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L'idéologie structuraliste
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« Le structuralisme, c'est l'idéologie d'une période où la pratique s'inspire du concept de structure dans les cadres du mode de production et de rapports sociaux de production déterminés. La pratique sociale est aussi une pratique politique: celle de l'État. » Henri Lefebvre
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« Le structuralisme, c'est l'idéologie d'une période où la pratique s'inspire du concept de structure dans les cadres du mode de production et de rapports sociaux de production déterminés. La pratique sociale est aussi une pratique politique: celle de l'État. » Henri Lefebvre
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« Le structuralisme, c'est l'idéologie d'une période où la pratique s'inspire du concept de structure dans les cadres du mode de production et de rapports sociaux de production déterminés. La pratique sociale est aussi une pratique politique: celle de l'État. » Henri Lefebvre
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« Le structuralisme, c'est l'idéologie d'une période où la pratique s'inspire du concept de structure dans les cadres du mode de production et de rapports sociaux de production déterminés. La pratique sociale est aussi une pratique politique: celle de l'État. » Henri Lefebvre
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January 1973, Paris
January 1973, Paris
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Architectural Theory
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In recent years 'culture' has become a central concern across a wide range of disciplines. This book introduces the main substantive and theoretical strands of this 'turn to culture' through the medium of a particular case study: that of the Sony Walkman. Using the example of the Walkman, this book indicates how and why cultural practices and institutions have come to(...)
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In recent years 'culture' has become a central concern across a wide range of disciplines. This book introduces the main substantive and theoretical strands of this 'turn to culture' through the medium of a particular case study: that of the Sony Walkman. Using the example of the Walkman, this book indicates how and why cultural practices and institutions have come to(...)
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Architectural Theory
Architectural Theory
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February 1997, London, Thousand Oaks, New Delhi
February 1997, London, Thousand Oaks, New Delhi
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Doing cultural studies: the story of the Sony Walkman
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In recent years 'culture' has become a central concern across a wide range of disciplines. This book introduces the main substantive and theoretical strands of this 'turn to culture' through the medium of a particular case study: that of the Sony Walkman. Using the example of the Walkman, this book indicates how and why cultural practices and institutions have come to play such an important role in our lives, and introduces some of the central ideas, concepts and methods of analysis involved in conducting cultural studies.
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In recent years 'culture' has become a central concern across a wide range of disciplines. This book introduces the main substantive and theoretical strands of this 'turn to culture' through the medium of a particular case study: that of the Sony Walkman. Using the example of the Walkman, this book indicates how and why cultural practices and institutions have come to play such an important role in our lives, and introduces some of the central ideas, concepts and methods of analysis involved in conducting cultural studies.
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February 1997, London, Thousand Oaks, New Delhi
February 1997, London, Thousand Oaks, New Delhi
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Architectural Theory
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F.R. David is a journal published twice-yearly by the Appel arts centre, Amsterdam. F.R. David focuses on the status of writing in contemporary art practice. Writing as a mode that informs and feeds, supports and describes, backs up and interprets, comments and reflects upon contemporary artistic production. Writing as the core material of a number of visual artists but(...)
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F.R. David is a journal published twice-yearly by the Appel arts centre, Amsterdam. F.R. David focuses on the status of writing in contemporary art practice. Writing as a mode that informs and feeds, supports and describes, backs up and interprets, comments and reflects upon contemporary artistic production. Writing as the core material of a number of visual artists but(...)
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Art Theory
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February 2008, Amsterdam
February 2008, Amsterdam
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F.R. David «Stuff and nonsense» Winter 2008
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F.R. David is a journal published twice-yearly by the Appel arts centre, Amsterdam. F.R. David focuses on the status of writing in contemporary art practice. Writing as a mode that informs and feeds, supports and describes, backs up and interprets, comments and reflects upon contemporary artistic production. Writing as the core material of a number of visual artists but equally as a mode that exists parallel to or in service of the visual.
F.R. David «Stuff and nonsense» Winter 2008
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F.R. David is a journal published twice-yearly by the Appel arts centre, Amsterdam. F.R. David focuses on the status of writing in contemporary art practice. Writing as a mode that informs and feeds, supports and describes, backs up and interprets, comments and reflects upon contemporary artistic production. Writing as the core material of a number of visual artists but equally as a mode that exists parallel to or in service of the visual.
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February 2008, Amsterdam
February 2008, Amsterdam
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Art Theory
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This one-volume gathering of Benjamin's dialectical writing on media of all kinds, ranging from children's literature to cinema, has at its heart the second, most expansive version of his path-breaking essay 'The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility.' Readers familiar only with partial versions of this piece, where Benjamin began to record the(...)
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This one-volume gathering of Benjamin's dialectical writing on media of all kinds, ranging from children's literature to cinema, has at its heart the second, most expansive version of his path-breaking essay 'The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility.' Readers familiar only with partial versions of this piece, where Benjamin began to record the(...)
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The work of art in the age of its technological reproducibility and other writings on media
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This one-volume gathering of Benjamin's dialectical writing on media of all kinds, ranging from children's literature to cinema, has at its heart the second, most expansive version of his path-breaking essay 'The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility.' Readers familiar only with partial versions of this piece, where Benjamin began to record the melancholy loss of aesthetic presence at the turn of the twentieth century, will find their understanding transformed-- for this second version, like all the essays and supplemental texts included here, explores a set of latent, utopian possibilities inherent in mechanical means of art-making. Benjamin, the visionary magus of particulars, reveals profoundly, and repeatedly, both the grounds and the consequences of our ever-changing image of the made world. --Susan Stewart
The work of art in the age of its technological reproducibility and other writings on media
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This one-volume gathering of Benjamin's dialectical writing on media of all kinds, ranging from children's literature to cinema, has at its heart the second, most expansive version of his path-breaking essay 'The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility.' Readers familiar only with partial versions of this piece, where Benjamin began to record the melancholy loss of aesthetic presence at the turn of the twentieth century, will find their understanding transformed-- for this second version, like all the essays and supplemental texts included here, explores a set of latent, utopian possibilities inherent in mechanical means of art-making. Benjamin, the visionary magus of particulars, reveals profoundly, and repeatedly, both the grounds and the consequences of our ever-changing image of the made world. --Susan Stewart
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May 2008, Cambridge, London
May 2008, Cambridge, London
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Critical Theory
Critical Theory
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Rebecca Solnit has made a vocation of journeying into difficult territory and reporting back, as an environmentalist, antiglobalization activist, and public intellectual. Storming the Gates of Paradise, an anthology of her essential essays from the past ten years, takes the reader from the Pyrenees to the U.S.-Mexican border, from San Francisco to London, from open sky to(...)
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Rebecca Solnit has made a vocation of journeying into difficult territory and reporting back, as an environmentalist, antiglobalization activist, and public intellectual. Storming the Gates of Paradise, an anthology of her essential essays from the past ten years, takes the reader from the Pyrenees to the U.S.-Mexican border, from San Francisco to London, from open sky to(...)
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Storming the gates of paradise: Landscapes for politics
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Rebecca Solnit has made a vocation of journeying into difficult territory and reporting back, as an environmentalist, antiglobalization activist, and public intellectual. Storming the Gates of Paradise, an anthology of her essential essays from the past ten years, takes the reader from the Pyrenees to the U.S.-Mexican border, from San Francisco to London, from open sky to the deepest mines, and from the antislavery struggles of two hundred years ago to today's street protests. The nearly forty essays collected here comprise a unique guidebook to the American landscape after the millennium–not just the deserts, skies, gardens, and wilderness areas that have long made up Solnit's subject matter, but the social landscape of democracy and repression, of borders, ruins, and protests. She ventures into territories as dark as prison and as sublime as a broad vista, revealing beauty in the harshest landscape and political struggle in the most apparently serene view. Her introduction sets the tone and the book's overarching themes as she describes Thoreau, leaving the jail cell where he had been confined for refusing to pay war taxes and proceeding directly to his favorite huckleberry patch. In this way she links pleasure to politics, brilliantly demonstrating that the path to paradise has often run through prison.
Storming the gates of paradise: Landscapes for politics
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Rebecca Solnit has made a vocation of journeying into difficult territory and reporting back, as an environmentalist, antiglobalization activist, and public intellectual. Storming the Gates of Paradise, an anthology of her essential essays from the past ten years, takes the reader from the Pyrenees to the U.S.-Mexican border, from San Francisco to London, from open sky to the deepest mines, and from the antislavery struggles of two hundred years ago to today's street protests. The nearly forty essays collected here comprise a unique guidebook to the American landscape after the millennium–not just the deserts, skies, gardens, and wilderness areas that have long made up Solnit's subject matter, but the social landscape of democracy and repression, of borders, ruins, and protests. She ventures into territories as dark as prison and as sublime as a broad vista, revealing beauty in the harshest landscape and political struggle in the most apparently serene view. Her introduction sets the tone and the book's overarching themes as she describes Thoreau, leaving the jail cell where he had been confined for refusing to pay war taxes and proceeding directly to his favorite huckleberry patch. In this way she links pleasure to politics, brilliantly demonstrating that the path to paradise has often run through prison.
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May 2008, Berkeley
May 2008, Berkeley
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Architectural Theory
Architectural Theory
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By United Nations estimates, 60 percent of the world's population will be urban by 2030. With the increasing speed of urbanization, especially in the developing world, scholars are now rethinking standard concepts and histories of modern cities. "The Spaces of the Modern City" historicizes the contemporary discussion of urbanism, highlighting the local and global breadth(...)
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By United Nations estimates, 60 percent of the world's population will be urban by 2030. With the increasing speed of urbanization, especially in the developing world, scholars are now rethinking standard concepts and histories of modern cities. "The Spaces of the Modern City" historicizes the contemporary discussion of urbanism, highlighting the local and global breadth(...)
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Urban Theory
Urban Theory
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February 2008, Princeton, Oxford
February 2008, Princeton, Oxford
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The Spaces of the Modern city : imaginaries, politics, and everyday life
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By United Nations estimates, 60 percent of the world's population will be urban by 2030. With the increasing speed of urbanization, especially in the developing world, scholars are now rethinking standard concepts and histories of modern cities. "The Spaces of the Modern City" historicizes the contemporary discussion of urbanism, highlighting the local and global breadth of the city landscape. This interdisciplinary collection examines how the city develops in the interactions of space and imagination. The essays focus on issues such as street design in Vienna, the motion picture industry in Los Angeles, architecture in Marseilles and Algiers, and the kaleidoscopic paradox of post-apartheid Johannesburg. They explore the nature of spatial politics, examining the disparate worlds of eighteenth-century Baghdad, nineteenth-century Morelia, Cold War-era West Berlin, and postwar Los Angeles. They also show the meaning of everyday spaces to urban life, illuminating issues such as crime in metropolitan London, youth culture in Dakar, "memory projects" in Tokyo, and Bombay cinema. Informed by a range of theoretical writings, this collection offers a fresh and truly global perspective on the nature of the modern city. The contributors are Sheila Crane, Belinda Davis, Mamadou Diouf, Philip J. Ethington, David Frisby, Christina M. Jiménez, Dina Rizk Khoury, Ranjani Mazumdar, Frank Mort, Martin Murray, Jordan Sand, and Sarah Schrank.
The Spaces of the Modern city : imaginaries, politics, and everyday life
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By United Nations estimates, 60 percent of the world's population will be urban by 2030. With the increasing speed of urbanization, especially in the developing world, scholars are now rethinking standard concepts and histories of modern cities. "The Spaces of the Modern City" historicizes the contemporary discussion of urbanism, highlighting the local and global breadth of the city landscape. This interdisciplinary collection examines how the city develops in the interactions of space and imagination. The essays focus on issues such as street design in Vienna, the motion picture industry in Los Angeles, architecture in Marseilles and Algiers, and the kaleidoscopic paradox of post-apartheid Johannesburg. They explore the nature of spatial politics, examining the disparate worlds of eighteenth-century Baghdad, nineteenth-century Morelia, Cold War-era West Berlin, and postwar Los Angeles. They also show the meaning of everyday spaces to urban life, illuminating issues such as crime in metropolitan London, youth culture in Dakar, "memory projects" in Tokyo, and Bombay cinema. Informed by a range of theoretical writings, this collection offers a fresh and truly global perspective on the nature of the modern city. The contributors are Sheila Crane, Belinda Davis, Mamadou Diouf, Philip J. Ethington, David Frisby, Christina M. Jiménez, Dina Rizk Khoury, Ranjani Mazumdar, Frank Mort, Martin Murray, Jordan Sand, and Sarah Schrank.
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February 2008, Princeton, Oxford
February 2008, Princeton, Oxford
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Urban Theory
Urban Theory
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The comfort of things
The comfort of things
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The diversity of contemporary London is extraordinary, and begs to be better understood. Never before have so many people from such diverse backgrounds been free to mix and not to mix in close proximity to each other. But increasingly people's lives take place behind the closed doors of private houses. How can we gain an insight into what those lives are like today? Not(...)
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The diversity of contemporary London is extraordinary, and begs to be better understood. Never before have so many people from such diverse backgrounds been free to mix and not to mix in close proximity to each other. But increasingly people's lives take place behind the closed doors of private houses. How can we gain an insight into what those lives are like today? Not(...)
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The comfort of things
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The diversity of contemporary London is extraordinary, and begs to be better understood. Never before have so many people from such diverse backgrounds been free to mix and not to mix in close proximity to each other. But increasingly people's lives take place behind the closed doors of private houses. How can we gain an insight into what those lives are like today? Not television characters, not celebrities, but real people. How could one ever come to know perfect strangers? Danny Miller attempts to achieve this goal in this brilliant exposé of a street in modern London. He leads us behind closed doors to thirty people who live there, showing their intimate lives, their aspirations and frustrations, their tragedies and accomplishments. He places the focus upon the things that really matter to the people he meets, which quite often turn out to be material things, the house, the dog, the music, the Christmas decorations. He creates a gallery of portraits, some comic, some tragic, some cubist, some impressionist, some bleak and some exuberant. We find that a random street in modern London contains the most extraordinary stories. Mass murderers and saints, the most charmed Christmas since Fanny and Alexander and the story of how a CD collection helped someone overcome heroin. Through this sensitive reading of the ordinary lives of ordinary people, Miller uncovers the orders and forms through which people make sense of their lives today. He shows just how much is to be gained when we stop lamenting what we think we used to be, and instead concentrate on what we are becoming now. He reveals above all the sadness of lives and the comfort of things.
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The diversity of contemporary London is extraordinary, and begs to be better understood. Never before have so many people from such diverse backgrounds been free to mix and not to mix in close proximity to each other. But increasingly people's lives take place behind the closed doors of private houses. How can we gain an insight into what those lives are like today? Not television characters, not celebrities, but real people. How could one ever come to know perfect strangers? Danny Miller attempts to achieve this goal in this brilliant exposé of a street in modern London. He leads us behind closed doors to thirty people who live there, showing their intimate lives, their aspirations and frustrations, their tragedies and accomplishments. He places the focus upon the things that really matter to the people he meets, which quite often turn out to be material things, the house, the dog, the music, the Christmas decorations. He creates a gallery of portraits, some comic, some tragic, some cubist, some impressionist, some bleak and some exuberant. We find that a random street in modern London contains the most extraordinary stories. Mass murderers and saints, the most charmed Christmas since Fanny and Alexander and the story of how a CD collection helped someone overcome heroin. Through this sensitive reading of the ordinary lives of ordinary people, Miller uncovers the orders and forms through which people make sense of their lives today. He shows just how much is to be gained when we stop lamenting what we think we used to be, and instead concentrate on what we are becoming now. He reveals above all the sadness of lives and the comfort of things.
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July 2008, Cambridge
July 2008, Cambridge
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Art Theory
Art Theory
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Villes et architectures
Villes et architectures
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Cet ouvrage, conçu par Rasmussen pour le grand public, dans un langage très accessible et abondamment illustré de dessins de l'auteur, s'avère être une magnifique introduction à la compréhension des processus de renouvellement permanent qui sont en action dans les villes (Paris, Rome, Vienne, Londres, Copenhague...). L'auteur replace l'architecture dans un rôle de(...)
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Cet ouvrage, conçu par Rasmussen pour le grand public, dans un langage très accessible et abondamment illustré de dessins de l'auteur, s'avère être une magnifique introduction à la compréhension des processus de renouvellement permanent qui sont en action dans les villes (Paris, Rome, Vienne, Londres, Copenhague...). L'auteur replace l'architecture dans un rôle de(...)
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Cet ouvrage, conçu par Rasmussen pour le grand public, dans un langage très accessible et abondamment illustré de dessins de l'auteur, s'avère être une magnifique introduction à la compréhension des processus de renouvellement permanent qui sont en action dans les villes (Paris, Rome, Vienne, Londres, Copenhague...). L'auteur replace l'architecture dans un rôle de composant d'un paysage urbain où les vides (les espaces extérieurs, les rues) ont autant d'importance que les objets architecturaux eux-mêmes. Villes et architectures est le parfait vade mecum du promeneur en quête de connaissance sur les villes, à la recherche d'un plus grand plaisir, grâce à un regard que ce livre ne manquera pas d'aiguiser.
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Cet ouvrage, conçu par Rasmussen pour le grand public, dans un langage très accessible et abondamment illustré de dessins de l'auteur, s'avère être une magnifique introduction à la compréhension des processus de renouvellement permanent qui sont en action dans les villes (Paris, Rome, Vienne, Londres, Copenhague...). L'auteur replace l'architecture dans un rôle de composant d'un paysage urbain où les vides (les espaces extérieurs, les rues) ont autant d'importance que les objets architecturaux eux-mêmes. Villes et architectures est le parfait vade mecum du promeneur en quête de connaissance sur les villes, à la recherche d'un plus grand plaisir, grâce à un regard que ce livre ne manquera pas d'aiguiser.
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February 2008, Marseille
February 2008, Marseille
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Urban Theory
Urban Theory
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Yves Lion se dit «architecturbaniste»: «L'urbanisme donne du sens à l'architecture, et l'architecture aide l'urbanisme à formuler, à former.» Engagé dans le combat pour l'urbain depuis quarante ans, Yves Lion défend une ville adaptée à la vie quotidienne, une ville hétérogène loin des leurres de l'harmonie et du design, une ville «ordinaire» qui fait lien. Il essaie de(...)
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Yves Lion se dit «architecturbaniste»: «L'urbanisme donne du sens à l'architecture, et l'architecture aide l'urbanisme à formuler, à former.» Engagé dans le combat pour l'urbain depuis quarante ans, Yves Lion défend une ville adaptée à la vie quotidienne, une ville hétérogène loin des leurres de l'harmonie et du design, une ville «ordinaire» qui fait lien. Il essaie de(...)
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Aucun territoire n'est désespéré: Yves Lion grand prix de l'urbanisme 2007
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Yves Lion se dit «architecturbaniste»: «L'urbanisme donne du sens à l'architecture, et l'architecture aide l'urbanisme à formuler, à former.» Engagé dans le combat pour l'urbain depuis quarante ans, Yves Lion défend une ville adaptée à la vie quotidienne, une ville hétérogène loin des leurres de l'harmonie et du design, une ville «ordinaire» qui fait lien. Il essaie de transmettre ce combat tant par son oeuvre que par son activité d'enseignant, se fondant sur un credo généreux: «Aucun territoire n'est désespéré». Le livre est également consacré à quatre figures majeures de l'urbanisme en France: les architectes urbanistes François Grether, David Mangin et Nicolas Michelin et l'aménageur Laurent Théry.
Aucun territoire n'est désespéré: Yves Lion grand prix de l'urbanisme 2007
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Yves Lion se dit «architecturbaniste»: «L'urbanisme donne du sens à l'architecture, et l'architecture aide l'urbanisme à formuler, à former.» Engagé dans le combat pour l'urbain depuis quarante ans, Yves Lion défend une ville adaptée à la vie quotidienne, une ville hétérogène loin des leurres de l'harmonie et du design, une ville «ordinaire» qui fait lien. Il essaie de transmettre ce combat tant par son oeuvre que par son activité d'enseignant, se fondant sur un credo généreux: «Aucun territoire n'est désespéré». Le livre est également consacré à quatre figures majeures de l'urbanisme en France: les architectes urbanistes François Grether, David Mangin et Nicolas Michelin et l'aménageur Laurent Théry.
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February 2008, Marseille
February 2008, Marseille
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Urban Theory
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This ambitious study uses the concept of the familiar and the avant-garde practice of defamiliarization to reexamine some of the most important buildings of the twentieth century. The Familiar and the Unfamiliar in Twentieth-Century Architecture examines the work--written and built--of four seminal twentieth-century architects and firms: Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier,(...)
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This ambitious study uses the concept of the familiar and the avant-garde practice of defamiliarization to reexamine some of the most important buildings of the twentieth century. The Familiar and the Unfamiliar in Twentieth-Century Architecture examines the work--written and built--of four seminal twentieth-century architects and firms: Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier,(...)
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The familiar and the unfamiliar in twentieth-century architecture
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This ambitious study uses the concept of the familiar and the avant-garde practice of defamiliarization to reexamine some of the most important buildings of the twentieth century. The Familiar and the Unfamiliar in Twentieth-Century Architecture examines the work--written and built--of four seminal twentieth-century architects and firms: Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier, Aldo Rossi, and the partnership of Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown. In approaching the history of twentieth-century Western architecture from the perspective of the architectural subject--the person architects imagine experiencing their work--Jean La Marche reveals new insights into the ways humans are imagined in relation to architecture.
The familiar and the unfamiliar in twentieth-century architecture
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This ambitious study uses the concept of the familiar and the avant-garde practice of defamiliarization to reexamine some of the most important buildings of the twentieth century. The Familiar and the Unfamiliar in Twentieth-Century Architecture examines the work--written and built--of four seminal twentieth-century architects and firms: Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier, Aldo Rossi, and the partnership of Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown. In approaching the history of twentieth-century Western architecture from the perspective of the architectural subject--the person architects imagine experiencing their work--Jean La Marche reveals new insights into the ways humans are imagined in relation to architecture.
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August 2008, Chicago
August 2008, Chicago
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Architectural Theory
Architectural Theory
