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"Decoding density" is an international invitation to imagine new possibilities for six-storey plus apartment forms by addressing two of the most existential problems of today: climate change and housing affordability. Submissions will challenge the constraints of code and other regulations to do so.
Decoding density: Challenging constraints to affordable housing
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"Decoding density" is an international invitation to imagine new possibilities for six-storey plus apartment forms by addressing two of the most existential problems of today: climate change and housing affordability. Submissions will challenge the constraints of code and other regulations to do so.
Collective Housing
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In his latest photographic series, South African photographer David Lurie turns his attention to two of the most pressing issues facing South Africa: land and drought. Presented here, Lurie’s color photographs capture the extreme climate and delicate ecosystems of the vast, barren plains of Karoo.
David Lurie: Karoo, land of thirst
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In his latest photographic series, South African photographer David Lurie turns his attention to two of the most pressing issues facing South Africa: land and drought. Presented here, Lurie’s color photographs capture the extreme climate and delicate ecosystems of the vast, barren plains of Karoo.
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While the title might suggest a project about weather, the contributions address the forces of composition and decomposition predicated on the complex entanglements of ecologies of excess, environmental legacies of colonialism, the financialization of nature, contemporary catastrophism, and politics of sustainability, climate justice, and resilience.
The work of wind : air, land, sea
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While the title might suggest a project about weather, the contributions address the forces of composition and decomposition predicated on the complex entanglements of ecologies of excess, environmental legacies of colonialism, the financialization of nature, contemporary catastrophism, and politics of sustainability, climate justice, and resilience.
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As the 21st Century unfolds, Toward a Culture of Wood Architecture argues that by revitalizing our wood building tradition we can create new synergies between the natural and the built worlds, distribute both social and economic benefits, and contribute to the mitigation of climate change.
Toward a culture of wood architecture
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As the 21st Century unfolds, Toward a Culture of Wood Architecture argues that by revitalizing our wood building tradition we can create new synergies between the natural and the built worlds, distribute both social and economic benefits, and contribute to the mitigation of climate change.
Timber Construction
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207 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 29 cm
Tokyo ; Ruthland, Vermont : Tuttle Publishing, [2007]
Ryokan : Japan's finest spas and inns / Akihiko Seki and Elizabeth Heilman Brooke ; photography by Akihiko Seki.
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207 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 29 cm
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Tokyo ; Ruthland, Vermont : Tuttle Publishing, [2007]
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ix, 214 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution Press, ©2002.
Cool comfort : America's romance with air-conditioning / Marsha E. Ackermann.
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Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution Press, ©2002.
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Habitat durable : l'évidence de la construction passive / Jean-Loup Bertez, Jean-Claude Tremsal.
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287 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 25 cm.
Paris : [Éditions Gallimard], [2017]
Habitat durable : l'évidence de la construction passive / Jean-Loup Bertez, Jean-Claude Tremsal.
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287 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 25 cm.
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Paris : [Éditions Gallimard], [2017]
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195 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Rennes : Éditions Apogée, [2024], ©2024
La ville relationnelle / Sonia Lavadinho, Pascal Le Brun-Cordier et Yves Winkin ; dessins de Lisa Subileau.
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195 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
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Rennes : Éditions Apogée, [2024], ©2024
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47 pages : illustrations, plans ; 28 cm
Detroit : Published by Home Planners, Inc. for Universal Publishing and Distributing Corp., [approximately 1955]
50 air conditioned homes you can afford / designs by Richard B. Pollman.
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47 pages : illustrations, plans ; 28 cm
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Detroit : Published by Home Planners, Inc. for Universal Publishing and Distributing Corp., [approximately 1955]
Log 49 Summer 2020
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As the world reckons with the compounding crises of a pandemic, racial unrest, a recession, and climate change, 'Log 49' compiles essays, interviews, observations, and manifestos by 29 authors in an effort to make sense of architecture, the city, and nature in the midst of turmoil.
Log 49 Summer 2020
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As the world reckons with the compounding crises of a pandemic, racial unrest, a recession, and climate change, 'Log 49' compiles essays, interviews, observations, and manifestos by 29 authors in an effort to make sense of architecture, the city, and nature in the midst of turmoil.
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