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Koolhaas. Countryside, A Report (Paperback)
Amo, Rem Koolhaas, Harvard Graduate School of Design, The Beijing Central Academy of Fine Arts, Wageningen University, …
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The rural, remote, and wild territories we call "countryside", or
the 98% of the earth's surface not occupied by cities, make up the
front line where today's most powerful forces-climate and
ecological devastation, migration, tech, demographic lurches-are
playing out. Increasingly under a 'Cartesian' regime-gridded,
mechanized, and optimized for maximal production-these sites are
changing beyond recognition. In his latest publication, Rem
Koolhaas explores the rapid and often hidden transformations
underway across the Earth's vast non-urban areas.Countryside, A
Report gathers travelogue essays exploring territories marked by
global forces and experimentation at the edge of our consciousness:
a test site near Fukushima, where the robots that will maintain
Japan's infrastructure and agriculture are tested; a greenhouse
city in the Netherlands that may be the origin for the cosmology of
today's countryside; the rapidly thawing permafrost of Central
Siberia, a region wrestling with the possibility of relocation;
refugees populating dying villages in the German countryside and
intersecting with climate change activists; habituated mountain
gorillas confronting humans on 'their' territory in Uganda; the
American Midwest, where industrial-scale farming operations are
coming to grips with regenerative agriculture; and Chinese villages
transformed into all-in-one factory, e-commerce stores, and
fulfillment centers. This book is the official companion to the
Guggenheim Museum exhibition Countryside, The Future. The
exhibition and book mark a new area of investigation for architect
and urbanist Rem Koolhaas, who launched his career with two
city-centric entities: The Office for Metropolitan Architecture
(1975) and Delirious New York (1978). It's designed by Irma Boom,
who drew inspiration for the book's pocket-sized concept, as well
as its innovative typography and layout, from her research in the
Vatican library. The book brings together collaborative research by
AMO, Koolhaas, and students at the Harvard Graduate School of
Design; the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing; Wageningen
University in the Netherlands; and the University of Nairobi.
Contributors also include Samir Bantal, Janna Bystrykh, Troy Conrad
Therrien, Lenora Ditzler, Clemens Driessen, Alexandra Kharitonova,
Keigo Kobayashi, Niklas Maak, Etta Madete, Federico Martelli, Ingo
Niermann, Dr. Linda Nkatha Gichuyia, Kayoko Ota, Stephan Petermann,
and Anne M. Schneider.
The rural, remote, and wild territories we call "countryside", or
the 98% of the earth's surface not occupied by cities, make up the
front line where today's most powerful forces-climate and
ecological devastation, migration, tech, demographic lurches-are
playing out. Increasingly under a 'Cartesian' regime-gridded,
mechanized, and optimized for maximal production-these sites are
changing beyond recognition. In his latest publication, Rem
Koolhaas explores the rapid and often hidden transformations
underway across the Earth's vast non-urban areas. Countryside, A
Report gathers travelogue essays exploring territories marked by
global forces and experimentation at the edge of our consciousness:
a test site near Fukushima, where the robots that will maintain
Japan's infrastructure and agriculture are tested; a greenhouse
city in the Netherlands that may be the origin for the cosmology of
today's countryside; the rapidly thawing permafrost of Central
Siberia, a region wrestling with the possibility of relocation;
refugees populating dying villages in the German countryside and
intersecting with climate change activists; habituated mountain
gorillas confronting humans on 'their' territory in Uganda; the
American Midwest, where industrial-scale farming operations are
coming to grips with regenerative agriculture; and Chinese villages
transformed into all-in-one factory, e-commerce stores, and
fulfillment centers. This book is the official companion to the
Guggenheim Museum exhibition Countryside, The Future. The
exhibition and book mark a new area of investigation for architect
and urbanist Rem Koolhaas, who launched his career with two
city-centric entities: The Office for Metropolitan Architecture
(1975) and Delirious New York (1978). It's designed by Irma Boom,
who drew inspiration for the book's pocket-sized concept, as well
as its innovative typography and layout, from her research in the
Vatican library. The book brings together collaborative research by
AMO, Koolhaas, and students at the Harvard Graduate School of
Design; the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing; Wageningen
University in the Netherlands; and the University of Nairobi.
Contributors also include Samir Bantal, Janna Bystrykh, Troy Conrad
Therrien, Lenora Ditzler, Clemens Driessen, Alexandra Kharitonova,
Keigo Kobayashi, Niklas Maak, Etta Madete, Federico Martelli, Ingo
Niermann, Dr. Linda Nkatha Gichuyia, Kayoko Ota, Stephan Petermann,
and Anne M. Schneider.
Piet Mondrian had a decisive influence on the development of
painting from figuration to abstraction. On the occasion of his
150th birthday, Mondrian Evolution is dedicated to his multifaceted
work and artistic development. Initially working in the tradition
of Dutch landscape painting of the late 19th century, Symbolism and
Cubism subsequently took on great significance for him. It was not
until the early 1920s that the artist focused on a wholly
non-representational pictorial vocabulary, limited to the
rectangular arrangement of black lines with surfaces in white and
the primary colors blue, red and yellow. In separate chapters, this
path is traced through motifs such as windmills, dunes, and the
sea, farms reflected in the water, and plants in various forms of
abstraction.
Elements of Architecture focuses on the fragments of the rich and
complex architectural collage. Window, facade, balcony, corridor,
fireplace, stair, escalator, elevator: the book seeks to excavate
the micro-narratives of building detail. The result is no single
history, but rather the web of origins, contaminations,
similarities, and differences in architectural evolution, including
the influence of technological advances, climatic adaptation,
political calculation, economic contexts, regulatory requirements,
and new digital opportunities. It's a guide that is long overdue-in
Koolhaas's own words, "Never was a book more relevant-at a moment
where architecture as we know it is changing beyond recognition."
Derived, updated, and expanded from Koolhaas's exhaustive and
much-lauded exhibition at the 2014 Venice Architecture Biennale,
this is an essential toolkit to understanding the fundamentals that
comprise structure around the globe. Designed by Irma Boom and
based on research from the Harvard Graduate School of Design, the
2,600-page monograph contains essays from Rem Koolhaas, Stephan
Trueby, Manfredo di Robilant, and Jeffrey Inaba; interviews with
Werner Sobek and Tony Fadell (of Nest); and an exclusive photo
essay by Wolfgang Tillmans. In addition to comprehensively updated
texts and new images, this edition is designed and produced to
visually (and physically) embody the immense scope of its subject
matter: Custom split-spine binding: our printer modified their
industrial binding machine to allow for the flexible,
eight-centimeter thick spine Contains a new introductory chapter
with forewords, table of contents, and an index, located in the
middle of the book (where it naturally opens due to its unique
spine) Printed on 50g Opakal paper, allowing for the ideal level of
opacity needed to realize Boom's palimpsest-like design Translucent
overlays and personal annotations by Koolhaas and Boom are woven in
each chapter to create an alternative, faster route through the
book Printed at the originally intended 100% size for full
readability
A celebration of the quirky, surprising, and often spectacular work
of Dutch fashion designers Viktor & Rolf Conceived and designed
by acclaimed graphic designer Irma Boom, this book brings to life
the legendary conceptual creations of Dutch duo Viktor & Rolf.
Entirely made up of 8-page gatefolds, each of which relates to a
specific show, with images, sketches, and quotes showcasing that
particular collection, it elevates bookmaking to an entirely new
level while referencing the dramatic layers that feature in the
designers' work. Exploring Viktor & Rolf's signature stunning
style, this book is the ultimate homage to the spectacle of
fashion.
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Mika Rottenberg: Bowls Balls Souls Holes (Paperback)
Mika Rottenberg; Edited by Laerke Rydal Jorgensen, Anders Kold; Foreword by Poul Erik Tojner; Introduction by William Pym; Designed by …
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Elucidating the multi-layered explorations of Haitian Canadian
artist Manuel Mathieu, this first comprehensive publication focuses
on how Haiti has informed Mathieu's work over the past few years.
Reflecting on the complex revolutionary history of his family
homeland by unearthing its traumatized subconscious, and the
erasure of memories of the oppressive and violent Duvalier
dictatorships, Mathieu's vibrant paintings blur the boundaries
between the personal and the political. Merging abstraction with
figuration, Mathieu abrades his work springing from found
photographs by rubbing and scraping off layers of paint, before
reintroducing impastoed snarls of color. Positioned at the fault
lines of political and environmental crises, Mathieu considers
Haiti's quest for self-determination as a prism reflecting a global
longing for freedom, and grassroots resistance to imperialist and
capitalist exploits.
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