$44.95
(available to order)
Summary:
Buildings inhabit and symbolize time, giving form to history and making public space an index of the past. Photographs are made of time; they are literally projections of past states of their subjects. This visually striking meditation on architecture in photography explores the intersection between these two ways of embodying the past. Photographs of buildings, Joel(...)
The life and death of buildings: on photography and time
Actions:
Price:
$44.95
(available to order)
Summary:
Buildings inhabit and symbolize time, giving form to history and making public space an index of the past. Photographs are made of time; they are literally projections of past states of their subjects. This visually striking meditation on architecture in photography explores the intersection between these two ways of embodying the past. Photographs of buildings, Joel Smith argues, are simultaneously the agents, vehicles, and cargo of social memory.
Photography Periods and Styles
CV 109 : revisiter/ revisit
$12.50
(available to order)
Summary:
Ciel Variable n. 109. Printemps - été 2018 // Spring - Summer 2018. Les oeuvres réunies dans ce numéro font un retour sur des phénomènes ou événements significatifs de l’histoire récente pour les remettre en mémoire et prendre la mesure de leurs enjeux actuels. // The works brought together in this issue look back at significant phenomena and events in recent history to(...)
CV 109 : revisiter/ revisit
Actions:
Price:
$12.50
(available to order)
Summary:
Ciel Variable n. 109. Printemps - été 2018 // Spring - Summer 2018. Les oeuvres réunies dans ce numéro font un retour sur des phénomènes ou événements significatifs de l’histoire récente pour les remettre en mémoire et prendre la mesure de leurs enjeux actuels. // The works brought together in this issue look back at significant phenomena and events in recent history to bring them back to memory and assess their current relevance.
Magazines
books
Description:
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm.
Zurich : Patrick Frey, 2024.
Aisha = عائشة / Yumna Al-Arashi. Aisha = 'Ā'ishah / Yumna Al-Arashi.
Actions:
Holdings:
Description:
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm.
books
Zurich : Patrick Frey, 2024.
audio
Description:
1 online resource.
[Place of publication not identified] : The Funambulist, 2015.
audio
[Place of publication not identified] : The Funambulist, 2015.
$97.95
(available to order)
Summary:
''Condor'' is a tribute to the memory of the victims of Operation Condor a secret military plan implemented in 1975 by six Latin American countries ruled by right wing military dictatorships to eliminate their political opponents. This plan resulted in “extrajudicial executions” of at least 60.000 people. For almost a decade João Pina, has traveled extensively trough(...)
Condor : le plan secret des dictatures sud-américaines
Actions:
Price:
$97.95
(available to order)
Summary:
''Condor'' is a tribute to the memory of the victims of Operation Condor a secret military plan implemented in 1975 by six Latin American countries ruled by right wing military dictatorships to eliminate their political opponents. This plan resulted in “extrajudicial executions” of at least 60.000 people. For almost a decade João Pina, has traveled extensively trough Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay to document what is left of the Condor years.
Vernacular Architecture
$16.50
(available to order)
Summary:
A contemplative and lyrical memoir of early childhood, inheritance, and loss. Carol Mavor blends encounters with the works of Piero della Francesca and Brueghel, Goya and Mann, alongside a synesthetic immersion in pre-linguistic memory. It is a scholarly and intimate look at grief and reparation, imagination and forgiveness, told by one of the most interesting and(...)
Thoughts one can't do without 3: A magpie and an envelope
Actions:
Price:
$16.50
(available to order)
Summary:
A contemplative and lyrical memoir of early childhood, inheritance, and loss. Carol Mavor blends encounters with the works of Piero della Francesca and Brueghel, Goya and Mann, alongside a synesthetic immersion in pre-linguistic memory. It is a scholarly and intimate look at grief and reparation, imagination and forgiveness, told by one of the most interesting and genre-defying essayists. Carol Mavor is Professor of Art history and Visual Culture at the University of Manchester.
Critical Theory
$36.95
(available to order)
Summary:
What constitutes the social context of architecture? What kind of stories can be told about how lived experiences across global communities, cities, territories, and ecologies resonate with architectural and space-making practices? The 2019 Chicago Architecture Biennial explores the implications of architecture and the built environment as they relate to land, memory,(...)
...And other such stories. 2019 Chicago Architecture Biennial
Actions:
Price:
$36.95
(available to order)
Summary:
What constitutes the social context of architecture? What kind of stories can be told about how lived experiences across global communities, cities, territories, and ecologies resonate with architectural and space-making practices? The 2019 Chicago Architecture Biennial explores the implications of architecture and the built environment as they relate to land, memory, rights, and civic participation — drawing buildings, planning, art, policy making, education, and activism into new conversations at global and civic scales.
Biennial
Understanding architecture
$85.00
(available to order)
Summary:
Understanding Architecture addresses the basic principles of architecture. The volume is organized in 12 series of chapters based on a key architectural themes - including space, time, matter, gravity, light, silence, dwelling, ritual, memory, landscape, and place. Each chapter begins with an introductory essay, and includes a wide variety of historical examples from(...)
October 2012
Understanding architecture
Actions:
Price:
$85.00
(available to order)
Summary:
Understanding Architecture addresses the basic principles of architecture. The volume is organized in 12 series of chapters based on a key architectural themes - including space, time, matter, gravity, light, silence, dwelling, ritual, memory, landscape, and place. Each chapter begins with an introductory essay, and includes a wide variety of historical examples from around the world, followed by in-depth analysis of 6 key buildings that further exemplify the theme of that chapter.
Rogelio Salmona : a tribute
$80.00
(available to order)
Summary:
This monograph, which continues an investigation published in 1998, documents and analyses 12 of the most significant projects built by Colombian architect Rogelio Salmona during the past decade until his death in 2007. Conceived as a tribute to his memory and his architectural legacy, it is also a complement to the first book, which documented the majorityof the project(...)
Rogelio Salmona : a tribute
Actions:
Price:
$80.00
(available to order)
Summary:
This monograph, which continues an investigation published in 1998, documents and analyses 12 of the most significant projects built by Colombian architect Rogelio Salmona during the past decade until his death in 2007. Conceived as a tribute to his memory and his architectural legacy, it is also a complement to the first book, which documented the majorityof the project buit by the architect. This publication includes Salmona's most important buildings built during the past decade.
Viviane Sassen: Umbra
$72.00
(available to order)
Summary:
Based on an award-winning exhibition, Viviane Sassen's new book focuses on a common theme in her photographs: shadow. In this book she leads us through a series of thought-provoking takes on the concept--shadow as metaphor for anxiety and desire; as a symbol of both memory and hope for the future; and as an evocation of imagination and illusion. Sassen's work is(...)
Viviane Sassen: Umbra
Actions:
Price:
$72.00
(available to order)
Summary:
Based on an award-winning exhibition, Viviane Sassen's new book focuses on a common theme in her photographs: shadow. In this book she leads us through a series of thought-provoking takes on the concept--shadow as metaphor for anxiety and desire; as a symbol of both memory and hope for the future; and as an evocation of imagination and illusion. Sassen's work is renowned for its deft interplay between realism and abstraction.
Photography monographs