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Examines various architectural and urban issues raised by time increasingly spent in cyberspace. Includes CD-ROM.
Realspace in quicktimes: architecture and digitalization
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Examines various architectural and urban issues raised by time increasingly spent in cyberspace. Includes CD-ROM.
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July 1996, Rotterdam
Architectural Theory
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Nowhere, Mark Wigley asserts, are the stakes higher for deconstruction than in architecture - architecture is the Achilles' heel of deconstructive discourse, the point of vulnerability upon which all of its arguments depend. By locating the architecture already hidden within deconstructive discourse, Wigley opens up more radical possibilities for both architecture and(...)
The architecture of deconstruction : Derrida's haunt
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Nowhere, Mark Wigley asserts, are the stakes higher for deconstruction than in architecture - architecture is the Achilles' heel of deconstructive discourse, the point of vulnerability upon which all of its arguments depend. By locating the architecture already hidden within deconstructive discourse, Wigley opens up more radical possibilities for both architecture and deconstruction. He tracks the tacit argument about architecture embedded within Jacques Derrida's discourse, a curious line of argument that passes through each of the philosopher's texts, provocatively turning Derrida's reading strategy back on his texts to expose the architectural dimension of their central notions like law, economy, writing, place, domestication, translation, spacing, laughter, and dance.
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L'ouvrage retrace l'intégralité de la carrière de Wright. Réalisé avec la Fondation Frank Lloyd Wright, l'ouvrage s'achève par un aperçu de la précieuse collection d'art asiatique de l'architecte.
Frank Lloyd Wright : maître de l'architecture américaine
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L'ouvrage retrace l'intégralité de la carrière de Wright. Réalisé avec la Fondation Frank Lloyd Wright, l'ouvrage s'achève par un aperçu de la précieuse collection d'art asiatique de l'architecte.
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April 1997, Paris
Architecture Monographs
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First published over sixty years ago, Hugh Morrison's book was the definitive biography of the now-famous architect and is still the best introduction to his work. This edition includes an authoritative revision of the chronological list of buildings by Timothy J. Samuelson, with corrections of the data in light of six decades of research, by Timothy J. Samuelson.
Louis Sullivan : prophet of modern architecture
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First published over sixty years ago, Hugh Morrison's book was the definitive biography of the now-famous architect and is still the best introduction to his work. This edition includes an authoritative revision of the chronological list of buildings by Timothy J. Samuelson, with corrections of the data in light of six decades of research, by Timothy J. Samuelson.
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February 1998, New York
Architecture Monographs
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In addition to an introductory essay by Jos Bosman, this publication contains excerpts from two theoretical projects and details of five projects currently under construction.
Bernard Tschumi : architecture in/of motion
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In addition to an introductory essay by Jos Bosman, this publication contains excerpts from two theoretical projects and details of five projects currently under construction.
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September 1997, Rotterdam
Architecture Monographs
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This volume documents and illustrates 60 projects, past and present, that key into a libertarian ethos and desire for diverse self-organised ways of building. They are what this book calls an ‘anarchist’ architecture, that is, forms of design and building that embrace the core values of traditional anarchist political theory since its divergence from the mainstream of(...)
Architecture and anarchism: building without authority
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This volume documents and illustrates 60 projects, past and present, that key into a libertarian ethos and desire for diverse self-organised ways of building. They are what this book calls an ‘anarchist’ architecture, that is, forms of design and building that embrace the core values of traditional anarchist political theory since its divergence from the mainstream of socialist politics in the 19th century. These are autonomy, voluntary association, mutual aid, and self-organisation through direct democracy. As the book shows, there are a vast range of architectural projects that can been seen to reflect some or all of these values, whether they are acknowledged as specifically anarchist or otherwise.
Contemporary Architecture
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For too long a time spatial design has been seen as an action that could be performed by people and for people only. And today, even though some of the most meaningful projects of our times seem to challenge this concept, qualitative researches still struggle to emerge. This is why this book collects, reconstructs, and discusses archetypal models of posthuman(...)
Posthuman architecture: a catalogue of archetypes
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For too long a time spatial design has been seen as an action that could be performed by people and for people only. And today, even though some of the most meaningful projects of our times seem to challenge this concept, qualitative researches still struggle to emerge. This is why this book collects, reconstructs, and discusses archetypal models of posthuman architecture, from the cabin of Henry David Thoreau to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. To show how architectural, landscape, and industrial designers, whether professional practitioner or not, have redefined their tools in order to meet the functional and symbolic needs of new and different kinds of subjects.
Architectural Theory
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Though he garnered global praise at the peak of his career from 1960 to 1990, Australian architect John Andrews faced waning fame as postmodern cultural transformations challenged modernist design values, and wider social and economic changes led to a withdrawal of government-funded institutional commissions. Yet his body of work is a remarkable achievement that deserves(...)
John Andrews: Architecture of uncommon sense
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Though he garnered global praise at the peak of his career from 1960 to 1990, Australian architect John Andrews faced waning fame as postmodern cultural transformations challenged modernist design values, and wider social and economic changes led to a withdrawal of government-funded institutional commissions. Yet his body of work is a remarkable achievement that deserves to be better known. Following a path from Australia to the United States and Canada and back again, ''John Andrews: Architect of uncommon sense'' examines his most important buildings and reveals how the internationalization of architecture during this period was an unexpectedly dispersed geographical phenomenon, following more complex flows and localized progressions than earlier modernist ideas that travelled from center to periphery, metropole to outpost.
Architecture Monographs
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Regroupant d’époustouflantes illustrations de paysages urbains, ce livre est un voyage spectaculaire à travers les bâtiments et mégalopoles créées par certains des illustrateurs et réalisateurs les plus respectés de l’animation japonaise. Les mondes futuristes que ces artistes visionnaires ont imaginés et représentés avec minutie influencent le cinéma, la bande dessinée(...)
Anime architecture : Mondes imaginaires et mégapoles infinies
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Regroupant d’époustouflantes illustrations de paysages urbains, ce livre est un voyage spectaculaire à travers les bâtiments et mégalopoles créées par certains des illustrateurs et réalisateurs les plus respectés de l’animation japonaise. Les mondes futuristes que ces artistes visionnaires ont imaginés et représentés avec minutie influencent le cinéma, la bande dessinée et le jeu vidé depuis des décennies.
Experimentale architecture
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Hungarian-born French architect Yona Friedman is one of the most fascinating architectural theorists of our time. Gaining early recognition for his Manifesto de l’Architecture Mobile, he is best-known for his sketches of the Ville Spatiale, or Spatial City, which applied the core concepts of the manifesto to create mutable “superstructures” over existing cities. The(...)
Yona Friedman: the dilution of architecture
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Hungarian-born French architect Yona Friedman is one of the most fascinating architectural theorists of our time. Gaining early recognition for his Manifesto de l’Architecture Mobile, he is best-known for his sketches of the Ville Spatiale, or Spatial City, which applied the core concepts of the manifesto to create mutable “superstructures” over existing cities. The Spatial City represents an important thread running throughout Friedman’s work: He has always sought to provide people with the structures within which to construct and reconstruct their own environment, be it within the slums of the Third World or modern Western cities.
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