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''Standpoint Autotheory'' encompasses a multitude of manifestations of radically self-reflexive research attitudes. It traces research based artistic practices through twelve contributions that propose a performative integration of the personal within the production of theory and explore the entanglements of subjectivity with criticality aimed at social transformation by(...)
Standpoint autotheory: Writing embodied experiences and relational artistic practice
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''Standpoint Autotheory'' encompasses a multitude of manifestations of radically self-reflexive research attitudes. It traces research based artistic practices through twelve contributions that propose a performative integration of the personal within the production of theory and explore the entanglements of subjectivity with criticality aimed at social transformation by questioning dominant epistemologies. The positions assembled in the book are permeated by different modes of thinking and practice such as autoethnography, practices of the self, auto-historia teoría, standpoint theories, strong objectivity and situated knowledge, self-authority, narrativity and storytelling, radical positioning, performative philosophy, autofiction, thinking-feeling, and other methods that, through the interrogation of embodied experiences, illuminate the connections between the personal and the political, as well as the individual and the communal.
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Mallorca Boom
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The transformation that has taken place in Mallorca during the last 50 years was unimaginable, especially for elderly residents. However, the last decade has been the one in which the island suffered a lack of control more centred on speculation and not so much on necessity. Certainly Mallorca depends on tourism (no other alternative, providing similar or better(...)
Architecture since 1900, Europe
January 1900, Barcelona
Mallorca Boom
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The transformation that has taken place in Mallorca during the last 50 years was unimaginable, especially for elderly residents. However, the last decade has been the one in which the island suffered a lack of control more centred on speculation and not so much on necessity. Certainly Mallorca depends on tourism (no other alternative, providing similar or better prospects, has been presented yet). Aware of the need, we built a territory too fast. In this book, a look from the outside is proposed, taken by people with a relationship to the island, with an affection for it, but who, from a distance, can offer a fresher opionion of what could happen. Texts are provided by architects, designers, biolgists, etc. Photographs are by Jordi Bernado.
Architecture since 1900, Europe
Transforming Barcelona
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This unique book, written by local experts in the city, deals with the transformation of Barcelona during the last twenty years. Barcelona has been held up as a model of urban planning and economic regeneration amongst built environment professionals. The redesign of square parks and streets throughout the city in the 1980's first attracted attention and praise and then(...)
Transforming Barcelona
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This unique book, written by local experts in the city, deals with the transformation of Barcelona during the last twenty years. Barcelona has been held up as a model of urban planning and economic regeneration amongst built environment professionals. The redesign of square parks and streets throughout the city in the 1980's first attracted attention and praise and then the 1992 Olympics hosted in the city raised international awareness. The city received many awards and accolades including a Gold Medal from the RIBA. The selection of writings is well illustrated throughout with maps, drawings and photographs and will be of interest to architects, planners and urban designers as well as those interested in the social and economic impacts of regeneration.
Architecture since 1900, Europe
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For years, Montreal photographer Normand Rajotte has been exploring an area of a few square kilometers at the foot of Mont Megantic, near La Patrie, a village in south-eastern Quebec, Canada. Produced between 2004 and 2010, the series "Comme un murmure" (Like a whisper) reveals the profound connection that the artist has established over the years with this woodland.(...)
Normand Rajotte : Comme un murmure / Like A Whisper
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For years, Montreal photographer Normand Rajotte has been exploring an area of a few square kilometers at the foot of Mont Megantic, near La Patrie, a village in south-eastern Quebec, Canada. Produced between 2004 and 2010, the series "Comme un murmure" (Like a whisper) reveals the profound connection that the artist has established over the years with this woodland. Little by little, image after image, Rajotte has taken root in these several hectares of woods, to the point of merging with them. Observing the growth of vegetation or traces of animal activity, he photographs the perpetual transformation of 'his' forest.Comme un murmure testifies to the powerful feeling that unites man and animal, when one rejoins the other as he immerses himself deeply into nature.
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Drawing on a range of previously unexplored archival resources, Michael Osman examines the increasing role of environmental technologies in building design from the late nineteenth century. He shows how architects appropriated and subsumed the work of engineers as thermostats, air handlers, and refrigeration proliferated. He argues that this change was closely connected(...)
Modernism's visible hand: architecture and regulation in America
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Drawing on a range of previously unexplored archival resources, Michael Osman examines the increasing role of environmental technologies in building design from the late nineteenth century. He shows how architects appropriated and subsumed the work of engineers as thermostats, air handlers, and refrigeration proliferated. He argues that this change was closely connected to broader cultural and economic trends in management and the regulation of risk. The transformation shaped the evolution of architectural modernism and the development of the building as a machine. Rather than assume the preexisting natural order of things, participants in regulation—including architects, scientists, entrepreneurs, engineers, managers, economists, government employees, and domestic reformers—became entangled in managing the errors, crises, and risks stemming from the nation’s unprecedented growth.
Architectural Theory
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Presenting a critical and theoretical dimension to retail design, "Boutiques and other retail spaces" links the ideas behind it to real practice in this innovative and important contribution to architectural/interior theory literature. Retail structure has been subject to a dramatic and ongoing transformation over the past thirty years, materializing in the emergence(...)
Commercial interiors, Building types
July 2007, New York, London
Boutique and other retail spaces : the architecture of seduction
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Presenting a critical and theoretical dimension to retail design, "Boutiques and other retail spaces" links the ideas behind it to real practice in this innovative and important contribution to architectural/interior theory literature. Retail structure has been subject to a dramatic and ongoing transformation over the past thirty years, materializing in the emergence of large-scale out-of-town shopping centres and new specialized shops in city centres. These specialized boutiques are highly designed, involving well-known architectural firms such as OMA/Rem Koolhaas, David Chipperfield, Herzog + de Meuron amongst others. With case studies and over 100 black and white images, Vernet and de Wit set forth original and well-grounded theory to accompany this popular and lucrative area of work.
Commercial interiors, Building types
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L’architecture travaille la matière afin de la rendre expressive. Elle se heurte ce faisant à son obstination muette qu’elle tente de dépasser. Partant de ce constat, ce livre propose de l’interpréter à la lumière de la notion de matérialité envisagée comme le rapport que nous entretenons avec les phénomènes sensibles, les matériaux et les objets. Notre subjectivité(...)
La matérialité de l'architecture
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L’architecture travaille la matière afin de la rendre expressive. Elle se heurte ce faisant à son obstination muette qu’elle tente de dépasser. Partant de ce constat, ce livre propose de l’interpréter à la lumière de la notion de matérialité envisagée comme le rapport que nous entretenons avec les phénomènes sensibles, les matériaux et les objets. Notre subjectivité d’êtres humains se constitue pour partie au travers de cette rencontre avec toutes ces « choses » qui tombent immédiatement sous le sens. Par leur intermédiaire, l’architecture contribue à la création d’un monde destiné spécifiquement aux hommes. L’interprétation de la matérialité a considérablement évolué depuis Vitruve. Sa transformation permet de lire différemment l’histoire de l’architecture et de mieux comprendre certains enjeux actuels, tels ceux qui s’attachent à la révolution numérique.
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Serious play
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This volume shows how postwar designers embraced whimsy and eclecticism in their work, exploring playfulness as an essential construct of modernity. Following World War II, Americans began accumulating more and more goods, spurring a transformation in the field of interior decoration. Storage walls became ubiquitous, often serving as a home's centerpiece. Designers such(...)
Serious play
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This volume shows how postwar designers embraced whimsy and eclecticism in their work, exploring playfulness as an essential construct of modernity. Following World War II, Americans began accumulating more and more goods, spurring a transformation in the field of interior decoration. Storage walls became ubiquitous, often serving as a home's centerpiece. Designers such as Alexander Girard encouraged homeowners to populate their new shelving units with folk art, as well as unconventional and modern objects, to produce innovative and unexpected juxtapositions within modern architectural settings. Playfulness can be seen in the colorful, child-sized furniture by Charles and Ray Eames, who also produced toys. And in the postwar corporate world, the concept of play is manifested in the influential advertising work of Paul Rand.
Design, Periods and Styles
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La ville de demain devra s'adapter à des modes de vie en perpétuelle mutation tout en étant peu émissive en carbone. Dans cet objectif, cet ouvrage - qui s'inscrit dans le prolongement d'une réflexion initiée par Anne Démians dès 2008, à travers le projet Basic Carbon, lauréat du concours lancé par EDF, et qui s'est concrétisée en 2019, avec la livraison des célèbres(...)
La réversibilité des bâtiments pour une ville décarbonnée
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La ville de demain devra s'adapter à des modes de vie en perpétuelle mutation tout en étant peu émissive en carbone. Dans cet objectif, cet ouvrage - qui s'inscrit dans le prolongement d'une réflexion initiée par Anne Démians dès 2008, à travers le projet Basic Carbon, lauréat du concours lancé par EDF, et qui s'est concrétisée en 2019, avec la livraison des célèbres Black Swans à Strasbourg - propose de faire évoluer les mécanismes de décision et la réglementation, afin que soient considérées l'évolution rapide des usages des bâtiments et les rythmes économiques de plus en plus soutenus dans la construction d'une ville et d'architectures durables. Pour cela, deux approches sont considérées : la transformation des immeubles existants et la conception de bâtiments neufs réversibles.
Green Architecture
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''This is Toronto 50 years ago, 52 years had passed since 1918, the end of the first World War and 1970 the first year of these pictures. And since the last of the photos were made in 1972, another 50 years have passed. The appearance of people has changed little, smoking is not as common, there were no computers. The cars and phones are greater visual cues. But it is a(...)
Tony Bock: Social Landscapes Toronto 1970-72
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''This is Toronto 50 years ago, 52 years had passed since 1918, the end of the first World War and 1970 the first year of these pictures. And since the last of the photos were made in 1972, another 50 years have passed. The appearance of people has changed little, smoking is not as common, there were no computers. The cars and phones are greater visual cues. But it is a very different world we live in today.'' - TB Tony Bock is a British-born photographer who emigrated to Canada with his parents in 1952. His photographs provide a glimpse into the changing social and cultural fabric of Toronto during a time of significant transformation. Bock worked as photographer for the Toronto Star for over 30 years.
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