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Vitruvius on architecture
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"Vitruvius on Architecture" presents not only a new translation of the five books most relevant to contemporary architecture but also new drawings and watercolors that illustrate, certainly for the first time since ancient days, Vitruvius’s methods of proportion and composition. Architect and educator Thomas Gordon Smith re-created these finely detailed illustrations(...)
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"Vitruvius on Architecture" presents not only a new translation of the five books most relevant to contemporary architecture but also new drawings and watercolors that illustrate, certainly for the first time since ancient days, Vitruvius’s methods of proportion and composition. Architect and educator Thomas Gordon Smith re-created these finely detailed illustrations(...)
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"Vitruvius on Architecture" presents not only a new translation of the five books most relevant to contemporary architecture but also new drawings and watercolors that illustrate, certainly for the first time since ancient days, Vitruvius’s methods of proportion and composition. Architect and educator Thomas Gordon Smith re-created these finely detailed illustrations directly from the text, both the clearly written descriptions and examples of temple architecture are cited. Photographs of these buildings and details of their architecture are also included in this volume. The author, in an introduction both scholarly and personal, discusses what is known of Vitruvius himself as well as his influence generations of architects. This new edition of an ancient tome is intended for practical application, as an indispensable reference for classical studies, and as an incontrovertible example of the enduring value of the architecture of antiquity for contemporary education and practice.
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"Vitruvius on Architecture" presents not only a new translation of the five books most relevant to contemporary architecture but also new drawings and watercolors that illustrate, certainly for the first time since ancient days, Vitruvius’s methods of proportion and composition. Architect and educator Thomas Gordon Smith re-created these finely detailed illustrations directly from the text, both the clearly written descriptions and examples of temple architecture are cited. Photographs of these buildings and details of their architecture are also included in this volume. The author, in an introduction both scholarly and personal, discusses what is known of Vitruvius himself as well as his influence generations of architects. This new edition of an ancient tome is intended for practical application, as an indispensable reference for classical studies, and as an incontrovertible example of the enduring value of the architecture of antiquity for contemporary education and practice.
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November 2003, New York
November 2003, New York
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Ant architecture
Ant architecture
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Walter Tschinkel has spent much of his career investigating the hidden subterranean realm of ant nests. This wonderfully illustrated book takes you inside an unseen world where thousands of ants build intricate homes in the soil beneath our feet. Tschinkel describes the ingenious methods he has devised to study ant nests, showing how he fills a nest with plaster,(...)
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Walter Tschinkel has spent much of his career investigating the hidden subterranean realm of ant nests. This wonderfully illustrated book takes you inside an unseen world where thousands of ants build intricate homes in the soil beneath our feet. Tschinkel describes the ingenious methods he has devised to study ant nests, showing how he fills a nest with plaster,(...)
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Ant architecture
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Walter Tschinkel has spent much of his career investigating the hidden subterranean realm of ant nests. This wonderfully illustrated book takes you inside an unseen world where thousands of ants build intricate homes in the soil beneath our feet. Tschinkel describes the ingenious methods he has devised to study ant nests, showing how he fills a nest with plaster, molten metal, or wax and painstakingly excavates the cast. He guides you through living ant nests chamber by chamber, revealing how nests are created and how colonies function. How does nest architecture vary across species? Do ants have "architectural plans"? How do nests affect our environment? As he delves into these and other questions, Tschinkel provides a one-of-a-kind natural history of the planet's most successful creatures and a compelling firsthand account of a life of scientific discovery. Offering a unique look at how simple methods can lead to pioneering science, "Ant architecture" addresses the unsolved mysteries of underground ant nests while charting new directions for tomorrow’s research, and reflects on the role of beauty in nature and the joys of shoestring science.
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Walter Tschinkel has spent much of his career investigating the hidden subterranean realm of ant nests. This wonderfully illustrated book takes you inside an unseen world where thousands of ants build intricate homes in the soil beneath our feet. Tschinkel describes the ingenious methods he has devised to study ant nests, showing how he fills a nest with plaster, molten metal, or wax and painstakingly excavates the cast. He guides you through living ant nests chamber by chamber, revealing how nests are created and how colonies function. How does nest architecture vary across species? Do ants have "architectural plans"? How do nests affect our environment? As he delves into these and other questions, Tschinkel provides a one-of-a-kind natural history of the planet's most successful creatures and a compelling firsthand account of a life of scientific discovery. Offering a unique look at how simple methods can lead to pioneering science, "Ant architecture" addresses the unsolved mysteries of underground ant nests while charting new directions for tomorrow’s research, and reflects on the role of beauty in nature and the joys of shoestring science.
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June 2021
June 2021
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Landscape Theory
Landscape Theory
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Transformations silencieuses
Transformations silencieuses
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Cet ouvrage interroge les écarts entre l’appréhension architecturale savante du bâti alpin et la culture propre aux réalités rurales qualifiées d’architecture « vernaculaire ». À partir d’une étude approfondie de la figure du chalet et d’un travail de relevé rigoureux de hameaux et bâtiments ruraux du Val d’Hérens, dans le canton du Valais, il propose une critique(...)
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Cet ouvrage interroge les écarts entre l’appréhension architecturale savante du bâti alpin et la culture propre aux réalités rurales qualifiées d’architecture « vernaculaire ». À partir d’une étude approfondie de la figure du chalet et d’un travail de relevé rigoureux de hameaux et bâtiments ruraux du Val d’Hérens, dans le canton du Valais, il propose une critique(...)
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Transformations silencieuses
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Cet ouvrage interroge les écarts entre l’appréhension architecturale savante du bâti alpin et la culture propre aux réalités rurales qualifiées d’architecture « vernaculaire ». À partir d’une étude approfondie de la figure du chalet et d’un travail de relevé rigoureux de hameaux et bâtiments ruraux du Val d’Hérens, dans le canton du Valais, il propose une critique attentive des modalités discursives qui accompagnent et justifient toute entreprise de construction en montagne. Les formes bâties héritées de la culture rurale alpine doivent, pour l’auteur, être abandonnées à leur environnement, non pas pour tomber dans l’oubli ni pour répondre à une esthétique de ruines, mais pour perdurer et conserver leur condition originelle. En ce sens, la notion de patrimoine est ainsi mise à l’épreuve sous le rapport de son champ d’application et de ses théories, notamment juridiques.
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Cet ouvrage interroge les écarts entre l’appréhension architecturale savante du bâti alpin et la culture propre aux réalités rurales qualifiées d’architecture « vernaculaire ». À partir d’une étude approfondie de la figure du chalet et d’un travail de relevé rigoureux de hameaux et bâtiments ruraux du Val d’Hérens, dans le canton du Valais, il propose une critique attentive des modalités discursives qui accompagnent et justifient toute entreprise de construction en montagne. Les formes bâties héritées de la culture rurale alpine doivent, pour l’auteur, être abandonnées à leur environnement, non pas pour tomber dans l’oubli ni pour répondre à une esthétique de ruines, mais pour perdurer et conserver leur condition originelle. En ce sens, la notion de patrimoine est ainsi mise à l’épreuve sous le rapport de son champ d’application et de ses théories, notamment juridiques.
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January 2023
January 2023
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Architectural Theory
Architectural Theory
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Belles maisons québécoises
Belles maisons québécoises
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Au Québec, à la fin du XVIIIe siècle et au début du XIXe siècle, la tradition française de construire s’adapte aux exigences d’un nouveau pays. Il en résulte une nouvelle maison, unique en son genre, la maison québécoise. De ce modèle original, il reste aujourd’hui des exemples exceptionnels formant notre héritage architectural. Disséminées un peu partout dans nos(...)
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Au Québec, à la fin du XVIIIe siècle et au début du XIXe siècle, la tradition française de construire s’adapte aux exigences d’un nouveau pays. Il en résulte une nouvelle maison, unique en son genre, la maison québécoise. De ce modèle original, il reste aujourd’hui des exemples exceptionnels formant notre héritage architectural. Disséminées un peu partout dans nos(...)
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Belles maisons québécoises
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Au Québec, à la fin du XVIIIe siècle et au début du XIXe siècle, la tradition française de construire s’adapte aux exigences d’un nouveau pays. Il en résulte une nouvelle maison, unique en son genre, la maison québécoise. De ce modèle original, il reste aujourd’hui des exemples exceptionnels formant notre héritage architectural. Disséminées un peu partout dans nos campagnes, ces vieilles demeures occupent d’anciennes zones de peuplement où la pierre fut le matériau de prédilection de constructeurs enclins à édifier des œuvres pour les siècles à venir. Ces maisons magnifiques, encore bien conservées, peuvent servir d’inspiration à ceux qui voudraient en acquérir une et la restaurer. Et, pour ceux qui ne souhaitent que les admirer, l’ouvrage propose des promenades dans le temps, dans de vieux coins de pays encore riches d’histoire et d’architecture.
Belles maisons québécoises
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Au Québec, à la fin du XVIIIe siècle et au début du XIXe siècle, la tradition française de construire s’adapte aux exigences d’un nouveau pays. Il en résulte une nouvelle maison, unique en son genre, la maison québécoise. De ce modèle original, il reste aujourd’hui des exemples exceptionnels formant notre héritage architectural. Disséminées un peu partout dans nos campagnes, ces vieilles demeures occupent d’anciennes zones de peuplement où la pierre fut le matériau de prédilection de constructeurs enclins à édifier des œuvres pour les siècles à venir. Ces maisons magnifiques, encore bien conservées, peuvent servir d’inspiration à ceux qui voudraient en acquérir une et la restaurer. Et, pour ceux qui ne souhaitent que les admirer, l’ouvrage propose des promenades dans le temps, dans de vieux coins de pays encore riches d’histoire et d’architecture.
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December 2007, Montréal
December 2007, Montréal
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Architecture du Québec
Architecture du Québec
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Founded in 2008, the French-Lebanese firm of Youssef Tohme Architects and Associates has a delicate signature that takes the regional context as its starting point in developing an individual architectural language. By using a wide variety of materials that interact with the built environment, they create buildings that evolve over time alongside their inhabitants. The(...)
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Founded in 2008, the French-Lebanese firm of Youssef Tohme Architects and Associates has a delicate signature that takes the regional context as its starting point in developing an individual architectural language. By using a wide variety of materials that interact with the built environment, they create buildings that evolve over time alongside their inhabitants. The(...)
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Intimacies: The architecture of Youssef Tohme
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Founded in 2008, the French-Lebanese firm of Youssef Tohme Architects and Associates has a delicate signature that takes the regional context as its starting point in developing an individual architectural language. By using a wide variety of materials that interact with the built environment, they create buildings that evolve over time alongside their inhabitants. The book documents twelve of the firm’s projects – from a single-family home to a museum, including urban interventions in Beirut, Paris, Bordeaux, Marseille, and Bucharest. The book also includes an essay that takes a comprehensive look at the working methods of this firm, focusing in particular on the dimension of time and the changes that occur as the buildings are used.
Intimacies: The architecture of Youssef Tohme
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Founded in 2008, the French-Lebanese firm of Youssef Tohme Architects and Associates has a delicate signature that takes the regional context as its starting point in developing an individual architectural language. By using a wide variety of materials that interact with the built environment, they create buildings that evolve over time alongside their inhabitants. The book documents twelve of the firm’s projects – from a single-family home to a museum, including urban interventions in Beirut, Paris, Bordeaux, Marseille, and Bucharest. The book also includes an essay that takes a comprehensive look at the working methods of this firm, focusing in particular on the dimension of time and the changes that occur as the buildings are used.
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March 2023
March 2023
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Architecture Monographs
Architecture Monographs
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The Italian engineer, architect and builder Pier Luigi Nervi is responsible for some of the world's architectural masterpieces including St. Mary Cathedral in San Francisco, George Washington Bus Terminal in New York and Victoria Square Tower in Montreal. This book provides a complete overview of this prolific and versatile master of twentieth-century architecture,(...)
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The Italian engineer, architect and builder Pier Luigi Nervi is responsible for some of the world's architectural masterpieces including St. Mary Cathedral in San Francisco, George Washington Bus Terminal in New York and Victoria Square Tower in Montreal. This book provides a complete overview of this prolific and versatile master of twentieth-century architecture,(...)
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Pier Luigi Nervi: Architecture as challenge
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The Italian engineer, architect and builder Pier Luigi Nervi is responsible for some of the world's architectural masterpieces including St. Mary Cathedral in San Francisco, George Washington Bus Terminal in New York and Victoria Square Tower in Montreal. This book provides a complete overview of this prolific and versatile master of twentieth-century architecture, examining his career from its outset in the early 1920s up to the 1970s. In addition to a range of Nervi's buildings and public projects, the publication presents his pioneering research into technologies and construction materials.
Pier Luigi Nervi: Architecture as challenge
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The Italian engineer, architect and builder Pier Luigi Nervi is responsible for some of the world's architectural masterpieces including St. Mary Cathedral in San Francisco, George Washington Bus Terminal in New York and Victoria Square Tower in Montreal. This book provides a complete overview of this prolific and versatile master of twentieth-century architecture, examining his career from its outset in the early 1920s up to the 1970s. In addition to a range of Nervi's buildings and public projects, the publication presents his pioneering research into technologies and construction materials.
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February 2011
February 2011
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Architecture Monographs
Architecture Monographs
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Presenting a collection of exploratory ideas, this book offers an understanding of buildings, people and settlements through concepts of flow. Flows make buildings work; indeed flows make things in general work, including settlements, machines and people. In recent years there has been a huge growth in interest in various aspects of fluidity in architecture and urban(...)
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Presenting a collection of exploratory ideas, this book offers an understanding of buildings, people and settlements through concepts of flow. Flows make buildings work; indeed flows make things in general work, including settlements, machines and people. In recent years there has been a huge growth in interest in various aspects of fluidity in architecture and urban(...)
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Architecture in the space of flows
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Presenting a collection of exploratory ideas, this book offers an understanding of buildings, people and settlements through concepts of flow. Flows make buildings work; indeed flows make things in general work, including settlements, machines and people. In recent years there has been a huge growth in interest in various aspects of fluidity in architecture and urban planning. This book addresses this rising topic and the interest in processes that flow across traditional boundaries from the person to the building, from the sense of self to the settlement, from economics to identity.
Architecture in the space of flows
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Presenting a collection of exploratory ideas, this book offers an understanding of buildings, people and settlements through concepts of flow. Flows make buildings work; indeed flows make things in general work, including settlements, machines and people. In recent years there has been a huge growth in interest in various aspects of fluidity in architecture and urban planning. This book addresses this rising topic and the interest in processes that flow across traditional boundaries from the person to the building, from the sense of self to the settlement, from economics to identity.
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August 2011
August 2011
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Architectural Theory
Architectural Theory
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A follow-up volume to Architecture on Display: On the History of the Venice Biennale Architecture, published by the Architectural Association in 2010. This volume contains discussions with writers, architects and academics in Chicago, Venice, London and New York on the theme of display.
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A follow-up volume to Architecture on Display: On the History of the Venice Biennale Architecture, published by the Architectural Association in 2010. This volume contains discussions with writers, architects and academics in Chicago, Venice, London and New York on the theme of display.
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Four conversations on the architecture of discourse
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A follow-up volume to Architecture on Display: On the History of the Venice Biennale Architecture, published by the Architectural Association in 2010. This volume contains discussions with writers, architects and academics in Chicago, Venice, London and New York on the theme of display.
Four conversations on the architecture of discourse
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A follow-up volume to Architecture on Display: On the History of the Venice Biennale Architecture, published by the Architectural Association in 2010. This volume contains discussions with writers, architects and academics in Chicago, Venice, London and New York on the theme of display.
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December 2011
December 2011
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Architectural Theory
Architectural Theory
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For much of the 20th century, critique played an important part in what was considered 'modern' architecture; the canon of modern architecture considered itself dedicated to both formal progress and social critique. But as the 1960s spurred a rereading of modern architecture from a perspective informed by Marxism and the decade’s new social movements, many concluded that(...)
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For much of the 20th century, critique played an important part in what was considered 'modern' architecture; the canon of modern architecture considered itself dedicated to both formal progress and social critique. But as the 1960s spurred a rereading of modern architecture from a perspective informed by Marxism and the decade’s new social movements, many concluded that(...)
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Building critique: Architecture and its discontents
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For much of the 20th century, critique played an important part in what was considered 'modern' architecture; the canon of modern architecture considered itself dedicated to both formal progress and social critique. But as the 1960s spurred a rereading of modern architecture from a perspective informed by Marxism and the decade’s new social movements, many concluded that a building practice could not be critical, owing to its interdependent relationship with power and business. With recent economic crises hitting the building and property sectors, and research playing an increasingly large role in architectural practice, we are witnessing a renewed interest in critique in contemporary architecture, especially from postcolonial and feminist positions. The essays contained in this book, authored by a variety of international architects and thinkers, address this revived moment of critique, arguing that, far from being dead, architectural critique is now indispensable.
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For much of the 20th century, critique played an important part in what was considered 'modern' architecture; the canon of modern architecture considered itself dedicated to both formal progress and social critique. But as the 1960s spurred a rereading of modern architecture from a perspective informed by Marxism and the decade’s new social movements, many concluded that a building practice could not be critical, owing to its interdependent relationship with power and business. With recent economic crises hitting the building and property sectors, and research playing an increasingly large role in architectural practice, we are witnessing a renewed interest in critique in contemporary architecture, especially from postcolonial and feminist positions. The essays contained in this book, authored by a variety of international architects and thinkers, address this revived moment of critique, arguing that, far from being dead, architectural critique is now indispensable.
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September 2020
September 2020
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Architectural Theory
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The work of Marshall Brown, an architect and artist, demonstrates the power of collage as an architectural medium. In Brown’s view, collage changes the terms of architectural authorship and challenges outdated definitions of originality. Published in conjunction with the exhibition at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, the book features some forty collages by Marshall(...)
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The work of Marshall Brown, an architect and artist, demonstrates the power of collage as an architectural medium. In Brown’s view, collage changes the terms of architectural authorship and challenges outdated definitions of originality. Published in conjunction with the exhibition at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, the book features some forty collages by Marshall(...)
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Marshall Brown: The architecture of collage
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The work of Marshall Brown, an architect and artist, demonstrates the power of collage as an architectural medium. In Brown’s view, collage changes the terms of architectural authorship and challenges outdated definitions of originality. Published in conjunction with the exhibition at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, the book features some forty collages by Marshall Brown. The full-color plates are supplemented with essays by critic and curator Aaron Betsky, scholar of art history and archaeology Anna Arabindan-Kesson, Santa Barbara Museum of Art’s curator James Glisson, and Marshall Brown that outline the conceptual foundations of Brown’s intriguing exploration of an intersection of architecture and art.
Marshall Brown: The architecture of collage
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The work of Marshall Brown, an architect and artist, demonstrates the power of collage as an architectural medium. In Brown’s view, collage changes the terms of architectural authorship and challenges outdated definitions of originality. Published in conjunction with the exhibition at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, the book features some forty collages by Marshall Brown. The full-color plates are supplemented with essays by critic and curator Aaron Betsky, scholar of art history and archaeology Anna Arabindan-Kesson, Santa Barbara Museum of Art’s curator James Glisson, and Marshall Brown that outline the conceptual foundations of Brown’s intriguing exploration of an intersection of architecture and art.
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October 2022
October 2022
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Architecture Monographs
Architecture Monographs
