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In 1856, the English photographer Francis Frith set out on the first of three tours of Egypt and the Holy Lands. Traveling up the Nile and then on to the Sinai, Palestine, Syria, and Lebanon, Frith systematically crafted exquisite pictures of ruins, landscapes, and legendary sites. He then published his views in England and America in a variety of formats, becoming(...)
January 2004, Princeton
Francis Frith in Egypt and Palestine : a Victorian photographer abroad
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In 1856, the English photographer Francis Frith set out on the first of three tours of Egypt and the Holy Lands. Traveling up the Nile and then on to the Sinai, Palestine, Syria, and Lebanon, Frith systematically crafted exquisite pictures of ruins, landscapes, and legendary sites. He then published his views in England and America in a variety of formats, becoming something of a celebrity in photographic circles. This book, the first to place Frith's Egyptian and Levantine images in cultural context, reveals the distinct meanings these ostensibly "topographic" pictures held for the photographer and his Victorian audience. A Quaker by birth and an entrepreneur by nature, Frith brought to his photographic projects a sense of mission: to revive and confirm the stories of the Bible, while offering the region to armchair travelers as a seamless Oriental milieu of Romantic reverie. Francis Frith in Egypt and Palestine narrates the political, intellectual, and social concerns that make Frith representative of England's encounter with the East in the nineteenth century. Historian of photography Douglas R. Nickel brings a sophisticated interdisciplinary approach to bear on the subject in order to expose the complexity of Frith's image-making, setting the photographs against a Victorian backdrop of religious debate, imperialist thought, Romantic philosophy, and Pre-Raphaelite aesthetics.
Daniel Buren
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This volume collects recent works by the French conceptualist known for his site specific installations involving stripes--on land, air and sea. From New York's Guggenheim Museum to Beijing's Temple of Heaven, the Venice Architecture Biennale and the gardens of Versaille, Buren's interventions create amazing complex appropriated spatial structures.
March 2008, London
Daniel Buren
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This volume collects recent works by the French conceptualist known for his site specific installations involving stripes--on land, air and sea. From New York's Guggenheim Museum to Beijing's Temple of Heaven, the Venice Architecture Biennale and the gardens of Versaille, Buren's interventions create amazing complex appropriated spatial structures.
Lights out for the territory
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Walking the streets of London Iain Sinclair traces nine routes across the territory of the capital. Connecting people and places, redrawing boundaries both ancient and modern, reading obscure signs and divining hidden patterns, Sinclair creates a fluid snapshot of the city. In "Lights Out for the Territory" he gives us a daring, provocative, enlightening, disturbing and(...)
October 2003, London, New York
Lights out for the territory
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Walking the streets of London Iain Sinclair traces nine routes across the territory of the capital. Connecting people and places, redrawing boundaries both ancient and modern, reading obscure signs and divining hidden patterns, Sinclair creates a fluid snapshot of the city. In "Lights Out for the Territory" he gives us a daring, provocative, enlightening, disturbing and utterly unique picture of modern urban life. And in the process he reveals the dark underbelly of a London many of us did not know existed.
Great kid's spaces
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This clear and concise compendium of guidelines, expert advice and proven solutions for designing play spaces includes all the phases in the design process: from the preliminary layouts to the smallest details of each element. The varying demands or preferences inherent in designing for a wide range of users have been broken down by age, with additional focus on children(...)
Great kid's spaces
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This clear and concise compendium of guidelines, expert advice and proven solutions for designing play spaces includes all the phases in the design process: from the preliminary layouts to the smallest details of each element. The varying demands or preferences inherent in designing for a wide range of users have been broken down by age, with additional focus on children with reduced mobility or special needs. Explanatory texts are further clarified by simple and precise illustrations; and the measurements, materials and functions of each piece of play equipment are explained in detail, with particular emphasis given to safety issues and accessibility.
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La vie après le pétrole
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Alors que les quantités mondiales de pétrole consommées sont de plus en plus importantes, celles qui sont découvertes le sont de moins en moins: actuellement, nous découvrons chaque année deux à trois fois moins de pétrole que nous en consommons. Cette tendance ne peut se prolonger indéfiniment... Et si le pétrole a déjà connu plusieurs crises, il semble que celle qui(...)
La vie après le pétrole
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Alors que les quantités mondiales de pétrole consommées sont de plus en plus importantes, celles qui sont découvertes le sont de moins en moins: actuellement, nous découvrons chaque année deux à trois fois moins de pétrole que nous en consommons. Cette tendance ne peut se prolonger indéfiniment... Et si le pétrole a déjà connu plusieurs crises, il semble que celle qui nous attend soit d'une ampleur inédite et arrive bien plus tôt que nous ne l'imaginons généralement... Comment la situation peut-elle évoluer? Quand risquons-nous d'être confrontés à une pénurie? Qu'est-ce que le pic de production du pétrole? Et surtout, comment et avec quelles énergies alternatives appréhender, anticiper et vivre cet "après-pétrole"? Voici les questions auxquelles La vie après le pétrole tente de répondre de manière didactique et accessible grâce notamment à des graphiques, des tableaux commentés et des encadrés.
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On photography
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"On Photography" first appeared in 1977 and is described by its author as "a progress of essays about the meaning and career of photographs." It begins with the famous "In Plato’s Cave" essay, then offers five other prose meditations on this topic, and concludes with a fascinating and far-reaching "Brief Anthology of Quotations."
January 2001, New York
On photography
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"On Photography" first appeared in 1977 and is described by its author as "a progress of essays about the meaning and career of photographs." It begins with the famous "In Plato’s Cave" essay, then offers five other prose meditations on this topic, and concludes with a fascinating and far-reaching "Brief Anthology of Quotations."
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Housing has become a key concern in most parts of today’s world, putting social housing again at the centre of public debate. However, it is not clear what the "social" in social housing actually means. This book sets out to increase our knowledge about social housing and stimulate an ongoing discussion about what the social refers to (or is meant to refer to). The book(...)
May 2023
The social dimension of social housing
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Housing has become a key concern in most parts of today’s world, putting social housing again at the centre of public debate. However, it is not clear what the "social" in social housing actually means. This book sets out to increase our knowledge about social housing and stimulate an ongoing discussion about what the social refers to (or is meant to refer to). The book invites you on a journey across continents and concepts, offering up a kaleidoscope of social, political, and cultural realities.
Marianne Mueller: Stairs etc
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Over the years Marianne Mueller has accumulated an archive of photographs taken both at home and on extended journeys. Completely nonhierarchical, the pictures capture whatever strikes the artist’s fancy. In STAIRS ETC, her archive has supplied the copious images of the designed and built world around us. Laid out in double-page blocks and organized by the simplest of(...)
Marianne Mueller: Stairs etc
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Over the years Marianne Mueller has accumulated an archive of photographs taken both at home and on extended journeys. Completely nonhierarchical, the pictures capture whatever strikes the artist’s fancy. In STAIRS ETC, her archive has supplied the copious images of the designed and built world around us. Laid out in double-page blocks and organized by the simplest of categories (from chairs and tables to fountains and pools), the photographs emulate a pseudo-encyclopedic overview of ordinary objects captured with eloquent nonchalance and a discriminating eye for what we tend to write off as irrelevant and insignificant. Mueller invites us on a journey as absurdly comical as it is poetic, where we find ourselves meandering through the miracles and madness of a universe that is chock-full of things.
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Contemporary artist Roni Horn first visited Iceland in 1975 at the age of nineteen, and since then, the island’s treeless expanse has had an enduring hold on Horn’s creative work. Through a series of remarkable and poetic reflections, vignettes, episodes, and illustrated essays,this publication distills the artist’s lifelong experience of Iceland’s natural environment.(...)
Island zombie: Iceland writings
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Contemporary artist Roni Horn first visited Iceland in 1975 at the age of nineteen, and since then, the island’s treeless expanse has had an enduring hold on Horn’s creative work. Through a series of remarkable and poetic reflections, vignettes, episodes, and illustrated essays,this publication distills the artist’s lifelong experience of Iceland’s natural environment. Together, these pieces offer an unforgettable exploration of the indefinable and inescapable force of remote, elemental places, and provide a sustained look at how an island and its atmosphere can take possession of the innermost self.
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This volume proposes radical ideas for the future of sustainability in the construction and architectural industries. It asks how, rather than continuing to erect new buildings, we can instead harness the construction industry to make a positive contribution to the environment.
March 2023
Building with a positive footprint
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This volume proposes radical ideas for the future of sustainability in the construction and architectural industries. It asks how, rather than continuing to erect new buildings, we can instead harness the construction industry to make a positive contribution to the environment.