Surrealism at play
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In 'Surrealism at Play' Susan Laxton writes a new history of surrealism in which she traces the centrality of play to the movement and its ongoing legacy. For surrealist artists, play took a consistent role in their aesthetic as they worked in, with, and against a post-World War I world increasingly dominated by technology and functionalism.
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In 'Surrealism at Play' Susan Laxton writes a new history of surrealism in which she traces the centrality of play to the movement and its ongoing legacy. For surrealist artists, play took a consistent role in their aesthetic as they worked in, with, and against a post-World War I world increasingly dominated by technology and functionalism.
Art Theory
The modern house
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Established in 2005, The Modern House is a highly lauded estate agency specialising in the sale of Britains's most iconic residential architecture. Based around the company's extraordinary image archive, the eponymous book presents previously unseen interiors and restorations, illuminating the convergent characteristics of functionalism, truth to materials, flowing space(...)
The modern house
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Established in 2005, The Modern House is a highly lauded estate agency specialising in the sale of Britains's most iconic residential architecture. Based around the company's extraordinary image archive, the eponymous book presents previously unseen interiors and restorations, illuminating the convergent characteristics of functionalism, truth to materials, flowing space and natural light within the modern British home.
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Gerrit Rietveld
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Gerrit Rietveld's simple yet dynamic style greatly influenced international furniture design and contributed significantly to the history of architecture. Following Rietveld from his humble beginnings as a cabinetmaker to his final years as a world-renowned architect, this book presents both his lesser-known work and his most celebrated. It explores his significance in(...)
Gerrit Rietveld
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Gerrit Rietveld's simple yet dynamic style greatly influenced international furniture design and contributed significantly to the history of architecture. Following Rietveld from his humble beginnings as a cabinetmaker to his final years as a world-renowned architect, this book presents both his lesser-known work and his most celebrated. It explores his significance in the wider context of avant-garde movements, and his influence within De Stijl and Functionalism.
Architecture Monographs
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Inspired by the rise of environmental psychology and increasing support for behavioral research after the Second World War, new initiatives at the federal, state, and local levels looked to influence the human psyche through form, or elicit desired behaviors with environmental incentives, implementing what Joy Knoblauch calls 'psychological functionalism.' Recruited by(...)
The architecture of good behaviour
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Inspired by the rise of environmental psychology and increasing support for behavioral research after the Second World War, new initiatives at the federal, state, and local levels looked to influence the human psyche through form, or elicit desired behaviors with environmental incentives, implementing what Joy Knoblauch calls 'psychological functionalism.' Recruited by federal construction and research programs for institutional reform and expansion — which included hospitals, mental health centers, prisons, and public housing—architects theorized new ways to control behavior and make it more functional by exercising soft power, or power through persuasion, with their designs. In the 1960s – 1970s era of anti-institutional sentiment, they hoped to offer an enlightened, palatable, more humane solution to larger social problems related to health, mental health, justice, and security of the population by applying psychological expertise to institutional design. In turn, Knoblauch argues, architects gained new roles as researchers, organizers, and writers while theories of confinement, territory, and surveillance proliferated. 'The Architecture of Good Behavior' explores psychological functionalism as a political tool and the architectural projects funded by a postwar nation in its efforts to govern, exert control over, and ultimately pacify its patients, prisoners, and residents.
Architectural Theory
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For decades, scientists who heard about synesthesia hearing colors, tasting words, seeing colored pain just shrugged their shoulders or rolled their eyes. Now, as irrefutable evidence mounts that some healthy brains really do this, we are forced to ask how this squares with some cherished conceptions of neuroscience. These include binding, modularity, functionalism,(...)
Synesthesia: a union of the senses
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For decades, scientists who heard about synesthesia hearing colors, tasting words, seeing colored pain just shrugged their shoulders or rolled their eyes. Now, as irrefutable evidence mounts that some healthy brains really do this, we are forced to ask how this squares with some cherished conceptions of neuroscience. These include binding, modularity, functionalism, blindsight, and consciousness. The good news is that when old theoretical structures fall, new light may flood in. Far from a mere curiosity, synesthesia illuminates a wide swath of mental life.
Colour Theory and Design
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''AMag 30'' focuses on work by three Scandinavian practices: Ateljé Ö (Sweden), Johansen Skovsted Arkitekter (Denmark), and NORRØN (Denmark), highlighting an intersection of approaches and common values: functionalism, empiricism, and mastery. Included is a free copy of the first issue of ''AMag PT'', a new series exclusively dedicated to Portuguese architecture. It(...)
A.Mag 30 + A.Mag PT 01 (special limited edition)
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''AMag 30'' focuses on work by three Scandinavian practices: Ateljé Ö (Sweden), Johansen Skovsted Arkitekter (Denmark), and NORRØN (Denmark), highlighting an intersection of approaches and common values: functionalism, empiricism, and mastery. Included is a free copy of the first issue of ''AMag PT'', a new series exclusively dedicated to Portuguese architecture. It features detailed profiles of seven projects from Diogo Aguiar Studio. Established in 2016, the studio operates across the fields of architecture and art, designing small buildings and interiors, as well as temporary or fixed spatial installations destined for the public space.
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The architecture of the city
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Aldo Rossi, a practicing architect and leader of the Italian architectural movement La Tendenza, is also one of the most influential theorists writing today. The Architecture of the City is his major work of architectural and urban theory. In part a protest against functionalism and the Modern Movement, in part an attempt to restore the craft of architecture to its(...)
The architecture of the city
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Aldo Rossi, a practicing architect and leader of the Italian architectural movement La Tendenza, is also one of the most influential theorists writing today. The Architecture of the City is his major work of architectural and urban theory. In part a protest against functionalism and the Modern Movement, in part an attempt to restore the craft of architecture to its position as the only valid object of architectural study, and in part an analysis of the rules and forms of the city's construction, the book has become immensely popular among architects and design students.
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Rudolf Perco, 1884-1942 : von der Architektur des Roten Wien zur NS-Megalomanie / Ursula Prokop.
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448 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), plans (some color) ; 25 cm
Wien : Böhlau, ©2001.
Rudolf Perco, 1884-1942 : von der Architektur des Roten Wien zur NS-Megalomanie / Ursula Prokop.
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Wien : Böhlau, ©2001.
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Materialism continues the commitment of our first two issues on Property and Service to examine foundational yet overlooked concepts in architecture and landscape architecture. In our estimation, these disciplines are haunted by materialism. We see its specular presence invoked in design research’s emphasis on large-scale flows and sites of material production, in the(...)
Scapegoat issue 2: materialism
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Materialism continues the commitment of our first two issues on Property and Service to examine foundational yet overlooked concepts in architecture and landscape architecture. In our estimation, these disciplines are haunted by materialism. We see its specular presence invoked in design research’s emphasis on large-scale flows and sites of material production, in the renewed focus on ‘performance’ and the rehabilitation of functionalism, in the centrality of ‘material’ as an expressive layer of tectonics, and through the import of non-human actors into discussions about spatial design. Each of the above invokes matter as its base.
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The book spans Murcutt's entire career, from the early modernist houses to his most recent commissions in the 21st century, identifies recurring themes in his work and analyses how his buildings 'marry modern architecture to the place, the territory, the landcape' to arrive at an ecological functionalism. The buildings themselves are an eclectic selection ranging from(...)
Glenn Murcutt : buildings + projects 1962-2003
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The book spans Murcutt's entire career, from the early modernist houses to his most recent commissions in the 21st century, identifies recurring themes in his work and analyses how his buildings 'marry modern architecture to the place, the territory, the landcape' to arrive at an ecological functionalism. The buildings themselves are an eclectic selection ranging from Murcutt's courtyard houses in Sydney to free-standing residences set in Australia's barren and isolated landscapes. The full-colour photography, much of it supplied from the architect's own private collection, testifies to the aesthetic appeal of the buildings, while Murcutt's line drawings and plans lend further insight into his work.
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