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374 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1996.
Iconography and electronics upon a generic architecture : a view from the drafting room / Robert Venturi.
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Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1996.
San Rocco 07: Indifference
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Indifference is editing. In architecture - as in any other activity - good work does not mean caring about everything. Indifference is a strategic judgement. In this issue: among others, essays on Richard Meier, Lacaton & Vassal, Deleuze, fake Gothic, and primitive huts.
San Rocco 07: Indifference
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Indifference is editing. In architecture - as in any other activity - good work does not mean caring about everything. Indifference is a strategic judgement. In this issue: among others, essays on Richard Meier, Lacaton & Vassal, Deleuze, fake Gothic, and primitive huts.
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Not a box city
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Written and illustrated with the same delightful simplicity that made Not a Box such a hit, the playtime possibilities of a stack of boxes and friendship will inspire and excite any child who has ever journeyed into the world of make-believe.
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Written and illustrated with the same delightful simplicity that made Not a Box such a hit, the playtime possibilities of a stack of boxes and friendship will inspire and excite any child who has ever journeyed into the world of make-believe.
Children's Books
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This book brings together a set of stories, episodes, conversations, thoughts and white lies that depict the processes of making, negotiating, questioning, inhabiting and remembering architecture. The stories don’t follow any specific order and, ideally, one shouldn’t actually ever finish reading the book.
Levante
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This book brings together a set of stories, episodes, conversations, thoughts and white lies that depict the processes of making, negotiating, questioning, inhabiting and remembering architecture. The stories don’t follow any specific order and, ideally, one shouldn’t actually ever finish reading the book.
Architectural Theory
5 year diary
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Designed by Shopsin--whose illustration work is regularly featured in The New York Times--and produced by The Ice Plant, the pint-sized 5 Year Diary helps you keep track of the next 60 months of your life in just a few lines a day. Each page of the diary is devoted to one day of the year and subdivided into five sections (each with its own space for notes), so that, as(...)
5 year diary
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Designed by Shopsin--whose illustration work is regularly featured in The New York Times--and produced by The Ice Plant, the pint-sized 5 Year Diary helps you keep track of the next 60 months of your life in just a few lines a day. Each page of the diary is devoted to one day of the year and subdivided into five sections (each with its own space for notes), so that, as time goes by, past entries can be read as the new ones are written. Handsomely clothbound with a red ribbon bookmark, the diary can be started on any day of any year--even a leap year. In the back of the diary are pages to record the books you've read and the places you've traveled.
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Metro Montreal
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A book fit for any Montreal coffee table. All of Montreal's beautiful metro stations, photographed by Jesse Riviere, all in one place. This photo collection allows you to dive deep into the unique aspects of each station, while enjoying the ride from where ever you want.
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A book fit for any Montreal coffee table. All of Montreal's beautiful metro stations, photographed by Jesse Riviere, all in one place. This photo collection allows you to dive deep into the unique aspects of each station, while enjoying the ride from where ever you want.
Karel Martens: Patterns
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This publication contains a collection of patterns designed by Dutch graphic designer Karel Martens. Although Martens is widely recognised for his specialisation in typography, the dozens of full-page patterns shown here are devoid of any text, allowing the sequence to become a mesmerising pattern in itself.
Karel Martens: Patterns
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This publication contains a collection of patterns designed by Dutch graphic designer Karel Martens. Although Martens is widely recognised for his specialisation in typography, the dozens of full-page patterns shown here are devoid of any text, allowing the sequence to become a mesmerising pattern in itself.
Graphic Designers, Monographs
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Using both rare antique engravings and original graphics, Dr. Lisa DeLong introduces the secret techniques long used to employ curves in the traditional arts. From arabesques to wallpaper designs, iron railings to penned flourishes, tiles to arches, this book will be a companion to any designer.
Curves
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Using both rare antique engravings and original graphics, Dr. Lisa DeLong introduces the secret techniques long used to employ curves in the traditional arts. From arabesques to wallpaper designs, iron railings to penned flourishes, tiles to arches, this book will be a companion to any designer.
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The self-sufficient city
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Internet has changed our lives but it has not changed our cities, yet. Any technological revolution is paired with radical transformations in life styles. This book outlines a blueprint for the world to come, a world built around cities and their renewed capabilities to became productive again.
The self-sufficient city
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Internet has changed our lives but it has not changed our cities, yet. Any technological revolution is paired with radical transformations in life styles. This book outlines a blueprint for the world to come, a world built around cities and their renewed capabilities to became productive again.
Architectural Theory
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This book is among the most influential books by any achitect of our era, it's celebrating complexity in architecture. This new collection of writings in a variety of genres argues for a generic architecture defined by iconography and electronics, an architecture whose elemental qualities become shelter and symbol.
Iconography and electronics upon a generic architecture
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This book is among the most influential books by any achitect of our era, it's celebrating complexity in architecture. This new collection of writings in a variety of genres argues for a generic architecture defined by iconography and electronics, an architecture whose elemental qualities become shelter and symbol.
Architectural Theory