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Un siècle de banlieue japonaise apporte une réflexion inédite sur les processus d’urbanisation de l’une des sociétés de consommation les plus avancées de la planète, dans un pays dont la population doit, de surcroît, souvent faire face à des désastres naturels. De la fin du XIXe ?siècle aux temps présents en passant par la crise de Fukushima, l’histoire de la production(...)
Un siècle de banlieue japonaise : au paroxysme de la société de consommation
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Un siècle de banlieue japonaise apporte une réflexion inédite sur les processus d’urbanisation de l’une des sociétés de consommation les plus avancées de la planète, dans un pays dont la population doit, de surcroît, souvent faire face à des désastres naturels. De la fin du XIXe ?siècle aux temps présents en passant par la crise de Fukushima, l’histoire de la production de l’espace nippon retracée ici nous permet de saisir l’évolution du rapport des Japonais à l’urbain et à leur milieu.
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Après des volumes consacrés à l’abbaye de Cluny, la cité de Carcassonne, la Sainte-Chapelle, le Panthéon et la tenture de l’Apocalypse d’Angers, le projet de ce sixième titre destiné aux malvoyants et aux non-voyants et à leurs accompagnants confère à l’ouvrage un caractère de véritable objet d’art. Ce volume propose de « lire avec les doigts » la villa Cavrois(...)
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Villa Cravois, Robert Mallet-Stevens
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Après des volumes consacrés à l’abbaye de Cluny, la cité de Carcassonne, la Sainte-Chapelle, le Panthéon et la tenture de l’Apocalypse d’Angers, le projet de ce sixième titre destiné aux malvoyants et aux non-voyants et à leurs accompagnants confère à l’ouvrage un caractère de véritable objet d’art. Ce volume propose de « lire avec les doigts » la villa Cavrois construite en 1932 par l’architecte Robert Mallet-Stevens pour un riche industriel du Nord. Restaurée puis ouverte au public à partir de juin 2015, elle est aujourd’hui l’un des fleurons du réseau des sites du Centre des monuments nationaux. C’est aussi l’occasion, pour les concepteurs de la collection, de proposer une lecture tactile de nouveaux matériaux : brique, marbres, bois rares et précieux, céramiques, parquets, chromes et aluminium brossé, sans oublier les végétaux d’un parc original. Comme pour les volumes précédents, ces planches seront gravées sur le précieux papier japonais Pachica, dont le velouté et la « mémoire » permettent de garantir une qualité unique. Un nouveau coffret simulant les façades de la villa valorise les planches tactiles emblématiques de la collection.
Villa Greystones
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B42 s’associe avec le designer français Martin Szekely pour présenter une série d’ouvrages consacrés à son travail. Chaque ouvrage s’attardera sur une pièce, une série de pièces ou une exposition et montrera, essentiellement par l’image, les projets du designer. Le tome V, Villa Greystones, présente à travers une série de photographies de Fabrice Gousset une maison(...)
Villa Greystones
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B42 s’associe avec le designer français Martin Szekely pour présenter une série d’ouvrages consacrés à son travail. Chaque ouvrage s’attardera sur une pièce, une série de pièces ou une exposition et montrera, essentiellement par l’image, les projets du designer. Le tome V, Villa Greystones, présente à travers une série de photographies de Fabrice Gousset une maison d’architecte en pierre, verre et béton, entre ciel et océan, poste d’observation unique face à l’immensité. À portée de vue, des îles-jardins et Saint-Malo. Michel Roux-Spitz l’avait construite en 1938 pour lui-même. Après quelques errances et soixante-quinze années plus tard, elle retrouve sa forme initiale grâce à l’engagement de son nouveau propriétaire.
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'Spots in Shots' explores a selection of little-known but fascinating short films made in Europe and the US between 1990 and 2017 that tell stories about architecture and urban development. Based on interviews with the filmmakers, the book asks how cinema can stir public interest in the oeuvres of architects.
Spots in shots: narrating the built environment in short film
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'Spots in Shots' explores a selection of little-known but fascinating short films made in Europe and the US between 1990 and 2017 that tell stories about architecture and urban development. Based on interviews with the filmmakers, the book asks how cinema can stir public interest in the oeuvres of architects.
The hundreds
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In ''The Hundreds'' Lauren Berlant and Kathleen Stewart speculate on writing, affect, politics, and attention to processes of world-making. The experiment of the one hundred word constraint- each piece is one hundred or multiples of one hundred words long- amplifies the resonance of things that are happening in atmospheres, rhythms of encounter, and scenes that shift the(...)
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In ''The Hundreds'' Lauren Berlant and Kathleen Stewart speculate on writing, affect, politics, and attention to processes of world-making. The experiment of the one hundred word constraint- each piece is one hundred or multiples of one hundred words long- amplifies the resonance of things that are happening in atmospheres, rhythms of encounter, and scenes that shift the social and conceptual ground. What's an encounter with anything once it's seen as an incitement to composition? What's a concept or a theory if they're no longer seen as a truth effect, but a training in absorption, attention, and framing? ''The Hundreds'' includes four indexes in which Andrew Causey, Susan Lepselter, Fred Moten, and Stephen Muecke each respond with their own compositional, conceptual, and formal staging of the worlds of the book.
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A truly radical response to conservative heritage tours and banal day trips, ''Rebel footprints'' brings to life the history of social movements in England’s capital. David Rosenberg transports readers from well-known landmarks to history-making hidden corners, while telling the story of protest and struggle in London from the early nineteenth to the mid-twentieth(...)
Rebel footprints: a guide to uncovering London's radical history. 2nd edition
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A truly radical response to conservative heritage tours and banal day trips, ''Rebel footprints'' brings to life the history of social movements in England’s capital. David Rosenberg transports readers from well-known landmarks to history-making hidden corners, while telling the story of protest and struggle in London from the early nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. From the suffragettes to the socialists, from the chartists to the trade unionists, Rosenberg invites us to step into the footprints of a diverse cast of dedicated fighters for social justice. Rosenberg sets London’s radical campaigners against the backdrop of the city’s multi-faceted development. Self-directed walks pair with narratives that seamlessly blend history, politics, and geography, while specially commissioned maps and illustrations immerse the reader in the story of the city.
Théorie de l’urbanisme
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Parks are importantly fertile places to talk about land. Whether its big national parks, provincial campgrounds, isolated conservation areas, destination parks, or humble urban patches of grass, we tend to speak of parks as unqualified goods. People think of parks as public or common land, and it is a common belief that parks are the best uses of land and are good for(...)
On this patch of grass: city parks and the politics of occupied land
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Parks are importantly fertile places to talk about land. Whether its big national parks, provincial campgrounds, isolated conservation areas, destination parks, or humble urban patches of grass, we tend to speak of parks as unqualified goods. People think of parks as public or common land, and it is a common belief that parks are the best uses of land and are good for everyone. But no park is innocent. Parks are lionized as "natural oases," and urban parks as "pure nature" in the midst of the city -- but that's absurd. Parks are as "natural" as the roads or buildings around them, and just as political. Every park in North America is performing modernity and settler colonialism everyday. Furthermore, parks are not private property, but while they are called ''public'', they are highly regulated spaces that normatively demand and closely control behaviours. Parks are a certain kind of property, and thus creations of law, and they are subject to all kinds of presumptions about what parks are for, and what kinds of people should be doing what kinds of things in them. Parks- as they are currently constituted- are colonial enterprises.
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These influential, hard-to-obtain texts—many of which have never before been published— by Marcia Tucker, founding director of New York’s New Museum, showcase her lifelong commitment to pushing the boundaries of curatorial practice and writing while rethinking inherited structures of power within and outside the museum. The volume brings together the only comprehensive(...)
Théorie de l’art
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Out of bounds: the collected writings of Marcia Tucker
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These influential, hard-to-obtain texts—many of which have never before been published— by Marcia Tucker, founding director of New York’s New Museum, showcase her lifelong commitment to pushing the boundaries of curatorial practice and writing while rethinking inherited structures of power within and outside the museum. The volume brings together the only comprehensive bibliography of Tucker’s writing and highlights her critical attention to art’s relationship to broader culture and politics. The book is divided into three sections: monographic texts on a selection of the visionary artists whom Tucker championed, among them Bruce Nauman, Joan Mitchell, Richard Tuttle, and Andres Serrano; exhibition essays from some of the formative group shows she organized, such as Anti-Illusion: Procedures/Materials (1969) and Bad Girls (1994), which expanded the canons of curating and art history; and other critical works, including lectures, that interrogated museum practice, inequities of the art world, and institutional responsibility. These texts attest to Tucker’s tireless pursuit of questions related to difference, marginalization, access, and ethics, illuminating her significant impact on contemporary art discourse in her own time and demonstrating her lasting contributions to the field.
Théorie de l’art
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When Walter O’Malley moved his Brooklyn Dodgers to Los Angeles in 1957 with plans to construct a new ballpark, he ignited a bitter half-decade dispute over the future of a rapidly changing city. For the first time, ''City of Dreams'' tells the full story of the controversial building of Dodger Stadium and how it helped create modern Los Angeles. In a vivid narrative,(...)
City of dreams: Dodger Stadium and the birth of modern Los Angeles
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When Walter O’Malley moved his Brooklyn Dodgers to Los Angeles in 1957 with plans to construct a new ballpark, he ignited a bitter half-decade dispute over the future of a rapidly changing city. For the first time, ''City of Dreams'' tells the full story of the controversial building of Dodger Stadium and how it helped create modern Los Angeles. In a vivid narrative, Jerald Podair tells how the city was convulsed over whether, where, and how to build the stadium. Eventually, it was built on publicly owned land from which the city had uprooted a Mexican American community, raising questions about the relationship between private profit and 'public purpose.' Indeed, the battle over Dodger Stadium crystallized issues with profound implications for all American cities.
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The tyranny of metrics
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Today, organizations of all kinds are ruled by the belief that the path to success is quantifying human performance, publicizing the results, and dividing up the rewards based on the numbers. But in our zeal to instill the evaluation process with scientific rigor, we've gone from measuring performance to fixating on measuring itself—and this tyranny of metrics now(...)
The tyranny of metrics
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Today, organizations of all kinds are ruled by the belief that the path to success is quantifying human performance, publicizing the results, and dividing up the rewards based on the numbers. But in our zeal to instill the evaluation process with scientific rigor, we've gone from measuring performance to fixating on measuring itself—and this tyranny of metrics now threatens the quality of our organizations and lives. In this brief, accessible, and powerful book, Jerry Muller uncovers the damage metrics are causing and shows how we can begin to fix the problem.
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