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Hong Kong Inside Outside combines two major series of Wolf's work. For the first, Wolf has removed any trace of the horizon from the frame, capturing the relentless abstraction of the city’s residential high-rises while exploring the spatial experience of its inhabitants. For the second series, Wolf has juxtaposed the anonymity of these exteriors with interior portraits(...)
May 2010
Michael Wolf: Hong Kong inside outside
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Hong Kong Inside Outside combines two major series of Wolf's work. For the first, Wolf has removed any trace of the horizon from the frame, capturing the relentless abstraction of the city’s residential high-rises while exploring the spatial experience of its inhabitants. For the second series, Wolf has juxtaposed the anonymity of these exteriors with interior portraits of 100 individuals and families surrounded by all of their belongings in identical public housing spaces that measure 100 square feet. This study forms in part a typology that allows the viewer to study how individuals make the confined spaces their own.
The urban code of China
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To the Western visitor, China appears as an overwhelmingly mysterious realm of urban signs. In his architectural and urban field study, the author of this publication embarks on a journey through the boom towns of China in order to venture to the very heart of the Chinese city.
September 2010
The urban code of China
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To the Western visitor, China appears as an overwhelmingly mysterious realm of urban signs. In his architectural and urban field study, the author of this publication embarks on a journey through the boom towns of China in order to venture to the very heart of the Chinese city.
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“The culture of earth wall construction in Kyoto is often said to be unique in the world, drawing its particular aesthetic sense from Japanese tea culture.” With materials that are both primitive and universal, the processes involved in earthen construction have been replicated for millennia in many cultures the world over. This book highlights a distinctively Japanese(...)
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December 2012
In praise of mud: a guide to the earth walls of Tokyo
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“The culture of earth wall construction in Kyoto is often said to be unique in the world, drawing its particular aesthetic sense from Japanese tea culture.” With materials that are both primitive and universal, the processes involved in earthen construction have been replicated for millennia in many cultures the world over. This book highlights a distinctively Japanese understanding of the material’s basic nature. Beautifully designed, with overlapping texts and images, it includes detailed information on specific structures, plus numerous photos that highlight many typical earth walls located throughout Kyoto.
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Cities without ground
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Hong Kong is a city without ground. This is true both physically (built on steep slopes, the city has no ground plane) and culturally (there is no concept of ground). Density obliterates figure-ground in the city, and in turn re-defines public-private spatial relationships. Perception of distance and time is distorted through compact networks of pedestrian infrastructure,(...)
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December 2012
Cities without ground
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Hong Kong is a city without ground. This is true both physically (built on steep slopes, the city has no ground plane) and culturally (there is no concept of ground). Density obliterates figure-ground in the city, and in turn re-defines public-private spatial relationships. Perception of distance and time is distorted through compact networks of pedestrian infrastructure, public transport and natural topography in the urban landscape
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Urban China
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Currently there are more than 125 Chinese cities with a population exceeding one million. The unprecedented urban growth in China presents a crucial development for studies on globalization and urban transformation. This concise and engaging book examines the past trajectories, present conditions, and future prospects of Chinese urbanization, by investigating five key(...)
Urban China
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Currently there are more than 125 Chinese cities with a population exceeding one million. The unprecedented urban growth in China presents a crucial development for studies on globalization and urban transformation. This concise and engaging book examines the past trajectories, present conditions, and future prospects of Chinese urbanization, by investigating five key themes - governance, migration, landscape, inequality, and cultural economy. Based on a comprehensive evaluation of the literature and original research materials, Ren offers a critical account of the Chinese urban condition after the first decade of the twenty-first century.
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Japan House
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A double-volume compendium of homes by Japanese architects, this publication profiles more than 50 diverse residential projects by 29 architects and offices. Each example is presented through diverse, full-colour photographs and architectural drawings, plus technical data and an explanatory text. Brief biographies of the architects also accompany the projects, which(...)
Japan House
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A double-volume compendium of homes by Japanese architects, this publication profiles more than 50 diverse residential projects by 29 architects and offices. Each example is presented through diverse, full-colour photographs and architectural drawings, plus technical data and an explanatory text. Brief biographies of the architects also accompany the projects, which represent a wide spectrum of approaches, contexts and solutions involving both the contemporary Japanese urban environment and its important socio-cultural aspects.
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Authored by Toyo Ito, Kumiko Inui, Sou Fujimoto, Akihisa Hirata, Naoya Hatakeyama, and others, this book gives a comprehensive look at the process of catastrophe and response which followed the Great East Japan Earthquake, as presented in the Japan Pavilion Exhibition at the 13th Biennale of Architecture in Venice. By posing this question, an assertion that architecture(...)
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February 2013
Architecture. Possible here? home-for-all
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Authored by Toyo Ito, Kumiko Inui, Sou Fujimoto, Akihisa Hirata, Naoya Hatakeyama, and others, this book gives a comprehensive look at the process of catastrophe and response which followed the Great East Japan Earthquake, as presented in the Japan Pavilion Exhibition at the 13th Biennale of Architecture in Venice. By posing this question, an assertion that architecture can only recover its essential character under such conditions is made, enabling a re-examination of its essential meaning. Through texts, photographs, sketches and models, the book is a both a timeline of events and a reaffirmation of the energy, creativity and dedication of its participants.
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Histoires du Mékong,ce sont d'abord des histoires, celles des habitants du delta et de leurs territoires, de paysages sauvages ou urbains qui portent parfois encore les stigmates d'une époque glorieuse mais aussi tourmentée.C’est aussi une histoire, celle des auteurs de ce livre : durant trois semaines, aux mois de mars et avril, Florian Chavanon, et David Dibilio, ont(...)
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April 2013
Histoire du Mekong/ Mekong stories
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Histoires du Mékong,ce sont d'abord des histoires, celles des habitants du delta et de leurs territoires, de paysages sauvages ou urbains qui portent parfois encore les stigmates d'une époque glorieuse mais aussi tourmentée.C’est aussi une histoire, celle des auteurs de ce livre : durant trois semaines, aux mois de mars et avril, Florian Chavanon, et David Dibilio, ont remonté le Mékong depuis Saigon, explorant les neuf bras qui composent le delta au ViêtNam, jusqu’à Chau Doc puis Phnom Penh au Cambodge. Ils ont ensuite emprunté la route le long du Tonlé Sap pour finir à Siem Reap où se trouvent les majestueux temples d’Angkor. Au fil des textes et des photographies en couleurs et noir & blanc, Histoire)s( du Mékong nous montre toutes les facettes et les richesses de ce fleuve, entre histoire et modernité.
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In three decades of visits to China, photographer Lois Conner has witnessed firsthand the monumental physical transformation of the country. Nowhere is this change more dramatic than in the capital city of Beijing, the subject of Conner's new book Beijing: Contemporary and Imperial. Conner's black-and-white panoramas reveal an ancient city in thrall to change, where the(...)
March 2014
Beijing: contemporary and imperial
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In three decades of visits to China, photographer Lois Conner has witnessed firsthand the monumental physical transformation of the country. Nowhere is this change more dramatic than in the capital city of Beijing, the subject of Conner's new book Beijing: Contemporary and Imperial. Conner's black-and-white panoramas reveal an ancient city in thrall to change, where the lingering splendor of a dynastic past is cast into shadow by rising concrete and steel.
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Shanghai, c’est la ville mythique par excellence. Capable de se renouveler cycliquement, de se rebâtir continuellement, on pourrait la croire dans un présent absolu, comme absente à son histoire, récente ou non, comme sans mémoire. Mais ce qui était vrai au début des années 2000 ne l’est peut-être plus aujourd’hui. Ville à l’avant-garde, ville laboratoire, elle a connu(...)
Shangaï: l'ordinaire et l'exceptionnel
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Shanghai, c’est la ville mythique par excellence. Capable de se renouveler cycliquement, de se rebâtir continuellement, on pourrait la croire dans un présent absolu, comme absente à son histoire, récente ou non, comme sans mémoire. Mais ce qui était vrai au début des années 2000 ne l’est peut-être plus aujourd’hui. Ville à l’avant-garde, ville laboratoire, elle a connu des bouleversements majeurs. Au cours de cette traversée des années 1980 à nos jours, Françoise Ged nous guide dans cette ville où l’ordinaire et l’exceptionnel sans cesse se côtoient.
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