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''Days without Number'' is a collection of more than 700 photos shot by Giovanna Silva during the last three years of walks through NYC. Though organized as a calendar, it defies any sense of linear time or chronology, presenting instead a puzzle of images. She walked often more than ten miles a day guided by architecture, seeing as much as she could, obsessively passing(...)
Giovanna Silva: Days without number
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''Days without Number'' is a collection of more than 700 photos shot by Giovanna Silva during the last three years of walks through NYC. Though organized as a calendar, it defies any sense of linear time or chronology, presenting instead a puzzle of images. She walked often more than ten miles a day guided by architecture, seeing as much as she could, obsessively passing by the same site again and again. The book features a text by NYC writer Sasha Frere-Jones.
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This monograph, the first on the work of internationally acclaimed light artist Dietmar Tanterl, focuses on his innovative work with light and space in architectural settings. His collaborations with architects such as Günther Domenig, Kurt Ackermann, HPP, and Peter Schweger are precise interventions of light that fundamentally transform the experience of the spaces.(...)
Dietmar Tanterl : light / housing
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This monograph, the first on the work of internationally acclaimed light artist Dietmar Tanterl, focuses on his innovative work with light and space in architectural settings. His collaborations with architects such as Günther Domenig, Kurt Ackermann, HPP, and Peter Schweger are precise interventions of light that fundamentally transform the experience of the spaces. These and other projects illuminate his belief in a "self-reflexive universe where nothing outside the space itself has any relevance to the architectural project." Previously priced at $66.95.
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Architecture in the garden
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The elements of garden architecture - paths, walls, gates, fences, terraces, sheds, lighting, furniture, waterworks, and art - together form the backbone of any well-designed garden. In this beautifully illustrated and accessible book, landscape architect James van Sweden explains how to design and build a garden like a professional. He leads his readers on a tour through(...)
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The elements of garden architecture - paths, walls, gates, fences, terraces, sheds, lighting, furniture, waterworks, and art - together form the backbone of any well-designed garden. In this beautifully illustrated and accessible book, landscape architect James van Sweden explains how to design and build a garden like a professional. He leads his readers on a tour through some of his most exquisitely designed gardens in the country, in the city, in the suburbs, and by the shore. With an introduction by Penelope Hobhouse.
Gardens
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Julia Morgan, America's first truly independent female architect, left a legacy of over 700 buildings, many of which are now designated landmarks, in cities throughout California, as well as in Hawaii, Utah, and Illinois. Her work spanned five decades, and the total of her commissions was greater than any other major American architect, including Frank Lloyd Wright. Julia(...)
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Julia Morgan : Architect of Beauty
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Julia Morgan, America's first truly independent female architect, left a legacy of over 700 buildings, many of which are now designated landmarks, in cities throughout California, as well as in Hawaii, Utah, and Illinois. Her work spanned five decades, and the total of her commissions was greater than any other major American architect, including Frank Lloyd Wright. Julia Morgan tells the remarkable story of this architectural pioneer, and features text, drawings, and photographs of the many buildings that still exist.
Architecture Monographs
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What do you do as an architect when it is as if your profession has been abolished and you would like to know whether what you have built is actually any good? Marlies Rohmer bought a van, pasted big letters saying "What Happened To?" on it and revisited 25 buildings of which she once had great expectations. She talked with commissioners, residents and users. This(...)
Architecture since 1900, Europe
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What happened to my buildings? Learning from 30 years of architecture with Marlies Rohmer
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What do you do as an architect when it is as if your profession has been abolished and you would like to know whether what you have built is actually any good? Marlies Rohmer bought a van, pasted big letters saying "What Happened To?" on it and revisited 25 buildings of which she once had great expectations. She talked with commissioners, residents and users. This resulted in a sometimes moving, often hilarious and always informative exploration of what really counts in architecture.
Architecture since 1900, Europe
X agendas for architecture
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''X Agendas for Architecture'' considers the recent developments in the agendas for architecture, inviting a range of contributors into a structured discourse to highlight issues and extend questions on the necessity of architectural agendas. Considering the recent developments on this topic, this speculative publication hopes to collate ideas from architectural(...)
Contemporary Architecture
August 2016
X agendas for architecture
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''X Agendas for Architecture'' considers the recent developments in the agendas for architecture, inviting a range of contributors into a structured discourse to highlight issues and extend questions on the necessity of architectural agendas. Considering the recent developments on this topic, this speculative publication hopes to collate ideas from architectural professionals to the up-and-coming generation of agenda-makers and use their knowledge over these current issues of agenda to create a book of seminal discourse for any architecture enthusiast.
Contemporary Architecture
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Projet Montréal aspired to transform Montreal into a green, human-scale city with few, if any equal in North America. Equal parts reportage, oral history and memoir, this book chronicles what the party did right, where it failed, and where it’s headed. Written from the perspective of someone who worked for Projet Montréal’s administration for almost a decade, Daniel(...)
Saving the city: the challenge of transforming a modern metropolis
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Projet Montréal aspired to transform Montreal into a green, human-scale city with few, if any equal in North America. Equal parts reportage, oral history and memoir, this book chronicles what the party did right, where it failed, and where it’s headed. Written from the perspective of someone who worked for Projet Montréal’s administration for almost a decade, Daniel Sanger’s book draws on dozens of interviews with other actors in the party and on the municipal scene, past and present.
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The sound of letters
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The letter A goes AAAAH! Like when I welcome a friend that I have been missing . . . The letter B goes B' B' B' B', like the bubbles in a bottle that I dip in the bath . . . The letter C goes K' K' K', like when I break the shell of a boiled egg . . . The sound of letters is an alphabet book unlike any other! This book of letters teaches the sound that the different(...)
The sound of letters
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The letter A goes AAAAH! Like when I welcome a friend that I have been missing . . . The letter B goes B' B' B' B', like the bubbles in a bottle that I dip in the bath . . . The letter C goes K' K' K', like when I break the shell of a boiled egg . . . The sound of letters is an alphabet book unlike any other! This book of letters teaches the sound that the different letters make in a unique and fresh way.
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Water: nature and culture
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As any scientist will tell you, there is no substance more vital than water. Our history is necessarily a history with water, whether we have irrigated our fields with it, cooled our machines, washed ourselves, drank it down deeply, or even worshipped it. In Water, Veronic Strang ladles through the rich history of our interaction with water, offering an accessible(...)
Water: nature and culture
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As any scientist will tell you, there is no substance more vital than water. Our history is necessarily a history with water, whether we have irrigated our fields with it, cooled our machines, washed ourselves, drank it down deeply, or even worshipped it. In Water, Veronic Strang ladles through the rich history of our interaction with water, offering an accessible examination of the crucial properties that make water so unique alongside the complex story of our evolving relationship with it.
Landscape Theory
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A Partial Exegesis of Cricket, its Laws and Rituals.
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