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The study of historic preservation theory in the United States has been limited by the lack of a comprehensive anthology of literature spanning the history of thought in the discipline. While a few key texts such as Viollet-le-Duc's "On Restoration" (1854) and John Ruskin's "Lamp of Memory" (1849) have been reprinted ad infinitum, the enormous body of preservation(...)
December 2022
Historic preservation theory: an anthology. Readings from the 18th to 21st century
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The study of historic preservation theory in the United States has been limited by the lack of a comprehensive anthology of literature spanning the history of thought in the discipline. While a few key texts such as Viollet-le-Duc's "On Restoration" (1854) and John Ruskin's "Lamp of Memory" (1849) have been reprinted ad infinitum, the enormous body of preservation knowledge produced since the Renaissance remains obscure to most American students, who until now have had no easy way to access it. This anthology offers classic texts from the United States, China, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, Russia, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Austria, Czech Republic, Spain, Italy, Greece, Egypt, Mexico, Brazil, Australia, and more, offering a broad introduction to the history of preservation theory.
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How can architecture exist as an art form in an increasingly technocratic world? How can architects convert their designs into cost-efficient and economic buildings? In eight uncompromising projects, Gert Wingårdh presents his personal answers. The range of projects starts with simple tasks, such as a water tower and a bus stop. These are contrasted by the artistically(...)
Architecture Monographs
September 2018
Gert Wingardh: Eight projects
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How can architecture exist as an art form in an increasingly technocratic world? How can architects convert their designs into cost-efficient and economic buildings? In eight uncompromising projects, Gert Wingårdh presents his personal answers. The range of projects starts with simple tasks, such as a water tower and a bus stop. These are contrasted by the artistically designed Aula Medica of the Karolinska Institutet and the Naturum museum and visitor center in Gällivare in the north of Sweden, the renovation of the National Museum and the extension to the Liljevalchs Konsthall. An afterword by Mårten Castenfors, Director of Liljevalchs Konsthall, rounds off the personal comments by the architect on his projects, which are illustrated in great detail with hand sketches, photographs and drawings.
Architecture Monographs
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Wassily Kandinsky is often recognized as the first artist to paint shapes and colors without regard to visual references in the world. However, abstract paintings were being produced even before Kandinsky’s experiments with the form. In the middle of the nineteenth century, in England, Sweden, and Switzerland, respectively, Georgiana Houghton, Hilma af Klint, and Emma(...)
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World receivers: Georgianna Houghton, Hilma af Klint, Emma Kunz
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Wassily Kandinsky is often recognized as the first artist to paint shapes and colors without regard to visual references in the world. However, abstract paintings were being produced even before Kandinsky’s experiments with the form. In the middle of the nineteenth century, in England, Sweden, and Switzerland, respectively, Georgiana Houghton, Hilma af Klint, and Emma Kunz each developed their own abstract pictorial language. Though working completely independently from one another, these three artists shared a desire to make visible the laws of nature, the intellect, and the supernatural. Working within the context of the spiritual movements of their times—Houghton in Spiritism, AF Klint in theosophy, and Kunz in naturopathy—they each produced abstract paintings that bore witness to a “mediumistic” praxis.
The Swedish house
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The traditions of residential design in Sweden are inseparable from the history of the country itself and from the history of construction in Scandinavia. This illustrated volume presents historic wood houses - castles, cottages, stately homes, rectories, seaside bathing huts, barns and sawmills - from the seventeenth century to the present. Also shown in detail are(...)
The Swedish house
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The traditions of residential design in Sweden are inseparable from the history of the country itself and from the history of construction in Scandinavia. This illustrated volume presents historic wood houses - castles, cottages, stately homes, rectories, seaside bathing huts, barns and sawmills - from the seventeenth century to the present. Also shown in detail are wooden churches and even entire towns built of wood. Among the buildings featured are a farmhouse on the Sorby country estate dating from the second half of the seventeenth century; the childhood home and the adult estate, Hammarby, of the influential botanist LLinnaeus (complete with lecture pulpit and specimen collection cabinet): and Gunnebo, a lavish wooden interpretation of an Italian villa built for wealthy merchant John Hall. With photographs by Ingalill Snitt.
History until 1900
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''Adjusting the lens'' explores the role of photography in contemporary renegotiations of the past and in Indigenous art activism. In moving and powerful case studies, contributors analyze photographic practices and heritage related to Indigenous communities in Canada, Australia, Greenland, Norway, Sweden, Finland, and the United States. In the process, they call(...)
Adjusting the lens: indigenous activism, colonial legacies, and photographic heritage
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''Adjusting the lens'' explores the role of photography in contemporary renegotiations of the past and in Indigenous art activism. In moving and powerful case studies, contributors analyze photographic practices and heritage related to Indigenous communities in Canada, Australia, Greenland, Norway, Sweden, Finland, and the United States. In the process, they call attention to how Indigenous people are using old photographs in new ways to empower themselves, revitalize community identity, and decolonize the colonial record. ''Adjusting the lens'' presents original research in this emerging field in Indigenous photography studies, juxtaposing the historical and the contemporary across a range of geographically and culturally distinctive contexts. The transnational perspective of this exciting collection challenges old ways of thinking and meaningfully advances the crucially important project of reclamation.
Theory of Photography
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310 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm
Lund : Studentlitteratur ; Bromley, U.K. : Chartwell-Bratt, ©1987.
On architecture : an architectural theory based on psychological research / Sven Hesselgren ; [translated from Swedish by the author, assisted by his son, Lars].
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Lund : Studentlitteratur ; Bromley, U.K. : Chartwell-Bratt, ©1987.
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[Place of publication not identified] : Institute of Network Cultures, 2020.
Satellite Lifelines: Media, Art, Migration and the Crisis of Hospitality in Divided Cities.
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[Place of publication not identified] : Institute of Network Cultures, 2020.
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180, [3] pages : illustrations, plans (some color) ; 24 x 27 cm
Rungsted Kyst, Denmark : Nyborg ; Helsinki : Distributor, Akateeminen Kirjakauppa, ©1984.
Esplanadi 1800-luvulla, Helsinki = Esplanaden på 1800-talet, Helsingfors = The Esplanade during the 19th Century, Helsinki / Henrik Lilius ; [translation, Swedish, Tove Riska ; English, Eddy Hawkins].
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Rungsted Kyst, Denmark : Nyborg ; Helsinki : Distributor, Akateeminen Kirjakauppa, ©1984.
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3-215 pages 96 plates, illustrations, maps, plans 26 cm
London, Faber, 1968.
European architecture in India, 1750-1850 [by] Sten Nilsson; [translated from the Swedish by Agnes George and Eleonore Zettersten].
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London, Faber, 1968.
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More than a hundred years have passed since the Sámi were forcibly displaced from their homes in northern Norway and Sweden, a hundred years since Elin Anna Labba’s ancestors and relations drove their reindeer over the strait to the mainland for the last time. The place where they lived has remained empty ever since. "We carry our homes in our hearts," Labba shares,(...)
The rocks will echo our sorrow: The forced displacement of the northern Sami
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More than a hundred years have passed since the Sámi were forcibly displaced from their homes in northern Norway and Sweden, a hundred years since Elin Anna Labba’s ancestors and relations drove their reindeer over the strait to the mainland for the last time. The place where they lived has remained empty ever since. "We carry our homes in our hearts," Labba shares, citing the Sámi poet Áillohaš. How do you bear that weight if you were forced to leave? In a remarkable blend of historical reportage, memoir, and lyrical reimagining, Labba travels to the lost homeland of her ancestors to tell of the forced removal of the Sámi in the early twentieth century and to reclaim a place in history, and in today’s world, for these Indigenous people of northern Scandinavia.
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