Chaos sublime
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« Il faut accepter d’emblée la logique du désordre urbain. D’où le chaos. Un chaos sublime ». Ce livre est l’histoire d’une amitié, puisqu’il est issu de vingt ans de conversations avec Paolo Conti, écrivain et journaliste italien. Il est né aussi du besoin de comprendre les processus de création contemporains, en tenant compte des passions politiques et sociales de notre(...)
Chaos sublime
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« Il faut accepter d’emblée la logique du désordre urbain. D’où le chaos. Un chaos sublime ». Ce livre est l’histoire d’une amitié, puisqu’il est issu de vingt ans de conversations avec Paolo Conti, écrivain et journaliste italien. Il est né aussi du besoin de comprendre les processus de création contemporains, en tenant compte des passions politiques et sociales de notre temps qui ont bouleversé et bouleverseront notre façon d’habiter la ville. C’est à travers cette vision de l’architecture que sont abordés tous les grands thèmes contemporains des croissances des villes, des banlieues, des œuvres d’art comme des faillites de l’architecture.
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The postconceptual condition
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If, as Walter Benjamin claimed, "it is the function of artistic form […] to make historical content into a philosophical truth” then it is the function of criticism to recover and to complete that truth. Contemporary art makes this work more difficult than ever. Today’s art is a point of condensation for a vast array of social and historical forces, economic and political(...)
The postconceptual condition
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If, as Walter Benjamin claimed, "it is the function of artistic form […] to make historical content into a philosophical truth” then it is the function of criticism to recover and to complete that truth. Contemporary art makes this work more difficult than ever. Today’s art is a point of condensation for a vast array of social and historical forces, economic and political forms, and technologies of image production. Contemporary art, Osborne maintains, expresses this condition through its distinctively postconceptual form. These essays—extending the scope and arguments of Osborne’s Anywhere or Not At All: Philosophy of Contemporary Art—move from a philosophical consideration of the changing temporal conditions of capitalist modernity, via problems of formalism, the politics of art and the changing shape of art institutions, to interpretation and analysis of particular works by Akram Zaatari, Xavier Le Roy and Ilya Kabakov, and the postconceptual situation of a crisis-ridden New Music.
Théorie de l’art
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"City of Segregation" documents one hundred years of struggle against the enforced separation of racial groups through property markets, constructions of community, and the growth of neoliberalism. This movement history covers the decades of work to end legal support for segregation in 1948; the 1960s Civil Rights movement and CORE’s efforts to integrate LA’s white(...)
City of segregation: 100 years of struggle for housing in Los Angeles
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"City of Segregation" documents one hundred years of struggle against the enforced separation of racial groups through property markets, constructions of community, and the growth of neoliberalism. This movement history covers the decades of work to end legal support for segregation in 1948; the 1960s Civil Rights movement and CORE’s efforts to integrate LA’s white suburbs; and the 2006 victory preserving 10,000 downtown residential hotel units from gentrification enfolded within ongoing resistance to the criminalization and displacement of the homeless. Andrea Gibbons reveals the shape and nature of th e racist ideology that must be fought, in Los Angeles and across the United States, if we hope to found just cities.
Théorie de l’urbanisme
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Today we live in a world that can no longer be read as a two-dimensional map, but must now be understood as a series of vertical strata that reach from the satellites that encircle our planet to the tunnels deep within the ground. In Vertical, Stephen Graham rewrites the city at every level: how the geography of inequality, politics, and identity is determined in terms of(...)
Vertical: the city from satellites to bunkers
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Today we live in a world that can no longer be read as a two-dimensional map, but must now be understood as a series of vertical strata that reach from the satellites that encircle our planet to the tunnels deep within the ground. In Vertical, Stephen Graham rewrites the city at every level: how the geography of inequality, politics, and identity is determined in terms of above and below.
Théorie de l’urbanisme
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In Duty Free Art, filmmaker and writer Hito Steyerl wonders how we can appreciate, or even make art, in the present age. What can we do when arms manufacturers sponsor museums, and some of the world’s most valuable artworks are used as currency in a global futures market detached from productive work? Can we distinguish between information, fake news, and the digital(...)
Duty free art: art in the age of planetary civil war
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In Duty Free Art, filmmaker and writer Hito Steyerl wonders how we can appreciate, or even make art, in the present age. What can we do when arms manufacturers sponsor museums, and some of the world’s most valuable artworks are used as currency in a global futures market detached from productive work? Can we distinguish between information, fake news, and the digital white noise that bombards our everyday lives? Exploring subjects as diverse as video games, WikiLeaks files, the proliferation of freeports, and political actions, she exposes the paradoxes within globalization, political economies, visual culture, and the status of art production.
Théorie de l’art
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The striking inequalities in living conditions in today's cities and metropolises reveal one of the greatest humanitarian challenges of our time. Ascertaining that architecture can never be neutral, those involved in this field of design are called on to recognize and to act on their social responsibility – not only – in the city-making process. Their work should(...)
Théorie de l’architecture
avril 2018
A book on urban thinking: architecture and human rights
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The striking inequalities in living conditions in today's cities and metropolises reveal one of the greatest humanitarian challenges of our time. Ascertaining that architecture can never be neutral, those involved in this field of design are called on to recognize and to act on their social responsibility – not only – in the city-making process. Their work should therefore not be limited to creating living space as questions of the distribution of resources, so closely interwoven with architectural design, must also play a role. This book is conceived as a collage of narratives, photos and critical conversations on the link between human rights and architecture. In its hybrid form, all of the people involved at every level are given a voice and encouraged to question whether the architecture of the towns, streets and buildings for which they are responsible contributes to the protection and advancement of human rights. The ultimate goal is that the consideration of human rights become an architect's powerful tool for better and fairer urban planning.
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Juger l'architecture
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Dans cet essai inédit en français, paru initialement à Londres en 1971, l’auteur s’attache à établir des analogies entre le jugement qui relève du droit anglo-saxon et le jugement en matière d’architecture. En établissant d’étonnants parallèles entre ces deux champs, il entend conforter l’une des ambitions majeures qui traversent l’ensemble de son oeuvre, à savoir montrer(...)
Juger l'architecture
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Dans cet essai inédit en français, paru initialement à Londres en 1971, l’auteur s’attache à établir des analogies entre le jugement qui relève du droit anglo-saxon et le jugement en matière d’architecture. En établissant d’étonnants parallèles entre ces deux champs, il entend conforter l’une des ambitions majeures qui traversent l’ensemble de son oeuvre, à savoir montrer que l’architecture est fondamentalement un métier qui, s’il entretient des rapports avec les arts plastiques, a pour destination essentielle de répondre à des besoins sociaux et des exigences pratiques. En cela, estime Collins, l’architecture a plus à voir avec les professions qui relèvent du droit ou de la médecine qu’avec les pratiques artistiques des peintres ou des sculpteurs.
Théorie de l’architecture
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A brief examination of the theory and practice of Renaissance architecture that draws attention to the values underlying this style.
Architectural principles in the age of humanism
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A brief examination of the theory and practice of Renaissance architecture that draws attention to the values underlying this style.
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Les modernologues
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L'histoire du modernisme n'aura pas seulement occupé les historiens et les critiques, elle aura aussi été un objet d'investissement à part entière pour les créateurs actuels. C'est ce que montre cet ouvrage, le premier de Marjolaine Lévy. Elle y analyse dans le détail l'œuvre de six artistes pour lesquels le rapport au modernisme de la première moitié du xxe siècle est(...)
Les modernologues
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L'histoire du modernisme n'aura pas seulement occupé les historiens et les critiques, elle aura aussi été un objet d'investissement à part entière pour les créateurs actuels. C'est ce que montre cet ouvrage, le premier de Marjolaine Lévy. Elle y analyse dans le détail l'œuvre de six artistes pour lesquels le rapport au modernisme de la première moitié du xxe siècle est crucial. Ce faisant, leurs travaux sont aussi des interprétations historiques, fondées sur des approches plasticiennes, qui traitent la mémoire des formes par son invention aujourd'hui. Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier, Malevitch, Marcel Breuer, ces figures balisent l'univers de Farah Atassi, Martin Boyce, David Diao, Josiah McElheny, Simon Starling et Lucy Williams.
Théorie de l’art
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This book tells the story of the VENTO project, a cycling route from Venice (VENezia) to Turin (TOrino) running along the River Po. A new cultural paradigm to live differently in open spaces and the ways in which they change. A project of reanimating a landscape that is capable of offering new employment and economic diversification for the sustainable development of the(...)
Théorie de l’urbanisme
octobre 2015
Vento: the gentle revolution cycling its way through the landscape
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This book tells the story of the VENTO project, a cycling route from Venice (VENezia) to Turin (TOrino) running along the River Po. A new cultural paradigm to live differently in open spaces and the ways in which they change. A project of reanimating a landscape that is capable of offering new employment and economic diversification for the sustainable development of the country’s inland areas.
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