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Alphabet city 15: Air
Alphabet city 15: Air
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Air considers the condition of this basic component of life on earth from a range of perspectives. It reveals the thick materiality of air, air as stinky, clotted, corrupted matter—in a word, dirty. We see the stuff of air in the form of molecules from disintegrating artworks, or as the material for building forms; as the bearer of scents and germs and as the substrate(...)
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Air considers the condition of this basic component of life on earth from a range of perspectives. It reveals the thick materiality of air, air as stinky, clotted, corrupted matter—in a word, dirty. We see the stuff of air in the form of molecules from disintegrating artworks, or as the material for building forms; as the bearer of scents and germs and as the substrate(...)
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Alphabet city 15: Air
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Air considers the condition of this basic component of life on earth from a range of perspectives. It reveals the thick materiality of air, air as stinky, clotted, corrupted matter—in a word, dirty. We see the stuff of air in the form of molecules from disintegrating artworks, or as the material for building forms; as the bearer of scents and germs and as the substrate for communications both digital and pneumatic. Air leads us to perceive air, and the imperative to protect it, anew.
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Air considers the condition of this basic component of life on earth from a range of perspectives. It reveals the thick materiality of air, air as stinky, clotted, corrupted matter—in a word, dirty. We see the stuff of air in the form of molecules from disintegrating artworks, or as the material for building forms; as the bearer of scents and germs and as the substrate for communications both digital and pneumatic. Air leads us to perceive air, and the imperative to protect it, anew.
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October 2010
October 2010
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Environment and environmental theory
Environment and environmental theory
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This book presents an overview on environmentally sound building and planning practices and includes project descriptions, photographs, and detailed drawings that demonstrate that sustainability is not just good for the planet, but also offers new opportunities for creativity and innovation. Beginning with a survey of evolving strategies to step more lightly on the earth,(...)
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This book presents an overview on environmentally sound building and planning practices and includes project descriptions, photographs, and detailed drawings that demonstrate that sustainability is not just good for the planet, but also offers new opportunities for creativity and innovation. Beginning with a survey of evolving strategies to step more lightly on the earth,(...)
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Green living: architecture and planning
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This book presents an overview on environmentally sound building and planning practices and includes project descriptions, photographs, and detailed drawings that demonstrate that sustainability is not just good for the planet, but also offers new opportunities for creativity and innovation. Beginning with a survey of evolving strategies to step more lightly on the earth, like "graywater" recovery, green roofs, contextual design, and human-scale architecture, the book features essays by such noted experts as Andres Duany, Victor Deupi, Bruce King, Stephen A. Mouzon, and Norman Crowe.
Green living: architecture and planning
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This book presents an overview on environmentally sound building and planning practices and includes project descriptions, photographs, and detailed drawings that demonstrate that sustainability is not just good for the planet, but also offers new opportunities for creativity and innovation. Beginning with a survey of evolving strategies to step more lightly on the earth, like "graywater" recovery, green roofs, contextual design, and human-scale architecture, the book features essays by such noted experts as Andres Duany, Victor Deupi, Bruce King, Stephen A. Mouzon, and Norman Crowe.
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May 2010
May 2010
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Green Architecture
Green Architecture
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This catalogue was published on the occasion of the exhibitions "Our Love is Like the flowers, the Rain, the Sea and the Hours" at Tramway, Glasgow and "Our Love is Like the Earth, the Sun, the Trees and the Birth" at the Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver. It includes installations featuring a series of sculptures that suggest both a park-like landscape and an apartment(...)
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This catalogue was published on the occasion of the exhibitions "Our Love is Like the flowers, the Rain, the Sea and the Hours" at Tramway, Glasgow and "Our Love is Like the Earth, the Sun, the Trees and the Birth" at the Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver. It includes installations featuring a series of sculptures that suggest both a park-like landscape and an apartment(...)
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Contemporary Art Monographs
Contemporary Art Monographs
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January 1900, Vancouver / Glasgow
January 1900, Vancouver / Glasgow
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Martin Boyce : this place is dreaming
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This catalogue was published on the occasion of the exhibitions "Our Love is Like the flowers, the Rain, the Sea and the Hours" at Tramway, Glasgow and "Our Love is Like the Earth, the Sun, the Trees and the Birth" at the Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver. It includes installations featuring a series of sculptures that suggest both a park-like landscape and an apartment interior in which the artist describes and abstracts cultural and social environments. The catalogue includes Martin Boyce’s conversation with Douglas Coupland, and essays by Raymond MacDonald and Douglas Coupland.
Martin Boyce : this place is dreaming
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This catalogue was published on the occasion of the exhibitions "Our Love is Like the flowers, the Rain, the Sea and the Hours" at Tramway, Glasgow and "Our Love is Like the Earth, the Sun, the Trees and the Birth" at the Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver. It includes installations featuring a series of sculptures that suggest both a park-like landscape and an apartment interior in which the artist describes and abstracts cultural and social environments. The catalogue includes Martin Boyce’s conversation with Douglas Coupland, and essays by Raymond MacDonald and Douglas Coupland.
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January 1900, Vancouver / Glasgow
January 1900, Vancouver / Glasgow
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Contemporary Art Monographs
Contemporary Art Monographs
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Gaia and philosophy
Gaia and philosophy
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In the 1970s, microbiologist Lynn Margulis and atmospheric chemist James Lovelock developed the Gaia theory. Embracing the circular logic of life and engineering systems, the Gaia theory states that Earth is a self-regulating complex system in which life interacts with and eventually becomes its own environment Fusing science, mathematics, philosophy, ecology and(...)
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In the 1970s, microbiologist Lynn Margulis and atmospheric chemist James Lovelock developed the Gaia theory. Embracing the circular logic of life and engineering systems, the Gaia theory states that Earth is a self-regulating complex system in which life interacts with and eventually becomes its own environment Fusing science, mathematics, philosophy, ecology and(...)
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Gaia and philosophy
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In the 1970s, microbiologist Lynn Margulis and atmospheric chemist James Lovelock developed the Gaia theory. Embracing the circular logic of life and engineering systems, the Gaia theory states that Earth is a self-regulating complex system in which life interacts with and eventually becomes its own environment Fusing science, mathematics, philosophy, ecology and mythology, ''Gaia and philosophy,'' with a new introduction by Dorion Sagan, challenges Western anthropocentrism to propose a symbiotic planet. In its striking philosophical conclusion, the revolutionary Gaia paradigm holds important implications not only for understanding life's past but for shaping its future.
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In the 1970s, microbiologist Lynn Margulis and atmospheric chemist James Lovelock developed the Gaia theory. Embracing the circular logic of life and engineering systems, the Gaia theory states that Earth is a self-regulating complex system in which life interacts with and eventually becomes its own environment Fusing science, mathematics, philosophy, ecology and mythology, ''Gaia and philosophy,'' with a new introduction by Dorion Sagan, challenges Western anthropocentrism to propose a symbiotic planet. In its striking philosophical conclusion, the revolutionary Gaia paradigm holds important implications not only for understanding life's past but for shaping its future.
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June 2023
June 2023
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Environment and environmental theory
Environment and environmental theory
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Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983) dedicated more than five decades of his career during the 20th century to inventing and pioneering solutions to reform the environment for all humanity. His far-reaching perspective on the world’s challenges and issues left behind a legacy of numerous patents and inventions, exerting a massive influence over the generations that have(...)
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Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983) dedicated more than five decades of his career during the 20th century to inventing and pioneering solutions to reform the environment for all humanity. His far-reaching perspective on the world’s challenges and issues left behind a legacy of numerous patents and inventions, exerting a massive influence over the generations that have(...)
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A+U 635 : The Seven Principles
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Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983) dedicated more than five decades of his career during the 20th century to inventing and pioneering solutions to reform the environment for all humanity. His far-reaching perspective on the world’s challenges and issues left behind a legacy of numerous patents and inventions, exerting a massive influence over the generations that have followed. This issue of the magazine zooms in on Fuller’s seven principles: 4D, dymaxion, synergetics, geodesic, tensegrity, design science, and Spaceship Earth. Besides highlighting examples of various designs and projects, it also reprints Fuller’s article "Experiment in Individual Initiative".
A+U 635 : The Seven Principles
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Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983) dedicated more than five decades of his career during the 20th century to inventing and pioneering solutions to reform the environment for all humanity. His far-reaching perspective on the world’s challenges and issues left behind a legacy of numerous patents and inventions, exerting a massive influence over the generations that have followed. This issue of the magazine zooms in on Fuller’s seven principles: 4D, dymaxion, synergetics, geodesic, tensegrity, design science, and Spaceship Earth. Besides highlighting examples of various designs and projects, it also reprints Fuller’s article "Experiment in Individual Initiative".
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June 2023
June 2023
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Magazines
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Challenging the way we look at, think of and interact with the social world, "Social matter, social design" emphasizes the role of materiality. This enlarged field for engagement demands that design incorporates a more nuanced and complex reading of how the social is intertwined with the material, which confronts the often reductive or simplistic notion of ‘social(...)
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Challenging the way we look at, think of and interact with the social world, "Social matter, social design" emphasizes the role of materiality. This enlarged field for engagement demands that design incorporates a more nuanced and complex reading of how the social is intertwined with the material, which confronts the often reductive or simplistic notion of ‘social(...)
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Social matter, social design: for good or bad, all design is social
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Challenging the way we look at, think of and interact with the social world, "Social matter, social design" emphasizes the role of materiality. This enlarged field for engagement demands that design incorporates a more nuanced and complex reading of how the social is intertwined with the material, which confronts the often reductive or simplistic notion of ‘social design’, and offers novel forms of critical and meaningful engagement at a time of mounting social contradictions. The essays are centered around four major themes: the body; earth; the political; and technology.
Social matter, social design: for good or bad, all design is social
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Challenging the way we look at, think of and interact with the social world, "Social matter, social design" emphasizes the role of materiality. This enlarged field for engagement demands that design incorporates a more nuanced and complex reading of how the social is intertwined with the material, which confronts the often reductive or simplistic notion of ‘social design’, and offers novel forms of critical and meaningful engagement at a time of mounting social contradictions. The essays are centered around four major themes: the body; earth; the political; and technology.
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November 2020
November 2020
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Design Theory
Design Theory
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Since the birth of photography, photographers have been taking images of the earth from the air-with spectacular visual results. Celebrating over 150 years of these incredible images, this book tells the fascinating story of how these pictures were created, the technologies that have made them possible, and the photographers that have propelled image-taking to bold new(...)
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Since the birth of photography, photographers have been taking images of the earth from the air-with spectacular visual results. Celebrating over 150 years of these incredible images, this book tells the fascinating story of how these pictures were created, the technologies that have made them possible, and the photographers that have propelled image-taking to bold new(...)
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From above: the story of aerial photography
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Since the birth of photography, photographers have been taking images of the earth from the air-with spectacular visual results. Celebrating over 150 years of these incredible images, this book tells the fascinating story of how these pictures were created, the technologies that have made them possible, and the photographers that have propelled image-taking to bold new heights. Taking advantage of the amazing sense of perspective that aerial photography offers, this collection of images also offers a unique overview of the events, challenges, and changes of the past 150 years of human history.
From above: the story of aerial photography
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Since the birth of photography, photographers have been taking images of the earth from the air-with spectacular visual results. Celebrating over 150 years of these incredible images, this book tells the fascinating story of how these pictures were created, the technologies that have made them possible, and the photographers that have propelled image-taking to bold new heights. Taking advantage of the amazing sense of perspective that aerial photography offers, this collection of images also offers a unique overview of the events, challenges, and changes of the past 150 years of human history.
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October 2019
October 2019
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Photography Collections
Photography Collections
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journals and magazines
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GEO- Earth- is a word that simultaneously signifies something vast and elemental. It refers to both the planet on which we live and the soil that sustains us. GEO is the physical and representational bedrock of landscape architecture- the foundation of many disciplines from which we draw our knowledge. Geography, Geology, and Geometry, in particular, are fundamental to(...)
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GEO- Earth- is a word that simultaneously signifies something vast and elemental. It refers to both the planet on which we live and the soil that sustains us. GEO is the physical and representational bedrock of landscape architecture- the foundation of many disciplines from which we draw our knowledge. Geography, Geology, and Geometry, in particular, are fundamental to(...)
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LA+ GEO
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GEO- Earth- is a word that simultaneously signifies something vast and elemental. It refers to both the planet on which we live and the soil that sustains us. GEO is the physical and representational bedrock of landscape architecture- the foundation of many disciplines from which we draw our knowledge. Geography, Geology, and Geometry, in particular, are fundamental to our discipline’s intellectual core. And now, we seem ever more entangled in GEO as some scholars across the sciences and humanities argue that humans should be recognized as agents of change at geologic time scales.
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GEO- Earth- is a word that simultaneously signifies something vast and elemental. It refers to both the planet on which we live and the soil that sustains us. GEO is the physical and representational bedrock of landscape architecture- the foundation of many disciplines from which we draw our knowledge. Geography, Geology, and Geometry, in particular, are fundamental to our discipline’s intellectual core. And now, we seem ever more entangled in GEO as some scholars across the sciences and humanities argue that humans should be recognized as agents of change at geologic time scales.
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journals and magazines
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January 2021
January 2021
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xv, 275 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2022], ©2022
Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2022], ©2022
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The accidental ecosystem : people and wildlife in American cities / Peter S. Alagona.
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xv, 275 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
The accidental ecosystem : people and wildlife in American cities / Peter S. Alagona.
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Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2022], ©2022
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Recognizing that buildings are a major contributor to global warming and the critical role of embodied versus operational carbon, the book focuses on houses built from materials that either sequester carbon (plants), use materials with very low embodied carbon (earth and stone) or reuse substantial amounts of existing materials. Organized by those materials (wood,(...)
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Recognizing that buildings are a major contributor to global warming and the critical role of embodied versus operational carbon, the book focuses on houses built from materials that either sequester carbon (plants), use materials with very low embodied carbon (earth and stone) or reuse substantial amounts of existing materials. Organized by those materials (wood,(...)
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January 2023
January 2023
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Manual of biogenic house sections
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Recognizing that buildings are a major contributor to global warming and the critical role of embodied versus operational carbon, the book focuses on houses built from materials that either sequester carbon (plants), use materials with very low embodied carbon (earth and stone) or reuse substantial amounts of existing materials. Organized by those materials (wood, bamboo, straw, hemp, cork, earth, brick, stone and re-use), and incorporating life cycle diagrams demonstrating how the raw material is processed into building components, the book shows how the unique properties of each material can transform the ways architects conceive the sections of houses. The house was selected as the vehicle for these investigations due to its scale, its role as a site of architectural experimentation, and its ubiquity. Building on the techniques of the "Manual of section," the book is comprised of newly generated cross-sectional drawings of fifty-five recent, modestly sized houses from around the world, making legible the tectonics and materials used in their construction. Each house is also shown through exploded axonometric, construction photographs and color photographs of the exterior and interior. Introductory essays set up the importance of embodied carbon, the role of vernacular plant-based construction and the problems of contemporary house construction. Drawing connections between the architecture of the house, environmental systems and material economies, the book seeks to change how we build now and for the future.
Manual of biogenic house sections
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Recognizing that buildings are a major contributor to global warming and the critical role of embodied versus operational carbon, the book focuses on houses built from materials that either sequester carbon (plants), use materials with very low embodied carbon (earth and stone) or reuse substantial amounts of existing materials. Organized by those materials (wood, bamboo, straw, hemp, cork, earth, brick, stone and re-use), and incorporating life cycle diagrams demonstrating how the raw material is processed into building components, the book shows how the unique properties of each material can transform the ways architects conceive the sections of houses. The house was selected as the vehicle for these investigations due to its scale, its role as a site of architectural experimentation, and its ubiquity. Building on the techniques of the "Manual of section," the book is comprised of newly generated cross-sectional drawings of fifty-five recent, modestly sized houses from around the world, making legible the tectonics and materials used in their construction. Each house is also shown through exploded axonometric, construction photographs and color photographs of the exterior and interior. Introductory essays set up the importance of embodied carbon, the role of vernacular plant-based construction and the problems of contemporary house construction. Drawing connections between the architecture of the house, environmental systems and material economies, the book seeks to change how we build now and for the future.
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January 2023
January 2023
