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Form is the horizon of any human activity. Architecture is a discipline aiming at defining the form of buildings. ''Economy of Means : How architecture works'' aims at defining the good architectural form. Economy of means is its D.N.A. Beyond this, by questioning the economy of means both as an aesthetic category and as a conceptual tool, the book proposes to renew(...)
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Form is the horizon of any human activity. Architecture is a discipline aiming at defining the form of buildings. ''Economy of Means : How architecture works'' aims at defining the good architectural form. Economy of means is its D.N.A. Beyond this, by questioning the economy of means both as an aesthetic category and as a conceptual tool, the book proposes to renew(...)
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Economy of means: How architecture works
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Form is the horizon of any human activity. Architecture is a discipline aiming at defining the form of buildings. ''Economy of Means : How architecture works'' aims at defining the good architectural form. Economy of means is its D.N.A. Beyond this, by questioning the economy of means both as an aesthetic category and as a conceptual tool, the book proposes to renew architecture to face global warming and scarcity of resources from within the architecture discipline.
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Form is the horizon of any human activity. Architecture is a discipline aiming at defining the form of buildings. ''Economy of Means : How architecture works'' aims at defining the good architectural form. Economy of means is its D.N.A. Beyond this, by questioning the economy of means both as an aesthetic category and as a conceptual tool, the book proposes to renew architecture to face global warming and scarcity of resources from within the architecture discipline.
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October 2020
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Architectural Theory
Architectural Theory
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The four states of architecture described in this book - horizon, light, atmospheres, and ground - are derived from contemporary interpretations of matter, light, and the natural world. This book features fourteen of Hanrahan + Meyers' projects, each of which is aligned with one of these states. The projects range in scale from individual residences to galleries, museums,(...)
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The four states of architecture described in this book - horizon, light, atmospheres, and ground - are derived from contemporary interpretations of matter, light, and the natural world. This book features fourteen of Hanrahan + Meyers' projects, each of which is aligned with one of these states. The projects range in scale from individual residences to galleries, museums,(...)
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Architecture Monographs
Architecture Monographs
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June 2002, Chichester
June 2002, Chichester
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Hanrahan + Meyers Architects : the four states of architecture
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The four states of architecture described in this book - horizon, light, atmospheres, and ground - are derived from contemporary interpretations of matter, light, and the natural world. This book features fourteen of Hanrahan + Meyers' projects, each of which is aligned with one of these states. The projects range in scale from individual residences to galleries, museums, and buildings for the performing arts. The context of ideas in which they are set crosses the boundaries that typically divide architecture, art, science, and experience.
Hanrahan + Meyers Architects : the four states of architecture
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The four states of architecture described in this book - horizon, light, atmospheres, and ground - are derived from contemporary interpretations of matter, light, and the natural world. This book features fourteen of Hanrahan + Meyers' projects, each of which is aligned with one of these states. The projects range in scale from individual residences to galleries, museums, and buildings for the performing arts. The context of ideas in which they are set crosses the boundaries that typically divide architecture, art, science, and experience.
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June 2002, Chichester
June 2002, Chichester
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Architecture Monographs
Architecture Monographs
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Ashok Sinha is a New York-based photographer whose large scale landscape photographs picture uncommon perspectives. delegating the horizon in the bottommost third of the image, or as seen while photographing directly over the edge of a icebreaker ship or through the window of a transcontinental flight. While his interest in the beauty of the natural world endows a unique(...)
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Ashok Sinha is a New York-based photographer whose large scale landscape photographs picture uncommon perspectives. delegating the horizon in the bottommost third of the image, or as seen while photographing directly over the edge of a icebreaker ship or through the window of a transcontinental flight. While his interest in the beauty of the natural world endows a unique(...)
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Sinha. Gas & Glamour: Roadside architecture in Los Angeles
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Ashok Sinha is a New York-based photographer whose large scale landscape photographs picture uncommon perspectives. delegating the horizon in the bottommost third of the image, or as seen while photographing directly over the edge of a icebreaker ship or through the window of a transcontinental flight. While his interest in the beauty of the natural world endows a unique attention to the unnoticed, his commercial career as an architectural photographer informs bodies of work that focus on the built environment.
Sinha. Gas & Glamour: Roadside architecture in Los Angeles
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Ashok Sinha is a New York-based photographer whose large scale landscape photographs picture uncommon perspectives. delegating the horizon in the bottommost third of the image, or as seen while photographing directly over the edge of a icebreaker ship or through the window of a transcontinental flight. While his interest in the beauty of the natural world endows a unique attention to the unnoticed, his commercial career as an architectural photographer informs bodies of work that focus on the built environment.
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November 2020
November 2020
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Photography monographs
Photography monographs
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Habiter les toits
Habiter les toits
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Les toits tendent à se peupler. Ils constituent l’Eldorado des villes, regorgeant de ce qui manque aux citadins : du calme, de l’air, de l’espace, un horizon, des vues. À travers une trentaine de projets récents et internationaux, ce livre révèle la remarquable faculté des toits à assumer les fonctions les plus variées : accueillir les plantations de l’agriculture(...)
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Les toits tendent à se peupler. Ils constituent l’Eldorado des villes, regorgeant de ce qui manque aux citadins : du calme, de l’air, de l’espace, un horizon, des vues. À travers une trentaine de projets récents et internationaux, ce livre révèle la remarquable faculté des toits à assumer les fonctions les plus variées : accueillir les plantations de l’agriculture(...)
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Les toits tendent à se peupler. Ils constituent l’Eldorado des villes, regorgeant de ce qui manque aux citadins : du calme, de l’air, de l’espace, un horizon, des vues. À travers une trentaine de projets récents et internationaux, ce livre révèle la remarquable faculté des toits à assumer les fonctions les plus variées : accueillir les plantations de l’agriculture urbaine, mais aussi des logements individuels ou collectifs, des places publiques et des équipements variés (aire de jeux, piste de ski, terrain de sport, installations artistiques, etc.).
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Les toits tendent à se peupler. Ils constituent l’Eldorado des villes, regorgeant de ce qui manque aux citadins : du calme, de l’air, de l’espace, un horizon, des vues. À travers une trentaine de projets récents et internationaux, ce livre révèle la remarquable faculté des toits à assumer les fonctions les plus variées : accueillir les plantations de l’agriculture urbaine, mais aussi des logements individuels ou collectifs, des places publiques et des équipements variés (aire de jeux, piste de ski, terrain de sport, installations artistiques, etc.).
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October 2018
October 2018
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Urban Theory
Urban Theory
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À terme, il faudra un profond changement de paradigme du modèle économique pour relever les enjeux écologiques et sociaux auxquels l'humanité est confrontée. C'est ce qu'on appelle communément une révolution. En s'appuyant sur sa triple expérience de biologiste, de syndicaliste et de député LFI-Nupes, Hendrik Davi dresse une synthèse méticuleuse des multiples crises(...)
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À terme, il faudra un profond changement de paradigme du modèle économique pour relever les enjeux écologiques et sociaux auxquels l'humanité est confrontée. C'est ce qu'on appelle communément une révolution. En s'appuyant sur sa triple expérience de biologiste, de syndicaliste et de député LFI-Nupes, Hendrik Davi dresse une synthèse méticuleuse des multiples crises(...)
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November 2023
November 2023
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Le capital c'est nous : Manifeste pour une justice sociale et écologique
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À terme, il faudra un profond changement de paradigme du modèle économique pour relever les enjeux écologiques et sociaux auxquels l'humanité est confrontée. C'est ce qu'on appelle communément une révolution. En s'appuyant sur sa triple expérience de biologiste, de syndicaliste et de député LFI-Nupes, Hendrik Davi dresse une synthèse méticuleuse des multiples crises auxquelles nous sommes actuellement confrontés et propose un horizon écosocialiste lucide et désirable vers lequel nous pourrions tendre. Passant de la théorie à la pratique, il propose une stratégie concrète et amorce l'écriture d'une histoire plus apaisée et plus collective.
Le capital c'est nous : Manifeste pour une justice sociale et écologique
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À terme, il faudra un profond changement de paradigme du modèle économique pour relever les enjeux écologiques et sociaux auxquels l'humanité est confrontée. C'est ce qu'on appelle communément une révolution. En s'appuyant sur sa triple expérience de biologiste, de syndicaliste et de député LFI-Nupes, Hendrik Davi dresse une synthèse méticuleuse des multiples crises auxquelles nous sommes actuellement confrontés et propose un horizon écosocialiste lucide et désirable vers lequel nous pourrions tendre. Passant de la théorie à la pratique, il propose une stratégie concrète et amorce l'écriture d'une histoire plus apaisée et plus collective.
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November 2023
November 2023
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Nourrir la ville et la solidarité : Initiatives communautaires à l'assaut des déserts alimentaires
Nourrir la ville et la solidarité : Initiatives communautaires à l'assaut des déserts alimentaires
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Un vacarme constant. Du béton brûlant. De la grisaille. Un horizon rétréci par des milliers d’immeubles. Un voisinage peuplé d’inconnu·es. Alors que la croissance et l’étalement des grands centres urbains se poursuivent au Canada comme ailleurs, est-il possible d’imaginer une nouvelle façon de faire société ? Et si les villes se faisaient aussi verdoyantes,(...)
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Un vacarme constant. Du béton brûlant. De la grisaille. Un horizon rétréci par des milliers d’immeubles. Un voisinage peuplé d’inconnu·es. Alors que la croissance et l’étalement des grands centres urbains se poursuivent au Canada comme ailleurs, est-il possible d’imaginer une nouvelle façon de faire société ? Et si les villes se faisaient aussi verdoyantes,(...)
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Nourrir la ville et la solidarité : Initiatives communautaires à l'assaut des déserts alimentaires
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Un vacarme constant. Du béton brûlant. De la grisaille. Un horizon rétréci par des milliers d’immeubles. Un voisinage peuplé d’inconnu·es. Alors que la croissance et l’étalement des grands centres urbains se poursuivent au Canada comme ailleurs, est-il possible d’imaginer une nouvelle façon de faire société ? Et si les villes se faisaient aussi verdoyantes, nourrissantes ? Cet essai explore le rôle de l’alimentation – au-delà de l’agriculture urbaine – dans la réappropriation des quartiers par leurs résident·es. Et si, en (ré)enchâssant l’alimentation au sein du tissu urbain, nous réinventions la ville ?
Nourrir la ville et la solidarité : Initiatives communautaires à l'assaut des déserts alimentaires
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Un vacarme constant. Du béton brûlant. De la grisaille. Un horizon rétréci par des milliers d’immeubles. Un voisinage peuplé d’inconnu·es. Alors que la croissance et l’étalement des grands centres urbains se poursuivent au Canada comme ailleurs, est-il possible d’imaginer une nouvelle façon de faire société ? Et si les villes se faisaient aussi verdoyantes, nourrissantes ? Cet essai explore le rôle de l’alimentation – au-delà de l’agriculture urbaine – dans la réappropriation des quartiers par leurs résident·es. Et si, en (ré)enchâssant l’alimentation au sein du tissu urbain, nous réinventions la ville ?
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November 2022
November 2022
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The nineteenth issue of ‘F.R.DAVID’ is edited by Will Holder and Paula Abbott, and will serve as a reader for “We can still see the horizon (and it’s curved)”, a summer residency in Scotland led by the editors. It includes a surprising array of contributions from writer Jorge Luis Borges, journalist and writer Italo Calvino, composer Hugo Cole, literary critic and(...)
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The nineteenth issue of ‘F.R.DAVID’ is edited by Will Holder and Paula Abbott, and will serve as a reader for “We can still see the horizon (and it’s curved)”, a summer residency in Scotland led by the editors. It includes a surprising array of contributions from writer Jorge Luis Borges, journalist and writer Italo Calvino, composer Hugo Cole, literary critic and(...)
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F.R. David spring 2020 : very good
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The nineteenth issue of ‘F.R.DAVID’ is edited by Will Holder and Paula Abbott, and will serve as a reader for “We can still see the horizon (and it’s curved)”, a summer residency in Scotland led by the editors. It includes a surprising array of contributions from writer Jorge Luis Borges, journalist and writer Italo Calvino, composer Hugo Cole, literary critic and theorist Barbara Herrnstein Smith, percussionist Milford Graves, philosopher Michel Serres, novelist and essayist Wilson Harris, poet Bernadette Mayer, composer and music theorist Harry Partch, pianist and poet Cecil Taylor, and several others.
F.R. David spring 2020 : very good
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The nineteenth issue of ‘F.R.DAVID’ is edited by Will Holder and Paula Abbott, and will serve as a reader for “We can still see the horizon (and it’s curved)”, a summer residency in Scotland led by the editors. It includes a surprising array of contributions from writer Jorge Luis Borges, journalist and writer Italo Calvino, composer Hugo Cole, literary critic and theorist Barbara Herrnstein Smith, percussionist Milford Graves, philosopher Michel Serres, novelist and essayist Wilson Harris, poet Bernadette Mayer, composer and music theorist Harry Partch, pianist and poet Cecil Taylor, and several others.
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January 2020
January 2020
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Magazines
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In the postwar era, sidewalk palms grew into symbols of urban Los Angeles. Tall ranks of Mexican fan palm became familiar fixtures on the horizon, generic landmarks, the original skyscrapers of the horizontal metropolis. The entertainment industry magnified their stature. Advertisements, telecasts, television shows, movies, song recordings, and music videos produced in(...)
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In the postwar era, sidewalk palms grew into symbols of urban Los Angeles. Tall ranks of Mexican fan palm became familiar fixtures on the horizon, generic landmarks, the original skyscrapers of the horizontal metropolis. The entertainment industry magnified their stature. Advertisements, telecasts, television shows, movies, song recordings, and music videos produced in(...)
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Marie-Jose Jongerius - Los Angeles Palms
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In the postwar era, sidewalk palms grew into symbols of urban Los Angeles. Tall ranks of Mexican fan palm became familiar fixtures on the horizon, generic landmarks, the original skyscrapers of the horizontal metropolis. The entertainment industry magnified their stature. Advertisements, telecasts, television shows, movies, song recordings, and music videos produced in Southern California made ready use of street palm imagery. For ‘Los Angeles Palms’ Marie-José Jongerius revisited the most iconic and historic sights in the Los Angeles area to portray the palms which have all contributed to the iconic image of Los Angeles.
Marie-Jose Jongerius - Los Angeles Palms
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In the postwar era, sidewalk palms grew into symbols of urban Los Angeles. Tall ranks of Mexican fan palm became familiar fixtures on the horizon, generic landmarks, the original skyscrapers of the horizontal metropolis. The entertainment industry magnified their stature. Advertisements, telecasts, television shows, movies, song recordings, and music videos produced in Southern California made ready use of street palm imagery. For ‘Los Angeles Palms’ Marie-José Jongerius revisited the most iconic and historic sights in the Los Angeles area to portray the palms which have all contributed to the iconic image of Los Angeles.
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July 2017
July 2017
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Photography monographs
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Authored by Saskia de Wit, this book examines the enclosed garden as an expression of the ‘genius loci’. How can this be made accessible in the contemporary metropolitan landscape? Included are analyses of the spatial, sensorial, and narrative craft patterns of metropolitan gardens ranging from traditional Japanese masterpieces to contemporary European landscape(...)
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Authored by Saskia de Wit, this book examines the enclosed garden as an expression of the ‘genius loci’. How can this be made accessible in the contemporary metropolitan landscape? Included are analyses of the spatial, sensorial, and narrative craft patterns of metropolitan gardens ranging from traditional Japanese masterpieces to contemporary European landscape(...)
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Hidden landscapes: the metropolitan garden as a multi-sensory expression of place
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Authored by Saskia de Wit, this book examines the enclosed garden as an expression of the ‘genius loci’. How can this be made accessible in the contemporary metropolitan landscape? Included are analyses of the spatial, sensorial, and narrative craft patterns of metropolitan gardens ranging from traditional Japanese masterpieces to contemporary European landscape architecture. The metropolitan garden, as a defined space in the continuous metropolitan field, provides an alternative way to access the landscape horizon, references to nature, and connections to the underlying landscape, providing a new perspective on two quintessential themes: nature and place.
Hidden landscapes: the metropolitan garden as a multi-sensory expression of place
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Authored by Saskia de Wit, this book examines the enclosed garden as an expression of the ‘genius loci’. How can this be made accessible in the contemporary metropolitan landscape? Included are analyses of the spatial, sensorial, and narrative craft patterns of metropolitan gardens ranging from traditional Japanese masterpieces to contemporary European landscape architecture. The metropolitan garden, as a defined space in the continuous metropolitan field, provides an alternative way to access the landscape horizon, references to nature, and connections to the underlying landscape, providing a new perspective on two quintessential themes: nature and place.
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April 2018
April 2018
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Landscape Theory
Landscape Theory
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205 pages : illustrations (some color), map ; 27 cm
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Montréal : Canadian Centre for Architecture ; Vancouver : Douglas & McIntyre, ©2004.
Montréal : Canadian Centre for Architecture ; Vancouver : Douglas & McIntyre, ©2004.
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The 60s : Montreal thinks big / edited by André Lortie ; Olivo Barbieri [and others].
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205 pages : illustrations (some color), map ; 27 cm
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Montréal : Canadian Centre for Architecture ; Vancouver : Douglas & McIntyre, ©2004.
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