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How do contemporary design practices engage with political and societal issues? Can design realize ideas that lead to significant change? Where would the change happen: in the design studio, on the factory floor, in exhibition settings or on the street? Some of the design world’s greatest practitioners, including architects, came together for a multi-faceted, three-year(...)
Design act: socially and politically engaged design today
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How do contemporary design practices engage with political and societal issues? Can design realize ideas that lead to significant change? Where would the change happen: in the design studio, on the factory floor, in exhibition settings or on the street? Some of the design world’s greatest practitioners, including architects, came together for a multi-faceted, three-year project sponsored by Iaspis. This book, the project’s culmination, comprises texts, interviews, drawings and other artwork in three sections: WHAT brings together contemporary and historical writings; HOW analyzes common issues and emerging tactics within socially and politically engaged design; and WHERE offers a broad perspective on new forms of design practice. Featuring facsimiles of 36 projects from the Design Act archive, this rich book is a must-have for designers who care about their role in the wider world.
Design Theory
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Pour Michel Desvigne, Grand Prix de l'urbanisme 2011, le paysage initie la recomposition urbaine, notamment celle des grands territoires, telle sa récente intervention sur le plateau de Saclay. Il remet au goût du jour les enseignements du plus grand paysagiste américain, Frederick Law Olmsted, pour refonder une pensée du projet durable à la bonne échelle, mêlant(...)
Le paysage en préalable : Michel Desvigne, Grand Prix de l'urbanisme 2011
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Pour Michel Desvigne, Grand Prix de l'urbanisme 2011, le paysage initie la recomposition urbaine, notamment celle des grands territoires, telle sa récente intervention sur le plateau de Saclay. Il remet au goût du jour les enseignements du plus grand paysagiste américain, Frederick Law Olmsted, pour refonder une pensée du projet durable à la bonne échelle, mêlant l'existant et l'artifice, réunissant les conditions du lien entre hommes, espaces et fonctions. De plus, il développe un mode d intervention multiscalaire : jardins, parcs (Millenium à Londres), plans directeurs (entrée de ville à Montpellier), recompositions territoriales (rive droite de la Garonne à Bordeaux), places urbaines (à Dallas, à Anvers, à Marseille) ou ensemble des espaces publics (Lyon Confluence). Joan Busquets, Prix spécial, élargit à l'échelle européenne l'expérience barcelonaise qui a fondé l'urbanisme sur la recomposition de l'espace public, incluant les infrastructures lourdes et la création de nouvelles centralités. Deux approches qui ouvrent la voie de l'urbanisme contemporain durable, posant le paysage en préalable.
Urban Theory
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Peter Reyner Banham, taught in the newly founded architecture program at the State University of New York at Buffalo between 1976 and 1980. During his tenure at Buffalo, inspired by the daylight factories and the grain silos of the region, he conducted research that led to his seminal book, A concrete Atlantis, illuminating the relationship between American industrial(...)
Banham in Buffalo: 5 years of the Peter Reyner Banham Fellowship at the University at Buffalo Department of Architecture
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Peter Reyner Banham, taught in the newly founded architecture program at the State University of New York at Buffalo between 1976 and 1980. During his tenure at Buffalo, inspired by the daylight factories and the grain silos of the region, he conducted research that led to his seminal book, A concrete Atlantis, illuminating the relationship between American industrial buildings and European Modern Architecture. The Peter Reyner Banham Fellowship program at Buffalo was established in 2000 to celebrate Banham's legacy at Buffalo, and, most importantly, to project new work that is inspired by Banham's foundational body of scholarship on material and visual culture. Each year, the Banham Fellow engages the students and the faculty of the department through research, creative activity, and teaching, and presents that body of work through an exhibition and a lecture. In this publication, the projections of the past five Banham Fellows are documented: Jonathan Solomon (2005-2006), Sergio Lopez-Pineiro (2006-2007), Eva Franch-Gilabert (2007-2008), Michael Kubo (2008-2009), Brian Tabolt (2009-2010). This document is a testament to the reach of Banham's visions and to the visionary work of the Fellows at Buffalo.
Architectural Theory
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Working in cities from Liverpool and Glasgow to Paris and New York, the interventionist artist transforms ordinary urban spaces, disrupting everyday life in ways that reinvent the way we encounter and experience art and compelling people to act and think differently about the world around them. Providing incisive new insights into the work and life of the artist,(...)
Cultural hijack : rethinking intervention
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Working in cities from Liverpool and Glasgow to Paris and New York, the interventionist artist transforms ordinary urban spaces, disrupting everyday life in ways that reinvent the way we encounter and experience art and compelling people to act and think differently about the world around them. Providing incisive new insights into the work and life of the artist, "Cultural Hijack" examines how these artists use the city as a playground, a stage, or an instrument for unsanctioned artworks, informal creative practices, activist interventions, and political actions.
Art Theory
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Songeur et précis, Savinio porte ici à son point extrême de perfection l'art de la digression qui le caractérise, et qui n'est possible que lorsqu'on possède, comme lui, une mémoire amoureuse et attentive à renouveler, à la moindre occasion, quelque pensée impérissable, une sentence ou un bonheur oublié.
Alberto Savinio : ville, j'écoute ton coeur
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Songeur et précis, Savinio porte ici à son point extrême de perfection l'art de la digression qui le caractérise, et qui n'est possible que lorsqu'on possède, comme lui, une mémoire amoureuse et attentive à renouveler, à la moindre occasion, quelque pensée impérissable, une sentence ou un bonheur oublié.
Urban Theory
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In The Great Reset , author Richard Florida provides an examination of previous economic epochs, or "resets." He distills the deep forces that have altered physical and social landscapes and eventually reshaped economies and societies. Looking toward the future, Florida identifies the patterns that will drive the next Great Reset and transform virtually every aspect of(...)
The great reset : how new ways of living and working drive post-crash prosperity
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In The Great Reset , author Richard Florida provides an examination of previous economic epochs, or "resets." He distills the deep forces that have altered physical and social landscapes and eventually reshaped economies and societies. Looking toward the future, Florida identifies the patterns that will drive the next Great Reset and transform virtually every aspect of our lives — from how and where we live, to how we work, to how we invest in individuals and infrastructure, to how we shape our cities and regions. Florida shows how these forces, when combined, will spur a fresh era of growth and prosperity, define a new geography of progress, and create surprising opportunities.
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Pataphysical essays
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Pataphysical Essays collects Daumal’s overtly pataphysical writings from 1929 to 1941, from his landmark exposition on pataphysics and laughter to his late essay, “The Pataphysics of Ghosts.” Daumal’s “Treatise on Patagrams” offers the reader everything from a recipe for the disintegration of a photographer to instructions on how to drill a fount of knowledge in a public(...)
Pataphysical essays
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Pataphysical Essays collects Daumal’s overtly pataphysical writings from 1929 to 1941, from his landmark exposition on pataphysics and laughter to his late essay, “The Pataphysics of Ghosts.” Daumal’s “Treatise on Patagrams” offers the reader everything from a recipe for the disintegration of a photographer to instructions on how to drill a fount of knowledge in a public urinal. This volume also includes Daumal’s column for the Nouvelle Revue Française, “Pataphysics This Month.” Reading like a deranged encyclopedia, “Pataphysics This Month” describes a new mythology for the field of science, and amply demonstrates that the twentieth century had been a distinctly pataphysical era.
Art Theory
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This first volume of JRP|Ringier’s complete John Baldessari writings project traces the genesis and development of the artist’s understanding of art in the early 1960s. More Than You Wanted to Know About John Baldessari presents Baldessari as storyteller, moralist, teacher and occasional gadfly, always concerned to accomplish what he describes as the central task of art(...)
More than you wanted to know about John Baldessari : Vol. 1
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This first volume of JRP|Ringier’s complete John Baldessari writings project traces the genesis and development of the artist’s understanding of art in the early 1960s. More Than You Wanted to Know About John Baldessari presents Baldessari as storyteller, moralist, teacher and occasional gadfly, always concerned to accomplish what he describes as the central task of art making: to communicate in a way that people can understand. These writings address everything from matters of color in sculpture, to the dilemmas of art students in need of ideas, to the art world’s ever-conflicted relationship with money, while always returning to Baldessari’s love of language and his longstanding investigation into the tensions of word and image.
Art Theory
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Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going? Few expressions in the culture of human thought have the iconic stature, and emotive power, that the word "evolution" entails. Though commonly relegated to modern-day science, the concept of evolution is ingrained in representations of life and nature in the visual arts, and artists and scientists have much to share(...)
Visual culture and evolution : an online symposium
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Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going? Few expressions in the culture of human thought have the iconic stature, and emotive power, that the word "evolution" entails. Though commonly relegated to modern-day science, the concept of evolution is ingrained in representations of life and nature in the visual arts, and artists and scientists have much to share on the meaning of human origin, human existence and human fate. The present volume documents an online symposium, Visual Culture and Evolution, in which a distinguished panel of artists, curators, scientists, historians, educators, media theorists and critics participated in a lively, informative conversation on the interface of art and science.
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Sympathetic seeing : Esther McCoy and the heart of American modernist architecture and design
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Reyner Banham once said of the great architecture historian Esther McCoy (1904-1989) that "no-one can write about architecture in California without acknowledging her as the mother of us all.""Sympathetic Seeing: Esther McCoy and the Heart of American Modernist Architecture and Design" is the first major catalogue to survey this distinguished figure's life and work.(...)
Sympathetic seeing : Esther McCoy and the heart of American modernist architecture and design
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Reyner Banham once said of the great architecture historian Esther McCoy (1904-1989) that "no-one can write about architecture in California without acknowledging her as the mother of us all.""Sympathetic Seeing: Esther McCoy and the Heart of American Modernist Architecture and Design" is the first major catalogue to survey this distinguished figure's life and work. Highlighting the extraordinary range and significance of her presence in the field, this volume affirms McCoy's place as a key figure in American architectural history.
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