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We must continually remind ourselves that law originates in conflict, and that such concepts are not static determinations, but rather are constantly being renegotiated. Applying this relationship between law, regulations, and architectural practice, it becomes clear why the work of certain architects has a political dimension. This volume attempts to examine the inherent(...)
ARCH+ : Legislating architecture
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We must continually remind ourselves that law originates in conflict, and that such concepts are not static determinations, but rather are constantly being renegotiated. Applying this relationship between law, regulations, and architectural practice, it becomes clear why the work of certain architects has a political dimension. This volume attempts to examine the inherent meaning of societal regulatory systems as these relate to architecture, taking the film directed by Arno Brandlhuber and Christopher Roth, their submission to the 15th Architecture Biennale in Venice, as its point of departure, and presents a broad series of case studies largely based on the work of Alex Lehnerer.
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This book provides an extensive presentation of design statements, drawings and photographs (from the design an deconstruction processes and from the building in use thus far). It also includes a text from Alvaro Siza, historical/critical essay by Michel Toussaint; an article on the intervention in the landscape by Joao Gomes da Silva; an analysis of the bather's course(...)
Alavaro Siza: Pool on the beach / Piscina na praia de leça
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This book provides an extensive presentation of design statements, drawings and photographs (from the design an deconstruction processes and from the building in use thus far). It also includes a text from Alvaro Siza, historical/critical essay by Michel Toussaint; an article on the intervention in the landscape by Joao Gomes da Silva; an analysis of the bather's course by Pedro Vieira de Almeida, as well as the testimonies of Diogo Seixas Lopes and Manuel Aires Mateus. The photographs of Nuno Cera cast a contemporary look at the building, while Luis Urbano's film suggests its interpretation through moving images.
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Since the 1960s Mary Ellen Mark has worked on over 100 film sets as a 'special stills photographer', making thousands of documentary photographs of life behind the scenes, rather than conventional still photographs made of actors on camera. This exciting new book presents the best of her images ranging from the first films that Mark shot in the 1960s, such as Fellini's(...)
Mary Ellen Mark: seen behind the scene / forty years of photographing on set
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Since the 1960s Mary Ellen Mark has worked on over 100 film sets as a 'special stills photographer', making thousands of documentary photographs of life behind the scenes, rather than conventional still photographs made of actors on camera. This exciting new book presents the best of her images ranging from the first films that Mark shot in the 1960s, such as Fellini's Satyricon, to legendary 1970s productions like Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now and Milos Forman's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, as well as films from the ensuing decades, ranging from Network to Tootsie, from Gandhi to Showgirls.
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Phil Collins: Soy mi madre
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Glasgow-based artist Phil Collins' film Soy Mi Madre examines the immigrant populations of Colorado's Roaring Fork Valley, a sizable percentage of which hail from northwestern Mexico. The region relies heavily on service and maintenance work provided largely through this population, who often commute to work in Aspen. Loosely inspired by Jean Genet's The Maids--a seminal(...)
Phil Collins: Soy mi madre
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Glasgow-based artist Phil Collins' film Soy Mi Madre examines the immigrant populations of Colorado's Roaring Fork Valley, a sizable percentage of which hail from northwestern Mexico. The region relies heavily on service and maintenance work provided largely through this population, who often commute to work in Aspen. Loosely inspired by Jean Genet's The Maids--a seminal example of Theatre of the Absurd that renders surreal the intricate power dynamics that exist between people of divergent socioeconomic groups and exploits the volatility of social identity--Soy Mi Madre portrays the social realities of this region through the melodramatic lens of the telenovela.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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Accompanying the exhibition at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, this ground-breaking study of modern art, architecture, design and film examines the Cold War as a conflict between differing conceptions of modern life. It is an ambitious review of the geography of Cold War modernity, including works from the Socialist Bloc and western Europe, the United States, Cuba(...)
Design, Periods and Styles
October 2008, London
Cold war modern design 1945 - 1970
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Accompanying the exhibition at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, this ground-breaking study of modern art, architecture, design and film examines the Cold War as a conflict between differing conceptions of modern life. It is an ambitious review of the geography of Cold War modernity, including works from the Socialist Bloc and western Europe, the United States, Cuba and Japan. Essays on subjects as diverse as Cold War strategy, domesticity and hi-tech design developments are illustrated with remarkable images by internationally renowned artists and designers from Picasso to Kubrick, alongside the forgotten figures of the Cold War era.
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Moholy-Nagy: Future Present
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This book offers a fresh and extensive examination of the work of pioneering artist Laszlo Moholy-Nagy (1894-1946). The first major American survey of his oeuvre in nearly a half century and the most extensive English-language book on the artist in thirty years, the catalogue offers an integrated presentation of Moholy's production across a range of art forms including(...)
Moholy-Nagy: Future Present
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This book offers a fresh and extensive examination of the work of pioneering artist Laszlo Moholy-Nagy (1894-1946). The first major American survey of his oeuvre in nearly a half century and the most extensive English-language book on the artist in thirty years, the catalogue offers an integrated presentation of Moholy's production across a range of art forms including painting, sculpture, photography, graphic design, film, advertising, and theater. Over 300 works are illustrated in color, including the artist's early paintings and photograms, his whimsical photomontages-all of which are reproduced together here for the first time-and late works in Plexiglas.
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Essential Eames
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Charles and Ray Eames are regarded by many as the most influential designers of the twentieth century. Perhaps best known for their timeless furniture designs (Eames Lounge Chair), the husband-and-wife team also made pioneering contributions in the fields of architecture (Eames House), film (Powers of Ten), exhibitions (Mathematica), toys (House of Cards), graphics, and(...)
Essential Eames
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Charles and Ray Eames are regarded by many as the most influential designers of the twentieth century. Perhaps best known for their timeless furniture designs (Eames Lounge Chair), the husband-and-wife team also made pioneering contributions in the fields of architecture (Eames House), film (Powers of Ten), exhibitions (Mathematica), toys (House of Cards), graphics, and much more. Essential Eames: Words & Pictures draws from their shared lifetime of speeches and writings, as well as an archive of nearly one million photographs taken by the Eameses and their staff over a period of more than four decades.
Design Monographs
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Marcel Dzama is a prolific artist who works in multiple disciplines, including sculpture, watercolour, ink, collage, and film. His art depicts anachronistic, fanciful, and subversive worlds that contain human figures, animals, and mythical hybrid creatures. Using a visual language strongly influenced by fables and masquerades, his complex narratives transport the viewer(...)
Marcel Dzama: drawing on a revolution
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Marcel Dzama is a prolific artist who works in multiple disciplines, including sculpture, watercolour, ink, collage, and film. His art depicts anachronistic, fanciful, and subversive worlds that contain human figures, animals, and mythical hybrid creatures. Using a visual language strongly influenced by fables and masquerades, his complex narratives transport the viewer into an enigmatic world of life and death, calm and violence, where irony, ridicule, and sexual themes disguise allusions to contemporary social and political issues. This catalogue of drawings, dioramas, and other works is published on the occasion of an exhibition of Dzamas work at La Casa Encendida in Madrid.
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For almost two decades, Stephan Zaubitzer has travelled the world in search of cinemas, both operative and inoperative, to capture them with a large-format camera. "Cinés Méditerranée" presents a photographic journey through five countries on the southern coast of the Mediterranean sea – Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, and Lebanon – each of which holds an exceptional(...)
Stefan Zaubitzer: Cines Mediterranee
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For almost two decades, Stephan Zaubitzer has travelled the world in search of cinemas, both operative and inoperative, to capture them with a large-format camera. "Cinés Méditerranée" presents a photographic journey through five countries on the southern coast of the Mediterranean sea – Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, and Lebanon – each of which holds an exceptional architectural heritage. From the pristine to the dilapidated and even ruined, this extensive collection of images features numerous examples of classic 20th-century cinema architecture, design, and ornamentation. It also includes cartographic documentation and a preface by French film critic Alain Bergala.
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Jacopo Miliani: La Discoteca
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This book draws from the research done for the film ''La Discoteca''' by Jacopo Miliani. It contains a rare selection of flyers, ephemera, and posters that transport us to the Italian LGBTI+ nightlife scene from the 1970s to the 2000s. The collection of materials and items highlights how nightclubs can become places where exchange, transformation, and relationships, as(...)
Jacopo Miliani: La Discoteca
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This book draws from the research done for the film ''La Discoteca''' by Jacopo Miliani. It contains a rare selection of flyers, ephemera, and posters that transport us to the Italian LGBTI+ nightlife scene from the 1970s to the 2000s. The collection of materials and items highlights how nightclubs can become places where exchange, transformation, and relationships, as well as significant social and political actions, can happen. The publication is the outcome of a collaboration between the ''Flavia Madaschi'' Documentation Centre of the Cassero LGBTI+ Centre in Bologna, the Luca Lucati Archive, and the gay-themed monthly magazine ''Babilonia''.
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