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In an era of unprecedented mobility, people can now live and work not only in different places, but even in different countries. Binational Urbanism examines the lifestyle of these people who start a second life in a second city, in a second country, without saying goodbye to their first city. In a uniquely 21st-century diaspora, they live in constant transit between two(...)
Binational urbanism: on the road to paradise
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In an era of unprecedented mobility, people can now live and work not only in different places, but even in different countries. Binational Urbanism examines the lifestyle of these people who start a second life in a second city, in a second country, without saying goodbye to their first city. In a uniquely 21st-century diaspora, they live in constant transit between two homes and two nations. "Binational urbanists" come from all strata of society, from the working class to the highly educated and cosmopolitan creative classes. For this volume, German architect Bernd Upmeyer interviewed people of Turkish origin living in Germany who commute regularly between cities in Germany and Turkey. From these interviews the author develops a theory of binational urbanism, concluding that it has the potential to become one of the most interesting forms of life in the 21st century.
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The sensational story of British Columbia's most important architect, his triumphs, his battles, his scandalous life and grisly murder by his wife's lover and the subsequent trial are all carefully documented in this award-winning biography. This is the second edition of this book originally published in 1978.
Rattenbury
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The sensational story of British Columbia's most important architect, his triumphs, his battles, his scandalous life and grisly murder by his wife's lover and the subsequent trial are all carefully documented in this award-winning biography. This is the second edition of this book originally published in 1978.
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Architecture in Canada
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Angelidakis is an architect working at the intersection of digital culture and architectural production. In these parallel realities he treats the internet (eg. Second Life) as a place where ideas are born and get tested, and where new social behaviours define the way our society will develop in years to come. These experiments have a real life counterpart in his(...)
DD 25: Internet suburbia, Andreas Angelidakis, Greece-Norway
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Angelidakis is an architect working at the intersection of digital culture and architectural production. In these parallel realities he treats the internet (eg. Second Life) as a place where ideas are born and get tested, and where new social behaviours define the way our society will develop in years to come. These experiments have a real life counterpart in his exhibition and installation design, furniture, urban planning and housing projects. Many of the designs are reproduced here with the help of images, photographs and models.
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Following the runaway success of "A Tree," "With a Bird," is the second installment in Onomatopee's five-year, five-volume publication series creating "rich encounters between folklore and critical research." As a reader on avian kinship, "With a Bird," delves into the profound ways birds have inspired human understanding of life, blending scientific inquiry with(...)
With a bird: A reader on avian kinship
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Following the runaway success of "A Tree," "With a Bird," is the second installment in Onomatopee's five-year, five-volume publication series creating "rich encounters between folklore and critical research." As a reader on avian kinship, "With a Bird," delves into the profound ways birds have inspired human understanding of life, blending scientific inquiry with spiritual reflection. Visual art, natural history, sociology, literature and more combine to explore how birds challenge and transcend boundaries—between human and non-human life, dream and reality, life and death, science and folklore and the domains of land, water and sky. Each chapter in this petite, canary-yellow paperback is dedicated to the symbolic roles birds play in human life, from death to dreams to freedom to fortune-telling.
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Encyclopedia of flowers II
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Flower artist Makoto Azuma and botanical photographer Shunsuke Shiinoki present a second edition of their vibrant anthology, two years after the first. Focusing on the ephemeral nature of flowers while working to conserve in a concrete, tangible form the passage of time they embody, the authors use two techniques. The first highlights the flowers’ features and sense of(...)
Encyclopedia of flowers II
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Flower artist Makoto Azuma and botanical photographer Shunsuke Shiinoki present a second edition of their vibrant anthology, two years after the first. Focusing on the ephemeral nature of flowers while working to conserve in a concrete, tangible form the passage of time they embody, the authors use two techniques. The first highlights the flowers’ features and sense of presence by picturing them from overhead. The second applies a lateral perspective to capture the life force of plants as they stretch towards the sun. In contrast to the first edition, natural light sources were used as much as possible to illuminate the exceptionally dense and colourful palettes on display.
Photography monographs
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In 21 texts, From the Things Themselves presents approaches relating architecture to phenomenology, and vice-versa. The philosophies of Husserl, Heidegger, and Merleau-Ponty are revisited and experienced through numerous architectural realizations: from the virtual world of Second Life, the poetical and spiritual worlds of Greek temples, Cistercian or Baroque churches,(...)
From the things themselves : architecture and phenomenology
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In 21 texts, From the Things Themselves presents approaches relating architecture to phenomenology, and vice-versa. The philosophies of Husserl, Heidegger, and Merleau-Ponty are revisited and experienced through numerous architectural realizations: from the virtual world of Second Life, the poetical and spiritual worlds of Greek temples, Cistercian or Baroque churches, Chinese and Japanese gardens, to the work of contemporary architects.
Architectural Theory
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'Louise Bourgeois: The Return of the Repressed' highlights the enduring presence of psychoanalysis as a motivational force and a site of exploration in the artist’s life and work. Selected and edited by Philip Larratt-Smith (Bourgeois’ literary archivist), and contextualized with eight extensive scholarly essays, this collection of approximately 80 previously unpublished(...)
Louise Bourgeois: the return of the repressed
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'Louise Bourgeois: The Return of the Repressed' highlights the enduring presence of psychoanalysis as a motivational force and a site of exploration in the artist’s life and work. Selected and edited by Philip Larratt-Smith (Bourgeois’ literary archivist), and contextualized with eight extensive scholarly essays, this collection of approximately 80 previously unpublished writings spans some six decades of the artist’s production. The second volume in this slipcased set is an up-to-date Bourgeois monograph that details works made right up until the artist’s death in 2010. Together, the two volumes comprise a complete portrait of the life, work and thought of this seminal figure.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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Selected and edited by Philip Larratt-Smith (Bourgeois' literary archivist), and contextualized with eight extensive scholarly essays, this collection of approximately 80 previously unpublished writings spans some six decades of the artist's production. The second volume is an impressive, up-to-date Bourgeois monograph that details works made right up until the artist's(...)
Contemporary Art Monographs
April 2012
Louise Bourgeois: The return of the repressed
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Selected and edited by Philip Larratt-Smith (Bourgeois' literary archivist), and contextualized with eight extensive scholarly essays, this collection of approximately 80 previously unpublished writings spans some six decades of the artist's production. The second volume is an impressive, up-to-date Bourgeois monograph that details works made right up until the artist's death in 2010. Together, the two volumes comprise a complete portrait of the life, work and thought of this seminal figure.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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This is a luxurious box containing two books, a large book on Johannesburg, TJ , with astonishing pictures by David Goldblatt, and a smaller second book, Double Negative , a novel by Ivan Vladislavic. The book is about Johannesburg and about life in the city, home, habit, change, memory, mortality, friendship, ghosts, gardens, walking, falling, selling, and stealing. It(...)
TJ/ Double negative: Johannesburg photographs 1948-2010.
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This is a luxurious box containing two books, a large book on Johannesburg, TJ , with astonishing pictures by David Goldblatt, and a smaller second book, Double Negative , a novel by Ivan Vladislavic. The book is about Johannesburg and about life in the city, home, habit, change, memory, mortality, friendship, ghosts, gardens, walking, falling, selling, and stealing. It is a partial account of both authors' lives in their neighborhoods; it is a selective self-portrait.
Photography monographs
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Translation in 2008 by Chris Andrews. Ghosts revolves around an immigrant worker's family squatting on the haunted construction site of a luxury condominium building. All of the workmen and their wives and children see the ghosts, who literally hang around the place, but one teenage girl becomes the most curious. Her questions about the ghosts get so intense that her(...)
Ghosts
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Translation in 2008 by Chris Andrews. Ghosts revolves around an immigrant worker's family squatting on the haunted construction site of a luxury condominium building. All of the workmen and their wives and children see the ghosts, who literally hang around the place, but one teenage girl becomes the most curious. Her questions about the ghosts get so intense that her mother - in a chilling split-second - realizes her daughter's life hangs in the balance.
Architecture and the imaginary