang gratuitement et anonymement reconstruit des existences et, autant que résistent(...)
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Le sang ne se synthétise pas, ou pas encore. Concrètement, chaque année, 119 millions de poches de sang sont collectées dans le monde, permettant de soigner et de sauver des milliers de personnes souffrant de multiples maladies, de cancers ou victimes d’hémorragie. L’acte de donner son sang gratuitement et anonymement reconstruit des existences et, autant que résistent(...)
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Photography monographs
Photography monographs
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February 2025
February 2025
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Trois gouttes de sang comme une fleur
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Le sang ne se synthétise pas, ou pas encore. Concrètement, chaque année, 119 millions de poches de sang sont collectées dans le monde, permettant de soigner et de sauver des milliers de personnes souffrant de multiples maladies, de cancers ou victimes d’hémorragie. L’acte de donner son sang gratuitement et anonymement reconstruit des existences et, autant que résistent les coquelicots à l’emprise du béton, des vies trop fragiles sont maintenues par ces justes, éloignés des suffisances narcissiques tout autant que de l’évaluation marchande de leurs gestes. Rendre compte de cette éthique délicate et discrète des pratiques ordinaires liant le don, le soin et la gratitude, par un dialogue associant des textes et des photos, nous a semblé essentiel. « Trois gouttes de sang comme une fleur » est donc un récit à deux voix – celles d’un photographe et d’un anthropologue – mêlant le réalisme du regard à une appréhension poétique du monde. Une narration entremêlée pour reconnaître l’importance de ces « vies minuscules » sans qui nul ne serait ni soigné ni sauvé. Par une écriture photographique sensible à l’imaginaire Clément Chapillon a tendu un « fil rouge » reliant les différents acteurs du don, notamment par un dispositif d’autoportraits. Chaque personne photographiée a elle-même « pressé » le déclencheur incarnant ainsi son engagement et par ce geste partageant la solidarité d’une générosité anonyme. À partir d’entretiens réalisés avec des donneurs, des receveurs et des professionnels de santé, en questionnant sa propre expérience des soins, Yannick Jaffré a questionné les mots du don et ce que la vulnérabilité peut ajouter à l’humain.
Trois gouttes de sang comme une fleur
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Le sang ne se synthétise pas, ou pas encore. Concrètement, chaque année, 119 millions de poches de sang sont collectées dans le monde, permettant de soigner et de sauver des milliers de personnes souffrant de multiples maladies, de cancers ou victimes d’hémorragie. L’acte de donner son sang gratuitement et anonymement reconstruit des existences et, autant que résistent les coquelicots à l’emprise du béton, des vies trop fragiles sont maintenues par ces justes, éloignés des suffisances narcissiques tout autant que de l’évaluation marchande de leurs gestes. Rendre compte de cette éthique délicate et discrète des pratiques ordinaires liant le don, le soin et la gratitude, par un dialogue associant des textes et des photos, nous a semblé essentiel. « Trois gouttes de sang comme une fleur » est donc un récit à deux voix – celles d’un photographe et d’un anthropologue – mêlant le réalisme du regard à une appréhension poétique du monde. Une narration entremêlée pour reconnaître l’importance de ces « vies minuscules » sans qui nul ne serait ni soigné ni sauvé. Par une écriture photographique sensible à l’imaginaire Clément Chapillon a tendu un « fil rouge » reliant les différents acteurs du don, notamment par un dispositif d’autoportraits. Chaque personne photographiée a elle-même « pressé » le déclencheur incarnant ainsi son engagement et par ce geste partageant la solidarité d’une générosité anonyme. À partir d’entretiens réalisés avec des donneurs, des receveurs et des professionnels de santé, en questionnant sa propre expérience des soins, Yannick Jaffré a questionné les mots du don et ce que la vulnérabilité peut ajouter à l’humain.
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February 2025
February 2025
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Photography monographs
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Italia in Miniatura
Italia in Miniatura
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Between the late 1970s and mid-1980s, Luigi Ghirri made a series of photographs meditating on the landscape of his native Italy, all within the grounds of a single theme park in Rimini, Emilia-Romagna. The popular tourist destination Italia in Miniatura presents scale models of Italy’s major natural and architectural landmarks, brought together in surreal proximity.(...)
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Between the late 1970s and mid-1980s, Luigi Ghirri made a series of photographs meditating on the landscape of his native Italy, all within the grounds of a single theme park in Rimini, Emilia-Romagna. The popular tourist destination Italia in Miniatura presents scale models of Italy’s major natural and architectural landmarks, brought together in surreal proximity.(...)
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Italia in Miniatura
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Between the late 1970s and mid-1980s, Luigi Ghirri made a series of photographs meditating on the landscape of his native Italy, all within the grounds of a single theme park in Rimini, Emilia-Romagna. The popular tourist destination Italia in Miniatura presents scale models of Italy’s major natural and architectural landmarks, brought together in surreal proximity. Ghirri photographed this fabricated world with a characteristic sensitivity for visual coincidence and irony, illusion and reality, ambiguity and artifice. Reflecting on photography’s own processes of shrinking and representing, these images are among Ghirri’s most distinctive, playful, and conceptually compelling. This new book presents the entirety of Ghirri’s In Scala series, expanded with numerous previously unseen images, and places them in conversation with work by the park’s founder and designer, Ivo Rambaldi. Rambaldi’s maps, sketches, collages, and reference images, made on exhaustive research trips across Italy, offer an analogous exploration of the possibilities and paradoxes of miniaturisation. Their frank functionality resonates with Ghirri’s embrace of the perspective and tools of the ama-teur. From the dialogue between these meticulous works of representation and fabrication we discover the possibility that, in Ghirri’s words, "Perhaps it’s in this very space, one of total fiction, that truth is concealed." This publication is brought together by curators Ilaria Campioli, Joan Fontcuberta, and Matteo Guidi, and includes new essays by the curators and by author Simon Garfield. It is completed by a series of images by photographer and theorist Joan Fontcuberta in response to Ghirri’s and Rambaldi’s encounters with the park.
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Between the late 1970s and mid-1980s, Luigi Ghirri made a series of photographs meditating on the landscape of his native Italy, all within the grounds of a single theme park in Rimini, Emilia-Romagna. The popular tourist destination Italia in Miniatura presents scale models of Italy’s major natural and architectural landmarks, brought together in surreal proximity. Ghirri photographed this fabricated world with a characteristic sensitivity for visual coincidence and irony, illusion and reality, ambiguity and artifice. Reflecting on photography’s own processes of shrinking and representing, these images are among Ghirri’s most distinctive, playful, and conceptually compelling. This new book presents the entirety of Ghirri’s In Scala series, expanded with numerous previously unseen images, and places them in conversation with work by the park’s founder and designer, Ivo Rambaldi. Rambaldi’s maps, sketches, collages, and reference images, made on exhaustive research trips across Italy, offer an analogous exploration of the possibilities and paradoxes of miniaturisation. Their frank functionality resonates with Ghirri’s embrace of the perspective and tools of the ama-teur. From the dialogue between these meticulous works of representation and fabrication we discover the possibility that, in Ghirri’s words, "Perhaps it’s in this very space, one of total fiction, that truth is concealed." This publication is brought together by curators Ilaria Campioli, Joan Fontcuberta, and Matteo Guidi, and includes new essays by the curators and by author Simon Garfield. It is completed by a series of images by photographer and theorist Joan Fontcuberta in response to Ghirri’s and Rambaldi’s encounters with the park.
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January 2024
January 2024
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On European ground
On European ground
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A profound visual meditation on the trauma that scars twentieth-century Europe, Alan Cohen's "On European Ground" considers the battlefields of World War I, the Nazi death camps, and the Berlin Wall, and records the distance between what we remember about these places and what we can (...)
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A profound visual meditation on the trauma that scars twentieth-century Europe, Alan Cohen's "On European Ground" considers the battlefields of World War I, the Nazi death camps, and the Berlin Wall, and records the distance between what we remember about these places and what we can (...)
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A profound visual meditation on the trauma that scars twentieth-century Europe, Alan Cohen's "On European Ground" considers the battlefields of World War I, the Nazi death camps, and the Berlin Wall, and records the distance between what we remember about these places and what we can still observe in them today. By walking these sites and photographing the very ground in which their history has dissolved, Cohen opens a space for reflection on their complex gravity and legacy. Cohen's images achieve a solemn beauty even as they engage history at its most topical. Pictures of trenches and bunkers at the battlefields of Somme and Verdun explore the tension between the violence of the past and the inscrutability of its remnants. Photographs from the grounds of Dachau and Auschwitz solicit a provocative dialogue between the ordinariness of these sites today and their haunting memory. They teach us, as the New Art Examiner notes, "that the living perceptual connection to the Holocaust is vanishing." Images of the Berlin Wall show only the footprint of the barricade that once separated two hostile ideologies. They record the physical erosion and looming disappearance of the Wall while capturing its reappearance as a memorialized abstraction. Accompanying the photographs in On European Ground are essays by Sander Gilman and Jonathan Bordo, as well as an interview with Cohen by critic Roberta Smith of the New York Times. The essays present both an introduction to and aesthetic analysis of Cohen's work, while the interview discusses the intractable problems of history and memory that his photographs so uniquely capture.
On European ground
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A profound visual meditation on the trauma that scars twentieth-century Europe, Alan Cohen's "On European Ground" considers the battlefields of World War I, the Nazi death camps, and the Berlin Wall, and records the distance between what we remember about these places and what we can still observe in them today. By walking these sites and photographing the very ground in which their history has dissolved, Cohen opens a space for reflection on their complex gravity and legacy. Cohen's images achieve a solemn beauty even as they engage history at its most topical. Pictures of trenches and bunkers at the battlefields of Somme and Verdun explore the tension between the violence of the past and the inscrutability of its remnants. Photographs from the grounds of Dachau and Auschwitz solicit a provocative dialogue between the ordinariness of these sites today and their haunting memory. They teach us, as the New Art Examiner notes, "that the living perceptual connection to the Holocaust is vanishing." Images of the Berlin Wall show only the footprint of the barricade that once separated two hostile ideologies. They record the physical erosion and looming disappearance of the Wall while capturing its reappearance as a memorialized abstraction. Accompanying the photographs in On European Ground are essays by Sander Gilman and Jonathan Bordo, as well as an interview with Cohen by critic Roberta Smith of the New York Times. The essays present both an introduction to and aesthetic analysis of Cohen's work, while the interview discusses the intractable problems of history and memory that his photographs so uniquely capture.
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April 2001, Chicago
April 2001, Chicago
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Toute rencontre suppose un lieu. Lorsqu'un artiste et un philosophe se rencontrent, le lieu est en règle générale le champ de l'art ou celui de la philosophie. C'est-à-dire qu'elle est toujours le fruit de l'invitation de l'un par l'autre sur un terrain étranger. Il en résulte des échanges asymétriques où la philosophie est convoquée par l'artiste pour servir de support(...)
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Toute rencontre suppose un lieu. Lorsqu'un artiste et un philosophe se rencontrent, le lieu est en règle générale le champ de l'art ou celui de la philosophie. C'est-à-dire qu'elle est toujours le fruit de l'invitation de l'un par l'autre sur un terrain étranger. Il en résulte des échanges asymétriques où la philosophie est convoquée par l'artiste pour servir de support(...)
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Topographie discrète : Scénario pour un texte sans dimensions
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Toute rencontre suppose un lieu. Lorsqu'un artiste et un philosophe se rencontrent, le lieu est en règle générale le champ de l'art ou celui de la philosophie. C'est-à-dire qu'elle est toujours le fruit de l'invitation de l'un par l'autre sur un terrain étranger. Il en résulte des échanges asymétriques où la philosophie est convoquée par l'artiste pour servir de support ou de cadre à son discours dans un cas, et où l'art est convoqué par le philosophe pour l'offrir à l'esthétique. La philosophe Anne-Françoise Schmid et l'artiste Ivan Liovik Ebel ont décidé de travailler ensemble à la création d'un nouveau lieu qui ne soit pas exactement celui de la rencontre asymétrique habituelle. Soit un commun = X. De ce lieu, des matérialités originales pourront émerger qui ne cherchent pas absolument leurs points d'ancrage dans telle ou telle discipline. Leur projet consiste donc à « théoriser » une topographie de l'autre « espace » où se rejoindront les différentes matérialités. Ce lieu particulier et délicat, incertain dans ses contours, en équilibre toujours précaire, produira les conditions d'une rencontre qui ne prenne pas place sur le terrain connu du dialogue courtois, mais sous une forme originale, sans tradition : une série de textes courts présentés sur deux colonnes et qui, sans s'interpeller ni se répondre tout à fait explicitement, communiquent de manière sensible. Livre délibérement expérimental, il forge le scénario d'un texte aux lieux flottants, au-delà et en deçà de ses dimensions virtuelles. Il effleure à peine et très discrètement les œuvres, théorèmes de l'âme de l'artiste et de la philosophe.
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Toute rencontre suppose un lieu. Lorsqu'un artiste et un philosophe se rencontrent, le lieu est en règle générale le champ de l'art ou celui de la philosophie. C'est-à-dire qu'elle est toujours le fruit de l'invitation de l'un par l'autre sur un terrain étranger. Il en résulte des échanges asymétriques où la philosophie est convoquée par l'artiste pour servir de support ou de cadre à son discours dans un cas, et où l'art est convoqué par le philosophe pour l'offrir à l'esthétique. La philosophe Anne-Françoise Schmid et l'artiste Ivan Liovik Ebel ont décidé de travailler ensemble à la création d'un nouveau lieu qui ne soit pas exactement celui de la rencontre asymétrique habituelle. Soit un commun = X. De ce lieu, des matérialités originales pourront émerger qui ne cherchent pas absolument leurs points d'ancrage dans telle ou telle discipline. Leur projet consiste donc à « théoriser » une topographie de l'autre « espace » où se rejoindront les différentes matérialités. Ce lieu particulier et délicat, incertain dans ses contours, en équilibre toujours précaire, produira les conditions d'une rencontre qui ne prenne pas place sur le terrain connu du dialogue courtois, mais sous une forme originale, sans tradition : une série de textes courts présentés sur deux colonnes et qui, sans s'interpeller ni se répondre tout à fait explicitement, communiquent de manière sensible. Livre délibérement expérimental, il forge le scénario d'un texte aux lieux flottants, au-delà et en deçà de ses dimensions virtuelles. Il effleure à peine et très discrètement les œuvres, théorèmes de l'âme de l'artiste et de la philosophe.
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December 2021
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Contemporary Art Monographs
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What do phenomena like sprawl, generic city or urban segregation have in common with the concept of the city? This is not an easy question. It is nevertheless the inquiry this book is based on, mainly because of the bewilderment we feel when faced with these phenomena that are spread throughout the urban world and constitute a tall order for our concepts of the city.(...)
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What do phenomena like sprawl, generic city or urban segregation have in common with the concept of the city? This is not an easy question. It is nevertheless the inquiry this book is based on, mainly because of the bewilderment we feel when faced with these phenomena that are spread throughout the urban world and constitute a tall order for our concepts of the city.(...)
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Fundamental Trends in City Development
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What do phenomena like sprawl, generic city or urban segregation have in common with the concept of the city? This is not an easy question. It is nevertheless the inquiry this book is based on, mainly because of the bewilderment we feel when faced with these phenomena that are spread throughout the urban world and constitute a tall order for our concepts of the city. Expressions like discomposed city, generic city and segregated city refer to entities that share the loss of the city as a space of communication and social interaction and as the space of the public sphere. In order to explore what we call the city adrift, certain positions of scholars of the city are analysed, using the utopia as an analytical category and referring to three kinds the conservative utopia, liquidatory utopia and resistant utopia which can perhaps significantly distinguish the different positions on current spatial trends of the city and, more generally, the phenomena emerging in the urban world. This book investigates how the city can be re-established as the space of dialogue and communication, how the spatial conditions of the public sphere can be created and the city retrieved, and what the features might be of a city retrieved and restored to its citizens. The author adopts the concept of externity as an innovative element for the project for the city, a constituent feature of all those situations traditionally considered non-functional, therefore external, to our contemporary post-cities, which are consigned to us adrift through decomposition, genericity and segregation.
Fundamental Trends in City Development
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What do phenomena like sprawl, generic city or urban segregation have in common with the concept of the city? This is not an easy question. It is nevertheless the inquiry this book is based on, mainly because of the bewilderment we feel when faced with these phenomena that are spread throughout the urban world and constitute a tall order for our concepts of the city. Expressions like discomposed city, generic city and segregated city refer to entities that share the loss of the city as a space of communication and social interaction and as the space of the public sphere. In order to explore what we call the city adrift, certain positions of scholars of the city are analysed, using the utopia as an analytical category and referring to three kinds the conservative utopia, liquidatory utopia and resistant utopia which can perhaps significantly distinguish the different positions on current spatial trends of the city and, more generally, the phenomena emerging in the urban world. This book investigates how the city can be re-established as the space of dialogue and communication, how the spatial conditions of the public sphere can be created and the city retrieved, and what the features might be of a city retrieved and restored to its citizens. The author adopts the concept of externity as an innovative element for the project for the city, a constituent feature of all those situations traditionally considered non-functional, therefore external, to our contemporary post-cities, which are consigned to us adrift through decomposition, genericity and segregation.
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In recent years the Basel architects Herzog & de Meuron have seen several major competitions judged in their favor. Their museum to house the Goetz art collection in Munich, as well as projects to convert new exhibition space for the Tate Gallery in London and redesign the Hypobank quarter of Munich's inner city have earned international acclaim. Now this multi-volume(...)
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In recent years the Basel architects Herzog & de Meuron have seen several major competitions judged in their favor. Their museum to house the Goetz art collection in Munich, as well as projects to convert new exhibition space for the Tate Gallery in London and redesign the Hypobank quarter of Munich's inner city have earned international acclaim. Now this multi-volume(...)
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Herzog & de Meuron 1989-1991 : the complete works volume 2
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In recent years the Basel architects Herzog & de Meuron have seen several major competitions judged in their favor. Their museum to house the Goetz art collection in Munich, as well as projects to convert new exhibition space for the Tate Gallery in London and redesign the Hypobank quarter of Munich's inner city have earned international acclaim. Now this multi-volume Birkhäuser edition is tracing the development of their complete work. Published out of sequence, Volume 2 is the first of this set to appear and spans the years 1989 1991. Included among its 32 projects are the well-known copper-clad signal box and locomotive depot, the repository for the Goetz art collection, the campus dormitory at the University of Dijon, and the Pfaffenholz sports center in St. Louis. Their approach to the building envelope, for all of its sobriety, evidences a richness not normally associated with the leading proponents of the new Swiss architecture. Lessons from early experimentation with imprinted glass and concrete have been adapted for many of their new buildings. Building envelopes, such as for the Cultural Center in Blois, are conceived as "information skins." At the same time, a fastidious examination of the site leads to a critical dialogue with the city. The urban analyses emerging from the large-scale study, "Basel, a City in the Making?", but also the work on the master plans for the university campus at Dijon and the town sector of Sils Cuncas in the upper Engadine form a focal point in this volume.
Herzog & de Meuron 1989-1991 : the complete works volume 2
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In recent years the Basel architects Herzog & de Meuron have seen several major competitions judged in their favor. Their museum to house the Goetz art collection in Munich, as well as projects to convert new exhibition space for the Tate Gallery in London and redesign the Hypobank quarter of Munich's inner city have earned international acclaim. Now this multi-volume Birkhäuser edition is tracing the development of their complete work. Published out of sequence, Volume 2 is the first of this set to appear and spans the years 1989 1991. Included among its 32 projects are the well-known copper-clad signal box and locomotive depot, the repository for the Goetz art collection, the campus dormitory at the University of Dijon, and the Pfaffenholz sports center in St. Louis. Their approach to the building envelope, for all of its sobriety, evidences a richness not normally associated with the leading proponents of the new Swiss architecture. Lessons from early experimentation with imprinted glass and concrete have been adapted for many of their new buildings. Building envelopes, such as for the Cultural Center in Blois, are conceived as "information skins." At the same time, a fastidious examination of the site leads to a critical dialogue with the city. The urban analyses emerging from the large-scale study, "Basel, a City in the Making?", but also the work on the master plans for the university campus at Dijon and the town sector of Sils Cuncas in the upper Engadine form a focal point in this volume.
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September 1996, Basel
September 1996, Basel
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