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vi, 168 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Wien : Architekturzentrum, [2018], Zürich : PARK Books, [2018], ©2018
Your guide to downtown Denise Scott Brown / by Jeremy Eric Tenenbaum, with Denise Scott Brown ; edited by Angelika Fitz and Katharina Ritter, Architekturzentrum Wien.
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vi, 168 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
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Wien : Architekturzentrum, [2018], Zürich : PARK Books, [2018], ©2018
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71 pages : illustrations (some color), plans ; 31 cm.
Stuttgart ; London : Edition Axel Menges, ©2011.
Fritz Barth : Cannstatter Strasse 84, Fellbach / mit Texten von Thomas Hettche und Gerhart Schröder ; sowie einem Gespräch zwischen Fritz Barth und Amber Sayah ; Photographien von Fritz Barth = with essays by Thomas Hettche and Gerhart Schröder and a conversation between Fritz Barth and Amber Sayah ; photographs by Fritz Barth ; [Übersetzung ins Englische/translation into English, Michael Robinson].
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71 pages : illustrations (some color), plans ; 31 cm.
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Stuttgart ; London : Edition Axel Menges, ©2011.
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Although Theodor W. Adorno is best known for his association with the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory, he began his career as a composer and successful music critic. "Night Music" presents the first complete English translations of two collections of texts compiled by German philosopher and musicologist Adorno—Moments musicaux, containing essays written between 1928(...)
Night music: essays on music 1928-1962
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Although Theodor W. Adorno is best known for his association with the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory, he began his career as a composer and successful music critic. "Night Music" presents the first complete English translations of two collections of texts compiled by German philosopher and musicologist Adorno—Moments musicaux, containing essays written between 1928 and 1962, and "Theory of New Music", a group of texts written between 1929 and 1955.
Acoustics
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Mechudzu is a book which represents questions, not answers. The work of Bryan Cantley, and his firm, Form:uLA, based in Los Angeles, is intended to be confounding – a practice that is a theory, a theory of practice, practice as theory. Cantley’s work is part of the permanent collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Other exhibits of note include a featured(...)
Mechudzu: new rhetorics for architecture
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Mechudzu is a book which represents questions, not answers. The work of Bryan Cantley, and his firm, Form:uLA, based in Los Angeles, is intended to be confounding – a practice that is a theory, a theory of practice, practice as theory. Cantley’s work is part of the permanent collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Other exhibits of note include a featured exhibition at the Form Zero Bookstore / Gallery in Los Angeles and solo exhibitions “Enantiomorph Inversion Factor” at the Architecture Gallery at Cal Poly Pomona and “Wool and H2O” at the UCLA School of Architecture. This book documents Cantley’s work with illustrations combined with essays by acknowledged experts as there are Aaron Betsky, Dora Epstein Jones, Ruth Keffer, Wes Jones + Doug Jackson and Neil Spiller.
Architecture Monographs
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307 pages : illustrations (some color), plans ; 22 cm
Zurich : Park Books, [2018], ©2018
A real living contact with the things themselves : essays on architecture / Irénée Scalbert.
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307 pages : illustrations (some color), plans ; 22 cm
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Zurich : Park Books, [2018], ©2018
Touching photographs
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Olin investigates the publication of photographs in mass media and literature, the hanging of exhibitions, the posting of photocopied photographs of lost loved ones in public spaces, and the intense photographic activity of tourists at their destinations. She moves from intimate relationships between viewers and photographs to interactions around larger communities,(...)
Touching photographs
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Olin investigates the publication of photographs in mass media and literature, the hanging of exhibitions, the posting of photocopied photographs of lost loved ones in public spaces, and the intense photographic activity of tourists at their destinations. She moves from intimate relationships between viewers and photographs to interactions around larger communities, analyzing how photography affects the way people handle cataclysmic events like 9/11. Along the way, she shows us James VanDerZee’s Harlem funeral portraits, dusts off Roland Barthes’s family album, takes us into Walker Evans and James Agee’s photo-text Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, and logs onto online photo albums. With over one hundred illustrations, Touching Photographs is an insightful contribution to the theory of photography, visual studies, and art history.
Theory of Photography
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334 p., 57 plates included in pagination : ill. (some col.), facsims, maps (some col.), ports. ; 22 cm.
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Retour au monolithique : Jacques-Antoine Dulaure (1755-1835) et la territorialisation de l'architecture primitive / Christina Contandriopoulos.
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334 p., 57 plates included in pagination : ill. (some col.), facsims, maps (some col.), ports. ; 22 cm.
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xvii, 588 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color), plans (some color) ; 29 cm.
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020., ©2020
Frederick Law Olmsted : plans and views of communities and private estates / Charles E. Beveridge, Lauren Meier, and Irene Mills, editors.
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xvii, 588 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color), plans (some color) ; 29 cm.
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Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020., ©2020
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Spanning 1989 to 2009, this anthology collects the influential writings of American artist, musician and critic John Miller (born 1954), which have been lauded by Bruce Hainley in Artforum as “a pungent intervention into the ideologies of beauty, representation and looking.” Ranging from reviews and cultural essays to theory and artist's statements, Miller's writings(...)
The ruin of exchange and other writings on art
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Spanning 1989 to 2009, this anthology collects the influential writings of American artist, musician and critic John Miller (born 1954), which have been lauded by Bruce Hainley in Artforum as “a pungent intervention into the ideologies of beauty, representation and looking.” Ranging from reviews and cultural essays to theory and artist's statements, Miller's writings distinguish themselves from other styles of art criticism insofar as they relate to his larger artistic concerns with the social context of the art object and its sociopolitical ramifications as a commodity (as the title of this volume implies); they are also deeply informed by Miller's vast knowledge of art history and popular culture. More recently, Miller has entered into close dialogue with Dan Graham, Bob Nickas and Nicolas Guagnini. Many of the essays collected here - such as his contributions to the German magazine Texte zur Kunst - appear in English for the first time.
Art Theory
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In Vibrant Matter the political theorist Jane Bennett, renowned for her work on nature, ethics, and affect, shifts her focus from the human experience of things to things themselves. Bennett argues that political theory needs to do a better job of recognizing the active participation of nonhuman forces in events. Toward that end, she theorizes a “vital materiality” that(...)
Vibrant matter: a political ecology of things
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In Vibrant Matter the political theorist Jane Bennett, renowned for her work on nature, ethics, and affect, shifts her focus from the human experience of things to things themselves. Bennett argues that political theory needs to do a better job of recognizing the active participation of nonhuman forces in events. Toward that end, she theorizes a “vital materiality” that runs through and across bodies, both human and nonhuman. Bennett explores how political analyses of public events might change were we to acknowledge that agency always emerges as the effect of ad hoc configurations of human and nonhuman forces. She suggests that recognizing that agency is distributed this way, and is not solely the province of humans, might spur the cultivation of a more responsible, ecologically sound politics: a politics less devoted to blaming and condemning individuals than to discerning the web of forces affecting situations and events.
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