Surrealism at play
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In 'Surrealism at Play' Susan Laxton writes a new history of surrealism in which she traces the centrality of play to the movement and its ongoing legacy. For surrealist artists, play took a consistent role in their aesthetic as they worked in, with, and against a post-World War I world increasingly dominated by technology and functionalism.
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In 'Surrealism at Play' Susan Laxton writes a new history of surrealism in which she traces the centrality of play to the movement and its ongoing legacy. For surrealist artists, play took a consistent role in their aesthetic as they worked in, with, and against a post-World War I world increasingly dominated by technology and functionalism.
Art Theory
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This publication explores life in the age of climate change through a series of infrastructural puzzles - sites at which it has become impossible to disentangle the natural from the built environment. With topics ranging from breakwaters built of oysters, underground rivers made by leaky pipes, and architecture gone weedy to neighborhoods partially submerged by rising(...)
Infrastructure, environment and life in the anthropocene
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This publication explores life in the age of climate change through a series of infrastructural puzzles - sites at which it has become impossible to disentangle the natural from the built environment. With topics ranging from breakwaters built of oysters, underground rivers made by leaky pipes, and architecture gone weedy to neighborhoods partially submerged by rising tides, the contributors explore situations that destabilize the concepts we once relied on to address environmental challenges.
Environment and environmental theory
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In 2006 Abu Dhabi launched an ambitious project to construct the world’s first zero-carbon city: Masdar City. In 'Spaceship in the Desert' Gökçe Günel examines the development and construction of Masdar City's renewable energy and clean technology infrastructures, providing an illuminating portrait of an international group of engineers, designers, and students who(...)
Spaceship in the Desert : Energy, Climate Change, and Urban Design in Abu Dhabi
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In 2006 Abu Dhabi launched an ambitious project to construct the world’s first zero-carbon city: Masdar City. In 'Spaceship in the Desert' Gökçe Günel examines the development and construction of Masdar City's renewable energy and clean technology infrastructures, providing an illuminating portrait of an international group of engineers, designers, and students who attempted to build a post-oil future in Abu Dhabi.
Arch Southwest Asia & North Africa
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As a response to the predominantly male presence in the design scene, this book exclusively presents works by exceptional female designers. It is not about discovering something inherently “female” and defining “feminine” design, but to counter the male-dominated discourse of the sector. The carefully selected graphic works stand on their own and range from commissioned(...)
Graphic Design and Typography
June 2019
notamuse: New perspectives on women graphic designers in Europe
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As a response to the predominantly male presence in the design scene, this book exclusively presents works by exceptional female designers. It is not about discovering something inherently “female” and defining “feminine” design, but to counter the male-dominated discourse of the sector. The carefully selected graphic works stand on their own and range from commissioned assignments via free artistic projects to the area of design research. They open new perspectives on how diverse contemporary graphic design can be.
Graphic Design and Typography
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The 14 Bauhaus books, edited by Walter Gropius and Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, were published between 1925 and 1930. Their authors discussed design principles, practices, and artistic approaches from various perspectives. Johannes Rinkenburger has examined and researched the contents and key concepts of this avant-garde series of books along with their backgrounds and context and(...)
Visions of the Bauhaus books: exploring connections to contemporary graphic design practice
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The 14 Bauhaus books, edited by Walter Gropius and Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, were published between 1925 and 1930. Their authors discussed design principles, practices, and artistic approaches from various perspectives. Johannes Rinkenburger has examined and researched the contents and key concepts of this avant-garde series of books along with their backgrounds and context and elaborates their application and importance for current design schools. Based on design experiments, new links andcorrelations are established and methods shown that reveal, and apply the legacy of Bauhaus, one of the historically most important design schools worldwide, to contemporary design.
Graphic Design and Typography
La pensée écologique
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Un essai consacré à la nécessité d'une pensée radicale et écologique pour faire face aux défis de l'anthropocène. Le réchauffement climatique a déclenché la sixième extinction de masse. Mais nous manquons d'outils pour penser cette ère de l'Anthropocène. Avec intelligence et humour, Timothy Morton nous libère des discours bien-pensants, tous ces petits pas pour un monde(...)
La pensée écologique
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Un essai consacré à la nécessité d'une pensée radicale et écologique pour faire face aux défis de l'anthropocène. Le réchauffement climatique a déclenché la sixième extinction de masse. Mais nous manquons d'outils pour penser cette ère de l'Anthropocène. Avec intelligence et humour, Timothy Morton nous libère des discours bien-pensants, tous ces petits pas pour un monde plus "vert" qui servent trop souvent à soulager les consciences et verdir les programmes électoraux. Avec cette publication, nous apprenons à penser différemment : nous affranchir du concept de Nature, penser grand (global plutôt que local), prendre conscience de l'étrange étrangeté du monde et des liens de tout avec tout.
Environment and environmental theory
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Professor, critic, and curator Catherine Geel directed the anthology of reference texts that comprises this book, which is published to document the common reflections of practitioners and researchers of the French section for ''Broken Nature,'' the 22nd International Exhibition of La Triennale di Milano. Besides an original text by Alain Badiou, the publication contains(...)
Environment and environmental theory
March 2019
Extended french theory & the design field: on nature and ecology, a reader
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Professor, critic, and curator Catherine Geel directed the anthology of reference texts that comprises this book, which is published to document the common reflections of practitioners and researchers of the French section for ''Broken Nature,'' the 22nd International Exhibition of La Triennale di Milano. Besides an original text by Alain Badiou, the publication contains seven previously unpublished texts by various authors and an original dialogue between artist Mathieu K. Abonnenc and art historians Katia Schneller, Vanessa Theodoropoulou, Sandra Delacourt, and Aliocha Imhoff.
Environment and environmental theory
Post-histoire
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Cette pulbication rassemble une vingtaine d’essais qui ont été initialement des conférences données par le philosophe Vilém Flusser (1920-1991) dans des universités de Marseille, Jérusalem et Sao Paulo. Initialement écrit en anglais, puis traduit en allemand et en portugais, Post-Histoire a été édité pour la première fois au Brésil en 1983. Cette version française n’a(...)
Post-histoire
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Cette pulbication rassemble une vingtaine d’essais qui ont été initialement des conférences données par le philosophe Vilém Flusser (1920-1991) dans des universités de Marseille, Jérusalem et Sao Paulo. Initialement écrit en anglais, puis traduit en allemand et en portugais, Post-Histoire a été édité pour la première fois au Brésil en 1983. Cette version française n’a encore jamais été publiée. Ce texte se veut être, pour l’auteur, le « miroir de la condition humaine aujourd’hui », et offre au lecteur une critique féroce de la société tout en posant la question de la place laissée à la liberté dans un monde programmé.
Critical Theory
Palazzo Abatellis Palermo
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"Palazzo Abatellis, Palermo" dialogues with the history, mythology and iconography of the museum in via Alloro, by architect Carlos Scarpa, to unveil the potential and vitality of a process that continues to unfold. The itinerary is punctuated by the photographs of Stefano Graziani, who has the special talent of grasping the coincidences in which architectural details,(...)
Palazzo Abatellis Palermo
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"Palazzo Abatellis, Palermo" dialogues with the history, mythology and iconography of the museum in via Alloro, by architect Carlos Scarpa, to unveil the potential and vitality of a process that continues to unfold. The itinerary is punctuated by the photographs of Stefano Graziani, who has the special talent of grasping the coincidences in which architectural details, displays, works of art and rays of light all converge.
Architecture Monographs
Erwan Bouroullec : 101
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Un ensemble de dessins réalisés à l'aide d'un logiciel conçu par Erwan Bouroullec, permettant d'extraire des lignes et des couleurs de photographies. Depuis le début des années 2000, le travail de Ronan et Erwan Bouroullec (nés respectivement en 1971 et 1976) apparaît comme l'un des plus représentatifs du dynamisme du design français. Travaillant en duo depuis 1998, les(...)
Erwan Bouroullec : 101
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Un ensemble de dessins réalisés à l'aide d'un logiciel conçu par Erwan Bouroullec, permettant d'extraire des lignes et des couleurs de photographies. Depuis le début des années 2000, le travail de Ronan et Erwan Bouroullec (nés respectivement en 1971 et 1976) apparaît comme l'un des plus représentatifs du dynamisme du design français. Travaillant en duo depuis 1998, les deux frères dessinent aujourd'hui pour de nombreux industriels (Vitra, Kvadrat, Issey Miyake, Cappellini...), tout en poursuivant une activité de recherche expérimentale au sein de la Galerie kreo. Ils ont aussi travaillé sur les projets architecturaux de Camper, Issey Miyake, Kvadrat, etc.
Contemporary Art Monographs