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Shot in 1994, Berlin is an extended photo essay recording the
transformation of the urban landscape of the city of Berlin.
Capturing a moment frozen in time, these photographs present a
Berlin that no longer exists but continues to survive.
The desert is a huge paradox. Beneath its outward appearance of
immensity and silence, are the sounds of various experiments,
mysteries, and utopias. The setting of outrageous true histories,
entertainment oases founded on consumerism and play, and the secret
staging of military power, the desert is far from empty. Instead,
it is full of activity: unexpected, uninhibited, and excessive. Not
subject to barriers and seemingly free of the formal, ideological
or cultural ties of global society, the desert cultivates alternate
architectures, urbanisms, and built phenomena. Through photographs,
essays, and history, this book emerges as an exploration of some of
these phenomena and the protagonists that made them possible.
"What is fascinating is the inability to separate the real from the
digital, because they already form part of the same nature." So we
said in the last issue of Verb. Here we explore how this fusion
takes place. Buildings and cities grow, are transformed, and
dissolve. How can this evolution be generated, controlled, enhanced
or imagined? Is our environment programmable? How does the fusion
of natural and artificial matter produce new architectural
organisms, new environments, new natures? How does technology
animate space, and how do users and programs animate matter? The
fifth volume of Actar's boogazine looks for a new definition of the
organic.Projects by: Terraswarm, Aranda/Lasch, Shohei Matsukawa /
000studio, Kram/Weisshaar, Michael Meredith, mos, Foster +
Partners, George L. Legendre, IJP Corporation, PTW Architects +
Arup Australia + CSCEC, ON-A, Hitoshi Abe, Manuel Gausa Asociados,
Vicente Guallart, Mick Pearce, Yusuke Obuchi, R&Sie(n),
Cristina Diaz, AMID, INI, ONL...
The shift from ''modern'' to digital systems of design and
production opens up a material work to a much more profound
interaction between author and audience. This change represents a
new stage in the development of the relationship that a work--or,
in another sense, a message--establishes between the author--or
sender--and the reader--or receiver. From the classical work, with
its "a priori," essentialist model of appreciation, to the
modernist object, with its subjective model of aesthetics, to the
emerging cybernetic model, the interface between author and
''user'' has become closer, more direct, and more open. The first
issue of the new "boogazine" Verb looks closely at these questions
regarding the present relationship between information and
authorship in cultural practice, asking: how does the increasing
complicity between author and audience affect architectural
practice? And how can architecture be conceived more fluidly in
terms of information? Handsomely designed and richly illustrated,
this combination of book and magazine is the first installment in
what is sure to be a groundbreaking journey through architecture
and design.
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