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Cairo desert cities
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Since the 1950s, Egypt has developed a dozen new towns in the desert around Cairo. This book offers the first systematic exploration of these cities, analyzing their urban form, their promise, and their shortcomings. Originally intended to satisfy growing demand for housing, most of the desert towns have never been completed. Taking this permanent condition of emerging(...)
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Since the 1950s, Egypt has developed a dozen new towns in the desert around Cairo. This book offers the first systematic exploration of these cities, analyzing their urban form, their promise, and their shortcomings. Originally intended to satisfy growing demand for housing, most of the desert towns have never been completed. Taking this permanent condition of emerging(...)
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Since the 1950s, Egypt has developed a dozen new towns in the desert around Cairo. This book offers the first systematic exploration of these cities, analyzing their urban form, their promise, and their shortcomings. Originally intended to satisfy growing demand for housing, most of the desert towns have never been completed. Taking this permanent condition of emerging urban development at face value, the study aims to identify the as-yet dormant potential of these towns through a series of design scenarios. Cairo Desert Cities underscores the value of re-engaging in modernist town planning, for wiping away the dust of past failures may uncover the contours of future opportunities. With over 300 illustrations, this clothbound edition is an engaging and visually rich introduction to the urban development of Greater Cairo, the largest urban area in Africa, and the practices that have shaped it.
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Since the 1950s, Egypt has developed a dozen new towns in the desert around Cairo. This book offers the first systematic exploration of these cities, analyzing their urban form, their promise, and their shortcomings. Originally intended to satisfy growing demand for housing, most of the desert towns have never been completed. Taking this permanent condition of emerging urban development at face value, the study aims to identify the as-yet dormant potential of these towns through a series of design scenarios. Cairo Desert Cities underscores the value of re-engaging in modernist town planning, for wiping away the dust of past failures may uncover the contours of future opportunities. With over 300 illustrations, this clothbound edition is an engaging and visually rich introduction to the urban development of Greater Cairo, the largest urban area in Africa, and the practices that have shaped it.
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January 2018
January 2018
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Urban Theory
Urban Theory
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Ce livre retrace les conditions de la transition métropolitaine bordelaise à travers l'analyse de trois thématiques : la mobilité, qui représente le vecteur de conscience métropolitaine par excellence, les activités de la nouvelle économie numérique, enfin le phénomène des démarches participatives et sa diffusion à l'échelle métropolitaine, qui renouvelle la démocratie locale.
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Ce livre retrace les conditions de la transition métropolitaine bordelaise à travers l'analyse de trois thématiques : la mobilité, qui représente le vecteur de conscience métropolitaine par excellence, les activités de la nouvelle économie numérique, enfin le phénomène des démarches participatives et sa diffusion à l'échelle métropolitaine, qui renouvelle la démocratie locale.
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L'éveil métropolitain : l'exemple de Bordeaux
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Ce livre retrace les conditions de la transition métropolitaine bordelaise à travers l'analyse de trois thématiques : la mobilité, qui représente le vecteur de conscience métropolitaine par excellence, les activités de la nouvelle économie numérique, enfin le phénomène des démarches participatives et sa diffusion à l'échelle métropolitaine, qui renouvelle la démocratie locale.
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Ce livre retrace les conditions de la transition métropolitaine bordelaise à travers l'analyse de trois thématiques : la mobilité, qui représente le vecteur de conscience métropolitaine par excellence, les activités de la nouvelle économie numérique, enfin le phénomène des démarches participatives et sa diffusion à l'échelle métropolitaine, qui renouvelle la démocratie locale.
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March 2018
March 2018
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Urban Theory
Urban Theory
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Rebel video: the video movement of the 1970s amd 1980s. London -- Bern -- Lausanne -- Basel -- Zuric
Rebel video: the video movement of the 1970s amd 1980s. London -- Bern -- Lausanne -- Basel -- Zuric
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"Rebel Video" portrays protagonists of this activist movement in London, Basel, Berne, Lausanne, and Zurich. It documents the topics and concerns these creative rowdies picked up and the lasting effect their work has until today. Richly illustrated and fleshed out with brief essays by expert authors on specific aspects of film documentary and video art, the book(...)
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"Rebel Video" portrays protagonists of this activist movement in London, Basel, Berne, Lausanne, and Zurich. It documents the topics and concerns these creative rowdies picked up and the lasting effect their work has until today. Richly illustrated and fleshed out with brief essays by expert authors on specific aspects of film documentary and video art, the book(...)
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Rebel video: the video movement of the 1970s amd 1980s. London -- Bern -- Lausanne -- Basel -- Zuric
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"Rebel Video" portrays protagonists of this activist movement in London, Basel, Berne, Lausanne, and Zurich. It documents the topics and concerns these creative rowdies picked up and the lasting effect their work has until today. Richly illustrated and fleshed out with brief essays by expert authors on specific aspects of film documentary and video art, the book demonstrates and illuminates the significance and manifold facets of the community media movement.
Rebel video: the video movement of the 1970s amd 1980s. London -- Bern -- Lausanne -- Basel -- Zuric
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"Rebel Video" portrays protagonists of this activist movement in London, Basel, Berne, Lausanne, and Zurich. It documents the topics and concerns these creative rowdies picked up and the lasting effect their work has until today. Richly illustrated and fleshed out with brief essays by expert authors on specific aspects of film documentary and video art, the book demonstrates and illuminates the significance and manifold facets of the community media movement.
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February 2018
February 2018
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Art Theory
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We usually think of cities as dense and vertical—but in reality most cities extend vast distances in a more horizontal fashion, with less density and lower-rising buildings. This book invites us to rethink the relationship between that center and its periphery, revealing that dispersed condition as a potential asset rather than a limit, offering the possibility of(...)
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We usually think of cities as dense and vertical—but in reality most cities extend vast distances in a more horizontal fashion, with less density and lower-rising buildings. This book invites us to rethink the relationship between that center and its periphery, revealing that dispersed condition as a potential asset rather than a limit, offering the possibility of(...)
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The horizontal metropolis: a radical project
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We usually think of cities as dense and vertical—but in reality most cities extend vast distances in a more horizontal fashion, with less density and lower-rising buildings. This book invites us to rethink the relationship between that center and its periphery, revealing that dispersed condition as a potential asset rather than a limit, offering the possibility of constructing a sustainable and innovative new urban dimension. Taking up the concept of “desakota,” which describes areas—typically occurring in Asia—situated outside the traditional urban zone, The Horizontal Metropolis investigates such areas alongside examples in the United States, Italy, and Switzerland, highlighting the advantages of the concept and its relevance to economic, ecological, and social questions.
The horizontal metropolis: a radical project
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We usually think of cities as dense and vertical—but in reality most cities extend vast distances in a more horizontal fashion, with less density and lower-rising buildings. This book invites us to rethink the relationship between that center and its periphery, revealing that dispersed condition as a potential asset rather than a limit, offering the possibility of constructing a sustainable and innovative new urban dimension. Taking up the concept of “desakota,” which describes areas—typically occurring in Asia—situated outside the traditional urban zone, The Horizontal Metropolis investigates such areas alongside examples in the United States, Italy, and Switzerland, highlighting the advantages of the concept and its relevance to economic, ecological, and social questions.
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May 2020
May 2020
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Urban Theory
Urban Theory
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In his study of Giedion’s life and work Reto Geiser foregrounds the formative character of Giedion’s extended stays in the United States and their role as an inspiring laboratory to propel his scholarship. By challenging the presentation of a continuous line of developments, and revealing the ruptures and contradictions within Giedion’s work, Geiser questions a heroic(...)
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In his study of Giedion’s life and work Reto Geiser foregrounds the formative character of Giedion’s extended stays in the United States and their role as an inspiring laboratory to propel his scholarship. By challenging the presentation of a continuous line of developments, and revealing the ruptures and contradictions within Giedion’s work, Geiser questions a heroic(...)
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Giedion and America: repositioning the history of modern architecture
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In his study of Giedion’s life and work Reto Geiser foregrounds the formative character of Giedion’s extended stays in the United States and their role as an inspiring laboratory to propel his scholarship. By challenging the presentation of a continuous line of developments, and revealing the ruptures and contradictions within Giedion’s work, Geiser questions a heroic account of modern architecture, turning instead to the less ideological and frequently overlooked facets of Giedion’s oeuvre. The book argues that, although Giedion’s position in between two cultural spheres created discontinuities in his work, it also facilitated a mutual exchange between the architectural impresario and his North American peers and thereby helped to shape the development and reception of the modern project on either side of the Atlantic.
Giedion and America: repositioning the history of modern architecture
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In his study of Giedion’s life and work Reto Geiser foregrounds the formative character of Giedion’s extended stays in the United States and their role as an inspiring laboratory to propel his scholarship. By challenging the presentation of a continuous line of developments, and revealing the ruptures and contradictions within Giedion’s work, Geiser questions a heroic account of modern architecture, turning instead to the less ideological and frequently overlooked facets of Giedion’s oeuvre. The book argues that, although Giedion’s position in between two cultural spheres created discontinuities in his work, it also facilitated a mutual exchange between the architectural impresario and his North American peers and thereby helped to shape the development and reception of the modern project on either side of the Atlantic.
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June 2018
June 2018
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Architectural Theory
Architectural Theory
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''Legible-Visible'' explores the relationship between print publications and audio-visual documents, two of the most important media in the social and cultural landscape of our time—and two forms that also define the evolution of contemporary art in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Mela Dávila and Maite Muñoz here show how the arrival of inexpensive home video(...)
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''Legible-Visible'' explores the relationship between print publications and audio-visual documents, two of the most important media in the social and cultural landscape of our time—and two forms that also define the evolution of contemporary art in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Mela Dávila and Maite Muñoz here show how the arrival of inexpensive home video(...)
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Legible-visible: between the film frame and the page
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''Legible-Visible'' explores the relationship between print publications and audio-visual documents, two of the most important media in the social and cultural landscape of our time—and two forms that also define the evolution of contemporary art in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Mela Dávila and Maite Muñoz here show how the arrival of inexpensive home video technologies in the 1970s and then of digital media at the turn of the millennium sparked revolutions in the creation and diffusion of both video artworks and artists' publications. Dávila proposes a theoretical and historical framework for works long dismissed by the market because of their serial nature, while Muñoz shows how artists have taken advantage of the permeability between publications and audovisual elements.
Legible-visible: between the film frame and the page
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''Legible-Visible'' explores the relationship between print publications and audio-visual documents, two of the most important media in the social and cultural landscape of our time—and two forms that also define the evolution of contemporary art in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Mela Dávila and Maite Muñoz here show how the arrival of inexpensive home video technologies in the 1970s and then of digital media at the turn of the millennium sparked revolutions in the creation and diffusion of both video artworks and artists' publications. Dávila proposes a theoretical and historical framework for works long dismissed by the market because of their serial nature, while Muñoz shows how artists have taken advantage of the permeability between publications and audovisual elements.
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August 2018
August 2018
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Art Theory
Art Theory
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Walter Benjamin 1892-1940
Walter Benjamin 1892-1940
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La gloire posthume est le lot des inclassables. On n’a mesuré l’importance de Walter Benjamin qu’après sa mort. Au croisement de la biographie, de la philosophie politique et de la critique littéraire, Hannah Arendt retrace dans cet essai daté de 1971 le destin individuel et l’itinéraire spirituel d’un homme pris dans “les sombres temps”. La vie de Benjamin ne fut qu’un(...)
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La gloire posthume est le lot des inclassables. On n’a mesuré l’importance de Walter Benjamin qu’après sa mort. Au croisement de la biographie, de la philosophie politique et de la critique littéraire, Hannah Arendt retrace dans cet essai daté de 1971 le destin individuel et l’itinéraire spirituel d’un homme pris dans “les sombres temps”. La vie de Benjamin ne fut qu’un(...)
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Walter Benjamin 1892-1940
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La gloire posthume est le lot des inclassables. On n’a mesuré l’importance de Walter Benjamin qu’après sa mort. Au croisement de la biographie, de la philosophie politique et de la critique littéraire, Hannah Arendt retrace dans cet essai daté de 1971 le destin individuel et l’itinéraire spirituel d’un homme pris dans “les sombres temps”. La vie de Benjamin ne fut qu’un “entassement de débris”, placée sous le signe de la malchance. Ce mélange de faiblesse et de génie le rendait totalement incapable de faire face aux difficultés de l’existence. Arendt, fidèle aux grands thèmes qui structurent sa pensée, analyse ses rapports tourmentés avec la judéité et le marxisme, son amour de Paris et de la flânerie ainsi que ses relations complexes avec les intellectuels de son temps. Plongeant au plus intime de l’œuvre, elle décortique la façon unique en son genre qu’il avait de “penser poétiquement”. Philosophe elle-même inclassable, Hannah Arendt était la mieux à même de saisir la subtilité de la figure de Walter Benjamin. Le portrait sensible qu’elle dresse de cet homme constitue sans conteste la meilleure introduction à son œuvre.
Walter Benjamin 1892-1940
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La gloire posthume est le lot des inclassables. On n’a mesuré l’importance de Walter Benjamin qu’après sa mort. Au croisement de la biographie, de la philosophie politique et de la critique littéraire, Hannah Arendt retrace dans cet essai daté de 1971 le destin individuel et l’itinéraire spirituel d’un homme pris dans “les sombres temps”. La vie de Benjamin ne fut qu’un “entassement de débris”, placée sous le signe de la malchance. Ce mélange de faiblesse et de génie le rendait totalement incapable de faire face aux difficultés de l’existence. Arendt, fidèle aux grands thèmes qui structurent sa pensée, analyse ses rapports tourmentés avec la judéité et le marxisme, son amour de Paris et de la flânerie ainsi que ses relations complexes avec les intellectuels de son temps. Plongeant au plus intime de l’œuvre, elle décortique la façon unique en son genre qu’il avait de “penser poétiquement”. Philosophe elle-même inclassable, Hannah Arendt était la mieux à même de saisir la subtilité de la figure de Walter Benjamin. Le portrait sensible qu’elle dresse de cet homme constitue sans conteste la meilleure introduction à son œuvre.
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February 2014
February 2014
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Critical Theory
Critical Theory
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The radical youth movements of the 1960s and '70s gave rise to both militant political groups ranging from urban guerrilla groups to autonomist counterculture, as well as radical media, including radio, music, film, video, and television. This book is concerned with both of those tendencies considered as bifurcations of radical media ecologies in the 1970s. While some of(...)
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The radical youth movements of the 1960s and '70s gave rise to both militant political groups ranging from urban guerrilla groups to autonomist counterculture, as well as radical media, including radio, music, film, video, and television. This book is concerned with both of those tendencies considered as bifurcations of radical media ecologies in the 1970s. While some of(...)
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Guerrilla networks: an anarchaeology of 1970s radical media ecologies
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The radical youth movements of the 1960s and '70s gave rise to both militant political groups ranging from urban guerrilla groups to autonomist counterculture, as well as radical media, including radio, music, film, video, and television. This book is concerned with both of those tendencies considered as bifurcations of radical media ecologies in the 1970s. While some of the forms of media creativity and invention mapped here, such as militant film and video, pirate radio and guerrilla television, fit within conventional definitions of media, others, such as urban guerrilla groups and autonomous movements, do not. Nevertheless what was at stake in all these ventures was the use of available means of expression in order to produce transformative effects, and they were all in different ways responding to ideas and practices of guerrilla struggle and specifically of guerrilla media. This book examines these radical media ecologies as guerrilla networks, emphasising the proximity and inseparability of radical media and political practices.
Guerrilla networks: an anarchaeology of 1970s radical media ecologies
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The radical youth movements of the 1960s and '70s gave rise to both militant political groups ranging from urban guerrilla groups to autonomist counterculture, as well as radical media, including radio, music, film, video, and television. This book is concerned with both of those tendencies considered as bifurcations of radical media ecologies in the 1970s. While some of the forms of media creativity and invention mapped here, such as militant film and video, pirate radio and guerrilla television, fit within conventional definitions of media, others, such as urban guerrilla groups and autonomous movements, do not. Nevertheless what was at stake in all these ventures was the use of available means of expression in order to produce transformative effects, and they were all in different ways responding to ideas and practices of guerrilla struggle and specifically of guerrilla media. This book examines these radical media ecologies as guerrilla networks, emphasising the proximity and inseparability of radical media and political practices.
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January 2018
January 2018
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Art Theory
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In "Cities in the Urban Age", Robert A. Beauregard considers the city as a cauldron for four haunting contradictions. First, cities are equally defined by both their wealth and their poverty. Second, cities are simultaneously environmentally destructive and yet promise sustainability. Third, cities encourage rule by political machines and oligarchies, even as they are(...)
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In "Cities in the Urban Age", Robert A. Beauregard considers the city as a cauldron for four haunting contradictions. First, cities are equally defined by both their wealth and their poverty. Second, cities are simultaneously environmentally destructive and yet promise sustainability. Third, cities encourage rule by political machines and oligarchies, even as they are(...)
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Cities in the urban age: a dissent
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In "Cities in the Urban Age", Robert A. Beauregard considers the city as a cauldron for four haunting contradictions. First, cities are equally defined by both their wealth and their poverty. Second, cities are simultaneously environmentally destructive and yet promise sustainability. Third, cities encourage rule by political machines and oligarchies, even as they are essentially democratic and at least nominally open to all. And fourth, city life promotes tolerance among disparate groups, even as the friction among them often erupts into violence. Beauregard offers no simple solutions or proposed remedies for these contradictions. Without these four tensions, cities wouldn’t be cities. Rather, Beauregard argues that only by recognizing these ambiguities and contradictions can we even begin to understand our moral obligations, as well as the clearest paths toward equality, justice, and peace in urban settings.
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In "Cities in the Urban Age", Robert A. Beauregard considers the city as a cauldron for four haunting contradictions. First, cities are equally defined by both their wealth and their poverty. Second, cities are simultaneously environmentally destructive and yet promise sustainability. Third, cities encourage rule by political machines and oligarchies, even as they are essentially democratic and at least nominally open to all. And fourth, city life promotes tolerance among disparate groups, even as the friction among them often erupts into violence. Beauregard offers no simple solutions or proposed remedies for these contradictions. Without these four tensions, cities wouldn’t be cities. Rather, Beauregard argues that only by recognizing these ambiguities and contradictions can we even begin to understand our moral obligations, as well as the clearest paths toward equality, justice, and peace in urban settings.
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March 2018
March 2018
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Urban Theory
Urban Theory
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"Listening to Design" leads readers into the unique world of the creative process. Drawing on his experience as a teacher, psychotherapist and architect, Andrew Levitt breaks down the creative process, from the moment an idea appears through to the final presentation of a project. Using stories, examples and insights, Levitt offers a rarely seen glimpse into the rich and(...)
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"Listening to Design" leads readers into the unique world of the creative process. Drawing on his experience as a teacher, psychotherapist and architect, Andrew Levitt breaks down the creative process, from the moment an idea appears through to the final presentation of a project. Using stories, examples and insights, Levitt offers a rarely seen glimpse into the rich and(...)
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Listening to design: a guide to the creative process
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"Listening to Design" leads readers into the unique world of the creative process. Drawing on his experience as a teacher, psychotherapist and architect, Andrew Levitt breaks down the creative process, from the moment an idea appears through to the final presentation of a project. Using stories, examples and insights, Levitt offers a rarely seen glimpse into the rich and often turbulent creative process of a working designer. He highlights the importance of active listening and the essential role of empathy in solving problems and overcoming obstacles, revealing how the process of design is a vehicle for personal growth and development.
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"Listening to Design" leads readers into the unique world of the creative process. Drawing on his experience as a teacher, psychotherapist and architect, Andrew Levitt breaks down the creative process, from the moment an idea appears through to the final presentation of a project. Using stories, examples and insights, Levitt offers a rarely seen glimpse into the rich and often turbulent creative process of a working designer. He highlights the importance of active listening and the essential role of empathy in solving problems and overcoming obstacles, revealing how the process of design is a vehicle for personal growth and development.
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March 2018
March 2018
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Design Theory
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