Inside architecture
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Vittorio Gregotti's Inside Architecture is his first major work to be translated into English, examining theories of modernism and tradition and considering the architect's practice and cultural issues involved in creating models and working with ideas and buildings. Quite scholarly, but worth the effort for any studying architectural development.
Architectural Theory
September 1996, Cambridge, London
Inside architecture
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Vittorio Gregotti's Inside Architecture is his first major work to be translated into English, examining theories of modernism and tradition and considering the architect's practice and cultural issues involved in creating models and working with ideas and buildings. Quite scholarly, but worth the effort for any studying architectural development.
Architectural Theory
journals and magazines
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A collection of essays, projects and interviews highlighting work by faculty, students and graduates of SCI-Arc. This issue features essays on the theme of the urban form in Los Angeles, a critique of current practice, an interview with Mike Kelley, and an investigation of the trailer park.
Offramp 6 - Greatness close to home
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A collection of essays, projects and interviews highlighting work by faculty, students and graduates of SCI-Arc. This issue features essays on the theme of the urban form in Los Angeles, a critique of current practice, an interview with Mike Kelley, and an investigation of the trailer park.
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March 1997, New York
Magazines
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As an architectural photographer, Amanda Large's creative practice is centred around making evocative images that go beyond the straight documentation of buildings. "Fifty50" investigates how a photograph, or a series of vignettes, can tell the story of a structure through the exploration of fifty modernist churches in Toronto, ON.
Fifty50: fifty modernist churches
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As an architectural photographer, Amanda Large's creative practice is centred around making evocative images that go beyond the straight documentation of buildings. "Fifty50" investigates how a photograph, or a series of vignettes, can tell the story of a structure through the exploration of fifty modernist churches in Toronto, ON.
Architecture in Canada
Sherrie Levine: mayhem
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The American photographer and conceptual artist Sherrie Levine (b 1947) has been the subject of much critical discourse. This title contains 150 colour images that cover the full range of Levine's practice, from classic photographic works and sculptures to lesser-known works on paper, paintings, and three-dimensional objects.
Sherrie Levine: mayhem
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The American photographer and conceptual artist Sherrie Levine (b 1947) has been the subject of much critical discourse. This title contains 150 colour images that cover the full range of Levine's practice, from classic photographic works and sculptures to lesser-known works on paper, paintings, and three-dimensional objects.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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Systems gives the first comprehensive overview of Jeanne van Heeswijk’s socially engaged artistic practice from the past decade. The book presents models for the design of social spaces as well as directions for the analysis of social structures. With texts by Carlos Basualdo, Marjolein Schaap and Axel Lapp.
Jeanne Van Heeswijk : Systems
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Systems gives the first comprehensive overview of Jeanne van Heeswijk’s socially engaged artistic practice from the past decade. The book presents models for the design of social spaces as well as directions for the analysis of social structures. With texts by Carlos Basualdo, Marjolein Schaap and Axel Lapp.
Contemporary Art Monographs
Climate and architecture
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Provides a critical overview of the main climate influences which shape the design of buildings. Written by experts in their field, the book contains the latest research into climatic design supported by case studies and examples drawn from both historic and modernist practice from Europe and around the world.
Climate and architecture
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Provides a critical overview of the main climate influences which shape the design of buildings. Written by experts in their field, the book contains the latest research into climatic design supported by case studies and examples drawn from both historic and modernist practice from Europe and around the world.
Green Architecture
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Theater of exhibitions
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Curator Jens Hoffman's Theater of Exhibitions considers the plight of art after the end of art and asks whether inherited frameworks of making, theorizing and exhibiting art still apply to contemporary practice. Are exhibitions still an appropriate form of assembly and embodied ritual in our 21st-century global society?
Theater of exhibitions
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Curator Jens Hoffman's Theater of Exhibitions considers the plight of art after the end of art and asks whether inherited frameworks of making, theorizing and exhibiting art still apply to contemporary practice. Are exhibitions still an appropriate form of assembly and embodied ritual in our 21st-century global society?
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October 2015
Museology
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A comprehensive catalog of the tactile structural studies of Brad Cloepfil and Allied Works Architecture. The drawings and models — forged of diverse matter such as reclaimed timbers, porcelain, resin, glass, lead, steel — explore the dialogue between material, technique and intention that lies at the heart of architectural practice.
Case work: Studies in form, space, and construction
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A comprehensive catalog of the tactile structural studies of Brad Cloepfil and Allied Works Architecture. The drawings and models — forged of diverse matter such as reclaimed timbers, porcelain, resin, glass, lead, steel — explore the dialogue between material, technique and intention that lies at the heart of architectural practice.
Architecture Monographs
Poster graphics
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This inspirational collection of 300 recent posters from around the world proves that the poster is thriving. Richly illustrated, the selection goes far beyond commercial advertising, straight to the front lines of contemporary design practice, considering the poster as perhaps the most experimental form of graphic work today.
Poster graphics
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This inspirational collection of 300 recent posters from around the world proves that the poster is thriving. Richly illustrated, the selection goes far beyond commercial advertising, straight to the front lines of contemporary design practice, considering the poster as perhaps the most experimental form of graphic work today.
Printed Matter
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Architectural practice today goes far beyond the design and construction of buildings — the most exciting, forward-thinking architecture is also found in digital landscapes, art, apps, films, installations, and virtual reality. This remarkable book features projects — surprising, beautiful, outrageous, and sometimes even frightening — that break rules and shatter boundaries.
Radical architecture of the future
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Architectural practice today goes far beyond the design and construction of buildings — the most exciting, forward-thinking architecture is also found in digital landscapes, art, apps, films, installations, and virtual reality. This remarkable book features projects — surprising, beautiful, outrageous, and sometimes even frightening — that break rules and shatter boundaries.
Contemporary Architecture