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Iwan Baan
Mea Hoffmann, Mateo Kries
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R1,324
Discovery Miles 13 240
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Iwan Baan is one of today’s leading photographers of architecture
and urban design. His images document the growth of global
megacities and portray buildings by prominent contemporary
architects including Herzog & de Meuron, Rem Koolhaas, and Zaha
Hadid. The first large retrospective of the Dutch photographer’s
work will open at the Vitra Design Museum in autumn 2023. Baan’s
vibrant realism puts the focus on people and their relationship to
the built environment. His observant eye presents architecture not
as an abstract ideal, but as the setting of everyday life, an
organic part of the urban fabric – be it suburban sprawl or the
booming metropoles of Africa and Asia. The exhibition will include
a number of Baan’s iconic works, many of which are familiar from
magazines and books, as well as photographs of vernacular and
informal architecture all around the world, from the round Tulou of
southern China to the rockhewn churches of Ethiopia. Thanks to the
great scope of his vision, Baan’s works offer a broad panorama of
human building that impressively demonstrates the existential
importance of architecture and urban design.
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Plastic - Remaking Our World (Paperback)
Mateo Kries, Jochen Eisenbrand, Mea Hoffmann; Assisted by Johanna Agerman Ross, Corinna Gardner, …
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R2,191
R1,690
Discovery Miles 16 900
Save R501 (23%)
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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Plastic has shaped our daily lives like no other material.
Originally associated with convenience, progress, even revolution,
today plastic seems to have lost its utopian appeal. Plastic is
everywhere, yet most conspicuous as waste and as a key factor in
the global environmental crisis. This book examines the success
story of plastic in the twentieth century and at the same time
presents the different discourses on how we should manage the waste
the material produces and also find solutions that take into
account its entire life cycle in the future. Mark Miodownik, Susan
Freinkel, and Nanjala Nyabola each contribute an essay that sheds
light on the history of plastics from 1850 to today. A
material-rich visual chronology illustrates how consumers'
perception of plastics has changed over the decades. Brief
descriptions of a selection of 50 objects examine the importance of
plastics for material culture. Reprints of fundamental texts about
the history of plastics-for example by Alexander Parkes and Roland
Barthes-provide a context from the history of ideas. The book
reflects the current discourse and state of research on plastic
with numerous individual interviews and panel discussions that were
held with designers, representatives from industry, researchers,
and environmental activists. Underpinning these conversations are
comprehensive data visualizations on plastic production and
consumption, recycling.
This new publication is dedicated to the Baranger Motion Displays
of the R. F. Collection housed at the Vitra Design Museum. Motion
Displays were conceived as eye-catching and novel moving objects,
which - primarily in the US - were used in jewellers' shop-window
displays to attract customers. The Baranger Motion Displays were
produced by Baranger Studios in Pasadena, CA between 1937 and 1957
and were lent to thousands of jewellers' shops over the years.
Primarily during the 1990s, Rolf Fehlbaum, Vitra Chairman Emeritus
and founder of the Vitra Design Museum, worked to assemble a
carefully selected a comprehensive collection of these objects in
Weil am Rhein. With large-scale illustrations of the different
Motion Displays and an atmospheric photo essay featuring
black-and-white details of the objects, the book provides an
unprecedented and in-depth view into this collection. In an
accompanying essay, Bill Shaffer traces the success story of the
displays and sheds light on the significance of the red cases in
which they were delivered to the jewellers. Along with Robots 1:1
and Space Fantasies 1:1, Baranger Motion Displays is the third
publication to focus on the R. F. Collection. Visitors can view the
collection of Motion Displays at the Vitra Campus in Weil am Rhein
as part of the "Wunderkammer" (cabinet of curiosities), which also
presents other parts of Rolf Fehlbaum's wide-ranging collection. In
order for readers to be able to experience the wonders of these
moving objects for themselves, each Motion Display has been given a
QR Code in the book which links to an entertaining video clip of
the display in action.
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