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654 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (chiefly color) ; 22 cm
New York : Actar, 2016., ©2016
Re-living the city : UABB 2015 catalogue / curated by Aaron Betsky, Alfredo Brillembourg, Hubert Klumpner, Doreen Heng Liu ; edited by Gideon Fink Shapiro.
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654 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (chiefly color) ; 22 cm
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New York : Actar, 2016., ©2016
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Suburbia, and all it promises, has become the American Dream. With brutal honesty and a touch of irony, "The end of suburbia" explored the American Way of Life and its prospects as the planet enters the age of Peak Oil. Director Greg Greene once again takes us “through the looking glass” on a journey of discovery – a sobering yet vital and ultimately positive(...)
Escape from suburbia : beyond the American dream
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Suburbia, and all it promises, has become the American Dream. With brutal honesty and a touch of irony, "The end of suburbia" explored the American Way of Life and its prospects as the planet enters the age of Peak Oil. Director Greg Greene once again takes us “through the looking glass” on a journey of discovery – a sobering yet vital and ultimately positive exploration of what the second half of the Oil Age has in store for us. Through personal stories and interviews we examine how declining world oil production has already begun to affect modern life in North America. Expert scientific opinion is balanced with “on the street” portraits from an emerging global movement of citizen’s groups who are confronting the challenges of Peak Oil in extraordinary ways. The clock is ticking. This movie asks the tough questions : Are we approaching Peak Oil now? What are the controversies surrounding our future energy options? Why are a growing number of specialists and citizens skeptical of these options? What are ordinary people across North America doing in their own communities to prepare for Peak Oil? And what will you do as energy prices skyrocket and the Oil Age draws to a close?
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The Chinese Dream is a visual tour de force, both encyclopedic in scope and holistic in approach. Cutting across all levels of scale - from individual to nation - and backed by a truly multi-disciplinary team (encompassing architecture and urban planning, politics, economics, arts and culture, environmental concerns, and sociology) the book synthesizes a vast body of(...)
The chinese dream: a society under construction
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The Chinese Dream is a visual tour de force, both encyclopedic in scope and holistic in approach. Cutting across all levels of scale - from individual to nation - and backed by a truly multi-disciplinary team (encompassing architecture and urban planning, politics, economics, arts and culture, environmental concerns, and sociology) the book synthesizes a vast body of research to tackle the big contemporary questions, and to unpack the paradoxes at the heart of Chinas struggle for change. Bold texts, self-critical design proposals, and thousands of graphics reveal China in all its raucous diversity. This is space as you have never seen it before: brash, outlandish, and very Chinese.
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395 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 19 cm
Zurich : Scheidegger & Spiess, [2017]
Rebel video : the video movement of the 1970s and 1980s : London, Bern, Lausanne, Basel, Zurich / Heinz Nigg.
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395 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 19 cm
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Zurich : Scheidegger & Spiess, [2017]
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ix, 203 pages : illustrations, maps ; 29 cm.
Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2001.
The bridge at Québec / William D. Middleton.
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ix, 203 pages : illustrations, maps ; 29 cm.
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Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2001.
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119 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2025]
Cities made differently / David Graeber and Nika Dubrovsky.
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119 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2025]
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This volume highlights the world's best modern architecture, the people behind the buildings, and the impact they have had on their surroundings. From New York city's Chrysler Building to the Guggenheim museum in Bilbao, Spain; from the Sydney Opera house to Kansai international airport, the buildings profiled here have proved enduring monuments to their architects'(...)
Architecture since 1900, Europe
September 2005, München, Berlin, London, New York
Icons of architecture : the 20th century
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This volume highlights the world's best modern architecture, the people behind the buildings, and the impact they have had on their surroundings. From New York city's Chrysler Building to the Guggenheim museum in Bilbao, Spain; from the Sydney Opera house to Kansai international airport, the buildings profiled here have proved enduring monuments to their architects' visions and the hopes and dreams of their eras. Presented in full-color, double-page spreads, these buildings represent nearly every continent on the globe and almost every architectural trend of the past century. The double-page spreads provide numerous photographs and plans, a summary of the architect's career, and anecdotes about building sites, materials, and construction.
Architecture since 1900, Europe
Earth and the moon, 360 book
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Earth, our home planet, came into existence as the third planet in the solar system 4.6 billion years ago. A catastrophic collision with another large celestial body sent scattered pieces of both into the void, which would eventually gather to form the Moon 100 million years later. The Moon’s gravitational pull gave rise to tides on Earth, and from this primordial ocean(...)
Earth and the moon, 360 book
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Earth, our home planet, came into existence as the third planet in the solar system 4.6 billion years ago. A catastrophic collision with another large celestial body sent scattered pieces of both into the void, which would eventually gather to form the Moon 100 million years later. The Moon’s gravitational pull gave rise to tides on Earth, and from this primordial ocean life emerged. Since mankind’s very beginnings, the Moon has been a symbol of our dreams and faith. Human ventured into space and witnessed our “blue planet” for the first time in 1961, and landed on the Moon itself in 1969. This three-dimensional panorama book celebrates our perpetual skyward gaze.
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Catalogue de la cinquième exposition de jouets tirés de la collection du CCA. / Catalogue of the fifth exhibition of architectural toys in the CCA collection.
Maisons de rêve, maisons jouets / Dream houses, toy homes
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Catalogue de la cinquième exposition de jouets tirés de la collection du CCA. / Catalogue of the fifth exhibition of architectural toys in the CCA collection.
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Dream House: The White House as an American Home looks at the president's house in the context of American house design and decoration. Hundreds of historic photographs, plans, and drawings compare the president's residence to other American houses, gardens, and interiors, showing the White House as it changed through decades of interior renovation, rebuilding, and landscaping.
Architecture since 1900, Americas
October 2009
Dream house: The White House as an American home
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Dream House: The White House as an American Home looks at the president's house in the context of American house design and decoration. Hundreds of historic photographs, plans, and drawings compare the president's residence to other American houses, gardens, and interiors, showing the White House as it changed through decades of interior renovation, rebuilding, and landscaping.
Architecture since 1900, Americas