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Price: $64.95
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Sale: $40.92
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Manufacturer: Actar
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Eduard Bru::Jose Alfonso Ballesteros::Stan Allen::Cecil Balmond::Marie Ange Brayer::Manuel Delgado::Jose Miguel Iribas::Jose Morales::Willy Muller::Markus Novak::Fernando Porras::Federico Soriano::Mark Wigley::Ole Bouman::Aaron Betsky::Inaki balos::Karl Chu::Vicente Guallart::Willy Müller
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Publisher: Actar
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Dewey Decimal Number: 720
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Publication Date: 2003-09
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Reading Level: 688
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Description: A dictionary for a world whose cities are linked by fiber optic cables and whose citizens are virtually global, a world where airports are meeting places and meetings take place via web conference, the Metapolis Dictionary of Advanced Architecture identifies a new architectural will and a new social and cultural panorama. From "abduction" to "zoom," radical definitions abound. Collected together they form a global, cross-disciplinary, multi-voiced vision of new architectural action. They define an architecture that is inscribed in information society, that is influenced by new technologies and new economies, and that concerns itself with the environment and sustainability. Entries have been written by the six main authors--Gausa, Guallart, Mller, Morales, Porras and Soriano--plus dozens of international contributors, including Iiaki Abalos & Juan Herreros, Stan Allen, Cecil Balmond, Ben van Berkel, Aaron Betsky, Eduard Bru, Greg Lynn, Josep Llu's Mateo, Fradaric Migayrou, Marcos Novak, Josa Parez Arroyo, Andreas Ruby, Antonino Saggio, Saskia Sassen, Kelly Shannon, Lars Spuybroek, Roemer van Toorn and Mark Wigley. For the sake of accessibility, the dictionary has been organized according to three distinct systems. The main dictionary is laid out in alphabetical order, with each entry explained via one or various contributors' interpretations, plus a list of related words. Within this larger dictionary are two smaller ones: the ideological dictionary (see "ideological dictionary"), located roughly at the center of the book, offers analogical groups of words related to specific idea; the dictionary of aphorisms (see "synthetical") synthesizes some of the key definitions from the main dictionary in the form of mottos. Finally, please note that this is an illustrated dictionary, with images used to facilitate quick explanations of related terms.
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Price: $47.00
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Sale: $32.99
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Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Professional
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Fred Stitt
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Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 720.284
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Publication Date: 1998-05-01
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Reading Level: 352
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Description: Prepare flawless construction documents every time. How would you like to save up to 50% of the time and money spent on design services for your next building project? Working Drawing Manual, by Fred A. Stitt, gives you systematic checklists for quickly organizing and managing the huge mass of data needed to prepare accurate construction documents for any new building. Guaranteed to help you avoid costly delays, changes, job-site miscommunications and lawsuits, these handy checklists make it a snap to plan the scope and content of each set of drawings...decide exactly what needs to be drawn...and understand how each item in a drawing relates to others. With this easy-to-use guide, you can: make quick work of site plans, floor plans, interior and exterior elevations, roof plans, building cross sections, reflected ceiling plans, schedules, details and wall sections; stay on top of new technologies and code requirements; get up to speed on the New Uniform Drawing Format & CADD Layering Guidelines; improve your skills with the AIA CEU self-study module; and much more!
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Price: $25.00
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Sale: $14.88
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Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Thorbjoern Mann
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Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
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Dewey Decimal Number: 720.68
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Publication Date: 2003-11
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Reading Level: 160
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Description: This book addresses the special time management issues that confront designers. It offers students and professionals guidance in recognizing and understanding these problems and developing effective strategies for overcoming them. Exercises are included to reinforce good practice.
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Price: $186.95
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Sale: $16.68
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Manufacturer: Delmar Cengage Learning
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Alan Jefferis::David Madsen
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Publisher: Delmar Cengage Learning
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Edition: 4
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Dewey Decimal Number: 720.284
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Publication Date: 2000-08-07
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Reading Level: 832
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Description: Recognized by many as the authoritative source of how-to and reference information for students and beginning professionals, Architectural Drafting & Design, 4th Edition - available in full-color for the very first time - details step-by-step methods for the design and layout of each type of drawing required for a complete set of architectural plans. To enable you to make optimal use of one of today's popular design tools - AutoCAD 2000 - this comprehensive handbook also contains a "try & die" copy of the AutoCAD 2000 software and .dwg files of selected plans in the book, supplemented by expanded coverage of CADD and freehand sketching techniques. As they work through Architectural Drafting & Design, 4th Edition, readers are challenged to think through and solve numerous design problems while adhering to the latest International Building Code; meeting requirements of the Americans with Disabilities Act; taking into account the latest NDS wood design standards; and considering the growing popularity of engineered lumber and steel construction. Keywords: Architectural Drafting and Design
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Price: $35.95
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Sale: $30.21
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Manufacturer: Routledge
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: David Harvey
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Publisher: Routledge
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 307
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Publication Date: 2005-11-03
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Reading Level: 384
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Description: David Harvey's historical work on 19th century Paris is universally regarded as brilliant. As much as Benjamin and Marx, he has demonstrated the absolute centrality of capital in creating the modern city--its class relations, culture, urban form, and social life. Yet until now, this work has been squirreled away in various collections, journals, and one long out-of-print book.
In Paris, Capital of Modernity, Harvey brings together all of this material, along with some new essays, to present a sweeping account of the city in a remarkably turbulent era, framed by two failed revolutions. His key concern is how a new form of finance capitalism combined with a new type of planning vision to produce the prototypical modern city.
Also, there are brilliant insights throughout about subjects such as the birth of the consumerist spectacle on the Parisian boulevards; the creative visions of Balzac, Baudelaire, and Zola; and the reactionary cultural politics of the bombastic Sacré Coeur, the Catholic monument erected to efface all memory of the revolutionary Paris Commune that arose briefly when the empire collapsed.
Stunning in scope and form, Paris, Capital of Modernity is a long-awaited essential collection of David Harvey's magnificent writing on 19th century Paris.
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Price: $34.95
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Sale: $19.70
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Manufacturer: The MIT Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Anne Friedberg
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Publisher: The MIT Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 701
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Publication Date: 2006-10-06
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Reading Level: 448
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Description: Honorable Mention, 2008 Katherine Singer Kovacs Book Award presented by the Society for Cinema and Media Studies. and 2007 Winner of the Phi Kappa Phi Faculty Recognition Award at University of Southern California. As we spend more and more of our time staring at the screens of movies, televisions, computers, and handheld devices—"windows" full of moving images, texts, and icons—how the world is framed has become as important as what is in the frame. In The Virtual Window, Anne Friedberg examines the window as metaphor, as architectural component, and as an opening to the dematerialized reality we see on the screen.
In De pictura (1435), Leon Battista Alberti famously instructed painters to consider the frame of the painting as an open window. Taking Alberti's metaphor as her starting point, Friedberg tracks shifts in the perspectival paradigm as she gives us histories of the architectural window, developments in glass and transparency, and the emerging apparatuses of photography, cinema, television, and digital imaging. Single-point perspective—Alberti's metaphorical window—has long been challenged by modern painting, modern architecture, and moving-image technologies. And yet, notes Friedberg, for most of the twentieth century the dominant form of the moving image was a single image in a single frame. The fractured modernism exemplified by cubist painting, for example, remained largely confined to experimental, avant-garde work. On the computer screen, however, where multiple "windows" coexist and overlap, perspective may have met its end.
In this wide-ranging book, Friedberg considers such topics as the framed view of the camera obscura, Le Corbusier's mandates for the architectural window, Eisenstein's opinions on the shape of the movie screen, and the multiple images and nested windows commonly displayed on screens today. The Virtual Window proposes a new logic of visuality, framed and virtual: an architecture not only of space but of time.
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Price: $49.95
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Sale: $31.32
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Manufacturer: Birkhäuser Basel
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Alexander Reichel::Peter Ackermann::Alexander Hentschel::Anette Hochberg
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Publisher: Birkhäuser Basel
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 720
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Publication Date: 2007-10-23
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Reading Level: 112
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Description: Detail Practice: Building with Steel is a handbook for quick, goal-oriented reading and implementation. Case study projects exemplify common norm details using large-scale drawings. The fundamentals of planning load-bearing structures provide design and planning help. This is supplemented by explanations of common load-bearing structures using examples of residential, office, hall and industrial buildings. Issues of fire safety and building physics particularly relevant to steel construction are treated alongside the use of steel as a material for cladding facades.
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Price: $33.95
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Sale: $25.35
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Manufacturer: Architectural Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Katerina Ruedi Ray::Lesley Lokko::Igor Marjanovic
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Publisher: Architectural Press
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 720
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Publication Date: 2003-06-26
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Reading Level: 148
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Description: The portfolio is the single most important part of every architectural student's education. This book proides a complete guide to preparing, compiling and presenting this crucial element of the architecture course.
The experienced author team gives practical advice for the creation of the portfolio covering issues of size, storage, layout and order. They go on to guide the student through the various forms a portfolio can take: the Electronic Portfolio, the Academic Portfolio and the Professional Portfolio suggesting different approaches and different media to use in order to create the strongest portfolio possible. The team also presents the best examples from international student portfolios to show the reader their recommendations in practice.
The book has a companion website where full colour representations of the best examples of portfolio work can be accessed.
Also in the Seriously Useful Guides series:
* The Dissertation
* The Crit
* Practical Experience
* Offers step-by-step advice for students on how to prepare and present their portfolios
* Advice from the experts on how to make portfolios the best they can be
* Fully illustrated with examples of the best students' work from around the world
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Price: $39.99
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Sale: $25.07
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Manufacturer: Taschen
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Turtleback
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Author: Philip Jodidio
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Publisher: Taschen
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Edition: Mul
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Dewey Decimal Number: 725
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Publication Date: 2007-09-01
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Reading Level: 576
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Description: Now in its fifth installment, the "Architecture Now!" series is an ongoing project documenting the work of the most innovative and influential architects across the globe. Volume 5 features famous names and newcomers alike, and this time around a number of designers are also included, reflecting the new ways in which design and architecture are coming together. Since architecture also extends beyond walls, landscape architecture makes its appearance as well. Easy-to-navigate illustrated A-Z entries include current and recent projects, biographies, contact information, and web sites. Featured architects include: Marcos Acayaba, Emilio Ambasz, Tadao Ando/Ross Lovegrove, Ron Arad, Asymptote, Atelier SoA, Atelier Tekuto, Cecil Balmond/Rem Koolhaas, Cecil Balmond, Boge Lindner Architekten, Bohlin Cywinski Jackson, Bouroullec Brothers, Aldo Celoria, Doug Chiang, David Chipperfield, Matali Crasset, Curiosity, Devanthery & Lamuniere, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Juan Carlos Doblado, Evan Douglis, Erick van Egeraat, Michael Elmgreen & Ingar Dragset, Mario Garzaniti, Anton Garcia-Abril, Frank O. Gehry, Sean Godsell, Gould Evans, Graft, Zaha Hadid, Steven Harris, Hertl Architekten, Herzog & de Meuron, HHF architekten, Holodeck, Toyo Ito, Jarmund/Vigsnaes Architekter, Patrick Jouin, Jesse Judd, Anish Kapoor, Bernard Khoury, Marcio Kogan, Kengo Kuma, Local Architecture, and Guilherme Machado Vaz. It also features: MacKay-Lyons, Meixner-Schluter-Wendt, Paulo Mendes da Rocha, Menis Arquitectos, Toshiko Mori, Morphosis, Neutelings Riedijk, Oscar Niemeyer, NoMaD. Eduardo Arroyo, Jean Nouvel, OSA - Office for Subversive Architecture, John Pawson, Peanutz Architekten, I. M. Pei, Arsenio Perez Amaral, Dominique Perrault, Pezo von Ellrichshausen, Renzo Piano, Pivnice, Pornchai Boonsom, Muti Randolph, Richard Rogers, Stanley Saitowitz, SANAA, Sanaksenaho Architects, Martha Schwartz, Robert Simeoni, Alvaro Leite Siza, Spillmann Echsle Architekten, Philippe Starck, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Ross Stevens, Philippe Stuebi, System Architects, Tezuka Architects, UN Studio, Wandel Hoefer Lorch + Hirsch, Makoto Sei Watanabe, White Arkitekter, Ken Yeang, and Makoto Yokomizo.
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Price: $23.95
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Sale: $15.08
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Manufacturer: The MIT Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Giuliana Bruno
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Publisher: The MIT Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 720.1
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Publication Date: 2007-04-30
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Reading Level: 280
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Description: In her thoughtful collection of essays on the relationship of architecture and the arts, Giuliana Bruno addresses the crucial role that architecture plays in the production of art and the making of public intimacy. As art melts into spatial construction and architecture mobilizes artistic vision, Bruno argues, a new moving space—a screen of vital cultural memory—has come to shape our visual culture.
Taking on the central topic of museum culture, Bruno leads the reader on a series of architectural promenades from modernity to our times. Through these "museum walks," she demonstrates how artistic collection has become a culture of recollection, and examines the public space of the pavilion as reinvented in the moving-image art installation of Turner Prize nominees Jane and Louise Wilson. Investigating the intersection of science and art, Bruno looks at our cultural obsession with techniques of imaging and its effect on the privacy of bodies and space. She finds in the work of artist Rebecca Horn a notable combination of the artistic and the scientific that creates an architecture of public intimacy. Considering the role of architecture in contemporary art that refashions our "lived space"—and the work of contemporary artists including Rachel Whiteread, Mona Hatoum, and Guillermo Kuitca—Bruno argues that architecture is used to define the frame of memory, the border of public and private space, and the permeability of exterior and interior space. Architecture, Bruno contends, is not merely a matter of space, but an art of time.
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