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These black and white images were taken between 1968 and 1999, initially as a result of my interest in the demolition and clearance of the built environment between the Newport Bridge and the Transporter Bridge in Middlesbrough. From here, this body of work expanded to include Port Clarence, High Clarence, Haverton Hill, Seaton Carew and Hartlepool, all of which were to(...)
Peter Benson — Teesside 1968–1999 series. 2 Books.
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These black and white images were taken between 1968 and 1999, initially as a result of my interest in the demolition and clearance of the built environment between the Newport Bridge and the Transporter Bridge in Middlesbrough. From here, this body of work expanded to include Port Clarence, High Clarence, Haverton Hill, Seaton Carew and Hartlepool, all of which were to become parts of what is now Teesside.
Photography monographs
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Simon Richards analyzes Le Corbusier’s concept of self, reappraises the architect’s motives as an urban planner, and arrives at a new understanding of his intellectual relations with other members of the twentieth-century avant garde. Richards shows how Le Corbusier’s ideas contradict now dominant ways of thinking about the city, and he focuses attention on the ways the(...)
Le Corbusier and the concept of self
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Simon Richards analyzes Le Corbusier’s concept of self, reappraises the architect’s motives as an urban planner, and arrives at a new understanding of his intellectual relations with other members of the twentieth-century avant garde. Richards shows how Le Corbusier’s ideas contradict now dominant ways of thinking about the city, and he focuses attention on the ways the concept of self can influence the shape of the built environment.
Architecture Monographs
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Accompanying a major exhibition organized by the Smithsonian Institution's Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, 'Extreme textile: designing for high performance' surveys the stunning variety of technical textiles and examines how their intrinsec beauty and extraordinairy flexibility are revolutionizing contemporary design. This publication features examples of fully(...)
Extreme textiles : designing for high performance
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Accompanying a major exhibition organized by the Smithsonian Institution's Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, 'Extreme textile: designing for high performance' surveys the stunning variety of technical textiles and examines how their intrinsec beauty and extraordinairy flexibility are revolutionizing contemporary design. This publication features examples of fully realized projects and products from architecture, apparel, medicine, transportation, sports, aerospace, and the environment and highlights the remarkable collaboration between science and industry.
Interior Design
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Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby explore the way we interact with electronic objects, our environment, and other people. They are designers who develop ideas for products that they hope will make our lives richer, if not necessarily more comfortable. Most electronic products are predictable, designed for mass appeal: this book makes the case for different experiences and(...)
Design noir : the secret life of electronic objects
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Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby explore the way we interact with electronic objects, our environment, and other people. They are designers who develop ideas for products that they hope will make our lives richer, if not necessarily more comfortable. Most electronic products are predictable, designed for mass appeal: this book makes the case for different experiences and genres, for environments and products that can be disturbing, subversive, funny, and poetic.
Design Monographs
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Long considered a pioneer creator of ecological artworks for urban environments, Alan Sonfist has been fusing human history and the natural environment since the mid 1960s. Few artists have had such an unswerving, or generative, interest in the landscape - be it physical, social, or historical - that surrounds us. Essays by Lawrence Alloway, Jonathan Carpenter, John(...)
Nature, the end of art : enviromental landscapes
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Long considered a pioneer creator of ecological artworks for urban environments, Alan Sonfist has been fusing human history and the natural environment since the mid 1960s. Few artists have had such an unswerving, or generative, interest in the landscape - be it physical, social, or historical - that surrounds us. Essays by Lawrence Alloway, Jonathan Carpenter, John Grande, Uwe Rüth, and Michael Danoff. Introduction by Robert Rosenblum and Wolfgang Becker.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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Une incursion dans un champ majeur du travail de Christina Kubisch, pionnière des arts sonores, qui explore depuis les années 1970 le potentiel sonore des champs électromagnétiques générés par notre environnement urbain et technologique.// An incursion into a major field of work by Christina Kubisch, a pioneer of sound art who has been exploring the sonic potential of(...)
Inaudible, invisible : Une exploration des œuvres de Christina Kubisch
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Une incursion dans un champ majeur du travail de Christina Kubisch, pionnière des arts sonores, qui explore depuis les années 1970 le potentiel sonore des champs électromagnétiques générés par notre environnement urbain et technologique.// An incursion into a major field of work by Christina Kubisch, a pioneer of sound art who has been exploring the sonic potential of electromagnetic fields generated by our urban and technological environment since the 1970s.
Acoustics
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This book accompanies a large installation work, which was made in collaboration with the architect Josef Hoffman for the Austrian pavilion of the Venice Biennial. Resembling a mountain from the outside, Schabus' interior incorporates tunnels, shafts, holes and corridors. The building has to be explored from the inside, as the visitor gradually perceives a sense of space,(...)
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January 1900, Manchester
Hans Schabus : Das letzte land / the last land
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This book accompanies a large installation work, which was made in collaboration with the architect Josef Hoffman for the Austrian pavilion of the Venice Biennial. Resembling a mountain from the outside, Schabus' interior incorporates tunnels, shafts, holes and corridors. The building has to be explored from the inside, as the visitor gradually perceives a sense of space, and experiences the work in time, through active participation with the environment.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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Lettering on buildings and in the public realm affects our environment. The core of this manual is formed by archigraphy projects that represent a strategy of how architecture can be enriched by graphic elements. The structural, material or visual methods can thus be used as inspiration for the reader’s own designs. A compilation of lettering techniques, advice on project(...)
Archigraphy: lettering on buildings
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Lettering on buildings and in the public realm affects our environment. The core of this manual is formed by archigraphy projects that represent a strategy of how architecture can be enriched by graphic elements. The structural, material or visual methods can thus be used as inspiration for the reader’s own designs. A compilation of lettering techniques, advice on project management, make this manual a tool for architects and graphic designers.
Graphic Design and Typography
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A manifesto for the Open City: vibrant, disordered, adaptable. In 1970 Richard Sennett published the ground breaking ''The uses of disorder,'' that the ideal of a planned and ordered city was flawed, likely to produce a fragile, restrictive urban environment. Fifty years later, Sennett returns to these still fertile ideas and alongside campaigner and architect, Pablo(...)
Designing disorder: Experiments and disruptions in the ciity
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A manifesto for the Open City: vibrant, disordered, adaptable. In 1970 Richard Sennett published the ground breaking ''The uses of disorder,'' that the ideal of a planned and ordered city was flawed, likely to produce a fragile, restrictive urban environment. Fifty years later, Sennett returns to these still fertile ideas and alongside campaigner and architect, Pablo Sendra, sets out an agenda for the design and ethics of the Open City.
Urban Theory
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This book provides a companion to Aleksandra Mir's latest body of work Space Tapestry: Faraway Missions, exhibited at Tate Liverpool and Modern Art Oxford. Inspired by the Bayeux Tapestry and the anonymous artists who depicted Halley’s Comet in 1066, the Space Tapestry is a large-scale, hand-drawn monochrome wall-hanging that forms an immersive environment. Much like a(...)
We can't stop thinking about the future
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This book provides a companion to Aleksandra Mir's latest body of work Space Tapestry: Faraway Missions, exhibited at Tate Liverpool and Modern Art Oxford. Inspired by the Bayeux Tapestry and the anonymous artists who depicted Halley’s Comet in 1066, the Space Tapestry is a large-scale, hand-drawn monochrome wall-hanging that forms an immersive environment. Much like a graphic novel, Space Tapestry tells an episodic visual story of space travel.
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