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“thomas mical”

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  • Architecture and Ugliness

    Anti-Aesthetics and the Ugly in Postmodern Architecture

    Edited by Wouter Van Acker, Professor Thomas Mical ...
    Whatever 'ugliness' is, it remains a problematic category in architectural aesthetics – alternately vilified and appropriated, used either to shock or to invert conventions of architecture.This book presents sixteen new scholarly essays which rethink ugliness in recent architecture – from Brutalism to eclectic postmodern architectural productions – and together offer a diverse reappraisal of the ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Surrealism and Architecture

    Edited by Thomas Mical ...
    This is a historically informed examination of architecture's perceived absence in surrealist thought, surrealist tendencies in the theories and projects of modern architecture, and the place of surrealist thought in contemporary design.This book represents current insights into surrealism in the thought and practice of modern architecture. In these essays, the role of the subconscious, the ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

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    Art as we know it is dramatically changing, but popular and critical responses lag behind. In this trenchant illustrated essay, David Joselit describes how art and architecture are being transformed in the age of Google. Under the dual pressures of digital technology, which allows images to be reformatted and disseminated effortlessly, and the exponential acceleration of cultural exchange enabled ... Read more

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  • Landscapes

    John Berger on Art

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    “Essential reading”—n+1Creative and political art criticism on landscape works from the Renaissance to the present from a “master” storyteller (Arundhati Roy, author of The God of Small Things)In this brilliant collection of diverse pieces—essays, short stories, poems, translations—which spans a lifetime’s engagement with art, John Berger reveals how he came to his own unique way of seeing. He ... Read more

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  • The Art-Architecture Complex

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    Hal Foster, author of the acclaimed Design and Crime, argues that a fusion of architecture and art is a defining feature of contemporary culture. He identifies a “global style” of architecture—as practiced by Norman Foster, Richard Rogers and Renzo Piano—analogous to the international style of Le Corbusier, Gropius and Mies.More than any art, today’s global style conveys both the dreams and ... Read more

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  • Writing Design

    Words and Objects

    Edited by Grace Lees-Maffei ...
    How do we learn about the objects that surround us? As well as gathering sensory information by viewing and using objects, we also learn about objects through the written and spoken word - from shop labels to friends' recommendations and from magazines to patents. But, even as design commentators have become increasingly preoccupied with issues of mediation, the intersection of design and language ... Read more

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  • From Light to Dark

    Daylight, Illumination, and Gloom

    by Tim Edensor ...
    Light pervades the world, and when it is not light, darkness emerges and is combated by electric illumination. Despite this globally shared human experience in which spaces appear radically different depending on time, season, and weather, social science investigation on the subject is meager. From Light to Dark fills this gap, focusing on our interaction with daylight, illumination, and darkness ... Read more

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  • San Carlino Lugano. My inky cloak. Notes on the wooden model of the San Carlino in Lugano by Mario Botta

    by Emanuele Saurwein ...
    A wooden model and a city. A large wooden model of a valuable church and a small city that is perhaps still unsure of itself. The clash between these two completely independent and autonomous realities opens up a path of inquiry that deserves to be followed, if only out of a legitimate and very human sense of curiosity. The following pages intend to follow this path, this itinerary marked out ... Read more

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  • The Routledge Companion to Biology in Art and Architecture

    Edited by Meredith Tromble, Charissa Terranova ...
    The Routledge Companion to Biology in Art and Architecture collects thirty essays from a transdisciplinary array of experts on biology in art and architecture. The book presents a diversity of hybrid art-and-science thinking, revealing how science and culture are interwoven. The book situates bioart and bioarchitecture within an expanded field of biology in art, architecture, and design. It ... Read more

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  • Rethinking Aesthetics

    The Role of Body in Design

    Edited by Ritu Bhatt ...
    Rethinking Aesthetics is the first book to bring together prominent voices in the fields of architecture, philosophy, aesthetics, and cognitive sciences to radically rethink the relationship between body and design. These essays argue that aesthetic experiences can be nurtured at any moment in everyday life, thanks to recent discoveries by researchers in neuroscience, phenomenology, somatics, and ... Read more

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  • The Immortal Comedy

    The Comic Phenomenon in Art, Literature, and Life

    by Agnes Heller ...
    Immortal Comedy is the first book to 'think' philosophically about the comic phenomenon in general. Although author Agnes Heller had written a book that is both deeply scholarly and meditative on the subject of the comic form in film, literature, and life her writing is eminently approachable. In both its subject and style, Immortal Comedy is a seminal book. In it, Heller takes us on a journey ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • W.J.T. Mitchell's Image Theory

    Living Pictures

    Edited by Krešimir Purgar ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies
    W.J.T. Mitchell – one of the founders of visual studies – has been at the forefront of many disciplines such as iconology, art history and media studies. His concept of the pictorial turn is known worldwide for having set new philosophical paradigms in dealing with our vernacular visual world. This book will help both students and seasoned scholars to understand key terms in visual studies – ... Read more

    $61.99 USD