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"Against the grain" features the work of three studios of the Louis I. Kahn Visiting Assistant Professors at Yale. Marcelo Spina and Georgina Huljich in "Brutal beauty: piles, monoliths and the incongruous whole" explored ways to make mute icons through monolithic form so that the buildings were foreign to their context and difficult to read formally for a film center in(...)
Against the grain: Louis I. Kahn visiting assistant professorship
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"Against the grain" features the work of three studios of the Louis I. Kahn Visiting Assistant Professors at Yale. Marcelo Spina and Georgina Huljich in "Brutal beauty: piles, monoliths and the incongruous whole" explored ways to make mute icons through monolithic form so that the buildings were foreign to their context and difficult to read formally for a film center in Los Angeles. Dan Wood in "Boulevard Triumphant: ecological infrastructure, architecture, modernization, and the image of the city" a studio for a civic center in Gabon that challenged the architectural language in Africa beyond the clichés and nostalgia to create an architecture that embodied a new ambition. Lisa Gray and Alan Organschi in "Timber innovation district: new timber technologies and contemporary high performance wood architecture" researched wood as a material for larger-scale projects for a site on New Haven’s working waterfront, with projects ranging from bridges to manufacturing facilities and multi-family housing. Edited by Jackie Kow and Nina Rappaport the book is designed by MGMT.design and is distributed by Actar D.
Contemporary Architecture
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Accompanying an exhibition at Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh opening in November 2017, this book brings together more than 30 photographs by Talbot that demonstrate his wide-ranging interests, including nature, still-life, portraiture, architecture and landscape. Some of these images are previously unpublished. Through thematic groupings elucidated by noted Talbot(...)
William Henry Fox Talbot and the promise of photography
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Accompanying an exhibition at Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh opening in November 2017, this book brings together more than 30 photographs by Talbot that demonstrate his wide-ranging interests, including nature, still-life, portraiture, architecture and landscape. Some of these images are previously unpublished. Through thematic groupings elucidated by noted Talbot scholar Larry Schaaf, the book reveals the photographer’s early striving to test the boundaries of his medium at a historic moment when art and science intersected. With its luminous reproductions of Talbot’s fragile works, this publication demonstrates that, in its earliest days, photography required a form of magic-making and innovation that continues to inspire people today.
Photography monographs
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This book of interviews and conversations with today's most compelling living and resurrected artists and thinkers seeks to address the relevance of Russian cosmism and biocosmism in light of its influence on the Russian artistic and political vanguard as well as on today's art-historical apparatuses, weird materialisms, extinction narratives, and historical and temporal politics.
Art without death, conversations on Russian cosmism. E-flux journal
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This book of interviews and conversations with today's most compelling living and resurrected artists and thinkers seeks to address the relevance of Russian cosmism and biocosmism in light of its influence on the Russian artistic and political vanguard as well as on today's art-historical apparatuses, weird materialisms, extinction narratives, and historical and temporal politics.
Art Theory
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Designer and architect Keiji Ashizawa is deeply influenced by the principles of 20th-century modernism, carrying on its spirit through user-friendly design in the everyday lives of people. Whether it be furniture or architectural design, his rational disassembling of objects into smaller elements reflects shared mutual spatial and structural concepts, despite differences(...)
On honest design: the design works collection of Keiji Ashizawa
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Designer and architect Keiji Ashizawa is deeply influenced by the principles of 20th-century modernism, carrying on its spirit through user-friendly design in the everyday lives of people. Whether it be furniture or architectural design, his rational disassembling of objects into smaller elements reflects shared mutual spatial and structural concepts, despite differences in proportion and dimensions. Ashizawa combines the Arts and Crafts movement and the design-manufacture process of mass production in his quest for honest design, viewed through a 21st-century, neo-modernist lens. This book presents his prolific vision, from furniture and objects to interiors and homes.
Architecture Monographs
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The professional landscape for design in social innovation has reached a critical moment. Designers are now acting as mediators, synthesizers and key contributors of social and environmental challenges at a strategic level. Organizations are recognizing that designers bring a unique set of abilities and methods for developing human-centered artifacts, services,(...)
LEAP dialogues: career pathways in design for social innovation
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The professional landscape for design in social innovation has reached a critical moment. Designers are now acting as mediators, synthesizers and key contributors of social and environmental challenges at a strategic level. Organizations are recognizing that designers bring a unique set of abilities and methods for developing human-centered artifacts, services, environments and systems. Fueled in part by strong student demand, new graduate and undergraduate programs in social design are emerging across the nation. Graduates from these programs are entering the workforce with expanded skill sets and aspirations about their role(s) as creative individuals. This publication explores the new careers in the emergent field of design for social innovation with contributions from 84 leaders from across disciplines and sectors. These contributors encompass diverse points of view, stories and experiences about key issues, creating a multilayered picture of how this field is being shaped. The book addresses the spectrum of challenges and opportunities for those building careers in design for social innovation, and for the organizations looking to support those careers.
Design Theory
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This book provides an extensive presentation of design statements, drawings and photographs (from the design an deconstruction processes and from the building in use thus far). It also includes a text from Alvaro Siza, historical/critical essay by Michel Toussaint; an article on the intervention in the landscape by Joao Gomes da Silva; an analysis of the bather's course(...)
Alavaro Siza: Pool on the beach / Piscina na praia de leça
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This book provides an extensive presentation of design statements, drawings and photographs (from the design an deconstruction processes and from the building in use thus far). It also includes a text from Alvaro Siza, historical/critical essay by Michel Toussaint; an article on the intervention in the landscape by Joao Gomes da Silva; an analysis of the bather's course by Pedro Vieira de Almeida, as well as the testimonies of Diogo Seixas Lopes and Manuel Aires Mateus. The photographs of Nuno Cera cast a contemporary look at the building, while Luis Urbano's film suggests its interpretation through moving images.
Architecture Monographs
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This publication features curated collection of packaging from stores and boutiques, ranging from Hermes to LUSH to high-end chocolates. The book is divided into three sections: fashion, living and food. The editors at BNN have scanned the globe and brought together bags, wrapping paper, totes, labels and lids, bottles, jars; materials span paper, glass, plastic, fabric(...)
Shop identity series vol. 4 : package & shopping bag
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This publication features curated collection of packaging from stores and boutiques, ranging from Hermes to LUSH to high-end chocolates. The book is divided into three sections: fashion, living and food. The editors at BNN have scanned the globe and brought together bags, wrapping paper, totes, labels and lids, bottles, jars; materials span paper, glass, plastic, fabric and more – basically anything that could be used to package something sold.
Paper and packaging design
Musée immédiat : photographier les pays de l'Est de l'Europe en période de transition culturelle
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Ce livre aborde le phénomène de mise en musée immédiate de situations culturelles critiques/en transition (bouleversement constant des frontières, manipulation du passé culturel et historique, vagues artistiques autour de guerres et de conflits destructeurs) dans les pays de l’Est de l’Europe tels l’Ukraine, la Biélorussie et la Lettonie.
Musée immédiat : photographier les pays de l'Est de l'Europe en période de transition culturelle
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Ce livre aborde le phénomène de mise en musée immédiate de situations culturelles critiques/en transition (bouleversement constant des frontières, manipulation du passé culturel et historique, vagues artistiques autour de guerres et de conflits destructeurs) dans les pays de l’Est de l’Europe tels l’Ukraine, la Biélorussie et la Lettonie.
Museums and Universal Exhibitions
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Thirty architects that practice in East Asia have participated in this publication by writing a short essay that reflects their choice of a ‘keyword’ which best explains their principles of architectural practice. Each of these texts has been reproduced here, accompanied by various images of each architect’s works, in order to create a platform for future regional(...)
Architectural keywords : 30 ways to read East Asian architects
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Thirty architects that practice in East Asia have participated in this publication by writing a short essay that reflects their choice of a ‘keyword’ which best explains their principles of architectural practice. Each of these texts has been reproduced here, accompanied by various images of each architect’s works, in order to create a platform for future regional exchange and communicate architectural thought to a wider public. Architects include: Kengo Kuma, Sou Fujimoto, Yo2 Architects, Seung H-sang, Hun Kim, Moongyu Choi/ Ga. A Architect and Klein Dytham Architecture.
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Contemporary Asian Architecture
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Bring home a piece of Glacier National Park history with this collection of 23 authentic postcards from the early twentieth century. Enjoy as a book, or remove cards along the perforation and mail.
Postcards from Glacier National Park: A vintage postcard book
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Bring home a piece of Glacier National Park history with this collection of 23 authentic postcards from the early twentieth century. Enjoy as a book, or remove cards along the perforation and mail.
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