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Les architectes sont-ils nuls ? Beaucoup le pensent.Devant le spectacle affligeant de la Bibliothèque de France, la désolation des quartiers sur dalle, à Montparnasse, Beaugrenelle, Euralille, la prétention du ministère des Finances, la pesante médiocrité de l’Opéra Bastille, la folie des grandeurs du quartier « Odysseum » de Montpellier, les quartiers de barres et de(...)
Faut-il pendre les architectes?
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Les architectes sont-ils nuls ? Beaucoup le pensent.Devant le spectacle affligeant de la Bibliothèque de France, la désolation des quartiers sur dalle, à Montparnasse, Beaugrenelle, Euralille, la prétention du ministère des Finances, la pesante médiocrité de l’Opéra Bastille, la folie des grandeurs du quartier « Odysseum » de Montpellier, les quartiers de barres et de tours…, on ne peut que faire chorus avec la foule. Pourtant le jugement est expéditif. L’architecte est un bouc émissaire facile. Il y a d’autres coupables : maires mégalomanes, entreprises déficientes, fait du prince, concours biaisés, juridiction écrasante, pots-de-vin, inculture des maîtres d’ouvrages et poujadisme du public. Faut-il pendre les architectes ? dresse le constat sévère d’un milieu et d’un système qui n’en finissent pas de produire des erreurs monumentales. Les architectes qui s’en sortent n’en sont que plus méritants. On peut se pendre à leur cou.
Théorie de l’architecture
p[o,o]lychromie
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"La couleur nous inpire des expériences qui racontent notre style et notre philosophie de la société. Nous la travaillons comme une quatrième dimension, composante essentielle pour imaginer l'espace et la vie de demain... Quand nous avons réalisé notre première expérience en 1995, la couleur semblait dérangeante, son rôle passait au second plan. Le monochrome a été notre(...)
p[o,o]lychromie
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"La couleur nous inpire des expériences qui racontent notre style et notre philosophie de la société. Nous la travaillons comme une quatrième dimension, composante essentielle pour imaginer l'espace et la vie de demain... Quand nous avons réalisé notre première expérience en 1995, la couleur semblait dérangeante, son rôle passait au second plan. Le monochrome a été notre postulat, pour une approche radicale des volumes, des matières et des textures. Notre envie des couleurs est toujours spontanée et intuitive. Nous la spatialisons pour poétiser le présent et matérialiser le futur" "Colour is the catalyst in our experimental approach to style and society. We explore it like a fourth dimension and it is an essential part of the way we imagine space and things to come. When we carried out our first experience in 1995, colour seemed disturbing and took a secondary role. Monochrome was our main statement in a radical approach to volumes, materials and textures. Our desire for colour is still spontaneous and intuitive. We spatialise it to enhance the present and shape the future" - Olivier Guillemin & Olivier Védrine
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"Art and the City" explores the contentious relationship between civic politics and visual culture in Los Angeles. Struggles between civic leaders and modernist artists to define civic identity and control public space highlight the significance of the arts as a site of political contest in the twentieth century.
Art and the city : civic imagination and cultural authority in Los Angeles
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"Art and the City" explores the contentious relationship between civic politics and visual culture in Los Angeles. Struggles between civic leaders and modernist artists to define civic identity and control public space highlight the significance of the arts as a site of political contest in the twentieth century.
Théorie de l’urbanisme
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Cutting Edges documents the new heyday of collage in current art and visual culture. Today’s artists, illustrators, and designers are increasingly drawn to this artistic technique by the challenges of seamlessly melding traditional craftsmanship with skilled computer montage. They are not only composing a wide variety of visual elements, but are also deliberately(...)
Cutting edges: contemporary collage
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Cutting Edges documents the new heyday of collage in current art and visual culture. Today’s artists, illustrators, and designers are increasingly drawn to this artistic technique by the challenges of seamlessly melding traditional craftsmanship with skilled computer montage. They are not only composing a wide variety of visual elements, but are also deliberately omitting, deleting, and destroying them. This book is an inspiring collection of these unique examples of contemporary collage.
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Julien Valée explore the relative roles of the computer and handmade processes in design. Vallée works in a wide range of fields, including art direction, motion graphics, print design, and art installation as well as video and design for the television industry. With his expert use of manual processes strongly supported by the technological tools of today-mainly in(...)
Julien Vallée: rock, paper, scissors
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Julien Valée explore the relative roles of the computer and handmade processes in design. Vallée works in a wide range of fields, including art direction, motion graphics, print design, and art installation as well as video and design for the television industry. With his expert use of manual processes strongly supported by the technological tools of today-mainly in mixing a digital conception phase with different implementation materials, such as paper, wood, and plastic-he creates outstanding art and design that seamlessly bridges the gaps between these disciplines. This first monograph not only presents Julien Vallée's commissioned work for clients such as the New York Times, MTV, AOL, and Computer Arts, but also includes a selection of personal projects. Each book includes a unique log-in code for accessing his video work online.
Design, monographies
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One fateful rainy day, a bored kid asks his grandfather “what in the world is graphic design?” Starting with that innocent question, this activity book takes its readers on a charmingly illustrated and cleverly revealing whirlwind tour through this creative discipline’s milestone developments, personalities, and technologies. With its engaging design, humorous narratives,(...)
A history of graphic design for rainy days: 1776-1994
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One fateful rainy day, a bored kid asks his grandfather “what in the world is graphic design?” Starting with that innocent question, this activity book takes its readers on a charmingly illustrated and cleverly revealing whirlwind tour through this creative discipline’s milestone developments, personalities, and technologies. With its engaging design, humorous narratives, and fun-filled exercises, it offers an entertaining look at the many aspects of graphic design—from typography’s humble beginnings to the internet-based font distribution of today; from styles including art nouveau, Dada, Bauhaus, and psychedelic to innovators such as William Morris, Jan Tschichold, Saul Bass, and David Carson.
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In recent years Dieter Rams has been rediscovered and celebrated as one of the most influential designers of the twentieth century. This hardcover edition of Less and More is the ultimate collection of images of all the products that Rams created throughout his career as well as selected sketches and models. In addition to the complete visual presentation of his designs,(...)
Less and more : the design ethos of Dieter Rams
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In recent years Dieter Rams has been rediscovered and celebrated as one of the most influential designers of the twentieth century. This hardcover edition of Less and More is the ultimate collection of images of all the products that Rams created throughout his career as well as selected sketches and models. In addition to the complete visual presentation of his designs, this book contains new texts by international design experts that offer a contemporary reevaluation of the entire body of Dieter Rams’s work.
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Patti Smith: Camera solo
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Patti Smith: Camera Solo accompanies the first museum exhibition of the artist's photography in the United States.Using either a vintage Land 100 or a Land 250 Polaroid camera, Smith photographs subjects inspired by her connections to poetry and literature as well as pictures that honor the personal effects of those she admires or loves. In the catalogue's interview,(...)
Patti Smith: Camera solo
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Patti Smith: Camera Solo accompanies the first museum exhibition of the artist's photography in the United States.Using either a vintage Land 100 or a Land 250 Polaroid camera, Smith photographs subjects inspired by her connections to poetry and literature as well as pictures that honor the personal effects of those she admires or loves. In the catalogue's interview, conducted by Susan Lubowsky Talbott, the artist talks about her "respect for the inanimate object" as well as the talismanic qualities of things in her life.
Monographies photo
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Architect John van de Water set off in 2004 to a China that was modernizing at a furious pace. His intention was to put the European, conceptual way of thinking of NEXT architects into practice in China. Five turbulent years ensued, with projects being built on Chinese soil. A whole range of emotions sprang up in the space between Western and Chinese architectural(...)
John Van de Water : You can't change China, China changes you
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Architect John van de Water set off in 2004 to a China that was modernizing at a furious pace. His intention was to put the European, conceptual way of thinking of NEXT architects into practice in China. Five turbulent years ensued, with projects being built on Chinese soil. A whole range of emotions sprang up in the space between Western and Chinese architectural thinking: incomprehension, confrontation, misunderstanding, acceptance, awareness, understanding and, eventually, advantage. You Can't Change China, China Changes You is a personal reflection of his experience. In it, the development of architectural thinking is described, researched and tested.
Emiliano Ponzi: 10 X 10
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10x10 is an account of 10 years of Emiliano Ponzi’s work, spent designing ideas whilst comfortably seated in a 10x10 sq m room in Milan - the illustrator’s home and office. Four walls, a white screen and a window, the only means of escape through which the artist’s images, like carrier pigeons, fly away to editors and art directors. Some of these modern visual metaphors(...)
Emiliano Ponzi: 10 X 10
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10x10 is an account of 10 years of Emiliano Ponzi’s work, spent designing ideas whilst comfortably seated in a 10x10 sq m room in Milan - the illustrator’s home and office. Four walls, a white screen and a window, the only means of escape through which the artist’s images, like carrier pigeons, fly away to editors and art directors. Some of these modern visual metaphors are lost in space, while others return to the window-sill, bringing welcome and, sometimes, unwelcome replies. With an introduction by Nicholas Blechman (art director of the New York Times Book Review), this publication brings us a collection of these images with four different cover choices and a selection of e-mails, sent as Emiliano Ponzi received them. Some amusing, some scathing, but all anonymous. Vividly illustrated for the international press and advertising companies, Ponzi’s sharp accounts record the joys and sorrows of his captivating profession.
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