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With more than 200 materials, organized by category, described, pictured, and annotated with technical and sourcing information, this catalog is an essential tool for any architect or designer interested in keeping up with the rapid developments in the field of materials, looking for a source of inspiration for their designs, or just eager to get their hands on real(...)
Transmaterial a catalog of materials that redefine our physical environment
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With more than 200 materials, organized by category, described, pictured, and annotated with technical and sourcing information, this catalog is an essential tool for any architect or designer interested in keeping up with the rapid developments in the field of materials, looking for a source of inspiration for their designs, or just eager to get their hands on real materials in an effort to understand the incredibly innovative palette now available to us.
Materials and Lighting
Ideas that shaped buildings
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In "Ideas That Shaped Buildings" Fil Hearn identifies and codifies into theoretical systems the operative tenets of architectural theory from ancient Rome to the present. With this original synthesis of architectural history and theory, he constructs an intellectual armature on which virtually any architectural concept, past or present, can be positioned. Dealing mainly(...)
Ideas that shaped buildings
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In "Ideas That Shaped Buildings" Fil Hearn identifies and codifies into theoretical systems the operative tenets of architectural theory from ancient Rome to the present. With this original synthesis of architectural history and theory, he constructs an intellectual armature on which virtually any architectural concept, past or present, can be positioned. Dealing mainly with the treatises that have been highly influential historically, he organizes their concepts thematically and analyzes their development through time.
Architectural Theory
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The "Ten Houses" series makes the most important elements of architectural design available to a large and varied audience. Each infinitely useful volume presents one of the world?s foremost architects and features 10 of his or her finest residential works-including presentation, drawings, sketches, and working drawings. These full-color, highly affordable volumes will(...)
Ten houses, Alfredo de Vido Architects.
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The "Ten Houses" series makes the most important elements of architectural design available to a large and varied audience. Each infinitely useful volume presents one of the world?s foremost architects and features 10 of his or her finest residential works-including presentation, drawings, sketches, and working drawings. These full-color, highly affordable volumes will enhance any library, providing an essential reference for architecture students and individuals looking for home design ideas.
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Architecture Monographs
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Ever wonder how we ended up with so many different styles of letters? Open any text editor, email client or design app and you will immediately be bombarded with a buffet of typographic choices. Serif or sans serif? Display or text? Classical or contemporary? Formal or casual? Featuring 17 stunning interactive pop-ups, this ABC pop-up book explains—as well as(...)
Alphabet in motion: How letters get their shape
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Ever wonder how we ended up with so many different styles of letters? Open any text editor, email client or design app and you will immediately be bombarded with a buffet of typographic choices. Serif or sans serif? Display or text? Classical or contemporary? Formal or casual? Featuring 17 stunning interactive pop-ups, this ABC pop-up book explains—as well as demonstrates—the technologies and philosophies that have shaped letterforms through the ages.
Graphic Design and Typography
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The Supercrit series revisits some of the most influential architectural projects of the recent past and examines their impact on the way we think and design today. Supercrit 1: Potteries Thinkbelt, Cedric Price examines Cedric Price's unsurpassed proposals for education, the Potteries Thinkbelt project from the 1960s. You can hear the architect's project definition,(...)
Architecture Monographs
February 2008, London, New York
Supercrit 1 Cedric Price Potteries Thinkbelt
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The Supercrit series revisits some of the most influential architectural projects of the recent past and examines their impact on the way we think and design today. Supercrit 1: Potteries Thinkbelt, Cedric Price examines Cedric Price's unsurpassed proposals for education, the Potteries Thinkbelt project from the 1960s. You can hear the architect's project definition, see the drawings and join the crit. This innovative and compelling book is an invaluable resource for any architecture student.
Architecture Monographs
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Form is the horizon of any human activity. Architecture is a discipline aiming at defining the form of buildings. ''Economy of Means : How architecture works'' aims at defining the good architectural form. Economy of means is its D.N.A. Beyond this, by questioning the economy of means both as an aesthetic category and as a conceptual tool, the book proposes to renew(...)
Economy of means: How architecture works
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Form is the horizon of any human activity. Architecture is a discipline aiming at defining the form of buildings. ''Economy of Means : How architecture works'' aims at defining the good architectural form. Economy of means is its D.N.A. Beyond this, by questioning the economy of means both as an aesthetic category and as a conceptual tool, the book proposes to renew architecture to face global warming and scarcity of resources from within the architecture discipline.
Architectural Theory
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Water is the element that, more than any other, ties human beings in to the world around them – from the oceans that surround us to the water that makes up most of our bodies. Exploring the cultural and philosophical implications of this fact, this book develops an innovative new mode of posthuman feminist phenomenology that understands our bodies as being fundamentally(...)
Bodies of water: posthuman feminist phenomenology
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Water is the element that, more than any other, ties human beings in to the world around them – from the oceans that surround us to the water that makes up most of our bodies. Exploring the cultural and philosophical implications of this fact, this book develops an innovative new mode of posthuman feminist phenomenology that understands our bodies as being fundamentally part of the natural world and not separate from or privileged to it.
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Ways of seeing
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John Berger's Ways of Seeing is one of the most stimulating and influential books on art in any language. First published in 1972, it was based on the BBC television series about which the (London) Sunday Times critic commented: "This is an eye-opener in more ways than one: by concentrating on how we look at paintings... he will almost certainly change the way you look at(...)
Ways of seeing
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John Berger's Ways of Seeing is one of the most stimulating and influential books on art in any language. First published in 1972, it was based on the BBC television series about which the (London) Sunday Times critic commented: "This is an eye-opener in more ways than one: by concentrating on how we look at paintings... he will almost certainly change the way you look at pictures." By now he has.
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Art Theory
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Italian gardens have received more attention from historians than perhaps any other garden tradition. This volume presents eight richly illustrated essays by established and emerging scholars that suggest striking new directions for future research. It exemplifies the broad transformations, both quantitative and methodological, taking place in the study and practice of(...)
Clio in the italian garden: Twenty First Century studies in historical methods and theoretical perspectives
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Italian gardens have received more attention from historians than perhaps any other garden tradition. This volume presents eight richly illustrated essays by established and emerging scholars that suggest striking new directions for future research. It exemplifies the broad transformations, both quantitative and methodological, taking place in the study and practice of garden design, and offers a reflective meditation on the vitality of one of the oldest branches of garden and landscape history.
Gardens
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Chaos and anarchy represent the opposite pole to an ordered life. Nothing works any more, everything is devastated, everything is falling apart. City walls, buildings that once afforded protection, have fallen victim to the excesses of armed conflict. In Ruins, the author delivers a detailed assessment of ruins as a phenomenon in architecture, landscape design, fine(...)
Ruins: reflexions about violence, chaos and transience
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Chaos and anarchy represent the opposite pole to an ordered life. Nothing works any more, everything is devastated, everything is falling apart. City walls, buildings that once afforded protection, have fallen victim to the excesses of armed conflict. In Ruins, the author delivers a detailed assessment of ruins as a phenomenon in architecture, landscape design, fine art, film and the media. The result is an extraordinarily intense contribution to the theme of transience.
Architectural Theory