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Francine Houben, founder and creative director of Dutch architecture practice Mecanoo wrote this new monograph "People Place Purpose". The book describes the specific architecture of Mecanoo illustrating the way they seek for identity in a global world. From the texture of a local stone, to colours of a fruit tree, or rituals of inhabitants, Mecanoo is driven to design(...)
People, Place, Purpose: The World According to Mecanoo Architects
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Francine Houben, founder and creative director of Dutch architecture practice Mecanoo wrote this new monograph "People Place Purpose". The book describes the specific architecture of Mecanoo illustrating the way they seek for identity in a global world. From the texture of a local stone, to colours of a fruit tree, or rituals of inhabitants, Mecanoo is driven to design buildings with strength to earth. This book covers 17 projects, by Mecanoo all around the world.
Architecture Monographs
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In this wide-ranging exploration of the role of forests in Western thought, Robert Pogue Harrison enriches our understanding not only of the forest's place in the cultural imagination of the West, but also of the ecological dilemmas that now confront us so urgently. Consistently insightful and beautifully written, this work is especially compelling at a time when the(...)
Forests: the shadow of civilization
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In this wide-ranging exploration of the role of forests in Western thought, Robert Pogue Harrison enriches our understanding not only of the forest's place in the cultural imagination of the West, but also of the ecological dilemmas that now confront us so urgently. Consistently insightful and beautifully written, this work is especially compelling at a time when the forest, as a source of wonder, respect, and meaning, disappears daily from the earth.
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February 1993
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This issue of AD explores the resurgence of ecological strategies in architectural imagination. As a symptom of a new sociopolitical reality inundated with environmental catastrophes, sudden climatic changes, garbage-packed metropolises and para-economies of nonrecyclable e-waste, environmental consciousness and the image of the earth re-emerges, after the 1960s, as an(...)
AD 80:06 Ecoredux, design remedies for an ailing planet
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This issue of AD explores the resurgence of ecological strategies in architectural imagination. As a symptom of a new sociopolitical reality inundated with environmental catastrophes, sudden climatic changes, garbage-packed metropolises and para-economies of nonrecyclable e-waste, environmental consciousness and the image of the earth re-emerges, after the 1960s, as an inevitable cultural armature for architects; now faced with the urgency to heal an ill-managed planet that is headed towards evolutionary bankruptcy.
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Unthought environments
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'Unthought Environments' explores the meeting of infrastructure and the natural elements, such as water, earth, and air. The publication features new essays by Ina Blom, Keller Easterling, and John Durham Peters, and by exhibiting artists Marissa Lee Benedict, Peter Fend, and Revital Cohen & Tuur Van Balen. The book also features a curator’s essay by Karsten Lund, an(...)
Unthought environments
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'Unthought Environments' explores the meeting of infrastructure and the natural elements, such as water, earth, and air. The publication features new essays by Ina Blom, Keller Easterling, and John Durham Peters, and by exhibiting artists Marissa Lee Benedict, Peter Fend, and Revital Cohen & Tuur Van Balen. The book also features a curator’s essay by Karsten Lund, an extensive selection of images, and a conversation with artists Nina Canell, Nicholas Mangan, and Robin Watkins.
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When the Catastrophe occurred, part of humanity took refuge in the Greenhouses. They survived there, locked up for over a century, in the company of selected plants and animals. Outside, the wars exhausted themselves and the climate stabilized: the time came to reclaim the Earth. "Braids" tells the story of an expedition in this now foreign universe, and the reunion of(...)
Braids: memories of the narratocene
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When the Catastrophe occurred, part of humanity took refuge in the Greenhouses. They survived there, locked up for over a century, in the company of selected plants and animals. Outside, the wars exhausted themselves and the climate stabilized: the time came to reclaim the Earth. "Braids" tells the story of an expedition in this now foreign universe, and the reunion of the inhabitants of the Greenhouses with a humanity that has followed a different path.
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Jungjin Lee: Opening
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Following up on her widely-acclaimed book ''Everglades'', published by Nazraeli Press in 2016, Jungjin Lee has created a true artist's book with this series of desert and mountain landscapes entitled ''Opening''. Made in some of her favorite places in Arizona, New Mexico and Canada, these images inspire a sense of the deep and quiet interaction between the beholder and(...)
Jungjin Lee: Opening
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Following up on her widely-acclaimed book ''Everglades'', published by Nazraeli Press in 2016, Jungjin Lee has created a true artist's book with this series of desert and mountain landscapes entitled ''Opening''. Made in some of her favorite places in Arizona, New Mexico and Canada, these images inspire a sense of the deep and quiet interaction between the beholder and the landscape, and the physical presence of earth, stone, tree and sky.
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Why we live where we live
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Geography, topography, climate, landscape, food security, politics, economics, and more all play a role in how we choose the place we call home. This book takes readers on a tour of the various ways humans adapt to our environments — or change them to suit our needs. It considers the big picture — we live on Earth because it has a breathable atmosphere — right down to the(...)
Why we live where we live
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Geography, topography, climate, landscape, food security, politics, economics, and more all play a role in how we choose the place we call home. This book takes readers on a tour of the various ways humans adapt to our environments — or change them to suit our needs. It considers the big picture — we live on Earth because it has a breathable atmosphere — right down to the little things, like friendly neighbors, that simply make us happy.
Children's Books
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''Living in nature'' showcases a selection of architect-designed houses that have something fundamental in common: a special relationship with the natural world. Each of the book's 50 homes is carefully chosen for its stunning location, whether cocooned within the earth itself or soaring high amongst treetops, surrounded by cooling waters, or resisting the desert heat.(...)
Living in nature: contemporary houses in the natural world
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''Living in nature'' showcases a selection of architect-designed houses that have something fundamental in common: a special relationship with the natural world. Each of the book's 50 homes is carefully chosen for its stunning location, whether cocooned within the earth itself or soaring high amongst treetops, surrounded by cooling waters, or resisting the desert heat. With a wealth of photographs showcasing each house inside and out, ''Living in nature'' offers inspiration — and tranquillity.
Residential Architecture
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432 pages : Illustrations ; 17 cm
Milan : Mousse Publishing, 2023.
2086 : together how? / Abdelhadi Eman and others ; editor Han Dabin ; copy editors: Jinho Lim (Kor), Cassidi Sulaiman (Eng) ; translators: Jaehee Yi (Eng-Kor), Alice Kim (Kor-Eng), Tiziana Camerani (Eng-Ita).
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236 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 37 cm
New York : Collins Publishers in association with I. Shapiro, 1987.
A day in the life of the Soviet Union / photographed by 100 of the world's leading photojournalists on one day, May 15, 1987 ; project directors, Rick Smolan and David Cohen.
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New York : Collins Publishers in association with I. Shapiro, 1987.