Holocaust memorial, Berlin
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Inescapably controversial, the Holocaust Memorial Berlin (or, as it’s formally known, the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe) is now finished, some 16 years after it was first proposed. Architect Peter Eisenman’s design, which filled a four-football-field-size parcel of land in the middle of Berlin with more than 2,700 concrete slabs, or stelae, was itself hotly(...)
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January 1900, Baden
Holocaust memorial, Berlin
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Inescapably controversial, the Holocaust Memorial Berlin (or, as it’s formally known, the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe) is now finished, some 16 years after it was first proposed. Architect Peter Eisenman’s design, which filled a four-football-field-size parcel of land in the middle of Berlin with more than 2,700 concrete slabs, or stelae, was itself hotly debated, with some complaining that its abstractness, Eisenman’s trademark, made it a monument that evoked no memories. As the debates give way to accounts of the experience of the space, the readers of this book, produced with Eisenman’s cooperation, will be able to compare how successfully the architect’s conception matches the reality. This volume offers a full picture of the process from conceptual and architectural drawings and digital plans to photographs of construction. It holds the narrative of a difficult task, turning “the place of no meaning,” as Eisenman once referred to the site in the hopes of dispelling fears that he was trying to symbolize the deaths that took place during the Holocaust, into a confrontation with the past. Photographs by Hélène Binet and Lukas Wasserman.
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Vanishing point
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Over the past few decades, discussions of contemporary architecture have tended to concentrate on a select few innovative building projects that promise to single-handedly change their urban landscapes. "Vanishing point" conversely focuses on aspects of the built environment that are far less singular yet arguably more influential: spaces that anthropologist Marc Augé(...)
Vanishing point
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Over the past few decades, discussions of contemporary architecture have tended to concentrate on a select few innovative building projects that promise to single-handedly change their urban landscapes. "Vanishing point" conversely focuses on aspects of the built environment that are far less singular yet arguably more influential: spaces that anthropologist Marc Augé terms "non-places"--hotels, shopping malls, freeways, corporate high-rises, airport terminals, gambling casinos, themed restaurants, and other visually intoxicating yet banal environments that people pass through, often on their way to somewhere else. Reflecting this, the artists in "Vanishing point" make an effort to "place" these characterless locations. They interpret rather than document architectural spaces in order to convey the range of emotions and physical sensations that they evoke. Includes the resulting paintings, photographs, videos, and installations by emerging and established artists such as Fabian Birgfeld, Dike Blair, Marco Brambilla, Jonah Freeman, Carla Klein, Sabine Hornig, Luisa Lambri, Won Ju Lim, Sarah Morris, Deborah Stratman, Amelie Von Wulffen, and Amy Wheeler.
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Simryn Gill : Standing still
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There can be beauty in abandonment. During her visits to South-East Asia between 2000 and 2003, Simryn Gill photographed ambitious architectural projects that were abandoned before their completion. Here in rich, sultry tones, are the remains of sculptural structures merging back into the lush environment that surrounds them. The ruins are at once lonely and(...)
Simryn Gill : Standing still
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There can be beauty in abandonment. During her visits to South-East Asia between 2000 and 2003, Simryn Gill photographed ambitious architectural projects that were abandoned before their completion. Here in rich, sultry tones, are the remains of sculptural structures merging back into the lush environment that surrounds them. The ruins are at once lonely and excruciatingly beautiful.
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Rathaus Innsbruck
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A photo-essay by Jordi Bernardó of Dominique Perrault's new City Hall of Innsbruck. Includes an interview with Dominique Perrault and an essay by Heinz Gappmayr.
Architecture Monographs
June 2005, Barcelona
Rathaus Innsbruck
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A photo-essay by Jordi Bernardó of Dominique Perrault's new City Hall of Innsbruck. Includes an interview with Dominique Perrault and an essay by Heinz Gappmayr.
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Gaudi : album cientifico
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Gaudí’s buildings would very soon become one of the most portrayed images on postcards of the period in Barcelona. This book compiles –with scientific rigour– some of those postcards that would be sent around the world with their senders’ messages and the universal message of Gaudian architecture.
Gaudi : album cientifico
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Gaudí’s buildings would very soon become one of the most portrayed images on postcards of the period in Barcelona. This book compiles –with scientific rigour– some of those postcards that would be sent around the world with their senders’ messages and the universal message of Gaudian architecture.
Architecture Monographs
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This book is based on two assumptions : the first is the will to identify and describe a network of existing relationship in a culture of new disciplinary connections ranging from the city to architecture to design. The other is that, in a difficult country like Italy, challenging the problem of conveying and promoting contemporary architectural projects is a somewhat(...)
Architecture since 1900, Europe
June 2005, Barcelone
Net.it : a snapshot of contemporary architecture, design and photography in Italy
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This book is based on two assumptions : the first is the will to identify and describe a network of existing relationship in a culture of new disciplinary connections ranging from the city to architecture to design. The other is that, in a difficult country like Italy, challenging the problem of conveying and promoting contemporary architectural projects is a somewhat slippery task.
Architecture since 1900, Europe
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"The Elements of Style" is a comprehensive visual survey, period-by-period, feature-by-feature, of the styles that have had the greatest impact on the interiors of American and British domestic architecture. This is the first book on architectural styles that is comprehensive, thorough, and accessible in its presentation of individual details. This volume covers more(...)
The elelments of style : an encyclopedia of domestic architectural detail
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"The Elements of Style" is a comprehensive visual survey, period-by-period, feature-by-feature, of the styles that have had the greatest impact on the interiors of American and British domestic architecture. This is the first book on architectural styles that is comprehensive, thorough, and accessible in its presentation of individual details. This volume covers more than 500 years of architectural styles from Tudor to Post-Modern and includes American and British vernacular styles. First published in 1991, this new edition is expanded to include the most contemporary styles. Detailed illustrations include 3,000 analytical drawings and historic engravings, 400 photographs in color and 1,000 in black and white.
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Peter Bialobrezeski : Heimat
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Bialobrzeski spent over two years traveling through Germany. "Heimat", which is German for "homeland," is the result of his journey. For Germans "Heimat" is a rather difficult term which embodies conflicting tendencies: destiny or coincidence, sentimental kitsch for pensioners and revisionists, and lost paradise or childhood trauma. In Bialobrzeski's own words, "Having a(...)
Photography monographs
January 1900, Ostfildern
Peter Bialobrezeski : Heimat
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Bialobrzeski spent over two years traveling through Germany. "Heimat", which is German for "homeland," is the result of his journey. For Germans "Heimat" is a rather difficult term which embodies conflicting tendencies: destiny or coincidence, sentimental kitsch for pensioners and revisionists, and lost paradise or childhood trauma. In Bialobrzeski's own words, "Having a home means having roots, which is not the same as being rooted to the spot." And since he is more interested in images than in places, "Heimat" is "not a book about Germany as homeland per se." Rather, it creates a fixed image of "a personalized bit of visual and cultural history." Bialobrzeski's photographs act as projection surfaces for modern man's yearning for nature-an homage to German Romanticism and at the same time bow to the works of contemporary American color photographers.
Photography monographs
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"Light in the Dark Room" explores photography not as a document of the past but rather as a realization of what we have lost. When we look at a photograph we see a moment that is no more. Photographs place reality into the past tense, representing not memory but memory’s loss. They are not conduits for the return of memory, but memento mori: reminders of the fact of(...)
Light in the dark room : photography and loss
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"Light in the Dark Room" explores photography not as a document of the past but rather as a realization of what we have lost. When we look at a photograph we see a moment that is no more. Photographs place reality into the past tense, representing not memory but memory’s loss. They are not conduits for the return of memory, but memento mori: reminders of the fact of death itself. And it is in this, Jay Prosser tells us, that we find the gift of photography. Engaging the photographic reflections of figures as different as Roland Barthes and Claude Lévi-Strauss, Gordon Parks and Elizabeth Bishop, "Light in the Dark Room" offers a vision of photography as realization of loss - and a revelation of how photographs can shed light on the dark rooms of our lives. Beginning with an analysis of Roland Barthes’s "Camera Lucida", Prosser explores the relationship of autobiography and photography and then considers Lévi-Strauss’s last published book, his photographic memoir; he uncovers the collection of photography painstakingly assembled by poet Elizabeth Bishop but never published; and he recounts the story of a forgotten Brazilian boy from the 1960s who lost his home as a result of photographs. The losses this book recalls are poignant yet universal - a son loses his mother; an anthropologist, his culture; a photographer, his youth; a poet, her lover. Among these personal and moving losses and the remarkable photographs that accompany them, Prosser weaves his own meditations on photography, on the interdependence of loss and enlightenment, on the emergence of our technologized society - and the world we have lost in the process.
Theory of Photography
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Si la villa Noailles telle que l'a photographiée Jacqueline Salmon, si ces images fixes n'en ont pas moins leur "photogénie", au sens où l'entendaient Germaine Dullac ou Jean Epstein autant que Mallet-Stevens, il ne s'agit pas tant, de la qualité de la prise de vue ou de celle du tirage que de ce qu'y ajoute, en termes temporels autant que narratifs, la dynamique,(...)
Robert Mallet-Stevens et la villa Noailles à Hyères
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Si la villa Noailles telle que l'a photographiée Jacqueline Salmon, si ces images fixes n'en ont pas moins leur "photogénie", au sens où l'entendaient Germaine Dullac ou Jean Epstein autant que Mallet-Stevens, il ne s'agit pas tant, de la qualité de la prise de vue ou de celle du tirage que de ce qu'y ajoute, en termes temporels autant que narratifs, la dynamique, immédiatement perceptible mais mesurable en années, liée à la ruine - désormais stoppée - des lieux et à la poussée corrélative de la végétation, autant que celle qui procède, par inférence, de la succession même de ces images et de leur enchaînement calculé : du lever du jour à la tombée de la nuit, que signale l'obscurcissement progressif du site et l'allumage en fin de course des luminaires, la promenade (je n'ai pas dit le parcours, dont la notion impliquerait un cheminement réglé) est comme rythmée par la fuite des heures. Mais ceci ne serait rien encore si cette promenade qui aura eu pour fruit une telle séquence d'images, ne renouait, dans son cours apparemment imprévisible, avec ce qui pourrait bien avoir été (j'en forme l'hypothèse au vu de ces photographies) la dynamique propre de l'ouvrage, à le viser dans son développement architectural autant que programmatique. La réussite - si c'est là le mot qui convient : disons l'efficace - de la prise de vues se mesurant à celle (la prise conceptuelle) qu'elle assure sur l'objet, dans son opération même. Ce qui doit s'entendre dans le double sens qu'autorise la syntaxe : soit qu'on ait égard à l'opération qui est le fait de la photographie, ou que l'on prête attention à ce que celle-ci donne à voir du fonctionnement d'un objet dont la ruine agit en fait comme un révélateur.
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