"Red: The History of a Color" by Michel Pastoureau

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It is now hard to imagine, but before the mid-1960s most books, and not only on art historical subjects, appeared without a speck of color. It was not as if color printing technology was unavailable, but we had been conditioned by the circulation of millions of black-and-white photographic images, starting in the middle of the 19th century, to what the French historian Michel Pastoureau calls a "black-and-white reality." Cinema extended this domination into the mid-20th century. Who can imagine Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal in color?

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Last Futures: Nature, Technology, and the End of Architecture by Douglas Murphy

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In the late 1960s the world was faced with impending disaster: the height of the Cold War, the end of oil and the decline of great cities throughout the world. Out of this crisis came a new generation that hoped to build a better future, influenced by visions of geodesic domes, walking cities and a meaningful connection with nature.

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Rudolf Steiner: Alchemy of the Everyday

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This impressive 300-page volume is the first comprehensive overview of the work of Steiner, a pivotal figure who still influences the arts and sciences today. Rudolf Steiner was one of the key reform figures of the 20th century.

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Fantastic Architecture, edited by Dick Higgins & Wolf Vostell

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Compiled by Fluxus artists Wolf Vostell and Dick Higgins, and first published by Higgins' legendary Something Else Press in 1970, Fantastic Architecture anticipated the critiques launched by a new generation of visionary architects in the 1970s.

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Recycled Theory Illustrated Dictionary

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Recycled Theory is a multidisciplinary dictionary made of entries in form of texts, drawings and quotes, which explore the concept of “recycling” in design cultures and in the theories that nurture them. Usually we recycle things, objects, spaces but more often we return on principles and approaches to rearrange them, put them back into circulation, and override them.

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Watercolors by Finn Juhl

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In the rank of great Danish designers, Finn Juhl (1912–1989) is mentioned in the same breath with Hans J. Wegner and Arne Jacobsen. He became particularly well known for his sculptural, seemingly organic tables, chairs, and sofas.

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Writingplace - Investigations In Architecture And Literature

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The book 'Writingplace: Investigations in Architecture and Literature' marks a step forward in an emerging debate on literary means in architecture. It offers a series of reflections on written language as a crucial element of architecture culture, and on the potential of using literary methods in architectural and urban research, education and design.

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David Chipperfield: The Embedded Nomad

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David Chipperfield was awarded the Netherlands’ Sikkens Prize “for his approach towards the urban context, his talent in re-using existing buildings and monuments, and his subtle and subdued use of colour”. Chipperfield was somewhat surprised, because he considered his use of colour and material to be a logical consequence of his views on architecture, not an exceptional achievement.

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Wendell Castle: Remastered

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Wendell Castle Remastered examines the digitally crafted works of Wendell Castle (born 1932), acclaimed figure of the American art furniture movement.

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J.B. Blunk Cups, plates, bowls & sculptures: ceramics 1950 – 1999

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California-based artist J.B. Blunk created an extensive body of work in wood and stone, cast bronze, painting, jewelry and clay. Ignoring the traditional separation of sculpture and furniture he worked without a conception of fixed categories, and his attitude towards these classifications suggests the Japanese disregard of the distinction between art and craft.

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"Buildings: Between Living Time and Rocky Space" by Paul Shepheard

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Why write about buildings? Buildings are chunks of the material of the natural world, refashioned by humans and set down into place to stand as silent as the rocks and trees from which they were made. How can we describe that mute actuality? A building’s only complete description is itself. Writing often intensifies the cloud that obscures buildings rather than dissipates it. So why do it?

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Elements by Rem Koolhaas

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Architecture is a strange mixture of persistence and flux, an amalgamation of elements – some that have been around for over 5,000 years and others that were (re)invented yesterday.

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"Age of Folly: America Abandons Its Democracy" by Lewis H. Lapham

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America’s leading essayist on the frantic retreat of democracy, in the fire and smoke of the war on terror

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Jealous Saboteurs by Francis Upritchard

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Jealous Saboteurs surveys twenty years of work by New Zealand–born, London-based artist Francis Upritchard. The book includes a total of 288 colour reproductions of her sculptures, ceramics and installations.

Jealous Saboteurs features essays by Megan Dunn, Tessa Laird, and Robert Leonard, and an interview with Upritchard by artist Brian Griffiths.

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