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Archinect is pleased to announce the release of the inaugural issue of Ed. The first issue focuses on "The Architecture of Architecture"—how architecture is constitutively enmeshed within ecologies, economies, socio-politics, technological regimes, and patriarchal structures. In the issue, some of the most innovative voices in contemporary architecture take a look at how(...)
ED 1: architecture of architecture
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Archinect is pleased to announce the release of the inaugural issue of Ed. The first issue focuses on "The Architecture of Architecture"—how architecture is constitutively enmeshed within ecologies, economies, socio-politics, technological regimes, and patriarchal structures. In the issue, some of the most innovative voices in contemporary architecture take a look at how this operates, and how it can be redesigned. In short, "The Architecture of Architecture" endeavors to sketch out the limits of contemporary architectural practice and thought, and to imagine alternatives.
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A.mag 14: Adjaye Associates
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Through a selection of 21 projects that includes pavilions with different uses, realities, programmes, and materials, this instalment gives special insight into the work of Adjaye Associates, a global practice founded by Sir David Adjaye in 2000, with offices in London and New York. Renowned for an eclectic material and colour palette and a capacity to offer a rich civic(...)
A.mag 14: Adjaye Associates
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Through a selection of 21 projects that includes pavilions with different uses, realities, programmes, and materials, this instalment gives special insight into the work of Adjaye Associates, a global practice founded by Sir David Adjaye in 2000, with offices in London and New York. Renowned for an eclectic material and colour palette and a capacity to offer a rich civic experience, the buildings the firm produces differ in form and style, yet are unified by their ability to generate new typologies and reference a wide cultural discourse.
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Bridging the gap between architectural theory and professional practice studies, this book offers critical inquiry into the shifting ground of ethical thought in the changing climate of the global economy. Looking at issues of contemporary significance to architectural critics, practitioners, educators, and students, the book also examines the role of the architectural(...)
Architecture, ethics and globalization
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Bridging the gap between architectural theory and professional practice studies, this book offers critical inquiry into the shifting ground of ethical thought in the changing climate of the global economy. Looking at issues of contemporary significance to architectural critics, practitioners, educators, and students, the book also examines the role of the architectural academy in providing an education in ethical judgement. Including transcripts of responses and discussions among its contributors, a broad interdisciplinary set of perspectives are debated and often controversial points of view are put forward.
Architectural Theory
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Michael Asher doesn't make typical installations. Instead, he extracts his art from the institutions in which it is shown, culling it from collections, histories, or museums' own walls. In Situation Aesthetics, Kirsi Peltomäki examines Asher's practice by analyzing the social situations that the artist constructs in his work for viewers, participants, and institutional(...)
Situation aesthetics: the work of Michael Asher
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Michael Asher doesn't make typical installations. Instead, he extracts his art from the institutions in which it is shown, culling it from collections, histories, or museums' own walls. In Situation Aesthetics, Kirsi Peltomäki examines Asher's practice by analyzing the social situations that the artist constructs in his work for viewers, participants, and institutional representatives. Drawing on art criticism, the reports of viewers and participants in Asher's projects, and the artist's own archives, Peltomäki offers a comprehensive account of Asher's work over the past four decades.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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This book presents Balmori’s vision of the theory and practice of urban landscape design as a discipline that combines the science of ecology with the formal aspects of aesthetics. Here, Balmori advocates a new formal language that reflects a philosophical shift in our traditional understanding of nature, along with “realignments” in how humans relate to nature and live(...)
Diana Balmori: A landscape manifesto
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This book presents Balmori’s vision of the theory and practice of urban landscape design as a discipline that combines the science of ecology with the formal aspects of aesthetics. Here, Balmori advocates a new formal language that reflects a philosophical shift in our traditional understanding of nature, along with “realignments” in how humans relate to nature and live in our world today, changes that will shape the livable city of the future. A Landscape Manifesto includes discussions of urban ecology, environmental conservation, and environmentally beneficial building techniques.
Landscape Architecture, Monographs
WOHA architects
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The evolution of WOHA over the last 15 years has taken their practice from private houses and conservation projects in Singapore, through smaller public and commercial developments to their current Asia-wide range of resorts, hotels, apartment towers and large-scale city buildings. This monograph extensively documents all of WOHA’s significant projects (both built and(...)
WOHA architects
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The evolution of WOHA over the last 15 years has taken their practice from private houses and conservation projects in Singapore, through smaller public and commercial developments to their current Asia-wide range of resorts, hotels, apartment towers and large-scale city buildings. This monograph extensively documents all of WOHA’s significant projects (both built and unrealised), through colour photographs, sketches and detailed formal drawings. Also included are essays by Anna Johnson and Leon van Schaik along with personal observations by William Lim and Erwin Viray.
Architecture Monographs
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An examination of the changing face of UC Berkeley's College of Environmental Design throughout the 20th Century. Just as constant evolution is inherent in the practice and history of design, the College of Environmental Design's steady metamorphosis incited by social and cultural changes, advancements in the design field and faculty contributions, is well documented in(...)
Design on the edge: A century of teaching architecture at the University of California, Berkeley 1903-2003
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An examination of the changing face of UC Berkeley's College of Environmental Design throughout the 20th Century. Just as constant evolution is inherent in the practice and history of design, the College of Environmental Design's steady metamorphosis incited by social and cultural changes, advancements in the design field and faculty contributions, is well documented in this book. This compilation of essays and historical documents features contributions from such notable faculty members as Christopher Alexander, Michael Bell, Charles Eames, Dan Solomon, William Wurster and many others.
Architectural Theory
Kuge Yasuhide: Atelier
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Kuge Yasuhide’s publication sees the photographer visit a number of ateliers of prominent Japanese artists and document the place where ‘values’ are created. The studio spaces of Yayoi Kusama, Katsura Funakoshi and Takashi Murakami, for example, are vividly and lively represented in this photography book. Tools used in the studio, the atelier spaces themselves, personal(...)
Kuge Yasuhide: Atelier
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Kuge Yasuhide’s publication sees the photographer visit a number of ateliers of prominent Japanese artists and document the place where ‘values’ are created. The studio spaces of Yayoi Kusama, Katsura Funakoshi and Takashi Murakami, for example, are vividly and lively represented in this photography book. Tools used in the studio, the atelier spaces themselves, personal details, favourite objects and studio assistants who support the artist in their daily practice all appear in these images, exposing and emphasising the richness of these ‘scenes’ of creation.
Photography monographs
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Adjaye's expanding portfolio of civic architecture, public buildings, and urban planning commissions spans Europe, the United States, Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. He transforms complex ideas and concepts into approachable and innovative structures that respond to the geographical, ecological, technological, engineering, economic, and cultural systems that shape the(...)
David Adjaye : form, heft, material
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Adjaye's expanding portfolio of civic architecture, public buildings, and urban planning commissions spans Europe, the United States, Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. He transforms complex ideas and concepts into approachable and innovative structures that respond to the geographical, ecological, technological, engineering, economic, and cultural systems that shape the practice of global architecture. The publication of this compendium of work and essays coincides with the scheduled opening of Adjaye’s National Museum of African American History and Culture on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.
Architecture Monographs
Lothar Gotz: Line Drawings
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Best known for his large-scale wall paintings and installations, London-based contemporary German painter Lothar Götz's drawings now lie at the center of his practice and are an important resource for his wall paintings and installations. Built up of layers of juxtaposing colors, the drawings engage ideas of space and abstraction. This monograph assembles a selection(...)
Lothar Gotz: Line Drawings
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Best known for his large-scale wall paintings and installations, London-based contemporary German painter Lothar Götz's drawings now lie at the center of his practice and are an important resource for his wall paintings and installations. Built up of layers of juxtaposing colors, the drawings engage ideas of space and abstraction. This monograph assembles a selection of dense compositions on painted card and board made between 2009 and 2014 in which Götz explores the impact of thin pencil lines or varying colors and intensity on surfaces.
Contemporary Art Monographs