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Why do we have such extraordinarily powerful responses toward the images and pictures we see in everyday life? Why do we behave as if pictures were alive, possessing the power to influence us, to demand things from us, to persuade us, seduce us, or even lead us astray? According to W. J. T. Mitchell, we need to reckon with images not just as inert objects that convey(...)
What do pictures want? : the lives and loves of images
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Why do we have such extraordinarily powerful responses toward the images and pictures we see in everyday life? Why do we behave as if pictures were alive, possessing the power to influence us, to demand things from us, to persuade us, seduce us, or even lead us astray? According to W. J. T. Mitchell, we need to reckon with images not just as inert objects that convey meaning but as animated beings with desires, needs, appetites, demands, and drives of their own. "What Do Pictures Want?" explores this idea and highlights Mitchell's innovative and profoundly influential thinking on picture theory and the lives and loves of images. Ranging across the visual arts, literature, and mass media, Mitchell applies characteristically brilliant and wry analyses to Byzantine icons and cyberpunk films, racial stereotypes and public monuments, ancient idols and modern clones, offensive images and found objects, American photography and aboriginal painting. Opening new vistas in iconology and the emergent field of visual culture, he also considers the importance of Dolly the Sheep - who, as a clone, fulfills the ancient dream of creating a living image - and the destruction of the World Trade Center on 9/11, which, among other things, signifies a new and virulent form of iconoclasm. "What Do Pictures Want?" offers an immensely rich and suggestive account of the interplay between the visible and the readable. A work by one of our leading theorists of visual representation, it will be a touchstone for art historians, literary critics, anthropologists, and philosophers alike.
Théorie de l’architecture
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'Lessons' begins with Risselada's and Tupker's own student years, in which the famous Forum-group dominated the architectural debate with the illustrous Dick Apon, Jaap Bakema, Aldo van Eyck, Joop Hardy and Herman Hertzberger. International influences discussed in 'Lessons' come from designers like Charles and Ray Eames, Alison and Peter Smithson, John Hejduk, Peter(...)
Théorie de l’architecture
avril 2005, amsterdam
Lessons : Tupker\Risselada : a double portrait of dutch architectural education, 1953\2003
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'Lessons' begins with Risselada's and Tupker's own student years, in which the famous Forum-group dominated the architectural debate with the illustrous Dick Apon, Jaap Bakema, Aldo van Eyck, Joop Hardy and Herman Hertzberger. International influences discussed in 'Lessons' come from designers like Charles and Ray Eames, Alison and Peter Smithson, John Hejduk, Peter Eisenman and Tadao Ando, and from the historians Emil Kaufmann, Colin Rowe, Charles Jencks and Beatriz Colomina. 'Lessons' also gives an account of the work by students of Risselada and Tupker.
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A visually dynamic, front-end resource tool that allows architects, builders and owners to explore and envision opportunities to use tree-free, recycled and certified wood materials and systems before projects begin. “Building with Vision” offers concise overviews, at-a-glance advantages and challenges, original photographs, resources for further research, dozens of case(...)
Building with vision : optimizing and finding alternatives to wood
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A visually dynamic, front-end resource tool that allows architects, builders and owners to explore and envision opportunities to use tree-free, recycled and certified wood materials and systems before projects begin. “Building with Vision” offers concise overviews, at-a-glance advantages and challenges, original photographs, resources for further research, dozens of case studies and sidebars that encourage healthy construction by minimizing forest destruction. It is a must-have resource for architecture studios, contractors, homeowners, and others concerned about the ecological impacts of building projects. Topics Included: Construction Without Destruction (Randy Hayes); Building as the Forest Mattered (Sim Van der Ryn); The Case for Local Solutions; FSC-Certified, Recycled and Salvaged Wood; Framing Siding and Sheathing Options; Insulated Structural Systems; Natural Building Methods; Recycled Materials and Resource Recovery; Surface and Finish Materials; extensive resource directories. This is Volume Two of the Wood Reduction Trilogy.
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février 2005, Healdsburg, California
Architecture écologique
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Spanish-born architect Santiago Calatrava has achieved considerable international acclaim in recent years with his breathtaking feats of engineering in the service of modern forms. This illustrated monograph is a detailed exploration of the Quadracci Pavilion at the Milwaukee Art Museum.
Santiago Calatrava : Milwaukee Art Museum - Quadracci Pavillon
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Spanish-born architect Santiago Calatrava has achieved considerable international acclaim in recent years with his breathtaking feats of engineering in the service of modern forms. This illustrated monograph is a detailed exploration of the Quadracci Pavilion at the Milwaukee Art Museum.
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Once the bastion of the haute bourgeoisie, the town house has now been embraced by families with young children, single urban professionals, and retired couples, all looking for more comfortable city or suburban living. Architect Alexander Gorlin explores an array of diverse town house designs (often referred to by different terms in different parts of the country) that(...)
Creating the new American town house
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Once the bastion of the haute bourgeoisie, the town house has now been embraced by families with young children, single urban professionals, and retired couples, all looking for more comfortable city or suburban living. Architect Alexander Gorlin explores an array of diverse town house designs (often referred to by different terms in different parts of the country) that carry this familiar symbol of architectural innovation and refinement into the twenty-first century. "Creating the new American town house" features cutting-edge town houses that each draw from architectural tradition while achieving originality by both breaking from and adhering to the limitations of the town house form. Within the typical five-story frame and two parallel walls presented here are livable design solutions to the constraints of this classic housing type. Ranging from sites in New York, San Francisco, Seattle, Los Angeles, and Washington, DC, each of the buildings featured in "Creating the new American town house" is designed by such celebrated architects as Steven Ehrlich, Hugh Newell Jacobson, Stanley Saitowitz, and 1100 Architect. Each project is illustrated with full-color photography that showcases the interior design as well as plans and drawings. Alexander Gorlin’s text continues the discourse begun in his "The new American town house", surveying the adaptation of this beloved urban dwelling to the demands of a new century.
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Lavoie médite sur la relation entre un acte final, soit la pose du dernier crampon du Chemin de fer Canadien Pacifique traversant le pays d'est en ouest en 1885 et, en même temps, fondateur puisqu'il permettait de donner réalité à l'idée même de "pays". Cet évènement historique est revisité afin d'y inclure le rôle de tout gouvernement quant à l'établissement du concept(...)
Images premières : mutations d'une icône nationale / Primal images : transmutations of a national icon
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Lavoie médite sur la relation entre un acte final, soit la pose du dernier crampon du Chemin de fer Canadien Pacifique traversant le pays d'est en ouest en 1885 et, en même temps, fondateur puisqu'il permettait de donner réalité à l'idée même de "pays". Cet évènement historique est revisité afin d'y inclure le rôle de tout gouvernement quant à l'établissement du concept de "la naissance de la nation". Illustrées avec des photographies, des dessins et des affiches d'époque, cette publication est le volet canadien de l'exposition du Mois de la Photo à Paris 2004 et accompagnera cette même exposition qui sera présentée au Musée McCord dans le cadre du Mois de la Photo à Montréal 2005. En français et anglais. -- This publication accompanies exhibitions in two international photography bienniales. Le Mois de la Photo à Paris 2004 and Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal 2005. The primal image referred to is the photograph recording the completion of Canada's national railway in 1885: "the driving of the last spike". Supported by a wide variety of historical and contemporary documentation, Lavoie shows how this apparently straightforward historical record was used to create the notion of Canada. By looking at the countless reproductions, copies and caricatures of this primal image he dissects the deliberate and ideological construction of nationhood. Profusely illustrated with photographs, film stills, posters and political cartoons from over 100 years. Produced in collaboration with the McCord Museum. In English and French.
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janvier 2005, Paris
Architecture du Canada
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Le monde des arts et la société en général se souviennent encore de cette décennie que fut les années soixante au Canada. Que se soit le mélange révolutionnaire et hautement créatif des divers moyens d'expression ou des multiples manifestations artistiques, les années soixante ont été une pierre angulaire de l'art et ont donné naissance au néo-dadaïste, pop art et(...)
Architecture du Canada
janvier 2005, Ottawa
Les années soixante au Canada
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Le monde des arts et la société en général se souviennent encore de cette décennie que fut les années soixante au Canada. Que se soit le mélange révolutionnaire et hautement créatif des divers moyens d'expression ou des multiples manifestations artistiques, les années soixante ont été une pierre angulaire de l'art et ont donné naissance au néo-dadaïste, pop art et minimalisme, pour ne nommer quelques nouveaux courants de l'époque. Cette publication rappelle les expressions artistiques qui abondaient au Canada durant cette décennie : les expériences alliant art et technologie, l'influence de puissants médias de masse, toiles modernistes de pointe, les débuts de l'art conceptuel et photographique, ainsi que les premières créations de films et vidéos expérimentaux.
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janvier 2005, Ottawa
Architecture du Canada
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The Sixties in Canada
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The sixties were a decade of questioning and experimentation, of testing the limits and pushing the boundaries of artistic forms. This frenzy of activity resulted in diverse artistic manifestations, including innovations in photography, a medium that was redefined during this period from a simple practical tool to a recognized art form. This comprehensive catalogue(...)
Architecture du Canada
janvier 2005, Ottawa
The Sixties in Canada
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The sixties were a decade of questioning and experimentation, of testing the limits and pushing the boundaries of artistic forms. This frenzy of activity resulted in diverse artistic manifestations, including innovations in photography, a medium that was redefined during this period from a simple practical tool to a recognized art form. This comprehensive catalogue accompanies the exhibition, “The Sixties: Photography in Question” held at the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography.
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janvier 2005, Ottawa
Architecture du Canada
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If there is something in architecture that is difficult to describe then it is space, but it is in the spatial quality of architecture and its use that its essence is encapsulated. There is, however, surprising little evidence of this in current architectural debate, because of all the consideration for visual appearance. In "Revisions of space", architect Dick van(...)
Revisions of space : an architectural manual
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If there is something in architecture that is difficult to describe then it is space, but it is in the spatial quality of architecture and its use that its essence is encapsulated. There is, however, surprising little evidence of this in current architectural debate, because of all the consideration for visual appearance. In "Revisions of space", architect Dick van Gameren shows how the spatial quality of architecture is connected with densification and programmatic diversity: in buildings, around buildings and in the urban context. He does this by using a selection of unusual historic examples and his own work. The book could be described as a manual for architecture - how one can look at architecture and how, as a designer, to deal with it - as well as a personal appeal for more consideration for one of the essential components of architecture. Thanks to the choice of historical examples, this book can also be read as an unconventional cross-section of the history of architecture.
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The main thrust of this book is the philosophy and methodology of Van Sambeek & Van Veen Architecten. The offices projects are presented according to seven themes, which all relate to organizational forms that are important to the work of Erna van Sambeek and René van Veen: neutrality, exclusivity, family, seriality, position, interiority and time. For each design,(...)
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mars 2005, Rotterdam
Van Sambeek & Van Veen architecten of freedom of organization
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The main thrust of this book is the philosophy and methodology of Van Sambeek & Van Veen Architecten. The offices projects are presented according to seven themes, which all relate to organizational forms that are important to the work of Erna van Sambeek and René van Veen: neutrality, exclusivity, family, seriality, position, interiority and time. For each design, the architects ask how the essence of the task can be reduced to a combination of two or more of these themes. Each project therefore appears at least twice in the book, but with text and image tailored specifically to the theme of a particular chapter. The design philosophy of Van Sambeek & Van Veen architecten demonstrates the richness that architecture can gain from a consistent concentration on the essentials and a clear separation of primary and secondary aspects, and the broader implications of this. Typography design by Rudo Hartman.
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