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Books by Justin Mcguirk






California Designing Freedom
by Brendan Mcgetrick, Justin Mcguirk
Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 2017 by Phaidon Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-7148-7423-4, ISBN: 0-7148-7423-X

"This book examines California's enormous impact on contemporary design, from the counterculture of the 1960s to the tech culture of Silicon Valley. On a more expansive level, California: Designing Freedom explores the idea that California has pioneered tools of personal liberation - from LSD to surfboards and iPhones. This ambitious survey brings together political posters and portable devices, but also looks beyond hardware to explore ..."






Moving to Mars(1st Edition)
Design for the Red Planet
by Lydia Kallipoliti, Justin Mcguirk, Kim Robinson, Fred Scharmen, Mike Ashley, Stephen Petranek, Daisy Ginsberg, Andrew Nahum, Eleanor Watson, Deyan Sudjic, Alex Newson
Hardcover, 220 Pages, Published 2019 by The Design Museum
ISBN-13: 978-1-872005-46-1, ISBN: 1-872005-46-2

"Designing humanity’s future on the Red Planet: the clothes, cutlery and habitats of everyday life on another worldMoving to Mars is the first book ever to thoroughly explore the crucial role that design will play in the collective endeavor to travel to and inhabit Mars.A comprehensive overview of both past and current developments in space travel and colonization, it begins with the evolution of the space suit and rocket technology; it ..."






Home Futures
Living in Yesterday's Tomorrow
by Eszter Steierhoffer, Justin Mcguirk, Pier Vittorio Aureli, Ben Highmore, Barbara Penner, Edwin Heathcote, Florian Idenburg, Emilio Ambasz, Adam Greenfield, Barry Curtis, Sarah Kember, Jing Liu, Deyan Sudjic, Sam Jacob, Anna Puigjaner, Jurgen Bey, Dan Hill, Christiane Hoegner, Thomas Lommée, Design Museum Publishing
Paperback, 308 Pages, Published 2019 by The Design Museum
ISBN-13: 978-1-872005-42-3, ISBN: 1-872005-42-X

"The past's visionary future of domestic design, from Alison and Peter Smithson to SuperstudioThe “home of the future” has long been a topic of fascination in popular culture and an intriguing prospect for designers, and the 20th century offered up countless visions of the future of domestic life, from the aspirational to the radical. Whether it was the dream of the fully mechanized home or the notion that technology might free us from t ..."






Radical Cities(1st Edition)
Across Latin America in Search of a New Architecture
by Justin Mcguirk
Paperback, 304 Pages, Published 2015 by Verso
ISBN-13: 978-1-78168-868-7, ISBN: 1-78168-868-0

"What makes the city of the future? How do you heal a divided city? In "Radical Cities, " Justin McGuirk travels across Latin America in search of the activist architects, maverick politicians and alternative communities already answering these questions. From Brazil to Venezuela, and from Mexico to Argentina, McGuirk discovers the people and ideas shaping the way cities are evolving. Ever since the mid twentieth century, when the dream ..."






Fear & Love(1st Edition)
Reactions to a Complex World: The Design Museum Opening Exhibition
by Justin Mcguirk, Gonzalo Herrero Delicado, Shepard Fairey, Milton Glaser
Paperback, 223 Pages, Published 2017 by Phaidon Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-7148-7254-4, ISBN: 0-7148-7254-7

"To accompany The Design Museum's opening exhibition, which explores the anxiety and optimism inherent in contemporary design Fear and Love, published to accompany the major exhibition that will open the Design Museum's highly anticipated new home in Kensington, London, examines the role of design in the twenty-first century. It proposes that, in a rapidly changing world, design is defined by both anxiety and optimism. Organized by five ..."






Radical Cities(1st Edition)
Across Latin America in Search of a New Architecture
by Justin Mcguirk
Hardcover, 288 Pages, Published 2014 by Verso
ISBN-13: 978-1-78168-280-7, ISBN: 1-78168-280-1

"What makes the city of the future? How do you heal a divided city? In Radical Cities, Justin McGuirk travels across Latin America in search of the activist architects, maverick politicians and alternative communities already answering these questions. From Brazil to Venezuela, and from Mexico to Argentina, McGuirk discovers the people and ideas shaping the way cities are evolving. Ever since the mid twentieth century, when the dream of ..."






Edge City
Driving the Periphery of Sao Paolo
by Justin Mcguirk
Paperback, 74 Pages, Published 2014 by Strelka Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-9929146-7-7, ISBN: 0-9929146-7-1

"Exploring the edge condition of São Paulo, Justin McGuirk investigates the different forms of dwelling available to its would-be citizens, and meets some of the people carving a life for themselves on the verge of this unforgiving metropolis."






Charlotte Perriand
The Modern Life (Hardback)
by Justin Mcguirk, Octavio Camargo, Glenn Adamson, István Jávor, András Kovác, Julia Morandeira, Lucia Udvardyova
Hardcover, 304 Pages, Published 2021 by Design Museum, United Kingdom, London
ISBN-13: 978-1-872005-52-2, ISBN: 1-872005-52-7

"An affordable, concise survey on the influential modernist designer's interiors, buildings, furniture and more, from a sawtooth ski resort to sculptural chaises longues From the onset of her career, Charlotte Perriand was a maverick who ..."






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The Future of Public Space: SOM Thinkers Series
by Ben Davis, Rachel Monroe, Jaron Lanier, China Mieville, Christopher Dewolf, Michelle Nijhuis, Sarah Fecht, Allison Arieff, Lawrence Weiner, Amy Gill, Justin Mcguirk, Terry Tempest Williams
Paperback, 144 Pages, Published 2018 by Metropolis Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-942884-16-3, ISBN: 1-942884-16-8

"Routine discussions on public space typically omit a gamut of possibilities ripe for critical discussion.This book, the latest in the SOM Thinkers series, aims to address these questions. Here, Rachel Monroe challenges American preconceptions of the wild, wide-open West by addressing issues of surveillance; the series’ first fictional piece, by China Miéville, covers an under-examined area of public space under the guise of detective fi ..."






Designed in the USSR(1st Edition)
1950-1989
by Moscow Design Museum, Vv.Aa, Justin Mcguirk, Alexandra Sankova
Hardcover, 240 Pages, Published 2018 by Phaidon Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-7148-7557-6, ISBN: 0-7148-7557-0

"Designed in the USSR: 1950-1989A fascinating glimpse into design behind the Iron Curtain, revealed through the products and graphics of everyday Soviet lifeThis captivating survey of Soviet design from 1950 to 1989 features more than 350 items from the Moscow Design Museum's unique collection. From children's toys, homewares, and fashion to posters, electronics, and space-race ephemera, each object reveals something of life in a planned ..."






Radical Cities
Across Latin America in Search of a New Architecture
by Justin Mcguirk
304 Pages, Published 2014 by Verso Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-78168-281-4, ISBN: 1-78168-281-X

"... withina defined structural framework.Itwas clever,adaptive anditallowed – just asPREVI had – people to participatein theend result. Moreover, whatwas unusual about this, as a social housing project, was that it had been initiated by Aravena himself, along with his then partner Andrés Iacobelli. Theylobbied the governmentto let themtry their model until finally theywere dispatched to that needy communityinthe north. Then, they h ..."






Made in URSS design et graphisme 1950-1989
From the collection of the design museum
by Justin Mcguirk, Design Museum Moscow, Phaidon Press Ltd
Hardcover, 240 Pages, Published 2018 by Phaidon Press Ltd.
ISBN-13: 978-0-7148-7745-7, ISBN: 0-7148-7745-X






Ai Weiwei
Making Sense [Hardcover] McGuirk, Justin; Weizman, Eyal; Weiwei, Ai; Marlow, Tim; Chu, Wang; Hajek, Rachel and Lovell, Julia
by Justin Mcguirk, Ai Weiwei, Tim Marlow, Wang Chu, Rachel Hajek, Julia Lovell, Eyal Weizman
Hardcover, Published 2023 by The Design Museum
ISBN-13: 978-1-872005-63-8, ISBN: 1-872005-63-2

"These collections draw from the artist's fascination with historical Chinese artifacts, placing their craftsmanship in dialogue with China's more recent history of demolition and urban development."






Ciudades radicales. Un viaje a la nueva arquitectura latinoamericana(1st Edition)
by Justin Mcguirk, Eva Cruz
Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2015 by Turner Publicaciones S.L.
ISBN-13: 978-84-16142-13-2, ISBN: 84-16142-13-0

"Este viaje por lugares extremos en América Latina empieza en México, a la sombra de una inmensa barriada de viviendas sociales de la década de 1960, cuando las colmenas de pisos baratos parecían la solución a la escasez de vivienda. Sigue visitando las villas miseria de Buenos Aires, los cerros de Caracas, las favelas de Río, las casas ampliables de Chile, las laderas de Medellín ahora salvadas por el Metrocable... y diversas iniciativa ..."






Home Futures
Living in Yesterday's Tomorrow : Exhibition Design Museum, London, U.K., November 7, 2018-March 24, 2019
by Design Museum ., Eszter Steierhoffer, Justin Mcguirk
303 Pages, Published 2018
ISBN-13: 979-10-94737-12-5, ISBN: 

"Affiches de cinéma, de théâtre, d'opéra, de cirque, de jazz, livres, dessins, témoignages rendent compte de l'incroyable vitalité du graphisme polonais dans un contexte économique et politique particulier."






Designing Everyday Life(1st Edition)
by Jan Boelen, Vera Sacchetti, Chantall Mouffe, Justin Mcguirk, Cvetka Pozar, Justin Mcguirck, Tamar Shafrir, Slvoj Žižek, David Crowley, Konstantin Grcic, Liesbeth Huybrechts, Thomas Lommée, Saša J. Machtig, Alice Rawsthorn
Paperback, 544 Pages, Published 2015 by Park Books
Illustrated
ISBN-13: 978-3-906027-67-8, ISBN: 3-906027-67-8

"Organized by Slovenia s Museum of Architecture and Design, the Biennial of Design (BIO) brings together over a period of six months more than one hundred designers and artists from around the world who, together, engage in large-scale collaborative design projects. One of the oldest design events in the world, the Biennial also stands apart for its focus on the capacity of design to solve problems affecting everyday life, as well as its ..."






15 x Years, 15 x Photographers, 15 x Chairs by Alexander Lervik(1st Edition)
by Hanna Nova Beatrice, Alexander Lervik, Justin Mcguirk, Ramiro Oblitas
Hardcover, 132 Pages, Published 2013 by Arvinius + Orfeus Publishing
Illustrated
ISBN-13: 978-91-87543-07-4, ISBN: 91-87543-07-9

"Alexander Lervik will soon celebrate 15 years as a designer, during which time he has launched an equal number of chairs. By asking 15 Swedish and internationally renowned photographers from the fields of art, fashion and music to each pick a chair to photograph, he has not only given them free reign to interpret a chair from his production - but also to question and push the boundaries of what product photography can be. This book docu ..."

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