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Real Review 13
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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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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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Log 52, Summer 2021
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Log 52, Summer 2021
Through essays, conversations, and reviews, the architects, artists, journalists, and theorists gathered in Log 52 interrogate architecture’s role in a world of social, virological, environmental, and paradigmatic change. As David Adjaye says in a conversation with curator Thelma Golden and...
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Liberté n.332 : Nous vieillirons ensemble. Quelle place pour la vieillesse dans notre société ?
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Liberté n.332 : Nous vieillirons ensemble. Quelle place pour la vieillesse dans notre société ?
Ce numéro est né à la fois d’un hasard et d’une évidence. Le hasard, d’abord: au plus creux du confinement de l’hiver 2021, deux collaborateurs nous ont proposé, coup sur coup et sans se consulter, des textes portant sur les...
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MOS Casa no. 1-17
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MOS Casa no. 1-17
This volume presents seventeen houses designed by the New York studio MOS Architects. "It is an article of faith for MOS that the house is like a small city. MOS think urbanistically through the architectural scale, insisting that even the...
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The Museum Is Not Enough
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The Museum Is Not Enough
The Museum Is Not Enough is the result of collective reflections on architecture, contemporary social concerns, institutions, and the public undertaken by the CCA in recent years. Building on years of thematic investigations and of a continued questioning of the role...
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Corpus Sanum in Domo Sano: The Architecture of the Domestic Sanitation Movement, 1870–1914
This publication is based on a collection of suppliers’ catalogues, manuals, journals, and public-policy documents that relate to planning and the building trades. These records are used here to help reconstruct the movement toward domestic sanitation, one of the driving...
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Eadweard Muybridge and the Photographic Panorama of San Francisco, 1850–1880
This publication situates the panorama of Eadweard Muybridge (1830–1904) in the context of his working methods and in the larger context of the representation of cities, concentrating on one period of a single mode of representation, an astonishing achievement in...
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Richard Henriquez: Memory Theatre
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Richard Henriquez: Memory Theatre
This publication is intended not as a literal inventory of the Vancouver-based Canadian architect Richard Henriquez’s built work, but as a compendium of objects and ideas that provide insight into the architect’s strategies. Memory Theatre also includes illustrations of Henriquez’s...
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Cities of Artificial Excavation: The Work of Peter Eisenman, 1978–1988
The publication presents four of American architect Peter Eisenman’s representative works that investigate his theoretical exploration of the nature of “site”, and how it informed his proposals, his built work, and his ongoing criticism of the discipline of architecture.Edited by...
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Frank Lloyd Wright: Designs for an American Landscape, 1922–1932
In 1922, when Frank Lloyd Wright returned permanently to the United States, he chose not to refine and simplify the course and cause of his earlier work, but rather to reinvent himself—in new territory, for new clients, in projects of...
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Architectural Installations: 5 Québec Architects at the CCA
Produced in conjunction with Le Printemps du Québec en France, this publication offers a retrospective of positions adopted by the five Québec architects invited by the CCA and guest curator Randy Cohen to create installations presenting their work in the...
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En chantier: The Collections of the CCA, 1989–1999
The collections of the CCA embrace such diverse objects as books, photographs, and engravings; maps and plans; architectural records, drawings, and sketchbooks; manuscripts; commercial product catalogues; personal correspondence, journals, and archives; ephemera; and even toys. En chantier marks a second...
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Tangente : Alain Paiement
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Tangente : Alain Paiement
Tangent(e): Alain Paiement juxtaposes the work of the Quebec artist Alain Paiement with photographs drawn from the CCA collection: images of interiors and exteriors, thresholds, spaces under construction, ranging from the beginnings of photography to the present day.Hubertus von Amelunxen...
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Architecture follows fish: An amphibious history of the North Atlantic
Architecture Follows Fish is set in the North Atlantic, and its protagonist is fish. In this book author and architect André Tavares explores the notion of fishing architecture, a concept coined to describe architectural practices that are spawned by fisheries....
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ARN Vol. 5. Atlas des régions naturelles
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ARN Vol. 5. Atlas des régions naturelles
Avec ce cinquième 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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Democracy and urban form
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Democracy and urban form
“Never have the potential political consequences of architecture been greater, and never has the political sensibility of architecture been less.”This was the state of the discipline that social theorist and urban thinker Richard Sennett declared when he addressed an audience...
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LaToya Ruby Frazier: The notion of family
LaToya Ruby Frazier’s award-winning first book, The Notion of Family, offers an incisive exploration of the legacy of racism and economic decline in America’s small towns, as embodied by her hometown of Braddock, Pennsylvania. The work also considers the impact...
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Roni Horn: Herdubreid at home
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Roni Horn: Herdubreid at home
"Iceland is really the center of action for me," Roni Horn has said. "Since I grew up in New York people think I'm escaping from all its lunacy. Not at all. When I go to Iceland that's where I get...
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Listen to lists: DNA #2
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Listen to lists: DNA #2
How the playlist has colonized our listening habits. Today, the playlist structures how people listen, as well as how companies collect their data. This volume examines how the playlist has spawned new categories, aesthetic tendencies and behaviors. With texts...
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Echo: DNA #4
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Echo: DNA #4
How are today's technologies encoded with the beliefs of the past? Drawing on Louis Chude-Sokei's political and technopoetic writings, this volume shows how past ideas have produced the technologies and lifestyles of the world today—for example, how AI today contains...
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DNA #6: Carrier bag fiction
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DNA #6: Carrier bag fiction
Ursula K. Le Guin’s 1986 essay “The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction” presents a feminist story of technology centering on the collective sustenance of life, and reimagines the carrier bag as a tool for telling strangely realistic fictions. Here, new...
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Re-envisioning bodies: DNA #10
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Re-envisioning bodies: DNA #10
New paradigms of the body and its histories. This volume calls for a new visibility of non-normative bodies, moving away from enforced categorizations and toward respect and care. Essays touch on everything from The Matrix to migration, from wedding...
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Evidence ensembles: DNA #24
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Evidence ensembles: DNA #24
Tracing the transition from the Holocene to the Anthropocene through a geological analysis of deep time on earth This book examines ways in which the physical archives of the Anthropocene can be made legible. Scientists, researchers and artists grapple...
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Proto-Habitat
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Proto-Habitat
One timber prefab building turns into a litany of conversations, research and essays on responsible yet habitable environments. The Proto-Habitat is both a theoretical and practical (built) experiment to explore ways of dwelling that are closer to contemporary lifestyles, and to...
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Complexity and contradiction in architecture
First published in 1966, and since translated into 16 languages, this remarkable book has become an essential document of architectural literature. A "gentle manifesto for a nonstraightforward architecture," Venturi’s Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture expresses in the most compelling and...
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Takashi Homma: Real estate opportunities
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Takashi Homma: Real estate opportunities
Real Estate Opportunities continues Japanese photographer Takashi Homma’s homage series to the influential American artist Ed Ruscha. Ruscha’s original 'Real Estate Opportunities' series was published in 1970 and featured photographs of empty building lots for sale in Los Angeles. For...
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Questions on Dwelling, Discourse 01: What it takes to make a home
The documentary film "What It Takes to Make A Home" (2020, conceived by Giovanna Borasi of the CCA and directed by Daniel Schwartz) follows a conversation between two architects whose work addresses homelessness. Michael Maltzan in Los Angeles and Alexander...
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The Architecture of Urbanity: Designing for nature, culture, and joy
The world is facing unprecedented challenges, from climate change and population growth, to political division and technological dislocation, to declining mental health and fraying cultural fabric. With most of the planet’s population now living in urban environments, cities are the...
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Paul Graham: Verdigis / Ambergris
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Paul Graham: Verdigis / Ambergris
Verdigris / Ambergris completes a twelve-year suite of works by Paul Graham focused on life’s transience and our mortality. This pair of sibling books is centered on people scanning the infinite horizon as they look out over land (Verdigris) and...
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Jessica Backhaus: Plein soleil
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Jessica Backhaus: Plein soleil
Following her series from A Trilogy (2017), Jessica Backhaus embarked on a transformative exploration, shedding the constraints of traditional photography for the depths of abstraction. Cut Outs (2021) marked a breakthrough into a new creative phase with its innovative abstraction....
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Adriano Olivetti : Écrits et discours
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Adriano Olivetti : Écrits et discours
Ce recueil vise à faire découvrir la figure d'Adriano Olivetti, un entrepreneur-intellectuel qui, à travers son usine de machines à écrire, a œuvré pour un renouveau de la société et de la culture italiennes après la Seconde Guerre mondiale. L'architecture...
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Building BAST
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Building BAST
Building BAST dresse le portrait de BAST, Bureau Architectures Sans Titre, à travers 20 questions identiques posées à 20 personnes parmi les client.es, prestataires, ou collaborateur.rices de l’agence toulousaine. Au fil des réponses, émerge l’approche singulière d’une pratique architecturale attentive à son...
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The Social dimension of social housing
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The Social dimension of social housing
Housing has become a key concern in most parts of today’s world, putting social housing again at the centre of public debate. However, it is not clear what the “social” in social housing actually means. This book sets out to...
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Thomas Locke Hobbs: L.A. Vedute
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Thomas Locke Hobbs: L.A. Vedute
The lines that divide us are the spaces we share. Driveways, paths, entrances and walls. These are the boundaries that separate our homes, but also the in between areas we use and cross over. L.A. Vedute by Thomas Locke...
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Unsettling educational modernism: Simon Fraser University
The iconic architecture of the brutalist modernist megastructure of Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada built by architect Arthur Erickson in the 1960s is the site of the artistic research project into the history of this “radical campus” and its...
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PIN-UP 36: Under Construction
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PIN-UP 36: Under Construction
Few things are more mind-bending than the process of building. During those messy stages of construction, every wall, column, and floor is anticipated as a step toward completion. But what if the job is never finished? In a world where...
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Arranging things: A rhetoric of object placement
‘Most arrangements are little noticed, yet some stop you in your tracks.’ Originally published in 2003, Leonard Koren’s highly sought-after Arranging Things: A Rhetoric of Object Placement utilises the language of rhetoric to portray visual arrangement as a ‘communicational act:...
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El Croquis 225: Macias Peredo
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El Croquis 225: Macias Peredo
The architects of Studio Macías Peredo, based in Guadalajara and led by Salvador Macías Corona, Magui Peredo Arenas, and Diego Quirarte Contreras, believe that the act of designing is inseparable from the act of remembering. Architecture is a living testimony...
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El Croquis 224: Cristian Kerez
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El Croquis 224: Cristian Kerez
This monographic issue examines a decade of recent work by acclaimed Swiss architect Christian Kerez. Presented are eighteen projects distributed around the globe, including the China Academy of Arts, Office Building Lyon Confluence, Textile Museum St. Gallen, high-rises in the...
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forA on the urban, Issue #1: Eleven frictions from an urbanized world
The first issue of the interdisciplinary periodical forA on the Urban explores the open, multilayered, interconnected, complex, and unbridled nature of urban design. Through eleven contributions from eighteen international experts on architecture, art, social criticism, and activism, this issue illuminates specific realities...
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Agonistic assemblies: On the spatial politics of horizontality
A call for a revised form of spatial politics. This anthology presents work on cultures of assembly. It stresses the relevance of small-scale and decentralized spatial formats of local knowledge production to community building and embedded political decision-making in the context...
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Plan L**** 207 : Étonner la catastrophe
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Plan L**** 207 : Étonner la catastrophe
« Tenter, braver, persister, persévérer, être fidèle à soi-même, prendre corps à corps le destin, étonner la catastrophe par le peu de peur qu’elle nous fait, tantôt affronter la puissance injuste, tantôt insulter la victoire ivre, tenir bon, tenir tête...
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Errant Journal #6 : Debt
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Errant Journal #6 : Debt
Errant Journal No. 6 takes up the topic of debt in order to challenge the idea that it is something rational, natural or inevitable. The contributions in the issue address the ways in which debt and its language hold power...
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Brutalist Paris
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Brutalist Paris
Brutalist Paris is the result of many journeys, from the Parisian centre to its outer peripheries, and situates Brutalism within the broader social, political and cultural context of Paris, including its appearance in film and television. It describes Brutalism’s successes...
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Manual of biogenic house sections
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Manual of biogenic house sections
Organized by those materials (wood, bamboo, straw, hemp, cork, earth, brick, stone and re-use), and incorporating life cycle diagrams demonstrating how the raw material is processed into building components, the book shows how the unique properties of each material can...
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Field notes on scarcity. Sharjah Architecture Triennial 2023
The scarcity of resources in all forms is commonly portrayed in a negative light. Yet these conditions—which have long been a reality in many extreme climate conditions across the global South and are increasingly becoming a global reality—often stimulate an...
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Architecture Simple : La Villa Baizeau à Carthage de Le Corbusier et Jeanneret
Les questions sociales, économiques, constructives, environnementales et climatiques qui, au début du XXIe siècle, ont remis en question les fondements du projet d'architecture, constituent l'arrière-plan théorique des événements consacrés à la villa que Le Corbusier et Pierre Jeanneret ont construite...
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Coco Capitan: Casa Dali
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Coco Capitan: Casa Dali
Casa Dalí opens up Salvador Dalí’s home on the shores of Spain’s Costa Brava, with photos by Coco Capitán offering a rare glimpse of the artist’s surreal house and workshop. Purchased by Dalí in the early 1930s, the house served as the artist’s primary residence...
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Karel Martens Calendar 2024, Everyday is a new day
A tear-off calendar for 2024 by Dutch graphic designer Karel Martens. For each day of the year, Martens has created a unique arrangement, originally constructed using his signature method of printing letterpress monoprints from found metal forms, and then digitized...
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