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Despite early international recognition of his achievements, Brazil's most lauded, defiant architect had been marginalized by mainstream historiography. This book is providing the first comprehensive, in-depth analysis and critical re-evaluation of Niemeyer's fertile career and dissident perspective, lavishly illustrated with original sketches, drawings and models, and(...)
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Despite early international recognition of his achievements, Brazil's most lauded, defiant architect had been marginalized by mainstream historiography. This book is providing the first comprehensive, in-depth analysis and critical re-evaluation of Niemeyer's fertile career and dissident perspective, lavishly illustrated with original sketches, drawings and models, and(...)
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Oscar Niemeyer: curves of irreverence
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Despite early international recognition of his achievements, Brazil's most lauded, defiant architect had been marginalized by mainstream historiography. This book is providing the first comprehensive, in-depth analysis and critical re-evaluation of Niemeyer's fertile career and dissident perspective, lavishly illustrated with original sketches, drawings and models, and historical and specially taken photographs. 13 pp bibliography, 16 pp index.
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Despite early international recognition of his achievements, Brazil's most lauded, defiant architect had been marginalized by mainstream historiography. This book is providing the first comprehensive, in-depth analysis and critical re-evaluation of Niemeyer's fertile career and dissident perspective, lavishly illustrated with original sketches, drawings and models, and historical and specially taken photographs. 13 pp bibliography, 16 pp index.
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May 2008, New Haven
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This catalogue was published on the occasion of the exhibition Buckminster Fuller: Starting with the Universe, organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, in association with the Department of Special Collections of the Stanford University Libraries. It explores Fuller’s extraordinary body of work, focusing on his wide-ranging and sometimes controversial(...)
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This catalogue was published on the occasion of the exhibition Buckminster Fuller: Starting with the Universe, organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, in association with the Department of Special Collections of the Stanford University Libraries. It explores Fuller’s extraordinary body of work, focusing on his wide-ranging and sometimes controversial(...)
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July 2008, New York
July 2008, New York
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Buckminster Fuller: starting with the universe
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This catalogue was published on the occasion of the exhibition Buckminster Fuller: Starting with the Universe, organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, in association with the Department of Special Collections of the Stanford University Libraries. It explores Fuller’s extraordinary body of work, focusing on his wide-ranging and sometimes controversial role within the worlds of art, architecture, and utopian thought. Reproductions of original drawings and models-including those for Fuller’s 4D house, Wichita House, the Montreal Expo dome, and the sole extant Dymaxion car-plus a reprinted 1966 New Yorker profile on Fuller by Calvin Tomkins, complete the fascinating tribute.
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This catalogue was published on the occasion of the exhibition Buckminster Fuller: Starting with the Universe, organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, in association with the Department of Special Collections of the Stanford University Libraries. It explores Fuller’s extraordinary body of work, focusing on his wide-ranging and sometimes controversial role within the worlds of art, architecture, and utopian thought. Reproductions of original drawings and models-including those for Fuller’s 4D house, Wichita House, the Montreal Expo dome, and the sole extant Dymaxion car-plus a reprinted 1966 New Yorker profile on Fuller by Calvin Tomkins, complete the fascinating tribute.
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July 2008, New York
July 2008, New York
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Moving effortlessly between symbolist poetry and Barbie dolls, artificial intelligence and Kleist, Kant, and Winnicott, Barbara Johnson not only clarifies psychological and social dynamics; she also re-dramatizes the work of important tropes—without ever losing sight of the ethical imperative with which she begins: the need to treat persons as persons. In "Persons and(...)
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Moving effortlessly between symbolist poetry and Barbie dolls, artificial intelligence and Kleist, Kant, and Winnicott, Barbara Johnson not only clarifies psychological and social dynamics; she also re-dramatizes the work of important tropes—without ever losing sight of the ethical imperative with which she begins: the need to treat persons as persons. In "Persons and(...)
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Moving effortlessly between symbolist poetry and Barbie dolls, artificial intelligence and Kleist, Kant, and Winnicott, Barbara Johnson not only clarifies psychological and social dynamics; she also re-dramatizes the work of important tropes—without ever losing sight of the ethical imperative with which she begins: the need to treat persons as persons. In "Persons and Things", Johnson turns deconstruction around to make a fundamental contribution to the new aesthetics. She begins with the most elementary thing we know : deconstruction calls attention to gaps and reveals that their claims upon us are fraudulent. Johnson revolutionizes the method by showing that the inanimate thing exposed as a delusion is central to fantasy life, that fantasy life, however deluded, should be taken seriously, and that although a work of art “is formed around something missing,” this “void is its vanishing point, not its essence.” She shows deftly and delicately that the void inside Keats’s urn, Heidegger’s jug, or Wallace Stevens’s jar forms the center around which we tend to organize our worlds. The new aesthetics should restore fluidities between persons and things. In pursuing it, Johnson calls upon Ovid, Keats, Poe, Plath, and others who have inhabited this in-between space. The entire process operates via a subtlety that only a critic of Johnson’s caliber could reveal to us.
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Moving effortlessly between symbolist poetry and Barbie dolls, artificial intelligence and Kleist, Kant, and Winnicott, Barbara Johnson not only clarifies psychological and social dynamics; she also re-dramatizes the work of important tropes—without ever losing sight of the ethical imperative with which she begins: the need to treat persons as persons. In "Persons and Things", Johnson turns deconstruction around to make a fundamental contribution to the new aesthetics. She begins with the most elementary thing we know : deconstruction calls attention to gaps and reveals that their claims upon us are fraudulent. Johnson revolutionizes the method by showing that the inanimate thing exposed as a delusion is central to fantasy life, that fantasy life, however deluded, should be taken seriously, and that although a work of art “is formed around something missing,” this “void is its vanishing point, not its essence.” She shows deftly and delicately that the void inside Keats’s urn, Heidegger’s jug, or Wallace Stevens’s jar forms the center around which we tend to organize our worlds. The new aesthetics should restore fluidities between persons and things. In pursuing it, Johnson calls upon Ovid, Keats, Poe, Plath, and others who have inhabited this in-between space. The entire process operates via a subtlety that only a critic of Johnson’s caliber could reveal to us.
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April 2008, Cambridge, London
April 2008, Cambridge, London
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Notes on the Underground
Notes on the Underground
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The underground has always played a prominent role in human imaginings, both as a place of refuge and as a source of fear. The late nineteenth century saw a new fascination with the underground as Western societies tried to cope with the pervasive changes of a new social and technological order. In Notes on the Underground, Rosalind Williams takes us inside that critical(...)
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The underground has always played a prominent role in human imaginings, both as a place of refuge and as a source of fear. The late nineteenth century saw a new fascination with the underground as Western societies tried to cope with the pervasive changes of a new social and technological order. In Notes on the Underground, Rosalind Williams takes us inside that critical(...)
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Notes on the Underground
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The underground has always played a prominent role in human imaginings, both as a place of refuge and as a source of fear. The late nineteenth century saw a new fascination with the underground as Western societies tried to cope with the pervasive changes of a new social and technological order. In Notes on the Underground, Rosalind Williams takes us inside that critical historical moment, giving equal coverage to actual and imaginary undergrounds. She looks at the real-life invasions of the underground that occurred as modern urban infrastructures of sewers and subways were laid, and at the simultaneous archaeological excavations that were unearthing both human history and the planet’s deep past. She also examines the subterranean stories of Verne, Wells, Forster, Hugo, Bulwer-Lytton, and other writers who proposed alternative visions of the coming technological civilization. Williams argues that these imagined and real underground environments provide models of human life in a world dominated by human presence and offer a prophetic look at today’s technology-dominated society. In a new afterword written for this edition, Williams points out that her book traces the emergence in the nineteenth century of what we would now call an environmental consciousness--an awareness that there will be consequences when humans live in a sealed, finite environment. Today we are more aware than ever of our limited biosphere and how vulnerable it is. Notes on the Underground, now even more than when it first appeared, offers a guide to the human, cultural, and technical consequences of what Williams calls "the human empire on earth."
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The underground has always played a prominent role in human imaginings, both as a place of refuge and as a source of fear. The late nineteenth century saw a new fascination with the underground as Western societies tried to cope with the pervasive changes of a new social and technological order. In Notes on the Underground, Rosalind Williams takes us inside that critical historical moment, giving equal coverage to actual and imaginary undergrounds. She looks at the real-life invasions of the underground that occurred as modern urban infrastructures of sewers and subways were laid, and at the simultaneous archaeological excavations that were unearthing both human history and the planet’s deep past. She also examines the subterranean stories of Verne, Wells, Forster, Hugo, Bulwer-Lytton, and other writers who proposed alternative visions of the coming technological civilization. Williams argues that these imagined and real underground environments provide models of human life in a world dominated by human presence and offer a prophetic look at today’s technology-dominated society. In a new afterword written for this edition, Williams points out that her book traces the emergence in the nineteenth century of what we would now call an environmental consciousness--an awareness that there will be consequences when humans live in a sealed, finite environment. Today we are more aware than ever of our limited biosphere and how vulnerable it is. Notes on the Underground, now even more than when it first appeared, offers a guide to the human, cultural, and technical consequences of what Williams calls "the human empire on earth."
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March 2008, Cambridge
March 2008, Cambridge
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In this book, Anthony Vidler examines the work of four historians of architectural modernism and the ways in which their histories were constructed as more or less overt programs for the theory and practice of design in a contemporary context. Vidler looks at the historical approaches of Emil Kaufmann, Colin Rowe, Reyner Banham, and Manfredo Tafuri, and the specific(...)
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In this book, Anthony Vidler examines the work of four historians of architectural modernism and the ways in which their histories were constructed as more or less overt programs for the theory and practice of design in a contemporary context. Vidler looks at the historical approaches of Emil Kaufmann, Colin Rowe, Reyner Banham, and Manfredo Tafuri, and the specific(...)
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Histories of the immediate present: inventing architectural modernism
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In this book, Anthony Vidler examines the work of four historians of architectural modernism and the ways in which their histories were constructed as more or less overt programs for the theory and practice of design in a contemporary context. Vidler looks at the historical approaches of Emil Kaufmann, Colin Rowe, Reyner Banham, and Manfredo Tafuri, and the specific versions of modernism advanced by their historical narratives. Vidler shows that the modernism conceived by Kaufmann was, like the late Enlightenment projects he revered, one of pure, geometrical forms and elemental composition; that of Rowe saw mannerist ambiguity and complexity in contemporary design; Banham's modernism took its cue from the aspirations of the futurists; and the "Renaissance modernism" of Tafuri found its source in the division between the technical experimentation of Brunelleschi and the cultural nostalgia of Alberti.
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In this book, Anthony Vidler examines the work of four historians of architectural modernism and the ways in which their histories were constructed as more or less overt programs for the theory and practice of design in a contemporary context. Vidler looks at the historical approaches of Emil Kaufmann, Colin Rowe, Reyner Banham, and Manfredo Tafuri, and the specific versions of modernism advanced by their historical narratives. Vidler shows that the modernism conceived by Kaufmann was, like the late Enlightenment projects he revered, one of pure, geometrical forms and elemental composition; that of Rowe saw mannerist ambiguity and complexity in contemporary design; Banham's modernism took its cue from the aspirations of the futurists; and the "Renaissance modernism" of Tafuri found its source in the division between the technical experimentation of Brunelleschi and the cultural nostalgia of Alberti.
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March 2008, Cambridge
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Irigaray for architects
Irigaray for architects
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This book, the third in the Thinkers for Architects series, examines the relevance of Luce Irigaray's work for architecture. Eight thematic chapters explore the bodily, spatio-temporal, political and cultural value of her ideas for making, discussing and experiencing architecture. In particular, each chapter makes accessible Irgaray's ideas about 'sexed' spaces with(...)
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This book, the third in the Thinkers for Architects series, examines the relevance of Luce Irigaray's work for architecture. Eight thematic chapters explore the bodily, spatio-temporal, political and cultural value of her ideas for making, discussing and experiencing architecture. In particular, each chapter makes accessible Irgaray's ideas about 'sexed' spaces with(...)
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Irigaray for architects
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This book, the third in the Thinkers for Architects series, examines the relevance of Luce Irigaray's work for architecture. Eight thematic chapters explore the bodily, spatio-temporal, political and cultural value of her ideas for making, discussing and experiencing architecture. In particular, each chapter makes accessible Irgaray's ideas about 'sexed' spaces with reference to her key texts.
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This book, the third in the Thinkers for Architects series, examines the relevance of Luce Irigaray's work for architecture. Eight thematic chapters explore the bodily, spatio-temporal, political and cultural value of her ideas for making, discussing and experiencing architecture. In particular, each chapter makes accessible Irgaray's ideas about 'sexed' spaces with reference to her key texts.
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November 2007, London, New York
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This text brings together newly commissioned articles in order to provide a detailed overview of recent trends affecting Canadian cities, and future policy implications these trends will have on Canadian cities. The second edition is a significant revision from the first, with(...)
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This text brings together newly commissioned articles in order to provide a detailed overview of recent trends affecting Canadian cities, and future policy implications these trends will have on Canadian cities. The second edition is a significant revision from the first, with(...)
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Architecture in Canada
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January 1900, Toronto
January 1900, Toronto
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Canadian cities in transition : the twenty-first century
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This text brings together newly commissioned articles in order to provide a detailed overview of recent trends affecting Canadian cities, and future policy implications these trends will have on Canadian cities. The second edition is a significant revision from the first, with numerous new articles, new contributors, and a much more closely linked editorial structure.
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This text brings together newly commissioned articles in order to provide a detailed overview of recent trends affecting Canadian cities, and future policy implications these trends will have on Canadian cities. The second edition is a significant revision from the first, with numerous new articles, new contributors, and a much more closely linked editorial structure.
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January 1900, Toronto
January 1900, Toronto
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Giancarlo De Carlo, né en 1919, sera, pendant un demi-siècle, un acteur majeur de la scène architecturale européenne. Cet ouvrage, qui retrace le parcours de l'architecte depuis le début des années 1950 jusqu'à aujourd'hui, accompagne l'exposition "Giancarlo De Carlo" inaugurée au Centre Pompidou, ainsi que dans les prochains lieux qui vont l'accueillir.
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Giancarlo De Carlo, né en 1919, sera, pendant un demi-siècle, un acteur majeur de la scène architecturale européenne. Cet ouvrage, qui retrace le parcours de l'architecte depuis le début des années 1950 jusqu'à aujourd'hui, accompagne l'exposition "Giancarlo De Carlo" inaugurée au Centre Pompidou, ainsi que dans les prochains lieux qui vont l'accueillir.
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Giancarlo De Carlo: des lieux, des hommes
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Giancarlo De Carlo, né en 1919, sera, pendant un demi-siècle, un acteur majeur de la scène architecturale européenne. Cet ouvrage, qui retrace le parcours de l'architecte depuis le début des années 1950 jusqu'à aujourd'hui, accompagne l'exposition "Giancarlo De Carlo" inaugurée au Centre Pompidou, ainsi que dans les prochains lieux qui vont l'accueillir.
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Giancarlo De Carlo, né en 1919, sera, pendant un demi-siècle, un acteur majeur de la scène architecturale européenne. Cet ouvrage, qui retrace le parcours de l'architecte depuis le début des années 1950 jusqu'à aujourd'hui, accompagne l'exposition "Giancarlo De Carlo" inaugurée au Centre Pompidou, ainsi que dans les prochains lieux qui vont l'accueillir.
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May 2004, Stuttgart / Paris
May 2004, Stuttgart / Paris
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The second of three books published by the Center for Environmental Structure to provide a "working alternative to our present ideas about architecture, building, and planning," A Pattern Language offers a practical language for building and planning based on natural considerations. The reader is given an overview of some 250 patterns that are the units of this language,(...)
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The second of three books published by the Center for Environmental Structure to provide a "working alternative to our present ideas about architecture, building, and planning," A Pattern Language offers a practical language for building and planning based on natural considerations. The reader is given an overview of some 250 patterns that are the units of this language,(...)
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A pattern language : towns buildings construction
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The second of three books published by the Center for Environmental Structure to provide a "working alternative to our present ideas about architecture, building, and planning," A Pattern Language offers a practical language for building and planning based on natural considerations. The reader is given an overview of some 250 patterns that are the units of this language, each consisting of a design problem, discussion, illustration, and solution. By understanding recurrent design problems in our environment, readers can identify extant patterns in their own design projects and use these patterns to create a language of their own. Extraordinarily thorough, coherent, and accessible, this book has become a bible for homebuilders, contractors, and developers who care about creating healthy, high-level design.
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The second of three books published by the Center for Environmental Structure to provide a "working alternative to our present ideas about architecture, building, and planning," A Pattern Language offers a practical language for building and planning based on natural considerations. The reader is given an overview of some 250 patterns that are the units of this language, each consisting of a design problem, discussion, illustration, and solution. By understanding recurrent design problems in our environment, readers can identify extant patterns in their own design projects and use these patterns to create a language of their own. Extraordinarily thorough, coherent, and accessible, this book has become a bible for homebuilders, contractors, and developers who care about creating healthy, high-level design.
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August 1977, New York
August 1977, New York
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The timeless way of building
The timeless way of building
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This volume provides the opening work in Christopher Alexander's seminal trilogy on architecture (continued in A Pattern Language and The Oregon Experiment). Here he provides a fascinating introduction to the ideas behind the succeeding two books. Alexander explains concepts fundamental to his original approaches to the theory and application of architecture.
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This volume provides the opening work in Christopher Alexander's seminal trilogy on architecture (continued in A Pattern Language and The Oregon Experiment). Here he provides a fascinating introduction to the ideas behind the succeeding two books. Alexander explains concepts fundamental to his original approaches to the theory and application of architecture.
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The timeless way of building
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This volume provides the opening work in Christopher Alexander's seminal trilogy on architecture (continued in A Pattern Language and The Oregon Experiment). Here he provides a fascinating introduction to the ideas behind the succeeding two books. Alexander explains concepts fundamental to his original approaches to the theory and application of architecture.
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This volume provides the opening work in Christopher Alexander's seminal trilogy on architecture (continued in A Pattern Language and The Oregon Experiment). Here he provides a fascinating introduction to the ideas behind the succeeding two books. Alexander explains concepts fundamental to his original approaches to the theory and application of architecture.
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January 1979, New York
January 1979, New York
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