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Internationally acclaimed as one of the most significant contemporary German artists – especially since winning the prestigious Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale in 2005 – Schütte creates sculptures and installations addressing many issues with irony, humor and intensity. This impeccably produced, full-color exhibition catalog is the first retrospective publication he(...)
Thomas Schutte: Big buildings
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Internationally acclaimed as one of the most significant contemporary German artists – especially since winning the prestigious Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale in 2005 – Schütte creates sculptures and installations addressing many issues with irony, humor and intensity. This impeccably produced, full-color exhibition catalog is the first retrospective publication he has allowed during his impressive career, stretching back 30 years. Schütte’s work encompasses voluminous sculptures that reflect the life of ordinary people, architectural models, memorial sites, drawings and watercolors.
Contemporary Art Monographs
Landscapes and structures: a personal inventory of Jürg Conzett, photographed by Martin Linsi
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Landscapes and Structures is a visual tour of Switzerland's public structural landmarks through the personal view of the civil engineer Jurg Conzett. The book is published in conjunction with the Swiss pavilion at the Twelfth International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, which Conzett curated. Civil engineering structures comprise bridges, tunnels,(...)
Landscapes and structures: a personal inventory of Jürg Conzett, photographed by Martin Linsi
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Landscapes and Structures is a visual tour of Switzerland's public structural landmarks through the personal view of the civil engineer Jurg Conzett. The book is published in conjunction with the Swiss pavilion at the Twelfth International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, which Conzett curated. Civil engineering structures comprise bridges, tunnels, passageways, and other built transport routes; and Conzett and photographer Martin Linsi aimed to showcase examples that demonstrate architectural aspirations and a special relationship to the landscape.
Gardens
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A product of the The Austrian contribution to the 13th International Venice Biennale of Architecture 2012, the primary topic of the book is the relationship between the human body and the architectural and urban spaces constructed for it. Hands have no tears to flow... is a collection of commentaries, pictures and excerpts, quotations and "constructs" conceived around(...)
Hands have no tears to flow...
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A product of the The Austrian contribution to the 13th International Venice Biennale of Architecture 2012, the primary topic of the book is the relationship between the human body and the architectural and urban spaces constructed for it. Hands have no tears to flow... is a collection of commentaries, pictures and excerpts, quotations and "constructs" conceived around the human body. The book contains material by Ray und Charles Eames, Bernard Rudofsky, Friedrich Kiesler and other contributors.
Architectural Theory
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An overview of the state of contemporary art and its ultimate trends. The Encyclopedic Palace is the title chosen by the director for the 55th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale. It evokes the design registered in 1955 with the US Patent office by the self-taught artist Marino Auriti, depicting an imaginary museum that was meant to house all worldly(...)
August 2013
The encyclopedic palace: 55th Biennale di Venezia
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An overview of the state of contemporary art and its ultimate trends. The Encyclopedic Palace is the title chosen by the director for the 55th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale. It evokes the design registered in 1955 with the US Patent office by the self-taught artist Marino Auriti, depicting an imaginary museum that was meant to house all worldly knowledge, bringing together the greatest discoveries of the human race, from the wheel to the satellite.
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Architecture practice Caruso St John and artist Marcus Taylor have curated the British Pavilion for the 2018 Venice Biennale. Their project reimagines the pavilion as an island- a new public space for performances, discussions, and afternoon tea in the Giardini. This book is a parallel platform given to words and images. Exploring an island as a place of refuge and exile,(...)
Architecture Monographs
January 2018
Island
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Architecture practice Caruso St John and artist Marcus Taylor have curated the British Pavilion for the 2018 Venice Biennale. Their project reimagines the pavilion as an island- a new public space for performances, discussions, and afternoon tea in the Giardini. This book is a parallel platform given to words and images. Exploring an island as a place of refuge and exile, it includes contributions from artist John Akomfrah and poet Kate Tempest, alongside works by William Shakespeare and writer Sam Selvon.
Architecture Monographs
Carlo Scarpa: Beyond matter
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Carlo Scarpa was one of the great masters of postwar Italian architecture. This book proposes a photographic itinerary that unfurls through Venice, Treviso, Verona and Bologna, before reaching the Dolomites. The projects featured in the book alternate between overviews and close-ups. They are all briefly introduced by a text that describes their genesis, explains the(...)
Carlo Scarpa: Beyond matter
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Carlo Scarpa was one of the great masters of postwar Italian architecture. This book proposes a photographic itinerary that unfurls through Venice, Treviso, Verona and Bologna, before reaching the Dolomites. The projects featured in the book alternate between overviews and close-ups. They are all briefly introduced by a text that describes their genesis, explains the context in which they were made and focuses on the details that best represent Scarpa's style, with a summary and clear key to understanding the architect's work.
Architecture Monographs
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Yona Friedman's work spans urban models, theoretical texts and animated films and he has participated in several biennial art exhibitions, including Shanghai, Venice and Documenta. His visionary, ground-breaking ideas have been at the forefront for several generations of architects and urban planners, and have clearly influenced the likes of Arata Isozaki or Bernard(...)
Architecture with the people, by the people, for the people
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Yona Friedman's work spans urban models, theoretical texts and animated films and he has participated in several biennial art exhibitions, including Shanghai, Venice and Documenta. His visionary, ground-breaking ideas have been at the forefront for several generations of architects and urban planners, and have clearly influenced the likes of Arata Isozaki or Bernard Tschumi. He has developed urban concepts such as La ville spatiale-the Spatial City where dwellings are freely distributed by the citizens thanks to low-cost, reusable mobile models.
Architecture Monographs
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Richard Sennett has spent an intellectual lifetime exploring how humans live in cities. In this pair of essays he visits two of the world's greatest cities at crucial moments in their history to meditate on the condition of exile in both geographical and psychic space: the Jewish Ghetto of Renaissance Venice, where state-imposed outsiderdom was translated into a rich(...)
Richard Sennett : The foreigner, two essays on exile
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Richard Sennett has spent an intellectual lifetime exploring how humans live in cities. In this pair of essays he visits two of the world's greatest cities at crucial moments in their history to meditate on the condition of exile in both geographical and psychic space: the Jewish Ghetto of Renaissance Venice, where state-imposed outsiderdom was translated into a rich community identity; and nineteenth-century Paris, a magnet for political exiles, where the experience of displacement seeped into the city's culture at large.
Critical Theory
The evidence room
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Internationally renowned and award-winning historian Dr. Robert Jan van Pelt's 'The Evidence Room' is a chilling exploration of the role architecture played in constructing Auschwitz-arguably the Nazis' most horrifying facility. 'The Evidence Room' is both a companion piece to, and an elaboration of, the upcoming exhibit at the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale and at the(...)
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The evidence room
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Internationally renowned and award-winning historian Dr. Robert Jan van Pelt's 'The Evidence Room' is a chilling exploration of the role architecture played in constructing Auschwitz-arguably the Nazis' most horrifying facility. 'The Evidence Room' is both a companion piece to, and an elaboration of, the upcoming exhibit at the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale and at the Canadian Center for Architecture, based on van Pelt's authoritative testimony against Holocaust denial in a 2000 libel suit argued before the Royal Courts of Justice in London.
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Animals have become the focus of much recent art, informing numerous works and projects featured at major exhibitions including dOCUMENTA (13) (2013), the 10th Shanghai Biennale (2014), and the 56th Venice Biennale (2015). Contemporary art has emerged as a privileged terrain for exploring interspecies relationships, providing the conditions for diverse disciplines and(...)
Animals
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Animals have become the focus of much recent art, informing numerous works and projects featured at major exhibitions including dOCUMENTA (13) (2013), the 10th Shanghai Biennale (2014), and the 56th Venice Biennale (2015). Contemporary art has emerged as a privileged terrain for exploring interspecies relationships, providing the conditions for diverse disciplines and theoretical positions to engage with animal behavior and consciousness. Centered on contemporary artworks, this anthology attests to the trans-disciplinary nature of this subject, with art as one of the principal points of convergence.
Art Theory