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Ten architectural critics -- writers, curators, educators -- were invited to name their selection of the the 10 most innovative, emerging, architects practising today. The work of these 100 individuals and firms is represented by 250 projects including built works aslongside designs for competitions and conceptual projects. The book includes an essay by(...)
Architecture since 1900, Europe
May 2000, London
10 x 10 : 10 Critics, 100 architects
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Ten architectural critics -- writers, curators, educators -- were invited to name their selection of the the 10 most innovative, emerging, architects practising today. The work of these 100 individuals and firms is represented by 250 projects including built works aslongside designs for competitions and conceptual projects. The book includes an essay by each critic on the state of current practice.
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May 2000, London
Architecture since 1900, Europe
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Hugh Newell Jacobsen set up an independent practice in Washington, DC over forty years ago. His projects have been built and published worldwide, earning him numerous national and international design awards. First published in 1988 by the AIA Press, this current edition has been printed on high quality art paper with enhanced imagery. Photography is by Robert Lautman.
Hugh Newell Jacobsen, architect
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Hugh Newell Jacobsen set up an independent practice in Washington, DC over forty years ago. His projects have been built and published worldwide, earning him numerous national and international design awards. First published in 1988 by the AIA Press, this current edition has been printed on high quality art paper with enhanced imagery. Photography is by Robert Lautman.
Architecture Monographs
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This text provides a coherent overview of the important issues in sustainable urban design. The writers focus on the physical aspects of the urban environment - the buildings and their engineering systems, landscaping, transport systems, energy, water and waste systems and successfully cover all the key elements in one volume together with fully illustrated examples of(...)
Sustainable urban design : an environmental approach
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This text provides a coherent overview of the important issues in sustainable urban design. The writers focus on the physical aspects of the urban environment - the buildings and their engineering systems, landscaping, transport systems, energy, water and waste systems and successfully cover all the key elements in one volume together with fully illustrated examples of this practice.
Urban Theory
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Thomas Struth is renowned for his practice of creating singular images, each within strictly segregated subject fields: architecture, portraiture, landscape and, most recently, sites of technological and scientific research. Nature & Politics explores in depth diverse strands of Struth’s enquiry, whilst also elaborating the interstices between them, to present the most(...)
Thomas Struth: nature & politics
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Thomas Struth is renowned for his practice of creating singular images, each within strictly segregated subject fields: architecture, portraiture, landscape and, most recently, sites of technological and scientific research. Nature & Politics explores in depth diverse strands of Struth’s enquiry, whilst also elaborating the interstices between them, to present the most significant current monograph of the artist’s work.
Photography monographs
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This publication presents a survey of ten projects and a new work created during a solo exhibition at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. Central to understanding the art group’s practice, concepts, and methodologies the catalog includes essays by biologist, Albert Colman, anthropologist, Michael Taussig, curator and writer, Elizabeth Thomas and novelist,(...)
Contemporary Art Monographs
November 2021
Futurefarmers: Out of place, in place
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This publication presents a survey of ten projects and a new work created during a solo exhibition at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. Central to understanding the art group’s practice, concepts, and methodologies the catalog includes essays by biologist, Albert Colman, anthropologist, Michael Taussig, curator and writer, Elizabeth Thomas and novelist, Cooley Windsor.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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Manufacturing a Socialist Modernity is a comprehensive history of architectural practice of the emergence of prefabricated housing in the Eastern Bloc. Through discussions of individual architects and projects, as well as building typologies, professional associations, and institutional organization, it opens a window into the cultural and economic life of Eastern Europe(...)
Manufacturing a socialist modernity: Housing in Czechoslovakia, 1945-1960
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Manufacturing a Socialist Modernity is a comprehensive history of architectural practice of the emergence of prefabricated housing in the Eastern Bloc. Through discussions of individual architects and projects, as well as building typologies, professional associations, and institutional organization, it opens a window into the cultural and economic life of Eastern Europe during the early postwar period.
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Vancouverism
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This book tells the story of Vancouverism and the urban planning philosophy and practice behind it. The author, Larry Beasley, is a former chief planner of the City of Vancouver and a leader at the heart of the action. Writing from an insider’s perspective, he traces the principles that inspired Vancouverism and the policy framework developed to implement it.
Vancouverism
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This book tells the story of Vancouverism and the urban planning philosophy and practice behind it. The author, Larry Beasley, is a former chief planner of the City of Vancouver and a leader at the heart of the action. Writing from an insider’s perspective, he traces the principles that inspired Vancouverism and the policy framework developed to implement it.
Architecture in Canada
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With contributions from some of the world's most advanced thinkers on this subject, this book is essential reading for anyone looking at new ways of thinking about the digital within architecture. It speculates upon implications of Persistent Modelling for architectural practice, reconsidering the relationship between architectural representation and architectural(...)
Persistent modelling : extending the role of architectural representation
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With contributions from some of the world's most advanced thinkers on this subject, this book is essential reading for anyone looking at new ways of thinking about the digital within architecture. It speculates upon implications of Persistent Modelling for architectural practice, reconsidering the relationship between architectural representation and architectural artefact particularly in the fields of responsive and adaptive architectures.
Architectural Theory
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Nicole Seymour develops the concept of ''bad environmentalism'': cultural thought that employs dissident affects and sensibilities to reflect critically on our current moment and on mainstream environmental activism. Seymour champions the practice of alternative green politics and expands our understanding of how environmental art and activism can be pleasurable, even in(...)
Bad environmentalism: irony and irreverence in the ecological age
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Nicole Seymour develops the concept of ''bad environmentalism'': cultural thought that employs dissident affects and sensibilities to reflect critically on our current moment and on mainstream environmental activism. Seymour champions the practice of alternative green politics and expands our understanding of how environmental art and activism can be pleasurable, even in a time of undeniable crisis.
Environment and environmental theory
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The first book devoted solely to Bruce Nauman’s corridors and other architectural installations, Bruce Nauman: Spatial Encounters deftly explores the significance of these works in the development of his singular art practice, examining them in the context of the period and in relation to other artists like Dan Graham, Robert Morris, Paul Kos, and James Turrell.
Contemporary Art Monographs
January 2019
Bruce Nauman: spatial encounters
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The first book devoted solely to Bruce Nauman’s corridors and other architectural installations, Bruce Nauman: Spatial Encounters deftly explores the significance of these works in the development of his singular art practice, examining them in the context of the period and in relation to other artists like Dan Graham, Robert Morris, Paul Kos, and James Turrell.
Contemporary Art Monographs