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American homes are typically made of lumber and plywood delivered by a global system of ruthless extraction, or of concrete and steel, which are even worse for the planet. Wood is often the most sustainable material for building, but we need to protect diverse forests as much as we desperately need more houses. Brian Donahue addresses this modern conundrum by(...)
Slow wood: Greener building from local forests
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American homes are typically made of lumber and plywood delivered by a global system of ruthless extraction, or of concrete and steel, which are even worse for the planet. Wood is often the most sustainable material for building, but we need to protect diverse forests as much as we desperately need more houses. Brian Donahue addresses this modern conundrum by documenting his experiences building a timber frame home from the wood growing on his family farm, practicing “worst first” forestry. Through the stories of the trees he used (sugar maple, black cherry, black birch, and hemlock), and some he didn’t (white pine and red oak), the book also explores the history of Americans’ relationship with their forests.
Timber Construction
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Urban fortifications were the most colossal artistic achievements of the Italian Renaissance. Celebrated sculptors, painters, and architects such as Michelangelo, Bramante, Leonardo, Francesco Paciotto, and Antonio da Sangallo the Younger collaborated with humanists and military commanders to design citadels and ramparts. Unprecedented in their geometric sophistication,(...)
Form and fortification: the art of military architecture in Renaissance Italy
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Urban fortifications were the most colossal artistic achievements of the Italian Renaissance. Celebrated sculptors, painters, and architects such as Michelangelo, Bramante, Leonardo, Francesco Paciotto, and Antonio da Sangallo the Younger collaborated with humanists and military commanders to design citadels and ramparts. Unprecedented in their geometric sophistication, constructional ambition, and physical grandeur, these monuments profoundly transformed the shape and experience of the built environment. "Form and fortification" challenges the long-held assumption that military architecture was merely an instrument of warfare, restoring the practice to its central place at the nexus of sixteenth-century creative and cultural endeavors. Through a rich array of drawings, archival manuscripts, early printed sources, treatises, and realized works, this book traces the remarkable exchanges between fortification and other arenas of art, design, and engineering.
History until 1900, Renaissance
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This illustrated book explores the cultural conditions for photography in Hungary in the first half of the twentieth century and the exodus of groundbreaking Hungarian artists, many of whom journeyed to Berlin, Paris, or London before settling in the United States. The story of the bounty of intellectual and artistic talent that departed Hungary during this period is told(...)
American, born Hungary: Kertesz, Capa, and the Hungarian American photographic legacy
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This illustrated book explores the cultural conditions for photography in Hungary in the first half of the twentieth century and the exodus of groundbreaking Hungarian artists, many of whom journeyed to Berlin, Paris, or London before settling in the United States. The story of the bounty of intellectual and artistic talent that departed Hungary during this period is told in depth, from the photojournalistic legacy of the Capa brothers and Martin Munkácsi to the deeply experimental work made in the United States by artists such as László Moholy-Nagy and György Kepes to the portraits of cinema icons by André de Dienes, including Marilyn Monroe, which helped fuel Hollywood’s Golden Age. The book also introduces the major but underrecognized talent of artists, including John Albok, Anna Barna, Ferenc Berko, Michael Simon, and Paula Wright.
Photography Collections
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The first volume of "Fertile Futures" records the programme developed for the Portuguese Pavilion at the 18th International Architecture Exhibition 2023. The book reveals the premises of Fertile Futures, under the theme of the protection, management and future of freshwater. It gathers the sharing of knowledge that marked the start of the project laboratory, and(...)
Fertile Futures. Portuguese Pavilion, 18th International Venice Architecture Biennial
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The first volume of "Fertile Futures" records the programme developed for the Portuguese Pavilion at the 18th International Architecture Exhibition 2023. The book reveals the premises of Fertile Futures, under the theme of the protection, management and future of freshwater. It gathers the sharing of knowledge that marked the start of the project laboratory, and accompanies the work of each of seven Hydro-geography Workshops throughout the first months of the project. The second volume of "Fertile Futures" presents the entire laboratory project developed during the programme at the biennale. It also presents the critical essays resulting from the interventions at the Assemblies of Thought in Venice, Braga, Lisbon, Faro and Porto Santo.
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Building BAST
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This little book paints a portrait of BAST, an acronym for "Bureau d'Architecture Sans Titre" (Untitled Architecture Office), through 20 identical questions asked to 20 people selected from among the clients, service providers and collaborators of the Toulouse-based agency. Through the answers, sometimes terse, sometimes prolix, grouped together and organised according to(...)
Architecture Monographs
July 2024
Building BAST
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This little book paints a portrait of BAST, an acronym for "Bureau d'Architecture Sans Titre" (Untitled Architecture Office), through 20 identical questions asked to 20 people selected from among the clients, service providers and collaborators of the Toulouse-based agency. Through the answers, sometimes terse, sometimes prolix, grouped together and organised according to a simple principle (one page, one answer), a profile of the agency emerges: positioning, method, qualities, faults... which allows us to better understand its approach, but also the environment and the crisis era in which it is embedded.
Architecture Monographs
The upside-down museum: Practice-based institutional critique, working up frm the actual museum floo
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Through onsite interventions, Giannotti challenges the existing order of public art institutions. Responding to the museum status quo, Aldo Giannotti's concepts and props reshape the institution’s social and spatial architecture. Through dialogue with staff, guards and visitors, Giannotti engages with the museum and its underlying purpose.
The upside-down museum: Practice-based institutional critique, working up frm the actual museum floo
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Through onsite interventions, Giannotti challenges the existing order of public art institutions. Responding to the museum status quo, Aldo Giannotti's concepts and props reshape the institution’s social and spatial architecture. Through dialogue with staff, guards and visitors, Giannotti engages with the museum and its underlying purpose.
Museology
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Amancio Williams (1913-1989) è uno degli esponenti più importanti e originali della cultura argentina e del movimento moderno; tuttavia la sua architettura rimane in parte ancora inesplorata. La produzione critica in Italia non sempre ha garantito una sufficiente diffusione della sua rara quanto inusuale dimensione progettuale, fondata su antitesi capaci di dar vita a(...)
Amancio Williams: Progettare per antisi
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Amancio Williams (1913-1989) è uno degli esponenti più importanti e originali della cultura argentina e del movimento moderno; tuttavia la sua architettura rimane in parte ancora inesplorata. La produzione critica in Italia non sempre ha garantito una sufficiente diffusione della sua rara quanto inusuale dimensione progettuale, fondata su antitesi capaci di dar vita a soluzioni sorprendenti e uniche. Questo volume è un‘occasione per riscoprire le strategie tecniche e compositive di Williams, in grado di rispondere ai temi e alle esigenze della contemporaneità. Il libro conta su un repertorio di immagini inedite, su un ricco contributo teorico e su una esegesi critica del suo modus operandi, accompagnata da schemi e analisi re-interpretative.
Architecture Monographs
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Air conditioning aspires to be unnoticed. Yet, by manipulating the air around us, it quietly conditions the baseline conditions of our physical, mental, and emotional experience. From offices and libraries to contemporary art museums and shopping malls, climate control systems shore up the fantasy of a comfortable, self-contained body that does not have to reckon with(...)
Air-conditioning: Object lessons
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Air conditioning aspires to be unnoticed. Yet, by manipulating the air around us, it quietly conditions the baseline conditions of our physical, mental, and emotional experience. From offices and libraries to contemporary art museums and shopping malls, climate control systems shore up the fantasy of a comfortable, self-contained body that does not have to reckon with temperature. At the same time that air conditioning makes temperature a non-issue in (some) people's daily lives, thermoception-or the sensory perception of temperature-is being carefully studied and exploited as a tool of marketing, social control, and labor management. Yet air conditioning isn't for everybody: its reliance on carbon fuels divides the world into habitable, climate-controlled bubbles and increasingly uninhabitable environments where AC is unavailable. Hsuan Hsu's "Air conditioning" explores questions about culture, ethics, ecology, and social justice raised by the history and uneven distribution of climate controlling technologies.
Dreams and disillusions
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"Dreams and disillusions" explores the plethora of ideas and ideologies that have shaped and reshaped cities in profound ways. However, unlike a conventional title on the history of urbanism and architecture, its research fluctuates between the world of concrete reality and the multiple universes that exist in lucid prose, poetic visions, and the outrageous imaginations(...)
Dreams and disillusions
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"Dreams and disillusions" explores the plethora of ideas and ideologies that have shaped and reshaped cities in profound ways. However, unlike a conventional title on the history of urbanism and architecture, its research fluctuates between the world of concrete reality and the multiple universes that exist in lucid prose, poetic visions, and the outrageous imaginations of history’s greatest and most (in)famous minds. In their thoughts are the foundations for political trends and new civilisations, alternative mappings and unlikely phenomena. The six chapters reveal dreams that were fundamental to the origin of great cities, underpinning the stories of the many lives within; and how, through circumstance or manipulation, fortunate coincidence or planned perfection, desires are sometimes left defeated and disillusioned.
Architectural Theory
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The environmental impacts of construction are momentous. How can architects minimise these by making responsible material choices? Material choices have a global impact. The design and construction industry are responsible for 39% of all carbon emissions in the world. Despite the great desire among architects to address this, it can be difficult to compare materials(...)
Materials: an environmental primer
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The environmental impacts of construction are momentous. How can architects minimise these by making responsible material choices? Material choices have a global impact. The design and construction industry are responsible for 39% of all carbon emissions in the world. Despite the great desire among architects to address this, it can be difficult to compare materials directly, let alone understand the repercussions of selecting materials for use in different parts of a building or of sourcing them from across the world. Showcasing the latest thought leadership from subject experts across the industry, this primer sets out the various considerations and parameters for specifying a particular material. It empowers architects with the knowledge of which materials are available, how best to use them, and what their future holds as the industry continues to innovate. Each chapter will be devoted to a single material and will consider environmental impacts holistically, looking at health and biodiversity impacts, among other issues.
Materials and Lighting