Scott Massey: The nest
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Conceived and designed by Scott Massey, this book is about process—the process of designing, and how it changes both what we make and who we are. It is also a book about memory—how memory builds up in layers and influences our experiences, as well as the things we make. Its focus is a series of posters created in celebration of the exhibition Inside Out & Upside Down:(...)
Scott Massey: The nest
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Conceived and designed by Scott Massey, this book is about process—the process of designing, and how it changes both what we make and who we are. It is also a book about memory—how memory builds up in layers and influences our experiences, as well as the things we make. Its focus is a series of posters created in celebration of the exhibition Inside Out & Upside Down: Posters from CalArts 1970–2019. The Nest documents Scott Massey’s use of appropriation, collage, layering and re-working to generate 200 unique and vibrant compositions that each tell a different story about creative discovery.
Rudolph-Bednar-Park: Vienna
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This multi-layered book chronicles the development of Vienna's biggest new park since 1974, Rudolf-Bednar-Park. The story starts with the city's design competition, won by Swiss landscape architect Guido Hager, and follows the planning and construction process right up to the park's opening in 2008. Hager's plans considered every possible constituency for the park -(...)
octobre 2009
Rudolph-Bednar-Park: Vienna
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This multi-layered book chronicles the development of Vienna's biggest new park since 1974, Rudolf-Bednar-Park. The story starts with the city's design competition, won by Swiss landscape architect Guido Hager, and follows the planning and construction process right up to the park's opening in 2008. Hager's plans considered every possible constituency for the park - families, singles, young, old, women, men - and how they would be woven into the neighborhood, an inner-city district of Vienna under intense redevelopment. The book even includes a section on the plant material chosen, and how it will appear season-by-season.
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ABOUT THIS BOOK From the late Herbert Muschamp, the former architecture critic of The New York Times and one of the most outspoken and influential voices in architectural criticism, a collection of his best work. The pieces here—from The New Republic, Artforum, and The New York Times—reveal how Muschamp’s views were both ahead of their time and timeless. He often wrote(...)
Hearts of the city: the selected writing of Herbert Muschamp
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ABOUT THIS BOOK From the late Herbert Muschamp, the former architecture critic of The New York Times and one of the most outspoken and influential voices in architectural criticism, a collection of his best work. The pieces here—from The New Republic, Artforum, and The New York Times—reveal how Muschamp’s views were both ahead of their time and timeless. He often wrote about how the right architecture could be inspiring and uplifting, and he uniquely drew on film, literature, and popular culture to write pieces that were passionate and often personal, changing the landscape of architectural criticism in the process.
Théorie de l’urbanisme
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Searching For Space is a cinematic portrait of Herman Hertzberger, one of the most important architects in The Netherlands. Conscientious and socially driven, Hertzberger has maintained that, whether designing a house, school or factory, it is not the building's architecture that concerns him but the human life and activity that will inhabit it. The profile investigates(...)
octobre 2010
DVD Searching for space: On the architect Herman Hertzberger
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Searching For Space is a cinematic portrait of Herman Hertzberger, one of the most important architects in The Netherlands. Conscientious and socially driven, Hertzberger has maintained that, whether designing a house, school or factory, it is not the building's architecture that concerns him but the human life and activity that will inhabit it. The profile investigates key questions around Hertzberger's life and work, such as his influences and inspirations, how his personal convictions manifest in his designs, and how he envisions his architecture contributing to effective society-building. The accompanying booklet contains illuminating texts by director Kees Hin and architect Maarten Kloos.
Too Much 3 summer 2012
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The third issue of Too Much magazine is about migrant people. It is devoted to the questions of how and why individuals move between countries, and delves into the illusions that migrants carry with them. Migration changes people, memories and identity, but how do spaces, objects and landscapes change during this journey? The fast pace of technology has set the human(...)
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Too Much 3 summer 2012
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The third issue of Too Much magazine is about migrant people. It is devoted to the questions of how and why individuals move between countries, and delves into the illusions that migrants carry with them. Migration changes people, memories and identity, but how do spaces, objects and landscapes change during this journey? The fast pace of technology has set the human world and its phenomena in constant motion, and the messy and complex place in which we live requires a new outlook and new values. With diverse contributions from Charlie Koolhaas, Fiona Tan, Chong Tese, Naoki Ishikawa, Ryan Gander and several others.
Revues
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What does architecture have to do with health? Can architecture support the healing process? At the Technical University of Berlin, the department 'Architecture for Health' researches and teaches how architecture could influence health. Applying the variable 'health' to all areas of life is the focus of the department's teaching and research work. The term 'Healing(...)
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Healing architecture 2004-2017
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What does architecture have to do with health? Can architecture support the healing process? At the Technical University of Berlin, the department 'Architecture for Health' researches and teaches how architecture could influence health. Applying the variable 'health' to all areas of life is the focus of the department's teaching and research work. The term 'Healing Architecture' represents the courage to think outside the box, to explore and to go beyond conventional conceptions of architecture.
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England’s sixty-two Anglican and Catholic cathedrals are some of our most iconic buildings, attracting millions of worshippers and visitors every year. Though much has been written about their architecture, there is no complete history of their life and activities. This is the first such book to provide one, stretching from Roman times to the present day. "The History(...)
The history of England's cathedrals
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England’s sixty-two Anglican and Catholic cathedrals are some of our most iconic buildings, attracting millions of worshippers and visitors every year. Though much has been written about their architecture, there is no complete history of their life and activities. This is the first such book to provide one, stretching from Roman times to the present day. "The History of England’s Cathedrals" explains where and why they were founded, who staffed them, and how their structures evolved. It describes their worship and how this changed over the centuries, their schools and libraries, and their links with the outside world. The history of these astonishing buildings is the history of England. Reading this book will bring you face to face with the Anglo-Saxons, Vikings, Normans, Reformation, Civil War, Victorian England, World War Two, and finally modern democracy.
The future starts here
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What makes us human? We are all connected, but do we feel lonely? Does democracy still work? Are cities for everyone? Should the planet be a design project? If Mars is the answer, what is the question? Who wants to live forever? The world of tomorrow is shaped by emerging design and the technology of today. Bringing together a range of objects either newly released or in(...)
The future starts here
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What makes us human? We are all connected, but do we feel lonely? Does democracy still work? Are cities for everyone? Should the planet be a design project? If Mars is the answer, what is the question? Who wants to live forever? The world of tomorrow is shaped by emerging design and the technology of today. Bringing together a range of objects either newly released or in development, "The Future Starts Here" begins to imagine where our society might be headed. Cute but intelligent robots, massive unmanned aircraft that deliver internet access, crowdfunded buildings, tools printed in space, mysterious black boxes that understand human genetic codes--how can these objects affect the way we live, learn, and love? And how are they challenging our understanding of what it means to be an individual, a citizen, a crowd, or a species?
Design industriel
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This comprehensive volume, published for the artist's exhibition at Museum Frieder Burda in Baden-Baden, Germany, combines key works from Turrell's various phases. Among the works included are ''Sloan Red'', one of his early projections in which geometric light objects appear to float in space. A piece from 2016, from the important series of ''Wedgeworks'', shows how the(...)
James Turrell: extraordinary ideas, realized
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This comprehensive volume, published for the artist's exhibition at Museum Frieder Burda in Baden-Baden, Germany, combines key works from Turrell's various phases. Among the works included are ''Sloan Red'', one of his early projections in which geometric light objects appear to float in space. A piece from 2016, from the important series of ''Wedgeworks'', shows how the artist creates illusionist spatial situations using light. The "ganzfeld" experiment ''Apani'', which attracted much attention at the Venice Biennale in 2011, allows the visitor to experience how all imaginable spatial contours can be made to dissolve in light and color. Turrell's famous long-term project ''Roden Crater''- an extinct volcano in the Arizona desert, which the artist has been converting into a kind of observatory since the 1970s- is also represented here, alongside artworks created especially for the Museum Frieder Burda.
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Oxford is one of the jewels of European architecture, much loved and much visited. The city offers an unparallelled collection of the best of English building through the centuries. Matthew Rice's ''Oxford'' is a feast of delightful watercolour illustrations and an informed and witty text, explaining how the city came into being and what to look out for today. While the(...)
Oxford: a living history of English architecture
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Oxford is one of the jewels of European architecture, much loved and much visited. The city offers an unparallelled collection of the best of English building through the centuries. Matthew Rice's ''Oxford'' is a feast of delightful watercolour illustrations and an informed and witty text, explaining how the city came into being and what to look out for today. While the focus is on architectural detail, Rice also describes how the city has been shaped by its history, most of all by generations of patrons who had the education and the resources to commission work from the greatest architects and builders of their day, an astonishing range of which still stands. More than anywhere else in England, it is possible in Oxford to take in the history of English architecture simply by walking today's streets, lanes, parks and meadows.
Histoire jusqu’à 1900