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"L'urbain dans tous ses états" est la suite d'un colloque qui portait sur «Les pratiques de la ville : transformations sociales et évolutions spatiales" et dont l'objectif était de présenter des recherches, récentes ou en cours, sur les relations entre des changements dans les sociétés et des changements dans les villes.
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L'urbain dans tous ses états : faire, vivre, dire la ville
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"L'urbain dans tous ses états" est la suite d'un colloque qui portait sur «Les pratiques de la ville : transformations sociales et évolutions spatiales" et dont l'objectif était de présenter des recherches, récentes ou en cours, sur les relations entre des changements dans les sociétés et des changements dans les villes.
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"L'urbain dans tous ses états" est la suite d'un colloque qui portait sur «Les pratiques de la ville : transformations sociales et évolutions spatiales" et dont l'objectif était de présenter des recherches, récentes ou en cours, sur les relations entre des changements dans les sociétés et des changements dans les villes.
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April 1998, Paris
April 1998, Paris
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Urban Theory
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Most people spend an increasing amount of time in soulless, impersonal places: motorways, airports, in front of cash machines, TVs and computers. For the author, this is symptomatic of the experience of "supermodernity" or late-capitalist existence. The invasion of modern life by these "non-places" is central to this work. The book explores the distinction between(...)
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Most people spend an increasing amount of time in soulless, impersonal places: motorways, airports, in front of cash machines, TVs and computers. For the author, this is symptomatic of the experience of "supermodernity" or late-capitalist existence. The invasion of modern life by these "non-places" is central to this work. The book explores the distinction between(...)
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Non-places : introduction to an anthropology of supermodernity
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Most people spend an increasing amount of time in soulless, impersonal places: motorways, airports, in front of cash machines, TVs and computers. For the author, this is symptomatic of the experience of "supermodernity" or late-capitalist existence. The invasion of modern life by these "non-places" is central to this work. The book explores the distinction between "place", encrusted with historical meaning and creative of social life, and "non-place", to which individuals are connected in a uniform, bureaucratic manner and where no organic social life is possible. Translated by John Howe.
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Most people spend an increasing amount of time in soulless, impersonal places: motorways, airports, in front of cash machines, TVs and computers. For the author, this is symptomatic of the experience of "supermodernity" or late-capitalist existence. The invasion of modern life by these "non-places" is central to this work. The book explores the distinction between "place", encrusted with historical meaning and creative of social life, and "non-place", to which individuals are connected in a uniform, bureaucratic manner and where no organic social life is possible. Translated by John Howe.
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January 1900, London / New York
January 1900, London / New York
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Set against the political intrigue and social upheavals of the era of the Commune and the revolutions of 1848, "Transforming Paris" reveals how Haussmann gained power to remake the city of Paris.
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Set against the political intrigue and social upheavals of the era of the Commune and the revolutions of 1848, "Transforming Paris" reveals how Haussmann gained power to remake the city of Paris.
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Transforming Paris : the life and labors of Baron Haussmann
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Set against the political intrigue and social upheavals of the era of the Commune and the revolutions of 1848, "Transforming Paris" reveals how Haussmann gained power to remake the city of Paris.
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Set against the political intrigue and social upheavals of the era of the Commune and the revolutions of 1848, "Transforming Paris" reveals how Haussmann gained power to remake the city of Paris.
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May 1996, Chicago
May 1996, Chicago
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A collection of autobiographical essays examining the introduction of women into the field of architecture. Contributors include Diana Agrest, Jennifer Bloomer, Catherine Ingraham, and Françoise Helene Jourda.
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A collection of autobiographical essays examining the introduction of women into the field of architecture. Contributors include Diana Agrest, Jennifer Bloomer, Catherine Ingraham, and Françoise Helene Jourda.
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The architect reconstructing her practice
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A collection of autobiographical essays examining the introduction of women into the field of architecture. Contributors include Diana Agrest, Jennifer Bloomer, Catherine Ingraham, and Françoise Helene Jourda.
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A collection of autobiographical essays examining the introduction of women into the field of architecture. Contributors include Diana Agrest, Jennifer Bloomer, Catherine Ingraham, and Françoise Helene Jourda.
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April 1996, Cambridge, Mass.
April 1996, Cambridge, Mass.
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Architectural Theory
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Mortal city
Mortal city
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Mortal City, published with StoreFront for Art and Architecture, probes the polemical nature of urban violence. The essays present several different approaches to the subject, reflecting the most recent historical, geographical, and theoretical developments.
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Mortal City, published with StoreFront for Art and Architecture, probes the polemical nature of urban violence. The essays present several different approaches to the subject, reflecting the most recent historical, geographical, and theoretical developments.
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Mortal city
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Mortal City, published with StoreFront for Art and Architecture, probes the polemical nature of urban violence. The essays present several different approaches to the subject, reflecting the most recent historical, geographical, and theoretical developments.
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Mortal City, published with StoreFront for Art and Architecture, probes the polemical nature of urban violence. The essays present several different approaches to the subject, reflecting the most recent historical, geographical, and theoretical developments.
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February 1995, New York
February 1995, New York
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This collection of essays includes pieces by Alberto Perez-Gomez, Jean-François Bédard, Helmut Klassen, Donald Kunze, Graham Livesay, Indra Kagis McEwen, Juhani Pallasmaa, Stephen Parcell, Louise Pelletier, and Nadia Subotincic.
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This collection of essays includes pieces by Alberto Perez-Gomez, Jean-François Bédard, Helmut Klassen, Donald Kunze, Graham Livesay, Indra Kagis McEwen, Juhani Pallasmaa, Stephen Parcell, Louise Pelletier, and Nadia Subotincic.
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November 1994, Montréal
November 1994, Montréal
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Chora 1: intervals in the philosophy of architecture
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This collection of essays includes pieces by Alberto Perez-Gomez, Jean-François Bédard, Helmut Klassen, Donald Kunze, Graham Livesay, Indra Kagis McEwen, Juhani Pallasmaa, Stephen Parcell, Louise Pelletier, and Nadia Subotincic.
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This collection of essays includes pieces by Alberto Perez-Gomez, Jean-François Bédard, Helmut Klassen, Donald Kunze, Graham Livesay, Indra Kagis McEwen, Juhani Pallasmaa, Stephen Parcell, Louise Pelletier, and Nadia Subotincic.
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November 1994, Montréal
November 1994, Montréal
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In a daring revisionist history of modern architecture, Mark Wigley opens up a new understanding of the historical avant-garde. He explores the most obvious, but least discussed, feature of modern architecture: white walls. Although the white wall exemplifies the stripping away of the decorative masquerade costumes worn by nineteenth-century buildings, Wigley argues that(...)
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In a daring revisionist history of modern architecture, Mark Wigley opens up a new understanding of the historical avant-garde. He explores the most obvious, but least discussed, feature of modern architecture: white walls. Although the white wall exemplifies the stripping away of the decorative masquerade costumes worn by nineteenth-century buildings, Wigley argues that(...)
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White walls, designer dresses : the fashioning of modern architecture
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In a daring revisionist history of modern architecture, Mark Wigley opens up a new understanding of the historical avant-garde. He explores the most obvious, but least discussed, feature of modern architecture: white walls. Although the white wall exemplifies the stripping away of the decorative masquerade costumes worn by nineteenth-century buildings, Wigley argues that modern buildings are not naked. The white wall is itself a form of clothing -- the newly athletic body of the building, like that of its occupants, wears a new kind of garment and these garments are meant to match. Not only did almost all modern architects literally design dresses, Wigley points out, their arguments for a modern architecture were taken from the logic of clothing reform. Architecture was understood as a form of dress design. Wigley follows the trajectory of this key subtext by closely reading the statements and designs of most of the protagonists, demonstrating that it renders modern architecture's relationship with the psychosexual economy of fashion much more ambiguous than the architects' endlessly repeated rejections of fashion would suggest. Indeed, Wigley asserts, the very intensity of these rejections is a symptom of how deeply they are embedded in the world of clothing. By drawing on arguments about the relationship between clothing and architecture first formulated in the middle of the nineteenth century, modern architects in fact presented a sophisticated theory of the surface, modernizing architecture by transforming the status of the surface. "White Walls, Designer Dresses" shows how this seemingly incidental clothing logic actually organizes the detailed design of the modern building, dictating a system of polychromy, understood as a multicolored outfit. The familiar image of modern architecture as white turns out to be the effect of a historiographical tradition that has worked hard to suppress the color of the surfaces of the buildings that it describes. Wigley analyzes this suppression in terms of the sexual logic that invariably accompanies discussions of clothing and color, recovering those sensuously colored surfaces and the extraordinary arguments about clothing that were used to defend them.
White walls, designer dresses : the fashioning of modern architecture
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In a daring revisionist history of modern architecture, Mark Wigley opens up a new understanding of the historical avant-garde. He explores the most obvious, but least discussed, feature of modern architecture: white walls. Although the white wall exemplifies the stripping away of the decorative masquerade costumes worn by nineteenth-century buildings, Wigley argues that modern buildings are not naked. The white wall is itself a form of clothing -- the newly athletic body of the building, like that of its occupants, wears a new kind of garment and these garments are meant to match. Not only did almost all modern architects literally design dresses, Wigley points out, their arguments for a modern architecture were taken from the logic of clothing reform. Architecture was understood as a form of dress design. Wigley follows the trajectory of this key subtext by closely reading the statements and designs of most of the protagonists, demonstrating that it renders modern architecture's relationship with the psychosexual economy of fashion much more ambiguous than the architects' endlessly repeated rejections of fashion would suggest. Indeed, Wigley asserts, the very intensity of these rejections is a symptom of how deeply they are embedded in the world of clothing. By drawing on arguments about the relationship between clothing and architecture first formulated in the middle of the nineteenth century, modern architects in fact presented a sophisticated theory of the surface, modernizing architecture by transforming the status of the surface. "White Walls, Designer Dresses" shows how this seemingly incidental clothing logic actually organizes the detailed design of the modern building, dictating a system of polychromy, understood as a multicolored outfit. The familiar image of modern architecture as white turns out to be the effect of a historiographical tradition that has worked hard to suppress the color of the surfaces of the buildings that it describes. Wigley analyzes this suppression in terms of the sexual logic that invariably accompanies discussions of clothing and color, recovering those sensuously colored surfaces and the extraordinary arguments about clothing that were used to defend them.
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December 1995, Cambridge, Mass.
December 1995, Cambridge, Mass.
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Socrates' ancestor
Socrates' ancestor
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Socrates' Ancestor is a rich and poetic exploration of architectural beginnings and the dawn of Western philosophy in preclassical Greece. Architecture precedes philosophy, McEwen argues, and it was here, in the archaic Greek polis, that Western architecture became the cradle of Western thought. McEwen's appreciation of the early Greek understanding of the indissolubility(...)
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Socrates' Ancestor is a rich and poetic exploration of architectural beginnings and the dawn of Western philosophy in preclassical Greece. Architecture precedes philosophy, McEwen argues, and it was here, in the archaic Greek polis, that Western architecture became the cradle of Western thought. McEwen's appreciation of the early Greek understanding of the indissolubility(...)
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October 1993, Cambridge London
October 1993, Cambridge London
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Socrates' ancestor
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Socrates' Ancestor is a rich and poetic exploration of architectural beginnings and the dawn of Western philosophy in preclassical Greece. Architecture precedes philosophy, McEwen argues, and it was here, in the archaic Greek polis, that Western architecture became the cradle of Western thought. McEwen's appreciation of the early Greek understanding of the indissolubility of craft and community yields new insight into such issues as orthogonal planning and the appearance of the encompassing colonnade - the ptera or "wings" - that made Greek temples Greek. Who was Socrates' ancestor? Socrates claims it was Daedalus, the mythical first architect. Socrates' ancestors were also the first Western philosophers: the pre-Socratic thinkers of archaic Greece where the Greek city-state with its monumental temples first came to light. McEwen brilliantly draws out the connections between Daedalus and the earliest Greek thinkers, between architecture and the advent of speculative thought. She argues that Greek thought and Greek architecture share a common ground in the amazing fabrications of the legendary Daedalus: statues so animated with divine life that they had to be bound in chains, the Labyrinth where Theseus slew the Minotaur, Ariadne's dancing floor in Knossos. Socrates' Ancestor is an exploration as remarkable for its clarity as for its avoidance of reductionism. Drawing as much on the power of myth and metaphor as on philosophical, philological, and historical considerations, McEwen first reaches backward: from Socrates to the earliest written record of Western philosophy in the Anaximander B1 fragment, and its physical expression in Anaximander's built work - a "cosmic model" that consisted of a celestial sphere, a map of the world, and the first Greek sun clock. From daedalean artifacts she draws out the centrality of early Greek craftsmanship and its role in the making of the Greek city-state. The investigation then moves forward to a discussion of the polis and the first great peripteral temples that anchored for the meaning of "city."
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Socrates' Ancestor is a rich and poetic exploration of architectural beginnings and the dawn of Western philosophy in preclassical Greece. Architecture precedes philosophy, McEwen argues, and it was here, in the archaic Greek polis, that Western architecture became the cradle of Western thought. McEwen's appreciation of the early Greek understanding of the indissolubility of craft and community yields new insight into such issues as orthogonal planning and the appearance of the encompassing colonnade - the ptera or "wings" - that made Greek temples Greek. Who was Socrates' ancestor? Socrates claims it was Daedalus, the mythical first architect. Socrates' ancestors were also the first Western philosophers: the pre-Socratic thinkers of archaic Greece where the Greek city-state with its monumental temples first came to light. McEwen brilliantly draws out the connections between Daedalus and the earliest Greek thinkers, between architecture and the advent of speculative thought. She argues that Greek thought and Greek architecture share a common ground in the amazing fabrications of the legendary Daedalus: statues so animated with divine life that they had to be bound in chains, the Labyrinth where Theseus slew the Minotaur, Ariadne's dancing floor in Knossos. Socrates' Ancestor is an exploration as remarkable for its clarity as for its avoidance of reductionism. Drawing as much on the power of myth and metaphor as on philosophical, philological, and historical considerations, McEwen first reaches backward: from Socrates to the earliest written record of Western philosophy in the Anaximander B1 fragment, and its physical expression in Anaximander's built work - a "cosmic model" that consisted of a celestial sphere, a map of the world, and the first Greek sun clock. From daedalean artifacts she draws out the centrality of early Greek craftsmanship and its role in the making of the Greek city-state. The investigation then moves forward to a discussion of the polis and the first great peripteral temples that anchored for the meaning of "city."
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October 1993, Cambridge London
October 1993, Cambridge London
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Readings in planning theory
Readings in planning theory
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A selection of classic and contemporary essays on the issues involved in current urban planning. Essayists include Robert Fishman, Jane Jacobs, Richard Sennett, Peter Hall, and William H. Wilson.
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A selection of classic and contemporary essays on the issues involved in current urban planning. Essayists include Robert Fishman, Jane Jacobs, Richard Sennett, Peter Hall, and William H. Wilson.
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May 1996, Cambridge, Mass.
May 1996, Cambridge, Mass.
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A selection of classic and contemporary essays on the issues involved in current urban planning. Essayists include Robert Fishman, Jane Jacobs, Richard Sennett, Peter Hall, and William H. Wilson.
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May 1996, Cambridge, Mass.
May 1996, Cambridge, Mass.
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Delirious New York
Delirious New York
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In this fanciful volume, Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas, founder of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (O.M.A.), both analyzes and celebrates New York City. By suggesting the city as the site for an infinite variety of human activities and events--both real and imagined--the essence of the metropolitan lifestyle, its "culture of congestion" and its architecture are(...)
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In this fanciful volume, Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas, founder of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (O.M.A.), both analyzes and celebrates New York City. By suggesting the city as the site for an infinite variety of human activities and events--both real and imagined--the essence of the metropolitan lifestyle, its "culture of congestion" and its architecture are(...)
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Delirious New York
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In this fanciful volume, Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas, founder of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (O.M.A.), both analyzes and celebrates New York City. By suggesting the city as the site for an infinite variety of human activities and events--both real and imagined--the essence of the metropolitan lifestyle, its "culture of congestion" and its architecture are revealed in a brilliant new light. "Manhattan," Koolhaas writes, "is the 20th century's Rosetta stone . . . occupied by architectural mutations (Central Park, the Skyscraper), utopian fragments (Rockefeller Center, the U.N. Building), and irrational phenomena (Radio City Music Hall)." Filled with fascinating facts, as well as photographs, postcards, maps, watercolors, and drawings, the vibrancy of Koolhaas's poignant exploration of Gotham equals the heady, frenetic energy of the city itself. Revised and redesigned edition of this classic.
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In this fanciful volume, Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas, founder of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (O.M.A.), both analyzes and celebrates New York City. By suggesting the city as the site for an infinite variety of human activities and events--both real and imagined--the essence of the metropolitan lifestyle, its "culture of congestion" and its architecture are revealed in a brilliant new light. "Manhattan," Koolhaas writes, "is the 20th century's Rosetta stone . . . occupied by architectural mutations (Central Park, the Skyscraper), utopian fragments (Rockefeller Center, the U.N. Building), and irrational phenomena (Radio City Music Hall)." Filled with fascinating facts, as well as photographs, postcards, maps, watercolors, and drawings, the vibrancy of Koolhaas's poignant exploration of Gotham equals the heady, frenetic energy of the city itself. Revised and redesigned edition of this classic.
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October 1994, New York
October 1994, New York
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Urban Theory
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