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This issue identifies the critical role played by public bodies in carving out public space and celebrates new public spaces around the world shortlisted in the second edition of the AR Public awards. Five public spaces are revisited in the issue, to ask how their original designers envisaged their use and how their role in public life has changed with time and shifting(...)
The Architectural Review 1513, jul/aug 2024
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This issue identifies the critical role played by public bodies in carving out public space and celebrates new public spaces around the world shortlisted in the second edition of the AR Public awards. Five public spaces are revisited in the issue, to ask how their original designers envisaged their use and how their role in public life has changed with time and shifting incentives. Some are success stories: Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro ‘attracts the richest and the poorest‘, while in Paris’s Le Cent Quatre, artists rehearse in a convivial, open atmosphere. In New York, the High Line’s ‘successes and shortcomings are as much a product of the neoliberal economy as of its designers’, while entrance to Meskel Square in Addis Ababa has become subject to an entrance fee.
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Avec ce cinquième volet de l’Atlas des Régions Naturelles, Eric Tabuchi et Nelly Monnier poursuivent leur projet au long cours engagé en 2017 : la documentation globale des 450 régions naturelles – ou « pays » – qui composent le territoire français. Une aventure photographique hors normes destinée à se déployer sur plusieurs années, au rythme d’une publication par(...)
ARN Vol. 5. Atlas des régions naturelles
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Avec ce cinquième volet de l’Atlas des Régions Naturelles, Eric Tabuchi et Nelly Monnier poursuivent leur projet au long cours engagé en 2017 : la documentation globale des 450 régions naturelles – ou « pays » – qui composent le territoire français. Une aventure photographique hors normes destinée à se déployer sur plusieurs années, au rythme d’une publication par semestre. En sillonnant ces petites entités géographiques et culturelles parfois tombées en désuétude face au découpage administratif de l’Hexagone, le duo collecte les éléments visuels de ce qui fonde une région. Ils associent indifféremment les particularismes impulsés par l’homme – architectures traditionnelles, toponymes, esthétiques locales, traces de l’histoire – et les motifs naturels, tels que reliefs, paysages, couleurs, végétation, etc.
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'Siza' is the official catalogue of the Gulbenkian Foundation’s 2024 exhibition celebrating one of architecture’s greatest living figures. Curated by Carlos Quintáns, it presents ninety of Álvaro Siza’s projects - organised around thirty verbs that define his approach - alongside original archival material, sketches, and photographs by Juan Rodríguez. Essays by nine(...)
Architecture Monographs
September 2024
Siza
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'Siza' is the official catalogue of the Gulbenkian Foundation’s 2024 exhibition celebrating one of architecture’s greatest living figures. Curated by Carlos Quintáns, it presents ninety of Álvaro Siza’s projects - organised around thirty verbs that define his approach - alongside original archival material, sketches, and photographs by Juan Rodríguez. Essays by nine leading architects and eight rare texts by Siza himself offer fresh insights into his work, while exhibition views capture the spirit of the show. Richly illustrated and thoughtfully edited, this book is both a tribute and an essential study of Siza’s enduring influence.
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Prishtina in 53 buildings
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"Prishtina in 53 Buildings" draws a multifaceted portrait of Kosovo’s capital city by using architecture as a prism to understand political, cultural and economic processes. Essays on fifty-three built structures, written by different authors with different geographical background and different professional perspective, add up to multilayered account of the city’s history(...)
Architecture since 1900, Europe
October 2023
Prishtina in 53 buildings
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"Prishtina in 53 Buildings" draws a multifaceted portrait of Kosovo’s capital city by using architecture as a prism to understand political, cultural and economic processes. Essays on fifty-three built structures, written by different authors with different geographical background and different professional perspective, add up to multilayered account of the city’s history and present. "Prishtina in 53 Buildings" is more than a guide book for visitors or residents of the city. Buildings are not only the materialization of design principles or architectonic ideas, but the outcome of socio-economic processes. The built environment is constantly re-appropriated, re-interpreted and re-valuated as architects do not have the final say as to the meaning and the function of an edifice. By conceptualizing architecture as materialization of societal processes, "Prishtina in 53 Buildings" pushes beyond notions that assume an intrinsic and coherent "logic" of cities. The editors Donika Luzhnica and Jonas König show that a polyphonic approach is more apposite to depict the often-contradictory trajectories of urban development.
Architecture since 1900, Europe
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Tom de Peyret observes the inner workings of power. Behind the shine of glossy facades, into the meanders of silent infrastructures. A barely recognizable New York City is sometimes outlined in the shape of a bridge, a faraway skyscraper, or the logo of the New York Times — whose presses he surveys, along the alleyways of their Queens printing plant. This book avoids(...)
1 New York Times Plaza, NY 11356
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Tom de Peyret observes the inner workings of power. Behind the shine of glossy facades, into the meanders of silent infrastructures. A barely recognizable New York City is sometimes outlined in the shape of a bridge, a faraway skyscraper, or the logo of the New York Times — whose presses he surveys, along the alleyways of their Queens printing plant. This book avoids postcard mise-en-scènes to scrutinize the city’s own anonymous pedestal; the structure which grants the capital its daily role, as the Empire’s unofficial epicenter. Much like writer Philippe Vasset, Tom de Peyret sneaks into off-record zones, areas solely charted as non-lieus. Through oblique excursions across New York City, he explores inaccessible, forbidden or disused places From military grounds in construction to prisons and airports, his odyssey also unveils, as a reflection, the insides of the New York Times’s printing presses. There, an almost archaic form of the newspaper is being printed, to be read a few hours later in fancy hotel lobbies, airport terminals or international public libraries — distributed by the same trucks driving down the highway interchanges of the Five Boroughs.
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Playground Issue 2
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The second 112-page issue of Playground delves into childhood, memories, and nostalgia, exploring how they shape our thoughts and creations. It’s a beloved topic that many writers, illustrators, and interviewees have opened up about, sharing their musings and recollections. At its core, this issue is also about people finding their playgrounds and elements of play –(...)
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August 2024
Playground Issue 2
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The second 112-page issue of Playground delves into childhood, memories, and nostalgia, exploring how they shape our thoughts and creations. It’s a beloved topic that many writers, illustrators, and interviewees have opened up about, sharing their musings and recollections. At its core, this issue is also about people finding their playgrounds and elements of play – sometimes needing to slow down, sometimes needing to play more, or to play by different rules.
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Nowhere in Berlin does the sky feel quite so close as when you are standing on the seemingly boundless plain known as Tempelhofer Feld. One of the world’s largest inner-city open spaces, it has been the object of Anna Thiele’s (lives and works in Berlin) photographic observations for over a decade. Panorama shots capture the austere calm of this initially unprepossessing(...)
Anna Thiel: Tempelhof metamorphosis
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Nowhere in Berlin does the sky feel quite so close as when you are standing on the seemingly boundless plain known as Tempelhofer Feld. One of the world’s largest inner-city open spaces, it has been the object of Anna Thiele’s (lives and works in Berlin) photographic observations for over a decade. Panorama shots capture the austere calm of this initially unprepossessing oasis in the heart of the fast-paced capital and portray a sweeping landscape that inspires contemplative stillness.
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"Beatriz da Costa: (un)disciplinary tactics" is the most comprehensive documentation and analysis to date of late artist Beatriz da Costa's (1974–2012) groundbreaking work. As a retrospective of a brilliant young artist, it renders a social portrait of her artistic practice by both contextualizing the work in its historical period (late 1990s to early 2010s) and extending(...)
Beatriz da Costa: Undisciplinary tactics
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"Beatriz da Costa: (un)disciplinary tactics" is the most comprehensive documentation and analysis to date of late artist Beatriz da Costa's (1974–2012) groundbreaking work. As a retrospective of a brilliant young artist, it renders a social portrait of her artistic practice by both contextualizing the work in its historical period (late 1990s to early 2010s) and extending the work's socio-political concerns to the present. The book, edited by Daniela Lieja Quintanar, features a collection of essays by curators, artists, and researchers from a variety of fields, including technoscience, tactical media, cancer research, environmental justice, performance art, and participatory art. It also includes a group of reflections written by former collaborators and close friends.
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DNA #6: Carrier bag fiction
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Ursula K. Le Guin’s 1986 essay “The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction” presents a feminist story of technology centering on the collective sustenance of life, and reimagines the carrier bag as a tool for telling strangely realistic fictions. Here, new writings and images respond to her narrative practice of worldmaking through gathering and holding.
DNA #6: Carrier bag fiction
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Ursula K. Le Guin’s 1986 essay “The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction” presents a feminist story of technology centering on the collective sustenance of life, and reimagines the carrier bag as a tool for telling strangely realistic fictions. Here, new writings and images respond to her narrative practice of worldmaking through gathering and holding.
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