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  • The Architecture of Participation

    by Giancarlo De Carlo ...
    Translated by Alex Fletcher, Elisa Adami ...
    Series series Insubordinations: Italian Radical Thought
    Seminal texts by renowned Italian architect Giancarlo De Carlo on architecture, education, and anarchy.Giancarlo De Carlo’s academic and professional career combined two seemingly opposed terms in a single vocation: architecture and anarchy. But this was a vocation that avoided the utopian fantasies of the 1960s and 1970s and instead strove for rigor. In the essays collected in this book, De Carlo ... Read more

    $58.39 CAD

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  • The Urban Revolution

    by Henri Lefebvre ...
    Originally published in 1970, The Urban Revolution marked Henri Lefebvre’s first sustained critique of urban society, a work in which he pioneered the use of semiotic, structuralist, and poststructuralist methodologies in analyzing the development of the urban environment. Although it is widely considered a foundational book in contemporary thinking about the city, The Urban Revolution has never ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Retrotopia

    by Zygmunt Bauman ...
    We have long since lost our faith in the idea that human beings could achieve human happiness in some future ideal state—a state that Thomas More, writing five centuries ago, tied to a topos, a fixed place, a land, an island, a sovereign state under a wise and benevolent ruler. But while we have lost our faith in utopias of all hues, the human aspiration that made this vision so compelling has not ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • Contemporary Art

    1989 to the Present

    Edited by Alexander Dumbadze, Suzanne Hudson ...
    An engaging account of today’s contemporary art world that features original articles by leading international art historians, critics, curators, and artists, introducing varied perspectives on the most important debates and discussions happening around the world.Features a collection of all-new essays, organized around fourteen specific themes, chosen to reflect the latest debates in contemporary ... Read more

    $65.99 CAD

  • Scorched Earth

    Beyond the Digital Age to a Post-Capitalist World

    by Jonathan Crary ...
    Refusing the digital world of late capitalismIn this uncompromising essay, Jonathan Crary presents the obvious but unsayable reality: our “digital age” is synonymous with the disastrous terminal stage of global capitalism and its financialisation of social existence, mass impoverishment, ecocide, and military terror. Scorched Earth surveys the wrecking of a living world by the internet complex and ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

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  • After the Future

    by Franco Bifo Berardi ...
    After the Future explores a century-long obsession with the concept of the "future," starting with Marinetti's "Futurist Manifesto," tracing it through the punk movement of the early 70s, and into the media revolution of the 90s. The future, Bifo argues, has come and gone, the concept has lost its usefulness. Now it's our responsibility to decide what comes next. ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Loris Malaguzzi and the Schools of Reggio Emilia

    A selection of his writings and speeches, 1945-1993

    Edited by Paola Cagliari, Marina Castagnetti, Claudia Giudici, Carlina Rinaldi, Vea Vecchi, Peter Moss ...
    Series series Contesting Early Childhood
    Loris Malaguzzi was one of the most important figures in 20th century early childhood education, achieving world-wide recognition for his educational ideas and his role in the creation of municipal schools for young children in the Italian city of Reggio Emilia, the most successful example ever of progressive, democratic and public education.Despite Malaguzzi’s reputation, very little of what he ... Read more

    $119.54 CAD

  • Art and Activism in the Age of Globalization / Reflect 8

    Edited by nai010 uitgevers/publishers ...
    Should artists be activists? Is activist art one of an artists primary responsibilities or a pointless sideshow on the fringes of serious politics? The philosopher, writer and art historian Lieven de Cauter, Ruben de Roo and Karel Vanhaesebrouck explore this theme in collaboration with other thinkers and doers in his new book Art and Activism in the Age of Globalization. In a time of globalization ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Architecture and Abstraction

    by Pier Vittorio Aureli ...
    Series series Writing Architecture
    A landmark study of abstraction in architectural history, theory, and practice that challenges our assumptions about the meaning of abstract forms.In this theoretical study of abstraction in architecture—the first of its kind—Pier Vittorio Aureli argues for a reconsideration of abstraction, its meanings, and its sources. Although architects have typically interpreted abstraction in formal terms ... Read more

    $36.79 CAD

  • Urban Politics Now / Reflect 6

    re-Imagining Democracy in the Neoliberal City

    Edited by nai010 uitgevers/publishers ...
    The form and future of cities is increasingly regarded as the product of inescapable processes: the strategic decisions of businesses, consumer preferences, deeply rooted cultural reflexes. Specifically, with the rise of a neoliberal and neo-conservative view of society, fundamental decisions about the everyday environment are increasingly determined by the laws of supply and demand or the clash ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • The Architect as Worker

    Immaterial Labor, the Creative Class, and the Politics of Design

    Edited by Professor Peggy Deamer ...
    Directly confronting the nature of contemporary architectural work, this book is the first to address a void at the heart of architectural discourse and thinking. For too long, architects have avoided questioning how the central aspects of architectural “practice” (professionalism, profit, technology, design, craft, and building) combine to characterize the work performed in the architectural ... Read more

    $37.79 CAD

  • Art School

    (Propositions for the 21st Century)

    Edited by Steven Henry Madoff ...
    Leading international artists and art educators consider the challenges of art education in today's dramatically changed art world.The last explosive change in art education came nearly a century ago, when the German Bauhaus was formed. Today, dramatic changes in the art world—its increasing professionalization, the pervasive power of the art market, and fundamental shifts in art-making itself in ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD