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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. From the 2006 Marcus Prize Studio at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Winy Maas of MVDRV presents the work of twelve students who explored the relationship between infrastructure, architecture, and urban form. This highly investigative studio pushed the physical and conceptual limits of given definitions of city, circulation, and program. Tested in two scenarios (one real in Tianjin, China and the other purely hypothetical) Maas and his students sever vehicular traffic flow from its traditional two-dimensional plane and then forecast the potentials of a new, hyper-volumetric city where given urban activity inflate to fully occupy all three-dimensions. Populated by 5 million inhabitants and rising 800 meters high, this new 'sky car city' is buzzing with the flows of goods and people, as they navigate the airways in several models of air-born vehicles, also designed by the students. From the 2006 Marcus Prize Studio at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, this title presents the work of twelve students who explored the relationship between infrastructure, architecture, and urban form. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. In "12A" Sleeves", Toni Rubio offers a careful selection of maxi-single record cover art. Since the mid nineteen-seventies, the graphic artwork that has appeared on 45-rpm maxi-single has traveled a heterogeneous line, drawing from diverse influences and idioms. With abundant references to pop, minimalism, hard core, hyperrealism, electronic and other tendencies from the past thirty years, "'12A" Sleeves" is a journey through the recent past, allowing readers to re-live and re-visit many of the songs and covers that have provided the soundtrack for our lives. The covers in the book include records from all music styles, spanning the twenty years between 1980 to 2000: Communards, soft cell, Blondie, De La Soul, Kurtis Blow, Sylvester, Tone Loc, Westband, Moby, Line, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Talk Talk, The The, Soul II Soul, Prince, the Pet Shop Boys, Simply Red, and Basement Jaxx. Since the mid nineteen-seventies, the graphic artwork that has appeared on 45-rpm maxi-single has traveled a heterogeneous line, drawing from diverse influences and idioms. This title offers a selection of maxi-single record cover art. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Board Book. Condizione: new. Board Book. This book is an image and text essay on the American desert as a huge paradox. The awesome experience of its immensity and silence is just a mirage. Beneath that outward appearance, the sounds of all kinds of activities, experiments, mysteries, utopias, are hidden. The desert is also the setting of fictions, of oases of entertainment, consumerism and play, and also of the secret staging of military power. Serves as an essay, which contends that the American desert is a huge paradox. The awesome experience of its immensity and silence is just a mirage. Beneath that outward appearance the sounds of all kinds of activities, experiments, mysteries, utopias, are hidden. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. In reply to the architecture being made in central Europe, Eduard Bru defends and revindicates the way of making architecture in the south. Not all cities will be diffuse, nor are all territories flat or all nations wealthy. Eduard Bru proposes a reflection on the present and the immediate future of the built environment, using parameters that are different to those of dominant Dutch/North American thinking. He does this by using his own projects and writings, and also those of friends who, like him, come from the south. He defends, for poorer countries, a constructing of space by means of non-ephermeral, highly neutral, even atemporal objects situated in settings that become, with the aid of passing time, highly meaningful for the presence and action of the landscape. This book is also available in a Spanish language version, ISBN 84-95273-18-7. In reply to contemporary central European architecture, Eduard Bru defends and revindicates the way of making architecture in the south. He proposes a reflection on the immediate future of the built environment, using parameters that are different to those of dominant Dutch/North American thinking. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Created for students and professionals to inspire changes in how new buildings are designed and constructed, the Self-Sufficient competition challenged participants to design a self-sufficient and ecologically oriented dwelling. In the early 20th century, the concept of dwelling was defined as a machine for living, a reference to a new way of understanding the construction of inhabitable spaces that characterized the Machine Age. Today, a century later, we face the challenge of constructing a sustainable or self-sufficient dwelling, a living organism that interacts with its environment, exchanging resources, and which functions as an entirely independent entity. The Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC) has collected a selection of entries presented during its 1st Advanced Architecture Contest: Self-Sufficient Housing. The IAAC is an international centre of education and research that focuses on architecture understood as a discipline that encompasses different scales, ranging from territorial analysis, urban development, architectural projects and digital fabrications to informational environments. Created for students and professionals to inspire changes in how new buildings are designed and constructed, the Self-Sufficient competition challenged participants to design a self-sufficient and ecologically oriented dwelling. This work offers a selection of entries presented during its 1st Advanced Architecture Contest: Self-Sufficient Housing. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. When tourists become lost, overwhelmed, tired, inspired, bored, enlightened, confronted, hungry, upset or tipsy, get cheated or fall in love, perceptions change and surprising associations and experiences come to light. In trying to figure out a city, they are mostly investigating themselves. In each volume of "The One Weekend Book Series" M. Lorenz and a guest artist are given 48 hours to experience a city, document it and create a visual diary without the use of computers. What this results in is the documentation of a 48-hour search for visual entertainment and the definition of the city visited. On the one hand "The One Weekend Book Series" reports on places and situations not mentioned in the guide books, and on the other it offers an exhibitionistic glimpse of the personal state of the reporters. The present publication is a compilation of the first five volumes and gives a personal insight into the experiences of the author and his guest artists. Volumes 1 to 5 reported on Frankfurt, Copenhagen, Berlin, and New York City. For those volumes M. Lorenz invited T. Faulwetter, R. J. McCuskey, S. Ehlers, R. Riisholt, R. Lang, E. Schulze, E. Konig and Y. Sodeoka. When tourists become lost, tired, inspired, bored, enlightened, confronted, hungry, upset or tipsy, get cheated or fall in love, surprising associations and experiences come to light. In each volume of "The One Weekend Book Series" M Lorenz and a guest artist are given 48 hours to experience a city, document it and create a visual diary. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. The fourth issue of "Verb" looks at two related processes: the conditioning of architectural environments and the conditioning of behaviors. On the one hand, studies of luminosity, sound, atmosphere and temperature expand the range of techniques available to the discipline, allowing the production of ever more extensive effects with increasingly minimal means. On the other, the rise of commerce, theming and the manufacturing of identity produce a different set of effects, directing users and their emotions for maximum commercial success. What are the real potentials of conditioning? Do these new environments merely replicate the existing with increasing accuracy and sophistication, or can they generate qualitatively new atmospheres capable of stimulating not just new effects but new forms of living? What are the real potentials of conditioning? This work looks at two related processes: the conditioning of architectural environments and the conditioning of behaviors. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. The third issue of Verb boogazine is about the changing status of the city in the electronic era. Connection looks at the impact of electronic technology on new forms of urban reality, which are generated by new phenomena that affect all aspects of space and the experience of living in these new urbanisms. Faced with an increased blurring of the distinctions between the physical and the informational dimension of cities, we explore the relation between virtual connections - the effect of digital networks on the spaces and uses of the city - and the persistent role of architecture in creating physical connections between people, programs and uses. Featured works and texts: OMA, Atelier Bow-Wow, AUDC, PLOT. Featuring the Palast der Republik story in Berlin, Chip City by Shinobu Hashimoto and Rients Dijkstra, and Sim City, which contrasts the real city (the product of virtual processes) with virtual cities (created by real people, via computer-based simulations). This issue of the boogazine "Verb" is about the city in the electronic era. It looks at the impact of electronic technology on urban reality, on the forms it is conceived in, on the new phenomena and new forms that generate it. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Daniel Canogar (born Madrid 1964) lives and works in Madrid. He studied visual communications and received his Master's in photography from New York University and the International Centre for Photography in 1990. Daniel Canogar's work has long dwelt on issues of immersion and realism, of corporeal images and sensations, of light instrumentalized to reveal figments and traces of visual matter. His consistent use of photography undermines and transcends simple questions of photographic realism, through play with variable scales, obsessive pseudo-repetition and disconcerting projection procedures and surfaces. Canogar's work has long dwelt on issues of immersion and realism, of corporeal images and sensations, of light instrumentalized to reveal figments and traces of visual matter. He undermines simple questions of photographic realism, through play with variable scales and obsessive pseudo-repetition. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Hardcover. Condizione: new. Hardcover. What happens when unrelated communities fuse into a global village, when cultures mix, traditions dissolve, and something new rises from the amalgam? In search of cultural identity and cultural bastards, the authors embark on an extreme expedition: in a mere 21 days, this team of designers visited the major hot spots of globalization, flying to Mexico City, L.A., Tokyo, Hong Kong, Bangkok, and Dubai before returning to Frankfurt. They conducted hundreds of meetings with artists, musicians, designers and authors to compile a comprehensive understanding of the personal interpretation of a manifold of different impressions. Globalization is not necessarily negative, and it seems that we are entering an exciting new era where the enriched exchange of media, styles, and thought has become of utmost importance. The disciplines of photography, illustration, graphic design, and typography have merged into a tightly woven corpus that expresses cultures, everyday life, movement, tradition and identity (collective and personal).This cultural bastardization is exposed through the work of famous contributors in the form of a printed book, CD of a type library designed by internationally renown typographers, and music soundtrack. The disciplines of photography, illustration, graphic design, and typography have merged into a tightly woven corpus that expresses cultures, everyday life, movement, tradition and identity (collective and personal). This title exposes this cultural bastardization through the work of some of the famous contributors. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. A survey of a century of conflict, this book begins with the early twentieth century and ends with the current state of warfare. Entirely invariable, war is a phenomena that displays certain familiar characteristics that emerge before and during the actual manifestation of violence. This publication contrasts the oppositional attitudes of the combatants and the victims, placing side by side one vision of the 'noble cause' and its counterpart, a deep rejection of all forms of war. Withholding judgement, this book presents war in its many manifestations, composed of a range of experiences, consequences, and cultural by-products. Entirely invariable, war is a phenomena that displays certain familiar characteristics that emerge before and during the actual manifestation of violence. This survey of a century of conflict begins with the early twentieth century and ends with the current state of warfare. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. A historical photograph shows a room in a steel and glass building and a man which is evidently the architect Mies van der Rohe. Only the name of the photographer is known. In a manner more usually found in detective novels, the author has painstakingly researched the events surrounding its taking making deductions and gradually revealing in which room the architect is standing, in which building it is to be found, what the architect is looking at, what his stance and his gaze tell us about his person, his work. Step by step, the author systematically investigates the photograph, drawing fascinating conclusions and making astonishing revelations about the architecture, the man and his character from this one photograph. His hypothesis is illustrated by a short and compelling text and supported by further visual material. The famous photograph of Mies van der Rohe in a steel and glass building smoking a cigar has fascinated and intrigued the author to such an extent, that he has painstakingly researched the events surrounding its taking. This text intends to reveal the man behind the architecture. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. En el libro se muestra una seleccion de esbozos que Lanfranco Bombelli realizo, primero en Paris y despues en Barcelona, para la grafica de las exposiciones en los Centros Comerciales Americanos de Milan, Estocolmo, Paris y Francfort, desde 1963 a 1978, como continuacion del Plan Marshall, hasta que se cerraron. Su arte, de composiciones geometricas, se basa en los medios plasticos minimos y se inspira en principios matematicos. Cada exposicion se preparaba en cuatro o cinco dias, dos para el proyecto y tres para la produccion. Research carried by IAAC and The Observer Design Group on Taipeis unique urban configuration over a ten-day period, measuring and reading the city in order to get the precise information to register the uniqueness of this urban configuration, is chronicled. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. German graphic design has undergone a dramatic metamorphosis in recent years. Young professionals and students have been demonstrating heightened technical skills and strong, individualistic styles. The emerging design generation has broken with cultural and geographical boundaries, entering the international arena and competing with cutting edge design icons worldwide. As the scope and depth of this exciting development has been under recognised, "Neuland" documents the future of German graphic design by presenting the best work of up-and-coming designers and design studios. This book compiles over 400 pages of exciting ideas, never before seen experiments, self initiated projects and commercial work from Germans working and studying at home and abroad, as well as non-Germans working and studying in Germany. German graphic design has undergone a dramatic metamorphosis. Young professionals and students have been demonstrating heightened technical skills and strong, individualistic styles. This book offers a look at the future of German graphic design. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. From soft politics, soft power and soft spaces to fluid territories, software and soft programming, Bracket 2 unpacks the use and role of responsive, indeterminate, flexible, and immaterial systems in design. In an era of declared crises--economic, ecological and climatic, among others--the notion of soft systems has gained increasing traction as a counterpoint to permanent, static and hard systems. Acknowledging fluid and indeterminate situations with complex feedback loops that allow for reaction and adaption, the possibility of soft systems has reentered the domain of design. The examples displayed in "Bracket goes soft" are offered as nothing more than a short catalog of soft systems--some explicitly architectural, others geological, others entirely metaphorical. In all cases, these examples explore how the notion of going soft can be iterated across professions, disciplines, and fields of research. The book is divided into the themes "sensing/feedback"; "interfacing/ enveloping"; "subverting/hijacking"; "formatting/ distributing"; "contingency/ resilience"; "diffusing/generating." Bracket is a book series structured around an open call that highlights emerging critical issues at the juncture of architecture, environment, and digital culture. The editorial board and jury for Bracket 2 includes Benjamin Bratton, Julia Czerniak, Jeffrey Inaba, Geoff Manaugh, Philippe Rahm, Charles Renfro, as well as co-editors Neeraj Bhatia and Lola Sheppard. Bracket is a collaboration between InfraNet Lab and Archinect. Bracket 2 examines physical and virtual soft systems, as they pertain to infrastructure, ecologies, landscapes, environments and networks. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Hardcover. Condizione: new. Hardcover. Based on Broodthaers' interpretation, this book examines Mallarme's influence on such seminal figures of modernity as Artaud and Apollinaire, reinterpreting many 20th-century art movements (from cubism to the historical avant-garde movements to the art of the seventies), and questions the very idea of modernity. The catalog's contents are highly varied: in addition to an essay by Jean-Francois Chevrier, the publication includes abundant documentary material, poetry and other literary texts, as well as reproductions of the works from the exhibition. Based on Broodthaers' interpretation, this book examines Mallarme's influence on such seminal figures of modernity as Artaud and Apollinaire, reinterpreting many 20th-century art movements (from cubism to the historical avant-garde movements to the art of the seventies), and questions the very idea of modernity. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Fernando Romero graduated from architecture school in Mexico City in 1995, and then worked with Enric Miralles, Jean Nouvel and Rem Koolhaas before setting up his own firm in 1999, called Laboratorio de la Ciudad de Mexico. LCM soon became influential, as one of few offices--if not the only one--carrying out experimental projects in Mexico City's economically vulnerable environment. In 2005, Romero founded the Laboratory of Architecture, LAR. Translation divides LCM and LAR's projects into three categories. "Fluid Bodies" are long-lasting private projects, addressing specific situations with high-tech resources. The Modern Wetdream project from 2001, a villa with a view of the Pacific Ocean, is a perfect illustration of this. "Revised Boxes" are public buildings whose technology is based on industrial products. For example, at the Inbursa bank on Paseo de la Reforma, one of the most prestigious avenues in Mexico City, Romero used laminated glass which looks either opaque or transparent depending on where one stands. "Boxes," the third category of projects, create cheap, low-tech architecture and rapidly applicable designs from commercial wholesale products, the better to attain LAR's goal of addressing contemporary society via a process of architectural translation. The Mexican architect F Romero founded LCM in 1999 and later, in 2005, LAR, an office that conceives of architecture as a process of translating the needs of today's society. This book seeks to generate unprecedented spaces, exploring new structures and geometries, developing the use of new materials and applying contemporary construction methods. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Hardcover. Condizione: new. Hardcover. This catalogue proposes a new reading of art produced between 1920s and the 1970s. We are dealing here not with a history of kinetic art, but with something closer to an essay, in which we are confronted with works that would perhaps find no place in the existing official genealogy. It also sets out to re-assess certain aspects of the kinetic art of the 1960s, a tendency all too frequently ignored or trivialised in the history of art and establishes new and revealing connections between groups of works conventionally seen by art history as being at opposite poles, or even mutually antagonistic. Among the artists shown here are figures as classic as Pol Bury, Alexander Calder, Marcel Duchamp, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Georges Vantongerloo, Helio Oiticica, Henri Michaux, Gordon Matta-Clark and Lucio Fontana. A catalogue that proposes a fresh reading of art produced between 1920s and the 1970s. It also sets out to re-assess certain aspects of the kinetic art of the 1960s. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Under the Influence is based on the eponymous symposium, which brought together scholars and practitioners of architecture in order to focus on one of the most anxious disciplinary topics: influence.Influence is not easily quantified. It is elusive, even when we casually admit to it as we ogle images on the internet, or feel ourselves softening our resolve on an important issue in light of a beautifully crafted piece of rhetoric; or as the mass-media drone imperceptibly rewires some of our most fundamental desires. When the Under the Influence symposium took place at MIT in 2012, the invitation to discuss issues of originality and copying in architecture were still taboo. There have been a number of projects on the topic since, but they have hardly exhausted the topics of copying and copyright, whose importance increases with every act of scrolling or "liking" architectural images on Instagram. Under the Influence is based on the eponymous symposium, which brought together scholars and practitioners of architecture in order to focus on one of the most anxious disciplinary topics: influence. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. "What is fascinating is the inability to separate the real from the digital, because they already form part of the same nature." So we said in the last issue of Verb. Here we explore how this fusion takes place. Buildings and cities grow, are transformed, and dissolve. How can this evolution be generated, controlled, enhanced or imagined? Is our environment programmable? How does the fusion of natural and artificial matter produce new architectural organisms, new environments, new natures? How does technology animate space, and how do users and programs animate matter? The fifth volume of Actar's boogazine looks for a new definition of the organic.Projects by: Terraswarm, Aranda/Lasch, Shohei Matsukawa / 000studio, Kram/Weisshaar, Michael Meredith, mos, Foster + Partners, George L. Legendre, IJP Corporation, PTW Architects + Arup Australia + CSCEC, ON-A, Hitoshi Abe, Manuel Gausa Asociados, Vicente Guallart, Mick Pearce, Yusuke Obuchi, R&Sie(n), Cristina D az, AMID, INI, ONL. A series of projects, investigations and essays that explores the fusion of the artificial and organic, which produces new architectures, new possibilities, and new natures. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. On the occasion of the 33rd anniversary of the famed Benicassim/ Rock Werchter music festival, along with the upcoming exhibition in the Palais des Beaux Arts in Brussels, this book explores the 'unknown' visual side of some of the most popular faces of rock and pop bands, giving an insight into the genesis of their music. Most of the bands have linked contemporary art in their lyrics and songwriting and have engaged in productive crossovers. The book compiles the artworks of bands and musicians from the 70's until today, musicians for whom visual art is yet another strung in their creative process. It features 20 artists including: Brian Eno, Yoko Ono, Laurie Anderson, Patti Smith, the Residents, The Kills, Devendra Banhart, Anthony and the Johnsons, Chicks on Speed, Miss Kitten, Fischerspooner, Nick Zinner (Yeah Yeah Yeahs), Pete Doherty, David Byrne. On the occasion of the 33rd anniversary of the famed Benicassim/Rock Werchter music festival, this book explores the 'unknown' visual side of some of the popular faces of rock and pop bands, giving an insight into the genesis of their music. It compiles the artworks of bands and musicians since 70's. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Hardcover. Condizione: new. Hardcover. The shift from modern to digital systems of design and production opens up a material work to a deeper relationship between author and perceiver. From the classical work to the modern object and from the modern industrial to 'computerised' procedures, the interplay between author and user has become closer, more direct and open. How does this increasing complicity affect architectural practice? How can architecture be conceived as a more fluid informational development? Publishing architectures is much more than displaying a recently finished product in which the architect is the unique author. To make architecture is a real undertaking of numerous authors based on the processing of information before, during and after the materialization of the building. The contemporary relationship between information and authorship in architectural practice, featuring works and texts by Manuel de Landa, Jorge Wagensberg, FOA Architects, Sadar & Vuga, njiric & njiric, Love, Lacaton & Vassal. Essays by Adilkno Bilwet, Manuel De Landa, Jorge Wagensberg, Kunio Watanabe, Alejandro Zaera. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. AUDC's first book captures three moments in modern culture that offer glimpses into our increasingly perverse relationship to architecture, cities, and objects. "Ether" explores the Los Angeles telecom hotel, One Wilshire; a 39 story building of utter banality and complete mystery. "The Stimulus Progression" examines the strange story of the Muzak Corporation and the invention of a culture of horizontality. "Quartzsite, Arizona" visits a desert town of 3,000 people that swells to over 1 million residents every summer when modern nomads in Recreational Vehicles descend upon in it in hordes. This book is a lively mix of philosophy, photography, architectural drawings and models, and new media. Features three moments in modern culture that offer glimpses into our perverse relationship to architecture, cities, and objects. This book captures three moments: "Ether"; "The Stimulus Progression" and "Quartzsite, Arizona". It is a lively mix of philosophy, photography, architectural drawings and models, and media. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. This is a compelling compilation of essays by international architectural theorists on the relationship of violence to space. With the events of September 11th, the London bombings, the Madrid train explosions, and the daily blasts in Baghdad, the question of violence and terrorism is imposing architectural ramifications with renewed urgency. A new sense of architectural awareness has been forged as violence is forcing its place as an architectural datum.Wide-ranging contributions approach design issues related to violence through multiple angles and intersections. Texts by: Libero Andreotti, Annette Fierro, Elie Haddad, Dorita Hannah, Sarah Treadwell, Eyal Weizman, Andrew Herscher, and Bechir Kenzari. Diverse perspectives by international theorists on architecture's new relationship to violence. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. A study of the contemporary city and urban space which adopts a systemic perspective for approaching the urban complexity and the nature of urban / public space in the era of globalization. A new language and new theoretical approaches must be developed in order to understand presentday urbanisation processes. A study of the contemporary city and urban space which adopts a systemic perspective for approaching the urban complexity and the nature of urban / public space in the era of globalization. A new language and new theoretical approaches must be developed in order to understand presentday urbanisation processes. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Can a gap in one's identity be filled? Can an identity ever be in focus and above all separate and exclusive? The other defines us while we define ourselves. Also we may try to define ourselves by trying to define the other. These images from the photographic travel journal of Matei Glass are mainly of Palestine and Palestinians. They are also somehow of Glass and about his need to identify and redefine a people about whom he learned little as he grew up. He was a child of Holocaust survivors whose support for Israel could not be other than unquestioning. In a sense, it is his need to fill in the blanks in his personal and collective memory that brought him to Palestine with his camera. Can a gap in one's identity be filled? These images from the photographic travel journal of Matei Glass are mainly of Palestine and Palestinians. They are also somehow of Glass and about his need to identify and redefine a people about whom he learned little as he grew up. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. The product of a joint program with an international network of cities, universities, and experts from different disciplines, as well as the catalog of a touring exhibition, the book analyzes more than 150 completed passage projects and describes methods for action. It is addressed to researchers, designers, politicians and technicians, transit firms and operators, citizen groups and anyone interested in the right to the city and concerned with the quality of these small spaces of movement. Eight articles by the exhibition curators punctuate the catalog and provide insights into passages in their historical, spatial, social, and sensory dimensions, as well as from the perspective of emerging mobilities and the desires of citydwellers. Contents: the thousand and one barriers of the contemporary city; historical chronology; global panorama of passages defined in terms of Link, Place, and Transition; mutating mobilities and passages; taking action: international examples and actions by IVM; Manifesto for the Passage and call for innovation.-- Fruit d'un travail collectif avec un reseau international de villes, d'universites et d'experts de differentes disciplines, egalement catalogue d'une exposition itinerante, l'ouvrage analyse plus de 150 realisations de passages et presente des methodes pour l'action. Il s'adresse aux chercheurs, concepteurs, elus et techniciens, entreprises et operateurs de transport, collectifs de citoyens et passants attentifs au droit a la ville et soucieux de la qualite de ces petits espaces du mouvement. Huit articles des commissaires de l'exposition rythment le catalogue et proposent une lecture des passages dans leurs dimensions historique, spatiale, sociale, sensible, ainsi que du point de vue des mobilites emergentes et des desirs des habitants. Au sommaire: les mille et une barrieres de la ville contemporaine; chronologie historique; panorama mondial des passages definis comme lien, lieu, et transition; passages et mobilites en mutation; passage a l'acte: exemples internationaux et actions de l'IVM; Manifeste des passages et appel a l'innovation. Tunnels, footbridges, escalators, urban cable cars, pathways - passages are essential links, with the potential to generate distinctive urban environments. Designing and building passages is a way to act quickly and to lay the foundations for larger scale transformations: international analyses and examples. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Common Wealth features the work of the Post-Professional Design studios taught by Fred Koetter, Ed Mitchell and Aniket Shahane which exame the impact of recent growht in the greater Boston area. It includes essays by urbanists on the issues of growth and the architecture of the city. Common Wealth features the work of the Post-Professional Design studios taught by Fred Koetter, Ed Mitchell and Aniket Shahane which exame the impact of recent growht in the greater Boston area. It includes essays by urbanists on the issues of growth and the architecture of the city. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Converging Territories: Island Incubator describes the research and design work of the Advanced Studio of Marion Weiss and Michael Manfredi at Yale School of Architecture where they investigated with their students the design of a new campus on Roosevelt Island as a new kind of incubator combining research university and tech incubator with the island landscape. It includes an essay and interview with Marion Weiss and Michael Manfredi. Converging Territories: Island Incubator describes the research and design work of the Advanced Studio of Marion Weiss and Michael Manfredi at Yale School of Architecture where they investigated with their students the design of a new campus on Roosevelt Island as a new kind of incubator combining research university and tech incubator with the isl Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Hardcover. Condizione: new. Hardcover. The new Museum of Contemporary Art of Castilla and Le*n, opened in Spain in 2005 with an exhibition of Alfredo Jaar's Emergency, a dark pool from which a fiberglass model of the African continent is constantly, slowly rising and resubmerging. This revised and expanded black book of essays--whose back cover leads to black endpapers and black title pages--extends Jaar's piece with reflections on the continent from such brilliant African writers as Ama Ata Aidoo (of Ghana, via Stanford University's creative writing program), Buchi Emecheta (of Nigeria and London), Nawal el Saadawi (Egypt's onetime Director of Public Health, the only woman ever to achieve such a position), and Nuruddin Farah (a novelist exiled from Somalia). Deals with the problems of contemporary reality across the African continent. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.