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In featuring the Flemish practice of Jan De Vylder, Inge Vinck, and Jo Taillieu, this edition of ‘Archives’ provides an opportunity to highlight the importance of context and drawing. Context is a concept which appears constantly in their conversations and writings, one that the architects explain is not as limiting a term as many might think. The drawings herein offer(...)
Architecten De Vylder Vinck Taillieu
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In featuring the Flemish practice of Jan De Vylder, Inge Vinck, and Jo Taillieu, this edition of ‘Archives’ provides an opportunity to highlight the importance of context and drawing. Context is a concept which appears constantly in their conversations and writings, one that the architects explain is not as limiting a term as many might think. The drawings herein offer precise analyses of the projects the office has undertaken, represented in different forms, through various mediums, layered drawings and paperwork.
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Johnston Marklee
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‘Source Books in Architecture No. 15: Johnston Marklee’ includes conversations with the architects and documentation of a range of built and unbuilt works. As the Baumer Visiting Professors at The Ohio State University, Sharon Johnston and Mark Lee engage with students at the school in conversations that range from developing a critical practice to idea formation with(...)
Johnston Marklee
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‘Source Books in Architecture No. 15: Johnston Marklee’ includes conversations with the architects and documentation of a range of built and unbuilt works. As the Baumer Visiting Professors at The Ohio State University, Sharon Johnston and Mark Lee engage with students at the school in conversations that range from developing a critical practice to idea formation with respect to projects to the pragmatics of working in the field or architecture today. Documentation of work includes drawings, diagrams, photos, and models.
Architecture Monographs
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This publication was published on the occasion of Martha Rostler exhibition's at Centro José Guerrero, Granada, january-april 2009. Providing a significant survey of the multifaceted output of this seminal American artist, this well designed and accessible catalogue, documents some forty years of practice. From the photomontage set ‘House Beautiful: Bringing the War Home’(...)
Martha Rosler: the house, the street, the kitchen
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This publication was published on the occasion of Martha Rostler exhibition's at Centro José Guerrero, Granada, january-april 2009. Providing a significant survey of the multifaceted output of this seminal American artist, this well designed and accessible catalogue, documents some forty years of practice. From the photomontage set ‘House Beautiful: Bringing the War Home’ to her most recent photographs of the series Transitions and Digressions, Rosler has brought into being a poetics charged with political components marked with a feminist commitment.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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New media artworks are difficult to classify according to the traditional art museum categories determined by medium, geography, and chronology. These works present the curator with novel challenges involving interpretation, exhibition, and dissemination. This book views these challenges as opportunities to rethink curatorial practice. Rethinking Curating explores the(...)
Rethinking curating: art after new media
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New media artworks are difficult to classify according to the traditional art museum categories determined by medium, geography, and chronology. These works present the curator with novel challenges involving interpretation, exhibition, and dissemination. This book views these challenges as opportunities to rethink curatorial practice. Rethinking Curating explores the characteristics distinctive to new media art, including its immateriality and its questioning of time and space, and relates them to such contemporary art forms as video art, conceptual art, socially engaged art, and performance art.
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Atelier Ten is a London-based engineering practice with offices around the world. For twenty-five years they have specialized in sustainable design, collaborating with such architects as Grimshaw, Hopkins, Wilkinson Eyre and Robert A. M. Stern. Among their most famous projects are Gardens by the Bay in Singapore, Tour Carpe Diem near Paris, the San Francisco Museum of(...)
Atelier Ten: invisible architecture
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Atelier Ten is a London-based engineering practice with offices around the world. For twenty-five years they have specialized in sustainable design, collaborating with such architects as Grimshaw, Hopkins, Wilkinson Eyre and Robert A. M. Stern. Among their most famous projects are Gardens by the Bay in Singapore, Tour Carpe Diem near Paris, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and Federation Square in Melbourne. Photographs, drawings and diagrams, combined with explanatory text, provide an insight into Atelier Ten's pioneering green engineering.
Architecture Monographs
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Young Chinese architects are designing compelling alternatives to China's rapid urbanization between tradition and the future. Homecoming presents work by an emerging generation of Chinese architects that uses unique design and working approaches to resist generic mass construction and foreign iconic building. In particular, these architects are offering resistance(...)
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Homecoming: contextualizing, materializing and practicing the rural in China
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Young Chinese architects are designing compelling alternatives to China's rapid urbanization between tradition and the future. Homecoming presents work by an emerging generation of Chinese architects that uses unique design and working approaches to resist generic mass construction and foreign iconic building. In particular, these architects are offering resistance against the rapid urbanization that has dominated the Chinese landscape. By responding to a local Chinese context, they have raised the avant-garde of China's architectural design practice in recent years.
Michael Snow: photo-centric
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Michael Snow: Photo-Centric focuses on a selection of the artist’s photographic work from 1962 to the present. The book considers Snow’s interest in late modernism’s self-reflexivity and, specifically, his exploration of how the mechanics of photography affect perception, cognition, and consciousness. Essays by Adelina Vlas and the artist himself consider the importance(...)
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Michael Snow: photo-centric
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Michael Snow: Photo-Centric focuses on a selection of the artist’s photographic work from 1962 to the present. The book considers Snow’s interest in late modernism’s self-reflexivity and, specifically, his exploration of how the mechanics of photography affect perception, cognition, and consciousness. Essays by Adelina Vlas and the artist himself consider the importance of Snow’s photographic work within his larger practice, its connection with and continuation of modernist ideas, and its experimental quality within the history of the medium.
Eva Hesse: one more than one
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Eva Hesse (1936–1970) was one of the foremost women artists of the twentieth century. Her artistic practice combined the seriality and reduction of 1960s Minimalism with emotion, sensuousness and physicality, while the transparency and transience of her unconventional materials also contributed greatly to her unique position in the art world of her day. From November 2013(...)
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Eva Hesse: one more than one
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Eva Hesse (1936–1970) was one of the foremost women artists of the twentieth century. Her artistic practice combined the seriality and reduction of 1960s Minimalism with emotion, sensuousness and physicality, while the transparency and transience of her unconventional materials also contributed greatly to her unique position in the art world of her day. From November 2013 onward, the Hamburger Kunsthalle is presenting the first solo exhibition of Hesse’s work in her native city. This publication is the catalogue of the exhibition.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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Based in Stockholm, Tham & Videgård Arkitekter believes that architecture is about the future, and considers buildings not only as contemporary, but also a form of continued history projected into that future. Co-founders Bolle Tham and Martin Videgård introduce 40 works and the principle ideas that guide their practice – from large-scale urban planning to buildings and(...)
Tham & Videgard Arkitekter : the operative elements of architecture
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Based in Stockholm, Tham & Videgård Arkitekter believes that architecture is about the future, and considers buildings not only as contemporary, but also a form of continued history projected into that future. Co-founders Bolle Tham and Martin Videgård introduce 40 works and the principle ideas that guide their practice – from large-scale urban planning to buildings and interiors. Foremost is the lasting impact and building quality: long-term environmental effects, architectural integrity and function, and the capacity to convey societal ideals.
Architecture Monographs
Again, a time machine
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Artists are playing with words again raiding the archive, bringing the dead back to life. Quicker than the ever elusive present, they are forging a practice that anticipates the past, forecasts possible histories and revisits alternative futures. This book presents an assemblage of material extending Book Works touring exhibition on just this theme, Again, A Time(...)
Again, a time machine
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Artists are playing with words again raiding the archive, bringing the dead back to life. Quicker than the ever elusive present, they are forging a practice that anticipates the past, forecasts possible histories and revisits alternative futures. This book presents an assemblage of material extending Book Works touring exhibition on just this theme, Again, A Time Machine. Contributions include artists' pages, exploratory interviews, new writing, and a range of publisher and project space responses to the questions: Why distribute? Why archive?
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