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The seventeenth-century philosopher Baruch Spinoza (a.k.a. Bento) spent the most intense years of his short life writing. He also carried with him a sketchbook. After his sudden death, his friends rescued letters, manuscripts, notes—but no drawings. For years, without knowing what its pages might hold, John Berger has imagined finding Bento’s sketchbook, wanting to see(...)
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The seventeenth-century philosopher Baruch Spinoza (a.k.a. Bento) spent the most intense years of his short life writing. He also carried with him a sketchbook. After his sudden death, his friends rescued letters, manuscripts, notes—but no drawings. For years, without knowing what its pages might hold, John Berger has imagined finding Bento’s sketchbook, wanting to see(...)
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The seventeenth-century philosopher Baruch Spinoza (a.k.a. Bento) spent the most intense years of his short life writing. He also carried with him a sketchbook. After his sudden death, his friends rescued letters, manuscripts, notes—but no drawings. For years, without knowing what its pages might hold, John Berger has imagined finding Bento’s sketchbook, wanting to see the drawings alongside his surviving words. When one day a friend gave him a beautiful virgin sketchbook, Berger said, ‘'This is Bento’s!’' and he began to draw, taking inspiration from the philosopher’s vision. In this beautifully illustrated book, Berger uses the imaginative space opened up in this experiment to explore politics, storytelling, Spinoza’s life and times, and the process of drawing itself.
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The seventeenth-century philosopher Baruch Spinoza (a.k.a. Bento) spent the most intense years of his short life writing. He also carried with him a sketchbook. After his sudden death, his friends rescued letters, manuscripts, notes—but no drawings. For years, without knowing what its pages might hold, John Berger has imagined finding Bento’s sketchbook, wanting to see the drawings alongside his surviving words. When one day a friend gave him a beautiful virgin sketchbook, Berger said, ‘'This is Bento’s!’' and he began to draw, taking inspiration from the philosopher’s vision. In this beautifully illustrated book, Berger uses the imaginative space opened up in this experiment to explore politics, storytelling, Spinoza’s life and times, and the process of drawing itself.
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April 2025
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Critical Theory
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Territoires d'engagement
Territoires d'engagement
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Depuis la nuit des temps, les arts sont parmi les plus puissants moyens dont nous disposons pour façonner la société, ses valeurs et ses ambitions.. Que se passe-t-il lorsque nous nous engageons dans les arts, lorsque nous dialoguons avec une œuvre? Que contient la rencontre avec les arts qui puisse nous aider à composer avec la marche actuelle du monde? Quelles aptitudes(...)
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Depuis la nuit des temps, les arts sont parmi les plus puissants moyens dont nous disposons pour façonner la société, ses valeurs et ses ambitions.. Que se passe-t-il lorsque nous nous engageons dans les arts, lorsque nous dialoguons avec une œuvre? Que contient la rencontre avec les arts qui puisse nous aider à composer avec la marche actuelle du monde? Quelles aptitudes(...)
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Territoires d'engagement
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Depuis la nuit des temps, les arts sont parmi les plus puissants moyens dont nous disposons pour façonner la société, ses valeurs et ses ambitions.. Que se passe-t-il lorsque nous nous engageons dans les arts, lorsque nous dialoguons avec une œuvre? Que contient la rencontre avec les arts qui puisse nous aider à composer avec la marche actuelle du monde? Quelles aptitudes alors activées se trouvent aussi sur le terrain de la vie citoyenne? Ancré dans la philosophie de l’éducation esthétique, ce guide se présente comme une investigation sur l’engagement. À l’intersection de la vie en société et de l’expérience individuelle des arts, il est possible de trouver une solution au sentiment d’impuissance qui nous habite souvent.
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Depuis la nuit des temps, les arts sont parmi les plus puissants moyens dont nous disposons pour façonner la société, ses valeurs et ses ambitions.. Que se passe-t-il lorsque nous nous engageons dans les arts, lorsque nous dialoguons avec une œuvre? Que contient la rencontre avec les arts qui puisse nous aider à composer avec la marche actuelle du monde? Quelles aptitudes alors activées se trouvent aussi sur le terrain de la vie citoyenne? Ancré dans la philosophie de l’éducation esthétique, ce guide se présente comme une investigation sur l’engagement. À l’intersection de la vie en société et de l’expérience individuelle des arts, il est possible de trouver une solution au sentiment d’impuissance qui nous habite souvent.
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February 2025
February 2025
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Art Theory
Art Theory
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Can messiness make our cities more liveable, lively, and inclusive? Crowded streets, sidewalk vendors, jumbled architecture, constant clamour, graffitied walls, parks gone wild: are these signs of a poorly managed city or indicators of urban vitality? "Messy cities: Why we can’t plan everything" argues that spontaneity and urban workarounds are not liabilities but(...)
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Can messiness make our cities more liveable, lively, and inclusive? Crowded streets, sidewalk vendors, jumbled architecture, constant clamour, graffitied walls, parks gone wild: are these signs of a poorly managed city or indicators of urban vitality? "Messy cities: Why we can’t plan everything" argues that spontaneity and urban workarounds are not liabilities but(...)
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Urban Theory
Urban Theory
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June 2025
June 2025
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Messy cities: Why we can't plan everything
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Can messiness make our cities more liveable, lively, and inclusive? Crowded streets, sidewalk vendors, jumbled architecture, constant clamour, graffitied walls, parks gone wild: are these signs of a poorly managed city or indicators of urban vitality? "Messy cities: Why we can’t plan everything" argues that spontaneity and urban workarounds are not liabilities but essential elements in all thriving cities. Forty-three essays by a range of writers from around the world illuminate the role of messy urbanism in enabling creativity, enterprise, and grassroots initiatives to flourish within dense modern cities. With pieces on guerrilla beaches, desire lines, urban interruptions, and the inner lives of unlovely buildings written by experts from all walks of life, "Messy Cities" makes the case for embracing disorder while not shying away from confronting its challenges.
Messy cities: Why we can't plan everything
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Can messiness make our cities more liveable, lively, and inclusive? Crowded streets, sidewalk vendors, jumbled architecture, constant clamour, graffitied walls, parks gone wild: are these signs of a poorly managed city or indicators of urban vitality? "Messy cities: Why we can’t plan everything" argues that spontaneity and urban workarounds are not liabilities but essential elements in all thriving cities. Forty-three essays by a range of writers from around the world illuminate the role of messy urbanism in enabling creativity, enterprise, and grassroots initiatives to flourish within dense modern cities. With pieces on guerrilla beaches, desire lines, urban interruptions, and the inner lives of unlovely buildings written by experts from all walks of life, "Messy Cities" makes the case for embracing disorder while not shying away from confronting its challenges.
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June 2025
June 2025
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Urban Theory
Urban Theory
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Dead cities and other tales
Dead cities and other tales
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For the late great Mike Davis, the ravaging of the climate by capital—and his prescient analysis of its consequences for those of us left to deal with the resulting crises—was always a central part of his urban geography. In these wide ranging, incisive, and hauntingly relevant essays, Davis asks us to consider what we would find if we put a microscope to the ruins of(...)
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For the late great Mike Davis, the ravaging of the climate by capital—and his prescient analysis of its consequences for those of us left to deal with the resulting crises—was always a central part of his urban geography. In these wide ranging, incisive, and hauntingly relevant essays, Davis asks us to consider what we would find if we put a microscope to the ruins of(...)
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Dead cities and other tales
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For the late great Mike Davis, the ravaging of the climate by capital—and his prescient analysis of its consequences for those of us left to deal with the resulting crises—was always a central part of his urban geography. In these wide ranging, incisive, and hauntingly relevant essays, Davis asks us to consider what we would find if we put a microscope to the ruins of Metropolis, and provides a riveting account of the disasters—natural, man-made, and those (as in the case of climate calamity) where the distinction is impossible to make—that he finds on the other end. He begins his examination by sifting through the rubble of the twin towers in the wake of 9/11, presciently identifying the seeds of war already germinating in the scorched soil of ground zero, and closes by considering how little prepared our hollowed out urban infrastructure is to deal with shocks of any kind, be they from car bombs or ice storms. In between we are treated to tours of blasted wastelands where American generals built and destroyed replicas of Berlin, glimpses of Las Vegas’s penchant for annihilating its own best-known landmarks, and other riveting tales of the dialectic between nature and the city.
Dead cities and other tales
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For the late great Mike Davis, the ravaging of the climate by capital—and his prescient analysis of its consequences for those of us left to deal with the resulting crises—was always a central part of his urban geography. In these wide ranging, incisive, and hauntingly relevant essays, Davis asks us to consider what we would find if we put a microscope to the ruins of Metropolis, and provides a riveting account of the disasters—natural, man-made, and those (as in the case of climate calamity) where the distinction is impossible to make—that he finds on the other end. He begins his examination by sifting through the rubble of the twin towers in the wake of 9/11, presciently identifying the seeds of war already germinating in the scorched soil of ground zero, and closes by considering how little prepared our hollowed out urban infrastructure is to deal with shocks of any kind, be they from car bombs or ice storms. In between we are treated to tours of blasted wastelands where American generals built and destroyed replicas of Berlin, glimpses of Las Vegas’s penchant for annihilating its own best-known landmarks, and other riveting tales of the dialectic between nature and the city.
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October 2024
October 2024
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Urban Theory
Urban Theory
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What do struggles over pipelines in Canada, housing estates in France, and shantytowns in Martinique have in common? In "Urban revolutions," Stefan Kipfer shows how these struggles force us to understand the (neo-)colonial aspects of capitalist urbanization in a comparatively and historically nuanced fashion. In so doing, he demonstrates that urban research can offer a(...)
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What do struggles over pipelines in Canada, housing estates in France, and shantytowns in Martinique have in common? In "Urban revolutions," Stefan Kipfer shows how these struggles force us to understand the (neo-)colonial aspects of capitalist urbanization in a comparatively and historically nuanced fashion. In so doing, he demonstrates that urban research can offer a(...)
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Urban revolutions: Urbanisation and (Neo-) Colonialism in transatlantic context
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What do struggles over pipelines in Canada, housing estates in France, and shantytowns in Martinique have in common? In "Urban revolutions," Stefan Kipfer shows how these struggles force us to understand the (neo-)colonial aspects of capitalist urbanization in a comparatively and historically nuanced fashion. In so doing, he demonstrates that urban research can offer a rich, if uneven, terrain upon which to develop the relationship between Marxist and anti-colonial intellectual traditions. After a detailed dialogue between Henri Lefebvre and Frantz Fanon, Kipfer engages creole literature in the French Antilles, Indigenous radicalism in North America and political anti-racism in mainland France.
Urban revolutions: Urbanisation and (Neo-) Colonialism in transatlantic context
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What do struggles over pipelines in Canada, housing estates in France, and shantytowns in Martinique have in common? In "Urban revolutions," Stefan Kipfer shows how these struggles force us to understand the (neo-)colonial aspects of capitalist urbanization in a comparatively and historically nuanced fashion. In so doing, he demonstrates that urban research can offer a rich, if uneven, terrain upon which to develop the relationship between Marxist and anti-colonial intellectual traditions. After a detailed dialogue between Henri Lefebvre and Frantz Fanon, Kipfer engages creole literature in the French Antilles, Indigenous radicalism in North America and political anti-racism in mainland France.
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September 2023
September 2023
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Urban Theory
Urban Theory
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''A Set of Actual Tracks'' brings a contemporary critical lens to the work of Reyner Banham, one of the most prescient architectural and design critics of the 20th century. Sixteen of the acerbic historian’s essays and book chapters have been selected by the book’s contributors, ranging from classics such as “The Great Gizmo” to lesser-known texts, such as “The Wall,” an(...)
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''A Set of Actual Tracks'' brings a contemporary critical lens to the work of Reyner Banham, one of the most prescient architectural and design critics of the 20th century. Sixteen of the acerbic historian’s essays and book chapters have been selected by the book’s contributors, ranging from classics such as “The Great Gizmo” to lesser-known texts, such as “The Wall,” an(...)
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Reyner Banham: A set of actual tracks
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''A Set of Actual Tracks'' brings a contemporary critical lens to the work of Reyner Banham, one of the most prescient architectural and design critics of the 20th century. Sixteen of the acerbic historian’s essays and book chapters have been selected by the book’s contributors, ranging from classics such as “The Great Gizmo” to lesser-known texts, such as “The Wall,” an intimate confession he penned at the hospital shortly before his death. Each is accompanied by a contemporary response that contextualises Banham’s text, drawing out reflections on what the critic’s work means today.
Reyner Banham: A set of actual tracks
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''A Set of Actual Tracks'' brings a contemporary critical lens to the work of Reyner Banham, one of the most prescient architectural and design critics of the 20th century. Sixteen of the acerbic historian’s essays and book chapters have been selected by the book’s contributors, ranging from classics such as “The Great Gizmo” to lesser-known texts, such as “The Wall,” an intimate confession he penned at the hospital shortly before his death. Each is accompanied by a contemporary response that contextualises Banham’s text, drawing out reflections on what the critic’s work means today.
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March 2025
March 2025
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Architectural Theory
Architectural Theory
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Depuis soixante-dix ans, la forme urbaine a suivi la finance. Et si elle a gagné en fonctionnalité, la ville y a perdu en humanité. La standardisation à l’œuvre dans la construction et la rentabilité à court terme recherchée par les investisseurs et les promoteurs ont produit des villes et des périphéries imperméables aux chocs environnementaux et sociétaux. L’heure est(...)
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Depuis soixante-dix ans, la forme urbaine a suivi la finance. Et si elle a gagné en fonctionnalité, la ville y a perdu en humanité. La standardisation à l’œuvre dans la construction et la rentabilité à court terme recherchée par les investisseurs et les promoteurs ont produit des villes et des périphéries imperméables aux chocs environnementaux et sociétaux. L’heure est(...)
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Changer l'immobilier : de l'Utopie à la Réalité
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Depuis soixante-dix ans, la forme urbaine a suivi la finance. Et si elle a gagné en fonctionnalité, la ville y a perdu en humanité. La standardisation à l’œuvre dans la construction et la rentabilité à court terme recherchée par les investisseurs et les promoteurs ont produit des villes et des périphéries imperméables aux chocs environnementaux et sociétaux. L’heure est donc venue de transformer le secteur immobilier en profondeur, en imaginant un futur urbain directement connecté à ses habitants. Cet ouvrage est là pour y contribuer. Il donne à voir des utopies individuelles et leurs contours souhaitables pour la ville du futur. Il fait émerger une vision collectivement partagée où réemploi, rénovation, hybridation et renaturation contribuent à façonner des espaces prêts pour le Vivant. Mais il dit aussi ce qu’il manque – une autre manière de financer le bâti –, et quelles pistes devraient être rapidement étudiées par les professionnels.
Changer l'immobilier : de l'Utopie à la Réalité
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Depuis soixante-dix ans, la forme urbaine a suivi la finance. Et si elle a gagné en fonctionnalité, la ville y a perdu en humanité. La standardisation à l’œuvre dans la construction et la rentabilité à court terme recherchée par les investisseurs et les promoteurs ont produit des villes et des périphéries imperméables aux chocs environnementaux et sociétaux. L’heure est donc venue de transformer le secteur immobilier en profondeur, en imaginant un futur urbain directement connecté à ses habitants. Cet ouvrage est là pour y contribuer. Il donne à voir des utopies individuelles et leurs contours souhaitables pour la ville du futur. Il fait émerger une vision collectivement partagée où réemploi, rénovation, hybridation et renaturation contribuent à façonner des espaces prêts pour le Vivant. Mais il dit aussi ce qu’il manque – une autre manière de financer le bâti –, et quelles pistes devraient être rapidement étudiées par les professionnels.
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February 2025
February 2025
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Urban Theory
Urban Theory
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L'irréalité du temps
L'irréalité du temps
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« Le passé, le présent et le futur sont des caractéristiques incompatibles. Chaque événement doit avoir l’une ou l’autre de ces caractéristiques, mais aucun événement ne peut en avoir plus d’une. » C’est ce qu’écrit John McTaggart en 1908, formulant ainsi l’argument philosophique le plus célèbre en faveur de l’irréalité du temps. Pour McTaggart, il n’y a aucune issue à ce(...)
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« Le passé, le présent et le futur sont des caractéristiques incompatibles. Chaque événement doit avoir l’une ou l’autre de ces caractéristiques, mais aucun événement ne peut en avoir plus d’une. » C’est ce qu’écrit John McTaggart en 1908, formulant ainsi l’argument philosophique le plus célèbre en faveur de l’irréalité du temps. Pour McTaggart, il n’y a aucune issue à ce(...)
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L'irréalité du temps
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« Le passé, le présent et le futur sont des caractéristiques incompatibles. Chaque événement doit avoir l’une ou l’autre de ces caractéristiques, mais aucun événement ne peut en avoir plus d’une. » C’est ce qu’écrit John McTaggart en 1908, formulant ainsi l’argument philosophique le plus célèbre en faveur de l’irréalité du temps. Pour McTaggart, il n’y a aucune issue à ce paradoxe et notre conception du temps comme impliquant un changement dans les événements est irrémédiablement contradictoire. Sacha Bourgeois-Gironde présente ici trois écrits majeurs de McTaggart : « L’Irréalité du temps », « La Relation du temps et de l’éternité » et « Préexistence et postexistence ». Il en discute les prémisses et insiste sur les conséquences tant ontologiques que pratiques d’une thèse aussi controversée que singulière.
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« Le passé, le présent et le futur sont des caractéristiques incompatibles. Chaque événement doit avoir l’une ou l’autre de ces caractéristiques, mais aucun événement ne peut en avoir plus d’une. » C’est ce qu’écrit John McTaggart en 1908, formulant ainsi l’argument philosophique le plus célèbre en faveur de l’irréalité du temps. Pour McTaggart, il n’y a aucune issue à ce paradoxe et notre conception du temps comme impliquant un changement dans les événements est irrémédiablement contradictoire. Sacha Bourgeois-Gironde présente ici trois écrits majeurs de McTaggart : « L’Irréalité du temps », « La Relation du temps et de l’éternité » et « Préexistence et postexistence ». Il en discute les prémisses et insiste sur les conséquences tant ontologiques que pratiques d’une thèse aussi controversée que singulière.
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February 2025
February 2025
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Critical Theory
Critical Theory
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From Bauhaus to our house
From Bauhaus to our house
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In this examination of the strange saga of twentieth-century architecture, Wolfe takes such European architects as Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier, and Bauhaus art school founder Walter Gropius to task for their glass-and-steel-box buildings that have influenced (and infected) America’s cities.
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In this examination of the strange saga of twentieth-century architecture, Wolfe takes such European architects as Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier, and Bauhaus art school founder Walter Gropius to task for their glass-and-steel-box buildings that have influenced (and infected) America’s cities.
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From Bauhaus to our house
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In this examination of the strange saga of twentieth-century architecture, Wolfe takes such European architects as Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier, and Bauhaus art school founder Walter Gropius to task for their glass-and-steel-box buildings that have influenced (and infected) America’s cities.
From Bauhaus to our house
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In this examination of the strange saga of twentieth-century architecture, Wolfe takes such European architects as Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier, and Bauhaus art school founder Walter Gropius to task for their glass-and-steel-box buildings that have influenced (and infected) America’s cities.
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February 2025
February 2025
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Architectural Theory
Architectural Theory
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Moving beyond the usual forms endemic to the graphic design canon, "Designing history" studies bureaucratic instruments such as money, passports, certificates, property deeds and more. Such documents produce identity, assign ownership and ascribe value. They stabilize claims, memory and knowledge that would otherwise be vulnerable to contestation or obliteration. Despite(...)
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Moving beyond the usual forms endemic to the graphic design canon, "Designing history" studies bureaucratic instruments such as money, passports, certificates, property deeds and more. Such documents produce identity, assign ownership and ascribe value. They stabilize claims, memory and knowledge that would otherwise be vulnerable to contestation or obliteration. Despite(...)
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Designing history: Documents and the design of imperative to immutability
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Moving beyond the usual forms endemic to the graphic design canon, "Designing history" studies bureaucratic instruments such as money, passports, certificates, property deeds and more. Such documents produce identity, assign ownership and ascribe value. They stabilize claims, memory and knowledge that would otherwise be vulnerable to contestation or obliteration. Despite their apparent banality, such documents are perhaps graphic design’s most profoundly consequential forms. This book is the revised edition of "Immutable: Designing history" (2022). It includes an extended essay that contextualizes the project as one concerned primarily with prompting a remapping of graphic design’s historical and practical assumptions.
Designing history: Documents and the design of imperative to immutability
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Moving beyond the usual forms endemic to the graphic design canon, "Designing history" studies bureaucratic instruments such as money, passports, certificates, property deeds and more. Such documents produce identity, assign ownership and ascribe value. They stabilize claims, memory and knowledge that would otherwise be vulnerable to contestation or obliteration. Despite their apparent banality, such documents are perhaps graphic design’s most profoundly consequential forms. This book is the revised edition of "Immutable: Designing history" (2022). It includes an extended essay that contextualizes the project as one concerned primarily with prompting a remapping of graphic design’s historical and practical assumptions.
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May 2025
May 2025
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Design Theory
Design Theory
