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Perspectives on how the city is Imagined in Latin America. Focussing on Latin America as an urban case study, an examination of urban imaginaries and the construct of our relationships with cities. Perspectives from anthropologists, sociologists, artists, and psychologists.

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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 recogni...

The world is merging into one global system of goods, people and information.This book explores the social, cultural, and economic phenomena of globalisation through housing. The Chair of Architecture and Design at the ETH in Zürich examines the last 25 years of housing development through a historical criticism with the built projects as protagonists. Housing typologies have been chosen as contemporary architectural prototypes. The selection ...

Eine Explosion kleiner Architekturzeitschriften in den 60er und 70er Jahren des 20. Jahrhunderts regte eine radikale Transformation der architektonischen Kultur an, denn diese Journale agierten als Plattform für Innovationen und Debatten. Clip/Stamp/Fold stellt siebzig dieser kleinen Magazine aus diesem Zeitraum vor. Das Buch zeigt eine beträchtliche Auswahl an Dokumenten zusammen mit der Dokumentation über die Recherche, die das Projekt währe...

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An essential work for understanding the contemporary Chinese city, this book illustrates the history of urban China from its acceleration over the 20th century to its metamorphosis over the last decade.

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Selection of works from the MUSAC Collection, a museum for the 21st Century. Extensive material for research into the works and artists based on critical texts by acclaimed experts.

Eine Auswahl der wichtigsten Texte von Alejandro Zaera-Polo Eine Auswahl von Texten seit 1986 zeigt eine parallele Tätigkeit in Alejandro Zaera-Polos Berufsleben. Das Buch ist wie das Protokoll eines Scharfschützen (sniper's log), eine Aufzeichnung von Ereignissen, um Erfahrungen für zukünftige Aufträge zu sammeln, egal ob wissenschaftlich oder berufspraktisch, eher um Tendenzen herauszufinden und Performances zu bewerten, als um die Wahrheit...

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Written by cross-disciplinary authors across Europe, Asia, and America, this compilation of articles and images explores the use of forms in nature for diverse design approaches and perspectives. Nature has rendered poetic potential to stimulate, as a metaphor, the design process. From formal, conceptual, geometrical to literal engagements, the scope of potential correlations between nature and design is as far reaching as the human imaginatio...

MAD DINNER is the first book by MAD office, Beijing-based architectural office. Organized around the metaphor of dinner table conversation, the book is a collection of ideas and opinions about topics ranging from politics to ecology to fame to the future. The dinner's "guests" include people from all levels of Chinese society: a government official, hairdresser, migrant laborers, a doctor, a taxi driver, and a developer are all brought togethe...

The anxiously awaited follow-up to Holland Design, Super Holland Design explores new functionality in contemporary Dutch design. Featured designers transform concepts into strong messages, using new techniques and technologies. Dutch designers are inspiring exciting interactions between design and its users, compelling us to re-think the meaning of design itself. They question every aspect of design, creating new concepts, processes, and forma...

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Felicity D. Scott revisits the architectural, art, video, and intermedia practices of the experimental collective Ant Farm, self-described ¿super-radical activist environmentalists.¿ Drawing together archival material on their extended fields of practice, Ant Farm features the first full-color publication of the complete Ant Farm Timeline, as well as Allegorical Time Warp: The Media Fallout (1969) and an archival dossier on Ant Farm's Trucksto...

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 lookin...

This is a recipe book of twenty-two tips in creating the best typography and twenty-two things you should never do with lettering. Secrets which many designers will never reveal. In an era of typographic fundamentalism and the cult of forms, this list of dos and don'ts explodes myths and provides a fresh view of typography. Enric Jardí is Professor of design at prominent institutions including Eina, Elisava, and Universitat Ramon Llull. He is ...