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Knowing where things are seems effortless. Yet our brains devote tremendous computational power to figuring out the simplest details about spatial relationships. Going to the grocery store or finding our cell phone requires sleuthing and coordination across different sensory and motor domains. Making Space traces this mental detective work to explain how the brain creates(...)
Making space: how the brain knows where things are
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Knowing where things are seems effortless. Yet our brains devote tremendous computational power to figuring out the simplest details about spatial relationships. Going to the grocery store or finding our cell phone requires sleuthing and coordination across different sensory and motor domains. Making Space traces this mental detective work to explain how the brain creates our sense of location. But it goes further, to make the case that spatial processing permeates all our cognitive abilities, and that the brain’s systems for thinking about space may be the systems of thought itself.
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November 2014
Critical Theory
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From curator Hans Ulrich Obrist, Lives of the Artists, Lives of the Architects offers a unique opportunity to learn about the lives and creativity of the world's leading artists. Hans Ulrich Obrist has been conducting ongoing conversations with the world's greatest living artists since he began in Switzerland, aged 19, with Fischli and Weiss. Here he chooses nineteen of(...)
Lives of the artists, lives of the architects
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From curator Hans Ulrich Obrist, Lives of the Artists, Lives of the Architects offers a unique opportunity to learn about the lives and creativity of the world's leading artists. Hans Ulrich Obrist has been conducting ongoing conversations with the world's greatest living artists since he began in Switzerland, aged 19, with Fischli and Weiss. Here he chooses nineteen of the greatest figures and presents their conversations, offering the reader intimacy with the artists and insight into their creative processes. Inspired by the great Vasari, this book explores the meaning of art and artists today, their varying approaches to creating, and a sense of how their thinking evolves over time.
Art Theory
Before history: Yto Barrada
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Before History catalogues the exhibition for the Abraaj Group Art Prize 2015, which includes a new body of work by Yto Barrada, the winner of the prize, and existing work by shortlisted artists Sarnath Banerjee, Setareh Shahbazi, and Mounira Al Solh. The exhibition explores the layering of time through historical artifice. History here is considered as a constructed(...)
Before history: Yto Barrada
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Before History catalogues the exhibition for the Abraaj Group Art Prize 2015, which includes a new body of work by Yto Barrada, the winner of the prize, and existing work by shortlisted artists Sarnath Banerjee, Setareh Shahbazi, and Mounira Al Solh. The exhibition explores the layering of time through historical artifice. History here is considered as a constructed sphere, constantly in flux, simultaneously being buried and excavated. In a world of hyper-mediation, how can one construct a sense of an individual history? How does it relate to the sediments of culture?
Photography monographs
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Eye on Design is an editorial platform from AIGA that has, for the last decade, covered the ins and outs of the design industry. From documenting bold new work from global designers to chronicling the field's most critical issues, their reported stories, op-eds, interviews, and conversations help designers make sense of the world and place their profession within a(...)
What it means to be a designer today: Ideas from AIGA's on design
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Eye on Design is an editorial platform from AIGA that has, for the last decade, covered the ins and outs of the design industry. From documenting bold new work from global designers to chronicling the field's most critical issues, their reported stories, op-eds, interviews, and conversations help designers make sense of the world and place their profession within a broader context. Weaving together original and previously published content from some of the most important writers in today’s design conversation, this book for designers encapsulates wide-reaching topics that strive to answer an essential question: What does it mean to be a designer today?
Design Theory
Remarks on color
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Artist, critic and poet Eve Wood has a ribald sense of humor and for decades has had a distinctive presence in the Southern California art world. This is her first monograph, featuring a collection of off-beat, imaginative color studies populated with birds, animals and irreverent, sometimes naughty personae. Short, laugh-out-loud prose accompanies each of the portraits(...)
Remarks on color
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Artist, critic and poet Eve Wood has a ribald sense of humor and for decades has had a distinctive presence in the Southern California art world. This is her first monograph, featuring a collection of off-beat, imaginative color studies populated with birds, animals and irreverent, sometimes naughty personae. Short, laugh-out-loud prose accompanies each of the portraits and vivid scenes. Her dog sleeps on a Ukranian-gold and blue rug; her raven vacuums the house; absurd characters from movies and art stand in for obnoxious or dreamy colors; and the birds – so many birds – sing of freedom.
Colour Theory and Design
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Graven Images boasts skills in both graphic design and interior architecture. The team's exhibition designs, as well as their interiors for restaurants and clubs, are characterized by a bold use of colour and starkly graphic elements. The book featuring Graven Images includes, among others, the following projects: Red Lemon, the office of a company that develops(...)
Graven Images : design in cold climate
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Graven Images boasts skills in both graphic design and interior architecture. The team's exhibition designs, as well as their interiors for restaurants and clubs, are characterized by a bold use of colour and starkly graphic elements. The book featuring Graven Images includes, among others, the following projects: Red Lemon, the office of a company that develops electronic games; The Shape of Colour: Red, an exhibition featuring the colour red, held at the Lighthouse in Glasgow; Room at the Top, one of Britain's largest clubs; Tun Ton, a trendsetting Glasgow restaurant; UK Style, an exhibition on British creativity, in the broadest sense of the word; Favorit, a café, bar, coffee shop, deli and takeaway, all in one.
Design Monographs
The book of touch
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From the tortures of the Inquisition to the corporeal comforts of modernity and from the tactile therapies of Asian medicine to the virtual tactility of cyberspace, The Book of Touch offers excursions into a sensory territory both foreign and familiar. How are masculine and feminine identities shaped by touch? What are the tactile experiences of the blind, or the(...)
Architectural Theory
September 2005, Oxford New York
The book of touch
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From the tortures of the Inquisition to the corporeal comforts of modernity and from the tactile therapies of Asian medicine to the virtual tactility of cyberspace, The Book of Touch offers excursions into a sensory territory both foreign and familiar. How are masculine and feminine identities shaped by touch? What are the tactile experiences of the blind, or the autistic? How is touch developed differently across cultures? What are the boundaries of pain and pleasure? Is there a politics of touch? Bringing together classic writings and new work, this is an essential guide for anyone interested in the body, the senses and the experiential world.
Architectural Theory
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With specific spatial and acoustic demands, the spaces and facilities used for the performing arts present a concrete set of challenges for the architect that must also be packaged in a unique building design. Thirteen architectural projects that have succeeded in this sense are examined in this volume, including; Jean Nouvel's Guthrie Theatre; the Fuksas' Zenith Music(...)
Commercial interiors, Building types
June 2008, Seoul
Performing arts: space and facilities
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With specific spatial and acoustic demands, the spaces and facilities used for the performing arts present a concrete set of challenges for the architect that must also be packaged in a unique building design. Thirteen architectural projects that have succeeded in this sense are examined in this volume, including; Jean Nouvel's Guthrie Theatre; the Fuksas' Zenith Music Hall; Bernard Tschumi's Limoges Concert Hall; the Agora Theatre in Lelystad by UNStudio, and Neutelings Riedijk's Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision. All are examined through full colour photographs, plans and elevations.
Commercial interiors, Building types
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''‘Vladimir Mayakovsky’ & Other Poems'' is the only single-volume selection in English to fully represent the work of one of Modernism’s vital literary forces. The poems encompass Mayakovsky’s pre-Revolutionary surrealism as well as his exclamatory agitprop of the 1920s, by which time he had become the pre-eminent Soviet poet. New translations of key works are included(...)
Vladimir Mayakovsky and other poems
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''‘Vladimir Mayakovsky’ & Other Poems'' is the only single-volume selection in English to fully represent the work of one of Modernism’s vital literary forces. The poems encompass Mayakovsky’s pre-Revolutionary surrealism as well as his exclamatory agitprop of the 1920s, by which time he had become the pre-eminent Soviet poet. New translations of key works are included alongside several poems that have never been translated into English before, while an introduction and notes provide helpful contexts and elucidations. Screenplays, dramatic scripts and advertising slogans give a sense of the unusual breadth and invention of Mayakovsky’s project, and his skill both as poet and propagandist.
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Marian Bantjes: I wonder
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This book features crafted word pictures of Marian Bantjes. Whether hand-drawn or using computer illustration software, Bantjes's work crosses the boundaries of time, style, and technology. There is, however, another side to Bantjes's visual work: her thoughtful treatises on art, design, beauty, and popular culture that add a deeper dimension to the decorative nature of(...)
Marian Bantjes: I wonder
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This book features crafted word pictures of Marian Bantjes. Whether hand-drawn or using computer illustration software, Bantjes's work crosses the boundaries of time, style, and technology. There is, however, another side to Bantjes's visual work: her thoughtful treatises on art, design, beauty, and popular culture that add a deeper dimension to the decorative nature of her best-known work. These reflections cover the cult of Santa, road-side advertising, photography and memory, the alphabet's letterforms, heraldry, and stars. Bantjes's writing style ranges from the playful to the confrontational, but it is always imbued with perspicacity, insight, and a sense of fun.
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