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A cat wanders, perches, and lounges in various spaces around a humble Tokyo apartment. It is perfectly tranquil in its surroundings, simply going about its daily life. In one image, the cat lays serenely amidst pot plants on the balcony, squinting in morning sunlight; in others, it balances precariously on the edge of the bath, snuggles beneath a sleeping bag, plays in a(...)
Takashi Homma: This is not my cat
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A cat wanders, perches, and lounges in various spaces around a humble Tokyo apartment. It is perfectly tranquil in its surroundings, simply going about its daily life. In one image, the cat lays serenely amidst pot plants on the balcony, squinting in morning sunlight; in others, it balances precariously on the edge of the bath, snuggles beneath a sleeping bag, plays in a cardboard box, hides beneath an open umbrella. Here and there, evidence of the cat's fellow inhabitant in the apartment—a man, who also happens to be the internationally renowned photographer Takashi Homma—creeps into the frame. A knee, a foot, a shock of blonde hair, half of a face. There are artefacts of his life and practice too. Framed photographic prints draped in bubblewrap lean against a wall; a tangle of musical effects pedals make for colourful constellation against the cool blue of the carpet.
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The new urban house
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Architects face many challenges when designing a modern urban house. Environmental performance, aesthetics, technical logistics, material concerns, site constraints—these are all considerations that have the potential to limit what architects can achieve, but that also can inspire creative solutions. In addition, each city’s history, obstacles, and opportunities influence(...)
The new urban house
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Architects face many challenges when designing a modern urban house. Environmental performance, aesthetics, technical logistics, material concerns, site constraints—these are all considerations that have the potential to limit what architects can achieve, but that also can inspire creative solutions. In addition, each city’s history, obstacles, and opportunities influence local design approaches. Jonathan Bell and Ellie Stathaki have selected urban structures from around the world to serve as both exemplary solutions and standout works of art—in Beijing and Mexico City, Athens and Tokyo, Los Angeles and Cape Town. By examining buildings on six continents, from both emerging architects and established studios such as Zaha Hadid Architects, MVRDV, and Johnston Marklee, this stunning volume explores the many ways in which architecture can enhance the experience of dwelling in a modern city by responding to traditional styles and challenges of site and providing a broader understanding of place.
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Some may call it the first manifesto of the twenty-first century, for it lays down a new way to think about architecture. Others may think of it as the last architectural treatise, for it provides a discursive container for ideas that would otherwise be lost. Whatever genre it belongs to, SITELESS is a new kind of architecture book that seems to have come out of nowhere.(...)
Siteless 1001 building forms
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Some may call it the first manifesto of the twenty-first century, for it lays down a new way to think about architecture. Others may think of it as the last architectural treatise, for it provides a discursive container for ideas that would otherwise be lost. Whatever genre it belongs to, SITELESS is a new kind of architecture book that seems to have come out of nowhere. Its author, a young French architect practicing in Tokyo, admits he "didn't do this out of reverence toward architecture, but rather out of a profound boredom with the discipline, as a sort of compulsive reaction." What would happen, he asks, if architects liberated their minds from the constraints of site, program, and budget? The result is a book that is saturated with forms, and as free of words as any architecture book the MIT Press has ever published.
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Stephen Hodder
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This book detailing the work of Stephen Hodder covers the last fifteen years of his production. Stephen Hodder has been in practice since 1983. Hodder Associates was formed in 1992 and won the Royal Fine Art Commission/Sunday Times Building of the Year Award for Colne Swimming pool in Lancashire later that year. He was afterwards selected as one of six(...)
Stephen Hodder
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This book detailing the work of Stephen Hodder covers the last fifteen years of his production. Stephen Hodder has been in practice since 1983. Hodder Associates was formed in 1992 and won the Royal Fine Art Commission/Sunday Times Building of the Year Award for Colne Swimming pool in Lancashire later that year. He was afterwards selected as one of six architects to represent the emerging generation of British Architects in an exhibition at the Architectural Institute of Japan in Tokyo and at the Biennalle at Sao Paulo in Brazil. In 1995 the practice was awarded the Grand Prize at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, for the panels presented as part of the submission for the Manchester City Art Gallery Competition and in 1996 it received the RIBA/Sunday Times Building of the Year Award, the inaugural Stirling Prize for the Centenary Building, University of Salford.
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Architecture, monographies
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Modernity took many forms in 1930s Japan, but in the tumultuous years before militarism pushed the country toward global aggression, it was most visibly associated with a glittering consumer culture. Inundated with western jazz-age trends and new technologies, Japan’s big cities, especially Tokyo, offered the most enticing attractions to a newly liberated generation:(...)
The brittle decade: visualizing Japan in the 1930s
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Modernity took many forms in 1930s Japan, but in the tumultuous years before militarism pushed the country toward global aggression, it was most visibly associated with a glittering consumer culture. Inundated with western jazz-age trends and new technologies, Japan’s big cities, especially Tokyo, offered the most enticing attractions to a newly liberated generation: bustling streets of department stores, cafés and teahouses, movie theaters and ballroom dance halls. Modern architecture, industrial design and fashion overshadowed traditional arts as Japan strove to take its place in a cosmopolitan world. The Brittle Years examines the different ways in which designers and artists visualized what it meant to be modern in Japan in the years leading up to World War II. Its 160 full-color illustrations of paintings, textiles and graphic arts are astonishing not only for their great visual impact but also for the insight they provide into a rapidly transforming nation.
Design, époques et styles
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Guided by the principle that throughout the world artists are independently working through the same problems and themes, this publication seeks to convene these artists to examine the diversity of formal vocabularies brought to bear upon those problems. Personal Structures includes over 35 artist interviews on the topics of time, space and existence within their work,(...)
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Personal structures: time-space-existence
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Guided by the principle that throughout the world artists are independently working through the same problems and themes, this publication seeks to convene these artists to examine the diversity of formal vocabularies brought to bear upon those problems. Personal Structures includes over 35 artist interviews on the topics of time, space and existence within their work, plus transcripts from four symposia in different cities: "Time" in Amsterdam, "Space" in New York, "Existence" in Tokyo and "Time-Space-Existence" at the 53rd Venice Biennale. Personal Structures presents the work of 60 artists between the ages of 20 and 90 from 17 countries on four continents. Among the artists represented are Marina Abramovic, Vito Acconci, Carl Andre, Christian Boltanski, Louise Bourgeois, Hanne Darboven, Liam Gillick, Antony Gormley, Dan Graham, Tehching Hsieh, On Kawara, Joseph Kosuth, Sol LeWitt, Giuseppe Penone, Jessica Stockholder, Richard Tuttle, Lawrence Weiner and Fred Wilson.
Théorie de l’art
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Since the beginning of the century, the field of architecture has fervently turned its attention to documenting the contemporary urban condition. Every city has been examined as a repository of architectural concepts, scrutinized as an urban manifesto, and recorded as a series of found objects. "The Ordinary" articulates a potential genealogy for this practice and for the(...)
The ordinary: recordings. Rem Koolhaas, Denise Scott Brown, Yoshiharu Tsukamoto
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Since the beginning of the century, the field of architecture has fervently turned its attention to documenting the contemporary urban condition. Every city has been examined as a repository of architectural concepts, scrutinized as an urban manifesto, and recorded as a series of found objects. "The Ordinary" articulates a potential genealogy for this practice and for the genre of books derived from it. Organized around conversations with the authors of three seminal texts that document the city—Denise Scott Brown's "Learning from Las Vegas" (1972), Rem Koolhaas's "Delirious New York" (1978), and Yoshiharu Tsukamoto's "Made in Tokyo" (2001)—this volume traces the history of these "books on cities" by examining the material they recorded, the findings they established, the arguments they advanced, and the projects they promoted. These conversations also question the assumptions underlying this practice and whether in its ubiquity it still remains a space of opportunity.
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Sociologie des villes
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Tokyo, New York, Los Angeles, Londres, Johannesbourg, Paris, Jérusalem, Mumbai, Lagos, Shanghai... Le phénomène urbain s’étend sur la planète. Des global cities aux petites villes, il représente la forme sociale de la modernité. Certaines expériences d’architecture et d’urbanisme mobilisent les recherches en sciences sociales. Comment les groupes sociaux s’adaptent-ils à(...)
Sociologie des villes
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Tokyo, New York, Los Angeles, Londres, Johannesbourg, Paris, Jérusalem, Mumbai, Lagos, Shanghai... Le phénomène urbain s’étend sur la planète. Des global cities aux petites villes, il représente la forme sociale de la modernité. Certaines expériences d’architecture et d’urbanisme mobilisent les recherches en sciences sociales. Comment les groupes sociaux s’adaptent-ils à ces espaces et comment se les approprient-ils ? La ville crée-t-elle des communautés ou des solitudes ? Existe-t-il des lieux pathogènes ? Comment la distribution des classes sociales s’opère-t-elle ? La tendance à la ségrégation sociale a-t-elle augmenté ? La mixité sociale est-elle possible et organisable ? Par quels groupes sociaux la cité est-elle gouvernée et comment ? La participation des habitants est-elle envisageable ? Que signifie un aménagement urbain durable ? Ce livre propose des éléments de réponse en mobilisant les résultats de nombreuses recherches sociologiques françaises et internationales ainsi qu’un guide méthodologique pour le chercheur débutant.
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Cleaning
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Cleanliness is a core value of societies around the globe. With photography and short, poetical observations, acclaimed author and designer Kenya Hara explores and illustrates the concept of cleaning in all of its aspects: sweeping, dusting, blowing, beating, washing, wiping, smoothing, raking, grooming, purifying, scrubbing, scraping, erasing, scooping, removing and(...)
Cleaning
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Cleanliness is a core value of societies around the globe. With photography and short, poetical observations, acclaimed author and designer Kenya Hara explores and illustrates the concept of cleaning in all of its aspects: sweeping, dusting, blowing, beating, washing, wiping, smoothing, raking, grooming, purifying, scrubbing, scraping, erasing, scooping, removing and clearing. From the sorting process a child applies to its toys and the meticulous attention a clockmaker pays to their creations to the impressive feat that is deep-cleaning a ship, each process is treated with the same gentle fascination. The portable book format invites readers to take this publication into the world as they look at these everyday processes with fresh eyes. Kenya Hara (born 1958) is a Japanese graphic designer, author, curator, professor at the Musashino Art University in Tokyo and art director for MUJI. He has been awarded many prizes, including the Japanese Cultural Design Award. Hara is the author of ''White'', ''100 Whites'', ''Designing Design'' and ''Designing Japan''.
Théorie du design
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The world is facing unprecedented challenges, from climate change and population growth, to political division and technological dislocation, to declining mental health and fraying cultural fabric. With most of the planet’s population now living in urban environments, cities are the spaces where we have the greatest potential to confront and address these problems. In(...)
The Architecture of Urbanity: Designing for Nature, Culture, and Joy
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The world is facing unprecedented challenges, from climate change and population growth, to political division and technological dislocation, to declining mental health and fraying cultural fabric. With most of the planet’s population now living in urban environments, cities are the spaces where we have the greatest potential to confront and address these problems. In this visionary book, Vishaan Chakrabarti argues for an "architecture of urbanity," showing how the design of our communities can create a more equitable, sustainable, and joyous future for us all. Taking readers from the great cities of antiquity to the worldwide exurban sprawl of our postindustrial age, Chakrabarti examines architecture’s relationship to history’s greatest social, technological, and environmental dilemmas. He then presents a rich selection of work by a global array of practicing architects, demonstrating how innovative design can dramatically improve life in big cities and small settlements around the world, from campuses and refugee camps to mega-cities like São Paulo, Lima, Los Angeles, New York, Paris, and Tokyo.
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