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319 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
New York : Rizzoli, 2018., ©2018
Architectural digest : autobiography of a magazine 1920-2010 / Paige Rense ; foreword by Mario Buatta.
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319 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
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New York : Rizzoli, 2018., ©2018
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527 pages : illustrations (some colour), facsimiles (some colour) ; 24 cm
Zurich, Switzerland : Lars Müller Publishers ; Montréal : Canadian Centre for Architecture ; [New York] : Columbia University GSAPP, [2018], ©2018
Cutting Matta-Clark : the Anarchitecture investigation / Mark Wigley.
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Zurich, Switzerland : Lars Müller Publishers ; Montréal : Canadian Centre for Architecture ; [New York] : Columbia University GSAPP, [2018], ©2018
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[Place of publication not identified] : Lateral Addition, 2019.
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"Light in the Dark Room" explores photography not as a document of the past but rather as a realization of what we have lost. When we look at a photograph we see a moment that is no more. Photographs place reality into the past tense, representing not memory but memory’s loss. They are not conduits for the return of memory, but memento mori: reminders of the fact of(...)
Light in the dark room : photography and loss
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"Light in the Dark Room" explores photography not as a document of the past but rather as a realization of what we have lost. When we look at a photograph we see a moment that is no more. Photographs place reality into the past tense, representing not memory but memory’s loss. They are not conduits for the return of memory, but memento mori: reminders of the fact of death itself. And it is in this, Jay Prosser tells us, that we find the gift of photography. Engaging the photographic reflections of figures as different as Roland Barthes and Claude Lévi-Strauss, Gordon Parks and Elizabeth Bishop, "Light in the Dark Room" offers a vision of photography as realization of loss - and a revelation of how photographs can shed light on the dark rooms of our lives. Beginning with an analysis of Roland Barthes’s "Camera Lucida", Prosser explores the relationship of autobiography and photography and then considers Lévi-Strauss’s last published book, his photographic memoir; he uncovers the collection of photography painstakingly assembled by poet Elizabeth Bishop but never published; and he recounts the story of a forgotten Brazilian boy from the 1960s who lost his home as a result of photographs. The losses this book recalls are poignant yet universal - a son loses his mother; an anthropologist, his culture; a photographer, his youth; a poet, her lover. Among these personal and moving losses and the remarkable photographs that accompany them, Prosser weaves his own meditations on photography, on the interdependence of loss and enlightenment, on the emergence of our technologized society - and the world we have lost in the process.
Theory of Photography
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The notion of impermanence underlies, to a significant extent, the urban design language of Hong Kong. The city intensely urban environment has long reflected embedded patterns of change and temporality in both its physical and cultural dimensions, a forever reconstructed city of dislocation, adaptation and imagination. These characteristics are intrinsically interwoven(...)
The urban design of impermanence
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The notion of impermanence underlies, to a significant extent, the urban design language of Hong Kong. The city intensely urban environment has long reflected embedded patterns of change and temporality in both its physical and cultural dimensions, a forever reconstructed city of dislocation, adaptation and imagination. These characteristics are intrinsically interwoven within Hong Kong s street and spatial patterns, producing a special sense of immediacy and transience insinuated with the fabric and memory of the city. This may stem on one hand from a philosophy of change inherent in cultural traditions, but on the other it reflects more tangible aspects of the streetscape accumulated from historical imprints, regimes of temporarily, and the constant renewal and transformation of the urban environment.
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December 2006
Contemporary Asian Architecture
The Darkroom
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"The darkroom" contains the script for Marguerite Duras's 1977 radically experimental film "Le camion" ("The Truck"). Between images of a truck in motion, juxtaposed voiceovers, and cutaways to Duras in conversation with Gérard Depardieu, Le camion turns the art of film into a means of enabling the viewer to engage multiple faculties--not only the visual and the aural,(...)
Architecture and Film, Set Design
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The Darkroom
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"The darkroom" contains the script for Marguerite Duras's 1977 radically experimental film "Le camion" ("The Truck"). Between images of a truck in motion, juxtaposed voiceovers, and cutaways to Duras in conversation with Gérard Depardieu, Le camion turns the art of film into a means of enabling the viewer to engage multiple faculties--not only the visual and the aural, but also memory, imagination, and desire. Also included here is a series of short essays in which Duras makes provocative connections between film and textuality, as well as a fascinating dialogue with Michelle Porte. Together amounting to a crucial contribution to the field of film theory, these texts make brilliantly apparent the depth and integrity of Duras's aesthetic, philosophical, and political thinking.
Architecture and Film, Set Design
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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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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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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.
Photography monographs
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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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