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Vicente Guallart, pioneer of new media, examines the technological, social and cultural changes in our information society for new urban building. Presenting the last 15 years of his work, this book investigates architecture’s ability to construct systems for inhabitable environments in diverse environmental, social, and economic conditions. He crosses boundaries through(...)
Architecture since 1900, Europe
May 2009, Barcelona, New York
Geologics: geography information architecture
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Vicente Guallart, pioneer of new media, examines the technological, social and cultural changes in our information society for new urban building. Presenting the last 15 years of his work, this book investigates architecture’s ability to construct systems for inhabitable environments in diverse environmental, social, and economic conditions. He crosses boundaries through collaborations in geology, sociology, engineering, economics, software and interface design. The projects follow a "natural" logic, referring to components originating in nature, as well as to environmental systems.
Architecture since 1900, Europe
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'We Can’t Do This Alone: Jefferson Hack the System' re-defines the purpose of alternative media in the 21st century—drawing on a wealth of innovative projects to artfully map out a bright future for radical publishing. In the spirit of progressive individualism at its core every single copy is unique, emblazoned with an individuated, numbered cover displaying a one-off(...)
Graphic Design and Typography
May 2016
We can't do this alone: Jefferson Hack the system
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'We Can’t Do This Alone: Jefferson Hack the System' re-defines the purpose of alternative media in the 21st century—drawing on a wealth of innovative projects to artfully map out a bright future for radical publishing. In the spirit of progressive individualism at its core every single copy is unique, emblazoned with an individuated, numbered cover displaying a one-off fresco of the provocative material between its pages. If you stand for nothing, you’ll fall for anything.
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Digital keywords
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In the age of search, keywords increasingly organize research, teaching, and even thought itself. Inspired by Raymond Williams's 1976 classic 'Keywords', the timely collection 'Digital Keywords' gathers pointed, provocative short essays on more than two dozen keywords by leading and rising digital media scholars from the areas of anthropology, digital humanities, history,(...)
Digital keywords
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In the age of search, keywords increasingly organize research, teaching, and even thought itself. Inspired by Raymond Williams's 1976 classic 'Keywords', the timely collection 'Digital Keywords' gathers pointed, provocative short essays on more than two dozen keywords by leading and rising digital media scholars from the areas of anthropology, digital humanities, history, political science, philosophy, religious studies, rhetoric, science and technology studies, and sociology. 'Digital Keywords' examines and critiques the rich lexicon animating the emerging field of digital studies.
Archive, library and the digital
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Since the late 1970s, Dutch artist Joke Robaard has accumulated a collection of fashion images—a vast archive of photographs from fashion magazines and other media sources, concentrated on posture, context, background, narrative, image, text and textile. Since 2014, together with art critic Camiel van Winkel, Robaard has been reassembling and rereading her archive to(...)
Contemporary Art Monographs
February 2019
Archive species: bodies, habits, practices
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Since the late 1970s, Dutch artist Joke Robaard has accumulated a collection of fashion images—a vast archive of photographs from fashion magazines and other media sources, concentrated on posture, context, background, narrative, image, text and textile. Since 2014, together with art critic Camiel van Winkel, Robaard has been reassembling and rereading her archive to explore the historical, political and social information embedded in these images, and considering how this content emerges in her own artistic and photographic work.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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The essays in this publication provide a succinct overview of Burgin's multifaceted work during the last forty years—from its origins in debates within conceptual art to its present concern with everyday perception in the environment of global media. The selection includes such classic essays as "Situational Aesthetics" and "Photographic Practice and Art Theory," together(...)
Situational aesthetics: selected writings by Victor Burgin
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The essays in this publication provide a succinct overview of Burgin's multifaceted work during the last forty years—from its origins in debates within conceptual art to its present concern with everyday perception in the environment of global media. The selection includes such classic essays as "Situational Aesthetics" and "Photographic Practice and Art Theory," together with less widely known articles as "Work and Commentary" and the previously unpublished essays "Shadows, Time, and Family Pictures" and "Monument and Melancholia."
Theory of Photography
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The Language of the Global Polis explores Neurath's ideas on the modern metropolis, his fascination with visual media and the Vienna Method of Pictorial Statistics and the ways in which Neurath attempted to internationalize the aims of his Museum of Society and Economy through collaborations with CIAM and Otlet and by establishing satellite museums across the world. Both(...)
Otto Neurath: The language of the Global Polis
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The Language of the Global Polis explores Neurath's ideas on the modern metropolis, his fascination with visual media and the Vienna Method of Pictorial Statistics and the ways in which Neurath attempted to internationalize the aims of his Museum of Society and Economy through collaborations with CIAM and Otlet and by establishing satellite museums across the world. Both scholarly and accessible, Vossoughian's text offers a new perspective to one of the most formidable intellectuals of the interwar period.
Signage
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Expression is an investigation into the influence of media such as film, literature, and the visual arts on architectural thought and design. Three specific case studies are included, which look at the Giacometti museum in Stampa, a Cinémathèque in Locarno, and the Elias Canetti library in Zürich. Expression includes essays and interviews by the German architect and(...)
Expression: architecture and the arts, a pedagogical interaction
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Expression is an investigation into the influence of media such as film, literature, and the visual arts on architectural thought and design. Three specific case studies are included, which look at the Giacometti museum in Stampa, a Cinémathèque in Locarno, and the Elias Canetti library in Zürich. Expression includes essays and interviews by the German architect and sculptor Gottfried Böhm, the Spanish film director Josep Luis Guerin, and the Italian architect and theoretician Pier Vittorio Aureli.
Architectural Theory
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In the third book in the Critical Spatial Practice series, Beatriz Colomina traces the history of the modern architecture manifesto, with particular focus on Mies van der Rohe, and the play between the written and built work. This essay propels the manifesto form into the future, into an age where electronic media are the primary sites of debate, suggesting that new forms(...)
Architectural Theory
May 2014
Critical Spatial Practice 3, Manifesto architecture : the ghost of Mies
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In the third book in the Critical Spatial Practice series, Beatriz Colomina traces the history of the modern architecture manifesto, with particular focus on Mies van der Rohe, and the play between the written and built work. This essay propels the manifesto form into the future, into an age where electronic media are the primary sites of debate, suggesting that new forms of manifesto are surely emerging along with new kinds of authorship, statement, exhibition, and debate.
Architectural Theory
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317 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 23 cm
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Hyperborder : the contemporary U.S.-Mexico border and its future / Fernando Romero.
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New York : Princeton Architectural Press, ©2008.
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342 pages . : illustrations ; 30 cm.
Barcelona : Publicacions i Edicions Universitat De Barcelona, [2011]
Cartografías visuales y arquitectónicas de la modernidad : Siglos XV-XVIII / Sílvia Canalda, Carme Narváez y Joan Sureda (eds.).
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Barcelona : Publicacions i Edicions Universitat De Barcelona, [2011]