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After a meteoric rise, China today is one of the world’s most powerful nations. Just a century ago, it was a crumbling empire with literacy reserved for the elite few, as the world underwent a massive technological transformation that threatened to leave them behind. In Kingdom of Characters, Jing Tsu argues that China’s most daunting challenge was a linguistic one: the(...)
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After a meteoric rise, China today is one of the world’s most powerful nations. Just a century ago, it was a crumbling empire with literacy reserved for the elite few, as the world underwent a massive technological transformation that threatened to leave them behind. In Kingdom of Characters, Jing Tsu argues that China’s most daunting challenge was a linguistic one: the(...)
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Kingdom of characters: The language revolution that made China modern
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After a meteoric rise, China today is one of the world’s most powerful nations. Just a century ago, it was a crumbling empire with literacy reserved for the elite few, as the world underwent a massive technological transformation that threatened to leave them behind. In Kingdom of Characters, Jing Tsu argues that China’s most daunting challenge was a linguistic one: the century-long fight to make the formidable Chinese language accessible to the modern world of global trade and digital technology. 'Kingdom of characters' follows the bold innovators who reinvented the Chinese language, among them an exiled reformer who risked a death sentence to advocate for Mandarin as a national language, a Chinese-Muslim poet who laid the groundwork for Chairman Mao’s phonetic writing system, and a computer engineer who devised input codes for Chinese characters on the lid of a teacup from the floor of a jail cell. Without their advances, China might never have become the dominating force we know today.
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After a meteoric rise, China today is one of the world’s most powerful nations. Just a century ago, it was a crumbling empire with literacy reserved for the elite few, as the world underwent a massive technological transformation that threatened to leave them behind. In Kingdom of Characters, Jing Tsu argues that China’s most daunting challenge was a linguistic one: the century-long fight to make the formidable Chinese language accessible to the modern world of global trade and digital technology. 'Kingdom of characters' follows the bold innovators who reinvented the Chinese language, among them an exiled reformer who risked a death sentence to advocate for Mandarin as a national language, a Chinese-Muslim poet who laid the groundwork for Chairman Mao’s phonetic writing system, and a computer engineer who devised input codes for Chinese characters on the lid of a teacup from the floor of a jail cell. Without their advances, China might never have become the dominating force we know today.
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January 2023
January 2023
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Graphic Design and Typography
Graphic Design and Typography
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Of all of the Brazilian modernist Oscar Niemeyer’s many built works, his Algerian projects are among the least well known. Beginning in 1968, Algeria’s President Houari Boumediene commissioned Niemeyer to build two universities and an Olympic sports hall, as well as a series of large-scale, never-realized projects across Algeria, in an attempt to forge a modernist,(...)
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Of all of the Brazilian modernist Oscar Niemeyer’s many built works, his Algerian projects are among the least well known. Beginning in 1968, Algeria’s President Houari Boumediene commissioned Niemeyer to build two universities and an Olympic sports hall, as well as a series of large-scale, never-realized projects across Algeria, in an attempt to forge a modernist,(...)
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The revolution will be stopped halfway: Oscar Niemeyer in Algeria
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Of all of the Brazilian modernist Oscar Niemeyer’s many built works, his Algerian projects are among the least well known. Beginning in 1968, Algeria’s President Houari Boumediene commissioned Niemeyer to build two universities and an Olympic sports hall, as well as a series of large-scale, never-realized projects across Algeria, in an attempt to forge a modernist, independent nation. In 2013, Jason Oddy produced an in-depth photographic survey of these buildings as they exist in Algeria today. This publication collects those images alongside archival documents and Oddy’s further research into Niemeyer’s Algerian work in order to explore the revolutionary politics that inspired and formed these buildings.
The revolution will be stopped halfway: Oscar Niemeyer in Algeria
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Of all of the Brazilian modernist Oscar Niemeyer’s many built works, his Algerian projects are among the least well known. Beginning in 1968, Algeria’s President Houari Boumediene commissioned Niemeyer to build two universities and an Olympic sports hall, as well as a series of large-scale, never-realized projects across Algeria, in an attempt to forge a modernist, independent nation. In 2013, Jason Oddy produced an in-depth photographic survey of these buildings as they exist in Algeria today. This publication collects those images alongside archival documents and Oddy’s further research into Niemeyer’s Algerian work in order to explore the revolutionary politics that inspired and formed these buildings.
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May 2019
May 2019
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Architecture Monographs
Architecture Monographs
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Things in life tend to fall apart. Cars break down. Buildings fall into disrepair. Personal items deteriorate. Yet today’s researchers are exploiting newly understood properties of matter to program materials that physically sense, adapt, and fall together instead of apart. These materials open new directions for industrial innovation and challenge us to rethink the way(...)
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Things in life tend to fall apart. Cars break down. Buildings fall into disrepair. Personal items deteriorate. Yet today’s researchers are exploiting newly understood properties of matter to program materials that physically sense, adapt, and fall together instead of apart. These materials open new directions for industrial innovation and challenge us to rethink the way(...)
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Things fall together: a guide to the new materials revolution
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Things in life tend to fall apart. Cars break down. Buildings fall into disrepair. Personal items deteriorate. Yet today’s researchers are exploiting newly understood properties of matter to program materials that physically sense, adapt, and fall together instead of apart. These materials open new directions for industrial innovation and challenge us to rethink the way we build and collaborate with our environment. "Things fall together" is a provocative guide to this emerging, often mind-bending reality, presenting a bold vision for harnessing the intelligence embedded in the material world. Drawing on his pioneering work on self-assembly and programmable material technologies, Skylar Tibbits lays out the core, frequently counterintuitive ideas and strategies that animate this new approach to design and innovation. From furniture that builds itself to shoes printed flat that jump into shape to islands that grow themselves, he describes how matter can compute and exhibit behaviors that we typically associate with biological organisms, and challenges our fundamental assumptions about what physical materials can do and how we can interact with them. Intelligent products today often rely on electronics, batteries, and complicated mechanisms. Tibbits offers a different approach, showing how we can design simple and elegant material intelligence that may one day animate and improve itself—and along the way help us build a more sustainable future.
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Things in life tend to fall apart. Cars break down. Buildings fall into disrepair. Personal items deteriorate. Yet today’s researchers are exploiting newly understood properties of matter to program materials that physically sense, adapt, and fall together instead of apart. These materials open new directions for industrial innovation and challenge us to rethink the way we build and collaborate with our environment. "Things fall together" is a provocative guide to this emerging, often mind-bending reality, presenting a bold vision for harnessing the intelligence embedded in the material world. Drawing on his pioneering work on self-assembly and programmable material technologies, Skylar Tibbits lays out the core, frequently counterintuitive ideas and strategies that animate this new approach to design and innovation. From furniture that builds itself to shoes printed flat that jump into shape to islands that grow themselves, he describes how matter can compute and exhibit behaviors that we typically associate with biological organisms, and challenges our fundamental assumptions about what physical materials can do and how we can interact with them. Intelligent products today often rely on electronics, batteries, and complicated mechanisms. Tibbits offers a different approach, showing how we can design simple and elegant material intelligence that may one day animate and improve itself—and along the way help us build a more sustainable future.
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June 2021
June 2021
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Design Theory
Design Theory
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Knowledge is power : the diffusion of information in early America, 1700-1865 / Richard D. Brown.
Knowledge is power : the diffusion of information in early America, 1700-1865 / Richard D. Brown.
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xii, 372 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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xii, 372 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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- Communication United States History.,
- Communication États-Unis Histoire.,
- Information États-Unis Histoire.,
- 17.21 monolingual sociolinguistics.,
- Civilization,
- Communication,
- Alfabetisme.,
- Communicatie.,
- Communications United States History.,
- Information États-Unis 18e siècle.,
- Information États-Unis 19e siècle.,
- Communication États-Unis 18e siècle.,
- Communication États-Unis 19e siècle.,
- United States Civilization To 1783.,
- United States Civilization 1783-1865.,
- États-Unis Civilisation Jusqu'à 1783.,
- États-Unis Civilisation 1783-1865.,
- United States,
- United States Civilization 18th century.,
- États-Unis Civilisation 18e siècle.,
- 00030 United States 11030 literacy,
- Communication History United States,
- Geschichte 1700-1865,
- History
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New York : Oxford University Press, 1989.
New York : Oxford University Press, 1989.
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Knowledge is power : the diffusion of information in early America, 1700-1865 / Richard D. Brown.
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xii, 372 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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New York : Oxford University Press, 1989.
New York : Oxford University Press, 1989.
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- Communication United States History.,
- Communication États-Unis Histoire.,
- Information États-Unis Histoire.,
- 17.21 monolingual sociolinguistics.,
- Civilization,
- Communication,
- Alfabetisme.,
- Communicatie.,
- Communications United States History.,
- Information États-Unis 18e siècle.,
- Information États-Unis 19e siècle.,
- Communication États-Unis 18e siècle.,
- Communication États-Unis 19e siècle.,
- United States Civilization To 1783.,
- United States Civilization 1783-1865.,
- États-Unis Civilisation Jusqu'à 1783.,
- États-Unis Civilisation 1783-1865.,
- United States,
- United States Civilization 18th century.,
- États-Unis Civilisation 18e siècle.,
- 00030 United States 11030 literacy,
- Communication History United States,
- Geschichte 1700-1865,
- History
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Transmaterial next : a catalog of materials that redefine our future / edited by Blaine Brownell.
Transmaterial next : a catalog of materials that redefine our future / edited by Blaine Brownell.
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314 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
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314 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
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- Materials Technological innovations.,
- Materials Catalogs.,
- Matériaux Innovations.,
- Matériaux Catalogues.,
- TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING Engineering (General),
- TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING Reference.,
- Materials.,
- Architektur.,
- Baustoff,
- Innovation,
- catalogs (documents),
- Catalogs.,
- Catalogues.
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New York : Princeton Architectural Press, [2017]
New York : Princeton Architectural Press, [2017]
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Transmaterial next : a catalog of materials that redefine our future / edited by Blaine Brownell.
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314 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Transmaterial next : a catalog of materials that redefine our future / edited by Blaine Brownell.
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314 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
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New York : Princeton Architectural Press, [2017]
New York : Princeton Architectural Press, [2017]
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- Materials Technological innovations.,
- Materials Catalogs.,
- Matériaux Innovations.,
- Matériaux Catalogues.,
- TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING Engineering (General),
- TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING Reference.,
- Materials.,
- Architektur.,
- Baustoff,
- Innovation,
- catalogs (documents),
- Catalogs.,
- Catalogues.
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Olafur Eliasson : surroundings surrounded : essays on space and science / edited by Peter Weibel.
Olafur Eliasson : surroundings surrounded : essays on space and science / edited by Peter Weibel.
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719 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm
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719 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm
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- Ólafur Elíasson, 1967- Exhibitions.,
- Ólafur Elíasson, 1967-,
- Site-specific installations (Art) Exhibitions.,
- Space and time.,
- Art and science.,
- Installations in situ (Art) Expositions.,
- Art et sciences.,
- Site-specific installations (Art),
- Environments.,
- Exhibition catalogues.,
- Essays.,
- Exhibition catalogs.,
- exhibition catalogs.,
- Catalogues d'exposition.
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Graz, Austria : Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum ; Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, ©2001.
Graz, Austria : Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum ; Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, ©2001.
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Olafur Eliasson : surroundings surrounded : essays on space and science / edited by Peter Weibel.
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719 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm
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719 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm
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Graz, Austria : Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum ; Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, ©2001.
Graz, Austria : Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum ; Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, ©2001.
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- Ólafur Elíasson, 1967- Exhibitions.,
- Ólafur Elíasson, 1967-,
- Site-specific installations (Art) Exhibitions.,
- Space and time.,
- Art and science.,
- Installations in situ (Art) Expositions.,
- Art et sciences.,
- Site-specific installations (Art),
- Environments.,
- Exhibition catalogues.,
- Essays.,
- Exhibition catalogs.,
- exhibition catalogs.,
- Catalogues d'exposition.
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Open Humanities Press 2022
Open Humanities Press 2022
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ix, 197 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm
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ix, 197 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm
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- Robert, Hubert, 1733-1808 Criticism and interpretation.,
- Robert, Hubert, 1733-1808,
- Robert, Hubert 1733-1808,
- Ruins in art.,
- Art and society France History 18th century.,
- Ruines dans l'art.,
- Art et société France Histoire 18e siècle.,
- 21.02 history of painting.,
- 20.21 iconographic themes.,
- Art and society,
- Ruine,
- Kunst,
- Malerei,
- ruine Robert, Hubert Paris (France),
- paysage urbain Robert, Hubert Paris (France),
- peinture européenne ruine 18e s. (2e moitié),
- Paris (France) In art.,
- France,
- France Paris,
- works of art.,
- Art,
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.,
- History,
- Œuvres d'art.
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Los Angeles, CA : Getty Research Institute, ©2010.
Los Angeles, CA : Getty Research Institute, ©2010.
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Futures & ruins : eighteenth-century Paris and the art of Hubert Robert / Nina L. Dubin.
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ix, 197 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm
Futures & ruins : eighteenth-century Paris and the art of Hubert Robert / Nina L. Dubin.
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Los Angeles, CA : Getty Research Institute, ©2010.
Los Angeles, CA : Getty Research Institute, ©2010.
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- Robert, Hubert, 1733-1808 Criticism and interpretation.,
- Robert, Hubert, 1733-1808,
- Robert, Hubert 1733-1808,
- Ruins in art.,
- Art and society France History 18th century.,
- Ruines dans l'art.,
- Art et société France Histoire 18e siècle.,
- 21.02 history of painting.,
- 20.21 iconographic themes.,
- Art and society,
- Ruine,
- Kunst,
- Malerei,
- ruine Robert, Hubert Paris (France),
- paysage urbain Robert, Hubert Paris (France),
- peinture européenne ruine 18e s. (2e moitié),
- Paris (France) In art.,
- France,
- France Paris,
- works of art.,
- Art,
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.,
- History,
- Œuvres d'art.
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347 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.
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347 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.
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Gollion : Infolio, [2014]
Gollion : Infolio, [2014]
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/Perception/architecture/urbain / sous la direction de Chris Younès et Xavier Bonnaud ; préface par Thierry Paquot.
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347 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.
/Perception/architecture/urbain / sous la direction de Chris Younès et Xavier Bonnaud ; préface par Thierry Paquot.
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347 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.
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Gollion : Infolio, [2014]
Gollion : Infolio, [2014]
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195 pages : illustrations (some color), charts, maps, plans ; 31 cm
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195 pages : illustrations (some color), charts, maps, plans ; 31 cm
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- Industrialization Environmental aspects Israel.,
- Architecture Environmental aspects Israel.,
- Architecture, Industrial Israel.,
- Landscapes Israel.,
- Industrialisation Aspect de l'environnement Israël.,
- Architecture Aspect de l'environnement Israël.,
- Architecture industrielle Israël.,
- Paysages Israël.,
- Architecture Environmental aspects,
- Architecture, Industrial,
- Industrialization Environmental aspects,
- Landscapes,
- Israel
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Zurich, Switzerland : Park Books, [2017], ©2017
Zurich, Switzerland : Park Books, [2017], ©2017
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Israel lessons : industrial Arcadia / editors, Harry Gugger [and four others].
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195 pages : illustrations (some color), charts, maps, plans ; 31 cm
Israel lessons : industrial Arcadia / editors, Harry Gugger [and four others].
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195 pages : illustrations (some color), charts, maps, plans ; 31 cm
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Zurich, Switzerland : Park Books, [2017], ©2017
Zurich, Switzerland : Park Books, [2017], ©2017
Subject:
- Industrialization Environmental aspects Israel.,
- Architecture Environmental aspects Israel.,
- Architecture, Industrial Israel.,
- Landscapes Israel.,
- Industrialisation Aspect de l'environnement Israël.,
- Architecture Aspect de l'environnement Israël.,
- Architecture industrielle Israël.,
- Paysages Israël.,
- Architecture Environmental aspects,
- Architecture, Industrial,
- Industrialization Environmental aspects,
- Landscapes,
- Israel
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