Landscapes abused
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This pamphlet's starting point is a lecture series at the Institute for Landscape Architecture at ETH Zurich. 'Landscape Abused. Missbrauchte Landschaften' investigates the development of contemporary landscape as products of political conflicts and economic hegemonies. The collection of scientific and artistic works is a forensic expedition leading from the Swiss Alps to(...)
Landscapes abused
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This pamphlet's starting point is a lecture series at the Institute for Landscape Architecture at ETH Zurich. 'Landscape Abused. Missbrauchte Landschaften' investigates the development of contemporary landscape as products of political conflicts and economic hegemonies. The collection of scientific and artistic works is a forensic expedition leading from the Swiss Alps to the Nevada Desert and arriving at the spaces of crisis of the Israeli-Palestine conflict.
Landscape Theory
Kazuyo Sejima in Gifu
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This building constitutes the first material expression of Kazuyo Sejima's studies on metropolitan housing, studies which proceed from the idea that not all subsidized housing is the same. Starting from a standard public apartment program, the confrontation between a strictly modulated structure and a random disposition of the different rooms, or between the length of the(...)
Kazuyo Sejima in Gifu
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This building constitutes the first material expression of Kazuyo Sejima's studies on metropolitan housing, studies which proceed from the idea that not all subsidized housing is the same. Starting from a standard public apartment program, the confrontation between a strictly modulated structure and a random disposition of the different rooms, or between the length of the building and the reduction of its built depth, also elicits a confrontation between habitable space and the surrounding landscape, and between the individual and the family unit.
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Museum Architecture: A new biography focuses on the stories we tell of museum buildings in order to explore the nature of museum architecture and the problems of architectural history when applied to the museum and gallery. Starting from a discussion of the key issues in contemporary museum design, the book explores the role of architectural history in the(...)
Museum architecture: a new biography
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Museum Architecture: A new biography focuses on the stories we tell of museum buildings in order to explore the nature of museum architecture and the problems of architectural history when applied to the museum and gallery. Starting from a discussion of the key issues in contemporary museum design, the book explores the role of architectural history in the prioritisation of specific stories of museum building and museum architects and the exclusion of other actors from the history of museum making.
Architectural Theory
San Rocco 14: 66
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1966 was a promising year. Aldo Rossi published "The Architecture of the City" and Robert Venturi came out with "Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture". The stage seemed set for a productive critique of modernism and the development of a more mature approach to the intricacies of architecture. Architecture seemed on the verge of rediscovering its collective nature(...)
San Rocco 14: 66
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1966 was a promising year. Aldo Rossi published "The Architecture of the City" and Robert Venturi came out with "Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture". The stage seemed set for a productive critique of modernism and the development of a more mature approach to the intricacies of architecture. Architecture seemed on the verge of rediscovering its collective nature and about to redefine its knowledge by starting from the city.
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Mono Kultur 42: Sophie Calle
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In a casually and enigmatically meandering conversation with mono.kultur, Sophie Calle talks about starting her career by being lost in Paris, the pleasure in abandoning control and buying her own grave in California. Visually, the issue borrows from Sophie Calle's penchant for structure, dividing the issue between the public in a highly aesthetic display of selected(...)
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October 2016
Mono Kultur 42: Sophie Calle
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In a casually and enigmatically meandering conversation with mono.kultur, Sophie Calle talks about starting her career by being lost in Paris, the pleasure in abandoning control and buying her own grave in California. Visually, the issue borrows from Sophie Calle's penchant for structure, dividing the issue between the public in a highly aesthetic display of selected works, and the personal with a very frank conversation in a different shade of grey.
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The formerly segregated countryside is now traversed by global and regional flows of people, goods, waste, energy and information, linking it to urban systems and enabling those systems to function in the first place. Ruralism is dedicated to the significance of rural spaces as a starting point for transformation. International experts explore the rural from(...)
Ruralism : the future of villages and small towns in an urbanizing world
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The formerly segregated countryside is now traversed by global and regional flows of people, goods, waste, energy and information, linking it to urban systems and enabling those systems to function in the first place. Ruralism is dedicated to the significance of rural spaces as a starting point for transformation. International experts explore the rural from architectural, cultural, gender-oriented, ecological and political perspectives, and ask how a new vision of the rural can be formulated.
Urban Theory
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Published in conjunction with the exhibition ‘House’ at Hafnarborg, the Hafnarfjordur Centre of Culture and Fine Art, this catalogue includes both new and older work by the Icelandic artist Hrein Friðfinnsson. Starting from the concept of an inside out house, the works can be said to include the entire universe within but also to simultaneously shut it out. Mirroring each(...)
Hreinn Fridfinnsson: first house second house third house
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Published in conjunction with the exhibition ‘House’ at Hafnarborg, the Hafnarfjordur Centre of Culture and Fine Art, this catalogue includes both new and older work by the Icelandic artist Hrein Friðfinnsson. Starting from the concept of an inside out house, the works can be said to include the entire universe within but also to simultaneously shut it out. Mirroring each other, each series creates a unique dynamic when juxtaposed with the others
Contemporary Art Monographs
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What is our relationship with physical and emotional environments? How do we react to and live in the world around us? This book explores the dimensions of how geography affects the psyche, from the known to the unknown. In colorful, gorgeous pen-and-ink illustrations, the transformation of landscapes from immediate and personal to fantastical and nostalgic captures(...)
Claire Scully: The wilderness collection
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What is our relationship with physical and emotional environments? How do we react to and live in the world around us? This book explores the dimensions of how geography affects the psyche, from the known to the unknown. In colorful, gorgeous pen-and-ink illustrations, the transformation of landscapes from immediate and personal to fantastical and nostalgic captures the sense of place. Viewing each image creates your own personal experience of space. Starting with more immediate spaces and ending with faraway planets, this book is an emotional, creative journey.
Illustration
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Where is the place of architecture? Closer to the arts or to the sciences? And has there been a shift of this position over the past years due to technological evolution? – The term “precision” serves as a starting point for observing the influence of scientific methods on architecture and art. Authors explore the subject from different angles: from digital design(...)
Architectural Theory
August 2008, Berlin
Precisions: architecture between sciences and the arts
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Where is the place of architecture? Closer to the arts or to the sciences? And has there been a shift of this position over the past years due to technological evolution? – The term “precision” serves as a starting point for observing the influence of scientific methods on architecture and art. Authors explore the subject from different angles: from digital design strategies in lightweight construction to filigree architectural projects. Practical examples are flanked by essays on art and architectural theory, which also provide a prospect for the future of digitalization and cybernetics.
Architectural Theory
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The exhibition illustrates the variety of leisure spas and thermal baths realized by the architectural practice 4a Architekten from Stuttgart, Germany. Accessible for visitors from viewpoints resembling starting blocks, the room installation is made up of models and platforms suspended over a water pool. Enhancing the experience of visiting an actual swimming pool,(...)
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March 2007, Berlin
4a Architekten : wasserwelten
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The exhibition illustrates the variety of leisure spas and thermal baths realized by the architectural practice 4a Architekten from Stuttgart, Germany. Accessible for visitors from viewpoints resembling starting blocks, the room installation is made up of models and platforms suspended over a water pool. Enhancing the experience of visiting an actual swimming pool, in-depth information to each project is provided in a row of lockers. Via projections on the walls and on the water surface, visitors also become emotionally involved in the bathing activities and the architectural diversity of 4a Architekten.
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March 2007, Berlin
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