Collection Restitutions

Making critical texts available that are likely to fuel the topicality of discussions, and translating crucial works in the field of transdisciplinary aesthetic research represent the main thread of the Restitutions collection.

Restitutions emphasizes the distance of analysis and, by grouping decisive articles and texts, will give readers special access to criticism in action.

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"Théorie et design à l'ère industrielle"
Reyner Banham

Price : 28 €
ISBN : 978-2-910385-35-4
French edition only

Published here for the first time in French, Theory and design in the First Machine Age is a major reference in the field of 20th century architectural criticism. Reyner Banham, who was a mordant critic and pop culture icon possessing a rather eccentric character, provides here us with a historical overview of architecture from an interdisci­plinary perspective in which he links design and the decorative arts with their social and political context...

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"DIVAGATIONS"
Michel Vernes

Price : 24,39 €
ISBN : 2-910385-17-5
French edition only

Michel Vernes' Ramblings are a generous guidebook full of information, anecdotes, and of a sketchy and infinite knowledge which lets us penetrate into history as if into a curiosity cabinet... Read More | Buy
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"LA PUBLICITE DU PRIVE"
Béatriz Colomina

Price : 27,44 €
ISBN : 2-910385-11-6
French edition only

Through the works of two major figures of the Modern Movement - Adolf Loos and Le Corbusier - Beatriz Colomina examines the architecture which only became modern with its confrontation with the mass media... Read more | Buy