Deleuze and contemporary art
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What is at stake for contemporary art in the take up of Deleuze and Guattari's thought? To address these questions, this book presents a series of inflections that explore the connection between these two fields. The topics studied range from the political and the expanded 'aesthetic paradigm' of art practice today, to specific scenes and encounters and the question of(...)
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What is at stake for contemporary art in the take up of Deleuze and Guattari's thought? To address these questions, this book presents a series of inflections that explore the connection between these two fields. The topics studied range from the political and the expanded 'aesthetic paradigm' of art practice today, to specific scenes and encounters and the question of technology in relation to art.
Art Theory
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Yoshiji Takehara set up his own practice Moo Architect Workshop in 1978 after apprenticing under Osamu Ishii. He has focused on designing houses and built approximately 150 individual residences and collective residences in the last thirty years. Projects included are Okawa House, Kishiwada House, Hieidaira House, Nukata House, House No.101, Horai Atelier Kuro and many(...)
Architecture Monographs
May 2010
Yoshiji Takehara: residential architecture
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Yoshiji Takehara set up his own practice Moo Architect Workshop in 1978 after apprenticing under Osamu Ishii. He has focused on designing houses and built approximately 150 individual residences and collective residences in the last thirty years. Projects included are Okawa House, Kishiwada House, Hieidaira House, Nukata House, House No.101, Horai Atelier Kuro and many others. Essays by Terunobu Fujimori, Yoshiaki Hanada and Yoshiji Takehara himself.
Architecture Monographs
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The last decade has witnessed a proliferation of artists whose primary medium is software. Algorithmic processes, harnessed through the medium of computer code, allow artists to generate increasingly complex visual forms that they otherwise might not have been able to imagine, let alone delineate. Form+Code in Design, Art, and Architecture is a non-technical introduction(...)
August 2010
Form + code in design, art, and architecture
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The last decade has witnessed a proliferation of artists whose primary medium is software. Algorithmic processes, harnessed through the medium of computer code, allow artists to generate increasingly complex visual forms that they otherwise might not have been able to imagine, let alone delineate. Form+Code in Design, Art, and Architecture is a non-technical introduction to the history, theory, and practice of software in the arts.
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The experience of movement, of moving through buildings, cities, landscapes and in everyday life, is the only involvement most individuals have with the built environment on a daily basis. User experience is so often neglected in architectural study and practice. Architecture and Movement tackles this complex subject for the first time, providing the wide range of(...)
Architecture and movement : the dynamic experience of building and landscapes
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The experience of movement, of moving through buildings, cities, landscapes and in everyday life, is the only involvement most individuals have with the built environment on a daily basis. User experience is so often neglected in architectural study and practice. Architecture and Movement tackles this complex subject for the first time, providing the wide range of perspectives needed to tackle this multi-disciplinary topic.
Architectural Theory
The Colours of ...
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Colour both as aesthetic and formal medium in architecture and design is a crucial element of each building. It is treated within this book comprehensively and as it relates to practice by looking at decisive examples. The result is an account by and about three of internationally most renowned architects. It provides a compendium showing colour design within a broad(...)
The Colours of ...
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Colour both as aesthetic and formal medium in architecture and design is a crucial element of each building. It is treated within this book comprehensively and as it relates to practice by looking at decisive examples. The result is an account by and about three of internationally most renowned architects. It provides a compendium showing colour design within a broad horizon of technologically advanced architecture.
Contemporary Architecture
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This new volume in the AHRA Critiques Series is a statement about how broad, complex, influential, and, ironically central, architecture has become in the contemporary culture, economy and society, despite the marginal position the profession currently occupies. Périphéries questions and challenges the boundaries of architectural research by bringing together subjects and(...)
Peripheries: edge conditions in architecture
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This new volume in the AHRA Critiques Series is a statement about how broad, complex, influential, and, ironically central, architecture has become in the contemporary culture, economy and society, despite the marginal position the profession currently occupies. Périphéries questions and challenges the boundaries of architectural research by bringing together subjects and relevant streams of investigation, some of which rarely feature in architectural research and practice titles.
Urban Theory
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Presenting over thirty gardens and landscapes located across Brazil, from the coast to the hills, from the cities to the jungle, New Brazilian Gardens offers an exciting and vibrant overview of current practice by designers hardly known outside the country. Newly available in paperback, this publication gives new insights into the debate about design versus horticulture(...)
New brazilian gardens: the legacy of Burle Marx
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Presenting over thirty gardens and landscapes located across Brazil, from the coast to the hills, from the cities to the jungle, New Brazilian Gardens offers an exciting and vibrant overview of current practice by designers hardly known outside the country. Newly available in paperback, this publication gives new insights into the debate about design versus horticulture and provides an extensive resource for every form of gardener.
Gardens
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Life in the digital economy of information and images enriches us but often induces a sense of being overwhelmed. Sensing the Future: Moholy-Nagy, Media and the Arts considers the impact of technology by exploring ways it was addressed in the practice of the Hungarian polymath artist László Moholy-Nagy (1895-1946), a prominent professor at the Bauhaus and a key figure in(...)
Sensing the future: Moholy-Nagy, media and the arts
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Life in the digital economy of information and images enriches us but often induces a sense of being overwhelmed. Sensing the Future: Moholy-Nagy, Media and the Arts considers the impact of technology by exploring ways it was addressed in the practice of the Hungarian polymath artist László Moholy-Nagy (1895-1946), a prominent professor at the Bauhaus and a key figure in the history of Modernism.
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This updated edition of The Little Know-It-All provides the fundamental information designers need to know to thrive in their growing field of practice. Expanded to include social media, search engine marketing, and mobile devices, it is an indispensable manual of the knowledge currently required of designers as the evolution of media re-defines their role and expands the(...)
Graphic Design and Typography
August 2014
The little know-it-all: common sense for designers
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This updated edition of The Little Know-It-All provides the fundamental information designers need to know to thrive in their growing field of practice. Expanded to include social media, search engine marketing, and mobile devices, it is an indispensable manual of the knowledge currently required of designers as the evolution of media re-defines their role and expands the disciplines in which they must be competent.
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August 2014
Graphic Design and Typography
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For the Park Avenue Armory in New York, Herzog & de Meuron have designed a multifaceted strategy for the transformation of the building, that allows for a combination of restoration, transformation, and innovation. This departure from the practice of historic preservation in the United States is, beyond its value as an actual example, a unique contribution that unfolds in(...)
Herzog & de Meuron: transforming Park Avenue Armory New York
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For the Park Avenue Armory in New York, Herzog & de Meuron have designed a multifaceted strategy for the transformation of the building, that allows for a combination of restoration, transformation, and innovation. This departure from the practice of historic preservation in the United States is, beyond its value as an actual example, a unique contribution that unfolds in close reference to material. It is exemplary and groundbreaking.
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July 2014
Architecture Monographs