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Power to the imagination! is a renowned rallying cry of the May 1968 uprisings in Paris. But today, many of those who invoke a populist political imagination now—Berlusconi, the Tea Party, the Dutch right-wing populist Geert Wilders and others—have intentions of a quite different nature. This edition of Open addresses imagination and myth in the political arena.
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Open 20: The populist imagination
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Power to the imagination! is a renowned rallying cry of the May 1968 uprisings in Paris. But today, many of those who invoke a populist political imagination now—Berlusconi, the Tea Party, the Dutch right-wing populist Geert Wilders and others—have intentions of a quite different nature. This edition of Open addresses imagination and myth in the political arena.
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A city of ten million, Wuhan is the engineering center of China, a site of remarkable functional architecture on a breathtaking scale. This book features photographs, plans and accounts of major projects found in or originating in Wuhan, along with analyses of twenty-four the most impressive engineering works in China, including the Three Gorges Dam, power plants,(...)
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September 2013
Engineering design : Made in Wuhan, China
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A city of ten million, Wuhan is the engineering center of China, a site of remarkable functional architecture on a breathtaking scale. This book features photographs, plans and accounts of major projects found in or originating in Wuhan, along with analyses of twenty-four the most impressive engineering works in China, including the Three Gorges Dam, power plants, tunnels, and bridges.
Contemporary Asian Architecture
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Located in the rural areas outside of bustling Buenos Aires, the commercial establishments - butcheries, bakeries, bars, repair shops, garages, dry cleaners - depicted in this collection by photographer Guillermo Srodek-Hart appear steeped in history and are packed with details dripping with colour. These photographs, shot with a large-format camera, are imbued with a(...)
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Guillermo Srodek-Hart: Stories
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Located in the rural areas outside of bustling Buenos Aires, the commercial establishments - butcheries, bakeries, bars, repair shops, garages, dry cleaners - depicted in this collection by photographer Guillermo Srodek-Hart appear steeped in history and are packed with details dripping with colour. These photographs, shot with a large-format camera, are imbued with a narrative power not unlike an Edward Hopper painting.
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207 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm
New York : Princeton Architectural Press, ©2004.
A-frame / Chad Randl.
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The 1980s and 1990s have seen an enormous increase in the power of business over the American mind. Not since the Gilded Age have the robber barons of business accumulated more wealth or won more popular attention. But where the tycoons of yore built railroads or banks, today culture stands at the heart of American enterprise and mass entertainment has become its economic dynamo.
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Commodify your dissent: the business of culture in the new gilded age
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The 1980s and 1990s have seen an enormous increase in the power of business over the American mind. Not since the Gilded Age have the robber barons of business accumulated more wealth or won more popular attention. But where the tycoons of yore built railroads or banks, today culture stands at the heart of American enterprise and mass entertainment has become its economic dynamo.
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The latest book by photographer Rosalind Fox Solomon meditates on the all-too physical traces of conflict and aggressive foreign policy which shape the lives and bodies of people around the world, travelling from Brazilian favelas to Cambodian villages, to the streets of New York. Solomon’s black-and-white images pay tribute to those individuals who have become unwilling(...)
Rosalind Fox Solomon: The forgotten
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The latest book by photographer Rosalind Fox Solomon meditates on the all-too physical traces of conflict and aggressive foreign policy which shape the lives and bodies of people around the world, travelling from Brazilian favelas to Cambodian villages, to the streets of New York. Solomon’s black-and-white images pay tribute to those individuals who have become unwilling memorials to the merciless pursuit of power.
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Peter Bogaczewicz: Kingdom of sand and cement. The shifting cultural landscape of Saudi Arabia
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'Kingdom of Sand and Cement' by Peter Bogaczewicz explores the challenges Saudi Arabia faces today as it rapidly transforms from a conservative and tribal desert culture to an influential world power. Examining this legacy through large-format color photographs, the author documents a country of sharp contrasts where visual traces of an old reticent society can be seen in(...)
Peter Bogaczewicz: Kingdom of sand and cement. The shifting cultural landscape of Saudi Arabia
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'Kingdom of Sand and Cement' by Peter Bogaczewicz explores the challenges Saudi Arabia faces today as it rapidly transforms from a conservative and tribal desert culture to an influential world power. Examining this legacy through large-format color photographs, the author documents a country of sharp contrasts where visual traces of an old reticent society can be seen in the midst of a burgeoning modern culture.
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Convergence is based on the thermodynamic premise that architecture should maximize its ecological and architectural power. No matter how paradoxical it might initially seem, architects should maximize energy intake, maximize energy use, and maximize energy feedback and reinforcement. This presumes that the necessary excess of architecture is in fact an architect’s(...)
Convergence: An Architectural Agenda for Energy
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Convergence is based on the thermodynamic premise that architecture should maximize its ecological and architectural power. No matter how paradoxical it might initially seem, architects should maximize energy intake, maximize energy use, and maximize energy feedback and reinforcement. This presumes that the necessary excess of architecture is in fact an architect’s greatest asset when it comes to an agenda for energy, not a liability.
Environment and environmental theory
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In her photographic work Austrian Aglaia Konrad has developed a distinctive way of documenting global urbanization. Her archive contains thousands of pictures concerning infrastructure and architecture, an almost unlimited collection that elucidates the relationship between society and place. The pictures allow the viewer to participate in a scenario where the(...)
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Angle 17° : Aglaia Konrad. shaping stones
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In her photographic work Austrian Aglaia Konrad has developed a distinctive way of documenting global urbanization. Her archive contains thousands of pictures concerning infrastructure and architecture, an almost unlimited collection that elucidates the relationship between society and place. The pictures allow the viewer to participate in a scenario where the dividing-lines between the old and the new, between architecture, nature, power and symbols are fluid.
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Le pouvoir du commissaire / The Curator’s Power SYLVETTE BABIN CURATORS Guest Curating in the Museum: Lost in Translation? SOPHIA KRZYS ACCORD Curating Exhibitions: An Evolving and Ambiguous Function PAUL ARDENNE The Author-Curator and His Critics JEAN-PHILIPPE UZEL Curator, your love’s on display LOUISE DÉRY Institutional Recognition and(...)
Esse 72: Commissaires / Curators. be nice to your curator
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Le pouvoir du commissaire / The Curator’s Power SYLVETTE BABIN CURATORS Guest Curating in the Museum: Lost in Translation? SOPHIA KRZYS ACCORD Curating Exhibitions: An Evolving and Ambiguous Function PAUL ARDENNE The Author-Curator and His Critics JEAN-PHILIPPE UZEL Curator, your love’s on display LOUISE DÉRY Institutional Recognition and New Curatorial Practices NATHALIE DESMET The Ephemeral as an Agent of Reflexive Inquiry MICHÈLE THIÉRIAULT
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