The Studio X

Studio-X New York is one node of a global network that includes spaces in Beijing, Mumbai and Rio de Janeiro. To inaugurate its infrastructure, some of the city's finest resident talents were put to work: Barry Bergdoll, Karen Finley, Lars Fischer, Jürgen Mayer H., Jonas Mekas, Astra Taylor, Cathy Wilkerson, Mimi Zeiger and more.

Harvard Business School is the iconic business school. An admission ticket to HBS is a hot commodity and an HBS degree is highly respected in the business world. Written by an HBS grad and seasoned businesswoman, Harvard Confidential tells you why. It is a distillation of the most valuable and pragmatic but yet easiest to learn concepts taught at HBS. Distills the best of what HBS has to offer and unveils the secrets to success taught behind Harvard's ivied edifices Readers will learn what they teach without going to HBS; learn how to think like an HBS grad and gain a head start on what to expect from HBS Emily Chan graduated top of her engineering class at Stanford and has a MBA from Harvard Business School. She is a former consultant with BCG in Boston and Hong Kong, and independent consultant in Greater China. Based in Hong Kong, she is now Director of Pacific Merit Ltd, a family-owned direct investment company.

An exploration of the portrait art of Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, focusing on his studio practice and his training of students.

For 10 years, AIR Studios Montserrat produced many of the biggest hits that defined the 1980s. On September 17, 1989, it all ended in a flash of wind, rain, and fury. The AIR Studios Montserrat recording studio, owned by Sir George Martin (often referred to as the "Fifth Beatle"), operated from 1979 to 1989 on the small picturesque Caribbean island of Montserrat. Playing host to some of the biggest recording artists of the 1980s, this studio produced many of the hit songs integral to the musical fabric of that decade. The isolated tropical environment of the studio's location on Montserrat created a unique creative environment not found anywhere else in the world. To many of those who worked and recorded there, it is regarded as a very "special place", an experience that left an indelible imprint on their lives. Sadly, the storied history of AIR Studios Montserrat was suddenly cut short when the destructive forces of Hurricane Hugo battered the island in September of 1989. Over 30 years later, the remains of the studio lay in ruin as the island reclaims the land that was once creative fertile ground for artists such as The Police, Dire Straits, Paul McCartney, Duran Duran, and Elton John. The prolific musical output from AIR Studios Montserrat cemented its place in music history and world culture. The studio's sudden demise at the hands of Hurricane Hugo creates an emotional ending to an important artistic enclave that touched so many people around the world. The story of its creation, operation, and demise needs to be told so it can be appreciated by the millions of music fans whose lives were defined by the music recorded there.

This unique collection shows what happens when one university takes on the challenge of developing the scholarship of teaching and learning with a view to enhancing students' learning experiences.

DIRTY LITTLE SECRETS… Sex, drugs, rock stars, divas, d-bags and previously untold stories about some of the biggest acts in music and the crazy things that have happened behind the scenes. What happens when someone gets murdered in your hotel while you’re on tour? How do you get backstage at a big rock concert? How much drugs were people in the music business really doing in the 70’s and 80’s? Which superstar artist rented out a whole supermarket after hours? Rock legend has it that one newly-minted superstar’s career was killed by a single shot — an sniper’s bullet fired through the lens of a camera and broadcast to an eagerly awaiting public through the magic of music video and the television channel that had become the most powerful pop culture engine in modern history. Finally, the truth can be told about what really happened… and the story is pretty hilarious. From Mark Yoshimoto Nemcoff, author of the acclaimed bestseller Where’s My F*cking Latte? (And Other Stories About Being an Assistant in Hollywood) - featured on TV’s hit ACCESS HOLLYWOOD and E! Entertainment’s SECRET SOCIETIES OF HOLLYWOOD - comes a revealing look at the sometimes shocking, but always entertaining world of popular music, rock stars and the music business as told by the people who have lived it. SPINNING THE RECORD will take you behind-the-scenes in a world few get to see up close and personal like this. If you’ve always wanted a backstage pass, now’s your chance to hear about what really happens when the lights go down. Published as a series of blind items -- No names are named and all sources kept confidential -- but can you guess who’s who?

This book provides an urgent framework and collective reflection on understanding ways to reconsider and recast architecture within ideas and politics of the commons and practices of commoning. Architecture from Public to Commons opens with Institutions the dialogue with the scales of the commons, the limits of language for fluid identities, the practices and challenges of architecture as an institution, the design of objects with apparent shared value in Chile, land protocols that explore alternatives to profit-seeking of property in New York, and spirited conversations about revolting against architectural labor from Latin America. Continuing chapters explore, under Territories, the boundaries of Blackness across the Atlantic between Ethiopia and Atlanta, the underground woven network with conflicting grounds of ipê wood between Brazil and the US, water cycles in depleted territories in Chile, indigenous women-led territorial and human rights struggles in Guatemala, climate change accidental commons in California, and the active search for racial justice between design and place in New Orleans. Contributions range from theoretical and historical essays to current case studies of on-the-ground practices in the US, the Middle East, Europe, and Central and South America. Bringing together architects, scholars, artists, historians, sociologists, curators, and activists, this book instils an urgent framework and renewed set of tools to pivot from architecture’s traditional public to a politicized commons. It will greatly interest students, academics, and researchers in architecture, urban design, architectural theory, landscape architecture, political economy, and sociology.