Public space? Lost and found
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“Public space” is a potent and contentious topic among artists, architects, and cultural producers. Public Space? Lost and Found considers the role of aesthetic practices within the construction, identification, and critique of shared territories, and how artists or architects—the “antennae of the race”—can heighten our awareness of rapidly changing formulations of public(...)
Architectural Theory
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Public space? Lost and found
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“Public space” is a potent and contentious topic among artists, architects, and cultural producers. Public Space? Lost and Found considers the role of aesthetic practices within the construction, identification, and critique of shared territories, and how artists or architects—the “antennae of the race”—can heighten our awareness of rapidly changing formulations of public space in the age of digital media, vast ecological crises, and civic uprisings. "Public Space? Lost and found" combines significant recent projects in art and architecture with writings by historians and theorists. Contributors investigate strategies for responding to underrepresented communities and areas of conflict through the work of Marjetica Potrc in Johannesburg and Teddy Cruz on the Mexico-U.S. border, among others. They explore our collective stakes in ecological catastrophe through artistic research such as atelier d’architecture autogérée’s hubs for community action and recycling in Colombes, France, and Brian Holmes’s theoretical investigation of new forms of aesthetic perception in the age of the Anthropocene. Inspired by artist and MIT professor Antoni Muntadas’ early coining of the term “media landscape,” contributors also look ahead, casting a critical eye on the fraught impact of digital media and the internet on public space. This book is the first in a new series of volumes produced by the MIT School of Architecture and Planning’s Program in Art, Culture and Technology.
Architectural Theory
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Digital tools have launched architecture into a dizzying new era, one in which wood, stone, metal, glass, and other traditional materials are augmented by pixels and code. In this ambitious exploration, an eminent thinker examines what, exactly, the building blocks of architecture have meant over the centuries and how technology may-or may not-be changing how we think(...)
The materiality of architecture
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Digital tools have launched architecture into a dizzying new era, one in which wood, stone, metal, glass, and other traditional materials are augmented by pixels and code. In this ambitious exploration, an eminent thinker examines what, exactly, the building blocks of architecture have meant over the centuries and how technology may-or may not-be changing how we think about them. Antoine Picon argues that materiality is not only about matter and that the silence and inscrutability-the otherness-of raw materials work against humanity's need to live in a meaningful world. He describes how people define who they are, in part, through their specific physical experience of architectural materials and spaces. Indeed, Picon asserts, the entire paradox of the architectural discipline consists in its desire to render matter expressive to human beings. Through a retrospective review of canonical moments in Western European architecture, Picon offers an original perspective on the ways materiality has varied throughout centuries, demonstrating how experiences of the physical world have changed in relation to the evolution of human subjectivity. Ultimately, Picon concludes that computer-based design methods are not an abrupt departure from previous architectural traditions but rather a new way for architects to control material resources. The result reinforces the fundamentally humanistic nature of architectural endeavor with an increasing sense of design freedom and a release from material constraint in the digital era.
Architectural Theory
Kodak city
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Eastman Kodak, the company which pioneered so much in photography from the 1880s through the 1960s, could have owned digital imaging; the very first electronic camera was born in one of Kodak's labs. Instead, they missed that boat, going into a tailspin that resulted in their eventual bankruptcy. Tied to that economic engine, the fortunes of Rochester, New York, the(...)
Kodak city
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Eastman Kodak, the company which pioneered so much in photography from the 1880s through the 1960s, could have owned digital imaging; the very first electronic camera was born in one of Kodak's labs. Instead, they missed that boat, going into a tailspin that resulted in their eventual bankruptcy. Tied to that economic engine, the fortunes of Rochester, New York, the archetypal company town where Kodak had its headquarters, fell as "Big Yellow" collapsed. Catherine Leutenegger's attentive, deadpan studies of Rochester today explore the face of a city once central to photography but now irrelevant and adrift.
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Seeing things : from Shakespeare to Pixar / Alan Ackerman.
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Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2015]
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Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2015]
Log 23 / Fall 2011
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Pier Vittorio Aureli, Labor and Architecture: Revisiting Cedric Price's Potteries Thinkbelt Simone Brott, Esprit futur Brennan Buck, What Plastic Wants Mario Carpo, Digital Style Joseph Clarke, Wagnerism Embodied Nicholas de Monchaux, Requiem in White Luca Farinelli, 53 Questions, 265 Answers: Emilio Ambasz, Peter Eisenman,(...)
Log 23 / Fall 2011
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Pier Vittorio Aureli, Labor and Architecture: Revisiting Cedric Price's Potteries Thinkbelt Simone Brott, Esprit futur Brennan Buck, What Plastic Wants Mario Carpo, Digital Style Joseph Clarke, Wagnerism Embodied Nicholas de Monchaux, Requiem in White Luca Farinelli, 53 Questions, 265 Answers: Emilio Ambasz, Peter Eisenman, Steven Holl, Bjarke Ingels, and Thom Mayne Roy Lichtenstein, Entablature Greg Lynn, Chemical Architecture Andrea Phillips, English Pastoral Antoine Picon, When Parametricism Tries to Reconnect with Vitruvius Mike Silver, Many From One Paul Virilio, The Insecurity of History Andrew Witt, Design Hacking: The Machinery of Visual Combinatorics Plus: On gentrification . . . On time capsules . . . On listening . . . On an exhibition . . .
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Le Corbusier Redrawn presents the only collection of rendered original drawings (at 1:200 scale) of all twenty-six of Le Corbusier's residential works. Using the original drawings from the Le Corbusier Foundation's digital archives, architect Steven Park has beautifully redrawn 130 perspectival sections, as well as plans, sections, and elevations of exterior forms and(...)
Le Corbusier redrawn: the houses
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Le Corbusier Redrawn presents the only collection of rendered original drawings (at 1:200 scale) of all twenty-six of Le Corbusier's residential works. Using the original drawings from the Le Corbusier Foundation's digital archives, architect Steven Park has beautifully redrawn 130 perspectival sections, as well as plans, sections, and elevations of exterior forms and interior spaces. These new drawings-which combine the conceptual clarity of the section with the spatial qualities of the perspective-not only provide information about the buildings, they also help students experience specific works spatially as they learn to critically examine Le Corbusier's works.
Architecture Monographs
Hito Steyerl
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Artist, filmmaker, and writer Hito Steyerl is an acute observer and interpreter of globalized and digital cultures. This book examines three of Steyerl's large-scale works--"Hell Yeah We Fuck Die" (2016), "ExtraSpaceCraft" (2016), and "Liquidity Inc." (2014)--as well as other iconic works from the last 15 years. These essayistic documentary films blend personal with(...)
Hito Steyerl
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Artist, filmmaker, and writer Hito Steyerl is an acute observer and interpreter of globalized and digital cultures. This book examines three of Steyerl's large-scale works--"Hell Yeah We Fuck Die" (2016), "ExtraSpaceCraft" (2016), and "Liquidity Inc." (2014)--as well as other iconic works from the last 15 years. These essayistic documentary films blend personal with political and satire with seriousness. Her artworks and writings are inspired by her investigations of the impact of the internet and new technologies on our lives and are critical of the various forms of control and surveillance, as well as militarization and cultural globalization.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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With the help of the neologism ''resortization,'' this issue discusses the structural transformation currently underway in the domain of art, which compels it to resemble a resort-like environment. In particular, this term encapsulates the tendency of various Blue-Chip Galleries to follow their well-to-do clientele into the reclusion of exclusive luxury enclaves such as(...)
Texte zur kunst #127 : resortization
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With the help of the neologism ''resortization,'' this issue discusses the structural transformation currently underway in the domain of art, which compels it to resemble a resort-like environment. In particular, this term encapsulates the tendency of various Blue-Chip Galleries to follow their well-to-do clientele into the reclusion of exclusive luxury enclaves such as Aspen, Saint-Tropez or Monte-Carlo. The issue also engages with the increasing relevance of digital media, which not only plays a growing part in informing processes of recognition but fundamentally influences the conditions under which artistic work is made and experienced.
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Archphoto 2.0 00: 1861-2011
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archphoto 2.0 is a print magazine spawned by the now well-established Archphoto.it, a digital webzine started in 2002 as a critical review of architecture and design issues in connection with visual arts- and social sciences-related disciplines. This new venture aims at consolidating the critical thought expressed on the web by Archphoto, that will go on and will be(...)
Archphoto 2.0 00: 1861-2011
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archphoto 2.0 is a print magazine spawned by the now well-established Archphoto.it, a digital webzine started in 2002 as a critical review of architecture and design issues in connection with visual arts- and social sciences-related disciplines. This new venture aims at consolidating the critical thought expressed on the web by Archphoto, that will go on and will be complemented by the print magazine’s new contributions. A debate on the theoretical discussion of the issues related to architecture and society seen from the multiple points of view of the disciplines that complement architecture: contemporary art, anthropology, sociology, photography, cinema, literature, music, design.
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