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Agnes Denes: Absolutes and Intermediates accompanies the largest exhibition of the artist’s work in New York to date, held at The Shed in fall 2019 as part of the arts space’s opening season. Presenting more than 130 works, this comprehensive publication, presented in an embossed slipcase, spans the 50-year career of the path-breaking artist dubbed “the queen of land art”(...)
Agnes Denes: Absolutes and intermediates
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Agnes Denes: Absolutes and Intermediates accompanies the largest exhibition of the artist’s work in New York to date, held at The Shed in fall 2019 as part of the arts space’s opening season. Presenting more than 130 works, this comprehensive publication, presented in an embossed slipcase, spans the 50-year career of the path-breaking artist dubbed “the queen of land art” by the New York Times, famed for her iconic Wheatfield—A Confrontation (1982), for which she planted a two-acre wheatfield in Lower Manhattan on the Battery Park Landfill, in the shadow of the then recently erected Twin Towers.
Contemporary Art Monographs
Unpayable Debt
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''Unpayable debt'' examines the relationships among coloniality, raciality, and global capital from a black feminist ''poethical'' perspective. Inspired by Octavia E. Butler's 1979 sci-fi novel ''Kindred,'' in which an African-American writer is transported back in time to the antebellum South to save her owner-ancestor, ''Unpayable debt'' relates the notion of value to(...)
Unpayable Debt
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''Unpayable debt'' examines the relationships among coloniality, raciality, and global capital from a black feminist ''poethical'' perspective. Inspired by Octavia E. Butler's 1979 sci-fi novel ''Kindred,'' in which an African-American writer is transported back in time to the antebellum South to save her owner-ancestor, ''Unpayable debt'' relates the notion of value to coloniality—both economic and ethical. Focusing on the philosophy behind value, Denise Ferreira da Silva exposes capital as the juridical architecture and ethical grammar of the world. Here, raciality—a symbol of coloniality—justifies deployments of total violence to enable expropriation and land extraction.
Critical Theory
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Fuminori Nousaku strives to make architecture a new kind of ecosystem that incorporates an extensive range of design requirements on the topics of land and its history, materials and resources, lifestyles, the housing industry, and social system. With 16 chapters brimming with grand scales and detailed thought, this series probes the young Japanese architect's mind for(...)
Fuminori Nousaku: Edifice of the wild
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Fuminori Nousaku strives to make architecture a new kind of ecosystem that incorporates an extensive range of design requirements on the topics of land and its history, materials and resources, lifestyles, the housing industry, and social system. With 16 chapters brimming with grand scales and detailed thought, this series probes the young Japanese architect's mind for architectural methods concerned with topical issues: residential and urban development that factors in ecosystems and the global environment, off-grid homes powered by solar energy, architecture and landscaping that restore soil health, and ecological design that plans for circulation of materials from production to disposal.
Architecture Monographs
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The era of moving to the suburbs is coming to an end. Instead, a growing movement of city dwellers are looking for grand architectural solutions in the smallest of spaces. Slender, slim, and tall structures are soaring in the limited land available, offering innovative solutions to a world with ever-growing urbanization. 'Vertical Living' is an introduction to the(...)
Vertical living: Compact architecture for urban spaces
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The era of moving to the suburbs is coming to an end. Instead, a growing movement of city dwellers are looking for grand architectural solutions in the smallest of spaces. Slender, slim, and tall structures are soaring in the limited land available, offering innovative solutions to a world with ever-growing urbanization. 'Vertical Living' is an introduction to the architecture and interior masterminds using skillful, clever design to conquer compact living wherever there is space. As we continue to expect more of our flats and houses, unexpected approaches are necessary for the future of our urban spaces.
Residential Architecture
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In this book, renowned photographer Emmet Gowin presents stunning aerial images of center-pivot irrigation systems in the western and midwestern United States. This type of farming involves a method of watering crops in which equipment rotates around a centrally drilled well, creating enormous, distinct circles of irrigated land, often in the midst of dry terrain. Through(...)
Emmet Gowin: the one hundred circle farm
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In this book, renowned photographer Emmet Gowin presents stunning aerial images of center-pivot irrigation systems in the western and midwestern United States. This type of farming involves a method of watering crops in which equipment rotates around a centrally drilled well, creating enormous, distinct circles of irrigated land, often in the midst of dry terrain. Through a faithful yet personal photographic survey, Gowin’s powerful images not only bear witness to the ambitions humans wield in shaping the landscape, but also attest to how such primal elements—circles, pivots, and lines—symbolize water depletion and the fragile environment.
Photography monographs
A+U 618 : Columbia
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This issue offers an inside look at the architecture, landscape, and cities of Colombia, a land of fabulous natural beauty that has used architecture as a key agent in rebuilding its cities and civil society following decades of strife. A photo essay by Camilo Echavarría shows how travels through the tropical region reveal a homogenous, abstract passage of time, where(...)
A+U 618 : Columbia
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This issue offers an inside look at the architecture, landscape, and cities of Colombia, a land of fabulous natural beauty that has used architecture as a key agent in rebuilding its cities and civil society following decades of strife. A photo essay by Camilo Echavarría shows how travels through the tropical region reveal a homogenous, abstract passage of time, where architecture is conditioned by various landscapes and geographic diversity. Medellín-based architect and guest editor Camilo Restrepo Ochoa leads this journey through Colombia, showing works by fourteen practices across three generations, and neighbourhoods that are reinvigorated through mobility and urban space.
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An anthology of essays and artistic contributions from more than 25 voices with diverse practices and backgrounds, this book is a response to climate change and the toxic politics of today. They highlight the urgent need for collective strategies and solidarity to protect the vulnerable and marginalised communities forced to endure the worst effects of climate crises(...)
Environment and environmental theory
October 2022
Climate: Our right to breathe
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An anthology of essays and artistic contributions from more than 25 voices with diverse practices and backgrounds, this book is a response to climate change and the toxic politics of today. They highlight the urgent need for collective strategies and solidarity to protect the vulnerable and marginalised communities forced to endure the worst effects of climate crises because of racialised capitalism. Opening with an introduction from the editors and ‘The Universal Right to Breathe’ by Achille Mbembe, the rest of the book is divided into four sections: ‘Commodification, Energy & Extraction,’ ‘Land & Food Sovereignty,’ ‘Toxicity & Healing,’ and ‘Shelters.’
Environment and environmental theory
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Comment fissurer la chape fonctionnaliste qui pèse sur la perception de la nature même de l'architecture contemporaine ? Quel regard porter sur les deux formes " sauvages " que sont l'habitat dit informel , le bidonville , et la figure de la cabane ? Sortir de la conception étroite d'un habitat réduit à la satisfaction de fonctions basiques (s'abriter, se nourrir,(...)
Traité d'architecture sauvage
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Comment fissurer la chape fonctionnaliste qui pèse sur la perception de la nature même de l'architecture contemporaine ? Quel regard porter sur les deux formes " sauvages " que sont l'habitat dit informel , le bidonville , et la figure de la cabane ? Sortir de la conception étroite d'un habitat réduit à la satisfaction de fonctions basiques (s'abriter, se nourrir, travailler et se reproduire), c'est donc réintégrer les dimensions anthropologiques, symboliques, culturelles et écologiques qui l'ont déserté. Des expériences du Land Art, à l'évolution de la cabane de Dali, en passant par l'approche géopoétique, cet essai tonique ouvre des pistes pour une autre architecture.
Green Architecture
Unmarked sites
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In Unmarked Sites, Jessica Auer pursues photography like an archeologist, searching for cultural sites in Newfoundland and Labrador in an effort to reconcile its complex history. Looking to the land for signs of the past, she delves into the relationship between landscape and regional identity. The resulting narrative reveals the intricacies that relate exploration,(...)
Unmarked sites
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In Unmarked Sites, Jessica Auer pursues photography like an archeologist, searching for cultural sites in Newfoundland and Labrador in an effort to reconcile its complex history. Looking to the land for signs of the past, she delves into the relationship between landscape and regional identity. The resulting narrative reveals the intricacies that relate exploration, settlement, preservation and modern tourism. Inspired by the travelogue and set within the context of geological time, the artist takes the reader on a journey that travels between reality and the imaginary. These limited edition books are numbered and feature fold-out pages.
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Forest Prairie Edge is a deep-time investigation of the edge land, or ecotone, between the open prairies and boreal forest region of Saskatchewan. Ecotones are transitions from one landscape to another, where social, economic, and cultural practices of different landscapes are blended. Using place history and edge theory, Massie considers the role and importance of the(...)
Forest prairie edge: place histoty in Saskatchewan
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Forest Prairie Edge is a deep-time investigation of the edge land, or ecotone, between the open prairies and boreal forest region of Saskatchewan. Ecotones are transitions from one landscape to another, where social, economic, and cultural practices of different landscapes are blended. Using place history and edge theory, Massie considers the role and importance of the edge ecotone in building a diverse social and economic past that contradicts traditional “prairie” narratives around settlement, economic development, and culture. She offers a refreshing new perspective that overturns long-held assumptions of the prairies and the Canadian West.
Landscape Theory