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An essential toolkit for understanding architecture as both art form and the setting for our everyday lives We spend most of our days and nights in buildings, living and working and sometimes playing. Architecture is both the setting for our everyday lives and a public art form - but it remains mysterious to most of us. In "How architecture works", Witold Rybczynski, (...)
How architecture works: a humanist's toolkit
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An essential toolkit for understanding architecture as both art form and the setting for our everyday lives We spend most of our days and nights in buildings, living and working and sometimes playing. Architecture is both the setting for our everyday lives and a public art form - but it remains mysterious to most of us. In "How architecture works", Witold Rybczynski, answers our most fundamental questions about how good - and not so good - buildings are designed and constructed. Introducing the reader to the rich and varied world of modern architecture, he reveals how architects as diverse as Frank Gehry, Renzo Piano, and Robert A. M. Stern envision and create their designs. He teaches us how to read" plans, how buildingsrespond to their settings, and how the smallest detail - of a stair balustrade, for instance - can convey an architect's vision. How Architecture Works explains the central elements that make up good building design, ranging from a war memorial in London to an opera house in Saint Petersburg, from the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C., to a famous architect's private retreat in Princeton, New Jersey. It is an enlightening humanist's toolkit for thinking about the built environment and seeing it afresh.
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Théorie de l’architecture
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On peut, sa vie entière, tout ignorer d’une ville en la traversant chaque jour en sous-sol. De même, les usagers du métro et du RER ignorent, en passant de couloir en couloir, comment fonctionne le labyrinthe de correspondances qu’ils empruntent quotidiennement, ce qui se passe au-dessus d’eux – voire très au dessus –, ou au-dessous – voire très au-dessous. On ne sait(...)
Mangroves urbaines: du métro à la ville; Paris, Montréal, Singapour
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On peut, sa vie entière, tout ignorer d’une ville en la traversant chaque jour en sous-sol. De même, les usagers du métro et du RER ignorent, en passant de couloir en couloir, comment fonctionne le labyrinthe de correspondances qu’ils empruntent quotidiennement, ce qui se passe au-dessus d’eux – voire très au dessus –, ou au-dessous – voire très au-dessous. On ne sait jamais vraiment à quel niveau, à quel étage ni à quelle profondeur on se trouve, mais peu importe, l’intérêt pour le voyageur réside dans la bonne continuité des parcours et la juxtaposition efficace des lieux. C’est cette interface, entre souterrain et aérien, que ce livre tente d’explorer en proposant pour la première fois une vision d’une architecture métropolitaine qui se développe, dans la plupart des grandes métropoles, à la manière d’un écosystème végétal. Appuyant leur analyse des exemples de Montréal et de Singapour, les auteurs ont choisi, regardé, parcouru ou analysé une vingtaine de sites de Paris et du Grand Paris afin de tirer quelques règles concernant le fonctionnement de ces mangroves urbaines, leurs programmes, leurs modes d’apparition et leur mode de gestion.
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Gazprom city
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"If you’re at home and you want to make yourself a nice cup of coffee in the morning, and you turn on the stove but there is no gas, then you know that something must have happened in Novy Urengoy." What connects Europe to a city in the polar circle? The Gazprom company exploits the gas fields around Novy Urengoy. More than half of the natural gas extracted in Russia is(...)
Gazprom city
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"If you’re at home and you want to make yourself a nice cup of coffee in the morning, and you turn on the stove but there is no gas, then you know that something must have happened in Novy Urengoy." What connects Europe to a city in the polar circle? The Gazprom company exploits the gas fields around Novy Urengoy. More than half of the natural gas extracted in Russia is produced there. A substantial portion of this gas is exported to European countries. "Gazprom City"?–?a report about life at the other end of the gas pipeline.
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Jeff Speck has dedicated his career to determining what makes cities thrive. And he has boiled it down to one key factor: walkability. Making downtown into a walkable, viable community is the essential fix for the typical American city; it is eminently achievable and its benefits are manifold. ''Walkable City''- bursting with sharp observations and key insights into how(...)
Walkable city: how downtown can save America, one step at a time
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Jeff Speck has dedicated his career to determining what makes cities thrive. And he has boiled it down to one key factor: walkability. Making downtown into a walkable, viable community is the essential fix for the typical American city; it is eminently achievable and its benefits are manifold. ''Walkable City''- bursting with sharp observations and key insights into how urban change happens- lays out a practical, necessary, and inspiring vision for how to make American cities great again.
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Cohabiter l'espace public : conflits d'appropriation et rapports de pouvoir à Montréal et Paris
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Expulsion, criminalisation, enfermement, revanchisme : les exemples ne manquent pas pour illustrer la généralisation de mesures punitives empêchant les personnes sans-abri d'occuper les espaces publics. En s'appuyant sur l'observation de conflits d'appropriation au sein du Village Shaugnessy à Montréal et de la Goutte d'Or à Paris, cet ouvrage propose d'interroger les(...)
Cohabiter l'espace public : conflits d'appropriation et rapports de pouvoir à Montréal et Paris
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Expulsion, criminalisation, enfermement, revanchisme : les exemples ne manquent pas pour illustrer la généralisation de mesures punitives empêchant les personnes sans-abri d'occuper les espaces publics. En s'appuyant sur l'observation de conflits d'appropriation au sein du Village Shaugnessy à Montréal et de la Goutte d'Or à Paris, cet ouvrage propose d'interroger les logiques qui structurent et organisent la régulation des espaces publics dans des quartiers péricentraux et à vocation résidentielle.
Théorie de l’urbanisme
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Today, we live in an economic system that revolves around producing and consuming objects made of plastic and metal, electronics, synthetic textiles and other things that do not decompose within a foreseeable amount of time. We start to review the role of these objects in a series of challenges that lie ahead of us. In the design discipline, sustainability and social(...)
The responsible object; a history of the design ideology for the future
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Today, we live in an economic system that revolves around producing and consuming objects made of plastic and metal, electronics, synthetic textiles and other things that do not decompose within a foreseeable amount of time. We start to review the role of these objects in a series of challenges that lie ahead of us. In the design discipline, sustainability and social responsibility have become prolific epithets, generating new products, materials, and technologies, designed to change the course of our future. The intrinsic design ideologies are often not new, but form a fundamental part of design history, reappearing throughout the previous centuries. This book presents a history of socially committed design strategies within the western design tradition, from William Morris to Victor Papanek, and from VKhUTEMAS to FabLab. A critical resource for designers, students, cultural critics, and anyone interested in building a sustainable future.
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Degas and his model
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"Monsieur Degas, you just said some things that would make an old soldier blush!" There are many myths about Edgar Degas—from Degas the misanthrope to Degas the deviant to Degas the obsessive. But there is no single text that better stokes the fire than Degas and His Model, a short memoir by Alice Michel, who purportedly modeled for Degas. Never before translated into(...)
Degas and his model
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"Monsieur Degas, you just said some things that would make an old soldier blush!" There are many myths about Edgar Degas—from Degas the misanthrope to Degas the deviant to Degas the obsessive. But there is no single text that better stokes the fire than Degas and His Model, a short memoir by Alice Michel, who purportedly modeled for Degas. Never before translated into English, the text’s original publication in Mercure de France in 1919, shortly after the artist’s death, has been treated as an important account of the master sculptor at work. We know that Alice was writing under a pseudonym, but who the real person behind this account was remains a mystery. Yet the descriptions seem too accurate, the anecdotes too spot-on to discount; even the dialogue captures the artist’s tone and mannerisms. What is found in these pages is at times a woman’s flirtatious recollection of a bizarre “artistic type” and at others a moving attempt to connect with a great, often tragic man. The descriptions are limpid; the dialogue is lively and intimate, not unlike reading the very best kind of gossip, with world-historical significance.
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Chardin and Rembrandt
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Long overlooked in Proust’s posthumously published writings, Chardin and Rembrandt, written when he was only twenty-four years old, not only reemphasizes the importance of visual art to his development, but contains the seeds of his later work. Proposed in 1895 by Proust to the newspaper Revue hebdomadaire (it was rejected), this essay is much more than a straightforward(...)
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Long overlooked in Proust’s posthumously published writings, Chardin and Rembrandt, written when he was only twenty-four years old, not only reemphasizes the importance of visual art to his development, but contains the seeds of his later work. Proposed in 1895 by Proust to the newspaper Revue hebdomadaire (it was rejected), this essay is much more than a straightforward piece of art criticism. It is a literary experiment in which an unnamed narrator gives advice to a young man suffering from melancholy, taking him on an imaginary tour through the Louvre where his readings of Chardin imbue the everyday world with new meaning, and his ruminations on Rembrandt take his melancholic pupil beyond the realm of mere objects.
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This collection of never-before-published talks at one of the leading art schools in the United States, documents an exciting decade in the development of contemporary art and arts education, featuring interviews with renowned artists, curators, and writers. Introduced in 1986 as an initiative by Richard Hertz (Chair, Academic Studies, 1979–2003), the Graduate Art(...)
Artcenter Talks: graduate seminar, the first decade, 1986-1995
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This collection of never-before-published talks at one of the leading art schools in the United States, documents an exciting decade in the development of contemporary art and arts education, featuring interviews with renowned artists, curators, and writers. Introduced in 1986 as an initiative by Richard Hertz (Chair, Academic Studies, 1979–2003), the Graduate Art Department of the ArtCenter College of Design, located in Pasadena, California, celebrates its thirtieth anniversary in 2016. This book documents the first decade of the department’s existence by presenting a selection from over three hundred talks, including a 1990 symposium conducted by renowned curator and art historian Robert Storr, as well as twelve talks from its artists and critics lecture series known as the Graduate Seminar. Discussions between students and faculty members range from what it means to be an artist and the changing role of art in society, to how artists function within an academic setting.
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F.R David : spring 2017
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F.R.DAVID is a typographical journal, edited by Will Holder, dealing with the organisation of reading and writing in contemporary art practises. This 13th issue of F.R.DAVID is edited with Riet Wijnen, and has its origins in her Registry of Pseudonyms, an online database which accounts for who is who and why who is who. ‘Inverted Commas’ follows ‘pseudonym’ through names,(...)
F.R David : spring 2017
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F.R.DAVID is a typographical journal, edited by Will Holder, dealing with the organisation of reading and writing in contemporary art practises. This 13th issue of F.R.DAVID is edited with Riet Wijnen, and has its origins in her Registry of Pseudonyms, an online database which accounts for who is who and why who is who. ‘Inverted Commas’ follows ‘pseudonym’ through names, naming, bodies, brains, self, author, other, reader, labour.
Théorie de l’art