Search results for ""Author Herzog"
Princeton University Press The Question of Unworthy Life
The dark history of eugenic thought in Germany from the nineteenth century to today—and the courageous countervoicesBetween 1939 and 1945, Nazi genocide claimed the lives of nearly three hundred thousand people diagnosed with psychiatric illness or cognitive deficiencies. Not until the 1980s would these murders, as well as the coercive sterilizations of some four hundred thousand others classified as “feeble-minded,” be officially acknowledged as crimes at all. The Question of Unworthy Life charts this history from its origins in prewar debates about the value of disabled lives to our continuing efforts to unlearn eugenic thinking today.Drawing on a wealth of rare archival evidence, Dagmar Herzog sheds light on how Germany became the only modern state to implement a plan to eradicate cognitive impairment from the entire body politic. She traces how eugenics emerged from the flawed premise that intellectual deficiency was biologically h
£27.00
Hodder & Stoughton Mountains of Fire
''If Michael Palin had been a volcanologist, this is the book he would have written'' LITERARY REVIEW''Gripping'' THE ECONOMIST ''Wonderful'' PETER FRANKOPAN ''Like a thriller ... This is terrific'' SPECTATOR ''Beautiful ... bursting with poetry, with storytelling'' WERNER HERZOGWe are made of the same stuff as the breath and cinders of volcanoes. No matter where we live on the planet, they have shaped our history and might one day decide our destiny. World-famous volcanologist Clive Oppenheimer has worked at the crater''s edge in the wildest places on Earth, close enough to feel the heat of the lava. In Mountains of Fire we join him on hair-singeing adventures from Italy to Antarctica to learn how deeply our stories are intertwined with volcanoes.
£10.99
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Miami, Real and Imagined
When former photographer and commercial real estate executive Hank Klein suffered a debilitating stroke in 2012, experimenting with photographic effects became an important part of his recovery. Viewed through a Leica lens and Klein's vision and imagination, more than 200 colorful Miami scenes invite readers to view the same subject matter in two ways—one as a traditional photograph and one reinterpreted with color, texture, and cropping. From the landmark Freedom Tower to an Everglades alligator, from Herzog & de Meuron's snazzy new Perez Art Museum to the old Vagabond Motel, striking compositions become more complex with the aid of technology and Klein's haiku-like commentary.
£20.69
Taschen GmbH Contemporary Concrete Buildings
Concrete? That characterless stuff of parking lots or Communist tower blocks, right? Well, yes. And no. Concrete is actually a name applied to a remarkably wide range of building substances, and, when properly handled, is one of the noble materials of contemporary architecture. A kind of “liquid stone” at the outset, it is malleable, durable, and capable of prodigious feats of engineering. This Bibliotheca Universalis edition highlights the best work done in concrete of recent years. It includes such stars as Zaha Hadid, Herzog & de Meuron, and Steven Holl, but also surprising new architects like the Russians SPEECH and artists such as James Turrell, who turned the famous concrete spiral of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Guggenheim in New York into the setting of one of his most remarkable pieces.
£22.87
University of Minnesota Press Rape Warfare: The Hidden Genocide in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Croatia
"Every time I meet another woman who has survived, or who is helping the survivors, or who is struggling to articulate the horror the survivors and the dead have suffered and to prevent its recurrence, my own anger and grave distress turns toward hope." With these words, author Beverly Allen gives an indication of the shocking impact on the international community of a recent wartime phenomenon, namely the "military policy of rape for the purpose of genocide", implemented by Serbian soldiers in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Croatia during the recent conflict in the region. This text documents the existence of rape/death camps in which women were detained and raped repeatedly, often with the goal of impregnating them or as a form of torture before death. The author faces the dilemma of communicating her findings without reinforcing the damage that has been caused by these atrocities. The study analyzes the information gathered by the author about genocidal rape and concludes with an impassioned argument for the bringing to trial of the perpetrators of this war crime.
£21.99
Taylor & Francis Ltd Design Technology in Contemporary Architectural Practice
Design Technology in Contemporary Architectural Practice lifts the curtain to unveil how eleven world-leading design studios integrate technology (such as computational design, BIM, and digital fabrication) as part of their day-to-day design exploration and delivery. Via first-hand accounts, the book offers rare insights about how these firms apply technology to purposefully disrupt and support their creative design processes in order to then explore how technology can be integrated on an organisational level. The resulting practice stories are loosely tied to four chapters that discuss how Design Technology corresponds to studio culture, collaboration and delivery protocols, business opportunities, knowledge sharing, staff empowerment, and more. The author is less interested in presenting the latest and greatest tools than in focusing on cultural and organisational challenges and opportunities. This book benefits both the professional market (such as design firms reflecting on their technology use), as well as the academic context (with its critical reflection on the interface between design process and technology support). Stories from the following design firms are included:Coop Himmelb(l)auFoster + PartnersBjarke Ingels Group (BIG)Zaha Hadid ArchitectsDiller Scofidio + RenfoHeatherwick StudioMorphosis Architects SO-ILWoods BagotHerzog & de MeuronLASSA
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Globe Pequot Press Double Solitaire: The Films of Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder
Before Herzog and Kinski, before Simon and Garfunkel, there was Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder. Despite their shared nickname, writer-producer Charles Brackett and writer-director Billy Wilder were not, in fact, the “happiest couple in Hollywood.” Actually, they disliked each other intensely, even as they collaborated on some of the most iconic films of Hollywood’s Golden Age, including Sunset Boulevard, Double Indemnity, The Lost Weekend, and A Foreign Affair.Just how two men who found each other so irritating could together make such enduring contributions to cinematic history is the subject of Double Solitaire, a joint biography of a fascinating and explosive creative collaboration. In the course of making their mark on genres ranging from film noir to the screwball comedy, they achieved an almost inexplicable alchemy that highlights the paradoxical nature of shared genius. Author Donald Brackett—whose grandfather was Charles Brackett’s cousin—delves into family lore, correspondence, contemporary media reports, and all other manner of historical records to reconstruct the strange magic of Brackett & Wilder’s combustible partnership, showing how their creative tensions yielded one classic film after another, and how their entrepreneurial drive pushed against the constraints of the studio system, anticipating the independent-producer models of today.
£17.99
JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) Anwendung und Auslegung von Recht in Portugal und Brasilien: Eine rechtsvergleichende Untersuchung aus genetischer, funktionaler und postmoderner Perspektive. Zugleich ein Plädoyer für mehr Savigny und weniger Jhering
Methodenlehre wird immer noch oft allein aus nationaler Sicht gesehen. Lösungsansätze in anderen Jurisdiktionen werden dann gerne als "nicht methodisch" beschrieben. Gleichermaßen werden die vier Auslegungselemente pauschal auf Savigny zurückgeführt und die Prämissen der Methodenlehre der Nachkriegszeit hingenommen, ohne sie zu problematisieren. Ausgehend von einer eigenen Savigny-Interpretation und bereichert durch die in Portugal und Brasilien gemachten Erfahrungen gibt Benjamin Herzog den Denkanstoß, die Wortlautgrenze und das teleologische Denken zu hinterfragen. Er fordert dies aber nicht für die lusophonen Rechte. Geprägt vom Respekt vor der Andersartigkeit fremder Rechtskulturen problematisiert er statt dessen, wie man in Portugal und Brasilien unter anderen historischen, verfassungsrechtlichen und sozioökonomischen Voraussetzungen als in Deutschland Recht anwendet und auslegt.
£134.74
Rare Bird Books L.A. Man: Profiles from a Big City and a Small World
During his many years writing for publications such as LA Weekly, the Los Angeles Times, Slake, Surfer's Journal and more, Joe Donnelly has driven to Texas with Wes Anderson, shot pool with Sean Penn, surfed with Chris Malloy, sparred (verbally) with Christian Bale, gone on a date with Carmen Electra, and listened to tall tales told by Werner Herzog. These profiles, which also include encounters with Drew Barrymore, Lou Reed, Craig Stecyk,the wolf OR7, the Z-boys and others who have indelibly stamped the cultural landscape, drill through the facade of fame to get at the core humanity behind the myth-making. This collection manages to show Los Angeles' biggest export in a light in which it is rarely seen.
£13.76
Birkhauser The Colours of ...: Frank O. Gehry, Jean Nouvel, Wang Shu and other architects
Color is inextricably linked with architecture; as a design element and also as an inherent quality, it characterizes the shape and texture of the built fabric.The book presents extraordinary color schemes, both in terms of technology and aesthetics, for ground-breaking architecture with a wide spectrum of functions: from apartment to concert hall, from flagship store to city park.The focus is on the works of the three architects Frank O. Gehry, Jean Nouvel and Wang Shu. This is expanded by the works of other practices such as BIG, Zaha Hadid, Herzog & de Meuron, Toyo Ito and SANAA.This publication presents a compendium that documents color schemes in architecture in the context of very different aesthetic approaches. The large-format photographs by Iwan Baan, Christian Richters, Roland Halbe and Philippe Ruault fascinate with their clarity and presence.
£17.50
Yale University Press Moses: A Human Life
An unprecedented portrait of Moses's inner world and perplexing character, by a distinguished biblical scholar No figure looms larger in Jewish culture than Moses, and few have stories more enigmatic. Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg, acclaimed for her many books on Jewish thought, turns her attention to Moses in this remarkably rich, evocative book. Drawing on a broad range of sources—literary as well as psychoanalytic, a wealth of classical Jewish texts alongside George Eliot, W. G. Sebald, and Werner Herzog—Zornberg offers a vivid and original portrait of the biblical Moses. Moses's vexing personality, his uncertain origins, and his turbulent relations with his own people are acutely explored by Zornberg, who sees this story, told and retold, as crucial not only to the biblical past but also to the future of Jewish history.
£12.02
Oldcastle Books Ltd The Art of Wandering: The Writer as Walker
The Art of Wandering is a history of that curious hybrid, the writer as walker. From the Ancient world to the modern day, the role of the walker continues to evolve, from philosopher and pilgrim, vagrant and visionary, to experimentalist and radical. From Rousseau and De Quincey to Virginia Woolf and Werner Herzog, this seemingly innocuous activity has inspired a literary tradition encompassing philosophy and poetry, the novel and the manifesto. Today, this figure has returned to the forefront of the public imagination, as writers and walkers follow in the footsteps of earlier generations. For the walker is once again on the march, seeking out new territory and recording new impressions of the landscape. Newly revised and updated, The Art of Wandering explores these adventures on foot. Every walk can be expressed as a story narrated by the walker; it is these stories and the lives of those who walked them which are examined here.
£12.99
ACC Art Books Through Her Lens: The Stories Behind the Photography of Eva Sereny
Stories and photography intermingle on the pages of this gorgeous homage to '70s and '80s cinema and celebrity. Including rare and never-before-seen images, Through Her Lens is a wonderful collection of images and memoires that capture the spirit of the age. From unexpected late-night calls from Romy Schneider, to a stay at Paul Newman's home in Connecticut; from working on set with Bernardo Bertolucci, Werner Herzog, Steven Spielberg and Sydney Pollack, to lounging poolside with Raquel Welch; Sereny reveals her favourite moments from working behind the lens. This is the first photographic retrospective of Sereny's star-studded career, including nearly 100 never-before-seen images complemented by Eva's own stories.
£36.00
University of Minnesota Press The Rent of Form: Architecture and Labor in the Digital Age
A critique of prominent architects’ approach to digitally driven design and labor practices over the past two decades With the advent of revolutionary digital design and production technologies, contemporary architects and their clients developed a taste for dramatic, unconventional forms. Seeking to amaze their audiences and promote their global brands, “starchitects” like Herzog & de Meuron and Frank Gehry have reaped substantial rewards through the pursuit of spectacle enabled by these new technologies. This process reached a climax in projects like Gehry’s Guggenheim Bilbao and the “Bilbao effect,” in which spectacular architectural designs became increasingly sought by municipal and institutional clients for their perceived capacity to enhance property values, which author Pedro Fiori Arantes calls the “rent of form.”Analyzing many major international architectural projects of the past twenty years, Arantes provides an in-depth account of how this “architecture of exception” has come to dominate today’s industry. Articulating an original, compelling critique of the capital and labor practices that enable many contemporary projects, Arantes explains how circulation (via image culture), consumption (particularly through tourism), the division of labor, and the distribution of wealth came to fix a certain notion of starchitecture at the center of the industry.Significantly, Arantes’s viewpoint is not that of Euro-American capitalism. Writing from the Global South, this Brazilian theorist offers a fresh perspective that advances ideas less commonly circulated in dominant, English-language academic and popular discourse. Asking key questions about the prevailing logics of finance capital, and revealing inconvenient truths about the changing labor of design and the treatment of construction workers around the world, The Rent of Form delivers a much-needed reevaluation of the astonishing buildings that have increasingly come to define world cities.
£97.20
Birkhauser Natures intermédiaires: Les paysages de Michel Desvigne
Michel Desvigne is no doubt the most high-profile French landscape architect working today. He collaborates with architects like Richard Rogers, Norman Foster, Renzo Piano, Ieoh Ming Pei, Herzog and de Meuron, and Jean Nouvel, and his projects are synonymous with a strong strategic and conceptual component, influenced by insights from geography. Traffic projects also play an important role in his work – they underscore the competence of landscape architecture in matters of city planning. This thematic monograph documents the key elements of Desvigne’s work in individual chapters: processes of transformation, geography, territory, urban structures, and public squares. Each of these themes is vividly illustrated by selected projects, including the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts, the French Ministry of Culture in Paris, and Keio University in Tokyo.
£61.00
University of Minnesota Press The Rent of Form: Architecture and Labor in the Digital Age
A critique of prominent architects’ approach to digitally driven design and labor practices over the past two decades With the advent of revolutionary digital design and production technologies, contemporary architects and their clients developed a taste for dramatic, unconventional forms. Seeking to amaze their audiences and promote their global brands, “starchitects” like Herzog & de Meuron and Frank Gehry have reaped substantial rewards through the pursuit of spectacle enabled by these new technologies. This process reached a climax in projects like Gehry’s Guggenheim Bilbao and the “Bilbao effect,” in which spectacular architectural designs became increasingly sought by municipal and institutional clients for their perceived capacity to enhance property values, which author Pedro Fiori Arantes calls the “rent of form.”Analyzing many major international architectural projects of the past twenty years, Arantes provides an in-depth account of how this “architecture of exception” has come to dominate today’s industry. Articulating an original, compelling critique of the capital and labor practices that enable many contemporary projects, Arantes explains how circulation (via image culture), consumption (particularly through tourism), the division of labor, and the distribution of wealth came to fix a certain notion of starchitecture at the center of the industry.Significantly, Arantes’s viewpoint is not that of Euro-American capitalism. Writing from the Global South, this Brazilian theorist offers a fresh perspective that advances ideas less commonly circulated in dominant, English-language academic and popular discourse. Asking key questions about the prevailing logics of finance capital, and revealing inconvenient truths about the changing labor of design and the treatment of construction workers around the world, The Rent of Form delivers a much-needed reevaluation of the astonishing buildings that have increasingly come to define world cities.
£23.39
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG Veröffentlichungen des Instituts fur Europäische Geschichte Mainz: Die politischen Beziehungen Landgraf Philipps des Grobmutigen
Landgraf Philipp von Hessen wurde in der Forschung bislang als der aus religiösen GrÃ"nden prinzipiell opponierende Dauerrivale des Kaisers im Reich dargestellt. Dagegen zeigt die vorliegende Studie unter Zuhilfenahme neuer methodischer Ansätze und durch die zeitliche Verortung zwischen der Restitution Herzog Ulrichs von WÃ"rttemberg (1534) und dem Abschluss des "Geheimvertrages" mit dem Kaiser (1541) als markanten Zäsuren in den politischen Beziehungen des Landgrafen zum Kaiserhaus, dass der Landgraf als ein Politiker porträtiert werden muss, der seine politischen Entscheidungen je nach Interessenlage traf und vor dem Hintergrund politischer Konjunkturen seine Beziehungen neu austarierte und sein Handeln Ã"berdachte.
£140.00
Permuted Press The Israeli Century
As Israel increasingly becomes the center of global Jewish life, Jews everywhere are undergoing a process of Israelization.“The Israeli Century is one of the most important books of our generation, emphasizing how Israel is becoming the center of the Jewish People’s existence and is laying the solid foundations for its future.”—Isaac Herzog, President of Israe In this important breakthrough work, Yossi Shain takes us on a sweeping and surprising journey through the history of the Jewish people, from the destruction of the First Temple in the sixth century B.C.E. up to the modern era. Over the course of this long history, Jews have moved from a life of Diaspora, which ultimately led to destruction, to a prosperous existence in a thriving, independent nation state. The new power of Jewish sovereignty has echoed around the world and gives Israelis a new and significant role as influential global players. In the Israeli Century
£22.00
University of Minnesota Press Afterimages of Gilles Deleuze’s Film Philosophy
The French philosopher Gilles Deleuze was one of the most innovative and revolutionary thinkers of the twentieth century. Author of more than twenty books on literature, music, and the visual arts, Deleuze published the first volume of his two-volume study of film, Cinema 1: The Movement-Image, in 1983 and the second volume, Cinema 2: The Time-Image, in 1985. Since their publication, these books have had a profound impact on the study of film and philosophy. Film, media, and cultural studies scholars still grapple today with how they can most productively incorporate Deleuze's thought.The first new collection of critical studies on Deleuze's cinema writings in nearly a decade, Afterimages of Gilles Deleuze's Film Philosophy provides original essays that evaluate the continuing significance of Deleuze's film theories, accounting systematically for the ways in which they have influenced the investigation of contemporary visual culture and offering new directions for research.Contributors: Raymond Bellour, Centre Nationale de Recherches Scientifiques; Ronald Bogue, U of Georgia; Giuliana Bruno, Harvard U; Ian Buchanan, Cardiff U; James K. Chandler, U of Chicago; Tom Conley, Harvard U; Amy Herzog, CUNY; András Bálint Kovács, Eötvös Loránd U; Patricia MacCormack, Anglia Ruskin U; Timothy Murray, Cornell U; Dorothea Olkowski, U of Colorado; John Rajchman, Columbia U; Marie-Claire Ropars-Wuilleumier, U Paris VIII; Garrett Stewart, U of Iowa; Damian Sutton, Glasgow School of Art; Melinda Szaloky, UC Santa Barbara.
£23.99
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Cardiac Surgery in Chronic Renal Failure
“The work focuses on a phenomenon that is occurring with increasing frequency in the practice of cardiac surgery, namely the need to address cardiac surgical issues in patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD). . . . this book will serve to stimulate trials of competing and complementary therapies so that the outcomes for these unfortunate patients can be improved.” -- from the Foreword by R. Morton Boltman, III, MD Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School Chief, Cardiac Surgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston Cardiovascular disease remains the most common cause of death for patients with chronic renal failure, and although cardiac surgery can frequently relieve symptoms and prolong survival, it is still associated with significant complications. This concise volume draws on the expertise of leading specialists to help practitioners and trainees understand the full range of current treatment options and their outcomes. Noted authorities such as Charles A. Herzog and William Cohn share both their insights and their technical tips, developed through years of experience. Cardiac Surgery in Chronic Renal Failure includes chapters on: • the impact of ESRD in society • percutaneous coronary revascularization in ESRD patients • cardiopulmonary bypass in patients with chronic renal failure • coronary bypass grafting in ESRD patients requiring dialysis • surgical treatment of valvular heart disease in ESRD patients • surgical evaluation and treatment of uremic pericarditis Practicing nephrologists and cardiologists, as well as residents and fellows, will find this important volume serves as a guide to achieving the best possible outcomes and a call to reduce the impact of cardiovascular disease in ESRD.
£81.95
Lassassina de Venècia Premi Ramon Muntaner 2021
Venècia, 1914. La Carla Herzog, a punt de complir catorze anys, descobreix que té el poder de preveure desgràcies poc abans que es produeixin. El seu pare, un home molt ric i poderós i amb una mentalitat molt estricta, l?acusa de bruixeria i la tanca en un reformatori. Una nit, la Carla aconsegueix escapar juntament amb dos companys. Tots tres viatjaran a diversos llocs d?Europa a la recerca d?un llibre misteriós que conté l?explicació dels seus poders, alhora que la policia de Venècia busca la Carla acusant-la falsament d?assassinat. Mentrestant, esclata la Primera Guerra Mundial?
£13.23
Taschen GmbH Contemporary Houses. 100 Homes Around the World
Designing private residences has its own very special challenges and nuances for the architect. The scale may be more modest than public projects, the technical fittings less complex than an industrial site, but the preferences, requirements, and vision of particular personalities becomes priority. The delicate task is to translate all the emotive associations and practical requirements of “home” into a workable, constructed reality. This publication rounds up 100 of the world’s most interesting and pioneering homes designed in the past two decades, featuring a host of talents both new and established, including John Pawson,Shigeru Ban, Tadao Ando, Zaha Hadid, Herzog & de Meuron, Daniel Libeskind, Alvaro Siza, and Peter Zumthor. Accommodating daily routines of eating, sleeping, and shelter, as well as offering the space for personal experience and relationships, this is architecture at its most elementary and its most intimate.
£54.00
Lars Muller Publishers Inevitable Specificity of Cities
What is a city? What determines its specifi city? What shapes its quality? The evolution of the contemporary city does not follow a linear movement. It is shaped by transformation processes that are directed toward often distant and confl icting goals. Even though cities are inscribed into global processes and networks, they develop their own specifi c ways of dealing with these conditions. They tend to produce and reproduce their own specifi city, their own patterns and character traits. Using the categories of territory, power, and difference - also lending the book its structure - the texts analyze different case studies of cities and urbanized territories, ranging from the Canary Islands to Hong Kong and Nairobi, unfolding the distinctiveness of their physical and social existences. With contributions by Roger Diener, Mathias Gunz, Manuel Herz, Jacques Herzog, Rolf Jenni, Marcel Meili, Shadi Rahbaran, Christian Schmid, and Milica Topalovic.
£42.56
Penguin Books Ltd Berlin Now: The Rise of the City and the Fall of the Wall
In Berlin Now, and on the 25th Anniversary of the fall of the Wall, a legendary Berliner tells the inside story of the city.Over the last five decades, no other city has changed more than Berlin. Divided in 1961, reunited in 1989, it has morphed over the last twenty-five years into Europe's most vibrant melting-pot of artists, immigrants and entrepreneurs. Pieces of the wall are collected around the world. Blending memoir, history, anecdote and reportage, this legendary Berliner takes us behind the scenes - from wrenching stories of life under the Stasi, to the difference between East and West Berliners' sex-lives, to a present-day investigation of its arts scene, night-life, tumultuous politics and hidden quirks - revealing what makes Berlin the uniquely fascinating place it is.Peter Schneider makes the city come alive. He knows his stuff and shares it beautifully, elegantly, generously and informatively. Berlin has found its bard'Breyten Breytenbach, author of 'Notes from the Middle World'Praise for The Wall Jumper:'Marvelous . . . creates, in very few words, the unreal reality of Berlin' Salman Rushdie, New York Times Book Review 'Schneider's description of the Berlin wall from both sides . . . is the ultimate depiction of this structure. Nothing more need be said' Werner Herzog'Wonderful' Ian McEwanPeter Schneider was born in Lübeck, Germany, in 1940, and has lived in Berlin on and off since the 1960s, when he was a key spokesperson for its radical student movement. Renowned as a novelist and essayist, he is now the author of more than twenty books, including the Penguin Modern Classic The Wall Jumper. He has taught at many universities, including Stanford, Princeton and Harvard, and written for many international newspapers, including Der Spiegel, The New York Times, Le Monde and La Repubblica.
£11.40
Dancing Foxes Press Inspired Encounters: Women Artists and the Legacies of Modern Art
A critical reappraisal of a classic collection’s modernist legacy for women artists Taking as its point of departure the art collection at Kykuit—the former home of the Rockefeller family, now a museum—Inspired Encounters asks: if exclusively women-identifying artists remained in this legendary modernist collection, what would be revealed? Essentially the product of three people whose lives intertwined around MoMA—Alfred H. Barr Jr., Dorothy Canning Miller and Nelson A. Rockefeller—Kykuit's holdings include work by Anni Albers, Mary Bauermeister, Lee Bontecou, Mary Callery, Valerie Clarebout, Dorothy Dehner, Grace Hartigan, Louise Kruger, Marisol, Louise Nevelson and Lenore Tawney. The book augments this group with works by Louise Bourgeois, Elizabeth Catlett, Lin Emery and Fanny Sanín to expand the possibilities of a “closed” collection. Commissioned works by Sonya Clark, Maren Hassinger, Elana Herzog, Melissa Meyer, Barbara Takenaga and Kay WalkingStick reflect on the collection.
£23.39
Phaidon Press Ltd Concrete Architecture
The ultimate book of concrete architecture, featuring 300 buildings of every type and style from the past 100 years A singularly impressive volume featuring 300 examples of the most incredible and inspiring concrete architecture from the early twentieth century to the present day. Organised visually, with one building per page, Concrete Architecture celebrates the might, majesty, and sculptural beauty of concrete buildings from all over the globe and is grounded with a contextualising essay on the long history of concrete architecture, reaching back more than a thousand years to the classical civilisations of Greece and Rome. Including buildings from the pioneering Modern masters of concrete Marcel Breuer, Le Corbusier, Louis Kahn, I. M. Pei, John Lautner, and Frank Lloyd Wright as well as work by some of the most revered architects of the late twentieth century including Tadao Ando, Steven Holl, Herzog and de Meuron, and Zaha Hadid, Concrete Architec
£53.96
Birkhauser Architektur kann mehr: Von Gemeinschaft fördern bis Klimawandel entschleunigen
In these times of social upheaval and climate change, it makes sense to publicly discuss the possibilities offered by architecture beyond investment opportunities and vanity projects. If well executed, architecture can create space for social cohesion, stimulate the senses, make political statements, and contribute to climate protection. Drawing on current issues and citing examples of well-known buildings, journalist Sabine von Fischer has shown how the concerns of architecture, in all of their everyday intricacies, are anchored in society. A selection of such texts is contained in the present volume, framed by introductory comments. What emerges is the understanding that while architecture may be to blame for some social ills, it can also be part of the solution. Contains interviews with Saskia Sassen, Rem Koolhaas, Jacques Herzog, Francis Kéré, Manuel Herz, Anne Lacaton, Franz Füeg, Peter Zumthor, and others. Planning and architecture as a reflection of politics and society Fluently written and highly readable texts in a handy layout
£37.00
Taschen GmbH 100 Contemporary Houses
Designing private residences has its own very special challenges and nuances for the architect. The scale may be more modest than public projects, the technical fittings less complex than an industrial site, but the preferences, requirements and vision of particular personalities becomes priority. The delicate task is to translate all the emotive associations and practical requirements of “home” into a workable, constructed reality. This publication rounds up 100 of the world’s most interesting and pioneering homes designed in the past two decades, featuring a host of talents both new and established, including John Pawson, Richard Meier, Shigeru Ban, Tadao Ando, Zaha Hadid, Herzog & de Meuron, Daniel Libeskind, Alvaro Siza, and Peter Zumthor. Accommodating daily routines of eating, sleeping, and shelter, as well as offering the space for personal experience and relationships, this is architecture at its most elementary and its most intimate.
£20.00
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG Reformatio et memoria: Protestantische Erinnerungsräume und Erinnerungsstrategien in der Frühen Neuzeit
Die Erinnerung an die Reformation war für die protestantischen Konfessionen in der Frühen Neuzeit identitätsstiftend. Die Memoria war gleichsam der Erinnerungsbogen, der die lutherische, aber auch die reformierte Konfession mit ihren Anfängen verband. Sie konnte Landschaften, Architekturen, Kunstgegenstände, Medaillen, Münzen, Handschriften, Alte Drucke, Musik und vieles mehr umfassen. Wie die Räume und Strategien der Reformationserinnerung genauer aussahen, untersuchen die Aufsätze im vorliegenden Band. Durch ausgewiesene Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler werden unterschiedliche Ausdrucksformen der Erinnerung exemplarisch analysiert, kontextuell interpretiert und interdisziplinär profiliert. Hierdurch wird eine Neukonstruktion der Geschichte der reformatorischen Erinnerungskultur vom 16. bis ins 18. Jahrhundert möglich, die in den frühneuzeitlich-lutherischen Territorien der ernestinischen Herzöge besonders anschaulich wird.
£145.79
Vintage Publishing Michael Kohlhaas: Newly translated by Michael Hofmann
'I finished it in one sitting. Probably for the tenth time... it carries me along waves of wonder' Franz KafkaMICHAEL KOHLHAAS HAS BEEN WRONGED. HE WILL HAVE JUSTICE.Based on the real life of an ordinary horse-dealer cheated by a government official, Michael Kohlhaas is the darkly comical and magnificently weird story of one man's alienation from a corrupt legal system. When his attempts to claim his rights are thwarted by bureaucracy and nepotism, Kohlhaas vows to take justice into his own - increasingly bloody - hands. Will he be remembered as a dangerous enemy of the peace, or a vigilante hero?Praised by Franz Kafka, Thomas Mann, Susan Sontag, Roberto Bolaño, Werner Herzog, and J. M. Coetzee, this is one of the most influential tales in German literature. In this vital new translation by the renowned poet Michael Hofmann, Kleist's bizarre, brutal and maddening story is urgent today.
£9.04
JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) Gelassene Teilnahme: Formen urbaner Muße im Werk Goethes
Als Goethe 1786 nach Italien aufbrach, begründete er gegenüber Herzog Carl August seine Reise mit Vorstellungen einer gelehrten Muße, die seit der Antike Freiräume für geistige Tätigkeiten legitimierten. Peter Philipp Riedl untersucht innerhalb dieses Rahmens einer temporären Freiheit von beruflichen Verpflichtungen konkrete Ausprägungen urbaner Muße, die in der Italienischen Reise insbesondere aus Verona, Padua, Venedig, Rom, Neapel und Palermo geschildert werden. Übergänge von Aktivität und Passivität, von durchaus anstrengender, aber selbstbestimmter Arbeit und Genuss werden ebenso analysiert wie unterschiedliche Muster kontemplations- und erlebnisorientierter Muße. Ergänzt werden diese Überlegungen durch Interpretationen von Formen narrativer Muße in Das Römische Carneval, poetischen Inszenierungen der Raumzeitlichkeit von Muße in den Römischen Elegien sowie Evokationen lyrischen Flanierens in den Venezianischen Epigrammen.
£92.80
Taylor & Francis Ltd Survival: August - September 2022: New normal?
Survival, the IISS’s bimonthly journal, challenges conventional wisdom and brings fresh, often controversial, perspectives on strategic issues of the moment.In this issue: Alexander K. Bollfrass and Stephen Herzog argue that despite facing major challenges, the global nuclear order remains resilient Maria Shagina assesses Russia’s status as an energy superpower, concluding that it has a bleak future in the long term Erik Jones argues that the war in Ukraine has disrupted the European Central Bank’s ability to operate by consensus Jeffrey E. Kline, James A. Russell and James J. Wirtz contend that the US Navy may struggle to adapt to the pace of technological, social and environmental change Ray Takeyh revisits the Iranian Revolution, finding that Jimmy Carter did not so much ‘lose’ Iran as misunderstand it And five more thought-provoking pieces, as well as our regular Book Reviews and Noteworthy column.Editor: Dr Dana AllinManaging Editor: Jonathan StevensonAssociate Editor: Carolyn WestEditorial Assistant: Charlie Zawadzki
£15.65
National Geographic Society Bear: Spirit of the Wild
Paul Nicklen, wildlife photojournalist, showcases his stunning photography for National Geographic with this collection of North American bears: the grizzly, polar bear, black bear and the rarest spirit bear. Evocative storytelling combines with Nicklen's landmark photographs to reveal the truths and myths about these amazing creatures, and sheds light on their threatened ecosystems. Years of photographing bears in their habitat have given Nicklen a special understanding of these majestic mammals: the polar bear, ranked most popular species on Earth; the grizzly, feared and misunderstood; and the black bear, as well as its precious white counterpart, the spirit bear. Nicklen believes that sharing knowledge and stories about bears will impact the way we think of them, and thus ensure their future. Well-known environmentalists such as Wade Davis, Sylvia Earle, Werner Herzog, and Nicklen himself contribute essays to enhance the message of Nicklen's photographs. Quotes from literary figures punctuate the pages, offering insight into the magnificence of these impressive mammals. An epilogue takes a global look at the future of bears.
£28.00
Monacelli Press New York Contemporary: GRADE Architecture and Interiors
The first monograph on GRADE New York, an architecture and design studio dedicated to creating artistically curated environments in a cutting-edge contemporary setting. Architect Thomas Hickey and interior designer Edward Yedid partnered to establish GRADE New York as a unique practice where architecture and interiors merge into a seamless continuum. Within their refined and beautifully proportioned spaces, a meticulously curated selection of furnishings, contemporary art, and exquisite objects create a luxurious and personal environment for their clients. New York Contemporary presents seven apartments in the most glamorous condominium buildings in Manhattan, including a penthouse at Place 57, a pied-à-terre at 551 West 21st Street by Norman Foster, and 56 Leonard Street by Herzog & de Meuron. A special feature is an in-depth look at Edward Yedid's own duplex on Madison Avenue, where the principles of structuring and curating the space have created a sleek but warm and inviting home for his family.
£35.96
De Gruyter Wendepunkte im Bauen: Von der seriellen zur digitalen Architektur
Wendepunkte im Bauen begleitet die Ausstellung in der Pinakothek der Moderne in München von März bis Juni 2010. Das Buch beinhaltet: • Aufsätze u.a. zur Geschichte des Systembaus in Deutschland, über Industrialisierung und Digitalisierung des Bauens und über den Einsatz von Computern in der Planung • Ausführlicher Katalogteil mit Fotos von Modellen/gebauten Beispielen und Plänen zu Projekten (August von Voit | Glaspalast, Jean Prouvè | Maison tropicale, Richard Buckminster Fuller | Dymaxion House, Konrad Wachsmann | United States Air Force Hangar, Frank O. Gehry | Vitra Design Museum, Thomas Herzog, Hanns Jörg Schrade | Design Center, Foster and Partners | Überdachung des Great Court des British Museum, UNStudio - van Berkel & Bos | Mercedes-Benz Museum • Gedanken zeitgenössischer Architekten zu Bedeutung und Wirkung von Wachsmanns „Wendepunkt im Bauen“ "
£39.00
Phaidon Press Ltd Atlas of Brutalist Architecture: Classic format
A landmark survey of one of architecture's most controversial yet popular style The Brutalist aesthetic is enjoying a renaissance - and this book documents Brutalism as never before. In the most wide-ranging investigation ever undertaken into one of architecture's most powerful movements, more than 850 Brutalist buildings - existing and demolished, classic and contemporary - are organized geographically into nine continental regions. Much-loved masterpieces in the UK and USA sit alongside lesser-known examples in Europe, Asia, Australia, and beyond - 102 countries in all, proving that Brutalism was, and continues to be, a truly international architectural phenomenon. Includes twentieth-century masters such as Marcel Breuer, Lina Bo Bardi, Le Corbusier, Carlo Scarpa, Ernö Goldfinger, Frank Lloyd Wright, Louis Kahn, and Paul Rudolph. Contemporary architects featured include Alvaro Siza, Coop Himmelb(l)au, David Chipperfield, Herzog & de Meuron, Jean Nouvel, SANAA, OMA, Renzo Piano, Tadao Ando, and Zaha Hadid.
£44.96
Thames & Hudson Ltd New Swiss Architecture
Established on the global stage by the international success and influence of architects such as Peter Zumthor and Herzog & de Meuron, today’s generation of architects in Switzerland draws on the country’s distinctive landscape of alpine peaks, crystalline lakes and efficient cities, and fuses traditional Swiss materials with new high-tech tools and innovative construction methods. New Swiss Architecture documents fifty of the most important buildings of the last decade through architectural photographs that highlight their exceptional detail, attention to context and material experimentation. Because of their isolated locations, many of these buildings are little known, despite having been designed by leading architects, including Christ & Gantenbein, Gigon/Guyer, Valerio Olgiati, Charles Pictet, Richter Dahl Rocha and Diener & Diener. The book is presented in two sections: the first comprises a photographic portfolio of projects organized into themes: Alpine, Infrastructural, Recreational, Rural, Suburban, Urban. The second section describes each of the featured buildings through drawings, plans and concise texts.
£31.50
University of Pennsylvania Press Freud on Madison Avenue: Motivation Research and Subliminal Advertising in America
What do consumers really want? In the mid-twentieth century, many marketing executives sought to answer this question by looking to the theories of Sigmund Freud and his followers. By the 1950s, Freudian psychology had become the adman's most powerful new tool, promising to plumb the depths of shoppers' subconscious minds to access the irrational desires beneath their buying decisions. That the unconscious was the key to consumer behavior was a new idea in the field of advertising, and its impact was felt beyond the commercial realm. Centered on the fascinating lives of the brilliant men and women who brought psychoanalytic theories and practices from Europe to Madison Avenue and, ultimately, to Main Street, Freud on Madison Avenue tells the story of how midcentury advertisers changed American culture. Paul Lazarsfeld, Herta Herzog, James Vicary, Alfred Politz, Pierre Martineau, and the father of motivation research, Viennese-trained psychologist Ernest Dichter, adapted techniques from sociology, anthropology, and psychology to help their clients market consumer goods. Many of these researchers had fled the Nazis in the 1930s, and their decidedly Continental and intellectual perspectives on secret desires and inner urges sent shockwaves through WASP-dominated postwar American culture and commerce. Though popular, these qualitative research and persuasion tactics were not without critics in their time. Some of the tools the motivation researchers introduced, such as the focus group, are still in use, with "consumer insights" and "account planning" direct descendants of Freudian psychological techniques. Looking back, author Lawrence R. Samuel implicates Dichter's positive spin on the pleasure principle in the hedonism of the Baby Boomer generation, and he connects the acceptance of psychoanalysis in marketing culture to the rise of therapeutic culture in the United States.
£23.39
MACK Koechlin House
This book by photographer and architect Daisuke Hirabayashi is a meditation on the often overlooked lives of buildings after the architect has left. Through a sequence of intimate, immersive images, Hirabayashi explores Koechlin House, an early private home designed by now-celebrated architects Herzog & de Meuron in Basel, Switzerland. His images picture the house as a site of everyday life, with all its small joys, surprises, awkward infelicities, rituals, and revelations. The original clients left long ago, and this book quietly studies the current owner’s unplanned, harmonious occupation. The Koechlin House was designed ‘inside out’, prioritising the experience of the interior home over its outward-facing appearance. In this sense, Hirabayashi works in the spirit of the building, centring the embodied experience within and disregarding the omniscient and dehumanised view prevalent in so many accounts of architecture. Alongside a text by architects and writers Ellena Ehrl and Tibor Bielicky, these images encourage us to rethink the perspectives and details we deem ‘architectural’ and leave us newly aware of the long and many-storied lives of buildings.
£40.00
Birkhauser Architectural Guide Basel: New Buildings in the Trinational City since 1980
There is no other place of comparable size where one can experience local and global building cultures side by side the way one can in Basel with its trinational urban space in Switzerland, Germany, and France. The local stars Herzog & de Meuron and Diener & Diener have long been active internationally. And building sponsors like Vitra, Novartis, and Beyeler have commissioned – and continue to commission – buildings by Frank Gehry, Zaha Hadid, Tadao Ando, Sanaa (Kazuyo Sejima/Ryue Nishizawa), Alvaro Siza, Renzo Piano, and others. In its fourth, expanded edition – with 44 new projects (for a total of 156) – the Architectural Guide Basel highlights the immediate present. But it also attempts to trace the development that this vital architecture scene has experienced since 1980. An entire double page is devoted to each project. The classification of the buildings by neighbourhood and zone, organized in thirteen chapters and presented in thirteen clearly laid out maps, is designed to facilitate exploration. All tram connections and addresses have been updated in the course of preparing this new edition.
£28.50
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG Die deutschen Konigspfalzen. Band 5: Bayern: Teilband 1.2: Altbayern. Regensburg
Der dritte Teilband zu den Königspfalzen in Altbayern dokumentiert die 196 nachweisbaren königlichen Aufenthalte in Regensburg, einem der bedeutendsten Zentralorte Bayerns, zwischen Karl dem Großen im Oktober 788 und Konrad IV. im Dezember 1250 sowie über die zahlreichen Versammlungen lokalen Charakters innerhalb der Stadt. Darüber hinaus wird die Entwicklung der Residenzen am Ort sowie dessen Genese aus römischen Wurzeln dargestellt. Die LeserInnen erfahren in diesem Band alles über die Geschichte Regensburgs und seiner Funktion für das ostfränkisch-deutsche Königtum Relevante, von der Entwicklung des Ortsnamens, der Genese der Königs-, Herzogs- und Bischofspfalz über die archäologischen Ergebnisse und der Auswertung aller erzählenden Quellen, welche die königlichen Aufenthalte darstellen, bis hin zu einer umfassenden Auswertung dieser auf Quellen und Überresten basierenden Befunde.
£160.01
JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) Wirtschaftsordnung durch Zivilgerichte: Evolution und Legitimation der Rechtsprechung in deregulierten Branchen
Der Gesetzgeber hat in zahlreichen Branchen eine Wende zum Privatrecht vollzogen: Materien wie die Energiepreiskontrolle sind vom öffentlichen Recht in das Privatrecht gewandert. Damit kommt den Zivilgerichten in der Wirtschaft als einer der letzten hoheitlichen Instanzen eine Schlüsselposition zu - Wirtschaftsordnung durch Zivilgerichte. Wie gehen sie damit um? Was kennzeichnet ihre Entscheidungsprozesse? Welche Schwierigkeiten stellen sich bei der Lösung neuartiger Konflikte im materiellen Recht und im Verfahrensrecht? Was macht 'gute Rechtsprechung' aus?Mit einem von der Evolutionsökonomik inspirierten Ansatz analysiert und bewertet Rupprecht Podszun die Rechtsprechung des Bundesgerichtshofs nach Deregulierungsmaßnahmen. Ohne Reformen wird die Stärkung der privaten Rechtsdurchsetzung die hoheitliche Regulierung nicht ersetzen können.Das Werk wurde 2014 mit dem Forschungspreis Soziale Marktwirtschaft des Verbands der Bayerischen Wirtschaft und des Roman-Herzog-Instituts ausgezeichnet.
£161.92
Synema Gesellschaft Fur Film u. Medien Be Sand, Not Oil – The Life and Work of Amos Vogel
Amos Vogel was one of America's most innovative film historians and curators. An émigré from Austria who arrived in New York just before the Second World War, in 1947 he created Cinema 16, a pioneering film club aimed at audiences thirsty for work "that cannot be seen elsewhere," and in 1963 was instrumental in establishing the New York Film Festival. He later embarked on an ambitious teaching career, synthesizing decades of experience and directing his ideas towards students and, eventually, the wider public. In 1974 he published the culmination of his thoughts – along with an extraordinary collection of stills – in Film as a Subversive Art. On his death, the New York Times wrote that Vogel "exerted an influence on the history of film that few other non-filmmakers can claim." Be Sand, Not Oil is the first book about Vogel, and includes uncollected writings, an unpublished interview, and new essays documenting his never-ending quest for what Werner Herzog, his friend of many decades, has described as "adequate imagery."
£25.20
Birkhauser Denise Scott Brown In Other Eyes: Portraits of an Architect
50 years Learning from Las Vegas From the bustle of Johannesburg to the neon of Las Vegas, Denise Scott Brown’s advocacy for "messy vitality" has transformed the way we look at the urban landscape. Unconventional, eloquent, and with a profound sociopolitical message, Scott Brown is one of our era’s most influential thinkers on architecture and urbanism. The anthology Denise Scott Brown. In Other Eyes – marking the 50th anniversary of the seminal treatise Learning from Las Vegas – paints a portrait of Scott Brown as seen through the eyes of leading architectural historians and practitioners. It features new scholarship on her education on three continents, her multidisciplinary teaching, and her use of urban patterns and forces as tools for architectural design – a practice documented in a new comment by Scott Brown, noting that sometimes "1+1>2." With contributions by Mary McLeod, Joan Ockman, Sylvia Lavin, Stanislaus von Moos, Jacques Herzog, Robin Middleton, and Denise Scott Brown, among others A comprehensive portrait of one of contemporary architecture’s most significant personalities
£31.50
De Gruyter Goethes Gartenhaus
Schon für Goethe war sein Gartenhaus ein ganz besonderer Ort: Bis an sein Lebensende kehrte er immer wieder in das Häuschen vor den Toren der Stadt zurück. Literatur und Natur verbinden sich in diesem frühen Dichterhaus auch für die Besucherinnen und Besucher. Der Band wirft Schlaglichter auf den literarischen Ort, an dem einige der berühmtesten Gedichte und Dramen Goethes entstanden sind. Goethes Gestaltung seines ersten eigenen Gartens sowie seine botanischen Forschungen und die frühen Zeichnungen werden betrachtet, ebenso die Rezeptionsgeschichte des Hauses. Darüber hinaus kommen Persönlichkeiten wie Charlotte von Stein, Christiane Vulpius, Herzog Carl August oder der Diener Paul Goetze zu Wort. Die reich bebilderten Beiträge lassen einer der frühesten Orte der Weimarer Klassik lebendig werden. Originelle und neue Perspektiven auf einen bedeutenden Ort Die beste Begleitung für einen Weimar-Besuch
£13.02
Schirner Verlag Heiliger Cacao Entdecke das herzöffnende schamanische Ritual
£24.26
De Gruyter Christoph Schwarz: Hofkünstler der Wittelsbacher im konfessionellen Zeitalter
Christoph Schwarz (um 1545–1592) zählte zu den einflussreichsten Künstlern am Hof der bayerischen Herzöge Albrecht V. und Wilhelm V. In seinen frühen Jahren entwarf er vielgerühmte Fassadenmalereien, deren lebendige Kompositionen die Auseinandersetzung mit Venedig offenbaren. Mit dem Regierungsantritt Wilhelms V. wurde er der bevorzugte Maler für die monumentalen Altarbilder der Jesuiten. Seine Mariendarstellungen und der »Kampf des Erzengels Michael mit Luzifer« in der Münchner St. Michaelskirche blieben über Generationen hinweg stilistische Vorbilder. Erstmalig wird einem der bedeutendsten Hofkünstler des ausgehenden 16. Jahrhunderts eine umfassende Monographie gewidmet. Dabei werden wichtige Fragen wie Schwarz’ ambivalente Position zwischen Stadt und Hof sowie die Bedeutung seiner Bildthemen im konfessionellen Zeitalter untersucht. Die umfangreiche Publikation, mit vollständigem Werküberblick sowie einem Werkkatalog der von ihm beeinflussten Künstler, wurde maßgeblich gefördert durch die ars et studium-Stiftung.
£62.00
Grolier Club of New York Hermann Zapf and the World He Designed – A Biography
Published to accompany the 2019 Grolier Club exhibition Alphabet Magic: A Centennial Exhibition of the Work of Hermann & Gudrun Zapf, Herman Zapf and the World He Designed is the first comprehensive biography of Hermann Zapf (1918–2015), whom Robert Bringhurst has called "the greatest type designer of our time, and very possibly the greatest type designer of all time.” Informed by Jerry Kelly’s scrupulous research at the Hermann Zapf archive in the Herzog August Bibliothek in Wolfenbüttel and at the Cary Collection at the Rochester Institute of Technology, and enriched by his decades of conversations with Zapf and his associates, this fascinating account of Zapf’s life details his experiences with type companies, printers, publishers, and colleagues. It also explores Zapf’s modern design aesthetic and engagement with the staggering technological advances of typography during the twentieth century. Featuring rarities and never-before-seen works and photos, Herman Zapf and the World He Designed features definitive lists of Zapf's type designs and major calligraphic works. It is not, however, merely an in-depth appreciation of Zapf's work but also an insightful consideration of his work in relation to his life.
£39.00
