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This first issue focuses on the theme of ‘Antifragility’, a term coined by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. Exploring industries and ideas from agriculture to pornography, marketing to axe-making, future business and ownership models to climate change, the essays locate connecting threads to tie them all together. Each issue contains a watchlist for books, events, and people and a(...)
The Alpine Review, No,1: observing the things that matter
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This first issue focuses on the theme of ‘Antifragility’, a term coined by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. Exploring industries and ideas from agriculture to pornography, marketing to axe-making, future business and ownership models to climate change, the essays locate connecting threads to tie them all together. Each issue contains a watchlist for books, events, and people and a city focus, here centred on Berlin.
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Re-inventing construction
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Re-inventing Construction presents two complementary approaches: On the one hand, the book gives an overview of new construction technologies, material research, energy concepts, as well as ownership models and development strategies in architecture. On the other hand, it rediscovers the wisdom of vernacular architecture with its smart use of locally available building(...)
Re-inventing construction
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Re-inventing Construction presents two complementary approaches: On the one hand, the book gives an overview of new construction technologies, material research, energy concepts, as well as ownership models and development strategies in architecture. On the other hand, it rediscovers the wisdom of vernacular architecture with its smart use of locally available building materials, building methods and typologies, as well as the ingenious understanding of natural principles
Engineering Structures
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Collectivize! makes a case for the rehabilitation of the idea of the “common”. By taking the reader on a trip through built social laboratories and fictional utopias (or dystopias), this collection of four essays explores the role of collective ownership and identity in an increasingly individualized and compartmentalized world. With diverse contributions by Massimo De(...)
Collectivize! Essays on the political economy of Urban form vol.2
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Collectivize! makes a case for the rehabilitation of the idea of the “common”. By taking the reader on a trip through built social laboratories and fictional utopias (or dystopias), this collection of four essays explores the role of collective ownership and identity in an increasingly individualized and compartmentalized world. With diverse contributions by Massimo De Angelis, Jesse Le Cavalier, Arno Brandlhuber and Christian Posthofen, and Zvi Efrat.
Urban Theory
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After half a century of neoliberalism, a new radical, practice-based ideology is making its way from the margins: commonism, with an o in the middle. It is based on the values of sharing, common (intellectual) ownership and new social co-operations. Commoners assert that social relationships can replace money (contract) relationships. They advocate solidarity and they(...)
Commonism: a new aesthetics of the real
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After half a century of neoliberalism, a new radical, practice-based ideology is making its way from the margins: commonism, with an o in the middle. It is based on the values of sharing, common (intellectual) ownership and new social co-operations. Commoners assert that social relationships can replace money (contract) relationships. They advocate solidarity and they trust in peer-to-peer relationships to develop new ways of production.
Art Theory
Shuichiro Shibata: bus stop
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The number of passengers on local bus routes at bus stops as addressed in this photo book has been in decline since the peak year of 1968. This is due to an increase in individual car ownership, an aging society with fewer children, lower populations in rural areas, and lifestyle changes. Japanese photographer Shuichiro Shibata (1963) has travelled all over Japan to(...)
Shuichiro Shibata: bus stop
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The number of passengers on local bus routes at bus stops as addressed in this photo book has been in decline since the peak year of 1968. This is due to an increase in individual car ownership, an aging society with fewer children, lower populations in rural areas, and lifestyle changes. Japanese photographer Shuichiro Shibata (1963) has travelled all over Japan to picture the bus stops in black and white photographs.
Photography monographs
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In this examination of the fate and future of water, Marq de Villiers takes on some of the biggest questions and shibboleths of the century. Who owns water? Is access to water a human right? Who is responsible for keeping water clean and ensuring it gets to the people who need it most? Is privatization of ownership and supply networks an evil or an extension of the public trust?
Back to the well : rethinking the future of water
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In this examination of the fate and future of water, Marq de Villiers takes on some of the biggest questions and shibboleths of the century. Who owns water? Is access to water a human right? Who is responsible for keeping water clean and ensuring it gets to the people who need it most? Is privatization of ownership and supply networks an evil or an extension of the public trust?
Green Architecture
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In 2009, Brazil launched a low-cost housing programme to fill a deficit of seven million homes. This publication, produced by the MAS Urban Design Programme, examines the project at a critical time and presents ways to improve it. Three chapters review its history and implementation, the ingenuity of Brazilian architecture, and present proposals for housing based not on(...)
Minha Casa - nossa cidade! : innovative mass housing for social change in Brazil
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In 2009, Brazil launched a low-cost housing programme to fill a deficit of seven million homes. This publication, produced by the MAS Urban Design Programme, examines the project at a critical time and presents ways to improve it. Three chapters review its history and implementation, the ingenuity of Brazilian architecture, and present proposals for housing based not on private ownership but on the greater vision for the city as a common project.
Collective Housing
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Endlessly diverse, bookplates (also called ex libris, Latin for "from the books of") are small decorative labels to be pasted inside a book's cover to express personal ownership. Originating in their modern printed form in 16th-century Germany, where books were highly valuable and treasured, bookplates became an art form practiced by artists across Europe and beyond. This(...)
Ex Libris: the art of bookplates
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Endlessly diverse, bookplates (also called ex libris, Latin for "from the books of") are small decorative labels to be pasted inside a book's cover to express personal ownership. Originating in their modern printed form in 16th-century Germany, where books were highly valuable and treasured, bookplates became an art form practiced by artists across Europe and beyond. This book traces the evolution of bookplate design over time and across national boundaries, showcasing 100 key examples of ex libris art.
Book Design
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A collection of essays by art historians, anthropologists and commentators on contemporary visual culture on the theme of "Location". This publication explores the theme of "Location", including transatlantic exchanges and global connections, and the nature of hospitality that arises in acknowledging migration and diaspora. It also questions how important location is(...)
Art Theory
April 2007, Malden, Oxford, Victoria
Location
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A collection of essays by art historians, anthropologists and commentators on contemporary visual culture on the theme of "Location". This publication explores the theme of "Location", including transatlantic exchanges and global connections, and the nature of hospitality that arises in acknowledging migration and diaspora. It also questions how important location is in producing, understanding and curating art. The contributors consider such topics as site-specificity, examinations of the trans-national/trans-cultural, how images/visual forms migrate, and the repositioning of ownership.
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April 2007, Malden, Oxford, Victoria
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Moving day & other stories
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With incisive humour and caustic sympathy, in three short stories, Anna Leventhal gives us characters that live in a world strolling a few steps beside our own. Exploring class, ownership, and civic duty, Moving Day captures the totalitarian exercise of a mandatory, city-wide move and the effect of its bureaucratic mishaps. The shiftless narrator of Last Man Standing has(...)
Moving day & other stories
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With incisive humour and caustic sympathy, in three short stories, Anna Leventhal gives us characters that live in a world strolling a few steps beside our own. Exploring class, ownership, and civic duty, Moving Day captures the totalitarian exercise of a mandatory, city-wide move and the effect of its bureaucratic mishaps. The shiftless narrator of Last Man Standing has his social bubble threatened by a dubious emergency, while a diagnosis in Sweet Affliction suggests a new stage in human evolution.