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The Language of Things

By: Deyan Sudjic

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We live in a world drowning in objects. But what do they tell us about ourselves?In The Language of Things, Deyan Sudjic charts our relationship - both innocent and knowing - with all things designed. From the opulent excesses of the catwalk, or the technical brilliance of a laptop computer, to the subtle refinement of a desk lamp, he shows how we can be manipulated and seduced by our possessions. Sudjic delivers an exhilarating insider’s history of design as he introduces us to the world's most original innovators and reveals the hidden meanings in their work. How did the design of a pistol influence a car? Why did a chair make a cafe the most fashionable place in Paris? What can we learn from a banknote, a police uniform or a typeface? And why can't any of us decide what size to wear our trousers? In an age when the word ‘designer’ has become synonymous with the cynical and manipulative, Sudjic examines the qualities behind successful design and explores the conflicting tensions between high art and mass production. Brilliant and courageous, The Language of Things defines the visual vocabulary of our time and gives us a powerful new way of seeing the world.

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Penguin UK

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0141900105

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9780141900100

B is for Bauhaus

An A-Z of the Modern World

By: Deyan Sudjic

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B is for Bauhaus

An A-Z of the Modern World

By: Deyan Sudjic

This book is not a dictionary, though it tells you all you need know about everything from Authenticity to Zips. It's not an autobiography, though it does offer a revealing and highly personal inside view of contemporary culture. It's an essential tool kit for understanding the modern world. It's about what makes a Warhol a genuine fake; the creation of national identities; the mania to collect. It's also about the world seen from the rear view mirror of Grand Theft Auto V; digital ornament and why we value imperfection. It's about drinking a bruisingly dry martini in Adolf Loo's American bar in Vienna, and about Hitchcock's film sets. It's about fashion and technology, about politics and art.

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351

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Penguin UK

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0718199472

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9780718199470

Analogue

A Field Guide

By: Deyan Sudjic

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Analogue

A Field Guide

By: Deyan Sudjic

The perfect antidote to your digital diet, this is a delightful exploration of analogue product design that crosses categories and generations, celebrating the timeless allure of the real and tactile over the merely virtual. Covering sound, vision, communication and information, Analogue: A Field Guide is an evocative trip through an era of innovative design, profiling 250 classic objects from radios to turntables, TVs to cameras, and typewriters to telephones. Along the way, it surveys all the iconic brands as well as the technological developments that have made these devices possible. There is a growing nostalgia for physical, real-world interaction with design and technology and a desire to reconnect with both things and people, something that has been eroded by the digital revolution. The wide-ranging approach of this book enables it to show the deeper cultural and social significance of the analogue era, with the authority to convince those who know a lot about each category and the breadth to attract the non-specialist. Ideal for those nostalgic for physical media, as well as those who collect, use and maintain these older technologies. Written by leading design historian, Deyan Sudjic, the book includes works by such renowned designers as Dieter Rams, Philippe Starck, Ettore Sottsass and Richard Sapper, and taps into the ever-growing renaissance of interest in the analogue world.

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0711293015

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9780711293014

The Language of Cities

By: Deyan Sudjic

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The Language of Cities

By: Deyan Sudjic

The director of the Design Museum defines the greatest artefact of all time: the city We live in a world that is now predominantly urban. So how do we define the city as it evolves in the twenty-first century? Drawing examples from across the globe, Deyan Sudjic decodes the underlying forces that shape our cities, such as resources and land, to the ideas that shape conscious elements of design, whether of buildings or of space. Erudite and entertaining, he considers the differences between capital cities and the rest to understand why it is that we often feel more comfortable in our identities as Londoners, Muscovites, or Mumbaikars than in our national identities.

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Penguin UK

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0241188059

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9780241188057

The Edifice Complex

The architecture of power

By: Deyan Sudjic

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The Edifice Complex

The architecture of power

By: Deyan Sudjic

The Edifice Complex explores the intimate and inextricable relationship between power, money and architecture in the twentieth century. How and why have presidents, prime ministers, mayors, millionaires and bishops come to share such a fascination with grand designs? From Blair to Mitterrand, from Hitler to Stalin to Saddam Hussein, architecture has become an end in itself, as well as a means to an end. This is a book of genuine timeliness, throwing new light on the motivations of the rich and powerful around the world - and on the ways they seek to affect us.

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475

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Penguin UK

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0141969210

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9780141969213

B is for Bauhaus

An A-Z of the Modern World

By: Deyan Sudjic

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An A-Z of the Modern World

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The Edifice Complex

How the Rich and Powerful--and Their Architects--Shape the World

By: Deyan Sudjic

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The Edifice Complex

How the Rich and Powerful--and Their Architects--Shape the World

By: Deyan Sudjic

A provocative look at architecture-"exceptionally intelligent and original" (Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post Book World) Deyan Sudjic-"probably the most influential figure in architecture you've never heard of" - argues that architecture, far from being auteur art, must be understood as a naked expression of power. From the grandiose projects of Stalin and Hitler to the "theme park" excess of today's presidential libraries, Sudjic goes behind the scenes of history's great manipulators of building propaganda-and exposes Rem Koolhaas, Frank Gehry, and other architects in a disturbing new light. This controversial book is essential reading for all those interested in the power of architecture-or the architecture of power. * A Washington Post Book World Best Book of the Year

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Penguin

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1440649324

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The Language of Things: Understanding the World of Desirable Objects

By: Deyan Sudjic

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The Language of Things: Understanding the World of Desirable Objects

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A brilliant exposé of the interaction between art, design, and commerce. In The Language of Things, the director of London's Design Museum charts our relationship with all things designed. With scintillating wit and an eye for the pleasures and dangers of rampant consumerism, Deyan Sudjic takes us from luxury car commercials to glossy advertisements for seasonal variations of the Prada purse to the hype surrounding the latest version of the iPhone, exploring how we are manipulated and seduced by our possessions. Who would've thought that it's the subtle visual similarity between the Volkswagen Golf GTI and the barrel of an automatic pistol that makes people want to get behind the wheel? And why is it that digital cameras in cell phones "click" even though they don't have a shutter? Sudjic's illuminating argument will resound with anyone who has ever been affected by how things look—lured, in other words, by the powerful siren call of design.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393240924

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The Language of Cities

By: Deyan Sudjic

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The Language of Cities

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The Edifice Complex

How the Rich and Powerful--and Their Architects--Shape the World

By: Deyan Sudjic

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How the Rich and Powerful--and Their Architects--Shape the World

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Stalin's Architect

Power and Survival in Moscow

By: Deyan Sudjic

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Stalin's Architect

Power and Survival in Moscow

By: Deyan Sudjic

The story of Boris Iofan—designer of the iconic but unbuilt Palace of the Soviets—whose buildings came to define the language of Soviet architecture. What would an architect do for the chance to build the tallest building in the world? What would he sacrifice to stay alive in the midst of Stalin’s murderous purges? This is the first major publication on the remarkable life and career of Boris Iofan (1891–1976), state architect to Joseph Stalin. Iofan’s story is an insight into the troubled relationship of all successful architects with power. A gifted designer and a committed Communist, Iofan became the Soviet Union’s most celebrated architect after Alexei Rykov, Lenin’s successor, persuaded him to return to Moscow from Rome with his aristocratic wife, Olga Sasso-Ruffo. Iofan was at the heart of political life in the Soviet Union and his work is key to understanding its official culture. When Stalin’s henchmen crushed the architectural avant-garde, it was Iofan who created the new national style, from the grand projects he realized—including the House on the Embankment, a megastructure of 505 homes for the Soviet elite—to even more ambitious unbuilt projects, in particular the Palace of the Soviets, a baroque Stalinist dream whose image was reproduced throughout the Soviet Union. His career took him to New York and Paris, and to the destroyed city of Stalingrad. He was a friend of Frank Lloyd Wright; a rival of Le Corbusier, Walter Gropius, and Erich Mendelsohn; and an enemy of Hitler’s architect Albert Speer, whose Nazi pavilion faced Iofan’s Soviet one at the Paris Expo in 1937. He kept silent when Stalin executed his friends, including Rykov; he also sacrificed his own talent by following the dictator’s instructions to the letter in creating the regime’s landmarks. Generously illustrated, with a wide range of previously unpublished material, this book is an exploration of architecture as an instrument of statecraft. It is an insight into the key moments of 20th-century politics and culture from a unique perspective, and the personal story of a remarkable individual who witnessed many of the most dramatic turning points of modern history.

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MIT Press

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0262369443

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9780262369442

Norman Foster

A Life in Architecture

By: Deyan Sudjic

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Norman Foster

A Life in Architecture

By: Deyan Sudjic

The author of The Language of Things “takes readers on an engrossing tour of Foster’s life” from childhood to the world-renowned buildings he designed (Publishers Weekly, starred review). A leading pioneer of high-tech architecture, Norman Foster has worked across the globe, collaborating with luminaries such as R. Buckminster Fuller to Steve Jobs. Born in Manchester, England, Foster grew up in poverty, the son of a machine painter. He served in the Royal Air Force and worked in a local architect’s office before returning to school for architecture. Foster went on to design the Reichstag, the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banks headquarters in London and China, the new Wembley stadium and the British Museum's new court. He is also responsible for the design of Beijing's new airport, the Rossiya tower in Moscow, one of the towers at Ground Zero in Manhattan, as well as numerous other buildings around the world. In this insightful biography, Deyan Sudjic charts Foster’s remarkable life and career.

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Abrams

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1468302760

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9781468302769

The 100 Mile City

By: Deyan Sudjic

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The 100 Mile City

By: Deyan Sudjic

Contributes to the debate about the future of the city. London, New York, Tokyo and Los Angeles are the ultimate 100-mile cities, set apart by an economic supremacy derived chiefly from their sheer size. Today's cities are standardized, monolithic, corporate urban sprawls - monuments to capitalism.

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0006545378

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The Lowry

A Landmark

By: Deyan Sudjic

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The Lowry

A Landmark

By: Deyan Sudjic

Deyan Sudjic, the well-known commentator on architecture and design, has interviewed the architect to discover the thinking behind this remarkable building.

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1902970101

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The Language of Things: Understanding the World of Desirable Objects

By: Deyan Sudjic

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The Language of Things

The Language of Things

B is for Bauhaus

B is for Bauhaus

Analogue

Analogue

The Language of Cities

The Language of Cities

The Edifice Complex

The Edifice Complex

B is for Bauhaus

B is for Bauhaus

The Edifice Complex

The Edifice Complex

The Language of Things: Understanding the World of Desirable Objects

The Language of Things: Understanding the World of Desirable Objects

The Language of Cities

The Language of Cities

The Edifice Complex

The Edifice Complex

Stalin's Architect

Stalin's Architect

Norman Foster

Norman Foster

The 100 Mile City

The 100 Mile City

The Lowry

The Lowry

The Language of Things: Understanding the World of Desirable Objects

The Language of Things: Understanding the World of Desirable Objects

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