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In Supercrit 2: 'Learning from Las Vegas', Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown, the couple revisit their infamous book which overturned the barriers separating high architecture from the commercial architecture of the Strip. You can hear the couple's project description, see the drawings and join in the crit. This innovative and compelling book is an invaluable resource(...)
February 2008, London, New York
Supercrit 2 Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown: Learning from Las Vegas
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In Supercrit 2: 'Learning from Las Vegas', Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown, the couple revisit their infamous book which overturned the barriers separating high architecture from the commercial architecture of the Strip. You can hear the couple's project description, see the drawings and join in the crit. This innovative and compelling book is an invaluable resource for any architecture student.
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London Orbital
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Encircling London like a noose, the M25 is a road to nowhere, but when Iain Sinclair sets out to walk this asphalt loop - keeping within the 'acoustic footprints' - he is determined to find out where the journey will lead him. Stumbling upon converted asylums, industrial and retail parks, ring-fenced government institutions and lost villages, Sinclair discovers a Britain(...)
London Orbital
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Encircling London like a noose, the M25 is a road to nowhere, but when Iain Sinclair sets out to walk this asphalt loop - keeping within the 'acoustic footprints' - he is determined to find out where the journey will lead him. Stumbling upon converted asylums, industrial and retail parks, ring-fenced government institutions and lost villages, Sinclair discovers a Britain of the fringes, a landscape consumed by developers. London Orbital charts this extraordinary trek and round trip of the soul, revealing the country as you've never seen it before.
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April 2009, New York
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Throughout the early twentieth century, waves of migration brought working-class people to the outskirts of Buenos Aires. This prompted a dilemma: Where should these restive populations be situated relative to the city’s spatial politics? Enter Antonio Bonet, a Catalan architect inspired by the transatlantic modernist and surrealist movements. Ana María León follows(...)
Modernity for the masses: Antonio Bonet's Dreams for Buenos Aires
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Throughout the early twentieth century, waves of migration brought working-class people to the outskirts of Buenos Aires. This prompted a dilemma: Where should these restive populations be situated relative to the city’s spatial politics? Enter Antonio Bonet, a Catalan architect inspired by the transatlantic modernist and surrealist movements. Ana María León follows Bonet's decades-long, state-backed quest to house Buenos Aires's diverse and fractious population. Working with totalitarian and populist regimes, Bonet developed three large-scale housing plans, each scuttled as a new government took over. Yet these incomplete plans—Bonet's dreams—teach us much about the relationship between modernism and state power. This volume finds in Bonet's projects the disconnect between modern architecture’s discourse of emancipation and the reality of its rationalizing control. Although he and his patrons constantly glorified the people and depicted them in housing plans, Bonet never consulted them. Instead he succumbed to official and elite fears of the people's latent political power. In careful readings of Bonet's work, León discovers the progressive erasure of surrealism's psychological sensitivity, replaced with an impulse, realized in modernist design, to contain the increasingly empowered population.
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Peut-on tirer quelque chose de cette institution transformée? S’inspirant, entre autres, de Lyotard, Derrida et Agamben, Bill Readings offre des propositions concrètes pour habiter ses ruines et leur donner un sens nouveau.
Dans les ruines de l'université
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Peut-on tirer quelque chose de cette institution transformée? S’inspirant, entre autres, de Lyotard, Derrida et Agamben, Bill Readings offre des propositions concrètes pour habiter ses ruines et leur donner un sens nouveau.
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Postwar artists and architects have used photography, film, and other media to imagine and record the world as a wonder of collaborative entanglement—to translate the world for the world. In this book, Janine Marchessault examines a series of utopian media events that opened up and expanded the cosmos, creating ecstatic collective experiences for spectators and participants.
Ecstatic worlds: media, utopias, ecologies
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Postwar artists and architects have used photography, film, and other media to imagine and record the world as a wonder of collaborative entanglement—to translate the world for the world. In this book, Janine Marchessault examines a series of utopian media events that opened up and expanded the cosmos, creating ecstatic collective experiences for spectators and participants.
The tyranny of metrics
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Today, organizations of all kinds are ruled by the belief that the path to success is quantifying human performance, publicizing the results, and dividing up the rewards based on the numbers. But in our zeal to instill the evaluation process with scientific rigor, we've gone from measuring performance to fixating on measuring itself—and this tyranny of metrics now(...)
The tyranny of metrics
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Today, organizations of all kinds are ruled by the belief that the path to success is quantifying human performance, publicizing the results, and dividing up the rewards based on the numbers. But in our zeal to instill the evaluation process with scientific rigor, we've gone from measuring performance to fixating on measuring itself—and this tyranny of metrics now threatens the quality of our organizations and lives. In this brief, accessible, and powerful book, Jerry Muller uncovers the damage metrics are causing and shows how we can begin to fix the problem.
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The atlas of happiness
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An illustrated guide that takes us around the world, discovering the secrets to happiness. Author Helen Russell (''The Year of Living Danishly'') uncovers the many ways that different nations search for happiness in their lives, and what they can teach us about our own quest for meaning.
The atlas of happiness
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An illustrated guide that takes us around the world, discovering the secrets to happiness. Author Helen Russell (''The Year of Living Danishly'') uncovers the many ways that different nations search for happiness in their lives, and what they can teach us about our own quest for meaning.
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From the beet fields of North Dakota to the National Forest campgrounds of California to Amazon's CamperForce program in Texas, employers have discovered a new, low-cost labor pool, made up largely of transient older Americans. Finding that social security comes up short, often underwater on mortgages, these invisible casualties of the Great Recession have taken to the(...)
Nomadland: surviving America in the twenty-first century
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From the beet fields of North Dakota to the National Forest campgrounds of California to Amazon's CamperForce program in Texas, employers have discovered a new, low-cost labor pool, made up largely of transient older Americans. Finding that social security comes up short, often underwater on mortgages, these invisible casualties of the Great Recession have taken to the road by the tens of thousands in late-model RVs, travel trailers, and vans, forming a growing community of nomads: migrant laborers who call themselves ''workampers.'' On frequently traveled routes between seasonal jobs, Jessica Bruder meets people from all walks of life: accompanying them from campground toilet cleaning to warehouse product scanning to desert reunions, then moving on to the dangerous work of beet harvesting, Bruder tells an eye-opening tale of the dark underbelly of the American economy- one that foreshadows the precarious future that may await many more of us.
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2G 79: Studio Muoto (Paris)
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On the minimalist city structures of the award-winning Parisian Studio Muoto firm. The latest issue of 2G focuses on the work of Paris-based architectural firm Studio Muoto—meaning ''form'' in Finnish. Working in architecture, urbanism, design and scientific research, Studio Muoto creates multifunctional minimalist structures made with rough materials.
February 2020
2G 79: Studio Muoto (Paris)
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On the minimalist city structures of the award-winning Parisian Studio Muoto firm. The latest issue of 2G focuses on the work of Paris-based architectural firm Studio Muoto—meaning ''form'' in Finnish. Working in architecture, urbanism, design and scientific research, Studio Muoto creates multifunctional minimalist structures made with rough materials.
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L'exposition présente une centaine d'oeuvres couvrant l'intégralité de la carrière de la photographe canadienne, depuis ses premières expérimentations en noir et blanc et en petits formats jusqu'aux commandes monumentales en couleurs des années 2000. Son travail révèle les stratégies de surveillance et de manipulation des comportements individuels et collectifs dans la(...)
February 2020
Lynne Cohen : double aveugle, 1970-2012
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L'exposition présente une centaine d'oeuvres couvrant l'intégralité de la carrière de la photographe canadienne, depuis ses premières expérimentations en noir et blanc et en petits formats jusqu'aux commandes monumentales en couleurs des années 2000. Son travail révèle les stratégies de surveillance et de manipulation des comportements individuels et collectifs dans la société nord-américaine.