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Chicago, like many urban centers throughout the world, has recently undergone a surge in new construction, grafting a new layer of architectural experimentation onto those of past eras. In early 2007, the Museum of Contemporary Photography, with the support of U.S. Equities Realty, invited Michael Wolf as an artist-in-residence to document this phenomenon. Bringing his(...)
Photography monographs
November 2008, New York
Michael Wolf: the transparent city
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Chicago, like many urban centers throughout the world, has recently undergone a surge in new construction, grafting a new layer of architectural experimentation onto those of past eras. In early 2007, the Museum of Contemporary Photography, with the support of U.S. Equities Realty, invited Michael Wolf as an artist-in-residence to document this phenomenon. Bringing his unique perspective on changing urban environments to a city renowned for its architectural legacy, Wolf chose to photograph the central downtown area, focusing specifically on issues of voyeurism and the contemporary urban landscape in flux.
Photography monographs
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"Patterned Ground" unravels the entangled relationships between nature and culture. Around 100 entries by leading names in new geography and related disciplines focus on various ‘objects’ in the landscape – from beaches to battlefields, bees to horses, police stations to post-offices, trees to tractors. Each piece, written by an expert in the field, explores the way in(...)
Urban Theory
March 2004, London
Patterned ground : entanglements of nature and culture
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"Patterned Ground" unravels the entangled relationships between nature and culture. Around 100 entries by leading names in new geography and related disciplines focus on various ‘objects’ in the landscape – from beaches to battlefields, bees to horses, police stations to post-offices, trees to tractors. Each piece, written by an expert in the field, explores the way in which we understand that object and its relationship to the world around it. This book is neither encyclopædia nor dictionary, but a knowledgeable and impassioned engagement with the world. In this sense, it chimes with earlier experiments in understanding the earth and its landscapes, whether these endeavours have been conducted within the sciences, the social sciences or the arts. "Patterned Ground" backtracks from familiar and obvious ways of seeing patterns in the world, and discovers it anew. In this way, it opens up new possibilities for thinking about the relationships between ourselves, objects and the ground on which we walk.
Urban Theory
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The rural is not what it used to be. No longer simply a site for agricultural production for the city, the relationship between the rural and urban has become much more complex. Established categories such as rural /urban and village/city no longer hold true. Rural and urban conditions have become increasingly blurred, so how can we identify and distinguish their specific(...)
AD Designing the rural: a global countryside in Flux
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The rural is not what it used to be. No longer simply a site for agricultural production for the city, the relationship between the rural and urban has become much more complex. Established categories such as rural /urban and village/city no longer hold true. Rural and urban conditions have become increasingly blurred, so how can we identify and distinguish their specific characteristics? Where is the rural, and what role does it play in an urbanised world? In developing countries the countryside is a volatile and contradictory landscape: legally designated rural areas look like dense slums; factories intersect fields and farmers no longer farm. In contrast, in developed regions, the rural has become a highly controlled landscape of production and consumption: industrialised agriculture coexists with leisure landscapes for tourism, retirement and recreation. This issue of AD investigates how architects and researchers are critically engaging with the rural as an experimental field of exploration.
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Out of Place is a group show bringing together eleven European artists who use the urban landscape as a source of creativity, whether through remembering places with a strong personal association, transforming the reality of a city or inventing entirely imaginary places. As so many cities undergo change and regeneration, artists make personal responses to the flux and(...)
Out of place : memory, imagination and the city
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Out of Place is a group show bringing together eleven European artists who use the urban landscape as a source of creativity, whether through remembering places with a strong personal association, transforming the reality of a city or inventing entirely imaginary places. As so many cities undergo change and regeneration, artists make personal responses to the flux and history of urban life, looking at its lesser-loved and forgotten areas and constructing entire imaginary cities.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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This new publication is the third in a series profiling emerging design practices from across Canada in architecture, landscape architecture, and urban design. Projects by nineteen Canadian designers engage the public realm in meaningful ways, investigate new ideas in collective housing and urban infill, and explore prefabrication and regional domestic vernaculars. The(...)
Twenty + change 03 : emerging Canadian design practices
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This new publication is the third in a series profiling emerging design practices from across Canada in architecture, landscape architecture, and urban design. Projects by nineteen Canadian designers engage the public realm in meaningful ways, investigate new ideas in collective housing and urban infill, and explore prefabrication and regional domestic vernaculars. The book includes profiles of emerging firms, project descriptions, full color images and essays by noted architectural critics, educators, and practitioners.
Canadian Architects
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This book comprises a series of 22 case studies by experts and new scholars in the field of architecture competition research. It constitutes a comprehensive survey of the dynamics behind the definition, organizing, judging, archiving and publishing of architectural, landscape and urban design competitions in the world.
Architecture competitions and the production of culture, quality and knowledge
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This book comprises a series of 22 case studies by experts and new scholars in the field of architecture competition research. It constitutes a comprehensive survey of the dynamics behind the definition, organizing, judging, archiving and publishing of architectural, landscape and urban design competitions in the world.
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YUL / MTL: moving landscapes
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This publication reports the results of a research conducted in close collaboration with members of the work table on the Autoroute 20 international gateway corridor for Montreal-Trudeau Airport (YUL) to the downtown core (MTL). This unique research demonstrates the importance of creative engagement in collaborative local and regional planning processes. The book(...)
YUL / MTL: moving landscapes
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This publication reports the results of a research conducted in close collaboration with members of the work table on the Autoroute 20 international gateway corridor for Montreal-Trudeau Airport (YUL) to the downtown core (MTL). This unique research demonstrates the importance of creative engagement in collaborative local and regional planning processes. The book illustrates how the results of an international ideas competition and an urban design workshop have united stakeholders’ viewpoints, and allow for implementation of a strategic development vision. As an outcome of the research, the design guidelines are now an essential tool for the redevelopment of a major highway entrances to the City of Montreal.
Architecture de Montréal
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Today's explosive developments in digital technology have also affected architecture and the urban landscape. The new possibilities opened up by digital simulation have led to an increasingly strategic approach to planning, an approach based on generating scenarios, which thus represents a radical departure from traditional planning. From the preliminary sketch all the(...)
Digital culture in architecture
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Today's explosive developments in digital technology have also affected architecture and the urban landscape. The new possibilities opened up by digital simulation have led to an increasingly strategic approach to planning, an approach based on generating scenarios, which thus represents a radical departure from traditional planning. From the preliminary sketch all the way to the production of individual building components, digital tools offer new possibilities that were still inconceivable just a few years ago. This volume provides a profound introduction to the important role of digital technologies in architectural design and related fields. In four chapters, the author systematically examines the influence of digital culture on architecture but also on the urban landscape as well as product design. The relationship of digital architecture to the city is also an important focus.
Digital Architecture
ARTEC Architecten
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ARTEC Architekten is one of Austria’s leading contemporary architecture firms with a reputation for masterful understanding of the relationship between architecture and the creation of constructive urban environments. Since founding their firm in 1987, Bettina Götz and Richard Manahl have contributed significantly to the discourse on urban design both in Austria and(...)
ARTEC Architecten
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ARTEC Architekten is one of Austria’s leading contemporary architecture firms with a reputation for masterful understanding of the relationship between architecture and the creation of constructive urban environments. Since founding their firm in 1987, Bettina Götz and Richard Manahl have contributed significantly to the discourse on urban design both in Austria and abroad. At the heart of their work is one of the key issues facing today’s cities: housing and its potential to shape the social landscape. An illustrated manifesto on building concepts in the urban context, "ARTEC Architekten" introduces readers to the innovative thinking of Götz and Manahl.
Architecture Monographs
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''4Flight'' attempts to document the profound metamorphosis within the urban and natural landscape, also due by man. The images’ research, developed with an aesthetic, anthropological and sociological criteria, has led to the creation of an archive in progress with the aim of witnessing the state of the planet.
Armin Linke: 4FLIGHT (2 vol.)
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''4Flight'' attempts to document the profound metamorphosis within the urban and natural landscape, also due by man. The images’ research, developed with an aesthetic, anthropological and sociological criteria, has led to the creation of an archive in progress with the aim of witnessing the state of the planet.