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Riley in Cairo: British Art and Egypt in the 1980s
In the early 1980s, Bridget Riley produced a series of paintings distinguished by their use of the same group of colours, said to have been inspired by the vividly preserved painted tombs that she encountered during a visit to Egypt in the winter of 1979–80.
Richard Johns
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Abstract Although the production of the built environment is increasingly globalized, and architecture and urban planning (AUP) professionals are known to be the key carriers of mobile ideas, the internationalization of small owner‐centred architectural offices has gained little academic attention, compared to the large consultancies that dominate the ...
Erja Kettunen +2 more
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Contemporary art and the geopolitics of extractivism in Turkey's Kurdistan
Challenging the Eurocentrism of aesthetics and/or the neoliberal post‐political paradigm remain important indicators of art's critical (geo)political potential. However, a fuller appraisal of the criticality in question also requires asking if and to what extent such challenges redistribute agency vis‐à‐vis power relations grounded in extractivism as a
Eray Çaylı
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The 2014 Venice Architecture Biennale is on display from June to November. This year’s edition is directed by Rem Koolhaas and is bringing major novelties.
Docomomo Journal
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Curating change: Spatial utopian politics and the architecture of degrowth
Geographical scholarship has done much to help us understand how we have arrived at the current juncture of socio‐ecological disaster, but the discipline has been far less successful at imagining and enacting alternative systems and practices. In response, this paper examines the potentials and challenges for creative geographers to build critical ...
Cecilie Sachs Olsen
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Industrializing precast productions
Abstract Building in heavy rain is seldom beneficial, but common practice on site. It promotes inaccuracies and impairs the use of modern but sensible high‐performance materials and costs time, since disruption in construction frequently causes complicated returns to the planning process.
Peter Mark +11 more
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Today, we discuss “urban regeneration” often as the only way to revitalize those urban slices in the cities which has been forgotten or, somewhat, trivialized by consumer culture and tourism, which assault cities and tend to make them like an open-air ...
Alessandro Mosetti
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Dearly Beloved or Unrequited? To Be ‘Black’ in Art's Histories
Guided by Stuart Hall's essay ‘Black Diaspora Artists in Britain: Three “Moments” in Post‐War History’ (2006), this special issue looks closely at the multi‐faceted genealogies of Black British modernism since the arrival of the ‘Windrush generation’. It brings together a range of essays in different formats by artists and art historians on topics and ...
Sonia Boyce, Dorothy Price
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Exhibiting architecture: The Venice Biennale 1975–2023
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From the Hut to the Totem: An Archetypal Analysis of the Holy See's Eleven Chapels at the Venice Architecture Biennale [PDF]
At the 2018 Venice Biennale, the Holy See participated with eleven chapels in the woods designed by eleven teams of notable architects from all over the world, allowing us to monitor the global vision of worship spaces today.
Marta Isabel Sena Augusto +1 more
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