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The Riddle of the Real City, or the Dark Knowledge of Urbanism
genealogy, prophecy and epistemology
2017 || Paperback || Wim Nijenhuis || Duizend En Een Uitgeverij
Does our knowledge about city and urban planning have solid ground? Can historical research promote creative thinking? How can we theorise about urban design and architecture in our age of the media?
These questions have guided the creation of this multi-layered, richly documented and illustrated triptych, in which the Dutch architectural theorist Wim Nijenhuis pursues a creative goal: to stimulate new ways of thinking in architectural culture.
Each part of the triptych treats distinctive i...
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I want a permanent wave
2018 || Hardcover || Gerald van der Kaap || Duizend En Een Uitgeverij
I WANT A PERMANENT WAVE by GERALD VAN DER KAAP
Apart from being a metro station, Europaplein Station in Amsterdam is also an immersive experience. When you enter the station, you find yourself inside a huge dromoscopic underground work of art.
You could say there are two artworks, to paraphrase Virilio, depending on your perception. One is the artwork at the station. You stand on the platform waiting, looking at it, the images, the graphics, the colors, the mirroring effect of silver. The oth...
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THE WORLD ACCORDING TO PLANTS
2020 || Paperback || Arjen Mulder || Duizend En Een Uitgeverij || met inkijkexemplaar
Let’s stop criticising or extolling the old value systems. Instead, let’s anticipate the value systems of the future, exploring, expressing, developing and living them here and now. There’s no need for science fiction, the thought of the future is active at this moment right under your nose. Take the side of the plant and a whole new vista opens up.
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From Harmony to Chaos: Le Corbusier, Varèse, Xenakis and Le poème électronique
Le Corbusier, Varèse, Xenakis and Le poème électronique
2017 || Hardcover || Jan de Heer e.a. || Duizend En Een Uitgeverij || met inkijkexemplaar
Le poème électronique is generally known as the multimedia event presented in the Philips Pavilion at the Brussels World's Fair of 1958. The visual part of the Poème was conceived by the architect and painter Le Corbusier. He was also responsible, in partnership with Iannis Xenakis, for the design of the Philips Pavilion. The musical part consisted of a short electronic piece composed by Xenakis that was played as the public entered the space and an eight-minute electronic work by Edgard V...