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An example of the rehabilitation of disused buildings – Ortner & Ortner´s transformation of an industrial area in Zurich. The “Schiffbau” in Zurich is a disused industrial ship-building hall, now classified as a historical monument. Austrian architects Ortner & Ortner have skilfully transformed the original building to provide a base for the Zurich Schauspielhaus(...)
Architecture Monographs
January 2003, Basel
Schiffbau : a site is transformed
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An example of the rehabilitation of disused buildings – Ortner & Ortner´s transformation of an industrial area in Zurich. The “Schiffbau” in Zurich is a disused industrial ship-building hall, now classified as a historical monument. Austrian architects Ortner & Ortner have skilfully transformed the original building to provide a base for the Zurich Schauspielhaus theatre, and to accommodate a range of cultural amenities. This publication chronicles the architectural processes whilst also considering the wider issues of transforming existing structures to take on new urban uses. Isued by the Swiss Federal Office of Culture.
Architecture Monographs
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For the French philosopher Miguel Abensour, the fictional genre of utopia has provided thinkers and artists a fertile ground to explore for the past 500 years, both as a way to imagine new emancipatory practices of shared existence and as a tyrannical imposition of power. Here, Abensour’s project is to examine the idea of utopia in two different but powerful moments in(...)
Utopia, from Tomas More to Walter Benjamin
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For the French philosopher Miguel Abensour, the fictional genre of utopia has provided thinkers and artists a fertile ground to explore for the past 500 years, both as a way to imagine new emancipatory practices of shared existence and as a tyrannical imposition of power. Here, Abensour’s project is to examine the idea of utopia in two different but powerful moments in its trajectory: first, utopia’s beginning, when Thomas More sought a path for justice through a world in transformation, and second, when utopia faced its greatest danger, the moment that Walter Benjamin called “catastrophe.”
Critical Theory
Rikuzentakata
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Le 11 mars 2011, un puissant tsunami a frappé le Nord-Est du Japon en détruisant pratiquement tout sur son passage. Naoya Hatakeyama, photographe, est touché personnellement par ce drame qui efface sa ville natale, Rikuzentakata, et les repères de sa mémoire. 'Rikuzentakata' est le récit intime de Naoya Hatakeyama qui observe la naissance d’un monde inconnu dans le bruit(...)
Rikuzentakata
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Le 11 mars 2011, un puissant tsunami a frappé le Nord-Est du Japon en détruisant pratiquement tout sur son passage. Naoya Hatakeyama, photographe, est touché personnellement par ce drame qui efface sa ville natale, Rikuzentakata, et les repères de sa mémoire. 'Rikuzentakata' est le récit intime de Naoya Hatakeyama qui observe la naissance d’un monde inconnu dans le bruit des engins de construction. Face à cette transformation qui le concerne tant, textes et photographies de Naoya Hatakeyama se rejoignent pour esquisser un chemin possible, un avenir envisagé.
Photography monographs
Form & formlessness
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Form and Formlessness is an experimental research project that investigates how aesthetic abstractions are developed through three approaches: An educational approach concerned with developing an aesthetic discipline, supporting a formgiving process aimed to create tangible artifacts. An art-based approach supporting an open exploration of distortion and formlessness. A(...)
Form & formlessness
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Form and Formlessness is an experimental research project that investigates how aesthetic abstractions are developed through three approaches: An educational approach concerned with developing an aesthetic discipline, supporting a formgiving process aimed to create tangible artifacts. An art-based approach supporting an open exploration of distortion and formlessness. A cross-disciplinary exploratory approach concerned with aesthetic experiences shared in laborations demonstrating complexity and transformation. The thesis offers methods and models that both support and challenge the normative concepts of beauty, with high relevance for teaching 3-D formgiving aesthetics and research by design methodologies.
Design Theory
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The study of the museum visitor has undergone a radical transformation. This collection brings together imaginative research that encourages new conclusions. Some questions involve the visitor's identity, what she brings to her museum experience. Can we gain entry into this experience? Does more technology really increase access to the objects themselves? Others probe the(...)
Visiting the visitor: an enquiry into the visitor business in museums
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The study of the museum visitor has undergone a radical transformation. This collection brings together imaginative research that encourages new conclusions. Some questions involve the visitor's identity, what she brings to her museum experience. Can we gain entry into this experience? Does more technology really increase access to the objects themselves? Others probe the very nature of museum-going and exhibition making, demanding that we reexamine the traditional exhibition to reposition the visitor and her meaning-making at the center. Each author here has asked unfamiliar questions and responded with fresh answers.
Museology
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The normative order and authoritarian use of conventional archives has long been criticised. This volume investigates the digitally informed transformation and multiplication of archives today, in conjunction with the increase in both accessibility and the amount of data produced, stored, and circulated. Despite improved search capabilities, documents, photographs, and(...)
Order and collapse: the lives of archives
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The normative order and authoritarian use of conventional archives has long been criticised. This volume investigates the digitally informed transformation and multiplication of archives today, in conjunction with the increase in both accessibility and the amount of data produced, stored, and circulated. Despite improved search capabilities, documents, photographs, and other images are in danger of vanishing. Yet new knowledge, connotations, and materialities are also emerging. Through various texts and artworks, a selection of contemporary artistic and research-based approaches to existing archives, the act of collecting images, and creating new archives is represented.
Archive, library and the digital
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What do outer space capsules, submarines and office buildings have in common? Each was conceived as a closed system- a self-sustaining physical environment demarcated from its surroundings by a boundary prohibiting the transfer of matter or energy. As partial reconstructions of the world in time and space, closed systems identify and implement the basic materials(...)
The architecture of closed worlds: Or, what is the power of shit?
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What do outer space capsules, submarines and office buildings have in common? Each was conceived as a closed system- a self-sustaining physical environment demarcated from its surroundings by a boundary prohibiting the transfer of matter or energy. As partial reconstructions of the world in time and space, closed systems identify and implement the basic materials necessary for the sustenance of life. From the space program to countercultural architectural groups experimenting with autonomous living, ''The Architecture of Closed Worlds'' documents a disciplinary transformation and the rise of a new environmental consciousness.
Architectural Theory
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Architecture builds upon history. Even the avant-gardist creed to “make it new” still assumes a past. It is impossible to imagine novelty without an awareness of what existed before. This is even more true for the reuse and appropriation of existing structures, where designers take a stance relative to the past. In their transformation projects the office of(...)
Architecture Monographs
May 2018
Hans Ibelings and Diederendirrix Architects: make it anew
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Architecture builds upon history. Even the avant-gardist creed to “make it new” still assumes a past. It is impossible to imagine novelty without an awareness of what existed before. This is even more true for the reuse and appropriation of existing structures, where designers take a stance relative to the past. In their transformation projects the office of diederendirrix architects retell stories of buildings and sites – by paraphrasing part of the story, by recasting central actors, by making architecture speak in other words. In so doing, they make it anew.
Architecture Monographs
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This new edition of the classic work on the politics of architecture—and the architecture of politics—appears on the fiftieth anniversary of the Six-Day War, which expanded Israel’s domination over Palestinian lands. From the tunnels of Gaza to the militarized airspace of the Occupied Territories, Eyal Weizman unravels Israel’s mechanisms of control and its transformation(...)
Hollow land: Israel's architecture of occupation. 2nd edition
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This new edition of the classic work on the politics of architecture—and the architecture of politics—appears on the fiftieth anniversary of the Six-Day War, which expanded Israel’s domination over Palestinian lands. From the tunnels of Gaza to the militarized airspace of the Occupied Territories, Eyal Weizman unravels Israel’s mechanisms of control and its transformation of Palestinian homes into a war zone under constant surveillance. This is essential reading for those seeking to understand how architecture and infrastructure are used as lethal weapons in the formation of Israel.
Architecture since 1900, Middle-East
Javier Vallhonrat: acaso
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In the separate lexicon, installed at the beginning of this well conceived photographic book, Vallhonrat provides nine notes on how the images should be interpreted. Among them it is clear that his photographs explore ‘objects, places and actions,' along with ideas such as belonging, identity, and the processes of construction and transformation. Furthermore, these(...)
Javier Vallhonrat: acaso
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In the separate lexicon, installed at the beginning of this well conceived photographic book, Vallhonrat provides nine notes on how the images should be interpreted. Among them it is clear that his photographs explore ‘objects, places and actions,' along with ideas such as belonging, identity, and the processes of construction and transformation. Furthermore, these actions, objects and places shown in the images ‘find themselves in a no-mans land between reality, dreams and the fantasy found in children's stories.' Rich and mysterious, the 45 full colour photographs come printed, uninterrupted, one on each double page.
Theory of Photography