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Metropolis now !
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A fascinating portrait of 15 cities with their bustling centers and wild peripheries written by prominent urbanists from the field of architecture, geography, sociology and contemporary history.
Metropolis now !
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A fascinating portrait of 15 cities with their bustling centers and wild peripheries written by prominent urbanists from the field of architecture, geography, sociology and contemporary history.
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March 2001, Vienna
Urban Theory
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This book consists of twelve chapters written by leading scholars, each spotlighting ideas emanating from a particular field which helped to shape Modernism, including eugenics, primitivism, Freudianism, and Nietzscheanism. Each contributor goes into their topic in some depth, but also pays attention to the impact it had on overarching issues. At the same time, the(...)
A concise companion to modernism
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This book consists of twelve chapters written by leading scholars, each spotlighting ideas emanating from a particular field which helped to shape Modernism, including eugenics, primitivism, Freudianism, and Nietzscheanism. Each contributor goes into their topic in some depth, but also pays attention to the impact it had on overarching issues. At the same time, the contributors identify contemporary developments in other disciplines, especially art, architecture, music, film and philosophy, which paralleled developments in poetry, fiction and drama. Each chapter concludes with a brief guide to further reading.
Architectural Theory
Daniel Buren
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This volume collects recent works by the French conceptualist known for his site specific installations involving stripes--on land, air and sea. From New York's Guggenheim Museum to Beijing's Temple of Heaven, the Venice Architecture Biennale and the gardens of Versaille, Buren's interventions create amazing complex appropriated spatial structures.
Contemporary Art Monographs
March 2008, London
Daniel Buren
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This volume collects recent works by the French conceptualist known for his site specific installations involving stripes--on land, air and sea. From New York's Guggenheim Museum to Beijing's Temple of Heaven, the Venice Architecture Biennale and the gardens of Versaille, Buren's interventions create amazing complex appropriated spatial structures.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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In this traditional paperback, critic and curator Hans Ulrich Obrist teams up with Dutch avant-garde architect and paradigm-shifting intellectual, Rem Koolhaas, for a discussion of Koolhaas's work in China, his designs for Prada, architecture as metaphor, and the development of urbanism in the slipstream of globalization.
Contemporary Art Monographs
April 2007, Köln
Rem Koolhaas / Hans Ulrich Obrist : the conversation series 4
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In this traditional paperback, critic and curator Hans Ulrich Obrist teams up with Dutch avant-garde architect and paradigm-shifting intellectual, Rem Koolhaas, for a discussion of Koolhaas's work in China, his designs for Prada, architecture as metaphor, and the development of urbanism in the slipstream of globalization.
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More than four decades of Communism in Central and Eastern Europe has left deep scars in Europe. The post-1945 cultural fixation of countries in Central and Eastern Europe on the USSR stands in sharp contrast with Western Europes orientation towards the United States. The contradistinctions and similarities between East and West are subject to critical examination in a(...)
Architecture since 1900, Europe
October 2004, Rotterdam
Ideals in concrete : exploring Central and Eastern Europe
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More than four decades of Communism in Central and Eastern Europe has left deep scars in Europe. The post-1945 cultural fixation of countries in Central and Eastern Europe on the USSR stands in sharp contrast with Western Europes orientation towards the United States. The contradistinctions and similarities between East and West are subject to critical examination in a series of essays in text and image. Many of these subsidiary themes are associated with the city, since the impact of Communism is nowhere more evident than in this urban space. In the planning euphoria and the building of a completely new society on rational and scientific principles we can glimpse a mirroring of the ideas and views of Communist politicians, architects and urban planners. The contemporary phenomenon of the shrinking city calls for solutions which extend beyond restructuring, conservation or regeneration; it is sooner about constructing an identity that can rival Europe and the rest of the world.
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October 2004, Rotterdam
Architecture since 1900, Europe
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This book is an account of the highly productive decade of architectural experimentation in Croatia lodged between the violent break-up of Yugoslavia and their slow integration into the EU. Ivan Rupnik guides the reader through the emergence of this bizarre and fascinating architectural scene on the very edge of united Europe, utilizing Ljubo Karaman's theory of the(...)
A peripheral moment: Croatia 1990-2010
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This book is an account of the highly productive decade of architectural experimentation in Croatia lodged between the violent break-up of Yugoslavia and their slow integration into the EU. Ivan Rupnik guides the reader through the emergence of this bizarre and fascinating architectural scene on the very edge of united Europe, utilizing Ljubo Karaman's theory of the periphery as a distinct space of artistic production from that of the center or province, Manfredo Tafuri's concept of architectural experimentation, as well contemporary notions of agency. The account is framed using a variety of different lenses, including the observations of this moment by renowned writers, through the atmosphere of the period as defined by Croatia's complex post-socialist/postwar identity and the subsequent positioning of the architectural profession vis-a-vis that context, the practices that emerged , and through a series of discussions with some of the peripheral moment's primary agent provocateurs: 3LHD, njiric +, Randic - Turato, and STUDIO UP.
Architecture since 1900, Europe
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German artist Hubert Kiecol (born 1950) extracts and reduces architectural elements from their routine contexts, finding sympathies between architecture and minimalist sculpture, and between art and the everyday. The first publication on his work in nearly ten years, this volume is designed by Kiecol himself (typography being among his many talents).
Contemporary Art Monographs
February 2010
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German artist Hubert Kiecol (born 1950) extracts and reduces architectural elements from their routine contexts, finding sympathies between architecture and minimalist sculpture, and between art and the everyday. The first publication on his work in nearly ten years, this volume is designed by Kiecol himself (typography being among his many talents).
Contemporary Art Monographs
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Austrian artist Lorenz Estermann engages the ideals of the modern utopia in his work. Inspired by 1960s and 70s architecture, he produces works on paper, architectural models and spatial installations that incorporate painting, sculpture, photography and design, fusing the aspirations of the Bauhaus with the ironised remove of Pop art.
Contemporary Art Monographs
August 2010
Lorenz Estermann: Public hyperbindings
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Austrian artist Lorenz Estermann engages the ideals of the modern utopia in his work. Inspired by 1960s and 70s architecture, he produces works on paper, architectural models and spatial installations that incorporate painting, sculpture, photography and design, fusing the aspirations of the Bauhaus with the ironised remove of Pop art.
Contemporary Art Monographs
Grey room 77
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'Grey Room' brings together scholarly and theoretical articles from the fields of architecture, art, media, and politics to forge a cross-disciplinary discourse uniquely relevant to contemporary concerns.
Grey room 77
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'Grey Room' brings together scholarly and theoretical articles from the fields of architecture, art, media, and politics to forge a cross-disciplinary discourse uniquely relevant to contemporary concerns.
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Grey room 47
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Grey Room brings together scholarly and theoretical articles from the fields of architecture, art, media, and politics to forge a cross-disciplinary discourse uniquely relevant to contemporary concerns.
Grey room 47
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Grey Room brings together scholarly and theoretical articles from the fields of architecture, art, media, and politics to forge a cross-disciplinary discourse uniquely relevant to contemporary concerns.
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