Being and Event
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Being and Event is the greatest work of Alain Badiou, France's most important living philosopher. Long-awaited in translation, Being and Event makes available to an English-speaking readership Badiou's groundbreaking work on set theory - the cornerstone of his whole philosophy. The book makes the scope and aim of Badiou's whole philosophical project clear, enabling full(...)
Being and Event
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Being and Event is the greatest work of Alain Badiou, France's most important living philosopher. Long-awaited in translation, Being and Event makes available to an English-speaking readership Badiou's groundbreaking work on set theory - the cornerstone of his whole philosophy. The book makes the scope and aim of Badiou's whole philosophical project clear, enabling full comprehension of Badiou's significance for contemporary philosophy. Badiou draws upon and is fully engaged with the European philosophical tradition from Plato onwards; Being and Event deals with such key figures as Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Hegel, Rousseau, Heidegger and Lacan.
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Accattone 5: Armin Linke
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Based entirely on the work of Armin Linke, Accattone #5 explores photography in relation to the major architecture of public and private institutions: the infrastructure of the Roman Empire, neoclassical Athens, the United Nations headquarters, neo-liberal corporate environments and the fragile European institutions in Brussels. Monuments are carefully crafted to convey(...)
Accattone 5: Armin Linke
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Based entirely on the work of Armin Linke, Accattone #5 explores photography in relation to the major architecture of public and private institutions: the infrastructure of the Roman Empire, neoclassical Athens, the United Nations headquarters, neo-liberal corporate environments and the fragile European institutions in Brussels. Monuments are carefully crafted to convey determined sets of aesthetic codes and political values, incorporated in a purportedly eternal and total character. Photography can challenge the power of such representations by bringing out their inherent glitches, small cracks and everyday ambiguities. It can reprogramme architecture.
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Architecture responds to human needs, but also provides a framework for living that facilitates and encourages specific behaviours and lifestyles. Architects and urbanists have the opportunity and responsibility to create environments for sustainable living, to go beyond technical solutions and consider what drives human behaviour. This volume presents fourteen recent(...)
C3 Fundamentals for sustainability
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Architecture responds to human needs, but also provides a framework for living that facilitates and encourages specific behaviours and lifestyles. Architects and urbanists have the opportunity and responsibility to create environments for sustainable living, to go beyond technical solutions and consider what drives human behaviour. This volume presents fourteen recent projects and a range of typologies aptly reflecting this evolving combination of expertise and technology. Included are Green Heart Marina One Singapore by Ingenhoven Architects, Bloomberg’s New European Headquarters by Foster + Partners, YB House in Chile by MASA Architects, and more.
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Authored by Saskia de Wit, this book examines the enclosed garden as an expression of the ‘genius loci’. How can this be made accessible in the contemporary metropolitan landscape? Included are analyses of the spatial, sensorial, and narrative craft patterns of metropolitan gardens ranging from traditional Japanese masterpieces to contemporary European landscape(...)
Hidden landscapes: the metropolitan garden as a multi-sensory expression of place
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Authored by Saskia de Wit, this book examines the enclosed garden as an expression of the ‘genius loci’. How can this be made accessible in the contemporary metropolitan landscape? Included are analyses of the spatial, sensorial, and narrative craft patterns of metropolitan gardens ranging from traditional Japanese masterpieces to contemporary European landscape architecture. The metropolitan garden, as a defined space in the continuous metropolitan field, provides an alternative way to access the landscape horizon, references to nature, and connections to the underlying landscape, providing a new perspective on two quintessential themes: nature and place.
Landscape Theory
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''Healing Spaces, Modern Architecture, and the Body'' brings together cutting-edge scholarship examining the myriad ways that architects, urban planners, medical practitioners, and everyday people have applied modern ideas about health and the body to the spaces in which they live, work, and heal. The book’s contributors explore North American and European understandings(...)
Healing spaces: modern architecture and the body
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''Healing Spaces, Modern Architecture, and the Body'' brings together cutting-edge scholarship examining the myriad ways that architects, urban planners, medical practitioners, and everyday people have applied modern ideas about health and the body to the spaces in which they live, work, and heal. The book’s contributors explore North American and European understandings of the relationship between physical movement, bodily health, technological innovation, medical concepts, natural environments, and architectural settings from the nineteenth century through the heyday of modernist architectural experimentation in the 1920s and 1930s and onward into the 1970s.
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New schools of thought
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Since the late 20th century, political regulations, internationalisation, and rapid digitalisation are only a few factors that have significantly transformed the environments within which European institutions of architectural education operate. In adapting and adhering to such changes, schools of architecture strive to develop innovative, didactic, programmatic, or(...)
New schools of thought
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Since the late 20th century, political regulations, internationalisation, and rapid digitalisation are only a few factors that have significantly transformed the environments within which European institutions of architectural education operate. In adapting and adhering to such changes, schools of architecture strive to develop innovative, didactic, programmatic, or spatial models that are distinguishable. Through eighteen case studies, four of which are presented in detail, this book highlights tendencies in architectural education beyond academia, illustrating the interdependence between the educational model and its spatial disposition, and revealing potential new schools of thought.
Contemporary Architecture
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For its main feature, this edition showcases three European examples of the small church typology. In their diversity, these churches – sited in the Czech Republic, Sicily, and Tenerife – illustrate the breadth of interpretations that contemporary architecture can apply to identical liturgical criteria. In addition, the magazine examines urban context, morphological(...)
C3 438 : The walls are new but the air is the same
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For its main feature, this edition showcases three European examples of the small church typology. In their diversity, these churches – sited in the Czech Republic, Sicily, and Tenerife – illustrate the breadth of interpretations that contemporary architecture can apply to identical liturgical criteria. In addition, the magazine examines urban context, morphological rhythm, and material imagination through the theme “Continuity vs. Intermittence”, with three projects in ''South Korea: Seoul Theater Creation Center'', ''Photography Seoul Museum of Art'', and ''Elystay Boryeong''. The issue also presents new projects by Benedetta Tagliabue and EMBT Architects, Colectivo C733, and more.
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L'édification des villas La Roche-Jeanneret à Paris entre 1923 et 1925 inaugure une carrière qui va placer Le Corbusier au premier rang des tenants de l'avant-garde architecturale européenne. Ce livre nous permet de redécouvrir ce projet innovateur et, au travers de son histoire singulière, de se pencher sur les origines de notre propre modernité. / The(...)
Le Corbusier : Les villas La Roche - Jeanneret
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L'édification des villas La Roche-Jeanneret à Paris entre 1923 et 1925 inaugure une carrière qui va placer Le Corbusier au premier rang des tenants de l'avant-garde architecturale européenne. Ce livre nous permet de redécouvrir ce projet innovateur et, au travers de son histoire singulière, de se pencher sur les origines de notre propre modernité. / The construction of the Villas La Roche-Jeanneret in Paris between 1923 and 1925 inaugurated a career that would place Le Corbusier squarely among the architectural giants of the European avant-garde.
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November 1996, Basel
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The critical landscape
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The Critical Landscape documents developments in European and American discourse over recent decades. It makes an attempt to formulate an answer to the question put by Michael Hays: 'what should a critical conscious architect, at (...)
The critical landscape
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The Critical Landscape documents developments in European and American discourse over recent decades. It makes an attempt to formulate an answer to the question put by Michael Hays: 'what should a critical conscious architect, at this moment in history, be doing?'. This book includes contributions by the series editors Arie Graafland and Jasper de Haan, the critics Mark Wigley, Beatriz Colomina, Michael Hays, Karin Wilhelm, Michael Müller, Alexander Tzonis, Rypke Sierksma, Liane Lefaivre, Kyong Park and Yorgos Simeoforidis, and the architects Ben van Berkel & Caroline Bos, Rem Koolhaas and Michael Sorkin.
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September 1996, Rotterdam
Architectural Theory
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Minnesota Modern examines the style that penetrated the social, political, and cultural fabric of the United States at midcentury. Midcentury modernism expressed new ways of thinking about how to live, work, and play in the communities that formed in post-war America. American author Larry Millett describes the style’s sources in the work of European masters like Ludwig(...)
Minnesota Modern: architecture and life at midcentury
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Minnesota Modern examines the style that penetrated the social, political, and cultural fabric of the United States at midcentury. Midcentury modernism expressed new ways of thinking about how to live, work, and play in the communities that formed in post-war America. American author Larry Millett describes the style’s sources in the work of European masters like Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Walter Gropius, as well as the midwestern innovations of Frank Lloyd Wright, and its refinement at the University of Minnesota under the guidance of Ralph Rapson and other modernists.
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