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Luigi Colani has been making biomorphic streamlined products ever since he graduated from the Sorbonne, in 1953, with a degree in aerodynamics. He has designed everything from cameras and watches to cars and motorcycles. His visionary studies for supersonic transit, high-speed trains, aerodynamic sports equipment, eyewear, and just about everything else have dramatically(...)
Colani : the art of shaping the future
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Luigi Colani has been making biomorphic streamlined products ever since he graduated from the Sorbonne, in 1953, with a degree in aerodynamics. He has designed everything from cameras and watches to cars and motorcycles. His visionary studies for supersonic transit, high-speed trains, aerodynamic sports equipment, eyewear, and just about everything else have dramatically altered our designed environment. His design patrons include BMW, Canon, Mazda, NEC, Rosenthal, Sony, VW, and Zeiss. This magnificent volume, beautifully produced with hundreds of drawings and photos, showcases for the first time his wide-ranging oeuvre in the context of international design history.
Design Monographs
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Architecture manifests as a space of concealment and unconcealment, lethe and alêtheia, enclosure and disclosure, where its making and agency are both hidden and revealed. With an urgency to amplify narratives that are overlooked, silenced and unacknowledged in and by architectural spaces, histories and theories, this book contends the need for a critical study of hiding(...)
Architectural Theory
January 2024
Architectures of hiding: Crafting concealment, omission, deception, erasure, silence
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Architecture manifests as a space of concealment and unconcealment, lethe and alêtheia, enclosure and disclosure, where its making and agency are both hidden and revealed. With an urgency to amplify narratives that are overlooked, silenced and unacknowledged in and by architectural spaces, histories and theories, this book contends the need for a critical study of hiding in the context of architectural processes. It urges the understanding of inherent opportunities, power structures and covert strategies, whether socio-cultural, geo-political, environmental or economic, as they are related to their hidescapes – the constructed landscapes of our built environments participating in the architectures of hiding.
Architectural Theory
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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
Portzamparc buildings
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Pritzker Prize–winning architect Christian de Portzamparc is renowned for bold yet artful architecture that is at once sensitive to its context while at the same time being novel, adventurous, and frequently exciting. One57, the soaring residential skyscraper in New York, with unparalleled views of Central Park, is perhaps his most famous building in the United States,(...)
Architecture Monographs
November 2017
Portzamparc buildings
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Pritzker Prize–winning architect Christian de Portzamparc is renowned for bold yet artful architecture that is at once sensitive to its context while at the same time being novel, adventurous, and frequently exciting. One57, the soaring residential skyscraper in New York, with unparalleled views of Central Park, is perhaps his most famous building in the United States, but his work ranges widely across the globe, from an extraordinary handkerchief puff–shaped boutique for Christian Dior in Seoul to a low-winged arabesque of a building for the wine producer Cheval Blanc to a mysterious temple of the modern for Casarts in Casablanca.
Architecture Monographs
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This guide offers the possibility of getting to know the works of Álvaro Siza, Pritzker laureate in 1992. From his early works on he was recognised as an architect who followed a route still under-explored in the context of the Modern Movement, revealing his longing for form and a global understanding of the work itself and its surroundings. The guide 'Álvaro Siza:(...)
Architecture Monographs
March 2017
Àlvaro Siza architectural guide: Built projects, Portugal
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This guide offers the possibility of getting to know the works of Álvaro Siza, Pritzker laureate in 1992. From his early works on he was recognised as an architect who followed a route still under-explored in the context of the Modern Movement, revealing his longing for form and a global understanding of the work itself and its surroundings. The guide 'Álvaro Siza: Projects Built in Portugal' will provide the user with a route of all the works built in his own country, selected by the architect himself, and presented with texts and drawings, accompanied by overlapping colour photographs.
Architecture Monographs
Common Wealth
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'Common Wealth', edited by Edward Mitchell, features the work of the Post-Professional Design Studios, taught by Fred Koetter, Ed Mitchell, and Aniket Shahane (’05). The studios examined the impact of recent growth in greater Boston at three sites: Fort Point Channel, Central Square, and City Hall. Boston is transforming its seemingly staid identity as a city of(...)
Common Wealth
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'Common Wealth', edited by Edward Mitchell, features the work of the Post-Professional Design Studios, taught by Fred Koetter, Ed Mitchell, and Aniket Shahane (’05). The studios examined the impact of recent growth in greater Boston at three sites: Fort Point Channel, Central Square, and City Hall. Boston is transforming its seemingly staid identity as a city of neighborhoods into a more metropolitan place. With essays by Edward Mitchell, Brian Healy (’81), Kishore Varanasi, Tim Love, Aniket Shanane, and Ila Berman, the book focuses on Boston’s newest forms of urbanism, the architectural context of the city, and future growth.
Urban Theory
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The House of Memory is the architectural symbol of a historical and civil consciousness characteristic of Milan. Its construction was supported by the municipality in order to provide headquarters for the principal associations involved in keeping alive the memory of the Resistance, the Liberation, and the foundation of the Italian Republic. Comprising essays and numerous(...)
Stefano Graziani: Baukuh Casa della Memoria
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The House of Memory is the architectural symbol of a historical and civil consciousness characteristic of Milan. Its construction was supported by the municipality in order to provide headquarters for the principal associations involved in keeping alive the memory of the Resistance, the Liberation, and the foundation of the Italian Republic. Comprising essays and numerous architectural drawings, plus photographs by Stefano Graziani, this book describes in detail how a public work was funded using resources deriving from an urban intervention of a private nature while respecting both history and context, and developed and realised through a participatory approach.
Photography monographs
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In the context of massive and accelerating change- in technology, science, climate, and society- the nature of architectural design is also evolving and coming to life in new ways. New York-based office The Living has developed a unique design approach that explores projects through the application of new technologies, materials, and the growing field of generative design(...)
The Living: Now we see now. Architecture and research by The Living
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In the context of massive and accelerating change- in technology, science, climate, and society- the nature of architectural design is also evolving and coming to life in new ways. New York-based office The Living has developed a unique design approach that explores projects through the application of new technologies, materials, and the growing field of generative design (design that uses software to emulate nature's evolutionary processes). These methods are futuristic, even utopian, but also raw and immediate in their application of hands-on prototyping and testing through making. The Living addresses urgent issues through reframing design with today's tools.
Architecture Monographs
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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(...)
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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.
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Anthony Record (Florida, 1983) received his M.F.A. from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2008. His work has been exhibited nationally including shows in Chicago and San Francisco. His paintings and drawings challenge the boundaries of recognition and address the limits of perception. The drawings for Nature Brutal and Capricious are based on tiny passages of light and(...)
Anthony Record: nature brutal and capricious
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Anthony Record (Florida, 1983) received his M.F.A. from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2008. His work has been exhibited nationally including shows in Chicago and San Francisco. His paintings and drawings challenge the boundaries of recognition and address the limits of perception. The drawings for Nature Brutal and Capricious are based on tiny passages of light and dark from found etchings. When taken out of their original context, these insignificant folds and shadows mutate into phantasmagoric figures with distinct personalities. When revisiting the found etchings, the figures haunt the original source material by becoming perceptually photoshopped into it.
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