This book presents objects from the 21st Century by Spanish designers of the 21st century. This publication is motivated by the conviction that the concept of the object, as such, has been left behind. The universe of objects, or perhaps we would have to say of "offjects," put forward here is that of the work of those generation that graduated after the Barcelona Olympics: from 1992 into these first few years of the 21st century. What seems clear is that the classic definition of "design" has been rendered obsolete. In the first place because an object's conceptual and narrative charge largely determines its material and physical configuration, and in second place, because many present-day pieces are not produced industrially - some because their designers chose not to, others because they seem not to fit into excessively conservative industrial set-ups. What does seem to be the case is that we are dealing with a new typology of designer, more open, more multidisciplinary and more remote from the traditional commercial circuit, which is not to say remote from the market.

Offjects: Designs and concepts for a new century

Humor & Entertainment

Guayabero, Oscar

Pop Culture

EDITORIAL ACTAR

Raymond Pettibon.: Tramas entrecruzadas

Raymond Pettibon

Present & Futures: Architecture in the Cities

De Solà-morales, Ignasi

This much-needed anthology, the accompanying volume to the exhibition publication Situationism, brings together key texts from this important movement in 20th century architectural theory, art, and politics. The writings included in Theory of the Derive, many published here in English for the first time, are predominantly critical texts, revealing Situationism's aims, focus, breadth of vision, and development. Begun in 1957 by various artists and writers representing avant-garde organizations, the Situationist International was, from its inception, a revolutionary cultural organization. Seeing its project as one of merging art and life in practice, it developed over the next decade, implementing incisive critiques of post-war consumer culture and proposing radical projects of urban utopian design. Against the oppressive, stifling conditions imposed in technocratic city planning, the Situationist International sought to develop new forms of collective action and agitation that would promote free use and transformation of the urban environment. Its tactics, slogans, and visions of an alternative OEnitary urbanism' were especially influential in the events of the May 1968 uprising in France and have since been important influences on radical currents in many countries.

Teoria de la deriva: i altres textos situacionistes

Politics & Social Sciences

Chetglov, I.

Constant

Jorn, A.

Social Sciences

Tres en el lugar (English and Spanish Edition)

Arts & Photography

Bru, Eduard

Architecture

Artwork by Inaki 8balos. Contributions by Juan Herreros.

Áreas de Impunidad

Reference

Herreros, Juan

Ábalos, Iñaki

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Escritos Colegiales (Spanish Edition)

Quetglas, Josep

Barcelona Metápolis (Spanish Edition)

Guallart, Vicente

Gausa, Manuel

This work takes a fresh look at the relationship between architecture and landscape. In today's cities, the architecture and the natural are no longer separate entities.

New Landscapes, New Territories (nuevos paisajes)

Xavier Costa

Eduard Bru

While the world wants to forget, Alfredo Jaar, one of the great moralists of our time, reminds us through images that expose the horrors in Rwanda.

Let There be Light.: The Rwanda Project: 1994-1998

David Levi Strauss

BEN OKRI

Individual Artists

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