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Notes from Another Los Angeles - Anthony Fontenot - Bog - MIT Press Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Notes from Another Los Angeles - Anthony Fontenot - Bog - MIT Press Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The first book to focus on California architect Gregory Ain’s housing projects, which featured open kitchens, movable walls, and other design innovations. The Southern California architect Gregory Ain (1908–1988) collaborated with some of the most important figures of midcentury design, including Rudolph Schindler, Richard Neutra, and Charles and Ray Eames, and yet remains relatively unknown. Perhaps one reason for this anonymity is that although he designed private homes for wealthy liberals, Ain was more interested in finding ways to produce high-quality, low-cost houses in well-designed neighborhood settings for working-class families. This is the first book to examine the innovative housing projects that synthesized Ain’s architectural and political ideals.The book is arranged through a quartet of “notes”—both textual and visual—akin to a police or surveillance file (which is no accident, given that among these notes is Ain’s actual FBI file). The first presents a series of striking black-and-white photographs of four of Ain’s built housing projects by celebrated architectural photographer Julius Shulman. These are followed by illustrated essays on Ain by contemporary architectural historians, an archival section of articles, including notes for a lecture on Ain by the distinguished architectural writer and critic Esther McCoy, and lastly project descriptions, drawings, and contemporary color photographs by Kyungsub Shin.Ain’s housing projects represented a new paradigm in neighborhood design that celebrated the everyday life and diversity of ordinary people. Ain’s innovations—including open kitchens and movable partition walls for a “flexible house”—aimed to solve specific problems rather than pursue arbitrary expressions of uniqueness. His high-density developments anticipate contemporary efforts to design building with a minimal footprint. Generously illustrated, this volume reintroduces Ain to a forgetful field. Contributors Gregory Ain, Anthony Denzer, Anthony Fontenot, Anali Gharakhani, Esther McCoy, Nicholas Olsberg, Kyungsub Shin, Julius Shulman

DKK 391.00
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Feminist Designer - Alison Place - Bog - MIT Press Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Feminist Designer - Alison Place - Bog - MIT Press Ltd - Plusbog.dk

A bold and timely collection that brings feminist theory and critical thinking to life through vital, approachable design methods and practices. Feminist Designer brings together a constellation of voices and perspectives to examine the intersection of design and feminist theory. For decades, the feminist refrain within design has hinged on the representation and inclusion of women in the field. This collection, edited by Alison Place, however, is a call to move beyond this narrow application. Feminist design is not just about who does design—it is about how we do design and why. Feminist frameworks for design activism are now more relevant than ever, as they emphasize collaborative processes that aim to disrupt and dismantle power hierarchies while centering feminist ways of knowing and doing. The first book in nearly three decades to address such practices in design, Feminist Designer contains essays, case studies, and dialogues by 43 contributors from 16 different countries. It engages a wide variety of design disciplines, from graphic design to disability design to algorithmic design, and explores key feminist themes, such as power, knowledge, care, plurality, liberation, and community. Through diverse, sometimes conflicting, intersectional perspectives, this book contributes new design methods informed by a multiplicity of feminisms that confront design’s patriarchal origins while ushering in new pathways for making critical and meaningful change. Contributors Claudia Marina, Griselda Flesler, Aggie Toppins, Aasawari Kulkarni, Jennifer Armbrust, Maryam Mustafa, Elizabeth Pérez, Aimi Hamraie, Gaby Hernández, Ashley K. Eberhart, Elizabeth Byrd, Madeline Avram Blount, Manon Vergerio, Velvet A. Johnson Ross, Eden Laurin, Ellen Kellogg, Rebecca Tegtmeyer, Jeff Kasper, Rachael Dietkus, Laura Devendorf, Attia Taylor, Becky Nasadowski, Benedetta Crippa, Cami Rincon, Andrew Mallinson, Margaret Middleton, Ayako Takase, Heather Snyder Quinn, Dina Benbrahim, Jenn Roberts, Alexis Hope, Joana Varon, Marie Louis Juul Søndergaard, Alexandra Crosby, Ilaria Vanni, Una Lee, Dann Toliver, Tawana Petty, Jane Im, Boaz Sender, Sarah Williams, Mandy Harris Williams, Lauren Lee McCarthy, In-ah Shin, Victor G. Martinez, Nina Paim, Maya Ober

DKK 237.00
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