Bourdieu for architects
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Bourdieu spent much of his life attempting to understand cultural consumption and production through detailed empirical research that included studies of dwellings, art, museums, photography and aesthetics. This book introduces the architectural reader to Bourdieu's key writings on culture and outlines the ways in which they offer powerful practical tools and novel(...)
Bourdieu for architects
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Bourdieu spent much of his life attempting to understand cultural consumption and production through detailed empirical research that included studies of dwellings, art, museums, photography and aesthetics. This book introduces the architectural reader to Bourdieu's key writings on culture and outlines the ways in which they offer powerful practical tools and novel conceptual frameworks for understanding architectural value, taste, and practice.
Théorie de l’architecture
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An examination of the changing face of UC Berkeley's College of Environmental Design throughout the 20th Century. Just as constant evolution is inherent in the practice and history of design, the College of Environmental Design's steady metamorphosis incited by social and cultural changes, advancements in the design field and faculty contributions, is well documented in(...)
Design on the edge: A century of teaching architecture at the University of California, Berkeley 1903-2003
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An examination of the changing face of UC Berkeley's College of Environmental Design throughout the 20th Century. Just as constant evolution is inherent in the practice and history of design, the College of Environmental Design's steady metamorphosis incited by social and cultural changes, advancements in the design field and faculty contributions, is well documented in this book. This compilation of essays and historical documents features contributions from such notable faculty members as Christopher Alexander, Michael Bell, Charles Eames, Dan Solomon, William Wurster and many others.
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L'empire du kitsch
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" Art et littérature populaires et commerciaux faits de chromos, de couvertures de magazines, d'illustrations, d'images publicitaires, de littérature à bon marché, de bandes dessinées, de musique de bastringue, de danse à claquettes, de films hollywoodiens, etc. ". C'est ainsi que Clement Greenberg définissait le kitsch. Suffit-il pour autant de dénigrer le kitsch, de le(...)
L'empire du kitsch
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" Art et littérature populaires et commerciaux faits de chromos, de couvertures de magazines, d'illustrations, d'images publicitaires, de littérature à bon marché, de bandes dessinées, de musique de bastringue, de danse à claquettes, de films hollywoodiens, etc. ". C'est ainsi que Clement Greenberg définissait le kitsch. Suffit-il pour autant de dénigrer le kitsch, de le vilipender pour le rendre détestable aux yeux de celui qui, selon l'expression d'Hermann Broch, aime à le " produire " et à le " consommer " quel qu'en soit le prix ? Certes non, car rien, à l'heure où triomphent le libéralisme libertaire et l'individualisme postmoderne, n'est en mesure de freiner son expansion et d'atténuer sa puissance séductrice. Et c'est bien cette offensive que Valérie Arrault tente de démasquer. Subtilement, elle analyse avec humour les rapports parfois ambigus, d'attraction et de répulsion mêlées, qu'exercent le phénomène Las Vegas, le richissime objet transitionnel qu'est la poupée Barbie et Disneyland, ce monde féerique et fantasmatique de Mickey dans lequel, comme le notait déjà Walter Benjamin, l'homme d'aujourd'hui est assuré de ne vivre aucune véritable expérience esthétique et intellectuelle. Mieux encore : l'art contemporain le plus actuel se fait kitsch, comme le montrent les oeuvres et les actions de Jeff Koons ou de Pierre et Gilles, attestant la puissance hégémonique du phénomène et signant ainsi sa victoire planétaire.
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Bringing together Baudrillard’s most accomplished and perceptive commentators, this book assesses his legacy for the twenty-first century. It includes two essays by Baudrillard: a previously unpublished work entitled ‘The vanishing point of communication,’ and one of Baudrillard’s final texts, ‘On disappearance’, a veritable tour de force that serves as a culmination of(...)
Jean Baudrillard: fatal theories
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Bringing together Baudrillard’s most accomplished and perceptive commentators, this book assesses his legacy for the twenty-first century. It includes two essays by Baudrillard: a previously unpublished work entitled ‘The vanishing point of communication,’ and one of Baudrillard’s final texts, ‘On disappearance’, a veritable tour de force that serves as a culmination of his theoretical trajectory and a provocation to a new generation of thinkers. Employing Baudrillard’s key concepts, such as simulation, disappearance, and symbolic exchange, and deploying his most radical strategies, such as escalation, seduction, and fatality, the volume’s contributors offer a series of thought-provoking analyses of everything from art to politics, and from laughter to terror.
Le rythme en architecture
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Le rythme en architecture, a été publié en 1923, la même année que Vers une architecture de Le Corbusier. Cette brève traversée de l’histoire de l’architecture, à la recherche de modèles susceptibles d’accompagner les transformations sociales modernes, s’appuie sur la notion de rythme, considéré comme le fondement du langage architectural. La théorie de Guinzbourg marque(...)
Le rythme en architecture
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Le rythme en architecture, a été publié en 1923, la même année que Vers une architecture de Le Corbusier. Cette brève traversée de l’histoire de l’architecture, à la recherche de modèles susceptibles d’accompagner les transformations sociales modernes, s’appuie sur la notion de rythme, considéré comme le fondement du langage architectural. La théorie de Guinzbourg marque l’irruption de l’histoire et de la culture dans la conception même de l’architecture.
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Patterns and structure
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This collection of writings and criticisms by structural engineer and Princeton University professor Guy Nordenson, brings together previously published essays on structural engineering, architecture, design, and seismic research from 1973 to 2008. Nordenson's essays provide the unique viewpoint of the structural engineer and design collaborator, adding context that(...)
Patterns and structure
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This collection of writings and criticisms by structural engineer and Princeton University professor Guy Nordenson, brings together previously published essays on structural engineering, architecture, design, and seismic research from 1973 to 2008. Nordenson's essays provide the unique viewpoint of the structural engineer and design collaborator, adding context that relates not only to the history of architecture and engineering, but locates these fields in a larger network of cultural relevance.
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Like a living skin, the architectural surface provides an impression and expression of human needs, moods and time-related commitments of our designed environment. The surface is what we perceive with all our senses at the same time as spontaneous, synaesthetic, multi-dimensional experience. Working on the basis of his work in his department at the ETH in Zurich, in(...)
Touch me! : The mystery of the surface
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Like a living skin, the architectural surface provides an impression and expression of human needs, moods and time-related commitments of our designed environment. The surface is what we perceive with all our senses at the same time as spontaneous, synaesthetic, multi-dimensional experience. Working on the basis of his work in his department at the ETH in Zurich, in this publication Gregor Eichinger therefore shifts emotional relationships between people and architecture into the centre. Touch Me's associative switches between interdisciplinary texts and pictorial sequences create a cosmos of our perceptions of the built and designed environment.
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As the world redesigns and rebuilds in the face of economic and ecological crises, unprecedented numbers of architects are out of work. What does this say about the value of architecture? That is the question that confronted architect Eric Cesal as he finished graduate school at the onset of the worst financial meltdown in a generation. This publication is his journey:(...)
Down detour road: an architect in search of practice
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As the world redesigns and rebuilds in the face of economic and ecological crises, unprecedented numbers of architects are out of work. What does this say about the value of architecture? That is the question that confronted architect Eric Cesal as he finished graduate school at the onset of the worst financial meltdown in a generation. This publication is his journey: one that begins off-course, and ends in a hopeful new vision of architecture.
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Combining formal argument with informal conversations and design proposals, this title offers creative ideas for "thinking and acting architecture differently." What makes the book unique is the freshness of its voices — young architects and emerging practitioners who for the most part have not published before. Interwoven with their proposals are conversations among(...)
Architecture at the edge of everything else
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Combining formal argument with informal conversations and design proposals, this title offers creative ideas for "thinking and acting architecture differently." What makes the book unique is the freshness of its voices — young architects and emerging practitioners who for the most part have not published before. Interwoven with their proposals are conversations among these new voices and more established authors and practitioners, including Sanford Kwinter, Sylvia Lavin, K. Michael Hays, Philippe Rahm, Liam Gillick, Teddy Cruz, and Michael Meredith. This publication investigates the inner contradictions tangling and obscuring architectural discourse. It locates architecture in a cultural, social, political, and situational landscape — the space it actually occupies in the contemporary world. Examining architecture as it comes into contact with other disciplines — including art, art history, cultural studies, curating, landscape architecture, neuroaesthetics, pedagogy, philosophy, political science, and urbanism — the book considers architecture's precarious position at the edge : at the edge of its own dilemmas and at the edge of "everything else." In different ways, all the contributors suggest how to understand the innovative possibilities and pitfalls of spatial practices—teasing, analyzing, and celebrating architecture's disciplinary ambiguity — with proposals that range from a "lo-res" architecture to one controlled by the curatorial impulse, from customizable "skins" on residential buildings to the collection of residual space for new uses. Their investigations encompass how to interpret, how to intervene, and how to imagine.
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Few man-made things seem as stable, as immutable, as a building. Yet the life of any structure is neither fixed nor timeless. Buildings are forced to adapt to each succeeding age. The Parthenon, that epitome of a ruined temple, was for centuries a working church and then a mosque; the cathedral of Notre Dame was “restored” to a design that none of its original makers(...)
The secret lives of buildings : from the ruins of the Parthenon to the Vegas strip in thirteen stories
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Few man-made things seem as stable, as immutable, as a building. Yet the life of any structure is neither fixed nor timeless. Buildings are forced to adapt to each succeeding age. The Parthenon, that epitome of a ruined temple, was for centuries a working church and then a mosque; the cathedral of Notre Dame was “restored” to a design that none of its original makers would have recognized; remains of the Berlin Wall, once gleefully smashed, have become precious relics. Here Edward Hollis recounts the most enthralling of these metamorphoses and shows how buildings have come to embody the history of Western culture.
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