books
$71.95
(available to order)
Summary:
Crossover is the very first publication by the Delft School of Design (DSD), a laboratory for research and experimentation in architecture, urbanism and technologies of construction at the TU Delft. Its investigations cover a wide variety of subjects, from theoretical considerations and historical studies to urban and architectural practices and contemporary structural(...)
Architectural Theory
December 2006, Rotterdam
Crossover : architecture, urbanism, technology
Actions:
Price:
$71.95
(available to order)
Summary:
Crossover is the very first publication by the Delft School of Design (DSD), a laboratory for research and experimentation in architecture, urbanism and technologies of construction at the TU Delft. Its investigations cover a wide variety of subjects, from theoretical considerations and historical studies to urban and architectural practices and contemporary structural design. What they all have in common is the emerging condition of architectural and urban knowledge in both the academic context and professional practice. Since its inception in 2003, the DSD has developed a strategy or field of inquiry for mapping new means of approaching the complexity of the contemporary urban and architectural conditions. Traditional approaches are seen to be increasingly inadequate in the face of this complexity. This is in part due to the nature of the information age. Yet, on the other hand, new technologies offer us the challenge and the potential to represent our world in unprecedenteded ways.
books
December 2006, Rotterdam
Architectural Theory
$24.00
(available to order)
Summary:
A decimated Shiite shrine in Iraq. The smoking World Trade Center site. The scorched cityscape of 1945 Dresden. Among the most indelible scars left by war is the destroyed landscapes, and such architectural devastation damages far more than mere buildings. Robert Bevan argues here that shattered buildings are not merely “collateral damage,” but rather calculated acts of(...)
February 2007, London
The destruction of memory : Architecture at war
Actions:
Price:
$24.00
(available to order)
Summary:
A decimated Shiite shrine in Iraq. The smoking World Trade Center site. The scorched cityscape of 1945 Dresden. Among the most indelible scars left by war is the destroyed landscapes, and such architectural devastation damages far more than mere buildings. Robert Bevan argues here that shattered buildings are not merely “collateral damage,” but rather calculated acts of cultural annihilation. From Hitler’s Kristallnacht to the toppling of Saddam Hussein’s statue in the Iraq War, Bevan deftly sifts through military campaigns and their tactics throughout history, and analyzes the cultural impact and catastrophic consequences of architectural destruction. For Bevan, these actions are nothing less than cultural genocide. Ultimately, Bevan forcefully argues for the prosecution of nations that purposely flout established international treaties against destroyed architecture. A passionate and thought-provoking cri de coeur, The Destruction of Memory raises questions about the costs of war that run deeper than blood and money.
books
$29.95
(available to order)
Summary:
«La désobéissance de l'architecte» est, par le biais de la conversation, une sorte de biographie de Renzo Piano qui, de Gênes, nous mène au Centre Pompidou, à Paris, de la Potsdamer Platz de Berlin à l'auditorium de Rome, du Centre culturel Jean-Marie Djibaou, en Nouvelle-Calédonie, au musée de Sarajevo, mais c'est aussi le manifeste d'un créateur enthousiaste, frondeur(...)
Renzo Piano : la désobéissance de l'architecte
Actions:
Price:
$29.95
(available to order)
Summary:
«La désobéissance de l'architecte» est, par le biais de la conversation, une sorte de biographie de Renzo Piano qui, de Gênes, nous mène au Centre Pompidou, à Paris, de la Potsdamer Platz de Berlin à l'auditorium de Rome, du Centre culturel Jean-Marie Djibaou, en Nouvelle-Calédonie, au musée de Sarajevo, mais c'est aussi le manifeste d'un créateur enthousiaste, frondeur et réaliste, ouvert à toutes les disciplines, qui compte des amis dans tous les domaines de la création et poursuit une véritable réflexion sociale sur les villes et les banlieues, enrichie d'une réflexion éthique et esthétique sur le sens que nous entendons donner à nos vies.
books
December 2006, Paris
Architectural Theory
books
Media art histories
$44.95
(available to order)
Summary:
Digital art has become a major contemporary art form, but it has yet to achieve acceptance from mainstream cultural institutions; it is rarely collected, and seldom included in the study of art history or other academic disciplines. In MediaArtHistories, leading scholars seek to change this. They take a wider view of media art, placing it against the backdrop of art(...)
Media art histories
Actions:
Price:
$44.95
(available to order)
Summary:
Digital art has become a major contemporary art form, but it has yet to achieve acceptance from mainstream cultural institutions; it is rarely collected, and seldom included in the study of art history or other academic disciplines. In MediaArtHistories, leading scholars seek to change this. They take a wider view of media art, placing it against the backdrop of art history. Their essays demonstrate that today's media art cannot be understood by technological details alone; it cannot be understood without its history, and it must be understood in proximity to other disciplines--film, cultural and media studies, computer science, philosophy, and sciences dealing with images. Contributors trace the evolution of digital art, from thirteenth-century Islamic mechanical devices and eighteenth-century phantasmagoria, magic lanterns, and other multimedia illusions, to Marcel Duchamp's inventions and 1960s kinetic and op art. They reexamine and redefine key media art theory terms--machine, media, exhibition--and consider the blurred dividing lines between art products and consumer products and between art images and science images. Finally, MediaArtHistories offers an approach for an interdisciplinary, expanded image science, which needs the "trained eye" of art history.
books
March 2007, Cambridge
Architectural Theory
books
Imagining MIT
$25.95
(available to order)
Summary:
In the 1990s, MIT began a billion-dollar building program that transformed its outdated, run-down campus into an architectural showplace. Funded by the high-tech boom of the 1990s and driven by a pent-up demand for new space, MIT's ambitious rebuilding produced five major works of architecture: Kevin Roche's Zesiger Sports and Fitness Center, Steven Holl's Simmons Hall,(...)
Imagining MIT
Actions:
Price:
$25.95
(available to order)
Summary:
In the 1990s, MIT began a billion-dollar building program that transformed its outdated, run-down campus into an architectural showplace. Funded by the high-tech boom of the 1990s and driven by a pent-up demand for new space, MIT's ambitious rebuilding produced five major works of architecture: Kevin Roche's Zesiger Sports and Fitness Center, Steven Holl's Simmons Hall, Frank Gehry's Stata Center, Charles Correa's Brain and Cognitive Science Complex, and Fumihiko Maki's still-unrealized project for the Media Laboratory. In Imagining MIT, William Mitchell (who served as architectural adviser to MIT president Charles Vest) offers a critical, behind-the-scenes view of MIT's new buildings and the complex processes that produced them. The story is not simply one of commissions, projects, CAD, and hardhats; it is about all the forces that come into play--including money, politics, institutional dynamics, and ideology--when a major university campus is imagined, designed, and built. Lavishly illustrated with architectural photographs, drawings, plans, and models, with color images throughout, Imagining MIT shows both the opportunities and the obstacles facing architectural production and city building at the dawn of a new millennium.
books
May 2007, Cambridge / London
Architectural Theory
Strange details
$41.95
(available in store)
Summary:
Confronted with the intricate construction details of Italian architect Carlo Scarpa's Querini Stampalia Gallery--steel joined at odd intervals, concrete spilled out of concatenated forms, stone cut in labyrinthine patterns--Michael Cadwell abandoned his attempts to categorize them theoretically and resolved instead to appreciate their idiosyncrasies and evoke their(...)
Strange details
Actions:
Price:
$41.95
(available in store)
Summary:
Confronted with the intricate construction details of Italian architect Carlo Scarpa's Querini Stampalia Gallery--steel joined at odd intervals, concrete spilled out of concatenated forms, stone cut in labyrinthine patterns--Michael Cadwell abandoned his attempts to categorize them theoretically and resolved instead to appreciate their idiosyncrasies and evoke their all-embracing affects. What he had dismissed as a collection of fetishes he came to understand as a coherently constructed world that was nonetheless persistently strange. In Strange Details, Cadwell looks at the work of four canonical architects who "made strange" with the most resistant aspect of architecture--construction. In buildings that were pivotal in their careers, Scarpa, Frank Lloyd Wright, Mies van der Rohe, and Louis Kahn all created details that undercut our critical and analytical terra firma. Cadwell explores the strangeness in the material menagerie of Scarpa's Querini Stampalia, the wood light frame construction of Wright's Jacobs House, the welded steel frame of Mies's Farnsworth House, and the reinforced concrete of Kahn's Yale Center for British Art. Each of these architects, he finds, reconfigures the rudimentary facts of construction, creating a subtle but undeniable shift in a building’s physicality. And for each of them, nature is strange, and its strangeness infects; nature unmoors exhausted cultural ideas, constricted analytical procedures, and outmoded production techniques. An awakening to nature's strangeness forces a new sense of the world, one that we can detect in these architects' configurations of the world's materials--their strange details.
Architectural Theory
Domesticity at War
$54.95
(available to order)
Summary:
In the years immediately following World War II, America embraced modern architecture--not as something imported from Europe, but as an entirely new mode of operation, with original and captivating designs made in the USA. Beatriz Colomina shows how postwar American architecture adapted the techniques and materials that were developed for military applications to domestic(...)
Domesticity at War
Actions:
Price:
$54.95
(available to order)
Summary:
In the years immediately following World War II, America embraced modern architecture--not as something imported from Europe, but as an entirely new mode of operation, with original and captivating designs made in the USA. Beatriz Colomina shows how postwar American architecture adapted the techniques and materials that were developed for military applications to domestic use. Just as manufacturers were turning wartime industry to peacetime productivity--going from missiles to washing machines--American architects and cultural institutions were, in Buckminster Fuller’s words, turning "weaponry into livingry." This new form of domesticity itself turned out to be a powerful weapon. Images of American domestic bliss--suburban homes, manicured lawns, kitchen accessories--went around the world as an effective propaganda campaign. Cold War anxieties were masked by endlessly repeated images of a picture-perfect domestic environment. Even the popular conception of the architect became domesticated, changing from that of an austere modernist to a plaid-shirt wearing homebody. Domesticity at War itself has a distinctive architecture. Housed within the case are two units: one book of text, and one book of illustrations--most of them in color, including advertisements, newspaper and magazine articles, architectural photographs, and more.
Architectural Theory
books
$49.95
(available in store)
Summary:
La question des qualités architecturales n’est ni une abstraction théorique ni la chasse gardée des professionnels de l’architecture ou de la recherche. Elle nous concerne tous, que l’on soit au bureau, chez soi, dans les différents équipements qui accompagnent notre vie et nos activités sociales, dans l’intérieur le plus privé comme dans l’espace public, en ville ou(...)
Qualités architecturales : conceptions, significations, positions
Actions:
Price:
$49.95
(available in store)
Summary:
La question des qualités architecturales n’est ni une abstraction théorique ni la chasse gardée des professionnels de l’architecture ou de la recherche. Elle nous concerne tous, que l’on soit au bureau, chez soi, dans les différents équipements qui accompagnent notre vie et nos activités sociales, dans l’intérieur le plus privé comme dans l’espace public, en ville ou ailleurs. Elle est d’autant plus d’actualité que les doléances des usagers se multiplient face aux engouements de la critique, et que l’opposition entre le trivial domestique et le pur esthétique tend à s’installer. Le débat de société devient inévitable. En repérer les termes et les limites, puis l’alimenter à partir de points de vue différenciés et contradictoires peut aider à sa construction. Au-delà du débat il s’agit de solliciter ceux dont la pratique, en construisant son cadre, transforme la réalité. Ce livre rend compte des recherches qui ont été menées pendant plusieurs mois. En rendant ces réflexions accessibles à tous – professionnels, concepteurs, décideurs, programmateurs, commentateurs ou évaluateurs – cet ouvrage veut contribuer au débat et poursuivre la mobilisation de ses acteurs. La diversité des travaux et les liens qu’ils entretiennent permettent de mieux appréhender les problèmes rencontrés et de penser le changement pour une amélioration des qualités architecturales.
books
December 2006, Paris
Architectural Theory
$78.95
(available to order)
Summary:
This book includes essays by Marlon Blackwell, Kenneth Frampton, Kristian Gullichsen, Karsten Harries, John Hejduk, Mikko Heikkinen, Dan Hoffman, Steven Holl, Markku Komonen, Esa Laaksonen, Daniel Libeskind, Robert McCarter, Alberto Perez-Gomez, Nina Stritzler-Levine, Philip Tidwell, Billie Tsien, Leslie Van Duzer, Ben Weese, Cynthia Weese, Tod Williams, Colin St. John(...)
Archipelago: essays on architecture
Actions:
Price:
$78.95
(available to order)
Summary:
This book includes essays by Marlon Blackwell, Kenneth Frampton, Kristian Gullichsen, Karsten Harries, John Hejduk, Mikko Heikkinen, Dan Hoffman, Steven Holl, Markku Komonen, Esa Laaksonen, Daniel Libeskind, Robert McCarter, Alberto Perez-Gomez, Nina Stritzler-Levine, Philip Tidwell, Billie Tsien, Leslie Van Duzer, Ben Weese, Cynthia Weese, Tod Williams, Colin St. John Wilson, and Peter Zumthor. As Finnish architect, author, scholar and critic Juhani Pallasmaa celebrates his 70th birthday, this collection of essays recognizes his contribution to architecture. However, a parallel intention of "Archipelago" is to open further doors and windows into architecture's past, present and future through the observations and declarations of the assembled contributors.
Architectural Theory
books
$42.50
(available to order)
Summary:
"Le Corbusier, un homme à sa fenêtre" rassemble des textes écrits entre 1925 et 1960, jusqu'alors non réédités, et puisés dans la riche documentation de la Fondation Le Corbusier. Ils ont pour la plupart été publiés dans des journaux ou revues dont la variété (de la presse féminine aux Cahiers d'art) témoigne de l'écho rencontré par les idées de l'architecte et de son(...)
Le Corbusier : un homme à sa fenêtre - textes choisis 1925-1960
Actions:
Price:
$42.50
(available to order)
Summary:
"Le Corbusier, un homme à sa fenêtre" rassemble des textes écrits entre 1925 et 1960, jusqu'alors non réédités, et puisés dans la riche documentation de la Fondation Le Corbusier. Ils ont pour la plupart été publiés dans des journaux ou revues dont la variété (de la presse féminine aux Cahiers d'art) témoigne de l'écho rencontré par les idées de l'architecte et de son ardeur à les diffuser. Les dessins, peintures, sculptures, etc. reproduits sont l'occasion d'une promenade dans l'œuvre de cet artiste, architecte, théoricien, poète et peintre.
books
October 2006, Lyon
Architectural Theory