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This book, edited by Fulvio Irace, brings together for the first time the design stories and writings with which Emilio Ambasz accompanied the projects that marked the various stages of his prolific career: an anthology that puts his gentle manifesto into practice – green over gray – and where his most iconic pieces of architecture are retraced, alongside stories of(...)
Green architecture and design tales
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This book, edited by Fulvio Irace, brings together for the first time the design stories and writings with which Emilio Ambasz accompanied the projects that marked the various stages of his prolific career: an anthology that puts his gentle manifesto into practice – green over gray – and where his most iconic pieces of architecture are retraced, alongside stories of cities he has loved or dreamed of and conversations with architects and artists with whom he has established a unique relationship of elective affinities.
Green Architecture
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The publication explores a new space for the educational work carried out by museums, and is a reflection on the teaching activities that MUSAC has been developing since its opening. This book is also a support-report for the different programmes and projects produced, with a brief description of the activities that have taken place and the concepts behind them. It is(...)
MUSAC: Working from diversity, learning experiences through art of the present
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The publication explores a new space for the educational work carried out by museums, and is a reflection on the teaching activities that MUSAC has been developing since its opening. This book is also a support-report for the different programmes and projects produced, with a brief description of the activities that have taken place and the concepts behind them. It is useful for those interested in educational and creative practice, and also for professionals working with education in contemporary art facilities.
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Lina Bo Bardi
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One of the most important architects of the twentieth century, Lina Bo Bardi (1914–1992) was remarkably prolific and intriguingly idiosyncratic. A participant in the efforts to reshape Italian culture in her youth, Bo Bardi immigrated to Brazil in 1946, where her practice evolved within the social and cultural realities of her adopted country. While she continued to work(...)
Lina Bo Bardi
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One of the most important architects of the twentieth century, Lina Bo Bardi (1914–1992) was remarkably prolific and intriguingly idiosyncratic. A participant in the efforts to reshape Italian culture in her youth, Bo Bardi immigrated to Brazil in 1946, where her practice evolved within the social and cultural realities of her adopted country. While she continued to work with industrial materials, she added simple building techniques and naturalistic forms to her designs, striving to create large, multiuse spaces that promoted public life.
Architecture Monographs
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Architecture practice Caruso St John and artist Marcus Taylor have curated the British Pavilion for the 2018 Venice Biennale. Their project reimagines the pavilion as an island- a new public space for performances, discussions, and afternoon tea in the Giardini. This book is a parallel platform given to words and images. Exploring an island as a place of refuge and exile,(...)
Architecture Monographs
January 2018
Island
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Architecture practice Caruso St John and artist Marcus Taylor have curated the British Pavilion for the 2018 Venice Biennale. Their project reimagines the pavilion as an island- a new public space for performances, discussions, and afternoon tea in the Giardini. This book is a parallel platform given to words and images. Exploring an island as a place of refuge and exile, it includes contributions from artist John Akomfrah and poet Kate Tempest, alongside works by William Shakespeare and writer Sam Selvon.
Architecture Monographs
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In 'Thomas Ruff: Transforming Photography', the artist presents new work that continues his ongoing probe into the history, processes, techniques, and technology of photography. Also included is a conversation between Ruff and Okwui Enwezor, which took place at Haus der Kunst in Munich, in connection with the artist’s retrospective then on view. The conversation,(...)
Thomas Ruff: transforming photography
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In 'Thomas Ruff: Transforming Photography', the artist presents new work that continues his ongoing probe into the history, processes, techniques, and technology of photography. Also included is a conversation between Ruff and Okwui Enwezor, which took place at Haus der Kunst in Munich, in connection with the artist’s retrospective then on view. The conversation, published here for the first time, has been edited for this volume and examines Ruff’s artistic practice and inspiration, serving as an engaging and dynamic introduction to the artist.
Photography monographs
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With the studio poised to contribute a new set of buildings to the global skyline, " Building: Inside Studio Gang Architects," examines its most current work, twelve built and unbuilt projects that address four major issues facing contemporary architecture: its relationship to nature, the development of dense urban areas, the integration of the ideas of community members,(...)
Building: inside Studio Gang architects
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With the studio poised to contribute a new set of buildings to the global skyline, " Building: Inside Studio Gang Architects," examines its most current work, twelve built and unbuilt projects that address four major issues facing contemporary architecture: its relationship to nature, the development of dense urban areas, the integration of the ideas of community members, and architecture and performance. Featuring essays, interviews, sketches, and drawings--many previously unpublished - this book provides an insider's look at a cutting-edge architectural practice.
Architecture Monographs
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Since Marcel Duchamp created his “readymades” a century ago, the practice of incorporating commodity objects into art has become ever more pervasive. Uncommon Goods traces one particularly important aspect of that progression: the shift in artistic concern toward the hidden ethical dimensions of global commerce. Jaimey Hamilton Faris discusses the work of, among many(...)
Uncommon goods: global dimensions of the readymade
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Since Marcel Duchamp created his “readymades” a century ago, the practice of incorporating commodity objects into art has become ever more pervasive. Uncommon Goods traces one particularly important aspect of that progression: the shift in artistic concern toward the hidden ethical dimensions of global commerce. Jaimey Hamilton Faris discusses the work of, among many others, Ai Weiwei, Cory Arcangel, Thomas Hirschhorn, and Santiago Sierra, reading their artistic explorations as overlapping with debates about how common goods hold us and our world in common.
Art Theory
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Wiel Arets: Autobiographical References opens up a unique and richly layered view of the architectural work and thinking of this internationally renowned Dutch architect. Underlying Arets’ practice, research and teaching is his concept of “a wonderful world”, an optimistic outlook on how the world will evolve in the next 75 years. In an innovative layout by designer Irma(...)
Wiel Arets: autobiographical references
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Wiel Arets: Autobiographical References opens up a unique and richly layered view of the architectural work and thinking of this internationally renowned Dutch architect. Underlying Arets’ practice, research and teaching is his concept of “a wonderful world”, an optimistic outlook on how the world will evolve in the next 75 years. In an innovative layout by designer Irma Boom, portfolios of 60 exemplary projects and designs by his studio are presented alongside lectures and debates between Arets and other thinkers and practitioners.
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Dirk Denison: 10 houses
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Taking the form of an in-depth conversation between architect and educator Dirk Denison and journalist Fred A. Bernstein, this volume chronicles Denison's childhood in Detroit, travels and early encounters with the arts and architecture, and his education at Cranbrook, the Illinois Institute of Technology, and the Harvard Graduate School of Design. A perceptive(...)
Dirk Denison: 10 houses
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Taking the form of an in-depth conversation between architect and educator Dirk Denison and journalist Fred A. Bernstein, this volume chronicles Denison's childhood in Detroit, travels and early encounters with the arts and architecture, and his education at Cranbrook, the Illinois Institute of Technology, and the Harvard Graduate School of Design. A perceptive interlocutor, Bernstein deftly draws upon Denison's own insights into how these experiences have influenced his aesthetic sensibilities, design philosophy, and working processes over 30 years of collaborative practice.
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In 1990 the collaborative practice of Rafael Aranda, Carme Pigem, and Ramon Vilalta was invited to visit Japan for three weeks and participate in an architectural competition. Published with an exhibition at Toto Gallery MA, this volume celebrates the dynamic dialogue that has since emerged between Japan and the Catalonian office. It is a close examination of the project(...)
RCR Arquitectes: geography of dreams
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In 1990 the collaborative practice of Rafael Aranda, Carme Pigem, and Ramon Vilalta was invited to visit Japan for three weeks and participate in an architectural competition. Published with an exhibition at Toto Gallery MA, this volume celebrates the dynamic dialogue that has since emerged between Japan and the Catalonian office. It is a close examination of the project La Vila and Paper Pavilion, where we can collectively learn and experience nature on a vast site with a research facility, workshop, and more.
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