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How can residential building strengthen broader urban structures? And how can architecture meet the requirements of new forms of cohabitation, owing to a broader social mix or to live-work spaces? This book presents exemplary solutions from the international Urban Living Workshop, in which more than 30 international firms participated.
Urban living: strategies for the future
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How can residential building strengthen broader urban structures? And how can architecture meet the requirements of new forms of cohabitation, owing to a broader social mix or to live-work spaces? This book presents exemplary solutions from the international Urban Living Workshop, in which more than 30 international firms participated.
Urban Theory
Landscript 04: nature modern
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This fourth volume in the Landscript series, entitled "Nature Modern", examines the modern conception of nature as a construct, and how it is made "visible" through the built environment, drawing on several key projects and essays.
Landscript 04: nature modern
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This fourth volume in the Landscript series, entitled "Nature Modern", examines the modern conception of nature as a construct, and how it is made "visible" through the built environment, drawing on several key projects and essays.
Landscape Theory
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This publication is a result of visits and discussions carried out by Hans Ulrich Obrist in artists’ studios in Prague around 2001 and 2008. Interviews with Milan Grygar, Jií Kovanda, Karel Malich, Zdenk Sýkora, and many others, map the historical events as well as unknown stories of the actors of the Czech “second avant-garde” or “neo-modernism” of the former socialist(...)
Hans Ulrich Obrist : the Czech files
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This publication is a result of visits and discussions carried out by Hans Ulrich Obrist in artists’ studios in Prague around 2001 and 2008. Interviews with Milan Grygar, Jií Kovanda, Karel Malich, Zdenk Sýkora, and many others, map the historical events as well as unknown stories of the actors of the Czech “second avant-garde” or “neo-modernism” of the former socialist block. The artists and intellectuals of this generation were born in between 1920–1945. They lived through the 1960s cultural upheaval known as the Prague Spring, becoming part of international cultural movements for a limited time, and witnessed the “normalization” of the 1970s when censorship was re-introduced. This series of interviews contextualize a generation of Czech artists within the historical events that marked their lives and careers, and draw attention to their urgency to resist historical events while keeping their artistic practices sustained, radical, and vital.
Art Theory
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Parachute was founded in 1975 by Chantal Pontbriand and France Morin. Following the previous three Parachute volumes, this last title of the Parachute anthology focuses on painting, sculpture, installation and architecture. These topics are approached from several perspectives: from new theories of aesthetic production, especially painting, to the expansion of the art(...)
Parachute : the anthology, vol. III
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Parachute was founded in 1975 by Chantal Pontbriand and France Morin. Following the previous three Parachute volumes, this last title of the Parachute anthology focuses on painting, sculpture, installation and architecture. These topics are approached from several perspectives: from new theories of aesthetic production, especially painting, to the expansion of the art world to other artistic territories during the 1980s and 1990s (Russia and South America, for instance), from the "lessons" of postmodernism to the proliferation of installation art. The essays discuss works by artists such as Lothar Baumgarten, Mona Hatoum, Guillermo Kuitca, Louise Lawler, Reinhard Mucha, Jackson Pollock, Robert Ryman, Michael Snow and Sots Art artists, and include two particularly seminal artist's essays: Dan Graham on Gordon Matta-Clark, and Jeff Wall on Édouard Manet.
Art Theory
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Can art express questions about justice? Could art, perhaps, even create justice? In Aesthetic Justice, sociologist Pascal Gielen and curator Niels Van Tomme invite a variety of artists and critical thinkers—including Zoe Beloff, Arne De Boever, Mark Fisher, Matt Fraser, Tessa Overbeek, Kerry James Marshall, Viktor Misiano, Carlos Motta, Nat Muller, Julie Atlas Muz,(...)
Aesthetic justice: artistic and moral perspectives
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Can art express questions about justice? Could art, perhaps, even create justice? In Aesthetic Justice, sociologist Pascal Gielen and curator Niels Van Tomme invite a variety of artists and critical thinkers—including Zoe Beloff, Arne De Boever, Mark Fisher, Matt Fraser, Tessa Overbeek, Kerry James Marshall, Viktor Misiano, Carlos Motta, Nat Muller, Julie Atlas Muz, Gerald Raunig, Dieter Roelstraete, Hito Steyerl, Julia Svetlichnaja, Hakan Topal, Samuel Vriezen and Christian Wolff—to reflect on new futures for the notion and practice of justice. The book offers thought-provoking views on the ways in which art may confront and potentially redirect social and political futures. Incorporating analyses of contemporary artworks that challenge the social, political or economic status quo, as well as interviews with artists and theoretical reflections, Aesthetic Justice considers the liberating potential of aesthetic frameworks and suggests alternatives for a more just future.
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Architecture/Astrology
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Artist Dan Graham and writer Jessica Russell's playful Architecture/Astrology considers some of the most important and innovative figures in the world of architecture from an angle few would expect: their star signs. Originally published as a column for Domus magazine, Graham and Russell's book integrates critical analysis with astrology and mythology to offer alternative(...)
Architecture/Astrology
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Artist Dan Graham and writer Jessica Russell's playful Architecture/Astrology considers some of the most important and innovative figures in the world of architecture from an angle few would expect: their star signs. Originally published as a column for Domus magazine, Graham and Russell's book integrates critical analysis with astrology and mythology to offer alternative perspectives on the work and personalities of artist/architects including Frank Gehry (a restless, dreamy Pisces), Frank Lloyd Wright (a romantic Gemini with one foot in the past and the other in the future), Eero Saarinen (a dynamic, dramatic Leo) and Le Corbusier (a logical, balanced Libra). With accompanying illustrations by Mieko Meguro.
Architectural Theory
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Without the work of French artist, poet, publisher, activist and translator Jean-Jacques Lebel (born 1936), the emergence of happenings in 1960s Europe would be hard to imagine. From the very outset of the decade, Lebel was instigating happenings-often politically themed- in Venice, Milan, London, Paris and New York, as the leading exponent for this new form of(...)
Jean-Jacques Lebel: barricades
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Without the work of French artist, poet, publisher, activist and translator Jean-Jacques Lebel (born 1936), the emergence of happenings in 1960s Europe would be hard to imagine. From the very outset of the decade, Lebel was instigating happenings-often politically themed- in Venice, Milan, London, Paris and New York, as the leading exponent for this new form of performance and a close associate of the Living Theater. In 1979 he founded the Polyphonix Festival, devoted to sound poetry and performance art. This hefty volume provides the most comprehensive overview of the life and oeuvre of this diversely talented figure.
Art Theory
The century of bed
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The Century of the Bed addresses the use of the bed as an office and workspace. How can we define and reexamine the bed as an architectural space? This publication offers insight into the diverse artistic research on this topic.
Architectural Theory
February 2015
The century of bed
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The Century of the Bed addresses the use of the bed as an office and workspace. How can we define and reexamine the bed as an architectural space? This publication offers insight into the diverse artistic research on this topic.
Architectural Theory
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Les arbres ont toujours suscité la passion des hommes, et la fascination pour les grands végétaux est vieille comme l'humanité. D'abord furent sacralisés les plus majestueux d'entre eux, puis le goût de la merveille et de l'exotisme donna naissance à maintes vocations de botanistes exceptionnels, savants aventuriers, tout à la fois explorateurs, missionnaires et marins du(...)
Petit dictionnaire des hommes et des arbres: curiosités botaniques d'Europe et d'ailleurs
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Les arbres ont toujours suscité la passion des hommes, et la fascination pour les grands végétaux est vieille comme l'humanité. D'abord furent sacralisés les plus majestueux d'entre eux, puis le goût de la merveille et de l'exotisme donna naissance à maintes vocations de botanistes exceptionnels, savants aventuriers, tout à la fois explorateurs, missionnaires et marins du grand large, parcourant le monde au péril de leur vie pour rapporter en Europe l'eucalyptus de Tasmanie, le pin Douglas d'Amérique du Nord, le lilas de Topkapi, et des centaines d'espèces qui ornent aujourd'hui parcs et jardins. De l'abricotier au tilleul, au travers de nombreux exemples classés selon un ordre alphabétique, cet ouvrage nous fait découvrir de multiples curiosités.
Landscape Theory
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Si ses racines remontent à la Renaissance, le design naît au début du XXe siècle, lors-qu’artistes, architectes, artisans décident d’assumer la production industrielle standardisée et mécanisée et de travailler non plus contre elle et à cause d’elle, mais avec elle et grâce à elle. Derrière l’apparition du mot « design », c’est une nouvelle culture du projet et du(...)
Le design
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Si ses racines remontent à la Renaissance, le design naît au début du XXe siècle, lors-qu’artistes, architectes, artisans décident d’assumer la production industrielle standardisée et mécanisée et de travailler non plus contre elle et à cause d’elle, mais avec elle et grâce à elle. Derrière l’apparition du mot « design », c’est une nouvelle culture du projet et du prototype qui se fait jour, et qui n’a de cesse d’évoluer depuis. En retraçant l’histoire de l’essor et de l’âge d’or du design industriel, puis sa crise d’identité et le renouveau du design contemporain, Stéphane Vial nous invite à comprendre, au-delà de la spécificité d’un métier, l’originalité d’une culture et d’une discipline scientifique à part entière.
Design Theory