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Quadrilat�re irr�gulier, bord� par l�oc�an Atlantique, la mer M�diterran�e et le Sahara, le Maroc frappe par la diversit� et le caract�re spectaculaire de ses paysages. Au fil des saisons, ils offrent la beaut� des sommets enneig�s et des plaines arides et rougeoyantes, les couleurs vibrantes des champs de roses, de lauriers, d�amandiers en fleurs(...)
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October 2007, Gen�ve
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Quadrilat�re irr�gulier, bord� par l�oc�an Atlantique, la mer M�diterran�e et le Sahara, le Maroc frappe par la diversit� et le caract�re spectaculaire de ses paysages. Au fil des saisons, ils offrent la beaut� des sommets enneig�s et des plaines arides et rougeoyantes, les couleurs vibrantes des champs de roses, de lauriers, d�amandiers en fleurs ou de menthe� Sans doute un des pays les plus photog�niques au monde.
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Brazil's Modern Architecture
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Brazil's architecture is strikingly distinct from Latin America as a whole and diverse in itself. Yet coverage of the architecture of twentieth-century Brazil is all too often confined to the work of one man (Oscar Niemeyer) or the buildings of two cities (Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo). In Brazil's Modern Architecture, a new generation of Brazilian cities and historians(...)
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October 2007, London, New York
Brazil's Modern Architecture
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Brazil's architecture is strikingly distinct from Latin America as a whole and diverse in itself. Yet coverage of the architecture of twentieth-century Brazil is all too often confined to the work of one man (Oscar Niemeyer) or the buildings of two cities (Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo). In Brazil's Modern Architecture, a new generation of Brazilian cities and historians sets the record straight, providing a truly comprehensive survey and analysis of twentieth-century Brazilian architecture.
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"India by Design : colonial history and cultural display" maps for the first time a series of historical events - from the Raj in the mid-nineteenth century up to the present day - through which India was made fashionable to Western audiences within the popular cultural arenas of the imperial metropole. Situated at the convergence of discussions in anthropology, art(...)
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November 2007, Berkeley, Los Angeles, London
India by design : colonial history and cultural display
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"India by Design : colonial history and cultural display" maps for the first time a series of historical events - from the Raj in the mid-nineteenth century up to the present day - through which India was made fashionable to Western audiences within the popular cultural arenas of the imperial metropole. Situated at the convergence of discussions in anthropology, art history, museum studies, and postcolonial criticism, this dynamic study investigates with vivid historical detail how Indian objects, bodies, images, and narratives circulated through metropolitan space and acquired meaning in an emergent nineteenth-century consumer economy. Through an examination of India as represented in department stores, museums, exhibitions, painting, and picture postcards of the era, the book carefully confronts the problems and politics of postcolonial display and offers an original and provocative account of the implications of colonial practices for visual production in our contemporary world.
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Only a few decades ago, Dubai was merely a tranquil Bedouin city. Today, the skyline of a boomtown rises from the desert. Reports about it are distinguished by superlatives. In particular, reports regardign new buildings in this country of little shadow overshadow anything that has been constructed before. Burj Al Arab, currently the world's largest luxury hotel, with its(...)
Dubai : Architecture & design
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Only a few decades ago, Dubai was merely a tranquil Bedouin city. Today, the skyline of a boomtown rises from the desert. Reports about it are distinguished by superlatives. In particular, reports regardign new buildings in this country of little shadow overshadow anything that has been constructed before. Burj Al Arab, currently the world's largest luxury hotel, with its also technically unique facade is just one example of these buildings. Palm Project or Hydropolis, both visionary, artificially created islands belong to the same category. As does the construction of the world's highest apartment tower. Dubai presents a kind of preview of the ultramodern - a trend that is also reflected in the design of various restaurants, hotels and label stores. Representing the most important gate to the Middle East, this city is primarily one thing: thoroghly international and with incredible power on its way to a new future. This is the theme of this book, with chosen objects and crucial information concerning them.
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February 2007
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"Africas: The Artist and the City" contains a double affirmation. It corroborates the existence of an "other" urban and artistic reality in Africa, and it asserts that these realities do not correspond with what stereotypes would have us see as Africa's sole reality. In the words of Pep Subiros, we should talk not of Africa but of Africas. Yet until now, there has been(...)
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January 1900, Barcelona
Africas : The artist and the city -a journey and an exhibition
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"Africas: The Artist and the City" contains a double affirmation. It corroborates the existence of an "other" urban and artistic reality in Africa, and it asserts that these realities do not correspond with what stereotypes would have us see as Africa's sole reality. In the words of Pep Subiros, we should talk not of Africa but of Africas. Yet until now, there has been little said about the Africas depicted here, about urban centers like Dakar, Cape Town, and Abidjan that are undergoing urbanization and growth at breakneck speed. And what of the work of artists based in these cities? "Africas: The Artist and the City" aims to illustrate a moment in which a fertile collision is taking place between tradition and modernity, between the local and the global--and to introduce the settings where this confluence is taking place.
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The african city : a history
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This unique book is comprehensive both in terms of time coverage, from before the Pharaohs to the present moment and in that it tries to consider cities from the entire continent, not just Sub-Saharan Africa. Apart from factual information and rich description material culled from many sources, it looks at many issues from why urban life emerged in the first place to how(...)
The african city : a history
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This unique book is comprehensive both in terms of time coverage, from before the Pharaohs to the present moment and in that it tries to consider cities from the entire continent, not just Sub-Saharan Africa. Apart from factual information and rich description material culled from many sources, it looks at many issues from why urban life emerged in the first place to how present-day African cities cope in difficult times. Instead of seeing towns and cities as somehow extraneous to the real Africa, it views them as an inherent part of developing Africa, indigenous, colonial, and post-colonial and emphasizes the extent to which the future of African society and African culture will likely be played out mostly in cities. The book is written to appeal to students of history but equally to geographers, planners, sociologists and development specialists interested in urban problems.
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November 2006, New York
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Une équipe d'architectes européens et de chercheurs maliens a pour la première fois étudié systématiquement les maisons et les villages dogon dans les années quatre-vingt-dix et recueilli à leur sujet une importante documentation. Cet ouvrage présente les résultats de ces recherches. Villages fortifiés, concessions, maisons des ancêtres ou maisons des(...)
L'architecture dogon : constructions en terre au Mali
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Une équipe d'architectes européens et de chercheurs maliens a pour la première fois étudié systématiquement les maisons et les villages dogon dans les années quatre-vingt-dix et recueilli à leur sujet une importante documentation. Cet ouvrage présente les résultats de ces recherches. Villages fortifiés, concessions, maisons des ancêtres ou maisons des hommes, greniers, habitations troglodytiques : toute l'architecture dogon témoigne d'une maîtrise technique étonnante et d'une remarquable adaptation aux exigences du terrain et du climat.
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April 1998, Paris
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Jean-Louis Nou a rendu un hommage inspiré au plus célèbre mausolée du monde, révélant des perspectives surprenantes et des angles inédits et, a dévoilé, comme nul ne l'avait encore fait, l'extraordinaire richesse décorative du Taj Mahal.
Taj Mahal
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Jean-Louis Nou a rendu un hommage inspiré au plus célèbre mausolée du monde, révélant des perspectives surprenantes et des angles inédits et, a dévoilé, comme nul ne l'avait encore fait, l'extraordinaire richesse décorative du Taj Mahal.
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February 1998, Paris
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This book traces the changes in architectural forms over the centuries, and concludes with an attempt to identify those enduring characteristics which run through Hispano-Islamic architecture.
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January 1993, New York
Moorish Architecture in Andalusia
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This book traces the changes in architectural forms over the centuries, and concludes with an attempt to identify those enduring characteristics which run through Hispano-Islamic architecture.
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January 1993, New York
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This fascinating book reveals the intricate legacy of art-nouveau-style architecture and design in Istanbul, its Islamic roots in that city, and the European and Turkish architects and theorists who influenced its controversial voice.
Istanbul 1900 : art nouveau architecture and interiors
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This fascinating book reveals the intricate legacy of art-nouveau-style architecture and design in Istanbul, its Islamic roots in that city, and the European and Turkish architects and theorists who influenced its controversial voice.
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October 1996, New York
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