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Located at the crossroads of struggles between democratic, communist, and fascist visions of the modern world, twentieth-century Prague witnessed revolutions and invasions, national liberation and ethnic cleansing, the Holocaust, show trials, and snuffed-out dreams of "socialism with a human face." Yet between the wars, when Prague was the capital of Europe's most(...)
Prague : capital of the twentieth century, a surrealist history
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Located at the crossroads of struggles between democratic, communist, and fascist visions of the modern world, twentieth-century Prague witnessed revolutions and invasions, national liberation and ethnic cleansing, the Holocaust, show trials, and snuffed-out dreams of "socialism with a human face." Yet between the wars, when Prague was the capital of Europe's most easterly parliamentary democracy, it was also a hotbed of artistic and architectural modernism, and a center of surrealism second only to Paris. Focusing on these years, Sayer explores Prague's spectacular modern buildings, monuments, paintings, books, films, operas, exhibitions, and much more.
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Weiwei-isms
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This collection of quotes demonstrates the elegant simplicity of Ai Weiwei's thoughts on key aspects of his art, politics, and life. A master at communicating powerful ideas in few words, Ai Weiwei is known for his innovative use of social media to disseminate his views. The short quotations presented here have been carefully selected from articles, tweets, and interviews(...)
Weiwei-isms
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This collection of quotes demonstrates the elegant simplicity of Ai Weiwei's thoughts on key aspects of his art, politics, and life. A master at communicating powerful ideas in few words, Ai Weiwei is known for his innovative use of social media to disseminate his views. The short quotations presented here have been carefully selected from articles, tweets, and interviews given by this acclaimed Chinese artist and activist.
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The melancholy art
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Melancholy is not only about sadness, despair, and loss. As Renaissance artists and philosophers acknowledged long ago, it can engender a certain kind of creativity born from a deep awareness of the mutability of life and the inevitable cycle of birth and death. Drawing on psychoanalysis, philosophy, and the intellectual history of the history of art, The Melancholy Art(...)
The melancholy art
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Melancholy is not only about sadness, despair, and loss. As Renaissance artists and philosophers acknowledged long ago, it can engender a certain kind of creativity born from a deep awareness of the mutability of life and the inevitable cycle of birth and death. Drawing on psychoanalysis, philosophy, and the intellectual history of the history of art, The Melancholy Art explores the unique connections between melancholy and the art historian's craft.
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Teardown reminds us that cities are ultimately defined by people, not politics or economics.
Teardown : memoir of a vanishing city
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Teardown reminds us that cities are ultimately defined by people, not politics or economics.
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Surfaces: a history
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Human beings are surrounded by surfaces: from our skin to faces, to the walls and streets of our homes and cities, to the images, books, and screens of our cultures and civilizations, to the natural world and what we imagine beyond. In this thought-provoking and richly textured book, Joseph A. Amato traces the human relationship with surfaces from the deep history of(...)
Surfaces: a history
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Human beings are surrounded by surfaces: from our skin to faces, to the walls and streets of our homes and cities, to the images, books, and screens of our cultures and civilizations, to the natural world and what we imagine beyond. In this thought-provoking and richly textured book, Joseph A. Amato traces the human relationship with surfaces from the deep history of human evolution, which unfolded across millennia, up to the contemporary world.
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In Beyond the Metropolis, Louise Young looks at the emergence of urbanism in the interwar period, a global moment when the material and ideological structures that constitute “the city” took their characteristic modern shape. In Japan, as elsewhere, cities became the staging ground for wide ranging social, cultural, economic, and political transformations. The rise of(...)
Beyond the metropolis : second cities and modern life in interwar Japan
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In Beyond the Metropolis, Louise Young looks at the emergence of urbanism in the interwar period, a global moment when the material and ideological structures that constitute “the city” took their characteristic modern shape. In Japan, as elsewhere, cities became the staging ground for wide ranging social, cultural, economic, and political transformations. The rise of social problems, the formation of a consumer marketplace, the proliferation of streetcars and streetcar suburbs, and the cascade of investments in urban development reinvented the city as both socio-spatial form and set of ideas.
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In eleven pointed and sometimes provocative conversations, architect and professor of architecture, Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani uses a critique of contemporary urban planning to develop principles for reestablishing the discipline. In seven projects designed with these principles in mind, he shows how his vigorous reinterpretation of the field can be implemented and what(...)
Urban design as craft : eleven conversations and seven projects, 1999-2011
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In eleven pointed and sometimes provocative conversations, architect and professor of architecture, Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani uses a critique of contemporary urban planning to develop principles for reestablishing the discipline. In seven projects designed with these principles in mind, he shows how his vigorous reinterpretation of the field can be implemented and what a fresh start can look like. Magnago Lampugnani envisages a calm modern city that can measure itself against the historic city, while emphasizing sustainability and providing a home for a multifaceted and continually changing society.
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Choisissant le mode de la biographie intellectuelle, Vincent Gerber croise les événements biographiques de Bookchin avec l'évolution de sa pensée au fil du temps. Il offre ainsi une vue d'ensemble claire, synthétique mais aussi critique de l'écologie sociale, tout en analysant les thèmes qui traversent ce mouvement d'écologie radicale: décentralisation, démocratie(...)
Murray Bookchin et l'écologie sociale: une biographie intellectuelle
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Choisissant le mode de la biographie intellectuelle, Vincent Gerber croise les événements biographiques de Bookchin avec l'évolution de sa pensée au fil du temps. Il offre ainsi une vue d'ensemble claire, synthétique mais aussi critique de l'écologie sociale, tout en analysant les thèmes qui traversent ce mouvement d'écologie radicale: décentralisation, démocratie directe, technologies et villes à échelle humaine, etc.
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La ville sur mesure : François Grether, Grand Prix de l'urbanisme 2012 - hommage à Marcel Roncayolo
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"La ville sur mesure" est une ville pensée comme unique, spécifique, qui échappe à la banalisation et à la standardisation; une ville bien dimensionnée, sobre, qui cherche le juste équilibre entre le neuf et l'existant, entre le minéral et les éléments de nature; une ville économe en moyens, qui donne à la nouvelle rue, à la nouvelle place la bonne échelle, adaptée à(...)
La ville sur mesure : François Grether, Grand Prix de l'urbanisme 2012 - hommage à Marcel Roncayolo
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"La ville sur mesure" est une ville pensée comme unique, spécifique, qui échappe à la banalisation et à la standardisation; une ville bien dimensionnée, sobre, qui cherche le juste équilibre entre le neuf et l'existant, entre le minéral et les éléments de nature; une ville économe en moyens, qui donne à la nouvelle rue, à la nouvelle place la bonne échelle, adaptée à l'usage des habitants et aisée à entretenir. "La ville sur mesure", tel est le slogan que François Grether, Grand Prix de l'urbanisme 2012, a choisi pour défendre son approche multiple et sensible, attentive à tous les territoires, y compris les oubliés de l'urbanisme que sont les lointaines périphéries et les petites villes.
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En 1952, Paolo Masieri commande à l'architecte américain Frank Lloyd Wright la construction d'un palazzino sur le Grand Canal à Venise, à la mémoire de son fils disparu. Les plans sont dessinés, mais le tollé que suscite le projet résolument moderne de Wright empêchera finalement sa réalisation. Sergio Bettini prendra fait et cause pour le "Mémorial Masieri" au nom,(...)
Wright et Venise : suivi de, Petite histoire du Mémorial Masieri que Frank Lloyd Wright n'a pas construit à Venise
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En 1952, Paolo Masieri commande à l'architecte américain Frank Lloyd Wright la construction d'un palazzino sur le Grand Canal à Venise, à la mémoire de son fils disparu. Les plans sont dessinés, mais le tollé que suscite le projet résolument moderne de Wright empêchera finalement sa réalisation. Sergio Bettini prendra fait et cause pour le "Mémorial Masieri" au nom, justement, de la richesse architecturale de la ville. Il ne fut pas entendu. Mais son plaidoyer pour "Wright à Venise" est un vibrant appel au génie vénitien ancestral qui, en refusant Wright, signera son arrêt de mort et sa progressive muséification.
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