Paperback. AUDC's first book captures three moments in modern culture that offer glimpses into our increasingly perverse relationship to architecture, cities, and objects. "Ether" explores the Los Angeles telecom hotel, One Wilshire; a 39 story building of utter banality and complete mystery. "The Stimulus Progression" examines the strange story of the Muzak Corporation and the invention of a culture of horizontality. "Quartzsite, Arizona" visits a desert town of 3,000 people that swells to over 1 million residents every summer when modern nomads in Recreational Vehicles descend upon in it in hordes. This book is a lively mix of philosophy, photography, architectural drawings and models, and new media. Features three moments in modern culture that offer glimpses into our perverse relationship to architecture, cities, and objects. This book captures three moments: "Ether"; "The Stimulus Progression" and "Quartzsite, Arizona". It is a lively mix of philosophy, photography, architectural drawings and models, and media. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Title: Blue Monday (Paperback)
Publisher: ActarD Inc, Barcelona
Publication Date: 2008
Language: English
ISBN 10: 8496540537
ISBN 13: 9788496540538
Binding: Paperback
Condition: new

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Este libro capta tres momentos de la cultura moderna para ofrecer una visi�n de nuestra perversa relaci�n con la arquitectura, las ciudades y los objetos: Eter se ocupa del One Wilshire , un edificio absolutamente banal y misterioso; Progresi�n de est�mulos , examina la extra�a historia de la empresa Muzak y la invenci�n de la cultura de la horizontalidad; y Quartzsite visita un peque�o pueblo en el desierto de Arizona que recibe a cientos de miles de n�madas modernos cada verano.

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Kazys Varnelis is the Director of the Network Architecture Lab at the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation and a member of the founding faculty at the School of Architecture at the University of Limerick, Ireland.

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