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From the tunnels of Gaza to the militarized airspace of the Occupied Territories, Eyal Weizman unravels Israel's mechanisms of control and its transformation of Palestinian towns, villages and roads into an artifice where all natural and built features serve military ends. Weizman traces the development of this strategy, from the influence of archaeology on urban(...)
Hollow land: Israel's architecture of occupation
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From the tunnels of Gaza to the militarized airspace of the Occupied Territories, Eyal Weizman unravels Israel's mechanisms of control and its transformation of Palestinian towns, villages and roads into an artifice where all natural and built features serve military ends. Weizman traces the development of this strategy, from the influence of archaeology on urban planning, Ariel Sharon's reconceptualization of military defence during the 1973 war, through the planning and architecture of the settlements, to the contemporary Israeli discourse and practice of urban warfare and airborne targeted assassinations. Hollow Land lays bare the political system at the heart of this complex and terrifying project of late-modern colonial occupation.
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This fascinating book reveals the intricate legacy of art-nouveau-style architecture and design in Istanbul, its Islamic roots in that city, and the European and Turkish architects and theorists who influenced its controversial voice.
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Istanbul 1900 : art nouveau architecture and interiors
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This fascinating book reveals the intricate legacy of art-nouveau-style architecture and design in Istanbul, its Islamic roots in that city, and the European and Turkish architects and theorists who influenced its controversial voice.
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A protocol drawn up long ago in 1945 by Otto Koenigsberger, adopted in nearly one hundred instances in India and in more than half the world, provides the framework and rules for the planning of the prototypes of planned cities, and tells us that the so-called "participative architecture" aimed at intercultural inclusion, originated in the post-colonial territories(...)
Warm modernity: Indian architecture building democracy
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A protocol drawn up long ago in 1945 by Otto Koenigsberger, adopted in nearly one hundred instances in India and in more than half the world, provides the framework and rules for the planning of the prototypes of planned cities, and tells us that the so-called "participative architecture" aimed at intercultural inclusion, originated in the post-colonial territories between India and Africa. The catalogue, the fruition of a 5-year long Italian-Indian research, illustrates the consequences of democratic choice in independent India, its factual existence and its globalized outcomes, present even today. Presented in the installation, are four examples of Democratic New Towns – Jamshedpur, Bhubaneswar, Faridabad and Chandigarh- outcomes of the interface between the experiences of Frey, Drew and Le Corbusier and the ideas of their Indian counterparts, Varma, Doshi, Correa, Rewal. The cities are analytically described and documented through photographs of their present condition, preserved as the modern protected areas in Europe.
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Cet ouvrage est à la fois une petite encyclopédie, qui s'adresse aux architectes et aux décorateurs, et un essai sur l'architecture de la plus célèbre des îles de l'Asie tropicale. Made Wijaya, architecte paysagiste amoureux de Bali, a puisé dans ses archives photographiques, constituées au cours des trente dernières années, pour nous faire découvrir et admirer(...)
Architecture de Bali : traditions et modernité
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Cet ouvrage est à la fois une petite encyclopédie, qui s'adresse aux architectes et aux décorateurs, et un essai sur l'architecture de la plus célèbre des îles de l'Asie tropicale. Made Wijaya, architecte paysagiste amoureux de Bali, a puisé dans ses archives photographiques, constituées au cours des trente dernières années, pour nous faire découvrir et admirer l'architecture balinaise, ses origines, ses caractéristiques, ses variations et ses caprices. L'auteur commence par un tour d'horizon de l'architecture balinaise dans son contexte humain, le village. Il examine ensuite les éléments fondamentaux de cette architecture, la cour fermée et le pavillon. Il consacre les chapitres suivants aux matériaux de construction, à l'ornementation, la grande passion des Balinais, et aux influences étrangères, notamment chinoises et indochinoises. Au fil des pages, l'architecture complexe de Bali devient plus lisible et même surprenante. Made Wijaya étudie les tendances dans la construction contemporaine et exprime avec passion ses points de vue sur une politique architecturale souhaitable pour Bali. Cette étude est constellée d'exemples d'adaptation de l'architecture traditionnelle balinaise dans les maisons modernes et les grands hôtels de l'île. Outre les photographies personnelles de Wijaya, cet ouvrage est illustré par les œuvres de peintres et de photographes inondialeinent célèbres, parmi lesquels Tim Street-Porter, Rio Helmi, Chang Huai-Yan, Dent Chung, et Bruce Granquist. Les architectes et les décorateurs trouveront dans cet ouvrage un guide de référence particulièrement utile sur les matériaux, les différents types de construction, l'ornementation, en même temps que des idées pour l'utilisation de l'espace. Les amoureux de Bali accueilleront avec enthousiasme cette étude sur un monde en rapide évolution
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This is at once a compendium for designers and an essay on the architecture of Bali. Landscape and architectural designer Made Wijaya draws on his photographic archives, compiled over the past thirty years, to present a visual study of Balinese architecture: its origins, elements, variations, and vagaries.
Architecture of Bali : source book of traditional and modern forms
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This is at once a compendium for designers and an essay on the architecture of Bali. Landscape and architectural designer Made Wijaya draws on his photographic archives, compiled over the past thirty years, to present a visual study of Balinese architecture: its origins, elements, variations, and vagaries.
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The most ''African'' of the Brazilian villages in the south of Bahia bears a Swiss name. Helvécia was founded 200 years ago by Swiss and German colonists, and the coffee grown on its vast estates produced great wealth for them. This would not have been possible without exploitation: in the mid-19th century, for every 200 white colonists, there were 2,000 slaves of African(...)
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Helvécia: A Swiss colonial history in Brazil
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The most ''African'' of the Brazilian villages in the south of Bahia bears a Swiss name. Helvécia was founded 200 years ago by Swiss and German colonists, and the coffee grown on its vast estates produced great wealth for them. This would not have been possible without exploitation: in the mid-19th century, for every 200 white colonists, there were 2,000 slaves of African origin. Black people still make up the majority of the population today; many do not know the origins of their community. With great sensitivity and in dialogue with the inhabitants, Swiss photographer Dom Smaz goes in search of traces of the past, capturing the lives of the local people. Smaz’s pictures and text contributions by Shalini Randeria, among others, allow a new look at history and the origins of Switzerland’s wealth, revealing global histories of interconnectedness and power relations of the past that continue into the present.
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Until the early 1990s the southern and eastern towns of Yemen were extremely difficult to reach. The result of nearly two decades of research, this is the first book to offer an in-depth investigation into the characteristic architecture of the region. The author's first-hand research provides detailed insights into building techniques and methods that, though still(...)
The architecture of Yemen: from Yafi to Hadramut
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Until the early 1990s the southern and eastern towns of Yemen were extremely difficult to reach. The result of nearly two decades of research, this is the first book to offer an in-depth investigation into the characteristic architecture of the region. The author's first-hand research provides detailed insights into building techniques and methods that, though still practised, are little known outside the area.
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A 1988 UN Habitat seminar considered issues of housing construction in "developing countries." Included in the presentation was a prefabricated building system designed by East German architects, which was used in an education and development center operated by the African National Congress in Tanzania. In this publication, a multidisciplinary and international group(...)
Architecture since 1900, Africa
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Doors of learning: microcosms of a future South Africa
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A 1988 UN Habitat seminar considered issues of housing construction in "developing countries." Included in the presentation was a prefabricated building system designed by East German architects, which was used in an education and development center operated by the African National Congress in Tanzania. In this publication, a multidisciplinary and international group of artists, curators, historians and researchers reflect on the education and development centers as radical experiments in learning and living, as well as their spatial and design implementation in the context of the efforts to create a future democratic South Africa free of racism. This book focuses on why education was seen as the key to building a new democratic society. What were the immediate educational needs in those temporary learning environments? How were the educational priorities implemented spatially and creatively? And what was everyday life like for the people who lived there?
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"Constructed narratives" brings together essays and several recently completed buildings by David Adjaye, in the United States and elsewhere. In the essays, Adjaye shows how his approach to the design of temporary pavilions and furniture, private houses, and installations at the 2015 Venice Biennale feeds into his designs for public buildings. Other essays discuss his(...)
David Adjaye, Constructed narratives: essays and projects
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"Constructed narratives" brings together essays and several recently completed buildings by David Adjaye, in the United States and elsewhere. In the essays, Adjaye shows how his approach to the design of temporary pavilions and furniture, private houses, and installations at the 2015 Venice Biennale feeds into his designs for public buildings. Other essays discuss his engagement with geography, the urban environment, his approach to materiality, and architectural types. The presented projects include two public libraries and the National Museum of African American History and Culture, all in Washington D.C., a residential mixed-use building in New York, and a hybrid art-retail building in Beirut. Two of Adjaye’s current projects are also included.
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