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Cet ouvrage propose une exploration interdisciplinaire du patrimoine architectural de Bolzano, développée dans le cadre du projet de recherche « Curating Bolzano Fascist Legacies » à la Faculté de design et d'art de l'Université libre de Bozen-Bolzano. Il revient sur le passé complexe de la ville et les interprétations changeantes de son architecture de l'époque fasciste,(...)
Architectural Theory
October 2025
Inhabited dissonance: Bozen Bolzano 1922-2025
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Cet ouvrage propose une exploration interdisciplinaire du patrimoine architectural de Bolzano, développée dans le cadre du projet de recherche « Curating Bolzano Fascist Legacies » à la Faculté de design et d'art de l'Université libre de Bozen-Bolzano. Il revient sur le passé complexe de la ville et les interprétations changeantes de son architecture de l'époque fasciste, un cas particulièrement intéressant compte tenu de l'identité frontalière de Bolzano et de l'engagement proactif des institutions locales vis-à-vis de cet héritage controversé.
Architectural Theory
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With audacious dexterity, David Howes weaves together topics ranging from love and beauty magic in Papua New Guinea to nasal repression in Freudian psychology and from the erasure and recovery of the senses in contemporary ethnography to the specter of the body in Marx. Through this eclectic and penetrating exploration of the relationship between sensory experience and(...)
Sensual Relations: engaging the senses in culture & social theory
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With audacious dexterity, David Howes weaves together topics ranging from love and beauty magic in Papua New Guinea to nasal repression in Freudian psychology and from the erasure and recovery of the senses in contemporary ethnography to the specter of the body in Marx. Through this eclectic and penetrating exploration of the relationship between sensory experience and cultural expression, Sensual Relations contests the conventional exclusion of sensuality from intellectual inquiry and reclaims sensation as a fundamental domain of social theory.
Architectural Theory
Kleur Colour
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Designed by Irma Boom this original publication provides an intriguing analysis and graphic exploration of colour through an examination of eighty famous works of art, ranging from old masters to contemporary art. Each double folded page takes on a specially printed individual colour and is perforated into strips, playing on the idea of a colour sample book. Opening the(...)
Graphic Designers, Monographs
April 2005, Amstelveen, Netherlands
Kleur Colour
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Designed by Irma Boom this original publication provides an intriguing analysis and graphic exploration of colour through an examination of eighty famous works of art, ranging from old masters to contemporary art. Each double folded page takes on a specially printed individual colour and is perforated into strips, playing on the idea of a colour sample book. Opening the double page reveals an abstract colour interpretation of a particular art work and provides for a reflection on the artist's palette.
Graphic Designers, Monographs
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This inaugural volume in the series 'Spatial habitus : making and meaning in Asia's vernacualr architecture' contains more than 500 illustrations, most in color, and includes a number of rare drawings that demonstrate the richness of domestic architecture and living patterns in traditional and contemporary China. Through its exploration of how Chinese families are(...)
Contemporary Asian Architecture
January 1900, Honolulu, New York
House, home, family : living and being Chinese
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This inaugural volume in the series 'Spatial habitus : making and meaning in Asia's vernacualr architecture' contains more than 500 illustrations, most in color, and includes a number of rare drawings that demonstrate the richness of domestic architecture and living patterns in traditional and contemporary China. Through its exploration of how Chinese families are organized and why Chinese construct thier living spaces the way they do, this book yields a deep and wide understanding of what it means to live and be Chinese.
Contemporary Asian Architecture
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"Buddhist stupas in Asia : the shape of perfection" is a lavish exploration of one of the oldest and most persistent religious and architectural icons in the world. Transcending architecture and archaeology, the stupa fuses the physical with the spiritual into a living embodiment of Buddhist teachings. This beautifully illustrated, full-colour hardback explores the(...)
Buddhist stupas in Asia : the shape of perfection
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"Buddhist stupas in Asia : the shape of perfection" is a lavish exploration of one of the oldest and most persistent religious and architectural icons in the world. Transcending architecture and archaeology, the stupa fuses the physical with the spiritual into a living embodiment of Buddhist teachings. This beautifully illustrated, full-colour hardback explores the spread of stupa building across India and Asia, encapsulating the lasting appeal and allure of stupas to travellers, scholars and those interested in architecture and religion.
Arch Middle East
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What do you do as an architect when it is as if your profession has been abolished and you would like to know whether what you have built is actually any good? Marlies Rohmer bought a van, pasted big letters saying "What Happened To?" on it and revisited 25 buildings of which she once had great expectations. She talked with commissioners, residents and users. This(...)
Architecture since 1900, Europe
December 2016
What happened to my buildings? Learning from 30 years of architecture with Marlies Rohmer
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What do you do as an architect when it is as if your profession has been abolished and you would like to know whether what you have built is actually any good? Marlies Rohmer bought a van, pasted big letters saying "What Happened To?" on it and revisited 25 buildings of which she once had great expectations. She talked with commissioners, residents and users. This resulted in a sometimes moving, often hilarious and always informative exploration of what really counts in architecture.
Architecture since 1900, Europe
Matsue: Hashima 1983
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“Gunkanjima”, as Hashima Island has become known in recent years, is an abandoned island off the coast of Nagasaki. Now a popular tourist attracting and a symbol of decay and industrialisation, the island had yet to find appreciation in 1983, when Taiji Matsue visited the island to document its commencing decay. Matsue was thorough in his exploration of the island:(...)
Matsue: Hashima 1983
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“Gunkanjima”, as Hashima Island has become known in recent years, is an abandoned island off the coast of Nagasaki. Now a popular tourist attracting and a symbol of decay and industrialisation, the island had yet to find appreciation in 1983, when Taiji Matsue visited the island to document its commencing decay. Matsue was thorough in his exploration of the island: seemingly every corner, every detail of the island is captured in his photos as civilisation slowly vanished and nature began to conquer.
Photography monographs
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This volume is an immersive exploration of the social lives of urban landscapes - the actors and actions that compose the daily theatre of urban life. Conceived as a unique collaboration between an urbanist, Chris Reed, and a photographer, Mike Belleme, the book combines photo essays, original maps and drawings, newly commissioned essays, excerpts from historical(...)
Mise en scène: the lives and afterlives of urban landscapes
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This volume is an immersive exploration of the social lives of urban landscapes - the actors and actions that compose the daily theatre of urban life. Conceived as a unique collaboration between an urbanist, Chris Reed, and a photographer, Mike Belleme, the book combines photo essays, original maps and drawings, newly commissioned essays, excerpts from historical writings, and interviews with residents. The result is a rigorous and artful examination of the social, cultural, environmental, and economic challenges of life in American cities today.
Urban Landscapes
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Our lives are saturated by color. We live in a world of vivid colors, and color marks our psychological and social existence. But for all color’s inescapability, we don’t know much about it. Now authors David Scott Kastan and Stephen Farthing offer an exploration of one of the most intriguing and least understood aspects of everyday experience. Kastan and Farthing, a(...)
Colour Theory and Design
October 2019
On color
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Our lives are saturated by color. We live in a world of vivid colors, and color marks our psychological and social existence. But for all color’s inescapability, we don’t know much about it. Now authors David Scott Kastan and Stephen Farthing offer an exploration of one of the most intriguing and least understood aspects of everyday experience. Kastan and Farthing, a scholar and a painter, respectively, investigate color from numerous perspectives: literary, historical, cultural, anthropological, philosophical, art historical, political, and scientific.
Colour Theory and Design
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"Zickzack" is the German word for "zigzag": hopping around, moving back and forth, never following a straight line, avoiding the monotony of one thing following another. This book is William Firebrace's zigzagging exploration of six places on the edges of the German-speaking world. Deploying essays, narration, conversations, descriptions, and lists, Firebrace celebrates(...)
Zickzack
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"Zickzack" is the German word for "zigzag": hopping around, moving back and forth, never following a straight line, avoiding the monotony of one thing following another. This book is William Firebrace's zigzagging exploration of six places on the edges of the German-speaking world. Deploying essays, narration, conversations, descriptions, and lists, Firebrace celebrates locations on defined and undefined borders, where cultures, languages, and histories mix. In his nonlinear wandering, he touches on ethnicity, topography, history, film, literature, myth, languages, and gastronomy.
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