Beci Orpin: compendium of me
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Beci Orpin is a collector. From the stickers, erasers and Coke bottles she hoarded as a child, to the assortment of odds and sods she accumulates today are central to the way she makes sense of the world around her. 'Compendium of Me' is a vivid rendering of such domestic and creative flotsam and jetsam in which she takes her home-studio as a setting for her vibrant,(...)
Beci Orpin: compendium of me
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Beci Orpin is a collector. From the stickers, erasers and Coke bottles she hoarded as a child, to the assortment of odds and sods she accumulates today are central to the way she makes sense of the world around her. 'Compendium of Me' is a vivid rendering of such domestic and creative flotsam and jetsam in which she takes her home-studio as a setting for her vibrant, colour-rich arrangements.
Illustration
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This publication compiles the winning and the finalist entries of the City Sense competition, organized by the Institute of Advanced Architecture. The competition was open to architects, engineers, planners, designers and artists who wanted to contribute to progress in making the world more habitable by developing proposals capable of responding to emerging challenges in(...)
City sense : shaping our environment with real-time data, 4th Advanced Architecture Contest
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This publication compiles the winning and the finalist entries of the City Sense competition, organized by the Institute of Advanced Architecture. The competition was open to architects, engineers, planners, designers and artists who wanted to contribute to progress in making the world more habitable by developing proposals capable of responding to emerging challenges in areas such as ecology, information technology, architecture, and urban planning, with the purpose of balancing the possible impact of real-time data collection on sensor-driven cities.
Urban Theory
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The Feel of the City exposes the sensory experiences of city-dwellers in Montreal and Brussels at the turn of the century and the ways in which these shaped the social and cultural significance of urban space. Using the experiences of municipal officials, urban planners, hygienists, workers, writers, artists, and ordinary citizens, Nicolas Kenny explores the implications(...)
The feel of the city: experiences of urban transformation
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The Feel of the City exposes the sensory experiences of city-dwellers in Montreal and Brussels at the turn of the century and the ways in which these shaped the social and cultural significance of urban space. Using the experiences of municipal officials, urban planners, hygienists, workers, writers, artists, and ordinary citizens, Nicolas Kenny explores the implications of the senses for our understanding of modernity.
Urban Theory
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Errol Morris untangles the mysteries behind an eclectic range of documentary photographs. With his keen sense of irony, skepticism, and humor, Morris shows how photographs can obscure as much as they reveal, and how what we see is often determined by our beliefs. Each essay in this book is part detective story, part philosophical meditation, presenting readers with a(...)
Errol Morris : believing is seeing (observations on the mysteries of photography)
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Errol Morris untangles the mysteries behind an eclectic range of documentary photographs. With his keen sense of irony, skepticism, and humor, Morris shows how photographs can obscure as much as they reveal, and how what we see is often determined by our beliefs. Each essay in this book is part detective story, part philosophical meditation, presenting readers with a conundrum, and investigates the relationship between photographs and the real world they supposedly record.
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journals and magazines
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Exile and marginality, network availability, mass- versus subcultural identities, privilege, opting (versus dropping) out – these are elements this issue takes on. The fading of bohemia’s appeal is no doubt linked in part to a growing preference for the web’s promise of total-connectivity. Though could another factor be at work here too: an underlying sense that perhaps(...)
Texte zur Kunst 97: bohème/bohemia
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Exile and marginality, network availability, mass- versus subcultural identities, privilege, opting (versus dropping) out – these are elements this issue takes on. The fading of bohemia’s appeal is no doubt linked in part to a growing preference for the web’s promise of total-connectivity. Though could another factor be at work here too: an underlying sense that perhaps the real displacement and disenfranchisement after which romantic notions of “bohemia” were later formed may again be a very real threat?
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April 2015
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èdres : Infra-dit de pensées, d’humeurs, d’agirs, visions, passions et sensations - apparition d’un polyèdre relationnel. Une série de six èdres en six feuillets de six strophes composées de six hexamètres. Télescopage d’échelles non-illustrative, non-naturaliste, à la faveur d’une considération du non-visible, une perception du réel par-delà les critères de probable et(...)
August 2005, Montréal
Èdres
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èdres : Infra-dit de pensées, d’humeurs, d’agirs, visions, passions et sensations - apparition d’un polyèdre relationnel. Une série de six èdres en six feuillets de six strophes composées de six hexamètres. Télescopage d’échelles non-illustrative, non-naturaliste, à la faveur d’une considération du non-visible, une perception du réel par-delà les critères de probable et d’improbable - à la faveur d’un entendement inouï. èdres | dehors (DC): les six èdres enregistrés en six sites extérieurs à Montréal captés à la manière du cinéma-direct – six plans-séquences audio – six duos composés de quatre voix d’homme et d’une voix de femme – alternés avec six arêtes sonores. Avec la collaboration de l'artiste audio Stéphane Claude.
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The book contains an original short story of the French writer Marie Darrieussecq : "Ghost flat (a modern couple)". Including 38 3-D-color illustrations plus 3 filters to look at them (red, blue, yellow). 'In the common sense, architecture is basically a universe in three dimensions. Ghost flat is a project of living in unknown dimensions by amplifying the current(...)
Architecture Monographs
January 2005, Kitakyushu
Décosterd & Rahm : ghost flat
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The book contains an original short story of the French writer Marie Darrieussecq : "Ghost flat (a modern couple)". Including 38 3-D-color illustrations plus 3 filters to look at them (red, blue, yellow). 'In the common sense, architecture is basically a universe in three dimensions. Ghost flat is a project of living in unknown dimensions by amplifying the current spectrum of the sensible to reach new extents, dissimulated in the folds of time and space.'
Architecture Monographs
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Snoehetta, one of Scandinavia’s leading architecture practices, seeks to develop its architectures within a continuous state of reinvention. Every project differs – only elementary aspects related to a broad sense of context generate core discussions when developing early concepts. Projects like the library of Alexandria, the new opera house in Oslo or the Ras al Khaima(...)
Snohetta conditions: architecture, interior, landscape.
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Snoehetta, one of Scandinavia’s leading architecture practices, seeks to develop its architectures within a continuous state of reinvention. Every project differs – only elementary aspects related to a broad sense of context generate core discussions when developing early concepts. Projects like the library of Alexandria, the new opera house in Oslo or the Ras al Khaima gateway exemplify the intentions of the architects and give a hint of how they comment on given preconditions.
Architecture Monographs
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Does the world make you sick? If the distractions and distortions around you, the jarring colors and sounds, could shake up the healing chemistry of your mind, might your surroundings also have the power to heal you? This is the question the author explores in this book - a look at the marvelously rich nexus of mind and body, perception and place. She immerses us in the(...)
Healing spaces: the science of place and well-being
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Does the world make you sick? If the distractions and distortions around you, the jarring colors and sounds, could shake up the healing chemistry of your mind, might your surroundings also have the power to heal you? This is the question the author explores in this book - a look at the marvelously rich nexus of mind and body, perception and place. She immerses us in the discoveries that have revealed a complicated working relationship between the senses, the emotions, and the immune system.
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The language of cities
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Most of us now live in cities. But what makes a city? Is it a place - or an idea? How should we define the city as it evolves today? Deyan Sudjic, Director of the Design Museum, decodes the underlying forces that shape the urban spaces around us, from their buildings to their names, from the power of crowds to why being a Londoner, New Yorker or Muscovite can offer a(...)
The language of cities
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Most of us now live in cities. But what makes a city? Is it a place - or an idea? How should we define the city as it evolves today? Deyan Sudjic, Director of the Design Museum, decodes the underlying forces that shape the urban spaces around us, from their buildings to their names, from the power of crowds to why being a Londoner, New Yorker or Muscovite can offer a sense of identity greater than any other.
Urban Theory