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David Hartt : stray light
David Hartt : stray light
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When the Johnson Publishing Company, best known for Jet and Ebony, moved into its iconic building on Michigan Avenue, the structure symbolized a bold entry into both the Chicago skyline and the city’s cultural environment. This emblematic building was the first in Chicago designed and owned by African Americans, a modernist masterpiece that in 1980 the Washington Post(...)
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When the Johnson Publishing Company, best known for Jet and Ebony, moved into its iconic building on Michigan Avenue, the structure symbolized a bold entry into both the Chicago skyline and the city’s cultural environment. This emblematic building was the first in Chicago designed and owned by African Americans, a modernist masterpiece that in 1980 the Washington Post(...)
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David Hartt : stray light
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When the Johnson Publishing Company, best known for Jet and Ebony, moved into its iconic building on Michigan Avenue, the structure symbolized a bold entry into both the Chicago skyline and the city’s cultural environment. This emblematic building was the first in Chicago designed and owned by African Americans, a modernist masterpiece that in 1980 the Washington Post called, “practically a monument—sometimes an ostentatious one—to black success.” David Hartt was given unprecedented access to the building, much of which retains its ’70s design, from bright gold accents to vintage see-through furniture. His resulting photographs take viewers on a rich and revealing tour. They capture the distinct physical characteristics while also illuminating the power structures and ideological purposes they once represented. Hartt’s collection also serves as an unexpected final documentation. Not long after Hartt captured these images, the Johnson Publishing Company announced it was selling its building and moving north. Stray Light is a time capsule of a historic building that once symbolized a bright future.
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When the Johnson Publishing Company, best known for Jet and Ebony, moved into its iconic building on Michigan Avenue, the structure symbolized a bold entry into both the Chicago skyline and the city’s cultural environment. This emblematic building was the first in Chicago designed and owned by African Americans, a modernist masterpiece that in 1980 the Washington Post called, “practically a monument—sometimes an ostentatious one—to black success.” David Hartt was given unprecedented access to the building, much of which retains its ’70s design, from bright gold accents to vintage see-through furniture. His resulting photographs take viewers on a rich and revealing tour. They capture the distinct physical characteristics while also illuminating the power structures and ideological purposes they once represented. Hartt’s collection also serves as an unexpected final documentation. Not long after Hartt captured these images, the Johnson Publishing Company announced it was selling its building and moving north. Stray Light is a time capsule of a historic building that once symbolized a bright future.
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459 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 23 cm + 1 folded poster
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459 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 23 cm + 1 folded poster
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- City planning Social aspects United States.,
- City planning Economic aspects United States.,
- Sociology, Urban United States.,
- Urban policy United States.,
- Housing policy United States.,
- Discrimination in housing United States.,
- Social integration United States.,
- Marginality, Social United States.,
- Sociologie urbaine États-Unis.,
- Politique urbaine États-Unis.,
- Logement Politique gouvernementale États-Unis.,
- Intégration sociale États-Unis.,
- Sociology, Urban.,
- Social integration.,
- Discrimination in housing.,
- Marginality, Social.,
- City planning Economic aspects.,
- City planning Social aspects.,
- Housing policy.,
- Urban policy.,
- United States.
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New York ; Barcelona : Actar Publishers, [2017], New York, NY : Distributed by Actar Distribution Inc., ©2017
New York ; Barcelona : Actar Publishers, [2017], New York, NY : Distributed by Actar Distribution Inc., ©2017
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The arsenal of exclusion & inclusion / Tobias Armborst, Daniel D'Oca, Georgeen Theodore ; written and edited with Riley Gold ; [with contributions by Baye Adofo-Wilson and seventy-four others].
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459 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 23 cm + 1 folded poster
The arsenal of exclusion & inclusion / Tobias Armborst, Daniel D'Oca, Georgeen Theodore ; written and edited with Riley Gold ; [with contributions by Baye Adofo-Wilson and seventy-four others].
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459 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 23 cm + 1 folded poster
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New York ; Barcelona : Actar Publishers, [2017], New York, NY : Distributed by Actar Distribution Inc., ©2017
New York ; Barcelona : Actar Publishers, [2017], New York, NY : Distributed by Actar Distribution Inc., ©2017
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- City planning Social aspects United States.,
- City planning Economic aspects United States.,
- Sociology, Urban United States.,
- Urban policy United States.,
- Housing policy United States.,
- Discrimination in housing United States.,
- Social integration United States.,
- Marginality, Social United States.,
- Sociologie urbaine États-Unis.,
- Politique urbaine États-Unis.,
- Logement Politique gouvernementale États-Unis.,
- Intégration sociale États-Unis.,
- Sociology, Urban.,
- Social integration.,
- Discrimination in housing.,
- Marginality, Social.,
- City planning Economic aspects.,
- City planning Social aspects.,
- Housing policy.,
- Urban policy.,
- United States.
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New architecture in Britain
New architecture in Britain
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Architects increasingly operate on a global scene, and just as numerous British architects have proved highly successful at winning projects abroad, so architects from Europe, the United States and the Far East are making their mark in Britain. One thinks, for example, of Daniel Libeskind’s Imperial War Museum and Tadao Ando’s new square and pavilion project, both in(...)
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Architects increasingly operate on a global scene, and just as numerous British architects have proved highly successful at winning projects abroad, so architects from Europe, the United States and the Far East are making their mark in Britain. One thinks, for example, of Daniel Libeskind’s Imperial War Museum and Tadao Ando’s new square and pavilion project, both in(...)
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Architecture since 1900, Europe
Architecture since 1900, Europe
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September 2003, London / New York
September 2003, London / New York
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New architecture in Britain
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Architects increasingly operate on a global scene, and just as numerous British architects have proved highly successful at winning projects abroad, so architects from Europe, the United States and the Far East are making their mark in Britain. One thinks, for example, of Daniel Libeskind’s Imperial War Museum and Tadao Ando’s new square and pavilion project, both in Manchester, or of Frank Gehry’s Cancer Care Centre in Dundee. Well-known British practices such as Future Systems, Alsop Architects and Nicholas Grimshaw & Partners also inevitably feature prominently in the international story of the country’s recent architectural renaissance, but so too do newer, smaller practices, including many based outside the capital. This book describes and illustrates over 100 outstanding projects, both large and small, from around Britain – none completed earlier than 2001, and some still under construction or at planning stage. Covering every conceivable building type, from houses, offices and department stores to theatres, heritage sites and museums, this book makes a contribution to the continuing debate about the role of architecture in forging a new environment and underpinning the growth of a healthy society.
New architecture in Britain
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Architects increasingly operate on a global scene, and just as numerous British architects have proved highly successful at winning projects abroad, so architects from Europe, the United States and the Far East are making their mark in Britain. One thinks, for example, of Daniel Libeskind’s Imperial War Museum and Tadao Ando’s new square and pavilion project, both in Manchester, or of Frank Gehry’s Cancer Care Centre in Dundee. Well-known British practices such as Future Systems, Alsop Architects and Nicholas Grimshaw & Partners also inevitably feature prominently in the international story of the country’s recent architectural renaissance, but so too do newer, smaller practices, including many based outside the capital. This book describes and illustrates over 100 outstanding projects, both large and small, from around Britain – none completed earlier than 2001, and some still under construction or at planning stage. Covering every conceivable building type, from houses, offices and department stores to theatres, heritage sites and museums, this book makes a contribution to the continuing debate about the role of architecture in forging a new environment and underpinning the growth of a healthy society.
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September 2003, London / New York
September 2003, London / New York
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Architecture since 1900, Europe
Architecture since 1900, Europe
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A cloth edition of this book has been published by Yale University Press at $ 90,00. This engaging book presents the first critical retrospective look at the extraordinary architectural achievement of Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, and their firm. Known for such prominent buildings as the Sainsbury Wing at the National Gallery in London and the Seattle Art Museum as(...)
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A cloth edition of this book has been published by Yale University Press at $ 90,00. This engaging book presents the first critical retrospective look at the extraordinary architectural achievement of Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, and their firm. Known for such prominent buildings as the Sainsbury Wing at the National Gallery in London and the Seattle Art Museum as(...)
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Architecture Monographs
Architecture Monographs
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June 2001, Philadelphia
June 2001, Philadelphia
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Venturi, Brown and associates: out of the ordinary
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A cloth edition of this book has been published by Yale University Press at $ 90,00. This engaging book presents the first critical retrospective look at the extraordinary architectural achievement of Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, and their firm. Known for such prominent buildings as the Sainsbury Wing at the National Gallery in London and the Seattle Art Museum as well as such major urban revitalization plans as Washington Avenue in Miami and South Street in Philadelphia, Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates changed the face of architectural history. This husband and wife team rejected the universality of modernist design for a particularized contextual and associational approach to building, lauding the “complexity and contradictions” in the historic cityscape and “learning from Las Vegas” the value and vitality of the everyday environment. The book, which combines both biography and critical analysis, includes essays on the firm’s early and later architectural works and on their lesser-known decorative arts. It also features handsome color plates of the firm’s buildings, architectural drawings, and furniture and other decorative arts, as well as a checklist of all their buildings and projects.
Venturi, Brown and associates: out of the ordinary
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A cloth edition of this book has been published by Yale University Press at $ 90,00. This engaging book presents the first critical retrospective look at the extraordinary architectural achievement of Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, and their firm. Known for such prominent buildings as the Sainsbury Wing at the National Gallery in London and the Seattle Art Museum as well as such major urban revitalization plans as Washington Avenue in Miami and South Street in Philadelphia, Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates changed the face of architectural history. This husband and wife team rejected the universality of modernist design for a particularized contextual and associational approach to building, lauding the “complexity and contradictions” in the historic cityscape and “learning from Las Vegas” the value and vitality of the everyday environment. The book, which combines both biography and critical analysis, includes essays on the firm’s early and later architectural works and on their lesser-known decorative arts. It also features handsome color plates of the firm’s buildings, architectural drawings, and furniture and other decorative arts, as well as a checklist of all their buildings and projects.
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June 2001, Philadelphia
June 2001, Philadelphia
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Architecture Monographs
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543 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), facsimiles, portraits (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
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543 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), facsimiles, portraits (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
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- Nicole Brenez, Jonathan Larcher, Alo Païstik, and Skaya Siku -- Chie Mikami -- Mayaw Biho -- John Gianvito and Myrla Baldonado in conversation with Ricardo Matos Cabo, Rupert Cox, and Alo Paistik -- Dan Taulapapa McMullin -- Karrabing Film Collective -- Nadir Bouhmouch, Omar Moujane, and Marie Pierre-Bouthier in conversation ; edited by Marie Pierre-Bouthier -- Etienne de France, David Harper, Jamahke Welsh, Jonathan Sims, and Blackhorse Lowe in conversation ; edited by Etienne de France -- Francisco Vázquez Mota -- Nicolas Défossé -- Ariel Arango Prada and Laura Langa Martínez -- Isael Maxakali, Sueli Maxakali, Carolina Canguçu, and Roberto Romero -- Amaranta Cesar -- Sophie Gergaud -- Aurélie Journée-Duez -- Perrine Poupin -- Mercedes Vicente -- Beatriz Rodovalho -- Caroline San Martin.,
- Brenez, Nicole,,
- Larcher, Jonathan,,
- Païstik, Alo,,
- Siku, Skaya, 1981-,
- Baldonado, Myrla,,
- Bouhmouch, Nadir,,
- Cabo, Ricardo Matos,,
- Canguçu, Carolina,,
- Cesar, Amaranta, 1975-,
- Cox, Rupert A.,,
- Défossé, Nicolas,,
- France, Etienne de (Visual artist),,
- Gergaud, Sophie,,
- Gianvito, John,,
- Harper, David (Documentary filmmaker),,
- Journée-Duez, Aurélie,,
- Lowe, Larry Blackhorse,,
- Martínez, Laura Langa,,
- Maxakali, Isael,,
- Maxakali, Sueli,,
- Mayue Bihou, 1969-,
- McMullin, Dan Taulapapa,,
- Mikami, Chie,,
- Moujane, Omar,,
- Pierre-Bouthier, Marie,,
- Poupin, Perrine,,
- Prada, Ariel Arango,,
- Rodovalho, Beatriz,,
- Romero, Roberto (Film director),,
- San Martin, Caroline,,
- Sims, Jonathan,,
- Vázquez Mota, Francisco,,
- Vicente, Mercedes,,
- Welsh, Jamahke,,
- Allassonnière-Tang, Marc,,
- Ed-Daoudi, Mohamed,,
- Fendt, Ted,,
- Harley, Jeremy,,
- Provost, Sophie,,
- Ritts, Eliana,,
- Stahelin, Nathalie,,
- Wedemeyer, Catarina von.
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- Indigenous films History and criticism.,
- Indigenous peoples in motion pictures.,
- Motion pictures Political aspects.,
- Independent filmmakers.,
- Motion picture authorship.,
- Indigenous peoples Land tenure.,
- Indigenous peoples Civil rights.,
- Green movement.,
- Activism.,
- Minority activists.,
- Human rights workers.,
- Government, Resistance to.,
- Films autochtones Histoire et critique.,
- Autochtones au cinéma.,
- Écologisme.,
- Résistance au gouvernement.,
- Cinéastes indépendants.,
- Cinéma Art d'écrire.,
- Autochtones Terres.,
- Autochtones Droits.,
- Activistes issus des minorités.,
- Défenseurs des droits de l'homme.,
- independent filmmakers.,
- Indigenous films.,
- Performing Arts.,
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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London, UK : Sternberg Press, [2024], ©2024
London, UK : Sternberg Press, [2024], ©2024
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Film X autochthonous struggles today / edited by Nicole Brenez, Jonathan Larcher, Alo Paistik, Skaya Siku.
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Film X autochthonous struggles today / edited by Nicole Brenez, Jonathan Larcher, Alo Paistik, Skaya Siku.
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London, UK : Sternberg Press, [2024], ©2024
London, UK : Sternberg Press, [2024], ©2024
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- Nicole Brenez, Jonathan Larcher, Alo Païstik, and Skaya Siku -- Chie Mikami -- Mayaw Biho -- John Gianvito and Myrla Baldonado in conversation with Ricardo Matos Cabo, Rupert Cox, and Alo Paistik -- Dan Taulapapa McMullin -- Karrabing Film Collective -- Nadir Bouhmouch, Omar Moujane, and Marie Pierre-Bouthier in conversation ; edited by Marie Pierre-Bouthier -- Etienne de France, David Harper, Jamahke Welsh, Jonathan Sims, and Blackhorse Lowe in conversation ; edited by Etienne de France -- Francisco Vázquez Mota -- Nicolas Défossé -- Ariel Arango Prada and Laura Langa Martínez -- Isael Maxakali, Sueli Maxakali, Carolina Canguçu, and Roberto Romero -- Amaranta Cesar -- Sophie Gergaud -- Aurélie Journée-Duez -- Perrine Poupin -- Mercedes Vicente -- Beatriz Rodovalho -- Caroline San Martin.,
- Brenez, Nicole,,
- Larcher, Jonathan,,
- Païstik, Alo,,
- Siku, Skaya, 1981-,
- Baldonado, Myrla,,
- Bouhmouch, Nadir,,
- Cabo, Ricardo Matos,,
- Canguçu, Carolina,,
- Cesar, Amaranta, 1975-,
- Cox, Rupert A.,,
- Défossé, Nicolas,,
- France, Etienne de (Visual artist),,
- Gergaud, Sophie,,
- Gianvito, John,,
- Harper, David (Documentary filmmaker),,
- Journée-Duez, Aurélie,,
- Lowe, Larry Blackhorse,,
- Martínez, Laura Langa,,
- Maxakali, Isael,,
- Maxakali, Sueli,,
- Mayue Bihou, 1969-,
- McMullin, Dan Taulapapa,,
- Mikami, Chie,,
- Moujane, Omar,,
- Pierre-Bouthier, Marie,,
- Poupin, Perrine,,
- Prada, Ariel Arango,,
- Rodovalho, Beatriz,,
- Romero, Roberto (Film director),,
- San Martin, Caroline,,
- Sims, Jonathan,,
- Vázquez Mota, Francisco,,
- Vicente, Mercedes,,
- Welsh, Jamahke,,
- Allassonnière-Tang, Marc,,
- Ed-Daoudi, Mohamed,,
- Fendt, Ted,,
- Harley, Jeremy,,
- Provost, Sophie,,
- Ritts, Eliana,,
- Stahelin, Nathalie,,
- Wedemeyer, Catarina von.
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- Indigenous films History and criticism.,
- Indigenous peoples in motion pictures.,
- Motion pictures Political aspects.,
- Independent filmmakers.,
- Motion picture authorship.,
- Indigenous peoples Land tenure.,
- Indigenous peoples Civil rights.,
- Green movement.,
- Activism.,
- Minority activists.,
- Human rights workers.,
- Government, Resistance to.,
- Films autochtones Histoire et critique.,
- Autochtones au cinéma.,
- Écologisme.,
- Résistance au gouvernement.,
- Cinéastes indépendants.,
- Cinéma Art d'écrire.,
- Autochtones Terres.,
- Autochtones Droits.,
- Activistes issus des minorités.,
- Défenseurs des droits de l'homme.,
- independent filmmakers.,
- Indigenous films.,
- Performing Arts.,
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Between 1917 and 1945, a tide of hyperindustrialization washed over the United States and the Soviet Union. While the two countries remained ideologically opposed, the factories that amassed in Stalingrad, Moscow, Detroit, Buffalo, and Cleveland were strikingly similar, as were the new forms of modern work and urban and infrastructural development that supported this(...)
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Between 1917 and 1945, a tide of hyperindustrialization washed over the United States and the Soviet Union. While the two countries remained ideologically opposed, the factories that amassed in Stalingrad, Moscow, Detroit, Buffalo, and Cleveland were strikingly similar, as were the new forms of modern work and urban and infrastructural development that supported this(...)
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Architectural Theory
Architectural Theory
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September 2023
September 2023
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Detroit-Moscow-Detroit: An architecture for industrialization, 1917-1945
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Between 1917 and 1945, a tide of hyperindustrialization washed over the United States and the Soviet Union. While the two countries remained ideologically opposed, the factories that amassed in Stalingrad, Moscow, Detroit, Buffalo, and Cleveland were strikingly similar, as were the new forms of modern work and urban and infrastructural development that supported this industrialization. Drawing on previously unknown archival materials and photographs, the essays in ''Detroit-Moscow-Detroit'' document a stunning two-way transfer of technical knowledge between the United States and the USSR that greatly influenced the built environment in both countries, upgrading each to major industrial power by the start of the Second World War. The innovative research presented here explores spatial development, manufacturing, mass production, and organizational planning across geopolitical lines to demonstrate that capitalist and communist built environments in the twentieth century were not diametrically opposed and were, on certain sites, coproduced in a period of intense technical exchange between the two world wars. A fresh account of the effects of industrialization and globalization on US and Soviet cultures, architecture, and urban history, ''Detroit-Moscow-Detroit'' will find wide readership among architects, urban designers, and scholars of architectural, urban, and twentieth-century history.
Detroit-Moscow-Detroit: An architecture for industrialization, 1917-1945
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Between 1917 and 1945, a tide of hyperindustrialization washed over the United States and the Soviet Union. While the two countries remained ideologically opposed, the factories that amassed in Stalingrad, Moscow, Detroit, Buffalo, and Cleveland were strikingly similar, as were the new forms of modern work and urban and infrastructural development that supported this industrialization. Drawing on previously unknown archival materials and photographs, the essays in ''Detroit-Moscow-Detroit'' document a stunning two-way transfer of technical knowledge between the United States and the USSR that greatly influenced the built environment in both countries, upgrading each to major industrial power by the start of the Second World War. The innovative research presented here explores spatial development, manufacturing, mass production, and organizational planning across geopolitical lines to demonstrate that capitalist and communist built environments in the twentieth century were not diametrically opposed and were, on certain sites, coproduced in a period of intense technical exchange between the two world wars. A fresh account of the effects of industrialization and globalization on US and Soviet cultures, architecture, and urban history, ''Detroit-Moscow-Detroit'' will find wide readership among architects, urban designers, and scholars of architectural, urban, and twentieth-century history.
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September 2023
September 2023
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Architectural Theory
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Between 1979 and 1981, Alfredo Jaar asked Chileans a deceptively simple question: "Are you happy?" Through private interviews, sidewalk polls and video-recorded forums, among other interventions, Jaar's three-year and seven-phase project, ''Studies on happiness'', addressed a furtive and fearful population living under Augusto Pinochet's military dictatorship. It also(...)
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Between 1979 and 1981, Alfredo Jaar asked Chileans a deceptively simple question: "Are you happy?" Through private interviews, sidewalk polls and video-recorded forums, among other interventions, Jaar's three-year and seven-phase project, ''Studies on happiness'', addressed a furtive and fearful population living under Augusto Pinochet's military dictatorship. It also(...)
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Alfredo Jaar: Studies on happiness
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Between 1979 and 1981, Alfredo Jaar asked Chileans a deceptively simple question: "Are you happy?" Through private interviews, sidewalk polls and video-recorded forums, among other interventions, Jaar's three-year and seven-phase project, ''Studies on happiness'', addressed a furtive and fearful population living under Augusto Pinochet's military dictatorship. It also spoke to a country in transition, as a newly adopted constitution remade Chile through privatisation and other neoliberal reforms. In its varied interventions and direct mode of address, ''Studies on happiness'' functioned as a feedback device meant to catalyse a critical awareness with its blunt questioning. Edward A. Vazquez contextualises Studies on Happiness within Jaar's early production and situates his practice within a Chilean art world haunted by the residues of political violence. This study foregrounds the project's historical embeddedness and the deep political stakes of its apparent sociality, recognising the crucial role that context has always played in Jaar's practice. By turning to the Santiago of Studies on Happiness, Vazquez explores the work's political and art historical environment and provides a wedge to realign current interpretations of Chilean art and hemispheric conceptualism with the openness central to Jaar's project.
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Between 1979 and 1981, Alfredo Jaar asked Chileans a deceptively simple question: "Are you happy?" Through private interviews, sidewalk polls and video-recorded forums, among other interventions, Jaar's three-year and seven-phase project, ''Studies on happiness'', addressed a furtive and fearful population living under Augusto Pinochet's military dictatorship. It also spoke to a country in transition, as a newly adopted constitution remade Chile through privatisation and other neoliberal reforms. In its varied interventions and direct mode of address, ''Studies on happiness'' functioned as a feedback device meant to catalyse a critical awareness with its blunt questioning. Edward A. Vazquez contextualises Studies on Happiness within Jaar's early production and situates his practice within a Chilean art world haunted by the residues of political violence. This study foregrounds the project's historical embeddedness and the deep political stakes of its apparent sociality, recognising the crucial role that context has always played in Jaar's practice. By turning to the Santiago of Studies on Happiness, Vazquez explores the work's political and art historical environment and provides a wedge to realign current interpretations of Chilean art and hemispheric conceptualism with the openness central to Jaar's project.
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November 2023
November 2023
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Art Theory
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In this radical rethinking of the art of Louise Nevelson (1899–1988), Julia Bryan-Wilson provides a long-overdue critical account of a signature figure in postwar sculpture. A Ukraine-born Jewish immigrant, Nevelson persevered in the male-dominated New York art world. Nonetheless, her careful procedures of construction—in which she assembled found pieces of wood into(...)
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In this radical rethinking of the art of Louise Nevelson (1899–1988), Julia Bryan-Wilson provides a long-overdue critical account of a signature figure in postwar sculpture. A Ukraine-born Jewish immigrant, Nevelson persevered in the male-dominated New York art world. Nonetheless, her careful procedures of construction—in which she assembled found pieces of wood into(...)
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Louise Nevelson Sculpture: Drag, color, join, face
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In this radical rethinking of the art of Louise Nevelson (1899–1988), Julia Bryan-Wilson provides a long-overdue critical account of a signature figure in postwar sculpture. A Ukraine-born Jewish immigrant, Nevelson persevered in the male-dominated New York art world. Nonetheless, her careful procedures of construction—in which she assembled found pieces of wood into elaborate structures, usually painted black—have been little studied. Organized around a series of key operations in Nevelson’s own process (dragging, coloring, joining, and facing), the book comprises four slipcased, individually bound volumes that can be read in any order. Both form and content thus echo Nevelson’s own modular sculptures, the gridded boxes of which the artist herself rearranged. Exploring how Nevelson’s making relates to domesticity, racialized matter, gendered labor, and the environment, Bryan-Wilson offers a sustained examination of the social and political implications of Nevelson’s art. The author also approaches Nevelson’s sculptures from her own embodied subjectivity as a queer feminist scholar. She forges an expansive art history that places Nevelson’s assemblages in dialogue with a wide array of marginalized worldmaking and underlines the artist’s proclamation of allegiance to blackness.
Louise Nevelson Sculpture: Drag, color, join, face
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In this radical rethinking of the art of Louise Nevelson (1899–1988), Julia Bryan-Wilson provides a long-overdue critical account of a signature figure in postwar sculpture. A Ukraine-born Jewish immigrant, Nevelson persevered in the male-dominated New York art world. Nonetheless, her careful procedures of construction—in which she assembled found pieces of wood into elaborate structures, usually painted black—have been little studied. Organized around a series of key operations in Nevelson’s own process (dragging, coloring, joining, and facing), the book comprises four slipcased, individually bound volumes that can be read in any order. Both form and content thus echo Nevelson’s own modular sculptures, the gridded boxes of which the artist herself rearranged. Exploring how Nevelson’s making relates to domesticity, racialized matter, gendered labor, and the environment, Bryan-Wilson offers a sustained examination of the social and political implications of Nevelson’s art. The author also approaches Nevelson’s sculptures from her own embodied subjectivity as a queer feminist scholar. She forges an expansive art history that places Nevelson’s assemblages in dialogue with a wide array of marginalized worldmaking and underlines the artist’s proclamation of allegiance to blackness.
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June 2023
June 2023
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Contemporary Art Monographs
Contemporary Art Monographs
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A detailed history of the international modern house, illustrated with 400 photographs and architectural drawings. As the basic building block of the human environment, the house has served as an inexhaustible playground where architects experiment with theories, styles, forms, and materials. Arguably, the best and most innovative residential architecture has been(...)
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A detailed history of the international modern house, illustrated with 400 photographs and architectural drawings. As the basic building block of the human environment, the house has served as an inexhaustible playground where architects experiment with theories, styles, forms, and materials. Arguably, the best and most innovative residential architecture has been(...)
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Twentieth-century residential architecture
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A detailed history of the international modern house, illustrated with 400 photographs and architectural drawings. As the basic building block of the human environment, the house has served as an inexhaustible playground where architects experiment with theories, styles, forms, and materials. Arguably, the best and most innovative residential architecture has been conceived and realized over the past 100 yearsÑfrom the cantileveral serenity of Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater to the spectacular Chemosphere, which resembles a UFO that has planted its landing gear in the Hollywood Hills. This book examines major shifts in international domestic design over the past century as it highlights a superb selection of extraordinary homes. Author Richard Weston engagingly tells the story of the twentieth-century house through eight semi-chronological design themes. From the Arts and Crafts period to the present, he covers a wide range of homes exemplifying each period and presents more than 100 benchmark dwellings with detailed architectural drawings. Weston also addresses the fascinating ways in which domestic design has both reflected and influenced the changing social climates and lifestyles of the past century, making this a book that will appeal to anthropologists, as well as architects, designers, and homeowners.
Twentieth-century residential architecture
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A detailed history of the international modern house, illustrated with 400 photographs and architectural drawings. As the basic building block of the human environment, the house has served as an inexhaustible playground where architects experiment with theories, styles, forms, and materials. Arguably, the best and most innovative residential architecture has been conceived and realized over the past 100 yearsÑfrom the cantileveral serenity of Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater to the spectacular Chemosphere, which resembles a UFO that has planted its landing gear in the Hollywood Hills. This book examines major shifts in international domestic design over the past century as it highlights a superb selection of extraordinary homes. Author Richard Weston engagingly tells the story of the twentieth-century house through eight semi-chronological design themes. From the Arts and Crafts period to the present, he covers a wide range of homes exemplifying each period and presents more than 100 benchmark dwellings with detailed architectural drawings. Weston also addresses the fascinating ways in which domestic design has both reflected and influenced the changing social climates and lifestyles of the past century, making this a book that will appeal to anthropologists, as well as architects, designers, and homeowners.
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March 2002, New York / London
March 2002, New York / London
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Residential Architecture
Residential Architecture
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LOT/EK urban scan
LOT/EK urban scan
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The New York-based architectural firm LOT/EK (pronounced "low-tech") has made a distinctive mark on the architectural landscape through a series of seemingly whimsical projects that make a point of using prefabricated industrial materials in unexpected ways. In their hands, a shipping container can be transformed into a mobile working unit, a museum, or a restaurant. In(...)
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The New York-based architectural firm LOT/EK (pronounced "low-tech") has made a distinctive mark on the architectural landscape through a series of seemingly whimsical projects that make a point of using prefabricated industrial materials in unexpected ways. In their hands, a shipping container can be transformed into a mobile working unit, a museum, or a restaurant. In(...)
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Architecture Monographs
Architecture Monographs
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February 2002, New York
February 2002, New York
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LOT/EK urban scan
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The New York-based architectural firm LOT/EK (pronounced "low-tech") has made a distinctive mark on the architectural landscape through a series of seemingly whimsical projects that make a point of using prefabricated industrial materials in unexpected ways. In their hands, a shipping container can be transformed into a mobile working unit, a museum, or a restaurant. In the process, they question our relation to the industrial environment and the artificiality of the urban landscape. LOT/EK: Urban Scan, the first and only monograph on the firm, is organized categorically and alphabetically. Twenty-three projects are presented in detail, including American Diner (a restaurant in a container), the InspiroTrainer (created for the Museum of Modern Art), Mixer (a cement mixer-cum-video immersion unit), the Meltzer Gallery, the Boon boutique, the MDU (Mobule Dwelling Unit), and the Goree Memorial and Museum. It also includes more than 1,000 photographs of infrastructural objects--everything from air conditioners to water tanks--that serve as the raw material and inspiration for this creative practice. Ada Tolla and Giuseppe Lignano, LOT/EK's founding partners, are natives of Naples, Italy. They opened their New York studio after graduating from Columbia University.
LOT/EK urban scan
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The New York-based architectural firm LOT/EK (pronounced "low-tech") has made a distinctive mark on the architectural landscape through a series of seemingly whimsical projects that make a point of using prefabricated industrial materials in unexpected ways. In their hands, a shipping container can be transformed into a mobile working unit, a museum, or a restaurant. In the process, they question our relation to the industrial environment and the artificiality of the urban landscape. LOT/EK: Urban Scan, the first and only monograph on the firm, is organized categorically and alphabetically. Twenty-three projects are presented in detail, including American Diner (a restaurant in a container), the InspiroTrainer (created for the Museum of Modern Art), Mixer (a cement mixer-cum-video immersion unit), the Meltzer Gallery, the Boon boutique, the MDU (Mobule Dwelling Unit), and the Goree Memorial and Museum. It also includes more than 1,000 photographs of infrastructural objects--everything from air conditioners to water tanks--that serve as the raw material and inspiration for this creative practice. Ada Tolla and Giuseppe Lignano, LOT/EK's founding partners, are natives of Naples, Italy. They opened their New York studio after graduating from Columbia University.
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books
books
Publication:
February 2002, New York
February 2002, New York
Subject:
Architecture Monographs
Architecture Monographs
