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Blueberry Express is a collection of images from New York based / Japanese artist Misaki Kawai. The book features the larger scale paintings, sculptural installations and snapshots of her working in her New York studio over the past two years. Misaki Kawai has had solo exhibitions around the world, including the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston and the Watari(...)
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December 2009
Misaki Kawai: blueberry express
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Blueberry Express is a collection of images from New York based / Japanese artist Misaki Kawai. The book features the larger scale paintings, sculptural installations and snapshots of her working in her New York studio over the past two years. Misaki Kawai has had solo exhibitions around the world, including the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston and the Watari Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo; and has been featured in shows at PS1 and Deitch Projects in New York. She is currently represented by Take Ninagawa in Tokyo and Galleri Loyal in Sweden.
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Great public squares
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Here, analysed and drawn at a common scale for easy comparison, are forty outstanding urban spaces of the Western world. Robert Gatje explores the storied piazzas of Rome, Venice and Florence, the elegant places of Paris, via less familiar gathering places in Germany, the Czech Republic, Spain and Portugal. From the former marketplaces and graceful Georgian squares of the(...)
Great public squares
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Here, analysed and drawn at a common scale for easy comparison, are forty outstanding urban spaces of the Western world. Robert Gatje explores the storied piazzas of Rome, Venice and Florence, the elegant places of Paris, via less familiar gathering places in Germany, the Czech Republic, Spain and Portugal. From the former marketplaces and graceful Georgian squares of the United Kingdom to the most interesting and impressive squares of the New World-Santa Fe, Portland, Boston and New York-Gatje offers new insights, computer-generated plans and colour photographs to convey the spatial experience.
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The renowned Institute of Architecture at the University of Applied Arts Vienna presents selected student works from 2009. The design studios of star architects Zaha Hadid, Greg Lynn and Wolf D. Prix offer students countless possibilities to exhaust architectural parameters across borders. The open studio structure, which enables students to work on the same topics from(...)
Architecture Monographs
May 2010
IAO studios: Hadid Lynn Prix, selected student works 2009
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The renowned Institute of Architecture at the University of Applied Arts Vienna presents selected student works from 2009. The design studios of star architects Zaha Hadid, Greg Lynn and Wolf D. Prix offer students countless possibilities to exhaust architectural parameters across borders. The open studio structure, which enables students to work on the same topics from their first term up to their graduation, creates dynamics, which would not be possible at this scale in a conventional study structure. This publication should serve as an inspiration for a new dynamic generation of architects.
Architecture Monographs
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The Chinati Foundation (Marfa, Texas) is widely considered one of the world’s most important destinations for experiencing large-scale contemporary art. It was founded by Donald Judd (1928–1994), whose specific ambition was to preserve and present a select number of permanent installations that were inextricably linked to the surrounding landscape. The book describes how(...)
Chinati: The vision of Donald Judd
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The Chinati Foundation (Marfa, Texas) is widely considered one of the world’s most important destinations for experiencing large-scale contemporary art. It was founded by Donald Judd (1928–1994), whose specific ambition was to preserve and present a select number of permanent installations that were inextricably linked to the surrounding landscape. The book describes how Judd developed his ideas of the role of art and museums from the early 1960s onward, culminating in the creation of Chinati, and also features writings by Judd relating to Chinati and Marfa, and a complete catalogue of the collection.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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The award-winning First Edition of A Global History of Architecture was a publishing event that forever changed the way architectural history is viewed and studied. This Second Edition surpasses the first with a lavish new design, illustrated throughout with drawings and photographs in full color, and even more maps and diagrams detailing global interconnections. The(...)
October 2010
A global history of architecture 2nd edition
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The award-winning First Edition of A Global History of Architecture was a publishing event that forever changed the way architectural history is viewed and studied. This Second Edition surpasses the first with a lavish new design, illustrated throughout with drawings and photographs in full color, and even more maps and diagrams detailing global interconnections. The signature drawings of Francis D.K. Ching are more informative than ever, updated with scale, annotation, and function added where needed. This revision is sure to remain the most relevant book on the topic.
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This important and substantial collection brings together an assortment of texts both old and new, with writings on art, artists' books, architecture and various artists Graham admires, such as Carl Andre, Sol LeWitt, Claes Oldenburg, Jeff Wall and John Chamberlain. Also included is a selection of interviews conducted since the 1990s, most notably on his large-scale(...)
Nuggets: new and old writing on art, architecture, and culture
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This important and substantial collection brings together an assortment of texts both old and new, with writings on art, artists' books, architecture and various artists Graham admires, such as Carl Andre, Sol LeWitt, Claes Oldenburg, Jeff Wall and John Chamberlain. Also included is a selection of interviews conducted since the 1990s, most notably on his large-scale installations and pavilions incorporating mirrors--a culmination of his long examination of the psychological relationship between people and architecture. This book is part of JRP|Ringier's Positions series, co-published with Les Presses du réel.
Critical Theory
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Squatters and autonomous movements have been at the forefront of radical politics in Europe for nearly a half-century—from struggles against urban renewal and gentrification, to large-scale peace and environmental campaigns, to spearheading the antiausterity protests sweeping the continent. Through an examination of the local history of these movements in eight different(...)
The city is ours: squatting and autonomous movements in Europe from the 1970s to the present
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Squatters and autonomous movements have been at the forefront of radical politics in Europe for nearly a half-century—from struggles against urban renewal and gentrification, to large-scale peace and environmental campaigns, to spearheading the antiausterity protests sweeping the continent. Through an examination of the local history of these movements in eight different cities—including Amsterdam, Berlin, and other famous centers of autonomous insurgence, along with underdocumented cities such as Poznan and Athens—The City Is Ours paints a broad and complex picture of Europe’s squatting and autonomous movements.
Urban Theory
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Long before Franz Kafka described the nightmarish metaphysics of office bureaucracy, Balzac had undertaken his own exploration of the dust-laden, stifling environment of the paper-pusher in all of his roles and guises. "Bureaucracy," as he defined it: "a gigantic power set in motion by dwarfs." In this guidebook, published for mass consumption in 1841, Balzac's classic(...)
The physiology of the employee
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Long before Franz Kafka described the nightmarish metaphysics of office bureaucracy, Balzac had undertaken his own exploration of the dust-laden, stifling environment of the paper-pusher in all of his roles and guises. "Bureaucracy," as he defined it: "a gigantic power set in motion by dwarfs." In this guidebook, published for mass consumption in 1841, Balzac's classic theme of melodramatic ambition plays itself out within the confined, unbreathable space of the proto-cubicle, filtered through the restricted scale of the pocket handbook. Translated by André Naffis-Sahely.
Thomas Schütte : houses
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Düsseldorf-based artist Thomas Schütte first came to prominence in the 1980s with his drawings, watercolors, stage sets and architectural models. Schütte’s first forays into imaginary or utopian architecture were scale models of rooms in which one might live and work. After a gap of 20 years, Schütte returned to the architectural model, producing light pavilions out of(...)
Contemporary Art Monographs
February 2013
Thomas Schütte : houses
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Düsseldorf-based artist Thomas Schütte first came to prominence in the 1980s with his drawings, watercolors, stage sets and architectural models. Schütte’s first forays into imaginary or utopian architecture were scale models of rooms in which one might live and work. After a gap of 20 years, Schütte returned to the architectural model, producing light pavilions out of wood and studio leftovers, as well as commercial and public buildings. Houses provides a comprehensive survey of Schütte’s architectural models, from his early experiments through to his current design projects.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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Pamphlet Architecture 33: Islands and Atolls asks how architecture might critically repurpose its traditionally limited disciplinary tools in order to make a meaningful impact at a territorial scale. Functioning as a landscape architect in a country that has no infrastructure for such a profession, Luis Callejas (LCLA Office, Medellin, Colombia)questions pedagogical,(...)
Islands and atolls: Pamphlet Architecture 33
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Pamphlet Architecture 33: Islands and Atolls asks how architecture might critically repurpose its traditionally limited disciplinary tools in order to make a meaningful impact at a territorial scale. Functioning as a landscape architect in a country that has no infrastructure for such a profession, Luis Callejas (LCLA Office, Medellin, Colombia)questions pedagogical, disciplinary, and political norms at macro levels using micro tactics. As a result, PA 33 provocatively expands devices such as repetition and aggregation beyond their limits in scenarios where sociopolitical constraints seemingly prohibit what would normally be understood as an architectural intervention.
Contemporary Architecture