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Bitterfeld’s county museum, Kreismuseum Bitterfeld, contains a black box with herbaria dating from 1931. This collection, compiled by botanist Hans Weber, is an inventory of the flora gathered in the nearby Goitzsche region, a forested area of floodplain. It was not long before the plant life collected here was forced to give way to society’s demand for brown coal. Taking(...)
Vegetation under power: heat, breath, growth
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Bitterfeld’s county museum, Kreismuseum Bitterfeld, contains a black box with herbaria dating from 1931. This collection, compiled by botanist Hans Weber, is an inventory of the flora gathered in the nearby Goitzsche region, a forested area of floodplain. It was not long before the plant life collected here was forced to give way to society’s demand for brown coal. Taking the herbaria as its starting point, this book interweaves stories about Bitterfeld’s energy-defined landscape with the modern legacy of the Bauhaus. Using archival documents, physical interventions, and field studies, the book proposes a new reading of the Bauhaus’s modernist motto ”Light! Air! Sun!“ recast as ”Heat, Breath, Growth“. The book thus points up the downside of resource extraction and environmental destruction in the ”clean modern age“, while also identifying movements in search of a nature-based culture characterized by care and stewardship.
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Cultural districts are playing a key cultural and social role throughout the world in the twenty-first century. They offer an incomparable density of art and culture and have a profound influence on the development of cities and regions. "World Culture Districts" presents the first-ever overview of this phenomenon, featuring fifteen of the most important cultural(...)
Contemporary Architecture
March 2022
World culture districts: Spaces of the 21st century
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Cultural districts are playing a key cultural and social role throughout the world in the twenty-first century. They offer an incomparable density of art and culture and have a profound influence on the development of cities and regions. "World Culture Districts" presents the first-ever overview of this phenomenon, featuring fifteen of the most important cultural districts on six continents. The range of different kinds of cultural districts and their respective influence on space and society is revealed, and essays by international experts such as Gail Lord, Adrian Ellis, Matthias Sauerbruch and Louisa Hutton, Vitus H. Weh and Christian Strasser shed light on current issues surrounding their development and impact.
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Newly Drawn presents nine Finnish architects offices that are achieving rising international recognition, and the young architects who work there. Includes interviews with the personnel and projects of the offices, and also with the design process. Each office presents 4-6 projects, both completed works and those still awaiting construction.
Newly drawn emerging Finnish architects
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Newly Drawn presents nine Finnish architects offices that are achieving rising international recognition, and the young architects who work there. Includes interviews with the personnel and projects of the offices, and also with the design process. Each office presents 4-6 projects, both completed works and those still awaiting construction.
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On the water: Palisade Bay
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On the Water: Palisade Bay is the collaborative initiative of a group of engineers, architects, landscape architects, planners and students to imagine a "soft infrastructure" for the New York/New Jersey Upper Bay by developing interconnected infrastructures and landscapes which rethink the thresholds of water, land andcity. The proposal is sited on the water, along the(...)
Contemporary Architecture
May 2010
On the water: Palisade Bay
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On the Water: Palisade Bay is the collaborative initiative of a group of engineers, architects, landscape architects, planners and students to imagine a "soft infrastructure" for the New York/New Jersey Upper Bay by developing interconnected infrastructures and landscapes which rethink the thresholds of water, land andcity. The proposal is sited on the water, along the coastal edge and within the local communities. It presents a new coastal planning strategy which not only mitigates potential damage from storms but also provides new ground forrecreation, ecologies, agriculture and urban development.With climate change and sea level rise acting as catalysts for this work, a quantitative analysis of dynamic systems serves as the foundation for this new soft infrastructure whichboth enriches the ecology of the urban estuary and creates a vibrant culture on the water.
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Terrasses à vivre
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Cet ouvrage propose trente projets, de dimensions et d'esprit différents.
Terrasses à vivre
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Cet ouvrage propose trente projets, de dimensions et d'esprit différents.
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Focusing on the theme of ‘the private and the collective’, Insiders brings together over eighty architects and collectives from a variety of backgrounds who have in common their ways of crossing the frontiers of their respective disciplines. With contributions by Stefan Canham & Rufina Wu, Terunobu Fujimori, Donisio Gonzalez, Adelfo Scaranello and Andrea Zittel
Contemporary Architecture
August 2010
Insiders: Arc en rêve/ CAPC Bordeaux
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Focusing on the theme of ‘the private and the collective’, Insiders brings together over eighty architects and collectives from a variety of backgrounds who have in common their ways of crossing the frontiers of their respective disciplines. With contributions by Stefan Canham & Rufina Wu, Terunobu Fujimori, Donisio Gonzalez, Adelfo Scaranello and Andrea Zittel
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Conceptual diagrams
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A diagram is seen as a tool to deliver an idea. This two–volume boxed set has chapters on Public Space/Landscape/Urban Design/Interior Design and contains works by UN Studio, JDS Architects, VMX Architects, nodo17 Architects, NL Architects, Vincent Callebaut, Tania Conko, PSA, mxg Architects, Florian Krieger and more.
Conceptual diagrams
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A diagram is seen as a tool to deliver an idea. This two–volume boxed set has chapters on Public Space/Landscape/Urban Design/Interior Design and contains works by UN Studio, JDS Architects, VMX Architects, nodo17 Architects, NL Architects, Vincent Callebaut, Tania Conko, PSA, mxg Architects, Florian Krieger and more.
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Les maisons de plage
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Chaque projet de maisons de plage contemporaines présente les détails sur les matériaux et les méthodes de construction, les plans et des commentaires d'architectes. Une référence pour les architectes concernant les concepts et l'innovation de l'architecture côtière.
Les maisons de plage
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Chaque projet de maisons de plage contemporaines présente les détails sur les matériaux et les méthodes de construction, les plans et des commentaires d'architectes. Une référence pour les architectes concernant les concepts et l'innovation de l'architecture côtière.
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Boutiques : Nouvelles Tendances présente une ample sélection de magasins de prêt à porter, d'accessoires et de cosmétique ; de véritables temples modernes de la consommation, récemment inaugurés dans différentes parties du monde. II s'agit d'une compilation vivante et dynamique des magasins les plus innovateurs en termes de design, suivant les études les plus(...)
Nouvelles tendances boutiques
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Boutiques : Nouvelles Tendances présente une ample sélection de magasins de prêt à porter, d'accessoires et de cosmétique ; de véritables temples modernes de la consommation, récemment inaugurés dans différentes parties du monde. II s'agit d'une compilation vivante et dynamique des magasins les plus innovateurs en termes de design, suivant les études les plus prestigieuses dans le domaine de l'architecture mondiale. Chaque projet est amplement documenté par les commentaires des propres designers et accompagné d'explications, de dessins, de plans et de photographies. L'ensemble présente une tendance commune à projeter de précieux espaces de repos, et offre une grande diversité de choix qui servira sûrement de source d'inspiration à de futures proposition formelles pleine de style et de glamour.
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Following years of research, a+t publishers presents the first theoretical-practical book on hybrid buildings. Taking its inspiration from the four issues of a+t magazine's Hybrid series, the book takes a look at the theories and projects which have had the greatest historical importance. Steven Holl prefaces the book with an introduction where he foresees the path which(...)
This is hybrid: An analysis of mixed-use buildings
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Following years of research, a+t publishers presents the first theoretical-practical book on hybrid buildings. Taking its inspiration from the four issues of a+t magazine's Hybrid series, the book takes a look at the theories and projects which have had the greatest historical importance. Steven Holl prefaces the book with an introduction where he foresees the path which hybrid typologies should take towards the creation of new urban spaces.
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