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'Authorship' critically examines emergent themes in contemporary architecture by revisiting the seemingly defunct notion of design authorship. As we revel in the death of the master architect, how do we come to terms with the shifting role of creativity in architecture’s cultural production? In 'Authorship', a cross-disciplinary group of designers and scholars explores(...)
Authorship. Discourse, a series on architecture
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'Authorship' critically examines emergent themes in contemporary architecture by revisiting the seemingly defunct notion of design authorship. As we revel in the death of the master architect, how do we come to terms with the shifting role of creativity in architecture’s cultural production? In 'Authorship', a cross-disciplinary group of designers and scholars explores this topic through a myriad of lenses.
Théorie de l’architecture
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The Marxist-Leninist Enver Hoxha ruled Albania with an iron fist from 1945 until his death in 1985. He is credited with the construction of 750,000 bunkers which still dot the Albanian landscape today. The most important question for the future of these bunkers is : will these hollow concrete mushrooms, looming across the lanscape like giant tortoises, ever be used?
Concrete mushrooms: reusing Albania's 750,000 abandoned bunkers
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The Marxist-Leninist Enver Hoxha ruled Albania with an iron fist from 1945 until his death in 1985. He is credited with the construction of 750,000 bunkers which still dot the Albanian landscape today. The most important question for the future of these bunkers is : will these hollow concrete mushrooms, looming across the lanscape like giant tortoises, ever be used?
Architecture expérimentale
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''Architectural Drawings'' casts light on the magnificent architectural drawings of neo-classical architect, teacher and collector, Sir John Soane that are otherwise concealed in archives. This book, featuring artworks handpicked from what was probably the first comprehensive collection of architectural drawings in the world, numbering 30,000 at the time of his death in(...)
Architectural drawings: Hidden masterpieces From Sir John Soane's museum
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''Architectural Drawings'' casts light on the magnificent architectural drawings of neo-classical architect, teacher and collector, Sir John Soane that are otherwise concealed in archives. This book, featuring artworks handpicked from what was probably the first comprehensive collection of architectural drawings in the world, numbering 30,000 at the time of his death in 1837, celebrates a life spent procuring curiosities.
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Zaha Hadid
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Discover the audacious futurism of Zaha Hadid. As the first woman to win both the Pritzker Prize for architecture and the RIBA Royal Gold Medal, Hadid broke the rules and re-defined the game, despite some saying her designs were unbuildable. At the time of her unexpected death in 2016, she was firmly established as the first great architect of the noughties.
Zaha Hadid
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Discover the audacious futurism of Zaha Hadid. As the first woman to win both the Pritzker Prize for architecture and the RIBA Royal Gold Medal, Hadid broke the rules and re-defined the game, despite some saying her designs were unbuildable. At the time of her unexpected death in 2016, she was firmly established as the first great architect of the noughties.
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An intellectual event, Derrida and the Time of the Political marks the first time since Jacques Derrida’s death in 2004 that leading scholars have come together to critically assess the philosopher’s political and ethical writings. Skepticism about the import of deconstruction for political thought has been widespread among American critics since Derrida’s work became(...)
Théorie/ philosophie
janvier 2009, Durham, London
Derrida and the time of the political
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An intellectual event, Derrida and the Time of the Political marks the first time since Jacques Derrida’s death in 2004 that leading scholars have come together to critically assess the philosopher’s political and ethical writings. Skepticism about the import of deconstruction for political thought has been widespread among American critics since Derrida’s work became widely available in English in the late 1970s.
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The contributors analyze how in specific cultural and and historical contexts, the camera has affected experiences of time and subjectivity, practices of ritual and tradition, and understandings of death. Taken together, the essays chart a bravely interdisciplinary path to visual studies, one that places the particular knowledge of a historicized anthropology in a(...)
Théorie de la photographie
avril 2009, Durham/London
Photographies East: the camera and its histories in East and Southeast Asia
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The contributors analyze how in specific cultural and and historical contexts, the camera has affected experiences of time and subjectivity, practices of ritual and tradition, and understandings of death. Taken together, the essays chart a bravely interdisciplinary path to visual studies, one that places the particular knowledge of a historicized anthropology in a comparative frame in conversation with aesthetics and history.
Théorie de la photographie
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Amherst, Massachusetts : Library of American Landscape History ; Athens, Georgia : University of Georgia Press, [2017], ©2017
Warren H. Manning, landscape architect and environmental planner / edited by Robin Karson, Jane Roy Brown, and Sarah Allaback.
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Amherst, Massachusetts : Library of American Landscape History ; Athens, Georgia : University of Georgia Press, [2017], ©2017
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Theorist Sanford Kwinter addresses the sometimes subtle, sometimes brutal transformations that characterized the modernization processes set into motion at the turn of the millennium. The City is here seen not only as the last frontier of human history currently under threat of total eclipse, it is the indomitable form of collective experience upon which one can count as(...)
Requiem: For the city at the end of the millenium
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Theorist Sanford Kwinter addresses the sometimes subtle, sometimes brutal transformations that characterized the modernization processes set into motion at the turn of the millennium. The City is here seen not only as the last frontier of human history currently under threat of total eclipse, it is the indomitable form of collective experience upon which one can count as assuredly as one can on death and taxes.
Théorie de l’urbanisme
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In 1992, Enric Miralles founded this architectural firm with his wife Benedetta Tagliabue. Together, they have designed several award-winning buildings in cities throughout Europe. From 1978, Miralles held various teaching positions in Barcelona. In addition to her role as partner in EMBT, Benedetta Tagliabue has lectured and taught courses at architectural schools(...)
Enric Miralles - Benedetta Tagliabue : EMBT arquitectes
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In 1992, Enric Miralles founded this architectural firm with his wife Benedetta Tagliabue. Together, they have designed several award-winning buildings in cities throughout Europe. From 1978, Miralles held various teaching positions in Barcelona. In addition to her role as partner in EMBT, Benedetta Tagliabue has lectured and taught courses at architectural schools worldwide. Since Miralles's death in 2000, she has headed the firm.
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This book collects essays and lectures by Georges Bataille spanning thirty years of research in anthropology, comparative religion, aesthetics, and philosophy. These were neither idle nor idyllic years; the discovery of Lascaux in 1940 coincides with the bloodiest war in history — with new machines of death, Auschwitz, and Hiroshima. Bataille’s reflections on the possible(...)
The cradle of humanity : prehistoric art and culture
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This book collects essays and lectures by Georges Bataille spanning thirty years of research in anthropology, comparative religion, aesthetics, and philosophy. These were neither idle nor idyllic years; the discovery of Lascaux in 1940 coincides with the bloodiest war in history — with new machines of death, Auschwitz, and Hiroshima. Bataille’s reflections on the possible origins of humanity coincide with the intensified threat of its possible extinction.
Théorie de l’art