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Through an extensive investigation of the new searches and work productions of international artists, the new CURA. 41, New World Agency™ raises questions related to the ability of art and artists to have a transformative role as regards the apparent irreversibility of the events that impact our present. In a shift between fiction and reality, New World Agency™ explores,(...)
Cura no. 41: New World Agency™
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Through an extensive investigation of the new searches and work productions of international artists, the new CURA. 41, New World Agency™ raises questions related to the ability of art and artists to have a transformative role as regards the apparent irreversibility of the events that impact our present. In a shift between fiction and reality, New World Agency™ explores, with a transgenerational gaze, the artists who foresaw the building of new possible worlds and new modes of agency for alternative futures. Not only AI, CGI, videogames and virtual reality, but also highly advanced analog tools, animatronics, and mechanical devices are able to forge the imaginative, creative and narrative space of artists, founding new realities, in which mythology, ghosts, topoi, fables, childhood memories, technology, pop culture and magic intertwine, in the comprehensive illusion to be in different places and in part of it.
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Already known as one of Mexico’s greatest architects, Tatiana Bilbao (born 1972) has created some of the country’s most striking buildings. Her first project was a collaboration with artist Gabriel Orozco on his beach house near Puerto Escondido, and she quickly developed a collaborative approach, working with artists such as Ai Weiwei on projects in China and Spain, or(...)
Architecture Monographs
February 2020
Tatiana Bilbao Estudio: the architect's studio
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Already known as one of Mexico’s greatest architects, Tatiana Bilbao (born 1972) has created some of the country’s most striking buildings. Her first project was a collaboration with artist Gabriel Orozco on his beach house near Puerto Escondido, and she quickly developed a collaborative approach, working with artists such as Ai Weiwei on projects in China and Spain, or with the Culiacán Botanical Garden (designed by engineer and gardener Carlos Murillo) to install art works and service buildings. Bilbao’s buildings always take social conditions into account, as demonstrated in projects such as her design for a pilgrimage route. Featuring these projects and more, this overview provides insights into the Mexican cultural, artistic and building traditions that Bilbao incorporates into her projects. The volume addresses the question of the use of collage in architecture and embeds Bilbao’s work in a contemporary as well as a historical context.
Architecture Monographs
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Luogo, mappa, limite, storia, varco, tatto, setaccio, metafora: la pelle contiene in sé una molteplicità di caratteristiche e funzioni, è il luogo d'incontro tra fenomeni fisici e psichici, confine fra lo stato interiore ed esteriore della persona. Dalla chirurgia all'agopuntura, dalla body art alle pratiche rituali come il tatuaggio, la pelle è il segno del nostro(...)
La pelle come limite, The skin as boundary
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Luogo, mappa, limite, storia, varco, tatto, setaccio, metafora: la pelle contiene in sé una molteplicità di caratteristiche e funzioni, è il luogo d'incontro tra fenomeni fisici e psichici, confine fra lo stato interiore ed esteriore della persona. Dalla chirurgia all'agopuntura, dalla body art alle pratiche rituali come il tatuaggio, la pelle è il segno del nostro passaggio nel mondo, e ne porta con sé i significati e le tracce. Nei propri laboratori di Disegno Industriale presso l'Università di San Marino, Riccardo Blumer invita a confrontarsi con il materiale "pelle", capirne la logica e provocare la curiosità del progettare. Risultato di queste riflessioni, riportate in questo volume grazie ai testi dello stesso Blumer, Gaddo Morpurgo (Università di San Marino) e Luigi Zanzi (Università dell'Insubria), sono oggetti nati non per essere "prodotti", ovvero, non prototipi di possibile merce. Sono ricerca, esperimenti di intreccio di forma e materia, puri punti di partenza del pensiero.
Architectural Theory
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This is the fifth book in the annual series A Series of Open Questions published by CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts and Sternberg Press. Each book includes newly commissioned writing as well a selection of perspectives, images, and references related to the Wattis’s year-long research seasons dedicated to single artists. This volume is informed by themes found(...)
Does the sun have a translucent shell? AnickaYi
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This is the fifth book in the annual series A Series of Open Questions published by CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts and Sternberg Press. Each book includes newly commissioned writing as well a selection of perspectives, images, and references related to the Wattis’s year-long research seasons dedicated to single artists. This volume is informed by themes found in the work of Anicka Yi, such as AI, umwelt, scent and taste, the anthropocene, decay and rot, the animal world, feminism, and Asian American experiences. Contributions include a cocktail recipe by Pierre Huyghe, an academic essay on psychedelic mushrooms in Native American culture, and a short story by Argentinian author Julio Cortázar, along with photographs and drawings relating to the themes. Through an eclectic range of international voices, the book encompasses many mediums in an attempt to address some of the most pressing issues of our time. Includes a fold out insert with drawings by Anicka Yi.
Art Theory
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The built environment is a critical factor in the climate equation. Approximately 40 percent of global emissions derive from the construction, operation, and demolition of human settlements. The 21st century must be the century of re-entanglement, where quintessential functions (housing, work, culture, recreation, etc.) are reintegrated within urban spaces; where(...)
Green Architecture
September 2023
Reconstructing the future: Cities as carbon sinks
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The built environment is a critical factor in the climate equation. Approximately 40 percent of global emissions derive from the construction, operation, and demolition of human settlements. The 21st century must be the century of re-entanglement, where quintessential functions (housing, work, culture, recreation, etc.) are reintegrated within urban spaces; where socioeconomic and ecological systems form a mutually supportive network of networks; and where past, present, and future are perceived as interwoven waves in the river of time. Fortunately, opportunities exist to transform the built environment from a carbon source to a carbon sink through, e.g. timber construction high-rise buildings, circular bioeconomy methods, AI-assisted design, smart recycling technology, multifunctional land use, integrated regional resource management, and community-based urban development, to name just a few. This volume compiles the papers presented by world-renowned scientists, architects, spatial planners, activists, and policy makers at the Reconstructing the Future for People and Planet conference, held at the Vatican in June 2022.
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Tags: Libri per Bambini Illustrati Il petrolio, si sa, è una risorsa non rinnovabile. Ma da dove viene? Come si produce? E se dovesse finire? Ciao ciao petrolio è l’ultimo libro illustrato di Harriet Russell e presenta la questione del risparmio energetico e delle fonti rinnovabili al pubblico dei bambini. Dalla raccolta differenziata all’isolamento termico, dal(...)
Ciao ciao petrolio
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Tags: Libri per Bambini Illustrati Il petrolio, si sa, è una risorsa non rinnovabile. Ma da dove viene? Come si produce? E se dovesse finire? Ciao ciao petrolio è l’ultimo libro illustrato di Harriet Russell e presenta la questione del risparmio energetico e delle fonti rinnovabili al pubblico dei bambini. Dalla raccolta differenziata all’isolamento termico, dal riciclo alla riduzione dell’inquinamento; la Russell ci racconta che non è vero che non si può cambiare il mondo, perché ognuno nel suo piccolo può fare la differenza. Un modo per parlare anche ai più piccoli di sostenibilità e delle problematiche ambientali di oggi, in maniera semplice e ironica, per crescere generazioni più consapevoli che abbiano a cuore il destino di questo pianeta. Una precedente versione di questo racconto è stata pubblicata con il titolo "An endagered species" in Sorry, out of gas: Architecture's Response to the 1973 Oil Crisis – pubblicato da CCA e Corraini Edizioni nel 2007. destino di questo pianeta.
CCA Publications
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Bien que Karl Waldmann ai disparu dans les années 1950 son œuvre n'a été découverte que récemment, à la fin des années 1980. Si cette œuvre s'impose immédiatement par sa force et sa beauté, c'est aussi sa singularité qui retient l'attention : entre Dada et le Constructivisme, sa place dans l'histoire de l'art parait singulière, singularité qui tient également au fait que(...)
Les collages de Karl Waldmann
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Bien que Karl Waldmann ai disparu dans les années 1950 son œuvre n'a été découverte que récemment, à la fin des années 1980. Si cette œuvre s'impose immédiatement par sa force et sa beauté, c'est aussi sa singularité qui retient l'attention : entre Dada et le Constructivisme, sa place dans l'histoire de l'art parait singulière, singularité qui tient également au fait que cette œuvre est constituée essentiellement d'une forme d'expression marginale, le collage. Ce livre, le premier consacré au travail de Waldmann, présente une série d'études qui interrogent l'originalité de cette œuvre, son rapport à l'histoire de l'art, ses choix formels et thématiques, mais qui mettent également en évidence les questions que cette œuvre pose au sujet de la notion d'auteur, du rapport de l'art à l'Histoire et à la politique, du jugement esthétique, de la philosophie de l'art et de l'image. Par tous ces aspects, l'œuvre de cet artiste jusqu'alors inconnu apparaît étonnamment proche de certains des questionnements actuels de l'art et de la philosophie esthétique.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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ANCB The Aedes Metropolitan Laboratory was launched in 2009 as a physical and intellectual space focused on the inseparable interplay between urban form and social life. Now in its eighth year, ANCB decided to broaden its experimental journey as an independent public platform with an annual magazine entitled The Metropolitan Laboratory that further explores our deliberate(...)
The Metropolitan Laboratory Magazine, Vol. 1. Education: trial and error
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ANCB The Aedes Metropolitan Laboratory was launched in 2009 as a physical and intellectual space focused on the inseparable interplay between urban form and social life. Now in its eighth year, ANCB decided to broaden its experimental journey as an independent public platform with an annual magazine entitled The Metropolitan Laboratory that further explores our deliberate goal of providing an alternative urban discourse. Entitled “Education: Trial and Error”, this first issue looks at the topic of artistic and architectural education. As a survey of highly progressive pedagogical approaches, it questions the role of education in past, present, and future. The broad spectrum of articles and essays ranges from Black Mountain College, Joseph Beuys, Paul Thek, Cedric Price, and Oswald Ungers all the way to Beatriz Colomina, Olafur Eliasson, Ai Wei Wei, Thom Mayne, Odile Decq, Peter Cook, and Joan Ockmann, to mention but a few. Inherent to all of these contributions is a profound apprehension of the positive surplus of unsolicited changes, uninvited irritants, unanticipated setbacks, and failures as the future seeds of human achievement and progress.
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The People's Republic of China is currently the largest market for architectural services in the world, and its cities — sites of the greatest economic migration in modern history — are rapidly being transformed into rival centers for global trade and commerce. "On the edge : ten architects from China" is a critical anthology on new architecture in China, the first book(...)
Contemporary Asian Architecture
January 2007, New York
On the edge : ten archtiects from China
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The People's Republic of China is currently the largest market for architectural services in the world, and its cities — sites of the greatest economic migration in modern history — are rapidly being transformed into rival centers for global trade and commerce. "On the edge : ten architects from China" is a critical anthology on new architecture in China, the first book of its kind devoted to the development and maturation of an indigenous approach to modern architecture and urbanism in China. Focusing on the work of ten young design firms based in mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan, "On the edge" documents the rise of a new aesthetic, the evolution of contemporary architectural practice, and the irresistible, global aspirations of an emerging avant-garde.Included in the book are completed buildings, proposed projects, and urban master plans by Gary Chang of Edge HK, Rocco Yim, Zi and Ming Zhang of Original Design Studio, Li Hu of Open Architecture Studio, Ai We Wei, Qingyun Ma of MADA, Jiakun Liu, and Yung Ho Chang, who is the present dean of the Architecture School at MIT.
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January 2007, New York
Contemporary Asian Architecture
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Artpress est né quand Beaubourg n'était encore qu'un grand trou, attendant qu'on y dresse le Centre Georges-Pompidou. L'art minimal s'imposait à New York, là où venait d'ouvrir The Kitchen, foyer de toute une génération nouvelle de danseurs et de performers. Aujourd'hui, le magazine montre le palais de Tokyo rénové et disposant désormais de 22 000 mètres carrés pour(...)
Art press, l'album : 40 ans de création
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Artpress est né quand Beaubourg n'était encore qu'un grand trou, attendant qu'on y dresse le Centre Georges-Pompidou. L'art minimal s'imposait à New York, là où venait d'ouvrir The Kitchen, foyer de toute une génération nouvelle de danseurs et de performers. Aujourd'hui, le magazine montre le palais de Tokyo rénové et disposant désormais de 22 000 mètres carrés pour exposer l'art contemporain et interviewe l'artiste chinois Ai Weiwei, assigné à résidence par les autorités de son pays. Pour une liberté d'expression inconditionnelle, contre tous les sectarismes et les archaïsmes, d'Andy Warhol à Jeff Wall, de Jacques Lacan à Jean-Paul II, de Tel Quel à Michel Houellebecq, de Pierre Boulez à Christian Marclay, ce sont 40 ans de vie artistique et littéraire que retrace cet album. Une large sélection de couvertures et d'articles met en lumière quatre décennies d'existence d'un magazine indépendant, considéré comme le meilleur en France dans son domaine, et qui ne manque jamais d'être partie prenante des débats esthétiques et des combats idéologiques de son époque.
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