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Ornament & Identity is the sequel to the well-received At Work, a publication on the renowned Rotterdam-based architecture firm Neutelings Riedijk. In their new book, the firm convincingly demonstrates that buildings with a powerful expression create positive new local identities in a globalized world. Across 12 themed chapters Moiré, Image, Seam, Emblem, Letter, Pattern,(...)
Neutelings Riedijk Architects: Ornament & identity
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Ornament & Identity is the sequel to the well-received At Work, a publication on the renowned Rotterdam-based architecture firm Neutelings Riedijk. In their new book, the firm convincingly demonstrates that buildings with a powerful expression create positive new local identities in a globalized world. Across 12 themed chapters Moiré, Image, Seam, Emblem, Letter, Pattern, Frame, Ridge, Grid, Diamond, Relief and Filigree readers are guided on the exploration of the connection between form, meaning and contemporary ornaments. Realized buildings, intriguing scale models, material samples and unique ornaments designed by Neutelings Riedijk Architects illustrate the firm's craftsmanship and its search for expression and identity.
Architecture Monographs
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Les toques et turbans de Rembrandt, les foulards d'Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, George Sand en costume masculin, le pantalon de Rosa Bonheur, la robe de chambre de Balzac par Rodin, Marcel Duchamp en Rrose Sélavy, les Robes simultanées de Sonia Delaunay, la Robe serpent de Niki de Saint Phalle ou encore la perruque d'Andy Warhol... L'habit ferait-il l'artiste ? Dans une(...)
S'habiller en artiste : L'artiste et le vêtement
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Les toques et turbans de Rembrandt, les foulards d'Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, George Sand en costume masculin, le pantalon de Rosa Bonheur, la robe de chambre de Balzac par Rodin, Marcel Duchamp en Rrose Sélavy, les Robes simultanées de Sonia Delaunay, la Robe serpent de Niki de Saint Phalle ou encore la perruque d'Andy Warhol... L'habit ferait-il l'artiste ? Dans une exploration inédite du vêtement d'artiste de la Renaissance à nos jours, cet ouvrage présente plus de deux cents oeuvres - peintures, sculptures mais aussi vêtements, créations de haute couture, photographies et performances - et livre une autre manière de tisser ensemble histoire de la mode et histoire de l'art.
Fashion Design
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A photographic exploration of the Soviet monotowns - urban settlements erected around single industries in the hinterlands of the former USSR -; some thriving, others struggling to survive, still others partially abandoned. Through nine chapters with over 130 photographs taken by Russian photographer Alexander Veryovkin, Monotowns by Zupagrafika captures the(...)
Monotowns: Soviet landscapes of post-industrial Russia
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A photographic exploration of the Soviet monotowns - urban settlements erected around single industries in the hinterlands of the former USSR -; some thriving, others struggling to survive, still others partially abandoned. Through nine chapters with over 130 photographs taken by Russian photographer Alexander Veryovkin, Monotowns by Zupagrafika captures the post-industrial landscapes and Soviet-era architecture of the monogorods extending from the Arctic Circle to the Russian Far East, such as Vorkuta, Norilsk, Mirny, Kirovsk, Tolyatti, Cherepovets, Magnitogorsk, Monchegorsk and Nikel, and the daily lives of their inhabitants. Includes informative texts providing a valuable insight into the urban development of the featured cities and a foreword by the architectural critic Konstantin Budarin.
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Mapping constellations between five specific pre-colonial cosmological examples extending from the Sahel to the Horn of Africa, this work reframes cosmology as a multi-dimensional and scalable practice of situated technologies and embodied cartographies. The resulting publication which was produced during the Jan van Eyck residency is a culmination of several years of(...)
The incomplete cosmic catalogue
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Mapping constellations between five specific pre-colonial cosmological examples extending from the Sahel to the Horn of Africa, this work reframes cosmology as a multi-dimensional and scalable practice of situated technologies and embodied cartographies. The resulting publication which was produced during the Jan van Eyck residency is a culmination of several years of research and exploration into precolonial cosmologies and spatial orders rooted in the African Sahel extending to the Horn of Africa. The (Incomplete) Cosmic Catalogue is an output of a research project that was initially commissioned by the Canadian Centre for Architecture as part of the multi-disciplinary research fellowship, The Digita Now: Architecture and Intersectionality in 2022.
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November 2025
Contemporary Art Monographs
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TURBA is the first journal for the study, theory, and praxis of curatorial strategies in the live arts. The live arts are broadly defined as those arts in which contingent, momentary acts and events, performed by human or other autonomous agents, are crucial to the aesthetic perception and the emergence of meaning in ephemeral time-based work. They include, but are not(...)
TURBA vol. 4 issue 2 : Curating audience-relationships & engagements
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TURBA is the first journal for the study, theory, and praxis of curatorial strategies in the live arts. The live arts are broadly defined as those arts in which contingent, momentary acts and events, performed by human or other autonomous agents, are crucial to the aesthetic perception and the emergence of meaning in ephemeral time-based work. They include, but are not limited to, dance, music, sound art, theatre, performance art, verbal arts, circus arts, live media arts and inter-arts performance works. With this journal, we aim to create a platform for the exploration of ideas, concepts, constraints, expectations, and contingencies which guide and drive curatorial practices in these fields.
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Antoni Gaudi's unique naturalistic style has made him one of the most famous architects of all time. But even with that high level of reknown, the impulse behind the Catalan architect/artist s well-known works remains shrouded in mystery. Eminent Dutch architectural historian Jan Molema lifts that veil through an exploration of Gaudi's transformation from architect(...)
Gaudi: the construction of dreams
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Antoni Gaudi's unique naturalistic style has made him one of the most famous architects of all time. But even with that high level of reknown, the impulse behind the Catalan architect/artist s well-known works remains shrouded in mystery. Eminent Dutch architectural historian Jan Molema lifts that veil through an exploration of Gaudi's transformation from architect to self-willed artist. By shedding light on Gaudi's artistic influences such as Art Nouveau, his pioneering use of organic shapes and materials, as well as his all-important structural ingenuity, we come to understand not only what made Gaudi so revolutionary but also what his many buildings mean symbolically.
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December 2007
Architecture Monographs
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A spider spinning its web in a dark corner. Wasps building a nest under a roof. There’s hardly any part of the built environment that can’t be inhabited by nonhumans, and yet we are extremely selective about which animals we keep in or out. This book imagines new ways of thinking about architecture and the more-than-human and asks how we might design with animals and the(...)
Animal architecture: Beasts, buildings and us
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A spider spinning its web in a dark corner. Wasps building a nest under a roof. There’s hardly any part of the built environment that can’t be inhabited by nonhumans, and yet we are extremely selective about which animals we keep in or out. This book imagines new ways of thinking about architecture and the more-than-human and asks how we might design with animals and the other lives that share our spaces in mind. This volume is a provocative exploration of how to think about building in a world where humans and other animals are already entangled, whether we acknowledge it or not.
Architectural Theory
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The great Russian modernist painter and theorist Wassily Kandinsky was one of the pioneers of abstraction in Western art. Few documents provide more insight into his evolution from figural to abstract art—or into the development of abstraction in the early twentieth century—than the pages of his sketchbooks. Featuring previously unpublished drawings, "Wassily Kandinsky:(...)
Wassily Kandinsky: The Sketchbooks
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The great Russian modernist painter and theorist Wassily Kandinsky was one of the pioneers of abstraction in Western art. Few documents provide more insight into his evolution from figural to abstract art—or into the development of abstraction in the early twentieth century—than the pages of his sketchbooks. Featuring previously unpublished drawings, "Wassily Kandinsky: The sketchbooks" is a comprehensive selection of hundreds of sketches from twelve notebooks Kandinsky kept between 1889 and 1935. Beginning with early figure studies, architectural sketches, and landscapes, the notebooks reveal a process of exploration that would lead Kandinsky from his first experiments in geometric abstraction to paintings that reshaped modernism.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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This extravagantly conceived and designed publication comprises four volumes of differing sizes that offer multiple perspectives on more than a hundred projects and over twenty years at the vanguard of architecture. • "Major and Recent Projects" is a large-scale presentation of Hadid’s recently built work and famed paintings • "Projects Documentation" is the only(...)
Zaha Hadid : the complete works
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This extravagantly conceived and designed publication comprises four volumes of differing sizes that offer multiple perspectives on more than a hundred projects and over twenty years at the vanguard of architecture. • "Major and Recent Projects" is a large-scale presentation of Hadid’s recently built work and famed paintings • "Projects Documentation" is the only book to offer detailed descriptions and illustrations of Hadid's complete buildings and projects. • "Models and Sketches" is a selection of the architect’s groundbreaking exploration in perspective • "Essays and References" features essays by international critics, an appreciation by maverick Peter Cook and an exhaustive reference section, which includes a bibliography and project data.
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November 2004, New York
Architecture Monographs
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The desert is a huge paradox. Beneath its outward appearance of immensity and silence, are the sounds of various experiments, mysteries, and utopias. The setting of outrageous true histories, entertainment oases founded on consumerism and play, and the secret staging of military power, the desert is far from empty. Instead, it is full of activity: unexpected, uninhibited,(...)
Architecture since 1900, Europe
December 2005, Barcelona
Desert America: Territory of paradox
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The desert is a huge paradox. Beneath its outward appearance of immensity and silence, are the sounds of various experiments, mysteries, and utopias. The setting of outrageous true histories, entertainment oases founded on consumerism and play, and the secret staging of military power, the desert is far from empty. Instead, it is full of activity: unexpected, uninhibited, and excessive. Not subject to barriers and seemingly free of the formal, ideological or cultural ties of global society, the desert cultivates alternate architectures, urbanisms, and built phenomena. Through photographs, essays, and history, this book emerges as an exploration of some of these phenomena and the protagonists that made them possible.
Architecture since 1900, Europe