Atlas de l'inattendu
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Dans cette atlas, Travis Elborough poursuit son exploration mondiale des lieux inattendus, des bizarreries architecturales et autres curiosités de notre planète. À partir des cartes de Martin Brown et de documents photographiques, il cultive notre goût de l'insolite et du voyage. Des villages flottants du lac Titicaca aux arbres biscornus de Slope Point en(...)
Atlas de l'inattendu
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Dans cette atlas, Travis Elborough poursuit son exploration mondiale des lieux inattendus, des bizarreries architecturales et autres curiosités de notre planète. À partir des cartes de Martin Brown et de documents photographiques, il cultive notre goût de l'insolite et du voyage. Des villages flottants du lac Titicaca aux arbres biscornus de Slope Point en Nouvelle-Zélande, des hauteurs vertigineuses d'un monastère taoïste à l'écho souterrain d'une grotte aux coquillages, Travis Elborough nous raconte un monde insoupçonné.
Architectural Plans and Cartography
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Mazes have been a part of civilization for at least 4,000 years, and there are more being built now than ever before. What is it about these magical life-size puzzles that continues to intrigue us? The illustrations represent 60 real and imagined mazes from around the world, with a bird’s eye view of each maze. Each maze is also accompanied by a short history.
Architectural Plans and Cartography
September 2018
The maze: a labyrinthine compendium
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Mazes have been a part of civilization for at least 4,000 years, and there are more being built now than ever before. What is it about these magical life-size puzzles that continues to intrigue us? The illustrations represent 60 real and imagined mazes from around the world, with a bird’s eye view of each maze. Each maze is also accompanied by a short history.
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Subjective atlas of Kaunas
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Between 1919 and 1940, Kaunas served as Lithuania’s temporary capital, triggering a massive boom in construction that greatly increased its urban area. For this instalment of the Subjective Atlas series, a group of almost 40 creative residents mapped the contemporary identity of Kaunas through their personal interests, experiences, and domesticity, visualising the(...)
Subjective atlas of Kaunas
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Between 1919 and 1940, Kaunas served as Lithuania’s temporary capital, triggering a massive boom in construction that greatly increased its urban area. For this instalment of the Subjective Atlas series, a group of almost 40 creative residents mapped the contemporary identity of Kaunas through their personal interests, experiences, and domesticity, visualising the heritage and history of Lithuania’s second-largest city. The book highlights a surprising collection of urban, natural, and everyday spaces and artefacts, inviting readers to reflect on how this material and immaterial modernist heritage is perceived or observed, appreciated or disliked, ignored or associated with.
Architectural Plans and Cartography
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Des pays qui n'existent pas vraiment, la seule ville presque entièrement souterraine au monde, une chambre d'hôtel britannique devenue yougoslave l'espace d'une journée, une îleespagnole la moitié de l'année et française le reste du temps, une ville qui se résume à un gratte-ciel de 14 étages, la seule et unique voie ferrée installée à l'extérieur de son pays... Le monde(...)
Atlas des curiosités géograhiques
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Des pays qui n'existent pas vraiment, la seule ville presque entièrement souterraine au monde, une chambre d'hôtel britannique devenue yougoslave l'espace d'une journée, une îleespagnole la moitié de l'année et française le reste du temps, une ville qui se résume à un gratte-ciel de 14 étages, la seule et unique voie ferrée installée à l'extérieur de son pays... Le monde regorge de curiosités géographiques qui sont souvent à l'origine de tensions diplomatiques ou militaires. Bien souvent méconnues, elles n'en représentent pas moins autant d'étincelles susceptibles de mettre le feu aux poudres sur la scène internationale.
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In winter 2006, under the stewardship of philosopher Wolfgang Scheppe, a collective of students from the IUAV University in Venice fanned out to subject their city to a forensic structural mapping. Out of this fieldwork, conducted in the Situationist psychogeography tradition, there developed a three-year urban project that produced an enormous archive comprising tens of(...)
Migropolis: Venice, atlas of a global situation
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In winter 2006, under the stewardship of philosopher Wolfgang Scheppe, a collective of students from the IUAV University in Venice fanned out to subject their city to a forensic structural mapping. Out of this fieldwork, conducted in the Situationist psychogeography tradition, there developed a three-year urban project that produced an enormous archive comprising tens of thousands of photographs, case studies, movement profiles and statistic data. From this archive, Venice, sited as it is at the junction of three migration corridors, emerges as a classic instance of the increasingly globalized city in which a decimated inner-city population meets armies of tourists and a parallel economy supported by illegal immigrants. In a map that cleverly branches out into visual essays, written essays, data maps and interviews, the globalized territory of Venice is microscopically dissected and defined as an urban metaphor, the city becoming an “atlas of a global situation.”
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October 2009
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Cartographies of time
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This book is the first comprehensive history of graphic representations of time in Europe and the United States from 1450 to the present. The authors have crafted a lively history featuring fanciful characters and unexpected twists and turns. From medieval manuscripts to websites, this book features a wide variety of timelines that in their own unique ways—curving,(...)
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March 2010
Cartographies of time
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This book is the first comprehensive history of graphic representations of time in Europe and the United States from 1450 to the present. The authors have crafted a lively history featuring fanciful characters and unexpected twists and turns. From medieval manuscripts to websites, this book features a wide variety of timelines that in their own unique ways—curving, crossing, branching—defy conventional thinking about the form. A fifty-four-foot-long timeline from 1753 is mounted on a scroll and encased in a protective box. Another timeline uses the different parts of the human body to show the genealogies of Jesus Christ and the rulers of Saxony.
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London: a history in maps
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Over the past two thousand years London has developed from a small town into one of the world's largest and most dynamic cities. This book charts that growth and the city's transformation through hundreds of maps culled from the collection of the British Library's Map Library. Including official documents, individual endeavors, hand-drawn renditions, and technologically(...)
London: a history in maps
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Over the past two thousand years London has developed from a small town into one of the world's largest and most dynamic cities. This book charts that growth and the city's transformation through hundreds of maps culled from the collection of the British Library's Map Library. Including official documents, individual endeavors, hand-drawn renditions, and technologically advanced replicas, these maps represent a variety of perspectives. Utilitarian maps show the city as it is and serve to elucidate its inner workings, while carefully wrought plans show the city as it was envisioned. This book reveals the inside story of the creation, growth, and change of London.
Architectural Plans and Cartography
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Les illustrations de cet ouvrage entraînent les lecteurs du Moyen Âge au XIXe siècle, sur les traces des bâtisseurs, architectes, décorateurs, utopistes ou simples témoins d'un passé dont ne subsistent parfois que des ruines. Ils ont pour noms Villard de Honnecourt, Jacques Androuet du Cerceau, Etienne Dupérac, Palladio, le Bernin, Borromini, Viollet-le-Duc, entre autres.
Dessins d'architecture, du Moyen-Âge au XIXe siècle
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Les illustrations de cet ouvrage entraînent les lecteurs du Moyen Âge au XIXe siècle, sur les traces des bâtisseurs, architectes, décorateurs, utopistes ou simples témoins d'un passé dont ne subsistent parfois que des ruines. Ils ont pour noms Villard de Honnecourt, Jacques Androuet du Cerceau, Etienne Dupérac, Palladio, le Bernin, Borromini, Viollet-le-Duc, entre autres.
Architectural Plans and Cartography
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The maps in this book are drawn with satellites, assembled with pixels radioed from outer space, and constructed from statistics; they record situations of intense conflict and express fundamental transformations in our ways of seeing and of experiencing space. These maps are built with GPS, remote sensing satellites,or GIS: digital spatial hardware and software designed(...)
Close up at a distance: mapping, technology and politics
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The maps in this book are drawn with satellites, assembled with pixels radioed from outer space, and constructed from statistics; they record situations of intense conflict and express fundamental transformations in our ways of seeing and of experiencing space. These maps are built with GPS, remote sensing satellites,or GIS: digital spatial hardware and software designed for such military and governmental uses as reconnaissance, secrecy, monitoring, ballistics, the census, and national security. Rather than shying away from the politics and complexities of their intended uses, Laura Kurgan attempts to illuminate them. Poised at the intersection of art, architecture, activism, and geography, her analysis uncovers the implicit biases of the new views, the means of recording information they present, and the new spaces they have opened up.
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Atlas of cities
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More than half the world's population lives in cities, and that proportion is expected to rise to three-quarters by 2050. Urbanization is a global phenomenon, but the way cities are developing, the experience of city life, and the prospects for the future of cities vary widely from region to region. The Atlas of Cities presents a unique taxonomy of cities that looks at(...)
Atlas of cities
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More than half the world's population lives in cities, and that proportion is expected to rise to three-quarters by 2050. Urbanization is a global phenomenon, but the way cities are developing, the experience of city life, and the prospects for the future of cities vary widely from region to region. The Atlas of Cities presents a unique taxonomy of cities that looks at different aspects of their physical, economic, social, and political structures; their interactions with each other and with their hinterlands; the challenges and opportunities they present; and where cities might be going in the future.
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