Walter Benjamin and the Architecture of Modernity

Walter Benjamin and the Architecture of ModernityBy Andrew Benjamin, Charles Rice

Publisher: re.press
Number Of Pages: 234
Publication Date: 2009-07-25
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0980544025
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780980544022

Product Description:
Walter Benjamin is universally recognised as one of the key
thinkers of modernity: his writings on politics, language,
literature, media, theology and law have had an incalculable
influence on contemporary thought. Yet the problem of
architecture in and for Benjamin's work remains relatively
underexamined. Does Benjamin's project have an architecture
and, if so, how does this architecture affect the explicit
propositions that he offers us? In what ways are Benjamin's
writings centrally caught up with architectural concerns,
from the redevelopment of major urban centres to the movements
that individuals can make within the new spaces of modern
cities? How can Benjamin's theses help us to understand the
secret architectures of the present? This volume takes up the
architectural challenge in a number of innovative ways,
collecting essays by both well-known and emerging scholars on
time in cinema, the problem of kitsch, the design of graves
and tombs, the orders of road-signs, childhood experience in
modern cities, and much more. Engaged, interdisciplinary,
bristling with insights, the essays in this collection will
constitute an indispensable supplement to the work of Walter
Benjamin, as well as providing a guide to some of the
obscurities of our own present.

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Retail Design

Otto Riewoldt, "Retail Design"
Te Neues Publishing Company | November 2000 | ISBN: 3823854577 | JPG | 239 pages | 154 MB

Retail Design offers an intriguing look at number of outstanding retail spaces that not only face these challenges with ingenuity and imagination, but provide customers with a one-of-a-kind shopping experience. Highlighted here are forty-five different solutions offered by some of today's most sought-after architects and designers from all over the world. Names well-known to the marketplace--Nike, Tower Records, Swatch, Jil Sander, Armani, Hermes, Comme de Garçons, Sony, Daimler/Chrysler, and Bloomingdales-are attached to wondrously conceived boutiques and stores in cities ranging from New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles to London, Berlin, Munich, Amsterdam, Tokyo, and Bangkok. Each full-color spread illustrates how the use of space, interior design, color, lighting, and materials all serve to create environments that engage and attract the buyer. The accompanying text explains how the various types of retail environments-from corporate flagship stores and elite boutiques to mega-malls and department stores-have been reinvented to bring consumer and product together in a multi-faceted, supremely physical shopping experience that no computer could ever match.


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Beauty and Islam: Aesthetics in Islamic Art and Architecture

Beauty and Islam: Aesthetics in Islamic Art and Architecture By Valerie Gonzalez
Publisher: I. B. Tauris 2001 | 160 Pages | ISBN: 1860646913 | PDF | 31 MB

Five essays explore aspects of aesthetics in classical Islamic thought in light of contemporary theories, offering new perspectives on Islamic with examples ranging from the Qur'an and the Alhambra to the works of present day artists and philosophers. Tracing the roots of Islamic aesthetics back to the works of the philosophers of the Middle Ages such as Avicenna and Averroes, Valerie Gonzalez finds that aesthetic theory in Islam must be seen within the much wider context of parallel thinking on theology, ethics, physics, and metaphysics. She balances her analysis of this philosophy (moral, logical, and scientific) of beauty with the equally important analysis of the perceptual experience of beauty.


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Sophia Vysivoti, "Folding Architecture"
BIS Publishers | October 1, 2008 | ISBN: 9063690592 | PDF | 144 pages | 4 MB

The technique of folding in contemporary architecture is vividly illustrated with a survey of much-discussed concepts, projects, and buildings in which this technique was applied. This book is compulsory for every architect wishing to design outside the mainstream.

Sophia Vysivoti is an architect and teaches design method at the Delft University of Technology.

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