MVVA Brooklyn Bridge Park
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Reclaimed from 1.3 miles of New York’s postindustrial waterfront, Brooklyn Bridge Park is a place for escape, recreation, and immersion in the natural world. Transforming parking lots and crumbling piers into a living ecosystem, the project is an exemplar of climate resilience, fiscal innovation, and joyful public space. This book examines MVVA’s process of designing a(...)
Landscape Architecture, Monographs
February 2024
MVVA Brooklyn Bridge Park
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Reclaimed from 1.3 miles of New York’s postindustrial waterfront, Brooklyn Bridge Park is a place for escape, recreation, and immersion in the natural world. Transforming parking lots and crumbling piers into a living ecosystem, the project is an exemplar of climate resilience, fiscal innovation, and joyful public space. This book examines MVVA’s process of designing a park that went from a remote possibility to an essential part of the city around it.
Landscape Architecture, Monographs
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Vegetal entwinements in philosophy and art : a reader / edited by Giovanni Aloi and Michael Marder.
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xix, 627 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : The MIT Press, [2023], ©2023
Vegetal entwinements in philosophy and art : a reader / edited by Giovanni Aloi and Michael Marder.
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xix, 627 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : The MIT Press, [2023], ©2023
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« The New York Pigeon » is a photography book that reveals the unexpected beauty of the omnipresent pigeon as if Vogue magazine devoted its pages to birds, rather than fashion models. In spite of pigeons’ ubiquity in New York and other cities, we never really see them closely and know very little about their function in the urban ecosystem. This book brings to light the(...)
The New York pigeon: behind the feathers
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« The New York Pigeon » is a photography book that reveals the unexpected beauty of the omnipresent pigeon as if Vogue magazine devoted its pages to birds, rather than fashion models. In spite of pigeons’ ubiquity in New York and other cities, we never really see them closely and know very little about their function in the urban ecosystem. This book brings to light the intriguing history, behavior and splendor of a bird that we frequently overlook.
Photography monographs
trans magazin 46: Spolia
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"Spolia" absorb energy from an external force and deform elastically. As archeological tools at (de)construction sites, they form hidden testaments to political dependencies, ecosystem clashes, art in galleries, even office tower elevators. Input: strange simultaneity of icons that are immediate, available, and ready to be transformed. Output: remnants reorganized to(...)
trans magazin 46: Spolia
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"Spolia" absorb energy from an external force and deform elastically. As archeological tools at (de)construction sites, they form hidden testaments to political dependencies, ecosystem clashes, art in galleries, even office tower elevators. Input: strange simultaneity of icons that are immediate, available, and ready to be transformed. Output: remnants reorganized to serve architecture and its demands. We look back to the future and ahead to the past. We persist in building, digging, finding, collecting, assembling to produce meaning.
Magazines
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xiii, 198 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Markham, Ont. : Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 2004.
The urban cliff revolution : new findings on the origins and evolution of human habitats / Douglas Larson [and others].
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xiii, 198 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
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Markham, Ont. : Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 2004.
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xviii, 319 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Cambridge, UK : Polity Press, [2022], ©2022
Decolonial ecology : thinking from the Caribbean world / Malcom Ferdinand ; translated by Anthony Paul Smith ; foreword by Angela Y. Davis.
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xviii, 319 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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Cambridge, UK : Polity Press, [2022], ©2022
Moss and lichen
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''Moss and Lichen'' is a celebration of the extraordinary biology, beauty, and resilience of two unassuming organisms. Endowed with unique abilities to thrive in extreme habitats, mosses and lichens defy easy categorization. Mosses, which are integral to the plant kingdom, and lichens, which are a kingdom unto themselves, colonize a variety of landscapes from rainforests(...)
Moss and lichen
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''Moss and Lichen'' is a celebration of the extraordinary biology, beauty, and resilience of two unassuming organisms. Endowed with unique abilities to thrive in extreme habitats, mosses and lichens defy easy categorization. Mosses, which are integral to the plant kingdom, and lichens, which are a kingdom unto themselves, colonize a variety of landscapes from rainforests to deserts to urban streets. Long neglected for lacking flowers, these organisms are now beloved for their significant role in maintaining the health of our world’s ecosystem.
Fauna and flora
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Gathering together fresh perspectives from 28 leading art and museum figures—including artists, architects, curators, and museum directors—from all over the world, this collection of interviews and contributions shares idiosyncratic views, feedback, and visions of what is and what should or should not be a museum in the 21stcentury, both inherently and in our(...)
Museum of the future: Now what?
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Gathering together fresh perspectives from 28 leading art and museum figures—including artists, architects, curators, and museum directors—from all over the world, this collection of interviews and contributions shares idiosyncratic views, feedback, and visions of what is and what should or should not be a museum in the 21stcentury, both inherently and in our fast-changing cultural ecosystem. Showing the diversity of today’s thinking about the museum, this tome constitutes a valuable handbook to navigate its ever-evolving landscape.
Museology
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xi, 363 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2021]
Grand transitions : how the modern world was made / Vaclav Smil.
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xi, 363 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2021]
Infrastructures de transport créatives : Mieux les intégrer aux écosystèmes, paysages et territoires
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Un examen de la manière dont les infrastructures de transport peuvent contribuer à recomposer les territoires autour d'enjeux environnementaux. Il permet d'envisager les recherches sur les infrastructures comme des leviers de renouvellement de la conception et de la gestion de ces grands aménagements (routes, autoroutes, voies ferrées, lignes haute tension, voies navigables).
Infrastructures de transport créatives : Mieux les intégrer aux écosystèmes, paysages et territoires
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Un examen de la manière dont les infrastructures de transport peuvent contribuer à recomposer les territoires autour d'enjeux environnementaux. Il permet d'envisager les recherches sur les infrastructures comme des leviers de renouvellement de la conception et de la gestion de ces grands aménagements (routes, autoroutes, voies ferrées, lignes haute tension, voies navigables).
Landscape Theory