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Proof is the ninth in an annual series of publications that feature exceptional work by the talented winners of the Architectural League's annual Young Architects competition. The winning firms exemplify a new generation of architects and designers who actively probe, provoke, and expand traditional concepts of architectural design and practice. Each company is(...)
Architecture since 1900, Europe
May 2008, New York
Young architects 9: proof. ludens, productora, para, jinhee park, araanda/aasch, uni
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Proof is the ninth in an annual series of publications that feature exceptional work by the talented winners of the Architectural League's annual Young Architects competition. The winning firms exemplify a new generation of architects and designers who actively probe, provoke, and expand traditional concepts of architectural design and practice. Each company is represented in this handy pocket book through their projects, which are documented by rich picture material, accompanied b y explaining texts.
Architecture since 1900, Europe
The exform
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Theorist and art curator Nicolas Bourriaud tackles the excluded, the disposable and the nature of waste by looking to the future of art—the exform. He argues that the great theoretical battles to come will be fought in the realms of ideology, psychoanalysis and art. A “realist” theory and practice must begin by uncovering the mechanisms that create the distinctions(...)
The exform
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Theorist and art curator Nicolas Bourriaud tackles the excluded, the disposable and the nature of waste by looking to the future of art—the exform. He argues that the great theoretical battles to come will be fought in the realms of ideology, psychoanalysis and art. A “realist” theory and practice must begin by uncovering the mechanisms that create the distinctions between the productive and unproductive, product and waste, and the included and excluded.
Critical Theory
Oase 97: action and reaction
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Creating and thinking about architecture has always been defined by the mechanism of action and reaction. One way of making architecture is criticized or rejected and immediately used as a starting point for another, opposing and better method, practice, or theory. Architects and critics react on each other's views using drawings, texts, models, and buildings. A good(...)
Oase 97: action and reaction
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Creating and thinking about architecture has always been defined by the mechanism of action and reaction. One way of making architecture is criticized or rejected and immediately used as a starting point for another, opposing and better method, practice, or theory. Architects and critics react on each other's views using drawings, texts, models, and buildings. A good architecture culture thrives on such a basis: the exciting battle between views, opinions, and beliefs.
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The use of the metaphor has from time immemorial been a central practice of art, and it represents an important issue for all three artists here, who work with language, film and installations. Their discussion leads to a new perception of the metaphor and the function for art and architecture, of the role and interests of artists and mediators of art. A discussion(...)
Again the metaphor problem and other engaged critical discouses about art : a conversation between John Baldessari, Liam Gillick and Lawrence Weiner, moderated by Beatrix Ruf
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The use of the metaphor has from time immemorial been a central practice of art, and it represents an important issue for all three artists here, who work with language, film and installations. Their discussion leads to a new perception of the metaphor and the function for art and architecture, of the role and interests of artists and mediators of art. A discussion about the world of art and art in the world.
Art Theory
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Francine Houben, founder and creative director of Dutch architecture practice Mecanoo wrote this new monograph "People Place Purpose". The book describes the specific architecture of Mecanoo illustrating the way they seek for identity in a global world. From the texture of a local stone, to colours of a fruit tree, or rituals of inhabitants, Mecanoo is driven to design(...)
People, Place, Purpose: The World According to Mecanoo Architects
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Francine Houben, founder and creative director of Dutch architecture practice Mecanoo wrote this new monograph "People Place Purpose". The book describes the specific architecture of Mecanoo illustrating the way they seek for identity in a global world. From the texture of a local stone, to colours of a fruit tree, or rituals of inhabitants, Mecanoo is driven to design buildings with strength to earth. This book covers 17 projects, by Mecanoo all around the world.
Architecture Monographs
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This anthology presents, in chronological order, all the texts by Claire Fontaine from 2004 to today. Created in 2004 in Paris by James Thornhill and Fulvia Carnevale, the collective artist Claire Fontaine creates texts that are as as experimental and politically charged as her visual practice. In these writings, she uses the concept of “human strike” and adopts the(...)
Human strike and the art of creating freedom
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This anthology presents, in chronological order, all the texts by Claire Fontaine from 2004 to today. Created in 2004 in Paris by James Thornhill and Fulvia Carnevale, the collective artist Claire Fontaine creates texts that are as as experimental and politically charged as her visual practice. In these writings, she uses the concept of “human strike” and adopts the radical feminist position that can be found in Tiqqun, a two-issue magazine cofounded by Carnevale.
Art Theory
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Italian gardens have received more attention from historians than perhaps any other garden tradition. This volume presents eight richly illustrated essays by established and emerging scholars that suggest striking new directions for future research. It exemplifies the broad transformations, both quantitative and methodological, taking place in the study and practice of(...)
Clio in the italian garden: Twenty First Century studies in historical methods and theoretical perspectives
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Italian gardens have received more attention from historians than perhaps any other garden tradition. This volume presents eight richly illustrated essays by established and emerging scholars that suggest striking new directions for future research. It exemplifies the broad transformations, both quantitative and methodological, taking place in the study and practice of garden design, and offers a reflective meditation on the vitality of one of the oldest branches of garden and landscape history.
Gardens
Project scope: exhibition design, a typology for architects, designers and museum professionals
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This publication elaborates the special features of various thematic fields such as nature, archeology, history, art, and science since each represents different challenges for an exhibition design. Exemplary case studies clarify the specific features of the exhibition types presented with essays on the theory and practice of exhibition designs. Sketches, floor plans,(...)
Project scope: exhibition design, a typology for architects, designers and museum professionals
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This publication elaborates the special features of various thematic fields such as nature, archeology, history, art, and science since each represents different challenges for an exhibition design. Exemplary case studies clarify the specific features of the exhibition types presented with essays on the theory and practice of exhibition designs. Sketches, floor plans, visualizations, and attractive photographs illustrate the approach, whose essential structure remains the same while finding a different solution for each theme.
Museology
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In this volume, an international, interdisciplinary group of writers discuss what it means to be global — or to be local — in the context of artistic, curatorial and theoretical knowledge and practice. Continuing the discussion begun in The Curatorial Conundrum (2016) and How Institutions Think (2017), Curating After the Global considers curating and questions of(...)
Curating after the global: roadmaps for the present
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In this volume, an international, interdisciplinary group of writers discuss what it means to be global — or to be local — in the context of artistic, curatorial and theoretical knowledge and practice. Continuing the discussion begun in The Curatorial Conundrum (2016) and How Institutions Think (2017), Curating After the Global considers curating and questions of locality, geopolitical change, the reassertion of nation-states, and the violent diminishing of citizen and denizen rights across the globe.
Museology
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This publication brings together texts by Canadian artist Ken Lum. They include a letter to an editor, diary entries, articles, catalogue essays, curatorial statements, and more. Along the way, the reader learns about late modern, postmodern, and contemporary art practices, as well as debates around issues like race, class, and monumentality. Penetrating, insightful, and(...)
Everything is relevant: writings on art and life, 1991-2018
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This publication brings together texts by Canadian artist Ken Lum. They include a letter to an editor, diary entries, articles, catalogue essays, curatorial statements, and more. Along the way, the reader learns about late modern, postmodern, and contemporary art practices, as well as debates around issues like race, class, and monumentality. Penetrating, insightful, and often moving, Lum’s writings are essential for understanding his varied practice, which has often been prescient of developments within contemporary art.
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