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The Petronas towers took only a couple of years to build an amazing accomplishment, due to the fact that it is the largest structure in the world and that the economic crisis in Asia hit during the middle of its construction. This book tells the story of the construction of these towers from many angles : engineer, architect, and client and sets it in the context of the(...)
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Petronas twin tower : the architecture of high construction
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The Petronas towers took only a couple of years to build an amazing accomplishment, due to the fact that it is the largest structure in the world and that the economic crisis in Asia hit during the middle of its construction. This book tells the story of the construction of these towers from many angles : engineer, architect, and client and sets it in the context of the rest of Cesar Pelli s work.
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Examining our shifting perceptions of nature and place in the context of environmental challenges and how these affect urbanism and architecture, the seventeen essayists in "Thinking the contemporary landscape" argue for an all-encompassing view of landscape that integrates the scientific, intellectual, aesthetic, and mythic into a new multidisciplinary understanding of(...)
Thinking the contemporary landscape
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Examining our shifting perceptions of nature and place in the context of environmental challenges and how these affect urbanism and architecture, the seventeen essayists in "Thinking the contemporary landscape" argue for an all-encompassing view of landscape that integrates the scientific, intellectual, aesthetic, and mythic into a new multidisciplinary understanding of the contemporary landscape. A must-read for anyone concerned about the changing nature of our landscape in a time of climate crisis.
Théorie du paysage
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The home where our hopes and dreams play out is at the heart many vital political questions Housing is more than bricks and mortar. Feeling at Home grapples with the practical and emotional questions of housing – domestic labour, privacy, security, ownership, and health. Is it possible to imagine success without home ownership? Alva Gotby shows that solving the housing(...)
Feeling at home: Transforming the politics of housing
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The home where our hopes and dreams play out is at the heart many vital political questions Housing is more than bricks and mortar. Feeling at Home grapples with the practical and emotional questions of housing – domestic labour, privacy, security, ownership, and health. Is it possible to imagine success without home ownership? Alva Gotby shows that solving the housing crisis is about much more than housing stock. It means revolutionising our everyday lives and labours.
L'humain et la ville
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In Re-collection, Richard Rinehart and JonIppolito argue that the vulnerability of new media art illustrates a larger crisis for social memory. They describe a variable media approach to rescuing new media,distributed across producers and consumers who can choose appropriate strategies for each endangered work. New media art poses novel preservation and conservation(...)
Re-collection: art, new media, and social memory
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In Re-collection, Richard Rinehart and JonIppolito argue that the vulnerability of new media art illustrates a larger crisis for social memory. They describe a variable media approach to rescuing new media,distributed across producers and consumers who can choose appropriate strategies for each endangered work. New media art poses novel preservation and conservation dilemmas. Given the ephemerality of their mediums, software art, installation art, and interactive games may be heading to obsolescence and oblivion.
Théorie de l’art
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Dials, knobs, microphones, clocks; heads, hands, breath, voices. Ernst Schoen joined Frankfurt Radio in the 1920s as programmer and accelerated the potentials of this collision of bodies and technologies. As with others of his generation, Schoen experienced crisis after crisis, from the violence of war, the suicide of friends, economic collapse, and a brief episode of(...)
Dissonant waves: Ernst Schoen and experimental sound in the 20th century
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Dials, knobs, microphones, clocks; heads, hands, breath, voices. Ernst Schoen joined Frankfurt Radio in the 1920s as programmer and accelerated the potentials of this collision of bodies and technologies. As with others of his generation, Schoen experienced crisis after crisis, from the violence of war, the suicide of friends, economic collapse, and a brief episode of permitted experimentalism under the Weimar Republic for those who would foster aesthetic, technical, and political revolution. The counterreaction was Nazism—and Schoen and his milieux fell victim to it, found ways out of it, or hit against it with all their might. ''Dissonant waves'' tracks the life of Ernst Schoen—poet, composer, radio programmer, theorist, and best friend of Walter Benjamin from childhood—as he moves between Frankfurt, Berlin, Paris, and London. It casts radio history and practice into concrete spaces, into networks of friends and institutions, into political exigencies and domestic plights, and into broader aesthetic discussions of the politicization of art and the aestheticization of politics. Through friendship and comradeship, a position in state-backed radio, imprisonment, exile, networking in a new country, re-emigration, ill-treatment, neglect, Schoen suffers the century and articulates its broken promises.
Acoustique
Don't build, rebuild
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As climate change has escalated into a crisis, the reuse of existing structures is the only way to even begin to preserve our wood, sand, silicon, and iron, let alone stop belching carbon monoxide into the air. Our housing crisis means that we need usable buildings now more than ever, but architect and critic Aaron Betsky shows that new construction—often seeking to(...)
Don't build, rebuild
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As climate change has escalated into a crisis, the reuse of existing structures is the only way to even begin to preserve our wood, sand, silicon, and iron, let alone stop belching carbon monoxide into the air. Our housing crisis means that we need usable buildings now more than ever, but architect and critic Aaron Betsky shows that new construction—often seeking to maximize profits rather than resources, often soulless in its feel—is not the answer. Whenever possible, it is better to repair, recycle, renovate, and reuse—not only from an environmental perspective, but culturally and artistically as well. Architectural reuse is as old as civilization itself. In the streets of Europe, you can find fragments from the Roman Empire. More recently, marginalized communities from New York to Detroit—queer people looking for places to gather or cruise, punks looking to make loud music, artists and displaced people looking for space to work and live—have taken over industrial spaces created then abandoned by capitalism, forging a unique style in the process. Their methods—from urban mining to dumpster diving—now inform architects transforming old structures today.
Théorie de l’architecture
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Exploring critical topics of material health in this era of climate crisis, "Material health" argues that there is an urgent need for new paths and practices in architecture and design in order to create healthier futures for everyone. From a multi-disciplinary perspective, it offers an overview of how design is taught and shapes our future, and how this could be(...)
Material health design frontiers: Parsons healthy materials lab
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Exploring critical topics of material health in this era of climate crisis, "Material health" argues that there is an urgent need for new paths and practices in architecture and design in order to create healthier futures for everyone. From a multi-disciplinary perspective, it offers an overview of how design is taught and shapes our future, and how this could be radically changed through a deeper understanding of the fundamental issues threatening our planet and human species.
Architecture contemporaine
AA Files 80
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AA Files is the Architectural Association (AA) School of Architecture’s journal of record, currently edited by Maria Shéhérazade Giudici. This issue features eleven contributions that put forward different approaches to architectural research, examining issues from land speculation and class construction to future forms of domesticities and reflections on uprootedness.(...)
AA Files 80
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AA Files is the Architectural Association (AA) School of Architecture’s journal of record, currently edited by Maria Shéhérazade Giudici. This issue features eleven contributions that put forward different approaches to architectural research, examining issues from land speculation and class construction to future forms of domesticities and reflections on uprootedness. Throughout, AA Files 80 seeks to unearth past moments of architectural agency to demonstrate that even in times of social and environmental crisis, new spatial imaginaries are possible.
Revues
A year without winter
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"A Year Without a Winter" brings together science fiction, history, visual art, and exploration. Inspired by the literary ‘dare’ that would give birth to Mary Shelley’s "Frankenstein" amidst the aftermath of a massive volcanic eruption, and today, by the utopian architecture of Paolo Soleri and the Arizona desert, expeditions to Antarctica and Indonesia, this collection(...)
A year without winter
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"A Year Without a Winter" brings together science fiction, history, visual art, and exploration. Inspired by the literary ‘dare’ that would give birth to Mary Shelley’s "Frankenstein" amidst the aftermath of a massive volcanic eruption, and today, by the utopian architecture of Paolo Soleri and the Arizona desert, expeditions to Antarctica and Indonesia, this collection reframes the relationship among climate, crisis, and creation. This book is a collective thought experiment retracing an inverted path through narrative extremes.
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How have artists, educators, curators, museums and galleries responded to climate change? What forms of art and its mediation are evolving along with our understanding of the crisis? What are the potentials and pitfalls of the art-science collaboration? Perhaps the overarching question is: what exactly do art and art education have to offer? Articles include the work of(...)
Engage 21: art and climate change
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How have artists, educators, curators, museums and galleries responded to climate change? What forms of art and its mediation are evolving along with our understanding of the crisis? What are the potentials and pitfalls of the art-science collaboration? Perhaps the overarching question is: what exactly do art and art education have to offer? Articles include the work of 'eco-artists', collaborative art projects, creating green exhibitions and the role of education in dealing with climate change.
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