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A complete documentation of Yayoi Kusama's early performative activities in the Netherlands in the 1960s-70s, through a collection of previously unpublished photographs and written and visual accounts from eyewitnesses, showcasing her unique style and engagement with the emerging sexual revolution.
Contemporary Art Monographs
December 2023
Yayoi Kusama: The Dutch years 1960–70
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A complete documentation of Yayoi Kusama's early performative activities in the Netherlands in the 1960s-70s, through a collection of previously unpublished photographs and written and visual accounts from eyewitnesses, showcasing her unique style and engagement with the emerging sexual revolution.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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Ce recueil ne propose pas une théorie du dessin architectural, mais réunit sept essais (écrits durant ces quinze dernières années), qui explorent le potentiel du dessin architectural au cours du XXe siècle, à travers sept modes de représentation : le plan, la coupe, la flèche, la grille, les images, le diagramme, le dessin.
Un dessin n'est pas un plan et autres essais
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Ce recueil ne propose pas une théorie du dessin architectural, mais réunit sept essais (écrits durant ces quinze dernières années), qui explorent le potentiel du dessin architectural au cours du XXe siècle, à travers sept modes de représentation : le plan, la coupe, la flèche, la grille, les images, le diagramme, le dessin.
Architectural Theory
Landscape with(out) Locus
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How do we understand landscape today? How do we discuss and visualize nature? Can they be conceived and represented as something existing independently of the viewer, now that the human race has gotten into a very last corner of the world? 'Landscape with(out) Locus' interprets landscape as an ever-changing social, economic, and ecological construct. Addressing questions(...)
Landscape with(out) Locus
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How do we understand landscape today? How do we discuss and visualize nature? Can they be conceived and represented as something existing independently of the viewer, now that the human race has gotten into a very last corner of the world? 'Landscape with(out) Locus' interprets landscape as an ever-changing social, economic, and ecological construct. Addressing questions of power, identity, and natural resources, the publication follows histories of surveillance and colonialism, considering photographic (and post-photographic) images as central to the process of interacting with the world.
Landscape Theory
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Paru en 2007, ''À perte de mère'' est le deuxième livre de Saidiya Hartman. L'écriture est celle, contre-disciplinaire, de la recherche d'archives, de l'analyse, du journal, de la poésie, de l'autobiographie ; confrontée aux trajectoires de déportation d'une rive à l'autre de l'Atlantique, aux vies décimées et bouleversées par la traite négrière esclavagiste.
À perte de mère : Sur les routes atlantiques de l'esclavage
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Paru en 2007, ''À perte de mère'' est le deuxième livre de Saidiya Hartman. L'écriture est celle, contre-disciplinaire, de la recherche d'archives, de l'analyse, du journal, de la poésie, de l'autobiographie ; confrontée aux trajectoires de déportation d'une rive à l'autre de l'Atlantique, aux vies décimées et bouleversées par la traite négrière esclavagiste.
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''On women'' presents seven essays and exchanges, spanning a range of subjects: the challenges and humiliations women face as they age; the relationship between women's liberation and class struggle; beauty, which Sontag calls "that over-rich brew of so many familiar opposites"; feminism; fascism; and film. Taken together, these pieces-relentlessly curious, historically(...)
On women
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''On women'' presents seven essays and exchanges, spanning a range of subjects: the challenges and humiliations women face as they age; the relationship between women's liberation and class struggle; beauty, which Sontag calls "that over-rich brew of so many familiar opposites"; feminism; fascism; and film. Taken together, these pieces-relentlessly curious, historically precise, politically robust, and allergic to easy categorization Sontag's inimitable mind at work.
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The five-volume set "Food for architects" is dedicated to the buildings and recipes of the renowned Zurich-based firm Steib Gmür Geschwentner Kyburz Partners. As enthusiastic housing designers, they have been searching for both the perfect floor plan and the perfect spaghetti for three decades. Volume 1 of this first comprehensive book on the firm’s work brings together(...)
Architecture Monographs
March 2024
Food for Architects: Steib Gmür Geschwentner Kyburz, Exponents of excellent housing
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The five-volume set "Food for architects" is dedicated to the buildings and recipes of the renowned Zurich-based firm Steib Gmür Geschwentner Kyburz Partners. As enthusiastic housing designers, they have been searching for both the perfect floor plan and the perfect spaghetti for three decades. Volume 1 of this first comprehensive book on the firm’s work brings together brief personal texts on the various types of rooms in a house or apartment as well as other aspects of living. Volume 2 offers insights into the evolution and design methods of Steib Gmür Geschwentner Kyburz Partners, documenting sixty-five key buildings and projects from their portfolio. Volume 3 features floor plans of a total of 168 furnished apartments with concise comments, interspersed with recipes for twelve spaghetti dishes. In a photo essay, volume 4 introduces the inhabitants of eleven apartments from various realized buildings, who also speak about their homes in brief interviews. The dessert of this five-course menu is the concluding volume 5, featuring a conversation with the firm’s four partners—Jakob Steib, Patrick Gmür, Michael Geschwentner, and Matthias Kyburz—as they discuss topics that are key to their architectural work.
Architecture Monographs
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If every disabled character is mocked and mistreated, how does the Beast ever imagine a happily-ever-after? Amanda Leduc looks at fairy tales from the Brothers Grimm to Disney, showing us how they influence our expectations and behaviour and linking the quest for disability rights to new kinds of stories that celebrate difference.
Disfigured: On fairy tales, disability, and making space
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If every disabled character is mocked and mistreated, how does the Beast ever imagine a happily-ever-after? Amanda Leduc looks at fairy tales from the Brothers Grimm to Disney, showing us how they influence our expectations and behaviour and linking the quest for disability rights to new kinds of stories that celebrate difference.
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The first book to take a feminist geographical approach to infrastructure, "Gendered infrastructures" delves into the complex relationships between identity, social relations, and infrastructure. By drawing on feminist scholarship to enable new frameworks for critical study, this edited volume explores the gendered nature of infrastructures as diverse as Senegal’s waste(...)
Gendered infrastructures: Space, scale and identity
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The first book to take a feminist geographical approach to infrastructure, "Gendered infrastructures" delves into the complex relationships between identity, social relations, and infrastructure. By drawing on feminist scholarship to enable new frameworks for critical study, this edited volume explores the gendered nature of infrastructures as diverse as Senegal’s waste disposal, Vietnam’s cement industry, and Lilongwe’s water kiosks. The chapters consider how infrastructural assemblages rework and shape gendered relations, identities, and meanings across space, while tracing the intersectionality of relations and uneven geographies that surround infrastructure. Ultimately, the contributors show how gender is always present in the quotidian building blocks that organize the socio-material world and daily life.
Gender Theory in Architecture
Decolonize self-care
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"Decolonize self-care" mounts a sharply critical investigation into contemporary "self-care" practices—particularly those that embrace using mindfulness and other techniques such as tantra and yoga, as well as gluten-free and low-carbohydrate diets. The authors argue that "self-care" has become an industry, and one that is often marketed to and by wealthy, cisgender,(...)
Decolonize self-care
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"Decolonize self-care" mounts a sharply critical investigation into contemporary "self-care" practices—particularly those that embrace using mindfulness and other techniques such as tantra and yoga, as well as gluten-free and low-carbohydrate diets. The authors argue that "self-care" has become an industry, and one that is often marketed to and by wealthy, cisgender, white women in the global north. Spurgas and Meleo-Erwin contend that the rhetoric of "feminism" is regularly co-opted in selling self-care, with wealthy white women being the primary consumer target and also those who profit from self-care entrepreneurship. Through careful research and sharp analysis, the authors offer a vision of more radical, communal, collective, anti-racist, and anti-capitalist forms of care for chronic pain, burnout, depression, anxiety, and other conditions, which are often the result of gendered, sexualized, racialized, ableist, and colonialist traumas under late capitalism. Utilizing critical feminist disability studies, madness studies, Black feminist scholarship, decolonial theory, and other intersectional and Marxist feminist critique, the authors re-theorize care outside of and beyond what current self-care rhetorics generally allow. A smart and often laugh-out-loud read, "Decolonize self-care" speaks to academic and lay audiences alike.
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This book ''deconstructs'' a single recently constructed house located in Seattle, WA, in an attempt to recover its backstory. The information is presented along four vectors - atoms, labors, sources and ingredients. Though remarkably detailed, the book contends that a huge proportion of what we ''know'' about the house is unknowable, not because ou epistemological(...)
Architecture Monographs
March 2023
A house deconstructed: Office of (Un)certainty research
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This book ''deconstructs'' a single recently constructed house located in Seattle, WA, in an attempt to recover its backstory. The information is presented along four vectors - atoms, labors, sources and ingredients. Though remarkably detailed, the book contends that a huge proportion of what we ''know'' about the house is unknowable, not because ou epistemological instruments aren't strong enough or calibrated precisely enough, but because things themselves are indeterminate, uncertain.
Architecture Monographs