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We see the city, we hear the city, but above all: we smell the city. Scent has unique qualities: ubiquity, persistence, and an unparalleled connection to memory, yet it has gone overlooked in discussions of sensory design. What scents shape the city? How does scent contribute to placemaking? How do we design smell environments in the city? Urban Smellscapes makes a(...)
Urban smellscapes : understanding and designing city smell environments
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We see the city, we hear the city, but above all: we smell the city. Scent has unique qualities: ubiquity, persistence, and an unparalleled connection to memory, yet it has gone overlooked in discussions of sensory design. What scents shape the city? How does scent contribute to placemaking? How do we design smell environments in the city? Urban Smellscapes makes a notable contribution towards the growing body of literature on the senses and design by providing some answers to these questions and contributing towards the wider research agenda regarding how people sensually experience urban environments.
Urban Theory
Helen Verhoeven: part pretty
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With her monumental, epic paintings Verhoeven’s work appears to examine the collective memory of ceremonial gatherings, behind which a landscape of nightmares and ghostly phenomena is concealed. Verhoeven makes a conscious choice to allude to historical art by making references to artists such as Hieronymus Bosch, Goya and De Chirico in her work. In addition, she(...)
Helen Verhoeven: part pretty
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With her monumental, epic paintings Verhoeven’s work appears to examine the collective memory of ceremonial gatherings, behind which a landscape of nightmares and ghostly phenomena is concealed. Verhoeven makes a conscious choice to allude to historical art by making references to artists such as Hieronymus Bosch, Goya and De Chirico in her work. In addition, she appropriates source material from family archives, newspapers, paparazzi photographs and scenes from films. Using this mix, she creates complex paintings in which different imageries, epochs and psychological conditions clash. This catalogue accompanies the first retrospective exhibition of her work.
Contemporary Art Monographs
Beauty in decay II
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Overgrown industrial complexes, disused asylums, abandoned palaces and monasteries feature in this latest incendiary book from Carpet Bombing Culture. Author RomanyWG has again tirelessly tracked down dozens of new locations to amaze viewers of Beauty in Decay II, a further peek behind the Urbex curtain. Urban explorers find the beauty layers of history, multi-hued(...)
Beauty in decay II
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Overgrown industrial complexes, disused asylums, abandoned palaces and monasteries feature in this latest incendiary book from Carpet Bombing Culture. Author RomanyWG has again tirelessly tracked down dozens of new locations to amaze viewers of Beauty in Decay II, a further peek behind the Urbex curtain. Urban explorers find the beauty layers of history, multi-hued peeling paint, antique objects, ancient initials in the dust and the other physical manifestations of memory that abandoned, impermanent urban spaces manifest. Beauty in Decay II features RomanyWGs selection of panoramic photographs from Urbex explorers the world over.
Public Space
Mark Manders reference book
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Dutch artist Mark Manders - who will represent the Netherlands at the 55th Venice Biennale in 2013 - was awarded the Heineken Prize for Art 2012. The jury praised him "for his ability to create a personal world with a distinct visual language that both intrigues and becomes fixed in the memory." On the occasion of this award, Roma Publications compiled this almost(...)
Mark Manders reference book
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Dutch artist Mark Manders - who will represent the Netherlands at the 55th Venice Biennale in 2013 - was awarded the Heineken Prize for Art 2012. The jury praised him "for his ability to create a personal world with a distinct visual language that both intrigues and becomes fixed in the memory." On the occasion of this award, Roma Publications compiled this almost encyclopedic book which covers Manders' entire oeuvre from the late 1980s until the present. It contains facsimiles of the artist's publications and a focus on a large number of recent, never-published works.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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The world is filling with ever more kinds of media, in ever more contexts and formats. Physical locations are increasingly tagged and digitally augmented. Sensors, processors, and memory are not found only in chic smart phones but also built into everyday objects. So it is worth remembering that underneath all these augmentations and data flows, fixed forms persist, and(...)
April 2013
Ambient commons: attention in the age of embodied information
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The world is filling with ever more kinds of media, in ever more contexts and formats. Physical locations are increasingly tagged and digitally augmented. Sensors, processors, and memory are not found only in chic smart phones but also built into everyday objects. So it is worth remembering that underneath all these augmentations and data flows, fixed forms persist, and that to notice them can improve other sensibilities. Ambient Commons invites readers to look past current obsessions with smart phones to rethink attention itself, to care for more situated, often inescapable forms of information.
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"I am concerned with the power of sound! and what it can do to the body and the mind," wrote composer Pauline Oliveros. In the body, histories and politics come together with sound and listening, memory and feeling. "Bodies of sound" offers a resonant exploration of feminist sonic cultures and radical listening in over fifty contributions. In this book of echoes, a(...)
Bodies of sound: Becoming a feminist ear
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"I am concerned with the power of sound! and what it can do to the body and the mind," wrote composer Pauline Oliveros. In the body, histories and politics come together with sound and listening, memory and feeling. "Bodies of sound" offers a resonant exploration of feminist sonic cultures and radical listening in over fifty contributions. In this book of echoes, a variety of forms – from essays to text scores to art, fiction and memoir – speak across gender, ways of knowing, witnessing, sounding and voicing, translation, displacement, violence and peace.
Acoustics
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The second volume in an anthology on Tsuyoshi Tane’s evolving architectural practice. Featuring seventeen recent projects, including major commissions currently underway, such as the New Main Building of the Imperial Hotel Tokyo and the Sensoji Temple Treasure Museum, it highlights his ongoing investigation into “archaeological thinking”, a design approach rooted in(...)
Tsuyoshi Tane: Archaeology of the future II
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The second volume in an anthology on Tsuyoshi Tane’s evolving architectural practice. Featuring seventeen recent projects, including major commissions currently underway, such as the New Main Building of the Imperial Hotel Tokyo and the Sensoji Temple Treasure Museum, it highlights his ongoing investigation into “archaeological thinking”, a design approach rooted in uncovering memory, place, and the deep layers of history that shape the built environment. Each project thus emerges from extensive research: archival, material, cultural, spatial. Through sketches, studies, and project narratives, it reveals how ideas are patiently excavated and woven into architectural forms.
Architecture Monographs
Between conventional and experimental: Mass housing and prefabrication in modernist architecture
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Mass housing and prefabrication shaped global modernist architecture like no other aspect of industrialised construction. This book offers a comprehensive exploration of how both conventional and experimental prototypes and series gave rise to an architecture for all, often responding to crises, the imperatives of nation-building, and housing shortages by rapidly(...)
Collective Housing
November 2024
Between conventional and experimental: Mass housing and prefabrication in modernist architecture
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Mass housing and prefabrication shaped global modernist architecture like no other aspect of industrialised construction. This book offers a comprehensive exploration of how both conventional and experimental prototypes and series gave rise to an architecture for all, often responding to crises, the imperatives of nation-building, and housing shortages by rapidly developing, distributing, and assembling structures. The authors scrutinise the cultural impact of mass housing and prefabrication, tracing this influence through exhibitions, memory culture, and typologies, ultimately concluding with an outlook on the preservation and repair of structures and their adaptation for the future.
Collective Housing
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"Terreno: Traces of the accessible everyday" is a multidisciplinary exhibition exploring materiality and memory through cultural traditions, historical documents, and artistic practices. Inspired by Gianni Celati's concept of the "accessible everyday," it highlights overlooked scenes and gestures of daily life, revealing their hidden meanings. The exhibition features(...)
February 2025
Terreno: Traces of the accessible everyday
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"Terreno: Traces of the accessible everyday" is a multidisciplinary exhibition exploring materiality and memory through cultural traditions, historical documents, and artistic practices. Inspired by Gianni Celati's concept of the "accessible everyday," it highlights overlooked scenes and gestures of daily life, revealing their hidden meanings. The exhibition features artworks from the MAXXI Collections, artefacts and photographs from the Museum of Civilisations in Rome, editorial materials, architectural projects, and a new sound production. Together, these elements create fluid narratives that blend tradition and invention, connecting deeply with the local community and its creativity.
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“Regionalism and Global Diversity” is the main theme of this issue, showing new regional approaches to architecture that reveal contemporary, globally relevant spatial and anthropological conceptions closely related to the richness of local cultures. Among the diverse examples are Pani Community Centre in Bengal by SchilderScholte Architects, Thread Artist Residency and(...)
C3 376: regionalism and global diversity
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“Regionalism and Global Diversity” is the main theme of this issue, showing new regional approaches to architecture that reveal contemporary, globally relevant spatial and anthropological conceptions closely related to the richness of local cultures. Among the diverse examples are Pani Community Centre in Bengal by SchilderScholte Architects, Thread Artist Residency and Cultural Centre in Senegal by Toshiko Mori, Kikuma Watanabe’s school for orphans in Thailand, a compact stone house in Slovenia by Dekleva Gregoric Arhitekti, and more. Also in this issue, “Dwelling in Memory” investigates five projects in redundant spaces, situated between rehabilitation and reuse.
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