Jan Köchermann: Shafts
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Since 1996, German artist Jan Köchermann has been working with ducts as sculpture, producing a variety of large installations in public spaces that provide unexpected sights, whether it be a floating upside-down high-rise building, or the reproduction of a 26-meter-long bicycle tunnel. This monograph covers Köchermann's entire oeuvre, and also examines his light(...)
Jan Köchermann: Shafts
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Since 1996, German artist Jan Köchermann has been working with ducts as sculpture, producing a variety of large installations in public spaces that provide unexpected sights, whether it be a floating upside-down high-rise building, or the reproduction of a 26-meter-long bicycle tunnel. This monograph covers Köchermann's entire oeuvre, and also examines his light sculptures and film projections.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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Browning highlights architecture’s best in a range of styles and eras—from James Deering’s Vizcaya, his 1916 Italian Renaissance–inspired villa in Miami, to postwar marvels by Bauhaus practitioners Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (Farnsworth House) and Marcel Breuer (Hooper House II), to more recent constructions, such as Marwan Al-Sayed’s mirage-like House of Earth and Light in(...)
Living architecture: Greatest American houses of the 20th Century
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Browning highlights architecture’s best in a range of styles and eras—from James Deering’s Vizcaya, his 1916 Italian Renaissance–inspired villa in Miami, to postwar marvels by Bauhaus practitioners Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (Farnsworth House) and Marcel Breuer (Hooper House II), to more recent constructions, such as Marwan Al-Sayed’s mirage-like House of Earth and Light in the Southwest desert.
Residential Architecture
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This publication includes almost 100 prints from 1988 to the present, with a stress on experimental, collaborative and serial works. Kentridge’s distinctive use of light and shadow and silhouettes, his concern with memory and perspective, and his absorption in literary texts are all strongly in evidence throughout this book, which provides new insights into the working(...)
February 2013
A universal archive: William Kentridge as printmaker
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This publication includes almost 100 prints from 1988 to the present, with a stress on experimental, collaborative and serial works. Kentridge’s distinctive use of light and shadow and silhouettes, his concern with memory and perspective, and his absorption in literary texts are all strongly in evidence throughout this book, which provides new insights into the working methods of this prolific artist.
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Corridor offers a series of conceptually provocative readings that illuminate a hidden and surprising relationship between architectural space and modern American fiction. By paying close attention to fictional descriptions of some of modernity's least remarkable structures, Kate Marshall discovers a rich network of connections between corridors and novels, one that also(...)
Corridor: media architecture in american fiction
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Corridor offers a series of conceptually provocative readings that illuminate a hidden and surprising relationship between architectural space and modern American fiction. By paying close attention to fictional descriptions of some of modernity's least remarkable structures, Kate Marshall discovers a rich network of connections between corridors and novels, one that also sheds new light on the nature of modern media.
Architecture and Film, Set Design
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Articulating a radical agenda for the rethinking of the basic precepts of the construction industry in light of digital technologies, this book explores the profound shift that is underway in all aspects of architectural process. Essays and lectures from the last fifteen years discuss these changes in relation to dECOi Architects, created in 1991 as a forward-looking(...)
September 2008
The possibility of (an) architecture
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Articulating a radical agenda for the rethinking of the basic precepts of the construction industry in light of digital technologies, this book explores the profound shift that is underway in all aspects of architectural process. Essays and lectures from the last fifteen years discuss these changes in relation to dECOi Architects, created in 1991 as a forward-looking architectural practice.
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September 2008
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Contestations brings together a range of artists, theorists and other practitioners to consider the state of education and learning in light of political struggle, institutional crisis and new media platforms. Focusing on creative experiments in education, Contestations seeks to instigate a conversation about the future direction of education that challenges existing(...)
Contestations: learning from critical experiments in education
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Contestations brings together a range of artists, theorists and other practitioners to consider the state of education and learning in light of political struggle, institutional crisis and new media platforms. Focusing on creative experiments in education, Contestations seeks to instigate a conversation about the future direction of education that challenges existing academic models while examining possibilities for strategic intervention and self-organisation.
Paola Lenti: weaving spaces
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“This book describes the interweaving of colours that mix with the principles of perspective, of form that interacts with the eye, of light that blends with the shades of materials. But above all it describes a design, a project made of the stuff of dreams, in which skilled hands have given geometric precision, shape, proportion, concrete essence to the visible.”
Paola Lenti: weaving spaces
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“This book describes the interweaving of colours that mix with the principles of perspective, of form that interacts with the eye, of light that blends with the shades of materials. But above all it describes a design, a project made of the stuff of dreams, in which skilled hands have given geometric precision, shape, proportion, concrete essence to the visible.”
Industrial Design
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''Shining lights'' is the first critical anthology to bring together the groundbreaking work of Black women photographers active in the UK during the 1980s and 1990s, providing a richly illustrated overview of a significant and overlooked chapter of photographic history. Seen through the lens of Britain’s sociopolitical and cultural contexts, the publication draws on both(...)
Shining lights: Black women in photography in the UK 1980s-90s
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''Shining lights'' is the first critical anthology to bring together the groundbreaking work of Black women photographers active in the UK during the 1980s and 1990s, providing a richly illustrated overview of a significant and overlooked chapter of photographic history. Seen through the lens of Britain’s sociopolitical and cultural contexts, the publication draws on both lived experience and historical investigation to explore the communities, experiments, collaborations, and complexities that defined the decades.
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561 pages, 9 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
New York : Duell, Sloan and Pearce, [1943], ©1943
Frank Lloyd Wright : an autobiography.
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561 pages, 9 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
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New York : Duell, Sloan and Pearce, [1943], ©1943
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xxx, 322 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2017]
Canadian painters in a modern world, 1925-1955 : writings and reconsiderations / Lora Senechal Carney.
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Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2017]