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Smooth City
Against Urban Perfection, Towards Collective Alternatives
2023 || Paperback || René Boer || Valiz
In cities around the world a new urban condition is spreading
rapidly: an ever-increasing push for ‘perfection’, efficiency
and control and the active eradication of any
aberration, friction or alternative. The smooth city with its
sanitized spaces and new technologies compresses urban
life into a seamless experience. While the demand for safe,
clean, and well-functioning urban environments is understandable,
the rise of the smooth city undermines the democratic
nature and emancipatory po...
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Valuing Architecture
Heritage and the Economics of Culture
2020 || Paperback || Ashley Paine e.a. || Valiz
Architecture has always been found in a space between its economic and cultural values. As distinct from the intrinsic values attributed to the visual and performing arts, literature and music, architecture's values are often seen to be compromised by, or contingent upon, forces outside of the discipline—on property prices, real estate markets and the vicissitudes of local and global economies. Such intersections of cultural and economic values are especially conspicuous in architectural he...
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Vis-à-vis Pavilion Propositions
Nine points on an architectural phenomenon
2018 || Paperback || Wouter Davidts e.a. || Valiz
Pavilion Propositions richt zich op het hedendaagse fenomeen van het 'kunstpaviljoen' en andere, vaak tijdelijke en functieloze architecturale bouwwerken. Wereldwijd worden zulke paviljoenen gebouwd in opdracht van kunstinstituten en worden ze bijvoorbeeld gebruikt als expositieruimte (zoals het jaarlijkse Serpentine Pavilion in Londen, het Young Architects Program in New York en het MPavilion in Melbourne). Ondanks zijn alomtegenwoordigheid en populariteit wordt het hedendaagse paviljoen inc...