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272 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
Basel : Birkhäuser ; Barcelona ; New York : Distribution, ActarBirkhäuserD, ©2012.
UrbanRESET : freilegen immanenter potenziale städtischer Räume = how to activate immanent potential of urban spaces / Angelus Eisinger, Jörg Seifert (Hrsg./eds.).
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Basel : Birkhäuser ; Barcelona ; New York : Distribution, ActarBirkhäuserD, ©2012.
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Nina Mö ntmann's timely book extends the decolonisation debate to the institutions of contemporary art. In a thoughtfully articulated text, illustrated with pertinent examples of best practice, she argues that museums and galleries of contemporary art have a responsibility to "decenter" their institutions, removing from their collections, exhibition policies and(...)
Decentring the museum: Contemporary art institutions and colonial legacies
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Nina Mö ntmann's timely book extends the decolonisation debate to the institutions of contemporary art. In a thoughtfully articulated text, illustrated with pertinent examples of best practice, she argues that museums and galleries of contemporary art have a responsibility to "decenter" their institutions, removing from their collections, exhibition policies and infrastructures a deeply embedded Euro-centric cultural focus with roots in the history of colonialism. In this, she argues, they can learn from the example both of anthropological museums (such as the Humboldt Forum in Berlin and the British Museum), which are engaged in debates about the colonial histories of their collections, and of small-scale art spaces (such as La Colonie in Paris or Savvy Contemporary in Berlin), which have the flexibility to initiate different kinds of conversation – for example, by programming exhibitions and events in collaboration with local diasporic communities from the global south.
Museology
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When the state recedes, the commune-form flourishes. This was as true in Paris in 1871 as it is now whenever ordinary people begin to manage their daily lives collectively. Contemporary struggles over land - from the zad at Notre-Dame-des-Landes to Cop City in Atlanta, from the pipeline battles in Canada to Soulèvements de la terre - have reinvented practices of(...)
The Commune form: The transformation of everyday life
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When the state recedes, the commune-form flourishes. This was as true in Paris in 1871 as it is now whenever ordinary people begin to manage their daily lives collectively. Contemporary struggles over land - from the zad at Notre-Dame-des-Landes to Cop City in Atlanta, from the pipeline battles in Canada to Soulèvements de la terre - have reinvented practices of appropriating lived space and time. This transforms dramatically our perception of the recent past. Rural struggles of the 1960s and 70s, like the "Nantes Commune," the Larzac, and Sanrizuka in Japan, appear now as the defining battles of our era. In the defense of threatened territories against all manners of privatization, hoarding, and infrastructures of disaster, new ways of producing and inhabiting are devised that side-step the state and that give rise to unprecedented kinds of solidarity built on pleasurable, fruitful collaborations.
Social
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The unresolved limits of the post-capitalist city give rise to interventions in the city and the contemporary landscape in which the planner has to rely on a knowledge of other fields. The inevitable multidisciplinary activity at these frontiers has been an object of study during recent decades. This book brings together these reflections and some of their achievements(...)
Alongside boundaries, borders and frontiers
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The unresolved limits of the post-capitalist city give rise to interventions in the city and the contemporary landscape in which the planner has to rely on a knowledge of other fields. The inevitable multidisciplinary activity at these frontiers has been an object of study during recent decades. This book brings together these reflections and some of their achievements in projects whose common denominator is their condition of marginality, of contiguity with prior structures with which they try to establish connections and continuities. The four parts into which the book is divided make reference to projectural policies conditioned by work on the boundaries of the pre-existing and to the interpretation of their settings: stretches of water, infrastructures, cultural and artificial natures. Analysed here are border zones, edges, frontiers and fringes of the contemporary city with itself, with nature, and with the boundaries between the natural and the colonised landscape.
Urban Landscapes
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War has entered the cities. Since September 11, 2001 at the latest, it has become apparent that this is the case not only in Jerusalem and the Middle East, but also in Western metropolises. This book presents a thorough investigation of the current situation in Jerusalem from a trilateral perspective: Israeli, Palestinian, and international experts air their views. The(...)
Arch Southwest Asia & North Africa
June 2006, Basel, Boston, Berlin
City of collision : Jerusalem and the principles of conflict urbanism
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War has entered the cities. Since September 11, 2001 at the latest, it has become apparent that this is the case not only in Jerusalem and the Middle East, but also in Western metropolises. This book presents a thorough investigation of the current situation in Jerusalem from a trilateral perspective: Israeli, Palestinian, and international experts air their views. The discussion centers on the production and use of urban space under the conditions created by the conflict, including, for example, the so-called security fence, urban enclaves, exclaves, the approach to monuments and no-man’s-land, and the instrumentalization of infrastructures, which leads to the crass juxtaposition of highly developed and impoverished urban spaces. The conflict, however, does not bring with it destruction and violence alone, but also exhibits ambivalent effects and, along with them, new cultural and urban realities. Jerusalem has become a prototype in the age of new urban violence.
Arch Southwest Asia & North Africa
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This book is a collection of essays at the intersection of architecture and climate change. Neither a collective lament nor an inventory of architectural responses, the essays consider cultural values ascribed to climate and ask how climate re? ects our conception of what architecture is and does. Which materials and conceptual infrastructures render climate legible,(...)
Environment and environmental theory
July 2016
Climates: architecture and the planetary imaginary
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This book is a collection of essays at the intersection of architecture and climate change. Neither a collective lament nor an inventory of architectural responses, the essays consider cultural values ascribed to climate and ask how climate re? ects our conception of what architecture is and does. Which materials and conceptual infrastructures render climate legible, knowable, and actionable, and what are their spatial implications? How do these interrelated questions offer new vantage points on the architectural rami? cations of climate change at the interface of resiliency, sustain-ability, and ecotechnology? 'Climates' also contains a dossier of precedents for thinking about architecture and climate change drawn from a number of leading practitioners. New approaches to understanding climate in architecture make this book invaluable.This publication is a project by The Avery Review, a journal produced by the Of?ce of Publications at Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation.
Environment and environmental theory
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« La ville énergivore » retrace l’histoire de la dépendance urbaine moderne envers des sources d’énergie extraites loin des villes et transportées par des infrastructures technologiques sophistiquées. À travers le cas de Montréal au 20e siècle, métropole énergivore d’un pays énergivore, ce livre raconte le déclin du bois et du charbon, autrefois manipulés physiquement(...)
La ville énergivore : Une histoire des transitions énergétiques à Montréal au 20e siècle
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« La ville énergivore » retrace l’histoire de la dépendance urbaine moderne envers des sources d’énergie extraites loin des villes et transportées par des infrastructures technologiques sophistiquées. À travers le cas de Montréal au 20e siècle, métropole énergivore d’un pays énergivore, ce livre raconte le déclin du bois et du charbon, autrefois manipulés physiquement pour le chauffage et la cuisson. Ils sont remplacés par l’hydroélectricité, le gaz naturel et le pétrole, distribués par des réseaux invisibles qui ont alimenté la consommation débridée d’énergie typique de l’après-guerre. Clarence Hatton-Proulx porte notre regard sur les espaces concrets où l’énergie en ville est entreposée, transformée et consommée : les cours à bois et à charbon, les stations-services, les raffineries de pétrole, les appartements et les bungalows de l’île de Montréal. Il analyse les tensions entourant la transition à travers une étude fine de différents acteurs historiques, des locataires aux professions de l’urbain.
Architecture de Montréal
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Déclarée en avril 1931, attaquée le 18 juillet 1936 par l'armée de Franco, écrasée le 28 mars 1939, la Seconde République espagnole fut brève mais l'idéologie républicaine a durablement influencé le développement moderne de la culture et notamment de l'architecture et de l'urbanisme. Cette période unique a ainsi permis l'éclosion de nombreux projets et réalisations dans(...)
Modernité en architecture dans l'Espagne républicaine
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Déclarée en avril 1931, attaquée le 18 juillet 1936 par l'armée de Franco, écrasée le 28 mars 1939, la Seconde République espagnole fut brève mais l'idéologie républicaine a durablement influencé le développement moderne de la culture et notamment de l'architecture et de l'urbanisme. Cette période unique a ainsi permis l'éclosion de nombreux projets et réalisations dans tous les domaines de la construction, que ce soit les immeubles collectifs, les maisons individuelles, les infrastructures industrielles ou la réorganisation et l'extension de villes comme Barcelone et Madrid. Ce livre présente un panorama complet et illustré du travail de toute une génération d'architectes, replacé dans son contexte historique qui se caractérise principalement par une attitude progressiste tendant à combiner l'austérité formelle d'un paysage urbain rationalisé et une éthique civique, aspiration qui, comme tant d'autres, fut anéantie par la guerre civile. En annexe, les biographies de quarante architectes espagnols de la période.
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May 2003, Marseilles
Architecture since 1900, Europe
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This book, the first by the design and research practice Material Cultures, assembles a series of short essays and conversations exploring the cultures, systems, and infrastructures that shape the architectural industry and the destructive ecologies it fosters. The building practices dominating contemporary architecture are rooted in the exploitation of people and the(...)
Material reform, material cultures
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This book, the first by the design and research practice Material Cultures, assembles a series of short essays and conversations exploring the cultures, systems, and infrastructures that shape the architectural industry and the destructive ecologies it fosters. The building practices dominating contemporary architecture are rooted in the exploitation of people and the degradation of our landscapes. Here, Paloma Gormley, Summer Islam, and George Massoud explore how this has come about and how alternative systems, with holistic approaches to the built environment, might be formulated. It presents a set of instructive and challenging perspectives drawing directly on the dialogues and tensions Material Cultures encounter in their day-to-day work. Texts centred around key concepts including labour, time, maintenance, language, land, and touch are interwoven with a visual essay reckoning with the processes that have transformed industrialised landscapes at different scales of experience and resolution.
Environment and environmental theory
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''LBA Architecture and Planning'' is an architectural practice based in Macau, co-founded by architects Rui Leão and F. Carlotta Bruni. The firm specializes in designing projects that integrate contemporary architecture with the historical and cultural context of the region. LBA has contributed to shaping Macau’s urban and architectural identity during the past 20 years(...)
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Layering the city: Research on infrastructure and public space in Macau
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''LBA Architecture and Planning'' is an architectural practice based in Macau, co-founded by architects Rui Leão and F. Carlotta Bruni. The firm specializes in designing projects that integrate contemporary architecture with the historical and cultural context of the region. LBA has contributed to shaping Macau’s urban and architectural identity during the past 20 years of rapid urbanization. The intellectual contributions of LBA are further evidenced through their spatial narratives that integrate complex urban contexts with culturally sensitive design strategies. The firm emphasizes the importance of creating spaces that harmonize with their surroundings while addressing the functional needs of modern urban living. This approach is particularly relevant in Macau, where the juxtaposition of old and new is a defining characteristic of the city. Their work in Macau serves as a testament to their capacity for thoughtful integration of historical contexts and innovative design, contributing significantly to the evolving identity of the city.