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252 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), chart, maps ; 19 cm
Genève : MētisPresses, [2019], ©2019
Sur les bancs du paysage : enjeux didactiques, démarches et outils / sous la direction de Anne Sgard, Sylvie Paradis.
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252 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), chart, maps ; 19 cm
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Genève : MētisPresses, [2019], ©2019
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Archive Books 2020
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Archive Books 2020
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Throughout history, our sensory transformation has been predicated on newly invented machinery and instruments, from the camera obscura to the stereoscope to the multimedia apparatuses of today. In the perspective paintings of the Renaissance, the "train sickness" works of the 19th century, and the helicopter view of modern times, artists reveal their role as mediums of(...)
Technology: art, fairground and theatre
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Throughout history, our sensory transformation has been predicated on newly invented machinery and instruments, from the camera obscura to the stereoscope to the multimedia apparatuses of today. In the perspective paintings of the Renaissance, the "train sickness" works of the 19th century, and the helicopter view of modern times, artists reveal their role as mediums of the new, pioneers who, through their incorporation and absorption of new technologies, subtly introduce them into the general consciousness.
Architectural Theory
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The formerly segregated countryside is now traversed by global and regional flows of people, goods, waste, energy and information, linking it to urban systems and enabling those systems to function in the first place. Ruralism is dedicated to the significance of rural spaces as a starting point for transformation. International experts explore the rural from(...)
Ruralism : the future of villages and small towns in an urbanizing world
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The formerly segregated countryside is now traversed by global and regional flows of people, goods, waste, energy and information, linking it to urban systems and enabling those systems to function in the first place. Ruralism is dedicated to the significance of rural spaces as a starting point for transformation. International experts explore the rural from architectural, cultural, gender-oriented, ecological and political perspectives, and ask how a new vision of the rural can be formulated.
Urban Theory
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This publication is about the transformation of urban space and the reordering of the demographic character of Brickfields, one of the oldest neighborhoods in Kuala Lumpur. The author offers an ethnographic account of the complex attempts on the part of the state and the community to reconcile techno-rational conceptions of law, development, and city planning with local(...)
History until 1900, Middle East
August 2008, Standford
Houses in motion : the experience of place and the problem of belief in urban Malaysia
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This publication is about the transformation of urban space and the reordering of the demographic character of Brickfields, one of the oldest neighborhoods in Kuala Lumpur. The author offers an ethnographic account of the complex attempts on the part of the state and the community to reconcile techno-rational conceptions of law, development, and city planning with local experiences of place, justice, relatedness, and possibilities for belief in an aggressively changing world.
History until 1900, Middle East
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How do we want to live together? How can citizens directly participate in city politics? How can we shape cities so that they are livable? The world’s cities are changing rapidly as a result of both climate change and globalization, making these questions more relevant than ever. Against this background of global transformation, ''City Linkage'' explores the particular(...)
City linkage: art and culture fostering urban futures
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How do we want to live together? How can citizens directly participate in city politics? How can we shape cities so that they are livable? The world’s cities are changing rapidly as a result of both climate change and globalization, making these questions more relevant than ever. Against this background of global transformation, ''City Linkage'' explores the particular importance of artist-run spaces and self-organized cultural projects for the development of cities.
Urban Theory
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This book presents the origins of the projects carried out by the young Spanish architect Raúl Almenara, based in Madrid. From inspiration, through process and development, to transformation into idea and form. "I'm interested in exploring the possibilities of converting into architecture everything that has never been architecture before. It's a world that doesn't start(...)
Raúl Almenara: Feathers/ Piume
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This book presents the origins of the projects carried out by the young Spanish architect Raúl Almenara, based in Madrid. From inspiration, through process and development, to transformation into idea and form. "I'm interested in exploring the possibilities of converting into architecture everything that has never been architecture before. It's a world that doesn't start from a preconceived form or scale, that explores the possibilities of being translated to generate an emotion in the viewer".
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Un féminisme décolonial
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Ces pages incisives proposent un autre récit du féminisme et posent toutes les questions qui fâchent : quelles alliances avec les femmes blanches ? Quelle solidarité avec les hommes racisés ? Quelles sont les première vie menacées par le capitalisme racial ? Pourquoi les néofascismes s’attaquent-ils aux femmes racisées ? Ce livre est une invitation à renouer avec la(...)
Un féminisme décolonial
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Ces pages incisives proposent un autre récit du féminisme et posent toutes les questions qui fâchent : quelles alliances avec les femmes blanches ? Quelle solidarité avec les hommes racisés ? Quelles sont les première vie menacées par le capitalisme racial ? Pourquoi les néofascismes s’attaquent-ils aux femmes racisées ? Ce livre est une invitation à renouer avec la puissance utopique du féminisme, c’est-à-dire avec un imaginaire à même de porter une transformation radicale de la société.
Critical Theory
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Double issue featuring the works and projects that Herzog & De Meuron produced in the years 2005-2010. The VitraHaus is extensively documented, next to works like the TEA, Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, the CaixaForum in Madrid, the transformation of the Tate Modern in London, the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg and the National Stadium for the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. With(...)
El croquis 152-153: Herzog & de Meuron 2005-2010
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Double issue featuring the works and projects that Herzog & De Meuron produced in the years 2005-2010. The VitraHaus is extensively documented, next to works like the TEA, Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, the CaixaForum in Madrid, the transformation of the Tate Modern in London, the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg and the National Stadium for the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. With an introduction and an interview with the architects by Jean-François Chevrier.
El Croquis
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La propagation des technologies numériques, à la source d'une profonde transformation des champs du monde social, articulée à la création dans les arts et à l'activité de l'imaginaire : cet ouvrage collectif, qui tente de répondre à la thématique elle-même sur le plan de la conception graphique, interroge les réseaux de sens induits par cette dissémination à travers un(...)
Libérez les machines!: l'imaginaire technologique à l'épreuve de l'art
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La propagation des technologies numériques, à la source d'une profonde transformation des champs du monde social, articulée à la création dans les arts et à l'activité de l'imaginaire : cet ouvrage collectif, qui tente de répondre à la thématique elle-même sur le plan de la conception graphique, interroge les réseaux de sens induits par cette dissémination à travers un ensemble de réflexions et des pratiques critiques, fédérées par une actualité de la recherche plastique.
Art Theory