Allan Wexler

Author : Allan Wexler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2017-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3037785160

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Allan Wexler by Allan Wexler Pdf

This book features projects, developed during the artist Allan Wexler's forty-five-year career, which mediate the gap between fine and applied art using the mediums of architecture, sculpture, photography, painting, and drawing. Wexler's production can be broadly described as tactile poetry composed by re-framing the ordinary with the intention of sustaining a narrative about landscape, nature, and the built environment that highlights the intriguing and surprising characteristics latent in the elements and rituals that pervade daily life. His work demonstrates a commitment to re-evaluating basic assumptions about our relationship to the built and natural environments. Organized thematically across four categories--abstraction, landscape, private space, and public places--this publication is a richly illustrated cross section of Wexler's multi-scale, multi-media work, featuring his own writings, narratives, and reflections.

Author : Allan Wexler,Bernd Schulz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Architecture, Modern
ISBN : UCSD:31822035555960

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Allan Wexler by Allan Wexler,Bernd Schulz Pdf

Author : Matt Freedman
Publisher : Independent Curators International
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Paper sculpture
ISBN : 0916365697

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The Paper Sculpture Book by Matt Freedman Pdf

Drawing on (s)cul(p)tural paradigms as diverse as paper-doll books, Mad magazine fold-ins and exploded schematic diagrams, the artists in The Paper Sculpture Book offer a hands-on, self-contained art show. Artworks meant to be cut out by the reader and assembled using very basic materials such as tape and rubber bands have been designed by 29 established and emerging contemporary artists, including The Art Guys, Minerva Cuevas, Seong Chun, Nicole Eisenman, Spencer Finch, Rachel Harrison, Stephen Hendee, Patrick Killoran, Glenn Ligon, Helen Mirra, David Shrigley, Sarah Sze, Chris Ware and Allan Wexler. Fred Tomaselli merges images from a birding book and an outdoor-clothing catalogue to create an ironic yet beautiful aviary. Janine Antoni's Crumple provides precise instructions for recreating a crumpled ball of paper, while Luca Buvoli invites the reader to take a pop-up flying lesson from the mysterious Professor M.a.S. Obviously, these are not your elementary-school paper airplanes.

Author : Allan Wexler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Furniture design
ISBN : UCSD:31822035556059

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Allan Wexler, Structures for Reflection by Allan Wexler Pdf

Author : Leon Battista Alberti
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1991-07-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 026251060X

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On the Art of Building in Ten Books by Leon Battista Alberti Pdf

De Re Aedificatoria, by Leon Battista Alberti (1404-1472), was the first modern treatise on the theory and practice of architecture. Its importance for the subsequent history of architecture is incalculable, yet this is the first English translation based on the original, exceptionally eloquent Latin text on which Alberti's reputation as a theorist is founded.

Author : Rob Walker
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-07
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9780525521259

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The Art of Noticing by Rob Walker Pdf

An imaginative, thought-provoking gift book to awaken your senses and attune them to the things that matter in your life. Welcome to the era of white noise. Our lives are in constant tether to phones, to email, and to social media. In this age of distraction, the ability to experience and be present is often lost: to think and to see and to listen. Enter Rob Walker's The Art of Noticing. This gorgeously illustrated volume will spark your creativity--and most importantly, help you see the world anew. Through a series of simple and playful exercises--131 of them--Walker maps ways for you to become a clearer thinker, a better listener, a more creative workplace colleague and finally, to rediscover your sense of passion and to notice what really matters to you.

Author : Betsy Siersma
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Furniture design
ISBN : UCSD:31822035556349

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Allan Wexler by Betsy Siersma Pdf

Author : Arnie Wexler
Publisher : Central Recovery Press, LLC
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2015-01-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781937612757

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All Bets Are Off by Arnie Wexler Pdf

Wexler's compulsive gambling spiraled out of control....after forty-plus years in recovery, he's become a nationally known expert on gambling addiction.

Author : Richard Smith,Philip Wexler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2005-09-27
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135718077

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After Postmodernism by Richard Smith,Philip Wexler Pdf

This work presents a set of thematic essays aimed at clarifying the educational problems and paradoxes of postmodern educational conditions and theory. The major concerns of the book are the possibility of achieving substantive political objectives and of theorising such possiblities. These concerns arise from a dissatisfaction with the organisational and political conditions of postmodern educational practice.; The seeming inability of academics to intervene in the public sector, especially in matters of equality, provides a driving force to the book. For individuals who care about the future of education and its role in social reconstruction, the pessimistic nature of postmodern theories of society and education is an additional impetus for the book.; All the chapters exemplify the issues that confront lecturers in contemporary university teacher education contexts. A notable feature of the book is a theme that current theorisation about education and society are historically outmoded and that the future lies in "post" postmodern theories.

Author : Burkhard Meltzer
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-19
Category : Design
ISBN : 9780500292358

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Rethink the Modular by Burkhard Meltzer Pdf

A celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of USM's pioneering modular system within the greater context of architecture and design In 1965, leading Swiss furniture company USM patented its signature modular furniture system, USM Haller. This flexible storage solution for both home and office was inspired by Fritz Haller’s modular architecture and designed for infinite reuse and reconfiguration. Considered a design classic, USM Haller is included in the collections of major museums including MoMA and the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. Released as part of USM’s fiftieth-anniversary celebration of this iconic furniture design, Rethink the Modular examines the role of unit-based systems in the wider context of architecture and design. It combines previously published writings, specially commissioned essays from thinkers and innovators John Thackara and Rick Poyner, and interviews with leading figures in the design world that explain how the concept of the modular influences their work. Interspersed with visual material, the texts reveal the many possibilities created by balancing structure with flexibility, and seek to redefine the place of modularity in modern design history.

Author : Allan Wexler,Bernd Shulz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015042397300

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Allan Wexler by Allan Wexler,Bernd Shulz Pdf

"Biography and chronology of exhibitions" (p. 60-63)

Author : Larry Hancock,Stuart Wexler
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 625 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-17
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781619024731

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Shadow Warfare by Larry Hancock,Stuart Wexler Pdf

Contrary to its contemporary image, deniable covert operations are not something new. Such activities have been ordered by every president and every administration since the Second World War. In many instances covert operations have relied on surrogates, with American personnel involved only at a distance, insulated by layers of deniability. Shadow Warfare traces the evolution of these covert operations, detailing the tactics and tools used from the Truman era through those of the contemporary Obama Administrations. It also explores the personalities and careers of many of the most noted shadow warriors of the past sixty years, tracing the decade–long relationship between the CIA and the military. Shadow Warfare presents a balanced, non–polemic exploration of American secret warfare, detailing its patterns, consequences and collateral damage and presenting its successes as well as failures. Shadow Wars explores why every president from Franklin Roosevelt on, felt compelled to turn to secret, deniable military action. It also delves into the political dynamic of the president's relationship with Congress and the fact that despite decades of combat, the U.S. Congress has chosen not to exercise its responsibility to declare a single state of war – even for extended and highly visible combat.

Author : Julian Raxworthy
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2023-08-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780262547123

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Overgrown by Julian Raxworthy Pdf

A call for landscape architects to leave the office and return to the garden. Addressing one of the most repressed subjects in landscape architecture, this book could only have been written by someone who is both an experienced gardener and a landscape architect. With Overgrown, Julian Raxworthy offers a watershed work in the tradition of Ian McHarg, Anne Whiston Spirn, Kevin Lynch, and J. B. Jackson. As a discipline, landscape architecture has distanced itself from gardening, and landscape architects take pains to distinguish themselves from gardeners or landscapers. Landscape architects tend to imagine gardens from the office, representing plants with drawings or other simulations, whereas gardeners work in the dirt, in real time, planting, pruning, and maintaining. In Overgrown, Raxworthy calls for the integration of landscape architecture and gardening. Each has something to offer the other: Landscape architecture can design beautiful spaces, and gardening can enhance and deepen the beauty of garden environments over time. Growth, says Raxworthy, is the medium of garden development; landscape architects should leave the office and go into the garden in order to know growth in an organic, nonsimulated way. Raxworthy proposes a new practice for working with plant material that he terms “the viridic” (after “the tectonic” in architecture), from the Latin word for green, with its associations of spring and growth. He builds his argument for the viridic through six generously illustrated case studies of gardens that range from “formal” to “informal” approaches—from a sixteenth-century French Renaissance water garden to a Scottish poet-scientist's “marginal” garden, barely differentiated from nature. Raxworthy argues that landscape architectural practice itself needs to be “gardened,” brought back into the field. He offers a “Manifesto for the Viridic” that casts designers and plants as vegetal partners in a renewed practice of landscape gardening.

Author : Gilles Retsin
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-29
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781119500346

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Discrete by Gilles Retsin Pdf

After two decades of experimentation with the digital, the prevalent paradigm of formal continuity is being revised and questioned by an emerging generation of architects and theorists. While the world struggles with a global housing crisis and the impact of accelerated automation on labour, digital designers’ narrow focus on mere style and continuous differentiation seems increasingly out of touch. This issue charts an emerging body of work that is based on a computational understanding of the discrete part or building block – elements that are as scalable, accessible and versatile as digital data. The discrete proposes that a new, digital understanding of assembly, based on parts, contains the greatest promise for a complex, open-ended, adaptable architecture. This approach capitalises on the digital economy and automation, with the potential of the digital to democratise production and increase access. The digital not only has deep implications for how we design and produce architecture; it is first and foremost a new system of production with economic, social and political consequences that need to be taken into account. This issue presents a diverse body of work focused on the notion of the discrete: from design experiments and aesthetics, to urban models, tectonics, distributed robots, new material organisations and post-capitalist scenarios engaging with automation. Contributors: Viola Ago, Mario Carpo, Emmanuelle Chiappone-Piriou, Mollie Claypool, Manuel Jimenez García, Daniel Koehler and Rasa Navasaityte, Immanuel Koh, Neil Leach, Ryan Manning, Philippe Morel, M Casey Rehm, Jose Sanchez, Marrikka Trotter, Manja van de Worp, Maria Yablonina and Lei Zheng. Featured Architects: Kengo Kuma, Lab-eds, Plethora Project, MadM, EZCT, Eragatory and Studio Kinch.

Author : Emmanuel Levinas
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780253040503

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Nine Talmudic Readings by Emmanuel Levinas Pdf

These nine masterful readings of the Talmud by the renowned French Jewish philosopher translate Jewish thought into the language of modern times. One of the major continental philosophers of the twentieth century, Emmanuel Levinas was also an important Talmudic commentator. Between 1963 and 1975, he delivered an enlightening and influential series of commentaries at the annual Talmudic colloquia of a group of French Jewish intellectuals in Paris. In this collection, Levinas applies a hermeneutic that simultaneously allows the classic Jewish texts to shed light on contemporary problems and lets modern problems illuminate the texts. Besides being quintessential illustrations of the art of reading, the essays express the deeply ethical vision of the human condition that makes Levinas one of the most important thinkers of our time.