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Assemblage 26 : A Critical Journal of Architecture and Design Culture (April, 1995) ** SIGNED ** (by contributor, NOEL SCHWERIN)
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MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1995
ISBN 10: 0262758857
ISBN 13: 9780262758857
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Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 112 pp. Glossy white wraps with title lettering in black at upper center front cover; black and white X-Ray photo of a human spine--that of Noel Schwerin--in a vertical column down right side front cover, between the title lettering and the number, in large black numerals, '26': black and white X-Ray of that spine and its body cavity illustrate the entire inside front cover, opposite a commentary about Noel Schwerin's medical history and exhibition of her personal X-Rays installed as an exhibition in a corridor at Massachusetts General Hospital in 1993; Rear cover also features an X-Ray of Noel Schwerin's. JOURNAL ISSUE Contents: "Computer Animisms (Two Designs for the Cardiff Bay Opera House)" First, by Gregg Lynn, Second by Jesse Reiser and Nanako Umemoto; John Biln, "Perverse Coupling"; NOEL SCHWERIN, "X-Ray Visions"; Fares el-Dahdah, "The Josephine Baker House: For Loo's Pleasure"; Stephen Atkinson, "The Josephine Baker House: A Sequential Reconstruction"; Karen Bermann and Jeanine Centuori, "The Aftrican Burial Ground Memorial: Walking Among African Graves, Speaking Through the Ground"; James D. Herbert, "The View of the Trocadero: The Real Subject of the Exposition International, Paris, 1937." FROM "Bloodlines" website: "About the filmmaker and Crew: Writer/Producer/Director Noel Schwerin has been making documentaries for 20 years. Her two-hour PBS special, "A Question of Genes," won numerous awards, including the first-prize CLARION Award from the Association of Women in Communications, the CINE Gold Eagle and a special citation in the Corporation for Public Broadcasting's "Public Broadcasting's Services to Minorities and Other Groups." Schwerin wrote, produced and directed the PBS documentary, "Just Passing Through," and, at NOVA where she worked for six years, co-directed "Yellowstone's Burning Question," and worked on such award-winning films as "So You Want to Be a Doctor?," "The Big Spill," "Freud Under Analysis" and the series "The Secret of Life." A graduate of Yale University, Schwerin has also worked for the Carnegie Corporation, ABC and CBS News and a number of independent production companies. Schwerin has lectured about genetics and ethics at Stanford University Medical School and at programs like University of California, Berkeley's Issues in Health and Medicine Program." Small bump to top right corner (NOT the text block), with soft, nugatory wave there; tiny, trivial spot stain just above '26'; two 1/2" segments of nugatory cursive indents to cover below title lettering (someone has written on paper placed over cover). Tight binding (NO creases); corners sharp but for top right; Clean text. Journal issue looks UNREAD, opened just for the signature of Noel Schwerin and signing date, '7 / 15 / 96'. Collectible. Seller Inventory # 002199
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