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The projects in this volume are examples of the wide variety of alternative materials that can be used in construction: adobe, sandbags, cardboard, straw bales, rammed earth and more, all of which have been put to use in climes ranging from the frozen north to windswept beaches to sun-baked deserts.
Sustainable architecture, lowtech houses
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The projects in this volume are examples of the wide variety of alternative materials that can be used in construction: adobe, sandbags, cardboard, straw bales, rammed earth and more, all of which have been put to use in climes ranging from the frozen north to windswept beaches to sun-baked deserts.
Green Architecture
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xvii, 261 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm
Cambridge ; Hoboken, NJ : Polity Press, [2023], ©2023
Lichens : toward a minimal resistance / Vincent Zonca ; translated by Jody Gladding ; preface by Emanuele Coccia.
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Cambridge ; Hoboken, NJ : Polity Press, [2023], ©2023
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In the late 18th century, surveyors divided the Midwestern United States into the Jefferson Grid: a system of neat, one-by-one-mile squares. But because the earth is round, the lines tapered to the north. Therefore the grid had to be corrected: every 20 miles, grid corrections brought theory and practice back together. Pilot and aerial photographer Gerco de Ruijter (born(...)
Gerco de Ruijter: Grid Corrections
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In the late 18th century, surveyors divided the Midwestern United States into the Jefferson Grid: a system of neat, one-by-one-mile squares. But because the earth is round, the lines tapered to the north. Therefore the grid had to be corrected: every 20 miles, grid corrections brought theory and practice back together. Pilot and aerial photographer Gerco de Ruijter (born 1961) first spotted these small bends and T-junctions while completing a residency in Wichita; then, with the help of Google Earth, De Ruijter found thousands of these corrections. Presenting De Ruijter’s selection of over 250 photocollage grid corrections—snowed under or dried up, in cities and in deserts—and featuring an exceptional design by Irma Boom, this publication is a testimony to the human urge to design the landscape and the ways in which nature responds to that urge.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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In this publication, Sarah Jane Cervenak engages with Black artists and writers who create alternative spaces for Black people to gather free from interruption or regulation. Drawing together Black feminist theory, critical theories of ecology and ecoaesthetics, and Black aesthetics, Cervenak shows how novelists, poets, and visual artists such as Gayl Jones, Toni(...)
Black gathering: Art, ecology, ungiven life
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In this publication, Sarah Jane Cervenak engages with Black artists and writers who create alternative spaces for Black people to gather free from interruption or regulation. Drawing together Black feminist theory, critical theories of ecology and ecoaesthetics, and Black aesthetics, Cervenak shows how novelists, poets, and visual artists such as Gayl Jones, Toni Morrison, Clementine Hunter, Samiya Bashir, and Leonardo Drew advance an ecological imagination that unsettles Western philosophical ideas of the earth as given to humans. In their aestheticization and conceptualization of gathering, these artists investigate the relationships among art, the environment, home, and forms of Black togetherness. Cervenak argues that by offering a formal and conceptual praxis of gathering, Black artists imagine liberation and alternative ways of being in the world that exist beyond those Enlightenment philosophies that presume Black people and earth as given to enclosure and ownership.
Art Theory
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280 pages illustrations 26 cm
New York, Random House [1975]
Hazor, the rediscovery of a great citadel of the Bible.
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351 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps, portraits ; 16 cm
Köln : Taschen, 2020., ©2020
Countryside : a report / AMO ; Rem Koolhaas.
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Köln : Taschen, 2020., ©2020
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316 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 24 cm.
Hamilton, NJ : ISC Press ; Seattle, WA : Distributed by University of Washington Press, ©2011.
The new earthwork : art, action, agency / edited by Twylene Moyer and Glenn Harper.
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Hamilton, NJ : ISC Press ; Seattle, WA : Distributed by University of Washington Press, ©2011.
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Christophe Girot has occupied the Chair of Landscape Architecture at the ETH Zurich since the year 2000. Girot's projects are all based on simple geometric and gestural movements. His concept of garden architecture begins with the modelling of the earth surface. The resulting topography is the basis of a restrained plant vocabulary.
Landscape Architecture, Monographs
January 2004, Luzern
Small urban natures : Christophe Girot / arcadia 2
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Christophe Girot has occupied the Chair of Landscape Architecture at the ETH Zurich since the year 2000. Girot's projects are all based on simple geometric and gestural movements. His concept of garden architecture begins with the modelling of the earth surface. The resulting topography is the basis of a restrained plant vocabulary.
Landscape Architecture, Monographs
Move house
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Surprisingly, many of the movable houses of today echo history's earliest and most rudimentary shelters. Some reveal an unprecedented demand for luxury and comfort while others reflect a desire to lessen man's impact on the earth. Cleverly juxtaposing the old and the new, countless photographs of mobile homes, transformable fashions, custom vehicles.
Move house
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Surprisingly, many of the movable houses of today echo history's earliest and most rudimentary shelters. Some reveal an unprecedented demand for luxury and comfort while others reflect a desire to lessen man's impact on the earth. Cleverly juxtaposing the old and the new, countless photographs of mobile homes, transformable fashions, custom vehicles.
Mobile Houses
The Bento Bestiary
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In the eighteenth century, Japanese artist Toriyama Sekien depicted each spirit of the Yokai tradition, an ancient race of demons whose descendants, Godzilla and Mothra, would later terrorize the earth. Ben Newman and Scott Donaldson rediscover the near-forgotten Yokai and return these ancient beasts to their former glory in The Bento Bestiary.
The Bento Bestiary
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In the eighteenth century, Japanese artist Toriyama Sekien depicted each spirit of the Yokai tradition, an ancient race of demons whose descendants, Godzilla and Mothra, would later terrorize the earth. Ben Newman and Scott Donaldson rediscover the near-forgotten Yokai and return these ancient beasts to their former glory in The Bento Bestiary.
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