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In "Yours in food", John Baldessari, a founding member of the Conceptual art movement, invites us to join him at the dinner table. His carefully composed vignettes appropriated from video and film are accompanied by meditations on eating specially commissioned from the country's foremost contemporary writers and cultural critics, such as Paul Auster, Tim Griffin and(...)
Yours in food, John Baldessari
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In "Yours in food", John Baldessari, a founding member of the Conceptual art movement, invites us to join him at the dinner table. His carefully composed vignettes appropriated from video and film are accompanied by meditations on eating specially commissioned from the country's foremost contemporary writers and cultural critics, such as Paul Auster, Tim Griffin and Francine Prose. Previously priced at $34.95.
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Transporting readers from derelict homesteads to Cold War test sites, "Curated decay" presents an unparalleled provocation to conventional thinking on the conservation of cultural heritage. Caitlin DeSilvey proposes rethinking the care of certain vulnerable sites in terms of ecology and entropy, explaining how we must adopt an ethical stance that allows us to collaborate(...)
Curated decay: heritage beyond saving
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Transporting readers from derelict homesteads to Cold War test sites, "Curated decay" presents an unparalleled provocation to conventional thinking on the conservation of cultural heritage. Caitlin DeSilvey proposes rethinking the care of certain vulnerable sites in terms of ecology and entropy, explaining how we must adopt an ethical stance that allows us to collaborate with—rather than defend against—natural processes.
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From transportation to climate change, urban design to education, 'You Belong to the Universe' demonstrates that Buckminster Fuller's holistic problem-solving techniques may be the only means of addressing some of the world's most pressing issues. Jonathan Keats's timely book challenges each of us to become comprehensive anticipatory design scientists, providing the(...)
You belong to the universe: Buckminster Fuller and the future
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From transportation to climate change, urban design to education, 'You Belong to the Universe' demonstrates that Buckminster Fuller's holistic problem-solving techniques may be the only means of addressing some of the world's most pressing issues. Jonathan Keats's timely book challenges each of us to become comprehensive anticipatory design scientists, providing the necessary tools for continuing Fuller's legacy of improving the world.
Théorie de l’architecture
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Have you ever wondered which typeface is used for airport signs? Or about the history behind the Times New Roman font? We are constantly engaging with type, yet many of us struggle to use it effectively or simply to understand the basics. Tony Seddon provides an essential lexicon that explains the history and functionality of 140 type terms and 20 unique typeface classifications.
Essential type: an illustrated guide to understanding and using fonts
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Have you ever wondered which typeface is used for airport signs? Or about the history behind the Times New Roman font? We are constantly engaging with type, yet many of us struggle to use it effectively or simply to understand the basics. Tony Seddon provides an essential lexicon that explains the history and functionality of 140 type terms and 20 unique typeface classifications.
When buildings speak: architecture as language in the Habsburg empire and its aftermath, 1867-1933
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In When Buildings Speak, Anthony Alofsin explores the rich yet often overlooked architecture of the late Austro-Hungarian Empire and its successor states. He shows that several different styles emerged in this milieu during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Moreover, he contends that each of these styles communicates to us in a manner resembling language(...)
When buildings speak: architecture as language in the Habsburg empire and its aftermath, 1867-1933
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In When Buildings Speak, Anthony Alofsin explores the rich yet often overlooked architecture of the late Austro-Hungarian Empire and its successor states. He shows that several different styles emerged in this milieu during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Moreover, he contends that each of these styles communicates to us in a manner resembling language and its particular means of expression.
Histoire jusqu’à 1900
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The twentieth-century American experience with the automobile has much to tell us about the relationship between consumer capitalism and the environment, Tom McCarthy contends. In Auto Mania he presents the first environmental history of the automobile that shows how consumer desire (and manufacturer decisions) created impacts across the product lifecycle—from raw(...)
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Auto mania : Cars, consumers, and the environment
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The twentieth-century American experience with the automobile has much to tell us about the relationship between consumer capitalism and the environment, Tom McCarthy contends. In Auto Mania he presents the first environmental history of the automobile that shows how consumer desire (and manufacturer decisions) created impacts across the product lifecycle—from raw material extraction to manufacturing to consumer use to disposal.
Cities from zero
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The contributors in this book, architects, critics and documenters, have responded to the invitation to prise the fact from the fiction, with particular focus on both the gulf emirate of Dubai and the rapid urbanisation of China. Are cities from zero universal blueprints of a better world for all of us, or doomed, out-dated models of already extinct ideologies?
Cities from zero
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The contributors in this book, architects, critics and documenters, have responded to the invitation to prise the fact from the fiction, with particular focus on both the gulf emirate of Dubai and the rapid urbanisation of China. Are cities from zero universal blueprints of a better world for all of us, or doomed, out-dated models of already extinct ideologies?
Théorie de l’urbanisme
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The Covid-19 crisis teaches us how priceless human nearness is. Art and education can't do without it either. Like works of art, people lose their aura when kept at digital arm's length. Art is lifeless when it can't resonate with bodies. In ''Nearness'', Marlies De Munck and Pascal Gielen diagnose a new reality. Only culture marks the difference between surviving and living.
Nearness: Art and Education after COVID-19
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The Covid-19 crisis teaches us how priceless human nearness is. Art and education can't do without it either. Like works of art, people lose their aura when kept at digital arm's length. Art is lifeless when it can't resonate with bodies. In ''Nearness'', Marlies De Munck and Pascal Gielen diagnose a new reality. Only culture marks the difference between surviving and living.
Théorie de l’art
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We know fungi are important, for us as well as the environment. But how they live, and what they can do, remains mysterious and surprising. Filled with stunning photographs, this volume presents an inside look into their hidden and extraordinary world. Combining engaging and accessible text with beautiful images, this book lays out all the essential facts about fungi for(...)
The lives of fungi: a natural history of our planet's decomposers
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We know fungi are important, for us as well as the environment. But how they live, and what they can do, remains mysterious and surprising. Filled with stunning photographs, this volume presents an inside look into their hidden and extraordinary world. Combining engaging and accessible text with beautiful images, this book lays out all the essential facts about fungi for the mycologically curious.
Faune et flore
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Macguffin magazine, The Life of Things, issue n. 06 is dedicated to the perfectly shaped object that is the dream of every visionary architect, but a source of great distress to the unsporty among us: the ball. MacGuffin kicks off with spinning ballboys, tumbling plants, rolling meatballs, bouncing planets, utopian bubbles, and the inventor of the smiley: Mr. Harvey Ball himself.
MacGuffin Magazine 06 : the ball
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Macguffin magazine, The Life of Things, issue n. 06 is dedicated to the perfectly shaped object that is the dream of every visionary architect, but a source of great distress to the unsporty among us: the ball. MacGuffin kicks off with spinning ballboys, tumbling plants, rolling meatballs, bouncing planets, utopian bubbles, and the inventor of the smiley: Mr. Harvey Ball himself.
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