A large collection of early issues of MIT Press' influential academic art and ideas journal "October," including the first issue released in 1976. The collection includes issues from 1976 to 1997. Editors over the years include Douglas Crimp, Yves-Alain Bois, Hal Foster, Joan Copjec, Silvia Kolbowski, Benjamin Buchloh, Denis Hollier and John Rajchman, with founding editors Rosalind Krauss and Annette Michelson remaining constant from issue 1 to 82. Authors and and topics are too long to list but the collection includes some of the most important thinkers and writers of.....
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The first four volumes of "Nexus: Architecture and Mathematics" a series of books exploring the relationship between the two topics derived from lectures and presentations at the Nexus conferences occurring in Florence, Mantua, and Ferrara, Italy and Óbidos, Portugal in 1996, 1998, 2000 and 2002. The Nexus Conferences continue with one scheduled in Torino for 2023. Topics and architects covered in the books are wide ranging, including geometry and Baroque architecture, Pompeii, the American Prairie house, musical proportions in relation to architectural ones, Rome's Pantheon, geometric ideas from African art.....
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