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German photographer Sibylle Bergemann (1941-2010) made her living in fashion photography, but it was with her portraits of everyday life in East Germany over the 45 years of its existence that she gained acclaim. This catalogue presents dreamlike, delicate images, - created to fight the way that humans forget, avoiding any sort of categorization in terms of time and space.
Sibylle Bergemann: the polaroids
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German photographer Sibylle Bergemann (1941-2010) made her living in fashion photography, but it was with her portraits of everyday life in East Germany over the 45 years of its existence that she gained acclaim. This catalogue presents dreamlike, delicate images, - created to fight the way that humans forget, avoiding any sort of categorization in terms of time and space.
Photography monographs
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Planning to initiate designs for government, academic, and private research laboratories? Here's the nuts-and-bolts design guidelines that will start any project off on the right track and keep it there through completion. Filled with project photographs, diagrams, floor plans, sections, and details. Combines in-depth coverage of the structural, mechanical, energy, cost,(...)
Commercial interiors, Building types
August 2008
Building type basics for research laboratories
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Planning to initiate designs for government, academic, and private research laboratories? Here's the nuts-and-bolts design guidelines that will start any project off on the right track and keep it there through completion. Filled with project photographs, diagrams, floor plans, sections, and details. Combines in-depth coverage of the structural, mechanical, energy, cost, and safety issues that are unique to research laboratories.
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August 2008
Commercial interiors, Building types
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Peter Zumthor presents around forty of his projects, both realized and unrealized, through Zumthor’s own writing, and with photographs, sketches, drawings, and plans. A complete catalog of his works starting in 1979 rounds out the book. Richly illustrated, this 5 volume collection serves as both an introduction to Zumthor’s work and philosophy for the layperson and a(...)
Peter Zumthor: buildings and projects, 1985-2013. 5 volumes
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Peter Zumthor presents around forty of his projects, both realized and unrealized, through Zumthor’s own writing, and with photographs, sketches, drawings, and plans. A complete catalog of his works starting in 1979 rounds out the book. Richly illustrated, this 5 volume collection serves as both an introduction to Zumthor’s work and philosophy for the layperson and a required addition to any architect’s library.
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September 2013
Architecture Monographs
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Gathered together by Tanja Backe, this book presents 1500 tickets stubs from all over the world. Two-decades in the making, this collection originates from every imaginable source. With the tickets printed actual-size, one-to-one, non-scaled and arranged according to colour groups, the non-linear and non-chronological quality of the book allows reading in any order,(...)
One-to-one: the visual culture of international tickets
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Gathered together by Tanja Backe, this book presents 1500 tickets stubs from all over the world. Two-decades in the making, this collection originates from every imaginable source. With the tickets printed actual-size, one-to-one, non-scaled and arranged according to colour groups, the non-linear and non-chronological quality of the book allows reading in any order, according to individual tastes and interests.
Graphic Design and Typography
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The architects Valentin Bearth & Andreas Deplazes, from Chur, have an impressive oeuvre to their credit, an oeuvre that has grown continuously over the past ten years. Their architecture is free of all repetition and stereotyped convention, and it cannot be classified in any category of trendy architecture. Each work responds to the place and the numerous parameters upon(...)
Spacepieces : Valentin Bearth & Andrea Deplazes / de aedibus 1
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The architects Valentin Bearth & Andreas Deplazes, from Chur, have an impressive oeuvre to their credit, an oeuvre that has grown continuously over the past ten years. Their architecture is free of all repetition and stereotyped convention, and it cannot be classified in any category of trendy architecture. Each work responds to the place and the numerous parameters upon which each specific architectural task is based.
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Celebrated comic artist and graphic novelist Jeffrey Brown's collection of all-new drawings illustrates the joys of living with a cat. Brown's work has always paid tribute to felines as they curl up on couches and purr on the peripheries of his autobiographical stories. This book captures the universal charm of cats in a lovely book sure to please fans and cat lovers of any stripe.
Cat getting out of a bag and other observations
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Celebrated comic artist and graphic novelist Jeffrey Brown's collection of all-new drawings illustrates the joys of living with a cat. Brown's work has always paid tribute to felines as they curl up on couches and purr on the peripheries of his autobiographical stories. This book captures the universal charm of cats in a lovely book sure to please fans and cat lovers of any stripe.
Illustration
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Imagine a house constructed in less than forty-eight hours, without using lumber or nails, that is more resistant to fire, earthquakes, and hurricanes than any traditionally built structure. This may sound like the latest development in prefab housing or green architecture, but the design dates back to 1941 when architect Wallace Neff (1895n1982) developed Airform(...)
No nails, no lumber: The bubble houses of Wallace Neff
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Imagine a house constructed in less than forty-eight hours, without using lumber or nails, that is more resistant to fire, earthquakes, and hurricanes than any traditionally built structure. This may sound like the latest development in prefab housing or green architecture, but the design dates back to 1941 when architect Wallace Neff (1895n1982) developed Airform construction as a solution to the global housing crisis.
Architecture Monographs
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«As any other human activity, also Architecture needs to progress. I hope that this "little" "Pink Pavillion" could make people reflect on the urgent need for a renewal in the Art of Building, on pink as the colour of the future, reminding young architects that Architecture is made of three indivisible factors: innovation in language, in technique, and the use of new(...)
Gaetano Pesce : Pink Pavilion
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«As any other human activity, also Architecture needs to progress. I hope that this "little" "Pink Pavillion" could make people reflect on the urgent need for a renewal in the Art of Building, on pink as the colour of the future, reminding young architects that Architecture is made of three indivisible factors: innovation in language, in technique, and the use of new materials. » -Gaetano Pesce
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November 2008
Design Monographs
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In the foreword of ''Smooth City'', René Boer writes about changes shaping the city center of Amsterdam nowadays: how the streets once known for their roughness, are now characterized by homogenous aesthetics, minimalist shopping windows and shiny Uber taxis. These are typical characteristics of the "smooth city": a city in which the urge for "perfection," efficiency and(...)
September 2023
Smooth city: Against urban perfection, towards collective alternatives
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In the foreword of ''Smooth City'', René Boer writes about changes shaping the city center of Amsterdam nowadays: how the streets once known for their roughness, are now characterized by homogenous aesthetics, minimalist shopping windows and shiny Uber taxis. These are typical characteristics of the "smooth city": a city in which the urge for "perfection," efficiency and control is constantly increasing. It is a kind of city which is sterile, clean and layered with new technologies, which makes urban life seemingly "perfect" and frictionless. It can be questioned, however, whether there is still place for divergence from norms, forms of friction or any alternative in the smooth city? René Boer argues in Smooth City that this new version of urbanity undermines the democratic nature and the emancipatory potential of cities, and hardly leaves any space for experiment, non-normativity and transgression. ''Smooth City'' offers a critical analysis of the origins, characteristics and consequences of the smooth city and brings some very welcome reflections on the urban reality we are currently living in.
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Based on a traditional Japanese folktale. Tiny and brave—these are the two most striking characteristics of Issun Bôshi. His mother had longed to have a child for so many years that she finally added “even if it is a very small one” to her wish. When the elderly couple did in fact bear a son, he turned out to be only one inch high. He was thus called Issun Bôshi,(...)
Issun Bôshi: the one-inch boy
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Based on a traditional Japanese folktale. Tiny and brave—these are the two most striking characteristics of Issun Bôshi. His mother had longed to have a child for so many years that she finally added “even if it is a very small one” to her wish. When the elderly couple did in fact bear a son, he turned out to be only one inch high. He was thus called Issun Bôshi, Japanese for one-inch boy. Although his parents raised him very lovingly, Issun Bôshi realized one day that he would not grow any taller. He then left his home to set off on a journey to find his place in the world. Because he saw himself as a swordfighter, a samurai, he made sure to take along the right equipment: a needle was his sword, a soup bowl was his boat, and a chopstick was its rudder. As in any proper fairy tale, Issun Bôshi is tested in several adventures. He handles himself so bravely that, in the end, he is rewarded with just the right princess.
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