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The up-and-coming Dutch firm ZUS (Zones Urbaines Sensibles), founded in 2001 by Elma van Boxel and Kristian Koreman, is a think tank of two--tackling the landscape architect’s role in the contemporary city. Based in Rotterdam, an ideal vantage for both research and innovative project-building, ZUS participates in projects micro and macro, ranging from clothing design to(...)
Re-public: Towards a new spatial politics
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The up-and-coming Dutch firm ZUS (Zones Urbaines Sensibles), founded in 2001 by Elma van Boxel and Kristian Koreman, is a think tank of two--tackling the landscape architect’s role in the contemporary city. Based in Rotterdam, an ideal vantage for both research and innovative project-building, ZUS participates in projects micro and macro, ranging from clothing design to large-scale interventions in the landscape. And the team aims high: “Our spatial interventions contribute to a higher state of consciousness of the naked reality of our modern, urban culture and environment, although not always by accepting it as the only reality.” Their 2006 proposal, “Discoforum” is characteristic. Noticing that Rotterdam clubs are divided by race, ZUS created a design that would place one transparent wall in each club facing out onto a shared outdoor space. Such proposals and research are combined with the duo’s own commentary in this volume, making it invaluable for anyone curious about the next wave of architecture and urban planning.
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As the world’s population swells and the need for sustainable ways of living grows ever more urgent and obvious, prefabricated architecture has taken center stage. Even before our current predicaments, the mass-produced, factory-made home had a distinguished history, having served as a vital precept in the development of Modern architecture. Today, with the digital(...)
Architecture préfabriquée
août 2008, New York
Home delivery, fabricating the modern dwelling
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As the world’s population swells and the need for sustainable ways of living grows ever more urgent and obvious, prefabricated architecture has taken center stage. Even before our current predicaments, the mass-produced, factory-made home had a distinguished history, having served as a vital precept in the development of Modern architecture. Today, with the digital revolution reorganizing the relationship between drafting board and factory, it continues to spur innovative manufacturing and design, and its potential has clearly not yet come to fruition. Home Delivery traces the history of prefabrication in architecture, from its early roots in colonial cottages though the work of such figures as Jean Prouvé and Buckminster Fuller, and mass-produced variants such as the Lustron house, to a group of full-scale contemporary houses commissioned specifically for the MoMA exhibition that this book accompanies. In addition to an introductory essay by Barry Bergdoll, Chief Curator in the Museum’s Department of Architecture and Design, this volume contains essays on prefabricated housing in Japan and in Nordic countries by Ken Tadashi Oshima and Rasmus Waern, respectively. It also includes focused texts on approximately 40 historical projects and five commissions, as well as a bibliography.
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Shift Sanaa and the New Museum is published on the occasion of the exhibition Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa / Sanaa : Recent Work March 28 - June 15, 2008
Shift Sanaa and the New Museum
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Shift Sanaa and the New Museum is published on the occasion of the exhibition Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa / Sanaa : Recent Work March 28 - June 15, 2008
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Presented are the 24 most recent projects, such as The Museum of Modern Art, NY, Schaulager, Muenchnstein/Basel, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Prada, Aoyama, Allianz Arena, Munich. The book is divided in five sections. In the first section, each of the projects is documented in texts, images, models, graphics, sketches and cut-aways. The second section includes all(...)
Herzog & De Meuron: the complete works volume 4, 1997 - 2001
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Presented are the 24 most recent projects, such as The Museum of Modern Art, NY, Schaulager, Muenchnstein/Basel, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Prada, Aoyama, Allianz Arena, Munich. The book is divided in five sections. In the first section, each of the projects is documented in texts, images, models, graphics, sketches and cut-aways. The second section includes all floor plans. Followed by a section of 4 profound essays by Herzog & De Meuron, a work chronology, an index, and - last but not least - 63 pages of full- and double page images.
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Olafur Eliasson, one of today's most acclaimed contemporary artists, and David Adjaye, a rising architecture star, have engaged in a unique collaboration. Eliasson's light installation "Your Black Horizon," which debuted at the 2005 Venice Biennale, was conceived from the start as a hybridization of both of their practices. The piece consists of a light, representing a(...)
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octobre 2007, Cologne
Your black horizon art pavilion : Olafur Eliasson and David Adjaye: Thyssen-Bornemisza art contemporary
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Olafur Eliasson, one of today's most acclaimed contemporary artists, and David Adjaye, a rising architecture star, have engaged in a unique collaboration. Eliasson's light installation "Your Black Horizon," which debuted at the 2005 Venice Biennale, was conceived from the start as a hybridization of both of their practices. The piece consists of a light, representing a horizon line that emanates through a narrow gap in an architectural structure. This is the only light source, and it runs around the entire dark gallery space, without any visual obstruction. The optical illusion that is achieved is that of a reversed horizon line. This publication is presented in conjunction with the installation of this project in Croatia. Critic and curator Daniel Birnbaum, writer Eva Ebersberger and curator Daniela Zyman contribute in-depth essays, which are accompanied by large-scale spreads of the project.
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Investigate, Ask, Tell, Draw, Build profiles one of Europe's most exciting and innovative architecture practices, Denmark's 3XN. Key to their success has been the immense importance they place on investigating and interpreting the historic and cultural context of the site of each new project. Known for the ambitious aim to make their playful and poetic architecture the(...)
3XN architects: Investigate ask tell draw build
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Investigate, Ask, Tell, Draw, Build profiles one of Europe's most exciting and innovative architecture practices, Denmark's 3XN. Key to their success has been the immense importance they place on investigating and interpreting the historic and cultural context of the site of each new project. Known for the ambitious aim to make their playful and poetic architecture the heritage of tomorrow, 3XN were recently chosen to design the upcoming Museum of Liverpool, which will be completed at the city's World Heritage Site waterfront by 2008, when Liverpool will be European Cultural Capital.
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In this book art critic and historian Sven Lutticken takes philosopher Theodor Adorno's critique of popular arts and culture a step further. Adorno criticized the manipulation of taste in official cultures and the pretense of individualism; Lutticken looks at the tension between fundamentalism and individualism in the context of the current religious-political image wars.(...)
Idols of the market: modern iconoclasm and the Fundamentalist spectacle
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In this book art critic and historian Sven Lutticken takes philosopher Theodor Adorno's critique of popular arts and culture a step further. Adorno criticized the manipulation of taste in official cultures and the pretense of individualism; Lutticken looks at the tension between fundamentalism and individualism in the context of the current religious-political image wars. This book examines both the afterlife of religious elements in modern culture and possible responses to the current religious re-appropriation of Adorno's critique of modern capitalist culture by both Christian fundamentalists and radical Islamists.
Théorie de l’architecture
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Is Europe a place, a space, or a temporary community of shared interests? As a political space, Europe is as conflictual as its debated constitution. It is a construct that must be continuously negotiated, and its longing for an architecture of strategic encounters parallels an increasing economical power of the private sector, while the sovereignty of European nation(...)
The violence of participation
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Is Europe a place, a space, or a temporary community of shared interests? As a political space, Europe is as conflictual as its debated constitution. It is a construct that must be continuously negotiated, and its longing for an architecture of strategic encounters parallels an increasing economical power of the private sector, while the sovereignty of European nation states attenuate. This book, edited by London-based architect and author Markus Miessen, marks an extension of the discursive space he has produced as contribution to the 2007 Lyon Biennial. He has pulled together a heterogeneous group of interlocutors to lead conversations on alternative notions of participation, the inconsistence between democratic concepts, and what it means to live in Europe today.
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À l'heure du développement durable et d'une extension urbaine grandissante, nous ne pouvons plus considérer la ville comme une antinature, un système inconciliable avec les principes de l'écologie. Pourtant, si l'écologie du paysage est aujourd'hui étudiée et mise en œuvre au sein des zones agricoles, il y a encore très peu de connaissances et de recherches sur le(...)
Une écologie du paysage urbain
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À l'heure du développement durable et d'une extension urbaine grandissante, nous ne pouvons plus considérer la ville comme une antinature, un système inconciliable avec les principes de l'écologie. Pourtant, si l'écologie du paysage est aujourd'hui étudiée et mise en œuvre au sein des zones agricoles, il y a encore très peu de connaissances et de recherches sur le fonctionnement du paysage vu par l'écologue dans les systèmes urbanisés : c'est ce qui constitue l'originalité du présent ouvrage. Cet essai a pour ambition de montrer l'intérêt d'une écologie du paysage, appliquée à la gestion des territoires urbains en privilégiant la présence d'une nature qui «fonctionne» dans la ville, notamment par le biais du «maillage vert». L'objectif intéresse non seulement la conservation de la nature et le maintien des biodiversités locales et régionales mais aussi les projets d'urbanisme.
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Ant Farm
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Including a text by Caroline Maniaque, a conversation between Chip Lord and Pierre Huyghe, and a conversation between Bernard Blistène and Marie-Ange Braye, work annotations by Émilie Retailleau & Camille de Singly. Dedicated to the influential group of artists and architects of the American counter-culture, ‘Ant Farm' provides an overview of the groups projects, from(...)
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décembre 2007, Orléans, France
Ant Farm
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Including a text by Caroline Maniaque, a conversation between Chip Lord and Pierre Huyghe, and a conversation between Bernard Blistène and Marie-Ange Braye, work annotations by Émilie Retailleau & Camille de Singly. Dedicated to the influential group of artists and architects of the American counter-culture, ‘Ant Farm' provides an overview of the groups projects, from the mythical ‘Cadillac Ranch' to ‘The House of the Century', and from ‘Media Burn' to ‘Eternal Frame'. The group's projects are based as much on conceptual art practices, as on architecture, theatre or literature. Published on the occasion of an retrospective exhibition at the FRAC Centre, Orléans, this book is filled with photographs of works and performances, essays and interviews.
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