Edith Heath: Philosophies
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This volume is the most comprehensive resource on Edith Kiertzner Heath and the history of Heath Ceramics to date, emphasizing the philosophical foundations and influences of one of the most significant creative forces in post-WWII America. The publication serves as a complement to the 2021 exhibition at the Oakland Museum of California, offering substantial and in-depth(...)
Edith Heath: Philosophies
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This volume is the most comprehensive resource on Edith Kiertzner Heath and the history of Heath Ceramics to date, emphasizing the philosophical foundations and influences of one of the most significant creative forces in post-WWII America. The publication serves as a complement to the 2021 exhibition at the Oakland Museum of California, offering substantial and in-depth commentary on the presented themes—the environment, feminism, experimentation, architecture, politics, collaborations—while solidifying the relevance of Edith Heath’s story in contemporary life and society.
Design Monographs
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A documentation of temporary architecture and spatial interventions by Berlin artist duo Hoefner and Sachs. The site-specific temporary architecture, innovative performances and constructive interference in the urban environment by Berlin artist duo Hoefner and Sachs lie on the intersection between art and architecture. During the past several years, Franz Hoefner and(...)
Hoefner / Sachs: piccolo mondo
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A documentation of temporary architecture and spatial interventions by Berlin artist duo Hoefner and Sachs. The site-specific temporary architecture, innovative performances and constructive interference in the urban environment by Berlin artist duo Hoefner and Sachs lie on the intersection between art and architecture. During the past several years, Franz Hoefner and Harry Sachs have not only gained public interest with their subversive and humorous approach, but have also reinvented the vocabulary of urban intervention and ironic commentary of modern city planning.
Architecture Monographs
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This book sheds new light on the work of Henry Moore (1898–1986), recording contemporary architect Zaha Hadid's design of a display environment for the exhibition of Moore's sculptures and drawings. Hadid and Moore share a proclivity for fluid organic form, and for this project Hadid created curvaceous white linen walls and a giant horseshoe-shaped plinth. This volume(...)
Henri Moore: Ideas for sculpture, a project with Zaha Hadid
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This book sheds new light on the work of Henry Moore (1898–1986), recording contemporary architect Zaha Hadid's design of a display environment for the exhibition of Moore's sculptures and drawings. Hadid and Moore share a proclivity for fluid organic form, and for this project Hadid created curvaceous white linen walls and a giant horseshoe-shaped plinth. This volume collects the documentation of this adventurous installation, presenting reproductions of sculptures and sketches by Moore alongside Mary Moore's detailed account of their conception.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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This publication offers a reappraisal of archives and a look at the challenges they face in a time when issues of freedom of information, privacy, technology, and digitization are increasingly important. The contributors argue that archives are essential to contemporary debates about public policy and make a case for more status, funding, and influence within public(...)
Better off forgetting? Essays on archives, public policy, and collective memory
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This publication offers a reappraisal of archives and a look at the challenges they face in a time when issues of freedom of information, privacy, technology, and digitization are increasingly important. The contributors argue that archives are essential to contemporary debates about public policy and make a case for more status, funding, and influence within public bureaucracies. While stimulating debate about our rapidly changing information environment, this book focus on the continuing role of archives in gathering and preserving our collective memory.
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Zumtobel group award 2010
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For many years now, the Zumtobel Group has assigned top priority to sustainability and energy efficiency in its products and their application. As the logical next step in this corporate commitment, the Austrian-based company has created the "Zumtobel Group Award for Sustainability and Humanity in the Built Environment". The award, organised by the curators Aedes(...)
Zumtobel group award 2010
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For many years now, the Zumtobel Group has assigned top priority to sustainability and energy efficiency in its products and their application. As the logical next step in this corporate commitment, the Austrian-based company has created the "Zumtobel Group Award for Sustainability and Humanity in the Built Environment". The award, organised by the curators Aedes Architecture Forum in Berlin, is designed to honour outstanding sustainable solutions in architecture and engineering that make a notable contribution to a liveable, sustainable and equitable future.
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This publication is a visual story about how people influence change in the city. The collapse of faith in top-down planning has been followed by a renewed interest in the self-generating wisdom of bottom-up urban initiatives. Fusing her photography with a manifesto-like text, architect Afaina de Jong marks the people in the streets as the starting point of all urban(...)
For the people by the people : a visual story of the DIY city
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This publication is a visual story about how people influence change in the city. The collapse of faith in top-down planning has been followed by a renewed interest in the self-generating wisdom of bottom-up urban initiatives. Fusing her photography with a manifesto-like text, architect Afaina de Jong marks the people in the streets as the starting point of all urban trends and cultural innovation. She calls upon us all to become architects of our own environment.
Urban Theory
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The aim of this book is to expose readers to architecture’s pretexts that include literary narratives, film, theatre, painting, music, and ritual, as a bridge between diverse intellectual territories and architecture. It introduces a selection of seminal modern and contemporary architectural projects, their situation within the built environment, and their intellectual(...)
Architecture's pretexts: spaces of translation
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The aim of this book is to expose readers to architecture’s pretexts that include literary narratives, film, theatre, painting, music, and ritual, as a bridge between diverse intellectual territories and architecture. It introduces a selection of seminal modern and contemporary architectural projects, their situation within the built environment, and their intellectual and formal situation/context as pretexts and design paradigms. Connections between diverse bodies of information will be cultivated along with the ability to posit consequential relationships for the production of architecture.
Architectural Theory
Art of immersive soundscapes
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The Art of Immersive Soundscapes provides a fascinating tour of contemporary sound art practices that comprises scholarly essays, artists' statements, and a DVD with sonic and visual examples. Included are perspectives from soundscape composition and performance, site-specific sound installation, recording, and festival curation. The book and accompanying DVD will appeal(...)
Art of immersive soundscapes
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The Art of Immersive Soundscapes provides a fascinating tour of contemporary sound art practices that comprises scholarly essays, artists' statements, and a DVD with sonic and visual examples. Included are perspectives from soundscape composition and performance, site-specific sound installation, recording, and festival curation. The book and accompanying DVD will appeal to a broad audience interested in music, sound, installation art, the environment, digital culture, and media arts. Importantly, it recognizes the pioneering place of Canadian sound artists within this international field.
Acoustics
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This title demonstrates how color enhances and contextualizes the environment of the projects within. The visual language of color can communicate symbols, status, spirit, strength, and a sense of purpose, and its new applications to buildings represent a great leap in the discipline of architecture. Brighten it Up promises to be a standard work on the subject that every(...)
Color in space: brightening it up
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This title demonstrates how color enhances and contextualizes the environment of the projects within. The visual language of color can communicate symbols, status, spirit, strength, and a sense of purpose, and its new applications to buildings represent a great leap in the discipline of architecture. Brighten it Up promises to be a standard work on the subject that every architect and architectural office will want to have handy in their library, as well as anyone involved in outdoor design or urban planning.
Contemporary Architecture
Fantastic architecture
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Compiled by Fluxus artists Wolf Vostell and Dick Higgins, and first published by Higgins' legendary Something Else Press in 1970, Fantastic Architecture anticipated the critiques launched by a new generation of visionary architects in the 1970s. In his introduction, Higgins argued that "architects … have only just begun to escape from the drawing board mentality," and(...)
Fantastic architecture
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Compiled by Fluxus artists Wolf Vostell and Dick Higgins, and first published by Higgins' legendary Something Else Press in 1970, Fantastic Architecture anticipated the critiques launched by a new generation of visionary architects in the 1970s. In his introduction, Higgins argued that "architects … have only just begun to escape from the drawing board mentality," and articulated the need for "creating space, which may or may not be functional, but which is at least relevant to the sensory environment in which we live.
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