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x, 420 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
London : J. Cape, 2001.
The game of war : the life and death of Guy Debord / Andrew Hussey.
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xxviii, 326 pages : illustrations, plans ; 26 cm.
Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate/Variorum, ©2005.
Early Islamic art, 650-1100 / Oleg Grabar.
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Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate/Variorum, ©2005.
Log 64: summer 2025
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As guest editor Emmett Zeifman wrote in his prompt for Toward a Newer Brutalism, or the Undecorated Shed, “Log 64 appropriates New Brutalism as a found theory of architecture that looks like exactly what it is made of.” To wit, Matthew Au, David Eskenazi, Mira Henry, Mireia Luzárraga and Débora Mesa discuss the assembly of materials, while material flammability is the(...)
Log 64: summer 2025
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As guest editor Emmett Zeifman wrote in his prompt for Toward a Newer Brutalism, or the Undecorated Shed, “Log 64 appropriates New Brutalism as a found theory of architecture that looks like exactly what it is made of.” To wit, Matthew Au, David Eskenazi, Mira Henry, Mireia Luzárraga and Débora Mesa discuss the assembly of materials, while material flammability is the concern of Dan Spiegel and Megumi Aihara. Clark Thenhaus manipulates 3D printed concrete, Zak Garone Leazer and Fernando Garrido Carreras interrogate stone, Salmaan Craig addresses the properties of heat, and Andrea Machado Romero and Eric Kyle Cheung pose maintenance as a design question. The envelopes of heating and cooling plants are analyzed by Daniel Jacobs and Brittany Utting; Mohamed Sharif heralds SO – IL’s rejection of the double-loaded apartment building corridor; and Anna Neimark celebrates Gehry Associates return to a Brutalist architecture in homes for veterans in West Los Angeles.
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What comes after the Anthropocene? Can we depart from our human-centered perspective to build a future for the benefit of all species? What tools and techniques might help us get there? These are the questions investigated by the long-term interdisciplinary project "Interspecies future", which brings together perspectives from art, science, and technology to explore what(...)
Interspecies future: a primer
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What comes after the Anthropocene? Can we depart from our human-centered perspective to build a future for the benefit of all species? What tools and techniques might help us get there? These are the questions investigated by the long-term interdisciplinary project "Interspecies future", which brings together perspectives from art, science, and technology to explore what this future might look like. First initiated in 2022 by LAS Art Foundation, this project explores new pathways for planetary thinking and collective intelligence. With more than 60 contributions, this interactive reader is the first book to provide an extensive foundation of key concepts, debates, and case studies that propose ways to re-frame, repair, and re-imagine interspecies relations. "Interspecies future: A primer" draws on recent advancements in planetary computation and machine learning, new discoveries in non-human intelligence, as well as post-human theory and Indigenous knowledge.
Fauna and flora
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This book, devoted to the contributions of the Austro-American artist and architect Friedrich Kiesler to the field of design, presents previously unpublished material relating to his innovative furniture designs and prototypes from the 1930s and 1940s. Letters, diary entries, and photographs document the New York cultural environment in which Friedrich Kiesler lived and(...)
Design Monographs
May 2005, Ostfildern-Ruit
Friedrich Kiesler designer : seating furniture of the 30s and 40s
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This book, devoted to the contributions of the Austro-American artist and architect Friedrich Kiesler to the field of design, presents previously unpublished material relating to his innovative furniture designs and prototypes from the 1930s and 1940s. Letters, diary entries, and photographs document the New York cultural environment in which Friedrich Kiesler lived and worked and illuminate the role he played in the contemporary design scene. After emigrating to New York in 1925, Kiesler soon became an important mediator between European and American positions in the fields of design and architecture. In the ensuing years, he designed furniture and exhibitions and articulated the fundamental principles of a critical theory of functional architecture and design. Such concepts as flexibility, dynamism, and multifunctionality were crucial elements of his theoretical constructs. With an introduction by Monika Pessler, texts by Tulga Beyerle, Harald Krejci, and a preface by Dieter Bogner and Heinz F. Hofer-Wittmann.
Design Monographs
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The diverse works of architect Nicholas Hawksmoor (1661–1736) range from small architectural details to ambitious urban plans, from new parish churches to work on the monument of his age, St. Paul’s Cathedral. As a young man Hawksmoor assisted Christopher Wren and John Vanbrugh, emerging from these apprenticeships to design some of the most vigorous and dramatic(...)
Nicholas Hawksmoor : rebuilding ancient wonders
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The diverse works of architect Nicholas Hawksmoor (1661–1736) range from small architectural details to ambitious urban plans, from new parish churches to work on the monument of his age, St. Paul’s Cathedral. As a young man Hawksmoor assisted Christopher Wren and John Vanbrugh, emerging from these apprenticeships to design some of the most vigorous and dramatic buildings in England. In this book, architectural historian Vaughan Hart presents a fresh view of Hawksmoor’s built and planned work. In addition, Hart offers the first coherent explanation of Hawksmoor’s theory of architecture. The book explains why Hawksmoor’s buildings look the way they do, what contemporary events influenced his work, and how such ancient buildings as Solomon’s temple and Mausolus’s tomb inspired him. Underscoring the unique qualities of the architect’s accomplishments and aspirations, Hart establishes with new clarity Hawksmoor’s vital role in the development of English architecture.
Architecture Monographs
Celebrating Chandigarh
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This book documents the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the conception of Chandigarh, an important architectural and urban planning experiment of the twentieth century. Inaugurated by the President of India and attended by eminent architects, planners, and critics, the events focused on the impact of Chandigarh and Le Corbusier's work on the direction of(...)
Celebrating Chandigarh
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This book documents the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the conception of Chandigarh, an important architectural and urban planning experiment of the twentieth century. Inaugurated by the President of India and attended by eminent architects, planners, and critics, the events focused on the impact of Chandigarh and Le Corbusier's work on the direction of architecture, planning theory and practice; the process of conceptualization, design and realization of the city plan; the contribution of other architects and engineers who worked on the project; an analysis of Corbusier's architecture; the socio-economic realities of urban spaces in a developing nation and of Chandigargh in particular; future options for structuring the growth of Chandigargh and defining the direction of its development and expansion; the legacy and the transformation of Corbusier's ideas over the last decades; the issues that arise from the planning of Chandigargh; and what we have learnt.
Architecture Monographs
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Art museums have emerged in recent decades as the most vibrant and popular of all cultural institutions. Though art museums have never been more popular, their direction and values are now being contested as never before, both in the media and in the art world itself. This engaging thematic history of the art museum from its inception in the eighteenth century to the(...)
The Art Museum from Boullée to Bilbao
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Art museums have emerged in recent decades as the most vibrant and popular of all cultural institutions. Though art museums have never been more popular, their direction and values are now being contested as never before, both in the media and in the art world itself. This engaging thematic history of the art museum from its inception in the eighteenth century to the present offers an essential framework for understanding contemporary debates as they have evolved in Europe and the United States. From the visionary museums of Boullée in the eighteenth century to the new Guggenheim in Bilbao and beyond, it explores key aspects of museum theory and practice: ideals and mission; architecture; collecting, classification, and display; the public; commercialism; and restitution and repatriation. The only single volume to give a comprehensive account of the issues critical to museums, the book also highlights the challenges they will face in the future.
Museology
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Modeling History revisits the material legacy of Kenneth Frampton's course Studies in Tectonic Culture, a collection of models familiar to anyone who has passed through Avery Hall. It looks back in order to project forward, and asks how the construction of architectural history through the making of models might generate new histories, practices, and ways of seeing.(...)
June 2017
Modeling history. The case for the tectonic. Stagecraft: models and photos
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Modeling History revisits the material legacy of Kenneth Frampton's course Studies in Tectonic Culture, a collection of models familiar to anyone who has passed through Avery Hall. It looks back in order to project forward, and asks how the construction of architectural history through the making of models might generate new histories, practices, and ways of seeing. Produced on the occasion of the exhibition 'Stagecraft: Models and Photos' at Columbia University's Arthur RossArchitecture Gallery, Modeling History moves between modes of representation, past and present, to explore Frampton's theory and pedagogy concerning tectonics. The sixteen photographs enclosed in this book by photographer James Ewing reveal the possibilities of Frampton's radical approach today. Each image not only reengages with a model built during Frampton's seminar, but, by playing with the potentials of photography, also aspires to project similar material, tectonic, and poetic realities. Printed in a limited edition of 250 copies.
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In this revelatory study of one of the great architects in British history, Vaughan Hart considers Christopher Wren’s (1632–1723) interest in Eastern antiquity and Ottoman architecture, an interest that would animate much of his theory and practice. As the early modern understanding of antiquity broadened to include new discoveries at Palmyra and Persepolis, Wren disputed(...)
Christopher Wren: in search of eastern antiquity
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In this revelatory study of one of the great architects in British history, Vaughan Hart considers Christopher Wren’s (1632–1723) interest in Eastern antiquity and Ottoman architecture, an interest that would animate much of his theory and practice. As the early modern understanding of antiquity broadened to include new discoveries at Palmyra and Persepolis, Wren disputed common assumptions about the European origins of Classical and Gothic architecture, tracing these building traditions not to the Greeks or Germans but to the stonemasons of the biblical East. In a deft analysis, Hart contextualizes Wren’s use of classical elements—columns, domes, and cross plans—within his enthusiasm for the East and the broader Anglican interest in the Eastern church. A careful study of diary records reappraises Wren’s working relationship with Robert Hooke (1635–1703), who shared in many of Wren’s theoretical commitments. The result is a new, deepened understanding of Wren’s work.
Architecture Monographs