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Architecture as signs and systems : for a mannerist time / Robert Venturi & Denise Scott Brown.
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ix, 251 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm.
Cambridge, Mass. ; London, Eng. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2004.
Architecture as signs and systems : for a mannerist time / Robert Venturi & Denise Scott Brown.
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ix, 251 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm.
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Cambridge, Mass. ; London, Eng. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2004.
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146 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Paris, France : L'Harmattan, ©2000.
Athènes : urbanisme, culture et politique / Georges Prévélakis ; préface de Paul Claval.
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146 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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Paris, France : L'Harmattan, ©2000.
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Cities participate in the production of meaning by providing places populated with objects for words to refer to. Inscriptions on these objects (labels, billboards, newspapers, graffiti) provide another layer of meaning. And today, the flow of digital information - from one device to another in the urban scene - creates a digital network that also exists in physical(...)
Architectural Theory
January 1900, Cambridge, Mass.
Placing words : symbols, space and the city
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Cities participate in the production of meaning by providing places populated with objects for words to refer to. Inscriptions on these objects (labels, billboards, newspapers, graffiti) provide another layer of meaning. And today, the flow of digital information - from one device to another in the urban scene - creates a digital network that also exists in physical space. "Placing Words" examines this emerging system of spaces, flows, and practices in a series of short essays - snapshots of the city in the twenty-first century. Mitchell questions the necessity of flashy downtown office towers in an age of corporate web sites. He casts the shocked-and-awed Baghdad as a contemporary Guernica. He describes architectural makeovers throughout history, listing Le Corbusier's Fab Five Points of difference between new and old architecture, and he discusses the architecture of Manolo Blahniks. He pens an open letter to the Secretary of Defense recommending architectural features to include in torture chambers. He compares Baudelaire, the Parisian flaneur, to Spiderman, the Manhattan traceur. He describes the iPod-like galleries of the renovated MoMA and he recognizes the camera phone as the latest step in a process of image mobilization that began when artists stopped painting on walls and began making pictures on small pieces of wood, canvas, or paper. The endless flow of information, he makes clear, is not only more pervasive and efficient than ever, it is also generating new cultural complexities.
Architectural Theory
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224 pages
Paris : Editions Donner Lieu 2013.
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Paris : Editions Donner Lieu 2013.
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xi, 396 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm
Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2010.
Mumbai fables / Gyan Prakash.
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xi, 396 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm
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Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2010.
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Le sol des villes : ressource et projet / sous la direction de Panos Mantziaras, Paola Viganò.
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254 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 19 cm.
Genève : Métis Presses, [2016], ©2016
Le sol des villes : ressource et projet / sous la direction de Panos Mantziaras, Paola Viganò.
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254 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 19 cm.
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Genève : Métis Presses, [2016], ©2016
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Illuminated fêtes and civic celebrations began in Renaissance Italy and spread through the courts of Europe. Their fireworks, torches, lamps, and special effects glorified the monarch, marked the birth of a prince, or celebrated military victory. Nineteenth-century Americans rejected such monarchial pomp and adapted spectacular lighting to their democratic, commercial(...)
American illuminations: urban lighting 1800-1920
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Illuminated fêtes and civic celebrations began in Renaissance Italy and spread through the courts of Europe. Their fireworks, torches, lamps, and special effects glorified the monarch, marked the birth of a prince, or celebrated military victory. Nineteenth-century Americans rejected such monarchial pomp and adapted spectacular lighting to their democratic, commercial culture. In American Illuminations, David Nye explains how they experimented with gas and electric light to create illuminated cityscapes far brighter and more dynamic than those of Europe, and how these illuminations became symbols of modernity and the conquest of nature.
Urban Theory
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xvii, 323 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
New York : Oxford University Press, 1974.
Buenos Aires : plaza to suburb, 1870-1910 / James R. Scobie.
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xvii, 323 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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New York : Oxford University Press, 1974.
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xiv, 533 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2019], ©2019
Brooklyn : the once and future city / Thomas J. Campanella.
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xiv, 533 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
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Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2019], ©2019
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xv, 227 pages : illustrations (black and white), map ; 27 cm
New York, NY : Routledge, 2020., ©2020
Place meaning and attachment : authenticity, heritage and preservation / edited by Dak Kopec and AnnaMarie Bliss.
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xv, 227 pages : illustrations (black and white), map ; 27 cm
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New York, NY : Routledge, 2020., ©2020