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Contributors: Shane Reiner-Roth, Oliver Wainwright, Julian Rose, Christopher Hawthorne, Dana Cuff, James Rojas, Mark Rios, Victor J. Jones, Chava Danielson, Jia Yi Gu, Christopher Torres, Michael Casper, Mimi Zeiger, Lina Abascal, Nick Murray, Joanne McNeil, Phillip Cox, Renée Lynn Reizman, Alissa Walker, Lyra Kilston, Chelsea Kirk, Caroline Tracey, Claudia Ross, Eric(...)
LARA #2 : Los Angeles Review of Architecture, Nyra Special Issue
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Contributors: Shane Reiner-Roth, Oliver Wainwright, Julian Rose, Christopher Hawthorne, Dana Cuff, James Rojas, Mark Rios, Victor J. Jones, Chava Danielson, Jia Yi Gu, Christopher Torres, Michael Casper, Mimi Zeiger, Lina Abascal, Nick Murray, Joanne McNeil, Phillip Cox, Renée Lynn Reizman, Alissa Walker, Lyra Kilston, Chelsea Kirk, Caroline Tracey, Claudia Ross, Eric Schwartau, Skijler Hutson, Aubrey Bauer, Nora N. Khan, Matthew Specktor, Greg Goldin, Pete Segall, James Graham, D.J. Waldie, Enrique Ramirez, Carolina Miranda, Nicolas Kemper, Aurora Tang, Eva Hagberg, & Marissa Gluck.
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The book includes a selection of the sketches that Lanfranco Bombelli drafted, first in Paris and later in Barcelona, for the graphics of the exhibitions in the American Trade Centers in Milan, Stockholm, Paris and Frankfurt, from 1963 to 1978, until they were closed, as a continuation of what the Marshall Plan had been. His artistry in geometrical compositions is based(...)
Lanfranco Bombelli : US trade center graphics in Europe, 1963-1977
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The book includes a selection of the sketches that Lanfranco Bombelli drafted, first in Paris and later in Barcelona, for the graphics of the exhibitions in the American Trade Centers in Milan, Stockholm, Paris and Frankfurt, from 1963 to 1978, until they were closed, as a continuation of what the Marshall Plan had been. His artistry in geometrical compositions is based on a minimum of plastic means and inspired by mathematical principles. He depicts in this way new products of technological innovation in the fields of pharmaceutics, design industry or printing among others.
Graphic Design and Typography
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Our built environment exists in a perpetual state of becoming, caught in a process of creation that is continuous and unending. If we wish to understand architecture today, we must engage with the state of flux that defines it. In 2015, Inflection Volume 02 considers the idea of projection, interrogating its meaning in architecture and the built environment. Bringing(...)
Inflection, journal of the Melbourne school of design vol 2
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Our built environment exists in a perpetual state of becoming, caught in a process of creation that is continuous and unending. If we wish to understand architecture today, we must engage with the state of flux that defines it. In 2015, Inflection Volume 02 considers the idea of projection, interrogating its meaning in architecture and the built environment. Bringing together the work of students, academics and practitioners from Australia and around the world, this issue addresses the trajectories of the architectural design process, the changing role of architects in society, and the continuing state of becoming that defines our cities. Inflection is a student-run design journal based at the Melbourne School of Design, Melbourne University. Born from a desire to stimulate debate and generate ideas, it advocates the discursive voice of students, academics and practitioners.
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This issue is devoted to the Italian designer, artist, and inventor Bruno Munari, whose visual experiments were so iconic as to become a self-evident part of visual culture. At its core is the first English translation of ‘Obvious Code’ (1971), a collection of Munari’s own writings, sketches, and poems about his work. It includes iconic design objects such as the(...)
The Serving Library annual 2019/20 : Bruno Munari Obvious Code
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This issue is devoted to the Italian designer, artist, and inventor Bruno Munari, whose visual experiments were so iconic as to become a self-evident part of visual culture. At its core is the first English translation of ‘Obvious Code’ (1971), a collection of Munari’s own writings, sketches, and poems about his work. It includes iconic design objects such as the Abitacolo, artworks like his series of handmade projection slides, obscure rhymes about the art market, and an original piece from his 'unreadable books' series. Dozens of artists, designers, writers, and curators were invited to annotate Munari’s texts as a testament to the depth of his influence on international art.
Design Monographs
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''Rights of way: The body as witness in public space'' takes our bodily movements as a departure point to cross into the terrains of art, culture, architecture, sociology, literature, and politics, to envision varied forms of witnessing, and apply them to our direct environments. When many must still campaign to claim their stake in the public realm; when hate crimes and(...)
Rights of way: The body as witness in public space
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''Rights of way: The body as witness in public space'' takes our bodily movements as a departure point to cross into the terrains of art, culture, architecture, sociology, literature, and politics, to envision varied forms of witnessing, and apply them to our direct environments. When many must still campaign to claim their stake in the public realm; when hate crimes and acts of institutional violence persist in the public sphere; when cities continue to grapple with the effects of mass surveillance, precarious citizenship, widespread gentrification, and divisive body politics, we seek to question, challenge, and re-envision who have the rights of way. This publication comprises a collection of essays, interviews, texts, and images from a range of artists, researchers, academics, architects, and historians. Together, the contributions question our positions of access and in-access in space, and, in doing so, orchestrate the act of witnessing as a vital component in provid- ing meaning to our cities.
Critical Theory
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Many readers will doubtless be astonished to learn that animals were being fired aloft in U.S. and Soviet research rockets in the late 1940s. In fact most people not only believe that the Russian space dog Laika was the first canine to be launched into space, but also that the high-profile, precursory Mercury flights of chimps Ham and Enos were the only primate flights(...)
Animals in space, from research rockets to the space shuttle
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Many readers will doubtless be astonished to learn that animals were being fired aloft in U.S. and Soviet research rockets in the late 1940s. In fact most people not only believe that the Russian space dog Laika was the first canine to be launched into space, but also that the high-profile, precursory Mercury flights of chimps Ham and Enos were the only primate flights conducted by the United States. In fact, both countries had sent literally dozens of animals aloft for many years prior to these events and continued to do so for many years after. Other latter-day space nations, such as France and China, would also begin to use animals in their own space research. Animals in Space will explain why dogs, primates, mice and other rodents were chosen and tested, at a time when dedicated scientists from both space nations were determined to establish the survivability of human subjects on both ballistic and orbital space flights. It will also recount the way this happened; the secrecy involved and the methods employed, and offer an objective analysis of how the role of animals as spaceflight test subjects not only evolved, but subsequently changed over the years in response to a public outcry led by animal activists.
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Transportation, Tourism, Migration
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In San Francisco many theaters built between 1910 and 1950 are still standing, and some even remain in operation, serving as poignant reminders of Hollywood's Golden Age and the social interactions that once came with movie-going. R.A. McBride's lush color photographs--made with film cameras, of course--showcase these temples to celluloid in all their threadbare grandeur.(...)
Left in the dark: Portraits of San Francisco movie theatres
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In San Francisco many theaters built between 1910 and 1950 are still standing, and some even remain in operation, serving as poignant reminders of Hollywood's Golden Age and the social interactions that once came with movie-going. R.A. McBride's lush color photographs--made with film cameras, of course--showcase these temples to celluloid in all their threadbare grandeur. Photographed empty, the buildings' architectural qualities, from rotunda chandeliers and warmly glowing walls to drab lobbies and worn armrests, come to the fore. Essays by scholars and film exhibitors including Rebecca Solnit, Julie Lindow, Eddie Muller, Chi-Hui Yang and Gary Meyer cast light from personal and scholarly perspectives, examining the movie houses' roles as characters in the cultural drama of the city.
Commercial interiors, Building types
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In 2010, Kapoor's tinted "Sky Mirror" disc planted in the Serpentine lake transformed the grey London sky into a dramatic and luminous red; a fluted, conical, mirrored structure seemed to suck up the earth and siphon it into the sky. Illustrated with full-color plates of these works in situ, Turning the World Upside Down in Kensington Gardens is also the first Kapoor(...)
Anish Kapoor: Turning the world upside down in Kensington Gardens
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In 2010, Kapoor's tinted "Sky Mirror" disc planted in the Serpentine lake transformed the grey London sky into a dramatic and luminous red; a fluted, conical, mirrored structure seemed to suck up the earth and siphon it into the sky. Illustrated with full-color plates of these works in situ, Turning the World Upside Down in Kensington Gardens is also the first Kapoor monograph to offer a comprehensive overview of all of the artist's stainless steel sculptures.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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Presents an overview of the hundred-year old Dutch private press-movement: a relatively small, yet exceedingly dynamic, creative and influential part of the Dutch book culture. Passionate booklovers were and still are producing extraordinary editions at home. These books appeared in limited editions, printed on extraordinary paper, often with specially created fonts and(...)
The ideal book: private presses in the Netherlands, 1910-2010
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Presents an overview of the hundred-year old Dutch private press-movement: a relatively small, yet exceedingly dynamic, creative and influential part of the Dutch book culture. Passionate booklovers were and still are producing extraordinary editions at home. These books appeared in limited editions, printed on extraordinary paper, often with specially created fonts and designed with care. This illustrated survey starts with the pioneers J.C. Bloem, J. Greshoff, P.N. van Eyck and J.F. van Royen – continues via internationally known artists such as S.H. de Roos and H.N. Werkman to the pragmatic printers who now operate in the margins of the book trade. Edited by Paul van Capelleveen en Clemens de Wolf.
Book Design
Color and space : commercial, corporate, dining, educational, public, residential, recreational
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Signage, lighting, windows, paint choices, flooring and furniture elements are all considered in this tour of the world's most remarkable and colorful buildings.
Color and space : commercial, corporate, dining, educational, public, residential, recreational
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Signage, lighting, windows, paint choices, flooring and furniture elements are all considered in this tour of the world's most remarkable and colorful buildings.
Colour Theory and Design