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From the strictly regimented church bells to the freewheeling chatter of civic life, Renaissance Florence was a city built not just of stone but of sound as well. An evocative alternative to the dominant visual understanding of urban spaces, The Noisy Renaissance examines the premodern city as an acoustic phenomenon in which citizens used sound to navigate space and(...)
The noisy Renaissance: sound, architecture and Florentine urban life
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From the strictly regimented church bells to the freewheeling chatter of civic life, Renaissance Florence was a city built not just of stone but of sound as well. An evocative alternative to the dominant visual understanding of urban spaces, The Noisy Renaissance examines the premodern city as an acoustic phenomenon in which citizens used sound to navigate space and society. Analyzing a range of documentary and literary evidence, art and architectural historian Niall Atkinson creates an “acoustic topography” of Florence. The dissemination of official messages, the rhythm of prayer, and the murmur of rumor and gossip combined to form a soundscape that became a foundation in the creation and maintenance of the urban community just as much as the city’s physical buildings. Sound in this space triggered a wide variety of social behaviors and spatial relations: hierarchical, personal, communal, political, domestic, sexual, spiritual, and religious.
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"Designing San Francisco" is the untold story of the formative postwar decades when U.S. cities took their modern shape amid clashing visions of the future. In this pathbreaking and richly illustrated book, Alison Isenberg shifts the focus from architects and city planners—those most often hailed in histories of urban development and design—to the unsung artists,(...)
Designing San Francisco: art, land and urban renewal in the city by the bay
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"Designing San Francisco" is the untold story of the formative postwar decades when U.S. cities took their modern shape amid clashing visions of the future. In this pathbreaking and richly illustrated book, Alison Isenberg shifts the focus from architects and city planners—those most often hailed in histories of urban development and design—to the unsung artists, activists, and others who played pivotal roles in rebuilding San Francisco between the 1940s and the 1970s. An evocative portrait of one of the world’s great cities, "Designing San Francisco" provides a new paradigm for understanding past and present struggles to define the urban future.
Théorie de l’urbanisme
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In his own lifetime, William Blake (1757–1827) was a relatively unknown nonconventional artist with a strong political bent. William Blake and the Age of Aquarius is a beautifully illustrated look at how, some two hundred years after his birth, the antiestablishment values embodied in Blake’s art and poetry became a model for artists of the American counterculture. This(...)
William Blake and the age of Aquarius
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In his own lifetime, William Blake (1757–1827) was a relatively unknown nonconventional artist with a strong political bent. William Blake and the Age of Aquarius is a beautifully illustrated look at how, some two hundred years after his birth, the antiestablishment values embodied in Blake’s art and poetry became a model for artists of the American counterculture. This book provides new insights into the politics and protests of Blake’s own lifetime, and the generation of artists who revived and reimagined his work in the mid-1940s through 1970, or what might be called the “long sixties.” Contributors explore Blake’s outsider status in Georgian England and how his individualistic vision spoke to members of the Beat Generation, hippies, radical poets and writers, and other voices of the counterculture. Among the artists, musicians, and writers who looked to Blake were such diverse figures as Diane Arbus, Jay DeFeo, the Doors, Sam Francis, Allen Ginsberg, Jess, Agnes Martin, Ad Reinhardt, Charles Seliger, Maurice Sendak, Robert Smithson, Clyfford Still, and many others. This book also explores visual cultures around such galvanizing moments of the 1960s as Woodstock and the Summer of Love.
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Written by one of the twentieth century’s leading textile artists, this illustrated book is a meditation on the art of weaving, its history, its tools and techniques, and its implications for modern design. First published in 1965, "On weaving" bridges the transition between handcraft and the machine-made, highlighting the importance of material awareness and the creative(...)
On weaving: new expanded edition
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Written by one of the twentieth century’s leading textile artists, this illustrated book is a meditation on the art of weaving, its history, its tools and techniques, and its implications for modern design. First published in 1965, "On weaving" bridges the transition between handcraft and the machine-made, highlighting the importance of material awareness and the creative leaps that can occur when design problems are tackled by hand.
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This book builds on the groundbreaking theoretical framework established in Whitney Davis’s acclaimed previous book, A General Theory of Visual Culture, in which he shows how certain culturally constituted aspects of artifacts and pictures are visible to informed viewers. Here, Davis uses revealing archaeological and historical case studies to further develop his theory,(...)
Visuality and virtuality: images and pictures from prehistory to perspective
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This book builds on the groundbreaking theoretical framework established in Whitney Davis’s acclaimed previous book, A General Theory of Visual Culture, in which he shows how certain culturally constituted aspects of artifacts and pictures are visible to informed viewers. Here, Davis uses revealing archaeological and historical case studies to further develop his theory, presenting an exacting new account of the interaction that occurs when a viewer looks at a picture.
Théorie de l’art
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"Plaster monuments" unsettles conventional thinking about copies and originals. As Mari Lending shows, casts were used to restore wholeness to buildings that in reality lay in ruin, or to isolate specific features of monuments to illustrate what was typical of a particular building, style, or era. Arranged in galleries and published in exhibition catalogues, these often(...)
Plaster monuments: architecture and the power of reproduction
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"Plaster monuments" unsettles conventional thinking about copies and originals. As Mari Lending shows, casts were used to restore wholeness to buildings that in reality lay in ruin, or to isolate specific features of monuments to illustrate what was typical of a particular building, style, or era. Arranged in galleries and published in exhibition catalogues, these often enormous objects were staged to suggest the sweep of history, synthesizing structures from vastly different regions and time periods into coherent narratives. The first comprehensive history of these full-scale replicas, "Plaster monuments" examines how they were produced, marketed, sold, and displayed, and how their significance can be understood today.
Théorie de l’architecture
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Matsutake is the most valuable mushroom in the world—and a weed that grows in human-disturbed forests across the northern hemisphere. Through its ability to nurture trees, matsutake helps forests to grow in daunting places. It is also an edible delicacy in Japan, where it sometimes commands astronomical prices. In all its contradictions, matsutake offers insights into(...)
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The mushroom at the end of the world: on the possiblity of life in capitalist ruins
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Matsutake is the most valuable mushroom in the world—and a weed that grows in human-disturbed forests across the northern hemisphere. Through its ability to nurture trees, matsutake helps forests to grow in daunting places. It is also an edible delicacy in Japan, where it sometimes commands astronomical prices. In all its contradictions, matsutake offers insights into areas far beyond just mushrooms and addresses a crucial question: what manages to live in the ruins we have made? A tale of diversity within our damaged landscapes, "The mushroom at the end of the world" follows one of the strangest commodity chains of our times to explore the unexpected corners of capitalism. Here, we witness the varied and peculiar worlds of matsutake commerce: the worlds of Japanese gourmets, capitalist traders, Hmong jungle fighters, industrial forests, Yi Chinese goat herders, Finnish nature guides, and more. These companions also lead us into fungal ecologies and forest histories to better understand the promise of cohabitation in a time of massive human destruction. By investigating one of the world's most sought-after fungi, The Mushroom at the End of the World presents an original examination into the relation between capitalist destruction and collaborative survival within multispecies landscapes, the prerequisite for continuing life on earth.
Albert Frey
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L’architecte Albert Frey (1903–1998) a fait vivre l’utopie moderniste dans le désert. Né à Zurich, il a suivi l’enseignement de Le Corbusier en Europe avant d’émigrer aux États-Unis en 1930, convaincu que l’avenir de l’architecture s’y jouait. En visite à Palm Springs, il tombe sous le charme du désert. C’est là, dans ce paysage aride et vide, qu’il peut envisager(...)
Albert Frey
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L’architecte Albert Frey (1903–1998) a fait vivre l’utopie moderniste dans le désert. Né à Zurich, il a suivi l’enseignement de Le Corbusier en Europe avant d’émigrer aux États-Unis en 1930, convaincu que l’avenir de l’architecture s’y jouait. En visite à Palm Springs, il tombe sous le charme du désert. C’est là, dans ce paysage aride et vide, qu’il peut envisager concrètement le parfait avenir moderne. Frey passera le reste de sa carrière à explorer l’harmonie entre l’architecture et la nature: étudiant la façon dont tombent les rayons du soleil et la pluie, fusionnant aluminium, acier et verre dans les rochers et le sable des contrées les plus sauvages de la côte ouest. Sa vision se concentre principalement sur Palm Springs et il profite de la croissance démographique que la ville connaît au lendemain de la guerre pour y créer un bastion du modernisme épuré et lisse qui définit la Californie au milieu du siècle dernier. Cette présentation fidèle de l’architecte suit la carrière prolixe et prestigieuse de Frey depuis ses débuts européens jusqu’à l’apogée de son travail californien, en soulignant ses emprunts à De Stijl, Le Corbusier et au Bauhaus, et en retraçant l’élaboration stylistique, matérielle et géographique de ce «modernisme du désert», unique.
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Breuer
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Cette monographie synthétique retrace la carrière de Breuer au fil de ses projets et principes les plus marquants, de son célèbre mobilier tubulaire au Centre de recherche du MoMA en passant par ses maisons «binucléaires», où les zones de veille et de sommeil sont installées dans deux ailes séparées. On suit ainsi l’architecte né en Hongrie dans son apogée vers la(...)
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Cette monographie synthétique retrace la carrière de Breuer au fil de ses projets et principes les plus marquants, de son célèbre mobilier tubulaire au Centre de recherche du MoMA en passant par ses maisons «binucléaires», où les zones de veille et de sommeil sont installées dans deux ailes séparées. On suit ainsi l’architecte né en Hongrie dans son apogée vers la renommée internationale, à travers ses projets menés en Allemagne, en France, en Angleterre, en Suisse et dans tous les États-Unis
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Avec plus de 400 photos couleur, ce livre comprend une histoire architecturale, sociale et politique de la ville, ainsi qu’une douzaine de circuits de différents quartiers de la capitale, de Hull et de la grande région d’Ottawa, à découvrir à pied, à vélo, en voiture ou en patin à roues alignées. Au total, plus de 400 édifices et autres éléments du patrimoine bâti(...)
Explorer la capitale Guide architectural de la région d'Ottawa-Gatineau
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Avec plus de 400 photos couleur, ce livre comprend une histoire architecturale, sociale et politique de la ville, ainsi qu’une douzaine de circuits de différents quartiers de la capitale, de Hull et de la grande région d’Ottawa, à découvrir à pied, à vélo, en voiture ou en patin à roues alignées. Au total, plus de 400 édifices et autres éléments du patrimoine bâti (monuments, parcs, fontaines, jardins et oeuvres d’art public) y seront présentés. Chacun des éléments retenus se démarque en raison de son architecture, de son importance historique ou de sa représentativité de courants sociaux ou architecturaux ou des débats publics qu’ils suscitent. Une liste de destinations supplémentaires y sera également annexée.
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