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The afterlife of gardens
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Most historical and critical discussions of gardens focus on their design. What happens after the completion of the design, however, is largely ignored, which neglects a much larger part of the site's interest and potential. For gardens, John Dixon Hunt contends, are experienced, often by a succession of visitors at different times and often from different cultures; this(...)
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Most historical and critical discussions of gardens focus on their design. What happens after the completion of the design, however, is largely ignored, which neglects a much larger part of the site's interest and potential. For gardens, John Dixon Hunt contends, are experienced, often by a succession of visitors at different times and often from different cultures; this(...)
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Most historical and critical discussions of gardens focus on their design. What happens after the completion of the design, however, is largely ignored, which neglects a much larger part of the site's interest and potential. For gardens, John Dixon Hunt contends, are experienced, often by a succession of visitors at different times and often from different cultures; this experience, though determined by the original design and its subsequent modifications, also augments the site's potentialities, and this "afterlife" of gardens comes to enhance the original moment of creation. One way of exploring the experience of designed landscapes is to adapt literary reception theory to the study of gardens. Hunt argues that such an approach via the reception or experience of gardens enlarges how we should understand their significance and meanings. It is generally assumed that the experience of gardens became a prime ingredient of late eighteenth-century landscapes -- picturesque literature especially highlighted how visitors responded to their surroundings, reading inscriptions and recognizing the significance of carefully placed architectural items or fabriqués. But there is considerable evidence for a much earlier interest in how experience came to constitute an essential aspect of a site beyond the intentions of the original designer or patron. Among other early examples, Hunt examines the book “Hypnerotomachia Polifili” (1499) to show how its protagonist is shown exploring and negotiating a series of strange and baffling landscapes. Through other inquiries -- particularly into the role of movement in such different situations as Versailles, and Chiswick or along modern highways – “The Afterlife of Gardens” provides a fresh approach to the study of designed landscapes that goes beyond their production and into how they exist and are understood by their users. In this ambitious new book the author shows how the complete history of a garden must extend beyond the moment of its design and the aims of the designer to record its subsequent reception. He raises questions about the preservation of historical sites, and provides lessons for the contemporary designer, who may perhaps be more attentive to the life of a work after its design and implementation. This book will interest all who have a professional interest in gardens, as well as the wide general audience for gardens and landscapes of past and present.
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Most historical and critical discussions of gardens focus on their design. What happens after the completion of the design, however, is largely ignored, which neglects a much larger part of the site's interest and potential. For gardens, John Dixon Hunt contends, are experienced, often by a succession of visitors at different times and often from different cultures; this experience, though determined by the original design and its subsequent modifications, also augments the site's potentialities, and this "afterlife" of gardens comes to enhance the original moment of creation. One way of exploring the experience of designed landscapes is to adapt literary reception theory to the study of gardens. Hunt argues that such an approach via the reception or experience of gardens enlarges how we should understand their significance and meanings. It is generally assumed that the experience of gardens became a prime ingredient of late eighteenth-century landscapes -- picturesque literature especially highlighted how visitors responded to their surroundings, reading inscriptions and recognizing the significance of carefully placed architectural items or fabriqués. But there is considerable evidence for a much earlier interest in how experience came to constitute an essential aspect of a site beyond the intentions of the original designer or patron. Among other early examples, Hunt examines the book “Hypnerotomachia Polifili” (1499) to show how its protagonist is shown exploring and negotiating a series of strange and baffling landscapes. Through other inquiries -- particularly into the role of movement in such different situations as Versailles, and Chiswick or along modern highways – “The Afterlife of Gardens” provides a fresh approach to the study of designed landscapes that goes beyond their production and into how they exist and are understood by their users. In this ambitious new book the author shows how the complete history of a garden must extend beyond the moment of its design and the aims of the designer to record its subsequent reception. He raises questions about the preservation of historical sites, and provides lessons for the contemporary designer, who may perhaps be more attentive to the life of a work after its design and implementation. This book will interest all who have a professional interest in gardens, as well as the wide general audience for gardens and landscapes of past and present.
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January 1900, Philadelphia
January 1900, Philadelphia
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Landscape Theory
Landscape Theory
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In the modern era, the archive--official or personal--has become the most significant means by which historical knowledge and memory are collected, stored, and recovered. The archive has thus emerged as a key site of inquiry in such fields as anthropology, critical theory, history, and, especially, recent art. Traces and testimonies of such events as World War II and(...)
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In the modern era, the archive--official or personal--has become the most significant means by which historical knowledge and memory are collected, stored, and recovered. The archive has thus emerged as a key site of inquiry in such fields as anthropology, critical theory, history, and, especially, recent art. Traces and testimonies of such events as World War II and(...)
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November 2006, London / Cambridge
November 2006, London / Cambridge
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The archive: Documents of contemporary art
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In the modern era, the archive--official or personal--has become the most significant means by which historical knowledge and memory are collected, stored, and recovered. The archive has thus emerged as a key site of inquiry in such fields as anthropology, critical theory, history, and, especially, recent art. Traces and testimonies of such events as World War II and ensuing conflicts, the emergence of the postcolonial era, and the fall of communism have each provoked a reconsideration of the authority given the archive--no longer viewed as a neutral, transparent site of record but as a contested subject and medium in itself. This volume surveys the full diversity of our transformed theoretical and critical notions of the archive--as idea and as physical presence--from Freud's "mystic writing pad" to Derrida's "archive fever"; from Christian Boltanski's first autobiographical explorations of archival material in the 1960s to the practice of artists as various as Susan Hiller, Ilya Kabakov, Thomas Hirshhorn, Renée Green, and The Atlas Group in the present.
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In the modern era, the archive--official or personal--has become the most significant means by which historical knowledge and memory are collected, stored, and recovered. The archive has thus emerged as a key site of inquiry in such fields as anthropology, critical theory, history, and, especially, recent art. Traces and testimonies of such events as World War II and ensuing conflicts, the emergence of the postcolonial era, and the fall of communism have each provoked a reconsideration of the authority given the archive--no longer viewed as a neutral, transparent site of record but as a contested subject and medium in itself. This volume surveys the full diversity of our transformed theoretical and critical notions of the archive--as idea and as physical presence--from Freud's "mystic writing pad" to Derrida's "archive fever"; from Christian Boltanski's first autobiographical explorations of archival material in the 1960s to the practice of artists as various as Susan Hiller, Ilya Kabakov, Thomas Hirshhorn, Renée Green, and The Atlas Group in the present.
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November 2006, London / Cambridge
November 2006, London / Cambridge
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ix, 236 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 24 cm
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ix, 236 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 24 cm
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Durham : Duke University Press, 2020.
Durham : Duke University Press, 2020.
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Photographic returns : racial justice and the time of photography / Shawn Michelle Smith.
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ix, 236 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 24 cm
Photographic returns : racial justice and the time of photography / Shawn Michelle Smith.
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Durham : Duke University Press, 2020.
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ix, 380 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
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Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2000.
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2000.
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Hybrid modernities : architecture and representation at the 1931 Colonial Exposition, Paris / Patricia A. Morton.
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ix, 380 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Hybrid modernities : architecture and representation at the 1931 Colonial Exposition, Paris / Patricia A. Morton.
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Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2000.
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2000.
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Castel del Monte : geometric marvel of the Middle Ages / Heinz Götze ; [translated by Mary Schäfer].
Castel del Monte : geometric marvel of the Middle Ages / Heinz Götze ; [translated by Mary Schäfer].
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237 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
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Munich ; New York : Prestel, ©1998.
Munich ; New York : Prestel, ©1998.
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Castel del Monte : geometric marvel of the Middle Ages / Heinz Götze ; [translated by Mary Schäfer].
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237 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
Castel del Monte : geometric marvel of the Middle Ages / Heinz Götze ; [translated by Mary Schäfer].
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Munich ; New York : Prestel, ©1998.
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Project scope: exhibition design, a typology for architects, designers and museum professionals
Project scope: exhibition design, a typology for architects, designers and museum professionals
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This publication elaborates the special features of various thematic fields such as nature, archeology, history, art, and science since each represents different challenges for an exhibition design. Exemplary case studies clarify the specific features of the exhibition types presented with essays on the theory and practice of exhibition designs. Sketches, floor plans,(...)
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This publication elaborates the special features of various thematic fields such as nature, archeology, history, art, and science since each represents different challenges for an exhibition design. Exemplary case studies clarify the specific features of the exhibition types presented with essays on the theory and practice of exhibition designs. Sketches, floor plans,(...)
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Project scope: exhibition design, a typology for architects, designers and museum professionals
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This publication elaborates the special features of various thematic fields such as nature, archeology, history, art, and science since each represents different challenges for an exhibition design. Exemplary case studies clarify the specific features of the exhibition types presented with essays on the theory and practice of exhibition designs. Sketches, floor plans, visualizations, and attractive photographs illustrate the approach, whose essential structure remains the same while finding a different solution for each theme.
Project scope: exhibition design, a typology for architects, designers and museum professionals
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This publication elaborates the special features of various thematic fields such as nature, archeology, history, art, and science since each represents different challenges for an exhibition design. Exemplary case studies clarify the specific features of the exhibition types presented with essays on the theory and practice of exhibition designs. Sketches, floor plans, visualizations, and attractive photographs illustrate the approach, whose essential structure remains the same while finding a different solution for each theme.
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December 2011
December 2011
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Museology
Museology
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An anatomy of influence
An anatomy of influence
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Written by Thomas Daniell, with a foreword by Thomas Weaver and an afterword by Peter Cook, ''An Anatomy of Influence'' contains a wealth of texts and images that together elucidate the theory and practice of 12 leading Japanese architects. Rather than the usual array of exquisite yet autonomous buildings, this book focuses on the hitherto unexplored lives of their(...)
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Written by Thomas Daniell, with a foreword by Thomas Weaver and an afterword by Peter Cook, ''An Anatomy of Influence'' contains a wealth of texts and images that together elucidate the theory and practice of 12 leading Japanese architects. Rather than the usual array of exquisite yet autonomous buildings, this book focuses on the hitherto unexplored lives of their(...)
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An anatomy of influence
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Written by Thomas Daniell, with a foreword by Thomas Weaver and an afterword by Peter Cook, ''An Anatomy of Influence'' contains a wealth of texts and images that together elucidate the theory and practice of 12 leading Japanese architects. Rather than the usual array of exquisite yet autonomous buildings, this book focuses on the hitherto unexplored lives of their architects, and the febrile intellectual, social and political environment in which they worked.
An anatomy of influence
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Written by Thomas Daniell, with a foreword by Thomas Weaver and an afterword by Peter Cook, ''An Anatomy of Influence'' contains a wealth of texts and images that together elucidate the theory and practice of 12 leading Japanese architects. Rather than the usual array of exquisite yet autonomous buildings, this book focuses on the hitherto unexplored lives of their architects, and the febrile intellectual, social and political environment in which they worked.
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November 2018
November 2018
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A revised, and expanded edition of Iannis Xenakis's landmark book of 1971. In addition to three new chapters examining recent breakthroughs in music theory, two original computer programs illustrating the actual realization of newly proposed methods of composition, and an appendix of the very latest developments of stochastic synthesis as an invitation to future(...)
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A revised, and expanded edition of Iannis Xenakis's landmark book of 1971. In addition to three new chapters examining recent breakthroughs in music theory, two original computer programs illustrating the actual realization of newly proposed methods of composition, and an appendix of the very latest developments of stochastic synthesis as an invitation to future(...)
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Formalized music: Thought and mathematics in music
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A revised, and expanded edition of Iannis Xenakis's landmark book of 1971. In addition to three new chapters examining recent breakthroughs in music theory, two original computer programs illustrating the actual realization of newly proposed methods of composition, and an appendix of the very latest developments of stochastic synthesis as an invitation to future exploration, Xenakis offers a critical self-examination of his theoretical propositions and artistic output of the past thirty-five years.
Formalized music: Thought and mathematics in music
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A revised, and expanded edition of Iannis Xenakis's landmark book of 1971. In addition to three new chapters examining recent breakthroughs in music theory, two original computer programs illustrating the actual realization of newly proposed methods of composition, and an appendix of the very latest developments of stochastic synthesis as an invitation to future exploration, Xenakis offers a critical self-examination of his theoretical propositions and artistic output of the past thirty-five years.
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May 2010
May 2010
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Acoustics
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Alvar Aalto
Alvar Aalto
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The preeminent Finnish architect Alvar Aalto developed in the postwar years an architectural language all his own, characterized by curved walls, singlepitched roofs, and inventive combinations of wood and brick. He was also engaged in design at all scales, from the planning of cities, including Helsinki, to the design of furniture and glassware. This book provides a(...)
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The preeminent Finnish architect Alvar Aalto developed in the postwar years an architectural language all his own, characterized by curved walls, singlepitched roofs, and inventive combinations of wood and brick. He was also engaged in design at all scales, from the planning of cities, including Helsinki, to the design of furniture and glassware. This book provides a(...)
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Alvar Aalto
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The preeminent Finnish architect Alvar Aalto developed in the postwar years an architectural language all his own, characterized by curved walls, singlepitched roofs, and inventive combinations of wood and brick. He was also engaged in design at all scales, from the planning of cities, including Helsinki, to the design of furniture and glassware. This book provides a brief but comprehensive look at Aalto’s life, works, theory, and relevance for the twenty-first century.
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The preeminent Finnish architect Alvar Aalto developed in the postwar years an architectural language all his own, characterized by curved walls, singlepitched roofs, and inventive combinations of wood and brick. He was also engaged in design at all scales, from the planning of cities, including Helsinki, to the design of furniture and glassware. This book provides a brief but comprehensive look at Aalto’s life, works, theory, and relevance for the twenty-first century.
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October 2005, New Haven
October 2005, New Haven
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Architecture Monographs
Architecture Monographs
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Oase 97: action and reaction
Oase 97: action and reaction
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Creating and thinking about architecture has always been defined by the mechanism of action and reaction. One way of making architecture is criticized or rejected and immediately used as a starting point for another, opposing and better method, practice, or theory. Architects and critics react on each other's views using drawings, texts, models, and buildings. A good(...)
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Creating and thinking about architecture has always been defined by the mechanism of action and reaction. One way of making architecture is criticized or rejected and immediately used as a starting point for another, opposing and better method, practice, or theory. Architects and critics react on each other's views using drawings, texts, models, and buildings. A good(...)
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Oase 97: action and reaction
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Creating and thinking about architecture has always been defined by the mechanism of action and reaction. One way of making architecture is criticized or rejected and immediately used as a starting point for another, opposing and better method, practice, or theory. Architects and critics react on each other's views using drawings, texts, models, and buildings. A good architecture culture thrives on such a basis: the exciting battle between views, opinions, and beliefs.
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Creating and thinking about architecture has always been defined by the mechanism of action and reaction. One way of making architecture is criticized or rejected and immediately used as a starting point for another, opposing and better method, practice, or theory. Architects and critics react on each other's views using drawings, texts, models, and buildings. A good architecture culture thrives on such a basis: the exciting battle between views, opinions, and beliefs.
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February 2017
February 2017
