Nick Cave: Forothermore
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The definitive volume on the ever-evolving and shape-shifting work of the Chicago-based artist, this book highlights the way Cave’s practice has shifted and continues to shift in response to our history and current moment of cultural crisis. Including several new, never-before-seen works, the book shows an artist at the height of his power. This publication reveals the(...)
Nick Cave: Forothermore
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The definitive volume on the ever-evolving and shape-shifting work of the Chicago-based artist, this book highlights the way Cave’s practice has shifted and continues to shift in response to our history and current moment of cultural crisis. Including several new, never-before-seen works, the book shows an artist at the height of his power. This publication reveals the way art, music, fashion, and performance can help us envision a more just future.
Contemporary Art Monographs
Architecture and objects
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This first book on architecture by the founder of object-oriented ontology (OOO) deepens the exchange between architecture and philosophy, providing a new roadmap to OOO’s influence on the language and practice of contemporary architecture and offering new conceptions of the relationship between form and function. Thinking through object-oriented ontology—and the work of(...)
Architecture and objects
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This first book on architecture by the founder of object-oriented ontology (OOO) deepens the exchange between architecture and philosophy, providing a new roadmap to OOO’s influence on the language and practice of contemporary architecture and offering new conceptions of the relationship between form and function. Thinking through object-oriented ontology—and the work of architects such as Rem Koolhaas and Zaha Hadid—enables the exploration of new concepts regarding the relationship between form and function.
Architectural Theory
Wild plant culture
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Integration restoration practices, foraging, herbalism, rewilding, and permaculture, this is a comprehensive guide to the ecological restoration of native edible and medicinal plant communities in eastern North America, written by our own Jared Rosenbaum. The book blends science, practice, and traditional knowledge to repair both degraded landscapes and our broken(...)
Wild plant culture
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Integration restoration practices, foraging, herbalism, rewilding, and permaculture, this is a comprehensive guide to the ecological restoration of native edible and medicinal plant communities in eastern North America, written by our own Jared Rosenbaum. The book blends science, practice, and traditional knowledge to repair both degraded landscapes and our broken cultural relationship with nature. It is an essential toolkit for gardeners, farmers, and ecological restoration practitioners, highlighting the important role humans play in tending and mending native plant communities.
Fauna and flora
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Toby Paterson makes paintings, reliefs and constructions which explore the relationship between abstraction and reality. He has a keen interest in post-war modernist architecture which he deconstructs both materially and politically, developing a practice in which some works are almost understandable as architecture, while others are expressions of purely abstract form.(...)
Toby Paterson: consensus and collapse
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Toby Paterson makes paintings, reliefs and constructions which explore the relationship between abstraction and reality. He has a keen interest in post-war modernist architecture which he deconstructs both materially and politically, developing a practice in which some works are almost understandable as architecture, while others are expressions of purely abstract form. His work is engaged with the architecture of Denys Lasdun, Berthold Lubetkin, Cedric Price as well as the paintings of Ben Nicholson and Victor Pasmore.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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Covering transactive planning, radical planning, the concept of the Good City, civil society, rethinking poverty and the diversity of planning cultures, this collection of Friedmann's most important and influential essays tells a story about how the evolution of thinking about planning over several decades has helped to shape its practice. With each essay given a new(...)
Insurgencies: Essays in planning theory
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Covering transactive planning, radical planning, the concept of the Good City, civil society, rethinking poverty and the diversity of planning cultures, this collection of Friedmann's most important and influential essays tells a story about how the evolution of thinking about planning over several decades has helped to shape its practice. With each essay given a new introduction to establish its context and importance, this is an ideal text for the study of planning theory and history.
Urban Theory
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Failure is an inevitable part of any creative practice. As game designers, John Sharp and Colleen Macklin have grappled with crises of creativity, false starts, and bad outcomes. Their tool for coping with the many varieties of failure: "iteration", the cyclical process of conceptualizing, prototyping, testing, and evaluating. Sharp and Macklin have found that(...)
Iterate: ten lessons in design and failure
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Failure is an inevitable part of any creative practice. As game designers, John Sharp and Colleen Macklin have grappled with crises of creativity, false starts, and bad outcomes. Their tool for coping with the many varieties of failure: "iteration", the cyclical process of conceptualizing, prototyping, testing, and evaluating. Sharp and Macklin have found that failure—often hidden, covered up, a source of embarrassment—is the secret ingredient of iterative creative process. In "Iterate", they explain how to fail better.
Design Theory
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''Architecture Monogram'' is a book series on emerging architects, landscape designers, photographers, and writers from Belgium and the Netherlands in which the designers reveal the personal obsessions and motivations that stimulate their design process. In this second issue of the series Swiss-Dutch landscape architect Anouk Vogel reflects upon ten years of independent(...)
Architecture monogram 2: Anouk Vogel, Soliloquy
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''Architecture Monogram'' is a book series on emerging architects, landscape designers, photographers, and writers from Belgium and the Netherlands in which the designers reveal the personal obsessions and motivations that stimulate their design process. In this second issue of the series Swiss-Dutch landscape architect Anouk Vogel reflects upon ten years of independent practice in the form of short conversations with her alter ego that reveal the way in which she explores the margins of the discipline.
Landscape Architecture, Monographs
In a while or two we will find the tone: Essays and proposals, curatorial concepts, and critiques
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This collection of writings from Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung presents, for the first time in one volume, essays and proposals edited anew. Ndikung's expanded curatorial practice delineates the space of exhibition making as a space of critical thinking and of experimentation. By proximity, these texts echo each other, resonate with each other, interfere with each other,(...)
In a while or two we will find the tone: Essays and proposals, curatorial concepts, and critiques
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This collection of writings from Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung presents, for the first time in one volume, essays and proposals edited anew. Ndikung's expanded curatorial practice delineates the space of exhibition making as a space of critical thinking and of experimentation. By proximity, these texts echo each other, resonate with each other, interfere with each other, and present perspectives on the political, poetic, and philosophical potentials of exhibition making, beyond the tight corset of the discipline itself.
Museology
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The essays in this publication provide a succinct overview of Burgin's multifaceted work during the last forty years—from its origins in debates within conceptual art to its present concern with everyday perception in the environment of global media. The selection includes such classic essays as "Situational Aesthetics" and "Photographic Practice and Art Theory," together(...)
Situational aesthetics: selected writings by Victor Burgin
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The essays in this publication provide a succinct overview of Burgin's multifaceted work during the last forty years—from its origins in debates within conceptual art to its present concern with everyday perception in the environment of global media. The selection includes such classic essays as "Situational Aesthetics" and "Photographic Practice and Art Theory," together with less widely known articles as "Work and Commentary" and the previously unpublished essays "Shadows, Time, and Family Pictures" and "Monument and Melancholia."
Theory of Photography
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This book presents the projects, initiatives and ideas stimulated by a competition announced in 2007 by the French Ministry of Ecology, Energy and Sustainable Development. The competition was for projects that addressed an eco-district and eco-city theme for the purpose of encouraging local authorities to invest in a‘green city’ concept. Many cities from all over France(...)
Ville durable eco-quartier 2009- Sustainable city eco-district 2009
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This book presents the projects, initiatives and ideas stimulated by a competition announced in 2007 by the French Ministry of Ecology, Energy and Sustainable Development. The competition was for projects that addressed an eco-district and eco-city theme for the purpose of encouraging local authorities to invest in a‘green city’ concept. Many cities from all over France responded to the invitation and the projects submitted represent an exciting and imaginative array of green initiatives and good practice.
Green Architecture