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Contemporary visual culture has been dominated by futuristic utopian and dystopian ideas that reflect a longing for a seamless interface between the virtual and real, as well as a desire for a release from the constraints of space and time. Constructed around both speculative predictions and creative scientific arguments, these ideas contribute to a pervasive visual(...)
Facing forward: art & theory from a future perspective
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Contemporary visual culture has been dominated by futuristic utopian and dystopian ideas that reflect a longing for a seamless interface between the virtual and real, as well as a desire for a release from the constraints of space and time. Constructed around both speculative predictions and creative scientific arguments, these ideas contribute to a pervasive visual rhetoric that influences our sense of things to come. Delving into the importance of these perspectives and the art that both results from and shapes them, this volume is a spirited exploration of the interface between art and theory in the twenty-first century.
Art Theory
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The Sensation of Sadness at Having Slept Through a Shower of Meteors brings together new works by American artist Roni Horn (born 1955), continuing her 30-year artistic exploration of time, memory and perception. Horn's captivating yellow-green cast glass sculptures, simultaneously evoking land and sea, are juxtaposed here with her major photographic series You Are the(...)
Roni Horn: the sensation of sadness at having slept through a shower of meteors
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The Sensation of Sadness at Having Slept Through a Shower of Meteors brings together new works by American artist Roni Horn (born 1955), continuing her 30-year artistic exploration of time, memory and perception. Horn's captivating yellow-green cast glass sculptures, simultaneously evoking land and sea, are juxtaposed here with her major photographic series You Are the Weather, Part 2, completed in 2011. Consisting of 100 photographs of a woman bathing in the hot springs and pools of Iceland, You Are the Weather, Part 2 documents the subtle shifts in her countenance over short periods of time.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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''Real estate opportunities'' continues Japanese photographer Takashi Homma’s homage series to the influential American artist Ed Ruscha, following similar photobooks by Homma such as ''Every building on the Ginza street,'' ''Royal road test,'' ''Babycakes,'' and ''Twenty-six gasoline stations.'' Ruscha’s original ''Real estate opportunities'' series was published in(...)
Takashi Homma: Real estate opportunities
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''Real estate opportunities'' continues Japanese photographer Takashi Homma’s homage series to the influential American artist Ed Ruscha, following similar photobooks by Homma such as ''Every building on the Ginza street,'' ''Royal road test,'' ''Babycakes,'' and ''Twenty-six gasoline stations.'' Ruscha’s original ''Real estate opportunities'' series was published in 1970 and featured photographs of empty building lots for sale in Los Angeles. For his tribute, Homma (together with series collaborators Yoshihisa Tanaka and Yusuke Nakajima) photographed empty lots in and around Tokyo. Its design and size carefully replicating Ruscha’s original, Homma’s photobook possesses a charm of its own as it captures the strange optimism and sense of possibility of these negative spaces within Tokyo’s dense architectural sprawl.
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No other region of the world currently has such a high concentration of top-quality graphic design as Switzerland. Traditionally understated, Swiss design is now creating an international sensation as young designers successfully combine radical approaches to design with unerring lightness of touch, craftsmanship and attention to detail. Their use of forms is often(...)
Graphic Designers, Monographs
May 2001, Basel
Benzin : young Swiss graphic design
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No other region of the world currently has such a high concentration of top-quality graphic design as Switzerland. Traditionally understated, Swiss design is now creating an international sensation as young designers successfully combine radical approaches to design with unerring lightness of touch, craftsmanship and attention to detail. Their use of forms is often reduced, which also meets the standards for use on the Internet and enhances the international reputation of Swiss design. "Benzin" reviews the work of the most talented of the younger generation of Swiss designers. The book strikingly shows how local scenes can shape developments in design despite globalisation.
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May 2001, Basel
Graphic Designers, Monographs
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Dag Nordbrenden’s publication ''Arituba Spa Center'' is a photographic study of an unfinished and broken-down Brazilian apartment complex in massive concrete architecture. The plan was to build holiday apartments, but the project came to grief in 2008 as a result of the financial crisis and money-laundering scandals in which Norwegian investors and developers were also(...)
Angle 10°: Dag Bordbrenden, Arituba spa center
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Dag Nordbrenden’s publication ''Arituba Spa Center'' is a photographic study of an unfinished and broken-down Brazilian apartment complex in massive concrete architecture. The plan was to build holiday apartments, but the project came to grief in 2008 as a result of the financial crisis and money-laundering scandals in which Norwegian investors and developers were also involved. In that sense the pictures reflect economic decline as well as architectural collapse. The intended holiday idyll has become an image of global economic hubris. Nordbrenden has gone into this material wasteland with an awareness of photography’s long love affair with the aesthetic of decay.
Photography monographs
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This publication is one of several studies for the "Absent Architecture of the 20th century" exhibition. This collection tries to elucidate a wide-ranging collection of architecture that coincide in the fact that it no longer exists in a strict physical sense, either because it was never actually built, because it was demolished, or because over time its raison d'être(...)
Aalto : competition for the Lyngby cemetery, Denmark 1951-1952
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This publication is one of several studies for the "Absent Architecture of the 20th century" exhibition. This collection tries to elucidate a wide-ranging collection of architecture that coincide in the fact that it no longer exists in a strict physical sense, either because it was never actually built, because it was demolished, or because over time its raison d'être has been profoundly changed. Although they belong to the 20th century, they are all still regarded by today's 21st century architecture as absolute unconcluded beacons of suggestion and reason.
Architecture Monographs
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From the seventeenth century until today, the "modern" has served as a key category by which to understand an ever-changing present. Art and architecture have played a key role in this pursuit, as the means by which "the modern" was to manifest itself. The essays in this new anthology trace the modern project through its multifarious manifestation in order to understand(...)
Tracing modernity : manifestations of the modern in architecture and the city
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From the seventeenth century until today, the "modern" has served as a key category by which to understand an ever-changing present. Art and architecture have played a key role in this pursuit, as the means by which "the modern" was to manifest itself. The essays in this new anthology trace the modern project through its multifarious manifestation in order to understand contemporary culture in a deeper sense than discussions of "modernism" and "post modernism" usually offer. Drawing on architectural and urban history as well as philosophy and sociology, the book outlines the complex and conflicting roots of modernity by tracing its manifestations in architecture and the city.
Urban Theory
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A founder partner of the leading design firm Pentagram, Alan Fletcher is considered by many in the graphic design world to be a contemporary master, known for his sharp and unerring sense of style. From the initial brief to the often award-winning outcome, here are more than a hundred of Fletcher’s design solutions. Grouped into thematic chapters for instructive(...)
Graphic Designers, Monographs
February 2004, London
Beware wet paint : designs by Alan Fletcher
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A founder partner of the leading design firm Pentagram, Alan Fletcher is considered by many in the graphic design world to be a contemporary master, known for his sharp and unerring sense of style. From the initial brief to the often award-winning outcome, here are more than a hundred of Fletcher’s design solutions. Grouped into thematic chapters for instructive reference, the projects demonstrate his lithe and lateral jumps, his skills and techniques and his ability to fuse interpretation, aesthetics and function with apparent ease. The commentary shows how each graphic idea was developed, giving insights both into the individual project and into the way in which the design process can be manipulated.
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February 2004, London
Graphic Designers, Monographs
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Audi Forum Ingolstadt
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With the creation of the Audi Forum, the Audi automobile plant in Ingolstadt--which formerly consisted largely of car production halls--has been given a new focus and become an extension of public space. For many years, the steadily expanding plant was virtually isolated from the outside world. Now, with the urban restructuring of the site, the ensemble may be seen as a(...)
Audi Forum Ingolstadt
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With the creation of the Audi Forum, the Audi automobile plant in Ingolstadt--which formerly consisted largely of car production halls--has been given a new focus and become an extension of public space. For many years, the steadily expanding plant was virtually isolated from the outside world. Now, with the urban restructuring of the site, the ensemble may be seen as a convincing translation into spatial form of the company's policy of opening itself to the public. The lively Forum, with its light-filled and spacious architecture, conveys a sense of urbanity.
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December 2001, Munich
Engineering Structures
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Renowned for being a universal designer, Santiago Calatrava has been a singular force in reviving an excitement for construction technology and infrastructure projects. Over the last two decades, Calatrava revolutionized the idea of bridges from utilitarian, mechanical instruments into elegant objects that enhance the sense of place and community of their settings. More(...)
Engineering Structures
October 2005, New York
Santiago Calatrava : the bridges
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Renowned for being a universal designer, Santiago Calatrava has been a singular force in reviving an excitement for construction technology and infrastructure projects. Over the last two decades, Calatrava revolutionized the idea of bridges from utilitarian, mechanical instruments into elegant objects that enhance the sense of place and community of their settings. More than thirty celebrated bridges are featured here in drawings and full-color photography, including never-before-published projects such as the Woodall Rodgers Bridge in Dallas, the Sundial Bridge in Redding, California, as well as bridges in Barcelona, Bilbao, Buenos Aires, Jerusalem, Manchester, the Netherlands, Orléans, Paris, Seville, and Valencia.
Engineering Structures