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Ce livre remet en question deux siècles de catastrophes à travers une posture interprétative “humaniste”, au cœur desquels l’homme est l’acteur et responsable principal. Progrès, imaginaire, désastre environnemental et narrations du mensonge se croisent en un récit qui rend encore plus tragique et nécessaire la réflexion anthropocénique, la seule qui pourra essayer(...)
Anthropocène, âge du désastre : Les catastrophes industrielles et leurs imaginaires
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Ce livre remet en question deux siècles de catastrophes à travers une posture interprétative “humaniste”, au cœur desquels l’homme est l’acteur et responsable principal. Progrès, imaginaire, désastre environnemental et narrations du mensonge se croisent en un récit qui rend encore plus tragique et nécessaire la réflexion anthropocénique, la seule qui pourra essayer d’éteindre les étincelles des nombreux incendies en cours.
Environment and environmental theory
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Isabelle Michallet explore les voies par lesquelles le droit peut aujourd’hui répondre à l’urgence écologique. Au siècle dernier, les règles juridiques, fondamentalement anthropocentrées, ont souvent traduit une logique généralisée de prédation et de destruction. Le droit doit désormais intégrer la fin de ce modèle. Considérant que l’instrument juridique n’est pas(...)
Faire face à l'Anthropocène : les voies du droit
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Isabelle Michallet explore les voies par lesquelles le droit peut aujourd’hui répondre à l’urgence écologique. Au siècle dernier, les règles juridiques, fondamentalement anthropocentrées, ont souvent traduit une logique généralisée de prédation et de destruction. Le droit doit désormais intégrer la fin de ce modèle. Considérant que l’instrument juridique n’est pas seulement construit par des instances dominées par le politique, elle montre qu’il est aussi l’expression de choix sociétaux et citoyens.
Environment and environmental theory
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Que veut — encore — dire inventer pour un architecte aujourd’hui dans le paysage troublé de l’Anthropocène? Et cette invention en architecture, si elle existe, en quoi se distingue-t-elle d’autres modes inventifs? Alors que la crise de l’habitabilité du monde est patente, la notion d’invention, commune à la philosophie et à l’architecture, se voit actuellement(...)
De l'invention en architecture : Initier, situer, durer
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Que veut — encore — dire inventer pour un architecte aujourd’hui dans le paysage troublé de l’Anthropocène? Et cette invention en architecture, si elle existe, en quoi se distingue-t-elle d’autres modes inventifs? Alors que la crise de l’habitabilité du monde est patente, la notion d’invention, commune à la philosophie et à l’architecture, se voit actuellement réinterrogée selon d’autres coordonnées. La nouveauté que l’on attend de toute invention — et il nous faut bien, peut-être plus encore aujourd’hui, inventer, créer, imaginer pour ré-habiter — ne peut plus, sauf à produire de nouvelles dévastations, s’opérer sur la base d’une destruction, d’une invisibilisation, d’une simplification.
Architecture ecologies
John Lehr: The last things
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"The last things" explores the artifacts of an American archeological present. The work in this series depicts vernacular forms of architecture, signage, images, and objects that were hastily made in a rush for attention, or abandoned in place after their usefulness had expired. Lehr posits them as symptomatic symbols of the repetitive cycles of decline, rehabilitation,(...)
John Lehr: The last things
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"The last things" explores the artifacts of an American archeological present. The work in this series depicts vernacular forms of architecture, signage, images, and objects that were hastily made in a rush for attention, or abandoned in place after their usefulness had expired. Lehr posits them as symptomatic symbols of the repetitive cycles of decline, rehabilitation, violence, and mourning that are woven into the fabric of contemporary American life. These light-drenched photographs vividly describe a nation speaking through the language of capitalism. Words and images repeat and contradict throughout the work, reflecting emphatic pleas and shifting priorities. At other times, language breaks down completely, giving way to pictographic forms that are both primitive and utterly contemporary. Flaking paint morphs into JPEG vinyl printouts and LED displays, blurring the line between commercial speech and individual expression. Embedded in the work is a belief in the power and absurdity of objects that—like a body—bear the traces of collective experience. In its distilled and emphatic sequencing "The last things" reads as a prose poem and a cryptic cipher about a country at the brink of a tipping point.
Photography monographs
Two pipes fourteen locations
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Published in 1974 by Norman Fisher in New York, "Two pipes fourteen locations" is the very first book created by Peter Downsbrough using photographs. In sixty-three images, from various perspectives, the artist documents fourteen of his Two Pipes. Each sculpture consists of two standard steel pipes planted vertically. One has an above-ground height of five meters fifty(...)
Two pipes fourteen locations
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Published in 1974 by Norman Fisher in New York, "Two pipes fourteen locations" is the very first book created by Peter Downsbrough using photographs. In sixty-three images, from various perspectives, the artist documents fourteen of his Two Pipes. Each sculpture consists of two standard steel pipes planted vertically. One has an above-ground height of five meters fifty (19'). Cut, the other has variable length. The distance between them is invariably eight centimeters (3''). Whether outdoors, in an exhibition space, or on a piece of paper, the Two Poles and Two Lines will accompany the Two Pipes in this tensioning of space. The book, "Two pipes fourteen locations", opens with a plate of captions. It provides information on the dimensions and location of the pieces. The very first photograph reproduced in the book is a close-up shot. The image is cropped. It foreshadows the photographic work that the artist Peter Downsbrough would develop over several decades.
Photography monographs
Porto brutalista
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This book brings together a selection of 20 works situated in Porto, Gaia and Matosinhos, which aims to propose new ways of interpreting an architecture produced with constructive and material affinities associated with Brutalism. The editorial and research project allowed the development of different levels of critical approach to the object of study. Álvaro Siza talked(...)
Porto brutalista
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This book brings together a selection of 20 works situated in Porto, Gaia and Matosinhos, which aims to propose new ways of interpreting an architecture produced with constructive and material affinities associated with Brutalism. The editorial and research project allowed the development of different levels of critical approach to the object of study. Álvaro Siza talked about Brutalism and certain questions that arose during the project. Ben Highmore visited some of the selected works and wrote an essay from a cultural perspective. Tiago Lopes Dias and Alexandra Areia wrote essays using 10 works selected in each century. Pedro Treno focused on each of the 20 works and wrote small critical framework texts. Francisco Ascensão and Luca Bosco presented a photo reportage on the 20 works, according to a sensibility arising from the Brutalist language.
Brutalism
Broken house
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This book presents a laboratorial project designed by NPS Arquitectos. Built in Porto in 2020, the Broken House is portrayed in this book through a photographic essay by Cunha Pimentel, a critical essay by Susana Ventura, and an interview with Rui Neto by Pedro Baía, alongside the technical drawings of the project and the graphic diaries that document the creative proces
Broken house
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This book presents a laboratorial project designed by NPS Arquitectos. Built in Porto in 2020, the Broken House is portrayed in this book through a photographic essay by Cunha Pimentel, a critical essay by Susana Ventura, and an interview with Rui Neto by Pedro Baía, alongside the technical drawings of the project and the graphic diaries that document the creative proces
Architecture Monographs
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This book brings together a set of stories, episodes, conversations, thoughts and white lies that depict the processes of making, negotiating, questioning, inhabiting and remembering architecture. The stories don’t follow any specific order and, ideally, one shouldn’t actually ever finish reading the book.
Levante
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This book brings together a set of stories, episodes, conversations, thoughts and white lies that depict the processes of making, negotiating, questioning, inhabiting and remembering architecture. The stories don’t follow any specific order and, ideally, one shouldn’t actually ever finish reading the book.
Architectural Theory
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This book, published by Circo de Ideias and edited by Francisco Ferreira, with an essay by Dietrich Neumann, presents a critical and visual approach to Steven Soderbergh’s 2002 film Solaris. "Space Fictions – Booklets on Architecture and Cinema (Solaris. S. Soderbergh, 2002)" is part of a collection developed as a space for reflection on the relationship between(...)
Space Fictions: Booklets on architecture and cinema (Solaris. S. Soderbergh, 2002)
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This book, published by Circo de Ideias and edited by Francisco Ferreira, with an essay by Dietrich Neumann, presents a critical and visual approach to Steven Soderbergh’s 2002 film Solaris. "Space Fictions – Booklets on Architecture and Cinema (Solaris. S. Soderbergh, 2002)" is part of a collection developed as a space for reflection on the relationship between architecture and cinema, in the sense that both disciplines recognise themselves as artificial devices that make it possible to reach and manipulate the senses of space.
Architecture and Film, Set Design
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This book, published by Circo de Ideias, edited and authored by Francisco Ferreira, presents a critical and visual approach to George Lucas’s 1971 film THX 1138. "Space Fictions – Booklets on Architecture and Cinema (THX 1138. George Lucas, 1971)" is part of a collection developed as a space for reflection on the relationship between architecture and cinema, in the sense(...)
Space Fictions: Booklets on architecture and cinema (THX 1138. George Lucas, 1971)
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This book, published by Circo de Ideias, edited and authored by Francisco Ferreira, presents a critical and visual approach to George Lucas’s 1971 film THX 1138. "Space Fictions – Booklets on Architecture and Cinema (THX 1138. George Lucas, 1971)" is part of a collection developed as a space for reflection on the relationship between architecture and cinema, in the sense that both disciplines recognise themselves as artificial devices that make it possible to reach and manipulate the senses of space.
Architecture and Film, Set Design