From Bauhaus to our house
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In this examination of the strange saga of twentieth-century architecture, Wolfe takes such European architects as Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier, and Bauhaus art school founder Walter Gropius to task for their glass-and-steel-box buildings that have influenced (and infected) America’s cities.
From Bauhaus to our house
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In this examination of the strange saga of twentieth-century architecture, Wolfe takes such European architects as Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier, and Bauhaus art school founder Walter Gropius to task for their glass-and-steel-box buildings that have influenced (and infected) America’s cities.
Architectural Theory
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Monograph providing an examination of the work and projects from the German architectural office Schneider + Schumacher. Featured in detail are the most outstanding buildings over the last 17 years including the iconic red information box on Potsdamer Platz, Berlin, the Braun headquarters in Kronberg and the Hotel CUBUS in Dusseldorf.
Schneider + Schumacher architektur : relationships
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Monograph providing an examination of the work and projects from the German architectural office Schneider + Schumacher. Featured in detail are the most outstanding buildings over the last 17 years including the iconic red information box on Potsdamer Platz, Berlin, the Braun headquarters in Kronberg and the Hotel CUBUS in Dusseldorf.
Architecture Monographs
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Martin and his neighbors eschew change until eccentric Mr. Flux moves in and shows them that change can be big or little or even fit inside a box, and not at all scary. A tongue-in-cheek tale loosely inspired by the 1960's art movement known as Fluxus. Illustrations.
Mr. Flux
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Martin and his neighbors eschew change until eccentric Mr. Flux moves in and shows them that change can be big or little or even fit inside a box, and not at all scary. A tongue-in-cheek tale loosely inspired by the 1960's art movement known as Fluxus. Illustrations.
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xix, 396 pages : illustrations, maps, plans ; 24 cm.
New York, New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010., ©2010
The ancient Indus : urbanism, economy, and society / Rita P. Wright.
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forA on the urban, issue #0
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In one way or another, most of the demands on today’s world are intrinsically linked to the urban condition.''forA on the urban'' aims to detect, examine, analyze, and understand these situations in a way that goes beyond conventional frames of reference and tools in order to contribute to the necessary renovation of established vocabularies, formats, and(...)
forA on the urban, issue #0
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In one way or another, most of the demands on today’s world are intrinsically linked to the urban condition.''forA on the urban'' aims to detect, examine, analyze, and understand these situations in a way that goes beyond conventional frames of reference and tools in order to contribute to the necessary renovation of established vocabularies, formats, and methodologies—and the deconstruction of their very limits. ''forA issue #0' consists of a box, publication, bookmark, poster and puzzle. The 440 pages publication is roughly the size of a large smartphone with essays and contributions ordered by time it takes to read, shortest to longest. ''forA issue #0'' is contained inside a cardboard box that serves as a shipping container. The forA logotype is a formation of 214 dots that can be scaled according to the method of printing or presentation.
Urban Theory
A field guide to sprawl
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Duck, ruburb, tower farm, big box, and pig-in-a-python are among dozens of zany terms invented to characterize land use practices and the physical elements of sprawl. This book provides the verbal and visual vocabulary needed by professionals, public officials, and citizens to critique uncontrolled growth in the American landscape.
A field guide to sprawl
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Duck, ruburb, tower farm, big box, and pig-in-a-python are among dozens of zany terms invented to characterize land use practices and the physical elements of sprawl. This book provides the verbal and visual vocabulary needed by professionals, public officials, and citizens to critique uncontrolled growth in the American landscape.
Urban Theory
Palimpsest Issue 02 Medicine
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Palimpsest Magazine is an anthology of multiples: a magazine in a box. Each issue is comprised of print, audio, textile, video, etc., and tied together via theme and design. ISSUE 02/MEDICINE is an unbound collection of printed matter and multimedia work concerned with ideas of the body, illness, physicality and spirituality.
Palimpsest Issue 02 Medicine
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Palimpsest Magazine is an anthology of multiples: a magazine in a box. Each issue is comprised of print, audio, textile, video, etc., and tied together via theme and design. ISSUE 02/MEDICINE is an unbound collection of printed matter and multimedia work concerned with ideas of the body, illness, physicality and spirituality.
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Brinkman & Van der Vlugt (1925-1936) is best known for the Van Nelle factory in Rotterdam and the standard Dutch telephone box, which was used for over 50 years. This publication offers a complete retrospective of the two architects, accompanied by commentary from Joris Molenaar, who has restored several of the firm's buildings.
Brinkman & Van Der Vlugt architects
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Brinkman & Van der Vlugt (1925-1936) is best known for the Van Nelle factory in Rotterdam and the standard Dutch telephone box, which was used for over 50 years. This publication offers a complete retrospective of the two architects, accompanied by commentary from Joris Molenaar, who has restored several of the firm's buildings.
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Tomás Taveira.
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144 pages : chiefly illustrations (all color) ; 31 cm.
London : Academy Editions ; New York, NY : Distributed in the United States of America in 1994 by St. Martin's Press, 1994.
Tomás Taveira.
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London : Academy Editions ; New York, NY : Distributed in the United States of America in 1994 by St. Martin's Press, 1994.
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187 pages (some folded) : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 32 cm
[Amsterdam] : Fw:Books, [2017], Amsterdam : Distributed by Idea Books.
Field studies : walking through landscapes and archives : the Sir Edward James Salisbury archive re-visited : observing environmental change in British landscape / Chrystel Lebas ; texts by Nanda van den Berg [and 4 others] ; edited by Chrystel Lebas.
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[Amsterdam] : Fw:Books, [2017], Amsterdam : Distributed by Idea Books.