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"Buddhist stupas in Asia : the shape of perfection" is a lavish exploration of one of the oldest and most persistent religious and architectural icons in the world. Transcending architecture and archaeology, the stupa fuses the physical with the spiritual into a living embodiment of Buddhist teachings. This beautifully illustrated, full-colour hardback explores the(...)
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"Buddhist stupas in Asia : the shape of perfection" is a lavish exploration of one of the oldest and most persistent religious and architectural icons in the world. Transcending architecture and archaeology, the stupa fuses the physical with the spiritual into a living embodiment of Buddhist teachings. This beautifully illustrated, full-colour hardback explores the(...)
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Buddhist stupas in Asia : the shape of perfection
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"Buddhist stupas in Asia : the shape of perfection" is a lavish exploration of one of the oldest and most persistent religious and architectural icons in the world. Transcending architecture and archaeology, the stupa fuses the physical with the spiritual into a living embodiment of Buddhist teachings. This beautifully illustrated, full-colour hardback explores the spread of stupa building across India and Asia, encapsulating the lasting appeal and allure of stupas to travellers, scholars and those interested in architecture and religion.
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"Buddhist stupas in Asia : the shape of perfection" is a lavish exploration of one of the oldest and most persistent religious and architectural icons in the world. Transcending architecture and archaeology, the stupa fuses the physical with the spiritual into a living embodiment of Buddhist teachings. This beautifully illustrated, full-colour hardback explores the spread of stupa building across India and Asia, encapsulating the lasting appeal and allure of stupas to travellers, scholars and those interested in architecture and religion.
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January 1900, Footscray
January 1900, Footscray
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This new guide by Jean Laur, former Director of Monuments at the site, explores the history and significance of Angkor. It is the first scholarly work to review the site of Angkor since the 1940s and provides a thoroughly documented yet accessible guide to the individual ruins. The author covers over one hundred temples, giving details of the construction methods and(...)
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This new guide by Jean Laur, former Director of Monuments at the site, explores the history and significance of Angkor. It is the first scholarly work to review the site of Angkor since the 1940s and provides a thoroughly documented yet accessible guide to the individual ruins. The author covers over one hundred temples, giving details of the construction methods and(...)
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Angkor : an illustrated guide to the monuments
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This new guide by Jean Laur, former Director of Monuments at the site, explores the history and significance of Angkor. It is the first scholarly work to review the site of Angkor since the 1940s and provides a thoroughly documented yet accessible guide to the individual ruins. The author covers over one hundred temples, giving details of the construction methods and materials used and describing their elaborate ornamentation. The work also includes numerous maps, plans, and details of the basreliefs and sculptures. It contains more general information on visiting Cambodia, and the history of the Khmer people and their art.
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This new guide by Jean Laur, former Director of Monuments at the site, explores the history and significance of Angkor. It is the first scholarly work to review the site of Angkor since the 1940s and provides a thoroughly documented yet accessible guide to the individual ruins. The author covers over one hundred temples, giving details of the construction methods and materials used and describing their elaborate ornamentation. The work also includes numerous maps, plans, and details of the basreliefs and sculptures. It contains more general information on visiting Cambodia, and the history of the Khmer people and their art.
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May 2002, Paris
May 2002, Paris
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This comprehensive guide to modern Brazilian architecture takes us on a tour of over 125 buildings and projects designed between 1928, the year of Gregori Warchavchik's historic Paulista House, and 1960, the year the capital of Brasilia was inaugurated. Works by thirty-three architects, including renowned figures such as Oscar Niemeyer and Paulo Mendes da Rocha and(...)
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This comprehensive guide to modern Brazilian architecture takes us on a tour of over 125 buildings and projects designed between 1928, the year of Gregori Warchavchik's historic Paulista House, and 1960, the year the capital of Brasilia was inaugurated. Works by thirty-three architects, including renowned figures such as Oscar Niemeyer and Paulo Mendes da Rocha and(...)
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When Brazil was modern : guide to architecture 1928-1960
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This comprehensive guide to modern Brazilian architecture takes us on a tour of over 125 buildings and projects designed between 1928, the year of Gregori Warchavchik's historic Paulista House, and 1960, the year the capital of Brasilia was inaugurated. Works by thirty-three architects, including renowned figures such as Oscar Niemeyer and Paulo Mendes da Rocha and lesser-known architects like Flavio de Carvalho and Lina Bo Bardi, are presented in this guide. Each entry provides photographs, drawings, a brief description, and information on visitor access. When Brazil was Modern is a complete survey of the country's modern architectural legacy, and not only fills a forty year-old bibliographic gap on the subject, but also sheds new light on the aesthetics and social underpinnings of Brazil's modern architecture. By including the unconventional and experimental, author Cavalcanti challenges the very definition of what was modern, in Brazil, the Americas, and elsewhere.
When Brazil was modern : guide to architecture 1928-1960
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This comprehensive guide to modern Brazilian architecture takes us on a tour of over 125 buildings and projects designed between 1928, the year of Gregori Warchavchik's historic Paulista House, and 1960, the year the capital of Brasilia was inaugurated. Works by thirty-three architects, including renowned figures such as Oscar Niemeyer and Paulo Mendes da Rocha and lesser-known architects like Flavio de Carvalho and Lina Bo Bardi, are presented in this guide. Each entry provides photographs, drawings, a brief description, and information on visitor access. When Brazil was Modern is a complete survey of the country's modern architectural legacy, and not only fills a forty year-old bibliographic gap on the subject, but also sheds new light on the aesthetics and social underpinnings of Brazil's modern architecture. By including the unconventional and experimental, author Cavalcanti challenges the very definition of what was modern, in Brazil, the Americas, and elsewhere.
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January 2003, New York
January 2003, New York
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The history of the book in Tibet involves more than literary trends and trade routes. Functioning as material, intellectual, and symbolic object, the book has been an instrumental tool in the construction of Tibetan power and authority, and its history opens a crucial window onto the cultural, intellectual, and economic life of an immensely influential Buddhist(...)
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The history of the book in Tibet involves more than literary trends and trade routes. Functioning as material, intellectual, and symbolic object, the book has been an instrumental tool in the construction of Tibetan power and authority, and its history opens a crucial window onto the cultural, intellectual, and economic life of an immensely influential Buddhist(...)
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The culture of the book in Tibet
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The history of the book in Tibet involves more than literary trends and trade routes. Functioning as material, intellectual, and symbolic object, the book has been an instrumental tool in the construction of Tibetan power and authority, and its history opens a crucial window onto the cultural, intellectual, and economic life of an immensely influential Buddhist society.Spanning the fourteenth to the eighteenth centuries, Kurtis R. Schaeffer envisions the scholars and hermits, madmen and ministers, kings and queens who produced Tibet's massive canons. He describes how Tibetan scholars edited and printed works of religion, literature, art, and science and what this indicates about the interrelation of material and cultural practices. The Tibetan book is at once the embodiment of the Buddha's voice, a principal means of education, a source of tradition and authority, an economic product, a finely crafted aesthetic object, a medium of Buddhist written culture, and a symbol of the religion itself.
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The history of the book in Tibet involves more than literary trends and trade routes. Functioning as material, intellectual, and symbolic object, the book has been an instrumental tool in the construction of Tibetan power and authority, and its history opens a crucial window onto the cultural, intellectual, and economic life of an immensely influential Buddhist society.Spanning the fourteenth to the eighteenth centuries, Kurtis R. Schaeffer envisions the scholars and hermits, madmen and ministers, kings and queens who produced Tibet's massive canons. He describes how Tibetan scholars edited and printed works of religion, literature, art, and science and what this indicates about the interrelation of material and cultural practices. The Tibetan book is at once the embodiment of the Buddha's voice, a principal means of education, a source of tradition and authority, an economic product, a finely crafted aesthetic object, a medium of Buddhist written culture, and a symbol of the religion itself.
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June 2009
June 2009
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"Walls of Algiers" examines the historical processes that transformed Ottoman Algiers, the 'Bulwark of Islam', into 'Alger la blanche', the colonial urban showpiece - and, after the outbreak of revolution in 1954 - counter-model of France's global empire. In this volume, the city of Algiers serves as a case study for the analysis of the proactive and reactive social,(...)
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"Walls of Algiers" examines the historical processes that transformed Ottoman Algiers, the 'Bulwark of Islam', into 'Alger la blanche', the colonial urban showpiece - and, after the outbreak of revolution in 1954 - counter-model of France's global empire. In this volume, the city of Algiers serves as a case study for the analysis of the proactive and reactive social,(...)
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Walls of Algiers: narratives of the city through text and image
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"Walls of Algiers" examines the historical processes that transformed Ottoman Algiers, the 'Bulwark of Islam', into 'Alger la blanche', the colonial urban showpiece - and, after the outbreak of revolution in 1954 - counter-model of France's global empire. In this volume, the city of Algiers serves as a case study for the analysis of the proactive and reactive social, political, technical, and artistic forces that generate a city's form. Visual sources - prints, photographs, paintings, architectural drawings, urban designs, and film - are treated as primary evidence that complements and even challenges textual documents.
Walls of Algiers: narratives of the city through text and image
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"Walls of Algiers" examines the historical processes that transformed Ottoman Algiers, the 'Bulwark of Islam', into 'Alger la blanche', the colonial urban showpiece - and, after the outbreak of revolution in 1954 - counter-model of France's global empire. In this volume, the city of Algiers serves as a case study for the analysis of the proactive and reactive social, political, technical, and artistic forces that generate a city's form. Visual sources - prints, photographs, paintings, architectural drawings, urban designs, and film - are treated as primary evidence that complements and even challenges textual documents.
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May 2009
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Haraji's travels as a professional photographer across Iran meant that he invariably had to ring a doorbell, sound a knocker, or pass through a hotel entrance to take up his accommodation for an evening. This fact drew his attention to the endless variety of doors that seemed to act as a boundary between the familiar and unfamiliar. The fruits of his investigation are(...)
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Haraji's travels as a professional photographer across Iran meant that he invariably had to ring a doorbell, sound a knocker, or pass through a hotel entrance to take up his accommodation for an evening. This fact drew his attention to the endless variety of doors that seemed to act as a boundary between the familiar and unfamiliar. The fruits of his investigation are(...)
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Iranian doors: a selection of photographs by Hadi Haraji
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Haraji's travels as a professional photographer across Iran meant that he invariably had to ring a doorbell, sound a knocker, or pass through a hotel entrance to take up his accommodation for an evening. This fact drew his attention to the endless variety of doors that seemed to act as a boundary between the familiar and unfamiliar. The fruits of his investigation are presented in this photographic essay which depicts approximately 100 doors, or elements thereof – each characteristic of the proprietor's poverty or opulence, some plain and simple, others decorated with exquisite motifs and designs.
Iranian doors: a selection of photographs by Hadi Haraji
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Haraji's travels as a professional photographer across Iran meant that he invariably had to ring a doorbell, sound a knocker, or pass through a hotel entrance to take up his accommodation for an evening. This fact drew his attention to the endless variety of doors that seemed to act as a boundary between the familiar and unfamiliar. The fruits of his investigation are presented in this photographic essay which depicts approximately 100 doors, or elements thereof – each characteristic of the proprietor's poverty or opulence, some plain and simple, others decorated with exquisite motifs and designs.
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January 2009, Tehran
January 2009, Tehran
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Les aztèques
Les aztèques
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Sacrifices humains, siège de Tenochtitlan, serpent à plumes : la civilisation aztèque a ses images d'Épinal, qui tendent à masquer des réussites plus subtiles. À la tête d'un grand empire politique et économique, mais aussi héritiers des cultures antérieures à la leur dont ils ont brillament fait la synthèse et parfois même amélioré les apports, les Aztèques ont su(...)
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Sacrifices humains, siège de Tenochtitlan, serpent à plumes : la civilisation aztèque a ses images d'Épinal, qui tendent à masquer des réussites plus subtiles. À la tête d'un grand empire politique et économique, mais aussi héritiers des cultures antérieures à la leur dont ils ont brillament fait la synthèse et parfois même amélioré les apports, les Aztèques ont su(...)
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Les aztèques
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Sacrifices humains, siège de Tenochtitlan, serpent à plumes : la civilisation aztèque a ses images d'Épinal, qui tendent à masquer des réussites plus subtiles. À la tête d'un grand empire politique et économique, mais aussi héritiers des cultures antérieures à la leur dont ils ont brillament fait la synthèse et parfois même amélioré les apports, les Aztèques ont su développer une pensée et une vision du monde profondément originales, qui trouvent des échos jusque dans la culture du Mexique contemporain.
Les aztèques
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Sacrifices humains, siège de Tenochtitlan, serpent à plumes : la civilisation aztèque a ses images d'Épinal, qui tendent à masquer des réussites plus subtiles. À la tête d'un grand empire politique et économique, mais aussi héritiers des cultures antérieures à la leur dont ils ont brillament fait la synthèse et parfois même amélioré les apports, les Aztèques ont su développer une pensée et une vision du monde profondément originales, qui trouvent des échos jusque dans la culture du Mexique contemporain.
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December 2008, Paris
December 2008, Paris
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The Japanese Architectural Scene in Japan 2008
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The Japanese Architectural Scene in Japan 2008
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January 2009, Tokyo
January 2009, Tokyo
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The Japan architect JA 72: winter 2009 yearbook 2008
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The Japanese Architectural Scene in Japan 2008
The Japan architect JA 72: winter 2009 yearbook 2008
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The Japanese Architectural Scene in Japan 2008
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January 2009, Tokyo
January 2009, Tokyo
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Aujourd'hui encore, l'or des Incas, les ruines mystérieuses de leurs cités et le mythe d'un empire juste et bienveillant nourrissent le rêve des voyageurs. Aux alentours de 1400 de notre ère, alors que la partie andine de l'Amérique du Sud est morcelée en de multiples royaumes et seigneuries, un petit peuple montagnard, les Incas, se lance dans une suite de conquêtes qui(...)
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Aujourd'hui encore, l'or des Incas, les ruines mystérieuses de leurs cités et le mythe d'un empire juste et bienveillant nourrissent le rêve des voyageurs. Aux alentours de 1400 de notre ère, alors que la partie andine de l'Amérique du Sud est morcelée en de multiples royaumes et seigneuries, un petit peuple montagnard, les Incas, se lance dans une suite de conquêtes qui(...)
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Les Incas
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Aujourd'hui encore, l'or des Incas, les ruines mystérieuses de leurs cités et le mythe d'un empire juste et bienveillant nourrissent le rêve des voyageurs. Aux alentours de 1400 de notre ère, alors que la partie andine de l'Amérique du Sud est morcelée en de multiples royaumes et seigneuries, un petit peuple montagnard, les Incas, se lance dans une suite de conquêtes qui l'amène à constituer rapidement le plus grand État jamais connu dans l'Amérique précolombienne. L'empire inca représente l'étape ultime du développement d'une civilisation très ancienne, celle du Pérou antique, que son isolement, jusqu'à la conquête espagnole, a rendue particulièrement originale.
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Aujourd'hui encore, l'or des Incas, les ruines mystérieuses de leurs cités et le mythe d'un empire juste et bienveillant nourrissent le rêve des voyageurs. Aux alentours de 1400 de notre ère, alors que la partie andine de l'Amérique du Sud est morcelée en de multiples royaumes et seigneuries, un petit peuple montagnard, les Incas, se lance dans une suite de conquêtes qui l'amène à constituer rapidement le plus grand État jamais connu dans l'Amérique précolombienne. L'empire inca représente l'étape ultime du développement d'une civilisation très ancienne, celle du Pérou antique, que son isolement, jusqu'à la conquête espagnole, a rendue particulièrement originale.
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October 1997, Paris
October 1997, Paris
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Arch Middle East
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Selected projects by Charles Correa, Balkrishna Doshi, Muzharul Islam, and Achyut Kanvinde.
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Selected projects by Charles Correa, Balkrishna Doshi, Muzharul Islam, and Achyut Kanvinde.
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Arch Middle East
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September 1999, New York
September 1999, New York
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An architecture of independence : the making of modern South Asia
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Selected projects by Charles Correa, Balkrishna Doshi, Muzharul Islam, and Achyut Kanvinde.
An architecture of independence : the making of modern South Asia
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Selected projects by Charles Correa, Balkrishna Doshi, Muzharul Islam, and Achyut Kanvinde.
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September 1999, New York
September 1999, New York
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