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With "Me++" the author of "City of bits" and "e-topia" completes an informal trilogy examining the ramifications of information technology in everyday life. In "Me++" Mitchell examines the effects of wireless linkage, global interconnection, miniaturization, and portability on our bodies, our clothing, our architecture, our cities, and our uses of space and time.(...)
Architectural Theory
October 2003, Cambridge, Mass.
Me++ : the cyborg self and the networked city
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With "Me++" the author of "City of bits" and "e-topia" completes an informal trilogy examining the ramifications of information technology in everyday life. In "Me++" Mitchell examines the effects of wireless linkage, global interconnection, miniaturization, and portability on our bodies, our clothing, our architecture, our cities, and our uses of space and time. Computer viruses, cascading power outages, terrorist infiltration of transportation networks, and cellphone conversations in the streets are symptoms of a dramatic new urban condition--that of ubiquitous, inescapable network interconnectivity. He argues that a world governed less and less by boundaries and more and more by connections requires us to reimagine and reconstruct our environment and to reconsider the ethical foundations of design, engineering, and planning practice.
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"Art Theory: An Historical Introduction" is a unique survey of Western thought about art from ancient times to the present. It provides a lucid and lively narrative geared to the needs of the general reader and beginning student, Covering the major periods of Western art history: Antiquity and the Middle Ages, the early modern period (Renaissance and Baroque), the(...)
Art theory : an historical introduction
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"Art Theory: An Historical Introduction" is a unique survey of Western thought about art from ancient times to the present. It provides a lucid and lively narrative geared to the needs of the general reader and beginning student, Covering the major periods of Western art history: Antiquity and the Middle Ages, the early modern period (Renaissance and Baroque), the Enlightenment, the nineteenth century, early twentieth-century modernism, and postmodernism. It relates theory to the practice as well as to the intellectual- and cultural-historical currents of each period, thus demonstrating the value of an historical approach to theoretical issues, and includes an extensive bibliography that provides a useful and up-to-date guide to the primary sources and secondary literature.
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Since its publication in 1936, Walter Benjamin's "Artwork" essay has become a canonical text about the status and place of the fine arts in modern mass culture. Benjamin was especially concerned with the ability of new technologies--notably film, sound recording, and photography--to reproduce works of art in great number. Benjamin could not have foreseen the explosion of(...)
Architectural Theory
July 2003, Stanford
Mapping Benjamin : the work of art in the digital age
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Since its publication in 1936, Walter Benjamin's "Artwork" essay has become a canonical text about the status and place of the fine arts in modern mass culture. Benjamin was especially concerned with the ability of new technologies--notably film, sound recording, and photography--to reproduce works of art in great number. Benjamin could not have foreseen the explosion of imagery and media that has occurred during the past fifty years. Does Benjamin's famous essay still speak to this new situation? That is the question posed by the editors of this book to a wide range of leading scholars and thinkers across a spectrum of disciplines in the humanities. The essays gathered here do not hazard a univocal reply to that question; rather they offer a rich, wide-ranging critique of Benjamin's position that refracts and reflects contemporary thinking about the ethical, political, and aesthetic implications of life in the digital age.
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Sensory design
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In Sensory Design, Joy Monice Malnar and Frank Vodvarka explore the nature of our responses to spatial constructs—from various sorts of buildings to gardens and outdoor spaces, to constructions of fantasy. To the degree that this response can be calculated, it can serve as a typology for the design of significant spaces, one that would sharply contrast with the Cartesian(...)
Architectural Theory
January 2004, Minneapolis
Sensory design
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In Sensory Design, Joy Monice Malnar and Frank Vodvarka explore the nature of our responses to spatial constructs—from various sorts of buildings to gardens and outdoor spaces, to constructions of fantasy. To the degree that this response can be calculated, it can serve as a typology for the design of significant spaces, one that would sharply contrast with the Cartesian model that dominates architecture today.
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In "Measure for measure", Alex Hebra offers an instructive history of measurement systems from ancient times to the present, exploring how and why such units as the stadium, the span, and the parsec first came about. Tracing civilization's various efforts to calculate distance, volume, mass, energy, and time, he explains how units of measurement are applied in such(...)
Measure for measure : the story of imperial, metric, and other units
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In "Measure for measure", Alex Hebra offers an instructive history of measurement systems from ancient times to the present, exploring how and why such units as the stadium, the span, and the parsec first came about. Tracing civilization's various efforts to calculate distance, volume, mass, energy, and time, he explains how units of measurement are applied in such fields as mechanical engineering, physics, optics, and astronomy. In particular, Hebra focuses on the development of the metric system, arguing that even the United States will eventually join the worldwide metric community. Deeply informed, this book chronicles humanity's imperfect search for the perfect system with which to quantify reality.
Architectural Theory
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Between the early 1930s and 1950s, modernist architecture underwent a spectacular change of fortune in Britain – from a small-scale avant-garde movement, to the official, state-funded architectural idiom of the post-1945 Welfare State. FRS Yorke (1906–62) was an architect who completely followed that trajectory. His book "The modern house" (1934) placed his detailed(...)
FRS Yorke and the evolution of English modernism
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Between the early 1930s and 1950s, modernist architecture underwent a spectacular change of fortune in Britain – from a small-scale avant-garde movement, to the official, state-funded architectural idiom of the post-1945 Welfare State. FRS Yorke (1906–62) was an architect who completely followed that trajectory. His book "The modern house" (1934) placed his detailed knowledge of European architecture as an introduction to modern architecture for generations of architects, and provided inspiration for his own designs. But it was only after World War II, and the social and political change which came in its wake, that Yorke was able to turn his reputation as a modernist into commercial success. As his pre-War contemporaries gave up architecture or moved abroad, his practice – Yorke, Rosenberg and Mardall – drew on his experience of working on large, state-funded construction projects during the War, and participated in the transformation of Britain’s social and physical fabric with its new housing, hospitals, schools, universities and airports. This book concludes with a memoir by David Allford, who worked with Yorke and Yorke, Rosenberg and Mardall from 1952 until 1989.
Architecture Monographs
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Defined as "the practice of architecture, planning and interior design in which psychology is the principal design tool", the purpose of "Design psychology" is to create environments that reflect the individual or group as well as encourage positive change.
Some place like home : using design psychology to create ideal places
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Defined as "the practice of architecture, planning and interior design in which psychology is the principal design tool", the purpose of "Design psychology" is to create environments that reflect the individual or group as well as encourage positive change.
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This illustrated book explores Jeckyll's designs in architecture, furniture, metalwork, and interiors. It is the definitive study of Jeckyll’s life and work, and it presents his notable buildings and diverse examples of his decorative arts. Susan Weber Soros and Catherine Arbuthnott examine Jeckyll’s most important architectural commissions, among them the extravagant(...)
Architecture Monographs
October 2003, New Haven
Thomas Jeckyll : architect and designer, 1827-1881
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This illustrated book explores Jeckyll's designs in architecture, furniture, metalwork, and interiors. It is the definitive study of Jeckyll’s life and work, and it presents his notable buildings and diverse examples of his decorative arts. Susan Weber Soros and Catherine Arbuthnott examine Jeckyll’s most important architectural commissions, among them the extravagant five-story Cambridge town house, Rance’s Folly. They also discuss the interiors he designed as well as the remarkable furniture and metalwork designs for which he is best known today, including the “Four Seasons Gates” that were exhibited in Paris and Vienna. This book is the catalogue for the first exhibition devoted to the work of Thomas Jeckyll. The exhibition will be open at the Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design, and Culture from July 17 through October 19, 2003.
Architecture 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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This Winnipeg Art Gallery exhibition showcased the work of 10 contemporary designers of household objects that make our lives easier, more enjoyable, and more interesting. From Karim Rashid’s "Garbino" wastebaskets to Kerr & Company’s translucent dish rack, you’ll recognize many of these items. The essays discuss Canadian style and design, assess its merits, and(...)
Habitat : Canadian design now / le point sur le design canadien
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This Winnipeg Art Gallery exhibition showcased the work of 10 contemporary designers of household objects that make our lives easier, more enjoyable, and more interesting. From Karim Rashid’s "Garbino" wastebaskets to Kerr & Company’s translucent dish rack, you’ll recognize many of these items. The essays discuss Canadian style and design, assess its merits, and distinguish between art and craft, design and style.
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