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Montréal interdite
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Paru pour la première fois en 1978, Montréal interdite peut être considéré comme un classique de sociologie urbaine sur Montréal. Ouvrage pionnier à cet égard, il a contribué à faire de la métropole québécoise un objet digne d'enquête et d'analyse, écrit Pierre Nepveu, dans sa préface, une ville «pensable». «Le livre, dit-il encore, me fit l'effet d'une révélation.
Montréal interdite
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Paru pour la première fois en 1978, Montréal interdite peut être considéré comme un classique de sociologie urbaine sur Montréal. Ouvrage pionnier à cet égard, il a contribué à faire de la métropole québécoise un objet digne d'enquête et d'analyse, écrit Pierre Nepveu, dans sa préface, une ville «pensable». «Le livre, dit-il encore, me fit l'effet d'une révélation.
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August 2004
Architecture de Montréal
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Conceived by the Danish architectural offices of Henning Larsen, Harpa is a new concert hall located at the old harbor of Reykjavik. The concert hall and conference center are home to the national symphony orchestra and the opera. The entry façade, made of more than 1,000 polygonal glass units modeled after the island’s basalt pillars, was created in collaboration with(...)
Architecture Monographs
November 2012
Harpa and other music venues by Henning Larsen Architects
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Conceived by the Danish architectural offices of Henning Larsen, Harpa is a new concert hall located at the old harbor of Reykjavik. The concert hall and conference center are home to the national symphony orchestra and the opera. The entry façade, made of more than 1,000 polygonal glass units modeled after the island’s basalt pillars, was created in collaboration with the artist Olafur Eliasson. This publication presents the building from its initial design in 2005 to its completion in May 2011, and demonstrates how nature can help inspire architecture to dematerialize.
Architecture Monographs
Intangible economies
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Treating the idea of an economy as a general system of exchange, Intangible Economies advances the idea that personal relationships are produced by economic activity, and that desire generates economic transactions. Intangible Economies, speculatively investigates the role that these “affective transactions” play in modes of representation and cultural production. The(...)
Intangible economies
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Treating the idea of an economy as a general system of exchange, Intangible Economies advances the idea that personal relationships are produced by economic activity, and that desire generates economic transactions. Intangible Economies, speculatively investigates the role that these “affective transactions” play in modes of representation and cultural production. The abstract and abstracting function of value itself becomes particularly significant in this constellation, in its relation to both capitalist economy and to ethics. First developed for a 2011 conference in Vancouver, the essays included in this anthology seek to tackle the difficult task of tracing the role of affect in economic exchanges relative to artistic production, while also enacting the unruly force of such transactions. The contributing essayists are Melanie Gilligan, Juan A. Gaitàn, Hadley + Maxwell, Candice Hopkins, Olaf Nicolai, Patricia Reed, Monika Szewczyk and Jan Verwoert.
Art Theory
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Artist-run initiatives in North America provided a space for the presentation and legitimization of experimental work and for the assertion of socially progressive and politically radical ideas and questions. In making such spaces available, artist-run initiatives have operated alternately as flash points for heated debates and controversies, as well as platforms for(...)
Institutions by artists: volume one
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Artist-run initiatives in North America provided a space for the presentation and legitimization of experimental work and for the assertion of socially progressive and politically radical ideas and questions. In making such spaces available, artist-run initiatives have operated alternately as flash points for heated debates and controversies, as well as platforms for social understanding and remaining for their audiences.
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September 2012
Art Theory
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"Orban Space" presents the in-depth research on the practice and work of the architect, artist and 'orbanist' (global urbanist) Luc Deleu (b.1944). Deleu's approach to urbanism is critical, sociological and ecological, and is highly relevant to such contemporary themes as environmental pollution, overpopulation, food production and individual versus community.
Architecture Monographs
September 2012
Luc Deleu : T.O.P. office - Orban space
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"Orban Space" presents the in-depth research on the practice and work of the architect, artist and 'orbanist' (global urbanist) Luc Deleu (b.1944). Deleu's approach to urbanism is critical, sociological and ecological, and is highly relevant to such contemporary themes as environmental pollution, overpopulation, food production and individual versus community.
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September 2012
Architecture Monographs
John Pawson: katalog
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British architect John Pawson (born 1949) is a master of minimalism. His buildings and objects are defined by his devotion to simplicity and the art of “leaving out,” and by their purity of space, proportion, light and material. Influenced by Japanese culture and minimalist sculpture, Pawson defines his idea of the minimum as a perfection and quality that arises when(...)
John Pawson: katalog
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British architect John Pawson (born 1949) is a master of minimalism. His buildings and objects are defined by his devotion to simplicity and the art of “leaving out,” and by their purity of space, proportion, light and material. Influenced by Japanese culture and minimalist sculpture, Pawson defines his idea of the minimum as a perfection and quality that arises when every detail and connection is reduced to only that which is essential. With models, large-format photographs, material studies and objects, this publication provides an overview of Pawson’s work and demonstrates the phenomenon of “emptiness.” Among the projects presented are the Cistercian monastery Novy Dvur in Czech Republic (2004), the footbridge Sackler Crossing in London (2006), the Stone House for La Triennale di Milano (2010) and the St. Moritz church in Augsburg, currently in its planning stages.
Architecture Monographs
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The first volume in a new series from Jovis on landscape architecture today, Landscape Vision Motion asks the question: what objectives can be achieved in the theoretical exchange between visual studies, digital media, film, space and motion in the field of landscape architecture? Professionals from various fields contribute.
Landscape vision motion (landscript no.1)
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The first volume in a new series from Jovis on landscape architecture today, Landscape Vision Motion asks the question: what objectives can be achieved in the theoretical exchange between visual studies, digital media, film, space and motion in the field of landscape architecture? Professionals from various fields contribute.
Landscape Theory
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Filmic Mapping, the second volume in Jovis' new LandScript series, examines forms of land measurement, primarily in documentary and essay films of the past ten years. Contributors from a variety of disciplines weigh in on the state of contemporary landscape architecture and its visual representation.
Filmic mapping: documentary film and the visual culture of landscape architecture (landscript, no. 2)
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Filmic Mapping, the second volume in Jovis' new LandScript series, examines forms of land measurement, primarily in documentary and essay films of the past ten years. Contributors from a variety of disciplines weigh in on the state of contemporary landscape architecture and its visual representation.
Landscape Theory
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Bright City: Ma Yansong Interviewed by Jérôme Sans is the second in a series of pocket-book interviews with key cultural figures by internationally renowned curator, cultural agitator and pioneer Jérôme Sans. Here, Sans interviews Ma Yansong (born 1975), the founder of MAD Architects and architect of “Floating Island” and Absolute World.”
Bright city: Ma Yansong interviewed by Jérôme Sans
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Bright City: Ma Yansong Interviewed by Jérôme Sans is the second in a series of pocket-book interviews with key cultural figures by internationally renowned curator, cultural agitator and pioneer Jérôme Sans. Here, Sans interviews Ma Yansong (born 1975), the founder of MAD Architects and architect of “Floating Island” and Absolute World.”
Architectural Theory
Eric Pillot : in situ
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Pour nous faire accepter un point de vue aussi original, Éric Pillot construit ses images à mi-chemin entre la photographie d'architecture et les estampes japonaises. De la première il garde la préoccupation des formes, des ombres et des lumières, et de sens de la construction. Quant aux secondes, elles semblent lui inspirer la manière de disposer son animal dans le(...)
Eric Pillot : in situ
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Pour nous faire accepter un point de vue aussi original, Éric Pillot construit ses images à mi-chemin entre la photographie d'architecture et les estampes japonaises. De la première il garde la préoccupation des formes, des ombres et des lumières, et de sens de la construction. Quant aux secondes, elles semblent lui inspirer la manière de disposer son animal dans le décor à la façon d'un accessoire, comme une broche sur un vêtement ou une mouche sur un visage. À-t-il eu recours aux immenses possibilités du numérique pour modifier la taille et la distance juste? Peu importe. Le numérique a tendance à tout traiter de la même manière, et Éric Pillot transforme cette caractéristique en esthétique. Il écrase les reliefs, traite les ombres comme des dessins à part entière et transforme objets, êtres et lumières en autant de lignes et de surfaces diversement colorées. -Serge Tisseron
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