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In 1726, Lord Burlington, informed by a profound admiration for the architecture of the sixteenth-century Italian, Andrea Palladio, proceeded to raise a free standing "villa" on the outskirts of London. Together with his own town house in Piccadilly, which ten years earlier had undergone major alterations similarly inspired by Palladio, this building(...)
The Palladian Revival : Lord Burlington, his villa and garden at Chiswick
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In 1726, Lord Burlington, informed by a profound admiration for the architecture of the sixteenth-century Italian, Andrea Palladio, proceeded to raise a free standing "villa" on the outskirts of London. Together with his own town house in Piccadilly, which ten years earlier had undergone major alterations similarly inspired by Palladio, this building launched a new taste in architecture which was to spread throughout Britain and North America. This exhibition catalogue traces the establishment of a radical new style in architecture.
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History until 1900
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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.
Architecture de Montréal
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In 1726, Lord Burlington, informed by a profound admiration for the architecture of the sixteenth-century Italian, Andrea Palladio, proceeded to raise a free standing "villa" on the outskirts of London. Together with his own town house in Piccadilly, which ten years earlier had undergone major alterations similarly inspired by Palladio, this building(...)
The Palladian revival: Lord Burlington, his villa and garden at Chiswick
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In 1726, Lord Burlington, informed by a profound admiration for the architecture of the sixteenth-century Italian, Andrea Palladio, proceeded to raise a free standing "villa" on the outskirts of London. Together with his own town house in Piccadilly, which ten years earlier had undergone major alterations similarly inspired by Palladio, this building launched a new taste in architecture which was to spread throughout Britain and North America. This exhibition catalogue traces the establishment of a radical new style in architecture.
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480 pages : color illustrations ; 27 x 30 cm
New York, New York : Monacelli Press, 2018., ©2018
Le Corbusier : the built work / Richard Pare ; text by Jean-Louis Cohen.
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New York, New York : Monacelli Press, 2018., ©2018
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The 1960s and 1970s avant-garde has been likened to an ''architectural Big Bang'', such was the intensity of energy and ambition in which it exploded into the postwar world. Marked out by architectural projects that redefined the discipline, it remains just as influential today. References to the likes of Archizoom, Peter Eisenman, John Hejduk and Superstudio abound.(...)
AD Re-imagining the Avant-Garde: revisiting the architecture of the 1960s and 1970s
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The 1960s and 1970s avant-garde has been likened to an ''architectural Big Bang'', such was the intensity of energy and ambition in which it exploded into the postwar world. Marked out by architectural projects that redefined the discipline, it remains just as influential today. References to the likes of Archizoom, Peter Eisenman, John Hejduk and Superstudio abound. Highly diverse, the avant-garde cannot be defined as a single strand or tendency. It was divergent geographically – reaching from Europe to North America and Japan – and in its political, formal and cultural preoccupations. It was unified, though, as a critical and experimental force, critiquing contemporary society against the backdrop of extreme social and political upheaval: the Paris riots of May 1968, the anti-Vietnam war movement in America and the looming ecological crisis.
Architectural Theory
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From the avant-garde design of the Islamic Cultural Center in New York City to the simplicity of the Dar al-Islam Mosque in Abiquiu, New Mexico, the American mosque takes many forms of visual and architectural expression. The absence of a single, authoritative model and the plurality of design nuances reflect the heterogeneity of the American Muslim community itself,(...)
Deconstructing the American mosque : space, gender, and aesthetics
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From the avant-garde design of the Islamic Cultural Center in New York City to the simplicity of the Dar al-Islam Mosque in Abiquiu, New Mexico, the American mosque takes many forms of visual and architectural expression. The absence of a single, authoritative model and the plurality of design nuances reflect the heterogeneity of the American Muslim community itself, which embodies a whole spectrum of ethnic origins, traditions, and religious practices. In this book, Akel Ismail Kahera explores the history and theory of Muslim religious aesthetics in the United States since 1950. Using a notion of deconstruction based on the concepts of "jamal" (beauty), "subject," and "object" found in the writings of Ibn Arabi (d. 1240), he interprets the forms and meanings of several American mosques from across the country. His analysis contributes to three debates within the formulation of a Muslim aesthetics in North America—first, over the meaning, purpose, and function of visual religious expression; second, over the spatial and visual affinities between American and non-American mosques, including the Prophet's mosque at Madinah, Arabia; and third, over the relevance of culture, place, and identity to the making of contemporary religious expression in North America. Akel Ismail Kahera is Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.
History until 1900
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Suburbia, and all it promises, has become the American Dream. With brutal honesty and a touch of irony, "The end of suburbia" explored the American Way of Life and its prospects as the planet enters the age of Peak Oil. Director Greg Greene once again takes us “through the looking glass” on a journey of discovery – a sobering yet vital and ultimately positive(...)
Escape from suburbia : beyond the American dream
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Suburbia, and all it promises, has become the American Dream. With brutal honesty and a touch of irony, "The end of suburbia" explored the American Way of Life and its prospects as the planet enters the age of Peak Oil. Director Greg Greene once again takes us “through the looking glass” on a journey of discovery – a sobering yet vital and ultimately positive exploration of what the second half of the Oil Age has in store for us. Through personal stories and interviews we examine how declining world oil production has already begun to affect modern life in North America. Expert scientific opinion is balanced with “on the street” portraits from an emerging global movement of citizen’s groups who are confronting the challenges of Peak Oil in extraordinary ways. The clock is ticking. This movie asks the tough questions : Are we approaching Peak Oil now? What are the controversies surrounding our future energy options? Why are a growing number of specialists and citizens skeptical of these options? What are ordinary people across North America doing in their own communities to prepare for Peak Oil? And what will you do as energy prices skyrocket and the Oil Age draws to a close?
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445 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 25 cm
[Tucson, Ariz.] : Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, [2002], ©2002
Original sources : art and archives at the Center for Creative Photography / edited by Amy Rule, Nancy Solomon ; research assistance by Leon Zimlich.
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[Tucson, Ariz.] : Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, [2002], ©2002
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"Parallel Cities" examines the history of the multilevel city with a focus on elevated pedestrian systems as a recurrent concept in urban planning and design. The book chronicles the evolution and migration of this concept from 19th-century French social utopian thinkers and 20th-century Soviet Constructivist architectural circles to its incubation in postwar London, its(...)
Parallel cities: a multilevel metropolis
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"Parallel Cities" examines the history of the multilevel city with a focus on elevated pedestrian systems as a recurrent concept in urban planning and design. The book chronicles the evolution and migration of this concept from 19th-century French social utopian thinkers and 20th-century Soviet Constructivist architectural circles to its incubation in postwar London, its theorization by members of CIAM and Team 10, and its eventual dissemination to North America and Asia, where extensive systems were built in cities such as Minneapolis, Calgary and Hong Kong.
Urban Theory
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What is green infrastructure? Why should we develop it? Who uses it? And what socioeconomic and ecological value does it provide? This useful guide provides an essential introduction to green infrastructure for planners, landscape architects, engineers, and environmentalists keen to understand how we can use landscape principles to deliver more sustainable urban planning.(...)
Green infrastructure planning: reintegrating landscape in urban planning
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What is green infrastructure? Why should we develop it? Who uses it? And what socioeconomic and ecological value does it provide? This useful guide provides an essential introduction to green infrastructure for planners, landscape architects, engineers, and environmentalists keen to understand how we can use landscape principles to deliver more sustainable urban planning. Using multiple examples from practice in the UK, Europe, North America, and Asia, the book illustrates how good policy ideas and innovative planning practice can help create more sustainable and ecologically focused urban landscapes.
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