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Michael Wolf is best known for his large-size architectural shots from Hong Kong and Chicago. Actually the series “Architecture of Density” and “The Transplant City” are part of a constantly growing oeuvre which deals with the conditions of the modern urban life under the title “Life in Cities”. With his recently published book “Tokyo Compression”, which shows depressing(...)
Michael Wolf: a series of unfortunate events
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Michael Wolf is best known for his large-size architectural shots from Hong Kong and Chicago. Actually the series “Architecture of Density” and “The Transplant City” are part of a constantly growing oeuvre which deals with the conditions of the modern urban life under the title “Life in Cities”. With his recently published book “Tokyo Compression”, which shows depressing impressions from the subway system in Tokyo, the photographer raises the question: In how far may, should or must photographers deal with the public today? Michael Wolf takes up this topic in his work “Street View”, which has been started at the same time as “Tokyo Compression”, and reinterprets the genre of the street photography in a highly unconventional way by using the almost inexhaustible picture pool of the Google Tool as basic material for his own images. With the camera in front of the screen he gets “his” images out of the automatically generated, authorless Google screens. Extreme details and geographical fade-ins of the software, which usually should serve the orientation, induce photographs which have an irritating as well as alarming effect like the underground portraits from Tokyo.
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Code de la route
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Attention, circulation pixelisée ! Entre le tapis-route et l’écran d’ordinateur, une initiation graphique et drôle au code de la route.
Code de la route
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Attention, circulation pixelisée ! Entre le tapis-route et l’écran d’ordinateur, une initiation graphique et drôle au code de la route.
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Cet herbier est consacré aux plantes qui puisent la force de s’insinuer dans notre espace urbain, dans les joints des caniveaux et des trottoirs, dans les fissures des murs, au pied des arbres, dans les pelouses des parcs, le long des grillages, sur les toits… Ces plantes sauvages des villes peuvent aussi bien être arborescentes que rampantes, florales que graminées, et(...)
L'Herbier: plantes sauvages des villes
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Cet herbier est consacré aux plantes qui puisent la force de s’insinuer dans notre espace urbain, dans les joints des caniveaux et des trottoirs, dans les fissures des murs, au pied des arbres, dans les pelouses des parcs, le long des grillages, sur les toits… Ces plantes sauvages des villes peuvent aussi bien être arborescentes que rampantes, florales que graminées, et possèdent, tout autant que leurs cousines des bois, une histoire, un usage, une mythologie. Comme les précédents herbiers, ce livre d’images présente, pour chaque plante, la découpe de sa feuille, de son fruit et de sa graine.
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Un bestiaire graphique comme un jeu de cubes colorés, où l’on découvre le nom de chaque animal en italien, anglais, espagnol et allemand.
L'attrait de la ruine
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D'où vient-il que la ruine au cinéma exerce un attrait, au point de vouloir lui consacrer du temps, un livre, et penser qu'un quelconque lecteur puisse vouloir y accorder son attention ? Peut-être est-ce parce que la ruine, telle qu'elle s'incarne au cinéma, que ce soit comme décombres de guerre ou vestiges antiques, chantier désaffecté ou lambeau de pellicule rescapé,(...)
October 2011
L'attrait de la ruine
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D'où vient-il que la ruine au cinéma exerce un attrait, au point de vouloir lui consacrer du temps, un livre, et penser qu'un quelconque lecteur puisse vouloir y accorder son attention ? Peut-être est-ce parce que la ruine, telle qu'elle s'incarne au cinéma, que ce soit comme décombres de guerre ou vestiges antiques, chantier désaffecté ou lambeau de pellicule rescapé, exacerbe ce lien mélancolique, quasi ontologique, qui nous attache au temps et à la mémoire du cinéma (c'est-à-dire, comme le dirait Daney, à " la promesse d'un monde "): présence d'une absence, insaisissable trop tard, toujours-déjà passé, en train de disparaître. Ce brillant essai s'intéresse ainsi à décrire ces moments de cinéma où le temps, sous diverses modalités, apparaît de manière sensible, en tant qu'expérience. Ces pages décrivent moins une histoire en bonne et due forme de la ruine au cinéma, qu'un parcours subjectif de fragments disparates qui constitue un programme possible et très partiel de cet attrait.
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This book presents various designs for a National History Museum in the Netherlands. Kenneth Frampton and Hans Ibelings wrote essays on good museum architecture, researchers at the Berlage Institute made sketches, and three young European architecture firms, 51N4E, Baukuh, and Monadnock, submitted plans to encourage thinking about new museum architecture.
Sketches for a national history museum
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This book presents various designs for a National History Museum in the Netherlands. Kenneth Frampton and Hans Ibelings wrote essays on good museum architecture, researchers at the Berlage Institute made sketches, and three young European architecture firms, 51N4E, Baukuh, and Monadnock, submitted plans to encourage thinking about new museum architecture.
Museology
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Sanzo Wada (1883-1967) was an artist, teacher, costume and kimono designer during a turbulent time in avant-garde Japanese art and cinema. Wada was ahead of his time in developing traditional and Western influenced colour combinations, helping to lay the foundations for contemporary colour research. Based on his original 6-volume work from the 1930s, this book offers 348(...)
A dictionary of color combinations
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Sanzo Wada (1883-1967) was an artist, teacher, costume and kimono designer during a turbulent time in avant-garde Japanese art and cinema. Wada was ahead of his time in developing traditional and Western influenced colour combinations, helping to lay the foundations for contemporary colour research. Based on his original 6-volume work from the 1930s, this book offers 348 color combinations, as attractive and sensuous as the books own design.
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Re-inventing construction
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Re-inventing Construction presents two complementary approaches: On the one hand, the book gives an overview of new construction technologies, material research, energy concepts, as well as ownership models and development strategies in architecture. On the other hand, it rediscovers the wisdom of vernacular architecture with its smart use of locally available building(...)
Re-inventing construction
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Re-inventing Construction presents two complementary approaches: On the one hand, the book gives an overview of new construction technologies, material research, energy concepts, as well as ownership models and development strategies in architecture. On the other hand, it rediscovers the wisdom of vernacular architecture with its smart use of locally available building materials, building methods and typologies, as well as the ingenious understanding of natural principles
Engineering Structures
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Christien Meindertsma has spent three years researching all the products made from a single pig. Amongst some of the more unexpected results were: Ammunition, medicine, photo paper, heart valves, brakes, chewing gum, porcelain, cosmetics, cigarettes, conditioner and even bio diesel.
Christien Meindertsma : pig 05049
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Christien Meindertsma has spent three years researching all the products made from a single pig. Amongst some of the more unexpected results were: Ammunition, medicine, photo paper, heart valves, brakes, chewing gum, porcelain, cosmetics, cigarettes, conditioner and even bio diesel.
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October 2008
Food
Harold Strak : Arthropoda
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Whoever reads this book probably has to do a double take to each of the pictures. Even though, their beauty and appeal is obvious; their subject matter is not. Upon taking a closer look, it becomes clear that what is shown on these intricate black-and-white pictures are in fact dead organisms. From moths to flies to other unrecognizable creatures.
Harold Strak : Arthropoda
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Whoever reads this book probably has to do a double take to each of the pictures. Even though, their beauty and appeal is obvious; their subject matter is not. Upon taking a closer look, it becomes clear that what is shown on these intricate black-and-white pictures are in fact dead organisms. From moths to flies to other unrecognizable creatures.
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