Oro editions jun 2026 (4 Ergebnisse)

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The White Compositions are symbolically charged with highly specific references that speak to Ames's work and life as an architect in Georgia preoccupied with modernism, art and basketball, among other cultural and literary meanings. Ames playfully collages architectural elements, such as facades organized by grids, with everyday (yet highly specific) objects--like a Morandi-esque vase, a Corbusian pair of glasses, a can of coke, an electric guitar, or a basketball hoop. The contrast between the (supposedly) rational, objective, and universalizing characteristics of modernism in confrontation with the particular, the idiosyncratic, and the autobiographical quotidian communicates a uniquely Ames-ian sensibility that provides a distinctive and refreshing take on the 20th-century architectural movement. Based in Atlanta, Georgia, Anthony Ames has operated his eponymous architecture office since 1976 and began painting in 1984. Ames' White Compositions--a series of 11 monochromatic relief wall sculptures--originate from and elaborate on the architect's painting practice, closely attending to proportion, layout, recurring forms, and motifs found within both his artistic and built works. His paintings--as described by Courtney Coffman in her previous review of Ames's solo exhibition at a83 gallery in New York--'oscillate somewhere between the formality of a still life, the dynamism of sculptural relief, and the juxtaposed delight of collage.' A natural evolution in Ames's practice, the 11 wall sculptures are accompanied by documents that provide insight into the precise and accomplished nature of Ames' design process: from buildings to art.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Fortune Favors the Brave details the incredible story of the making of a real estate tycoon.Fortune Favors the Brave is the memoir of David Walentas, the visionary behind the iconic rejuvenation of the DUMBO neighborhood in Brooklyn, NY. The detailed journey chronicles his formative years in upstate New York and his sheer will to succeed. Filled with anecdotes and personal stories of triumph and failure, it is sure to inspire generations of future businessmen.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Existing as it does on the brink of being overrun, urbanized or abandoned, rurality is contested. Even in the field of academia, it is often questioned or considered a minor subordinate appendix to urbanity. Since the ancient Greeks, conceptions of the rural have praised it as an idyllic and tranquil place where humans were closer to nature. Nowadays however, notions of the countryside are more complex, it is also a place in constant flux, a place defined and controlled by the urban. Can rurality continue to depend on the urban Or will future scenarios recognize it for its potential to live truly 'closer to nature' and as the place to be What can we learn from current counter-urbanization movements that have sprung up in the wake of changing geopolitical circumstances as well as geographical and social inequality Re-scaling the Rural aims to generate a broader understanding of contemporary rurality as it exists in different countries, seen by different disciplines in the context of different scales in space and time. Rurality may become the place that answers to the Anthropocene and its crises of pollution, climate change, biodiversity loss, wars and rising inequalities. The publication combines conceptual and practical explorations, from the outside-in (urban viewpoints) and inside-out (departing from an unknown rurality).…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This pioneering monograph on Shamsul Wares, Bangladesh's acclaimed architect and educator, demonstrates architecture as a reflection of the sociocultural conditions of a country, as well as global modernity. Shamsul Wares is widely known in Bangladesh to be a fiercely passionate teacher who professes architecture as a philosophy of modernism, one that views the challenges of space-making through the lens of twentieth-century modernist experiments through abstraction, platonic clarity, and humanism. Edited by Adnan Zillur Morshed with contributions from a diverse range of authors, this profusely illustrated book explains a cerebral architect's design work with careful analysis and contextuality.…