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Translated by Donald Nicholson-Smith. Guy Debord is best known as the prime mover of the Situationist International (1957-1972), as a filmmaker, and as the author of "The Society of the Spectacle" (1967). Alice Becker-Ho (Alice Debord) and Debord’s "A Game of War" originally appeared in 1987, as well as a rudimentary version of the game in a limited edition. In 1991, at(...)
November 2007, London
Alice Becker-Ho & Guy Debord: a game of war
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Translated by Donald Nicholson-Smith. Guy Debord is best known as the prime mover of the Situationist International (1957-1972), as a filmmaker, and as the author of "The Society of the Spectacle" (1967). Alice Becker-Ho (Alice Debord) and Debord’s "A Game of War" originally appeared in 1987, as well as a rudimentary version of the game in a limited edition. In 1991, at the direction of Guy Debord, all copies of the book were pulped. This carefully produced first edition in English combines book and a game-board and counters allowing readers to play “at home” according to the rules given.
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Educational spaces for children have certainly evolved through the years, yet today the search to understand the processes involved in learning and teaching – including the role of the physical environment – is progressing like never before. The resurgence in recent years that the design of quality spaces for both learning and play has experienced is tied with advances in(...)
C3 special : spaces for children
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Educational spaces for children have certainly evolved through the years, yet today the search to understand the processes involved in learning and teaching – including the role of the physical environment – is progressing like never before. The resurgence in recent years that the design of quality spaces for both learning and play has experienced is tied with advances in technology and an increase in cross-disciplinary inputs in architecture. This special issue looks at sixteen recent examples at the forefront of new concepts in spaces for children, including works by Mario Cucinella, Feld72, PAL Design Group, KLab Architecture, Tezuka Architects, Omgeving + Carve, and more.
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The concepts of public and private are not diametrically opposed, but rather exist on a continuum. The success of public architecture is determined by the interaction between the two, for both the individual and the collective. Here ''C3'' considers how public ownership and privatisation play out across several typologies, from open spaces and swimming pools, to mixed-use(...)
C3 special : pseudo-public pseudo-private
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The concepts of public and private are not diametrically opposed, but rather exist on a continuum. The success of public architecture is determined by the interaction between the two, for both the individual and the collective. Here ''C3'' considers how public ownership and privatisation play out across several typologies, from open spaces and swimming pools, to mixed-use buildings and museums. Among the featured projects are the Amos Rex Museum by JKMM Architects, Dominique Perrault's Paris Longchamp Racecourse, Aarhus Harbour Bath by BIG, the Palestinian Museum by Heneghan Peng Architects, and the Apple Piazza Liberty by Foster + Partners.
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124 minutes, color stereo in french with english subtitles. In Play Time, Tati's character, M. Hulot, and a group of American tourists attempt to navigate a futuristic Paris constructed of straight lines, modernist glass and steel high-rise buildings, multi-lane roadways, and cold, artificial furnishings. In this environment, only the irrepressible nonconformity of(...)
Playtime
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124 minutes, color stereo in french with english subtitles. In Play Time, Tati's character, M. Hulot, and a group of American tourists attempt to navigate a futuristic Paris constructed of straight lines, modernist glass and steel high-rise buildings, multi-lane roadways, and cold, artificial furnishings. In this environment, only the irrepressible nonconformity of human nature and an occasional appreciation for the good old days breathe life into an otherwise sterile urban lifestyle. Modern industrial technologies, accepted as necessary by society, are represented by Tati as obstructions to daily life and an interference to natural human interaction.
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January 1900
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Anja Franke: installations
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The book offers a thorough retrospective view of Anja Franke's work during the last 15 years. Mikkel Bogh, director of the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen, contributes with an essay on the experience of mental and physical spaces in Franke's installations and her concern with borders, limitations, divisions and relations. Sanne Kofod Olsen, curator, writer(...)
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November 2004, Copenhagen
Anja Franke: installations
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The book offers a thorough retrospective view of Anja Franke's work during the last 15 years. Mikkel Bogh, director of the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen, contributes with an essay on the experience of mental and physical spaces in Franke's installations and her concern with borders, limitations, divisions and relations. Sanne Kofod Olsen, curator, writer and director of the Funen Academy of Fine Arts in Odense, looks into recurrent aspects or principles in Franke's practice such as man, woman, apple, house and Franke's play with gender roles. The artist introduces each work with a description and personal comments.
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Audio-CD, playtime 50 minutes, 35 tracks. Including 8-pages booklet with drawings of the recorder, photos, and texts by Oswald Wiener and Jeremy Roht. For these field recordings of the nightly chanting of sled dogs from the Yukon-territory, Oswald Wiener did build a recorder by himself, which is, also at extreme outside temperatures, reacting to acoustic signals: "The(...)
Architecture in Canada
January 2001, Köln
Animal music / tiermusik: team of Jeremy Roht, west dawson, yukon-territory
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Audio-CD, playtime 50 minutes, 35 tracks. Including 8-pages booklet with drawings of the recorder, photos, and texts by Oswald Wiener and Jeremy Roht. For these field recordings of the nightly chanting of sled dogs from the Yukon-territory, Oswald Wiener did build a recorder by himself, which is, also at extreme outside temperatures, reacting to acoustic signals: "The peculiar enjoyability of this music, which - in contrast to much contemporary human music - stands the test of repeated listenings, forces one to the conclusion that, to the dogs at least, an abstract aesthetic experience constitutes the 'figure' of their play." (Oswald Wiener)
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Rem Koolhaas' spaces for living, including his apartments and houses, are collected for the first time in book format. This new book highlights this important aspect of his work: with texts, plans and photographs, it presents the Patiovilla in Rotterdam, the Villa Dall'Ava(...)
OMA Rem Koolhaas : living vivre leben
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Rem Koolhaas' spaces for living, including his apartments and houses, are collected for the first time in book format. This new book highlights this important aspect of his work: with texts, plans and photographs, it presents the Patiovilla in Rotterdam, the Villa Dall'Ava in Paris, the Dutch House in Holten, the Maison à Bordeaux, and the Nexus Housing in Fukuoka/Japan. Their common theme is an intense search for freedom. As with all of Koolhaas' work, a clever play with openings, transparencies and transparent and opaque surfaces makes these living spaces permeable to the variations of light, weather, and function.
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September 1998, Bordeaux
Architecture Monographs
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The second edition of this very successful volume examines the current state of planning theory and the new directions it has taken in recent years. The editors have selected a set of classic and contemporary writings to address a central question : what role can planning theory play in making the good city region within the constraints of a capitalist political economy(...)
Readings in planning theory / second edition
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The second edition of this very successful volume examines the current state of planning theory and the new directions it has taken in recent years. The editors have selected a set of classic and contemporary writings to address a central question : what role can planning theory play in making the good city region within the constraints of a capitalist political economy and democratic political system? The volume draws on a wide range of authors who address planning history, challenges to public planning, competing planning styles, planning ethics, the public interest, and issues such as race and gender.
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Pandemic objects
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A publication based on "Pandemic objects", an editorial project that compiles and reflects on objects that have taken on new meaning and purpose during the Covid-19 pandemic. During times of pandemic, a host of everyday often-overlooked "objects" are suddenly charged with new urgency. Toilet paper becomes a symbol of public panic, a forehead thermometer a tool for social(...)
Pandemic objects
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A publication based on "Pandemic objects", an editorial project that compiles and reflects on objects that have taken on new meaning and purpose during the Covid-19 pandemic. During times of pandemic, a host of everyday often-overlooked "objects" are suddenly charged with new urgency. Toilet paper becomes a symbol of public panic, a forehead thermometer a tool for social control, convention centres become hospitals, while parks become contested public commodities. By compiling these objects and reflecting on their changing purpose and meaning, the project aims to paint a unique picture of the pandemic and the pivotal role objects play within it.
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Anima issue 3, spring 2025
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This is the third issue of Anima, and it has a new format and look, thanks to Cabinet Milano. They have worked hard to create a magazine that offers substance as well as a striking graphic identity. In this edition, Dalia Al-Dujaili writes about the essential role that design and architecture play in the struggle of the Palestinian people to protect their identity from(...)
Anima issue 3, spring 2025
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This is the third issue of Anima, and it has a new format and look, thanks to Cabinet Milano. They have worked hard to create a magazine that offers substance as well as a striking graphic identity. In this edition, Dalia Al-Dujaili writes about the essential role that design and architecture play in the struggle of the Palestinian people to protect their identity from erasure. She speaks to designer and architect Lara Salous, artist Jordan Nassar, and brothers Yousef and Elias Anastas, who are partners at AAU ANASTAS, and co-founders of Local Industries, Radio alHara and The Wonder Cabinet.
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