Office for discourse engineering (3 résultats)

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Paperback. Etat : Near fine in wraps. First Edition. 22 x 26cm 358pp near fine paperback with texts by Maurizio Bortolotti, Norman Ford, Hou Hanru, Melissa Lam, Josef Ng, Ou Ning, Robin Peckham, Claire Tancons and Philip Tinari who writes about 'Cities as Productions'. The contents walk the line between art and architecture, urbanism and abstraction, political activism and aesthetic analysis, MAP Office offers a way of seeing a city. MAP Office--the collective name under which ValÈrie Portefaix and Laurent Gutierrez have worked since 1997--us a generator of ideas, a respite of reflexivity that strives to de-limit existing conditions in terms of the urban, environmental, institutional, and biopolitical, taking the city as an object of research and site of intervention.…

Paperback. Etat : Fair. The old saying used to warn that the map is not the territory. But the guerrilla architectartist-urbanists at Hong Kong-based MAP Office (Gutierrez + Portefaix) insist that the map (or the MAP) most definitely is the territory, and this exuberant book proves it.An incredibly complex, 360-page book, jam-packed with essays, interviews and over 500 color illustrations, photos, drawings, collages and more, summarizes two decades in MAP Office's evolution from architectural research to artistic intervention and cinematic theorization. It's a work of genius from working geniuses, mixing politics, installation art, humor, science fiction, multi-cultural initiatives and just plain visionary thinking.…