The subject is the human imagination-and the mysterious interplay between the imagination and the spaces it has made for itself to live in: gardens, rooms, buildings, streets, …
A book that lays out the fundamental concepts of design culture and outlines a design-driven way to approach the world.Humans did not discover fire-they designed it. Design is not …
Explorations of the many ways of being material in the digital age.In his oracular 1995 book Being Digital, Nicholas Negroponte predicted that social relations, media, and commerce …
The work of art's mattering and materialization in a globalized world, with close readings of works by Takahashi Murakami, Andreas Gursky, Thomas Hirschhorn, and others.It may be …
Ten grids that changed the world: the emergence and evolution of the most prominent visual structure in Western culture.Emblematic of modernity, the grid is the underlying form of …
Going beyond the 'blackness' of black art to examine the integrative and interdisciplinary practices of Kara Walker, Fred Wilson, Isaac Julien, Glenn Ligon, and William Pope.L-five …
How psychological ideas of space have profoundly affected architectural and artistic expression in the twentieth century.Beginning with agoraphobia and claustrophobia in the late …
How the approaches and methods of think tanks-including systems theory, operational research, and cybernetics-paved the way for a peculiar genre of midcentury modernism.In Think …
Manifestos by artists, authors, editors, publishers, designers, zinesters explore publishing as artistic practice.Independent publishing, art publishing, publishing as artistic …
An argument that theoretical works can signify through their materiality-their "noise," or such nonsemantic elements as typography-as well as their semantic content.In Material …
