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Utopian models for urban planning have noticeably declined in popularity since the late 1970s, and their decline has led to the neglect of vestigial social pilot projects--simple leisure facilities like parks and public swimming pools. Austrian photographer Isabella Hollauf (born 1956) traces a changing value system by visiting these orphaned sites, contrasting former(...)
Isabella Hollauf: Spaces for recreation
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Utopian models for urban planning have noticeably declined in popularity since the late 1970s, and their decline has led to the neglect of vestigial social pilot projects--simple leisure facilities like parks and public swimming pools. Austrian photographer Isabella Hollauf (born 1956) traces a changing value system by visiting these orphaned sites, contrasting former utopian hopes with the dismal reality of today's less ambitious aspirations.
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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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The work of German sculptor Isa Genzken is brilliantly receptive to the ever-shifting conditions of modern life. In this first book devoted to the artist, Lisa Lee reflects on Genzken’s tendency to think across media, attending to sculptures, photographs, drawings, and films from the entire span of her four-decade career, from student projects in the mid-1970s to recent(...)
Isa Genzken: sculpture as world receiver
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The work of German sculptor Isa Genzken is brilliantly receptive to the ever-shifting conditions of modern life. In this first book devoted to the artist, Lisa Lee reflects on Genzken’s tendency to think across media, attending to sculptures, photographs, drawings, and films from the entire span of her four-decade career, from student projects in the mid-1970s to recent works seen in Genzken’s studio.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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In Architectural Intelligence, Molly Wright Steenson explores the work of four architects in the 1960s and 1970s who incorporated elements of interactivity into their work. Christopher Alexander, Richard Saul Wurman, Cedric Price, and Nicholas Negroponte and the MIT Architecture Machine Group all incorporated technologies—including cybernetics and artificial(...)
December 2017
Architectural intelligence: how designers and architects created the digital landscape
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In Architectural Intelligence, Molly Wright Steenson explores the work of four architects in the 1960s and 1970s who incorporated elements of interactivity into their work. Christopher Alexander, Richard Saul Wurman, Cedric Price, and Nicholas Negroponte and the MIT Architecture Machine Group all incorporated technologies—including cybernetics and artificial intelligence—into their work and influenced digital design practices from the late 1980s to the present day.
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During the Showa period, from the 1950s to 1970s, most of the illustrated articles anticipating what life would be like in the 21st century were a nonsensical parade of daydreams, fantasy, and wild flights of imagination. The futuristic illustrations from that period collected in this book are grouped in six categories; everyday life, modes of transportation, robots,(...)
Futuristic illustrations for kids of the Showa era - our 21st century
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During the Showa period, from the 1950s to 1970s, most of the illustrated articles anticipating what life would be like in the 21st century were a nonsensical parade of daydreams, fantasy, and wild flights of imagination. The futuristic illustrations from that period collected in this book are grouped in six categories; everyday life, modes of transportation, robots, computers, space, and the end of the world.
Graphic Design and Typography
James Welling: monograph
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James Welling: Monograph provides a presentation of the artist’s work to date. Since the mid-1970s, Welling’s work has explored realism and transparency, abstraction and representation, optics and description, personal and cultural memory, and the material and chemical nature of photography. This volume presents a large selection of recent series, from 2000 through to the(...)
Photography monographs
March 2013
James Welling: monograph
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James Welling: Monograph provides a presentation of the artist’s work to date. Since the mid-1970s, Welling’s work has explored realism and transparency, abstraction and representation, optics and description, personal and cultural memory, and the material and chemical nature of photography. This volume presents a large selection of recent series, from 2000 through to the present, interspersed with early works made in the preceding decades.
Photography monographs
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This book is the first since the early 1970s devoted to the extraordinary British Benedictine monk, scholar, translator, concrete poet and artist Dom Sylvester Houédard (1924–92). Edited by Nicola Simpson, with new essays by Gustavo Grandal Montero, Rick Poynor, David Toop and Charles Verey, 'Notes from the Cosmic Typewriter' offers a broad and richly illustrated(...)
Notes from the cosmic typewriter : the life and work of Dom Sylvester Houédard
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This book is the first since the early 1970s devoted to the extraordinary British Benedictine monk, scholar, translator, concrete poet and artist Dom Sylvester Houédard (1924–92). Edited by Nicola Simpson, with new essays by Gustavo Grandal Montero, Rick Poynor, David Toop and Charles Verey, 'Notes from the Cosmic Typewriter' offers a broad and richly illustrated introduction to this major artistic and theological figure.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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[56] p. : ill. ; 13 cm.
Paris : Éditions Forces-Vives, [1965]
Le Corbusier, textes et dessins pour Ronchamp.
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[56] p. : ill. ; 13 cm.
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Paris : Éditions Forces-Vives, [1965]
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421 leaves : illustrations ; 28 cm
[1996]
Corridart : d'un événement culturel à une affaire juridique : analyse des textes journalistiques et du jugement de l'affaire Corridart (1975-1988) / par Pascale Choquette.
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421 leaves : illustrations ; 28 cm
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[1996]
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821 pages : illustrations, maps, plans ; 28 cm
[Ottawa?] : Environnement Canada, Service des parcs, 1989.
Répertoire des vestiges architecturaux découverts lors de la réfection de la courtine Saint-Louis et du bastion des Ursulines à Québec / par Gisèle Piédalue.
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[Ottawa?] : Environnement Canada, Service des parcs, 1989.