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Topotek 1 is one of Germany's internationally best-known landscape architecture firms. Rosemarie Trockel has made a name for herself through highly unconventional works that have been exhibited in New York, Chicago, at documenta Kassel, the Venice Biennale, and elsewhere. The new and extremely playful park in Munich is the result of a collaboration between them. It covers(...)
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Topotek 1 : Rosemarie Trockel: A landscape sculpture for Munich
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Topotek 1 is one of Germany's internationally best-known landscape architecture firms. Rosemarie Trockel has made a name for herself through highly unconventional works that have been exhibited in New York, Chicago, at documenta Kassel, the Venice Biennale, and elsewhere. The new and extremely playful park in Munich is the result of a collaboration between them. It covers a three-hundred-meter section of railroad tracks and creates urgently needed open space for the neighborhood of Theresienhohe. In addition to the design, technically demanding questions like the approach to statics, acoustics, and traffic safety also needed to be solved. This monograph examines the new park design in a number of essays and documents the design and production process.
Bauhaus Dream-house
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Bauhaus Dream-house brings critical social theory to bear on the ideas of architectural and design education at the Bauhaus - tracing the spread and influence of these ideas worldwide. Developed in post WW1 Germany, the principles of Bauhaus architecture and design were transferred by some of its leading figures to architecture schools at Harvard, Chicago and the(...)
Bauhaus Dream-house
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Bauhaus Dream-house brings critical social theory to bear on the ideas of architectural and design education at the Bauhaus - tracing the spread and influence of these ideas worldwide. Developed in post WW1 Germany, the principles of Bauhaus architecture and design were transferred by some of its leading figures to architecture schools at Harvard, Chicago and the IIT. Yet in the postwar era, they also became increasingly influential in architecture schools in Western and Central Europe, Japan, South America, Africa and the Middle East. This book provides a critical examination of the profound social, cultural and spatial consequences of these developments and the erasure of class, race, gender and culture which the ‘modernisation’ of design embodied.
Modernisme
Les États-Unis du vent
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Fin 2010. De l'automne tardif au début de l'hiver, Daniel Canty devient chercheur de vent. À bord de la Blue Rider, un vénérable camion d'un bleu de minuit coiffé d'une girouette, il s'abandonne à une dérive entièrement dictée par la fluidité des courants aériens. L'aventure l'emporte des plaines herbeuses du Midwest à Chicago la venteuse, il s'engouffre dans le wind(...)
Les États-Unis du vent
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Fin 2010. De l'automne tardif au début de l'hiver, Daniel Canty devient chercheur de vent. À bord de la Blue Rider, un vénérable camion d'un bleu de minuit coiffé d'une girouette, il s'abandonne à une dérive entièrement dictée par la fluidité des courants aériens. L'aventure l'emporte des plaines herbeuses du Midwest à Chicago la venteuse, il s'engouffre dans le wind tunnel des Grands Lacs, découvre les cités d'industrie perdue de la rust belt, bifurque par les pastoraux territoires amish vers les forêts de Pennsylvanie, terres d'or noir et de guerre civile. Entre travelogue et fabulation, Les États-Unis du vent est un livre aux pieds ailés, où transparaît la carte d'une Amérique invisible, nappée par la lumière des révélations.
Littérature et poésie
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À partir de 1933, de nombreux intellectuels allemands débarquent aux États-Unis. Créateur du Bauhaus (qu'il dirige jusqu'en 1928), Walter Gropius émigre en 1937, rejoint l'année suivante par Mies van der Rohe, lui aussi directeur de l'école jusqu'à sa dissolution (1930-1933). Le premier arrive à la Graduate School of Design à Harvard, le second à l'Armour Institute of(...)
Un camouflage New Bauhaus: György Kepes et la militarisation de l'image
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À partir de 1933, de nombreux intellectuels allemands débarquent aux États-Unis. Créateur du Bauhaus (qu'il dirige jusqu'en 1928), Walter Gropius émigre en 1937, rejoint l'année suivante par Mies van der Rohe, lui aussi directeur de l'école jusqu'à sa dissolution (1930-1933). Le premier arrive à la Graduate School of Design à Harvard, le second à l'Armour Institute of Technology de Chicago. Débarqué dans cette ville en 1937, leur ancien professeur László Moholy Nagy y prend, sur proposition de Gropius, la direction du New Bauhaus... qui ferme brièvement l'année suivante ! Face à d'importantes difficultés, l'établissement n'aura alors de cesse, aux lendemains de Pearl Harbor, d'offrir à György Kepes l'opportunité de former des « camoufleurs industriels »...
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Barry Byrne (1883-1967) was one of the first significant apprentices of Frank Lloyd Wright, studying in Wright's Oak Park studio from 1902 t0 1908. He followed Wright's principles, but forged an individual style more reminiscent of Louis Sullivan and Irving Gill, with taut planar skins enveloping modern space plans. From 1914 to 1917 he was the American partner of Walter(...)
The architecture of Barry Byrne: taking the Prairie School to Europe
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Barry Byrne (1883-1967) was one of the first significant apprentices of Frank Lloyd Wright, studying in Wright's Oak Park studio from 1902 t0 1908. He followed Wright's principles, but forged an individual style more reminiscent of Louis Sullivan and Irving Gill, with taut planar skins enveloping modern space plans. From 1914 to 1917 he was the American partner of Walter Burley Griffin. In 1922 he designed the first modern Catholic church, St. Thomas Apostle in Chicago, and concentrated on Catholic churches and schools for much of his career. This book charts the entire length of Byrne's work, highlighting its qualities while discussing the cultural conditions that kept it in the shadows of his more famous contemporaries.
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Une ville sous un seul toit
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Célébrés par Rem Koolhaas dans New York Délire (1978) les deux textes rassemblés ici éclairent, au lendemain de la Prohibition et de la Grande Dépression, la progressive relégation de la Gotham City du lac Michigan, où Raymond Hood (1881-1934) venait d'ériger la tour du Chicago Tribune (1922-1925). Désormais, c'est dans l'effervescence du New York Art Déco que tout se(...)
Une ville sous un seul toit
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Célébrés par Rem Koolhaas dans New York Délire (1978) les deux textes rassemblés ici éclairent, au lendemain de la Prohibition et de la Grande Dépression, la progressive relégation de la Gotham City du lac Michigan, où Raymond Hood (1881-1934) venait d'ériger la tour du Chicago Tribune (1922-1925). Désormais, c'est dans l'effervescence du New York Art Déco que tout se passe. Pour son ami Hugh Ferriss, Manhattan préfigure même la Metropolis du futur. Dans 'Une ville sous un seul toit' (1929), Hood imagine de petites villes dans la ville, tandis que dans 'L'Architecture de Rockefeller City' (1932), il transpose le modèle idéal en chantier opérationnel. Bref, une Messe pour le temps présent, un Office pour l'architecture métropolitaine...
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"Streamlined: A Metaphor for Progress" discusses the scientific, cultural, and historical development of this remarkable design style. Portraits of such designers as William B. Stout and Norman Bel Geddes, among(...)
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janvier 1900, New York
Streamlined : a metaphor for progress
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"Streamlined: A Metaphor for Progress" discusses the scientific, cultural, and historical development of this remarkable design style. Portraits of such designers as William B. Stout and Norman Bel Geddes, among others; an essay on streamlining at the world's fairs in Chicago 1933-34 and New York 1939-40; and source texts such as Paul Jardy's "Teardrops, Aerodynamics, and Motorcars" (1924) are just a few of the many topics covered. The book presents over 600 photographs, illustrating the degree to which streamlining has come to personify progress. The photographs also testify to the enormity of the aesthetic ripple effect that streamlining has caused -- readers will be amazed to see the variety of objects that have been "streamlined" over the years.
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janvier 1900, New York
Design d’intérieur
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"Green city : people, nature, and urban places" looks at eleven cities the world over to see how people and nature have interacted over the course of history, and how people attempt to bring nature into cities. In each of these locations, Soderstrom examines how people have tried to make a connection with nature — how well they’ve done is both a lesson in hope and, often,(...)
Green city : people, nature and urban places
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"Green city : people, nature, and urban places" looks at eleven cities the world over to see how people and nature have interacted over the course of history, and how people attempt to bring nature into cities. In each of these locations, Soderstrom examines how people have tried to make a connection with nature — how well they’ve done is both a lesson in hope and, often, a warning. Featuring chapters on Babylon, Provins (France), London and Bloomsbury, Hamilton, Chicago, Irvine, Singapore, Tanga (Tanzania), Kochi (India), Shanghai, and São Paulo, as well as recommendations on what must be done so that everyone has a bit of green to call their own. Also includes photographs and extensive notes.
Paysages urbains
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Hiroshi Sugimoto was born in Japan in 1948 and now divides his time between Japan and New York. Since the 1970s he has investigated issues of time, empirical reality, and metaphysics through his photography. His main series have been Theaters, Seascapes, Dioramas,W ax Museums (Madame Tussaud’s wax figures), and Portraits, all of which explore temporal existence and our(...)
Hiroshi Sugimoto : conceptual forms
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Hiroshi Sugimoto was born in Japan in 1948 and now divides his time between Japan and New York. Since the 1970s he has investigated issues of time, empirical reality, and metaphysics through his photography. His main series have been Theaters, Seascapes, Dioramas,W ax Museums (Madame Tussaud’s wax figures), and Portraits, all of which explore temporal existence and our relationship to history. His work is held in the collections of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago and the Metropolitan Museum, among many others. In 2001 he won the prestigious Hasselblad Foundation Award. This book is dedicated to Sugimoto’s last and hitherto unpublished series, and accompanied an exhibition at the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain.
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Focusing on black Americans' participation in world's fairs, Emancipation expositions, and early black grassroots museums, ''Negro building'' traces the evolution of black public history from the Civil War through the civil rights movement of the 1960s. Mabel O. Wilson gives voice to the figures who conceived the curatorial content: Booker T. Washington, W.B. Du Bois, Ida(...)
Negro building: Black Americans in the world of fairs and museums
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Focusing on black Americans' participation in world's fairs, Emancipation expositions, and early black grassroots museums, ''Negro building'' traces the evolution of black public history from the Civil War through the civil rights movement of the 1960s. Mabel O. Wilson gives voice to the figures who conceived the curatorial content: Booker T. Washington, W.B. Du Bois, Ida B. Wells, A. Philip Randolph, Horace Cayton, and Margaret Burroughs. Originally published in 2012, the book reveals why the black cities of Chicago and Detroit became the sites of major black historical museums rather than the nation's capital, which would eventually become home for the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture, which opened in 2016.
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