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This publication presents contributions from the symposium ''Constructive Futures – Beyond Concrete'', which marked the start of the academic year 2021/2022 at the School of Architecture of the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland. Its aim is to explore constructive and future-oriented solutions beyond our professional comfort zones and provide(...)
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This publication presents contributions from the symposium ''Constructive Futures – Beyond Concrete'', which marked the start of the academic year 2021/2022 at the School of Architecture of the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland. Its aim is to explore constructive and future-oriented solutions beyond our professional comfort zones and provide(...)
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Beyond concrete: Strategies for a post-fossil Baukultur
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This publication presents contributions from the symposium ''Constructive Futures – Beyond Concrete'', which marked the start of the academic year 2021/2022 at the School of Architecture of the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland. Its aim is to explore constructive and future-oriented solutions beyond our professional comfort zones and provide the opportunity to reflect on where the construction and planning industry currently stands. Why does a fundamental change seem inevitable? With an eye towards our limited resources, we must also rethink approaches and nurture a design culture that finds new ways to deal with building materials.
Beyond concrete: Strategies for a post-fossil Baukultur
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This publication presents contributions from the symposium ''Constructive Futures – Beyond Concrete'', which marked the start of the academic year 2021/2022 at the School of Architecture of the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland. Its aim is to explore constructive and future-oriented solutions beyond our professional comfort zones and provide the opportunity to reflect on where the construction and planning industry currently stands. Why does a fundamental change seem inevitable? With an eye towards our limited resources, we must also rethink approaches and nurture a design culture that finds new ways to deal with building materials.
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The Villa Tugendhat, designed by Mies van der Rohe in 1928, is an icon of architectural modernism and a UNESCO World Heritage site. This book tells the true story of the large family connected to it, who rose to prominence through industrial textile manufacturing. It traces the transformations in the life of the family, from their roots in a Jewish ghetto to part of the(...)
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The Villa Tugendhat, designed by Mies van der Rohe in 1928, is an icon of architectural modernism and a UNESCO World Heritage site. This book tells the true story of the large family connected to it, who rose to prominence through industrial textile manufacturing. It traces the transformations in the life of the family, from their roots in a Jewish ghetto to part of the(...)
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Behind the glass: The Villa Tugendhat and its family
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The Villa Tugendhat, designed by Mies van der Rohe in 1928, is an icon of architectural modernism and a UNESCO World Heritage site. This book tells the true story of the large family connected to it, who rose to prominence through industrial textile manufacturing. It traces the transformations in the life of the family, from their roots in a Jewish ghetto to part of the wealthy bourgeoisie in the Austro-Hungarian Empire to adaptation in interwar independent Czechoslovakia and flight in the face of Nazi invasion. Michael Lambek examines the generation born in the first decade of the twentieth century, especially Grete Tugendhat – Lambek’s maternal grandmother – who commissioned, inhabited, championed, and relinquished the distinctive modern house.The book also provides unpublished correspondence between Martin Heidegger and Ernst Tugendhat, Grete’s son, as well as a description of the impact of a 2017 family reunion.
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The Villa Tugendhat, designed by Mies van der Rohe in 1928, is an icon of architectural modernism and a UNESCO World Heritage site. This book tells the true story of the large family connected to it, who rose to prominence through industrial textile manufacturing. It traces the transformations in the life of the family, from their roots in a Jewish ghetto to part of the wealthy bourgeoisie in the Austro-Hungarian Empire to adaptation in interwar independent Czechoslovakia and flight in the face of Nazi invasion. Michael Lambek examines the generation born in the first decade of the twentieth century, especially Grete Tugendhat – Lambek’s maternal grandmother – who commissioned, inhabited, championed, and relinquished the distinctive modern house.The book also provides unpublished correspondence between Martin Heidegger and Ernst Tugendhat, Grete’s son, as well as a description of the impact of a 2017 family reunion.
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In nineteenth-century Canada, the Square Mile was an elite residential district in Montreal that represented a dramatic new concentration of wealth. Montreal's Square Mile chronicles the history of the Square Mile, including the diverse and far-reaching sources of its making and its twentieth-century transformations. Bringing together the work of leading scholars from(...)
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In nineteenth-century Canada, the Square Mile was an elite residential district in Montreal that represented a dramatic new concentration of wealth. Montreal's Square Mile chronicles the history of the Square Mile, including the diverse and far-reaching sources of its making and its twentieth-century transformations. Bringing together the work of leading scholars from(...)
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Architecture de Montréal
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May 2023
May 2023
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Montreal's Square Mile: the making and transformation of a colonial metropole
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In nineteenth-century Canada, the Square Mile was an elite residential district in Montreal that represented a dramatic new concentration of wealth. Montreal's Square Mile chronicles the history of the Square Mile, including the diverse and far-reaching sources of its making and its twentieth-century transformations. Bringing together the work of leading scholars from a wide range of historical investigation fields, this collection tells the story of the Square Mile from its origins to its decline. Spanning the interconnected worlds of family and home life, business and high politics, architecture and urban redevelopment, this interdisciplinary and richly illustrated volume presents a new account of the history of the Square Mile and an investigation of its impact beyond the immediate urban environment.
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In nineteenth-century Canada, the Square Mile was an elite residential district in Montreal that represented a dramatic new concentration of wealth. Montreal's Square Mile chronicles the history of the Square Mile, including the diverse and far-reaching sources of its making and its twentieth-century transformations. Bringing together the work of leading scholars from a wide range of historical investigation fields, this collection tells the story of the Square Mile from its origins to its decline. Spanning the interconnected worlds of family and home life, business and high politics, architecture and urban redevelopment, this interdisciplinary and richly illustrated volume presents a new account of the history of the Square Mile and an investigation of its impact beyond the immediate urban environment.
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A place comes into existence through the depth of relationships that underwrite a physical location with layers of sedimented names. In this volume scholars and artists conduct varied forms of place-based inquiry to demonstrate why place matters. The volume brings into conversation photographic projects and essays that revitalize the study of landscape. Contributors(...)
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A place comes into existence through the depth of relationships that underwrite a physical location with layers of sedimented names. In this volume scholars and artists conduct varied forms of place-based inquiry to demonstrate why place matters. The volume brings into conversation photographic projects and essays that revitalize the study of landscape. Contributors(...)
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Place matters: critical topographies in word and image
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A place comes into existence through the depth of relationships that underwrite a physical location with layers of sedimented names. In this volume scholars and artists conduct varied forms of place-based inquiry to demonstrate why place matters. The volume brings into conversation photographic projects and essays that revitalize the study of landscape. Contributors engage the study of place through an approach that Jonathan Bordo and Blake Fitzpatrick call critical topography: the way that we understand critical thought to range over a place, or how thought and symbolic forms invent place through text and image as if initiated by an X marking the spot. Critical topography’s tasks are to mediate and to diminish the gap between representation and referent, to be both in the world and about the world; to ask what place is this, what are its names, where am I, how and with what responsibilities may I be here?
Place matters: critical topographies in word and image
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A place comes into existence through the depth of relationships that underwrite a physical location with layers of sedimented names. In this volume scholars and artists conduct varied forms of place-based inquiry to demonstrate why place matters. The volume brings into conversation photographic projects and essays that revitalize the study of landscape. Contributors engage the study of place through an approach that Jonathan Bordo and Blake Fitzpatrick call critical topography: the way that we understand critical thought to range over a place, or how thought and symbolic forms invent place through text and image as if initiated by an X marking the spot. Critical topography’s tasks are to mediate and to diminish the gap between representation and referent, to be both in the world and about the world; to ask what place is this, what are its names, where am I, how and with what responsibilities may I be here?
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December 2022
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Qui s'en souvient, aujourd'hui? Et pourtant! Montréal, de 1844 à 1849, fut bel et bien la capitale du Canada, ou, plus justement, de la « province du Canada », ainsi qu'en avait décidé le gouvernement britannique pour sa colonie. Le Parlement siège dans un imposant bâtiment de pierre grise, érigé en 1834 au-dessus d'une petite rivière canalisée, puis réaménagé?:(...)
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Qui s'en souvient, aujourd'hui? Et pourtant! Montréal, de 1844 à 1849, fut bel et bien la capitale du Canada, ou, plus justement, de la « province du Canada », ainsi qu'en avait décidé le gouvernement britannique pour sa colonie. Le Parlement siège dans un imposant bâtiment de pierre grise, érigé en 1834 au-dessus d'une petite rivière canalisée, puis réaménagé?:(...)
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Montréal, capitale : L'extraordinaire histoire du site archéologique du marché Sainte-Anne et du parlement de la province du Canada
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Qui s'en souvient, aujourd'hui? Et pourtant! Montréal, de 1844 à 1849, fut bel et bien la capitale du Canada, ou, plus justement, de la « province du Canada », ainsi qu'en avait décidé le gouvernement britannique pour sa colonie. Le Parlement siège dans un imposant bâtiment de pierre grise, érigé en 1834 au-dessus d'une petite rivière canalisée, puis réaménagé?: l'ancien marché Sainte-Anne. À l'ambiance d'un marché public, avec ses étals de viande, de poisson et de volaille, succèdent le grincement des plumes des fonctionnaires sur le papier et, juste au-dessus, les débats parfois houleux des députés de l'Assemblée législative ou des membres du Conseil législatif. Mais, le soir du 25 avril 1849, des émeutiers incendient l'édifice… Ces vies successives d'une partie de l'actuelle place D'Youville, dans le Vieux-Montréal, sont restées enfouies dans le sol jusqu'à ce que des fouilles archéologiques les ramènent à la mémoire. Revivez un pan méconnu de l'histoire de Montréal, du Québec et du Canada dans le récit surprenant, mouvementé, inédit, auquel vous convie cet ouvrage collectif que signent, sur l'invitation de Pointe-à-Callière, des historiens et des archéologues passionnés.
Montréal, capitale : L'extraordinaire histoire du site archéologique du marché Sainte-Anne et du parlement de la province du Canada
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Qui s'en souvient, aujourd'hui? Et pourtant! Montréal, de 1844 à 1849, fut bel et bien la capitale du Canada, ou, plus justement, de la « province du Canada », ainsi qu'en avait décidé le gouvernement britannique pour sa colonie. Le Parlement siège dans un imposant bâtiment de pierre grise, érigé en 1834 au-dessus d'une petite rivière canalisée, puis réaménagé?: l'ancien marché Sainte-Anne. À l'ambiance d'un marché public, avec ses étals de viande, de poisson et de volaille, succèdent le grincement des plumes des fonctionnaires sur le papier et, juste au-dessus, les débats parfois houleux des députés de l'Assemblée législative ou des membres du Conseil législatif. Mais, le soir du 25 avril 1849, des émeutiers incendient l'édifice… Ces vies successives d'une partie de l'actuelle place D'Youville, dans le Vieux-Montréal, sont restées enfouies dans le sol jusqu'à ce que des fouilles archéologiques les ramènent à la mémoire. Revivez un pan méconnu de l'histoire de Montréal, du Québec et du Canada dans le récit surprenant, mouvementé, inédit, auquel vous convie cet ouvrage collectif que signent, sur l'invitation de Pointe-à-Callière, des historiens et des archéologues passionnés.
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November 2021
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À partir de centaines de photos, toutes liées à l'existence des Montréalais, ce livre vous convie à un voyage dans l'histoire des habitants de la métropole. Depuis les débuts de la photographie jusqu'au milieu des années 1970, ces images, dont plusieurs sont inédites ou peu connues, dévoilent le visage changeant d'une ville. À tous les âges de la vie, de Saint-Henri à(...)
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À partir de centaines de photos, toutes liées à l'existence des Montréalais, ce livre vous convie à un voyage dans l'histoire des habitants de la métropole. Depuis les débuts de la photographie jusqu'au milieu des années 1970, ces images, dont plusieurs sont inédites ou peu connues, dévoilent le visage changeant d'une ville. À tous les âges de la vie, de Saint-Henri à(...)
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Les Montréalais : Portrais d'une histoire
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À partir de centaines de photos, toutes liées à l'existence des Montréalais, ce livre vous convie à un voyage dans l'histoire des habitants de la métropole. Depuis les débuts de la photographie jusqu'au milieu des années 1970, ces images, dont plusieurs sont inédites ou peu connues, dévoilent le visage changeant d'une ville. À tous les âges de la vie, de Saint-Henri à Westmount, à la maison comme dans la rue ou au boulot, ce sont les plaisirs, les misères et les espoirs des Montréalais qui reprennent vie dans ce livre tout à fait unique, dépeignant toutes les nuances de l'âme d'une ville.
Les Montréalais : Portrais d'une histoire
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À partir de centaines de photos, toutes liées à l'existence des Montréalais, ce livre vous convie à un voyage dans l'histoire des habitants de la métropole. Depuis les débuts de la photographie jusqu'au milieu des années 1970, ces images, dont plusieurs sont inédites ou peu connues, dévoilent le visage changeant d'une ville. À tous les âges de la vie, de Saint-Henri à Westmount, à la maison comme dans la rue ou au boulot, ce sont les plaisirs, les misères et les espoirs des Montréalais qui reprennent vie dans ce livre tout à fait unique, dépeignant toutes les nuances de l'âme d'une ville.
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October 2016
October 2016
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With this book, Jeffrey Saletnik explores the origins of Josef Albers’s teaching practices and their significance in conveying attitudes about form, material, and sensory understanding to artists Eva Hesse and Richard Serra. He demonstrates how pedagogy is a framework that establishes the possibility for artistic discourse and how the methods through which artists learn(...)
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With this book, Jeffrey Saletnik explores the origins of Josef Albers’s teaching practices and their significance in conveying attitudes about form, material, and sensory understanding to artists Eva Hesse and Richard Serra. He demonstrates how pedagogy is a framework that establishes the possibility for artistic discourse and how the methods through which artists learn(...)
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Joseph Albers, late modernism, and pedagogic form
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With this book, Jeffrey Saletnik explores the origins of Josef Albers’s teaching practices and their significance in conveying attitudes about form, material, and sensory understanding to artists Eva Hesse and Richard Serra. He demonstrates how pedagogy is a framework that establishes the possibility for artistic discourse and how the methods through which artists learn are manifested in their individual practices. Tracing through lines from Albers’s training in German educational traditions to his influence on American postwar art, this volume positions Albers’s pedagogy as central to the life of modernism.
Joseph Albers, late modernism, and pedagogic form
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With this book, Jeffrey Saletnik explores the origins of Josef Albers’s teaching practices and their significance in conveying attitudes about form, material, and sensory understanding to artists Eva Hesse and Richard Serra. He demonstrates how pedagogy is a framework that establishes the possibility for artistic discourse and how the methods through which artists learn are manifested in their individual practices. Tracing through lines from Albers’s training in German educational traditions to his influence on American postwar art, this volume positions Albers’s pedagogy as central to the life of modernism.
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September 2022
September 2022
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Valerio Olgiati: Built
Valerio Olgiati: Built
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Valerio Olgiati’s latest book is about the beauty of the very varied buildings he has realized to date. This small volume features them all in seventy-nine colour photographs, each of them supplemented by a floor plan or section serving as a visual caption. The indoor and outdoor shots demonstrate Olgiati’s intuition for spectacular structures and atmospheric(...)
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Valerio Olgiati’s latest book is about the beauty of the very varied buildings he has realized to date. This small volume features them all in seventy-nine colour photographs, each of them supplemented by a floor plan or section serving as a visual caption. The indoor and outdoor shots demonstrate Olgiati’s intuition for spectacular structures and atmospheric(...)
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Valerio Olgiati: Built
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Valerio Olgiati’s latest book is about the beauty of the very varied buildings he has realized to date. This small volume features them all in seventy-nine colour photographs, each of them supplemented by a floor plan or section serving as a visual caption. The indoor and outdoor shots demonstrate Olgiati’s intuition for spectacular structures and atmospheric interiors—from the museum for the UNESCO world cultural heritage site in Bahrain to the Céline flagship store in Miami, from the office building for Baloise Insurance’s headquarters in Basel to the bedroom of the French fashion designer Nicolas Ghesquière, from the visitor center of the Swiss National Park to the studio house for the Swiss musician Linard Bardill in Scharans.
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Valerio Olgiati’s latest book is about the beauty of the very varied buildings he has realized to date. This small volume features them all in seventy-nine colour photographs, each of them supplemented by a floor plan or section serving as a visual caption. The indoor and outdoor shots demonstrate Olgiati’s intuition for spectacular structures and atmospheric interiors—from the museum for the UNESCO world cultural heritage site in Bahrain to the Céline flagship store in Miami, from the office building for Baloise Insurance’s headquarters in Basel to the bedroom of the French fashion designer Nicolas Ghesquière, from the visitor center of the Swiss National Park to the studio house for the Swiss musician Linard Bardill in Scharans.
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May 2023
May 2023
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Architecture Monographs
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Cet ouvrage exauce le voeu de Le Corbusier (1887-1965) de voir éditées les six conférences qu'il prononça à Rio de Janeiro en août 1936. Après celles qu'il donna à Buenos Aires en 1929, ce livre est le deuxième recueil de conférences de l'architecte. Et, comme ce fut le cas à Alger, Moscou, Bruxelles, Athènes, Paris, Stockholm, Rome, Buenos Aires, São Paulo ou Montevideo,(...)
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Cet ouvrage exauce le voeu de Le Corbusier (1887-1965) de voir éditées les six conférences qu'il prononça à Rio de Janeiro en août 1936. Après celles qu'il donna à Buenos Aires en 1929, ce livre est le deuxième recueil de conférences de l'architecte. Et, comme ce fut le cas à Alger, Moscou, Bruxelles, Athènes, Paris, Stockholm, Rome, Buenos Aires, São Paulo ou Montevideo,(...)
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Conférences de Rio : Le Corbusier au Brésil - 1936
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Cet ouvrage exauce le voeu de Le Corbusier (1887-1965) de voir éditées les six conférences qu'il prononça à Rio de Janeiro en août 1936. Après celles qu'il donna à Buenos Aires en 1929, ce livre est le deuxième recueil de conférences de l'architecte. Et, comme ce fut le cas à Alger, Moscou, Bruxelles, Athènes, Paris, Stockholm, Rome, Buenos Aires, São Paulo ou Montevideo, ces propos jouèrent un rôle central dans la propagation de ses idées sur l'architecture et l'urbanisme. L'importance de ce recueil tient au fait qu'il permet de mesurer le chemin parcouru par Le Corbusier entre 1929 et 1936. A travers les propos transcrits, la reproduction des dessins et des projections, on peut non seulement suivre la manière dont Le Corbusier transmettait son message, mais aussi reconstituer le temps et le rythme des conférences : les commentaires qu'il improvisait en restituent l'ambiance et les moments d'intensité.
Conférences de Rio : Le Corbusier au Brésil - 1936
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Cet ouvrage exauce le voeu de Le Corbusier (1887-1965) de voir éditées les six conférences qu'il prononça à Rio de Janeiro en août 1936. Après celles qu'il donna à Buenos Aires en 1929, ce livre est le deuxième recueil de conférences de l'architecte. Et, comme ce fut le cas à Alger, Moscou, Bruxelles, Athènes, Paris, Stockholm, Rome, Buenos Aires, São Paulo ou Montevideo, ces propos jouèrent un rôle central dans la propagation de ses idées sur l'architecture et l'urbanisme. L'importance de ce recueil tient au fait qu'il permet de mesurer le chemin parcouru par Le Corbusier entre 1929 et 1936. A travers les propos transcrits, la reproduction des dessins et des projections, on peut non seulement suivre la manière dont Le Corbusier transmettait son message, mais aussi reconstituer le temps et le rythme des conférences : les commentaires qu'il improvisait en restituent l'ambiance et les moments d'intensité.
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September 2021
September 2021
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Architecture Monographs
Architecture Monographs
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Absolute beginners
Absolute beginners
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In his new book Absolute Beginners, Spanish architect Inaki Abalos explores forms of innovation in architecture. Drawing on diverse materials elaborated during the 20 years since the publication of his best-known book, The Good Life, Abalos examines questions centred on how and why architectural creation – at least the kind that arouses the greatest cultural interest –(...)
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In his new book Absolute Beginners, Spanish architect Inaki Abalos explores forms of innovation in architecture. Drawing on diverse materials elaborated during the 20 years since the publication of his best-known book, The Good Life, Abalos examines questions centred on how and why architectural creation – at least the kind that arouses the greatest cultural interest –(...)
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Absolute beginners
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In his new book Absolute Beginners, Spanish architect Inaki Abalos explores forms of innovation in architecture. Drawing on diverse materials elaborated during the 20 years since the publication of his best-known book, The Good Life, Abalos examines questions centred on how and why architectural creation – at least the kind that arouses the greatest cultural interest – is strongly linked to philosophical thought, especially to the essay and the aphorism. He guides us to an understanding why innovation – as happens in philosophy – is inextricably linked to a reflection on the past and to the emergence of new ways of appropriating old problems. Absolute Beginners is a single essay written with effort and passion, made for the pure pleasure of composing a new and complex work and understanding the source materials as necessary fragments, while remaining open to adjustments, changes, and bridges between them. Abalos organises his materials like a piece of music into a cohesive composition, to the delight and insight of his readers.
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In his new book Absolute Beginners, Spanish architect Inaki Abalos explores forms of innovation in architecture. Drawing on diverse materials elaborated during the 20 years since the publication of his best-known book, The Good Life, Abalos examines questions centred on how and why architectural creation – at least the kind that arouses the greatest cultural interest – is strongly linked to philosophical thought, especially to the essay and the aphorism. He guides us to an understanding why innovation – as happens in philosophy – is inextricably linked to a reflection on the past and to the emergence of new ways of appropriating old problems. Absolute Beginners is a single essay written with effort and passion, made for the pure pleasure of composing a new and complex work and understanding the source materials as necessary fragments, while remaining open to adjustments, changes, and bridges between them. Abalos organises his materials like a piece of music into a cohesive composition, to the delight and insight of his readers.
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February 2023
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