"Architecture Culture 1943-1968" is an anthology of seventy-four international documents with critical commentary. Both a sourcebook and a companion history of architecture, the volume traces the evolution of modern architecture from the midst of the Second World War to the student revolts of May '68. Many of the selections are from hard-to-find sources, and some are translated...(展开全部)

In the discussion of architecture, there is a prevailing sentiment that, since 1968, cultural production in its traditional sense can no longer be understood to rise spontaneously, as a matter of social course, but must now be constructed through ever more self-conscious theoretical procedures. The development of interpretive modes of various stripes--post-structuralist, Marxia...(展开全部)

In the discussion of architecture, there is a prevailing sentiment that, since 1968, cultural production in its traditional sense can no longer be understood to rise spontaneously, as a matter of social course, but must now be constructed through ever more self-conscious theoretical procedures. The development of interpretive modes of various stripes--post-structuralist, Marxia...(展开全部)

This volume aims both to establish cinema as a vital force in Shanghai culture and to direct attention to early Chinese cinema, a crucial chapter in Chinese cultural history long neglected by Western scholars.

张英进，美国斯坦福大学比较文学博士，现任圣地亚哥加州大学文学系教授，上海交通大学人文学院访问讲席教授，曾任印第安纳大学教授。英文书籍包括专著《中国现代文学与电影中的城市》（1996，中文版2007）、《中国电影百科全书》（1998）、《影像中国》（2002，中文版2008）、《中国电影史》（2004）、《全球化中国的电影，空间与多地性》（2010），编辑论文集《中国比较文学论文集》（1998）、《民国时期的上海电影与城市文化》（1999，中文版2011）、《当代中国的另类电影文化》（2006）、《华语电影明星研究》（2010，中文版2011）、《中国电影指南》（即出）。另出版中文书籍《审视中国》（2006）、《电影的世纪末怀旧》（2006）、《多元中国》（2011）等，以及在中英文的学术期刊与论文集中发表的大量文章。

Beginning with agoraphobia and claustrophobia in the late nineteenth century, followed by shell shock and panic fear after World War I, phobias and anxiety came to be seen as the mental condition of modern life. They became incorporated into the media and arts, in particular the spatial arts of architecture, urbanism, and film. This "spatial warping" is now being reshaped by di...(展开全部)

Today's explosive developments in digital technology have also affected architecture and the urban landscape. The new possibilities opened up by digital simulation have led to an increasingly strategic approach to planning, an approach based on generating scenarios, which thus represents a radical departure from traditional planning. From the preliminary sketch all the way to t...(展开全部)

In the 1960s, the architects of Britain's Archigram group and Archigram magazine turned away from conventional architecture to propose cities that move and houses worn like suits of clothes. In drawings inspired by pop art and psychedelia, architecture floated away, tethered by wires, gantries, tubes, and trucks. In Archigram: Architecture without Architecture, Simon Sadler arg...(展开全部)

Hanatsubaki is a special, limited-edition magazine that Shiseido, the cosmetics giant, publishes monthly exclusively for its customers. Ever since it began in 1937, this highly sought-after magazine has taken the lead when it comes to Japanese art, fashion and culture, in both its influence and reach. The quality of its design and the content of its pages has inspired designer...(展开全部)

在流行口味不斷變異的日本，竟有像SUNTORY這樣一個大膽品牌，願意長期任用同一人代言單一商品広告，不曾改換，卻仍可奇蹟似地維持不衰，甚至常能時保如新。主掌「三得利烏龍茶」形象包裝將近三十年的葛西薫，可說是無人出之其右的一位設計大師。在日本広告業界蓬勃飛躍的黃金十年間，葛西薫積極跨足映画、装丁、空間及企業CI等設計領域，挑戰嘗試各種可能性。出生於北海道札幌的他，少年時期最大的興味就是研究機械與模型，直到高校時代第一次接觸字体芸術後，才一頭栽入平面設計的世界，並透過函授教育的方式展開自修。卒業後葛西薫上京擔任印刷勤務，算是正式地踏入這一行，當時為1968年──那是設計家葛西薫出発的元年。在接受紮實的基礎訓練後，葛西薰進入了由SUNTORY經營的広告会社SUN-AD，一路從底層員工幹到取締役副社長，經手過西武、SONY、NTT等企業形象広告，並曾替五百年...(展开全部)