Orri: Interiors
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Orri Jónsson was holidaying one summer in the north of Iceland with his family, when he stumbled upon an abandoned farmhouse and began taking photos of it. Fascinated with the results but disappointed by the restrictions of the 35mm film he had used, he returned to the motif with a large-format analogue camera. Orri thus photographed the gloriously decaying interiors of(...)
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Orri Jónsson was holidaying one summer in the north of Iceland with his family, when he stumbled upon an abandoned farmhouse and began taking photos of it. Fascinated with the results but disappointed by the restrictions of the 35mm film he had used, he returned to the motif with a large-format analogue camera. Orri thus photographed the gloriously decaying interiors of deserted houses throughout Iceland for the next 12 years, and ''Interiors'' contains the best of these images from 1999 to 2010. Painterly in color, rigorous in composition and lacking people, Orri's photos evoke the personal histories of the inhabitants who long ago abandoned their homes. Interiors is shaped by an uncanny silence and sense of loss, most poignant in the images of objects people left behind--old buttons, newspapers and even a hot water bottle--tokens of vanished lives.
Photography monographs
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Du plus profond de chaque territoire, leur architecture témoigne, en tant que “fragment du monde”, d’une vision renouvelée de notre avenir. C’est dans ce contexte que Jana Revedin, architecte et professeur, a créé en 2007 le “Global Award for Sustainable Architecture”. Cet ouvrage illustre le travail des lauréats 2009 et 2010 (Sami Rintala, Studio Mumbaï, Diébédo Francis(...)
Green Architecture
March 2012
Sustainable design II : vers une nouvelle éthique pour l'architecture et la ville
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Du plus profond de chaque territoire, leur architecture témoigne, en tant que “fragment du monde”, d’une vision renouvelée de notre avenir. C’est dans ce contexte que Jana Revedin, architecte et professeur, a créé en 2007 le “Global Award for Sustainable Architecture”. Cet ouvrage illustre le travail des lauréats 2009 et 2010 (Sami Rintala, Studio Mumbaï, Diébédo Francis Kéré, Patrick Bouchain et Loïc Julienne, Thomas Herzog, Junya Ishigami, Steve Bear, Giancarlo Mazzanti, Troppo Architects et Snohetta). La première partie de chaque chapitre présente les architectes en retraçant les conditions de leur engagement, en expliquant la démarche que chacun a construite au sein de la société où il vit et en mettant en lumière ce que son expérience apporte au débat mondial. La seconde partie présente deux ou trois projets qui illustrent particulièrement cette démarche et sont porteurs d’enseignements.
Green Architecture
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La Ville de Rimbaud a inauguré le 1er octobre 2011, à l’occasion de la Nuit Blanche, l’oeuvre d’art public Alchimie des Ailleurs de l’artiste québécois Michel Goulet. L’oeuvre est constituée au total de dix-huit chaises en acier inoxydable. Cet ensemble est conçu à partir d’éléments prélevés sur près de 500 croquis dessinés par les visiteurs de la Nuit Blanche 2010 lors(...)
Michel Goulet: Alchimie des Ailleurs. Les chaises-poèmes de Charleville-Mézières
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La Ville de Rimbaud a inauguré le 1er octobre 2011, à l’occasion de la Nuit Blanche, l’oeuvre d’art public Alchimie des Ailleurs de l’artiste québécois Michel Goulet. L’oeuvre est constituée au total de dix-huit chaises en acier inoxydable. Cet ensemble est conçu à partir d’éléments prélevés sur près de 500 croquis dessinés par les visiteurs de la Nuit Blanche 2010 lors de la manifestation « Dessine-moi une chaise »; figurent également 18 extraits de l’oeuvre d'Arthur Rimbaud ainsi que de poèmes inédits commandés à 18 poètes contemporains issus de la francophonie invités dans le cadre de résidences ou de lectures. Cette publication documente cette très belle installation qui est une invitation lancée au passant pour qu'il puisse contribuer à faire vivre cette oeuvre; le promeneur va effectivement déambuler, s'asseoir, lire, s'arrêter, méditer et échanger avec d'autres passants.
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John Pawson: katalog
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British architect John Pawson (born 1949) is a master of minimalism. His buildings and objects are defined by his devotion to simplicity and the art of “leaving out,” and by their purity of space, proportion, light and material. Influenced by Japanese culture and minimalist sculpture, Pawson defines his idea of the minimum as a perfection and quality that arises when(...)
John Pawson: katalog
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British architect John Pawson (born 1949) is a master of minimalism. His buildings and objects are defined by his devotion to simplicity and the art of “leaving out,” and by their purity of space, proportion, light and material. Influenced by Japanese culture and minimalist sculpture, Pawson defines his idea of the minimum as a perfection and quality that arises when every detail and connection is reduced to only that which is essential. With models, large-format photographs, material studies and objects, this publication provides an overview of Pawson’s work and demonstrates the phenomenon of “emptiness.” Among the projects presented are the Cistercian monastery Novy Dvur in Czech Republic (2004), the footbridge Sackler Crossing in London (2006), the Stone House for La Triennale di Milano (2010) and the St. Moritz church in Augsburg, currently in its planning stages.
Architecture Monographs
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With his memorably titled 1956 collage "Just What is it that Makes Today's Homes So Different, So Appealing?", British artist Richard Hamilton (born 1922) heralded the British Pop revolution; and with his 1967 Swingeing London series of prints, which depicted the arrest of Mick Jagger and Robert Fraser, Hamilton's art entered the general public consciousness. But unlike(...)
Contemporary Art Monographs
July 2010
Richard Hamilton : Modern moral matters
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With his memorably titled 1956 collage "Just What is it that Makes Today's Homes So Different, So Appealing?", British artist Richard Hamilton (born 1922) heralded the British Pop revolution; and with his 1967 Swingeing London series of prints, which depicted the arrest of Mick Jagger and Robert Fraser, Hamilton's art entered the general public consciousness. But unlike so many Pop artists, Hamilton was never an uncritical or ambivalent advocate of postwar society, and he has often agitated directly against it, producing a great deal of openly political, satirical work that assaults both consumer culture at large and more immediate political events. This monograph, published for Hamilton's 2010 exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery in London (his first exhibition since 1992), brings together Hamilton's famous "protest" paintings as well as newer political works and features essays by Benjamin H.D. Buchloh and Michael Bracewell.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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The Farming the City project began in November 2010 as an initiative of the Amsterdam-based organization CITIES, bringing city dwellers and urban farmers together to explore inspirational ways of producing, storing, cooking, preserving, distributing and sharing food. Since then, it has fostered urban farming projects all over the world, to great acclaim, and with(...)
Farming the city: food as a tool for today's urbanisation
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The Farming the City project began in November 2010 as an initiative of the Amsterdam-based organization CITIES, bringing city dwellers and urban farmers together to explore inspirational ways of producing, storing, cooking, preserving, distributing and sharing food. Since then, it has fostered urban farming projects all over the world, to great acclaim, and with considerable press coverage. Farming the City looks at this booming global phenomenon, considering in detail 30 projects, from City Growers’ transformation of empty spaces in Boston to Eagle Street Rooftop Farm in New York and FarmScape in Los Angeles. 20 short essays broach related, broader topics such as the possibilities of bottom-up developments in poorer neighborhoods; the socially cohesive effects of urban farming (since nothing generates neighborhood spirit better than gardening together); new technologies of sustainism; and newly developing forms of business designed to create local wealth.
Food
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Artpress a rencontré pour la première fois Georges Didi-Huberman en 1990, à l'occasion d'un dossier que la revue consacrait à l'histoire de l'art. Sa réflexion portait déjà sur des questions méthodologiques. Depuis, la pensée de Georges Didi-Huberman est devenue l'une des plus influentes, non seulement dans le domaine de l'histoire de l'art mais aussi, plus largement,(...)
Les grands entretiens d'Artpress : Georges Didi-Huberman
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Artpress a rencontré pour la première fois Georges Didi-Huberman en 1990, à l'occasion d'un dossier que la revue consacrait à l'histoire de l'art. Sa réflexion portait déjà sur des questions méthodologiques. Depuis, la pensée de Georges Didi-Huberman est devenue l'une des plus influentes, non seulement dans le domaine de l'histoire de l'art mais aussi, plus largement, pour l'analyse des relations complexes que notre civilisation entretient avec l'image. On trouvera encore dans ce recueil deux autres entretiens, l'un réalisé en 2002 à propos d'Aby Warburg auquel le philosophe venait de consacrer un ouvrage, l'autre à l'occasion de sa grande exposition Atlas, comment remonter le monde ? (2010). Mais l'attention que porte Georges Didi-Huberman à l'art passe aussi par sa complicité avec des artistes contemporains, d'où le dialogue, également repris dans ce volume, avec Pascal Convert, artiste plasticien et cinéaste.
Art Theory
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« Agence-époque », Architecture Studio a grandi avec son temps, depuis sa fondation en 1973, en exprimant toujours les grands moments des périodes qu’elle a traversées, qu’ils soient empreints d’espoir ou signes de préoccupation. Les années soixante-dix, l’effervescence du militantisme, le mouvement Mars 76 et la création du syndicat de l’architecture, le(...)
Architecture Studio en liberté : L'agence époque
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« Agence-époque », Architecture Studio a grandi avec son temps, depuis sa fondation en 1973, en exprimant toujours les grands moments des périodes qu’elle a traversées, qu’ils soient empreints d’espoir ou signes de préoccupation. Les années soixante-dix, l’effervescence du militantisme, le mouvement Mars 76 et la création du syndicat de l’architecture, le contre-concours des Halles, l’élaboration de logements sociaux avec la participation des habitants… Viennent ensuite les années Mitterrand, l’Institut du monde arabe et les grands projets issus de la décentralisation. Dix ans plus tard, le Parlement européen de Strasbourg annonce une mondialisation qui passera d’abord par la Chine et l’Asie avant d’atteindre le continent africain. L’ouverture d’une maison commune à Venise en 2010 ainsi que le scénario et le plan d’une ville verte pour le nouveau centre de Kaboul en Afghanistan marquent le point culminant de cette époque.
Architecture Monographs
Orri Jonsson: Interiors
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Orri Jónsson was holidaying one summer in the north of Iceland with his family, when he stumbled upon an abandoned farmhouse and began taking photos of it. Fascinated with the results but disappointed by the restrictions of the 35mm film he had used, he returned to the motif with a large-format analogue camera. Orri thus photographed the gloriously decaying interiors of(...)
Orri Jonsson: Interiors
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Orri Jónsson was holidaying one summer in the north of Iceland with his family, when he stumbled upon an abandoned farmhouse and began taking photos of it. Fascinated with the results but disappointed by the restrictions of the 35mm film he had used, he returned to the motif with a large-format analogue camera. Orri thus photographed the gloriously decaying interiors of deserted houses throughout Iceland for the next 12 years, and ''Interiors'' contains the best of these images from 1999 to 2010. Painterly in color, rigorous in composition and lacking people, Orri's photos evoke the personal histories of the inhabitants who long ago abandoned their homes. ''Interiors'' is shaped by an uncanny silence and sense of loss, most poignant in the images of objects people left behind--old buttons, newspapers and even a hot water bottle--tokens of vanished lives.
Photography monographs
Assemble: how we build
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The eighteen members of the London-based architecture collective Assemble began collaborating in 2010, following their graduation from Cambridge University. In the years since, they have built projects across a wide range of style and function, including a temporary cinema at a former gas station, affordable workspaces for artists, the foundation of social enterprises,(...)
Assemble: how we build
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The eighteen members of the London-based architecture collective Assemble began collaborating in 2010, following their graduation from Cambridge University. In the years since, they have built projects across a wide range of style and function, including a temporary cinema at a former gas station, affordable workspaces for artists, the foundation of social enterprises, the revitalization of a former working-class neighborhood, and designing a new art gallery for Goldsmiths, University of London. To all of their projects they bring an awareness of the social, economic, and political conditions of a society, with the aim of changing the status quo through enabling community action. This volume offers a look at the work of the collective, presenting a closer look at ten selected projects, along with essays that present background information and reflections on Assemble’s objectives and philosophy.
Architecture Monographs