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336 pages : color illustrationsm, color facsimiles ; 24 cm
Rome : Nero Editions, 2024., ©2024
Visible : art as policies for care : socially engaged art : 2010-ongoing / edited by Martina Angelotti, Matteo Lucchetti, Judith Wielander.
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136 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 19 x 25 cm
Chichester : Wiley-Academy, 2001.
Beyond the plan : the transformation of personal space in housing / Stephen Willats.
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Chichester : Wiley-Academy, 2001.
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232 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm
Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2018], ©2018
Culture is not always popular : fifteen years of Design Observer / edited by Michael Bierut, Jessica Helfand, with Jarrett Fuller.
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Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2018], ©2018
Off-modern
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Svetlana Boym is a writer, theorist, and media artist, and teaches Slavic and Comparative Literature at Harvard University. 'If in the 1980s artists dreamed of becoming their own curators and borrowed from the theorists, now the theorists dream of becoming artists. Disappointed with their own disciplinary specialization, thet immigrate into each other's territory. The(...)
Off-modern
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Svetlana Boym is a writer, theorist, and media artist, and teaches Slavic and Comparative Literature at Harvard University. 'If in the 1980s artists dreamed of becoming their own curators and borrowed from the theorists, now the theorists dream of becoming artists. Disappointed with their own disciplinary specialization, thet immigrate into each other's territory. The lateral move again. Neither backward nor forward, but sideways.' This is the second 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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viii, 482 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2016., ©2016
Eyes on the street : the life of Jane Jacobs / Robert Kanigel.
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New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2016., ©2016
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In the fall of 2007, Lebbeus Woods (1940-2012), long admired for his visionary architecture and mastery of drawing, began a blog. Part forum and part public journal, the eclectic mix of articles, drawings, anecdotes, poetry, interviews, and photographic essays explored topics ranging from architectural theory and criticism to education and politics. Amassing more thanv(...)
Slow manifesto: Lebbeus Woods blog
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In the fall of 2007, Lebbeus Woods (1940-2012), long admired for his visionary architecture and mastery of drawing, began a blog. Part forum and part public journal, the eclectic mix of articles, drawings, anecdotes, poetry, interviews, and photographic essays explored topics ranging from architectural theory and criticism to education and politics. Amassing more thanv three hundred entries by its end in the summer of 2012, it is regarded by many as the most comprehensive and accessible archive of Woods's prodigious creativity. Slow Manifesto: Lebbeus Woods Blog, an edited volume of the blog's centerpiece entries, stands as a fragmentary essay on the nature of architecture that will be dear to architects, students, and thinkers everywhere.
Architectural Theory
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In the early 20th century, the soviet architectural press became a forum for an extraordinary group of artist, designers, architects, and theorists to converge in debate over the shape of their present and futur built environment.
Architecture in print : Design and Debate in the Soviet Union 1919-1935
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In the early 20th century, the soviet architectural press became a forum for an extraordinary group of artist, designers, architects, and theorists to converge in debate over the shape of their present and futur built environment.
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Meet the Nelsons
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Meet the Nelsons, the sixth volume of the Forum Pamphlet Series, documents Wes Jones notorious comic strip that appeared in ANY Magazine (Architecture New York) from 1994 to 2001. This book addresses themes ranging from the legacy of the machine aesthetic to the challenges of virtuality to key disciplinary personalities such as Buckminster Fuller and Manfredo Tafuri.
Meet the Nelsons
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Meet the Nelsons, the sixth volume of the Forum Pamphlet Series, documents Wes Jones notorious comic strip that appeared in ANY Magazine (Architecture New York) from 1994 to 2001. This book addresses themes ranging from the legacy of the machine aesthetic to the challenges of virtuality to key disciplinary personalities such as Buckminster Fuller and Manfredo Tafuri.
Architectural Theory
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On March 28th, 2007, the Forum For Urban Design assembled four distinguished architecture critics, Karrie Jacobs and Philip Nobel from New York, and Jeremy Melvin and Rowan Moore from London, to discuss today's Age of Starchitecture, and their complicity in creating it. The second annual Temko Critics Panel was moderated by Joseph Grima, director of the Storefront for Art(...)
A critical situation: What to make of Starchitecture (and who to blame for it)
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On March 28th, 2007, the Forum For Urban Design assembled four distinguished architecture critics, Karrie Jacobs and Philip Nobel from New York, and Jeremy Melvin and Rowan Moore from London, to discuss today's Age of Starchitecture, and their complicity in creating it. The second annual Temko Critics Panel was moderated by Joseph Grima, director of the Storefront for Art and Architecture.
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Young architects 16
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The Architectural League Prize is an annual competition, series of lectures, and exhibition organised by the Architectural League and its Young Architects and Designers Committee. The League Prize was established to recognise specific works of high quality and to encourage the exchange of ideas among young people who might otherwise not have a forum. Participants in the(...)
Young architects 16
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The Architectural League Prize is an annual competition, series of lectures, and exhibition organised by the Architectural League and its Young Architects and Designers Committee. The League Prize was established to recognise specific works of high quality and to encourage the exchange of ideas among young people who might otherwise not have a forum. Participants in the program are chosen through a portfolio competition that is juried by distinguished architects, artists and critics, and the Young Architects and Designers Committee. The committee, a group selected each year from past winners of the League Prize, is responsible for developing the program's theme and selecting competition jurors. Open to designers ten years or less out of school, the competition draws entrants from around North America. The lecture series and exhibition by winners of the competition provide a lively public forum for the discussion of their work and ideas.
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July 2015
Contemporary Architecture