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This beautifully designed book contains a rich collection of articles on typography and the printing arts ranging from metal to digital type. Drawing on the archives of "Matrix", the 36 carefully selected articles cover an eclectic and fascinating breadth of topics ranging from the earliest type design techniques to the latest in typeface and design developments. This(...)
Graphic Design and Typography
June 2003, New York
Type & typography : highlights from Matrix, the review for printers & bibliophiles
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This beautifully designed book contains a rich collection of articles on typography and the printing arts ranging from metal to digital type. Drawing on the archives of "Matrix", the 36 carefully selected articles cover an eclectic and fascinating breadth of topics ranging from the earliest type design techniques to the latest in typeface and design developments. This volume includes introductory essays by John Randle, the principal of the Whittington Press and the publisher of "Matrix" the renowned annual journal of the printing arts, and by John D. Berry, an editor, writer, typographer, and book designer.
Graphic Design and Typography
The new pavilions
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Tents, bandstands, displays, places for sitting, listening, seeing and being seen … Pavilions have myriad forms and functions. For architects and designers, they offer unique opportunities to experiment with form, construction, material, structure, surface and texture, often as prototypes for larger buildings or as purely artistic pursuits. A pavilion’s location also(...)
The new pavilions
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Tents, bandstands, displays, places for sitting, listening, seeing and being seen … Pavilions have myriad forms and functions. For architects and designers, they offer unique opportunities to experiment with form, construction, material, structure, surface and texture, often as prototypes for larger buildings or as purely artistic pursuits. A pavilion’s location also offers rich possibilities for interaction with the landscapes, streetscapes and peoplescapes around it. Pavilions can be temples to digital interaction or provide oases of surreal calm and isolation.''The New Pavilions'' presents a selection of the best and most exciting examples produced in recent years.
Contemporary Architecture
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Where is the place of architecture? Closer to the arts or to the sciences? And has there been a shift of this position over the past years due to technological evolution? – The term “precision” serves as a starting point for observing the influence of scientific methods on architecture and art. Authors explore the subject from different angles: from digital design(...)
Architectural Theory
August 2008, Berlin
Precisions: architecture between sciences and the arts
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Where is the place of architecture? Closer to the arts or to the sciences? And has there been a shift of this position over the past years due to technological evolution? – The term “precision” serves as a starting point for observing the influence of scientific methods on architecture and art. Authors explore the subject from different angles: from digital design strategies in lightweight construction to filigree architectural projects. Practical examples are flanked by essays on art and architectural theory, which also provide a prospect for the future of digitalization and cybernetics.
Architectural Theory
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This thesis investigates the role of the term plot in mediating relations between architecture and narrativity. Examining organisational strategies in the creation of real and virtual spaces, it identifies literary works by novelists who have resisted, or subverted, plot conventions in fiction (Joris-Karl Huysmans, Edmond de Goncourt, Xavier de Maistre and Neal(...)
Losing the plot: architecture and narrativity in fin-de-siècle media cultures
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This thesis investigates the role of the term plot in mediating relations between architecture and narrativity. Examining organisational strategies in the creation of real and virtual spaces, it identifies literary works by novelists who have resisted, or subverted, plot conventions in fiction (Joris-Karl Huysmans, Edmond de Goncourt, Xavier de Maistre and Neal Stephenson), and introduces architectural spaces such as Thomas Edison s film-studio Black Maria, and the plotless productions of early cinematography, to juxtapose concepts of plot and spatiality in a study of the production and consumption of pre-digital virtual spaces.
Architectural Theory
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In Punctuation: Art, Politics, and Play, Jennifer DeVere Brody places punctuation at center stage. She illuminates the performative aspects of dots, ellipses, hyphens, quotation marks, semicolons, colons, and exclamation points by considering them in relation to aesthetics and experimental art. Through her readings of texts and symbols ranging from style guides to digital(...)
Punctuation: Art, Politics, and Play
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In Punctuation: Art, Politics, and Play, Jennifer DeVere Brody places punctuation at center stage. She illuminates the performative aspects of dots, ellipses, hyphens, quotation marks, semicolons, colons, and exclamation points by considering them in relation to aesthetics and experimental art. Through her readings of texts and symbols ranging from style guides to digital art, from emoticons to dance pieces, Brody suggests that instead of always clarifying meaning, punctuation can sometimes open up space for interpretation, enabling writers and visual artists to interrogate and reformulate notions of life, death, art, and identity politics.
Museology
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This handsome book explores the recent use of figurative characteristics in the design arts. Through digital literacy and enhanced fabrication techniques, this avant-garde movement has reintroduced hybrids of methods and ideologies that were once considered too ornamental in character or too handcrafted for the 20th-century minimalist design lexicon. Both large(...)
Figuration in contemporary design: A+D Institute of Chicago Yale University Press
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This handsome book explores the recent use of figurative characteristics in the design arts. Through digital literacy and enhanced fabrication techniques, this avant-garde movement has reintroduced hybrids of methods and ideologies that were once considered too ornamental in character or too handcrafted for the 20th-century minimalist design lexicon. Both large urban-scale architecture and the small domestic realm of design are employing this avant-garde vocabulary formally and figuratively in the terms of shapes and surfaces that evoke trees, tornadoes, parasols, photography, death, illness, food, music, and sensuality.
Interior Design
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Cette publication entend contribuer à l’élaboration d’un regard critique aux dynamiques qui émergent de la croisée des notions de numérique et de l’urbain. Les mots digital et polis servent de « ruse » pour déplacer le regard, sans l’enfermer dans des discours dominants ou des significations préconçues : la ville est prise en compte en tant que polis, c’est-à-dire celui(...)
La ville face au numérique : enjeux urbains conjugués au futur
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Cette publication entend contribuer à l’élaboration d’un regard critique aux dynamiques qui émergent de la croisée des notions de numérique et de l’urbain. Les mots digital et polis servent de « ruse » pour déplacer le regard, sans l’enfermer dans des discours dominants ou des significations préconçues : la ville est prise en compte en tant que polis, c’est-à-dire celui qui serait le support actif d’un espace politique et social, et le numérique s’élargit à la notion de digitus, de l’empreinte digitale, où il serait possible de repérer la trace de l’humain, la présence du corps.
Urban Theory
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"Hyperbodies" are buildings and environments which can continuously change shape and content. The mutations of such buildings depend on the input coming from their user as well as from the surroundings. This interaction between user and building is determined by a data flow which the hyperbody uses and converts into a ”hypersurface” structure, which then alters our(...)
Hyperbodies : toward an e-motive architecture
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"Hyperbodies" are buildings and environments which can continuously change shape and content. The mutations of such buildings depend on the input coming from their user as well as from the surroundings. This interaction between user and building is determined by a data flow which the hyperbody uses and converts into a ”hypersurface” structure, which then alters our perception of space in and around the hyperbody. The architect programs this interaction and can thereby define the specific character of the building. In this book, the author provides a concise overview of this latest digital tool.
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''Socialist modernism in Ukraine'', the fifth photo album/digital architectural guide of B.A.C.U ’s planned series, includes landmarks of socialist modernist architecture in Ukraine erected from 1955 to 1991. B.A.C.U. Association explains socialist modernist tendencies; it presents – in colour photographs – a functional image of the buildings and their often original(...)
Socialist modernism in Ukraine
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''Socialist modernism in Ukraine'', the fifth photo album/digital architectural guide of B.A.C.U ’s planned series, includes landmarks of socialist modernist architecture in Ukraine erected from 1955 to 1991. B.A.C.U. Association explains socialist modernist tendencies; it presents – in colour photographs – a functional image of the buildings and their often original elements that synthesize local culture and traditions, while bringing the reader up to date with their current state of conservation. The 130 landmarks included in this volume have been organized by function, into six sections. The book contains the authors’ view on Ukrainian modernist architecture.
Modernism
Architecture for the books
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In the age of information, digital communication and the computer, the traditional library building type is undergoing dramatic change, as these buildings become portals to information in a wide variety of forms beyond the printed page. 'Architecture for the books' shows how designers meet the challenge of library design for a new generation of library users. This(...)
Commercial interiors, Building types
December 2003, Victoria (Australia)
Architecture for the books
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In the age of information, digital communication and the computer, the traditional library building type is undergoing dramatic change, as these buildings become portals to information in a wide variety of forms beyond the printed page. 'Architecture for the books' shows how designers meet the challenge of library design for a new generation of library users. This publication presents more than 30 new projects from North America, with a combination of public libraries, school libraries and university libraries. Projects are documented with full-colour photographs, plans, drawings and descriptive text.
Commercial interiors, Building types