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''Postmodernity 1967–1992'' chronicles the dawn of the information age, the unleashing of the financial markets, the great age of subcultures, disco, punk and techno-pop, shoulder pads, and unique changes in aesthetic tastes. Holding up a mirror to the present, the book allows us to ask, from the distance of a generation, is Postmodernity really over, or are we in the middle of it?
Post-modernism
March 2024
Everything at once: Postmodernity 1967-1992
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''Postmodernity 1967–1992'' chronicles the dawn of the information age, the unleashing of the financial markets, the great age of subcultures, disco, punk and techno-pop, shoulder pads, and unique changes in aesthetic tastes. Holding up a mirror to the present, the book allows us to ask, from the distance of a generation, is Postmodernity really over, or are we in the middle of it?
Post-modernism
Henry Kalen: Photographer
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Henry Kalen was one of Canada’s most distinguished architectural photographers. His work for prominent Winnipeg architectural firms in the 1960s and 1970s portrayed a stylish, modern, and changing city. This book provides a glimpse of Kalen’s vast body of work photographing Winnipeg’s built environment during the optimistic mid-twentieth century. His photographs have(...)
Architecture in Canada
November 2024
Henry Kalen: Photographer
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Henry Kalen was one of Canada’s most distinguished architectural photographers. His work for prominent Winnipeg architectural firms in the 1960s and 1970s portrayed a stylish, modern, and changing city. This book provides a glimpse of Kalen’s vast body of work photographing Winnipeg’s built environment during the optimistic mid-twentieth century. His photographs have given us the definitive images of many of the city’s most iconic buildings.
Architecture in Canada
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This book is the celebration of small buildings, those unexpected structures that make us momentarily pause to ponder their meaning, or our own meaning, or simply to appreciate the elegance of their creation. From the spectrum of functions and styles of these structures, it is clear that size imposes no limits on creativity, and utility is no constraint to beauty.(...)
Miniature Architecture
November 2001, London
XS : big ideas, small buildings
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This book is the celebration of small buildings, those unexpected structures that make us momentarily pause to ponder their meaning, or our own meaning, or simply to appreciate the elegance of their creation. From the spectrum of functions and styles of these structures, it is clear that size imposes no limits on creativity, and utility is no constraint to beauty. Thonking small is a wonderfully constructive exercise.
Miniature Architecture
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This volume showcases international talent, including such well-recognized architects as Tadao Ando (Japan), Glenn Murcutt (Australia), Samuel Mockbee (US), and rising stars like Shigeru Ban (Japan), TEN Arquitectos (Mexico), and Edge/Gary Chang (Hong Kong). Domestic architecture is constantly changing; World House Now showcases over twenty houses all built in the last(...)
World house now : contemporary architectural directions
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This volume showcases international talent, including such well-recognized architects as Tadao Ando (Japan), Glenn Murcutt (Australia), Samuel Mockbee (US), and rising stars like Shigeru Ban (Japan), TEN Arquitectos (Mexico), and Edge/Gary Chang (Hong Kong). Domestic architecture is constantly changing; World House Now showcases over twenty houses all built in the last three years to illuminate current trends in domestic architecture and house styles.
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Sou Fujimoto
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Occasionally an architect emerges whose vision is so fresh that it causes us to reconsider the very nature of architecture. Sou Fujimoto is one of those architects. Guided by instinct and keen observation, he casts convention aside. Instead he blurs boundaries and routinely rethinks basic building blocks. Both comfortably familiar and curiously enigmatic, Fujimoto's(...)
Sou Fujimoto
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Occasionally an architect emerges whose vision is so fresh that it causes us to reconsider the very nature of architecture. Sou Fujimoto is one of those architects. Guided by instinct and keen observation, he casts convention aside. Instead he blurs boundaries and routinely rethinks basic building blocks. Both comfortably familiar and curiously enigmatic, Fujimoto's dynamic work grabs our attention then lingers on in our minds.
Architecture Monographs
Scapegoat 09: Eros
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In each piece, love is felt as a movement in the act, a radical shift in thought. In each piece, readers are compelled by the poetics and politics of the relation between eros, architecture, political economy, and landscape. How else to think love as that which makes space appear, but through the investigations that take us in-personally, intensely-through experiments in(...)
Scapegoat 09: Eros
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In each piece, love is felt as a movement in the act, a radical shift in thought. In each piece, readers are compelled by the poetics and politics of the relation between eros, architecture, political economy, and landscape. How else to think love as that which makes space appear, but through the investigations that take us in-personally, intensely-through experiments in process, form and content.
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"Tiny taxonomy" describes the practice of gardening and the implications of strict classification. It seems that as the world around us gains complexity and intricacy, our biological world is trending towards monotony. As our experiences become more and more uniform, our capacity to apprehend transformation and detail diminishes. Using the scale of the individual plant,(...)
Tiny taxonomy: individual plants in landscape architecture
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"Tiny taxonomy" describes the practice of gardening and the implications of strict classification. It seems that as the world around us gains complexity and intricacy, our biological world is trending towards monotony. As our experiences become more and more uniform, our capacity to apprehend transformation and detail diminishes. Using the scale of the individual plant, smallness becomes a design opportunity while classification embraces the aliveness of plants.
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Rust. Object Lessons series
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It's happening all the time, all around us. We cover it up. We ignore it. « Rust » takes on the many meanings of this oxidized substance, showing how technology bleeds into biology and ecology. Jean-Michel Rabate´ combines art, science, and autobiography to share his fascination with peeling paints and rusty metal sheets. Rust, he concludes, is a place where things(...)
Architectural Theory
August 2018
Rust. Object Lessons series
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It's happening all the time, all around us. We cover it up. We ignore it. « Rust » takes on the many meanings of this oxidized substance, showing how technology bleeds into biology and ecology. Jean-Michel Rabate´ combines art, science, and autobiography to share his fascination with peeling paints and rusty metal sheets. Rust, he concludes, is a place where things living, built, and remembered commingle.
Architectural Theory
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Mazes have been a part of civilization for at least 4,000 years, and there are more being built now than ever before. What is it about these magical life-size puzzles that continues to intrigue us? The illustrations represent 60 real and imagined mazes from around the world, with a bird’s eye view of each maze. Each maze is also accompanied by a short history.
Architectural Plans and Cartography
September 2018
The maze: a labyrinthine compendium
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Mazes have been a part of civilization for at least 4,000 years, and there are more being built now than ever before. What is it about these magical life-size puzzles that continues to intrigue us? The illustrations represent 60 real and imagined mazes from around the world, with a bird’s eye view of each maze. Each maze is also accompanied by a short history.
Architectural Plans and Cartography
Aldo Rossi drawings
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Sketches, drawings, concepts, watercolors, and collages from the early 1960s through to 1998 help us to understand Aldo Rossi the artist and architect, and how he elaborated his projects. The drawings are accompanied by photographs of the finished projects, in 264, often full page color illustrations. The volume is complete with a register of the Aldo Rossi Foundation’s(...)
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Aldo Rossi drawings
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Sketches, drawings, concepts, watercolors, and collages from the early 1960s through to 1998 help us to understand Aldo Rossi the artist and architect, and how he elaborated his projects. The drawings are accompanied by photographs of the finished projects, in 264, often full page color illustrations. The volume is complete with a register of the Aldo Rossi Foundation’s works, an index of exhibitions, and a bibliography.