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Going aerial : air, art, architecture.
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ISBN: 9789072076779 907207677X Year: 2006 Publisher: Maastricht Jan van Eyck Academie


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The age of earthquakes : a guide to the extreme present
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ISBN: 9780141979564 0141979569 9780399173868 Year: 2015 Publisher: London Penguin Books

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A highly provocative, mindbending, beautifully designed, and visionary look at the landscape of our rapidly evolving digital era. 50 years after Marshall McLuhan's ground breaking book on the influence of technology on culture in The Medium is the Massage, Basar, Coupland and Obrist extend the analysis to today, touring the world that's redefined by the Internet, decoding and explaining what they call the 'extreme present'.


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Inhabitable infrastructures : science fiction or urban future?
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ISBN: 9781138119666 9781138119673 9781315652207 9781317312352 Year: 2017 Publisher: New York (N.Y.): Routledge

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Inhabitable Infrastructures: Science fiction or urban future?, the follow up to Food City and Smartcities and Eco-Warriors, from one of the world’s leading urban design and architectural thinkers, explores the potential of climate change-related multi-use infrastructures that address the fundamental human requirements to protect, to provide and to participate. The stimulus for the infrastructures derives from postulated scenarios and processes gleaned from science fiction and futurology as well as the current body of scientific knowledge regarding changing environmental impacts on cities. Science fiction is interdisciplinary by nature, aggregates the past and present, and evaluates both lay opinions and professional strategies in an attempt to develop foresight and to map possible futures.The research culminates in the creation of innovative multi-use infrastructures and integrated self-sustaining support systems that meet the challenges posed through climate change and overpopulation, and the reciprocal benefits of simultaneously addressing the threat and the shaping of cities. J. G. Ballard has written that the psychological realm of science fiction is most valuable in its predictive function, and in projecting emotions into the future.The knowledge from the book is widely transferable, constituting both solutions and speculative visions of future urban environments. The book is indispensable reading for professionals and students in the fields of urban design, architecture, engineering and environmental socio-politics.


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Playing at home : the house in contemporary art.
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ISBN: 9781780231808 Year: 2013 Publisher: London Reaktion books


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Installations by architects : experiments in building and design.
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ISBN: 9781568988504 1568988508 Year: 2009 Publisher: New York Princeton architectural press

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Over the last few decades, a rich and increasingly diverse practice has emerged in the art world that invites the public to touch, enter, and experience the work, whether it is in a gallery, on city streets, or in the landscape. Like architecture, many of these temporary artworks aspire to alter viewers' experience of the environment. An installation is usually the end product for an artist, but for architects it can also be a preliminary step in an ongoing design process. Like paper projects designed in the absence of "real" architecture, installations offer architects another way to engage in issues critical to their practice. Direct experimentation with architecture's material and social dimensions engages the public around issues in the built environment that concern them and expands the ways that architecture can participate in and impact people's everyday lives. The first survey of its kind, Installations by Architects features fifty of the most significant projects from the last twenty-five years by today's most exciting architects, including Anderson Anderson, Philip Beesley, Diller + Scofidio, John Hejduk, Dan Hoffman, and Kuth/Ranieri Architects. Projects are grouped in critical areas of discussion under the themes of tectonics, body, nature, memory, and public space. Each project is supplemented by interviews with the project architects and the discussions of critics and theorists situated within a larger intellectual context. There is no doubt that installations will continue to play a critical role in the practice of architecture. Installations by Architects aims to contribute to the role of installations in sharpening our understanding of the built environment.


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Congo art works : populaire schilderkunst
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ISBN: 9782873869908 2873869909 Year: 2016 Volume: *12 Publisher: Tielt Lannoo

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Na de onafhankelijkheid duiken de eerste populaire schilderijen op aan de muren van Congolese huiskamers. Die schilderijen worden beschreven als ‘conversation pieces' – ‘gespreksstukken' – want hun belang schuilt niet in het feit dat het kunstvoorwerpen zijn, maar in de boodschap die ze uitdragen. De betekenis van de afbeeldingen ligt niet altijd vast: iedereen kan er zijn eigen interpretatie aan geven. Ze zetten aan tot reflectie en discussies over de dagelijkse bekommeringen.De Congolese populaire schilderkunst wordt vaak als een koloniale stijl bestempeld, maar in feite sluit ze aan op de lange geschiedenis van tekencultuur die vóór kolonisatie in de Democratische Republiek Congo bestond.In 2013 verwierf het Koninklijk Museum voor Midden-Afrika een belangrijke collectie van bijna 2000 doeken die verzameld werden tussen 1968 en 2012 door Bogumil Jewsiewicki en zijn Congolese collega's in de DRC, in 15 steden: Beni, Bukama, Bunia, Butembo, Goma, Isiro, Kananga, Kikwit, Kinshasa, Kisangani, Kolwezi, Lubumbashi,Matadi, Mbandaka en Mbuji-Mayi. Deze collectie is niet alleen belangrijk door de omvang en het aantal schilderijen, maar ook door de archieven, foto's van ateliers, levensverhalen, interviews met de kunstenaars en kronieken die erbij horen.


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Revisiting the Glass House : contemporary art and modern architecture.
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ISBN: 9780300135879 0300135874 Year: 2008 Publisher: New Haven Yale university

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