Praxis 8, re:programing
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"Praxis 8, re:programming" reflects upon the complex, ambiguous and ultimately paradoxical set of ideas denoted by the term program. The elusive definition of program is not only because of its complex history but more importantly because of its continuous redefinition in contemporary architectural practice. A broader shift in the term program, with the emergence of(...)
Praxis 8, re:programing
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"Praxis 8, re:programming" reflects upon the complex, ambiguous and ultimately paradoxical set of ideas denoted by the term program. The elusive definition of program is not only because of its complex history but more importantly because of its continuous redefinition in contemporary architectural practice. A broader shift in the term program, with the emergence of computer culture, has empowered architects to see what was traditionally considered a given, as something that can be reprogrammed at will. FEATURED ARCHITECTS & DESIGNERS Rem Koolhaas, Bernard Tschumi, Studio(n-1), Mack Scogin Merrill Elam, Taller de Chile, Interboro, Stoner Meek, Meyer Rosenberg, Central Office of Architecture, Pierre de Angelis and Carmen Suero, R, WW. FEATURED WRITERS Vincent James and Jennifer Yoos, Penelope Dean, Thomas de Monchaux, Kazys Varnelis, Ron Witte, John McMorrough, WORKac.
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In "That’s Brutal, What’s Modern?: The Smithsons," Banham, and the Mies-Image, Mark D. Linder offers an original understanding of New Brutalism as a consequential and generative episode in the history of post-photographic imaging practices. This episode exemplifies and anticipates the kinds of cognition and intelligence that dominate architectural imagination today.(...)
That’s Brutal, What’s Modern?: The Smithsons, Banham, and the Mies-Image
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In "That’s Brutal, What’s Modern?: The Smithsons," Banham, and the Mies-Image, Mark D. Linder offers an original understanding of New Brutalism as a consequential and generative episode in the history of post-photographic imaging practices. This episode exemplifies and anticipates the kinds of cognition and intelligence that dominate architectural imagination today. Linder aims to recover a specific and integral, yet overlooked, aspect of the peculiar novelty of New Brutalism by reconsidering the entirety of Alison and Peter Smithson’s work as a fitful and evolving fifty-year fascination with the imaging potential they found in the architecture of Mies van der Rohe. In six chapters and some forty arrays of images, the book progresses from historical research to theoretical speculations on the historical legacy and contemporary potential of the Smithsons’ pursuit of the "Mies-Image."
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Households
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In his "Households" series, artist and architect Mark Robbins has invented the "flip side" of interior design magazines: a compelling series of photographs of actual people in actual homes. A young family at a writers retreat, a gay couple in a Long Island beach house, a husband and wife in a family compound, a single parent in a city apartment: Robbins has photographed(...)
Photography monographs
October 2005, New York
Households
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In his "Households" series, artist and architect Mark Robbins has invented the "flip side" of interior design magazines: a compelling series of photographs of actual people in actual homes. A young family at a writers retreat, a gay couple in a Long Island beach house, a husband and wife in a family compound, a single parent in a city apartment: Robbins has photographed residents and environments that comment on contemporary life and relationships. Robbins's design and photography work, which bridges the fields of art and architecture, has long focused on the complex social and political forces that contribute to the built environment. The thoughtfully arranged compositions reinforce, undermine, and even confuse stereotypes; the collection as a whole comments on present-day customs and ways of life in all their complexity.
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Katsura : imperial villa
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This book presents a detailed history of Katsura, the seventeenth-century imperial palace in Kyoto, Japan, that is a pivotal work of Japanese architecture. First revealed to the modern architectural world by Bruno Taut, the great German architect, in the early twentieth century, Katsura stunned and then excited the architectural community of the West. Le Corbusier and(...)
Katsura : imperial villa
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This book presents a detailed history of Katsura, the seventeenth-century imperial palace in Kyoto, Japan, that is a pivotal work of Japanese architecture. First revealed to the modern architectural world by Bruno Taut, the great German architect, in the early twentieth century, Katsura stunned and then excited the architectural community of the West. Le Corbusier and Walter Gropius, pillars of the modernist establishment, were fascinated by Katsura`s "modernity." They saw in its orthogonal and modular spaces, devoid of decoration, clear parallels to contemporary modernism, going so far as to proclaim Katsura a "historical" example of modernity. This book documents the palace in detail, combining newly commissioned photographs, detailed drawings, archival material and historical analysis. Essays by Francesco Dal Co, Walter Gropius, Arata Isozaki, Manfred Speidel, Kenzo Tange and Bruno Taut.
History until 1900, Asia
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This book presents a history of the railway station, from the Gare de L'Est in Paris of the 1950s to the striking proposal by David Childs of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill for a new Pennsylvania Station in New York City at the end of the 1990s. The author's introduction provides an overview of the history of railway architecture, citing its most significant developments.(...)
Railway stations from the Gare de l'Est to Penn Station
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This book presents a history of the railway station, from the Gare de L'Est in Paris of the 1950s to the striking proposal by David Childs of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill for a new Pennsylvania Station in New York City at the end of the 1990s. The author's introduction provides an overview of the history of railway architecture, citing its most significant developments. Individual project documentation begins with the Gare de L`Est, the first major railway station of the nineteenth century. The elegant Grand Central Terminal in New York City, of 1903-13, is documented through archival material, including engineering drawings and period as well as contemporary photographs. Other striking stations featured are by Antonia Cruz and Antonio Oritz, Hiroshi Hara, Santiago Calatrava, and Ben von Berkel and Caroline Bos of UN Studio.
Engineering Structures
Andreas Gursky
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Famed worldwide for his epically-proportioned photographs, Andreas Gursky is one of very few contemporary artists able to represent cultures of excessive information--which he does through images of supermarket wares, crowds, trash, architecture and nature. The extreme detail of Gursky's final image--achieved by digital restructuring--produces a vertiginous effect on the(...)
Photography monographs
June 2008, Basel
Andreas Gursky
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Famed worldwide for his epically-proportioned photographs, Andreas Gursky is one of very few contemporary artists able to represent cultures of excessive information--which he does through images of supermarket wares, crowds, trash, architecture and nature. The extreme detail of Gursky's final image--achieved by digital restructuring--produces a vertiginous effect on the viewer, as it oscillates between total representation and total abstraction. It could be said that Gursky updates the eighteenth-century sublime for our times. This publication surveys the artist's most recent creations, on display at the renowned Kunstmuseum Basel throughout the winter of 2007/2008. Two new groups of works in particular, one on Formula One races and the other on the famous Arirang Festival (a closely-choreographed mass spectacle in North Korea's capital of Pyongyang), are gathered here.
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Café & restaurant design
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Modern society’s most intense and vibrant interaction takes place over tables and bars. Architects all over the world have enhanced and orchestrated this experience. Ranging over nine countries and four continents, this book presents an international selection of distinctive cafés and restaurants built in recent years by the world’s hippest architects and designers.(...)
Commercial interiors, Building types
January 1900, Düsseldorf
Café & restaurant design
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Modern society’s most intense and vibrant interaction takes place over tables and bars. Architects all over the world have enhanced and orchestrated this experience. Ranging over nine countries and four continents, this book presents an international selection of distinctive cafés and restaurants built in recent years by the world’s hippest architects and designers. Filled with dramatic effects, innovative lighting, and infinite solutions to the challenges of space and material, these hot spots, meeting places, and intimate venues are designed to suit the ever-changing moods of a selective and fickle clientele. This compact illustrated book, aimed at professionals and anyone who enjoys the latest and best in restaurant design, includes over 400 photographs of many different spaces and also offers a comprehensive study of contemporary interior architecture. Text in English, French, German, Italian and Spanish.
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January 1900, Düsseldorf
Commercial interiors, Building types
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Investigation goes on full steam ahead into the creative process and the concept of project in the latest issue of Inventario. This time the Mask takes pride of place on the front cover, while inside the disciplines of architecture, design and art communicate in a dialogue with everyday life. The contributors: Roberto Marone on Urban Jewels, Cristina Miglio on(...)
Inventario 04: everything is a project
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Investigation goes on full steam ahead into the creative process and the concept of project in the latest issue of Inventario. This time the Mask takes pride of place on the front cover, while inside the disciplines of architecture, design and art communicate in a dialogue with everyday life. The contributors: Roberto Marone on Urban Jewels, Cristina Miglio on Contemporary Jewellery, Paolo Bocchi on JoeVelluto (JVLT), Anselmo Tumpi and Dominic Wilcox, Giulio Iacchetti on Pens, Annalisa Ubaldi on Mirrors, Angelika Burtscher and Daniele Lupo interview Ika Künzel, Roberta Valtorta on Collecting/Arranging, Italo Lupi on Leonardo Sonnoli, Francesco M. Cataluccio and Lorena Tonin on Traces, Matteo Pirola on Equilibrium, Francesco Garutti on Carsten Höller, Michele Calzavara on Architecten DVVT, Deborah Duva on Jochen Gerz and Esther Shalev-Gerz, Alessandro Rabottini on Francis Alÿs.
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Space settlements
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In the summer of 1975, NASA brought together a team of physicists, engineers, and space scientists—along with architects, urban planners, and artists—to design large-scale space habitats for millions of people. This Summer Study was led by Princeton physicist Gerard O’Neill, whose work on this topic had previously been funded by countercultural icon Stewart Brand’s Point(...)
Space settlements
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In the summer of 1975, NASA brought together a team of physicists, engineers, and space scientists—along with architects, urban planners, and artists—to design large-scale space habitats for millions of people. This Summer Study was led by Princeton physicist Gerard O’Neill, whose work on this topic had previously been funded by countercultural icon Stewart Brand’s Point Foundation. Two painters, the artist and architect Rick Guidice and the planetary science illustrator Don Davis, created renderings for the project that would be widely circulated over the next years and decades and even included in testimony before a Congressional subcommittee. A product of its time, this work is nevertheless relevant to contemporary modes of thinking about architecture. ''Space Settlements'' examines these plans for life in space as serious architectural and spatial proposals.
Environment and environmental theory
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In 1960, Brasilia was celebrated as the realisation of an urban planning vision based on designs by Lucio Costa and Oscar Niemeyer. At the same time, the sectoral city of Chandigarh was rising according to plans by Le Corbusier. The test tube city arose as an export of modernity from a Western planning euphoria that displayed utopian traits. In both cities, foreign(...)
Brasilia Chandigarh: Living with Modernity
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In 1960, Brasilia was celebrated as the realisation of an urban planning vision based on designs by Lucio Costa and Oscar Niemeyer. At the same time, the sectoral city of Chandigarh was rising according to plans by Le Corbusier. The test tube city arose as an export of modernity from a Western planning euphoria that displayed utopian traits. In both cities, foreign architecture entered into a harmonious relationship with indigenous culture, forming new and independent identities. This publication addresses the question of how modernism has been appropriated in both cities, and how the people who live in them deal with it. Commonalities and differences are identified and images of everyday urban life showcased. On the initiative of the publisher, the young photographer Iwan Baan has taken stock of contemporary life in both cities.
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