Library: An Unquiet History
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Through the ages, libraries have not only accumulated and preserved but also shaped, inspired, and obliterated knowledge. Now they are in crisis. Former rare books librarian and Harvard MetaLAB visionary Matthew Battles takes us from Boston to Baghdad, from classical scriptoria to medieval monasteries and on to the Information Age, to explore how libraries are built and(...)
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Library: An Unquiet History
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Through the ages, libraries have not only accumulated and preserved but also shaped, inspired, and obliterated knowledge. Now they are in crisis. Former rare books librarian and Harvard MetaLAB visionary Matthew Battles takes us from Boston to Baghdad, from classical scriptoria to medieval monasteries and on to the Information Age, to explore how libraries are built and how they are destroyed: from the scroll burnings in ancient China to the burning of libraries in Europe and Bosnia to the latest revolutionary upheavals of the digital age. A new epilogue elucidates the preservation of knowledge amid the creative destruction of twenty-first century technology. 10 illustrations.
El Croquis 230: Harquitectes
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HARQUITECTES is an architectural studio founded in 2000 by David Lorente, Josep Ricart, Xavier Ros and Roger Tudó. Their professional activity is complemented with teaching at the Schools of Architecture at the UPC (ETSAV and ETSAB). They have also taught at ETH Zurich and Harvard GSD. They have been visiting professors at the Porto Academy (Porto), the Architectural(...)
El Croquis 230: Harquitectes
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HARQUITECTES is an architectural studio founded in 2000 by David Lorente, Josep Ricart, Xavier Ros and Roger Tudó. Their professional activity is complemented with teaching at the Schools of Architecture at the UPC (ETSAV and ETSAB). They have also taught at ETH Zurich and Harvard GSD. They have been visiting professors at the Porto Academy (Porto), the Architectural Association School of Architecture (London), the University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture, the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile (Santiago), the Paris-Villemin School of Architecture, and the Umeå School of Architecture in Sweden, among other institutions. HARQUITECTES have received multiple national and international awards, and their work has been widely published and exhibited.
El Croquis
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The first ever English translation of Bruno Munari's Design and Visual Communication (1968) fills a gap in Munari's output for the English-speaking world and provides a highly relevant guide to bridging architecture and design education and everyday life. Published in 1968 after Munari was invited to the Carpenter Center at Harvard to teach, the book transforms over 50(...)
Design and visual communication
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The first ever English translation of Bruno Munari's Design and Visual Communication (1968) fills a gap in Munari's output for the English-speaking world and provides a highly relevant guide to bridging architecture and design education and everyday life. Published in 1968 after Munari was invited to the Carpenter Center at Harvard to teach, the book transforms over 50 lessons, class materials and letters addressed to the city of Milan, into a book on the future of art, architecture and design. Conceived as a living volume, the book is written to inspire current and future designers to push beyond past events, however recent, and develop new tools to see and understand tomorrow's world.
Design Theory
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Michel Desvigne is the most renowned French landscape architect in the world. Based in Paris, he has held guest professorships at such institutions as the Architectural Association in London and Harvard University. Desvigne's projects have a strong strategic and conceptual component. Urban infrastructure projects play a major role, and emphasize the urban planning and(...)
Transforming landscapes: Michel Desvigne Paysagiste
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Michel Desvigne is the most renowned French landscape architect in the world. Based in Paris, he has held guest professorships at such institutions as the Architectural Association in London and Harvard University. Desvigne's projects have a strong strategic and conceptual component. Urban infrastructure projects play a major role, and emphasize the urban planning and design expertise evident in his landscape architecture. The book documents ten of Devigne's major projects from France, the US, Spain and Qatar, in which he is responsible not only for the landscape architecture, but for coordination of the entire project. How can such highly complex projects be realized? What does the intellectual thought process look like? What specific problems arise in their realization?
Landscape Architecture, Monographs
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"Urban Grids: Handbook for Regular City Design" is the result of a five-year design research project undertaken by professor Joan Busquets and Dingliang Yang at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. The research that is the foundation for this publication emphasizes the value of open forms for city design, a publication that specifically insists that the grid has the(...)
Urban grids: handbook for regular city design
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"Urban Grids: Handbook for Regular City Design" is the result of a five-year design research project undertaken by professor Joan Busquets and Dingliang Yang at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. The research that is the foundation for this publication emphasizes the value of open forms for city design, a publication that specifically insists that the grid has the unique capacity to absorb and channel urban transformation flexibly and productively. "Urban Grids" analyzes cities and urban projects that utilize the grid as the main structural device for allowing rational development, and goes further to propose speculative design projects capable of suggesting new urban paradigms drawn from the grid as a design tool.
Urban Theory
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The Japanese architect Takaharu Tezuka caused a stir in 2015 with his TEDtalk “The best kindergarten you’ve ever seen”. As the first text-focused publication, Tezuka Architects: "The yellow book" now provides an insight into the design philosophy of the internationally renowned architecture firm. Based on a lecture by Tezuka at Harvard University Graduate School of Design(...)
Tezuka architects: the yellow book
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The Japanese architect Takaharu Tezuka caused a stir in 2015 with his TEDtalk “The best kindergarten you’ve ever seen”. As the first text-focused publication, Tezuka Architects: "The yellow book" now provides an insight into the design philosophy of the internationally renowned architecture firm. Based on a lecture by Tezuka at Harvard University Graduate School of Design (GSD), this “pocket guide” in scale and feel introduces the architects’ way of thinking, using examples of seminal projects in recent years. Buildings such as the Roof House (2001), the Child Chemo House (2013), or the Fuji Kindergarten (2007) illustrate the powerful impact of Takaharu and Yui Tezuka’s design and show how architecture can contribute actively to building a better society.
Architecture Monographs
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An exciting report on the creative and imaginative possibilities which CAAD affords. Design in the field of architecture is essentially an act of innovation, a continual striving to integrate practical, metaphorical and symbolic features into the designs using the technical means of today, and this is precisely where the computer can provide a fascinating new(...)
Digital stories : the poetics of communication
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An exciting report on the creative and imaginative possibilities which CAAD affords. Design in the field of architecture is essentially an act of innovation, a continual striving to integrate practical, metaphorical and symbolic features into the designs using the technical means of today, and this is precisely where the computer can provide a fascinating new potential to create narrative space. Author, Maia Engeli, Assistant Professor for CAAD and architecture at the ETH, Zürich, has been active in this field for many years. Coming from the first generation of computer users, she has worked at Harvard University and the Media Lab at MIT and is at the forefront of research in this area.
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Bauhaus Dream-house
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Bauhaus Dream-house brings critical social theory to bear on the ideas of architectural and design education at the Bauhaus - tracing the spread and influence of these ideas worldwide. Developed in post WW1 Germany, the principles of Bauhaus architecture and design were transferred by some of its leading figures to architecture schools at Harvard, Chicago and the(...)
Bauhaus Dream-house
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Bauhaus Dream-house brings critical social theory to bear on the ideas of architectural and design education at the Bauhaus - tracing the spread and influence of these ideas worldwide. Developed in post WW1 Germany, the principles of Bauhaus architecture and design were transferred by some of its leading figures to architecture schools at Harvard, Chicago and the IIT. Yet in the postwar era, they also became increasingly influential in architecture schools in Western and Central Europe, Japan, South America, Africa and the Middle East. This book provides a critical examination of the profound social, cultural and spatial consequences of these developments and the erasure of class, race, gender and culture which the ‘modernisation’ of design embodied.
Modernism
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D'un échange de maître à élève, la correspondance devient vite celle de deux amis unis par leur passion commune de l'architecture et de l'urbanisme. Au sein des Ciam, ils développent leur réflexion théorique sur la ville à l'origine de La Charte d'Athènes et de leurs projets communs pour Barcelone et Bogota. Après la guerre, Sert est un soutien influent dans les combats(...)
Le Corbusier - José Luis Sert : correspondance, 1928-1965
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D'un échange de maître à élève, la correspondance devient vite celle de deux amis unis par leur passion commune de l'architecture et de l'urbanisme. Au sein des Ciam, ils développent leur réflexion théorique sur la ville à l'origine de La Charte d'Athènes et de leurs projets communs pour Barcelone et Bogota. Après la guerre, Sert est un soutien influent dans les combats pour les projets de l'O.N.U. et de l'Unesco. Président des Ciam puis doyen de la faculté d'architecture de Harvard, il réussira à convaincre Le Corbusier d'accepter le Carpenter Center, son seul projet nord-américain, et se chargera de l'exécution avec un immense dévouement. Cette correspondance est aussi un beau témoignage d'une longue amitié.
Architecture Monographs
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In Cornelia Hahn Oberlander: Making the Modern Landscape, Susan Herrington draws upon archival research, site analyses, and numerous interviews with Oberlander and her collaborators to offer a biography of this adventurous and influential landscape architect. Born in 1921, Oberlander fled Nazi Germany at the age of eighteen with her family, going on to become one of the(...)
Cornelia Hahn Oberlander : making the Modern landscape
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In Cornelia Hahn Oberlander: Making the Modern Landscape, Susan Herrington draws upon archival research, site analyses, and numerous interviews with Oberlander and her collaborators to offer a biography of this adventurous and influential landscape architect. Born in 1921, Oberlander fled Nazi Germany at the age of eighteen with her family, going on to become one of the few women to graduate from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design in the late 1940s. For six decades she has practiced socially responsible and ecologically sensitive planning for public landscapes. Herrington places Oberlander within a larger social and aesthetic context, chronicling both her personal and professional trajectory and her work in New York, Philadelphia, Vancouver, Seattle, Berlin, Toronto, and Montreal.
Landscape Architecture, Monographs