GRUNDKURS: What is Architecture About?

GRUNDKURS: What is Architecture About?From the press: In this collection of idiosyncratic lessons, architect and teacher Pier Paolo Tamburelli engages with the very foundations of architecture, proposing a series of new and open ended perspectives on how we build the world. Developed for the Grundkurs, or basic course, at Vienna Technical University, Tamburellis lessons are presented through the annotated sketches that form the basis of his lectures variously rough and precise, sarcastic

and coin metallurgy from the perspective of a 12th-century trans Byzantine engineer

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the collective self-transformation of genderswarming cuties

elastic insights—on the relation of aesthetic form to the human mind

Ammons was a philosopher of the everyday who found surprise everywhere he looked

Four Corners Books

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From the press: At once an artist's book and an interview collection by Vietnamese filmmaker

using movies as aids to memory and as ways of marking time—“Near the beginning

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