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Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012.
Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012.
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Global downtowns / edited by Marina Peterson and Gary W. McDonogh.
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C’est au cœur du Sahara algérien, dans la région du M’Zab, qu’André Ravéreau, l’un des grands architectes du XXe s., a trouvé, dès les années 1950, les racines de sa philosophie et de sa pratique. Décrivant ici les éléments et les grands principes du bâti daté du XIe s. qu’il y a découvert, il livre une leçon d’architecture prônant un habitat proche des hommes, de leur(...)
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C’est au cœur du Sahara algérien, dans la région du M’Zab, qu’André Ravéreau, l’un des grands architectes du XXe s., a trouvé, dès les années 1950, les racines de sa philosophie et de sa pratique. Décrivant ici les éléments et les grands principes du bâti daté du XIe s. qu’il y a découvert, il livre une leçon d’architecture prônant un habitat proche des hommes, de leur(...)
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Le M'Zab, une leçon d'architecture
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C’est au cœur du Sahara algérien, dans la région du M’Zab, qu’André Ravéreau, l’un des grands architectes du XXe s., a trouvé, dès les années 1950, les racines de sa philosophie et de sa pratique. Décrivant ici les éléments et les grands principes du bâti daté du XIe s. qu’il y a découvert, il livre une leçon d’architecture prônant un habitat proche des hommes, de leur organisation sociale et de leur milieu. Sa perspective écologique au sens fort du mot est d’autant plus puissante qu’elle entre en résonance avec les réflexions les plus actuelles. Dans une succession de chapitres courts (escalier, plâtre, formalisme, géographie…), c’est aussi une critique de l’architecture occidentale qui se dessine. L’ouvrage est magnifié par les photographies de Manuelle Roche.
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C’est au cœur du Sahara algérien, dans la région du M’Zab, qu’André Ravéreau, l’un des grands architectes du XXe s., a trouvé, dès les années 1950, les racines de sa philosophie et de sa pratique. Décrivant ici les éléments et les grands principes du bâti daté du XIe s. qu’il y a découvert, il livre une leçon d’architecture prônant un habitat proche des hommes, de leur organisation sociale et de leur milieu. Sa perspective écologique au sens fort du mot est d’autant plus puissante qu’elle entre en résonance avec les réflexions les plus actuelles. Dans une succession de chapitres courts (escalier, plâtre, formalisme, géographie…), c’est aussi une critique de l’architecture occidentale qui se dessine. L’ouvrage est magnifié par les photographies de Manuelle Roche.
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November 2024
November 2024
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History until 1900, Africa
History until 1900, Africa
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This is the second publication in ''The Walther Collection Books series'' at Steidl, focusing on a dialogue between two of the most important South African photographers of the twentieth century—David Goldblatt (1930–2018) and Santu Mofokeng (1956–2020). There are both profound similarities and differences between the two artists’ work. Goldblatt documented the ways in(...)
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This is the second publication in ''The Walther Collection Books series'' at Steidl, focusing on a dialogue between two of the most important South African photographers of the twentieth century—David Goldblatt (1930–2018) and Santu Mofokeng (1956–2020). There are both profound similarities and differences between the two artists’ work. Goldblatt documented the ways in(...)
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Beyond the binary: Santu Mofokeng and David Goldblatt
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This is the second publication in ''The Walther Collection Books series'' at Steidl, focusing on a dialogue between two of the most important South African photographers of the twentieth century—David Goldblatt (1930–2018) and Santu Mofokeng (1956–2020). There are both profound similarities and differences between the two artists’ work. Goldblatt documented the ways in which architecture and spatial planning reflect the ideology of apartheid, and how the land continues to bear its legacy in post-apartheid South Africa. His investigations explore both actual structures and how mental constructs reveal how ideology has shaped our landscape. Mofokeng’s photo essays shed light on everyday life in South Africa, beyond the stereotypical news pictures of Soweto depicting violence or poverty. Deeply personal, they record communities in townships and rural areas, religious rituals and landscapes imbued not only with historical significance but spiritual meaning, memory and trauma. The approach of Tamar Garb in Beyond the Binary is both daring and inquisitive—she “scrambles” and reassembles Mofokeng’s and Goldblatt’s photographs, blurring the boundaries between them and creates juxtapositions and insights that challenge prevailing views of these established images. By delineating 15 viewpoints around the themes of “Earthscapes,” “Edifices,” and “Sociality,” Garb decontextualizes the work and creates a platform for comparing and rethinking the artists’ practices.
Beyond the binary: Santu Mofokeng and David Goldblatt
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This is the second publication in ''The Walther Collection Books series'' at Steidl, focusing on a dialogue between two of the most important South African photographers of the twentieth century—David Goldblatt (1930–2018) and Santu Mofokeng (1956–2020). There are both profound similarities and differences between the two artists’ work. Goldblatt documented the ways in which architecture and spatial planning reflect the ideology of apartheid, and how the land continues to bear its legacy in post-apartheid South Africa. His investigations explore both actual structures and how mental constructs reveal how ideology has shaped our landscape. Mofokeng’s photo essays shed light on everyday life in South Africa, beyond the stereotypical news pictures of Soweto depicting violence or poverty. Deeply personal, they record communities in townships and rural areas, religious rituals and landscapes imbued not only with historical significance but spiritual meaning, memory and trauma. The approach of Tamar Garb in Beyond the Binary is both daring and inquisitive—she “scrambles” and reassembles Mofokeng’s and Goldblatt’s photographs, blurring the boundaries between them and creates juxtapositions and insights that challenge prevailing views of these established images. By delineating 15 viewpoints around the themes of “Earthscapes,” “Edifices,” and “Sociality,” Garb decontextualizes the work and creates a platform for comparing and rethinking the artists’ practices.
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September 2024
September 2024
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Photography monographs
Photography monographs
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What is the role of the museum in society today? In this time of fundamental economic and social change, should museums be safe civic spaces or open a floor for challenge and change? Can museums contribute to the economic development of communities? If so, how best to guard against the effects of gentrification so that they do not further limit opportunity for low-income(...)
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What is the role of the museum in society today? In this time of fundamental economic and social change, should museums be safe civic spaces or open a floor for challenge and change? Can museums contribute to the economic development of communities? If so, how best to guard against the effects of gentrification so that they do not further limit opportunity for low-income(...)
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New museums: intentions, expectations, challenges
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What is the role of the museum in society today? In this time of fundamental economic and social change, should museums be safe civic spaces or open a floor for challenge and change? Can museums contribute to the economic development of communities? If so, how best to guard against the effects of gentrification so that they do not further limit opportunity for low-income residents? How should museums respond to concerns about environmental sustainability? These are just a few of the questions museum professionals, planners, and architects must carefully consider when developing plans and choosing a location for a new museum. "New museums" explores these questions by talking to the people behind twenty different museums on six continents, both realized projects and speculative design proposals. Among the museums discussed in the book are the Smithsonian Institute’s National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, DC, by Adjaye Associates; the Guggenheim Helsinki by Moreau Kusunoki Architectes; the Comic and Animation Museum in Hangzhou by MVRDV; the Munch Museum in Oslo by Estudio Herreros, the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa in Cape Town by Heatherwick Studio; the Long Museum West Bund in Shanghai by Atelier Deshaus; and the recent extension of the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney by SANAA. With more than 250 color illustrations and contributions by leading museum and architecture experts, the book sheds light on current trends and the state-of-the-art technological advances in architecture, while also providing insight into the careful thought and decision processes that go into the development of new museums.
New museums: intentions, expectations, challenges
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What is the role of the museum in society today? In this time of fundamental economic and social change, should museums be safe civic spaces or open a floor for challenge and change? Can museums contribute to the economic development of communities? If so, how best to guard against the effects of gentrification so that they do not further limit opportunity for low-income residents? How should museums respond to concerns about environmental sustainability? These are just a few of the questions museum professionals, planners, and architects must carefully consider when developing plans and choosing a location for a new museum. "New museums" explores these questions by talking to the people behind twenty different museums on six continents, both realized projects and speculative design proposals. Among the museums discussed in the book are the Smithsonian Institute’s National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, DC, by Adjaye Associates; the Guggenheim Helsinki by Moreau Kusunoki Architectes; the Comic and Animation Museum in Hangzhou by MVRDV; the Munch Museum in Oslo by Estudio Herreros, the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa in Cape Town by Heatherwick Studio; the Long Museum West Bund in Shanghai by Atelier Deshaus; and the recent extension of the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney by SANAA. With more than 250 color illustrations and contributions by leading museum and architecture experts, the book sheds light on current trends and the state-of-the-art technological advances in architecture, while also providing insight into the careful thought and decision processes that go into the development of new museums.
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August 2017
August 2017
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Museology
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Maya Lin : boundaries
Maya Lin : boundaries
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Walking through this parklike area, the memorial appears as a rift in the earth - a long, polished black stone wall, emerging from and receding into the earth. Approaching the memorial, the ground slopes gently downward, and the low walls emerging on either side, growing out of the earth, extend and converge at a point below and ahead. Walking into the grassy site(...)
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Walking through this parklike area, the memorial appears as a rift in the earth - a long, polished black stone wall, emerging from and receding into the earth. Approaching the memorial, the ground slopes gently downward, and the low walls emerging on either side, growing out of the earth, extend and converge at a point below and ahead. Walking into the grassy site(...)
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Maya Lin : boundaries
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Walking through this parklike area, the memorial appears as a rift in the earth - a long, polished black stone wall, emerging from and receding into the earth. Approaching the memorial, the ground slopes gently downward, and the low walls emerging on either side, growing out of the earth, extend and converge at a point below and ahead. Walking into the grassy site contained by the walls of this memorial, we can barely make out the carved names upon the memorial's walls. These names, seemingly infinite in number, convey the sense of overwhelming numbers, while unifying these individuals into a whole.... So begins the competition entry submitted in 1981 by a Yale undergraduate for the design of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. - subsequently called "as moving and awesome and popular a piece of memorial architecture as exists anywhere in the world." Its creator, Maya Lin, has been nothing less than world famous ever since. From the explicitly political to the un-ashamedly literary to the completely abstract, her simple and powerful sculpture - the Rockefeller Foundation sculpture, the Southern Poverty Law Center Civil Rights Memorial, the Yale Women's Table, Wave Field - her architecture, including The Museum for African Art and the Norton residence, and her protean design talents have defined her as one of the most gifted creative geniuses of the age. Boundaries is her first book : an eloquent visual/verbal sketchbook produced with the same inspiration and attention to detail as any of her other artworks. Like her environmental sculptures, it is a site, but one which exists at a remove so that it may comment on the personal and artistic elements that make up those works. In it, sketches, photographs, workbook entries, and original designs are held together by a deeply personal text. "Boundaries" is a powerful literary and visual statement by "a leading public artist" (Holland Carter). It is itself a unique work of art.
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Walking through this parklike area, the memorial appears as a rift in the earth - a long, polished black stone wall, emerging from and receding into the earth. Approaching the memorial, the ground slopes gently downward, and the low walls emerging on either side, growing out of the earth, extend and converge at a point below and ahead. Walking into the grassy site contained by the walls of this memorial, we can barely make out the carved names upon the memorial's walls. These names, seemingly infinite in number, convey the sense of overwhelming numbers, while unifying these individuals into a whole.... So begins the competition entry submitted in 1981 by a Yale undergraduate for the design of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. - subsequently called "as moving and awesome and popular a piece of memorial architecture as exists anywhere in the world." Its creator, Maya Lin, has been nothing less than world famous ever since. From the explicitly political to the un-ashamedly literary to the completely abstract, her simple and powerful sculpture - the Rockefeller Foundation sculpture, the Southern Poverty Law Center Civil Rights Memorial, the Yale Women's Table, Wave Field - her architecture, including The Museum for African Art and the Norton residence, and her protean design talents have defined her as one of the most gifted creative geniuses of the age. Boundaries is her first book : an eloquent visual/verbal sketchbook produced with the same inspiration and attention to detail as any of her other artworks. Like her environmental sculptures, it is a site, but one which exists at a remove so that it may comment on the personal and artistic elements that make up those works. In it, sketches, photographs, workbook entries, and original designs are held together by a deeply personal text. "Boundaries" is a powerful literary and visual statement by "a leading public artist" (Holland Carter). It is itself a unique work of art.
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September 2006, New York
September 2006, New York
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Contemporary Art Monographs
Contemporary Art Monographs
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Partageant son expertise et le résultat de ses recherches, Franck Monnier dresse, dans cet ouvrage, un panorama le plus factuel et actuel possible des pyramides égyptiennes, agrémenté de nombreuses vues et reconstitutions inédites. Y sont rassemblées les découvertes majeures ayant eu lieu ces dernières décennies, les récentes mises au jour de témoignages et de vestiges(...)
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Partageant son expertise et le résultat de ses recherches, Franck Monnier dresse, dans cet ouvrage, un panorama le plus factuel et actuel possible des pyramides égyptiennes, agrémenté de nombreuses vues et reconstitutions inédites. Y sont rassemblées les découvertes majeures ayant eu lieu ces dernières décennies, les récentes mises au jour de témoignages et de vestiges(...)
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L'univers fascinant des pyramides d'Égypte
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Partageant son expertise et le résultat de ses recherches, Franck Monnier dresse, dans cet ouvrage, un panorama le plus factuel et actuel possible des pyramides égyptiennes, agrémenté de nombreuses vues et reconstitutions inédites. Y sont rassemblées les découvertes majeures ayant eu lieu ces dernières décennies, les récentes mises au jour de témoignages et de vestiges archéologiques, ainsi que les importantes avancées dans la recherche. Le chapitre consacré à la construction révèle également une riche documentation qui conduit, comme le reste, à nuancer considérablement le prétendu « mystère des pyramides ». Ce livre se veut un hommage à cette éblouissante architecture. Il accorde également au peuple qui en est responsable l’attention qui lui est due. La description suit un parcours balisé par l’histoire, les événements et la religion. Car c’est uniquement au travers des rouages de la civilisation pharaonique et de sa société qu’il est possible de saisir l’origine, la signification et la fonction d’une pyramide égyptienne.
L'univers fascinant des pyramides d'Égypte
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Partageant son expertise et le résultat de ses recherches, Franck Monnier dresse, dans cet ouvrage, un panorama le plus factuel et actuel possible des pyramides égyptiennes, agrémenté de nombreuses vues et reconstitutions inédites. Y sont rassemblées les découvertes majeures ayant eu lieu ces dernières décennies, les récentes mises au jour de témoignages et de vestiges archéologiques, ainsi que les importantes avancées dans la recherche. Le chapitre consacré à la construction révèle également une riche documentation qui conduit, comme le reste, à nuancer considérablement le prétendu « mystère des pyramides ». Ce livre se veut un hommage à cette éblouissante architecture. Il accorde également au peuple qui en est responsable l’attention qui lui est due. La description suit un parcours balisé par l’histoire, les événements et la religion. Car c’est uniquement au travers des rouages de la civilisation pharaonique et de sa société qu’il est possible de saisir l’origine, la signification et la fonction d’une pyramide égyptienne.
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January 2022
January 2022
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History until 1900, Africa
History until 1900, Africa
