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Invention of art
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In The Invention of Art, Larry Shiner argues that the category of fine art is a modern invention, and that the line drawn between art and craft resulted from key social transformations in Europe during the eighteenth century. He looks at works by Hogarth, Rousseau, Woolstonecraft, Emerson, Marx, Dewey and Benjamin to show how the modern system maintains its dominance(...)
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In The Invention of Art, Larry Shiner argues that the category of fine art is a modern invention, and that the line drawn between art and craft resulted from key social transformations in Europe during the eighteenth century. He looks at works by Hogarth, Rousseau, Woolstonecraft, Emerson, Marx, Dewey and Benjamin to show how the modern system maintains its dominance through the assimilation of artists and musicians who resist it, and the distinctions it draws between artists and artisans, and high art and the crafts.
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septembre 2001, Chicago
Théorie de l’art
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Anything
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At a time when the fragmented ideas and styles in architecture make it seem as if "anything goes," Anything asks whether there are constraints to thought and action that change "anything" to "the thing." In thirty-two original essays, many of them illustrated, leading architects, theorists, historians and others discuss their works. The wide-ranging topics include a(...)
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At a time when the fragmented ideas and styles in architecture make it seem as if "anything goes," Anything asks whether there are constraints to thought and action that change "anything" to "the thing." In thirty-two original essays, many of them illustrated, leading architects, theorists, historians and others discuss their works. The wide-ranging topics include a "refugee republic," "blur buildings," virtual environments, shopping, and stress. Anything is the tenth and final book in the ongoing series that began in 1991. Each volume is based on a conference at which architects and leaders in other fields came together to present papers and discuss a particular idea in architecture from a cross-cultural and multidisciplinary perspective.
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septembre 2001
Théorie de l’architecture
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Innovative cities
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This book presents a unique international comparison of innovation in Amsterdam, London, Milan, Paris and Stuttgart. Based on research funded by the ESRC programme on Cities: Competitiveness and Cohesion, it compares and contrasts the reasons why these cities are among the top ten innovative cities in Europe.
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This book presents a unique international comparison of innovation in Amsterdam, London, Milan, Paris and Stuttgart. Based on research funded by the ESRC programme on Cities: Competitiveness and Cohesion, it compares and contrasts the reasons why these cities are among the top ten innovative cities in Europe.
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août 2001, London
Théorie de l’urbanisme
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Using language - speaking and understanding it - is a defining ability of human beings, woven into all human activity. It is therefore inevitable that it should be deeply implicated in the design, production, and use of buildings. Building legislation, design guides, competition and other briefs, architectural criticism, teaching and scholarly material, and the media all(...)
Théorie de l’architecture
novembre 2001, London
The words between the spaces : buildings and language
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Using language - speaking and understanding it - is a defining ability of human beings, woven into all human activity. It is therefore inevitable that it should be deeply implicated in the design, production, and use of buildings. Building legislation, design guides, competition and other briefs, architectural criticism, teaching and scholarly material, and the media all produce their characteristic texts. The authors use texts about such projects as Berlin's new Reichstag, Scotland's new Parliament, and the Auschwitz concentration camp museum to clarify the interaction between texts, design, critical debate, and response.
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novembre 2001, London
Théorie de l’architecture
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The author concentrates on fundamental texts in the study of architectural history with special reference to eighteenth and nineteenth century Britain. The texts under discussion address key themes or methods in the construction of architectural histories. Alongside this, philosophical or theoretical writings that address the abstract issues surrounding the main texts are(...)
Reading architectural history
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The author concentrates on fundamental texts in the study of architectural history with special reference to eighteenth and nineteenth century Britain. The texts under discussion address key themes or methods in the construction of architectural histories. Alongside this, philosophical or theoretical writings that address the abstract issues surrounding the main texts are presented as a kind of exegesis on the chosen texts. This, together with an introduction and discursive essays which preface each of the sections, present a trans-disciplinary discourse around the discipline of architectural history.
Théorie de l’architecture
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"Why Architecture Matters" collects the best of Kamin's columns, incuding his acclaimed series advocating the intelligent development of Chicago's lakefront. The columns are organized thematically, providing an accessible and thought-provoking view of architecture in the 1990s, from soaring skyscrapers to vibrant immigrant neighborhoods, troubled public housing projects,(...)
Why architecture matters : lessons from Chicago
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"Why Architecture Matters" collects the best of Kamin's columns, incuding his acclaimed series advocating the intelligent development of Chicago's lakefront. The columns are organized thematically, providing an accessible and thought-provoking view of architecture in the 1990s, from soaring skyscrapers to vibrant immigrant neighborhoods, troubled public housing projects, and sprawling suburbs. Because Chicago serves as a barometer of national design trends, these writings shed new light on American architecture and urbanism during a decade that Kamin labels "The Nervous Nineties"--a period of unparalleled affluence and underlying anxiety, of soothing retro buildings and provocative new ones that express the frenzied state of modern life.
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octobre 2001, Chicago
Théorie de l’architecture
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Avec neuf fusains d'Henri Gaudin.
Rythme et arts : les fins de l'architecture
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Avec neuf fusains d'Henri Gaudin.
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mai 2001, Lecques
Théorie de l’architecture
La ville en creux
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La ville est-elle constituée par ses bâtiments ou par l'espace qu'ils déterminent et que l'auteur dit «en creux» : ses places, ses promenades, ses boulevards? Ce sont ces espaces que nous arpentons, dans lesquels nous respirons, que nous percevons avec tout notre corps. Leur complexité est à l'origine d'un processus dynamique qui donne sa forme à la ville. L'auteur(...)
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La ville est-elle constituée par ses bâtiments ou par l'espace qu'ils déterminent et que l'auteur dit «en creux» : ses places, ses promenades, ses boulevards? Ce sont ces espaces que nous arpentons, dans lesquels nous respirons, que nous percevons avec tout notre corps. Leur complexité est à l'origine d'un processus dynamique qui donne sa forme à la ville. L'auteur replace dans l'histoire de la ville la lente constitution de ces espaces. Avec son expérience d'architecte, d'urbaniste et d'élu local, il en a cherché les fondements, étudiant plus particulièrement quelques espaces connus, tel le forum de Rome, notamment dans leur dimensions instrumentale et symbolique. Il donne aussi quelques clés pour que les espaces publics soient ouverts à la diversité sans perdre la nécessaire unité.
Théorie de l’urbanisme
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In the twenty-first century, commerce and culture are ever more closely entwined. This new collection of essays by design critic Rick Poynor takes a searching look at visual culture to discover the reality beneath the ultra-seductive surfaces. Poynor explores the thinking behind the emerging resistance to commercial rhetoric among designers, and offers critical insights(...)
Obey the giant : life in the image world
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In the twenty-first century, commerce and culture are ever more closely entwined. This new collection of essays by design critic Rick Poynor takes a searching look at visual culture to discover the reality beneath the ultra-seductive surfaces. Poynor explores the thinking behind the emerging resistance to commercial rhetoric among designers, and offers critical insights into the changing dialogue between advertising and design. Other essays address the topics of visual journalism; brands as religion; the new solipsism; graphic memes; the pleasures of imperfect design; and the poverty of “cool”. Around the world, many are now waking up to the dominance of huge corporations – invariably expressed by visual means. This pointed and provocative counterblast arrives at a moment when critical responses are vital if this mono-culture is to be challenged. It offers inspirational evidence of alternative ways of engaging with design, and it will appeal to any reader with a questioning interest in design, advertising, cultural studies, media studies, and the visual arts.
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Empirisme et subjectivité
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Avec Hume, l'empirisme ne se définit plus essentiellement par l'origine sensible des idées. Il développe trois problèmes, les relations, les cas, les illusions. D'une part, les relations sont toujours extérieures à leurs termes, et dépendent de principes d'association qui en déterminent l'établissement de l'exercice (croyance). D'autre part, ces principes d'association(...)
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Avec Hume, l'empirisme ne se définit plus essentiellement par l'origine sensible des idées. Il développe trois problèmes, les relations, les cas, les illusions. D'une part, les relations sont toujours extérieures à leurs termes, et dépendent de principes d'association qui en déterminent l'établissement de l'exercice (croyance). D'autre part, ces principes d'association n'agissent qu'en fonction des passions, pour indiquer des " cas " dans un monde de la culture et du droit : c'est tout l'associationnisme qui est au service d'une pratique du droit, de la politique et de l'économie (suffit-il, pour devenir propriétaire d'une cité abandonnée, de lancer un javelot sur la porte, ou faut-il toucher la porte du doigt ? " Enfin, de telles règles de légitimité des relations peuvent-elles être séparées des fictions, des croyances illégitimes qui les accompagnent ou les doublent ? Si bien que la philosophie est moins critique des erreurs que dénonciation des illusions inévitables. Dans tous ces domaines, l'empirisme opère la substitution de la croyance pratique au savoir, dans une entreprise athée qui consiste à naturaliser la croyance.
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