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At its root, modernism is that fundamental. It is a question of having something to represent that is of the moment. In the most radical interpretation, modernism always comes too late. The modern is that which is always new, which is to say, always changing and already old by the time it has appeared. Modernism is always a retrospective act, one of documenting or trying(...)
Making it modern: the history of modernism in architecture and design
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At its root, modernism is that fundamental. It is a question of having something to represent that is of the moment. In the most radical interpretation, modernism always comes too late. The modern is that which is always new, which is to say, always changing and already old by the time it has appeared. Modernism is always a retrospective act, one of documenting or trying to catch what has already appeared - an attempt to fix life as it is being lived. Modernity is just the very fact that we as human beings are continually remaking the world around us through our actions, and are doing so consciously. Modernism is a monument to or memory of that act, which in its own making tries to remake the world it is pretending to represent.
Modernism
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This book forms a timeline of global architecture through the ages, starting in the Stone Age, and ending in the twenty-first century. More than 60 buildings, pencil-drawn by Lucy Dalzell, are included here, among them the Leaning Tower of Pisa, the Taj Mahal, Cologne cathedral, La Sagrada Familia, the Chrysler Building, Fallingwater, Seoul Tower, Centre Pompidou,(...)
Sunrise to High-rise: a wallbook of architecture through the ages
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This book forms a timeline of global architecture through the ages, starting in the Stone Age, and ending in the twenty-first century. More than 60 buildings, pencil-drawn by Lucy Dalzell, are included here, among them the Leaning Tower of Pisa, the Taj Mahal, Cologne cathedral, La Sagrada Familia, the Chrysler Building, Fallingwater, Seoul Tower, Centre Pompidou, Guggenheim Bilbao, Burj Khalifa and the World Trade Center. Short texts (in neon print) identify each building and describe its architectural significance.
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Si les années soixante-dix et la fin du XXe siècle montrent une intense pratique participative en architecture et urbanisme, aucun ouvrage ne l’origine au tournant des XIXe et XXe siècles.Cette « grammaire » jette un regard nouveau sur l’engouement participatif d’aujourd’hui et précise le flou qui entoure le terme de « participation ». Le point de vue des architectes et(...)
Lieux, biens, liens communs: émergence d'une grammaire participative en architecture et urbanisme, 1904-1969
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Si les années soixante-dix et la fin du XXe siècle montrent une intense pratique participative en architecture et urbanisme, aucun ouvrage ne l’origine au tournant des XIXe et XXe siècles.Cette « grammaire » jette un regard nouveau sur l’engouement participatif d’aujourd’hui et précise le flou qui entoure le terme de « participation ». Le point de vue des architectes et des urbanistes enrichit la question de leur rôle social et politique ainsi que le débat sur l’esthétique architecturale.
Urban Theory
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Allegories of Time and Space explores efforts by leading photographers, artists, architects, and commercial designers to re-envision Japanese cultural identity during the turbulent years between the Asia Pacific War and the bursting of the economic bubble in the 1990s
Allegories of time and space: Japanese identity in photography and architecture
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Allegories of Time and Space explores efforts by leading photographers, artists, architects, and commercial designers to re-envision Japanese cultural identity during the turbulent years between the Asia Pacific War and the bursting of the economic bubble in the 1990s
Theory of Photography
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What makes the city of the future? How do you heal a divided city? In Radical cities, Justin McGuirk travels across Latin America in search of the activist architects, maverick politicians and alternative communities already answering these questions. From Brazil to Venezuela, and from Mexico to Argentina, McGuirk discovers the people and ideas shaping the way cities(...)
Radical cities: Across Latin America in Search of a New Architecture
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What makes the city of the future? How do you heal a divided city? In Radical cities, Justin McGuirk travels across Latin America in search of the activist architects, maverick politicians and alternative communities already answering these questions. From Brazil to Venezuela, and from Mexico to Argentina, McGuirk discovers the people and ideas shaping the way cities are evolving.
Urban Theory
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Exclusively available in single volumes at the CCA Bookstore. This volume documents the film installation withing the exhibition, which features film excerpts of "Metropolis" by Fritz Lang, "La cité des enfants perdus" by Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet, "Waterworld" by Kevin Reynolds, "The Lord of the Rings" by Peter Jackson, "The Truman Show" by Peter Weir, and many more.
Architecture since 1900, Europe
September 2008, Venice
Out there: architecture beyond building, volume 2: hall of fragments. La Biennale di Venezia, 11. Mostra Internazionale die Architettura
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Exclusively available in single volumes at the CCA Bookstore. This volume documents the film installation withing the exhibition, which features film excerpts of "Metropolis" by Fritz Lang, "La cité des enfants perdus" by Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet, "Waterworld" by Kevin Reynolds, "The Lord of the Rings" by Peter Jackson, "The Truman Show" by Peter Weir, and many more.
Architecture since 1900, Europe
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For more than a thousand years, the burial site known as the Wu Family Shrines in the Shandong province of northeastern China has served as a benchmark for the study of the Han Dynasty (206 BCE - 220 CE) - a defining period in Chinese history. This book presents scolarships that prompts significant reexamination of the site's long-accepted implications, including its(...)
Arch Middle East
May 2005, New Haven, New York
Recarving China's past : art, archeology, and architecture of the
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For more than a thousand years, the burial site known as the Wu Family Shrines in the Shandong province of northeastern China has served as a benchmark for the study of the Han Dynasty (206 BCE - 220 CE) - a defining period in Chinese history. This book presents scolarships that prompts significant reexamination of the site's long-accepted implications, including its attribution to the Wu family.
Arch Middle East
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"Design agendas: Modern architecture in St. Louis, 1930s–1970s" features essays on the modernist architects Charles E. Fleming, R. Buckminster Fuller, Eric Mendelsohn, and Gyo Obata by contributing scholars Shantel Blakely, John C. Guenther, Kathleen James-Chakraborty, and Winifred Elysse Newman, as well as a memoir by Michael E. Willis, FAIA, NOMA. Editor and(...)
Modernism
January 2025
Design agendas: Modern architecture in St. Louis 1930s-1970s
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"Design agendas: Modern architecture in St. Louis, 1930s–1970s" features essays on the modernist architects Charles E. Fleming, R. Buckminster Fuller, Eric Mendelsohn, and Gyo Obata by contributing scholars Shantel Blakely, John C. Guenther, Kathleen James-Chakraborty, and Winifred Elysse Newman, as well as a memoir by Michael E. Willis, FAIA, NOMA. Editor and architectural historian Eric P. Mumford situates the work of these architects and others within the context of St. Louis urban development against the midcentury backdrop of New Deal planning, the Great Migration, and the civil rights and Great Society eras. This publication adds to the small but growing number of studies on modern architecture in St. Louis.
Modernism
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Comprising the effort of more than a century of collecting chairs, the Faculty of Architecture of the TU Delft can pride itself on having one of the major furniture collections in the Netherlands. Set up as an educational tool, the collection has offered knowledge about materials, construction and typology to students and designers. In the catalogue, the entire collection(...)
Design, Periods and Styles
March 2008, Rotterdam
Chairs: catalogue of the Delft faculty of architecture collection
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Comprising the effort of more than a century of collecting chairs, the Faculty of Architecture of the TU Delft can pride itself on having one of the major furniture collections in the Netherlands. Set up as an educational tool, the collection has offered knowledge about materials, construction and typology to students and designers. In the catalogue, the entire collection of over 240 chairs is presented for the first time. Each object is accompanied by images and a thorough description. Also, the book offers comprehensive texts on key designs in the collection, showing the diversity of the collection which consists of world famous designs, 17th, 18th and 19th century designs, everyday household chairs and rare pieces of furniture that have never been published before. Among the designers presented are Verner Panton, Gerrit Th. Rietveld, Hendrik Petrus Berlage, Jean Prouvé, Marcel Breuer and Droog Design.
Design, Periods and Styles
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A fully illustrated guide to over 400 important buildings in and around Stockholm.
City Guides
April 2004, Stockholm
The complete guide to architecture in Stockholm, updated 2004
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A fully illustrated guide to over 400 important buildings in and around Stockholm.
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