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An investigation of the tightly interwoven relationship between architecture and photography from the post-war years until today Explores famous collaborations between photographers and architects from different eras Continues and expands historically Jesús Vassallo’s successful previous book Seamless: Digital Collage and Dirty Realism in Contemporary Architecture (Park Books, 2016) Photography by Walker Evans, Nigel Henderson, Ed Ruscha, New Topographics, Thomas Ruff, and Thomas Demand; and architecture by Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown, Alison and Peter Smithson, Herzog & de Meuron, and Caruso St John Architecture and photography are both semi-autonomous disciplines, suspended between fine arts and the utilitarian. Because of this condition, realism is considered a given in both. Once a building is inhabited it becomes the backdrop for somebody’s everyday drama—just like a photograph that is instantly understood as an automatic record of whatever was in front of the camera. Epics in the Everyday traces a series of collaborations between architects and photographers since World War II. Consistently, the subject matter of these collaborations is the anonymous built environment, which in different ways presents both architects and artists with a mirror interrogating and challenging the idea of realism in their respective disciplines. Beyond looking at important developments within the two disciplines, the book chronicles an alternative history of modern architecture and documentary photography, building a case for a specific type of realism found at their intersection. Jesús Vassallo is a Spanish-born architect and writer. He teaches and researches as an assistant professor at Rice University’s School of Architecture in Houston, TX. Jesús Vassallo Epics in the Everyday Photography, Architecture, and the Problem of Realism Rice Architecture Hardback 328 pages, 136 color and 71 b/w illustrations 17 × 24 cm (6¾ × 9½ in) 978-3-03860-162-3 English sFr. 49.00 | € 48.00 | £ 45.00 | $ 49.00 November 2019 (Europe) | February 2020 (US) ISBN 978-3-03860-162-3
First examination of Christopher Alexander’s “systems generating systems” theory and its application to a concrete building design The Eishin Campus near Tokyo is Alexander’s largest and most significant project based on the Pattern Language he developed in the 1970s together with Sara Ishikawa and Murray Silverstein Christopher Alexander is among the most highly renowned contemporary architectural theorists An intercultural und transdisciplinary examination of Christopher Alexander’s methods for building and urban design Christopher Alexander, Vienna-born British-American architect and theorist, is revered for his writings, such as A Pattern Language, published in 1977 together with Sara Ishikawa and Murray Silverstein, or The Timeless Way of Building of 1979. Lesser known but as essential to understanding Alexander’s work is his theory of “systems generating systems,” which explains that “if we wish to make things which function as ‘wholes,’ we shall have to invent generating systems to create them.” (Christopher Alexander). Taking the Eishin Campus outside Tokyo, built between 1982 and 1987, as its example, Shifting Patterns is the first book to examine Alexander’s theory of “systems generating systems” and its application to a building design. It brings together essays from a transdisciplinary, international cast of experts to investigate the application of this theory to a concrete building design. It also looks at the design-build-movement as an antithesis to today’s standardized and commerce-driven architectural production. Eva Guttmann is an architecture publicist based in Graz and Vienna and an editor with Park Books. Gabriele Kaiser lives and works in Vienna as an architecture publicist, writer, and curator. Claudia Mazanek is a Vienna-based freelance editor with a special expertise in 20th-century art and architecture. Eva Guttmann, Gabriele Kaiser, Claudia Mazanek (eds) Shifting Patterns Christopher Alexander and the Eishin Campus Paperback 192 pages, 133 color and 6 b/w illustrations 20.5 × 23.5 cm (8 × 9¼ in) 978-3-03860-149-4 English 978-3-03860-067-1 German sFr. 39.00 | € 38.00 | £ 35.00 | $ 39.00 Available EN GE ISBN 978-3-03860-149-4 ISBN 978-3-03860-067-1 NEW TITLES 14/15
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