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La "ville durable" est devenue un référentiel de l'action collective. L'idée s'est diffusée à l'échelle planétaire en quelques décennies. Cet ouvrage se concentre sur cette perception de la ville au sud de la Méditerranée: une aire qui n'est pas précurseur, loin s'en faut, dans ce domaine. Aussi tente-t-il de faire le point des débats sur cette question au Maroc, en(...)
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La "ville durable" est devenue un référentiel de l'action collective. L'idée s'est diffusée à l'échelle planétaire en quelques décennies. Cet ouvrage se concentre sur cette perception de la ville au sud de la Méditerranée: une aire qui n'est pas précurseur, loin s'en faut, dans ce domaine. Aussi tente-t-il de faire le point des débats sur cette question au Maroc, en Algérie, en Tunisie, en Égypte, en Jordanie, en Syrie et en Turquie.Une série d'articles scientifiques se mêle à des paroles de professionnels pour voir quels sens y prend la "ville durable" dans chacun de ces pays. Une démarche originale.
Urban Theory
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Si l'automobile, puis les transports en commun ont longtemps été privilégiés par les politiques de mobilité des grandes villes européennes, la marche se trouve aujourd'hui au coeur des réflexions, comme réponse aux enjeux du développement durable. Cette ouvrage éclaire la façon dont le piéton trouve sa place dans le processus de rééquilibrage de l'espace public et comment(...)
Le piéton dans la ville: l'espace public partagé
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Si l'automobile, puis les transports en commun ont longtemps été privilégiés par les politiques de mobilité des grandes villes européennes, la marche se trouve aujourd'hui au coeur des réflexions, comme réponse aux enjeux du développement durable. Cette ouvrage éclaire la façon dont le piéton trouve sa place dans le processus de rééquilibrage de l'espace public et comment la lenteur peut représenter une culture garante d'une certaine qualité de vie.
Urban Theory
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The publication A Cookbook for Political Imagination accompanies the exhibition “… and Europe will be stunned” for the Polish Pavilion at the 54th Biennale of Art in Venice. This is not a traditional exhibition catalogue but rather a manual of political instructions and recipes, delivered by more than forty international authors. Covering a broad spectrum of themes, the(...)
A cookbook for political imagination
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The publication A Cookbook for Political Imagination accompanies the exhibition “… and Europe will be stunned” for the Polish Pavilion at the 54th Biennale of Art in Venice. This is not a traditional exhibition catalogue but rather a manual of political instructions and recipes, delivered by more than forty international authors. Covering a broad spectrum of themes, the cookbook comprises manifestos, artistic contributions, fictional stories to elements of visual identity, food recipes, social advice and guidance for members of the movement. It is the first book published under the auspices of the Jewish Renaissance Movement in Poland, and has been edited by the curators of the exhibition, Sebastian Cichocki and Galit Eilat, and designed by Guy Saggee from Shual Studio
Critical Theory
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On both economic and psychological grounds, author Matthew B. Crawford questions the educational imperative of turning everyone into a "knowledge worker," based on a misguided separation of thinking from doing. Using his own experience as an electrician and mechanic, Crawford presents a call for self-reliance and a moving reflection on how we can live concretely in an(...)
Shop class as soulcraft: an inquiry into the value of work
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On both economic and psychological grounds, author Matthew B. Crawford questions the educational imperative of turning everyone into a "knowledge worker," based on a misguided separation of thinking from doing. Using his own experience as an electrician and mechanic, Crawford presents a call for self-reliance and a moving reflection on how we can live concretely in an ever more abstract world.
Critical Theory
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In Dime-Store Alchemy, poet Charles Simic reflects on the life and work of Joseph Cornell, the maverick surrealist who is one of America's great artists. Simic's spare prose is as enchanting and luminous as the mysterious boxes of found objects for which Cornell is justly renowned.
Dime-store alchemy: the art of Joseph Cornell
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In Dime-Store Alchemy, poet Charles Simic reflects on the life and work of Joseph Cornell, the maverick surrealist who is one of America's great artists. Simic's spare prose is as enchanting and luminous as the mysterious boxes of found objects for which Cornell is justly renowned.
Art Theory
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Published on the occasion of The Grand Domestic Revolution GOES ON , a series of activities that check in on a long-term 'living research' project titled User's Manual: The Grand Revolution. This publication include surveys of contemporary cooperative and co-housing movements, an essay linking artistic and domestic labour and an interview with Dolores Hayden, author(...)
The grand domestic revolution goes on
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Published on the occasion of The Grand Domestic Revolution GOES ON , a series of activities that check in on a long-term 'living research' project titled User's Manual: The Grand Revolution. This publication include surveys of contemporary cooperative and co-housing movements, an essay linking artistic and domestic labour and an interview with Dolores Hayden, author of the 'original' The Grand Domestic Revolution, a chronicle of 19th century material feminist design movement in the United States.
Art Theory
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Travelling exhibition catalogue (Middelburg, Milan, Paris) of an exhibition project presenting 12 emerging young artists, providing a theoretical hypothesis on the use and manipulation of forms, images and texts, highlighting both their formal implications and their philosophical, political and social content.The artists will thus not only reflect on the potential themes(...)
Beyond the dust : artists' documents today
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Travelling exhibition catalogue (Middelburg, Milan, Paris) of an exhibition project presenting 12 emerging young artists, providing a theoretical hypothesis on the use and manipulation of forms, images and texts, highlighting both their formal implications and their philosophical, political and social content.The artists will thus not only reflect on the potential themes raised by the various components, but will offer a broader reflection on the contemporary meaning of memory, and hence authenticity, fiction and falsehood. Artists include Richard Sympson, Batia Suter, Irene Kopelman, Jeroen Kooijmans, Invernomuto, Mark Geffriaud, Linda Fregni Nagler, Diego Marcon and others.
Art Theory
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A follow-up volume to Architecture on Display: On the History of the Venice Biennale Architecture, published by the Architectural Association in 2010. This volume contains discussions with writers, architects and academics in Chicago, Venice, London and New York on the theme of display.
Four conversations on the architecture of discourse
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A follow-up volume to Architecture on Display: On the History of the Venice Biennale Architecture, published by the Architectural Association in 2010. This volume contains discussions with writers, architects and academics in Chicago, Venice, London and New York on the theme of display.
Architectural Theory
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This collection of a number of key essays by the New York-based architect and writer Mark Rakatansky proposes an innovative framework for architecture to enact the complex tectonic dramas of social and culture space. Following its title, the book is arrayed in three sections: Tectonic, Acts of, Desire and Doubt. In each, Rakatansky covers a series of subjects in a(...)
AA words 9: tectonic acts of desire and doubt
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This collection of a number of key essays by the New York-based architect and writer Mark Rakatansky proposes an innovative framework for architecture to enact the complex tectonic dramas of social and culture space. Following its title, the book is arrayed in three sections: Tectonic, Acts of, Desire and Doubt. In each, Rakatansky covers a series of subjects in a writerly voice that varies from the third-person narrative of the scholarly essays to the transcript of an email exchange with fellow academic Sarah Whiting discussing recent books by architect Greg Lynn. Transformational performances of architectural identity are explored in discussions of fabrication, social parametrics, building envelopes, spatial narratives, animation, migrancy, and in illuminating readings into the works of Louis Kahn, Robin Evans, John Coltrane, Giulio Romano and Andrea Palladio.
Architectural Theory
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Written by landscape historian Alessandra Ponte, this collection of essays begins with an investigation of the American obsession with lawns and then continues to collectively map the aesthetic, scientific and technological production of past and present North American landscapes. These include the American desert as a privileged site of scientific and artistic testing;(...)
AA words 11 : the house of light and entropy
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Written by landscape historian Alessandra Ponte, this collection of essays begins with an investigation of the American obsession with lawns and then continues to collectively map the aesthetic, scientific and technological production of past and present North American landscapes. These include the American desert as a privileged site of scientific and artistic testing; the faraway projects of electrification of the Canadian North; the transformation of the notion and perception of waste and wasteland during the twentieth century; the photographic medium and its encounters with Native Americans; as well as an introductory essay, 'The Map and the Territory', written specifically for this volume.
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