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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.
Urban Theory
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Celui qui emporta secrètement l'admiration de Loos et de Le Corbusier fut aussi un prosateur, depuis la page blanche qui appelle l'écrit jusqu'à la surface de l'immeuble qui appelle l'ornement. La valorisation de la fonction et de la structure, qui a rendu cet architecte mondialement célèbre, a éclipsé son pendant : la part de l'imaginaire dans l'érection inouïe de ces(...)
Louis Henri Sullivan : pour un art du gratte-ciel
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Celui qui emporta secrètement l'admiration de Loos et de Le Corbusier fut aussi un prosateur, depuis la page blanche qui appelle l'écrit jusqu'à la surface de l'immeuble qui appelle l'ornement. La valorisation de la fonction et de la structure, qui a rendu cet architecte mondialement célèbre, a éclipsé son pendant : la part de l'imaginaire dans l'érection inouïe de ces édifices enracinés dans la culture américaine. Voici, sous la forme d'un recueil rassemblant les essais, articles, conférences, interviews et écrits brefs, au nombre de cinquante, que Louis Henri Sullivan a publiés de 1885 à 1924, le récit de la modernité telle qu'elle a été rêvée en même temps qu’elle s’édifiait.
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Bridging histories of technology, media studies, and aesthetics, ''Electrographic architecture'' forges a critical narrative of the ways in which illuminated light and color have played key roles in the formation of America's white imaginary. Carolyn L. Kane charts the rise of the country's urban advertisements, light empires, and neoclassical buildings in the early(...)
Electrographic architecture: New York color, Las Vegas light, and America's white imaginary
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Bridging histories of technology, media studies, and aesthetics, ''Electrographic architecture'' forges a critical narrative of the ways in which illuminated light and color have played key roles in the formation of America's white imaginary. Carolyn L. Kane charts the rise of the country's urban advertisements, light empires, and neoclassical buildings in the early twentieth century; the midcentury construction of polychromatic electrographic spectacles; and their eclipse by informatically intense, invisible algorithms at the dawn of the new millennium. Drawing on archival research, interviews, and visual analysis, Electrographic Architecture shows how the development of America's electrographic surround runs parallel to a new paradigm of power, property, and possession.
Architectural Theory
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De Bernard Pallisy aux paysagistes les plus contemporains, les créateurs de jardins et de paysages en France sont mal connus : la figure illustre d'André Le Nôtre éclipse trop souvent le foisonnement de jardiniers et d'inventeurs de paysages qui, chacun à leur manière, l'ont précédé ou lui ont succédé. Cette présentation de plus de deux cents créateurs et des mouvements(...)
Créateurs de jardins et de paysages en France de la Renaissance au XXIè siècle - Tome II : du XIXè siècle au XXIè siècle
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De Bernard Pallisy aux paysagistes les plus contemporains, les créateurs de jardins et de paysages en France sont mal connus : la figure illustre d'André Le Nôtre éclipse trop souvent le foisonnement de jardiniers et d'inventeurs de paysages qui, chacun à leur manière, l'ont précédé ou lui ont succédé. Cette présentation de plus de deux cents créateurs et des mouvements ou des thèmes les plus représentatifs vient à point réparer cette injustice. Retraçant en deux tomes la chronologie d'un art véritablement protéiforme, cet ouvrage réunit plus de cent auteurs choisis sur les conseils d'experts, et présente l'essentiel des connaissances sur les plus importants créateurs de jardins et de paysages de l'Europe francophone. Conçu comme un outil au service des amateurs et des professionnels, il rend compte des recherches et des publications les plus récentes, sans omettre l'influence de l'histoire des mentalités, l'évolution de l'idée de nature et cette des modes, ainsi que l'apport sans cesse renouvelé des techniques. L'ensemble forme une histoire en mosaïque : celle d'un art en perpétuelle métamorphose.
Gardens
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A project composed across several decades, Guido Guidi's Lunario takes the name of a traditional farmer’s almanac to bring together several strands of work all relating to the moon. Distortion, experimentation and illusion inform Guidi’s earlier work of the late 1960s and early 1970s, further developed by the introduction of a fish-eye lens. The moon’s physical form(...)
Guido Guidi: Lunario 1968-1999
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A project composed across several decades, Guido Guidi's Lunario takes the name of a traditional farmer’s almanac to bring together several strands of work all relating to the moon. Distortion, experimentation and illusion inform Guidi’s earlier work of the late 1960s and early 1970s, further developed by the introduction of a fish-eye lens. The moon’s physical form echoes throughout the works: in a woman’s face, or a child’s playing ball caught between light and shadow. Guidi’s barren, lunar landscapes give way in the 1980s to colour photographs, all of which culminate in the dramatic partial solar-eclipse of August 11, 1999. Throughout Lunario, Guido Guidi comes back to the moon as a source of stylistic and thematic inspiration: a symbol of melancholy and madness, changeability and a constant reminder of the transience of everyday life.
Photography monographs
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At the beginning of the economic crisis in 2007, housing became a central commodity in the short-circuit system of mortgages granted to private individuals and businesses. In the aftermath of the crisis, and in the wake of the COVID-19 Pandemic, housing—as a right, in its most radical form—re-emerged due to local housing, migration, and health emergencies. In light of an(...)
Rehab: Living, inhabitants, houses
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At the beginning of the economic crisis in 2007, housing became a central commodity in the short-circuit system of mortgages granted to private individuals and businesses. In the aftermath of the crisis, and in the wake of the COVID-19 Pandemic, housing—as a right, in its most radical form—re-emerged due to local housing, migration, and health emergencies. In light of an eclipse of a general discourse on housing, a new secular and international ethics arose, both foreign and superior to nation states. This book returns to a broader notion of housing: using metaphors of sanitary and salvific reinstatement, it retrieves case studies from the 1950s for re-conceptualizing the housing question in contemporary architecture and visual arts.
Collective Housing
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This 53rd issue of The Funambulist mostly consists of translations into thirty "non-hegemonic" languages of a text Indigenous Mixe writer Yásnaya Elena Aguilar Gil wrote for the magazine. Entitled "Languages and Nation-States" and originally written in Ayuujk, it was then translated into Spanish, English, and French to serve as vehicles towards these thirty translations(...)
The Funambulist 53 : Thread of translation
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This 53rd issue of The Funambulist mostly consists of translations into thirty "non-hegemonic" languages of a text Indigenous Mixe writer Yásnaya Elena Aguilar Gil wrote for the magazine. Entitled "Languages and Nation-States" and originally written in Ayuujk, it was then translated into Spanish, English, and French to serve as vehicles towards these thirty translations into Albanian, Armenian, Bahasa Indonesia, Bambara, Basque, Bosnian, Guyanese Creole, Haitian Creole, Hausa, Hawaiian, Inuktitut, Irish, Kashmiri (Koshur), Kikongo, Kurdish, Lao, Mapuche, Mauritian Creole, Maya, Mongolian, Quechua, Rroma, Shona, Somali, Swahili, Tagalog, Tamazight, Tamil, and Uzbek. The translations are accompanied by details of the weave Eclipse (also featured on the cover) by Bolivian artist Kenia Almaraz Murillo. This issue concludes with a text entitled “Black Plumes, White Ink" by Malagasy author Marie Ranjanoro.
Magazines
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Housing speaks directly to the challenges that define our times: social inequality, ecological crisis, displacement, asylum, migration and privatization. Framing the neo-liberal context as a defining condition of contemporary housing, International Case Studies consists of two parts: a series of essays by authors from architecture, anthropology, economy and literature,(...)
Collective Housing
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Housing after the neoliberal turn: international case studies
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Housing speaks directly to the challenges that define our times: social inequality, ecological crisis, displacement, asylum, migration and privatization. Framing the neo-liberal context as a defining condition of contemporary housing, International Case Studies consists of two parts: a series of essays by authors from architecture, anthropology, economy and literature, and an “atlas” of global housing that takes neo-liberalism as its starting point. The essays shed light on the challenges and conflicts of contemporary housing production from Andrew Herscher’s research on the politics of “blight” in Detroit to Justin McGuirk’s text on domesticity as data and universal housing questions eclipse by the “Internet of Things.” Conceptualized and compiled by architectural critic-historian Anne Kockelkorn and Columbia professor Reinhold Martin, the illustrated “atlas” presents 33 housing examples rarely seen together and invites readers to think of housing as an unstable constellation evolving within the power relations of territorial processes.
Collective Housing
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Alone Street brings together two major bodies of work by Gregory Crewdson, Cathedral of the Pines (Aperture, 2016) and An Eclipse of Moths (Aperture, 2020), in a single, elegant, and affordable monograph. Both series expand on the artist’s obsessive exploration of the psychogeography of small-town, post-industrial New England and underscore the precision and depth of(...)
Gregory Crewdson: Alone street
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Alone Street brings together two major bodies of work by Gregory Crewdson, Cathedral of the Pines (Aperture, 2016) and An Eclipse of Moths (Aperture, 2020), in a single, elegant, and affordable monograph. Both series expand on the artist’s obsessive exploration of the psychogeography of small-town, post-industrial New England and underscore the precision and depth of Crewdson’s unique mode of photographic storytelling. In each image, light, color, and carefully crafted scenography evoke the feeling that, as art historian Alexander Nemerov has astutely described, “all that ever happened in these places seems crystallized in his tableaux, as if the quiet melancholy of Crewdson’s scenes gathered the unruly sorrows and other little-guessed feelings of people long-gone who once stood on those spots.” In addition to the full set of images from each series, Alone Street, presents a selection of behind-the-scenes images and storyboards, revealing the extensive preparation and planning that went into the making of each work.
Photography monographs
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Over the past three decades, Gregory Crewdson has been fleshing out a portrait of middle America, an America gazing wide-eyed at the glimmers of a fading dream. His cinematographically staged photos have pieced together the fragments of a twilight world tinged with numbness. This book brings together three bodies of work made between 2012 and 2022: ''Cathedral of the(...)
Gregory Crewdson: Eveningside
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Over the past three decades, Gregory Crewdson has been fleshing out a portrait of middle America, an America gazing wide-eyed at the glimmers of a fading dream. His cinematographically staged photos have pieced together the fragments of a twilight world tinged with numbness. This book brings together three bodies of work made between 2012 and 2022: ''Cathedral of the Pines'' (2012–14), ''An Eclipse of Moths'' (2018–19) and '''Eveningside'' (2021–22). Envisaged as a trilogy, they provide unique insight into a decade of creation and offer a comprehensive view of the universe that has positioned Crewdson as one of the major figures of contemporary photography. This trilogy is introduced by Fireflies (1996), a pivotal series for grasping the intimate undercurrents in Crewdson’s work.
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