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Marjorie Perloff's stunning book was one of the first to offer a serious and far-reaching examination of the momentous flourishing of Futurist aesthetics in the European art and literature of the early twentieth century. Offering penetrating considerations of the prose, visual art, poetry, and carefully crafted manifestos of Futurists from Russia to Italy, Perloff reveals(...)
The futurist moment avant-garde, avant guerre, and the language of rupture
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Marjorie Perloff's stunning book was one of the first to offer a serious and far-reaching examination of the momentous flourishing of Futurist aesthetics in the European art and literature of the early twentieth century. Offering penetrating considerations of the prose, visual art, poetry, and carefully crafted manifestos of Futurists from Russia to Italy, Perloff reveals the Moment's impulses and operations, tracing its echoes through the years to the work of "postmodern" figures like Roland Barthes. This updated edition, with its new preface, reexamines the Futurist Moment in the light of a new century, in which Futurist aesthetics seem to have steadily more to say to the present.
Art Theory
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Christopher Tadgell covers the major architectural traditions of the Middle Ages, from the Romanesque architecture of the 9th and 10th centuries, built on the legacy of ancient Rome and including elements from Carolingian, Ottonian, Byzantine and northern European traditions, through to the evolution of the Gothic which heralded new, structurally daring architecture. The(...)
The West: from the advent of Christendom to the eve of Reformation
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Christopher Tadgell covers the major architectural traditions of the Middle Ages, from the Romanesque architecture of the 9th and 10th centuries, built on the legacy of ancient Rome and including elements from Carolingian, Ottonian, Byzantine and northern European traditions, through to the evolution of the Gothic which heralded new, structurally daring architecture. The book ends with the Italian rediscovery of Classical ideas and ideals and the emergence of the great Renaissance theorists and architects, including Brunelleschi, Alberti, and Bramante. As well as the palazzos, villas and churches of Renaissance Italy, this period saw the building of great chateaux in France, palaces in Germany and the golden-domed cathedrals of Russia.
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Big cities are becoming more and more attractive as places to live, both nationally and internationally. The modern city represents a platform for contacts and mobility, for challenges and change. As a result, many european metropolises are registering a renewed trend towards living in urban space. But many big cities still have a surplus of available office space, while(...)
Urban living
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Big cities are becoming more and more attractive as places to live, both nationally and internationally. The modern city represents a platform for contacts and mobility, for challenges and change. As a result, many european metropolises are registering a renewed trend towards living in urban space. But many big cities still have a surplus of available office space, while well-placed, attractive and reasonably priced apartments are lacking. This book not only presents model residential buildings by wellknown architects, but also innovative concepts that highlight future perspectives for redundant office buildings. Their conversion into attractive apartments represents a challenge to architects, investors and residents.
Urban Theory
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The influential Slovenian curator, art critic, writer and theorist Igor Zabel (1958-2005) was largely responsible for putting the Slovenian art scene on the map during the 1990s. As Senior Curator of Ljubljana's Moderna Galerija, he established cultural links between Eastern and Western Europe, developing a unique critical perspective on the ongoing transformation of the(...)
Art Theory
January 2009, Zurich
Continuing dialogues: a tribute to Igor Zabel
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The influential Slovenian curator, art critic, writer and theorist Igor Zabel (1958-2005) was largely responsible for putting the Slovenian art scene on the map during the 1990s. As Senior Curator of Ljubljana's Moderna Galerija, he established cultural links between Eastern and Western Europe, developing a unique critical perspective on the ongoing transformation of the post-Communist era. This indispensable volume both develops and creates new contexts for the theories and strategies illustrated by Zabel in his exhibitions, publications, critical writings and European exchange initiatives. It is published collaboratively by the Igor Zabel Association for Culture and Theory in Ljubljana and the Erste Foundation.
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The art of memory
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The ancient Greeks, to whom a trained memory was of vital importance - as it was to everyone before the invention of printing - created an elaborate memory system, based on a technique of impressing 'places' and 'images' on the mind. Inherited and recorded by the Romans, this art of memory passed into the European tradition, to be revived, in occult form, at the(...)
The art of memory
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The ancient Greeks, to whom a trained memory was of vital importance - as it was to everyone before the invention of printing - created an elaborate memory system, based on a technique of impressing 'places' and 'images' on the mind. Inherited and recorded by the Romans, this art of memory passed into the European tradition, to be revived, in occult form, at the Renaissance, and particularly by the strange and remarkable genius, Giordano Bruno. Such is the main theme of Frances Yates's unique book, in the course of which she sheds light on such diverse subjects as Dante's Divine Comedy, the form of the Shakespearian theatre and the history of ancient architecture.
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September 1999
Architectural Theory
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Mauricio Pezo and Sofía von Ellrichshausen steer their practice with rigid frames out of which a profoundly lyrical architecture comes forth: works where pure geometries and matrix order help them make a link between artistic image and spatial experience. ''Arquitectura Viva'' now presents a selection of them – from a large public facility and two houses to a group of(...)
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November 2023
AV 257 Pezo von Ellrichshausen
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Mauricio Pezo and Sofía von Ellrichshausen steer their practice with rigid frames out of which a profoundly lyrical architecture comes forth: works where pure geometries and matrix order help them make a link between artistic image and spatial experience. ''Arquitectura Viva'' now presents a selection of them – from a large public facility and two houses to a group of pavilions – that shows how life can spontaneously arise also from fixations. In this issue’s dossier, four European buildings present new constructional uses of wood, the retrospective that Herzog & de Meuron have organised at the Royal Academy of Arts, and three exhibitions in Europe on Yayoi Kusama.
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AMAG 40 Go Hasegawa
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How do we dwell lightly? Or build with care? ‘AMAG’ presents a curated selection of key projects by Japanese architect Go Hasegawa, offering insight into the spatial, cultural, and poetic dimensions of his architecture. From private homes to communal spaces, rural Japan to European sites, a deep sensitivity to place, memory, and the human body is revealed. Projects like(...)
AMAG 40 Go Hasegawa
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How do we dwell lightly? Or build with care? ‘AMAG’ presents a curated selection of key projects by Japanese architect Go Hasegawa, offering insight into the spatial, cultural, and poetic dimensions of his architecture. From private homes to communal spaces, rural Japan to European sites, a deep sensitivity to place, memory, and the human body is revealed. Projects like House in a Forest, Pilotis in a Forest, and House in Komazawa explore lightness, nature, and structural clarity. The Yoshino Cedar House merges domesticity and community under one roof, while urban works like Apartment in Nerima and House in Gotanda reimagine domestic life in dense cities.
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Museums, galleries, foundations, collectors, artists, viewers--how do they all come together? How is that changing? This collection of essays and some photographs from a Cologne working group called European Kunsthalle tackles the fundamental issues facing new initiatives and institutions for contemporary art. It is divided into five topics: The Problem of Location, The(...)
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April 2007, Cologne
Under Construction : perspectives on institutional practice
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Museums, galleries, foundations, collectors, artists, viewers--how do they all come together? How is that changing? This collection of essays and some photographs from a Cologne working group called European Kunsthalle tackles the fundamental issues facing new initiatives and institutions for contemporary art. It is divided into five topics: The Problem of Location, The Process of Societal Transformation, Cultural Economies, Curatorial Concepts, and, most ambitiously of all, The Way in Which the Art System Operates. Articles and discussion transcripts include "The Crisis of the Audience," "The Cultural Politics of Institutions," "Smuggling: A Curatorial Model," "The Power and Powerlessness of the Private Collector" and Liam Gillick's "Revised Construction of One."
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The rooted city
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Cities and landscape are inextricably linked. Without landscape there is no city and without city there is no landscape as we know it. Nowadays it is hard to hold on to the distinction between landscape and city – the whole planet has become urban. This raises new questions. How can cities defend themselves against climate change? How can you guarantee the supply of(...)
The rooted city
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Cities and landscape are inextricably linked. Without landscape there is no city and without city there is no landscape as we know it. Nowadays it is hard to hold on to the distinction between landscape and city – the whole planet has become urban. This raises new questions. How can cities defend themselves against climate change? How can you guarantee the supply of drinking water in cities with tens of millions of residents? What can be done about smog choking metropoles? Is food security possible if there is less and less fertile farmland? Rooted City investigates these questions by means of an essay and examples of thirty European cities.
Urban Landscapes
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This edition of the magazine examines the work of French architect Jean Nouvel since just prior to his being awarded the Pritzker Prize in 2008. Featuring an interview with the architect and Francis Marmande, plus an essay by Santiago de Molina, it offers a diverse overview of how this critically acclaimed designer arrived at the present moment in his career. Included are(...)
El Croquis 183: Jean Nouvel 2007-2016
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This edition of the magazine examines the work of French architect Jean Nouvel since just prior to his being awarded the Pritzker Prize in 2008. Featuring an interview with the architect and Francis Marmande, plus an essay by Santiago de Molina, it offers a diverse overview of how this critically acclaimed designer arrived at the present moment in his career. Included are nineteen projects that span the globe, among them the Louvre Abu Dhabi, the Danish Radio Concert House in Copenhagen, the renovation of Moritz Brewery, Hotel Renaissance in Barcelona, two housing projects in Bordeaux, One Central Park in Sydney, and the European Patent Office in Rijswijk.
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