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Through this book, authors Kent Kleinman and Leslie Van Duzer provide a glimpse into the many relationships revealed through the Krefeld villas-an architect with his clients and with his legacy; an architecture with its inhabitants; and artists with their environment.
Architecture Monographs
May 2005, New York
Mies van der Rohe : the Krefeld villas
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Through this book, authors Kent Kleinman and Leslie Van Duzer provide a glimpse into the many relationships revealed through the Krefeld villas-an architect with his clients and with his legacy; an architecture with its inhabitants; and artists with their environment.
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Landscape stories
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"Landscape stories" is the fist comprehensive collection of Southam's work drawn from three completed series : The Pond at Upton Pyne, The Red River, and Rockfalls, Rivermouths, and Ponds, along with several smaller groups of pictures, from series still in the making and never before published. Southam's own brief narratives about the places and processes he captures,(...)
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"Landscape stories" is the fist comprehensive collection of Southam's work drawn from three completed series : The Pond at Upton Pyne, The Red River, and Rockfalls, Rivermouths, and Ponds, along with several smaller groups of pictures, from series still in the making and never before published. Southam's own brief narratives about the places and processes he captures, together with essays by photo historians Gerry Badger and Andy Grundberg, create a rich context for contemplating these landscape series.
Photography monographs
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Five years ago, the American Institute of Graphic Arts launched Fresh Dialogue, a series aimed at bringing together emerging design talent and providing them with an open forum to discuss their own work and the direction of the field. This year's participants come from the disparate worlds of fashion, publishing, web design, advertising, and art: Alice Chung and Karen(...)
Graphic Design and Typography
May 2005, New York
Fresh dialogue five : new voices in graphic design
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Five years ago, the American Institute of Graphic Arts launched Fresh Dialogue, a series aimed at bringing together emerging design talent and providing them with an open forum to discuss their own work and the direction of the field. This year's participants come from the disparate worlds of fashion, publishing, web design, advertising, and art: Alice Chung and Karen Hsu founded the design firm Omnivore and have collaborated with the Whitney Museum and the Princeton University School of Architecture. Agnieszka Gasparska has produced award-winning work for LEGO, the American Museum of Natural History, and the Experience Music Project. Rodrigo Corral has pursued a fresh look for fiction in his book covers for Farrar, Strauss – Giroux and independently for Rodrigo Corral Design. Alan Dye was design director and partner at B.I.G. (Ogilvy – Mather's Brand Integration Group) before joining Kate Spade as design director.
Graphic Design and Typography
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"If...Then : Architectural Speculation" is the sixth in an annual series of publications featuring work by talented architects selected by The Architectural League of New York's Young Architects Competition jury. This year, entrants were asked to explore the process of architectural speculation: the act of imagination that precedes every work, projecting future events in(...)
Architecture since 1900, Europe
May 2005, New York
Young architects 6 : if...then - architectural speculations
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"If...Then : Architectural Speculation" is the sixth in an annual series of publications featuring work by talented architects selected by The Architectural League of New York's Young Architects Competition jury. This year, entrants were asked to explore the process of architectural speculation: the act of imagination that precedes every work, projecting future events in a space that does not yet exist. The winners of the competition - Fernando Romero; Tobias Lundquist; Anthony Piermarini and Hansy L. Better Barraza; Keith Mitnick, Mireille Roddier, and Stewart Hicks; Tom Wiscombe; and Gail Peter Borden - take on this challenge and creatively address the social and political assumptions surrounding architectural production through a rethinking of site, program, form, technology, and materials.
Architecture since 1900, Europe
The new modern house
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Every architect dreams of a perfect client, and every client dreams of a perfect architect. Alas, these relationships don't always work out to everyone's expectations. But when they do - when there are shared ideas and the communication flows - the results can be spectacular. The New Modern House features forty new buildings where the synergy between the right designer(...)
The new modern house
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Every architect dreams of a perfect client, and every client dreams of a perfect architect. Alas, these relationships don't always work out to everyone's expectations. But when they do - when there are shared ideas and the communication flows - the results can be spectacular. The New Modern House features forty new buildings where the synergy between the right designer and the right client resulted in works that surpass everyone's expectations. The book is divided into five thematic chapters - conditions, materials, environment, budget, and aesthetics - and each contain eight case studies. These include Rafael Vinoly's Piano House in New York; Sean Godsell's Peninsula House in Australia; and Ahadu Abaineh's Tree House in Ethiopia, among others. Beautifully produced, The New Modern House captures these noteworthy designs with a wealth of colour photography, plans, and drawings, and makes an ideal book for anybody dreaming of the perfect house.
Residential Architecture
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Accompanying a major exhibition organized by the Smithsonian Institution's Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, 'Extreme textile: designing for high performance' surveys the stunning variety of technical textiles and examines how their intrinsec beauty and extraordinairy flexibility are revolutionizing contemporary design. This publication features examples of fully(...)
Extreme textiles : designing for high performance
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Accompanying a major exhibition organized by the Smithsonian Institution's Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, 'Extreme textile: designing for high performance' surveys the stunning variety of technical textiles and examines how their intrinsec beauty and extraordinairy flexibility are revolutionizing contemporary design. This publication features examples of fully realized projects and products from architecture, apparel, medicine, transportation, sports, aerospace, and the environment and highlights the remarkable collaboration between science and industry.
Interior Design
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'The lessons of the Rural Studio are so many and so varied it is humbling to read this book. It should be required reading for every architect, reminding them what good architecture can be achieved.' Architectural Review
Architecture Monographs
April 2005, New York
Proceed and be bold. Rural Studio after Samuel Mockbee
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'The lessons of the Rural Studio are so many and so varied it is humbling to read this book. It should be required reading for every architect, reminding them what good architecture can be achieved.' Architectural Review
Architecture Monographs
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«En 1988, une banque américaine m'a invitée à réaliser un projet insitu. Les distributeurs automatiques de l'établissement étaient munis de caméras vidéo qui filmaient, à leur insu, les clients en train d'effectuer des opérations. J'ai réussi à me procurer certains enregistrements.(...) En finir retrace l'histoire de cette recherche, analyse quinze années de tentatives(...)
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«En 1988, une banque américaine m'a invitée à réaliser un projet insitu. Les distributeurs automatiques de l'établissement étaient munis de caméras vidéo qui filmaient, à leur insu, les clients en train d'effectuer des opérations. J'ai réussi à me procurer certains enregistrements.(...) En finir retrace l'histoire de cette recherche, analyse quinze années de tentatives ratées, dessine l'anatomie d'un échec.» -Sophie Calle
Photography monographs
Making a better world : public housing, the Red Scare, and the direction of modern Los Angeles
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During the 1990s, Los Angeles - like many other cities across America - began demolishing public housing projects that had come to symbolize decades of failed urban policies. But public housing was not always regarded with such disdain. In the years surrounding World War II, it had been a popular New Deal program, viewed as a force for positive social change and supported(...)
Making a better world : public housing, the Red Scare, and the direction of modern Los Angeles
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During the 1990s, Los Angeles - like many other cities across America - began demolishing public housing projects that had come to symbolize decades of failed urban policies. But public housing was not always regarded with such disdain. In the years surrounding World War II, it had been a popular New Deal program, viewed as a force for positive social change and supported by a broad coalition of civic, labor, religious, and community organizations. Socially conscious architects and planners developed innovative and livable projects that embodied the latest theories in urban design. With sharp historical perspective, "Making a better world" traces the rise and fall of a public housing ethic in Los Angeles and its impact on the city’s built environment. In the caustic political atmosphere of Joseph McCarthy’s America, public housing opponents accused the city’s housing authority of communist infiltration, effectively eliminating the left from debates over the city’s development. In place of public housing, conservative forces promoted a pro-private growth agenda that redefined urban renewal and reshaped modern Los Angeles. No conventional public housing projects have been constructed in Los Angeles since 1955. In this era of skyrocketing housing prices, especially in urban areas, Don Parson’s examination not only gives us the recent history of a city but also opens up a new debate on a current national crisis in providing shelter for low-income Americans. Foreword by Kevin Starr.
Urban Theory
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"The New Berlin" reveals a city haunted by ghosts from difficult pasts and 'remembered futures', a place where past, present, and future collide in unexpected ways as individuals and groups search for what it means to be German. Karen Till moves through the spaces and times of a city marked by voids, ruins, and construction cranes to search through material and affective(...)
Architecture since 1900, Europe
January 1900, Minneapolis, London
The new Berlin : memory, politics, place
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"The New Berlin" reveals a city haunted by ghosts from difficult pasts and 'remembered futures', a place where past, present, and future collide in unexpected ways as individuals and groups search for what it means to be German. Karen Till moves through the spaces and times of a city marked by voids, ruins, and construction cranes to search through material and affective landscapes of intentional forgetting and painful remembering.
Architecture since 1900, Europe