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Book SynopsisThe office is dead. Long live the office. Despite decades of predictions that the office is on the verge of extinction, it is surviving and thriving. Of course things are changing. And changing fast. Digital technologies are transforming not only the work we do, but also the ways our workplaces are designed, built and operated. Automation and AI mean that some jobs will no longer exist whilst others will be created. But the very essence of the workplace — human interaction and collaboration, remains as necessary as ever. In fact, it is the human focus that is driving this new age, with four generations now in the workplace together for the first time. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, this book discusses the impacts of these changes on the future of work and workplace. The latest technologies are also explored from voice and digital twins, to new materials such as graphene and battery-powered buildings. The book looks at what this means for the design process, the role of the architect and physical place itself in the future, and provides a practical guide to help architects, designers, developers, clients and occupiers create office spaces that promote wellbeing, innovation and growth.Table of ContentsIntroduction Part I: Buildings 1. A place in time: office typologies 2. Fit for the future: sustainability and adaptive buildings Part II: Technology 3. The changing nature of technology and its impacts on office buildings 4. Digital transformation and big data Part III: People 5. Wellbeing 6. Research-led design 7. Workplace as a catalyst for behaviour change Part IV: Delivery 8. Energy, materiality and specification 9. Design leadership in procurement 10. The future of design practice 11. Conclusions: fast-forward to the future

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Book SynopsisMany people dream of commissioning an architect to design their perfect home. It is a commitment that takes time and money, but having a bespoke space built around your specific needs, interests and desires can be life-changing. So, what makes an award-winning, 21st-century house? The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has been championing outstanding work for over 180 years, and the internationally recognised RIBA awards celebrate the very best in British architecture. The winning houses, featured here, showcase truly innovative design, contemporary materials and techniques, and inspired responses to historical and urban settings, as well as areas of natural beauty. By working closely with clients every step of the way, the architects’ extraordinary buildings redefine what ‘home’ looks like. This compilation of some of the best RIBA award-winning houses from the last ten years offers an essential source of ideas and inspiration for the contemporary British home. From a sustainable townhouse to a modern cottage, a hillside home to a lakeside escape, these houses are show-stopping examples of architects surpassing their clients’ loftiest dreams. Featuring: • The best RIBA award-winning houses from the last decade • Houses from each region of the UK • A rich variety of projects – from new builds to conversions to extensions • Case studies from esteemed practices, including: Alison Brooks Architects, Chris Dyson Architects, Foster Lomas, Henning Stummel Architects, Mole Architects and Tonkin Liu • Guidance for working with architects.Table of ContentsTABLE OF CONTENTS Preface Introduction Part One – The Houses South · Cork House Matthew Barnett Howland (with Dido Milne & Oliver Wilton) · Lark Rise Bere:architects · Berkshire House Gregory Phillips Architects · Pheasants House Sarah Griffiths & Amin Taha · House 19 Heinz Richardson · The Cheeran House John Pardey Architects South East · Harbour House McLean Quinlan · Hill House Passivhaus Meloy Architects · Black House AR Design Studio · Caring Wood James Mcdonald Wright & Niall Maxwell · Shoreham Beach House ABIR Architects · North Vat Rodic Davidson · Bumpers Oast Acme · Le Petit Fort Hudson Architects South West · The Green House David Sheppard Architects · Batelease Farm New British Design · Duncan Cottage James Grayley Architects · The Quest Strom Architects · Outhouse Loyn & Co Architects · Windward House Alison Brooks Architects London · Kenwood Lee House Cousins & Cousins · South London House Jonathan Pile · The Makers House Liddicoat & Goldhill · The Cooperage Chris Dyson Architects · Covert House DSDHA · The Tin House Henning Stummel Architects East of England · Kintyre Tate Harmer · Five Acre Barn Blee Halligan · Backwater Platform 5 Architects · Marsh Hill Mole Architects · Redshank Lisa Shell Architects (with Marcus Taylor) · Water Tower Tonkin Liu East Midlands · Artemis Barn Chiles Evans + Care Architects · Hannington Farm James Gorst Architects · Font House Woldon Architects · Contour House Sanei Hopkins Architects West Midlands · Barn House Stolon Studio · Hope View House Warren Benbow Architects · Cheshire Street House form:form architects North East · St Andrews Road House Elliott Architects · Edge Hill Sutherland Hussey Harris Architects North West · Farnworth House Smith Young Architects · House in Cumbria Bennetts Associates · House for an Art Lover Shed KM Yorkshire · Old Shed New House Tonkin Liu Architects · Contemporary Lean To Doma Architects · Barrow House ID/Architecture Wales · Silver How Hall + Bednarczyk Architects · Silver House Hyde & Hyde Architects · House in North Wales Martin Edwards Architects · Stormy Castle Loyn + Co Architects Northern Ireland · House Lessans McGonigle McGrath · County Down Barn Micah T Jones Architects · Maison Wedge BGA Architects Scotland · An Cala Mary Arnold-Forster · Briongos MacKinnon House Richard Murphy Architects · The Black House Dualchas Architects · House No. 7 Denizen Works · Edinburgh Road HAAR Architects · Fernaig Cottage Scampton & Barnett Architects Part Two – The Guide 1. Finding an Architect 2. Working with an Architect 3. Planning & Consultation 4. Expert Advice 5. Listing of Featured Architects

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Book Synopsis‘It was like heaven! It was like a palace, even without anything in it … We’d got this lovely, lovely house.’In 1980, there were well over 5 million council homes in Britain, housing around one third of the population. The right of all to adequate housing had been recognised in the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, but, long before that, popular notions of what constituted a ‘moral economy’ had advanced the idea that everyone was entitled to adequate shelter.At its best, council housing has been at the vanguard of housing progress – an example to the private sector and a lifeline for working-class and vulnerable people. However, with the emergence of Thatcherism, the veneration of the free market and a desire to curtail public spending, council housing became seen as a problem, not a solution.We are now in the midst of a housing crisis, with 1.4 million fewer social homes at affordable rent than in 1980.In this highly illustrated survey, eminent social historian John Boughton, author of Municipal Dreams, examines the remarkable history of social housing in the UK. He presents 100 examples, from the almshouses of the 16th century to Goldsmith Street, the 2019 winner of the RIBA Stirling Prize. Through the various political, aesthetic and ideological changes, the well-being of community and environment demands that good housing for all must prevail.Features: 100 examples of social housing from all over the UK, illustrated with over 250 images including photographs and sketches. A complete history, dating from early charitable provision to ‘homes for heroes’, garden villages to new towns, multi-storey tower blocks and modernist developments to contemporary sustainable housing. Iconic estates, including: Alton East and West, Becontree, Dawson’s Heights, Donnybrook Quarter, Dunboyne Road and Park Hill. Projects from leading architects and practices, including: Peter Barber, Neave Brown, Karakusevic Carson, Kate Macintosh and Mikhail Riches. Table of ContentsIntroduction CHAPTER 1: A ‘Prehistory’ of Social Housing – early parish and charitable provision; 19th century sanitary reform and building regulation; philanthropic provision 1. Almshouses and Parish Housing 1. Powis Almshouses, Chepstow 2. Parish provision in Mursley, Buckinghamshire 2. Sanitary and building reform and regulation 3. Footdee, Aberdeen 3. Philanthropic provision 4. Peabody: Peabody Square, Islington 5. Artizans', Labourers' and General Dwellings Company: Noel Park, Haringey 6. Edinburgh Co-Operative Building Company: Edinburgh Colonies CHAPTER 2: 1890-1914 – varying early forms of local authority housing and some co-partnership models 1. Municipal tenements and cottage flats 7. Millbank Estate, London 8. Hornby Street, Liverpool 2. Balcony access 9. High School Yards, Edinburgh 10. Valette Buildings, Hackney 3. Garden villages and co-partnership models 11. Burnage GV, Manchester/Brentham Garden Suburb, Ealing 4. Garden Suburbs 12. Flower Estate, Sheffield 13. Old Oak Estate, Hammersmith CHAPTER 3: 1914-1930 – the impact of the First World War; the influence of evolving policy choices on housing forms in the 1920s; prefabrication and other forms of provision 1. Munitions estates 14. Rosyth Garden City, Scotland 15. Well Hall, Greenwich 2. ‘Homes for Heroes’ 16. Moulescombe Estate, Brighton 17. Wollaton Park, Nottingham 18. Townhill Estate, Swansea 19. Moss Park, Glasgow 20. Sea Mills or Hillfields, Bristol 21. Becontree Estate, London 3. Early forms of prefabrication 22. Nissen-Petren Houses, Yeovil 23. Norris Green, Liverpool (Boot houses) 4. Housing associations 24. St Pancras Housing Association CHAPTER 4: 1930-1939 – the policy shift to slum clearance and rehousing; new forms of tenement housing; architectural debates and the relative insignificance of Modernism in Britain 1. Slum clearance estates 25. Knowle West, Bristol 26. Deckham Hall Estate, Gateshead 27. Wythenshawe Estate, Manchester 2. New-style tenements 28. White City, London 29. Liverpool’s 1930s flats 30. Lennox House, Hackney 3. Modernist design 31. Kensal House, London 32. Quarry Hill, Leeds CHAPTER 5: 1940-1955 – the significance of wartime planning; temporary and permanent prefabs; Bevan houses; neighbourhood units; mixed development; Radburn; New Towns and Expanded Towns; model rural council housing; the origins of multi-storey 1. Temporary and permanent prefabs 33. Inverness Road and Humber Doucy Lane, Ipswich 34. Bilborough Estate, Nottingham (BISF and No-Fines houses) 2. Early post-war 35. Minerva Estate, Tower Hamlets 36. Pollok, Glasgow 37. The Creggan, Derry/Londonderry 3. Bevan houses 38. Moorlands Estate, Bath 39. Ermine Estate, Lincoln 40. Gaer Estate, Newport 4. Neighbourhood units 41. Lansbury Estate, Poplar 42. Stowlawn, Bilston (Reilly Greens) 43. Rathcoole Estate, Newton Abbey, Northern Ireland 44. New Parks Estate, Leicester 5. Mixed development 45. Somerford Grove, Hackney 46. Orlando Estate, Walsall 47. Churchill Estate, London 6. Radburn 48. Queen’s Park, Wrexham 49. Middleton Estate, Gainsborough 7. New Towns and Expanded Towns 50. Crawley New Town 51. Cwmbran New Town, Wales 52. Cumbernauld New Town, Scotland 53. Thetford, Norfolk (expanded town) 8. Rural council housing 54. Elwy Road Estate, Rhos on Sea, Wales 55. Tayler and Green, Loddon RDC 9. Early multi-storey 56. Redcliffe flats, Bristol CHAPTER 6: 1956-1968 – New-style suburban estates; the rise of multi-storey; deck access; system-building and high-rise 1. New-style suburban estates (and a ‘New City’) 57. Gleadless Valley, Sheffield 58. Alton East and West, London 59. Cranbrook Estate, Bethnal Green 60. Chinbrook Estate, Lewisham 61. Orchard Park, Hull 62. Craigavon New City, Co. Armagh, Northern Ireland 2. Multi-storey 63. Loughborough Road, Southwark 64. Aberdeen Multis 65. Red Road, Glasgow 66. Pepys Estate, Lewisham 67. Divis Flats, Belfast 68. Wyndham Court, Southampton 3. Deck access 69. Park Hill, Sheffield 70. Hyson Green, Nottingham 71. Killingworth, Newcastle 4. System-building and high-rise 72. Pendleton Estate, Salford (early 1960s) 73. Red Road, Glasgow (mid 1960s) 74. Freemason’s Estate (Ronan Point) (1966) CHAPTER 7: 1968-1979 – Developing forms of high-rise; the backlash against high-rise in the form of rehabilitation, municipalisation and low-rise, high-density forms; alternative models of social housing provision 1. High-Rise and multi-storey 75. North Peckham, London 76. Derwent Tower, Whickham 77. Dawson’s Heights, Southwark 78. Coralline Walk and Binsey Walk, Thamesmead 2. Low-rise, high-density 79. Ketts Hill, Norwich 80. Duffryn, Newport 81. Cressingham Gardens, Lambeth 82. Dunboyne Road, Camden 83. Dartmouth Park Hill, Camden 3. Rehabilitation 84. General Improvement Area study 4. Municipalisation 85. Municipalisation in Islington 5. Short-life and Housing Coops 86. Sanford Housing Coop, New Cross CHAPTER 8: 1980s-1990s – the sea-change of 1979; new emphasis on regeneration and a revival of traditional streetscapes; new models of provision emphasising cross-subsidy and the role of the third sector; alternative models 1. Regeneration 87. North Hull Estate (HAT) 88. Raffles Estate, Carlisle 89. Hulme, Manchester 90. Five Estates, Peckham 91. Broadwater Farm, Haringey 2. Self-build 92. Segal, Lewisham CHAPTER 9: 2000s – contemporary regeneration; newbuild; sustainable housing 1. Regeneration 93. Sighthill, Glasgow (Transformational Regeneration Area) 2. Newbuild 94. Donnybrook Quarter, Tower Hamlets/Ordnance Rd, Enfield (Peter Barber) 95. Dujardin Mews, Enfield (Karacusevic Carson) 96. Scottish new build (Midlothian/West Lothian/?) 97. Richeson Close, Bristol 3. Sustainable housing 98. Chester-Balmore Scheme, Camden 99. Wilmcote House, Portsmouth 100. Goldsmith Street, Norwich Afterword A brief discussion of the current shifting and contested regarding social housing; a hopeful prediction or manifesto of the forms that new social housing might take. (500-750 words)

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Book SynopsisYour client has decided to move out of the city to a country property. But they want to create a stylish, urban home in their new rural idyll. As a designer, it can seem difficult to recreate a metropolitan style while working within the more confined parameters of the country. This book shows you how to create a sophisticated scheme while also understanding the practicalities of designing for rural living. This practical and attractive design guide, including inspirational case studies, gives a fresh perspective on designing for country homes, explaining how to integrate contemporary style while engaging with current concerns such as how to design for sustainable building and wellbeing. Individual chapters cover various key rooms around the house with design ideas and practical tips to make them both comfortable and workable, as well as beautiful spaces. The design element of this book explores materials and finishes as well as styling that stand up to country life, the importance of using local materials and crafts people where possible and being aware of the architecture of the house and how it fits with the rural context. Case studies from a variety of exciting interior designers illustrate how following practical guidelines need not result in an uninspiring interior, but can result in an eclectic, contemporary finish.Table of ContentsChapter 1 IntroductionChapter 2 PlanningChapter 3 Architectural Styles in the CountryChapter 4 Heating/UtilitiesChapter 5 Space Planning/StorageChapter 6 KitchensChapter 7 Reception RoomsChapter 8 Working from Home SpacesChapter 9 BedroomsChapter 10 Bathrooms

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Book SynopsisClose to nature, sustainable, healthy, social, spectacular...We ask a lot of our future homes and the architects that design them.Over time, innovative domestic design has taken many forms. Different eras, shaped by specific needs, challenges and opportunities, have given their own interpretation of this most essential of buildings - the home - defining what it could look like, what it might signify and how it should function.Today, new challenges have emerged within this dynamic landscape, including climate change, the pursuit of diversity and equity across society and the role of emerging technologies, such as AI. The needs of today - and therefore the house of tomorrow - require human-centric and context-responsive solutions, grounded in resilience and responsibility, without compromising on visual appeal and aspiration.Future Homes showcases diverse, cutting-edge case studies of homes that both address issues of our times and look stunning while doing it. As well as an inspirational showcase of architecture that leads the way into the future, the designs offer valuable insights into how we can find balance and refuge in a rapidly changing and volatile world.Featuring:Exemplary projects from countries around the world, including: Australia, Canada, Ecuador, India, Italy, Japan, Mexico, the Netherlands, Paraguay, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, the UK and Vietnam.Insights from leading practices: ao-ft, Archio, Architecture for London, Fernanda Canales, Gbolade Design Studio, Knox Bhavan, Omar Ghandi, Shahira Fahmy, State of Kin, Studio Bark and Worofila.Rich, full-colour photography, drawings and plans throughout.

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Book SynopsisThe concept of home represents fundamental human needs - both for physical shelter and emotional belonging - yet housing provision is a perpetual and global issue.Could awkward, unusual and difficult urban sites hold the key to unlocking more homes?At Home in the City examines how architects can overcome the restrictions and challenges of these overlooked sites to create dwellings of imaginative power. The projects showcased demonstrate the potential hidden within a place, engaging with the character of the site, its location, orientation and aspect, in order to create reflective and expansive domestic space for a variety of lifestyles.Featuring historic and contemporary buildings from all over the world, the projects are organised around themes derived from the characteristics of each site, including thresholds and privacy, pushing boundaries, finding nature and retrofitting. The book is both a guide to working with difficult sites as well as a masterclass in how a deep understanding of site and place leads to special, poetic outcomes - and, critically, more much-needed houses.Features:Exceptional projects from countries around the world, including: Argentina, Australia, China, India, Israel, Japan, Mexico, the Netherlands, South Korea, the UK, the USA and Vietnam.Designs from leading practices, including: acaa, Alan Power Architects, Atelier ITCH, B.L.U.E architecture studio, Hayhurst & Co, Guttfield Architecture, Only If, Sou Fujimoto and Sergison Bates.Stunning photography, drawings and plans throughout.

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Book SynopsisThe tract developments are emulations of utopian communities. Going back to the 1920's utopian cult Kibbo Kift made banners that they took to specific locations of historic, mysterious monuments and natural monument occurances, Silbury Hill, Stonehenge. The real estate developments around Los Angeles are not mysterious but can be branded as such. An escape from the city life, with names that connote a natural preserve, such as Hidden Hills, Golden Valley, Garden Paradise Estates. Even though they all reside within the smog polluted skies that everyone in the Los Angeles basin does, they poke the desire for utopian living in nature, a simpler time. How to forget about technology, automation and the consequences of our hyper technological age. The signage is placed outside the entrance like the banners of Kibbo Kift, which they would make and bring ceremoniously to these natural or historic places. If one meditates on it maybe it will become real, transposing the desire for escape and living unfettered in paradise, getting back to the garden. as Joni Mitchell would say. Kim Gordon Chronicles Vol. 3 combines Kim Gordon''s Real Estate Paintings with staged canvases photographed by Josephine Pryde in vacant apartments and offices in and around Kriens and Lucerne. The photos, which were taken using purely analogue technology, create a disturbing and enraptured atmosphere.Kim Gordon is an American musician, singer and songwriter, best known as the bassist, guitarist, and vocalist of Sonic Youth. In addition to her work as a musician, Gordon has had ventures in record producing, fashion (X-Girl), writing, acting, directing and has worked consistently as a visual artist throughout her musical career. She formed Sonic Youth with Thurston Moore, Lee Renaldo and Richard Edson in 1981. Gordon is also a founding member of the musical project Free Kitten, which she formed with Julia Cafritz in 1993. Josephine Pryde lives and works in London and Berlin. Her photographs and sculptures reactivate techniques and concepts from a variety of sources including fashion photography, the natural sciences and fine art printing and function in a more or less close combination with the specific surroundings and their attendant relationships. Josephine Pryde has exhibited internationally, she was a nominee for the Turner Prize in 2016. Pryde's work can be found in public collections including The British Council, Museum of Modern Art in New York, Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles and Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam.

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Book SynopsisThis project is about erasure. Memory. Forgetting. Data. Archives. Etcetera. The passages in this book are descriptions of digital photographs that have been deleted. In a culture over-inundated and amassed with digital images and eroded attention spans, David Horvitz decided to start erasing his photo archive. This erasure became an artwork. Nostalgia is the third edition of the Nostalgia Series. It presents 300 recently deleted private digital photographs of the artist, in the form of an image description, the original time of creation and its filename. The photos from this book will be presented in an installation at Paris Photo at the booth of Jean-Kenta Gauthier in which process they will be deleted.

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Book SynopsisClaude Fauville's poetic, drenching essays portraying the forbidden fountain-head in all its femininity. Claude Fauville was born in 1940 in Charleroi, Belgium. The centre of his activities is his atelier in Brussels. His work has been seen in over 200 exhibitions around the world. Along with numerous contributions to various publications, he is also represented in a number of public and private collections.

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Book SynopsisThis is the second in a long-awaited series of photographic books from Union Publishing Limited. Following on from theprevious edition in Los Angeles, this time the setting is the aptly titled London. In 2022, the year of the Queen''s death,the city we have become accustomed to seeing has a different look. The photographer is REIKO TOYAMA, one of themost popular fashion photographers of the moment and a frequent collaborator with Union Magazine, and this time,London as seen through her lens is the setting for a collection of gems of photographs that capture the people who liveand breathe the city from a beautiful perspective. By witnessing the miraculous moments that suddenly appear inordinary life, this book will take you on a wonderful journey from place to place.

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Book SynopsisA revelatory exploration of Mark Rothko’s paintings on paper that transforms our understanding of a preeminent twentieth-century artist

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Book SynopsisIn centuries past, sexual body-parts and same-sex desire were unmentionables debarred from polite conversation and printed discourse. Yet one scientific disciplineanatomyhad license to represent and narrate the intimate details of the human bodyanus and genitals included. Figured within the frame of an anatomical plate, presentations of dissected bodies and body-parts were often soberly technical. But just as often monstrous, provocative, flirtatious, theatrical, beautiful, and even sensual. Queer Anatomies explores overlooked examples of erotic expression within 18th and 19th-century anatomical imagery. It uncovers the subtle eroticism of certain anatomical illustrations, and the queerness of the men who made, used and collected them.As a foundational subject for physicians, surgeons and artists in 18th- and 19th-century Europe, anatomy was a privileged, male-dominated domain. Artistic and medical competence depended on a deep knowledge of anatomy and offered cultura

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Book SynopsisIntroducing a masterpiece from the National Gallery's collection, this compact and beautifully illustrated book explores the story behind Monet's The Water-Lily Pond.

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Book SynopsisA focus on Wright of Derby's hugely atmospheric candlelight' paintings, which have become his most popular works.

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Book SynopsisIn 2017 the Salvator Mundi was sold at auction for $450m. But is it a real da Vinci? In a thrilling narrative built on formidable research, Ben Lewis tracks the extraordinary journey of a masterpiece lost and found, lied and fought over across the centuries.In 2017, Leonardo da Vinci's small oil painting, the Salvator Mundi was sold at auction for $450m. In the words of its discoverer, the image of Christ as saviour of the world is the rarest thing on the planet by the greatest human being who ever lived'. Its dazzling price also makes it the world's most expensive painting.For two centuries art dealers had searched in vain for the Holy Grail of art history: a portrait of Christ as the Salvator Mundi by Leonardo da Vinci. Many similar paintings of greatly varying quality had been executed by Leonardo's assistants in the first half of the sixteenth century. But where was the original by the master himself?In November 2017, Christie's auction house announced they had it. But did they? TTrade Review'The story of the world’s most expensive painting is narrated with great gusto and formidably researched detail.' Charles Nicholl, Guardian 'Forensically detailed and gripping investigation into the history, discovery and sales of the painting … Through his fascinating and persuasive account, Lewis remains balanced; the Salvator Mundi might be exactly what its supporters claim it to be, even though it sits in "a pool of theories, surrounded by a tangle of conjecture, suspended from a geometry of clues".' Sunday Times ‘A page-turning tale about the most expensive painting of all time. It’s a story populated by characters straight out of a thriller: the soft-spoken but ambitious art dealer, the Russian oligarch in the middle of a messy divorce, the shadowy Swiss storage king who sidelines as a dealer, the Saudi prince eager to polish his reputation with a cleansing spritz of high art. Mr. Lewis interweaves the many threads of an intricate tale into the story of the dramatic restoration, sale and resale of the Salvator Mundi.’ Wall Street Journal ‘As Lewis chronicles the quest to attribute the painting to da Vinci, he uncovers an astoundingly dysfunctional world of museums, galleries, auction houses, collectors – a Russian oligarch and a Saudi prince among them … Art, greed, and stealth make for a lively tale of intrigue.’ Kirkus ‘Lewis’ portrait of the artist-engineer … as a “dreamer, a doodler, and a dawdler,” is refreshingly compelling … Lively and ultimately sinister sketches from over the centuries amount to the Salvator Mundi’s provenance … A deliciously detailed, satisfying book, that is simultaneously a call for change.’ Irish Times Praise for ‘Hammer and Tickle’: ‘Ben Lewis's book celebrates the brilliance with which jokes exposed the gulf between the Soviet ideal and its brutal reality’ Sunday Telegraph ‘There is a laugh on every page’ John Suchet, Sunday Express

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Book SynopsisDocumenting the extraordinary breadth of sculptural production by American artist Tony Smith (1912 1980), this comprehensive book reveals the depth and complexity of Smith s oeuvre as well as the vast range of his intellectual pursuits.

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Book SynopsisThe first comprehensive overview of Peter Weibel's visionary work, covering over half a century of artistic expression from material to machines to media. Peter Weibel: Art as an Act of Cognition presents the first comprehensive overview of the work of Peter Weibel (19442023), an influential artist who anticipated key developments in the art of the late twentieth and twenty-first centuries and evolved new utopian visions of a free society and individual freedom. As one of the first artists to create VR installations, Weibel was also a leading figure in the expansion of the arts into other modes of reality. His work revealed the perceptual mechanisms by which reality is constructed not only socially, but also neurologically. This publication, insightfully edited by Jens Lutz and Philipp Ziegler, covers over half a century of his artistic expression, and traces his groundbreaking migration from material to machines to media. This book follows the trajectory of Weibel's work with vari

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Book SynopsisA landmark study of abstraction in architectural history, theory, and practice that challenges our assumptions about the meaning of abstract forms.In this theoretical study of abstraction in architecture—the first of its kind—Pier Vittorio Aureli argues for a reconsideration of abstraction, its meanings, and its sources. Although architects have typically interpreted abstraction in formal terms—the purposeful reduction of the complexities of design to its essentials—Aureli shows that abstraction instead arises from the material conditions of building production. In a lively study informed by Walter Benjamin, Karl Marx, Alfred Sohn-Rethel, and other social theorists, this book presents abstraction in architecture not as an aesthetic tendency but as a movement that arises from modern divisions of labor and consequent social asymmetries. These divisions were anticipated by the architecture of antiquity, which established a distinction be

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Book SynopsisThe first comprehensive monograph in over a decade celebrating the work of pioneering video artist Steina, who is known for pushing perspective beyond the human-centered realm.Accompanying the related exhibition at MIT List Visual Arts Center and Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Steina brings renewed recognition to Steina (b. 1940, Iceland), tracing her oeuvre from early collaborative works with her partner Woody Vasulka to her independent explorations of optics and a liberated, non-anthropocentric subjectivity. It follows her practice from downtown New York to Buffalo to the vast landscapes of New Mexico and Iceland, which appear in her immersive video environments of the 1990s and 2000s. Venturing into nature and combining imaging technologies with reflective orbs, Steina reorientated the human body?s relationship to nature and expanded how we access the natural world through media.Scholars including Gloria Sutton, Joey Heinen, and Ina Blom consider how Steina?s generative sense of play gave way to methods of processing and computation; contextualize Steina alongside a group of her peers who shared an obsession with the electronic signal; and argue for her interest in video as a proto-virtual space. Steina has never felt more relevant.Steina, born Steinunn Briem Bjarnadottir, studied violin and music theory in Reykjavik before attending the State Music Conservatory in Prague, Czechoslovakia. In 1965, she emigrated to New York City. By the late 1960s, she began to focus entirely on video work, and in 1971, cofounded The Electronic Kitchen (later The Kitchen), an experimental electronic media space. Her work has been shown at the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, and many other places.A copublication with the MIT List Visual Arts Center and Buffalo AKG Art Museum

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Book SynopsisA fascinating exploration of how the growth of digital mapping, spurred by sensing technologies, is affecting cities and daily livesTrade Review“In this complex, highly illustrated collection of digital maps, lab co-founder Carlo Ratti and architecture historian Antoine Picon analyse four essential urban dimensions.”—Andrew Robinson, Nature “Throughout history, we have used maps to highlight the essential features that determine how our cities work. In this Atlas, Antoine Picon and Carlo Ratti have assembled a beautiful exposition of how the digital world brings the city alive through the power of maps.”—Michael Batty, author of Inventing Future Cities“As our cities become increasingly digital, new technologies and maps increasingly inform our very sense of how we live. Picon and Ratti’s Atlas of the Senseable City takes us deep inside this urban reality—a revolution in urban cartography—and what it means for the ways we work, live, and connect in our communities.”—Richard Florida, author of The Rise of the Creative Class“Atlas of the Senseable City offers a state-of-the art survey of mapping techniques and an intellectual way of understanding the purpose and possibilities of mapping. It is a very important contribution to one of the leading subjects of our time. Any person who works in the field of data and its impact on cities should have this book on their bookshelf.”—Gary Hack, author of Site Planning: International Practice

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Book SynopsisAn accessible introduction to the life and work of this trailblazing pioneer of early modernism, published to coincide with a major exhibition at the Royal Academy, London. Paula Modersohn-Becker is today hailed as one of the great pioneers of modernism. When she died in 1907 at the age of just 31, she had completed more than 700 paintings and 1,000 drawings and prints. Despite selling only a few paintings during her lifetime, her distinct style, daring subject matter and perseverance in overcoming barriers to women left a significant artistic mark on the brief epoch between the old and the new, and paved the way for the German avant-garde. Uwe M. Schneede, one of the foremost experts on Modersohn-Becker's work, shows how the artist translated her life's experiences into her own, very distinctive, pictorial language. He focuses in particular on her time in Paris, where she absorbed the luminous palette and expressive brushwork of the French avantgarde, and which so stronglyTrade Review'Schneede’s book is an excellent guide to the artist and the development of her oeuvre' - WhyNow'[Presents] evidence of [Modersohn-Becker's] affinities with and direct influences from seminal art works of post-Impressionism. The picture that emerges is that of an artist seriously engaged with the artistic legacy of modern Paris, which she believed could revitalize German art, an ambition that was cut short by her untimely death. Recommended' - Choice

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Book Synopsis'A joy to read.' Sunday Times'Outstanding.' Daily Telegraph'Excellent.' The Spectator'Superb.' Literary Review'Scintillating . . . A gripping, mysterious love story which also sheds light on British culture between the wars.' Financial TimesIn 1922, Cyril Power, a fifty-year-old architect, left his family to work with the twenty-four-year-old Sybil Andrews. They would be together for twenty years. Both became famous for their dynamic, modernist linocuts - streamlined, full of movement and brilliant colour, summing up the hectic interwar years. Theirs was a scintillating world of Futurists, Surrealists and pioneering abstraction, but alongside the buzz of the new, of machines and speed, shops and sport and dance, they also looked back, to medieval myths and early music, to country ways disappearing from sight.

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Book SynopsisIf Alexander McQueen were to give a masterclass on design, creativity and attitude, what wisdom would he impart? Discover McQueen's life, work and legacy in this sharply curated biography focusing on artistic spirit.  Alexander McQueen will go down in history as the most talented and enigmatic 'bad boy' of fashion. But it was his drive and visionary perspective that secured his place in sartorial legend when his defying couture looks sent shockwaves through the fashion landscape.But how did he think? And how was his attitude reflected in his work? What Alexander McQueen Can Teach You About Fashion breaks down McQueen's life and work into memorable maxims – including Don’t be Scared of Fear, Challenge Gender, Add Volume, then More Volume and Show Skin. This book uncovers McQueen’s creative flair, his inspirations, his business acumen and the details that make his designs so a

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Book SynopsisHouse London showcases 50 of the most stylish homes in the capital today – each with a uniquely 'London' feel. From the surprising interiors of humble terraces to extraordinary conversions showcasing the height of luxury.Table of Contents21ST-CENTURY MODERN Folds House Cork House House-within-a-House Longhouse Ellesmere Road The London Home Wilton Way Highbury Family Home Rebecca’s Home Talfourd Hampstead House RAW AND INDUSTRIAL Gin Distillery OHSt West Side Brewery Bookend House Kumar Nair Medusa Peyton Place Green House Bohemian House Fern Villa St John Street CRAFTS AND HERITAGESt John’s Wood Residence South-west London Home Sycamore House Heath Flat Disco House Blue Rooms Cottage Noir Ledbury Road Nicky Haslam’s London Pied-à-terre COLOUR AND PATTERN Mountain View House Forest House Finchley Home Kaleidoscope White Rabbit House Pembridge Mo-tel HouseRichmond Park Renovation Up-side-down House The House Recast Plimsoll Street MINIMALISM Notting Hill Apartment KG House Sun Rain Rooms Belgravia Mews House Bavaria Road Studio Paddington Pantheon Elsley Road Brixton Family House ER Residence

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Book SynopsisFashionQuake presents fashion's most disruptive, rebellious and ground-breaking moments. This is what happens when fashion designers take tradition and rip it up.Table of ContentsIntroduction MODERNISM AND LIBERATION: 1890–1930 MID-CENTURY STYLE: 1931–1953 THE RISE OF COUNTERCULTURE: 1954–1984 GEN X AND Y: 1980–2007 PROTEST AND RESISTANCE: 2008–PRESENT Glossary Picture Credits Index

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Book SynopsisThe entire range of Courbet's work, from landscapes to erotic nudes.Trade Review"An eloquent and intelligent account of Courbet's work. Rubin manages to find a level which makes the book relevant to present scholarship on Courbet, but also eminently accessible to undergraduate students."—John Kear, Department of the History and Theory of Art, University of Kent at Canterbury "Enlightening and very readable."—The Artist "Rubin writes with uncommon lucidity."—Art Review On the Art & Ideas series "Art & Ideas has broken new ground in making accessible authoritative views on periods, movements and concepts in art. As a series it represents a real advance in publishing."—Sir Nicholas Serota, Director, Tate London "The format is wonderful and offers what had long been missing in academic studies: usable manuals for specific themes or periods... I am definitely not alone in welcoming Art & Ideas as a precious set of teaching tools."—Joachim Pissarro, Yale University "Phaidon's series may prove to be the pick of the crop. It boasts expert but undogmatic texts and a wealth of illustrations."—The Sunday Telegraph

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Book SynopsisA penetrating analysis of the modern architectural tradition and its origins.Trade Review'the book is excellent value.' Architects' Journal'as close to a definitive guide to the architecture of our century as we yet have.' Sunday Times'A book of this length and depth is an unimaginable achievement…' Building Design'comprehensive, up-to-date and very readable.' Sunday Telegraph'This should be a standard volume in all architecture collections.' Library Journal'… the clearest and most authentic survey to appear in English. ... Essential reading, indeed breath-taking reading' Architecture New ZealandTable of ContentsPart 1 The formative strands of Modern architecture: the idea of a Modern architecture in the 19th century; industrialization and the city - the skyscraper as type and symbol; the search for new forms and the problem of ornament; rationalism, the engineering tradition, and reinforced concrete; arts and crafts ideals in Britain and the USA; responses to mechanization - the Deutscher Werkbund and futurism; the architectural system of Frank Lloyd Wright; national romanticism and classical transformations; cubism and new conceptions of space. Part 2 The crystallization of Modern architecture between the wars: Le Corbusier's quest for ideal form; Walter Gropius, German expressionism, and the Bauhaus; architecture and revolution in Russia; skyscraper and suburb - the USA between the wars; the ideal community - alternatives to the industrial city; the international style, the individual talent, and the myth of functionalism; the image and idea of Le Corbusier's Villa Savoye at Poissy; the continuity of older traditions; nature and the machine - Mies van der Rohe, Wright and Le Corbusier in the 1930s; totalitarian critiques of the Modern movement; the spread of modern architecture to Britain and Finland; universal models, national inflections and regional accents. Part 3 Transformation and dissemination after 1940: modern architecture in the USA - immigration and consolidation; form and meaning in the late works of Le Corbusier; the Unite d'Habitation at Marseilles as a collective housing prototype; Alvar Aalto and Scandinavian developments; disjunctions and continuities in the Europe of the 1950s; the process of absorption - Latin America, Australia, Japan; Louis I. Kahn and the challenge of monumentality; architecture and anti-architecture in Britain; crises and critiques in the 1960s; modernity and tradition in the Third World; architectural types and urban fragments - new directions in the 1970s. Part 4 Changing ideals in the late 20th century: modern architecture and the historical sense; world cultures and local identities; traditions of the modern; towards architecture, beyond style.

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Book SynopsisThe most comprehensive monograph available on the internationally renowned Belgian floral artist and designer Daniel Ost.Trade Review"This man's hands can create anything that his mind can conceive." —Cees Nooteboom, Dutch novelist, poet, journalist "His style embraces both Baroque exuberance and Zen minimalism." —Bloomberg "The world's leading flower designer... The respect Daniel Ost has for flowers is easily matched by the respect flower lovers have for him." —CBS News "He's the sum of many parts: an idealist, a conductor, a stage manager, an actor, and a visionary. While Daniel is perpetually pushing boundaries, his creative spirit rarely sleeps." —Flower Magazine "While bouquets and centerpieces are the core of his repertory, Ost is also known for his exuberant installations that venture into the realm of sculpture... Ost is just as likely to work with branches, seaweed and fruit as he is with fresh blossoms." —The New York Times "Leave Mr. Ost’s book open on the coffee table and you will have no need for holly and ivy... Mr. Ost transforms blooms, boughs and bark into breathing architecture."—The New York Times "This book is just beautiful. Each page and each image more breathtaking than the last... Simply stunning in production quality."—Irish Examiner "Artist Daniel Ost arranges flowers in the same way that Frank Gehry, for example, arranges steel."—wallpaper.com "From massive installations on a breath-taking scale to vase arrangements this book has it all and each and every piece is wonderful... A botanical artist of the highest calibre... [Daniel Ost] is filled with glorious designs and excellent photography... Superb."—Fusion Flowers Magazine

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