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The shift towards digital modes of production has fundamentally changed both cartography and graphic design. The omni-present computer, the interactive possibilities of digital media and the direct exchange of visual information through networks have blurred the distinction between designers and users of visual information.Blind Maps and Blue Dots is the first work to explore the disappearing boundaries between producers and users of maps. Using three mapmaking practices as examples ΓÇô the Blue Dot, the location function in Google Maps; the Strava Global Heatmap, a world map showing the activities of a fitness app; and the ΓÇ£Situation in SyriaΓÇ¥ maps, a regularly updated map of the Syrian conflict made by an Amsterdam teenager ΓÇô renowned designer Joost Grootens shows the blurring of the binary distinction between producing and using, ultimately offering a whole new approach to graphic design.
LISTENING: Music - Movement - Mind is a conceptual and practical book about the creative relationship between mind and body in the context of music and martial arts. It describes the potential of this relationship for our creativity and inspiration. Over the past 20 years, the musician and composer Nik Bärtsch, founder of the so-called Ritual Groove Music, has developed techniques that not only offer musicians and martial artists useful and surprising tools, but also support, focus and thus simplify learning processes in other fields of activity and in daily life. In addition to the individual learning aspect, Bärtsch presents basic collaborative and community-oriented strategies.The content of the book is based on the long-standing experience of the author Nik Bärtsch and his wife Andrea Pfisterer as performers in live music, as aikido practitioners, cultural entrepreneurs and teachers of music and physical techniques. They reflect their experiences and questions on a practical, philosophical, aesthetic and poetic level and offer and encourage new connections and perspectives for creative people."Imagine a composer as an engineer, listen with all your senses like a martial artist, train your sense of tempo, time and timing like a drummer, act with a partner like a unit." (Nik Bärtsch)Through essays and pictures, interviews, exercises and games, the book conveys the authors' poetic understanding of body and mind and inspires the individual creativity and consciousness of the readers, regardless of their background. The visual material includes photographs, drawings and diagrams, album covers and graphic word fields. The publication also documents the stages of Bärtsch's musical development as composer, solo pianist and bandleader of Ronin and Mobile, two formations that enjoy international recognition.
Published in 1929, From Material to Architecture contains the main features of László Moholy-Nagy’s teaching program at the Bauhaus. With its focus on the preliminary course and its training of finer sensory perception, this last title of the 14-volume series explains how students “develop towards practice from day to day.” The educational principle behind it, Jedermann ist begabt (everyone is talented), was central to teaching at the Bauhaus.
Although he was never an official member of the Bauhaus, Albert Gleizes dedicated his influential essay on Cubism to the art school. In 1928, László Moholy-Nagy and Walter Gropius included this essay as volume 13 of the Bauhausbücher series. In addition to his own works, Gleizes shows works by Georges Braque, Robert Delaunay, Fernand Léger and Pablo Picasso as reference examples, and places the Bauhaus and its series in an international context that impressively captures the interaction of the numerous art movements of the time.
Dutch architect and designer J. J. P. Oud participated in the Bauhaus Week and the International Architecture Exhibition. His writing, beginning with a personal confession, is a summary of theoretical and practical findings in the field of architecture, specifically using the example of Dutch architecture. He thus looks to the future and reflects on the potential of architecture without forgetting to reveal his relationship with the past.
Kasimir MalevichΓÇÖs treatise on Suprematism was included in the Bauhausb├╝cher series in 1927, as was Piet MondrianΓÇÖs reflections on Russian Constructivism in 1925 (New Design, Bauhausb├╝cher 5). Like Mondrian, who was never an official member of the Bauhaus, Malevich nevertheless had a close connection to the ideas of the school in terms of content. This volume 11 laid the foundation for the Russian avant-garde artistΓÇÖs late work: to wrest the mask of life from the true face of art.
Unser Umgang mit Grund und Boden beeinflusst Architektur und Stadtentwicklung massgeblich. Im letzten Jahrzehnt haben die Privatisierung von urbanem Boden sowie die Spekulation damit dramatisch zugenommen. Viele europäische Städte, die einem hohen Entwicklungsdruck unterliegen, verfügen selbst über so gut wie keinen baufähigen Bodenvorrat mehr. Angesichts der akuten Wohnungsnot stellt sich somit die Bodenfrage erneut: Inwiefern vermögen wir es, Boden als gemeinschaftliches Gut zu behandeln und ihn den Exzessen des Kapitalismus zu entziehen?Nachdem sich bereits zahlreiche Fachmagazine dem Thema angenommen haben, möchte "Architektur auf gemeinsamem Boden" dieser Frage umfassend auf den Grund gehen, indem es einen historischen Überblick liefert und dabei den Bogen von Henry George bis in die gegenwärtige Zeit spannt. Interviews mit globalen Akteuren geben Aufschluss über den heutigen Umgang mit der Bodenfrage. Das Buch zeigt herausragende Projekte, denen entweder eine rechtliche oder eine räumliche Trennung von Grund und Boden zugrunde liegt, und liefert somit einen wertvollen Beitrag zur aktuellen Diskussion über eine nachhaltige Bodenpolitik.
On a decades-long commitment to capturing life via portraiture and nature. Along with Gerhard Richter, Franz Gertsch is the best-known representative of European photorealism with numerous illustrations of paintings and woodcut prints.
The beauty of Korean architecture in photographs. Photographer Helene Binet works with world-famous architects such as Daniel Libeskind, John Hejduk and Peter Zumthor in expressive black-and-white photographs she observes the typologies of traditional Korean architecture
Who manages our data? A look behind the scenes of state-of-the-art IT infrastructures. Data centers are high-tech functional buildings, strictly protected treasuries and covert centers of power. The first comprehensive analysis of the history and present of IT infrastructures using the example of Switzerland.
Architect, theorist, dadaist-van Doesburg describes the circumstances of being an artist in the increasingly capitalistic twentieth century
Roberto Burle Marx (1909-1994) gilt bis heute als einer der einflussreichsten Landschaftsarchitekten überhaupt. Bekannt ist seine Landschaftsgestaltung für die Verwendung abstrakter Formen und tropischer Pflanzen. Seine unverwechselbaren und viel gelobten Arbeiten werden zwar in zahlreichen Publikationen besprochen, Burle Marx' eigene Schriften sind bisher jedoch kaum publiziert. Dieses Buch, das unveröffentlichte Vorträge enthält, schliesst diese Lücke. Die Vorlesungen, die auf internationalen Konferenzen gehalten wurden, beschäftigen sich mit Themen wie 'Der Garten als Lebenskunst', 'Gärten und Ökologie', 'Das Problem der Gartenbeleuchtung'. Sie geben Einblick in Burle Marx' aussergewöhnlichen Stil und sein Ethos der Landschaft als Lebenseinstellung.
Der dritte Band der Reihe The Architect's Studio widmet sich der mexikanischen Architektin Tatiana Bilbao. Der Fokus liegt auf ihrer Auseinandersetzung mit der Landschaft, die sie in unterschiedlichen Grössenordnungen in ihr Schaffen miteinbezieht: von dem Gebiet Mexikos bis hin zur Innenlandschaft des einzelnen Gebäudes, immer mit Blick auf die sozialen Bedingungen. Dies belegen auch ihre Projekte wie etwa die architektonische Gestaltung einer Pilgerroute, eines botanischen Gartens im mexikanischen Haupthandelszentrum Culiacán, und nicht zuletzt der Light of Line, die es insbesondere Frauen ermöglichen soll, sich sicherer in abgelegenen Stadtteilen zu bewegen.Die Publikation gibt Einblicke in die mexikanische Kultur-, Kunst- und Bautradition, die Bilbao in ihre Projekte miteinfliessen lässt. Der Band geht auf die Frage nach der Verwendung von Collagen in der Architektur ein und bettet Bilbaos Werk in einen zeitgenössischen sowie kulturgeschichtlichen Kontext.
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