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Urban flashes Asia : new architecture and urbanism in Asia

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Urban Flashes Asia is a bold conceptual and architectural response to the contemporary city. Supplanting recent Western accounts of urban developments, centred largely on European research, it introduces an emergent network of globally dispersed architects, theorists and urbanists.

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Superstudio: life without objects

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Founded in Florence in 1966, Superstudio challenged the modernist orthodoxy that architecture and technological advances could improve the world by creating alternative visions of the future in photo-montages, sketches, collages and films. The five members of Superstudio: Cristiano Toraldo di Francia, Gian Piero Frassinelli, Alessandro Magris, Roberto Magris and Adolfo Natalini-were equally pessimistic about politics and its ability to solve mounting social, cultural and environmental problems. This Fall 2003 New York exhibition catalogue, drawn from Superstudio's archive and curated in collaboration with members of the group, will revisit its work and trace its influence on subsequent generations of architects. "Superstudio: Life without Objects" collects nearly 200 of the group's most important images, collages, storyboards and critical writings. White monuments crossing over entire landscapes and cities, vast grid groundplanes spreading over infinite beaches populated by wandering hippies: these are some of the more evocative images that consolidated their fame as vanguard architects. In 1972, MoMA invited them to participate in one of the largest exhibitions in its history, built around Italian design and architecture. With essays from Peter Lang and William Menking, the book is designed to provide the reader with the most detailed account of this avant-garde design group and their lively assault on modernism.

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Mortal city

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Mortal City, published with StoreFront for Art and Architecture, probes the polemical nature of urban violence. The essays present several different approaches to the subject, reflecting the most recent historical, geographical, and theoretical developments.

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Suburban discipline

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Suburban Discipline, the second book in the series from StoreFront for Art and Architecture, examines the implications of suburban culture through a series of critical essays. Keller Easterling, a professor of architecture at Columbia University and co-author of Seaside, contributes an essay on the Tennessee Valley Authority. Hannia Gómez, architecture critic for El Nacional in Caracas, provides a study on the Hanging Suburbs of Caracas. Writer Giampiero Nicola contributes a piece on Latina, one of Mussolini's Fascist new towns. Also included is a photo-essay on Rem Koolhaas's Lille project.