Architecture and dystopia
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As a response to the profound crisis of Western culture the emerged in the 1960s, radical artists from Italy, Austria, England and Japan called into question the foundations of modernist utopias. They transmuted the difficulties of capitalism into a repertory of startling images that revealed the disturbing realities of consumer society, even in those places still(...)
Architecture and dystopia
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As a response to the profound crisis of Western culture the emerged in the 1960s, radical artists from Italy, Austria, England and Japan called into question the foundations of modernist utopias. They transmuted the difficulties of capitalism into a repertory of startling images that revealed the disturbing realities of consumer society, even in those places still resistant to the penetration of modern architecture, such as Superstudio and Archizoom’s Florence. Their model, though exhausted in the space of experimentation, went on to inspire a generation of architects, from the High Tech movement to Rem Koolhaas.. In the light of these examples, how to define a unified 'dystopian' method of design, i.e. a common ground for an architecture that, by its very nature, seems to resist systematization? Are the most recognizable architectural expressions of this theoretical framework — characterized by brazen displays of technology and structures of overwhelming scale — merely isolated cases, albeit of particular iconic power? Or do they belong to a wider landscape of antirational architectural projects? And to what extent are these disturbing expressions premised on the utopian tradition or, better yet, the conceptual model of 'negative thought'? The goal of this book is to respond to such questions, thus initiating an open dialogue about the legitimacy of this critical category.
Théorie de l’architecture
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Dernier volet d'un long parcours scientifique, cet ouvrage poursuit l'interrogation menée par le laboratoire Gerphau sur la conception et la réalisation d'artefacts humains dans une perspective écologique. En convoquant le concept de synergie, qu'il applique aux domaines de l'architecture de la ville, du paysage et du projet, ce volume introduit à de nouvelles(...)
Synergies urbaines : pour un métabolisme collectif des villes
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Dernier volet d'un long parcours scientifique, cet ouvrage poursuit l'interrogation menée par le laboratoire Gerphau sur la conception et la réalisation d'artefacts humains dans une perspective écologique. En convoquant le concept de synergie, qu'il applique aux domaines de l'architecture de la ville, du paysage et du projet, ce volume introduit à de nouvelles méthodologies, plus ouvertes, en mesure de prendre en compte les phénomènes de transformation, coévolution et adaptation continue qui parcourent le monde urbain contemporain.
Théorie de l’urbanisme
Airbnb, la ville uberisée
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A l'été 2008 naissait Airbnb. Dix ans plus tard, l'économie du partage est devenue une économie de la prédation : Paris a vu 20 000 de ses logements disparaître au profit de la multinationale, dont elle est le premier marché au monde. Données inédites à l'appui, Ian Brossat montre comment cette "ubérisation de l'urbain" impacte nos vies : hausse des loyers, spéculation,(...)
Airbnb, la ville uberisée
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A l'été 2008 naissait Airbnb. Dix ans plus tard, l'économie du partage est devenue une économie de la prédation : Paris a vu 20 000 de ses logements disparaître au profit de la multinationale, dont elle est le premier marché au monde. Données inédites à l'appui, Ian Brossat montre comment cette "ubérisation de l'urbain" impacte nos vies : hausse des loyers, spéculation, standardisation des commerces, transformations des temps de vie, perte d'identité de quartiers entiers.
Théorie de l’urbanisme
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Postmodernism has been a buzzword in contemporary society for the last decade. But how can it be defined? In this "Very Short Introduction" Christopher Butler challenges and explores the key ideas of postmodernists, and their engagement with theory, literature, the visual arts, film, architecture, and music. He treats artists, intellectuals, critics, and social scientists(...)
Postmodernism: a very short introduction
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Postmodernism has been a buzzword in contemporary society for the last decade. But how can it be defined? In this "Very Short Introduction" Christopher Butler challenges and explores the key ideas of postmodernists, and their engagement with theory, literature, the visual arts, film, architecture, and music. He treats artists, intellectuals, critics, and social scientists 'as if they were all members of a loosely constituted and quarrelsome political party' - a party which includes such members as Cindy Sherman, Salman Rushdie, Jacques Derrida, Walter Abish, and Richard Rorty - creating a vastly entertaining framework in which to unravel the mysteries of the 'postmodern condition', from the politicizing of museum culture to the cult of the politically correct.
Théorie de l’architecture
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'Authorship' critically examines emergent themes in contemporary architecture by revisiting the seemingly defunct notion of design authorship. As we revel in the death of the master architect, how do we come to terms with the shifting role of creativity in architecture’s cultural production? In 'Authorship', a cross-disciplinary group of designers and scholars explores(...)
Authorship. Discourse, a series on architecture
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'Authorship' critically examines emergent themes in contemporary architecture by revisiting the seemingly defunct notion of design authorship. As we revel in the death of the master architect, how do we come to terms with the shifting role of creativity in architecture’s cultural production? In 'Authorship', a cross-disciplinary group of designers and scholars explores this topic through a myriad of lenses.
Théorie de l’architecture
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Can good design truly make us happier? Given that we spend over 80% of our time in buildings, shouldn't we have a better understanding of how they make us feel? This book explores the ways in which buildings, spaces and cities affect our moods. It reveals how architecture and design can make us happy and support mental health, and explains how poor design can have the(...)
Happy by design: a guide to architecture and mental wellbeing
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Can good design truly make us happier? Given that we spend over 80% of our time in buildings, shouldn't we have a better understanding of how they make us feel? This book explores the ways in which buildings, spaces and cities affect our moods. It reveals how architecture and design can make us happy and support mental health, and explains how poor design can have the opposite effect.
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Plan and play, play and plan
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"Visual artist" is a term with manifold variations and meanings. But how, as an artist (or designer, photographer or other "independent creator"), do you become who you are and who you would like to be? How can you guide your artistic practice? "Plan and Play, Play and Plan" invites the artist to explore their own questions about their work, using analytical models to(...)
Plan and play, play and plan
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"Visual artist" is a term with manifold variations and meanings. But how, as an artist (or designer, photographer or other "independent creator"), do you become who you are and who you would like to be? How can you guide your artistic practice? "Plan and Play, Play and Plan" invites the artist to explore their own questions about their work, using analytical models to help them determine where they stand and what they stand for.
Théorie de l’art
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Leon van Schaik AO, Professor of Architecture at RMIT University for 30 years and mentor to countless Australian architects, lays down his highly influential creative philosophies in his latest book, ''Architecture in its Continuums.'' The text represents a distillation of a lifetime of thinking about architecture and the ways in which it is practiced, researched and(...)
Architecture in its continuums
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Leon van Schaik AO, Professor of Architecture at RMIT University for 30 years and mentor to countless Australian architects, lays down his highly influential creative philosophies in his latest book, ''Architecture in its Continuums.'' The text represents a distillation of a lifetime of thinking about architecture and the ways in which it is practiced, researched and taught. The book remediates a gap that van Schaik sees in current architecture writing. There are, he says, ''very few books on architecture that, I believe, concern the practice of architecture itself, as distinct from the large body of writing about the history, sociology and environmental science of architecture.'' Van Schaik contends that we all share a common experience of space and light. Therefore, the architect's skill in the crafting of space and light has the potential to intimately connect architecture with humanity.
Théorie de l’architecture
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Associating the changing natural world with journeys in self-understanding, and the design process with a visual and spatial autobiography, this book describes journeys between London and the North Sea in successive centuries, analysing an enduring and evolving tradition from the picturesque and romanticism to modernism. Creative architects have often looked to the past(...)
A landscape of architecture: history and fiction
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Associating the changing natural world with journeys in self-understanding, and the design process with a visual and spatial autobiography, this book describes journeys between London and the North Sea in successive centuries, analysing an enduring and evolving tradition from the picturesque and romanticism to modernism. Creative architects have often looked to the past to understand the present and imagine the future. Twenty-first-century architects need to appreciate the shock of the old as well as the shock of the new.
Théorie de l’architecture
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Chronicling the last radical architectural group of the twentieth century – NATØ (Narrative Architecture Today) – who emerged from the Architectural Association at the start of the 1980s, this book explores the group’s work which echoed a wider artistic and literary culture that drew on the specific political, social and physical condition of 1980s London. It traces(...)
NATØ: narrative architecture in postmodern London
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Chronicling the last radical architectural group of the twentieth century – NATØ (Narrative Architecture Today) – who emerged from the Architectural Association at the start of the 1980s, this book explores the group’s work which echoed a wider artistic and literary culture that drew on the specific political, social and physical condition of 1980s London. It traces NATØ’s identification with a particular stream of post-punk, postmodern expression: a celebration of the abject, an aesthetic of entropy, and a do-it-yourself provisionality.
Théorie de l’architecture