$28.95
(available in store)
Summary:
Forget revolution – it’s time for reform. As the authors of this essay collection argue, sometimes the most effective path to meaningful change is to work within existing institutions and slowly, surely, push for it. This is all the more relevant for architecture, which by definition is entrenched in larger social, economic, and political contexts. Four essays on diverse(...)
Reform! essays on the political economy of urban form Vol. 4
Actions:
Price:
$28.95
(available in store)
Summary:
Forget revolution – it’s time for reform. As the authors of this essay collection argue, sometimes the most effective path to meaningful change is to work within existing institutions and slowly, surely, push for it. This is all the more relevant for architecture, which by definition is entrenched in larger social, economic, and political contexts. Four essays on diverse topics like urban planning policy in Mumbai, unconventional city forms in Detroit, municipal housing in Diyarbakir (Turkey), and collaborative design processes in Tirana (Albania) attempt to challenge and shift the way we understand and implement reform in the design disciplines.
Urban Theory
$49.95
(available to order)
Summary:
Building Discourse examines the origins and consequences of the thesis project. Featuring twenty-four projects completed between 2008-2013, this volume of Building Discourse draws from the M.Arch degree program at MIT Architecture. "The theses included herein are [...] a collective discursive space framed by the idea that the work may be able to bridge those disciplinary(...)
Building discourse: proposition & proof
Actions:
Price:
$49.95
(available to order)
Summary:
Building Discourse examines the origins and consequences of the thesis project. Featuring twenty-four projects completed between 2008-2013, this volume of Building Discourse draws from the M.Arch degree program at MIT Architecture. "The theses included herein are [...] a collective discursive space framed by the idea that the work may be able to bridge those disciplinary traits that are deemed autonomous with the social, political and economic phenomena that is impacting the world today. [...] What [the students] demonstrate through their projects is the urgency and seriousness with which they consider world transformations-in viewing the environment, the speed of urbanization, protocols of manufacturing,
Architectural Theory
$56.95
(available to order)
Summary:
This study links the art practices of Allan Kaprow and Robert Smithson in their attempts to test the limits of art - both what it is and where it is. Ursprung's analysis places the two artists firmly in the art world of the 1960s as well as in the art historical discourse of the following decades. Although their practices were quite different, they both extended the(...)
Allan Kaprow, Robert Smithson, and the limits of art
Actions:
Price:
$56.95
(available to order)
Summary:
This study links the art practices of Allan Kaprow and Robert Smithson in their attempts to test the limits of art - both what it is and where it is. Ursprung's analysis places the two artists firmly in the art world of the 1960s as well as in the art historical discourse of the following decades. Although their practices were quite different, they both extended the studio and gallery into desert landscapes, abandoned warehouses, industrial sites, train stations, and other spaces. Ursprung bolsters his argument with substantial archival research and sociological and economic models of expansion and limits.
Contemporary Art Monographs
$63.95
(available to order)
Summary:
As planners and designers have turned their attentions to the blighted, vacant areas of the city, the concept of "terrain vague," has become increasingly important. Terrain Vague seeks to explore the ambiguous spaces of the city - the places that exist outside the cultural, social, and economic circuits of urban life. From vacant lots and railroad tracks, to more diverse(...)
Terrain vague : interstices at the edge of pale
Actions:
Price:
$63.95
(available to order)
Summary:
As planners and designers have turned their attentions to the blighted, vacant areas of the city, the concept of "terrain vague," has become increasingly important. Terrain Vague seeks to explore the ambiguous spaces of the city - the places that exist outside the cultural, social, and economic circuits of urban life. From vacant lots and railroad tracks, to more diverse interstitial spaces, this collection of original essays and cases presents innovative ways of looking at marginal urban space, with studies from the United States, Europe and the Middle East, from a diverse group of planners, geographers, and urban designers.
Urban Theory
Oil culture
$44.00
(available to order)
Summary:
The contributors to this volume examine the oil culture nexus, beginning with the whale oil culture it replaced and analyzing literature and films such as Giant, Sundown, Bernardo Bertolucci’s La Via del Petrolio, and Ben Okri’s “What the Tapster Saw”; corporate art, museum installations, and contemporary photography; and in apocalyptic visions of environmental disaster(...)
Oil culture
Actions:
Price:
$44.00
(available to order)
Summary:
The contributors to this volume examine the oil culture nexus, beginning with the whale oil culture it replaced and analyzing literature and films such as Giant, Sundown, Bernardo Bertolucci’s La Via del Petrolio, and Ben Okri’s “What the Tapster Saw”; corporate art, museum installations, and contemporary photography; and in apocalyptic visions of environmental disaster and science fiction. By considering oil as both a natural resource and a trope, the authors show how oil’s dominance is part of culture rather than an economic or physical necessity. Oil Culture sees beyond oil capitalism to alternative modes of energy production and consumption.
Architectural Theory
Atlas of cities
$63.95
(available to order)
Summary:
More than half the world's population lives in cities, and that proportion is expected to rise to three-quarters by 2050. Urbanization is a global phenomenon, but the way cities are developing, the experience of city life, and the prospects for the future of cities vary widely from region to region. The Atlas of Cities presents a unique taxonomy of cities that looks at(...)
Atlas of cities
Actions:
Price:
$63.95
(available to order)
Summary:
More than half the world's population lives in cities, and that proportion is expected to rise to three-quarters by 2050. Urbanization is a global phenomenon, but the way cities are developing, the experience of city life, and the prospects for the future of cities vary widely from region to region. The Atlas of Cities presents a unique taxonomy of cities that looks at different aspects of their physical, economic, social, and political structures; their interactions with each other and with their hinterlands; the challenges and opportunities they present; and where cities might be going in the future.
Architectural Plans and Cartography
$52.95
(available to order)
Summary:
Facing economic, cultural and political crisis, Europe must seek sustainable urban solutions. Living together in collective housing, compact cities and well-integrated countries on a shared continent is the best course for future survival. Thus the importance of building types and urban models for better energy use is tantamount. Editor Luis Fernández-Galiano contributes(...)
AV 156: Europe, living together
Actions:
Price:
$52.95
(available to order)
Summary:
Facing economic, cultural and political crisis, Europe must seek sustainable urban solutions. Living together in collective housing, compact cities and well-integrated countries on a shared continent is the best course for future survival. Thus the importance of building types and urban models for better energy use is tantamount. Editor Luis Fernández-Galiano contributes two essays on the topic – “Living Together” and “In Praise of the Compact City” – and illustrates these with twenty works in ten countries, from Norway to Portugal and the United Kingdom to Germany. Featured architects include Dominique Perrault, Hild und K Architekten and AH Asociados, among others.
Magazines
books
$26.95
(available to order)
Summary:
The company town, source of so much of Canada's wealth, was-and is-a place with nowhere to hide. First published in 1971, Rex Lucas's Minetown, Milltown, Railtown is a groundbreaking study of what it's like to live in such communities. Today, with the oil-sands boom and rising commodity prices affecting everything from the value of the Canadian dollar to the balance of(...)
Minetown, milltown, railtown: Life in Canadian communities of single industry
Actions:
Price:
$26.95
(available to order)
Summary:
The company town, source of so much of Canada's wealth, was-and is-a place with nowhere to hide. First published in 1971, Rex Lucas's Minetown, Milltown, Railtown is a groundbreaking study of what it's like to live in such communities. Today, with the oil-sands boom and rising commodity prices affecting everything from the value of the Canadian dollar to the balance of power within Confederation, single-industry towns remain as central as ever to the country's economic and social life. Minetown is a compelling portrait not just of Canada's past, but of its present and future, too.
books
October 2008
Architecture in Canada
Architecture : more for less
$29.50
(available in store)
Summary:
In 2010, the international congress ‘Architecture: More for Less’ was held in Pamplona. Its aim was to take stock of the changing mood in architecture, which today faces huge ecological and economic challenges. This publication is a record of the event through the interviews conducted by five prominent critics – Richard Ingersoll, Antón García-Abril, Estrella de Diego,(...)
Architecture : more for less
Actions:
Price:
$29.50
(available in store)
Summary:
In 2010, the international congress ‘Architecture: More for Less’ was held in Pamplona. Its aim was to take stock of the changing mood in architecture, which today faces huge ecological and economic challenges. This publication is a record of the event through the interviews conducted by five prominent critics – Richard Ingersoll, Antón García-Abril, Estrella de Diego, Vicente Verdú and Llàtzer Moix – with the participants, among them Renzo Piano, Anne Lacaton, Carlos Jiménez, Mark Wigley, Slavoj Žižek and Glenn Murcutt, who themselves cover a broad generational and geographic spectrum. Through the lens of architecture, it offers a kaleidoscopic portrait of our time.
Architectural Theory
$44.95
(available to order)
Summary:
In these writings, Hirschhorn discusses the full range of his art, from works on paper to the massive Presence and Production projects in public spaces. Throughout, certain continuities emerge : Hirschhorn’s commitment to quotidian materials; the centrality of political and economic thinking in his work; and his commitment to art in the public sphere. Taken together, the(...)
Contemporary Art Monographs
September 2013
Critical laboratory : the writings of Thomas Hirschhorn
Actions:
Price:
$44.95
(available to order)
Summary:
In these writings, Hirschhorn discusses the full range of his art, from works on paper to the massive Presence and Production projects in public spaces. Throughout, certain continuities emerge : Hirschhorn’s commitment to quotidian materials; the centrality of political and economic thinking in his work; and his commitment to art in the public sphere. Taken together, the texts serve to trace the artist’s ideas and artistic strategies over the past two decades. Critical Laboratory also reproduces, in color, 33 Ausstellungen im öffentlichen Raum 1998–1989, an out-of-print catalog of Hirschhorn’s earliest works in public space.
Contemporary Art Monographs