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The Archipelago conversations
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The Archipelago conversations
A revival of the Renaissance genre of the same name, isolarii (meaning 'island texts') is a very small publication; each issue of which focuses on a different, stand-alone theme or idea. The sixth edition is titled The Archipelago Conversations and...
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The carrier bag theory of fiction. 2nd edition
In The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction, visionary author Ursula K. Le Guin retells the story of human origin by redefining technology as a cultural carrier bag rather than a weapon of domination. This influential essay opens a portal to...
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Philosophy of the home: Domestic space and happiness
A bedroom, a kitchen, a bathroom - are these rooms all that make a home? Not at all, argues Emanuele Coccia. The buildings we inhabit are of immense psychological and cultural significance. They play a decisive role in human flourishing...
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Seeing <—> Making: Room for thought
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Seeing <—> Making: Room for thought
Philosopher Susan Buck-Morss collaborates with Kevin McCaughey of Boot Boyz Biz and Adam Michaels of Inventory Press on this experimental image-text renewal of McLuhan, Berger and Benjamin. Seeing <―> Making: Room for Thought both studies and presents the creative process...
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The anthropocene style: Manifestes 6
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The anthropocene style: Manifestes 6
This manifesto, at the interface of architecture, aesthetics and engineering, calls for a return to the practical uses of interior decoration that were widespread before the 20th century. In the wake of fossil fuel–driven modernity, the efficiency of heating and...
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Aeropolis: Queering air in toxicpolluted worlds
How do we get to know air? Aeropolis: Queering Air in Toxicpolluted Worlds offers a speculative and interdisciplinary framework to reorient common understandings of air and air pollution as matter “out there.” Aeropolis contests regimes of managing air which ultimately...
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Slow disturbance: infrastructural mediation on the settler colonial resource frontier
From the late nineteenth through most of the twentieth century, the evangelical Protestant Grenfell Mission in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, created a network of hospitals, schools, orphanages, stores, and industries with the goal of bringing health and organized society to...
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Landscape with(out) Locus: Negotiating images vol. 2
How do we understand landscape today? How do we discuss and visualize nature? Can they be conceived and represented as something existing independently of the viewer, now that the human race has gotten into a very last corner of the...
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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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Concrete and ink: Storytelling and the future of architecture
What role does storytelling play in urban imaginaries? How do these imaginaries converge or diverge from reality? Can we use stories to test ideas for future architecture? This volume brings together commissioned writing in fiction and nonfiction, graphic stories, illustrations...
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Preservation, sustainability and equity
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Preservation, sustainability and equity
Heritage occupies a privileged position within the built environment. Most municipalities in the United States, and nearly all countries around the world, have laws and policies to preserve heritage in situ, seeking to protect places from physical loss and the...
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Leafy house plants
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Leafy house plants
The cultivation of house plants does not always prove to be easy. With many plants there are special peculiarities that should be considered. In 1899, the German botanist Udo Dammer wrote down his knowledge of the ins and outs of...
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Kind of boring: Canonical work and other visible things meant to be viewed as architecture
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Kind of boring: Canonical work and other visible things meant to be viewed as architecture
Being boring (or boringness) has been one of the qualities of architecture an architect desperately tries to avoid. Not to provoke (or at least try to provoke) some reaction from one’s audience is to admit to a lack of ideas...
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Paths to prison: on the architecture of carcerality
As Angela Y. Davis has proposed, the "path to prison," which so disproportionately affects communities of color, is most acutely guided by the conditions of daily life. Architecture, then, as fundamental to shaping these conditions of civil existence, must be...
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The language of secret proof: Indigenous truth and representation. Critical spatial practice 10
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The language of secret proof: Indigenous truth and representation. Critical spatial practice 10
The Language of Secret Proof challenges the conditions under which Indigenous rights to protect and regain traditional lands are currently negotiated in United States legal frameworks. This tenth volume in the Critical Spatial Practice series responds to the urgent need for...
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Architects after architecture: alternative pathways for practice
What can you do with a degree in architecture? Where might it take you? What kind of challenges could you address? Architects After Architecture reframes architecture as a uniquely versatile way of acting on the world, far beyond that of...
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Vitruve hors texte : Biographie d'un livre
Pour les architectes, le traité de Vitruve, écrit au Ier siècle av. J.C., fait figure de livre saint, aussi fondateur que mystérieux. A rebours de l'exégèse sans fin dont il a fait l'objet depuis sa redécouverte à la Renaissance, André...
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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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Art after liberalism
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Art after liberalism
Art after Liberalism is an account of creative practice at a moment of converging social crises. It is also an inquiry into emergent ways of living, acting, and making art in the company of others. The apparent failures of liberal thinking...
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Mapping Malcolm
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Mapping Malcolm
“For Harlem is where he worked and where he struggled and fought—his home of homes, where his heart was, and where his people are.” Nearly sixty years since the martyrdom of Malcolm X, these words from Ossie Davis’s eulogy remind...
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Why I do what I do: Twenty global curators speak
For this fourth volume of the series Thoughts on Curating, twenty renowned curators and collectives from across the globe write about a single exhibition or curatorial project they created that transformed their thinking and the way they have curated ever...
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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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Expanded Nature : Écologies du cinéma expérimental
Si les cinéastes expérimentaux « élargissent » le champ artistique par une exploration des puissances, des modes de diffusion ou même de performance de l'image animée, à l'ère de l'Anthropocène, ces pratiques contiennent l'espoir d'une toute autre expansion : élargir...
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Exhibiting the moving image
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Exhibiting the moving image
Since the 1990s, a "cinematographic turn" has taken place in contemporary art, paralleled by the emergence of a "cinema of exhibition." This collection of new essays investigates the relationships between the "white cube" and the "black box," focusing mainly on...
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Ecstatic Worlds: Media, utopies, ecologies
Postwar artists and architects have used photography, film, and other media to imagine and record the world as a wonder of collaborative entanglement—to translate the world for the world. In this book, Janine Marchessault examines a series of utopian media...
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Pensées décoloniales : Une introduction aux théories critiques d'Amérique latine
La théorie décoloniale constitue l'un des discours phares de notre temps. Loin des imprécisions dont elle fait souvent l'objet, cet ouvrage, première synthèse en français sur son origine latino-américaine, offre une généalogie et une cartographie d'un continent de pensée méconnu...
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Archipelagic effects
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Archipelagic effects
Archipelagic Affects explores how art residencies nurture effective spaces to study the tangible and intangible cultural, historical, and geopolitical connections between different island countries. Conceived by Yornel J. Martínez Elías, researcher Emily Shin-Jie Lee, and in collaboration with Taiwanese novelist...
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Pommes de terre contre gratte-ciel : Critique de l'écologie politique
Plus la crise écologique s'aggrave, plus l'écologie devient une idéologie dominante. Elle nous promet un monde "décarboné" grâce au tout-électrique, au tout-numérique et au "nucléaire vert". Mais capitalisme et écologie sont incompatibles. Le capitalisme repose sur l'exploitation de prolétaires dans...
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Inventer l'école, penser la co-création
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Inventer l'école, penser la co-création
Une publication de l'artiste et enseignante-chercheuse Marie Preston sur les pédagogies alternatives développées en France durant les années 1970-1990 dans des écoles « ouvertes » travaillant la question des rapports entre co-création et coéducation (nouvelle édition augmentée). Les équipes...
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Archithese reader: Critical positions in search of postmodernity 1971-1976
This publication presents a selection of ground-breaking contributions, grouped thematically in a new way, which originally appeared in the journal archithese, accompanied by critical essays by contemporary authors. Located in its specific context – the heterogeneous and turbulent landscape...
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Feminist city: a field guide
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Feminist city: a field guide
Leslie Kern wants your city to be feminist. An intrepid feminist geographer, Kern combines memoir, theory, pop culture, and geography in this collection of essays that invites the reader to think differently about city spaces and city life. From the...
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De l'eau jusqu'au nombril
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De l'eau jusqu'au nombril
De 1973 à 1978, le groupe d’architectes, artistes et designers Ant Farm, composé d’une dizaine de membres, a travaillé à la conception d’une plateforme marine destinée à communiquer avec les dauphins. Il ne s’agissait pas seulement de les observer mais...
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The monster Leviathan: Anarchitecture
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The monster Leviathan: Anarchitecture
Lurking under the surface of our modern world lies an unseen architecture—or anarchitecture. It is a possible architecture, an analogous architecture, an architecture of anarchy, which haunts in the form of monsters that are humans and machines and cities all...
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Cone wars
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Cone wars
Who would have thought that a simple cone-shaped marker could have such a rich and mysterious history? These seemingly ordinary objects, known by various names such as road cones, safety cones, or construction cones, hold secrets waiting to be unravelled....
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Architecture and abstraction
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Architecture and abstraction
A landmark study of abstraction in architectural history, theory, and practice that challenges our assumptions about the meaning of abstract forms. Pier Vittorio Aureli argues for a reconsideration of abstraction, its meanings, and its sources. Although architects have typically interpreted...
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Smooth city: Against urban perfection, towards collective alternatives
How urban paradigms of efficiency, sanitization and surveillance transform city life into seamless "experience" and erode the non-normative. In cities across the world, a new urban condition is spreading rapidly: an ever-increasing push toward efficiency, sanitization, surveillance and the...
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Island zombie: Iceland writings
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Island zombie: Iceland writings
"I’m often asked, but have no idea why I chose Iceland, why I first started going, why I still go. In truth I believe Iceland chose me." Artist Roni Horn first visited Iceland in 1975 at the age of nineteen,...
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Des voix s'élèvent : Féminismes et architecture
Sélectionnée et introduite par la chercheuse et militante Stéphanie Dadour, la présente anthologie propose la traduction d'une douzaine de textes représentatifs de l'engagement théorique et professionnel de plusieurs générations de féministes. Ces écrits émanant principalement de la scène anglo-américaine de...
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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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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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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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Everyday matters: Contemporary approaches to architecture
Many architects are seeking ways to respond to a world that suffers from overbuilding, yet where millions remain homeless and lack rudimentary infrastructure. Beyond the built form, these practitioners are expanding their focus to quotidian objects, basic resources, issues of race...
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The Extreme Self
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The Extreme Self
If you’re wondering why the inside of your head feels so strange these days, this book has the answers. The Extreme Self is a new kind of graphic novel that shows how you’ve been morphing into something else. It’s about the...
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Making space: Women and the manmade environment
Making space is a pioneering work first published in 1984 which challenges us to look at how the built environment impacts on women’s lives. It exposes the sexist assumptions on gender and sexuality that have a fundamental impact on the...
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Slow spatial reader: Chronicles of radical affection
Slow Spatial Reader offers a collection of essays about ‘Slow’ approaches to spatial practice and pedagogy from around the world. The book’s contributors are from twenty-four countries on five continents. Each one brings distinct philosophical and disciplinary approaches—from ‘spatial’ fields...
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Formulations: Architecture, mathematics, and culture
In Formulations, Andrew Witt examines the visual, methodological, and cultural intersections between architecture and mathematics. The linkages Witt explores involve not the mystic transcendence of numbers invoked throughout architectural history, but rather architecture’s encounters with a range of calculational systems—techniques...
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Governing by debt
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Governing by debt
Experts, pundits, and politicians agree: public debt is hindering growth and increasing unemployment. Governments must reduce debt at all cost if they want to restore confidence and get back on a path to prosperity. Maurizio Lazzarato’s diagnosis, however, is completely...
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Écrits naturels
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Écrits naturels
À la recherche du temps perdu de Marcel Proust a rendu internationalement célèbre le nom de Ruskin. Mais l’image ainsi donnée de son œuvre est biaisée, car John Ruskin (1819-1900) n’était pas qu’un spécialiste de Turner ou de l’architecture gothique....
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