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• Title:The sniper's log : architectural chronicles of Generation X / Alejandro Zaera-Polo.
  
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• Author/Creator:Zaera, Alejandro.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Keeney, Gavin, editor.
  
• Published/Created:Barcelona ; New York : Actar, ©2012.
  

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  • Location:MAA LIBRARY (IKB) stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: NA2500 .Z34 2012
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Architecture--Aesthetics.
  Architecture--Philosophy.
  Architectural design.
  
• Description:592 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
  
• Summary:This compilation of texts written since 1986 reveals a parallel activity to Alejandro Zaera-Polo's professional life. The book is like a sniper's log, a register of events for the purpose of accumulating experience for future missions, be it academic or professional, trying to identify tendencies and to assess performances, rather than to establish truth. Written for different media and formats (professional magazines, speaking engagements, and academic presentations), the texts are thread together as part of a biographical experience that reveals that theory is here primarily instrumental and seeks efficiency rather than truth. We do not theorise because we want to understand the deep truths of the world, but because we need to organise the realm where we operate, understand how reality works and find an effective way to perform within it.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9788492861224 (pbk.)
  8492861223 (pbk.)
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: USA 1990: Survey of an Artificial Territory, Quaderns d'Arquitectura i Urbanisme, Barcelona, 1990
  Material Organisation of Advanced Capitalism, AD Monographs, London, 1994
  Frank O. Gehry. Still Life, El Croquis, Madrid, 1990
  OMA: Notes for a Topographical Survey, El Croquis, Madrid, 1992
  Herzog & de Meuron: Between the Face and the Landscape, El Croquis, Madrid, 1993
  Jean Nouvel: Intensifying the Real, El Croquis, Madrid, 1994
  Eisenman's Machine of Infinite Resistance, El Croquis, Madrid, 1997
  World Full of Holes, El Croquis, Madrid, 1998
  Alchemical Brothers: A Compact Material History of Herzog & de Meuron, Natural History, CCA, Montreal/Lars Müller Publishers, Zurich, 2001
  RGBGlobal, Installation at the Spanish Pavilion at the Architecture Venice Biennale, Venice, 2002
  In Memoriam: Cedric Price, AA Files, London, 2003
  Scientific Autobiography+post-Yss$ Postscript, A+U, Tokyo, 2002 and Harvard Design Magazine, Cambridge, 2004
  Generative Processes and New Material Agencies, Sampling of The Virtual in Architecture, Tokyo University Virtual Architecture Exhibition Catalogue, Tokyo, 1996; Generative Processes in The Journal of Architecture and Building Science, Tokyo, June 1997; The Computer as a Tool, AIJ magazine, Tokyo 1997; and Mind After Matter, Jyvaskyla Symposium, [ect.]
  Abstract Matters, Unpublished, 1999
  Message to the Engine Drivers. Quaderns d'Arquitectura i Urbanisme, Barcelona, 1999
  Back to the Hard Core, Studio Brief Columbia GSAPP, New York, 2001
  Material Grain of Geometry: A Conversation with Alejandro Zaera-Polo, Log, New York, 2004
  Methodological Proposal for the Staedelschule Frankfurt, Unpublished, 2001
  Berlage Menu: A new "productive" rather than "critical" paradigm, Arch+, Berlin, 2002
  Five Points for Now, British Pavilion at the Architecture Venice Biennale, Venice, 2002
  Processes, Materials, Prototypes... Symposium at UCLA, Los Angeles,
  AZP Crib Sheets Glossary, Symposium at UCLA, Los Angeles, 2002
  Mediating Between Ideas and Matters: Icons, Indexes, Diagrams, Drawings, and Graphs, AD Monographs, London, 2009
  Architectural Education in a Global World, International Architectural Education Summit, Tokyo, 2009
  Ecotectonics, Yale School of Architecture Studio, New Haven, 2010
  Localizing Networks: Physical Terminals for Web 2.0 Engines, Princeton School of Architecture Studio, New Jersey, 2011
  Theory of the Excuse, Harvard Design Magazine, Cambridge, 2012
  Forget Heisenberg. A Discussion on the Formless, Anybody Conference, Buenos Aires, 1996
  Virtual House, Any Magazine, New York, 1997
  New Platforms, Any-how Conference, Rotterdam, 1999
  Remix 2000, 2G, Barcelona, 2000
  Roller-coaster Construction, Verb Processing, Barcelona, 2001
  Species/Phylogenesis, Phylogenesis, Actar, Barcelona, 2003
  United We Stand (The Bundle Tower), Installation in the Graz Latent Utopias. Graz, 2001
  Grunge Olympics, Unpublished, London, 2004
  30 St. Mary's Axe: Form isn't Facile, Log, New York, 2004
  Hokusai Wave, aderns dArquitectura i Urbanisme, Barcelona/Volume, New York, 2005
  High-Rise Phylum 2007, Harvard Design Magazine, Cambridge 2007/The Endless City, London, 2008
  Patterns, Fabrics, Prototypes, Tessellations, AD Monographs, London, 2009
  Opportunity Conversation with Jeff Inaba, Volume, New York, 2008
  For an Ecology of High Metabolic Rate, A+U, Tokyo, 1997
  Disciplines, Hunch, Rotterdam, 2003
  Rethinking Representation, Hunch, Rotterdam, 2005
  Mediators, Hunch, Rotterdam, 2006
  Local Smart, Lecture series at the Berlage Institute, Rotterdam, 2006
  Architecture and Power, Hunch, Rotterdam, 2007
  Re-empowering Architecture, Berlage Institute's installation at the Architecture Venice Biennale, Venice, 2006
  Urban Age, El Pais, Madrid, 2007
  Politics of the Envelope, Log, New York, 2009 and Volume, New York, 2008.