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The Age Of Earthquakes is a quick-fire paperback, harnessing the images, language and perceptions of our unfurling digital lives. The authors offer five characteristics of the Extreme Present; invent a glossary of new words to describe how we are truly feeling today; and ‘mindsource’ images and illustrations from over 30 contemporary artists. Wayne Daly’s striking graphic(...)
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The age of earthquakes : a guide to the extreme present
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The Age Of Earthquakes is a quick-fire paperback, harnessing the images, language and perceptions of our unfurling digital lives. The authors offer five characteristics of the Extreme Present; invent a glossary of new words to describe how we are truly feeling today; and ‘mindsource’ images and illustrations from over 30 contemporary artists. Wayne Daly’s striking graphic design imports the surreal, juxtaposed, mashed mannerisms of screen to page.
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vi, 294 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
New Haven : Yale University Press, 1994.
Flesh and the ideal : Winckelmann and the origins of art history / Alex Potts.
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New Haven : Yale University Press, 1994.
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Traditions : the "real", the hyper, and the virtual in the built environment / Nezar AlSayyad.
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xi, 236 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
London ; New York : Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group, 2014.
Traditions : the "real", the hyper, and the virtual in the built environment / Nezar AlSayyad.
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xi, 236 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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London ; New York : Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group, 2014.
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viii, 298 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Chicago [Illinois] : The University of Chicago Press, 1994., ©1994
The visible word : experimental typography and modern art, 1909-1923 / Johanna Drucker.
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viii, 298 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Chicago [Illinois] : The University of Chicago Press, 1994., ©1994
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585 pages, approximately 120 plates : illustrations (some color), maps, plans ; 33 cm
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Architecture & micropolitics : four buildings 2011-2022 : Farshid Moussavi Architecture / content editors, Farshid Moussavi, Giulia Bravaccini, Mary Crettier.
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Zurich : Park Books, [2022], ©2022
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The Urban Spectator is a lively and utterly fascinating exploration of the ways in which technologies have influenced our collective conception of the American city, as well as our relationship with urban space and architecture. Eric Gordon argues that the city, developing late and in conjunction with a range of modern media, produced a particular way of seeing--what he(...)
The urban spectator: American concept-cities from Kodak to Google
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The Urban Spectator is a lively and utterly fascinating exploration of the ways in which technologies have influenced our collective conception of the American city, as well as our relationship with urban space and architecture. Eric Gordon argues that the city, developing late and in conjunction with a range of modern media, produced a particular way of seeing--what he labels "possessive spectatorship." Lacking the historical rootedness of European cities, the American city was open to individual interpretation, definition, and ownership. Beginning with the White City of the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and the efforts to commodify the concept city through photography, Gordon shows how the American city has always been a product of the collision between the dominant conceptualization, shaped by contemporary media, and the spectator. From the viewfinder of the Kodak camera, to the public display of early cinema, to the speculative desire of network radio, all the way to machine-age utopianism, nostalgia, and America's "rerun" culture, the city is an amalgam of practice and concept. All of this comes to a head in the "database city" where urban spectatorship takes on the characteristics of a Google search. In new urban developments, the spectator searches, retrieves, and combines urban references to construct each experience of the city.
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A newly revised and enlarged edition of Jencks' bestseller brings the reader up to date with new projects by some of today's most prominent architects including Peter Eisenman, Frank Gehry, Daniel Libesking and Greg Lynn.
The architecture of the jumping universe, a polemic : how complexity science is changing architecture and culture
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A newly revised and enlarged edition of Jencks' bestseller brings the reader up to date with new projects by some of today's most prominent architects including Peter Eisenman, Frank Gehry, Daniel Libesking and Greg Lynn.
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January 1900, London
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xiii, 86 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 28 cm.
Kent, Ohio : Kent State University Press : In cooperation with Cleveland State University's College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, ©2010.
Seeking the sacred in contemporary religious architecture / Douglas R. Hoffman.
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Kent, Ohio : Kent State University Press : In cooperation with Cleveland State University's College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, ©2010.
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In The Mountain, geographers Bernard Debarbieux and Gilles Rudaz trace the origins of the very concept of a mountain, showing how it is not a mere geographic feature but ultimately an idea, one that has evolved over time, influenced by changes in political climates and cultural attitudes. To truly understand mountains, they argue, we must view them not only as material(...)
The Mountain: a political history from the enlightment to the present
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In The Mountain, geographers Bernard Debarbieux and Gilles Rudaz trace the origins of the very concept of a mountain, showing how it is not a mere geographic feature but ultimately an idea, one that has evolved over time, influenced by changes in political climates and cultural attitudes. To truly understand mountains, they argue, we must view them not only as material realities but as social constructs, ones that can mean radically different things to different people in different settings.
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Architect Charles Moore (1925-1993) was not only celebrated for his designs; he was also an admired writer and teacher. Though he wrote clearly and passionately about places, he was perhaps unique in avoiding the tone and stance of the personal manifesto. Through his buildings, books, and travels, Moore consistently sought insights into the questions that always underlie(...)
You have to pay for the private life : selected essays by Charles W. Moore
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Architect Charles Moore (1925-1993) was not only celebrated for his designs; he was also an admired writer and teacher. Though he wrote clearly and passionately about places, he was perhaps unique in avoiding the tone and stance of the personal manifesto. Through his buildings, books, and travels, Moore consistently sought insights into the questions that always underlie architecture and design: What does it mean to make a place, and how do we inhabit those places? How do we continue to build upon but respect the landscape? How do we reconcile democracy and private land ownership? What is original? What is taste? What is the relationship between past and present? How do we involve inhabitants in making places? Finally, what is public life? As the world becomes smaller, and the uniqueness of places and landscapes gives way to sameness, Moore's celebration of the vernacular and of the surprising are more relevant than ever. The pieces in this book span the years 1952 to 1993 and engage a myriad of topics and movements, such as contextualism, community participation, collaboration, environmentally sensitive design, and historic preservation. The essays in this book reflect as well Moore's scholarship, humanism, urbanity, and great wit.
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November 2000, Cambridge, Mass.
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