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The House at Capo d'Orso
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How does a house shape experience? How does architecture establish a practice of living? Architect Sebastiano Brandolini invites readers on a meditative tour of his family’s house on the Sardinian coast, describing everything from the geology of the rocks beneath, to the history of the surrounding villages, to the way the shifting light measures the day. More than the(...)
The House at Capo d'Orso
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How does a house shape experience? How does architecture establish a practice of living? Architect Sebastiano Brandolini invites readers on a meditative tour of his family’s house on the Sardinian coast, describing everything from the geology of the rocks beneath, to the history of the surrounding villages, to the way the shifting light measures the day. More than the story of a single summer home written by an accomplished architect, this is a study of how place, the built environment, and daily practice make up our lives, at the most minute level of detail. Recalling the essays of Walter Benjamin, Bill Bryson, Rebecca Solnit, and Lawrence Weschler, Brandolini’s writing weaves literature, art history, and the transformation of Sardinia since the 1960s into a single fabric. "The House at Capo d’Orso" is not only a study of architecture and life in the built environment, but of family life, and the way the Brandolini family adapted themselves to the house they built.
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mai 2023
Théorie de l’architecture
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When home is a photograph
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In ''When Home Is a Photograph", Leigh Raiford asks how Black people use photography to make home in the world. Raiford focuses on a selection of Black American activists and artists, including Marcus Garvey, James Van Der Zee, Eslanda Goode Robeson, and Kathleen Neal Cleaver to explore the complex relationship between racialized subjects and the medium of photography. As(...)
When home is a photograph
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In ''When Home Is a Photograph", Leigh Raiford asks how Black people use photography to make home in the world. Raiford focuses on a selection of Black American activists and artists, including Marcus Garvey, James Van Der Zee, Eslanda Goode Robeson, and Kathleen Neal Cleaver to explore the complex relationship between racialized subjects and the medium of photography. As they traveled the world for study, for work, for pleasure, or for survival, these artists and activists took and collected photographs to express their political platforms and personal sense of self. Raiford considers the everyday image-making practices that these Black Americans employed to improve the condition of Black lives globally by imagining, identifying, inhabiting, leaving, defending, and destroying “home.” ''When Home Is a Photograph'' shows how these figures did not merely utilize photography to emplace themselves in the world—they demonstrated how the use of photography is itself a way to mediate one’s relationship to the world.
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avril 2026
Théorie de la photographie
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Félix Nadar took the first aerial photograph in 1858, so the story goes. The evidence, Emily Doucet notes, is mixed. In Inventing Nadar, Doucet analyzes the historical and material production of the nineteenth-century Parisian photographer’s famous and numerous photographic firsts. Focusing on these oft-labeled groundbreaking elements of his career, she deconstructs(...)
Inventing Nadar: A history of photographic firsts
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Félix Nadar took the first aerial photograph in 1858, so the story goes. The evidence, Emily Doucet notes, is mixed. In Inventing Nadar, Doucet analyzes the historical and material production of the nineteenth-century Parisian photographer’s famous and numerous photographic firsts. Focusing on these oft-labeled groundbreaking elements of his career, she deconstructs Nadar’s legacy as a prime protagonist in the history of photography by interrogating the media techniques used to construct his invention narratives. Doucet highlights this highly mediated process as one that canonized novel applications of photography as discrete techniques with single authors and inventors. Looking to this process of mediation through the institutions and individuals that shaped Nadar’s archives, Doucet unpacks assumptions of Nadar as a master of early photography and shows how the medium is enmeshed in larger histories of media, science, and technology. The result is both a new account of Nadar’s place in photographic history and a critical study of how stories of innovation take shape.
Théorie de la photographie
Melancholy Wedgewood
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"Melancholy Wedgwood" traces the multiple strands in the life of the ceramic entrepreneur Josiah Wedgwood (1730–1795) to propose an alternative view of eighteenth-century England's tenuous relationship to our own lives and times, amid the ruins of late-capitalist modernity. Through intimate vignettes and essays, and in writing at turns funny, sharp, and pensive, Iris Moon(...)
Melancholy Wedgewood
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"Melancholy Wedgwood" traces the multiple strands in the life of the ceramic entrepreneur Josiah Wedgwood (1730–1795) to propose an alternative view of eighteenth-century England's tenuous relationship to our own lives and times, amid the ruins of late-capitalist modernity. Through intimate vignettes and essays, and in writing at turns funny, sharp, and pensive, Iris Moon chips away at the mythic image of Wedgwood as singular genius, business titan, and benevolent abolitionist, revealing an amorphous, fragile, and perhaps even shattered life. In the process the book goes so far as to dismantle certain entrenched social and economic assumptions, not least that the foundational myths of capitalism might not be quite so rosy after all, and instead induce a feeling that could only be characterized as blue.
Design, monographies
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This volume expands David Reinfurt’s uniquely pragmatic and experimental approach to pedagogy into a collaborative project that weaves together a multiplicity of voices to present a polyphonic approach to design history and teaching. Three of Reinfurt’s new Princeton University graphic design courses—C-i-r-c-u-l-a-t-i-o-n, M-u-l-t-p-l-i-c-i-t-y and(...)
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A Co* program for graphic design
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This volume expands David Reinfurt’s uniquely pragmatic and experimental approach to pedagogy into a collaborative project that weaves together a multiplicity of voices to present a polyphonic approach to design history and teaching. Three of Reinfurt’s new Princeton University graphic design courses—C-i-r-c-u-l-a-t-i-o-n, M-u-l-t-p-l-i-c-i-t-y and R-e-s-e-a-r-c-h—developed explicitly in the context of remote teaching and in light of urgent realignments around whose stories get told and who does the telling, are presented in this follow-up to A *New* Program for Graphic Design (Inventory Press/D.A.P., 2018). C-i-r-c-u-l-a-t-i-o-n examines the distribution networks for graphic design including electronic and conventional means. M-u-l-t-p-l-i-c-i-t-y, taught with mathematics professor Philip Ording, explores graphic design from the perspective of topology and topology through the practice of graphic design. R-e-s-e-a-r-c-h is an advanced graphic design class which cultivates an exploratory and expansive design process and investigates what the term ""design research"" has meant at different points in design history.
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Martin Mostböck works across design, material and craft. "The state of things" reveals how furniture, objects and houses emerge from production, testing and experimentation. On display are chairs, tables, lamps as well as residential houses and pavilions — works that make his distinctive material language and hands-on, craft-based approach, tangible. As an architect and(...)
Martin Mostböck: Setting things up (Der Stand der Dinge)
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Martin Mostböck works across design, material and craft. "The state of things" reveals how furniture, objects and houses emerge from production, testing and experimentation. On display are chairs, tables, lamps as well as residential houses and pavilions — works that make his distinctive material language and hands-on, craft-based approach, tangible. As an architect and designer, he develops ideas into objects: knife, saw and prototype in hand, he tests and shapes his designs, making decisions through an immediate dialogue between material and production. Balancing functional clarity with playful form, the works tell stories, shift scales and open new perspectives on space, material and everyday life. The exhibition at Aedes presents a multifaceted view of a practice that melds together processes from architecture to design through its craftsmanship.
Architecture, monographies
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Un petit recueil de textes de Stephanie McMillan, Mcdonald Stainsby, Max Wilbert, Fabrice Nicolino et du Collectif INCITE! portant sur le sujet de la récupération des luttes écologistes par les intérêts dominants de l’État et du capitalisme. Des réflexions essentielles pour quiconque souhaite contribuer à la formation d’un mouvement écologiste digne de ce nom.
Écologie en résistance: Les ONG ou la domestication de l'écologie
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Un petit recueil de textes de Stephanie McMillan, Mcdonald Stainsby, Max Wilbert, Fabrice Nicolino et du Collectif INCITE! portant sur le sujet de la récupération des luttes écologistes par les intérêts dominants de l’État et du capitalisme. Des réflexions essentielles pour quiconque souhaite contribuer à la formation d’un mouvement écologiste digne de ce nom.
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Le dérèglement climatique est déjà là; ses effets ne feront que s’accentuer. S’y adapter implique de comprendre de quoi il retourne vraiment. Or nous n’avons pas pris, collectivement, la mesure de ce qui vient. Que veut dire manger, habiter, se déplacer, travailler à l’ère de la dérive climatique? À quels bouleversements, effets domino, conséquences insoupçonnées, faut-il(...)
avril 2026
Gérer l'inévitable : repères face à la dérive climatique
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Le dérèglement climatique est déjà là; ses effets ne feront que s’accentuer. S’y adapter implique de comprendre de quoi il retourne vraiment. Or nous n’avons pas pris, collectivement, la mesure de ce qui vient. Que veut dire manger, habiter, se déplacer, travailler à l’ère de la dérive climatique? À quels bouleversements, effets domino, conséquences insoupçonnées, faut-il se préparer? Et quelles approches privilégier, quels pièges éviter? À partir de multiples cas concrets, de travaux en sciences humaines et sociales et d’entretiens avec des spécialistes, ce livre donne à voir la variété des situations auxquelles nous devrons faire face, et propose des repères pour mieux comprendre et agir sur ce défi du siècle qu’est l’adaptation climatique.
Les villes face au populisme
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Le populisme est un fléau qu’on ne peut combattre sur de seules bases morales du bien contre le mal. Les résultats des derniers scrutins dans les pays occidentaux l’ont confirmé avec force. Mais quelle que soit sa puissance, il demeure un simple thermomètre, une réaction de repli et de peur face à la rapidité des mutations, à l’isolement, à l’effacement des cultures et(...)
Les villes face au populisme
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Le populisme est un fléau qu’on ne peut combattre sur de seules bases morales du bien contre le mal. Les résultats des derniers scrutins dans les pays occidentaux l’ont confirmé avec force. Mais quelle que soit sa puissance, il demeure un simple thermomètre, une réaction de repli et de peur face à la rapidité des mutations, à l’isolement, à l’effacement des cultures et des repères, à une globalisation sans limites, à la surpuissance du pouvoir technologique qui écrase le monde sensible. En ville, le populisme ne parvient pas à s’imposer et réalise des scores bien plus faibles, en France comme à l’étranger, car les villes sont un antidote naturel. C’est en ville que la démocratie a émergé, que les sociétés se développent, innovent et mutent. C’est en ville que nous pourrons développer le commun, la confiance, empêcher l’uniformisation culturelle du monde globalisé, la relégation des exclus de la modernité comme la sécession de ceux qui les craignent. Il faut donc réapprendre à faire société, créer de l’urbanité à toutes les échelles du territoire et intégrer les lointaines banlieues au projet des grandes villes.
Théorie de l’urbanisme
Enoura Observatory
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Apart from photography, Japanese artist Hiroshi Sugimoto has been working in sculpture, performing arts and architecture for more than 20 years. Since the early 2010s, he has been constructing the Enoura Observatory, and with his singular vision he has brought together ancient and contemporary Japanese traditions in one art and architectural complex. This book provides an(...)
Enoura Observatory
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Apart from photography, Japanese artist Hiroshi Sugimoto has been working in sculpture, performing arts and architecture for more than 20 years. Since the early 2010s, he has been constructing the Enoura Observatory, and with his singular vision he has brought together ancient and contemporary Japanese traditions in one art and architectural complex. This book provides an account of this stunning multidisciplinary project. The Observatory, part of the artist's Odawara Art Foundation, is sited on a hilly area covered with citrus trees in Odawara, nestled against the outer rim of the Hakone Mountains and overlooking Sagami Bay. Odawara is home to groups of artisans with mastery of sophisticated techniques that have been handed down for centuries. Sugimoto has constructed the Enoura Observatory using these techniques, which are growing increasingly difficult to preserve. He envisions it as a forum for disseminating art and culture both within Japan and to the rest of the world. The stunning photographs in ''Enoura Observatory: Land of Distant Memories" reveal Sugimoto's poetic vision for this total work of art that is the culmination of his art practice.