{"title":"Alla Vronskaya","description":"\u003cp\u003eAlla Vronskaya's work offers a captivating exploration of the intersections between environment and human creativity. With a keen eye for detail and poetic insight, her writing delves into how spaces shape our experiences and perceptions, inviting readers to reconsider the familiar through a fresh, thoughtful lens.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRooted in \u003cem\u003eArts \u0026amp; Culture\u003c\/em\u003e, her books such as \u003cstrong\u003eArchitecture of Life\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003eDeserts Are Not Empty\u003c\/strong\u003e blend evocative description with cultural reflection, making them essential reading for those intrigued by the subtle layers that define place and identity.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"architecture-of-life-by-alla-vronskaya-9781517912277","title":"Architecture of Life","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eExplores how Soviet architects reimagined the built environment through the principles of the human sciences\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDuring the 1920s and 1930s, proponents of Soviet architecture looked to various principles within the human sciences in their efforts to formulate a methodological and theoretical basis for their modernist project. \u003cem\u003eArchitecture of Life\u003c\/em\u003e delves into the foundations of this transdisciplinary and transnational endeavour, analysing many facets of their radical approach and situating it within the context of other modernist movements that were developing concurrently across the globe.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eExamining the theories advanced by El Lissitzky, Moisei Ginzburg, and Nikolay Ladovsky, as well as those of their lesser-known colleagues, this illuminating study demonstrates how Soviet architects of the interwar period sought to mitigate Fordist production methods with other, ostensibly more human-oriented approaches that drew on the biological and psychological sciences. Envisioning the built environment as innately connected to social evolution, their methods incorporated aspects of psychoanalysis, personality theory, and studies in spatial perception, all of which were integrated into an ideology that grounded functional design firmly within the attributes of the individual.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA comprehensive overview of the ideals that permeated its expanded project, \u003cem\u003eArchitecture of Life\u003c\/em\u003e explicates the underlying impulses that motivated Soviet modernism, highlighting the deep interconnections among the ways in which it viewed all aspects of life, both natural and manufactured.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"NewSouth Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47470056997100,"sku":"9781517912277","price":74.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781517912277-architecture-of-life.jpg?v=1775209964"},{"product_id":"deserts-are-not-empty-by-asaiel-al-saeed-9781941332740","title":"Deserts Are Not Empty","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eColonial and imperial powers have often portrayed arid lands as \"empty\" spaces ready to be occupied, exploited, extracted, and polluted. Despite the undeniable presence of human and non-human lives and forces in desert territories, the \"regime of emptiness\" has inhabited, and is still inhabiting, many imaginaries. \u003cem\u003eDeserts Are Not Empty\u003c\/em\u003e challenges this colonial tendency, questions its roots and ramifications, and remaps the representations, theories, histories, and stories of arid lands—which comprise approximately one-third of the Earth's land surface.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe volume brings together poems in original languages, conversations with collectives, and essays by scholars and professionals from the fields of architecture, architectural history and theory, curatorial studies, comparative literature, film studies, landscape architecture, and photography. These different approaches and diverse voices draw on a framework of decoloniality to unsettle and unlearn the desert, opening up possibilities to see, think, and imagine it otherwise.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith contributions from Saphiya Abu Al-Maati, Menna Agha, Asaiel Al Saeed, Aseel AlYaqoub, Yousef Awaad Hussein, Ariella Aïsha Azoulay, Danika Cooper, Brahim El Guabli, Timothy Hyde, Jill Jarvis, Bongani Kona, Dalal Musaed Alsayer, Observatoire des armements, Francisco E. Robles, Paulo Tavares, Alla Vronskaya, and XqSu.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47486019272940,"sku":"9781941332740","price":43.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/440f7709a2331cb3ae04ea5c9b143ee1.jpg?v=1775783825"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/alla-vronskaya.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}