$91.00
(disponible sur commande)
Résumé:
This book is a text reader related to the online platform www.mediaartnet.org presenting a panorama of international art and contexts. It features the most important essays which are accompanied online by multimedia and audiovisual representations of media art. Essays are by Inke Arns, Dieter Daniels, Söke Dinkla, Golo Föllmer, Rudolf Frieling, Oliver Grau and Heike(...)
Théorie de l’architecture
octobre 2003, Vienna
Media art net 1 : survey of media art
Actions:
Prix:
$91.00
(disponible sur commande)
Résumé:
This book is a text reader related to the online platform www.mediaartnet.org presenting a panorama of international art and contexts. It features the most important essays which are accompanied online by multimedia and audiovisual representations of media art. Essays are by Inke Arns, Dieter Daniels, Söke Dinkla, Golo Föllmer, Rudolf Frieling, Oliver Grau and Heike Helfert on topics such as media art forms in the 1910's and 1920's, intermedia currents of the 1950's and 1960's, performance and media art, media activism, mass media, perception, museum and media, virtual narratives, audio arts, communication, telematics, interaction, and immersion.
Théorie de l’architecture
$23.95
(disponible sur commande)
Résumé:
In a literary tour of the spaces of our homes, noted design essayist Akiko Busch reflects on how we define such elusive qualities as privacy, security, and comfort. Part social history, part architectural history, part personal anecdote, this rich and delightful book uncovers the hidden meanings of the place we call home.
Geography of home : writings on where we live
Actions:
Prix:
$23.95
(disponible sur commande)
Résumé:
In a literary tour of the spaces of our homes, noted design essayist Akiko Busch reflects on how we define such elusive qualities as privacy, security, and comfort. Part social history, part architectural history, part personal anecdote, this rich and delightful book uncovers the hidden meanings of the place we call home.
Théorie de l’architecture
$21.00
(disponible sur commande)
Résumé:
In this meditation on ruins, Christopher Woodward takes us on a thousand-year journey from the plains of Troy to the monuments of ancient Rome, from the crumbling palaces of Sicily, Cuba, and Zanzibar to the rubble of the London Blitz. With an exquisite sense of romantic melancholy, we encounter the teenage Byron in the moldering Newstead Abbey, Flaubert watching the(...)
In ruins : a journey through history, art, and literature
Actions:
Prix:
$21.00
(disponible sur commande)
Résumé:
In this meditation on ruins, Christopher Woodward takes us on a thousand-year journey from the plains of Troy to the monuments of ancient Rome, from the crumbling palaces of Sicily, Cuba, and Zanzibar to the rubble of the London Blitz. With an exquisite sense of romantic melancholy, we encounter the teenage Byron in the moldering Newstead Abbey, Flaubert watching the buzzards on the pyramids, Henry James in the Colosseum, and Freud at Pompeii. We travel the Appian Way with Dickens and behold the Baths of Caracalla with Shelley. An exhilarating tour, at once elegant and stimulating, "In Ruins" casts an exalting spell as it explores the bewitching power of architectural remains and their persistent hold on the imagination.
Théorie de l’architecture
$37.50
(disponible sur commande)
Résumé:
A serious effort to document the changing landscape in the design professions and to make this information available to various constituencies and stakeholder groups as part of an effort to educate as well as bridge the gap between academia and practice.
Théorie de l’architecture
novembre 2003, San Francisco
Reconfiguration in the study and practice of design and architecture
Actions:
Prix:
$37.50
(disponible sur commande)
Résumé:
A serious effort to document the changing landscape in the design professions and to make this information available to various constituencies and stakeholder groups as part of an effort to educate as well as bridge the gap between academia and practice.
Théorie de l’architecture
$67.50
(disponible sur commande)
Résumé:
This book is a cutting edge study exploring the field of the conception and the tectonic making of place as it impinges in, and thus changes, the site in which it is set. It examines the attitudes to both nature and the built environment of the designer, the client and the society in which an intervention (be it architecture, landscape design or a piece of art) is made.(...)
Constructing place : mind and matter
Actions:
Prix:
$67.50
(disponible sur commande)
Résumé:
This book is a cutting edge study exploring the field of the conception and the tectonic making of place as it impinges in, and thus changes, the site in which it is set. It examines the attitudes to both nature and the built environment of the designer, the client and the society in which an intervention (be it architecture, landscape design or a piece of art) is made. The legacy of the Modernist view of nature and the environment is also addressed, and the degree to which such ideas continue to impinge on contemporary interventions is assessed. These topics are addressed through the methodologies of history, theory, philosophy and psychology. The book forges new collaborative ideas in an interdisciplinary way, including essays on architecture, planning, landscape and philosophy (particularly applied aesthetics).
Théorie de l’architecture
$25.50
(disponible sur commande)
Résumé:
According to Paul Shepheard, architecture is the rearranging of the world for human purposes. Sculpture, machines, and landscapes are all architecture -- every bit as much as buildings are. In his writings, Shepheard examines old assumptions about architecture and replaces the critical theory of the academic with the active theory of the architect-citizen enamored of the(...)
Artificial love : a story of machines and architecture
Actions:
Prix:
$25.50
(disponible sur commande)
Résumé:
According to Paul Shepheard, architecture is the rearranging of the world for human purposes. Sculpture, machines, and landscapes are all architecture -- every bit as much as buildings are. In his writings, Shepheard examines old assumptions about architecture and replaces the critical theory of the academic with the active theory of the architect-citizen enamored of the world around him. Artificial Love weaves together three stories about architecture into one. The first, about machines as architecture, leads to speculations about technology and the human condition and to the assertion that machines are the sculptures of today. The second story is about the ways that architecture reflects the tribal and personal desires of those who make it. In the West, ideas of community, multiculturalism, and globalization compete furiously, leaving architecture to exist as it always has, as the past in the present. The third story features individual people experiencing their lives in the context of architecture. Here, Shepheard borrows the rhetorical device of Shakespeare's seven ages of man to propose that each person's life imitates the accumulating history of the human species. Shepheard's version of the history of humans is a technological one, in which machines become sculpture and sculpture becomes architecture. For Shepheard, our machines do not separate us from nature. Rather, our technology is our nature, and we cannot but be in harmony with nature. The change that we have wrought in the world, he says, is a wonderful and powerful thing.
Théorie de l’architecture
$27.95
(disponible sur commande)
Résumé:
"Megaprojects and Risk" provides the first detailed examination of the phenomenon of megaprojects. It is a fascinating account of how the promoters of multi-billion dollar megaprojects systematically and self-servingly misinform parliaments, the public and the media in order to get projects approved and built. It shows, in unusual depth, how the formula for approval is an(...)
Théorie de l’architecture
janvier 2003, Cambridge
Megaprojects and risk: an anatomy of ambition
Actions:
Prix:
$27.95
(disponible sur commande)
Résumé:
"Megaprojects and Risk" provides the first detailed examination of the phenomenon of megaprojects. It is a fascinating account of how the promoters of multi-billion dollar megaprojects systematically and self-servingly misinform parliaments, the public and the media in order to get projects approved and built. It shows, in unusual depth, how the formula for approval is an unhealthy cocktail of underestimated costs, overestimated revenues, undervalued environmental impacts and overvalued economic development effects. This results in projects that are extremely risky, but where the risk is concealed from MPs, taxpayers and investors. The authors not only explore the problems but also suggest practical solutions drawing on theory, experience and hard, scientific evidence from the several hundred projects in twenty nations and five continents that illustrate the book. Accessibly written, it will be the standard reference for students, scholars, planners, economists, auditors, politicians and interested citizens for many years to come.
Théorie de l’architecture
livres
$49.95
(disponible sur commande)
Résumé:
"Suspensions of Perception" is a major historical study of human attention and its volatile role in modern Western culture. It argues that the ways in which we intently look at or listen to anything result from crucial changes in the nature of perception that can be traced back to(...)
Suspensions of perception: attention, spectacle, and modern culture
Actions:
Prix:
$49.95
(disponible sur commande)
Résumé:
"Suspensions of Perception" is a major historical study of human attention and its volatile role in modern Western culture. It argues that the ways in which we intently look at or listen to anything result from crucial changes in the nature of perception that can be traced back to the second half of the nineteenth century. Focusing on the period from about 1880 to 1905, Jonathan Crary examines the connections between the modernization of subjectivity and the dramatic expansion and industrialization of visual/auditory culture. At the core of his project is the paradoxical nature of modern attention, which was both a fundamental condition of individual freedom, creativity, and experience and a central element in the efficient functioning of economic and disciplinary institutions as well as the emerging spaces of mass consumption and spectacle. Crary approaches these issues through multiple analyses of single works by three key modernist painters--Manet, Seurat, and Cézanne--who each engaged in a singular confrontation with the disruptions, vacancies, and rifts within a perceptual field. Each in his own way discovered that sustained attentiveness, rather than fixing or securing the world, led to perceptual disintegration and loss of presence, and each used this discovery as the basis for a reinvention of representational practices. Suspensions of Perception decisively relocates the problem of aesthetic contemplation within a broader collective encounter with the unstable nature of perception--in psychology, philosophy, neurology, early cinema, and photography. In doing so, it provides a historical framework for understanding the current social crisis of attention amid the accelerating metamorphoses of our contemporary technological culture.
livres
août 2001, Cambridge
Théorie de l’architecture
$21.95
(disponible sur commande)
Résumé:
Au cours de son exposé, Bernard Huet développe une série d'analyses qui se dessinent progressivement les contours et l'évolution de la théorie de l'architecture au XXe siècle. La lecture de ce texte ouvre à la pensée vivante et complexe d'un architecture à la personalité exceptionelle.
Sur un état de la théorie de l'architecture au XXe siècle
Actions:
Prix:
$21.95
(disponible sur commande)
Résumé:
Au cours de son exposé, Bernard Huet développe une série d'analyses qui se dessinent progressivement les contours et l'évolution de la théorie de l'architecture au XXe siècle. La lecture de ce texte ouvre à la pensée vivante et complexe d'un architecture à la personalité exceptionelle.
Théorie de l’architecture
Louis Kahn : essential texts
$31.00
(disponible sur commande)
Résumé:
A thoughtful selection of the celebrated architect's speeches and writings. This unique anthology draws from Louis Kahn's speeches, essays, and interviews—some never previously published—to capture the evolution and central tenets of the influential American architect's thinking, from his early work of the 1940s to his death in 1974.
Louis Kahn : essential texts
Actions:
Prix:
$31.00
(disponible sur commande)
Résumé:
A thoughtful selection of the celebrated architect's speeches and writings. This unique anthology draws from Louis Kahn's speeches, essays, and interviews—some never previously published—to capture the evolution and central tenets of the influential American architect's thinking, from his early work of the 1940s to his death in 1974.
Théorie de l’architecture