Julius Shulman: Palm Springs
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Through Julius Shulman’s lens, the architecture of Southern California became iconic images of modernism. His photographs heralded the glamor and casual elegance of a lifestyle and architecture that has become revered worldwide. Focusing on the desert paradise of Palm Springs, which was his seminal crucible, this book presents his masterpieces. Images range from Richard(...)
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February 2008, New York
Julius Shulman: Palm Springs
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Through Julius Shulman’s lens, the architecture of Southern California became iconic images of modernism. His photographs heralded the glamor and casual elegance of a lifestyle and architecture that has become revered worldwide. Focusing on the desert paradise of Palm Springs, which was his seminal crucible, this book presents his masterpieces. Images range from Richard Neutra’s Kaufmann House and Albert Frey’s Raymond Loewy House, to Paul R. Williams’ house for Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, Frank Sinatra’s house, John Lautner’s house for Bob Hope, as well as other famous landmarks. The book features more than sixty buildings by fifteen of the most notable mid-twentieth-century architects. With new photography and images culled from his personal collection as well as the Getty Center, this book includes many images never before seen.
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Oak Ridge, Tennessee : Oak Ridge National Laboratory, April 1986.
Building materials research agenda / Ad Hoc Building Materials Research Panel ; E.L. Bales.
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In August 1946, Marcel Duchamp spent five weeks in Switzerland, and stayed at the Hotel Bellevue near Chexbres, on Lake Geneva. It was here that he discovered the Forestay waterfall, which was to become the starting point for (and ultimately the landscape of) his enigmatic and final masterpiece, "Étant donnés: 1° la chute d'eau, 2° le gaz d'éclairage" ("Given: 1. The(...)
Marcel Duchamp and the Forestay Waterfall
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In August 1946, Marcel Duchamp spent five weeks in Switzerland, and stayed at the Hotel Bellevue near Chexbres, on Lake Geneva. It was here that he discovered the Forestay waterfall, which was to become the starting point for (and ultimately the landscape of) his enigmatic and final masterpiece, "Étant donnés: 1° la chute d'eau, 2° le gaz d'éclairage" ("Given: 1. The Waterfall, 2. The Illuminating Gas"). Now, for the first time, the full significance of the choice of this waterfall is explored. Among the contributors to this volume are Caroline Bachmann, Stefan Banz, Etienne Barilier, Lars Blunck, Ecke Bonk, Paul B. Franklin, Antje von Graevenitz, Dalia Judovitz, Michael Lüthy, Bernard Marcadé, Herbert Molderings, Adeena Mey, Stanislaus von Moos, Francis M. Naumann, Mark Nelson, Molly Nesbit, Dominique Radrizzani, Roman Signer, Michael R. Taylor, Hans Maria de Wolf and Philip Ursprung.
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Empreintes de l'Inde : photographie, architecture et politiques de la représentation, 1880-1900
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Cette publication, qui regroupe en quatre parties des essais de douze auteurs, représente une avancée majeure dans l’analyse de la représentation photographique de l’architecture indienne et une référence en étude de l’histoire post-colonialiste de cette région. Les auteurs démontrent collectivement que l’on doit non seulement interpréter les photographies présentées(...)
Empreintes de l'Inde : photographie, architecture et politiques de la représentation, 1880-1900
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Cette publication, qui regroupe en quatre parties des essais de douze auteurs, représente une avancée majeure dans l’analyse de la représentation photographique de l’architecture indienne et une référence en étude de l’histoire post-colonialiste de cette région. Les auteurs démontrent collectivement que l’on doit non seulement interpréter les photographies présentées comme un simple témoignage du passé architectural indien, mais aussi y voir le résultat d’un ensemble complexe de composantes politiques et culturelles qui ont forgé l’Inde coloniale. Les douze auteurs sont : la commissaire associée du CCA, Maria Antonella Pelizzari; l’historien de l’art Stephen Bann; les historiens en photographie Julia Ballerini, John Falconer et Janet Dewan; l’historien en anthropologie Nicholas Dirks; le théoricien en politique Partha Chatterjee; les historiens de la période coloniale Tapati Guha-Thakurta et Peter H. Hoffenberg, Narayani Gupta et Thomas R. Metcalf; et l’anthropologue Christopher Pinney.
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Quiconque visite le Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec ne peut s’empêcher de déambuler dans le bâtiment de l’ancienne prison des plaines, aujourd’hui reconvertie en pavillon muséal Charles-Baillairgé qui abrite des expositions permanentes. Peu de gens savent toutefois que la prison a été en activité jusqu’à l’automne 1970. Construite un siècle plus tôt dans le(...)
La prison des plaines d'Abraham, 1863-1877
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Quiconque visite le Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec ne peut s’empêcher de déambuler dans le bâtiment de l’ancienne prison des plaines, aujourd’hui reconvertie en pavillon muséal Charles-Baillairgé qui abrite des expositions permanentes. Peu de gens savent toutefois que la prison a été en activité jusqu’à l’automne 1970. Construite un siècle plus tôt dans le contexte d’une vaste réforme du système carcéral québécois, la prison des plaines devait être un modèle pénitentiaire. On pensait pouvoir y réhabiliter les déviants par le travail, la discipline et la morale religieuse. Mais entre la théorie et la pratique, il y aura un large fossé. Comme le souligne John R. Porter dans sa préface, cet établissement deviendra «un lieu où les préoccupations relatives à la sécurité et à l’hygiène des prisonniers prirent vite le pas sur les efforts de réhabilitation».
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April 2007, Sillery
Architecture du Québec
Architecture and modern life
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''Architecture and Modern Life'' is a collection of essays by influential architect and educator W. R. Lethaby (1857–1931). In these writings, Lethaby foreshadows Le Corbusier and marks a fascinating transitional point between 19th- and 20th-century architectural thought. With radical foresight, he argues for an “efficiency style” in architecture, for towns that cultivate(...)
Architecture and modern life
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''Architecture and Modern Life'' is a collection of essays by influential architect and educator W. R. Lethaby (1857–1931). In these writings, Lethaby foreshadows Le Corbusier and marks a fascinating transitional point between 19th- and 20th-century architectural thought. With radical foresight, he argues for an “efficiency style” in architecture, for towns that cultivate vitality, and against the science of “profit grinding and grabbing.” Often eerily prescient, phrases such as “there is a culture war going forward” and “There is much talk of Housing at the present time, but it is a case of much talk and little house” could be taken from today’s newspapers. The profound importance of these texts lies in Lethaby’s vision of art and design grounded not in style-novelty or aesthetic theory (“the mystification of architecture”) but in “some reality like health, serviceableness, or even perfect cheapness.”
Architectural Theory
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This volume edited on the occasion of the exhibition at MAXXI - Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo in Rome from 25 October 2024 to 16 March 2025, curated by the world-renowned studio Diller Scofidio + Renfro. The exhibition and thus the catalogue intends to address the theme of movement not so much as a possibility for a building to move from one place to another(...)
Restless architecture: Diller Scofidio + Renfro
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This volume edited on the occasion of the exhibition at MAXXI - Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo in Rome from 25 October 2024 to 16 March 2025, curated by the world-renowned studio Diller Scofidio + Renfro. The exhibition and thus the catalogue intends to address the theme of movement not so much as a possibility for a building to move from one place to another as an internal property of architecture: buildings that change configuration, that have mobile elements, that swell or turn to accommodate more or fewer visitors. The ability to move or change like a transformer is also a recurring feature of the work of Diller and Scofidio (later DS+R), who often also used movement as a platform to connect art and architecture, combining the concepts of building and installation in an experimental (and very productive) way.
Architecture Monographs
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Items of interest for balkers, Bartlebys, benchwarmers, and boondogglers: - Dan Rosenberg on busy idleness - Marina van Zuylen on the intellectual history of lassitude - Christopher Turner on vasectomania and other cures for sloth - A history of the recline of civilization - Sina Najafi interviews Pierre Saint-Amand on the loafers of the Enlightenment - At(...)
Cabinet 29 Sloth
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Items of interest for balkers, Bartlebys, benchwarmers, and boondogglers: - Dan Rosenberg on busy idleness - Marina van Zuylen on the intellectual history of lassitude - Christopher Turner on vasectomania and other cures for sloth - A history of the recline of civilization - Sina Najafi interviews Pierre Saint-Amand on the loafers of the Enlightenment - At long last, a CliffsNotes for Cabinet! And ample additional material for dawdlers, deadbeats, derelicts, dodgers, and do-nothings: - Mark Morris on gingerbread houses - Joshua Foer on time without clocks - Carolyn de la Peña on Gustav Zander’s Stairmaster prototypes - San Keller’s artist project, set in a Rome sunglass shop - Brian Dillon on the water cure - Emily Roysdon opines on opal - Margaret Wertheim interviews Kenneth Libbrecht on snowflake formation - Alexander R. Galloway and McKenzie Wark play a Guy Debord game - Frances Richard and Emilie Clark discuss the lives of women natural historians
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Has Man A Function In Universe? is part of an ongoing project to develop forty projects related to forty questions written by R. Buckminster Fuller. Each project is an artwork or a combination of artworks, developed in response to one of the questions. Of all the questions ‘Has Man A Function In Universe?’ may be the key that binds and directs all of the other questions.(...)
Strategic questions #2: Has man a function in the universe?
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Has Man A Function In Universe? is part of an ongoing project to develop forty projects related to forty questions written by R. Buckminster Fuller. Each project is an artwork or a combination of artworks, developed in response to one of the questions. Of all the questions ‘Has Man A Function In Universe?’ may be the key that binds and directs all of the other questions. Gavin Wade has commissioned artists and writers to respond to this question using a combination of text and image. The publication will reflect the process of the project—an ‘exquisite corpse’ involving collaboration, dissemination and the combining of works. Contributions from: Neil Chapman, Shezad Dawood, Per Hüttner, Juneau Projects, Karin Kihlberg & Reuben Henry, Kerry James Marshall, Jessica Spanyol, Lisa Strömbeck, Mark Titchner, Sue Tompkins, Hayley Tompkins, Gavin Wade and Carey Young.
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March 2008
Architectural Theory
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"Flat Out" 2 delves into disaster, ghost towns, domesticity, and exhibition reviews.The Cameo grasps at elusive visuals in “Get It, While You Can.” The Muckraker exposes a trifecta of blunders besieging Sydney’s urban future in “All Hollowed Out.” The Odd Couple, in “Books, Piles, and Wrinkled Sheets,” debate the significance of Kinfolk’s portraits of “slow living.” The(...)
Flat Out 2 : claims on architecture from an unlikely cast
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"Flat Out" 2 delves into disaster, ghost towns, domesticity, and exhibition reviews.The Cameo grasps at elusive visuals in “Get It, While You Can.” The Muckraker exposes a trifecta of blunders besieging Sydney’s urban future in “All Hollowed Out.” The Odd Couple, in “Books, Piles, and Wrinkled Sheets,” debate the significance of Kinfolk’s portraits of “slow living.” The Political Economist takes a close look at the ground game behind the Obama presidential library, while The Talent Agent pays homage to Iannis Xenakis’s House in Amorgos, and The Scorekeeper gives Toyo Ito’s Taichung Metropolitan Opera House four stars. The cast for this issue features (in order of appearance) Mark Linder, R. E. Somol, Jon Yoder, Ben Nicholson, José Aragüez, Renato Rizzi, Scott Colman, Ellen Grimes, Eric Gordon, Grant Gibson, Fabrizio Gallanti, Sophia Vyzoviti, Julia Capomaggi, and Penelope Dean. Character portraits are by Tom Bachtell.