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vii, 310 pages : maps ; 24 cm
Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2013.
Building a civil society : associations, public life, and the origins of modern Italy / Steven C. Soper.
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132 pages : color illustrations ; 30 cm
Leipzig : Lubok Verlag, 2021.
Piece of colonne : fragments of waves / photographs, Tamami Iinuma.
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Leipzig : Lubok Verlag, 2021.
Elspeth Pratt
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This is the first monograph published on the work of Canadian artist Elspeth Pratt that spans her career to date. For twenty-eight years Pratt has been producing sculptural work that negotiates the line between abstraction and representation to explore architecture and public space. Working with everyday “impoverished materials, the artist engages with ideas of doubt, the(...)
Elspeth Pratt
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This is the first monograph published on the work of Canadian artist Elspeth Pratt that spans her career to date. For twenty-eight years Pratt has been producing sculptural work that negotiates the line between abstraction and representation to explore architecture and public space. Working with everyday “impoverished materials, the artist engages with ideas of doubt, the precarious, and the built environment.
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De ou par Marcel Duchamp
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Ulf Linde is without doubt one of the world’s most important interpreters of Marcel Duchamp’s art. For more than half a century, he has pursued intense studies of Duchamp’s entire oeuvre and has made perfect replicas of all his major works. His as-yet unpublished manuscript scrutinizing the mathematical principles behind Duchamp’s art reveals what Linde claims to be the(...)
De ou par Marcel Duchamp
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Ulf Linde is without doubt one of the world’s most important interpreters of Marcel Duchamp’s art. For more than half a century, he has pursued intense studies of Duchamp’s entire oeuvre and has made perfect replicas of all his major works. His as-yet unpublished manuscript scrutinizing the mathematical principles behind Duchamp’s art reveals what Linde claims to be the key to Duchamp’s poetic universe.
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The aesthetics of terror
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This title offers a provocative look at the profound impact war and terrorism have had on contemporary art. There is no doubt that the rise in terrorism across the globe has had a profound impact on the world of contemporary art. "The Aesthetics of Terrorism" asks how, and to what extent, the traumas of the daily news are integrated with art, and what purpose this(...)
The aesthetics of terror
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This title offers a provocative look at the profound impact war and terrorism have had on contemporary art. There is no doubt that the rise in terrorism across the globe has had a profound impact on the world of contemporary art. "The Aesthetics of Terrorism" asks how, and to what extent, the traumas of the daily news are integrated with art, and what purpose this integration can serve.
Art Theory
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In this collection of eight witty and sharply written essays, Orwell looks at, among others, the joys of spring (even in London), the picture of humanity painted by Gulliver and his travels, and the strange benefit of the doubt that the public permit Salvador Dali. Also included here are a mouth-watering essay on the delights of English Cooking and a shocking account of(...)
Some thoughts on the common toad
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In this collection of eight witty and sharply written essays, Orwell looks at, among others, the joys of spring (even in London), the picture of humanity painted by Gulliver and his travels, and the strange benefit of the doubt that the public permit Salvador Dali. Also included here are a mouth-watering essay on the delights of English Cooking and a shocking account of killing an elephant in Burma.
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New housing concepts
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The projects in this volume illustrate the latest tendencies in collective housing. The works of Jean Nouvel, Massimiliano Fuksas, Frank O. Gehry, Claus & Kaan, MVRDV, Santiago Calatrava, Toyo Ito, and Carlos Ferrater, to name just a few of the architects included in this book, provide stimulating answers, solutions, unexpected points of view and proposals that will(...)
New housing concepts
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The projects in this volume illustrate the latest tendencies in collective housing. The works of Jean Nouvel, Massimiliano Fuksas, Frank O. Gehry, Claus & Kaan, MVRDV, Santiago Calatrava, Toyo Ito, and Carlos Ferrater, to name just a few of the architects included in this book, provide stimulating answers, solutions, unexpected points of view and proposals that will without doubt influence the conception of residential architecture in the century to come.
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May 2002, Barcelona
Collective Housing
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New housing concepts
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The projects in this volume illustrate the latest tendencies in collective housing. The works of Jean Nouvel, Massimiliano Fuksas, Frank O. Gerhy, Claus & Kaan, MVRDV, Santiago Calatrava, Toyo Ito and Carlos Ferrater, to name just a few of the architects included in this book, provide stimulating answers, solutions, unexpected points of view and proposals that will(...)
New housing concepts
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The projects in this volume illustrate the latest tendencies in collective housing. The works of Jean Nouvel, Massimiliano Fuksas, Frank O. Gerhy, Claus & Kaan, MVRDV, Santiago Calatrava, Toyo Ito and Carlos Ferrater, to name just a few of the architects included in this book, provide stimulating answers, solutions, unexpected points of view and proposals that will without doubt influence the conception of residential architecture in the century to come.
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January 1900, Barcelona
Collective Housing
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xviii, 467 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, ©2009.
Romantic Paris : histories of a cultural landscape, 1800-1850 / Michael Marrinan.
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Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, ©2009.
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To represent Hong Kong? It seemed logical to go back to its origins, to set up the mise-en-scène, a granite island covered with beautiful, unspoiled jungle. In 1841, the British prime minister Lord Palmerston described Hong Kong as 'a barren island with hardly a house upon it' for which he could see no future. But it was no doubt political caution which prompted him to(...)
Architecture Monographs
March 2008, Hong Kong
The parrot's tale Gutierrez + Portefaix
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To represent Hong Kong? It seemed logical to go back to its origins, to set up the mise-en-scène, a granite island covered with beautiful, unspoiled jungle. In 1841, the British prime minister Lord Palmerston described Hong Kong as 'a barren island with hardly a house upon it' for which he could see no future. But it was no doubt political caution which prompted him to add: 'though it is possible I may be mistaken.'
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