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An essay by Jean-François Chevrier and a conversation with Jacques Herzog on ornament, structure and space set the context for this comprehensive survey of the last five years of output from this important Swiss architectural office. Among the 23 both well-known and yet to be discovered projects featured include: the Laban Dance Centre, London; IKMZ BTU in Cottbus, De(...)
El Croquis
May 2006, Madrid
El croquis 129/130 : Herzog & de Meuron, 2002-2006
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An essay by Jean-François Chevrier and a conversation with Jacques Herzog on ornament, structure and space set the context for this comprehensive survey of the last five years of output from this important Swiss architectural office. Among the 23 both well-known and yet to be discovered projects featured include: the Laban Dance Centre, London; IKMZ BTU in Cottbus, De Young Museum, San Francisco; Elsässertor II, Basel; Plaza de España, Canary Islands; Jindong New District, Jinhua and the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg. All projects are accompanied by full page colour photographs along with plans, details and models.
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Now back in print, Johanna Drucker's "The Century of Artists' Books" is the seminal full-length study of the development of artists’ books as a 20th-century art form. By situating artists’ books within the context of mainstream developments in the visual arts, Drucker raises critical and theoretical issues as well as providing a historical overview of the medium. Within(...)
The century of artists' books
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Now back in print, Johanna Drucker's "The Century of Artists' Books" is the seminal full-length study of the development of artists’ books as a 20th-century art form. By situating artists’ books within the context of mainstream developments in the visual arts, Drucker raises critical and theoretical issues as well as providing a historical overview of the medium. Within its pages, she explores more than two hundred individual books in relation to their structure, form, and conceptualization. This latest edition of the book features a new preface by Drucker and includes an introduction by New York Times senior art critic Holland Cotter.
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November 2004, New York
Contemporary Art Monographs
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An overview of the best architecture in Spain that takes stock of architectural issues and trends in the field, placing them in the context of cultural, political, and economic events. The selection of 24 works reflects commitments to sustainability, materialised in buildings which use resources more efficiently. This includes refurbishments like Ombú for Acciona by(...)
AV Monographs 253-254: Spain 2023
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An overview of the best architecture in Spain that takes stock of architectural issues and trends in the field, placing them in the context of cultural, political, and economic events. The selection of 24 works reflects commitments to sustainability, materialised in buildings which use resources more efficiently. This includes refurbishments like Ombú for Acciona by Foster + Partners in Madrid and Palace-House by Tuñón & Albornoz in Cáceres. Nieto Sobejano and Alcolea, Ercilla, and Tárrago promote sustainability through courtyards and building orientation in university buildings, while other projects rely on low-impact, recyclable, or locally sourced materials like wood or ceramic.
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A special feature on projects with an extremely small footprint: 50 square metres or less. Whether limitations on size are imposed by context, budget, programme, project brief, or the client’s wishes, creative solutions to design challenges inevitably emerge. More than 25 works are presented, conceived by a diverse range of international architects and studios, including(...)
A+U 636: = 50 m2
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A special feature on projects with an extremely small footprint: 50 square metres or less. Whether limitations on size are imposed by context, budget, programme, project brief, or the client’s wishes, creative solutions to design challenges inevitably emerge. More than 25 works are presented, conceived by a diverse range of international architects and studios, including H Architects (Vietnam), MAPA Arquitectos (Uruguay), Atelier Poem (France), 100A associates (Korea), and many more. While the selection mostly includes residential works such as houses and bungalows, there are also designs for outbuildings, park or garden features, chapels, a fireplace, and more.
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This book focuses on Farrell’s work from the past ten years. Each chapter is devoted to a single city, and opens with a brief outline of the city’s history. We learn how Farrell’s diverse and dramatic buildings were developed, from earliest sketches and blueprints to final execution, and see each of them in the context of their unique urban setting. Filled with a wealth(...)
Architecture Monographs
October 2001, New York
Ten years ten cities : the work of Terry Farrell & Partners 1991-2001
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This book focuses on Farrell’s work from the past ten years. Each chapter is devoted to a single city, and opens with a brief outline of the city’s history. We learn how Farrell’s diverse and dramatic buildings were developed, from earliest sketches and blueprints to final execution, and see each of them in the context of their unique urban setting. Filled with a wealth of illustrations, plans and sketches detailing each project, this collection offers tremendous insight into the architectural process, and into the ways in which the urban architect draws from and responds to his environment.
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October 2001, New York
Architecture Monographs
Feminism. Art. Capitalism
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"Feminism. Art. Capitalism." calls for a revolutionary rethinking of the feminist struggle and its relation to art. Championing Marxist feminism and focusing on the layers of capitalist hegemony, the book considers the exploitation of enthusiasm in art’s promise of a self-determined subject, the ideological capture of feminism, modernity’s attachment to technology (and(...)
Feminism. Art. Capitalism
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"Feminism. Art. Capitalism." calls for a revolutionary rethinking of the feminist struggle and its relation to art. Championing Marxist feminism and focusing on the layers of capitalist hegemony, the book considers the exploitation of enthusiasm in art’s promise of a self-determined subject, the ideological capture of feminism, modernity’s attachment to technology (and its magic), the historical context and impact of postmodernism, and the question of class and social reproduction. Provocative and uncompromising, Feminism. Art. Capitalism. offers an indispensable guide for art history, theory, and practice – inviting readers to confront what claiming art and feminism as sites of resistance actually entails.
Critical Theory
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"Vivienda industrializada" focuses on housing and industrialization, opening with an article by Eduardo Prieto on the possibilities and boundaries of this practice, still today caught between the promise of technology and the logistical inertia of conventional construction. In this context, a selection of six projects completed in Spain explores different ways of(...)
AV proyectos 133: Vivienda industrializada
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"Vivienda industrializada" focuses on housing and industrialization, opening with an article by Eduardo Prieto on the possibilities and boundaries of this practice, still today caught between the promise of technology and the logistical inertia of conventional construction. In this context, a selection of six projects completed in Spain explores different ways of integrating design, manufacture, and assembly within the residential sector, in a progression ranging from the domestic to the collective. That same pragmatism is evident in the work of British architects Jonathan Sergison and Stephen Bates, whose practice is explored here through their recent projects.
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C3 441 : Discovering time
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This special issue focuses on contemporary Korean architecture, exploring how it positions itself in relation to powerful external conditions: vast natural landscapes, imposing topographies and the passage of time. Through six selected projects, the issue examines architectural approaches that do not compete with their context, but rather integrate within it. Rather than(...)
C3 441 : Discovering time
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This special issue focuses on contemporary Korean architecture, exploring how it positions itself in relation to powerful external conditions: vast natural landscapes, imposing topographies and the passage of time. Through six selected projects, the issue examines architectural approaches that do not compete with their context, but rather integrate within it. Rather than obscuring the past, these projects reveal it; rather than erecting rigid boundaries, they leave voids and intermediate spaces. When architecture is understood not as a static object but as a structure shaped by time and flow, the ways in which life and sensory experience manifest themselves become significantly richer.
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This volume focuses on selected villas and their gardens in France and Italy from the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries. Interdisciplinary and fundamentally contextualizing in approach, the essays examine the relationship between landscape and court culture and(...)
Villas and gardens in early modern Italy and France
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This volume focuses on selected villas and their gardens in France and Italy from the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries. Interdisciplinary and fundamentally contextualizing in approach, the essays examine the relationship between landscape and court culture and statecraft; villas in their broader territorial setting; landscape and representation; gender and the garden; and the social history of garden construction, among other topics. Providing an overview of the new directions that are currently taken in cultural landscape studies, "Villas and Gardens in Early Modern Italy and France" also places these sites within the context of European intellectual history, material culture studies, and cultural landscape studies.
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July 2001, New York
Gardens
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Conservation and Sustainability in Historic Cities examines how the two key issues of urban conservation and sustainability relate to each other in the context of historic cities, and how they can be brought together in a common philosophy and practice that is mutually supportive. It sets out the theoretical and practical background to architectural conservation and how(...)
June 2007, London
Conservation and sustainability in historic cities
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Conservation and Sustainability in Historic Cities examines how the two key issues of urban conservation and sustainability relate to each other in the context of historic cities, and how they can be brought together in a common philosophy and practice that is mutually supportive. It sets out the theoretical and practical background to architectural conservation and how its perceived relevance and level of attainment can be extended when harnessed to wider agendas of sustainability and cultural identity. It tests the achievement of urban conservation through case studies from across Europe and elsewhere, assessing them against the sustainability agenda.