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Essays on Thermodynamics, Architecture and Beauty, is a book that unfolds arguments and designs around the concept of "thermodynamic beauty". This new aesthetic category opens up new and unexpected directions to the architect's work, connecting architecture and thermodynamics without giving up the tectonic tradition. The compendium will be developed through the concepts(...)
Abalos + Sentkiewicz: essays on thermodynamics, architecture and beauty
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Essays on Thermodynamics, Architecture and Beauty, is a book that unfolds arguments and designs around the concept of "thermodynamic beauty". This new aesthetic category opens up new and unexpected directions to the architect's work, connecting architecture and thermodynamics without giving up the tectonic tradition. The compendium will be developed through the concepts of Somatisms, Monsters Assemblage, Verticalism and Thermodynamic Materialism, summarizing design strategies, and opening new territories at the scales of building, public space and landscape.
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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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Dyer takes the viewer/reader on a wildly original journey through both iconic and unseen images from the archive, including eighteen previously unpublished color photographs. The book encompasses most of Winogrand’s themes and subjects and remains broadly faithful to the chronological and geographical facts of his life, but Dyer’s responses to the photographs are(...)
The street philosophy of Garry Winogrand
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Dyer takes the viewer/reader on a wildly original journey through both iconic and unseen images from the archive, including eighteen previously unpublished color photographs. The book encompasses most of Winogrand’s themes and subjects and remains broadly faithful to the chronological and geographical facts of his life, but Dyer’s responses to the photographs are unorthodox, eye-opening, and often hilarious. This inimitable combination of photographer and writer, images and text, itself offers what Dyer claims for Winogrand’s photography—an education in seeing.
Theory of Photography
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The miniaturisation and networking of computer processors as well as the digitalisation and wireless transmission of data are opening up fully new possibilities for domestic environments. Yet what consequences will this have on residential architecture? For the exhibition “Open House" emerging architectural firms were invited to develop visionary answers to this question.(...)
Residential Architecture
December 2006, Weil am Rhein, Pasadena
Open House : Architecture and Technology for intelligent living
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The miniaturisation and networking of computer processors as well as the digitalisation and wireless transmission of data are opening up fully new possibilities for domestic environments. Yet what consequences will this have on residential architecture? For the exhibition “Open House" emerging architectural firms were invited to develop visionary answers to this question. The architects are based in the USA, Mexico, England, France, Germany, Korea, Japan and Australia. Their extraordinary architectural visions are presented in detail for the first time in this exhibition catalogue.
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The High Line, 2nd edition
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Since opening to the public in 2009, the High Line has rapidly become one of New York City's most popular and beloved attractions. This publication documents the creative process behind this remarkable architectural achievement comprehensively from concept to completion. Seven chapters offer a multidimensional perspective from the minds behind the iconic structure. Now(...)
Architecture Monographs
April 2020
The High Line, 2nd edition
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Since opening to the public in 2009, the High Line has rapidly become one of New York City's most popular and beloved attractions. This publication documents the creative process behind this remarkable architectural achievement comprehensively from concept to completion. Seven chapters offer a multidimensional perspective from the minds behind the iconic structure. Now back in print, and featuring over 1,000 images, including drawings and plans, this visual masterpiece captures the High Line's very essence. James Corner Field Operations and Diller, Scofidio + Renfro.
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Architecture Monographs
Of bridges and borders
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Of Bridges & Borders celebrates the opening up of communication among writers and artists worldwide following the collapse of the Berlin Wall (the primary border referred to in the title), to mark the emergence of a new collective memory in the age of global connectivity. Its numerous contributors include Carlos Amorales, John Bock, Chris Burden, Matias Duville, Gardar(...)
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Of bridges and borders
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Of Bridges & Borders celebrates the opening up of communication among writers and artists worldwide following the collapse of the Berlin Wall (the primary border referred to in the title), to mark the emergence of a new collective memory in the age of global connectivity. Its numerous contributors include Carlos Amorales, John Bock, Chris Burden, Matias Duville, Gardar Eide Einarsson, Elmgreen & Dragset, Carlos Garaicoa, Liam Gillick, Fabrice Gygi, Thomas Hirschhorn, Hassan Khan, Guillermo Kuitca, Dr. Lakra, Gianni Motti, Antoni Muntadas, and more.
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The publication explores a new space for the educational work carried out by museums, and is a reflection on the teaching activities that MUSAC has been developing since its opening. This book is also a support-report for the different programmes and projects produced, with a brief description of the activities that have taken place and the concepts behind them. It is(...)
MUSAC: Working from diversity, learning experiences through art of the present
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The publication explores a new space for the educational work carried out by museums, and is a reflection on the teaching activities that MUSAC has been developing since its opening. This book is also a support-report for the different programmes and projects produced, with a brief description of the activities that have taken place and the concepts behind them. It is useful for those interested in educational and creative practice, and also for professionals working with education in contemporary art facilities.
Art Theory
A variation on powers of ten
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The interstellar rollercoaster ride of Charles and Ray Eames experimental 1968 film, The Powers of Ten, changed the way that the average American thought about science. In this project, the art and design collective Futurefarmers used the Eames IBM commissioned film s opening picnic scene as its inspiration and score. Researchers whose work relates to each one of the(...)
Contemporary Art Monographs
January 2013
A variation on powers of ten
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The interstellar rollercoaster ride of Charles and Ray Eames experimental 1968 film, The Powers of Ten, changed the way that the average American thought about science. In this project, the art and design collective Futurefarmers used the Eames IBM commissioned film s opening picnic scene as its inspiration and score. Researchers whose work relates to each one of the magnitudes of ten compare today s practices with those of 1968 and discuss the changing land scapes of their respective fields.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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This book presents the latest developments from the forefront of the digital revolution that is reshaping architecture. In the last few years, technological advances have enabled the realization of ideas that until now were only theories while also opening up new and unexpected areas of investigation.The innovations in the field are explored in this astonishing volume(...)
Digital architecture: a radical future
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This book presents the latest developments from the forefront of the digital revolution that is reshaping architecture. In the last few years, technological advances have enabled the realization of ideas that until now were only theories while also opening up new and unexpected areas of investigation.The innovations in the field are explored in this astonishing volume through a selection of the most impressive projects from all over the world, each one illustrated with extensive visual material, commentaries by the designers and technical information.
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383 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color charts, color maps, portrait ; 24 cm
New York, NY : Actar Publishers, 2021., New York : Distributed by Actar D, Inc.
Green obsession : trees towards cities, humans towards forests / Stefano Boeri Architetti.
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