Horror in architecture
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Horror in Architecture may be read as a history, as an alternative to the classic canon of good and proper architectures, or as a sly manifesto for a new approach to the design of the built environment—one that encourages a playful subversion of conventions.
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Horror in Architecture may be read as a history, as an alternative to the classic canon of good and proper architectures, or as a sly manifesto for a new approach to the design of the built environment—one that encourages a playful subversion of conventions.
Architectural Theory
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A compelling mixture of manifesto and manual, Places for Strangers builds on the set of principles and attitudes that have long driven London-based Mae Architects to advocate a new position on urban design and architecture, while also elucidating an approach to actually producing critically engaged design.
Mae architects: places for strangers
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A compelling mixture of manifesto and manual, Places for Strangers builds on the set of principles and attitudes that have long driven London-based Mae Architects to advocate a new position on urban design and architecture, while also elucidating an approach to actually producing critically engaged design.
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To our friends
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The Invisible Committee's The Coming Insurrection was a phenomenon, celebrated in some quarters and inveighed against in others, publicized in media that ranged from campus bulletin boards to Fox News. Seven years later, The Invisible Committee follows up their premonitory manifesto with a new book, To Our Friends.
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The Invisible Committee's The Coming Insurrection was a phenomenon, celebrated in some quarters and inveighed against in others, publicized in media that ranged from campus bulletin boards to Fox News. Seven years later, The Invisible Committee follows up their premonitory manifesto with a new book, To Our Friends.
Critical Theory
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During the glory days of Something Else Press (1964-1974), its founder, the poet, editor and scholar Dick Higgins created the Great Bear imprint to publish pamphlets that were quickly printed and easily disseminated, guaranteeing wide distribution and accessibility. Ranging in length from 16 to 32 pages, saddle-stitched and printed on varying color stock, the Great Bear(...)
A great bear pamphlet #8 manifestos
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During the glory days of Something Else Press (1964-1974), its founder, the poet, editor and scholar Dick Higgins created the Great Bear imprint to publish pamphlets that were quickly printed and easily disseminated, guaranteeing wide distribution and accessibility. Ranging in length from 16 to 32 pages, saddle-stitched and printed on varying color stock, the Great Bear pamphlets showcased the work of some of the most innovative writers and artists across the twentieth century: the likes of Jackson Mac Low, Oyvind Fahlstrom, Robert Filliou, Robert Watts, Emmett Williams, Dieter Roth, David Antin and Claes Oldenburg appeared alongside predecessors such as the Italian Futurist composer Luigi Russolo and John Cage's seminal Diary: How to Improve the World (You Will Only Make Matters Worse). All pamphlets have been out of print since their original publications in the 1960s.
The futurist cookbook
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In 1932, F. T. Marinetti and his collaborator Fillìa published The Futurist Cookbook, a manifesto-as-culinary-innovation. Replete with experimental recipes (the founder of Futurism, Marinetti, is known to have ranted about the social dangers of pasta eating), the book is a multilayered exploration of cultural metabolisms, with the dining table as its centerpiece, of course!
The futurist cookbook
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In 1932, F. T. Marinetti and his collaborator Fillìa published The Futurist Cookbook, a manifesto-as-culinary-innovation. Replete with experimental recipes (the founder of Futurism, Marinetti, is known to have ranted about the social dangers of pasta eating), the book is a multilayered exploration of cultural metabolisms, with the dining table as its centerpiece, of course!
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Since its formation in 1975, Diamond and Schmitt Architects has been at the vanguard of socially responsible architecture and urban planning, and Jack Diamond and Donald Schmitt have long been vocal advocates for environmental sustainability. Part manifesto, part architectural monograph, this book features the most important projects in Diamond & Schmitt's oeuvre,(...)
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September 2008, Vancouver, Toronto
Insight and on site: the architecture of Diamond and Schmitt
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Since its formation in 1975, Diamond and Schmitt Architects has been at the vanguard of socially responsible architecture and urban planning, and Jack Diamond and Donald Schmitt have long been vocal advocates for environmental sustainability. Part manifesto, part architectural monograph, this book features the most important projects in Diamond & Schmitt's oeuvre, interspersed with 11 essays, including one by Witold Rybczynski.
Architecture in Canada
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The German architect and theorist Gottfried Semper was a founder of Modernism. Forced to leave Dresden in 1849, he composed this important manifesto on the phenomenology of materials and the systematization of the ideal museum while in exile. Published in transcription for the first time, with original line breaks, this volume includes all drawings and some manuscript(...)
December 2008, Vienna, Los Angeles
The ideal museum ; practical art in metals and hard materials
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The German architect and theorist Gottfried Semper was a founder of Modernism. Forced to leave Dresden in 1849, he composed this important manifesto on the phenomenology of materials and the systematization of the ideal museum while in exile. Published in transcription for the first time, with original line breaks, this volume includes all drawings and some manuscript pages in facsimile.
Constructivism
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Published in 1922 in Russian, Aleksei Gan’s Constructivism was the first theoretical treatise of postrevolutionary Russia’s emergent Constructivist movement. Fired with revolutionary zeal, it was unquestionably a declaration of war on traditional bourgeois art. Nearly a century later, Constructivism remains a powerful manifesto, and this new translation will help scholars(...)
Constructivism
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Published in 1922 in Russian, Aleksei Gan’s Constructivism was the first theoretical treatise of postrevolutionary Russia’s emergent Constructivist movement. Fired with revolutionary zeal, it was unquestionably a declaration of war on traditional bourgeois art. Nearly a century later, Constructivism remains a powerful manifesto, and this new translation will help scholars trace its enduring influence on twentieth-century art and design.
Art Theory
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This book presents over 120 of the key arguments of today's major architectural philosophers. These show that the modern architecture of the early part of this century has mutated into three main traditions: a critical and ecological post-modernism; a high-tech and sculptural late modernism, and deconstructive, subversive new modernism. Here are the seminal texts of James(...)
Theories and manifestoes of contemporary architecture
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This book presents over 120 of the key arguments of today's major architectural philosophers. These show that the modern architecture of the early part of this century has mutated into three main traditions: a critical and ecological post-modernism; a high-tech and sculptural late modernism, and deconstructive, subversive new modernism. Here are the seminal texts of James Stirling, Robert Venturi, Colin Rowe, Christopher Alexander, Frank Gehry, Reyner Banham, Bernard Tschumi, Rem Koolhaas and many others who have changed the discourse of architecture. Here also are the anti-modern texts of the traditionalists - Leon Krier, Demetri Porphyrios, Quinlan Terry, Prince Charles and others. Many of these texts are concise, edited versions of influential books. Reprinted in 2003.
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Architectural Theory
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McKenzie Wark is the author of 'A Hacker Manifesto', 'Gamer Theory', and 'Virtual Geography'. He teaches at the New School fo Social Research and Eugene Lang College in New York City. This is the third volume in a series of books related to the FORuM Project, Buell Center, Columbia University, New York, dedicated to exploring the relationship of architectural form to(...)
50 years of recuperation of the situationist international
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McKenzie Wark is the author of 'A Hacker Manifesto', 'Gamer Theory', and 'Virtual Geography'. He teaches at the New School fo Social Research and Eugene Lang College in New York City. This is the third volume in a series of books related to the FORuM Project, Buell Center, Columbia University, New York, dedicated to exploring the relationship of architectural form to politics and urban life.
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