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Focusing on German cultural and architectural theorist Walter Benjamin’s “constellation of awakening,” TU Delft’s Footprint 18 investigates Benjamin’s conceptualization of “dialectical images,” his use of montage, his refusal of notions of both progress and decline, and his effort to demonstrate how images belong not only to a particular time but attain legibility only at(...)
Footprint 18: constellation of awakening. Benjamin and architecture
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Focusing on German cultural and architectural theorist Walter Benjamin’s “constellation of awakening,” TU Delft’s Footprint 18 investigates Benjamin’s conceptualization of “dialectical images,” his use of montage, his refusal of notions of both progress and decline, and his effort to demonstrate how images belong not only to a particular time but attain legibility only at a particular time.
Architectural Theory
The rain puddle
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Focusing on German cultural and architectural theorist Walter Benjamin’s “constellation of awakening,” TU Delft’s Footprint 18 investigates Benjamin’s conceptualization of “dialectical images,” his use of montage, his refusal of notions of both progress and decline, and his effort to demonstrate how images belong not only to a particular time but attain legibility only at(...)
The rain puddle
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Focusing on German cultural and architectural theorist Walter Benjamin’s “constellation of awakening,” TU Delft’s Footprint 18 investigates Benjamin’s conceptualization of “dialectical images,” his use of montage, his refusal of notions of both progress and decline, and his effort to demonstrate how images belong not only to a particular time but attain legibility only at a particular time.
Children's Books
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BC AD offers a refreshing survey of the firm’s substantial body of work to date, with a welter of previously unpublished material providing a unique insight into how the office works. Included throughout are drawings, sketches, photographs, and scale models that illustrate the office’s consistent ability to find basic, lucid and enduring solutions for complex briefs.
BC AD Benthem Crouwel, 1979-2009
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BC AD offers a refreshing survey of the firm’s substantial body of work to date, with a welter of previously unpublished material providing a unique insight into how the office works. Included throughout are drawings, sketches, photographs, and scale models that illustrate the office’s consistent ability to find basic, lucid and enduring solutions for complex briefs.
Architecture Monographs
Design for a living world
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Design for a living world asks us to think about the products we use -where they come from, how they are made, and the impacts they have on our planet. The Nature Conservancy invited ten designers to create objects from sustainable materials sourced from around the world. Wood, plants, wool, and other organic materials were transformed into intriguing objects.
Design for a living world
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Design for a living world asks us to think about the products we use -where they come from, how they are made, and the impacts they have on our planet. The Nature Conservancy invited ten designers to create objects from sustainable materials sourced from around the world. Wood, plants, wool, and other organic materials were transformed into intriguing objects.
Industrial Design
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This book illustrates how the media have continued to use the city as a space in which to inscribe and assert their power. With a unique focus on corporate headquarters as embodiments of the values of the press and as signposts for understanding media culture, Media Capital demonstrates the mutually supporting relationship between the media and urban space.
Media capital : architecture and communications in New York city
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This book illustrates how the media have continued to use the city as a space in which to inscribe and assert their power. With a unique focus on corporate headquarters as embodiments of the values of the press and as signposts for understanding media culture, Media Capital demonstrates the mutually supporting relationship between the media and urban space.
Architectural Theory
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Architecture in Formation is a digital architecture manual that bridges multiple relationships between theory and practice, proposing a vital resource to structure the upcoming second digital revolution. Sixteen essays from practitioners, historians and theorists look at how information processing informs and is informed by architecture. Twenty-nine experimental projects(...)
September 2013
Architecture in formation : on the nature of information in digital architecture
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Architecture in Formation is a digital architecture manual that bridges multiple relationships between theory and practice, proposing a vital resource to structure the upcoming second digital revolution. Sixteen essays from practitioners, historians and theorists look at how information processing informs and is informed by architecture. Twenty-nine experimental projects propose radical means to inform the new upcoming digital architecture.
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The meteorology of Pietro Corraini is an abstract science applied to an atmosphere stirred by coloured geometric currents. Coloured lines, concentric circles, stars and asterisks are all responsible for how the weather will be in an imaginary place on a day that does not exist. Issue 30 of Un Sedicesimo is dedicated to this abstract forecast!
Un Sedicesimo 30: abstract forecast
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The meteorology of Pietro Corraini is an abstract science applied to an atmosphere stirred by coloured geometric currents. Coloured lines, concentric circles, stars and asterisks are all responsible for how the weather will be in an imaginary place on a day that does not exist. Issue 30 of Un Sedicesimo is dedicated to this abstract forecast!
Illustration
Deco rooms with plants
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This good-humored, relentlessly fresh guide to using plants in any home comes from Satoshi Kawamoto, the garden stylist behind Green Fingers, a mini-chain of home and garden shops in Tokyo. To Kawamoto-san, any empty space in any home — no matter how small — is the perfect place for a plant: kitchen, bedroom, entry, bathroom, an unused shoe.
Deco rooms with plants
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This good-humored, relentlessly fresh guide to using plants in any home comes from Satoshi Kawamoto, the garden stylist behind Green Fingers, a mini-chain of home and garden shops in Tokyo. To Kawamoto-san, any empty space in any home — no matter how small — is the perfect place for a plant: kitchen, bedroom, entry, bathroom, an unused shoe.
Gardens
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What makes the city of the future? How do you heal a divided city? In Radical Cities, Justin McGuirk travels across Latin America in search of the activist architects, maverick politicians and alternative communities already answering these questions. From Brazil to Venezuela, and from Mexico to Argentina, McGuirk discovers the people and ideas shaping the way cities are evolving.
Radical cities: across latin America in search of a new architecture
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What makes the city of the future? How do you heal a divided city? In Radical Cities, Justin McGuirk travels across Latin America in search of the activist architects, maverick politicians and alternative communities already answering these questions. From Brazil to Venezuela, and from Mexico to Argentina, McGuirk discovers the people and ideas shaping the way cities are evolving.
Urban Theory
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In City Choreographer, urban designer and historian Alison Bick Hirsch explains and interprets this creative process, called the RSVP Cycles, referring to the four components: resources, score, valuation, and performance. With access to a vast archive of drawings and documents, Hirsch provides the first close-up look at how Halprin changed our ideas about urban landscapes
City choreographer: Lawrence Halprin in urban renewal America
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In City Choreographer, urban designer and historian Alison Bick Hirsch explains and interprets this creative process, called the RSVP Cycles, referring to the four components: resources, score, valuation, and performance. With access to a vast archive of drawings and documents, Hirsch provides the first close-up look at how Halprin changed our ideas about urban landscapes
Landscape Architecture, Monographs