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Since its establishment in 2011 in Hamamatsu, Japan, by Toru Yada, Takuma Tsuji, and Takeshi Hashimoto, the firm 403architecture [dajiba] has worked on around 50 projects. Looking back, the architects noticed a number of elements these ostensibly diverse projects shared in common. Fragmentary indicators of thinking such as these, which transcend specific projects, can be(...)
403architecture [dajiba] : Feedback
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Since its establishment in 2011 in Hamamatsu, Japan, by Toru Yada, Takuma Tsuji, and Takeshi Hashimoto, the firm 403architecture [dajiba] has worked on around 50 projects. Looking back, the architects noticed a number of elements these ostensibly diverse projects shared in common. Fragmentary indicators of thinking such as these, which transcend specific projects, can be seen as an index of the firm’s values. The architects refer to them as “tags”, and have organised this book around them, offering an in-depth look at the 50 projects through converting materials, applying what is there, deviating from convention, new/old hybrids, making spaces equivalent, and repeating units.
Architecture Monographs
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At a time when environmental awareness is becoming increasingly important, the post-disaster and DIY-oriented philosophy of Ishinomaki Laboratory reflects the changing paradigms in furniture design today. Ishinomaki Laboratory was born in the aftermath of the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011. Initiated by the architect Keiji Ashizawa, it was originally thought as a(...)
Ishinomaki Laboratory: An experiment in DIY and design
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At a time when environmental awareness is becoming increasingly important, the post-disaster and DIY-oriented philosophy of Ishinomaki Laboratory reflects the changing paradigms in furniture design today. Ishinomaki Laboratory was born in the aftermath of the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011. Initiated by the architect Keiji Ashizawa, it was originally thought as a community workshop intended to assist residents affected by the disaster rebuilding furniture from the materials at hand. Along with running DIY workshops, "shinomaki Laboratory also participated in restoring local shops and the relevance and appeal of these well-designed yet low-tech products quickly resonated with people around the world.
Design Monographs
Stefan Canham: The town
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Photographer Stefan Canham has visited the provincial town of Sapa in northern Vietnam repeatedly since 2011. Speaking with women from the surrounding mountain villages, he became obsessed with the small rectangular patches of cloth they were selling. Cut from traditional jackets and embroidered in abstract geometric patterns indicating the wearer’s village, the patches(...)
Stefan Canham: The town
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Photographer Stefan Canham has visited the provincial town of Sapa in northern Vietnam repeatedly since 2011. Speaking with women from the surrounding mountain villages, he became obsessed with the small rectangular patches of cloth they were selling. Cut from traditional jackets and embroidered in abstract geometric patterns indicating the wearer’s village, the patches have become objects in transition between rural customs and international tourism. The town itself is also in transition: scores of slender new houses with eclectic facades are being erected, catering to the influx of tourists. Canham explores these two significant facets of material culture in a carefully thought out artist’s book.
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AV proyectos 050: Lorca
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Beginning with a close look at the strategy for the rebuilding of Lorca after a devastating earthquake in 2011, this instalment goes on to highlight this year's Serpentine Pavilion by Herzog & de Meuron and Ai Weiwei, OMA's concept for Garage Gorky Park, Moscow, and Dominique Perrault's design for the New Longchamp Racecourse, plus competitions for the Yenikapi Transfer(...)
AV proyectos 050: Lorca
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Beginning with a close look at the strategy for the rebuilding of Lorca after a devastating earthquake in 2011, this instalment goes on to highlight this year's Serpentine Pavilion by Herzog & de Meuron and Ai Weiwei, OMA's concept for Garage Gorky Park, Moscow, and Dominique Perrault's design for the New Longchamp Racecourse, plus competitions for the Yenikapi Transfer Point, Istanbul, and the Bünder Kunstmuseum, Chur. It also includes an extensive feature on Izaskun Chinchilla's rehabilitation of Castillo de Garcimuñoz in Cuenca and the photography of Bas Princen, which contrasts the duality between natural and artificial, “understanding the landscape as a place that will be transformed and later colonized.”
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Our relationship with dirt is complex and ambivalent. Dirt is waste, excrement, rubbish, bacteria--but what then is soil, where crops grow, and to which our bodies eventually return? Dirt may pose significant risks to our health, but it is also vital to our existence. Lavishly illustrated, this exciting and often startling book is a provocative introduction to a vast(...)
Dirt: the filthy reality of everyday life
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Our relationship with dirt is complex and ambivalent. Dirt is waste, excrement, rubbish, bacteria--but what then is soil, where crops grow, and to which our bodies eventually return? Dirt may pose significant risks to our health, but it is also vital to our existence. Lavishly illustrated, this exciting and often startling book is a provocative introduction to a vast and complex subject. Five writers and a graphic novelist pursue different themes from a range of perspectives in order to examine dirt and its contradictions, including personal grooming, the politics of dirt in the home, city sanitation, and waste disposal. From a 2011 exhibition at the Wellcome Collection, London.
Architectural Theory
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The now-legendary 1975 New Topographics show represented a true "seismic shift" in American landscape photography, moving past the romantic legacy of Ansel Adams and Edward Weston to the minimalist-influenced work typified by Lewis Baltz and Joe Deal. This catalog of 2011's Seismic Shift exhibition offers a comprehensive narrative of California photographic history made(...)
Seismic shift : Lewis Baltz, Joe Deal and California Landscape photography, 1944-1984
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The now-legendary 1975 New Topographics show represented a true "seismic shift" in American landscape photography, moving past the romantic legacy of Ansel Adams and Edward Weston to the minimalist-influenced work typified by Lewis Baltz and Joe Deal. This catalog of 2011's Seismic Shift exhibition offers a comprehensive narrative of California photographic history made by the 43 featured artists; it includes 58 reproductions (mostly black-and-white) and essays by curator Colin Westerbeck, photographic historian Susan Laxton and regionalist Jason Weems. The exhibition is one of over 60 funded by the Getty Research Institute's initiative looking at Southern California art 1945-1980, called Pacific Standard Time.
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Outposts : Kandahar Province
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This book presents Donovan Wylie's photographs of Forward Operating Bases constructed in the Kandahar Province of Afghanistan. From 2006 to 2011, Canada sent nearly 3,000 military personnel to Afghanistan in support of NATO's International Security Assistance Force. Serving alongside infantry and artillery, military engineers designed a network of outposts throughout the(...)
Outposts : Kandahar Province
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This book presents Donovan Wylie's photographs of Forward Operating Bases constructed in the Kandahar Province of Afghanistan. From 2006 to 2011, Canada sent nearly 3,000 military personnel to Afghanistan in support of NATO's International Security Assistance Force. Serving alongside infantry and artillery, military engineers designed a network of outposts throughout the province. Built on natural promontories with multiple lines of sight, these outposts formed a protective visual architecture. They were frequently positioned on defensive locations established during earlier conflicts and represent reincarnations of past histories under new powers. The resulting images are the latest phase in Wylie's interrogation of the architecture of modern conflict.
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Thomas Struth
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This book brings together sixteen photographs made by Thomas Struth in Israel and the Israeli-occupied West Bank in 2009, 2011 and 2014. Struth continued his practice of creating singular images, each within one of the strictly segregated subject fields he has developed through his career: street photographs, portraits, landscapes and photographs of high technology. Each(...)
Thomas Struth
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This book brings together sixteen photographs made by Thomas Struth in Israel and the Israeli-occupied West Bank in 2009, 2011 and 2014. Struth continued his practice of creating singular images, each within one of the strictly segregated subject fields he has developed through his career: street photographs, portraits, landscapes and photographs of high technology. Each image carries the enduring complexity and visual distillation of human experience for which Struth is known. Approaching the sheer diversity and quiddity of the inhabited world, he attempts to represent what he has referred to as “a particle of the conflict of the region”, to photograph, fragment by fragment, the conflicted political and social landscape.
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GA : Kengo Kuma 2006-2012
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This large-format monograph on the famed Japanese architect covers six years of theory and practice through an exhaustive look at over 60 projects, from large (V at Dundee, Sanlitum SOHO in Beijing) to small (Sake no Hana in London, Lake House). Kengo Kuma is known for achieving a new kind of transparency in architecture, and is not bound by using only traditional light(...)
GA : Kengo Kuma 2006-2012
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This large-format monograph on the famed Japanese architect covers six years of theory and practice through an exhaustive look at over 60 projects, from large (V at Dundee, Sanlitum SOHO in Beijing) to small (Sake no Hana in London, Lake House). Kengo Kuma is known for achieving a new kind of transparency in architecture, and is not bound by using only traditional light materials. Included is his essay, Small Architecture, which gives valuable insight into his view that great disasters, not the progress of technology, have been architectures driving force throughout history, with the most recent example being the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011.
Architecture Monographs
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Après De quoi le Québec a-t-il besoin ? (2011) et De quoi le Québec a-t-il besoin en éducation ? (2012), l'équipe de Marie-France Bazzo poursuit son enquête : que se passe-t-il dans le Québec contemporain... et à quoi ressemble (ou pourrait ressembler) son avenir ? Cette fois, il est question du territoire. Notre pays, comme il apparaît surles cartes géographiques, dans(...)
De quoi le territoire du Québec a-t-il besoin? : recueil d'entretiens
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Après De quoi le Québec a-t-il besoin ? (2011) et De quoi le Québec a-t-il besoin en éducation ? (2012), l'équipe de Marie-France Bazzo poursuit son enquête : que se passe-t-il dans le Québec contemporain... et à quoi ressemble (ou pourrait ressembler) son avenir ? Cette fois, il est question du territoire. Notre pays, comme il apparaît surles cartes géographiques, dans quel état se trouve-t-il ? Qu'est-ce que c'est, le territoire québécois ? Qu'est-ce que c'est, un territoire ? Simplement ce qui se trouve à l'intérieur des frontières ? Ou bien une manière de faire vivre une terre ? Une douzaine de penseurs et de marcheurs donnent leurs réponses.
Architecture du Québec