This thing called theory
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In the age of post-digital architecture and digital materiality, This Thing Called Theory explores current practices of architectural theory, their critical and productive role. The book is organized in sections which explore theory as an open issue in architecture, as it relates to and borrows from other disciplines, thus opening up architecture itself and showing how(...)
Architectural Theory
January 2017
This thing called theory
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In the age of post-digital architecture and digital materiality, This Thing Called Theory explores current practices of architectural theory, their critical and productive role. The book is organized in sections which explore theory as an open issue in architecture, as it relates to and borrows from other disciplines, thus opening up architecture itself and showing how architecture is inextricably connected to other social and theoretical practices.
Architectural Theory
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This book showcases around 150 minimalist designers working across a wide range of formats and media – from independent magazines and album covers to corporate identity and branding. With more than 400 original photographs exclusive to the book, each accompanied by a commentary on the design and production processes involved, MIN shows the creative possibilities that(...)
Min: the new simplicity in graphic design
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This book showcases around 150 minimalist designers working across a wide range of formats and media – from independent magazines and album covers to corporate identity and branding. With more than 400 original photographs exclusive to the book, each accompanied by a commentary on the design and production processes involved, MIN shows the creative possibilities that design for print continues to offer in the digital age.
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Returning to Benjamin
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Walter Benjamin’s essay of cultural criticism ‘The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction’ has become a ‘classic’ text, one which resonated through the twentieth century and beyond. In this succinct and pointed new essay, the artist and writer Victor Burgin rereads Benjamin’s 1935 text, to elaborate a new argument contending that the camera today is profoundly(...)
Returning to Benjamin
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Walter Benjamin’s essay of cultural criticism ‘The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction’ has become a ‘classic’ text, one which resonated through the twentieth century and beyond. In this succinct and pointed new essay, the artist and writer Victor Burgin rereads Benjamin’s 1935 text, to elaborate a new argument contending that the camera today is profoundly imbricated in that which is not visible.
Theory of Photography
The wildlife analysis
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The Wildlife Analysis is a psychedelic-ethnographic journey to an indefinite country. Usings ballpoint pen mixed with fluorescent and coloured pencil, Dimitri Broquard creates drawings that translate as a lost world, a place between the romantic and the baroque. Broquard seeks inspiration from the Age of Enlightenment, the time of discovering and explaining the world, the(...)
Illustration
December 2009
The wildlife analysis
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The Wildlife Analysis is a psychedelic-ethnographic journey to an indefinite country. Usings ballpoint pen mixed with fluorescent and coloured pencil, Dimitri Broquard creates drawings that translate as a lost world, a place between the romantic and the baroque. Broquard seeks inspiration from the Age of Enlightenment, the time of discovering and explaining the world, the myth of "The Savage", the confrontation of rationality and mysticism.
Illustration
Posters: a global history
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From band posters stapled to telephone poles to the advertisements hanging at bus shelters to the inspirational prints that adorn office walls, posters surround us everywhere—but do we know how they began? Telling the story of this ephemeral art form, Elizabeth E. Guffey reexamines the poster’s roots in the nineteenth century and explores the relevance they still possess(...)
Posters: a global history
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From band posters stapled to telephone poles to the advertisements hanging at bus shelters to the inspirational prints that adorn office walls, posters surround us everywhere—but do we know how they began? Telling the story of this ephemeral art form, Elizabeth E. Guffey reexamines the poster’s roots in the nineteenth century and explores the relevance they still possess in the age of digital media.
Printed Matter
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Have you ever wondered what the difference is between Gothic and Gothic Revival, or how to distinguish between Baroque and Neoclassical? This guide makes extensive use of photographs to identify and explain the characteristic features of nearly 300 buildings. The result is a clear and easy-to-navigate guide to identifying the key styles of western architecture from the(...)
Architectural styles: a visual guide
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Have you ever wondered what the difference is between Gothic and Gothic Revival, or how to distinguish between Baroque and Neoclassical? This guide makes extensive use of photographs to identify and explain the characteristic features of nearly 300 buildings. The result is a clear and easy-to-navigate guide to identifying the key styles of western architecture from the classical age to the present day.
History since 1900, Reference Books
Mark Ruwedel
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Over the past three decades, Mark Ruwedel (born 1954) has examined the intersections of representation, cultural memory and shifting perceptions of space. His work is an epic account of North American civilization, extending from topologies of urban architecture to large-scale projects such as "The Ice Age" and "Westward the Course of Empire." Ruwedel represents landscape(...)
Mark Ruwedel
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Over the past three decades, Mark Ruwedel (born 1954) has examined the intersections of representation, cultural memory and shifting perceptions of space. His work is an epic account of North American civilization, extending from topologies of urban architecture to large-scale projects such as "The Ice Age" and "Westward the Course of Empire." Ruwedel represents landscape as a site where radically different scales of time intertwine.
Photography monographs
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x, 204 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Durham [NC] : Duke University Press, 2011.
Ecologies of comparison : an ethnography of endangerment in Hong Kong / Tim Choy.
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Durham [NC] : Duke University Press, 2011.
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239 pages : colour illustrations ; 27 cm
Vancouver ; Toronto ; Berkeley : Figure 1 Publishing, [2024], ©2023
Reside : contemporary West Coast houses / Michael Prokopow.
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Vancouver ; Toronto ; Berkeley : Figure 1 Publishing, [2024], ©2023
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1 videocassette (VHS) (approximately 93 min.) : sound, color ; 1/2 in. consultation copy, 2 videocassettes (Mini-DV) (approximately 104 min.) : sound, color ; 1/4 in....
Ground zero of architecture : recordings, 2002.
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1 videocassette (VHS) (approximately 93 min.) : sound, color ; 1/2 in. consultation copy, 2 videocassettes (Mini-DV) (approximately 104 min.) : sound, color ; 1/4 in....
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