Babel's present
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The Tower of Babel is known for its absence. A landmark of architectural self-doubt, it has survived not as a physical object but through its representation in text and image. But over the last century, the Tower has rematerialized in an enigmatic array of projects that invite reassessment. From Robert Koldewey’s excavations in Mesopotamia, to full-scale reassemblies in(...)
Babel's present
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The Tower of Babel is known for its absence. A landmark of architectural self-doubt, it has survived not as a physical object but through its representation in text and image. But over the last century, the Tower has rematerialized in an enigmatic array of projects that invite reassessment. From Robert Koldewey’s excavations in Mesopotamia, to full-scale reassemblies in Berlin, surrogate reconstructions by Saddam Hussein, and mock ruins built in upstate New York for the US Department of Defense, Dugdale plots this story against the background of recent conflict in Iraq, presenting Babel as a vital challenge to the politics of architecture’s material presence.
Architectural Theory
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The top entries from the 2014 Land Art Generator Initiative competition are profiled in this volume that brings together innovative work from architects, scientists, landscape architects, artists, and engineers engaged in the innovation of art and clean energy. Founded in 2009, the Land Art Generator Initiative, or LAGI, was created to encourage the design and(...)
New energies: land art generator initiative, Copenhagen
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The top entries from the 2014 Land Art Generator Initiative competition are profiled in this volume that brings together innovative work from architects, scientists, landscape architects, artists, and engineers engaged in the innovation of art and clean energy. Founded in 2009, the Land Art Generator Initiative, or LAGI, was created to encourage the design and construction of public art installations that have the added benefit of utility scale clean energy generation. The biennial competition, which receives submissions from around the world, is this year being held in Copenhagen, Denmark--a city that is moving towards carbon neutral status by 2025.
Land Art
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For more than half a century, visionary architect Kiyonori Kikutake (1928–2011) pursued Metabolic architecture, embracing forces of renewal, recycling, and transformation. This volume, the first comprehensive assessment of Kikutake in the English language, highlights his lifelong creation of a constantly evolving platform for living, floating above land and sea through(...)
Kiyonori Kikutake: between land and sea
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For more than half a century, visionary architect Kiyonori Kikutake (1928–2011) pursued Metabolic architecture, embracing forces of renewal, recycling, and transformation. This volume, the first comprehensive assessment of Kikutake in the English language, highlights his lifelong creation of a constantly evolving platform for living, floating above land and sea through pivotal works including the Sky House, Hotel Tken, the Izumo Administration Building, and the urban scale of his ongoing Marine/Ocean City project, spanning from the late 1950s to today.
Landscape Architecture, Monographs
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Bridget Riley’s paintings are developed carefully over time, the result of methodically working through pictorial variables such as color, tone, scale, and rhythm. Studies are central to this process, allowing Riley to concentrate on the analysis and synthesis that lie at the heart of her working practice. This volume illustrates the thinking that goes into Riley’s work(...)
Bridget Riley: Working drawings
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Bridget Riley’s paintings are developed carefully over time, the result of methodically working through pictorial variables such as color, tone, scale, and rhythm. Studies are central to this process, allowing Riley to concentrate on the analysis and synthesis that lie at the heart of her working practice. This volume illustrates the thinking that goes into Riley’s work through a selection of over 150 drawings, colour analyses, notations, scale studies, and cartoons. The selection spans most of Riley’s working life, tracing the origins and evolving nature of her remarkable body of work. Riley’s beginnings are also documented through selected childhood drawings, work made during and immediately following her studies at Goldsmiths’ College and the Royal College of Art, and her early explorations into abstraction. The artist’s working method is brought into high relief in a newly commissioned conversation with Riley and Sir John Leighton, Director of the National Galleries of Scotland. The text explores the cardinal moments in the artist’s practice and the impulses that bring her work into existence. The volume also includes four texts dedicated to Riley’s studies and practice written by the artist, art historians, curators, and museum directors, which shed further light on the enduring role of drawing and the process of exploration central to her work.
Contemporary Art Monographs
Real Review 15
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It isn’t the representation of violence in the Gaza Strip that is so disturbing; it is the absence of representation. The grief and despair of a child is penetratingly real. The extreme realism of these events has now driven a wedge between our realities, material and social. The scale and speed of this suffering has destroyed our ability to sustain any belief in the(...)
Real Review 15
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It isn’t the representation of violence in the Gaza Strip that is so disturbing; it is the absence of representation. The grief and despair of a child is penetratingly real. The extreme realism of these events has now driven a wedge between our realities, material and social. The scale and speed of this suffering has destroyed our ability to sustain any belief in the symbolic values of “the international community” and “human rights”. We can no longer even pretend these ideas correlate to any form of reality. This issue of Real Review is dedicated to the current mood, the Phantom of Liberty.
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Microhabitable
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Researching across disciplines, "Microhabitable" considers scale, as well as questions of habitability and self-organisation, in a de-anthropocentric, or more than- human, framework. What methodologies and strategies might those anthropological, political and scientific discourses that deal with the microscopic, the micropolitical and the microeconomic have to share with(...)
Environment and environmental theory
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Microhabitable
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Researching across disciplines, "Microhabitable" considers scale, as well as questions of habitability and self-organisation, in a de-anthropocentric, or more than- human, framework. What methodologies and strategies might those anthropological, political and scientific discourses that deal with the microscopic, the micropolitical and the microeconomic have to share with one another? "Microhabitable"’s authors suggest methodologies of encounter and exchange between differential knowledges, be they subaltern, peasant, indigenous, vegetal, matriarchal or post/ nonhuman.
Environment and environmental theory
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The influential art of Josef Albers is used to teach shapes in this stylish read-aloud board book, which takes children through Albers' range of geometrics, one artwork per page, beginning with squares and returning to them as a familiar refrain throughout. The variance of colour, scale, and quantity adds to the richness of the visual arc, and the accompanying text(...)
Squares & other shapes with Josef Albers
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The influential art of Josef Albers is used to teach shapes in this stylish read-aloud board book, which takes children through Albers' range of geometrics, one artwork per page, beginning with squares and returning to them as a familiar refrain throughout. The variance of colour, scale, and quantity adds to the richness of the visual arc, and the accompanying text provides a humorous and engaging commentary. Readers will not only learn their shapes, but also grow familiar with fine art in this second title in the 'First Concepts with Fine Artists' series. Includes a read-aloud ‘about the artist’ at the end.
Children's Books
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Edward Burtynsky (b. 1955) is one of a generation of photographers who seek to portray the visible outcomes of a globalized economy and humankind’s impact on environments around the world. He has achieved global recognition with his large-scale photographs and project-based monographs, such as Quarries, Oil, and Water, all of which have resulted in popular touring(...)
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Edward Burtynsky: essential elements
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Edward Burtynsky (b. 1955) is one of a generation of photographers who seek to portray the visible outcomes of a globalized economy and humankind’s impact on environments around the world. He has achieved global recognition with his large-scale photographs and project-based monographs, such as Quarries, Oil, and Water, all of which have resulted in popular touring exhibitions and, in the case of Water, a feature-length documentary film entitled Watermark. However, while Burtynsky’s global standing is without question, no comprehensive retrospective of his career to date exists.
Monu 24: Domestic urban
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This instalment deals with the domestic aspects of cities. Everything related to the human home and habitat, the scale of the house, domestic elements and their processes, people’s own universes, and things usually hidden and private are among the topics of this diverse investigation. In an interview, Andrés Jaque claims that what happens in domestic interiors is very(...)
Monu 24: Domestic urban
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This instalment deals with the domestic aspects of cities. Everything related to the human home and habitat, the scale of the house, domestic elements and their processes, people’s own universes, and things usually hidden and private are among the topics of this diverse investigation. In an interview, Andrés Jaque claims that what happens in domestic interiors is very relevant for our societies. Our private domestic spaces are becoming increasingly public, impacted by the Internet’s growing role in the city, from Airbnb to new forms of shared living and working. With contributions by Casco, Herman Hertzberger, Justinien Tribillon, Cookies, Lucía Jalón Oyarzun, and more.
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Based in Lisbon, the office of Manuel and Francisco Aires Mateus has developed a prolific portfolio over the years, gaining recognition through a number of awards. This issue presents more than 25 works developed within the past five years. Besides an in-depth interview with the architects, it focuses on both finished projects and as yet unrealised ones, including a(...)
El Croquis 186: Aires Mateus 2011-2016
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Based in Lisbon, the office of Manuel and Francisco Aires Mateus has developed a prolific portfolio over the years, gaining recognition through a number of awards. This issue presents more than 25 works developed within the past five years. Besides an in-depth interview with the architects, it focuses on both finished projects and as yet unrealised ones, including a number of renovations. Small-scale residential works in the countryside and city feature prominently, among them House on the Alentejo Coast, House in Time, and House in Ajuda. Public projects include the Architecture Faculty in Tournai, a Meeting Centre in Grândola, and the Islamic Centre in Bordeaux.
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