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The French philosopher Felix Guattari frequently visited Japan during the 1980s and organized exchanges between French and Japanese artists and intellectuals. His immersion into the "machinic eros" of Japanese culture put him into contact with media theorists such as Tetsuo Kogawa and activists within the mini-FM community (Radio Home Run), documentary filmmakers (Mitsuo(...)
Machinic Eros: writings on Japan
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The French philosopher Felix Guattari frequently visited Japan during the 1980s and organized exchanges between French and Japanese artists and intellectuals. His immersion into the "machinic eros" of Japanese culture put him into contact with media theorists such as Tetsuo Kogawa and activists within the mini-FM community (Radio Home Run), documentary filmmakers (Mitsuo Sato), photographers (Keiichi Tahara), novelists (Kobo Abe), internationally recognized architects (Shin Takamatsu), and dancers (Min Tanaka).
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Ilay Cooper, who has travelled extensively in India since 1965, surveys the vernacular buildings of each region with an expert knowledge of materials and techniques, as well as of history and tradition. Barry Dawson's photographs bring us into intimate contact with the rural towns and villages of India where ninety per cent of the population live and work.(...)
Traditional Buildings of India
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Ilay Cooper, who has travelled extensively in India since 1965, surveys the vernacular buildings of each region with an expert knowledge of materials and techniques, as well as of history and tradition. Barry Dawson's photographs bring us into intimate contact with the rural towns and villages of India where ninety per cent of the population live and work. Through this colourful, intimate and humane study of traditional architecture, the many personalities of India are revealed.
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May 1998, London
Arch Middle East
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This pocket book describes the source of the Islamic architectural tradition in the ubiquitous courtyard house, and the development of the mosque as both place of worship and centre of the community, its form moulded by the requirements of prayer set out in the Koran and given various monumental forms as the conquests of Islam brought contact with the traditions of Egypt,(...)
Four caliphates : the formation of the Islamic tradition
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This pocket book describes the source of the Islamic architectural tradition in the ubiquitous courtyard house, and the development of the mosque as both place of worship and centre of the community, its form moulded by the requirements of prayer set out in the Koran and given various monumental forms as the conquests of Islam brought contact with the traditions of Egypt, Persia, and China. The book also explains the development of the tradition in tombs, palaces and fortifications.
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October 1998, London
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In the 1950s and 60s, Martin Heidegger turned to sculpture to rethink the relationship between bodies and space and the role of art in our lives. In his texts on the subject he formulates his later aesthetic theory, a thinking of relationality. Against a traditional view of space as an empty container for discrete bodies, these writings understand the body as already(...)
Heidegger among the sculptors: body, space and the art of dwelling
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In the 1950s and 60s, Martin Heidegger turned to sculpture to rethink the relationship between bodies and space and the role of art in our lives. In his texts on the subject he formulates his later aesthetic theory, a thinking of relationality. Against a traditional view of space as an empty container for discrete bodies, these writings understand the body as already beyond itself in a world of relations and conceive of space as a material medium of relational contact.
Art Theory
Cas Oorthuys
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Issu de la génération dite de la 'New Photography' et figure majeure de la photographie néerlandaise, Cas Oorthuys (1908-1975) a parcouru le monde de l’entre-deux-guerres aux années 1970. À travers un témoignage unique de près de 500 000 photographies pour la plupart en 6x6, ses images mêlent la petite et la grande histoire. Ce corpus, présenté sous la forme de planches(...)
Cas Oorthuys
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Issu de la génération dite de la 'New Photography' et figure majeure de la photographie néerlandaise, Cas Oorthuys (1908-1975) a parcouru le monde de l’entre-deux-guerres aux années 1970. À travers un témoignage unique de près de 500 000 photographies pour la plupart en 6x6, ses images mêlent la petite et la grande histoire. Ce corpus, présenté sous la forme de planches contact et ponctuées d'images en gros plan, propose une sélection de près de 500 photographies issues des archives du Nederlands Fotomuseum de Rotterdam.
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viii, 482 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2016., ©2016
Eyes on the street : the life of Jane Jacobs / Robert Kanigel.
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viii, 482 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
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New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2016., ©2016
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‘Bill’ is annual magazine of photographic stories without any accompanying text to prioritise visual reading without distraction. Designed, edited, and produced by designer Julie Peeters and associate editor Elena Narbutaite, this issue contains 184 offset printed pages on thirteen different paper stocks. Contributions for this issue include George Tourkovasilis, Cinzia(...)
Bill 4
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‘Bill’ is annual magazine of photographic stories without any accompanying text to prioritise visual reading without distraction. Designed, edited, and produced by designer Julie Peeters and associate editor Elena Narbutaite, this issue contains 184 offset printed pages on thirteen different paper stocks. Contributions for this issue include George Tourkovasilis, Cinzia Ruggeri through the lenses of Ilvio Gallo and Occhiomagico, SC103’s first runway, Inge Grognard, Adrianna Glaviano, the contact sheets of Santi Caleca, Rosalind Nashashibi, as well as magazine spreads from Anders Edström, Curtis Cuffie, and Hans Hollein.
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January 2023
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Randstad temping agency, Ahrend office supplies, Aid for the Homeless: the life of graphic designer Ben Bos is dominated by clients who remained loyal to him and his design for decades. His name is indissolubly linked with design studio Total Design, where he worked as a manager for 26 years. In this book Bos’s work is considered against the background of developments in(...)
Graphic Designers, Monographs
January 1900, Amsterdam
Design of a lifetime : Ben Bos
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Randstad temping agency, Ahrend office supplies, Aid for the Homeless: the life of graphic designer Ben Bos is dominated by clients who remained loyal to him and his design for decades. His name is indissolubly linked with design studio Total Design, where he worked as a manager for 26 years. In this book Bos’s work is considered against the background of developments in Dutch society and graphic design, about working in teams and about his contact with clients. Interviews with fellow designers reveal Bos as a driven designer.
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January 1900, Amsterdam
Graphic Designers, Monographs
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Based on Sedá's work for Documenta 12, this book documents a complex and long-term project realized in Nova Lisen, Brno, Czech Republic, where the artist lives. In the guise of a kind of "mail art," Sedá put in contact the inhabitants of a housing project undergoing renovation, breaking down the conventions of addressing an audience in the art context, as well as(...)
For every dog a different master
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Based on Sedá's work for Documenta 12, this book documents a complex and long-term project realized in Nova Lisen, Brno, Czech Republic, where the artist lives. In the guise of a kind of "mail art," Sedá put in contact the inhabitants of a housing project undergoing renovation, breaking down the conventions of addressing an audience in the art context, as well as stimulating exchanges and relations between the involuntarily participants. Fifth volume of the "Tranzit" series edited by Vít Havránek and focusing on Central and Eastern European artists. Text in English /Czech
Contemporary Art Monographs
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TASCHEN's new architecture series brings a unique perspective to world architecture, highlighting architectural trends by country. Each book features 15 to 20 architects—from the firmly established to the up-and-coming—with the focus on how they have contributed to very recent architecture in the chosen nation. Entries include contact information and short biographies in(...)
Architecture in the united states
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TASCHEN's new architecture series brings a unique perspective to world architecture, highlighting architectural trends by country. Each book features 15 to 20 architects—from the firmly established to the up-and-coming—with the focus on how they have contributed to very recent architecture in the chosen nation. Entries include contact information and short biographies in addition to copiously illustrated descriptions of the architects' or firms' most significant recent projects. Crossing the globe from country to country, this new series celebrates the richly hued architectural personality of each nation featured.
Architecture since 1900, Europe