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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book traces the astonishing opening up of a brave new world of open empty space, the arrival of the beauty and terror of the machine into daily life, and the attempts to represent them in the construction of a modernist world.At its root, modernism is that fundamental. It is a question of having something to represent that is of the moment. In the most radical interpretation, modernism always comes too late. The modern is that which is always new, which is to say, always changing and already old by the time it has appeared. Modernism is always a retrospective act, one of documenting or trying to catch what has alreadyappeared -an attempt to fix life as it is being lived. Modernity is just the very fact that we as human beings are continually remaking the world around us through our actions, and are doing so consciously.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Skyscraper collectives, tower agglomerations, high-rise housing, mixed-use developments, luxury condominiums, airport hubs, suburban office enclaves, industrial and technology parks, hotel complexes and resorts, conference and financial centers, entertainment venues, gated communities, theme parks, branded cities, new central districts, and satellite cities: extra-large architectural typologies dominate the contemporary built environment worldwide. Despite the ubiquity of these building forms, their development has been largely restricted by a reliance on outmoded traditions of urbanism and the strict separation of disciplinary domains within current architectural practice.The Generic Sublime investigates how the modern concept of the generic - once assumed to achieve universality by means of organizational homogeneity, formal neutrality, programmatic blankness, lack of identity, and insipidness of character - holds the potential to become its very opposite: the singular, the irreducible, and the extraordinary.Directing the work of students of the departments of Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Urban Planning and Design at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Ciro Najle examines the organizational protocols of building collectives and develops architectural models for encompassing the unprecedented potential of the extra-extra-large.The book includes essays by Ciro Najle, Mohsen Mostafavi, Iñaki Abalos, Charles Waldheim, George L. Legendre, David Salomon, Paul Andersen, Lluís Ortega, Leire Asensio Villoria, David Mah, Pablo Lorenzo-Eiroa, Alberto Delorenzini, Marcia Krygier, Julián Varas, Erika Naginski, Hiromi Hosoya, Farshid Moussavi, and Anna Font.Published by Actar Publishers & the Harvard University Graduate School of Design.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Platform is the Harvard University Graduate School of Design's annualcompendium of select student work, events, lectures, and exhibitions.Taking the artistic still life as its departure point, the ninth edition ofPlatform chronicles the 2015-2016 academic year at the GSD. Models andstudent projects, including dissertations and drawings, are skillfully arrangedand presented to reference the still life as expressed in 18th- and 19thcenturyEuropean painting, popular advertising, contemporary art, andother contexts.These images not only present the broad range of work produced byGSD students but also challenge conventional modes of architecturaldocumentation through multiple readings, lists, and novel interpretationsof form.Co-published with Harvard University Graduate School of Design.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The inaugural Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize Book brings together leadingarchitects and academics in a dialogue exploring the current state ofarchitecture throughout the Americas and explores themes raised by theseven finalist projects from the inaugural Mies Crown Hall AmericasPrize cycle.As part of the Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize program recognizing thebest built work in the Americas and launched in 2014, MCHAP is publishinga series of books that will include the inaugural 'MCHAP Book', as well aspublications by the MCHAP and MCHAP.emerge winners.The 'MCHAP Book' will use the seven finalist projects to identify broad,thematic reflections on the American condition. In that context, 'American'necessarily refers to the entirety of the continent, from Alaska to Tierradel Fuego.