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This publication is a full-scale reproduction of Ken Isaacs' 1974 book ''How to Build your Own Living Structures''. It is accompanied by an essay by Susan Snodgrass, critic and teacher at the Art Institute of Chicago, who recontextualizes this emblematic work of the 1970s. A manual for creating various modular structures around the concept of the "matrix", it also(...)
Architecture Monographs
December 2025
Ken Isaacs: How to build your own living structures
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This publication is a full-scale reproduction of Ken Isaacs' 1974 book ''How to Build your Own Living Structures''. It is accompanied by an essay by Susan Snodgrass, critic and teacher at the Art Institute of Chicago, who recontextualizes this emblematic work of the 1970s. A manual for creating various modular structures around the concept of the "matrix", it also provides an opportunity to immerse oneself in the philosophy of this pioneering architect, whose thinking in many respects resonates strongly with our own times.
Architecture Monographs
Hannah Höch
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Focusing on Höch’s collages, this book examines the artist’s career from the 1920s to the 1970s, charting her oeuvre from early works influenced by fashion and mass media, through to her later compositions of lyrical abstraction. It reveals her rapid development of a personal style, which was both humorous and often moving, but also offered critical commentary on society(...)
Hannah Höch
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Focusing on Höch’s collages, this book examines the artist’s career from the 1920s to the 1970s, charting her oeuvre from early works influenced by fashion and mass media, through to her later compositions of lyrical abstraction. It reveals her rapid development of a personal style, which was both humorous and often moving, but also offered critical commentary on society at a time of tremendous social change. Included are essays that examine themes such as the concept of the “New Woman” and the legacy of German colonialism.
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Mitch Epstein: Recreation
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Between the 1970s and ’90s, Mitch Epstein photographed the rituals of excess and alienation, jubilance and desire that defined late twentieth-century America. These pictures marked the beginning of his photographic inquiry into the American psyche and landscape that has now lasted half a century. This publication captures the vitality of modern America in a(...)
Mitch Epstein: Recreation
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Between the 1970s and ’90s, Mitch Epstein photographed the rituals of excess and alienation, jubilance and desire that defined late twentieth-century America. These pictures marked the beginning of his photographic inquiry into the American psyche and landscape that has now lasted half a century. This publication captures the vitality of modern America in a pre-smartphone, less self-conscious time. In these early works, Epstein’s wit reigns, along with his singular way of making the mundane startle and the extraordinary appear to perfectly fit in.
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In mid-twentieth century France, the term “social space” (l’espace social) — the idea that spatial form and social life are inextricably linked — emerged in a variety of social science disciplines. Taken up by the French New Left, it also came to inform the practice of urban planning. In The View from Above, Jeanne Haffner traces the evolution of the science of social(...)
The view from above : the science of social space
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In mid-twentieth century France, the term “social space” (l’espace social) — the idea that spatial form and social life are inextricably linked — emerged in a variety of social science disciplines. Taken up by the French New Left, it also came to inform the practice of urban planning. In The View from Above, Jeanne Haffner traces the evolution of the science of social space from the interwar period to the 1970s, illuminating in particular the role of aerial photography in this new way of conceptualizing socio-spatial relations.
Beyond environment
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Beyond Environment presents the potent interchange between architecture, Land Art, and Performance Art that emerged through Italian architect Gianni Pettena’s idealized collaboration with American artists Allan Kaprow and Robert Smithson in the 1970s. Earlier in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Pettena’s experiments in material transformations helped create some of the(...)
March 2014
Beyond environment
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Beyond Environment presents the potent interchange between architecture, Land Art, and Performance Art that emerged through Italian architect Gianni Pettena’s idealized collaboration with American artists Allan Kaprow and Robert Smithson in the 1970s. Earlier in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Pettena’s experiments in material transformations helped create some of the architect’s most iconic works. Staged in an abandoned school and in a nondescriptive suburban house, and titled Ice House I and II, Pettena would pour water into the mold works he created around the buildings’ perimeter walls.
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This catalogue that accompanies the VII edition of the Triennale Design Museum, seeks to explore the creative potential induced by the crisis, ultimately responding to a fundamental question: “what did Italian design do when it found itself operated in a society with ‘its back against the wall’”? The volume focuses its attention on the theme of self-sufficient production(...)
Italian Design Beyond the Crisis - Autarky, Austerity, Autonomy
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This catalogue that accompanies the VII edition of the Triennale Design Museum, seeks to explore the creative potential induced by the crisis, ultimately responding to a fundamental question: “what did Italian design do when it found itself operated in a society with ‘its back against the wall’”? The volume focuses its attention on the theme of self-sufficient production in three different time periods: the 1930s (From autarky to autonomy), the 1970s (From austerity to participation) and the Noughties (From self-production to self-sufficiency).
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Design, Periods and Styles
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28 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
London, Ont. : London Regional Art and Historical Museums, ©1996.
Provincial modern / photographs by Michael Hannay.
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28 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
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London, Ont. : London Regional Art and Historical Museums, ©1996.
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1 online resource
Philadelphia, Pa. : American Academy of Religion, 1967-
journals and magazines
Philadelphia, Pa. : American Academy of Religion, 1967-
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264 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm
[New York] : McGraw-Hill, [1972, ©1970]
Late nineteenth century art : the art, architecture, and applied art of the "pompous age." With contributions by Hanns Theodor Flemming [and others] Translated by Marcus Bullock.
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264 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm
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[New York] : McGraw-Hill, [1972, ©1970]
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248 pages, 28 plates : illustrations (some color), 1 facsimile, plans ; 26 cm
Sydney ; London : Angus and Robertson, 1970.
The early Australian architects and their work / by Morton Herman ; illustrated and decorated by the author.
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Sydney ; London : Angus and Robertson, 1970.