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Radical Infrastructure? A New Realism and Materialism in Philosophy and Architecture

Joel McKim

Dr Joel McKim is director of the Vasari Research Centre in Art and Technology and co-director of the BA programme in Media and Culture at Birkbeck, University of London, UK. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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The Missed Encounter of Radical Philosophy with Architecture

Bloomsbury Academic, 2014

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...One of the most notable developments in architectural thought over the past decade has been the ascendance of infrastructural concerns within the theory and practice of the discipline. Contemporary architecture has increasingly shifted its...

Potential Architectures

Christian Parreno

Christian Parreno is Assistant Professor of History and Theory of Architecture at Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador. He holds a PhD from the Oslo School of Architecture and Design, Norway. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Boredom, Architecture, and Spatial Experience

Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2021

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...In the late 1970s, the character of boredom changed from being an experiential outcome of the modern built environment, related to monotony and uniformity, to being the adversary of multiplicity. Although still negative, the condition...

Craftsmanship and Quality in Artisanal Cheesemaking

Heather Paxson

Heather Paxson

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Food and Architecture : At the Table

Bloomsbury Academic, 2016

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...A few years ago, a wine shop opened in Cambridge, Massachusetts, featuring a cheese counter specializing in domestic artisanal wares. Walking into the shop one afternoon, I found the cheesemonger surrounded by co-workers seeking to learn...

Authenticating Dungeons, Whitewashing Castles: The Former Sites of the Slave Trade on the Ghanaian Coast

Cheryl Finley

Cheryl Finley

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Architecture and Tourism : Perception, Performance and Place

Berg, 2004

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...For centuries, the castles and forts of coastal Ghana have been important sites of African-European contact and centers of cultural exchange. Built between 1482 and 1784 by rival European nations, these rare examples of late medieval...

John Hejduk and Samuel Beckett: Going on, in silence and lateness

Jason O’Shaughnessy

Jason O’Shaughnessy

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The Place of Silence : Architecture / Media / Philosophy

Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2020

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...Silence, as a theme, is related to lateness. Such is the lesson that has been drawn from Theodor W. Adorno’s assertion, made in the aftermath of the Second World War, that ‘To write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric. And this corrodes even...

Connections and Conflicts: Margaret Bourke-White’s Corporate, Commercial, and Documentary Photography

Mark Durden

Mark Durden

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Corporate Patronage of Art & Architecture in the United States, Late 19th Century to the Present

Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2019

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...William Stott, Documentary Expression and Thirties America (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1973), 270.Her technique overdramatizes virtually everything she treats. She shoots from bizarre angles and in operatic lights. She...

Incorporated Philanthropy: The General Education Board, Abraham Flexner, and the Architecture of American Medical Schools

Katherine L. Carroll

Katherine L. Carroll

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Corporate Patronage of Art & Architecture in the United States, Late 19th Century to the Present

Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2019

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...In 1903, John D. Rockefeller Sr. founded the General Education Board (GEB). Entirely separate from Rockefeller’s business undertakings at Standard Oil, the GEB represented a corporate philanthropy, a philanthropic foundation that modeled...