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This anthology gathers together, for the first time the most influential architectural texts from the Nordic countries: Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden. Many of the texts appear for the first time in English, making them available to a worldwide readership. These texts were written between 1920 and 2007 by architects who lived and worked in the Nordic countries. The(...)
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This anthology gathers together, for the first time the most influential architectural texts from the Nordic countries: Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden. Many of the texts appear for the first time in English, making them available to a worldwide readership. These texts were written between 1920 and 2007 by architects who lived and worked in the Nordic countries. The(...)
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This anthology gathers together, for the first time the most influential architectural texts from the Nordic countries: Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden. Many of the texts appear for the first time in English, making them available to a worldwide readership. These texts were written between 1920 and 2007 by architects who lived and worked in the Nordic countries. The book is structured in sections by country with supportive introductions by regional experts. The reader can seek out common themes of space, place, materials, etc across nations or approach the material chronologically.
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This anthology gathers together, for the first time the most influential architectural texts from the Nordic countries: Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden. Many of the texts appear for the first time in English, making them available to a worldwide readership. These texts were written between 1920 and 2007 by architects who lived and worked in the Nordic countries. The book is structured in sections by country with supportive introductions by regional experts. The reader can seek out common themes of space, place, materials, etc across nations or approach the material chronologically.
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October 2008, Abingdon
October 2008, Abingdon
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Architectural Theory
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With this third architectural/typological monograph, Professor Simon Unwin has completed what is effectively a trilogy. The first two works were Analysing Architecture and An Architectural Notebook: Wall. Both these works were essentially designed to reach as wide a readership as possible, with an emphasis on student readership but addressing a broad constituency of(...)
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With this third architectural/typological monograph, Professor Simon Unwin has completed what is effectively a trilogy. The first two works were Analysing Architecture and An Architectural Notebook: Wall. Both these works were essentially designed to reach as wide a readership as possible, with an emphasis on student readership but addressing a broad constituency of(...)
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Doorway
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With this third architectural/typological monograph, Professor Simon Unwin has completed what is effectively a trilogy. The first two works were Analysing Architecture and An Architectural Notebook: Wall. Both these works were essentially designed to reach as wide a readership as possible, with an emphasis on student readership but addressing a broad constituency of professional and lay interest. Indeed, they combine to represent together a long overdue tool to understanding, in an ever more confusing world, the key elements of the art and science of architecture.
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With this third architectural/typological monograph, Professor Simon Unwin has completed what is effectively a trilogy. The first two works were Analysing Architecture and An Architectural Notebook: Wall. Both these works were essentially designed to reach as wide a readership as possible, with an emphasis on student readership but addressing a broad constituency of professional and lay interest. Indeed, they combine to represent together a long overdue tool to understanding, in an ever more confusing world, the key elements of the art and science of architecture.
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July 2008, New York
July 2008, New York
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La présente collection prolonge l'activité éditoriale de la revue Documents sur l'art, fondée en 1992. Elle rassemble textes et entretiens avec les acteurs du champ artistique actuel: critiques, artistes, commissaires, collectionneurs... Les artistes actuels évoluent dans un univers de produits en vente, de formes préexistantes, de signaux déjà émis, de bâtiments déjà(...)
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La présente collection prolonge l'activité éditoriale de la revue Documents sur l'art, fondée en 1992. Elle rassemble textes et entretiens avec les acteurs du champ artistique actuel: critiques, artistes, commissaires, collectionneurs... Les artistes actuels évoluent dans un univers de produits en vente, de formes préexistantes, de signaux déjà émis, de bâtiments déjà(...)
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Nicolas Bourriaud postproduction
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La présente collection prolonge l'activité éditoriale de la revue Documents sur l'art, fondée en 1992. Elle rassemble textes et entretiens avec les acteurs du champ artistique actuel: critiques, artistes, commissaires, collectionneurs... Les artistes actuels évoluent dans un univers de produits en vente, de formes préexistantes, de signaux déjà émis, de bâtiments déjà construits, d’itinéraires balisés par leurs devanciers. Ils ou elles ne considèrent plus le champ artistique comme un musée contenant des œuvres qu’il faudrait citer ou "dépasser", ainsi que le voudrait l’idéologie moderniste du nouveau, mais comme autant de magasins remplis d’outils à utiliser, de stocks de données à manipuler, à rejouer et à mettre en scène. Version française de Postproduction, parue en anglais en 2001.
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La présente collection prolonge l'activité éditoriale de la revue Documents sur l'art, fondée en 1992. Elle rassemble textes et entretiens avec les acteurs du champ artistique actuel: critiques, artistes, commissaires, collectionneurs... Les artistes actuels évoluent dans un univers de produits en vente, de formes préexistantes, de signaux déjà émis, de bâtiments déjà construits, d’itinéraires balisés par leurs devanciers. Ils ou elles ne considèrent plus le champ artistique comme un musée contenant des œuvres qu’il faudrait citer ou "dépasser", ainsi que le voudrait l’idéologie moderniste du nouveau, mais comme autant de magasins remplis d’outils à utiliser, de stocks de données à manipuler, à rejouer et à mettre en scène. Version française de Postproduction, parue en anglais en 2001.
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January 1900, Dijon
January 1900, Dijon
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Art Theory
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Utopia tends to generate a bad press - regarded as impracticable, perhaps nostalgic, or contradictory when visions of a perfect world cannot accommodate the change that is necessary to a free and self-organizing society. But people from diverse backgrounds are currently building a new society within the old, balancing literal and metaphorical utopianism, and demonstrating(...)
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Utopia tends to generate a bad press - regarded as impracticable, perhaps nostalgic, or contradictory when visions of a perfect world cannot accommodate the change that is necessary to a free and self-organizing society. But people from diverse backgrounds are currently building a new society within the old, balancing literal and metaphorical utopianism, and demonstrating(...)
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Urban utopias : the built and social architectures of alternative settlements
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Utopia tends to generate a bad press - regarded as impracticable, perhaps nostalgic, or contradictory when visions of a perfect world cannot accommodate the change that is necessary to a free and self-organizing society. But people from diverse backgrounds are currently building a new society within the old, balancing literal and metaphorical utopianism, and demonstrating plural possibilities for alternative futures and types of settlement. Thousands of such places exist around the world, including intentional communities, eco-villages, permaculture plots, religious and secular retreats, co-housing projects, self-build schemes, projects for low-impact housing, and activist squats in urban and rural sites. This experience suggests, however, that when planning and design are not integral to alternative social formations, the modern dream to engineer a new society cannot be realized. The book is structured in four parts. In part one, literary and theoretical utopias from the early modern period to the nineteenth-century are reconsidered. Part two investigates twentieth-century urban utopianism and contemporary alternative settlements focusing on social and environmental issues, activism and eco-village living. Part three looks to wider horizons in recent practices in the non-affluent world, and Part four reviews a range of cases from the author’s visits to specific sites. This is followed by a short conclusion in which a discussion of key issues is resumed. This book brings together insights from literary, theoretical and practical utopias, drawing out the characteristics of groups and places that are part of a new society. It links today’s utopian experiments to historical and literary utopias, and to theoretical problems in utopian thought.
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Utopia tends to generate a bad press - regarded as impracticable, perhaps nostalgic, or contradictory when visions of a perfect world cannot accommodate the change that is necessary to a free and self-organizing society. But people from diverse backgrounds are currently building a new society within the old, balancing literal and metaphorical utopianism, and demonstrating plural possibilities for alternative futures and types of settlement. Thousands of such places exist around the world, including intentional communities, eco-villages, permaculture plots, religious and secular retreats, co-housing projects, self-build schemes, projects for low-impact housing, and activist squats in urban and rural sites. This experience suggests, however, that when planning and design are not integral to alternative social formations, the modern dream to engineer a new society cannot be realized. The book is structured in four parts. In part one, literary and theoretical utopias from the early modern period to the nineteenth-century are reconsidered. Part two investigates twentieth-century urban utopianism and contemporary alternative settlements focusing on social and environmental issues, activism and eco-village living. Part three looks to wider horizons in recent practices in the non-affluent world, and Part four reviews a range of cases from the author’s visits to specific sites. This is followed by a short conclusion in which a discussion of key issues is resumed. This book brings together insights from literary, theoretical and practical utopias, drawing out the characteristics of groups and places that are part of a new society. It links today’s utopian experiments to historical and literary utopias, and to theoretical problems in utopian thought.
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December 2007, New York, London
December 2007, New York, London
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Urban Theory
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Brève histoire du monde
Brève histoire du monde
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L'histoire de l'humanité racontée en quelque trois cents pages? Aussi audacieux que cela puisse paraître, c'est le pari que s'est lancé Ernst Gombrich, et qu'il a relevé avec brio. Il choisit de tutoyer ses lecteurs, tel un grand frère qui s'adresserait à ses cadets et, considérant que ceux-ci savent réfléchir par eux-mêmes, il ne les encombre pas d'explications(...)
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L'histoire de l'humanité racontée en quelque trois cents pages? Aussi audacieux que cela puisse paraître, c'est le pari que s'est lancé Ernst Gombrich, et qu'il a relevé avec brio. Il choisit de tutoyer ses lecteurs, tel un grand frère qui s'adresserait à ses cadets et, considérant que ceux-ci savent réfléchir par eux-mêmes, il ne les encombre pas d'explications(...)
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Brève histoire du monde
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L'histoire de l'humanité racontée en quelque trois cents pages? Aussi audacieux que cela puisse paraître, c'est le pari que s'est lancé Ernst Gombrich, et qu'il a relevé avec brio. Il choisit de tutoyer ses lecteurs, tel un grand frère qui s'adresserait à ses cadets et, considérant que ceux-ci savent réfléchir par eux-mêmes, il ne les encombre pas d'explications simplistes. II leur présente les personnages historiques emblématiques de leur temps et raconte les faits dans leur continuité, comme s'il ne s'arrêtait pas de parler, insufflant au récit un sens du rapprochement et de la contemporanéité des événements. Un ouvrage formidable pour apprendre l'histoire sans en avoir l'air. Membre de l'école viennoise d'histoire de l'art, Sir Ernst Gombrich (1909-2001) a dirigé l'Institut Warburg à Londres de 1959 à 1976. Historien de l'art réputé pour ses travaux sur l'iconographie, la psychologie de l'art et les problèmes de méthodologie propre à sa discipline, il a publié deux synthèses au succès ininterrompu : Brève Histoire du monde et une Histoire de l'art traduite en dix-huit langues.
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L'histoire de l'humanité racontée en quelque trois cents pages? Aussi audacieux que cela puisse paraître, c'est le pari que s'est lancé Ernst Gombrich, et qu'il a relevé avec brio. Il choisit de tutoyer ses lecteurs, tel un grand frère qui s'adresserait à ses cadets et, considérant que ceux-ci savent réfléchir par eux-mêmes, il ne les encombre pas d'explications simplistes. II leur présente les personnages historiques emblématiques de leur temps et raconte les faits dans leur continuité, comme s'il ne s'arrêtait pas de parler, insufflant au récit un sens du rapprochement et de la contemporanéité des événements. Un ouvrage formidable pour apprendre l'histoire sans en avoir l'air. Membre de l'école viennoise d'histoire de l'art, Sir Ernst Gombrich (1909-2001) a dirigé l'Institut Warburg à Londres de 1959 à 1976. Historien de l'art réputé pour ses travaux sur l'iconographie, la psychologie de l'art et les problèmes de méthodologie propre à sa discipline, il a publié deux synthèses au succès ininterrompu : Brève Histoire du monde et une Histoire de l'art traduite en dix-huit langues.
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January 1900, Paris
January 1900, Paris
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Art Theory
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Landscape Architectural Graphic Standards is an entirely new, definitive reference work for everyone involved with landscape architecture, design, and construction. Based on the 70-year success of Architectural Graphic Standards, this new book is destined to become the "bible" for the landscape field. Edited by an educator and former president of the American Society of(...)
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Landscape Architectural Graphic Standards is an entirely new, definitive reference work for everyone involved with landscape architecture, design, and construction. Based on the 70-year success of Architectural Graphic Standards, this new book is destined to become the "bible" for the landscape field. Edited by an educator and former president of the American Society of(...)
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Landscape architectural graphic standards
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Landscape Architectural Graphic Standards is an entirely new, definitive reference work for everyone involved with landscape architecture, design, and construction. Based on the 70-year success of Architectural Graphic Standards, this new book is destined to become the "bible" for the landscape field. Edited by an educator and former president of the American Society of Landscape Architects, it provides immediate access to rules-of-thumb and standards used throughout the planning, design, construction and management of landscapes.
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Landscape Architectural Graphic Standards is an entirely new, definitive reference work for everyone involved with landscape architecture, design, and construction. Based on the 70-year success of Architectural Graphic Standards, this new book is destined to become the "bible" for the landscape field. Edited by an educator and former president of the American Society of Landscape Architects, it provides immediate access to rules-of-thumb and standards used throughout the planning, design, construction and management of landscapes.
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January 1900, Hoboken
January 1900, Hoboken
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Written by the chair of the LEED-Neighborhood Development (LEED-ND) initiative, Sustainable Urbanism: Urban Design with Nature is both an urgent call to action and a comprehensive introduction to "sustainable urbanism"--the emerging and growing design reform movement that combines the creation and enhancement of walkable and diverse places with the need to build(...)
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Written by the chair of the LEED-Neighborhood Development (LEED-ND) initiative, Sustainable Urbanism: Urban Design with Nature is both an urgent call to action and a comprehensive introduction to "sustainable urbanism"--the emerging and growing design reform movement that combines the creation and enhancement of walkable and diverse places with the need to build(...)
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Sustainable urbanism: urban design with nature
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Written by the chair of the LEED-Neighborhood Development (LEED-ND) initiative, Sustainable Urbanism: Urban Design with Nature is both an urgent call to action and a comprehensive introduction to "sustainable urbanism"--the emerging and growing design reform movement that combines the creation and enhancement of walkable and diverse places with the need to build high-performance infrastructure and buildings. Providing a historic perspective on the standards and regulations that got us to where we are today in terms of urban lifestyle and attempts at reform, Douglas Farr makes a powerful case for sustainable urbanism, showing where we went wrong, and where we need to go. He then explains how to implement sustainable urbanism through leadership and communication in cities, communities, and neighborhoods. Essays written by Farr and others delve into such issues as: Increasing sustainability through density. Integrating transportation and land use. Creating sustainable neighborhoods, including housing, car-free areas, locally-owned stores, walkable neighborhoods, and universal accessibility. The health and environmental benefits of linking humans to nature, including walk-to open spaces, neighborhood stormwater systems and waste treatment, and food production. High performance buildings and district energy systems. Enriching the argument are in-depth case studies in sustainable urbanism, from BedZED in London, England and Newington in Sydney, Australia, to New Railroad Square in Santa Rosa, California and Dongtan, Shanghai, China. An epilogue looks to the future of sustainable urbanism over the next 200 years.
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Written by the chair of the LEED-Neighborhood Development (LEED-ND) initiative, Sustainable Urbanism: Urban Design with Nature is both an urgent call to action and a comprehensive introduction to "sustainable urbanism"--the emerging and growing design reform movement that combines the creation and enhancement of walkable and diverse places with the need to build high-performance infrastructure and buildings. Providing a historic perspective on the standards and regulations that got us to where we are today in terms of urban lifestyle and attempts at reform, Douglas Farr makes a powerful case for sustainable urbanism, showing where we went wrong, and where we need to go. He then explains how to implement sustainable urbanism through leadership and communication in cities, communities, and neighborhoods. Essays written by Farr and others delve into such issues as: Increasing sustainability through density. Integrating transportation and land use. Creating sustainable neighborhoods, including housing, car-free areas, locally-owned stores, walkable neighborhoods, and universal accessibility. The health and environmental benefits of linking humans to nature, including walk-to open spaces, neighborhood stormwater systems and waste treatment, and food production. High performance buildings and district energy systems. Enriching the argument are in-depth case studies in sustainable urbanism, from BedZED in London, England and Newington in Sydney, Australia, to New Railroad Square in Santa Rosa, California and Dongtan, Shanghai, China. An epilogue looks to the future of sustainable urbanism over the next 200 years.
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November 2007, Hoboken, New Jersey
November 2007, Hoboken, New Jersey
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Urban Theory
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The future of the image
The future of the image
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In The Future of the Image, Jacques Rancière develops a fascinating new concept of the image in contemporary art, showing how art and politics have always been intrinsically intertwined. Covering a range of art movements, and thinkers such as Foucault, Deleuze, Adorno, Barthes, Lyotard and Greenberg, Rancière argues that contemporary theorists of the image are suffering(...)
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In The Future of the Image, Jacques Rancière develops a fascinating new concept of the image in contemporary art, showing how art and politics have always been intrinsically intertwined. Covering a range of art movements, and thinkers such as Foucault, Deleuze, Adorno, Barthes, Lyotard and Greenberg, Rancière argues that contemporary theorists of the image are suffering(...)
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The future of the image
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In The Future of the Image, Jacques Rancière develops a fascinating new concept of the image in contemporary art, showing how art and politics have always been intrinsically intertwined. Covering a range of art movements, and thinkers such as Foucault, Deleuze, Adorno, Barthes, Lyotard and Greenberg, Rancière argues that contemporary theorists of the image are suffering from religious tendencies. He suggests that there is a stark political choice in art: it can either reinforce a radical democracy, or create a new reactionary mysticism. For Rancière there is never a pure art: the aesthetic revolution will always embrace egalitarian ideals.
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In The Future of the Image, Jacques Rancière develops a fascinating new concept of the image in contemporary art, showing how art and politics have always been intrinsically intertwined. Covering a range of art movements, and thinkers such as Foucault, Deleuze, Adorno, Barthes, Lyotard and Greenberg, Rancière argues that contemporary theorists of the image are suffering from religious tendencies. He suggests that there is a stark political choice in art: it can either reinforce a radical democracy, or create a new reactionary mysticism. For Rancière there is never a pure art: the aesthetic revolution will always embrace egalitarian ideals.
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February 2009, London, New York
February 2009, London, New York
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The Fountainhead
The Fountainhead
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The Fountainhead has become an enduring piece of literature, more popular now than when published in 1943. On the surface, it is a story of one man, Howard Roark, and his struggles as an architect in the face of a successful rival, Peter Keating, and a newspaper columnist, Ellsworth Toohey. But the book addresses a number of universal themes: the strength of the(...)
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The Fountainhead has become an enduring piece of literature, more popular now than when published in 1943. On the surface, it is a story of one man, Howard Roark, and his struggles as an architect in the face of a successful rival, Peter Keating, and a newspaper columnist, Ellsworth Toohey. But the book addresses a number of universal themes: the strength of the(...)
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The Fountainhead
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The Fountainhead has become an enduring piece of literature, more popular now than when published in 1943. On the surface, it is a story of one man, Howard Roark, and his struggles as an architect in the face of a successful rival, Peter Keating, and a newspaper columnist, Ellsworth Toohey. But the book addresses a number of universal themes: the strength of the individual, the tug between good and evil, the threat of fascism. The confrontation of those themes, along with the amazing stroke of Rand's writing, combine to give this book its enduring influence.
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The Fountainhead has become an enduring piece of literature, more popular now than when published in 1943. On the surface, it is a story of one man, Howard Roark, and his struggles as an architect in the face of a successful rival, Peter Keating, and a newspaper columnist, Ellsworth Toohey. But the book addresses a number of universal themes: the strength of the individual, the tug between good and evil, the threat of fascism. The confrontation of those themes, along with the amazing stroke of Rand's writing, combine to give this book its enduring influence.
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January 1900, New York
January 1900, New York
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Architectural Theory
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Space between people
Space between people
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If architecture is the construction of space between people, what happens when that space exists in a virtual world? That question is the starting point for this collection of revolutionary projects by a new generation of designers. The book begins by examining the important issues that have emerged as technology reshapes our idea of place and proceeds to present the four(...)
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If architecture is the construction of space between people, what happens when that space exists in a virtual world? That question is the starting point for this collection of revolutionary projects by a new generation of designers. The book begins by examining the important issues that have emerged as technology reshapes our idea of place and proceeds to present the four(...)
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If architecture is the construction of space between people, what happens when that space exists in a virtual world? That question is the starting point for this collection of revolutionary projects by a new generation of designers. The book begins by examining the important issues that have emerged as technology reshapes our idea of place and proceeds to present the four winning projects from the first architecture competition held within the explosively popular Internet community known as Second Life. Chosen for their inventiveness and aesthetic excellence, these structures a cloud that can be inhabited; a meta-museum; an interactive sound scape; and a snow palace of discarded objects illustrate the mind-bending possibilities of digital design. In the book s final section, media artists share their real-time experiences conceptualizing and creating projects for the virtual world.
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If architecture is the construction of space between people, what happens when that space exists in a virtual world? That question is the starting point for this collection of revolutionary projects by a new generation of designers. The book begins by examining the important issues that have emerged as technology reshapes our idea of place and proceeds to present the four winning projects from the first architecture competition held within the explosively popular Internet community known as Second Life. Chosen for their inventiveness and aesthetic excellence, these structures a cloud that can be inhabited; a meta-museum; an interactive sound scape; and a snow palace of discarded objects illustrate the mind-bending possibilities of digital design. In the book s final section, media artists share their real-time experiences conceptualizing and creating projects for the virtual world.
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April 2008, New York
April 2008, New York
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Architectural Theory
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