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Comprising no less than 53 very different takes on the same question, “What is the future of architecture?”, the contents of this book range from essays and short stories to science fiction and poetry, as well as series of images and photos, practical approaches and active engagements with urban change. Answers to the question it poses cover a range of topical approaches(...)
What is the future of architecture vol.2
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Comprising no less than 53 very different takes on the same question, “What is the future of architecture?”, the contents of this book range from essays and short stories to science fiction and poetry, as well as series of images and photos, practical approaches and active engagements with urban change. Answers to the question it poses cover a range of topical approaches and perspectives, and were submitted over a period of six months by open call participants and invited architectural offices and critics from around the globe. Among the contributors are George Sinclair, Bart van Haren, Michael Fesca, Something Fantastic, Ludmilla Cerveny, Collectif ETC and many more.
Architectural Theory
Fantastic architecture
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Compiled by Fluxus artists Wolf Vostell and Dick Higgins, and first published by Higgins' legendary Something Else Press in 1970, Fantastic Architecture anticipated the critiques launched by a new generation of visionary architects in the 1970s. In his introduction, Higgins argued that "architects … have only just begun to escape from the drawing board mentality," and(...)
Fantastic architecture
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Compiled by Fluxus artists Wolf Vostell and Dick Higgins, and first published by Higgins' legendary Something Else Press in 1970, Fantastic Architecture anticipated the critiques launched by a new generation of visionary architects in the 1970s. In his introduction, Higgins argued that "architects … have only just begun to escape from the drawing board mentality," and articulated the need for "creating space, which may or may not be functional, but which is at least relevant to the sensory environment in which we live.
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One of the difficulties about reexamining the subject of realism lies in the passage from the initial idea of magical realism to the concept of new objectivity. Actually it is possible to return to the initial notion, elaborating the concept of marvelous reality which with that idea of a mixture of the real and the fantastic seeks to maintain something of the heroic and(...)
Lotus 116: nuovi realisti/new realists
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One of the difficulties about reexamining the subject of realism lies in the passage from the initial idea of magical realism to the concept of new objectivity. Actually it is possible to return to the initial notion, elaborating the concept of marvelous reality which with that idea of a mixture of the real and the fantastic seeks to maintain something of the heroic and the sublime. The realistic way of preserving the sublime that, in defiance of the 'real' world, succeeds in living that illusion: this is the direction in which we want to interpret the symptoms of a return of the real in architecture. In short magical realism does not make us long for normality, but invites us to look beyond every norm hidden by conventions.
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January 1900, Milano
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dot dot dot 9
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The somethings in the water of DDD9 appear to be biography, Poland, poetry, triads, truth, repetition and the applied fantastic. With contributions from David Reinfurt, Mark and Steve Beasley, Ryan Gander, B.S.Johnson, Esther Johnson, Rob Giampietro, Sanne de Boer, goodwill, David Crowley, Klaus Stadtmüller, Robert Garnett, Rick Poynor, Chris Evans, Maria Fusco, Radim(...)
Graphic Design and Typography
May 2005, The Hague
dot dot dot 9
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The somethings in the water of DDD9 appear to be biography, Poland, poetry, triads, truth, repetition and the applied fantastic. With contributions from David Reinfurt, Mark and Steve Beasley, Ryan Gander, B.S.Johnson, Esther Johnson, Rob Giampietro, Sanne de Boer, goodwill, David Crowley, Klaus Stadtmüller, Robert Garnett, Rick Poynor, Chris Evans, Maria Fusco, Radim Pesko, Steve Rushton, Els Kuijpers, Alon Levin, and Roma Pas.
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