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The age of information, media, and virtuality is transforming every aspect of human experience. Questions that have long haunted the philosophical imagination are becoming urgent practical concerns: Where does the natural end and the artificial begin? Is there a difference between the material and the immaterial? In his new work, Mark C. Taylor extends his ongoing(...)
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The age of information, media, and virtuality is transforming every aspect of human experience. Questions that have long haunted the philosophical imagination are becoming urgent practical concerns: Where does the natural end and the artificial begin? Is there a difference between the material and the immaterial? In his new work, Mark C. Taylor extends his ongoing(...)
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Hiding
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The age of information, media, and virtuality is transforming every aspect of human experience. Questions that have long haunted the philosophical imagination are becoming urgent practical concerns: Where does the natural end and the artificial begin? Is there a difference between the material and the immaterial? In his new work, Mark C. Taylor extends his ongoing investigation of postmodern worlds by critically examining a wide range of contemporary cultural practices. Nothing defines postmodernism so well as its refusal of depth, its emphasis on appearance and spectacle, its tendency to collapse a three-dimensional world in which image and reality are distinct into a two-dimensional world in which they merge. The postmodern world, Taylor argues, is a world of surfaces, and the postmodern condition is one of profound superficiality. For many cultural commentators, postmodernism's inescapable play of surfaces is cause for despair. Taylor, on the other hand, shows that the disappearance of depth in postmodern culture is actually a liberation repleat with creative possibilities. Taylor introduces readers to a popular culture in which detectives--the postmodern heroes of Paul Auster and Dennis Potter--lift surfaces only to find more surfaces, and in which fashion advertising plays transparency against hiding. Taylor looks at the contemporary preoccupation with body piercing and tattooing, and asks whether these practices actually reveal or conceal. Phrenology and skin diseases, the "religious" architecture of Las Vegas, the limitless spread of computer networks--all are brought within the scope of Taylor's brilliant analysis. Postmodernism, he shows, has given us a new sense of the superficial, one in which the issue is not the absence of meaning but its uncontrollable, ecstatic proliferation. Embodying the very tendencies it analyzes, Hiding is unique. Conceived and developed with well-known designers Michael Rock and Susan Sellars, this work transgresses the boundary that customarily separates graphic design from the story within a text. The product of nearly three decades of reflection and writing, Hiding opens a window on contemporary culture. To follow the remarkable course Taylor charts is to see both our present and past differently and to encounter a future as disorienting as it is alluring. Conceived and developed with designers Michael Rock and Susan Sellers.
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The age of information, media, and virtuality is transforming every aspect of human experience. Questions that have long haunted the philosophical imagination are becoming urgent practical concerns: Where does the natural end and the artificial begin? Is there a difference between the material and the immaterial? In his new work, Mark C. Taylor extends his ongoing investigation of postmodern worlds by critically examining a wide range of contemporary cultural practices. Nothing defines postmodernism so well as its refusal of depth, its emphasis on appearance and spectacle, its tendency to collapse a three-dimensional world in which image and reality are distinct into a two-dimensional world in which they merge. The postmodern world, Taylor argues, is a world of surfaces, and the postmodern condition is one of profound superficiality. For many cultural commentators, postmodernism's inescapable play of surfaces is cause for despair. Taylor, on the other hand, shows that the disappearance of depth in postmodern culture is actually a liberation repleat with creative possibilities. Taylor introduces readers to a popular culture in which detectives--the postmodern heroes of Paul Auster and Dennis Potter--lift surfaces only to find more surfaces, and in which fashion advertising plays transparency against hiding. Taylor looks at the contemporary preoccupation with body piercing and tattooing, and asks whether these practices actually reveal or conceal. Phrenology and skin diseases, the "religious" architecture of Las Vegas, the limitless spread of computer networks--all are brought within the scope of Taylor's brilliant analysis. Postmodernism, he shows, has given us a new sense of the superficial, one in which the issue is not the absence of meaning but its uncontrollable, ecstatic proliferation. Embodying the very tendencies it analyzes, Hiding is unique. Conceived and developed with well-known designers Michael Rock and Susan Sellars, this work transgresses the boundary that customarily separates graphic design from the story within a text. The product of nearly three decades of reflection and writing, Hiding opens a window on contemporary culture. To follow the remarkable course Taylor charts is to see both our present and past differently and to encounter a future as disorienting as it is alluring. Conceived and developed with designers Michael Rock and Susan Sellers.
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October 1997, Chicago
October 1997, Chicago
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Architectural Theory
Architectural Theory
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Happiness for all? : unequal hopes and lives in pursuit of the American dream / Carol Graham.
Happiness for all? : unequal hopes and lives in pursuit of the American dream / Carol Graham.
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xv, 192 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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xv, 192 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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- Social mobility United States.,
- Social classes United States.,
- Equality United States.,
- American Dream.,
- Mobilité sociale États-Unis.,
- Classes sociales États-Unis.,
- Rêve américain.,
- Economic history,
- Equality,
- Social classes,
- Social conditions,
- Social mobility,
- Soziale Ungleichheit,
- Wohlstand,
- Selbstwirksamkeit,
- Zukunftserwartung,
- income distribution.,
- social stratification.,
- United States Social conditions.,
- United States Economic conditions.,
- États-Unis Conditions sociales.,
- États-Unis Conditions économiques.,
- United States,
- USA
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©2017, Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2017]
©2017, Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2017]
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Happiness for all? : unequal hopes and lives in pursuit of the American dream / Carol Graham.
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xv, 192 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Happiness for all? : unequal hopes and lives in pursuit of the American dream / Carol Graham.
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xv, 192 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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©2017, Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2017]
©2017, Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2017]
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- Social mobility United States.,
- Social classes United States.,
- Equality United States.,
- American Dream.,
- Mobilité sociale États-Unis.,
- Classes sociales États-Unis.,
- Rêve américain.,
- Economic history,
- Equality,
- Social classes,
- Social conditions,
- Social mobility,
- Soziale Ungleichheit,
- Wohlstand,
- Selbstwirksamkeit,
- Zukunftserwartung,
- income distribution.,
- social stratification.,
- United States Social conditions.,
- United States Economic conditions.,
- États-Unis Conditions sociales.,
- États-Unis Conditions économiques.,
- United States,
- USA
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xi, 228 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm.
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xi, 228 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm.
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- Ryan Bishop, John Phillips, Wei-Wei Yeo -- Wei-Wei Yeo -- Gregory Clancy -- Ryan Bishop -- Philip Holden -- Robbie B.H. Goh -- Kwek Mean Luck -- Robert Powell -- William S.W. Lim -- Heinz Paetzold -- Wong Chong Thai Bobby -- Aihwa Ong -- Carole Faucher -- John Phillips.,
- Bishop, Ryan, 1959-,
- Phillips, John, 1956-,
- Yeo, Wei-Wei.
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- Architecture Singapore.,
- City planning Singapore.,
- Architecture and history Singapore.,
- Globalization.,
- Architecture Singapour.,
- Urbanisme Singapour.,
- Mondialisation.,
- Architecture et histoire Singapour.,
- globalism.,
- 74.72 urban planning.,
- POLITICAL SCIENCE Public Policy Regional Planning.,
- Architecture,
- Architecture and history,
- City planning,
- Stedelijk beleid.,
- Open ruimten.,
- Bouwkunst.,
- Singapore
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London ; New York : Routledge, 2004.
London ; New York : Routledge, 2004.
Title:
Beyond description : Singapore space historicity / edited by Ryan Bishop, John Phillips, and Wei-Wei Yeo.
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xi, 228 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm.
Beyond description : Singapore space historicity / edited by Ryan Bishop, John Phillips, and Wei-Wei Yeo.
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xi, 228 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm.
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London ; New York : Routledge, 2004.
London ; New York : Routledge, 2004.
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- Ryan Bishop, John Phillips, Wei-Wei Yeo -- Wei-Wei Yeo -- Gregory Clancy -- Ryan Bishop -- Philip Holden -- Robbie B.H. Goh -- Kwek Mean Luck -- Robert Powell -- William S.W. Lim -- Heinz Paetzold -- Wong Chong Thai Bobby -- Aihwa Ong -- Carole Faucher -- John Phillips.,
- Bishop, Ryan, 1959-,
- Phillips, John, 1956-,
- Yeo, Wei-Wei.
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- Architecture Singapore.,
- City planning Singapore.,
- Architecture and history Singapore.,
- Globalization.,
- Architecture Singapour.,
- Urbanisme Singapour.,
- Mondialisation.,
- Architecture et histoire Singapour.,
- globalism.,
- 74.72 urban planning.,
- POLITICAL SCIENCE Public Policy Regional Planning.,
- Architecture,
- Architecture and history,
- City planning,
- Stedelijk beleid.,
- Open ruimten.,
- Bouwkunst.,
- Singapore
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329 pages, includes 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 19 cm
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329 pages, includes 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 19 cm
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- Boris Buden -- Jelena Vesić -- Barnabás Bencsik -- What, How & for Whom/WHW -- Maria Lind and Tensta konsthall -- Petra Bauer and Sofia Wiberg -- Lawrence Abu Hamdan --,
- Lind, Maria, 1966-,
- Abu Hamdan, Lawrence, 1985-,
- Bauer, Petra, 1970-,
- Wiberg, Sofia,,
- What, How and For Whom (Organization),,
- Tensta konsthall,,
- Grazer Kunstverein,
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- Art, European 21st century Exhibitions.,
- Fascism in art Exhibitions.,
- Politics in art Exhibitions.,
- Nationalism in art Exhibitions.,
- Art, European 21st century.,
- Fascism in art.,
- Politics in art.,
- Nationalism in art.,
- Art européen 21e siècle Expositions.,
- Fascisme dans l'art Expositions.,
- Politique dans l'art Expositions.,
- Nationalisme dans l'art Expositions.,
- Art européen 21e siècle.,
- Fascisme dans l'art.,
- Politique dans l'art.,
- Nationalisme dans l'art.,
- Art, European,
- exhibition catalogs.,
- Exhibition catalogs,
- Catalogues d'exposition.
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Berlin : Sternberg Press, 2014.
Berlin : Sternberg Press, 2014.
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Art and the F Word : reflections on the browning of Europe / edited by Maria Lind, What, How & for Whom/WHW ; contributions by Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Petra Bauer and Sofia Wiberg [and five others].
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329 pages, includes 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 19 cm
Art and the F Word : reflections on the browning of Europe / edited by Maria Lind, What, How & for Whom/WHW ; contributions by Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Petra Bauer and Sofia Wiberg [and five others].
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329 pages, includes 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 19 cm
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Berlin : Sternberg Press, 2014.
Berlin : Sternberg Press, 2014.
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- Boris Buden -- Jelena Vesić -- Barnabás Bencsik -- What, How & for Whom/WHW -- Maria Lind and Tensta konsthall -- Petra Bauer and Sofia Wiberg -- Lawrence Abu Hamdan --,
- Lind, Maria, 1966-,
- Abu Hamdan, Lawrence, 1985-,
- Bauer, Petra, 1970-,
- Wiberg, Sofia,,
- What, How and For Whom (Organization),,
- Tensta konsthall,,
- Grazer Kunstverein,
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- Art, European 21st century Exhibitions.,
- Fascism in art Exhibitions.,
- Politics in art Exhibitions.,
- Nationalism in art Exhibitions.,
- Art, European 21st century.,
- Fascism in art.,
- Politics in art.,
- Nationalism in art.,
- Art européen 21e siècle Expositions.,
- Fascisme dans l'art Expositions.,
- Politique dans l'art Expositions.,
- Nationalisme dans l'art Expositions.,
- Art européen 21e siècle.,
- Fascisme dans l'art.,
- Politique dans l'art.,
- Nationalisme dans l'art.,
- Art, European,
- exhibition catalogs.,
- Exhibition catalogs,
- Catalogues d'exposition.
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- Space (Architecture),
- Border security.,
- Cartography.,
- Drone aircraft.,
- Remote-sensing images.,
- Violence.,
- Espace (Architecture),
- Sécurité frontalière.,
- Cartographie.,
- Images-satellite.,
- cartography (discipline),
- violence.,
- Creative Nonfiction.,
- Records (Documents),
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.,
- Discursive works.,
- Documents administratifs.
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[Place of publication not identified] : Border Forensics, 2026.
[Place of publication not identified] : Border Forensics, 2026.
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[Place of publication not identified] : Border Forensics, 2026.
[Place of publication not identified] : Border Forensics, 2026.
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- Space (Architecture),
- Border security.,
- Cartography.,
- Drone aircraft.,
- Remote-sensing images.,
- Violence.,
- Espace (Architecture),
- Sécurité frontalière.,
- Cartographie.,
- Images-satellite.,
- cartography (discipline),
- violence.,
- Creative Nonfiction.,
- Records (Documents),
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.,
- Discursive works.,
- Documents administratifs.
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News becomes history as soon as it is reported. What fascinates me in talking about history is the paradoxical movement backwards while obviously propelling ahead with a story into the future. The 15-year time period covered in this show is of a recent past, a past that still unites many New Yorkers in recognition of a city at once familiar and long gone. The NYC(...)
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News becomes history as soon as it is reported. What fascinates me in talking about history is the paradoxical movement backwards while obviously propelling ahead with a story into the future. The 15-year time period covered in this show is of a recent past, a past that still unites many New Yorkers in recognition of a city at once familiar and long gone. The NYC(...)
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Aleksandra Mir: news room 1986-2000
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News becomes history as soon as it is reported. What fascinates me in talking about history is the paradoxical movement backwards while obviously propelling ahead with a story into the future. The 15-year time period covered in this show is of a recent past, a past that still unites many New Yorkers in recognition of a city at once familiar and long gone. The NYC tabloids New York Daily News and New York Post serve as practical tools that unite the population around shared joys and fears; they help spread the city’s gossip and form its identity. Whether one buys them or not, a glance at the headlines while passing by a deli or waiting for a bus is enough to be connected to the diverse masses that make up their readership. Never mind if what is reported is mostly disaster or scandal. In retrospect, news before 9/11/2001 makes this megalopolis look like a quaint town full of petty crooks, with this accident or that occasional murder resulting in the loss of a single life. A rape in Central Park and a love triangle on Long Island were the two longest running news stories of New York in the 15 years leading up to the end of the millennium. In research for this show, three assistants and myself spent months in the Public Library copying 10,000 covers of the two tabloids – the outcome of their combined cover stories of 15 years. From these, I selected around 200 that were particularly poignant, or which formed an ongoing narrative, but most importantly, that made me smile with recognition. I lived in New York between 1989 and 2005, 15 years that roughly coincide with the time period of the show. As I never had a studio in the city, I developed a practice that relied heavily on communication instead: phone, Internet, publishing, travel, performance, ephemera, event production. This show draws on all of the above. During the two months of the duration of this show, I will create an environment that primitively simulates a newsroom of a major agency or newspaper. The material output of the agency will take the form of drawings, which for me are traces of activities such as reading, moving, talking, remembering and reporting. Together with a team of assistants, I plan to create 200 drawings inspired by the aforementioned tabloid covers and my personal references to them. The gallery will be turned into the studio I never had; at the same time, we will be producing art at a schedule more akin to a news agency than to that of an artist’s studio. Every day, there will be new art and old news on the walls.
Aleksandra Mir: news room 1986-2000
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News becomes history as soon as it is reported. What fascinates me in talking about history is the paradoxical movement backwards while obviously propelling ahead with a story into the future. The 15-year time period covered in this show is of a recent past, a past that still unites many New Yorkers in recognition of a city at once familiar and long gone. The NYC tabloids New York Daily News and New York Post serve as practical tools that unite the population around shared joys and fears; they help spread the city’s gossip and form its identity. Whether one buys them or not, a glance at the headlines while passing by a deli or waiting for a bus is enough to be connected to the diverse masses that make up their readership. Never mind if what is reported is mostly disaster or scandal. In retrospect, news before 9/11/2001 makes this megalopolis look like a quaint town full of petty crooks, with this accident or that occasional murder resulting in the loss of a single life. A rape in Central Park and a love triangle on Long Island were the two longest running news stories of New York in the 15 years leading up to the end of the millennium. In research for this show, three assistants and myself spent months in the Public Library copying 10,000 covers of the two tabloids – the outcome of their combined cover stories of 15 years. From these, I selected around 200 that were particularly poignant, or which formed an ongoing narrative, but most importantly, that made me smile with recognition. I lived in New York between 1989 and 2005, 15 years that roughly coincide with the time period of the show. As I never had a studio in the city, I developed a practice that relied heavily on communication instead: phone, Internet, publishing, travel, performance, ephemera, event production. This show draws on all of the above. During the two months of the duration of this show, I will create an environment that primitively simulates a newsroom of a major agency or newspaper. The material output of the agency will take the form of drawings, which for me are traces of activities such as reading, moving, talking, remembering and reporting. Together with a team of assistants, I plan to create 200 drawings inspired by the aforementioned tabloid covers and my personal references to them. The gallery will be turned into the studio I never had; at the same time, we will be producing art at a schedule more akin to a news agency than to that of an artist’s studio. Every day, there will be new art and old news on the walls.
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July 2008, New York
July 2008, New York
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Contemporary Art Monographs
Contemporary Art Monographs
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xvii, 352 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Chichester, West Sussex ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.
Chichester, West Sussex ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.
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Worlding cities : Asian experiments and the art of being global / edited by Ananya Roy and Aihwa Ong.
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xvii, 352 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Worlding cities : Asian experiments and the art of being global / edited by Ananya Roy and Aihwa Ong.
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xvii, 352 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Chichester, West Sussex ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.
Chichester, West Sussex ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.
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592 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 22 cm
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592 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 22 cm
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- Office buildings United States Design and construction.,
- Office buildings United States History.,
- Office decoration United States History.,
- Office decoration United States History Pictorial works.,
- Architecture United States.,
- Immeubles de bureaux États-Unis Histoire.,
- Bureaux Décoration États-Unis Histoire.,
- Bureaux Décoration États-Unis Histoire Ouvrages illustrés.,
- Architecture États-Unis.,
- Office buildings Design and construction. United States.,
- Office buildings History. United States.,
- Office decoration History. United States.,
- Office decoration History United States Pictorial works.,
- Office buildings Design and construction,
- Office buildings,
- Architecture,
- Office decoration,
- United States,
- History,
- Pictorial works,
- Illustrated works.,
- Ouvrages illustrés.
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Köln : Taschen GmbH, [2022], ©2022
Köln : Taschen GmbH, [2022], ©2022
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The office of good intentions : human(s) work / Florian Idenburg, LeeAnn Suen ; photography by Iwan Baan ; with Zoë Ritts, Duncan Scovil and Sean Yendrys.
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592 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 22 cm
The office of good intentions : human(s) work / Florian Idenburg, LeeAnn Suen ; photography by Iwan Baan ; with Zoë Ritts, Duncan Scovil and Sean Yendrys.
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Köln : Taschen GmbH, [2022], ©2022
Köln : Taschen GmbH, [2022], ©2022
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- Office buildings United States Design and construction.,
- Office buildings United States History.,
- Office decoration United States History.,
- Office decoration United States History Pictorial works.,
- Architecture United States.,
- Immeubles de bureaux États-Unis Histoire.,
- Bureaux Décoration États-Unis Histoire.,
- Bureaux Décoration États-Unis Histoire Ouvrages illustrés.,
- Architecture États-Unis.,
- Office buildings Design and construction. United States.,
- Office buildings History. United States.,
- Office decoration History. United States.,
- Office decoration History United States Pictorial works.,
- Office buildings Design and construction,
- Office buildings,
- Architecture,
- Office decoration,
- United States,
- History,
- Pictorial works,
- Illustrated works.,
- Ouvrages illustrés.
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Van Alen Institute mounted the exhibition "Renewing, Rebuilding, Remembering" to demonstrate how cities, after incomparable loss of people and places, find ways to plan, design, and reconstruct the life of the city. The book is both a catalogue and a special edition of our series of "Van Alen Reports," the publication both documents the exhibit and expands on it with(...)
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Van Alen Institute mounted the exhibition "Renewing, Rebuilding, Remembering" to demonstrate how cities, after incomparable loss of people and places, find ways to plan, design, and reconstruct the life of the city. The book is both a catalogue and a special edition of our series of "Van Alen Reports," the publication both documents the exhibit and expands on it with(...)
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Information exchange : how cities renew, rebuild, and remember
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Van Alen Institute mounted the exhibition "Renewing, Rebuilding, Remembering" to demonstrate how cities, after incomparable loss of people and places, find ways to plan, design, and reconstruct the life of the city. The book is both a catalogue and a special edition of our series of "Van Alen Reports," the publication both documents the exhibit and expands on it with personal essays, articles and interviews. The point of the exhibition was not to compare catastrophes, but to compare, contrast, and try to explicate and understand initiatives, projects, plans, and actions that took place after the bomb, the earthquake, the war. After that, what worked, what would they do differently, what mattered right away, what mattered for the long-term? In October, the Institute put out a call for ideas for the exhibit. Students, designers, planners, artists, professors, photographers, public officials and a wide range of respondents from around the world were generous in suggesting places, projects, issues, and designs that were telling for the future of New York. From this response and ongoing research, the Institute chose to focus on specific processes and projects in seven cities. In Beirut, a public art installation that progressed through the city was a first step in reclaiming its war-torn districts, and the Lebanese capital has continued not only with master plans and major new developments, but also with works such as the Garden of Forgiveness, grappling with a hard history to contemplate. In Berlin, a center for information about the city and its reconstruction rose above the ruins of the Berlin Wall, half a century after the city had been devastated and divided. In San Francisco, an earthquake left the elevated highway downtown in such precarious decision that the city decided to tear it down-and implement a long-held dream of reopening the city to the waterfront. In Kobe, where an earthquake resulted not only in billions of dollars of damage to infrastructure, but also in a terrible loss of life, architects responded with an outpouring of energy to survey the damage and construct innovative emergency housing, proving the old adage that necessity is the mother of invention. In addition, they strove to understand the disaster, building a museum about, and at, the geological fault that brought down so much of their city. Manchester had a terrorist attack in the mid-1990s, and rebuilt its center city better than before, as well as setting up an institute for the study of cities around the world, to better understand that the life of the city and its public realm can not be taken for granted. So, too, did Oklahoma City, where a public process led to an international design competition for a memorial, and the city has rebuilt itself around it. Sarajevo, after years of civil war, pulled together its citizens through restoring the landmarks of their public life.
Information exchange : how cities renew, rebuild, and remember
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Van Alen Institute mounted the exhibition "Renewing, Rebuilding, Remembering" to demonstrate how cities, after incomparable loss of people and places, find ways to plan, design, and reconstruct the life of the city. The book is both a catalogue and a special edition of our series of "Van Alen Reports," the publication both documents the exhibit and expands on it with personal essays, articles and interviews. The point of the exhibition was not to compare catastrophes, but to compare, contrast, and try to explicate and understand initiatives, projects, plans, and actions that took place after the bomb, the earthquake, the war. After that, what worked, what would they do differently, what mattered right away, what mattered for the long-term? In October, the Institute put out a call for ideas for the exhibit. Students, designers, planners, artists, professors, photographers, public officials and a wide range of respondents from around the world were generous in suggesting places, projects, issues, and designs that were telling for the future of New York. From this response and ongoing research, the Institute chose to focus on specific processes and projects in seven cities. In Beirut, a public art installation that progressed through the city was a first step in reclaiming its war-torn districts, and the Lebanese capital has continued not only with master plans and major new developments, but also with works such as the Garden of Forgiveness, grappling with a hard history to contemplate. In Berlin, a center for information about the city and its reconstruction rose above the ruins of the Berlin Wall, half a century after the city had been devastated and divided. In San Francisco, an earthquake left the elevated highway downtown in such precarious decision that the city decided to tear it down-and implement a long-held dream of reopening the city to the waterfront. In Kobe, where an earthquake resulted not only in billions of dollars of damage to infrastructure, but also in a terrible loss of life, architects responded with an outpouring of energy to survey the damage and construct innovative emergency housing, proving the old adage that necessity is the mother of invention. In addition, they strove to understand the disaster, building a museum about, and at, the geological fault that brought down so much of their city. Manchester had a terrorist attack in the mid-1990s, and rebuilt its center city better than before, as well as setting up an institute for the study of cities around the world, to better understand that the life of the city and its public realm can not be taken for granted. So, too, did Oklahoma City, where a public process led to an international design competition for a memorial, and the city has rebuilt itself around it. Sarajevo, after years of civil war, pulled together its citizens through restoring the landmarks of their public life.
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March 2003, New York
March 2003, New York
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Urban Theory
Urban Theory
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viii, 277 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020., ©2020
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020., ©2020
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Spatial practices : modes of action and engagement with the city / edited by Melanie Dodd.
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viii, 277 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
Spatial practices : modes of action and engagement with the city / edited by Melanie Dodd.
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Holdings:
Description:
viii, 277 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
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books
Publication:
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020., ©2020
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020., ©2020
