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"Sites unseen" challenges conventions for viewing and interpreting the landscape, using visual theory to move beyond traditional practices of describing and classifying objects to explore notions of audience and context. Treats landscape as a spatial, psychological, and sensory encounter, opening a new dialogue for discussing the landscape outside the boundaries of(...)
Landscape Theory
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Sites unseen : landscape and vision
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"Sites unseen" challenges conventions for viewing and interpreting the landscape, using visual theory to move beyond traditional practices of describing and classifying objects to explore notions of audience and context. Treats landscape as a spatial, psychological, and sensory encounter, opening a new dialogue for discussing the landscape outside the boundaries of current art criticism and theory.
Landscape Theory
The urban revolution
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Originally published in 1970, The Urban Revolution marked Henri Lefebvre’s first sustained critique of urban society and is widely considered a foundational book in contemporary thinking about the city. This first English edition, translated by Robert Bononno, makes available to a broad audience Lefebvre’s sophisticated insights into the urban dimensions of modern life.(...)
The urban revolution
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Originally published in 1970, The Urban Revolution marked Henri Lefebvre’s first sustained critique of urban society and is widely considered a foundational book in contemporary thinking about the city. This first English edition, translated by Robert Bononno, makes available to a broad audience Lefebvre’s sophisticated insights into the urban dimensions of modern life. Foreword by Neil Smith.
Urban Theory
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Entertainment architecture is a highly innovative, creative endeavour, producing ever-more elaborate, architectural spectacles. This issue visits the many facets of STUFISH – its history and design process, audience memory and experience –exploring the story behind and evolution of this particular brand of popular culture and its spatial manifestations, and touching on(...)
AD 91:6 Stufish: Entertainment architecture
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Entertainment architecture is a highly innovative, creative endeavour, producing ever-more elaborate, architectural spectacles. This issue visits the many facets of STUFISH – its history and design process, audience memory and experience –exploring the story behind and evolution of this particular brand of popular culture and its spatial manifestations, and touching on what the future may hold for it.
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239 pages ; 21 cm
London : Whitechapel Gallery ; Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2015]
Materiality / edited by Petra Lange-Berndt.
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London : Whitechapel Gallery ; Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2015]
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288 pages, 1 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
New York : Summit Books ; Washington [D.C.] : Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, ©1983.
The Precious legacy : Judaic treasures from the Czechoslovak state collections / edited by David Altshuler.
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New York : Summit Books ; Washington [D.C.] : Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, ©1983.
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235 pages : illustrations (black & white and colour) ; 23 cm + 1 booklet (unpaged, 21 cm)
London : The Store X The Spaces, [2018], ©2018
Island / [Adam] Caruso[, Peter] St John and Marcus Taylor, [editors].
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London : The Store X The Spaces, [2018], ©2018
The Colosseum
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The Colosseum describes how the arena was built and at what cost; we are introduced to the emperors who sometimes fought in gladiatorial games staged at the Colosseum; and we take measure of the audience who reveled in, or opposed, these games. The authors also trace the strange afterlife of the monument—as fortress, shrine of martyrs, church, and glue factory.
The Colosseum
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The Colosseum describes how the arena was built and at what cost; we are introduced to the emperors who sometimes fought in gladiatorial games staged at the Colosseum; and we take measure of the audience who reveled in, or opposed, these games. The authors also trace the strange afterlife of the monument—as fortress, shrine of martyrs, church, and glue factory.
History until 1900, Italy
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The book examines the key factors that distinguish various zines. It introduces projects in which the printing process significantly influences aesthetics or in which limited distribution to a small, clearly defined target audience becomes part of the overall concept. Through interviews with people involved in zine production and distribution, the book sheds light on(...)
Behind the zines: Self-publishing culture
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The book examines the key factors that distinguish various zines. It introduces projects in which the printing process significantly influences aesthetics or in which limited distribution to a small, clearly defined target audience becomes part of the overall concept. Through interviews with people involved in zine production and distribution, the book sheds light on various strategies for this evolving media form.
Book Design
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In 1987 Aperture published Lynne Cohen's first monograph, Occupied Territory , an exploration of space as simulated experience--a sham reality, idealized and standardized. Now, Aperture is publishing a newly expanded and updated reissue of this classic monograph, making Cohen's pioneering work available to a contemporary audience and situating her within the lineage(...)
Lynne Cohen: Occupied territory
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In 1987 Aperture published Lynne Cohen's first monograph, Occupied Territory , an exploration of space as simulated experience--a sham reality, idealized and standardized. Now, Aperture is publishing a newly expanded and updated reissue of this classic monograph, making Cohen's pioneering work available to a contemporary audience and situating her within the lineage of Lewis Baltz, Stephen Shore and other celebrated New Topographics photographers.
Photography monographs
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While the Binning House is beloved by a select group of architects, academics, and local heritage buffs, its subtle splendours remain largely hidden to a wider audience. This first book devoted to this exceptional house sheds new light on Binning’s ingenuity. Original photographs and drawings are presented along with writing that analyzes in detail the unique(...)
B. C. Binning, Binning house. West Coast modern house series
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While the Binning House is beloved by a select group of architects, academics, and local heritage buffs, its subtle splendours remain largely hidden to a wider audience. This first book devoted to this exceptional house sheds new light on Binning’s ingenuity. Original photographs and drawings are presented along with writing that analyzes in detail the unique architectural character of the house.
Canadian Architects