Verb: Architecture Boogazine [Paperback]

Jorge Wagensberg (Author), Adilkno Bilwet (Author), Manuel De Landa (Author), Kunio Watanabe (Author), Alejandro Zaera (Author), Foreign Office Architects (Contributor), Sadar & Vuga (Contributor), Njiric & Njiric (Contributor)

Book Description

Series: Architecture Boogazine | Publication Date: March 2002

The shift from ''modern'' to digital systems of design and production opens up a material work to a much more profound interaction between author and audience. This change represents a new stage in the development of the relationship that a work--or, in another sense, a message--establishes between the author--or sender--and the reader--or receiver. From the classical work, with its "a priori," essentialist model of appreciation, to the modernist object, with its subjective model of aesthetics, to the emerging cybernetic model, the interface between author and ''user'' has become closer, more direct, and more open. The first issue of the new "boogazine" Verb looks closely at these questions regarding the present relationship between information and authorship in cultural practice, asking: how does the increasing complicity between author and audience affect architectural practice? And how can architecture be conceived more fluidly in terms of information? Handsomely designed and richly illustrated, this combination of book and magazine is the first installment in what is sure to be a groundbreaking journey through architecture and design.

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About the Author

Jorge Wagensberg is director of the Science Museum in Barcelona. He holds a PhD in Physics. Manuel de Landa is an independent filmmaker, programmer, and computer artist who has also lectured and written extensively on theories of nonlinear dynamics and artificial intelligence. Foreign Office Architects was founded in 1992 by Farshid Moussavi and Alejandro Zaera, both of them alumni of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA). Croatian-based architecture team njiric + njiric have received increasing international attention in the past several years, participating in several exhibitions in the United Kingdom and France.Slovenian engineer-architects Sadar & Vuga have been working together since 1992, and their work in their home country has consistently subverted convention and gained them worldwide recognition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 280 pages
• Publisher: Actar (March 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 8495273551
• ISBN-13: 978-8495273550
• Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 7.1 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,482,878 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Worth reading, but curious of what's next., May 15, 2003

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KIM ZYI YONG "delicraft" (London, United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Verb: Architecture Boogazine (Paperback)

I've read the majority of it, and now I could say that it's worth reading 'Verb' for those who would like to know how we can find/generate a kind of new concept and develop it into buildable form in the state of uncertainty. I think projects and buildings in 'Verb' are quite good examples. And the word 'boogazine' is pretty interesting because it implies that the new controversial topics like things in magazines and little old undoubtful ones like in referential books would be combined into one so that the main concept of so-called new architecture, which is neither single assertion nor definite, can be well-expressed.
BUT I've felt a bit boring about its contents. Most of them could not tell us things different from what Jeffrey Kipnis wrote in 'Towards a New Architecture' and what Deleuze describe world, which means the majority of articles/books after his are similar to one another and not progress further.
Is it time to see a new one or fine architectural result based on the philosophy of Deleuze?
I hope 'Verb' will be another step forward to it.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Exceptionally striking bookazine needs attention!, May 17, 2003

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KIM ZYI YONG "delicraft" (London, United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Verb: Architecture Boogazine (Paperback)

A new type of publication 'bookazine' does match to what 'Verb' has. What 'Verb' is all about is both conceptual and constructional progress in the field of architecture in recent years. It shows us selected good examples which manage to cope with the state of uncertainty by paying attention to the development of design process. Changing paradigm gives rise to changing type of publication.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Worth a subscription. Groundbreaking, November 19, 2002

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P. Nagy "revreader" (Chapel Hill, NC USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Verb: Architecture Boogazine (Paperback)

Exceptional production values enhance this well illustrated and innovatively designed book-magazine (produced in a French and Spanish edition too) that includes critical and theoretical essays on design and architectural topics. Planned to issue three issues annually. Recommended.