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Objects of Desire looks at the appearance of consumer goods in the 200 years since the introduction of mechanized production, whether in Josiah Wedgewood's use of neo-classicism for his industrially manufactured pottery or the development of appropriate forms for wirelesses. The argument is illustrated with examples ranging from penknives to computers and from sewing(...)
Objects of desire: design and society since 1750
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Objects of Desire looks at the appearance of consumer goods in the 200 years since the introduction of mechanized production, whether in Josiah Wedgewood's use of neo-classicism for his industrially manufactured pottery or the development of appropriate forms for wirelesses. The argument is illustrated with examples ranging from penknives to computers and from sewing machines to railway carriages. In opening up new ways of appraising the man-made world around us, Objects of Desire is required reading for anyone who has any involvement with design and a revealing document about our society. 272 black-and-white illustrations
Design Theory
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Agnes Denes: Absolutes and Intermediates accompanies the largest exhibition of the artist’s work in New York to date, held at The Shed in fall 2019 as part of the arts space’s opening season. Presenting more than 130 works, this comprehensive publication, presented in an embossed slipcase, spans the 50-year career of the path-breaking artist dubbed “the queen of land art”(...)
Agnes Denes: Absolutes and intermediates
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Agnes Denes: Absolutes and Intermediates accompanies the largest exhibition of the artist’s work in New York to date, held at The Shed in fall 2019 as part of the arts space’s opening season. Presenting more than 130 works, this comprehensive publication, presented in an embossed slipcase, spans the 50-year career of the path-breaking artist dubbed “the queen of land art” by the New York Times, famed for her iconic Wheatfield—A Confrontation (1982), for which she planted a two-acre wheatfield in Lower Manhattan on the Battery Park Landfill, in the shadow of the then recently erected Twin Towers.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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While Mies van der Rohe’s pavilion at the International Exposition in Barcelona in 1929 went unnoticed by most of the visitors to the fairgrounds, contemporary critics enthusiastically hailed it as the most convincing statement of the Modern Age. This book presents 100 selected texts about this much discussed building, written then and now: from the opening speech by(...)
The Barcelona Pavilion by Mies van der Rohe: one hundred texts 1929 - 2019
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While Mies van der Rohe’s pavilion at the International Exposition in Barcelona in 1929 went unnoticed by most of the visitors to the fairgrounds, contemporary critics enthusiastically hailed it as the most convincing statement of the Modern Age. This book presents 100 selected texts about this much discussed building, written then and now: from the opening speech by the Spanish king, to newspaper articles and private letters, voices of contemporary architects, architecture critics and historians, and even a text by artist Ai Weiwei, who created an installation in the outdoor area of the pavilion in 2010.
Architecture Monographs
Pavilion Tokyo 2021
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This book is a compilation of ''Pavilion Tokyo 2021,'' a cultural program held in conjunction with the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics. Nine pavilions by leading Japanese architects and artists are introduced with drawings, sketches, and photographs. The book includes an opening essay by Honorary Chairman of the Executive Committee Kengo Kuma, as well as contributions from(...)
Pavilion Tokyo 2021
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This book is a compilation of ''Pavilion Tokyo 2021,'' a cultural program held in conjunction with the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics. Nine pavilions by leading Japanese architects and artists are introduced with drawings, sketches, and photographs. The book includes an opening essay by Honorary Chairman of the Executive Committee Kengo Kuma, as well as contributions from leading experts in landscape, art, and architecture. It provides a comprehensive look at the pavilions that have already been dismantled, as well as an objective overview of the project that offers an insight into the current state of the city, architecture, and art.
Biennial
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This special issue empowers and encourages the reader to choose paths, as if walking through the city, an intellectual dérive. Rather than presenting a book of pictures, its strategy provides a basic, research-driven bibliography to assist the further exploration of ideas. Opening with an introduction by Darko Radovic, it goes on to closely examine the multifaceted Tokyo(...)
A+U Special edition: Infraordinary Tokyo: The Right To The City
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This special issue empowers and encourages the reader to choose paths, as if walking through the city, an intellectual dérive. Rather than presenting a book of pictures, its strategy provides a basic, research-driven bibliography to assist the further exploration of ideas. Opening with an introduction by Darko Radovic, it goes on to closely examine the multifaceted Tokyo metropolis from an array of perspectives and themes. These include shared housing, public bathhouses, pseudo-public space, urban spectacle, infills and alleyways, graffiti and street art, stacking historical times, hidden poverty, and more. Radovic, Kengo Kuma, and Hidenobu Jinnai discuss the city’s urban DNA.
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Nicolas Floc'h: Deep sea
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This publication presents a collection of eerie underwater images from the Lampaul Canyon in the Bay of Biscay, France. Made at depths of up to nearly 2,000 metres, these seascapes of otherworldly geologies seem rather barren at first sight, until a lone creature appears, caught by the camera’s flash. The bay’s canyons were formed as the continents drifted apart 120(...)
Nicolas Floc'h: Deep sea
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This publication presents a collection of eerie underwater images from the Lampaul Canyon in the Bay of Biscay, France. Made at depths of up to nearly 2,000 metres, these seascapes of otherworldly geologies seem rather barren at first sight, until a lone creature appears, caught by the camera’s flash. The bay’s canyons were formed as the continents drifted apart 120 million years ago, opening up the Atlantic Ocean. These bathyal visions by Nicolas Floc’h are filled with rocky outcrops, cliffs, falls, and folds, where marine particulate “snow” merges with living things, the unseen denizens of the ocean depths.
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A+U 623: 6a architects
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Founded by Tom Emerson and Stephanie MacDonald in 2001, 6a architects is based in London and deeply immersed in the British art and design scene. With a sensitivity to the environment, community, and context, this edition presents 20 projects as distinct experiences, divided into four chapters – “Repairing,” “Gardening,” “Shaping,” and “Walking.” 6a’s earlier works at(...)
A+U 623: 6a architects
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Founded by Tom Emerson and Stephanie MacDonald in 2001, 6a architects is based in London and deeply immersed in the British art and design scene. With a sensitivity to the environment, community, and context, this edition presents 20 projects as distinct experiences, divided into four chapters – “Repairing,” “Gardening,” “Shaping,” and “Walking.” 6a’s earlier works at Raven Row and Clore Studio showcase how the architects “work with what is already there and understand time as part of that existing material.” Includes opening statements by the architects and essays by Sam Jacobs, Anna Puigjaner, Nicholas Lobo Brennan, and Lucia Allais.
Magazines
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An anthology of essays and artistic contributions from more than 25 voices with diverse practices and backgrounds, this book is a response to climate change and the toxic politics of today. They highlight the urgent need for collective strategies and solidarity to protect the vulnerable and marginalised communities forced to endure the worst effects of climate crises(...)
Environment and environmental theory
October 2022
Climate: Our right to breathe
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An anthology of essays and artistic contributions from more than 25 voices with diverse practices and backgrounds, this book is a response to climate change and the toxic politics of today. They highlight the urgent need for collective strategies and solidarity to protect the vulnerable and marginalised communities forced to endure the worst effects of climate crises because of racialised capitalism. Opening with an introduction from the editors and ‘The Universal Right to Breathe’ by Achille Mbembe, the rest of the book is divided into four sections: ‘Commodification, Energy & Extraction,’ ‘Land & Food Sovereignty,’ ‘Toxicity & Healing,’ and ‘Shelters.’
Environment and environmental theory
Rudolph-Bednar-Park: Vienna
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This multi-layered book chronicles the development of Vienna's biggest new park since 1974, Rudolf-Bednar-Park. The story starts with the city's design competition, won by Swiss landscape architect Guido Hager, and follows the planning and construction process right up to the park's opening in 2008. Hager's plans considered every possible constituency for the park -(...)
Landscape Architecture, Monographs
October 2009
Rudolph-Bednar-Park: Vienna
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This multi-layered book chronicles the development of Vienna's biggest new park since 1974, Rudolf-Bednar-Park. The story starts with the city's design competition, won by Swiss landscape architect Guido Hager, and follows the planning and construction process right up to the park's opening in 2008. Hager's plans considered every possible constituency for the park - families, singles, young, old, women, men - and how they would be woven into the neighborhood, an inner-city district of Vienna under intense redevelopment. The book even includes a section on the plant material chosen, and how it will appear season-by-season.
Landscape Architecture, Monographs
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This publication contains 14 projects and recent works by Salvador Pérez Arroyo, an experimental and heterodox architect whose designs alternate between light, heavy and utopian. His unstoppable creativity never ceases to amaze. His interest lies far beyond putting forward a clearly identifiable set of mannerisms; each project and building represents for him a new(...)
Salvador Pérez Arroyo : works
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This publication contains 14 projects and recent works by Salvador Pérez Arroyo, an experimental and heterodox architect whose designs alternate between light, heavy and utopian. His unstoppable creativity never ceases to amaze. His interest lies far beyond putting forward a clearly identifiable set of mannerisms; each project and building represents for him a new opportunity to engage with something unexplored, ultimately opening it up for new conversations in architecture. Among his most relevant works and projects are the Moncloa lighthouse, the Madrid Planetarium, the restoration of the Palladium Basilica in Venice and the Convention Center of Liepage.
Architecture Monographs