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Since the 1990s, critics and curators have broadly accepted the notion that participatory art is the ultimate political art: that by encouraging an audience to take part an artist can promote new emancipatory social relations. Around the world, the champions of this form of expression are numerous, ranging from art historians such as Grant Kester, curators such as Nicolas(...)
Artificial hells : participatory art and the politics of spectatorship
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Since the 1990s, critics and curators have broadly accepted the notion that participatory art is the ultimate political art: that by encouraging an audience to take part an artist can promote new emancipatory social relations. Around the world, the champions of this form of expression are numerous, ranging from art historians such as Grant Kester, curators such as Nicolas Bourriaud and Nato Thompson, to performance theorists such as Shannon Jackson. Artificial Hells is the first historical and theoretical overview of socially engaged participatory art, known in the US as “social practice.” Claire Bishop follows the trajectory of twentieth-century art and examines key moments in the development of a participatory aesthetic. This itinerary takes in Futurism and Dada; the Situationist International; Happenings in Eastern Europe, Argentina and Paris; the 1970s Community Arts Movement; and the Artists Placement Group. It concludes with a discussion of long-term educational projects by contemporary artists such as Thomas Hirschhorn, Tania Bruguera, Pawe Althamer and Paul Chan. Since her controversial essay in Artforum in 2006, Claire Bishop has been one of the few to challenge the political and aesthetic ambitions of participatory art. In Artificial Hells, she not only scrutinizes the emancipatory claims made for these projects, but also provides an alternative to the ethical (rather than artistic) criteria invited by such artworks. Artificial Hells calls for a less prescriptive approach to art and politics, and for more compelling, troubling and bolder forms of participatory art and criticism.
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This edited collection offers a unique perspective on twentieth-century architectural history, disputing the primacy placed on individuals in the design and planning process and instead looking to the larger influences of politics, culture, economics, and globalization to uncover the roots of how our built environment evolves.
Governing by design : architecture, economy, and politics in the 20th century
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This edited collection offers a unique perspective on twentieth-century architectural history, disputing the primacy placed on individuals in the design and planning process and instead looking to the larger influences of politics, culture, economics, and globalization to uncover the roots of how our built environment evolves.
Hans Hollein
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The only Austrian winner of the Pritzker Prize (1985) and president of the architecture biennale in Venice, the Viennese architect Hans Hollein (born 1934) has been a leading exponent of postmodernism in architecture. Yet his global stature as an architect has overshadowed his design work of the 1970s and 1980s and his artistic work of the 1960s and 1970s, despite past(...)
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Hans Hollein
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The only Austrian winner of the Pritzker Prize (1985) and president of the architecture biennale in Venice, the Viennese architect Hans Hollein (born 1934) has been a leading exponent of postmodernism in architecture. Yet his global stature as an architect has overshadowed his design work of the 1970s and 1980s and his artistic work of the 1960s and 1970s, despite past exhibitions at The Museum of Modern Art, New York and the Centre Pompidou in Paris. This richly illustrated, comprehensive catalogue, and the exhibition it accompanies at the Neue Galerie in Graz, is the first retrospective of Hollein as a truly universal artist and a renaissance man for the digital age. It is also the first to present Hollein's oeuvre as a whole: his work as artist, designer and architect, but also as theoretician, curator, teacher and collaborator with such artists as Christo and Claes Oldenburg.
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Designers around the world are carving out opportunities for new kinds of engagement, new kinds of collaboration, new kinds of design outcomes, and new kinds of practice; overturning the inherited assumptions of the design professions. Seventeen conversations with practitioners from the fields of architecture, policy, activism, design, education, research, history,(...)
août 2012
Future practice : conversations from the edge of architecture
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Designers around the world are carving out opportunities for new kinds of engagement, new kinds of collaboration, new kinds of design outcomes, and new kinds of practice; overturning the inherited assumptions of the design professions. Seventeen conversations with practitioners from the fields of architecture, policy, activism, design, education, research, history, community engagement and more, each representing an emergent role for designers to occupy. Whether the "civic entrepreneur," the "double agent," or the "strategic designer," this book offers a diverse spectrum of approaches to design, each offering a potential future for architectural practice. With a foreword by Dan Hill and interviews with Steve Ashton, ARM; Bryan Boyer, Helsinki Design Lab; Camila Bustamante; Mel Dodd, muf_aus; DUS Architects; Jeanne Gang, Studio Gang; Reinier de Graaf and Laura Baird, AMO; Conrad Hamann; Natalie Jeremijenko, xClinic; Indy Johar, 00:/;Bruce Mau; Arjen Oosterman and Lilet Breddels, Volume; Todd Reisz; Wouter Vanstiphout, Crimson; Matt Webb, BERG; Marcus Westbury, Renew Newcastle; and Liam Young, Unknown Fields
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This publication showcases the acclaimed landscape designer's urban renewal effort for downtown Denver in the 1970s. Drawing on the rugged beauty of the city's natural surroundings for inspiration, Halprin created a signature landmark of sunken fountains, walls, and berms that served as an urban promenade and an oasis from the surrounding streets. This monograph honors(...)
Lawrence Halprin's Skyline park
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This publication showcases the acclaimed landscape designer's urban renewal effort for downtown Denver in the 1970s. Drawing on the rugged beauty of the city's natural surroundings for inspiration, Halprin created a signature landmark of sunken fountains, walls, and berms that served as an urban promenade and an oasis from the surrounding streets. This monograph honors the legacy of Halprin's original work by presenting the most complete documentation available of the park's conception, construction, and use before its total redesign in 2003. This first book on Halprin's modern landscape project features new photography, archival drawings, and original documentation.
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Ce livre constitue un plaidoyer, par l'un des architectes majeurs de notre époque, destiné à éduquer le regard pour apprendre à observer notre environnement sans focalisation excessive sur ce qui peut apparaître "nouveau". Pour Alvaro Siza, imaginer ne consiste pas à "inventer" des éléments extraordinaires mais principalement à s'imprégner et à organiser différemment ce(...)
Alvaro Siza : imaginer l'évidence
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Ce livre constitue un plaidoyer, par l'un des architectes majeurs de notre époque, destiné à éduquer le regard pour apprendre à observer notre environnement sans focalisation excessive sur ce qui peut apparaître "nouveau". Pour Alvaro Siza, imaginer ne consiste pas à "inventer" des éléments extraordinaires mais principalement à s'imprégner et à organiser différemment ce que le passé, les lieux ou les autres cultures nous livrent d'idées, de processus, de formes...L'architecte doit pouvoir être qualifié d'humaniste au sens où il cherche à servir avant tout les hommes pour lesquels ses bâtiments sont destinés. Il ne doit pas chercher a priori la prouesse technique ou plastique ce qui pourtant semble constituer la caractérisation d'une architecture contemporaine mondialisée. Pour Siza, l'un des fondamentaux reste bien le lieu, le site et sa prise en compte dans ses interactions avec l'"humain", au centre de toutes les contraintes d'un projet. Ces textes (illustrés de dessins originaux) témoignent de la démarche originale et respectueuse d'un très grand architecte.
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Mies van der Rohe : A Critical Biography is a major rewriting and expansion of Franz Schulze’s acclaimed 1985 biography, the first full treatment of the architect. Co-authored with architect Edward Windhorst, this revised edition features new and extensive original research and commentary. Schulze and Windhorst trace Mies’s European career in its progression to(...)
septembre 2012
Mies van der Rohe : a critical biography, new and revised edition
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Mies van der Rohe : A Critical Biography is a major rewriting and expansion of Franz Schulze’s acclaimed 1985 biography, the first full treatment of the architect. Co-authored with architect Edward Windhorst, this revised edition features new and extensive original research and commentary. Schulze and Windhorst trace Mies’s European career in its progression to avant-garde modernism — where his work was materially rich but of modest scale — to his second maturity and world renown in the United States, where he invented a new architectural language of “objective” structural expression.
In the life of cities
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What is it that gives places their individual qualities and defines the life of a city? Architects and urbanists are accustomed to describing and creating the organizational structures, the layouts and physical attributes of our cities. But what are the relations between the design of a city—its form—and the life engendered by that form? Responding to this question is the(...)
novembre 2012
In the life of cities
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What is it that gives places their individual qualities and defines the life of a city? Architects and urbanists are accustomed to describing and creating the organizational structures, the layouts and physical attributes of our cities. But what are the relations between the design of a city—its form—and the life engendered by that form? Responding to this question is the inspiration for In the Life of Cities. Contributors from a wide range of fields address the role and life of cities as diverse as Baku, Buenos Aires, Cairo, Detroit, Jakarta, Johannesburg, Mumbai, Paris, Quito, St. Petersburg, Tel Aviv, Tirana, and Toronto. Portfolios of contemporary photography present the layered realities of urban life today.
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À la mort de Lénine en 1924, les mouvements de l'avant-garde architecturale, dont le constructivisme, vibrent à l'unisson de la Révolution de 1917. Depuis 1921, ils apportent leur écot à la Nouvelle Politique Économique, au Plan d'électrification de l'URSS et essayent de définir une « esthétique communiste » au service du prolétaire et de la kolkhozienne. L'Union(...)
novembre 2012
Le prix de Rome : le 'grand tour' des architectes soviétiques sous Mussolini
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À la mort de Lénine en 1924, les mouvements de l'avant-garde architecturale, dont le constructivisme, vibrent à l'unisson de la Révolution de 1917. Depuis 1921, ils apportent leur écot à la Nouvelle Politique Économique, au Plan d'électrification de l'URSS et essayent de définir une « esthétique communiste » au service du prolétaire et de la kolkhozienne. L'Union Soviétique, l'Allemagne et les États-Unis forment alors la troïka de l'Internationale moderniste. Le premier plan quinquennal est lancé en 1928. Villes nouvelles et chantiers industriels tournent à plein régime. Davantage préoccupé par ces grands chantiers, Staline semble se désintéresser de l'enjeu architectural. Pourtant, à partir du concours pour le Palais des Soviets (1932) et de l'adoption du Plan Général de reconstruction de Moscou (1935), la Rome éternelle va devenir, au prix d'un face-à-face avec l'Italie fasciste, un « modèle » de réalisme socialiste inattendu...
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Ce livre est né de la volonté de l’auteure de sauvegarder des traces des vieilles publicités peintes qu’on voit encore sur les murs de Montréal. Ce riche patrimoine urbain qui, peu à peu, disparaît témoigne d’une époque marquée par l’essor d’une classe moyenne au Québec, où tout semblait possible pour ceux qui trimaient fort. En écho à ces images d’aujourd’hui, une(...)
novembre 2012
Sur les murs d'un Montréal qui s'efface
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Ce livre est né de la volonté de l’auteure de sauvegarder des traces des vieilles publicités peintes qu’on voit encore sur les murs de Montréal. Ce riche patrimoine urbain qui, peu à peu, disparaît témoigne d’une époque marquée par l’essor d’une classe moyenne au Québec, où tout semblait possible pour ceux qui trimaient fort. En écho à ces images d’aujourd’hui, une recherche a permis de retrouver plusieurs de ces publicités alors qu’elles brillaient de tous leurs feux! Le passé et le présent se chevauchent dans un dialogue éloquent qui fait prendre conscience de l’usure du temps. À ces photos documentaires, se greffent de courts textes biographiques et évocateurs faisant revivre le climat du Montréal des années soixante, celui de l’enfance de l’auteure. La vie de quartier racontée ici rayonne à partir de l’épicerie familiale, l’Épicerie Québec, que ses parents tenaient sur le Plateau Mont-Royal. La petite histoire portant la grande, c’est celle du Québec tout entier qui se lit dans ce récit jalonné de capsules documentaires rappelant, de manière plus objective, certains faits cocasses et à la fois marquants.