Archives 12: Smiljan Radic
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The twelfth edition of ‘Archives’ centres on the work and ideas of Pritzker prizewinner Smiljan Radic, who has earned a reputation for his original and emotional approach to architecture. His buildings are known for their poetic atmosphere, raw materials, and dreamlike forms. Besides photographs, sketches, and texts about the Chilean architect’s experimental works, in(...)
Archives 12: Smiljan Radic
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The twelfth edition of ‘Archives’ centres on the work and ideas of Pritzker prizewinner Smiljan Radic, who has earned a reputation for his original and emotional approach to architecture. His buildings are known for their poetic atmosphere, raw materials, and dreamlike forms. Besides photographs, sketches, and texts about the Chilean architect’s experimental works, in which nature, art, and sculpture come together, the publication offers discussions on celebrated projects like the Serpentine Pavilion and Teatro Regional del Biobío. The book also features houses, temporary structures, and conceptual installations that reflect Radic’s poetic and unconventional design approach.
Architecture Monographs
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Barcelona's brand of Art Nouveau was characterized by organic shapes and patterns integrated by all aspects of art and design. The movement, along with its high craftsmanship, was interpreted to be a spontaneous reaction to the Industrial Revolution’s trend of mass production. Besides being a survey of the most significant buildings by Domenech i Montaner, Antoni Gaudí,(...)
In detail : Barcelona art nouveau
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Barcelona's brand of Art Nouveau was characterized by organic shapes and patterns integrated by all aspects of art and design. The movement, along with its high craftsmanship, was interpreted to be a spontaneous reaction to the Industrial Revolution’s trend of mass production. Besides being a survey of the most significant buildings by Domenech i Montaner, Antoni Gaudí, Josep Maria Jujol, and Puig i Cadafalch, this book also provides a detailed analysis of the forms created by the most important craftsmen of the period, many of whom have been relegated to anonymity for decades.
History until 1900
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Conceived by photographer Naoya Hatakeyama, this tribute to Toyo Ito’s design for the Taichung Opera House in Taiwan offers an eye-opening look at an extraordinary building, its urban context, and daily use. Completed in 2014, the curving structure with its cut-out voids and sectioned facade has proved to be a magnet, not just for audiences but also for people who come to(...)
Architecture Monographs
February 2024
Toyo Ito: Taichung Opera House
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Conceived by photographer Naoya Hatakeyama, this tribute to Toyo Ito’s design for the Taichung Opera House in Taiwan offers an eye-opening look at an extraordinary building, its urban context, and daily use. Completed in 2014, the curving structure with its cut-out voids and sectioned facade has proved to be a magnet, not just for audiences but also for people who come to enjoy its rooftop landscape, water elements, and cave-like interior spaces. Besides the many photographs by Hatakeyama, the publication includes an illuminating dialogue between Ito and architectural historian Terunobu Fujimori.
Architecture Monographs
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As a boy, Turner liked to go up to Hampstead Heath in North London and lie on his back to draw the sky, then return to town to sell his day’s work. Late in life he made many coloured studies, often in Kent which he believed had the finest skies in Europe. This edition of the sketchbook reproduces these beautiful drawings and watercolours in facsimile, with an illustrated(...)
J.M.W Turner:the 'skies' sketchbook
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As a boy, Turner liked to go up to Hampstead Heath in North London and lie on his back to draw the sky, then return to town to sell his day’s work. Late in life he made many coloured studies, often in Kent which he believed had the finest skies in Europe. This edition of the sketchbook reproduces these beautiful drawings and watercolours in facsimile, with an illustrated introduction by Turner expert David Blayney Brown. Besides many watercolour studies of sky effects, pencil sketches of places in London and the surrounding area are also featured.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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This special issue examines the phenomenon of the global museum and its diversification, as well as how this expansion of scope and collections has impacted museum architecture. The new generation of museums, besides being geopolitically diverse, has also become more egalitarian, which in turn makes branding and consumerism integral to their operations. Fourteen new(...)
c3 special : museum global local
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This special issue examines the phenomenon of the global museum and its diversification, as well as how this expansion of scope and collections has impacted museum architecture. The new generation of museums, besides being geopolitically diverse, has also become more egalitarian, which in turn makes branding and consumerism integral to their operations. Fourteen new museums and museum expansions are featured, including the New Tate Modern by Herzog & de Meuron, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art expansion by Snøhetta, Kunstmuseum Basel by Christ & Gantenbein, National Museum in Szczecin by KWK Promes, and Lisbon’s MAAT by AL_A.
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In Becoming Beside Ourselves, the renowed cultural theorist and mathematician Brian Rotman turns his attention to alphabetic writing or the inscription of spoken language. Contending that all media configure what they mediate, he maintains that alphabetic writing has long served as the West's dominant cognitive technology. Its logic and limitations have shaped thought and(...)
Becoming beside ourselves: the alphabet, ghosts, and distributed human being
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In Becoming Beside Ourselves, the renowed cultural theorist and mathematician Brian Rotman turns his attention to alphabetic writing or the inscription of spoken language. Contending that all media configure what they mediate, he maintains that alphabetic writing has long served as the West's dominant cognitive technology. Its logic and limitations have shaped thought and affect from its inception until the present. Now its grip on Western consciousness is giving way to virtual technologies and networked media, which are reconfiguring human subjectivity just as alphabetic texts have done for millenia. Brian Rotman is Distinguished Humanities Professor in the Department of Comparative Studies at Ohio University.
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Yoshio Futagawas photographic homage to two single-family residences in São Paulo designed by architect Paulo Mendes da Rocha allows an intimate look at domestic life shaped by the contrast between exposed concrete surfaces and lush natural surroundings. Designed and built in the early 1970s, both houses are archetypal examples of the so-called Brazilian Brutalism style(...)
Residential masterpieces 27: Paulo Mendea Da Rocha. King House, Millan/Leme House
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Yoshio Futagawas photographic homage to two single-family residences in São Paulo designed by architect Paulo Mendes da Rocha allows an intimate look at domestic life shaped by the contrast between exposed concrete surfaces and lush natural surroundings. Designed and built in the early 1970s, both houses are archetypal examples of the so-called Brazilian Brutalism style for which the architect is famous. At the time, they became a laboratory for the architects political beliefs as he developed a language and spatiality of his own. Besides their remarkable aesthetic expression, the houses feature unique solutions related to the organisation of the programme.
Architecture Monographs
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A monograph dedicated to Gerrit Rietveld, perhaps the most well-known Dutch architect. Besides his iconic Schröder House, very little is known about the roughly 100 houses Rietveld designed and built during his career. These houses are characterised by light and space, and sobriety is a basic principle in his approach. Only a small group of intellectual clients(...)
Architecture Monographs
December 2018
Gerrit Rietveld: wealth of sobriety
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A monograph dedicated to Gerrit Rietveld, perhaps the most well-known Dutch architect. Besides his iconic Schröder House, very little is known about the roughly 100 houses Rietveld designed and built during his career. These houses are characterised by light and space, and sobriety is a basic principle in his approach. Only a small group of intellectual clients commissioned him to design an avant-garde residence. Photographer Arjan Bronkhorst went in search of these unknown houses, photographing their interiors and residents, while authors Willemijn Zwikstra and Marc van den Eerenbeemt explored archives and interviewed current residents about living in a Rietveld house.
Architecture Monographs
Siza by Siza
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Authored and coordinated by Juan Rodríguez and Carlos Seoane, this monograph was borne out of the intention to acknowledge the lesser-known aspects of Álvaro Siza’s work. Featuring what they describe as the relevant but rarely published aspects of his work and the unsuspected dimensions of his oeuvre, the book highlights six notable projects selected from throughout his(...)
Siza by Siza
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Authored and coordinated by Juan Rodríguez and Carlos Seoane, this monograph was borne out of the intention to acknowledge the lesser-known aspects of Álvaro Siza’s work. Featuring what they describe as the relevant but rarely published aspects of his work and the unsuspected dimensions of his oeuvre, the book highlights six notable projects selected from throughout his career. Among these are the Boa Nova Tea House, the Porto Architecture School, and the Malagueira Housing Complex. Besides numerous sketches and photographs, it includes a new interview with the architect, plus essays by Kenneth Frampton, Juhani Pallasmaa, and David Cohn.
Architecture Monographs