Desired Landscapes, Issue 3
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When traveling to new places, we usually hunt for the genuine, the truest. Is there a single story to provide a convenient coherency for a city’s identity? While avoiding a call for nostalgia, 'Desired Landscapes' is ever curious about the discontent that stems from the narrative leap affecting contemporary cities: is it possible to connect yesterday to tomorrow and(...)
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May 2021
Desired Landscapes, Issue 3
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When traveling to new places, we usually hunt for the genuine, the truest. Is there a single story to provide a convenient coherency for a city’s identity? While avoiding a call for nostalgia, 'Desired Landscapes' is ever curious about the discontent that stems from the narrative leap affecting contemporary cities: is it possible to connect yesterday to tomorrow and affirm a sense of belonging? Issue 3 takes you to TOKYO – PARIS – ATHENS – BRASÍLIA – VENICE – SINGAPORE – LOS ANGELES – LAMPEDUSA – CAIRO – NEW YORK CITY – LONDON – MEXICO CITY
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''Real Urbanism'' is a book for and by lovers of cities. Eleven authors (urban designers) wrote the stories of places in the world that may be considered to be examples of successful urban planning. This large volume contains work in Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Tokyo, Sao Paulo, Venice, Barcelona, London, New York, Edinburgh, and Saint Petersburg. Four young urban designers(...)
Real urbanism: decisive interventions
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''Real Urbanism'' is a book for and by lovers of cities. Eleven authors (urban designers) wrote the stories of places in the world that may be considered to be examples of successful urban planning. This large volume contains work in Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Tokyo, Sao Paulo, Venice, Barcelona, London, New York, Edinburgh, and Saint Petersburg. Four young urban designers made the drawings to each chapter. New photography by Theo Baart and the graphic design by Irma Boom will lead to a unique presentation in book form.
Urban Theory
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Paris, Moscow, Rio de Janeiro, Tokyo, Addis Ababa, Buenos Aires, Shanghai, Cairo, Johannesburg, Dubai, Berlin and New York: world-renowned French photojournalist and documentarian Raymond Depardon has captured daily life in the streets of a dozen world-class cities in as many five-minute short films. Cities includes a series of stills from each and a personal essay on his(...)
November 2007
Raymond Depardon: villes/cities/städte
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Paris, Moscow, Rio de Janeiro, Tokyo, Addis Ababa, Buenos Aires, Shanghai, Cairo, Johannesburg, Dubai, Berlin and New York: world-renowned French photojournalist and documentarian Raymond Depardon has captured daily life in the streets of a dozen world-class cities in as many five-minute short films. Cities includes a series of stills from each and a personal essay on his travels. Depardon, born in 1942, is co-founder of Gamma, a member of Magnum, and a winner of the Pulitzer Prize for his still photography.
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November 2007
Maisons minimalistes
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Dans un cadre aussi différent que Tokyo, Barcelone, ou encore Los Angeles, vous découvrirez des maisons qui sont autant d'exemples d'adaptation du style minimaliste aux différents climats et environnements. La variété des créations proposées met en avant beauté et fonctionnalité qui caractérisent ce mouvement. Plus de 200 photographies guident le lecteur au fil des pages(...)
Maisons minimalistes
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Dans un cadre aussi différent que Tokyo, Barcelone, ou encore Los Angeles, vous découvrirez des maisons qui sont autant d'exemples d'adaptation du style minimaliste aux différents climats et environnements. La variété des créations proposées met en avant beauté et fonctionnalité qui caractérisent ce mouvement. Plus de 200 photographies guident le lecteur au fil des pages et dévoilent les recoins et secrets de ces maisons d'inspiration minimaliste. Des plans expliquent plus précisément la conception de certains intérieurs : un aspect pratique non négligeable pour comprendre les constructions dans leur ensemble et s'en inspirer pour son propre intérieur.
Residential Architecture
Norman Foster works 3
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"Norman Foster works 3" focuses on projects realized from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s, including Stansted Airport outside London, Bilbao's subway system, and the Millennium Tower in Tokyo. This volume examines each project in depth, featuring numerous photographs, original sketches and computer generated drawings. From airports to underground transit stations, from(...)
Architecture Monographs
September 2006, Munich, Berlin, London, New York
Norman Foster works 3
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"Norman Foster works 3" focuses on projects realized from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s, including Stansted Airport outside London, Bilbao's subway system, and the Millennium Tower in Tokyo. This volume examines each project in depth, featuring numerous photographs, original sketches and computer generated drawings. From airports to underground transit stations, from museums to office towers, every building designed by Foster and Partners is a study in the synthesis of a structure's individual elements : its foundation and use, the quality of its materials, and its relation to the skyline or cityscape.
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Mina Perhonen: Ripples
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A unique blend of Scandinavian sensibility and Japanese, Mina Perhonen is characterized by a tenacious individuality that often contradicts the prevailing trends in Japanese high fashion with its emphasis on unmistakably feminine silhouettes and bright, minimalistic prints that have as much in common with the work of Alvar Aalto and Marimekko as they do with traditional(...)
Mina Perhonen: Ripples
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A unique blend of Scandinavian sensibility and Japanese, Mina Perhonen is characterized by a tenacious individuality that often contradicts the prevailing trends in Japanese high fashion with its emphasis on unmistakably feminine silhouettes and bright, minimalistic prints that have as much in common with the work of Alvar Aalto and Marimekko as they do with traditional Japanese design. The first large format book on the house of Mina Perhonen, one of the most profoundly Japanese of the women's lines to come out of the Tokyo in the last three decades.
Graphic Designers, Monographs
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First published more than thirty years ago, Paul Theroux's strange, unique, and hugely entertaining railway odyssey has become a modern classic of travel literature. Here Theroux recounts his early adventures on an unusual grand continental tour. Asia's fabled trains - the Orient Express, the Khyber Pass Local, the Frontier Mail, the Golden Arrow to Kuala Lumpur, the(...)
The great railway bazaar: by train through Asia
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First published more than thirty years ago, Paul Theroux's strange, unique, and hugely entertaining railway odyssey has become a modern classic of travel literature. Here Theroux recounts his early adventures on an unusual grand continental tour. Asia's fabled trains - the Orient Express, the Khyber Pass Local, the Frontier Mail, the Golden Arrow to Kuala Lumpur, the Mandalay Express, the Trans-Siberian Express - are the stars of a journey that takes him on a loop eastbound from London's Victoria Station to Tokyo Central, then back from Japan on the Trans-Siberian.
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March 2006
Transportation, Tourism, Migration
Charlie Hillhouse: Waiya
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There’s something nice and not too cryptic about the title of Charlie Hillhouse’s latest zine. “Waiya” is the Japanese pronunciation of ‘wire’. These are photographs of electric lines from a trip taken to Tokyo and its surrounds. They are taken with the curious puzzlement of a traveller out of his depth. It is not only a travel document, but it also serves as a published(...)
Charlie Hillhouse: Waiya
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There’s something nice and not too cryptic about the title of Charlie Hillhouse’s latest zine. “Waiya” is the Japanese pronunciation of ‘wire’. These are photographs of electric lines from a trip taken to Tokyo and its surrounds. They are taken with the curious puzzlement of a traveller out of his depth. It is not only a travel document, but it also serves as a published documentation of the risograph printing process. The artist has manipulated the effect of the photographs with the colour changing of a riso ink drum.
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Founded in 2004 by Koichi Suzuno and Shinya Kamuro, Torafu Architects employs a working approach based on architectural thinking. Works by the duo include a diverse range of products, from architectural design to interior design for shops, exhibition space design, product design, spatial installations and film making. Projects include the Nike Pressroom, a House in(...)
Torafu Architects: Idea + process 2004-2011
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Founded in 2004 by Koichi Suzuno and Shinya Kamuro, Torafu Architects employs a working approach based on architectural thinking. Works by the duo include a diverse range of products, from architectural design to interior design for shops, exhibition space design, product design, spatial installations and film making. Projects include the Nike Pressroom, a House in Kohoku, the Y150 Nissan Pavilion, the Herman Miller Tokyo Store, a House in Nakamaru, an exhibition space for minä perhonen, the air-vase, the 1-10 design Office in Kyoto, and many others. Introduction by Akira Minagawa (minä perhonen).
Architecture Monographs
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A selection of the most prominent works of architecture selected by El Croquis with an introduction by Juan Antonio Cortés and an essay by William Curtis. Among the works are the Sendai Mediatheque by Toyo Ito, the Dutch Embassy in Berlin by Rem Koolhaas, the Braga Municipal Stadium by Eduardo Souto de Moura, the Prada Aoyama Epicenter by Herzog & De Meuron in Tokyo, the(...)
El Croquis: The very best works at the turn of the century
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A selection of the most prominent works of architecture selected by El Croquis with an introduction by Juan Antonio Cortés and an essay by William Curtis. Among the works are the Sendai Mediatheque by Toyo Ito, the Dutch Embassy in Berlin by Rem Koolhaas, the Braga Municipal Stadium by Eduardo Souto de Moura, the Prada Aoyama Epicenter by Herzog & De Meuron in Tokyo, the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art expansion by Steven Holl, the Neues Museum by David Chipperfield, the Toledo Glass Pavilion by SANAA-Sejima & Nishizawa and others.
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