Desired Landscapes. Issue 5
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This issue gives some hints of its form. Cities as forests not in terms of nature, but of navigation and justice. Vertical cities freed from their past, floating in latent memories. A highway unfolding vistas to our escapist mind. Systems of transit constructing the sense of place. And us, more eager than ever to explore. Yet, this time, slowly. Issue 05 takes you to(...)
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January 2022
Desired Landscapes. Issue 5
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This issue gives some hints of its form. Cities as forests not in terms of nature, but of navigation and justice. Vertical cities freed from their past, floating in latent memories. A highway unfolding vistas to our escapist mind. Systems of transit constructing the sense of place. And us, more eager than ever to explore. Yet, this time, slowly. Issue 05 takes you to PHNOM PENH – BERLIN – SAN DIEGO – RIJEKA–DUBROVNIK – SEVARAMBES – ATHENS – SYDNEY – MANAMA – CASABLANCA – SIFNOS – and a city guide on SEOUL
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Henri Stierlin discusses the vast scope of Islamic architecture and architectural decoration from the frontiers of Iran to the heart of India and places it within its historical context, while photographs of Islam's monuments, ceramics, miniatures and carpets enable us to use art as a window into Islamic culture. The final section of the book presents nine great(...)
Arch Southwest Asia & North Africa
November 2002, London
Islamic art and architecture from Isfahan to the Taj Mahal
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Henri Stierlin discusses the vast scope of Islamic architecture and architectural decoration from the frontiers of Iran to the heart of India and places it within its historical context, while photographs of Islam's monuments, ceramics, miniatures and carpets enable us to use art as a window into Islamic culture. The final section of the book presents nine great masterpieces of Islamic architecture, including the Friday Mosque in Isfahan, the Registan in Samarqand, the abandoned Mughal city of Fategpur Sikri and Agra's Taj Mahal.
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The future of nostalgia
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Combining personal memoir, philosophical essay, and historical analysis, Svetlana Boym explores the spaces of collective nostalgia that connect national biography and personal self-fashioning in the twenty-first century. She guides us through the ruins and construction sites of post-communist cities-St. Petersburg, Moscow, Berlin, and Prague-and the imagined homelands of(...)
The future of nostalgia
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Combining personal memoir, philosophical essay, and historical analysis, Svetlana Boym explores the spaces of collective nostalgia that connect national biography and personal self-fashioning in the twenty-first century. She guides us through the ruins and construction sites of post-communist cities-St. Petersburg, Moscow, Berlin, and Prague-and the imagined homelands of exiles-Benjamin, Nabokov, Mandelstahm, and Brodsky. From Jurassic Park to the Totalitarian Sculpture Garden, Boym unravels the threads of this global epidemic of longing and its antidotes.
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April 2002, New York
Critical Theory
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Does the world make you sick? If the distractions and distortions around you, the jarring colors and sounds, could shake up the healing chemistry of your mind, might your surroundings also have the power to heal you? This is the question the author explores in this book - a look at the marvelously rich nexus of mind and body, perception and place. She immerses us in the(...)
Healing spaces: the science of place and well-being
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Does the world make you sick? If the distractions and distortions around you, the jarring colors and sounds, could shake up the healing chemistry of your mind, might your surroundings also have the power to heal you? This is the question the author explores in this book - a look at the marvelously rich nexus of mind and body, perception and place. She immerses us in the discoveries that have revealed a complicated working relationship between the senses, the emotions, and the immune system.
Architectural Theory
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Nobuyoshi Araki constructs a darkly phantasmagorical realm of flowers, plastic dolls, toy animal figurines, and more in this series of 75 black-and-white photographs. Brimming with his recognisable motifs and erotic symbolism, the carefully arranged still-lifes are interspersed with portraits of people like Umezu Kazuo, Setouchi Jakucho, Lady Gaga, and Araki’s muse,(...)
Nobuyoshi Araki: Monochrome paradise
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Nobuyoshi Araki constructs a darkly phantasmagorical realm of flowers, plastic dolls, toy animal figurines, and more in this series of 75 black-and-white photographs. Brimming with his recognisable motifs and erotic symbolism, the carefully arranged still-lifes are interspersed with portraits of people like Umezu Kazuo, Setouchi Jakucho, Lady Gaga, and Araki’s muse, Kaori. With bizarre tableaus that mix anthropomorphic imagery with themes like sex, aging, death, and primal appetites, Araki plunges us into the midst of a tangible dementia.
Photography monographs
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How can you navigate towards something when there are no fixed points when you cannot determine your position? How do you know where to go, or even know when you have got there? This fourth volume in the Archifutures series investigates how architecture, traditionally considered to be a future?oriented activity, can best respond as we find ourselves on the threshold of a(...)
Archifutures Vol. 4: Thresholds. A field guide to making the future of architecture
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How can you navigate towards something when there are no fixed points when you cannot determine your position? How do you know where to go, or even know when you have got there? This fourth volume in the Archifutures series investigates how architecture, traditionally considered to be a future?oriented activity, can best respond as we find ourselves on the threshold of a “post-futurist” condition where the future is not necessarily ahead of us, but everywhere and – perhaps most especially – “now”.
Contemporary Architecture
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Nearly every US city would like to be more walkable—for reasons of health, wealth, and the environment—yet few are taking the proper steps to get there. The goals are often clear, but the path is seldom easy. Jeff Speck's follow-up to his bestselling ''Walkable City'' is the resource that cities and citizens need to usher in an era of renewed street life. ''Walkable City(...)
Walkable city rules: 101 steps to making better places
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Nearly every US city would like to be more walkable—for reasons of health, wealth, and the environment—yet few are taking the proper steps to get there. The goals are often clear, but the path is seldom easy. Jeff Speck's follow-up to his bestselling ''Walkable City'' is the resource that cities and citizens need to usher in an era of renewed street life. ''Walkable City Rules'' is a doer's guide to making change in cities, and making it now.
Urban Theory
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"Driving along the highways and byways of the Southwest and Interior West, Van Parys has noticed things that you or I might otherwise consider too trivial, too banal, to be worthy of further examination.... She makes us see things that would otherwise remain unseen. The final result is a poignant commentary not only on the desert landscapes to be found 'out west,' but(...)
Photography monographs
December 2008, Chicago
Michelle Van Parys: the way out west desert landscapes
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"Driving along the highways and byways of the Southwest and Interior West, Van Parys has noticed things that you or I might otherwise consider too trivial, too banal, to be worthy of further examination.... She makes us see things that would otherwise remain unseen. The final result is a poignant commentary not only on the desert landscapes to be found 'out west,' but also on the act of seeing the American West." - Geoffrey Batchen, author of Forget Me Not: Photography and Remembrance"
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A Canadian ABC
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The author of seventeen books for young readers, Lyn Cook here combines her love of history and storytelling by imagining appropriate situations for each letter of the alphabet. Lovingly drawn by pen and ink by Thoreau MacDonald in 1931, the letters are themselves encapsulations of Canada’s history, geography, and rural topography – the very elements which make Lyn Cook(...)
A Canadian ABC
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The author of seventeen books for young readers, Lyn Cook here combines her love of history and storytelling by imagining appropriate situations for each letter of the alphabet. Lovingly drawn by pen and ink by Thoreau MacDonald in 1931, the letters are themselves encapsulations of Canada’s history, geography, and rural topography – the very elements which make Lyn Cook such a popular author. Readers of all ages and skills are invited to join us in this uniquely Canadian celebrations of the alphabet.
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Weimar Germany still fascinates us, and now this complex and remarkably creative period and place has the history it deserves. Eric Weitz's new book reveals the Weimar era as a time of strikingly progressive achievements- and even greater promise. With a rich thematic narrative and detailled portraits of some of Weimar's greatest figures, this comprehensive history(...)
Weimar Germany: promise and tragedy
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Weimar Germany still fascinates us, and now this complex and remarkably creative period and place has the history it deserves. Eric Weitz's new book reveals the Weimar era as a time of strikingly progressive achievements- and even greater promise. With a rich thematic narrative and detailled portraits of some of Weimar's greatest figures, this comprehensive history recaptures the excitement and drama as it unfolded, viewing Weimar in its own right- and not as a mere prelude to the Nazi era.
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