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Book SynopsisIncluding a number of short essays by Bataille and Leiris on aspects of the other's work as well as excerpts on Bataille from Leiris' diaries, this collection of correspondence throws new light on two of Surrealism's most radical dissidents. In the autumn of 1924, just before André Breton published the Manifeste du surréalisme, two young men met in Paris for the first time. Georges Bataille, 27, starting work at the Bibliothèque Nationale; Michel Leiris, 23, beginning his studies in ethnology. Within a few months, they were both members of the Surrealist group, although their adherence to Surrealism (unlike their affinities with it) would not last long: in 1930 they were among the signatories of "Un cadavre," the famous tract against Breton, the "Machiavelli of Montmartre," as Leiris put it. But their friendship would endure for more than 30 years, and their correspondence, assembled here for the first time in English, would continue until the death of Bataille in 1962.Table of ContentsEditor's AcknowledgementsAbbreviations Michel LeirisOn Georges Bataille Georges Bataille as Don Giovanni From Bataille the Impossible to the Impossible Documents From the Time of Lord Auch Georges BatailleOn Michel Leiris Surrealism from Day to Day The Publication of 'A Corpse' Racism Georges Bataille and Michel LeirisCorrespondence 1924-61 Michel LeirisGeorges Bataille, As Time Goes By Robert Desnos, Georges Bataille and Marcel GriauleEye Bernard NoëlAfterword: A Way of Looking that is Understood Appendix: A Bio-Bibliographic ChronologyPeriodicals to which Bataille and Leiris both contributed (1925-62)BibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisThe World in One School explores in text and image the global influence of Britain’s oldest University School of Architecture, exploring the history of the School and what its teachers and graduates have achieved internationally in designing and constructing the architecture of the world. Under the leadership of Sir Charles Reilly, architects such as Herbert Rowse and Harold Dod worked in the American Beaux Arts style and this became the house style of the School that is reflected in numerous Liverpool landmarks. Exported worldwide, what became known as the ‘Liverpool Manner’ brought a distinctive style to major buildings across the globe. Students at the School came from all corners of the world and, equally, were sent on international practice placements. In the years between the two world wars, American architectural practices were prominent in this movement – for example, McKim, Mead and White; Corbett, Harrison and McMurray; and Carrer and Hastings. Later, under Lionel Budden, the School moved into the forefront of the Modernist movement, with architects such as Edwin Maxwell Fry and George Checkley drawing inspiration from the works of Le Corbusier and Mies van der Rohe. Other graduates of the School, such as William (Lord) Holford and Gordon Stephenson made major worldwide contributions to the field of city and regional planning. The World in One School is a remarkable story of a School with a long history of honours and awards, including six Royal Gold Medals for Architecture to its graduates and staff: Sir Charles Reilly, Sir Patrick Abercrombie, Lord Holford, Edwin Maxwell Fry, Sir James Stirling and Colin Rowe.

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Book SynopsisJohn Nash is universally recognised as one of the most important architects of late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Britain. As the man responsible for the creation of Regent Street and Regent’s Park, he left an indelible mark on the West End of London, and his two most famous buildings – the Brighton Pavilion and Buckingham Palace – are crucial to any understanding of the monarchy in the age of the Prince Regent (later George IV). Yet, even before he became involved in these ambitious projects, he made a major contribution to domestic architecture through the design of a series of stylistically varied villas, country houses and cottages in which he applied the doctrines of the Picturesque with an inventiveness and panache that has rarely been surpassed. No complete study of Nash’s work has been published since Sir John Summerson’s, The Life and Work of John Nash, Architect in 1980. Since then, new scholarship has revised some of Summerson’s conclusions and cast new light on several important aspects of Nash’s work. The aim of this book – which originated in a symposium held by the Georgian Group in September 2009 – is to bring together this recent scholarship in a single volume, and so bring this most engaging of architects to a new generation of readers. Trade Review'Underpinned with a great deal of new research, this book offers a refreshing reappraisal of Nash and authoritatively sets out his impressive architectural achievement'The book is outstandingly well illustrated, with a full range of colour photographs, numerous historic photographs and plans from the archives of English Heritage, and liverla use of engravings published in the 1820s and 30s which presented Nash's new London buildings in the most glamerous way possible. -- John Newman * Transactions of the Ancient Monuments Society, 58 *The format means that the book can be dipped into and the illustrations enjoyed, but it is also easy to read as a whole or by treating chapters as individual essays. -- Kate Andrew * SPAB, The Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings, Autumn 2014 *Table of Contents1. Before Fame and Fortune: the Early Years - Richard Suggett 2. Herefordshire and the Repton connection - David Whitehead 3. Nash and the Castle Style - Geoffrey Tyack 4. Sandridge Park: a Villa Rustica in Devon - Rosemary Yallop 5. John Nash: property developer - James Anderson 6. Nash and structural innovation - Jon Clarke 7. John Nash and the Genesis of Regents Park - J. Mordaunt Crook 8. Pavilion and Palace: Nash’s work for George IV - Michael Port 9. Nash in a British and Continental Context - David Watkin

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Book SynopsisRobert Adam is perhaps the best known of all British architects, the only one whose name denotes both a style and an era. The new decorative language he introduced at Kedleston and Syon around 1760 put him at the forefront of dynamic changes taking place in 18th-century British architecture. His later claim that his practice with his brother James had effected ‘a kind of revolution’ in design was no idle boast. Their style dominated the later Georgian period and their influence was widespread, not only in Western Europe but in Russia and North America. But for such a well-known figure, much of Robert Adam’s art still remains poorly understood. This new study, based on papers given at a Georgian Group symposium in 2015, looks afresh at many aspects of the Adam brothers’ oeuvre, such as interior planning, their use of colour, the influence of classical sources, their involvement in the art market, town planning and building speculation, and Robert Adam’s late picturesque drawings and castle designs – all within the context of the Adam family background and their personal and working relationships. The Scottish architecture of Robert and James’s older brother, John, is also assessed. There are essays by established Adam experts as well as contributions from a younger generation of historians and postdoctoral scholars, one of the book’s aims being to stimulate further research on the Adams’ contribution to British architecture, art and design. Trade ReviewReviews'The publication of new research by a number of top scholars in the field will help architects and general enthusiasts alike to approach [the story of the Adam brothers and the role of Robert] with fresh understanding. This book, subtitled New light on Britain's leading architectural family, links a number of important strands and makes for compelling reading.'Jeremy Musson, Country Life'Despite the vast quantity of existing work on the Adam Brothers - John, Robert, James, and William - this brilliantly edited volume treads a new path in the field of Adam Studies [...] The individually authored and thematically focused chapters explore a range of topics from the collecting and dealing of antiques to architectural style, planning, and construction - offering a wide range and also extremely detailed fresh looks at the Adam architectural family.'Sydney Ayers, HBA 'In addition to the articles on medievalism... Editor Colin Thom supplies an extended “Introduction” that offers a lucid and valuable overview of this fascinating family and their accomplishments, not only in Scotland, but in the wider world.'William S. Rodner, Scotia'It is the type of thought provoking study which makes this excellent publication a fine addition to research into the Adams’ contribution to British Architecture.' Niall Murphy, Scottish society for Art History‘This book should surely encourage all lovers of eighteenth-century architecture and decoration to see […] Adam buildings with new eyes and better-informed sensibilities.’ Geoffrey Tyack, The GeorgianTable of ContentsIntroduction: ‘Some promising young men’: Robert Adam and his brothersColin Thom1. Johnnie, the eldest Adam BrotherAlistair Rowan2. 'Antique Mad': the Adams as dealers and their stock of AntiquitiesJonathan Yarker3. Context and Attribution: Antonio Zucchi's Portrait of James Adam (1763)Jerzy J. Kierkuc-Bielinski4. 'The true style of antique decoration': Agostino Brunias and the birth of the Adam style at Kedleston Hall and Syon HouseAdriano Aymonino5. Robert Adam's Scenographic InteriorsMiranda Hausberg6. Design by Correspondence: Robert Adam and Headfort HouseConor Lucey7. A 'Classical Goth': Robert Adam's engagement with medieval architecturePeter N. Lindfield8. The Ingenious Mr AdamDavid King9. The Adam Brothers and Portland Place: A reassessmentColin Thom10. Temporal sublime: Robert Adam's castle style and geology in the Scottish EnlightenmentMarrikka Trotter11. 'The Parent Style or the Original Sin': The Adam revival in AmericaEileen Harris

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Book SynopsisArup Associates, a major presence on the British architectural scene for more than half a century, emerged from the famous engineering consultancy founded by Ove Arup in 1946 and reflected Arup’s own vision of “total design”, formed in the 1930s in his groundbreaking collaborations with Berthold Lubetkin. With architects, engineers and other professionals working in groups, it offered a uniquely interdisciplinary approach to the design of buildings. From early groundbreaking factories to a series of university commissions, innovative offices, and cultural projects, including the Snape Maltings concert hall, the practice moved on to become a major player on the London development scene with its projects at Finsbury Avenue and Broadgate. This book, the first monograph on Arup Associates for more than 30 years, discusses the work of the firm from the years of the Arup Building Group in the 1950s to the 1990s and assesses the contribution of its leading designers, including Sir Philip Dowson, Derek Sugden and Peter Foggo. The text is based on interviews with many former and current members of the practice. The book is fully illustrated with images from the Arup archive and stunning new photography offering a new perspective on an exceptional body of work. Trade ReviewKenneth Powell's timely study of Arup Associates harks back to a golden age of teamworking. ... a fascinating insight into what seems now a different age.Architecture TodayTable of ContentsTo follow

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Book SynopsisHerbert James Rowse (1887–1963) was an extraordinary architect who shaped the city of Liverpool with his array of exquisite buildings, plans, and infrastructure. Practicing in an eclectic manner that was influenced by American Beaux Arts and later using simpler geometries of monumental bare brick, his large body of work reveals a modernity that was concerned with luxurious materials, restrained but contemporary decoration and sculpture, and bold forms often with a sense of theatre and performance. His work has endured passing trends and fashions, retaining a seductive appeal and resonance with visitors and occupants alike, despite its often monumental massing and extraordinary scale. This book aims to discern not only the architectural merits and advances of his work, but also their wider significance. Through Rowse’s work we gain a glimpse into some of the broader agendas of the time and place, not least through the corporate and banking commissions that accompanied the large docks and shipping firms in Liverpool, where Rowse produced some of his most distinctive work. In addition to these commercial ventures Rowse contributed to the post-war housing debates through his proposals that looked to rows of cottages set around village greens, rather than high-rise living. Published in association with The Twentieth Century Society. Trade Review'This enlightening volume in the Twentieth Century Architects series assesses the work of an architect who sought not to create a new architecture from scratch, but one that was inspired by historical precedent.' Context, the Journal of the IHBC‘The architectural contribution to Liverpool made by Herbert Rowse (1887-1963) can hardly be underestimated […] and this excellent and well-illustrated monograph gives him his proper and richly deserved due.’ Peter Parker, A MagazineTable of Contents Monumental Tunnel structures Brick Social housing and planning

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Book SynopsisAhrends, Burton and Koralek (ABK) was established in London in 1961 by three young AA graduates, Peter Ahrends, Richard Burton and Paul Koralek. By the 1970s, ABK was known as one of the most creative and versatile of Britain’s younger practices, its workload ranging from college buildings in Oxford and Chichester to housing, public libraries, retail and industrial buildings. While influenced by High-tech, their buildings were characterised by a concern for strong form and materiality. Major projects of the 1980s included stations for the Docklands Light Railway and the pioneering St Mary’s Hospital on the Isle of Wight, as well as buildings at Hooke Park in Dorset designed in collaboration with Frei Otto. ABK’s victory in the prestigious 1982 competition for an extension to the National Gallery in London reflected the firm’s standing but the scheme was abandoned following a controversial intervention by the Prince of Wales. Written by eminent architectural author and critic, Kenneth Powell, and lavishly illustrated with images from the practice’s archive and stunning new photography, this book is an essential read for architects, students, architectural historians and anyone who is interested in learning more about a key practice in British post-war architecture. This book has been commissioned as part of a series of books on Twentieth Century Architects by RIBA Publishing, English Heritage and The Twentieth Century Society.Table of ContentsForeword Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Origins and Influences 2. Learning and Libraries 3. Housing and some Houses 4. Designing for Commerce 5. The Civic Realm List of Works Bibliography Index Picture Credits

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Book SynopsisMcMorran & Whitby are a secret presence in post-war British architecture. Led from the late 1950s by Donald McMorran and George Whitby, the practice represented an unbroken development from the monumental inter-war classicism represented by figures such as Charles Holden and Sir Edwin Lutyens. In seeking an alternative path for modern architecture, McMorran & Whitby produced durable buildings with a respect for context, but avoided any accusation of unimaginatively reproducing the past. Theirs was a progressive classicism full of invention and beauty. Being out of fashion, they suffered neglect but their work has increasingly won admirers and many of the buildings are now listed. This book is the first major publication on McMorran & Whitby’s work, with an inspiring combination of contemporary photography and previously unpublished archival material. It is an essential read for architects, students, and historians, not least because it uncovers and celebrates buildings outside the mainstream that we need to understand and cherish. This book has been commissioned as part of a series of books on 20th Century Architects by RIBA Publishing, English Heritage and The Twentieth Century Society.Trade Review'a very readable, well written and instructive book . . . Attractively designed publication with a large number of illustrations.'Table of ContentsForeword Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Who Were McMorran & Whitby? 2. The Genesis of the Practice 3. Formative Years 4. Farquharson & McMorran and Post-war Britain 5. Passing the Flame 6. The Swinging Sixties 7. McMorran & Whitby’s Legacy List of Works Obituary: Donald McMorran Obituary: George Whitby Assistants at 14 North Audley Street McMorran & Whitby: Titles and positions held `A Friendship’ Bibliography Index Picture Credits

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Book SynopsisJohn Madin was the indisputable master of post-war architecture in Birmingham. The work of Madin and his associates had a profound influence on the reshaping of the city after the war, producing some of the most iconic buildings of that period, such as the Birmingham City Library, the Chamber of Commerce and the Post and Mail Building. Trained in the modernist style but too much of a craftsman to abandon decoration entirely, his work is characterised by attention to detail, a preference for natural materials and a desire for decoration and art in his buildings. Many have characterised Madin as a commercial architect, but as the author argues, there was another side to his work. His conservationist approach to the development plan for the Calthorpe Estate, his workman-like master-planning of Dawley, Telford and Corby new towns, his public service commissions, and his design and layout of housing schemes that are still lived-in and popular today, testify to his commitment to human values. Lavishly illustrated with images from Madin’s personal archive and stunning new photography, this book is an essential read for architects, students, architectural historians and modernist enthusiasts interested in learning more about a key figure in British post-war architecture. This book has been commissioned as part of a series of books on Twentieth Century Architects by RIBA Publishing, English Heritage and The Twentieth Century Society.Table of ContentsForeword Acknowledgements 1. Madin and his work 2. The Calthorpe Plan 3. Commerce and industry 4. New places 5. Building for leisure 6. Civic pride Postscript List of Works Bibliography Index Picture Credits

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Book SynopsisLeonard Manasseh was an `architect’s architect’, greatly admired by his contemporaries both on a personal and professional level. He came to prominence at the Festival of Britain and went on to be one of the leading British architects of the 1960s, designing private houses and offices as well as major public commissions. Timothy Brittain-Catlin, architect and architectural historian at the University of Kent, describes how the work of Leonard Manasseh and Partners expresses one of the central themes of the 1950s and 1960s – the apparent conflict between the architect as creative artist on one hand, and as rational technologist and scientist on the other. Leonard Manasseh and his partner Ian Baker were lauded for producing modernist designs that were in keeping with their historical settings or landscapes. Examples include industrial buildings in rural settings, a study for King’s Lynn, undertaken with architect-planner Elizabeth Chesterton, and the project that is most commonly associated with the practice, the National Motor Museum at Beaulieu. Lavishly illustrated with images from Manasseh’s private archive and stunning new photography, this book is an essential read for architects, students and enthusiasts for modernism wanting to learn more about a key practice in British post-war architecture. This book has been commissioned as part of a series of books on Twentieth Century Architects by RIBA Publishing, English Heritage and the Twentieth Century Society.Table of ContentsForeword Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Foundations 2. Parterre 3. Piano Nobile 4. Loggia 5. Cornice 6. Skyline List of Works Bibliography Index Picture Credits

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Book SynopsisArt & Life: The Story of Samuel Bak traces the development of a child prodigy deeply shaped by the catastrophic events of the Shoah, from his early artistic influences to his years in the Vilna Ghetto and Landsberg DP Camp, his formal training in Israel and Paris, and his fruitful art career in Rome, New York, Switzerland, and Boston. Augmenting the rich existing literature on Bak, Art & Life explores—in thoughtful prose and through reproductions of both iconic and rarely seen work created between 1942 and 2022—how he navigated the prevailing art trends of the mid-twentieth century in search of his own pictorial language. It considers the personal, historical, and artistic currents that led Bak, now aged 90, to create an astonishing body of work that bears witness to cataclysmic events, embodies our common humanity of suffering and hope, and poses questions about the repair of the world.Trade ReviewLike the inexorable visions of Dante and Milton, Samuel Bak’s uncontainable cascades of unparalleled images plumb the deeps of the moral imagination. A deluge of genius, they are more than merely rending; they are silencing. They catch at the throat and strangle, they burn with history’s meaning, they strike hard against metaphysical ease. To gaze at Bak’s art is to learn to see and to feel and to know." - Cynthia Ozick, critic and author of Critics, Monsters, Fanatics, and Other Literary Essays

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Book SynopsisWith gracious residential boulevards, soaring cathedrals, and some of this country's first skyscrapers nestled amid bustling city blocks, St. Louis is home to buildings city blocks, St. Louis is home to buildings designed by some of America's best-known architects, including Cass Gilbert and Louis Sullivan. But no single architectural firm has shaped the style of the city known as the Gateway to the West more than Maritz & Young. Starting at the beginning of the twentieth century, Raymond E. Maritz and W. Ridgely Young built more than a hundred homes in the most affluent neighborhoods of St. Louis County, counting among their clientele a who's who of the city's most prominent citizens. The Architecture of Maritz & Young is the most complete collection of their work, featuring more than two hundred photographs, architectural drawings, and original floor plans of homes built in a variety of styles, from Spanish Eclectic to Tudor Revival. Alongside these historic images, Kevin Amsler and L. John Schott have provided descriptions of each residence detailing the original owners. Lovingly compiled from a multitude of historical sources and rare books, this is the definitive history of the domestic architecture that still defines St. Louis.Trade Review"Famed architects Maritz & Young left an indelible mark on St. Louis by designing a series of prestigious residences and commercial buildings throughout the area during the early twentieth century." (Lucyann Boston, St. Louis Homes & Lifestyles)"

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Book SynopsisA fresh look at the Eastern origins of Christopher Wren’s architecture In this revelatory study of one of the great architects in British history, Vaughan Hart considers Christopher Wren’s (1632–1723) interest in Eastern antiquity and Ottoman architecture, an interest that would animate much of his theory and practice. As the early modern understanding of antiquity broadened to include new discoveries at Palmyra and Persepolis, Wren disputed common assumptions about the European origins of Classical and Gothic architecture, tracing these building traditions not to the Greeks or Germans but to the stonemasons of the biblical East. In a deft analysis, Hart contextualizes Wren’s use of classical elements—columns, domes, and cross plans—within his enthusiasm for the East and the broader Anglican interest in the Eastern church. A careful study of diary records reappraises Wren’s working relationship with Robert Hooke (1635–1703), who shared in many of Wren’s theoretical commitments. The result is a new, deepened understanding of Wren’s work.Distributed for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British ArtTrade Review“Absorbing”—Keith Miller, Times Literary Supplement“[O]ffers new insight into this facet of the architect by tracing a substantial component of Wren’s architectural activity that involved his study and adoption of Eastern sources. Wren’s interest in antiquarianism and architectural models from the Orient is well known, but Hart’s is the first comprehensive study dedicated to unfolding this complex constellation of architectural references.”— Gregorio Astengo, Architectural Histories“From impressive research and clear argument, Vaughan Hart has produced a beautifully illustrated, fresh understanding of Wren’s churches and their relationship to the East.”—Benedict Vickery, Skyline [Magazine] “Lavishly illustrated and beautifully formatted, the pages behind this evocative front cover take the reader on a richly detailed tour of Wren’s study and use of ancient and early Christian Eastern buildings and of the international information networks supporting Wren’s study.”—Kimberley Skelton, Transactions of the Ancient Monuments Society

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Book SynopsisDiedrich Anton Wilhelm Rulfs, the German-born architect who immigrated to Nacogdoches, Texas in 1880, transformed the historic, frontier town into a modern city. The life and work of Rulfs and his interaction with his contemporaries is the story of Nacogdoches in the crucial years at the turn of the 20th century. The substantial visual legacy of Rulfs to the history of a pioneering town can be enjoyed today. Over fifty architectural creations are extant and form the core for the city's extensive National Registry Districts. Rulfs incorporated the motifs of his homeland along with elements from current trends in American architecture into Nacogdoches projects. He comfortably used classical and Palladian features, romantic (Gothic), flamboyant (Queen Ann), and eclectic (Mediterranean) styles. Rulfs proved himself a master at servicing many architectural needs: modest domestic structures, commercial buildings, city blocks, hotels, elaborately fashionable mansions, churches for all denominations, and public schools. While few towns the size of Nacogdoches had, or could have supported, a talented resident architect, Rulfs returned the admiration by working flawlessly with the community. His success resided in his professionalism, his intimate knowledge of his clients, and his willingness to accomodate his designs to the needs and budgets of his patrons. Rulfs, as the architect and builder of choice in Nacogdoches between 1880 to the mid-1920s, left an incorporable architectural legacy.

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Book Synopsis"Trace elements" are minerals that exist in minute quantities necessary for the growth and development of cells. Exposure to excessive quantities is toxic, but without them our bodies would atrophy. They are the crystalline structures that support life. Over the past decade, Aranda\Lasch has focused obsessively on these structures as a form of both organization and expression for architecture. Their projects explore the interplay between rule-based systems and human ritual. In scale, this work lies somewhere between furniture and building, so that what is built, drawn, and projected gives human measure to procedural thinking. Published on the occasion of the studio's exhibition "Meeting the Clouds Halfway" at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) Tucson, this book is a collection of recent explorations into modularity, craft, pattern, rhythm, material, and memory. Trace Elements documents a wide-ranging and yet sharply focused body of work from an office dedicated both to intellectual exploration and the honing of a distinct design sensibility.

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Book SynopsisWright's Writings traces the discursive work of Frank Lloyd Wright through a set of essays by Kenneth Frampton. Originally written as a series of introductions to the five-volume collection of Wright's writing published in 1992, the essays are gathered here as a critical survey of the architect's written and spoken work-a body of text that testifies to Wright's staggering prolificacy, pleasure in argument, diversity of interests, and desire to engage with timely political debates. Alongside these five essays, Wright's Writings provides a visual record of Wright's literary output, demonstrating the range of media he employed in the act of making architecture. Read together, it presents a history of the architect through the essays, books, letters, lectures, and speeches he wrote as well as the material and social cultures he navigated.

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Book Synopsis"Empire shops" were first developed in London in the 1920s to teach the British to consume foodstuffs from the colonies and overseas territories. Although none of the stores ever opened, they were intended to make previously unfamiliar produce and products—sultanas from Australia, oranges from Palestine, cloves from Zanzibar, and rum from Jamaica—available in the British Isles. The Empire Remains Shop speculates on the possibility and implications of selling back the remains of the British Empire in London today.Based on a public installation in London in the fall of 2016, the book catalogues and develops the installation's critical program of discussions, performances, dinners, installations, and screenings hosted at 91–93 Baker Street. The pieces in this book use food to trace new geographies across the present and future of our postcolonial planet. Structured as a franchise agreement, The Empire Remains Shop lays out some of the landscapes, imaginaries, economies, and aesthetics that future iterations of the shop would need to address in order to think through political counterstructures for a better distributed, hyper-globalized world.

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Book SynopsisIn Spring 1938, an Indian dancer named Ram Gopal and an American writer-photographer named Carl Van Vechten came together for a photoshoot in New York City. Ram Gopal was a pioneer of classical Indian dance and Van Vechten was reputed as a prominent white patron of the African-American movement called the Harlem Renaissance. Photo-Attractions describes the interpersonal desires and expectations of the two men that took shape when the dancer took pose in exotic costumes in front of Van Vechten’s Leica camera. The spectacular images provide a rare and compelling record of an underrepresented history of transcultural exchanges during the interwar years of early-20th century, made briefly visible through photography. Art historian Ajay Sinha uses these hitherto unpublished photographs and archival research to raise provocative and important questions about photographic technology, colonial histories, race, sexuality and transcultural desires. Challenging the assumption that Gopal was merely objectified by Van Vechten’s Orientalist gaze, he explores the ways in which the Indian dancer co-authored the photos. In Sinha’s reading, Van Vechten’s New York studio becomes a promiscuous contact zone between world cultures, where a “photo-erotic” triangle is formed between the American photographer, Indian dancer, and German camera. A groundbreaking study of global modernity, Photo-Attractions brings scholarship on American photography, literature, race and sexual economies into conversation with work on South Asian visual culture, dance, and gender. In these remarkable historical documents, it locates the pleasure taken in cultural difference that still resonates today.Trade Review"Ajay Sinha has woven a finely detailed tapestry of the social, personal and aesthetic allusions that contribute greatly to understanding and reimagining Ram Gopal's mystique and presence. This is timely, refreshing, colorful and a much needed intervention in our his-and her-stories around dance and the camera." -- Uttara Asha Coorlawala * co-curator of Erasing Borders Festival of Indian Dance *“Sinha’s is an extremely luminous and well-researched project. It is also a beautifully written, deeply analytical, and entirely accessible book, narrated with verve, and a pleasure to read.” -- Saloni Mathur * author of A Fragile Inheritance: Radical Stakes in Contemporary Indian Art *“This book arises from a thrilling pas de deux between a Modernist American photographer and an Indian classical dancer, in which it’s never entirely clear who is calling the shots. In deciphering the subtle aesthetic, erotic, and intellectual weave of these sessions, Ajay Sinha identifies a third partner in this elaborate dance, namely Van Vechten’s German-made Leica camera. This is an exhilarating book, intellectually compelling and visually mesmerizing. And the photographs are to die for.” -- Christopher Benfey * author of Degas in New Orleans and The Great Wave *“In Sinha’s lucid, incisive analysis, we encounter a world of technological messiness and experimentation, cultural disparities, and new, transitional queer masculinities, all set against the backdrop of the twentieth-century reinvention of Indian dance and the complexities of Euro-American Orientalism. A timely contribution to the fields of both dance studies and visual culture studies." -- Hari Krishnan * Wesleyan University, author of Celluloid Classicism: Early Tamil Cinema and the Making of Modern Bha *“Sinha provides a remarkably rich account that does justice to the contact zone unearthed by his archival discovery. Both vivid and perceptive, Sinha’s prose grips from the start and unfolds three days in the 1930s into a marvellous larger panorama of representational practices, a broader inter-cultural landscape, and the intimacy of personal encounters.” -- Christopher Pinney * Professor of Anthropology and Visual Culture, University College London *"Photo-Attractions is the fascinating account, by a masterful storyteller, of a single extended portrait session that took place between Indian classical dancer Ram Gopal and photographer Carl Van Vechten in New York in 1938. Sinha’s cosmopolitan vision, deeply informed by histories of dance, gesture, performance and photography, offers brilliant new perceptions of trans-cultural exchanges of gender, sexuality and desire in the early twentieth century. An illumination." -- Laura Wexler * author of Tender Violence: Domestic Visions in an Age of U. S. Imperialism *"With extraordinary finesse, Ajay Sinha reconstructs two remarkable artists’ collaborative fantasy-making through a Leica camera, which produced what he calls the 'photo-dance': a voluptuous intermedial object imbued with cross-cultural provocations. As much an astute commentary on Orientalism, postcoloniality, and race as it is an informed critique of the silences of established archival memory, this virtuosic study is a mesmerizing read." -- Rey Chow * Andrew W. Mellon Distinguished Professor of the Humanities, Duke University *"A trio performs: a beautiful male dancer of Indo-Burmese origins, a cult photographer with a Leica, the metal prosthesis that acquires a life of its own — 'photo-eroticism'. This expansively researched book with a non-linear structure has a discursive flamboyance. A historical moment spins into the contemporary; the language of the writer enthralls the reader." -- Vivan Sundaram * visual artist, founder and trustee, Sher-Gil Sundaram Arts Foundation *Table of ContentsPreludeChapter 1: The Photo StudioChapter 2: The DancerChapter 3: The PhotographerChapter 4: The CameraChapter 5: Photo-DanceChapter 6: AfterimagesAcknowledgementsNotesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisThe creator of buildings that stand out as surrealistic marvels amid the skylines of America, Europe, and Asia, Rem Koolhaas, along with his Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA), is justly considered as one of the leaders of contemporary architecture. This book, the first critical monograph on the work of Rem Koolhaas and OMA, does more than just describe projects and buildings: It places Koolhaas’s career in a cultural context that allows the reader to better understand the creative process of modern architecture. The works considered are presented in chronological and thematic order, thus retracing the career of Koolhaas from his student days to his neo-avant-garde experimentation at the end of the 1970s and finishing with his most recent works in Porto, Seoul, and Beijing. The individual projects are analyzed from conception to construction, paying particular attention to the conceptual and technical reasons for choices of materials and configuration. Overall, the book addresses the theoretical formulations of Koolhaas, offering a reflection on the fundamental principles of the contemporary architectural project.Table of ContentsExperiences with the Paranoid-Critical Method / New Sobriety vs. Post-Modern and Contextualism / The epoch of the merveilles / S, M, L, XL, 1995: principles for a theory of architecture / Generic volume, informal polyhedral solids and functional diagrams

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Book SynopsisThrough sheer determination and courage, Kahn has researched the nature of concrete in the form of precast, cast in place or blocks. Each of his renowned works in exposed concrete, such as the Yale Art Gallery, the Richards Laboratories, the Bath House, the Salk Institute, the National Assembly, the Kimbell Museum, the Exeter Library and the Yale Center for British Art, is itself an important chapter in the history of architecture for the exploration into concrete’s formal expression, beyond the lesson of Le Corbusier. Kahn’s obsession on concrete fabrication processes, on the formwork and the mix-design, is systematically examined in two volumes. The authors illustrate Kahn’s vision with documents that have never been revealed in other essays, drawing heavily from original sketches, plans, specifications, worksite photographs, and correspondences with collaborators, engineers, technicians and contractors. The first volume Exposed Concrete and Hollow Stones focuses on the first ten-year period of Kahn research on concrete. Moving through the many construction systems experienced by Kahn, from the discovery of exposed concrete in the form of béton brut at the Yale Art Gallery, to the precast and poured-in-place techniques, to the values of joint, growth and ornament, the essay culminates in the reconstruction of the artistic and technical characteristics of two great worksite, the Richards Laboratories and the First Unitarian Church and School. The second volume, Towards the Zero Degree of Concrete, covers the following fourteen years and leads the reader along Kahn’s path to the true 'nature of concrete', focusing on his main techniques and poetic discoveries such as the 'liquid stone' of the Salk Institute, the 'smooth finish' at Bryn Mawr and the concept of 'monolithic' at the Yale Center for British Art.Table of Contents1. The Nature of Concrete: the 'Liquid Stone' of the Salk Institute 2. Confirmations of the 'Smooth Finish': the Worksite at Bryn Mawr 3. Design and Construction in Concrete at Dhaka 4. Walls and Vaults of the Kimbell Art Museum 5. Concrete and Brick 6. Different Forms of Exposed Concrete 7. Delirious Formwork: Slip-Form Method for Skyscrapers 8. Towards the Monolith: the Yale Center for British Art Index

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Book SynopsisKenzo Tange (1913 - 2005) is a peerless figure among twentieth-century Japanese architects, unmatched in his talent, influence, and versatility. This collection of essays represents a new generation of original research that reframes Tange in the context of Japan's unique embrace of modern architecture as well as global discourses of cultural identity, technology, and the synthesis of the arts. Case studies on celebrated works clarify Tange's wide-ranging interests and design methodology through collaboration with allied fields such as art, engineering, furniture design, and photography. The book will appeal to both specialists and general readers with an interest in the visual culture and built environment of modern Japan.

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Book SynopsisThe works of Sou Fujimoto resist any form of conventional categorization. This young Japanese architect stands for unconventional buildings that cannot be described by standard criteria and definitions such as inside/outside or public/private. Clear divisions such as between floor levels and rooms are shattered by his complex ground plans and interlocking structures which - in a reference to the idea of the cave - he describes as "primitive future." With this approach he creates forms that are committed to a playful interaction between user and space. Alongside private residences, such as the well-known N House, his library for Musashino Art University has achieved particular recognition. In addition he was represented at the 2010 Venice Biennale with a design for a house. In his personal sketchbook Sou Fujimoto offers insights into his design process. Through the sketches, drawings, and notes readers can trace how his complex concepts are made manifest and develop on paper.

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Book SynopsisBucky Inc. offers a deep exploration of Richard Buckminster Fuller's work and thought to shed new light on the questions raised by our increasingly electronic world. It shows that Fuller's entire career was a multi-dimensional reflection on the architecture of radio. He always insisted that the real site of architecture is the electromagnetic spectrum. His buildings were delicate mobile instruments for accessing the invisible universe of overlapping signals. Every detail was understood as a way of tuning into hidden waves. Architecture was built in, with, for and as radio. Bucky Inc. rethinks the legacy of one of the key protagonists of the twentieth-century. It draws extensively on Fuller's archive to follow his radical thinking from toilets to telepathy, plastic to prosthetics, and data to deep-space. It shows how the critical arguments and material techniques of arguably the single most exposed designer of the last century were overlooked at the time but have become urgently relevant today.

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Book SynopsisConstructed Narratives brings together essays and several recently completed buildings by David Adjaye, in the United States and elsewhere. In the essays, Adjaye shows how his approach to the design of temporary pavilions and furniture, private houses, and installations at the 2015 Venice Biennale feeds into his designs for public buildings. Other essays discuss his engagement with geography, the urban environment, his approach to materiality, and architectural types. The presented projects include two public libraries and the National Museum of African American History and Culture, all in Washington D.C., a residential mixed-use building in New York, and a hybrid art-retail building in Beirut. Two of Adjaye's current projects are also included.

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Book SynopsisThe Greek island sequence montaged by Laszlo Moholy-Nagy into his legendary documentary Architects' Congress can be interpreted, like his provocative photoplastiks, as a "message in a bottle" thrown into the sea that "might take decades for someone to find and read." Capturing the incomparable Greek light, it presents a compelling glimpse of the four days and nights in August 1933 when the elite of the European architectural and artistic avant-garde-in Greece for the 4th International Congress of Modern Architecture (CIAM)-took to the Aegean in a barely-seaworthy "nut shell" that would bring them close to the brink of disaster. The "motley crew" included Le Corbusier, Fernand Leger, Amedee Ozenfant, Sigfried Giedion, Cor van Eesteren, and Otto Neurath. Crucial to the success of the surreal odyssey were members of the Greek avant-garde. Drawing on previously unpublished material-Moholy's poetically ironic letter to his wife Sibyl, Ghika's candid Memoirs of Le Corbusier, and forensic examination of the architect's sketchbooks-the authors reconstruct the epiphanies, debates, and, inevitably, estrangements at this critical moment in European history.

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Book SynopsisIn these rapidly changing times, we are increasingly embracing change and innovation; we deviate, modify, shift and pivot to challenge long-accepted norms. Transformation is everywhere, at all times. Transformation is also the central topic in the architectural profession and the built environment. It can be evidenced in concepts and ideas, in awareness, appearance, form, character, nature or culture. This year, the Zumtobel Group commissioned the international architecture practice UNStudio to create their annual report for 2021/2022, adding to the Austrian lighting company’s unique oeuvre of yearly published art books. As a collaboration with graphic design duo Bloemendaal & Dekkers, this year’s publication presents a design reflection on the theme of transformation. Using illustrations drawn from the work of UNStudio over the past thirty years, the book presents a visual investigation into the creative process, and demonstrates how ideas and concepts are developed by the practice into physical form. Through a similar thought process, the book itself is designed to undergo its own metamorphosis.

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Book Synopsis1 Voraussetzungen.- 1. Architekturlehre: Erfahrungen und erste Umsetzung.- 2. Der Wiener Aufenthalt und sein Ergebnis.- 3. Baupraxis.- 2 Das Atelier 35, Rue de Sèvres.- 1. Genius loci: das Kloster als Atelier.- 2. Formen der Zusammenarbeit: Entwicklung des Ateliers 19241965.- 3. Die Mitarbeiter und ihre Aufgabenbereiche.- 3 Die Bedeutung des Ateliers für die Mitarbeiter: Ort der Architekturlehre.- 1. Architekturlehre in Frankreich in der ersten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts.- 2. Le Corbusier und die Ecole des Beaux-Arts.- 3. Strukturierung des Ateliers als Gegenmodell zum Akademie-Unterricht.- 4 Die Bedeutung des Ateliers für Le Corbusier: Freiraum zur Entwicklung von Prototypen.- 1. Das Energiepotential: rationelle Nutzung der im Atelier verfügbaren Arbeitskräfte.- 2. Das Museum des unbegrenzten Wachstums.- 5 Die Bedeutung des Ateliers für Le Corbusier: Instrument zur Weiterentwicklung von Ideen.- 1. Der schöpferische Prozeß: Entwicklung der Urgestalt.- 2. Die Mitarbeiter als pousseurs.- 6 Die Bauausführung. Organisationsformen und ihre Auswirkungen.- 1. Arbeitsablauf und Beteiligte.- 2. Lichter unter dem Scheffel: Pavillon Suisse, Paris.- 3. Mißstände und ihre Folgen: La Tourette und Philips Pavillon.- 4. Die Erbauer: Fusion aus Architekt und Ingenieur: Maison de la Culture et de la Jeunesse, Firminy.- 5. Trennung von Idee und Ausführung: Museum, Tokio.- 6. Zusammenfassung.- 7 Beispiel einer Werkentstehung: Entwicklung des Straßburger Kongreßgebäudes.- 1. Vorgeschichte und Auftragserteilung.- 2. Erste Skizzen.- 3. Der erste Entwurf: 5. Dezember 1962.- 4. Der zweite Entwurf: Juni 1963.- 5. 1964: Die neue Lösung aufgrund technischer Probleme.- 6. Die vorgesehene Ausführungsorganisation: Ein neues Modell. Scheitern desProjekts.- 7. Zusammenfassung.- Schluß.- Abkürzungen.- Anmerkungen.- Abbildungsnachweis.- Verzeichnis aller Mitarbeiter.Table of Contents1 Voraussetzungen.- 1. Architekturlehre: Erfahrungen und erste Umsetzung.- L’Eplattenier und die Kunstschule in La Chaux-de-Fonds.- Le Corbusiers Kunstschulentwurf und erste Lehrerfahrungen.- 2. Der Wiener Aufenthalt und sein Ergebnis.- 3. Baupraxis.- Chapallaz in La Chaux-de-Fonds.- Perret in Paris.- Behrens in Berlin.- 2 Das Atelier 35, Rue de Sèvres.- 1. Genius loci: das Kloster als Atelier.- 2. Formen der Zusammenarbeit: Entwicklung des Ateliers 1924–1965.- Die Jahre 1924–1940.- Die Jahre 1944–1965.- 3. Die Mitarbeiter und ihre Aufgabenbereiche.- Pierre Jeanneret.- ‚Stagiaires‘ und langfristige Mitarbeiter.- Spezialisten.- 3 Die Bedeutung des Ateliers für die Mitarbeiter: Ort der Architekturlehre.- 1. Architekturlehre in Frankreich in der ersten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts.- 2. Le Corbusier und die Ecole des Beaux-Arts.- 3. Strukturierung des Ateliers als Gegenmodell zum Akademie-Unterricht.- 4 Die Bedeutung des Ateliers für Le Corbusier: Freiraum zur Entwicklung von Prototypen.- 1. ‚Das Energiepotential‘: rationelle Nutzung der im Atelier verfügbaren Arbeitskräfte.- 2. Das ‚Museum des unbegrenzten Wachstums‘.- 5 Die Bedeutung des Ateliers für Le Corbusier: Instrument zur Weiterentwicklung von Ideen.- 1. Der schöpferische Prozeß: Entwicklung der Urgestalt.- 2. Die Mitarbeiter als ‚pousseurs‘.- 6 Die Bauausführung. Organisationsformen und ihre Auswirkungen.- 1. Arbeitsablauf und Beteiligte.- 2. ‚Lichter unter dem Scheffel‘: Pavillon Suisse, Paris.- 3. Mißstände und ihre Folgen: La Tourette und Philips Pavillon.- 4. „Die Erbauer: Fusion aus Architekt und Ingenieur”: Maison de la Culture et de la Jeunesse, Firminy.- 5. Trennung von Idee und Ausführung: Museum, Tokio.- 6. Zusammenfassung.- 7 Beispiel einer Werkentstehung: Entwicklung des Straßburger Kongreßgebäudes.- 1. Vorgeschichte und Auftragserteilung.- 2. Erste Skizzen.- 3. Der erste Entwurf: 5. Dezember 1962.- 4. Der zweite Entwurf: Juni 1963.- 5. 1964: Die neue Lösung aufgrund technischer Probleme.- 6. Die vorgesehene Ausführungsorganisation: Ein neues Modell. Scheitern des Projekts.- 7. Zusammenfassung.- Schluß.- Abkürzungen.- Anmerkungen.- Abbildungsnachweis.- Verzeichnis aller Mitarbeiter.

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Book SynopsisWinner of the Pritzker Prize and the Praemium Imperiale, Norman Foster is one of the most innovative and forwardthinking architects at work today. This volume features more than 1,000 plans, sketches, and photographs of some of Foster's most renowned projects, including London's new Wembley Stadium, Germany's Dresden Station, and Beijing's new international airport. These and other important structures, along with lighting systems, furniture collections, and memorials, reveal the enormous range of Foster + Partners' work. In addition to offering insights into individual projects, this volume contextualizes Foster's work, identifying themes and connections, discussing influences and inspirations, and invoking a host of historical, cultural, and architectural references. A final chapter looks forward to forthcoming projects, further detailing a momentous career highlighted by creativity, innovation, and achievement.

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Book SynopsisDuring the whole of his writing career August Strindberg was a restless canon-maker. In his capacity as writer, librarian, cultural scholar, polemicist and amateur researcher he constantly quoted sources, both historical and contemporary, included and excluded certain authors in his own work, as well as re-evaluated the boundaries of aesthetics and culture around the turn of the twentieth century. At the same time, he was a very active author in his own right, living in self-imposed exile but in close contact with cosmopolitan intellectual circles. All of this raises questions about his relationship with the literary and cultural canon. The dynamics between local and global culture define the whole of his oeuvre and make him one of those European authors who are readily interpreted in the context of Weltliteratur.Strindberg was a multilingual cosmopolitan, an emigrant, theosophist, and reporter. In his capacity as a writer, with his gaze trained upon both East and West, he absorbed impressions from the universalist tendencies of the fin de siècle. His ambition to join the global “Republic of Letters” led him to study French, Hebrew, the Chinese system of logograms, Russian literature, and the history of the Middle East.This volume, edited by Jan Balbierz, gathers contributions from renowned Strindberg scholars and discusses questions, such as: How did Strindberg construct his predecessors and which traditions did he associate himself with? How is a Strindbergian text altered in performative practice in theatre and film? How did Strindberg, whose writings are deeply rooted in Swedish folklore and landscape, relate to foreign cultural values?

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Book SynopsisThis volume coins the term "Team 10 East" as a conceptual tool to discuss the work of Team 10 members and fellow travelers from state-socialist countries - such as Oskar Hansen of Poland, Charles Polonyi of Hungary, and Radovan Niksic of Yugoslavia. This new term allows the book's contributors to approach these individuals from a comparative perspective on socialist modernism in Central and Eastern Europe and to discuss the relationship between modernism and modernization across the Iron Curtain. In so doing, Team 10 East addresses "revisionism" in state-socialist architecture and politics as well as shows how Team 10 East architects appropriated, critiqued, and developed postwar modernist architecture and functionalist urbanism both from within and beyond the confines of a Europe split by the Cold War.

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Book SynopsisA memoir and collection of essays on architecture and urbanism from one of the most interesting figures in Singapore’s cultural landscape. According to architect Tay Kheng Soon, the time has come to change and build a new world. The feeling has impelled him to write this book, bringing together memoir and writings on identity, landscape and belonging, and on architecture and urbanism. Born in British-ruled Singapore, Soon was deeply engaged in the debates about building a new world that attended the end of colonialism. His focus, but far from his only concern, was Singapore's built environment—and its spiritual one—since the early 1960s. A New World in the Making is a must-read reflection on tropical Asia, on architecture and urbanism, and on looking ahead to the always urgent task of building a new world.Table of Contents Beginnings Becoming Being A Tribute to the Malayan Generation Ideas and Essays Proposals and Plans Design Thinking for a New World List of Figures

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