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Modernism In-Between explores the historical “in-betweenness” of Yugoslavian modernism and the strategies architects used to mediate different--sometimes directly opposed--concepts of culture and architecture. Surveyed here is a wide range of topics, from city building and state representation, to the typologies of everyday life. Also discussed is the work of Yugoslavia's(...)
Modernism in-between: the mediatory architectures of socialist Yugoslavia
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Modernism In-Between explores the historical “in-betweenness” of Yugoslavian modernism and the strategies architects used to mediate different--sometimes directly opposed--concepts of culture and architecture. Surveyed here is a wide range of topics, from city building and state representation, to the typologies of everyday life. Also discussed is the work of Yugoslavia's leading architects, who transformed their in-betweenness into a new quality: Edvard Ravnikar's seamless blending of such varied influences as Joe Plenik, Le Corbusier and Otto Wagner; Bogdan Bogdanovic's war memorials, which filtered deep-seated cultural archetypes through the lens of Surrealism; Juraj Neidhardt's efforts at forging a modern identity for Bosnia based on the vernacular Ottoman heritage; and Vjenceslav Richter's neo-avant-garde experiments, which provided some of the most convincing representations of Yugoslav socialism. Wolfgang Thaler's photographs document these and many other achievements.
Architectural Theory
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Treating the idea of an economy as a general system of exchange, Intangible Economies advances the idea that personal relationships are produced by economic activity, and that desire generates economic transactions. Intangible Economies, speculatively investigates the role that these “affective transactions” play in modes of representation and cultural production. The(...)
Intangible economies
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Treating the idea of an economy as a general system of exchange, Intangible Economies advances the idea that personal relationships are produced by economic activity, and that desire generates economic transactions. Intangible Economies, speculatively investigates the role that these “affective transactions” play in modes of representation and cultural production. The abstract and abstracting function of value itself becomes particularly significant in this constellation, in its relation to both capitalist economy and to ethics. First developed for a 2011 conference in Vancouver, the essays included in this anthology seek to tackle the difficult task of tracing the role of affect in economic exchanges relative to artistic production, while also enacting the unruly force of such transactions. The contributing essayists are Melanie Gilligan, Juan A. Gaitàn, Hadley + Maxwell, Candice Hopkins, Olaf Nicolai, Patricia Reed, Monika Szewczyk and Jan Verwoert.
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Artist-run initiatives in North America provided a space for the presentation and legitimization of experimental work and for the assertion of socially progressive and politically radical ideas and questions. In making such spaces available, artist-run initiatives have operated alternately as flash points for heated debates and controversies, as well as platforms for(...)
Institutions by artists: volume one
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Artist-run initiatives in North America provided a space for the presentation and legitimization of experimental work and for the assertion of socially progressive and politically radical ideas and questions. In making such spaces available, artist-run initiatives have operated alternately as flash points for heated debates and controversies, as well as platforms for social understanding and remaining for their audiences.
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Art Theory
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The first volume in a new series from Jovis on landscape architecture today, Landscape Vision Motion asks the question: what objectives can be achieved in the theoretical exchange between visual studies, digital media, film, space and motion in the field of landscape architecture? Professionals from various fields contribute.
Landscape vision motion (landscript no.1)
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The first volume in a new series from Jovis on landscape architecture today, Landscape Vision Motion asks the question: what objectives can be achieved in the theoretical exchange between visual studies, digital media, film, space and motion in the field of landscape architecture? Professionals from various fields contribute.
Landscape Theory
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Filmic Mapping, the second volume in Jovis' new LandScript series, examines forms of land measurement, primarily in documentary and essay films of the past ten years. Contributors from a variety of disciplines weigh in on the state of contemporary landscape architecture and its visual representation.
Filmic mapping: documentary film and the visual culture of landscape architecture (landscript, no. 2)
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Filmic Mapping, the second volume in Jovis' new LandScript series, examines forms of land measurement, primarily in documentary and essay films of the past ten years. Contributors from a variety of disciplines weigh in on the state of contemporary landscape architecture and its visual representation.
Landscape Theory
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Bright City: Ma Yansong Interviewed by Jérôme Sans is the second in a series of pocket-book interviews with key cultural figures by internationally renowned curator, cultural agitator and pioneer Jérôme Sans. Here, Sans interviews Ma Yansong (born 1975), the founder of MAD Architects and architect of “Floating Island” and Absolute World.”
Bright city: Ma Yansong interviewed by Jérôme Sans
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Bright City: Ma Yansong Interviewed by Jérôme Sans is the second in a series of pocket-book interviews with key cultural figures by internationally renowned curator, cultural agitator and pioneer Jérôme Sans. Here, Sans interviews Ma Yansong (born 1975), the founder of MAD Architects and architect of “Floating Island” and Absolute World.”
Architectural Theory
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Based on careful study of Washington's personal diaries and correspondence and on the lively accounts of visitors to his estate, this book introduces a George Washington unfamiliar to many readers-an avid art collector, amateur architect, and leading landscape designer of his time.
George Washington's eye : landscape, architecture & design at Mount Vernon
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Based on careful study of Washington's personal diaries and correspondence and on the lively accounts of visitors to his estate, this book introduces a George Washington unfamiliar to many readers-an avid art collector, amateur architect, and leading landscape designer of his time.
Urban Theory
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Buildings tell stories. Castles, country homes, churches, and monasteries are "documents" of the people who built them, owned them, lived and died in them, inherited and saved or destroyed them, and recorded their histories. Literature and Architecture in Early Modern England examines the relationship between sixteenth and seventeenth-century architectural and literary(...)
Literature and architecture in early Modern England
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Buildings tell stories. Castles, country homes, churches, and monasteries are "documents" of the people who built them, owned them, lived and died in them, inherited and saved or destroyed them, and recorded their histories. Literature and Architecture in Early Modern England examines the relationship between sixteenth and seventeenth-century architectural and literary works. By becoming more sensitive to the narrative functions of architecture, Anne M. Myers argues, we begin to understand how a range of writers viewed and made use of the material built environment that surrounded the production of early modern texts in England. Scholars have long found themselves in the position of excusing or explaining England's failure to achieve the equivalent of the Italian Renaissance in the visual arts. Myers proposes that architecture inspired an unusual amount of historiographic and literary production, including poetry, drama, architectural treatises, and diaries. Works by William Camden, Henry Wotton, Ben Jonson, Andrew Marvell, George Herbert, Anne Clifford, and John Evelyn, when considered as a group, are texts that overturn the engrained critical notion that a Protestant fear of idolatry sentenced the visual arts and architecture in England to a state of suspicion and neglect.
Architectural Theory
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In a world of seemingly ever-increasing instability, many urban planning decisions seem to be governed not by vision, but by fear--fear of disaster, of change, of the unknown. What can we learn from this state of affairs? Can such fear be made beneficial? Is it conceivable that 'fear' might even offer a kind of guide in matters of urban planning? Guided by fantasy and(...)
The why factor : city shock, planning the unexpected
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In a world of seemingly ever-increasing instability, many urban planning decisions seem to be governed not by vision, but by fear--fear of disaster, of change, of the unknown. What can we learn from this state of affairs? Can such fear be made beneficial? Is it conceivable that 'fear' might even offer a kind of guide in matters of urban planning? Guided by fantasy and invention rather than science, City Shock: Planning the Unexpected proposes ten 'what if' scenarios, imagining how each of these scenarios could play out in the Dutch landscape between 2018 and 2047. In a narrative composed of feasible but unlikely headlines, a series of newspaper-style spreads report on fictitious future catastrophic events, exposing possible causes and consequences. City Shock is the sixth book in Winy Maas' Why Factory's Future Cities series.
Urban Theory
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The relationship of art to work and the conditions of artistic production has long engaged many in the field of visual art. Work is a broad concept, the meaning of which has changed radically as a result of the social and technological transformations that have taken place over the past century. What, then, is “work” today and what is its relation to art? What is the(...)
Work, work, work: a reader on art and labour
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The relationship of art to work and the conditions of artistic production has long engaged many in the field of visual art. Work is a broad concept, the meaning of which has changed radically as a result of the social and technological transformations that have taken place over the past century. What, then, is “work” today and what is its relation to art? What is the position of the artist if “creativity” has become a commodity? How can the artist’s conditions of production be described, and what role can art and architecture play in societal change?
Critical Theory