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Form and Formlessness
Cheryl Akner Koler

Axl Books, 2007

Form and Formlessness is an experimental research project that investigates how aesthetic abstractions are developed through three approaches: An educational approach concerned with developing an aesthetic discipline, supporting a formgiving process aimed to create tangible artifacts. An art-based approach supporting an open exploration of distortion and formlessness. A cross-disciplinary exploratory approach concerned with aesthetic ...

Occupying Time: Design, technology and the form of interaction
Maze

Axl Books, 2007

As technology pervades our everyday life and material culture, new possibilities and problematics are raised for design. Attention in contemporary design discourse is shifting beyond the object , to the qualities of processes and experiences. The boxes and screens typically the object of interaction and interface design are miniaturizing, even disappearing, as computation is integrated into familiar materials and ordinary objects. This opens ...

Losing the Plot: Architecture and Narrativity in Fin-de-Siecle Media Culture
Malin Zimm

Axl Books, 2005

This thesis investigates the role of the term plot in mediating relations between architecture and narrativity. Examining organisational strategies in the creation of real and virtual spaces, it identifies literary works by novelists who have resisted, or subverted, plot conventions in fiction (Joris-Karl Huysmans, Edmond de Goncourt, Xavier de Maistre and Neal Stephenson), and introduces architectural spaces such as Thomas Edison s film-studio ...

Behind Straight Curtains : Towards a Queer Feminist Theory of Architecture
Katarina Bonnevier

Axl Books, 2007

Behind Straight Curtains presents a series of critical scenes that celebrate the queerness and theatricality of architect Eileen Gray s building E.1027, the literary salon of author and seductress Natalie Barney at 20 rue Jacob, and author Selma LagerlÃ¶f s home MÃ¥rbacka. Lifting the curtains of heteronormative and sexist assumptions, the book explores examples of architecture that challenge social norms. Speculatively, yet with passion and ...

01.AKAD - Beginnings
Grillner, Katja, ...

Axl Books, 2005

Beginnings is the first in a series of publications from AKAD, which aim to provoke, promote and discuss new and critically experimental research by architecture and design. This first book is structured around four themes arising from projects initiated within AKAD with financial support from the Swedish Research Council. It includes critical essays and presentations of experimental design and writing projects. The contributors are ...

Structuring Fashion - Department Stores as Situating Spatial Practice
Daniel Koch

Axl Books, 2007

Far from passive containers or neutral fields where particular objects are to be desired, bought, and sold, department stores constitute spaces formative for both shopping behaviour and culture. In the constantly changing environment, in an interplay between retail strategies and responses to customer behaviour, a negotiation is going on of what and who is of importance, who is to be given exposure, and what needs to be hidden. As such, ...

02.AKAD - The Silences of Mies
Sven-Olov Wallenstein

Axl Books, 2008

Drawing on a series of readings of earlier interpretations of Mies, but also on discussions of other instances of the topos of silence in literature and music, the present essay attempts to understand the unavoidable plurality of this silence, to unearth its philosophical genealogy, and to connect it to the present moment, when the possibility and very sense of criticality as a strategy of negativity seem more questionable than ever.

Daylight Influence on Colour Design: Empirical Study on Perceived Colour
HÃÂ¥rleman, Maud

Axl Books, 2007

It is known that one and the same interior colouring will appear different in rooms with windows facing north or facing south. What is not known is how natural daylight from these two compass points affects perceived colour and the ways in which colour is experienced. The objective of this study is to describe the perceived colours to be expected in rooms with sunlight and diffused light, and thus to develop a tool for colour design.

Essays, Lectures
Sven-Olov Wallenstein

Axl Books, 2007

Through analyses of Parmenides, Augustine, Heidegger, and Deleuze, the essays in the first part of this book approach a twofold understanding of certain limit situations in Western metaphysics. On the one hand, this limit must be seen as that which resists thinking, the unthought lodged inside thought, and in this sense these texts pursue a line of questioning that was opened up by the possibility of a dismantling or deconstruction of ...

architecture

Collage Discovery Workshop
Faeries
The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Developer's Workshop to COM and ATL 3.0
Harold and the Purple Crayon (Purple Crayon Books)

interaction

World History: Patterns of Interaction
Interaction of Color: Revised and Expanded Edition
Designing Interactions
Interaction: Révision de grammaire française (with Audio CD)
World History: Patterns of Interaction

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