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This publication documents the works of East German engineer Ulrich Müther, a pioneer in concrete shell construction from the early 1960s. A photographed small-format book, this winner of the 2009 Architecture Book Prize from the Deutsches Architektur Museum brings together (for the first time) these fresh and technically impressive buildings. From the Space Age beach(...)
Shell structures in Mecklenburg, Western-Pomerania
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This publication documents the works of East German engineer Ulrich Müther, a pioneer in concrete shell construction from the early 1960s. A photographed small-format book, this winner of the 2009 Architecture Book Prize from the Deutsches Architektur Museum brings together (for the first time) these fresh and technically impressive buildings. From the Space Age beach house on the cover to a myriad of modernism all around Germany, Müther’s remarkable vision opens a whole new world to today’s architects. Includes plans, project information, survey maps and addresses to facilitate on-site visits (the book is just the right size for a glove compartment). With articles by Michael Wagner and Rahel Lämmler, Prof. Arch. Georg Giebeler, Prof. Dr. Massimo Laffranchi
Architecture Monographs
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This book begins as a celebration of the work of Modernist architect Oscar Niemeyer, best known as the guiding genius behind Brasilia's spectacular architecture, and a leading designer of the United Nations headquarters. Niemeyer turned 102 in December 2009, and the intersection of that event with the 50th anniversary of Brasilia, in 2010, was reason enough to conduct a(...)
Oscar 102/ Brasilia 50: Eight casses in Brazil's architectural modernity
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This book begins as a celebration of the work of Modernist architect Oscar Niemeyer, best known as the guiding genius behind Brasilia's spectacular architecture, and a leading designer of the United Nations headquarters. Niemeyer turned 102 in December 2009, and the intersection of that event with the 50th anniversary of Brasilia, in 2010, was reason enough to conduct a studio at Rice University s School of Architecture on the Modernist master. Includes photos, schematics, drawings, renderings, reconstuctions and plans, From reconstructions of some furniture pieces by Niemeyer and his daughter Ana Maria; to a look at the typically Brazilian elements of Niemeyer s architecture; to proposals for as-yet-undeveloped quadrants of Brasilia.
Architecture Monographs
Liam Gillick
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This catalog serves as a comprehensive mid-career retrospective, compiled by the artist himself. With his muscular combination of words, forms and ideas, the works are both narrative and non-narrative. Gillick has created over 2000 multi-dimensional works exploring ideas about capitalism, social organizations, social volatility and the myriad possibilities of instability.(...)
Contemporary Art Monographs
September 2010
Liam Gillick
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This catalog serves as a comprehensive mid-career retrospective, compiled by the artist himself. With his muscular combination of words, forms and ideas, the works are both narrative and non-narrative. Gillick has created over 2000 multi-dimensional works exploring ideas about capitalism, social organizations, social volatility and the myriad possibilities of instability. The artist's quest has continually been something of a causal chain that investigates concepts such as utopia, parallelism, space and time, using them all as a search for utopia.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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Exhibition catalogue of recent work by this duo who collaborate on projects addressing urban geographies, architectural representations, and related visual politics.
Bitter & Weber: Right, to the city
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Exhibition catalogue of recent work by this duo who collaborate on projects addressing urban geographies, architectural representations, and related visual politics.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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This monograph is the first for David Batchelor's Found Monochromes series. Since 1997, the London-based artist has been photographing single square and rectangle planes of uninterrupted white that he passes as he walks through London and places he visits. The images are informal and impromptu; shot from a uniform distance, the white planes are seen on a variety of(...)
David Batchelor: found monochrome Vol.1
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This monograph is the first for David Batchelor's Found Monochromes series. Since 1997, the London-based artist has been photographing single square and rectangle planes of uninterrupted white that he passes as he walks through London and places he visits. The images are informal and impromptu; shot from a uniform distance, the white planes are seen on a variety of backdrops: brick walls, car doors, metal fences and more. They are the backs of signs, number plates that have lost their number, empty billboards or faded messages. This body of work references the once radical tradition of monochrome paintings practiced by Malevich, Rodchenko, Yves Klein, Ad Reinhardt, Ellsworth Kelly and others. Found Monochromes Vol. 1 brings together the largest group of photographs from Batchelor's series, accompanied by a conversation between the philosopher Jonathan Ree and the artist.
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Jane Dibbets: Horizons
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The question of the horizon, one of the recurring themes in the work of Dutch conceptualist Jan Dibbets, returns in this exhibition catalog from the Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris and the Hague. In this poetic and clever new work, using the photographic image in an almost geometric collage, Dibbets takes two photographs, a landscape and a seascape, and(...)
Jane Dibbets: Horizons
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The question of the horizon, one of the recurring themes in the work of Dutch conceptualist Jan Dibbets, returns in this exhibition catalog from the Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris and the Hague. In this poetic and clever new work, using the photographic image in an almost geometric collage, Dibbets takes two photographs, a landscape and a seascape, and repeatedly juxtaposes them in various ways that divide the horizon. Coming out of the 1970s European conceptual art movement, Dibbets is a major figure in Dutch art and on the international scene.
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Frank Halmans: Here/hier
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An extensive, full-color monograph for Dutch artist Frank Halmans, whose found-object sculptures and installations comment profoundly on human aspirations, walking the line between witty and poignant. This volume includes the artist's detailed drawings and extensive photos of Halmans' dollhouse influenced sculptures, odd hybrids, and public art installations.
Frank Halmans: Here/hier
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An extensive, full-color monograph for Dutch artist Frank Halmans, whose found-object sculptures and installations comment profoundly on human aspirations, walking the line between witty and poignant. This volume includes the artist's detailed drawings and extensive photos of Halmans' dollhouse influenced sculptures, odd hybrids, and public art installations.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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Cuttings [Supplement] is produced in association with Starling's solo exhibition at The Power Plant in 2008. The exhibition features the newly commissioned work Infestation Piece (Musselled Moore) (2007-8), a piece that collapses the history of Henry Moore's sculpture, Warrior with Shield (1953–4), with the zebra mussel infestation in Lake Ontario. This publication is a(...)
Simon Starling: Cuttings [Supplement]
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Cuttings [Supplement] is produced in association with Starling's solo exhibition at The Power Plant in 2008. The exhibition features the newly commissioned work Infestation Piece (Musselled Moore) (2007-8), a piece that collapses the history of Henry Moore's sculpture, Warrior with Shield (1953–4), with the zebra mussel infestation in Lake Ontario. This publication is a companion piece to Cuttings (2005), but stands on its own with essays focusing on the commissioned sculpture and new works made since Starling won the Turner Prize in 2005. Autoxylopyrocycloboros (2006), Nachbau (Reconstruction) (2007), and Wilhelm Noack oHG (2006), are accompanied with explanatory texts and colour illustrations.
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Histoire de Paris
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Du site néolithique aux vingt arrondissements actuels, des fondations de Lutèce à la nouvelle Bnf en passant par la construction de Notre-Dame, l’histoire de Paris a toujours été un peu plus que celle de la capitale de la France. Comme le démontre cet ouvrage, Paris pèse en effet d’un poids particulier, politique, économique et culturel, dans l’édification et l’activité(...)
Histoire de Paris
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Du site néolithique aux vingt arrondissements actuels, des fondations de Lutèce à la nouvelle Bnf en passant par la construction de Notre-Dame, l’histoire de Paris a toujours été un peu plus que celle de la capitale de la France. Comme le démontre cet ouvrage, Paris pèse en effet d’un poids particulier, politique, économique et culturel, dans l’édification et l’activité du pays. Au cœur d’une agglomération de plus de dix millions d’habitants, elle connaît un très large rayonnement international.
History until 1900, France
Identités visuelles
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Les six essais qui composent cet ouvrage portent sur des sujets apparemment très différents : des logos, un "total look", un concept de magasin et un couteau. Si ces objets sont ici soumis à une analyse sémiotique, c'est qu'ils illustrent, au-delà de leur commune appartenance à la culture matérielle contemporaine, un même mode de production du sens.
Identités visuelles
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Les six essais qui composent cet ouvrage portent sur des sujets apparemment très différents : des logos, un "total look", un concept de magasin et un couteau. Si ces objets sont ici soumis à une analyse sémiotique, c'est qu'ils illustrent, au-delà de leur commune appartenance à la culture matérielle contemporaine, un même mode de production du sens.