Adjaye: Africa: architecture
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Educated in England, David Adjaye’s lifelong dream was to return to Africa as an architect to document the continent’s built environment. Over a decade, he tirelessly documented these dynamic, colorful cities, photographing thousands of buildings, sites, and public spaces, and letting each building speak for itself. The fifty-three cities featured in this study are(...)
Adjaye: Africa: architecture
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Educated in England, David Adjaye’s lifelong dream was to return to Africa as an architect to document the continent’s built environment. Over a decade, he tirelessly documented these dynamic, colorful cities, photographing thousands of buildings, sites, and public spaces, and letting each building speak for itself. The fifty-three cities featured in this study are grouped according to the terrain in which they are set: the Maghreb (north Africa); Desert; Sahel (the semi-arid transitional region between the Sahara and the south); Forest; Savannah and Grassland; and Mountain and Highveld.
Architecture Monographs
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The contributors -- international curators and scholars from a range of disciplines -- examine the emergence of photography as mass culture: through studios and public spaces; by the press; through editorial strategies promoting popular and vernacular photography; and through the dissemination of photographic images in the art world. The contributing authors discuss such(...)
The public life of photographs
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The contributors -- international curators and scholars from a range of disciplines -- examine the emergence of photography as mass culture: through studios and public spaces; by the press; through editorial strategies promoting popular and vernacular photography; and through the dissemination of photographic images in the art world. The contributing authors discuss such topics as how photographic images became objects of appropriation and collection; the faith in photographic truthfulness; Life magazine's traveling exhibitions and their effect on the magazine's "media hegemony"; and the curatorial challenges of making vernacular photographs accessible in an artistic environment.
Theory of Photography
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What do outer space capsules, submarines and office buildings have in common? Each was conceived as a closed system- a self-sustaining physical environment demarcated from its surroundings by a boundary prohibiting the transfer of matter or energy. As partial reconstructions of the world in time and space, closed systems identify and implement the basic materials(...)
The architecture of closed worlds: Or, what is the power of shit?
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What do outer space capsules, submarines and office buildings have in common? Each was conceived as a closed system- a self-sustaining physical environment demarcated from its surroundings by a boundary prohibiting the transfer of matter or energy. As partial reconstructions of the world in time and space, closed systems identify and implement the basic materials necessary for the sustenance of life. From the space program to countercultural architectural groups experimenting with autonomous living, ''The Architecture of Closed Worlds'' documents a disciplinary transformation and the rise of a new environmental consciousness.
Architectural Theory
c3 398 : courthouses
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Courts of law are projections of civic power into the built environment. States have traditionally expressed themselves with monumentality, with its implications of permanence, but modern government aspires to transparency, which society also expects. Five projects demonstrate how architects address these tensions, among them the Paris Courthouse by Renzo Piano Building(...)
c3 398 : courthouses
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Courts of law are projections of civic power into the built environment. States have traditionally expressed themselves with monumentality, with its implications of permanence, but modern government aspires to transparency, which society also expects. Five projects demonstrate how architects address these tensions, among them the Paris Courthouse by Renzo Piano Building Workshop and the Palace of Justice in Córdoba by Mecanoo + AYESA. In addition, five recently completed cultural warehouses by KOKO Architects, Franklin Azzi, and others show how various design strategies can be implemented in the conversion of industrial buildings to other functions.
Magazines
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French architecture is both diverse and specific. The diversity of its contexts and landscapes inspires a new generation of architects to optimistically invent an everyday architecture that is both in tune with real people and respectful of the environment. French Touch architects believe that it is necessary to take a stance and to talk about these buildings in a new(...)
Optimistic Architecture Year Book/ Annuel Optimiste D'architecture
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French architecture is both diverse and specific. The diversity of its contexts and landscapes inspires a new generation of architects to optimistically invent an everyday architecture that is both in tune with real people and respectful of the environment. French Touch architects believe that it is necessary to take a stance and to talk about these buildings in a new way, both within and beyond our borders. This book showcases inventive French architecture, a vibrant creative force that reveals the diversity of architecture today, as it has never been shown before.
Architecture since 1900, Europe
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This book offers a survey of emergent Asian architects from India to Japan, including Philippines. The Asian continent today acts as a theatre to some of the most rapid changes in the urban environment ever to occur anywhere in the world. As cities and economies expand at an almost immeasurable pace, Asian architects face new challenges and opportunities. Through(...)
Instant Asia: fast foward through the architecture of a changing continent
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This book offers a survey of emergent Asian architects from India to Japan, including Philippines. The Asian continent today acts as a theatre to some of the most rapid changes in the urban environment ever to occur anywhere in the world. As cities and economies expand at an almost immeasurable pace, Asian architects face new challenges and opportunities. Through interviews, conversations, and visits to architecture studios across the continent, "Instant Asia" documents the most recent built projects of the emerging generation of designers shaping the architectural identity of Asia today.
Contemporary Asian Architecture
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A major retrospective survey celebrating one of Canada's greatest landscape photographers, Geoffrey James. Geoffrey James's photographic work over the past twenty years explores the natural environment and the way in which human activity registers upon it. All his photographs, from the tranquility of the Roman Campagna to the desolate demarcations of the U.S./Mexican(...)
Photography monographs
May 2008, Ottawa Vanouver Toronto Berkley
Utopia / Dystopia: Geoffrey James
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A major retrospective survey celebrating one of Canada's greatest landscape photographers, Geoffrey James. Geoffrey James's photographic work over the past twenty years explores the natural environment and the way in which human activity registers upon it. All his photographs, from the tranquility of the Roman Campagna to the desolate demarcations of the U.S./Mexican border, reverberate with a sense of human habitation, which is not always formally evident. This major retrospective includes an illustrated chronology of James's career and essays from Lori Pauli, Stephen Bann and Britt Salvesen.
Photography monographs
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The Stirling Prize has been awarded annually by the Royal Institute of British Architects since 1996 to the architects of the building that has made the greatest contribution in the past year to the evolution of architecture and the built environment. Along with the Pritzker Prize in the United States, the Stirling Prize is one of the world’s most prestigious and(...)
Architecture since 1900, Europe
April 2006, London, New York
The Stirling Prize : Ten years of architecture and innovation
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The Stirling Prize has been awarded annually by the Royal Institute of British Architects since 1996 to the architects of the building that has made the greatest contribution in the past year to the evolution of architecture and the built environment. Along with the Pritzker Prize in the United States, the Stirling Prize is one of the world’s most prestigious and best-known architectural awards, and the list of shortlisted and winning buildings reads like a primer to the very best of British architecture at home and abroad.
Architecture since 1900, Europe
Henry Roy: august
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This new zine by Henry Roy is about a cinematic and dreamy vision of Ibiza, where he spent his last summer holidays (and has been visiting many times since the late eighties). "In the time of confusion we are living in, I choose to focus my visual essay on the famous rock island Es Vedra, which is well known for its good energy. The island and environment are(...)
Henry Roy: august
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This new zine by Henry Roy is about a cinematic and dreamy vision of Ibiza, where he spent his last summer holidays (and has been visiting many times since the late eighties). "In the time of confusion we are living in, I choose to focus my visual essay on the famous rock island Es Vedra, which is well known for its good energy. The island and environment are photographed as a symbolic sanctuary for my family, friends and myself. A quiet and melancholic place, far from our cities." Henry Roy
Graphic Design and Typography
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"Architectures : modernism and after" surveys the history of the building from the advent of industrialization to the cultural imperatives of the present moment. Brings together international art and architectural historians to consider a range of topics that have influenced the shape, profile, and aesthetics of the built environment. Presents crucial "moments" in(...)
Architectural Theory
November 2003, Malden / Oxford / Carlton
Architectures : modernism and after
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"Architectures : modernism and after" surveys the history of the building from the advent of industrialization to the cultural imperatives of the present moment. Brings together international art and architectural historians to consider a range of topics that have influenced the shape, profile, and aesthetics of the built environment. Presents crucial "moments" in the history of the field when the architecture of the past is made to respond to new and changing cultural circumstances. Provides a view of architectural history as a part of a continuing dialogue between aesthetic criteria and social and cultural imperatives.
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