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The contributors investigate the discriminatory implementation of rules, with gentrified hipsters often receiving preferential treatment over traditional immigrants; food trucks as part of community economic development; and food trucks’ role in cultural identity formation. They describe, among other things, mobile food vending in Portland, Oregon, where relaxed(...)
Food trucks, cultural identity and social justice
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The contributors investigate the discriminatory implementation of rules, with gentrified hipsters often receiving preferential treatment over traditional immigrants; food trucks as part of community economic development; and food trucks’ role in cultural identity formation. They describe, among other things, mobile food vending in Portland, Oregon, where relaxed permitting encourages street food; the criminalization of food trucks by Los Angeles and New York City health codes; food as cultural currency in Montreal; social and spatial bifurcation of food trucks in Chicago and Durham, North Carolina; and food trucks as a part of Vancouver, Canada’s, self-branding as the “Greenest City.”
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An initiative of the Swiss Federal Office of Culture, the Most Beautiful Swiss Books competition aims to honour outstanding achievements in book design and to promote and showcase high-quality book production. The award-winning publications attract the attention of a wide audience through numerous book fairs and an exhibition tour in Switzerland and abroad. A total of(...)
The Most Beautiful Swiss Books 2020
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An initiative of the Swiss Federal Office of Culture, the Most Beautiful Swiss Books competition aims to honour outstanding achievements in book design and to promote and showcase high-quality book production. The award-winning publications attract the attention of a wide audience through numerous book fairs and an exhibition tour in Switzerland and abroad. A total of nineteen winning volumes appear in the 2020 edition, selected from among the 370 submissions. Due to health restrictions imposed by the pandemic, an ad hoc jury was convened for this edition, consisting of Gilles Gavillet, Nicolas Eigenheer, Simone Farner, Sereina Rothenberger, and Gesa Schneider.
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A+U 620 : Francis Kéré
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Awarded the Pritzker Prize in 2022, Burkinabé architect Francis Kéré has built his reputation on works that are not only innovative but also sustainable and collaborative in nature. This issue examines his development over the years by profiling his numerous projects for education, health care, social welfare, and the arts, as well as other prominent works such as the(...)
A+U 620 : Francis Kéré
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Awarded the Pritzker Prize in 2022, Burkinabé architect Francis Kéré has built his reputation on works that are not only innovative but also sustainable and collaborative in nature. This issue examines his development over the years by profiling his numerous projects for education, health care, social welfare, and the arts, as well as other prominent works such as the Burkina Faso National Assembly, Serpentine Pavilion, National Park of Mali, and Goethe-Institut Dakar. The magazine also features examples of Kéré’s work in exhibition design, furniture objects, and even an otherworldly pavilion in Montana. Four authors contribute illuminating essays on the architect.
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C3 330: the corporate image
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This instalment of C3 deals primarily with two themes: the ‘Collective and Individual’ and ‘The Corporate Image’. The former is examined through projects such as a health centre and housing for the elderly in Montemurlo (IT) by Ipostudio Architetti and the St. Vicente Registry Office, Madeira (PT), by Duarte Caldeira. The latter takes a look at several larger corporate(...)
C3 330: the corporate image
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This instalment of C3 deals primarily with two themes: the ‘Collective and Individual’ and ‘The Corporate Image’. The former is examined through projects such as a health centre and housing for the elderly in Montemurlo (IT) by Ipostudio Architetti and the St. Vicente Registry Office, Madeira (PT), by Duarte Caldeira. The latter takes a look at several larger corporate projects, for instance Adidas Laces in Herzogenaurach (DE) by Kadawittfeldarchitektur and the Yellow Building in Notting Dale Village (UK), headquarters for Monsoon Accessorize, by Allford Hall Monaghan Morris. Included also is Silvio Carta’s essay, ‘The Corporate Image’.
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May 2012
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In 1995, a scandal erupted when the New York Times revealed that the Smithsonian possessed a century’s worth of nude “posture” photos of college students. In this riveting history, Beth Linker tells why these photos were only a small part of the incredible story of twentieth-century America’s largely forgotten posture panic—a decades-long episode in which it was widely(...)
Slouch: Posture panic in modern America
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In 1995, a scandal erupted when the New York Times revealed that the Smithsonian possessed a century’s worth of nude “posture” photos of college students. In this riveting history, Beth Linker tells why these photos were only a small part of the incredible story of twentieth-century America’s largely forgotten posture panic—a decades-long episode in which it was widely accepted as scientific fact that Americans were suffering from an epidemic of bad posture, with potentially catastrophic health consequences. Tracing the rise and fall of this socially manufactured epidemic, ''Slouch'' also tells how this period continues to feed today’s widespread anxieties about posture. In the early twentieth century, the eugenics movement and fears of disability gave slouching a new scientific relevance. Bad posture came to be seen as an individual health threat, an affront to conventional race hierarchies, and a sign of American decline. What followed were massive efforts to measure, track, and prevent slouching and, later, back pain—campaigns that reached schools, workplaces, and beyond, from the creation of the American Posture League to posture pageants. The popularity of posture-enhancing products, such as girdles and lumbar supports, exploded, as did new fitness programs focused on postural muscles, such as Pilates and modern yoga. By 1970, student protests largely brought an end to school posture exams and photos, but many efforts to fight bad posture continued, despite a lack of scientific evidence.
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Edited by Architecture for Humanity, " Design like you give a damn " is a compendium of innovative projects from around the world that demonstrate the power of design to improve lives. The first book to bring the best of humanitarian architecture and design to the printed page, Design Like You Give a Damn offers a history of the movement toward socially conscious design(...)
Design like you give a damn : architectural responses to humanitarian crises
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Edited by Architecture for Humanity, " Design like you give a damn " is a compendium of innovative projects from around the world that demonstrate the power of design to improve lives. The first book to bring the best of humanitarian architecture and design to the printed page, Design Like You Give a Damn offers a history of the movement toward socially conscious design and showcases more than 80 contemporary solutions to such urgent needs as basic shelter, health care, education, and access to clean water, energy, and sanitation. Featured projects include some sponsored by Architecture for Humanity as well as many others undertaken independently, often against great odds.
Green Architecture
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In ''Making the World Clean: Wasted Lives, Wasted Environment, and Racial Capitalism'', Françoise Vergès examines the racial and gendered politics of wasting lands, bodies, and resources and the organized deprivation of clean water, shelter, and access to health services—in other words, the structural denial, along racial lines, of vital needs. Through 38 short sections,(...)
Making the world clean: Wasted lives, wated environment, and racial capitalism
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In ''Making the World Clean: Wasted Lives, Wasted Environment, and Racial Capitalism'', Françoise Vergès examines the racial and gendered politics of wasting lands, bodies, and resources and the organized deprivation of clean water, shelter, and access to health services—in other words, the structural denial, along racial lines, of vital needs. Through 38 short sections, she looks at the social relations that have made cleaning into drudgery and into a racialized, gendered, poorly paid job that is nevertheless necessary for any society to function. She concludes with the proposition of a feminist, decolonial, antiracist, anti-patriarchal, and anti-capitalist politics of cleaning. Or, simply put, of “decolonial cleaning.”
Critical Theory
Volume 65: Living together
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''Volume 65: Living Together'' explores ways in which we cohabitate, capturing a wide array of modes and models of living across the globe and presenting a mosaic of stories, addressing both the ongoing crises while also offering new perspectives, cases and creative engagements with housing. In-depth stories report on the scandalous ripple effect of the Syrian civil war,(...)
Volume 65: Living together
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''Volume 65: Living Together'' explores ways in which we cohabitate, capturing a wide array of modes and models of living across the globe and presenting a mosaic of stories, addressing both the ongoing crises while also offering new perspectives, cases and creative engagements with housing. In-depth stories report on the scandalous ripple effect of the Syrian civil war, the transitory routes used by migrants in the Balkans, compound life in Afghanistan, and the precarious position of mental health infrastructure in China. More hopeful stories look at new building in Abidjan, cooperative practices from Zimbabwe, to Switzerland, and careful house construction in the Colombian hinterland.
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In The designer's atlas of sustainability, Ann Thorpe takes readers on an appealing visual tour of the landscape of sustainability to show it is critical to the work of the designers, ranging from architects to graphic artists. The designer's atlas encourages �development that cultivates environmental and social conditions that will support human well-being(...)
Green Architecture
February 2007, Washington, Covelo, London
The designer's atlas of sustainability : Charting the conceptual landscape through economy, ecology, and culture
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In The designer's atlas of sustainability, Ann Thorpe takes readers on an appealing visual tour of the landscape of sustainability to show it is critical to the work of the designers, ranging from architects to graphic artists. The designer's atlas encourages �development that cultivates environmental and social conditions that will support human well-being indefinitely.� Designers and consumers alike will be intrigued by the connections the author reveals between our material comfort, our emotional well-being, and the health of our planet. The Designer's atlas is a powerfull reference and source of new ideas for anyone interested in harmonizing our human and natural systems.
Green Architecture
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Claude-Nicolas Ledoux’s engraving "Coup d’oeil du théâtre Besançon" in which the architect’s building is seen reflected in the eye of a viewer, is the centre-piece in this intellectual archaeology. Rodolphe el-Khoury’s close reading of Ledoux’s celebrated icon excavates the foundations of architectural transparency, Modernism’s most potent and lasting invention, which is(...)
Architecture Monographs
April 2006, San Rafael, Philadelphia
See through Ledoux: architecture, theatre, and the poursuit of transsparency
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Claude-Nicolas Ledoux’s engraving "Coup d’oeil du théâtre Besançon" in which the architect’s building is seen reflected in the eye of a viewer, is the centre-piece in this intellectual archaeology. Rodolphe el-Khoury’s close reading of Ledoux’s celebrated icon excavates the foundations of architectural transparency, Modernism’s most potent and lasting invention, which is here traced back to an intellectual milieu that precedes the industrial revolution’s glass and steel building technology. The image becomes a site of entry into the culture of the eighteenth century--debates in public health, the political ideas of Rousseau, the philosophy of Condillac, the project of the Encyclopédie--yielding insights into important, philosophical, and architectural issues.
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April 2006, San Rafael, Philadelphia
Architecture Monographs