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A progressive editorial project exploring architecture, graphic design, and contemporary art, based in Barcelona and New York.
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January 21, 2013
From the Publisher. A year of research through studio work, theses, lectures, exhibitions and events from Harvard University Graduate School of Design (GSD). Platform 5 considers the expanded boundaries of the GSD. It features not... More
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January 21, 2013
From the Publisher. Multi-award-winning designer, typographer, and TED speaker Craig Ward, presents his first self-authored book — Popular Lies About Graphic Design. An attempt to debunk the various misconceptions, half... More
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January 21, 2013
From the Publisher. Architecture and engineering are changing. But what about the relationship between architects and engineers? The subject of this experimental course held at Harvard GSD, with the students of Harvard and MIT, is to see... More
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January 21, 2013
From the Publisher. Bracket 2 examines physical and virtual soft systems, as they pertain to infrastructure, ecologies, landscapes, environments, and networks. In an era of declared crises—economic, ecological and... More
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January 21, 2013
From the Publisher. This compilation of texts written since 1986 reveals a parallel activity to Alejandro Zaera-Polo's professional life. The book is like a sniper's log, a register of events for the purpose of accumulating experience... More
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A Designers & Books Notable Design Book of 2013
January 21, 2013
Cover of Experiments with Life Itself: Radical Domestic Architectures between 1937 and 1959 (2013), Actar
From the Publisher. Every book relating the history of modern architecture... More
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Selected Backlist
2011
From the Publisher. In today's turbulent times few subjects deserve a closer scrutiny than the interactions between violence and constructed environment. Modernity's contradictory histories laid bare the fact that it is impossible to... More
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2011
From the Publisher. Candide is a peer-reviewed journal dedicated to exploring the culture of knowledge specific to architecture. It is released twice a year in English and German. Each issue of Candide is made up of... More
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2010
From the Publisher. An explosion of little architectural magazines in the 1960s and 1970s instigated a radical transformation in architectural culture, as the magazines acted as a site of innovation and debate. Clip/Stamp/Fold... More
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2011
From the Publisher. The work of Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas enjoys well-earned reputation for its artistic talent and its capacity to surprise with the most risky and spectacular projects. With offices in Rome, Paris, and... More
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2011
From the Publisher. Beyond a design school, the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) is an immersive environment—a dense atmosphere saturated with creative and intellectual activity. Platform 4 represents a selective... More
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2005
From the Publisher. Three-dimensionality can be seen as architecture’s fundamental existence, the profession's acclaimed domain. In times of globalism and scale enlargement, an update of this definition seems needed: meters turn into... More
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2012
From the Publisher. Today the human impact on our planet can hardly be underestimated. Climate change, population explosion, genetic manipulation, digital networks, plastics islands floating in the oceans. Untouched old nature is... More
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2010
From the Publisher. In this small, but sharply pointed book, renowned theorist Sanford Kwinter addresses the sometimes subtle, sometimes brutal transformations that characterized the modernization processes set into motion at the turn... More
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A Designers & Books Notable Design Book
2011
From the Publisher Roberto Burle Marx (1909–1994) is known as a landscape architect, but also as a painter, gardener, and jewelry designer, tapestry designer, in short, a multitalented artist. He considered the garden to be one... More
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