The day I received my acceptance email from UCLA, I saw a photo on Instagram: my younger sister, Vivienne, kissing my boyfriend, Tomas, captioned "Kings Game Night." Tomas brushed it off—"I lost a game, so I had to kiss her." It wasn't the first time. A year ago, I'd watched my first love, Marco, kiss Vivienne too, and I fell apart so badly I bombed my SATs.Back then, Tomas had torn up his own NYU acceptance letter in front of me and said, "Delphine, I've liked you since we were ki...

Thought-provoking and emotionally moving, The Search for the Unicorn is a memoir recounting the months before and after the tragic suicide of the author’s partner. The work integrates his thoughts with her writings to tell the brief yet profound and multifaceted story of their life together—during life and after death.Readers will move back and forth in time, watching the young couple fall in love in university while also observing the darkest lows of hospitalization. The two narra...

There are a number of recent texts that draw on psychoanalytic theory as an interpretative approach for understanding architecture, or that use the formal and social logics of architecture for understanding the psyche. But there remains work to be done in bringing what largely amounts to a series of independent voices, into a discourse that is greater than the sum of its parts, in the way that, say, the architect Peter Eisenman was able to do with the architecture of deconstruction or that...

Profound pondering is a collection of excerpts, videos, and thought written by author and poet Eyan Bryant, but possessed by many. This collection details many of the mental attitudes often possessed in the current time, which serve to take away from the experience of an individual. This is a time of so-called mental health awareness, however many tools are not supplied in an applicable way to many who need help. These writings are of a philosophical nature, which allows the reader...

Profound pondering is a collection of excerpts, videos, and thought written by author and poet Eyan Bryant, but possessed by many. This collection details many of the mental attitudes often possessed in the current time, which serve to take away from the experience of an individual. This is a time of so-called mental health awareness, however many tools are not supplied in an applicable way to many who need help. These writings are of a philosophical nature, which allows the reader...

Profound pondering is a collection of excerpts, videos, and thought written by author and poet Eyan Bryant, but possessed by many. This collection details many of the mental attitudes often possessed in the current time, which serve to take away from the experience of an individual. This is a time of so-called mental health awareness, however many tools are not supplied in an applicable way to many who need help. These writings are of a philosophical nature, which allows the reader...

Profound pondering is a collection of excerpts, videos, and thought written by author and poet Eyan Bryant, but possessed by many. This collection details many of the mental attitudes often possessed in the current time, which serve to take away from the experience of an individual. This is a time of so-called mental health awareness, however many tools are not supplied in an applicable way to many who need help. These writings are of a philosophical nature, which allows the reader...

Profound pondering is a collection of excerpts, videos, and thought written by author and poet Eyan Bryant, but possessed by many. This collection details many of the mental attitudes often possessed in the current time, which serve to take away from the experience of an individual. This is a time of so-called mental health awareness, however many tools are not supplied in an applicable way to many who need help. These writings are of a philosophical nature, which allows the reader...

THE EYES OF THE SKINFirst published in 1996, The Eyes of the Skin has become a classic of architectural theory. It asks the far-reaching question why, when there are five senses, has one single sense – sight – become so predominant in architectural culture and design? With the ascendancy of the digital and the all-pervasive use of the image electronically, it is a subject that has become all the more pressing and topical since the first edition’s publicati...

The last few decades have witnessed an explosion in ideas and theories on art. Art itself has never been so topical, but much recent thinking remains inaccessible and difficult to use. This book assesses the work of those thinkers (including artists) who have had a major impact on making, criticizing and interpreting art since the 1960s. With entries by leading international experts, this book presents a concise, critical appraisal of thinkers and their ideas about art and its place in the...

Understand Existentialism breaks down a complex mode of thought into more manageable sections, enabling you to get to grips with the key concepts within the movement. Chart the origins and development of existentialism in a variety of disciplines and learn about significant thinkers from Sartre and De Beauvoir to Beckett and Camus. Whether you are a newcomer or more experienced student, this book will enhance your understanding of a brand of philosophy designed to give meaning and directio...

Conceptual art in the Western world is in crisis. That is the view of many people who are disillusioned with what they regard as its attention-seeking antics, where artists themselves have proudly proclaimed 'the death of art'. Why has art been on this road to destruction, and how did it get there? How does one make sense of the bewildering complexity of Conceptual art, and how does one extract meaning from its diverse and sometimes bizarre manifestations?This predicament needs exp...