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In this manifesto, Nadir Lahiji asserts that today, architectonic reason has fallen into ruins. As soon as architecture leaves the limits set to it by architectonic reason, no other path is open to it but the path to aestheticism. In its reduction to a pure aesthetic object, architecture negatively affects the human sensorium. Capitalist consumer society creates desires(...)
An architecture manifesto: critical reason and theories of a failed practice
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In this manifesto, Nadir Lahiji asserts that today, architectonic reason has fallen into ruins. As soon as architecture leaves the limits set to it by architectonic reason, no other path is open to it but the path to aestheticism. In its reduction to a pure aesthetic object, architecture negatively affects the human sensorium. Capitalist consumer society creates desires by generating ‘surplus-enjoyment’ for capitalist profit and contemporary architecture has become an instrument in generating this ‘surplus-enjoyment’, with fatal consequences. This manifesto is thus both a critique and a work of theory. It is a siren, alarm, klaxon to the current status quo within architectural discourse and a timely response to the conditions of architecture today.
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Architecture of defeat
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Kengo Kuma's ''Architecture of defeat,'' now available in English for the first time, explores events and architectural trends in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries in both Japan and beyond. It brings together a collection of essays which Kuma wrote after disasters such as the destruction of the World Trade Center in New York City on 9/11 and the earthquake and(...)
Architecture of defeat
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Kengo Kuma's ''Architecture of defeat,'' now available in English for the first time, explores events and architectural trends in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries in both Japan and beyond. It brings together a collection of essays which Kuma wrote after disasters such as the destruction of the World Trade Center in New York City on 9/11 and the earthquake and tsunami that obliterated much of the built landscape on Japan’s northern shore in a matter of minutes in 2011. Asking if we have been building in a manner that is too self-confident or arrogant, he examines architecture’s intrinsic- and often problematic- relationship to the powerful forces of contemporary politics, economics, consumerism, and technology, as well as its vital ties to society.
Architectural Theory
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'Women Architects in the Modern Movement' rewrites the history of modern architecture to elevate the often-overlooked female architects who helped build the movement. Starting with a theoretical analysis that situates women’s roles both in society and architecture specifically, Carmen Espegel examines the transition from women as objects to subjects at the advent of(...)
Women architects in the modern movement
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'Women Architects in the Modern Movement' rewrites the history of modern architecture to elevate the often-overlooked female architects who helped build the movement. Starting with a theoretical analysis that situates women’s roles both in society and architecture specifically, Carmen Espegel examines the transition from women as objects to subjects at the advent of modernity. This theoretical basis is grounded through four case studies on pioneering women architects: Eileen Gray, Lilly Reich, Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky and Charlotte Perriand. Along with illuminating their lives and work, Espegel aims to help us examine and observe the world from a perspective where the feminine and masculine are not exclusive, so that we might learn from the past in order to build with dignity in the future.
Gender Theory in Architecture
Selected writings
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John Ruskin was the most powerful and influential art critic and social commentator of the Victorian nineteenth century. A true polymath, he wrote about nature, art, architecture, politics, history, myth and much more. All of his work is characterized by a clarity of vision as unsettling and intense now as it was for his first readers. This new selection includes(...)
Selected writings
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John Ruskin was the most powerful and influential art critic and social commentator of the Victorian nineteenth century. A true polymath, he wrote about nature, art, architecture, politics, history, myth and much more. All of his work is characterized by a clarity of vision as unsettling and intense now as it was for his first readers. This new selection includes wide-ranging extracts of Ruskin's texts, from the early 1840s to the late 1880s, as well as representative material from each of his major works.
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Sigfried Giedion (1888–1968) and Carola Giedion-Welcker (1893–1979) were among the most influential scholars of art and architectural history during the early twentieth century. Of particular impact was their role in connecting leading protagonists of modernism in architecture, art, and literature, such as Alvar Aalto, Hans Arp, Constantin Brancusi, Marcel Breuer, Max(...)
The Giedion world: Sigfried Giedion and Carola Giedion-Welcker in dialogue
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Sigfried Giedion (1888–1968) and Carola Giedion-Welcker (1893–1979) were among the most influential scholars of art and architectural history during the early twentieth century. Of particular impact was their role in connecting leading protagonists of modernism in architecture, art, and literature, such as Alvar Aalto, Hans Arp, Constantin Brancusi, Marcel Breuer, Max Ernst, Walter Gropius, Barbara Hepworth, Le Corbusier, László Moholy-Nagy, Piet Mondrian, and Sophie Taeuber-Arp. The interactions they initiated, for example, on the new vision in photography or the synthesis of arts continue to be highly relevant to the present day. "The Giedion World" offers a long-awaited reevaluation of Sigfried and Carola Giedion-Welcker’s work and lasting significance.
Architectural Theory
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Preservation is ordinarily reserved for architecture that is unique. So how would we go about preserving buildings that are utterly generic? Such is the case with Belyayevo, an ordinary residential district in Moscow. Belyayevo is a typical microrayon – the standardised neighbourhood system that successive Soviet regimes laid out across the USSR in what was the most(...)
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Belyayevo forever: a Soviet microrayon on its way to the UNESCO list
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Preservation is ordinarily reserved for architecture that is unique. So how would we go about preserving buildings that are utterly generic? Such is the case with Belyayevo, an ordinary residential district in Moscow. Belyayevo is a typical microrayon – the standardised neighbourhood system that successive Soviet regimes laid out across the USSR in what was the most expansive programme of industrialised construction the world has ever seen. Belyayevo’s buildings, and the desolate spaces between them, are identical to thousands of others, but is it different? Kuba Snopek argues that it is. Home to many of the artists of the Moscow Conceptualism school, the place was written into the character of their art. Snopek argues that this intangible heritage is the key to saving a neighbourhood many feel has had its day. But as Russia comes to terms with ist Soviet legacy, will such arguments fall on deaf ears?
Coordonnées 72/18
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Dans cet ouvrage rétrospectif qui traverse plus de quarante années de son travail, il est question de donner une forme à la tension des images, de rendre palpable la friction entre la peur et la sérénité qui se dégagent des sujets. Les différentes séries photographiques s’enchaînent grâce au fil conducteur qu’est l’avertissement : une alerte sur la condition des paysages,(...)
Coordonnées 72/18
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Dans cet ouvrage rétrospectif qui traverse plus de quarante années de son travail, il est question de donner une forme à la tension des images, de rendre palpable la friction entre la peur et la sérénité qui se dégagent des sujets. Les différentes séries photographiques s’enchaînent grâce au fil conducteur qu’est l’avertissement : une alerte sur la condition des paysages, à la fois en danger et puissants, et sur le comportement de l’homme, parfois menaçant, parfois vulnérable. Une introduction rédigée par David Chandler (auteur et professeur à l’université de Plymouth) ainsi que des textes de Gérard Haller (écrivain) accompagnent les images du photographe et contextualisent sa pratique.
Photography monographs
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« Et le bleu du ciel dans l’ombre » de Manuela Marques revient sur la singulière expérience du paysage que l’artiste a pu développer récemment, à l’invitation du musée de Lodève. Plutôt que de privilégier les grandes photographies aux points de vue spectaculaires — que les causses du Larzac ou les environs du lac du Salagou inspirent aisément —, elle a préféré(...)
Et le bleu du ciel dans l'ombre
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« Et le bleu du ciel dans l’ombre » de Manuela Marques revient sur la singulière expérience du paysage que l’artiste a pu développer récemment, à l’invitation du musée de Lodève. Plutôt que de privilégier les grandes photographies aux points de vue spectaculaires — que les causses du Larzac ou les environs du lac du Salagou inspirent aisément —, elle a préféré expérimenter une approche plus intime et sensible du paysage. Observation, déplacement, et collecte d’éléments (pierres, bois, végétaux) font partie intégrante du développement de l’oeuvre. L’artiste pourra, par la suite, intégrer ces collectes dans des planches botaniques d’un nouveau genre ou dans de grandes compositions photographiques où illusions optiques, miroirs noirs et reflets fabriquent un nouveau point de vue : entre la vision d’un paysage et l’imaginaire que celle-ci suscite.
Photography monographs
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This publication examines the participatory elements of the interactive exhibition ''Phenotypes,'' in which individual viewers rearranged and named sequences of photographs from the archive of Berlin-based photographer Armin Linke (born 1966).
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Armin Linke: Phenotypes/ limited forms
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This publication examines the participatory elements of the interactive exhibition ''Phenotypes,'' in which individual viewers rearranged and named sequences of photographs from the archive of Berlin-based photographer Armin Linke (born 1966).
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A celebrated figure in myth, song, and story, the nightingale has captivated the imagination for millennia, its complex song evoking a prism of human emotions,-from melancholy to joy, from the fear of death to the immortality of art. As philosopher and musician David Rothenberg shows in this searching and personal new book, the nightingale's song is so peculiar in part(...)
Nightingales in Berlin: searching for the perfect sound
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A celebrated figure in myth, song, and story, the nightingale has captivated the imagination for millennia, its complex song evoking a prism of human emotions,-from melancholy to joy, from the fear of death to the immortality of art. As philosopher and musician David Rothenberg shows in this searching and personal new book, the nightingale's song is so peculiar in part because it reflects our own cacophony back at us. As vocal learners, nightingales acquire their music through the world around them, singing amidst the sounds of humanity in all its contradictions of noise and beauty, hard machinery and soft melody. Rather than try to capture a sound not made for us to understand, Rothenberg seeks these musical creatures out, clarinet in tow, and makes a new sound with them. He takes us to the urban landscape of Berlin—longtime home to nightingale colonies where the birds sing ever louder in order to be heard—and invites us to listen in on their remarkable collaboration as birds and instruments riff off of each other's sounds. Through dialogue, travel records, sonograms, tours of Berlin's city parks, and musings on the place animal music occupies in our collective imagination, Rothenberg takes us on a quest for a new sonic alchemy, a music impossible for any one species to make alone.
Landscape Theory