Gleis/Track 17
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If you get off the train in Berlin at the Grunewald station, you’ll see a small sign pointing the way to Gleis 17 – Track 17. It’s the platform from which the Nazis deported more than 50,000 Jews between 1941-1945 – now, it has been made into a memorial. The track is planted with trees, and a walkway lists each date of deportation, the number of Jews, and the chilling(...)
Gleis/Track 17
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If you get off the train in Berlin at the Grunewald station, you’ll see a small sign pointing the way to Gleis 17 – Track 17. It’s the platform from which the Nazis deported more than 50,000 Jews between 1941-1945 – now, it has been made into a memorial. The track is planted with trees, and a walkway lists each date of deportation, the number of Jews, and the chilling destination. In this thought provoking book, a group of German artists and thinkers use the Gleis 17 memorial to consider whether it is possible to maintain memory in a monument, with some surprising conclusions. Contributors include NY Columbia University Professor Jorge Otero-Pailos, Diana Schulle, Andrea Wandel, Wolfgang Lorch, Harald Welzer and others.
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C3 436: Seung H-Sang
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''C3 436'' explores architecture shaped by place, purpose, and poetic depth. New Projects chapter features Leopold Banchini Architects who craft an off-grid house inspired by ancestral wisdom in the Moroccan desert, while a modernist library by Jakob + MacFarlane reimagines the Tree of Knowledge. Seung H-Sang’s meditative designs reflect an architecture of boundaries and(...)
C3 436: Seung H-Sang
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''C3 436'' explores architecture shaped by place, purpose, and poetic depth. New Projects chapter features Leopold Banchini Architects who craft an off-grid house inspired by ancestral wisdom in the Moroccan desert, while a modernist library by Jakob + MacFarlane reimagines the Tree of Knowledge. Seung H-Sang’s meditative designs reflect an architecture of boundaries and the afterlife, portrayed here in the Order of St. Benedict Waegwan Abbey. K-Projects illustrates layered stories: Seoul’s urban transformation, subtle civic centers, and cultural roots nurtured in agricultural settings. Featuring Terminal 7 Architects, 818 architects, Chak Chak Studio and Young-pil Kim + YuMi Hyun. Across interviews and essays, architects and critics reflect on building with memory, identity, and imagination in a rapidly shifting world.
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In 1987, "The Main: Portrait of a Neighborhood" was published and quickly sold out. The critically acclaimed project celebrated the communities around Montreal’s Boulevard Saint Laurent and contributed to the eventual designation of "The Main" as a Canadian heritage landmark. In 2017, to celebrate the city’s 375th anniversary, the author was invited to re-imagine the(...)
Holding the Main / Tendre la Main
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In 1987, "The Main: Portrait of a Neighborhood" was published and quickly sold out. The critically acclaimed project celebrated the communities around Montreal’s Boulevard Saint Laurent and contributed to the eventual designation of "The Main" as a Canadian heritage landmark. In 2017, to celebrate the city’s 375th anniversary, the author was invited to re-imagine the original book. Returning to his former neighborhood, his new book weaves old and new photographs with texts and archives, inviting us on a journey into his creative process to reflect on questions of home, identity, time, memory, and the evolving urban landscape, and asking: in a globalized world where people and cities are in constant movement, what happens to places and memories? Can we go home again?
Architecture de Montréal
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Over the last 50 years, Lebanese American artist Simone Fattal's (born 1942) multifaceted practice has explored the impact of displacement as well as the episteme of archeology and mythology, drawing from a range of sources including war narratives, landscape painting, ancient history and poetry. Inspired by her visit to the archeological sites of Pompeii, Fattal debuts a(...)
Simone Fattal: a breeze over the Mediterranean
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Over the last 50 years, Lebanese American artist Simone Fattal's (born 1942) multifaceted practice has explored the impact of displacement as well as the episteme of archeology and mythology, drawing from a range of sources including war narratives, landscape painting, ancient history and poetry. Inspired by her visit to the archeological sites of Pompeii, Fattal debuts a new body of sculpture and ceramics blending history with memory, grappling with the loss of time while revealing its repetitions. Says Fattal of Pompeii's significance, "the place has not been destroyed by time, but by a moment ... there are fragments of all periods mingled together ... Egypt is present, but also Syria and Asia Minor. But with all this diversity and differences, it seems that all lived together in harmony."
Contemporary Art Monographs
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Bogdan Bogdanovic (1922–2010) was a Yugoslav architect, theorist, professor and a one-time mayor of Belgrade. His idiosyncratic memorials to the victims and heroes of World War II, scattered around the former Yugoslavia, continue to attract attention today, more than 25 years after the country’s collapse. The monuments, cemeteries, mausoleums, memorial parks,(...)
Bogdanovic by Bogdanovic: Yugoslav memorials through the eyes of their architect
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Bogdan Bogdanovic (1922–2010) was a Yugoslav architect, theorist, professor and a one-time mayor of Belgrade. His idiosyncratic memorials to the victims and heroes of World War II, scattered around the former Yugoslavia, continue to attract attention today, more than 25 years after the country’s collapse. The monuments, cemeteries, mausoleums, memorial parks, necropolises, cenotaphs and other sites of memory Bogdanovic designed between the early 1950s and late 1970s occupy a unique place in the history of modern architecture, redrawing the boundaries between architecture, landscape and sculpture in varied and unexpected ways. This book presents Bogdanovic’s built oeuvre through his own eyes, in a selection of nearly 50 color photographs of his memorials, which the architect took soon after the completion of each project.
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The documentary impulse
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Stuart Franklin took one of the most powerful photographs of the twentieth century - the 'tank man' in Tiananmen Square, Beijing, 1989. From his insightful position as a photographer, Franklin explores why we are driven to visually document our experiences and the world around us. He focuses on photography but traces this universal need through art, literature and(...)
The documentary impulse
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Stuart Franklin took one of the most powerful photographs of the twentieth century - the 'tank man' in Tiananmen Square, Beijing, 1989. From his insightful position as a photographer, Franklin explores why we are driven to visually document our experiences and the world around us. He focuses on photography but traces this universal need through art, literature and science. Looking at photojournalism, war photography and work recording our culture, Franklin identifies some of its driving impulses: curiosity, outrage, reform and ritual; the search for evidence, for beauty, for therapy; and the immortalization of memory. As our understanding of 'documentary' continues to expand, Franklin considers photographic staging - where, perhaps, the future of the genre may lie: in search of truth over fact.
Theory of Photography
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SlaveCity - Interview with Joep van Lieshout Potential Nation States by STAR Global Islands in North Korea by Simone Cartier and Katrin Gimmel Operation Desert by Peter Mörtenböck and Helge Mooshammer Kaliningrad by Ines Lüder, Dominique Hurth and Ciarán Walsh Segregated Istanbul by Pelin Tan Crisscrossing Lives by Horng-Chang Hsieh and Vittaya Ruangrit A(...)
MONU - magazine on urbanism no 8 Border Urbanism
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SlaveCity - Interview with Joep van Lieshout Potential Nation States by STAR Global Islands in North Korea by Simone Cartier and Katrin Gimmel Operation Desert by Peter Mörtenböck and Helge Mooshammer Kaliningrad by Ines Lüder, Dominique Hurth and Ciarán Walsh Segregated Istanbul by Pelin Tan Crisscrossing Lives by Horng-Chang Hsieh and Vittaya Ruangrit A Fictional Dialogue between two Curators by Umi Cross - Border Suburbias by Teddy Cruz Reciprocal Developments by Arjan Harbers and Kristin Jensen Tijuana - Vernacular by Federico Diaz de Leon Orraca Border Models by Annemarie Strihan Bohemian Cheapness - Interview with Jaroslav Kubera Sin City by Daan Roggeveen On a Trip Down Memory Lane by Lukas Feireiss Windsor: The American Sector by Justin A. Langlois Westberlin - My Cold War Heroine by Vesta Nele Zareh
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This first issue of the JoCA, published on Mid-Summer's Eve 2018, somewhat deliberately brings together a series of themes that might be loosely described as portraiture. The question of architecture as autobiography reveals in fact that the civic character of Pleznik's cemetery is the fruit of a profoundly emotional and empathetic imagination. Tom de Paor's Palace cinema(...)
JoCA: Journal of Civic Architecture 01
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This first issue of the JoCA, published on Mid-Summer's Eve 2018, somewhat deliberately brings together a series of themes that might be loosely described as portraiture. The question of architecture as autobiography reveals in fact that the civic character of Pleznik's cemetery is the fruit of a profoundly emotional and empathetic imagination. Tom de Paor's Palace cinema is not only the work of a powerfully situational memory, but also somewhere where the extreme atmospheric character of Galway merges with the dream world of film: an expanded threshold that frames the town as a subject of contemplation. These, and the other projects, poems and essays in issue 1, locate creative energy in the city, in the everyday world of work and human meaning.
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Turner's sketchbooks were private things which he kept to himself. They might live for some time, rolled up in his coat pockets or travel bags, to be pulled out as need arose. In the studio, they served as memory banks for future work. The sketchbook reproduced within this publication includes watercolour sketches Turner made on his trip to Lucerne in Switzerland(...)
J. M. W. Turner: the Lucerne sketchbook
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Turner's sketchbooks were private things which he kept to himself. They might live for some time, rolled up in his coat pockets or travel bags, to be pulled out as need arose. In the studio, they served as memory banks for future work. The sketchbook reproduced within this publication includes watercolour sketches Turner made on his trip to Lucerne in Switzerland capturing the beautiful Rigi mountain, a landscape he returned to again and again. Drawn back to the mountains, Turner made these sketches after the famous The Blue Rigi, Sunrise 1842, and they reveal his masterful hand as he portrays the ever changing moods of the Swiss-Alps, depicted through rainy showers, sunbeams filtering through clouds and rainbows cast across the blue mountain peaks.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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Ann Pendleton-Jullian tells the story of the Open City in Ritoque, Chile, a designed city still in formation that has no master plan, no imposed ordering devices, and no hierarchical networks of infrastructure. The strange buildings placed among dunes and grasslands (...)
The road that is not a road and the open city, Ritoque, Chile
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Ann Pendleton-Jullian tells the story of the Open City in Ritoque, Chile, a designed city still in formation that has no master plan, no imposed ordering devices, and no hierarchical networks of infrastructure. The strange buildings placed among dunes and grasslands reflect instead the mind's translation of urban phenomena and natural phenomena relative to the construction of memory, and a process of composition that is not dependent on stylistic precedents, drawing boards, or academic discourse. Teaching takes place on site and employs poetic methods to activate the design process; the endeavor is considered more important than the result. More than 100 photographs are included, capturing the mystical spirit of the place and of its architecture. With a foreword by Joseph Rykwert.
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