Generations
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Generations showcases six decades of the art and architecture of Herb Greene, informed by his interest in science and history. This “picture book” is organized to showcase large-scale images of Mr. Greene’s architectural work alongside his collage paintings and Armature drawings in a way that reveals the unified philosophy behind all of his work. Its purpose is to tell a(...)
Generations
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Generations showcases six decades of the art and architecture of Herb Greene, informed by his interest in science and history. This “picture book” is organized to showcase large-scale images of Mr. Greene’s architectural work alongside his collage paintings and Armature drawings in a way that reveals the unified philosophy behind all of his work. Its purpose is to tell a story of the important interrelationships between art, science, and philosophy, which is described with simple narrative juxtaposed alongside these images.
Architecture, monographies
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Materialism continues the commitment of our first two issues on Property and Service to examine foundational yet overlooked concepts in architecture and landscape architecture. In our estimation, these disciplines are haunted by materialism. We see its specular presence invoked in design research’s emphasis on large-scale flows and sites of material production, in the(...)
Scapegoat issue 2: materialism
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Materialism continues the commitment of our first two issues on Property and Service to examine foundational yet overlooked concepts in architecture and landscape architecture. In our estimation, these disciplines are haunted by materialism. We see its specular presence invoked in design research’s emphasis on large-scale flows and sites of material production, in the renewed focus on ‘performance’ and the rehabilitation of functionalism, in the centrality of ‘material’ as an expressive layer of tectonics, and through the import of non-human actors into discussions about spatial design. Each of the above invokes matter as its base.
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Winner of the Pritzker Prize for Architecture in 2006, Paulo Mendes da Rocha is one of the most important architects of today. Paulo Mendes da Rocha : Projects 1957-2007 is the most complete monograph available on his work, spanning more than fifty years of professional activity. His is an intense oeuvre of rare amplitude, encompassing educationnal, museological,(...)
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novembre 2007, New York
Paulo Mendes da Rocha : Fifty years
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Winner of the Pritzker Prize for Architecture in 2006, Paulo Mendes da Rocha is one of the most important architects of today. Paulo Mendes da Rocha : Projects 1957-2007 is the most complete monograph available on his work, spanning more than fifty years of professional activity. His is an intense oeuvre of rare amplitude, encompassing educationnal, museological, residential, technical, recreational, commercial and religious buildings, as well as sports facilites and large-scale urban adaptation studies.
Architecture, monographies
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In retracing the Viaggio photographic archive in Italy, a collection of 220 photographs from a 1984 project organised by pioneering contemporary photographer Luigi Ghirri, Nicola Nunziata presents a multi-layered book that considers the notion of landscape. Rereading the original images in terms of individual and shared experience, memory, and aesthetics, he investigates(...)
Nicola Nunziata: how what exists exists. Viaggio photographic archive
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In retracing the Viaggio photographic archive in Italy, a collection of 220 photographs from a 1984 project organised by pioneering contemporary photographer Luigi Ghirri, Nicola Nunziata presents a multi-layered book that considers the notion of landscape. Rereading the original images in terms of individual and shared experience, memory, and aesthetics, he investigates their substance formats, materials, surface textures, colours, marks and traces, signatures of the authors in order to divulge the singular details that express the history they hold, and thereby reflect upon the sense of transformation on a global scale in the period when they came into being.
Monographies photo
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In "Cities and complexity", Michael Batty offers a comprehensive view of urban dynamics in the context of complexity theory, presenting models that demonstrate how complexity theory can embrace a myriad of processes and elements that combine into organic wholes. He argues that bottom-up processes -- in which the outcomes are always uncertain -- can combine with new forms(...)
Cities and complexity : understanding cities with cellular automata, agent-based models, and fractals
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In "Cities and complexity", Michael Batty offers a comprehensive view of urban dynamics in the context of complexity theory, presenting models that demonstrate how complexity theory can embrace a myriad of processes and elements that combine into organic wholes. He argues that bottom-up processes -- in which the outcomes are always uncertain -- can combine with new forms of geometry associated with fractal patterns and chaotic dynamics to provide theories that are applicable to highly complex systems such as cities. Batty begins with models based on cellular automata (CA), simulating urban dynamics through the local actions of automata. He then introduces agent-based models (ABM), in which agents are mobile and move between locations. These models relate to many scales, from the scale of the street to patterns and structure at the scale of the urban region. Finally, Batty develops applications of all these models to specific urban situations, discussing concepts of criticality, threshold, surprise, novelty, and phase transition in the context of spatial developments. Every theory and model presented in the book is developed through examples that range from the simplified and hypothetical to the actual. Deploying extensive visual, mathematical, and textual material, "Cities and complexity" will be read both by urban researchers and by complexity theorists with an interest in new kinds of computational models.
Théorie de l’urbanisme
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Architects’ mock-ups typically represent an abstracted, idealistic vision, and their models are generally understood as filtered interpretations of the environment, which tend toward the utopian. For this publication, conceptual artist and photographer Thomas Demand visited the untidy office of SANAA in Tokyo several times, exploring the aggregated environment he found(...)
Thomas Demand : model studies, Koto-ku
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Architects’ mock-ups typically represent an abstracted, idealistic vision, and their models are generally understood as filtered interpretations of the environment, which tend toward the utopian. For this publication, conceptual artist and photographer Thomas Demand visited the untidy office of SANAA in Tokyo several times, exploring the aggregated environment he found there, where paper and discarded cardboard – the thought process of every project – survives in a sedimentary layering of materials. The resulting series of photographs shows an abstracted landscape of architectonic forms, devoid of human scale or reference, yet resonating with the language of creativity.
Monographies photo
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This publication is a full-scale reproduction of Ken Isaacs' 1974 book ''How to Build your Own Living Structures''. It is accompanied by an essay by Susan Snodgrass, critic and teacher at the Art Institute of Chicago, who recontextualizes this emblematic work of the 1970s. A manual for creating various modular structures around the concept of the "matrix", it also(...)
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décembre 2025
Ken Isaacs: How to build your own living structures
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This publication is a full-scale reproduction of Ken Isaacs' 1974 book ''How to Build your Own Living Structures''. It is accompanied by an essay by Susan Snodgrass, critic and teacher at the Art Institute of Chicago, who recontextualizes this emblematic work of the 1970s. A manual for creating various modular structures around the concept of the "matrix", it also provides an opportunity to immerse oneself in the philosophy of this pioneering architect, whose thinking in many respects resonates strongly with our own times.
Architecture, monographies
AV Monographs 284: COBE
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At the intersection of urban regeneration and the construction of new forms of collective life lies the work of Cobe, established in Copenhagen in 2006 by architect Dan Stubbergaard. With an approach that combines territorial strategy, material finesse, and attention to everyday experience, Cobe’s work operates simultaneously between building, landscape, and public space.(...)
AV Monographs 284: COBE
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At the intersection of urban regeneration and the construction of new forms of collective life lies the work of Cobe, established in Copenhagen in 2006 by architect Dan Stubbergaard. With an approach that combines territorial strategy, material finesse, and attention to everyday experience, Cobe’s work operates simultaneously between building, landscape, and public space. Marking the firm’s 20th anniversary, the magazine presents a selection of works characterised by the integration of nature and city, attention to the human scale, the creation of shared spaces, and sustainability. Highlights include Ragnarock Museum, Forfatterhuset Kindergarten, and Opera Park.
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Why not associates ? 2
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Bringing together work from the last six years, this book shows how the designers have refined their typographic style to set new standards. A spectrum of projects, in all media and contexts, demonstrates how versatile, innovative and progressive Why Not's work has become, with explorations into exhibition design, new media, public art and architecture scale urban(...)
juin 2004, New York
Why not associates ? 2
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Bringing together work from the last six years, this book shows how the designers have refined their typographic style to set new standards. A spectrum of projects, in all media and contexts, demonstrates how versatile, innovative and progressive Why Not's work has become, with explorations into exhibition design, new media, public art and architecture scale urban pieces. With an introduction by Alice Twemlow.
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Art & Agenda explores the current interrelationship between politics, art, and activism. The book introduces a variety of artists who are advocating political and social reform on a local or a global scale. The personalities and approaches of the featured artists are as diverse as their subject matter the artists goals, techniques, and degrees of radicalness depend on(...)
novembre 2011
Art & agenda: political art and activism
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Art & Agenda explores the current interrelationship between politics, art, and activism. The book introduces a variety of artists who are advocating political and social reform on a local or a global scale. The personalities and approaches of the featured artists are as diverse as their subject matter the artists goals, techniques, and degrees of radicalness depend on the cultures to which they belong as well as the social and political circles in which they move.