Sila: Un conte groenlandais sur les changements cimatiques
Tulugaq veut partir à la découverte du monde et il veut aller loin. Ça ne lui suffit plus de juste voler au-dessus du terrain de jeu et autour de la maison d’Asiaq. Et même s’il a toujours vécu au Groenland,...
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Beyond the collaboration
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Beyond the collaboration
How do you tell the story of a friendship? How do you trace the roots of one of the most significant cross-disciplinary unions in fashion today? Artist Sterling Ruby and fashion designer Raf Simons did just that when they sat...
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Sur la projettation : Pour une pragmatique architecturale
Par un travail de lecture et d'étymologie attentive des traités d'architecture, de Vitruve à Vittone, Bruno Queysanne nous révèle un aspect peu connu de ces textes « classiques », dans lesquels les architectes laissent de côté leur rhétorique savante et...
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Stanley Greenberg: Olmsted trees
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Stanley Greenberg: Olmsted trees
Frederick Law Olmsted (1822–1903) is considered the father of landscape architecture in the United States for his creation of several renowned urban parks and park systems around the country. Whether in Central Park in New York, the Emerald Necklace in...
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Inscriptions: Architecture before speech
Inscriptions: Architecture Before Speech presents a theory of contemporary architecture that spans the work of 112 practices in 750 images. Against the popular characterization of contemporary architecture as a centerless field where anything goes and everything is possible, this book argues...
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If walls could speak: My life in architecture
Over more than five decades, legendary architect Moshe Safdie has built some of the world’s most influential and memorable structures—from the 1967 modular housing scheme in Montreal known as “Habitat” and the Yad Vashem memorial in Israel, to the Crystal...
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Spatializing justice: Building blocks
Spatializing Justice calls for architects and urban designers to do more than design buildings and physical systems. Architects should take a position against inequality and practice accordingly. With these thirty short, manifesto-like texts—building blocks for a new kind of architecture—Spatializing Justice offers...
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Planet B: Climate change and the new sublime
Nicolas Bourriaud invites artists from all around the world to question the contemporaneity of the romantic concept of the sublime, at the age of the anthropocene.   The awareness of climate change modified our collective relation to the earth in many...
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Building for change: The architecture of creative reuse
Architects are adapting existing buildings to create new spaces for a more conscious future. The urban fabric changes more slowly than our spatial needs, accelerated by digital technologies and new lifestyles. The trick for canny architects lies in an ingenious...
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Apartamento 30
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Apartamento 30
Featuring: Solange Knowles, Alejandro Gómez Palomo, Kitty Brophy, Mel Ottenberg, Ángela de la Cruz, Channa Daswatte, Levan Koguashvili, Avani & Raghu Rai, Woody De Othello, B+, Clayton Patterson, Yasmine Dubois & Brian Rogers, Jon Gray, Ugo La Pietra, Wilfredo Prieto,...
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Back to the office: 50 revolutionary office buildings
Now that technology has made it possible to work almost anywhere - and since the COVID-19 pandemic forced so many to work from home - we have a conflicted relationship with the office. Desperate to work again in physically shared...
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Lina Bo Bardi: Material ideologies
Lina Bo Bardi is renowned for her boldly modernist designs like the São Paulo Museum of Art and the culture and leisure center SESC Pompéia. An artist, architect, designer, writer, and activist, she was a tireless champion for local craft...
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Deserts are not empty
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Deserts are not empty
Colonial and imperial powers have often portrayed arid lands as “empty” spaces ready to be occupied, exploited, extracted, and polluted. Despite the undeniable presence of human and nonhuman lives and forces in desert territories, the “regime of emptiness” has inhabited,...
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Peter Cook on paper
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Peter Cook on paper
English architect and writer Sir Peter Cook, renowned for his free-thinking spirit translated into architectural lines and shapes, is perhaps most well-known as the co-founder of the avant-garde architectural group Archigram in the 1960s. A selection of his drawings is...
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The office of good intentions. Human(s) Work
In twelve essays, this book examines the spatial typologies and global phenomena that have defined the office in the last half century. Topics include the return of the work club, the rise of the corporate festival, the way of the...
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How to live with objects: A guide to more meaningful interiors
In the modern home, it matters less whether your interior is perfectly appointed and more if it’s authentically personal, unique, and filled with the objects you feel a connection to. Through inspiring home tours and practical advice on how and...
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The curatorial condition
In spite of the heightened interest in the curatorial since the late twentieth century, the structural conditions and potentials underpinning its special sociocultural status have yet to be defined. Taking this as a starting point, in this book, Beatrice von...
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Catalog design progress: Advancing standards in visual communication
A meticulously created facsimile edition of a classic work on design by the progenitor of today's information design. Long before the internet and its vast stores of information in digital form, information in analog form needed to be organized so...
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Vers un art anthropocène : L'art écologique américain pour prototype
Comment un mouvement artistique entièrement consacré à l'écologie et apparu aux États-Unis au cours des années 1960 a-t-il pu passer pratiquement inaperçu jusqu'à aujourd'hui ? Telle est la question au cœur de cet ouvrage qui retrace les conditions d'émergence et...
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Architettura Attenuata
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Architettura Attenuata
Douze dessins architecturaux réalisés par Ettore Sottsass au début des années 2000 et provenant d'une exposition à Milan en 2003. Né en Autriche et installé à Milan, Sottsass a étudié l'architecture au Politecnico di Torino de Turin. Après avoir passé la majeure...
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2G 84: MOS
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2G 84: MOS
This 2G monograph celebrates the craft and ingenuity of MOS, the Harlem-based architecture and design studio founded by Hilary Sample and Michael Meredith in 2005. Recipient of the 2015 Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum National Design Award in Architecture, MOS...
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Tools n° 02 : Le tissage
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Tools n° 02 : Le tissage
À travers un état des lieux historique, des reportages en usine, des décryptages de savoir-faire, et des pièces iconiques, Tools livre une enquête sur le tissage d'hier et d'aujourd'hui, en accordant une grande attention à celles et ceux qui fabriquent...
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Barozzi Veiga
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Barozzi Veiga
This publication on the Barcelona-based architectural firm Barozzi Veiga presents about 30 projects from 2004 to the present - a selection of the most important works developed around the world in places such as Spain, Belgium, Switzerland, China and more. Barozzi...
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Alternative histories
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Alternative histories
Acknowledging that architecture is a corpus of inherited ideas, Alternative Histories began with a question: could a contemporary architect, with their own references, make a model that would respond to a drawing from the past? This book collects the 85...
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Gordon Matta-Clark: An archival sourcebook
Gordon Matta-Clark has never been an easy artist to categorize or to explain. Although trained as an architect, he has been described as a sculptor, a photographer, an organizer of performances, and a writer of manifestos, but he is best...
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Bauhaus : L'idée qui a changé le monde
La première décennie du XXe siècle a été marquée dans toute l'Europe par une forte volonté de changement portée par les jeunes, avec la force et la joie. Dans ce contexte, l'idée du renouvellement prônée par Bauhaus passait par la...
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Avec le dessin
Premier ouvrage consacré au travail de dessin du designer Pierre Charpin, ce livre réunit une sélection de près de 120 œuvres tirées de différentes séries réalisées entre 2005 et 2022. Si le dessin est une discipline artistique, il constitue également...
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Unannounced voices: Curatorial practice and changing institutions
Alternative forms of curatorial and institutional work suitable to our novel conditions, when the relationship between physical and online work must be revised.   In our current era of global pandemic and violent political upheaval, the question must be asked:...
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The City, The Island
Alice Pedroletti has been investigating several thematics parts of her practice and long ongoing research: islands, boats, archives, cartography, architecture, writing. This publication is a collection of contents and hints, from graphic design to sculpture, from editorial projects to database...
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Sasha Maslov: Ukrainian railroad ladies
Ukrainian Railroad Ladies is a series of portraits of traffic controllers and safety officers at railroads of Ukraine. This project is also an exploration of why these professions still exist in the 21st century, given the almost entire automatization of...
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Album Architectures, Abidjan
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Album Architectures, Abidjan
This is not an architecture book but a photography book on an architecture that expresses itself through diversity. It is a book that intends to offer a photographic view of buildings in Abidjan that bear the imprint of a certain...
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Satoshi Tsuchiyama: Heat of sand
After living for several years in the chaos of influences that is New York, the visual artist Satoshi Tsuchiyama realized that it is Israel that is the world’s hub for contemporary dance. His experiences of working with both dance and...
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Atlas des Régions Naturelles, Volume 3
Avec ce troisième volet de l’Atlas des Régions Naturelles, Eric Tabuchi et Nelly Monnier poursuivent leur projet au long cours engagé en 2017 : la documentation globale des 450 régions naturelles – ou « pays » – qui composent le...
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Graphic design is (…) not innocent
This volume questions ingrained approaches, values and assumptions of graphic design in globalized societies. It aims to initiate a dialogue between designers, scholars, critics and commissioners, who investigate responsibilities, potentials, politics, limits and risks of designing visual communication. How innocent...
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Marble in metamorphosis
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Marble in metamorphosis
Marble in Metamorphosis contemplates the physical and cultural life of marble. It explores the ethics, politics and symbolism of its use and deliberates over the spirit of the material and why some cultures so revere and desire it. In reflecting on...
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Decolonize museums
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Decolonize museums
The idealized Western museum, as typified by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the British Museum, and the Museum of Natural History, has remained much the same for over a century: a rarified space of cool stone, providing an experience of...
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Solar Futures: How to design a post-fossil world with the sun
This publication by solar designer Marjan van Aubel explores the future of solar energy. Solar energy needs a new narrative - one that says goodbye to old perspectives and only talks about the efficiency and the payback time of blue solar...
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Nueva Vivienda: New housing paradigms in Mexico
In the period following World War II, eminent Mexican architects such as Juan O'Gorman and Luis Barragán pioneered the adaptation of an international narrative in housing design to their own cultural environment. Seven decades on, Mexican architecture, and housing design...
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Le Jardin aux habitant·es
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Le Jardin aux habitant·es
Créé en 2002, à l'ouverture du Palais de Tokyo, le Jardin aux habitant·es est une oeuvre de l'artiste Robert Milin réalisée en collaboration avec des jardinier·es amateur·rices. Depuis vingt ans, ce processus au long cours de transaformations mutuelles est l'une...
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Voyages en Sardaigne : Nelle miniere di Iglesias / Into the Mines of Iglesias
Voyages en Sardaigne is a collection of unconventional thematic guides on the island in the middle of the Mediterranean. Nelle miniere di Iglesias / Into the Mines of Iglesias is the first part of an exploration that focuses on soil, excavations, incisions, mutations,...
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Richard Mosse: Broken spectre
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Richard Mosse: Broken spectre
Devastation in the Amazon rainforest and the climate change it triggers tend to unfold in ways that are too vast to comprehend, too minute to perceive, and too normalised to see. In an attempt to render the scale and urgency...
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Pathways of art: How objects get to the museum
Non-European artworks in European and American museums have become the subject of controversial debate. How exactly these collections of art from Africa, North and South America, Asia, and Oceania have been amassed in the global North over centuries, and how...
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Making matters: A vocabulary for collective arts
Collective action often changes the artist’s identity and working habits: from individuality and autonomy to collectivity and collaboration, both locally and globally. This has given rise to new kinds of collective art and design practices: artists work together with nonartists,...
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The past exists
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The past exists
The past exists is a collection of works presented at Kenta Cobayashi’s solo exhibition at Mitsukoshi Contemporary Gallery in June 2022. In this exhibition, he selected portraits from Everything series of photographs.   Cobayashi describes the past as a kind of frame...
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Real Review 13
All times appear equally and at once. The past no longer recedes in an orderly way, but threatens to resurface at any moment in the guise of the contemporary. Nostalgia cycles are getting faster. Old material artefacts return as integral...
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Make do with now: New directions in Japanese architecture
Make Do With Now presents a new perspective on Japanese architecture by introducing a young generation of architects and designers. Influenced by the Tohoku earthquake and Fukushima nuclear disaster of 2011, they share the desire for a sincere engagement with...
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The architecture of disability: Buildings, cities, and landscapes beyond access
Disability critiques of architecture usually emphasize the need for modification and increased access, but The Architecture of Disability calls for a radical reorientation of this perspective by situating experiences of impairment as a new foundation for the built environment. With...
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Observation is a constant that underlies all approaches
In this collection of Phyllis Lambert’s personal photographs taken over several decades during her daily routines, her travels, or at work, observation turns into a quest to understand and reveal what might otherwise remain overlooked.   “Many persuasive reasons to...
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Episodes: Powerhouse Company
With 18 projects ranging from a chair to high-rise buildings, this book offers a cross section of the recent work of Powerhouse Company, which is based in Rotterdam, Munich, and Oslo.These projects are episodes in the success story of an...
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Designing modernity: Architecture in the Arab world 1945-1973
Designing Modernity: Architecture in the Arab World 1945-1973 is the result of a fascinating investigation by international experts into the influences of modernist architecture in the Arab world. Nine case studies provide the foundation for a thorough exploration of the...
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