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Following Italy's unification in 1861, architects, artists, politicians, and literati engaged in volatile debates over the pursuit of national and regional identity. Growing industrialization and urbanization across the country contrasted with the rediscovery of traditionally built forms and objects created by the agrarian peasantry. Pride in Modesty argues that these(...)
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Following Italy's unification in 1861, architects, artists, politicians, and literati engaged in volatile debates over the pursuit of national and regional identity. Growing industrialization and urbanization across the country contrasted with the rediscovery of traditionally built forms and objects created by the agrarian peasantry. Pride in Modesty argues that these(...)
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Pride in modesty : modernist architecture and the vernacular tradition in Italy
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Following Italy's unification in 1861, architects, artists, politicians, and literati engaged in volatile debates over the pursuit of national and regional identity. Growing industrialization and urbanization across the country contrasted with the rediscovery of traditionally built forms and objects created by the agrarian peasantry. Pride in Modesty argues that these ordinary, often anonymous, everyday things inspired and transformed Italian art and architecture from the 1920s through the 1970s. Through in-depth examinations of texts, drawings, and buildings, Michelangelo Sabatino finds that the folk traditions of the pre-industrial countryside have provided formal, practical, and poetic inspiration directly affecting both design and construction practices over a period of sixty years and a number of different political regimes. This surprising continuity allows Sabatino to reject the division of Italian history into sharply delimited periods such as Fascist Interwar and Democratic Postwar and to instead emphasize the long, continuous process that transformed pastoral and urban ideals into a new, modernist Italy.
Pride in modesty : modernist architecture and the vernacular tradition in Italy
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Following Italy's unification in 1861, architects, artists, politicians, and literati engaged in volatile debates over the pursuit of national and regional identity. Growing industrialization and urbanization across the country contrasted with the rediscovery of traditionally built forms and objects created by the agrarian peasantry. Pride in Modesty argues that these ordinary, often anonymous, everyday things inspired and transformed Italian art and architecture from the 1920s through the 1970s. Through in-depth examinations of texts, drawings, and buildings, Michelangelo Sabatino finds that the folk traditions of the pre-industrial countryside have provided formal, practical, and poetic inspiration directly affecting both design and construction practices over a period of sixty years and a number of different political regimes. This surprising continuity allows Sabatino to reject the division of Italian history into sharply delimited periods such as Fascist Interwar and Democratic Postwar and to instead emphasize the long, continuous process that transformed pastoral and urban ideals into a new, modernist Italy.
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Against architecture
Against architecture
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With insight into the human side of architecture, this critical assessment displays the shortcomings of modern urban planning as an acclaimed architect issues a passionate charge against the celebrities of the current architectural world: the “archistars.” Francesco La Clecla argues that architecture has lost its way and its true function, as the archistars mold(...)
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With insight into the human side of architecture, this critical assessment displays the shortcomings of modern urban planning as an acclaimed architect issues a passionate charge against the celebrities of the current architectural world: the “archistars.” Francesco La Clecla argues that architecture has lost its way and its true function, as the archistars mold(...)
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Against architecture
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With insight into the human side of architecture, this critical assessment displays the shortcomings of modern urban planning as an acclaimed architect issues a passionate charge against the celebrities of the current architectural world: the “archistars.” Francesco La Clecla argues that architecture has lost its way and its true function, as the archistars mold cityscapes to build their brand with no regard for the public good. More than a diatribe against the trade, the author makes a call to rethink urban space and take the cities back from “casino capitalism” that has left a string of failed urban projects, such as the Sagrera of Barcelona and the expansion of Columbia University in New York City. Recounting his travels across the globe, La Cecla provides insights to aid in resisting the planners and to find the spirit of a place.
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With insight into the human side of architecture, this critical assessment displays the shortcomings of modern urban planning as an acclaimed architect issues a passionate charge against the celebrities of the current architectural world: the “archistars.” Francesco La Clecla argues that architecture has lost its way and its true function, as the archistars mold cityscapes to build their brand with no regard for the public good. More than a diatribe against the trade, the author makes a call to rethink urban space and take the cities back from “casino capitalism” that has left a string of failed urban projects, such as the Sagrera of Barcelona and the expansion of Columbia University in New York City. Recounting his travels across the globe, La Cecla provides insights to aid in resisting the planners and to find the spirit of a place.
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This book is a collection of essays by Susan Sontag which was published in 1966. It includes some of Sontag's best-known works, including "On Style", "Notes on 'Camp'", and the titular essay "Against Interpretation". In the last, Sontag argued that in the new critical approach to aesthetics the spiritual importance of art is being replaced by the emphasis on the(...)
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This book is a collection of essays by Susan Sontag which was published in 1966. It includes some of Sontag's best-known works, including "On Style", "Notes on 'Camp'", and the titular essay "Against Interpretation". In the last, Sontag argued that in the new critical approach to aesthetics the spiritual importance of art is being replaced by the emphasis on the(...)
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Against interpretation and other essays
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This book is a collection of essays by Susan Sontag which was published in 1966. It includes some of Sontag's best-known works, including "On Style", "Notes on 'Camp'", and the titular essay "Against Interpretation". In the last, Sontag argued that in the new critical approach to aesthetics the spiritual importance of art is being replaced by the emphasis on the intellect. Rather than recognizing great creative works as possible sources of energy, she argued, contemporary critics were all too often taking art's transcendental power for granted, and focusing instead on their own intellectually constructed abstractions like "form" and "content. " In effect, she wrote, interpretation had become "the intellect's revenge upon art. " The essay famously finished with the words, "in place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art".
Against interpretation and other essays
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This book is a collection of essays by Susan Sontag which was published in 1966. It includes some of Sontag's best-known works, including "On Style", "Notes on 'Camp'", and the titular essay "Against Interpretation". In the last, Sontag argued that in the new critical approach to aesthetics the spiritual importance of art is being replaced by the emphasis on the intellect. Rather than recognizing great creative works as possible sources of energy, she argued, contemporary critics were all too often taking art's transcendental power for granted, and focusing instead on their own intellectually constructed abstractions like "form" and "content. " In effect, she wrote, interpretation had become "the intellect's revenge upon art. " The essay famously finished with the words, "in place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art".
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June 2011
June 2011
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Les dernières études du grand historien de l'art allemand, consacrées au nouvel « espace de pensée » de la modernité : un corpus soigneusement édité d'essais, de notes et de lettres en partie inédits qui apportent un éclairage nouveau sur tout un pan des recherches de Warburg et leur évolution dans le temps, en apparence fort éloigné du champ de la culture figurative de(...)
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Les dernières études du grand historien de l'art allemand, consacrées au nouvel « espace de pensée » de la modernité : un corpus soigneusement édité d'essais, de notes et de lettres en partie inédits qui apportent un éclairage nouveau sur tout un pan des recherches de Warburg et leur évolution dans le temps, en apparence fort éloigné du champ de la culture figurative de(...)
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Miroirs de faille: à Rome avec Giordano Bruno et Édouard Manet, 1928-29
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Les dernières études du grand historien de l'art allemand, consacrées au nouvel « espace de pensée » de la modernité : un corpus soigneusement édité d'essais, de notes et de lettres en partie inédits qui apportent un éclairage nouveau sur tout un pan des recherches de Warburg et leur évolution dans le temps, en apparence fort éloigné du champ de la culture figurative de la Renaissance.
Miroirs de faille: à Rome avec Giordano Bruno et Édouard Manet, 1928-29
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Les dernières études du grand historien de l'art allemand, consacrées au nouvel « espace de pensée » de la modernité : un corpus soigneusement édité d'essais, de notes et de lettres en partie inédits qui apportent un éclairage nouveau sur tout un pan des recherches de Warburg et leur évolution dans le temps, en apparence fort éloigné du champ de la culture figurative de la Renaissance.
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Penser l'image
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Qu´est-ce qu´une image? La multiplication proliférante des images semble bien - et c´est là son paradoxe - inversment proportionelle à notre faculté de dire ce qu´est réellment une image. Ce livre est un receuil de témoignant de l'incidence de la question de l'image, de sa logique spécifique et de la transformation du champ visuel dans les savoirs contemporains ainsi(...)
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Qu´est-ce qu´une image? La multiplication proliférante des images semble bien - et c´est là son paradoxe - inversment proportionelle à notre faculté de dire ce qu´est réellment une image. Ce livre est un receuil de témoignant de l'incidence de la question de l'image, de sa logique spécifique et de la transformation du champ visuel dans les savoirs contemporains ainsi(...)
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Penser l'image
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Qu´est-ce qu´une image? La multiplication proliférante des images semble bien - et c´est là son paradoxe - inversment proportionelle à notre faculté de dire ce qu´est réellment une image. Ce livre est un receuil de témoignant de l'incidence de la question de l'image, de sa logique spécifique et de la transformation du champ visuel dans les savoirs contemporains ainsi que de la variété de ses approches conceptuelles, de la préhistoire à nos jours, et dans différentes traditions de pensée.
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Qu´est-ce qu´une image? La multiplication proliférante des images semble bien - et c´est là son paradoxe - inversment proportionelle à notre faculté de dire ce qu´est réellment une image. Ce livre est un receuil de témoignant de l'incidence de la question de l'image, de sa logique spécifique et de la transformation du champ visuel dans les savoirs contemporains ainsi que de la variété de ses approches conceptuelles, de la préhistoire à nos jours, et dans différentes traditions de pensée.
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July 2010
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This book offers the first comprehensive overview of alternative approaches to architectural practice. At a time when many commentators are noting that alternative and richer approaches to architectural practice are required if the profession is to flourish, this book provides multiple examples from across the globe of how this has been achieved and how it might be(...)
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This book offers the first comprehensive overview of alternative approaches to architectural practice. At a time when many commentators are noting that alternative and richer approaches to architectural practice are required if the profession is to flourish, this book provides multiple examples from across the globe of how this has been achieved and how it might be(...)
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Architectural Theory
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July 2011
July 2011
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Spatial agency: other ways of doing architecture
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This book offers the first comprehensive overview of alternative approaches to architectural practice. At a time when many commentators are noting that alternative and richer approaches to architectural practice are required if the profession is to flourish, this book provides multiple examples from across the globe of how this has been achieved and how it might be achieved in the future.
Spatial agency: other ways of doing architecture
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This book offers the first comprehensive overview of alternative approaches to architectural practice. At a time when many commentators are noting that alternative and richer approaches to architectural practice are required if the profession is to flourish, this book provides multiple examples from across the globe of how this has been achieved and how it might be achieved in the future.
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Looking at the globalization, urban regeneration, arts events and cultural spectacles, this book considers a city not until now included in the global city debate. Divided into five parts, each preceded by an editorial introduction, this book is an interdisciplinary study of an iconic city, a city facing conflicting social, political and cultural pressures in its(...)
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Looking at the globalization, urban regeneration, arts events and cultural spectacles, this book considers a city not until now included in the global city debate. Divided into five parts, each preceded by an editorial introduction, this book is an interdisciplinary study of an iconic city, a city facing conflicting social, political and cultural pressures in its(...)
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Orienting Istanbul : cultural capital of Europe?
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Looking at the globalization, urban regeneration, arts events and cultural spectacles, this book considers a city not until now included in the global city debate. Divided into five parts, each preceded by an editorial introduction, this book is an interdisciplinary study of an iconic city, a city facing conflicting social, political and cultural pressures in its search for a place in Europe and on the world stage in the twenty-first century.
Orienting Istanbul : cultural capital of Europe?
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Looking at the globalization, urban regeneration, arts events and cultural spectacles, this book considers a city not until now included in the global city debate. Divided into five parts, each preceded by an editorial introduction, this book is an interdisciplinary study of an iconic city, a city facing conflicting social, political and cultural pressures in its search for a place in Europe and on the world stage in the twenty-first century.
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July 2011
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Le livre et l'architecte
Le livre et l'architecte
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Dédié aux liens complexes depuis la Renaissance entre l'architecture et le livre, cet ouvrage propose une réflexion sur la médiatisation de l'architecture. En rassemblant une quarantaine d'essais rédigés par des spécialistes de différents domaines, ce livre présente le rapport entre l'architecture et les ouvrages, tantôt pratiques, tantôt artistiques, qu'il produit et qu'il utilise.
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Dédié aux liens complexes depuis la Renaissance entre l'architecture et le livre, cet ouvrage propose une réflexion sur la médiatisation de l'architecture. En rassemblant une quarantaine d'essais rédigés par des spécialistes de différents domaines, ce livre présente le rapport entre l'architecture et les ouvrages, tantôt pratiques, tantôt artistiques, qu'il produit et qu'il utilise.
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Le livre et l'architecte
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Dédié aux liens complexes depuis la Renaissance entre l'architecture et le livre, cet ouvrage propose une réflexion sur la médiatisation de l'architecture. En rassemblant une quarantaine d'essais rédigés par des spécialistes de différents domaines, ce livre présente le rapport entre l'architecture et les ouvrages, tantôt pratiques, tantôt artistiques, qu'il produit et qu'il utilise.
Le livre et l'architecte
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Dédié aux liens complexes depuis la Renaissance entre l'architecture et le livre, cet ouvrage propose une réflexion sur la médiatisation de l'architecture. En rassemblant une quarantaine d'essais rédigés par des spécialistes de différents domaines, ce livre présente le rapport entre l'architecture et les ouvrages, tantôt pratiques, tantôt artistiques, qu'il produit et qu'il utilise.
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July 2011
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Perverse cities
Perverse cities
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Urban sprawl -- low-density subdivisions and business parks, big box stores and mega-malls -- has increasingly come to define city growth despite decades of planning and policy. Urban planning has focused on curbing sprawl by treating its symptoms -- aiming to regulate more compact, livable urban forms into being. Most urbanists view sprawl as an expensive and(...)
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Urban sprawl -- low-density subdivisions and business parks, big box stores and mega-malls -- has increasingly come to define city growth despite decades of planning and policy. Urban planning has focused on curbing sprawl by treating its symptoms -- aiming to regulate more compact, livable urban forms into being. Most urbanists view sprawl as an expensive and(...)
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Perverse cities
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Urban sprawl -- low-density subdivisions and business parks, big box stores and mega-malls -- has increasingly come to define city growth despite decades of planning and policy. Urban planning has focused on curbing sprawl by treating its symptoms -- aiming to regulate more compact, livable urban forms into being. Most urbanists view sprawl as an expensive and unsustainable pattern of development. Yet a few defend it as the natural expression of the market neutrally responding to consumer demand and as a reflection of consumers’ lifestyle preferences. In Perverse Cities, Pamela Blais argues that both views fail to recognize market distortions and flawed policy that drive sprawl. She shows that, as a result of crude public policies, a wide range of urban goods and services are subject to inaccurate price signals, including housing, non-residential properties, transportation and utilities. Mis-pricing creates hidden, "perverse" subsidies and incentives that promote sprawl while discouraging more efficient and sustainable urban forms -- clearly not what most planners and environmentalists have in mind. Perverse Cities makes the case that accurate pricing and better policy are fundamental to curbing sprawl and shows how this can be achieved in practice through a range of market-oriented tools that promote efficient, sustainable cities.
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Urban sprawl -- low-density subdivisions and business parks, big box stores and mega-malls -- has increasingly come to define city growth despite decades of planning and policy. Urban planning has focused on curbing sprawl by treating its symptoms -- aiming to regulate more compact, livable urban forms into being. Most urbanists view sprawl as an expensive and unsustainable pattern of development. Yet a few defend it as the natural expression of the market neutrally responding to consumer demand and as a reflection of consumers’ lifestyle preferences. In Perverse Cities, Pamela Blais argues that both views fail to recognize market distortions and flawed policy that drive sprawl. She shows that, as a result of crude public policies, a wide range of urban goods and services are subject to inaccurate price signals, including housing, non-residential properties, transportation and utilities. Mis-pricing creates hidden, "perverse" subsidies and incentives that promote sprawl while discouraging more efficient and sustainable urban forms -- clearly not what most planners and environmentalists have in mind. Perverse Cities makes the case that accurate pricing and better policy are fundamental to curbing sprawl and shows how this can be achieved in practice through a range of market-oriented tools that promote efficient, sustainable cities.
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April 2011
April 2011
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Urban Theory
Urban Theory
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Drawing on his professional experience of almost sixty years, Jacobs guides the reader through the lessons he's learnt as a planner and lover of cities. Cities from Brazil, Italy, India, Japan, China and the US are featured. Written with a engaging, humorous tone and Jacobs' own drawings, this publication transfers lessons on city design, building and urban change to all(...)
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Drawing on his professional experience of almost sixty years, Jacobs guides the reader through the lessons he's learnt as a planner and lover of cities. Cities from Brazil, Italy, India, Japan, China and the US are featured. Written with a engaging, humorous tone and Jacobs' own drawings, this publication transfers lessons on city design, building and urban change to all(...)
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The good city: reflections and imaginations
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Drawing on his professional experience of almost sixty years, Jacobs guides the reader through the lessons he's learnt as a planner and lover of cities. Cities from Brazil, Italy, India, Japan, China and the US are featured. Written with a engaging, humorous tone and Jacobs' own drawings, this publication transfers lessons on city design, building and urban change to all those willing to help cities become the beautiful places they should be - and encourages all inhabitants to learn to appreciate and explore their own cities.
The good city: reflections and imaginations
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Drawing on his professional experience of almost sixty years, Jacobs guides the reader through the lessons he's learnt as a planner and lover of cities. Cities from Brazil, Italy, India, Japan, China and the US are featured. Written with a engaging, humorous tone and Jacobs' own drawings, this publication transfers lessons on city design, building and urban change to all those willing to help cities become the beautiful places they should be - and encourages all inhabitants to learn to appreciate and explore their own cities.
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April 2011
April 2011
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Urban Theory
Urban Theory
