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"The collector of lives" presents a lively introduction to a seminal figure in the very human story of art itself. An accomplished painter, architect and diplomat, Giorgio Vasari (1511–1574) is best known for Lives of the Artists, his classic account of the great masters—a book that invented the genre of artistic biography, single-handedly established the canon of Italian(...)
The collector of lives: Giorgio Vasari and the invention of art
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"The collector of lives" presents a lively introduction to a seminal figure in the very human story of art itself. An accomplished painter, architect and diplomat, Giorgio Vasari (1511–1574) is best known for Lives of the Artists, his classic account of the great masters—a book that invented the genre of artistic biography, single-handedly established the canon of Italian Renaissance art and founded the cults of Raphael, Leonardo and Michelangelo that persist to this day. Vasari positioned art as an intellectual pursuit instead of just a technical skill, teaching us to view artists as geniuses and visionaries rather than as simple craftsmen.
Art Theory
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Une capacité accélérée d’importer la nébuleuse imaginaire de l’instant, voici l’efficacité de l’architecture. C’est à elle de rendre possibles toutes les histoires que les humains se racontent, tous les désirs et toutes les tentations. Les dispositifs architecturaux travaillent les représentations et les comportements, et réalisent ainsi la performance de l’architecture(...)
Le Grand espace commun : l'architecture transforme
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Une capacité accélérée d’importer la nébuleuse imaginaire de l’instant, voici l’efficacité de l’architecture. C’est à elle de rendre possibles toutes les histoires que les humains se racontent, tous les désirs et toutes les tentations. Les dispositifs architecturaux travaillent les représentations et les comportements, et réalisent ainsi la performance de l’architecture dans sa capacité à nous transformer. Architecte et théoricien, Alain Guiheux explore le déploiement de cette extension de l’univers ouvert de l’architecture au sein de l’ensemble des objets fabriqués et communicants.
Urban Theory
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L’œuvre de Stuart Hall, pionnier des cultural studies et figure majeure de la pensée critique, se joue des frontières disciplinaires pour inventer de nouveaux langages de contestation. Articulant le matérialisme et le structuralisme, elle souligne l’importance de la culture comme catégorie analytique, dans un contexte de réorganisation complète de ses formes, de ses(...)
Identités et cultures : politiques des cultural studies
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L’œuvre de Stuart Hall, pionnier des cultural studies et figure majeure de la pensée critique, se joue des frontières disciplinaires pour inventer de nouveaux langages de contestation. Articulant le matérialisme et le structuralisme, elle souligne l’importance de la culture comme catégorie analytique, dans un contexte de réorganisation complète de ses formes, de ses usages et de son déploiement économique. C’est en particulier la lutte idéologique qui se déploie sur le terrain de la culture que Hall nous donne à penser. Son écriture subtile, qui ne cède jamais au réductionnisme, en donne à voir toute la complexité : du rôle actif que jouent les représentations médiatiques dans la formation des identités aux conflits discursifs au travers desquels se forgent les antagonismes politiques, en passant par l’hybridité culturelle propre au « moment » postcolonial. La nouvelle édition de ce recueil propose dix-sept textes désormais classiques, ainsi qu’une préface inédite dans laquelle Maxime Cervulle retrace le parcours personnel, intellectuel et politique de Stuart Hall.
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CARTHA: On making heimat
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Since 2014, CARTHA has provided a platform for critical thinking on architecture and society. Founded by an international team of architects and designers, it aims to bridge the gap between theoretical and practical approaches to contemporary architecture. Each year, CARTHA initiates research and publishes four issues on a topic in its online magazine, which are then(...)
CARTHA: On making heimat
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Since 2014, CARTHA has provided a platform for critical thinking on architecture and society. Founded by an international team of architects and designers, it aims to bridge the gap between theoretical and practical approaches to contemporary architecture. Each year, CARTHA initiates research and publishes four issues on a topic in its online magazine, which are then brought together in an annual book. In 2016, CARTHA collaborated with the German Pavilion at the International Architecture Exhibition of the 2016 Venice Biennale. Titled Making Heimat: Germany, Arrival Country, the German Pavilion explored the challenges and potential of the recent influx of refugees to Germany has posed for architecture and urban design, and contributions to CARTHA further reflect on this topic. Contributors include, among others, architect Arno Brandlhuber, critic Marina Otero Verzier, and design studio Urban ThinkTank, and the book also features interviews with Iverna McGowan of Amnesty International; David Harvey of Graduate Center, CUNY; Saskia Sassen of Columbia University; and Giovanna Borasi, of the Canadian Centre for Architecture.
Architectural Theory
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Architects, we like to believe, shape the world as they please. Reinier de Graaf draws on his own tragicomic experiences to present a candid account of what it is really like to work as an architect. To achieve anything, he notes, architects must serve the powers they strive to critique, finding themselves in a perpetual conflict of interest.
Four walls and a roof: the complex nature of a simple profession
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Architects, we like to believe, shape the world as they please. Reinier de Graaf draws on his own tragicomic experiences to present a candid account of what it is really like to work as an architect. To achieve anything, he notes, architects must serve the powers they strive to critique, finding themselves in a perpetual conflict of interest.
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Speculative art histories
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Situated at the interface of philosophy, aesthetics, and art history, this collection brings together a series of creative responses to the recent speculative turn in Continental philosophy. It gives both a genealogy of speculative art history and a provocatively experimental counter-discourse of new speculative art histories.
Speculative art histories
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Situated at the interface of philosophy, aesthetics, and art history, this collection brings together a series of creative responses to the recent speculative turn in Continental philosophy. It gives both a genealogy of speculative art history and a provocatively experimental counter-discourse of new speculative art histories.
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The bench in the garden
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The bench, an apparently small and almost irrelevant object, appears to function as a significant object in both through specific physical placement and in a more general sense- that of the blended domain of aesthetics, garden history, architecture, spatiality and subjectivity. The bench acts as a powerful visual machine, regulating the reception of a landscape in what it(...)
The bench in the garden
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The bench, an apparently small and almost irrelevant object, appears to function as a significant object in both through specific physical placement and in a more general sense- that of the blended domain of aesthetics, garden history, architecture, spatiality and subjectivity. The bench acts as a powerful visual machine, regulating the reception of a landscape in what it has to offer to its visitors. By transmitting verbal messages through inscriptions, citing other benches as part of a complex walk circuit, providing rest and inviting users to discover new aspects of the site, this highly polysemic element orients and disorients the visitor at the same time.
Landscape Theory
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‘Borgata’, ‘favela’, ‘périurbain’, and ‘suburb’ are but a few of the different terms used throughout the world that refer specifically to communities that develop on the periphery of urban centres. "In what’s in a name?" editors Richard Harris and Charlotte Vorms have gathered together experts from around the world in order to provide a truly global framework for the(...)
What's in a name? Talking about urban peripheries
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‘Borgata’, ‘favela’, ‘périurbain’, and ‘suburb’ are but a few of the different terms used throughout the world that refer specifically to communities that develop on the periphery of urban centres. "In what’s in a name?" editors Richard Harris and Charlotte Vorms have gathered together experts from around the world in order to provide a truly global framework for the study of the urban periphery. Rather than view these distinct communities through the lens of the western notion of urban sprawl, the contributors focus on the variety of everyday terms that are used, together with their connotations. This volume explores the local terminology used in cities such as Beijing, Bucharest, Montreal, Mumbai, Rio de Janeiro, Rome, Sofia, as well as more broadly across North America, Australia, Southeast Asia, and elsewhere. What’s in a Name? is the first book in English to pay serious and sustained attention to the naming of the urban periphery worldwide. By exploring the ways in which local individuals speak about the urban periphery Harris and Vorms bridge the assumed divide between the global North and the global South.
Urban Theory
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Limité un temps à un genre de la peinture, le paysage est aujourd'hui partout : via les questions d'urbanisme, d'environnement, de développement durable, il occupe l'espace de la plupart des problématiques engageant l'avenir. Géographie, histoire, moeurs, économie, agronomie, arts, littérature, voyages, philosophie, politique aussi bien sûr – tous ces champs, il les(...)
Les cahiers de l'École de Bois
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Limité un temps à un genre de la peinture, le paysage est aujourd'hui partout : via les questions d'urbanisme, d'environnement, de développement durable, il occupe l'espace de la plupart des problématiques engageant l'avenir. Géographie, histoire, moeurs, économie, agronomie, arts, littérature, voyages, philosophie, politique aussi bien sûr – tous ces champs, il les croise. Mais dans cette étendue il se perd quelque peu, et d'autant plus facilement que ni ses échelles (de l'infime à l'immense), ni ses modes d'interventions (des grands travaux au jardinage) ne sont fixés. Pourtant cette dispersion, gage de diversité, est le terreau où il se ressource. C'est cette multiplicité des approches que ce numéro explore et interroge.
Landscape Theory
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"Public spaces" presents essays and discussions about the planning of public spaces. With contributions from urban architects and regional planners, the volume takes a close look at the Trammplatz in Hanover and the Platz der Fünf Kontinente in Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg.
Public spaces: What for? Wozu? Pourquoi?
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"Public spaces" presents essays and discussions about the planning of public spaces. With contributions from urban architects and regional planners, the volume takes a close look at the Trammplatz in Hanover and the Platz der Fünf Kontinente in Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg.
Urban Theory