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Eye on Design is an editorial platform from AIGA that has, for the last decade, covered the ins and outs of the design industry. From documenting bold new work from global designers to chronicling the field's most critical issues, their reported stories, op-eds, interviews, and conversations help designers make sense of the world and place their profession within a(...)
What it means to be a designer today: Ideas from AIGA's on design
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Eye on Design is an editorial platform from AIGA that has, for the last decade, covered the ins and outs of the design industry. From documenting bold new work from global designers to chronicling the field's most critical issues, their reported stories, op-eds, interviews, and conversations help designers make sense of the world and place their profession within a broader context. Weaving together original and previously published content from some of the most important writers in today’s design conversation, this book for designers encapsulates wide-reaching topics that strive to answer an essential question: What does it mean to be a designer today?
Design Theory
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In what ways does the underground facilitate subcultural expression? Is clandestinity necessary for working against a given social order? Pursuing these lines of inquiry, "Party studies, Vol. 2" comprises essays, documentation and poetic notes on nonnormative modes of being-in-common. Continuing from Volume 1 on the topics of home gatherings and house parties, the second(...)
August 2024
Party studies, vol. 2 : Underground clubs, parallel structures and second cultures
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In what ways does the underground facilitate subcultural expression? Is clandestinity necessary for working against a given social order? Pursuing these lines of inquiry, "Party studies, Vol. 2" comprises essays, documentation and poetic notes on nonnormative modes of being-in-common. Continuing from Volume 1 on the topics of home gatherings and house parties, the second volume elaborates understandings of the party by considering the hidden, the invisible and the underground as material and imaginary forces, where partying is not only festive, but manifests in forms of social and political organizing, cultural and subcultural conversation, the maintenance of safe spaces and the building of parallel structures against established institutional forms.
Pleasant Place 6: Topiary
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Topiary is the practice of trimming and pruning trees and shrubs into clearly defined and fanciful shapes. As an art form, it is a type of living sculpture, and its practice in Europe dates from Roman times. Featured in this issue are a history of topiary and the changing views of nature by botanical philosopher Norbert Peeters; a conversation with Chris Crowder, head(...)
Pleasant Place 6: Topiary
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Topiary is the practice of trimming and pruning trees and shrubs into clearly defined and fanciful shapes. As an art form, it is a type of living sculpture, and its practice in Europe dates from Roman times. Featured in this issue are a history of topiary and the changing views of nature by botanical philosopher Norbert Peeters; a conversation with Chris Crowder, head gardener of the celebrated topiary gardens at Levens Hall; the ancient Japanese tradition of "niwaki," or sculpting trees; a glimpse of topiary’s future by artist Rustan Söderling; centrefold miniatures by Andrei Pacea, and more. "Pleasant Place" is a growing collection of publications about the art of gardening.
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Wallness, par des considérations techniques et culturelles, bouleverse l'acte de bâtir et ouvre une conversation. L'isolant s'ajoute au répertoire des éléments architecturaux, la thermique dévoile des champs constructifs insoupçonnés, la recherche du confort des espaces intérieurs interroge la nature de l'enveloppe des bâtiments. Wallness augmente le rôle du mur, convoque(...)
Architecture Monographs
November 2024
Barrault Pressacco : Wallness, Nature et culture de l'isolant, Construire en chanvre
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Wallness, par des considérations techniques et culturelles, bouleverse l'acte de bâtir et ouvre une conversation. L'isolant s'ajoute au répertoire des éléments architecturaux, la thermique dévoile des champs constructifs insoupçonnés, la recherche du confort des espaces intérieurs interroge la nature de l'enveloppe des bâtiments. Wallness augmente le rôle du mur, convoque l'ensemble de ses composants, précise une nouvelle rationalité. Le sujet de la transparence ne se limite plus au visible mais s'étend à tous les phénomènes chimiques et physiques invisibles traversant la paroi. Wallness considère le plein à la fois comme une nécessité et comme un potentiel formel inédit. Les matériaux, comme toujours, sont au cœur de la révolution.
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El croquis 189: Alfredo Paya 2010-2017, Toni Girones 2003-2017, José Maria Sanchez Garcia 2010-2017
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José María Sánchez García, Alfredo Payá, and Toni Gironès are the subjects of this triple focus on young Spanish architects. Although based in different cities and regions, they all launched their careers in the 21st century, and each has since built notable projects throughout Spain and its territories. Each architect’s profile includes a biography, a conversation with(...)
El croquis 189: Alfredo Paya 2010-2017, Toni Girones 2003-2017, José Maria Sanchez Garcia 2010-2017
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José María Sánchez García, Alfredo Payá, and Toni Gironès are the subjects of this triple focus on young Spanish architects. Although based in different cities and regions, they all launched their careers in the 21st century, and each has since built notable projects throughout Spain and its territories. Each architect’s profile includes a biography, a conversation with the architect, an essay by the architect, and several examples of built works. Gain insight on these three architects and recent highlights from the Spanish architecture scene, including the Rowing Pavilion in Alange, the Ibiza and Formentera Music and Dance Conservatory, and the Climate Museum in Lleida.
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Armin Linke : inside/outside
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Photographer Armin Linke captures the library in this series of images, depicting the interior spaces of this time-honoured cultural institution as an expression of its commitment to stimulating questioning and discovery. He not only looks at the grandly ornamented, open spaces of academic study found within several Parisian institutions (such as Science Po, the Louvre,(...)
Armin Linke : inside/outside
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Photographer Armin Linke captures the library in this series of images, depicting the interior spaces of this time-honoured cultural institution as an expression of its commitment to stimulating questioning and discovery. He not only looks at the grandly ornamented, open spaces of academic study found within several Parisian institutions (such as Science Po, the Louvre, and C2RMF), but also the lecture halls, administrative offices, and behind-the-scenes storage and hidden technical functions. Besides Linke’s thoughtfully banal images, the book includes an essay by Bruno Latour, an interview with Linke, and a conversation about the project’s initiation and background. Signed and numbered edition with two original photographs.
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Karel Martens: motion
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Published as part of "Motion", an exhibition by Dutch artist and graphic designer Karel Martens at Kunstverein München, this book is the seventh instalment of the "Companion" series produced by the Kunstverein and Roma Publications. With concept and design by Julie Peeters, the greater part of the book’s content is derived from the video ‘Not for Resale’, a sequence of(...)
Karel Martens: motion
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Published as part of "Motion", an exhibition by Dutch artist and graphic designer Karel Martens at Kunstverein München, this book is the seventh instalment of the "Companion" series produced by the Kunstverein and Roma Publications. With concept and design by Julie Peeters, the greater part of the book’s content is derived from the video ‘Not for Resale’, a sequence of photographs of the array of images and objects found on the artist’s studio wall, taken in 2000. Material from two other videos, "Lost & Found" (2004) and "Tol" (2008), is also included, along with a transcription of a conversation between Martens and Chris Fitzpatrick, director of the Kunstverein.
Graphic Designers, Monographs
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With "Sundry Modernism", Oraib Toukan presents an informal register of modernist Palestinian architecture—an assemblage of images and stories collected from 2013 to 2015 in the cities of Nablus, Ramallah, Jerusalem, Bethlehem, and Jericho. Using her photographs as conversation prompts with various residents, historians, and architects, Toukan places the anecdotes(...)
Sundry modernism: materials for a study of Palestinian modernism
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With "Sundry Modernism", Oraib Toukan presents an informal register of modernist Palestinian architecture—an assemblage of images and stories collected from 2013 to 2015 in the cities of Nablus, Ramallah, Jerusalem, Bethlehem, and Jericho. Using her photographs as conversation prompts with various residents, historians, and architects, Toukan places the anecdotes collected thereby into political and historical context, weaving together narrative and critique. "Sundry Modernism" sets out to be a gesture, a nod, a salutation to, and a critique of, the lines and angles of Palestinian modernism. It is a provocation on the act of looking, and, in particular, it is a proposal for reading apolitical forms in politicized contexts.
Arch Southwest Asia & North Africa
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This diminutive but insightful book features one of Japan's most sought-after architects, Sou Fujimoto. It comprises an interview with the architect by Noriko Takiguchi in which subjects range from specific projects, dealing with clients, and how current trends in architecture relate to his work, to the pros and cons of working alone versus being open to ideas from others(...)
Sincere by design: the architecture of Sou Fujimoto
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This diminutive but insightful book features one of Japan's most sought-after architects, Sou Fujimoto. It comprises an interview with the architect by Noriko Takiguchi in which subjects range from specific projects, dealing with clients, and how current trends in architecture relate to his work, to the pros and cons of working alone versus being open to ideas from others and collaboration. The in-depth conversation also covers how, despite starting out with a strictly small aesthetic, commissions from around the world have spurred him to adapt a larger scale, building on the confidence he had since being a student that architectural design was his true calling.
Architecture Monographs
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In 1962 the young photographer René Burri, on the staff of the renowned photo agency MAGNUM, and known for his reportage and portraits, presented the architect, Le Corbusier, with a fold-out book, made with his own hands, containing photographs, dating back to 1953, that he had taken of the architect in various situations. The photographs it contains show Corbusier at the(...)
Für Le Corbusier / Pour Le Corbusier
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In 1962 the young photographer René Burri, on the staff of the renowned photo agency MAGNUM, and known for his reportage and portraits, presented the architect, Le Corbusier, with a fold-out book, made with his own hands, containing photographs, dating back to 1953, that he had taken of the architect in various situations. The photographs it contains show Corbusier at the height of his creativity – in conversation, alone in his studio, at the construction site. They also convey the unmistakable atmosphere of his designs. This scrupulous facsimile reproduction comes with a text by René Burri and commentaries by the Corbusier connoisseur and editor Arthur Rüegg.
Architecture Monographs