Form of knowledge
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"Form of knowledge" is a collection of ten essays written by Pezo von Ellrichshausen over the past decade. According to the authors, they can be read as «ten problems derived from the practice of architecture, from the practice of thinking about possible buildings for the future and from the practice of inhabiting buildings and imagining their possible causes or(...)
Form of knowledge
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"Form of knowledge" is a collection of ten essays written by Pezo von Ellrichshausen over the past decade. According to the authors, they can be read as «ten problems derived from the practice of architecture, from the practice of thinking about possible buildings for the future and from the practice of inhabiting buildings and imagining their possible causes or explanations to exist as they are, or as we think they are». Translated into Italian for the first time, the unpublished title refers to the capacity of architecture to be self-referential or a problem in itself, in other words; a meaningful artifact derived from human understanding for the ultimate purpose of human understanding.
Théorie de l’architecture
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Anarchitecture, a radical aesthetic practice of unmaking the built environment, staged a vigorous confrontation with urban renewal and gentrification projects in the 1970s. In Anarchitecture After Everything, Jack Halberstam identifies a powerful lexicon of transformation within anarchitecture, joining the movement’s practices of cutting and splitting with the(...)
Anarchitecture after everything: A trans manifesto
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Anarchitecture, a radical aesthetic practice of unmaking the built environment, staged a vigorous confrontation with urban renewal and gentrification projects in the 1970s. In Anarchitecture After Everything, Jack Halberstam identifies a powerful lexicon of transformation within anarchitecture, joining the movement’s practices of cutting and splitting with the destabilizing power of transness to detonate acts of formal violence in our time. "Anarchitecture" describes the aesthetic practice of splitting and cutting, dismantling and undoing, unmaking, unbuilding, and ultimately unworlding. The trans body splits bodily coherence, dismantles the gender binary, and unbuilds bodily meaning. In these chapters, Gordon Matta-Clark’s cuts, along with Alvin Baltrop’s 1970s images of collapsing warehouses and Beverly Buchanan’s post-demolition fragmentary sculptures, return with a vengeance through the contemporary aesthetic gestures of Yve Laris Cohen, Jesse Darling, Nicole Eisenman, Kiyan Williams, Cassils, boychild, and Every Ocean Hughes. Anarchitecture unmakes space and offers a new rhetoric for emptiness. In its conclusion, the book explores this rhetoric through Renee Gladman’s anarchitectural experiments with language.
Théorie de l’architecture
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Lake Ontario has profoundly influenced the historical evolution of North America. For centuries it has enabled and enriched the societies that crowded its edges, from fertile agricultural landscapes to energy production systems to sprawling cities. In "The lives of Lake Ontario" Daniel Macfarlane details the lake’s relationship with the Indigenous nations, settler(...)
The lives of Lake Ontario: An environmental history
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Lake Ontario has profoundly influenced the historical evolution of North America. For centuries it has enabled and enriched the societies that crowded its edges, from fertile agricultural landscapes to energy production systems to sprawling cities. In "The lives of Lake Ontario" Daniel Macfarlane details the lake’s relationship with the Indigenous nations, settler cultures, and modern countries that have occupied its shores. He examines the myriad ways Canada and the United States have used and abused this resource: through dams and canals, drinking water and sewage, trash and pollution, fish and foreign species, industry and manufacturing, urbanization and infrastructure, population growth and biodiversity loss. Serving as both bridge and buffer between the two countries, Lake Ontario came to host Canada’s largest megalopolis. Yet its transborder exploitation exacted a tremendous ecological cost, leading people to abandon the lake. Innovative regulations in the later twentieth century, such as the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreements, have partially improved Lake Ontario’s health.
Architecture du Canada
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"Eating the urban wild" leads readers on an unconventional food tour through the wild corners and everyday streets of Montreal. Natalie Doonan reimagines what it means to eat locally, inviting us to experience food not as the consumption of a single dish but as part of a vibrant, entangled ecosystem. From waterfowl hunting on the Lachine Rapids and sturgeon fishing in(...)
Eating the urban wild: Food and foraging in Montreal
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"Eating the urban wild" leads readers on an unconventional food tour through the wild corners and everyday streets of Montreal. Natalie Doonan reimagines what it means to eat locally, inviting us to experience food not as the consumption of a single dish but as part of a vibrant, entangled ecosystem. From waterfowl hunting on the Lachine Rapids and sturgeon fishing in Lake Saint-Louis to Verdun’s cooperative gardens and aquaponics initiative, beekeeping, community cooking classes, independent grocers, and even fast-food restaurants, this work brims with sensory detail. We hear the voices of hunters, fishers, foragers, biologists, and the author’s own family and friends – all of whom reveal unexpected ways of relating to food. From these neighbourhood practices emerges a broader political and ecological resonance.
Architecture de Montréal
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The Berlin Wall divided the city for almost three decades before it fell on 9 November 1989. But this symbol of the Cold War has been travelling longer than it stood still. An object that once seemed immovable now wanders around the world in every format from two-tonne slabs to pocket-sized souvenirs. This collection envisions the atomized and displaced remnants of the(...)
The mobile ruin: The everyday life of the Berlin Wall
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The Berlin Wall divided the city for almost three decades before it fell on 9 November 1989. But this symbol of the Cold War has been travelling longer than it stood still. An object that once seemed immovable now wanders around the world in every format from two-tonne slabs to pocket-sized souvenirs. This collection envisions the atomized and displaced remnants of the Berlin Wall as a mobile ruin with an evolving history. Blake Fitzpatrick and Vid Ingelevics’s photographic investigation of the geographical dispersement of its fragments is a form of witness to the history of the wall after it fell.
Théorie de l’architecture
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The classical architectural and planning schemes conceived by Canada’s Anglo-settler elite in the early twentieth century embodied a prescriptive vision of power and grandeur for the country and its people on a scale almost unimaginable today. This provocative collection of essays examines the classical design precepts that shaped much of Canada’s built environment –(...)
Classicism in Canada: Ambition, utopia, hubris
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The classical architectural and planning schemes conceived by Canada’s Anglo-settler elite in the early twentieth century embodied a prescriptive vision of power and grandeur for the country and its people on a scale almost unimaginable today. This provocative collection of essays examines the classical design precepts that shaped much of Canada’s built environment – leaving an imprint for how we continue to experience place today. "Classicism in Canada" brings together essays by planning, architectural, art, political, and social historians. Drawing on primary sources and the physical sites themselves, the contributors probe the meaning of a style that melded the École des Beaux-Arts with the sensibilities of the City Beautiful movement and that was rooted in assumptions about order and historical continuity. The transformation of built space and land was motivated by pragmatism, aesthetics, and an ideological infrastructure that reverberated with utopian zeal as much as it was driven by racial discrimination and Indigenous erasure.
Architecture du Canada
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The interview printed in this book was conducted by Marlene Laskey with John Lautner in 1982, as part of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Oral History Program. The 6½ hour interview, published here in a new format and accompanied by select images of Lautner’s projects, offers insight into the workings of an architect with a deep commitment to his(...)
Architecture, monographies
décembre 2023
On the ground and flying : Interviews with John Lautner
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The interview printed in this book was conducted by Marlene Laskey with John Lautner in 1982, as part of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Oral History Program. The 6½ hour interview, published here in a new format and accompanied by select images of Lautner’s projects, offers insight into the workings of an architect with a deep commitment to his profession, to a specific relationship to nature, and to architecture as craft. Lautner’s responses range from his childhood in Michigan, his apprenticeship with Frank Lloyd Wright at Taliesin, and the clients in Southern California who supported his ambitious designs.
Architecture, monographies
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L’entrevue reproduite dans cet ouvrage a été menée par Marlene Laskey avec John Lautner en 1982, dans le cadre du programme d’histoire orale de l’Université de la Californie à Los Angeles (UCLA). Cet entretien de six heures et demie, publié ici sous une nouvelle forme et accompagné d’une sélection d’images des projets de Lautner, offre un aperçu de la démarche d’un(...)
Architecture, monographies
décembre 2023
Au sol et en vol : Entretiens avec John Lautner
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L’entrevue reproduite dans cet ouvrage a été menée par Marlene Laskey avec John Lautner en 1982, dans le cadre du programme d’histoire orale de l’Université de la Californie à Los Angeles (UCLA). Cet entretien de six heures et demie, publié ici sous une nouvelle forme et accompagné d’une sélection d’images des projets de Lautner, offre un aperçu de la démarche d’un architecte profondément dévoué à sa profession, à une relation particulière avec la nature et à l’architecture en tant qu’artisanat. Les réponses de Lautner portent notamment sur son enfance au Michigan, son apprentissage auprès de Frank Lloyd Wright à Taliesin, ainsi que sur les clients du sud de la Californie qui ont soutenu ses projets ambitieux.
Architecture, monographies
The Architect and the Citizen / L'architecte et le citoyen : Essais by / Essays par Hans Kollhoff
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This book draws together texts by the architect Hans Kollhoff, from the essay collection originally published in 2014 under the title Architektur: Schein und Wirklichkeit [Architecture: Appearance and Reality] by Zu Klampen Verlag. Four essays have been selected for a first translation into English and French. In each, the architect takes a definitive stance and asserts(...)
The Architect and the Citizen / L'architecte et le citoyen : Essais by / Essays par Hans Kollhoff
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This book draws together texts by the architect Hans Kollhoff, from the essay collection originally published in 2014 under the title Architektur: Schein und Wirklichkeit [Architecture: Appearance and Reality] by Zu Klampen Verlag. Four essays have been selected for a first translation into English and French. In each, the architect takes a definitive stance and asserts the voice of the citizen, focusing on the life of the city and the common good. In addition to the essays, the book includes an extended interview with Hans Kollhoff on his own trajectory, his influences, and his understanding of architecture as a sphere of political engagement.
Théorie de l’architecture
Schindler Manifesto
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The distribution of the Schindler’s manifesto remains uncertain. This was an obligatory step in the life of a young European avant-gardist, and it probably passed from hand to hand. The interest paid to this text today is retrospective. It is an opportunity to go back over the training and early working life of an important architect who is still little-known. What(...)
Théorie de l’architecture
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Schindler Manifesto
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The distribution of the Schindler’s manifesto remains uncertain. This was an obligatory step in the life of a young European avant-gardist, and it probably passed from hand to hand. The interest paid to this text today is retrospective. It is an opportunity to go back over the training and early working life of an important architect who is still little-known. What conception of architecture did the young Schindler stand up for in this his first text? Would the beginning of his career follow this doctrinal commitment? How did such Viennese convictions travel to the USA?
Théorie de l’architecture