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O-14: Projection and Reception explores the groundbreaking exo-skeleton office tower in Dubai by New York-based architects, Reiser+Umemoto. This monograph not only provides exhaustive documentation of O-14's design and construction but delves further into the complex interrelationships this architectural model weaves between technology, expression and politics in the(...)
Reiser + Umemoto: 0-14 projection and reception
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O-14: Projection and Reception explores the groundbreaking exo-skeleton office tower in Dubai by New York-based architects, Reiser+Umemoto. This monograph not only provides exhaustive documentation of O-14's design and construction but delves further into the complex interrelationships this architectural model weaves between technology, expression and politics in the context of the 'nowhere place' of the global city. The book is both an account of a design's realisation and a manifesto, and contains Jesse Reiser's explanatory and theoretical texts on the tower as well as a number of critical essays.
Architecture Monographs
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Presents the results of the research of the AA´s graduate Design Research Lab (DRL), and with it constructs a generative view of space and structure and the exploration of behaviour-based models of living through patterns found in nature.
Adaptive ecologies : correlated systems of living
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Presents the results of the research of the AA´s graduate Design Research Lab (DRL), and with it constructs a generative view of space and structure and the exploration of behaviour-based models of living through patterns found in nature.
Collective Housing
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In Renaissance Rome, ancient ruins were preserved as often as they were mined for their materials. Although the question of what to preserve and how continued to be subject to debate, preservation acquired renewed force and urgency in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries as the new papal capital rose upon the ruins of the ancient city. Preservation practices became more(...)
The ruin of the eternal city : Antiquity & preservation in renaissance Rome
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In Renaissance Rome, ancient ruins were preserved as often as they were mined for their materials. Although the question of what to preserve and how continued to be subject to debate, preservation acquired renewed force and urgency in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries as the new papal capital rose upon the ruins of the ancient city. Preservation practices became more focused and effective in Renaissance Rome than ever before. "The Ruin of the Eternal City" offers a new interpretation of the ongoing life of ancient buildings within the expanding early modern city. While historians and archaeologists have long affirmed that early modern builders disregarded the protection of antiquity, this study provides the first systematic analysis of preservation problems as perceived by the Renaissance popes, the civic magistrates, and ordinary citizens. Based on new evidence and recent conservation theory, this compelling study explores how civic officials balanced the defense of specific sites against the pressing demands imposed by population growth, circulation, and notions of urban decorum. Above all, the preservation of antiquity remained an indispensable tool to advance competing political agendas in the papal capital. A broad range of preservation policies and practices are examined at the half-ruined Colosseum, the intact Pantheon, and the little-known but essential Renaissance bridge known as the Ponte Santa Maria.
History until 1900, Classicism
Translated by
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Translated By is published to coincide with an exhibition at the AA, which gathers eleven literary writers and eleven literary places and subjects them to an act of immaterial translation – via the voice. The stories run through Ramallah, recollect turn-of-the-century Sofia, remember the spaceship-looking-Sheraton Hotel in Doha, wander through the 'Metaverse' and(...)
Translated by
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Translated By is published to coincide with an exhibition at the AA, which gathers eleven literary writers and eleven literary places and subjects them to an act of immaterial translation – via the voice. The stories run through Ramallah, recollect turn-of-the-century Sofia, remember the spaceship-looking-Sheraton Hotel in Doha, wander through the 'Metaverse' and end at the end of the world in West Vancouver. Each of the authors invent or interpret place. Mundane, marginal, infamous, impossible. Together, the texts create a strange and beautiful territory that traverses distance and time. Writers include Douglas Coupland, Rana Dasgupta, Hu Fang, Julien Gracq, Jonathan Letham, Tom McCarthy, Guy Mannes Abbott, Sophia Al Maria, Hisham Matar, Adania Shibli, and Neal Stephenson, with essays by Charles Arsène-Henry and Shumon Basar.
Literature and poetry
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In this text, Brenner, Peck and Theodore question the claim that neoliberalism has ended in the wake of the global economic crisis that began in September of 2008. The authors argue that this assumption rests upon an inadequate understanding of the reach and tenacity of the crisis-induced, market-disciplinary forms of regulatory restructuring that have accompanied the(...)
July 2011
Civic city cahier 4 : Afterlives of neoliberalism
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In this text, Brenner, Peck and Theodore question the claim that neoliberalism has ended in the wake of the global economic crisis that began in September of 2008. The authors argue that this assumption rests upon an inadequate understanding of the reach and tenacity of the crisis-induced, market-disciplinary forms of regulatory restructuring that have accompanied the neoliberalisation of cities, regions and states across the world. In contrast with the over-simplified, monolithic conceptualisations of the global economy that prevail in many popular and academic accounts, the authors emphasise the constitutively uneven, institutionally hybrid and chronically unstable character of neoliberalism. For urban designers, planners and activists working to promote more socially just and democratic forms of urbanism, Brenner, Peck and Theodore insist on the need to radically restructure the macroinstitutional "rules of the game" that variously encourage and disallow localities, cities and regions to adapt to market-based approaches to (re)investment, collective-goods provisioning, and social reproduction. "Absent this", they argue, "the potential of progressive postneoliberal projects will continue to be frustrated by the dead hand of market rule".
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Villes réinventées, rêvées ou idéales, aucune ne figure sur les cartes du temps présent, et pourtant l'on peut s'y promener, en contempler les splendeurs architecturales, converser avec leurs habitants, mais aussi avoir maille à partir avec les autorités, se faire dépouiller dans quelque taverne mal famée... Le présent ouvrage est donc complété de quelques informations(...)
March 2011
Le goût des villes imaginaires
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Villes réinventées, rêvées ou idéales, aucune ne figure sur les cartes du temps présent, et pourtant l'on peut s'y promener, en contempler les splendeurs architecturales, converser avec leurs habitants, mais aussi avoir maille à partir avec les autorités, se faire dépouiller dans quelque taverne mal famée... Le présent ouvrage est donc complété de quelques informations pratiques essentielles, afin d'avertir le voyageur des coutumes étranges et des pièges mortels qu'il affrontera inévitablement au cours de ces incursions dans l'espace-temps.
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Edna le Pingouin en a plus qu’assez de voir toujours les mêmes couleurs sur la banquise : le blanc de la glace,le noir de la nuit et le bleu de la mer. Elle décide un jour de partir à la recherche d’une autre couleur... À partir de 4 ans.
Le Pingouin qui aimait les couleurs
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Edna le Pingouin en a plus qu’assez de voir toujours les mêmes couleurs sur la banquise : le blanc de la glace,le noir de la nuit et le bleu de la mer. Elle décide un jour de partir à la recherche d’une autre couleur... À partir de 4 ans.
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Rien de plus banal a priori que ces sigles indiquant où se trouvent les toilettes pour hommes ou femmes : des gares aux restaurants et bistros, on tombe sur ces logos dès qu'une envie pressante nous pousse à fréquenter les salles d'eau d'un lieu public. Si souvent la séparation hommes/femmes est symbolisée par un pictogramme, il n'est pas rare de tomber sur des panonceaux(...)
Toilet signs: sur la porte des toilettes
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Rien de plus banal a priori que ces sigles indiquant où se trouvent les toilettes pour hommes ou femmes : des gares aux restaurants et bistros, on tombe sur ces logos dès qu'une envie pressante nous pousse à fréquenter les salles d'eau d'un lieu public. Si souvent la séparation hommes/femmes est symbolisée par un pictogramme, il n'est pas rare de tomber sur des panonceaux plus originaux, humoristiques, surprenants voire. incompréhensibles ! C'est à un voyage visuel inédit que vous convie ce petit ouvrage illustré.
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April 2011
Signage
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The Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin is not only a museum but also an architectural milestone. The last building of the great German architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886-1969 is widely considered one of the most perfect statements of his aesthetic, with its monumental steel columns and cantilevered roof with glass enclosure. The Neue Nationalgalerie is especially famous(...)
Mies van der Rohe: Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin
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The Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin is not only a museum but also an architectural milestone. The last building of the great German architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886-1969 is widely considered one of the most perfect statements of his aesthetic, with its monumental steel columns and cantilevered roof with glass enclosure. The Neue Nationalgalerie is especially famous for its 50 x 50-meter hall. There is no other van der Rohe structure in which the boundary between inside and outside is as porous as in this famous hall. This publication presents the building from today's perspectives, but also features historical photographs taken during the construction period, the building's opening in 1968 and the spectacular early exhibitions that took place there.
Architecture Monographs
Gerd Arntz: graphic designer
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As an engaged graphic artist and designer Gerd Arntz (1900-1988) portrayed the world in wood and linoleum cuts. Together with Otto Neurath he designed the symbols for the International System Of Typographic Picture Education (ISOTYPE). This book displays many Isotypes and explains the system and its context, and an overview of Arntzs life and work.
Gerd Arntz: graphic designer
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As an engaged graphic artist and designer Gerd Arntz (1900-1988) portrayed the world in wood and linoleum cuts. Together with Otto Neurath he designed the symbols for the International System Of Typographic Picture Education (ISOTYPE). This book displays many Isotypes and explains the system and its context, and an overview of Arntzs life and work.
Graphic Designers, Monographs