Jurgen Naber: Stops
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In this slender first-time solo publication of recent works by the German photo-based artist Jurgen Nabor, a series of 48 black and white photographs of bus shelters in people-less rural Norwegian landscapes recall the visual texture of the Dusseldorf aesthetic of the 1970s. An essay by independent curator Henriette Heidbrink discusses the centering of the subject in each(...)
Jurgen Naber: Stops
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In this slender first-time solo publication of recent works by the German photo-based artist Jurgen Nabor, a series of 48 black and white photographs of bus shelters in people-less rural Norwegian landscapes recall the visual texture of the Dusseldorf aesthetic of the 1970s. An essay by independent curator Henriette Heidbrink discusses the centering of the subject in each photograph and Nabor's debt to other conceptual photographic series such as Ed Ruscha's 26 Gas Stations (1963),
Photography monographs
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This monograph, the latest volume in Phaidon's documentation of John Pawson's career, hones in on the essential details that mark his distinctive architectural and aesthetic style. It groups a selection of his recent works into domestic projects, including his own house in rural England; extended sacred spaces; and repurposed structures, such as London's Design Museum.(...)
John Pawson: Anatomy of minimum
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This monograph, the latest volume in Phaidon's documentation of John Pawson's career, hones in on the essential details that mark his distinctive architectural and aesthetic style. It groups a selection of his recent works into domestic projects, including his own house in rural England; extended sacred spaces; and repurposed structures, such as London's Design Museum. Throughout its pages, this book explores Pawson's unique approach to proportion and light and his precise language of windows, doors, and walls.
Architecture Monographs
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Ce livre est une somme sur l’histoire des pratiques de l’architecture dédiée à la sauvegarde du patrimoine. Deux cents ans d’observations, de mises en œuvre et d’inventions. L’ouvrage est à la fois analytique et didactique, proposant à travers d’innombrables exemples – allant des bâtiments les plus prestigieux (Notre-Dame, Quimper, Invalides…) aux plus humbles (places de(...)
Sens et renaissances du patrimoine architectural
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Ce livre est une somme sur l’histoire des pratiques de l’architecture dédiée à la sauvegarde du patrimoine. Deux cents ans d’observations, de mises en œuvre et d’inventions. L’ouvrage est à la fois analytique et didactique, proposant à travers d’innombrables exemples – allant des bâtiments les plus prestigieux (Notre-Dame, Quimper, Invalides…) aux plus humbles (places de village, habitat rural, constructions composites…) – un ensemble de voies possibles pour mobiliser avec intelligence les architectures du passé et les attacher à notre temps.
The mediterranean home
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The mediterranean home has an ongoing influence on residential architecture and interior design: from classical rural styles, to more grounded spaces that interweave form and function. Blending the inside and the outside, and bringing together traditional features with contemporary elements, Mediterranean houses connect with their environments and the local culture. This(...)
The mediterranean home
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The mediterranean home has an ongoing influence on residential architecture and interior design: from classical rural styles, to more grounded spaces that interweave form and function. Blending the inside and the outside, and bringing together traditional features with contemporary elements, Mediterranean houses connect with their environments and the local culture. This volume looks at architecture, interior design, decoration and furniture, celebrating the unique Mediterranean aesthetic that continues to inspire a sense of home and comfort around the globe.
Residential Architecture
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Retrouvez près de deux cents clichés vus du ciel de toutes les régions du Québec, pris entre 1920 et 1980. Ce livre est composé de photos de Montréal, de la Mauricie et du Nord-du-Québec, de vues panoramiques de la capitale nationale, de prises de vue mettant le milieu rural à l’honneur et d’un échantillon de pellicules portant sur le patrimoine bâti québécois. Chaque(...)
Le Québec à vol d'oiseau, 1922-1982 : 60 ans de photographie aérienne
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Retrouvez près de deux cents clichés vus du ciel de toutes les régions du Québec, pris entre 1920 et 1980. Ce livre est composé de photos de Montréal, de la Mauricie et du Nord-du-Québec, de vues panoramiques de la capitale nationale, de prises de vue mettant le milieu rural à l’honneur et d’un échantillon de pellicules portant sur le patrimoine bâti québécois. Chaque photo est accompagnée d’une légende qui la complète et en révèle ses secrets.
Architecture du Québec
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This innovative work exposes the interests which underlie everyday conceptions of dirt and reveals how our ideas about it are intimately bound up with issues of race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality and the body. Exploring a wide variety of settings - domestic, urban and rural - it reveals how attitudes to dirt and cleanliness become manifest in surprisingly diverse(...)
Dirt: new geographies of cleanliness and contamination
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This innovative work exposes the interests which underlie everyday conceptions of dirt and reveals how our ideas about it are intimately bound up with issues of race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality and the body. Exploring a wide variety of settings - domestic, urban and rural - it reveals how attitudes to dirt and cleanliness become manifest in surprisingly diverse ways, including the rituals of death and burial; architectural design aesthetics; urban infrastructure and regeneration; film symbolism; and consumer attitudes to food.
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June 2013
Urban Theory
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55, [1] pages, 10 unnumbered leaves of plates (some folded) : illustrations, plans ; 23 cm
Dublin : William Curry, 1830.
A statement of the management of the Farnham estates.
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Dublin : William Curry, 1830.
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Tria Giovan first traveled to Cuba in 1990. Over the next six years she took twelve month-long trips, traversing the island numerous times, and making more than 25,000 images. Immersing herself in Cuba’s history, literature, and politics, she photographed interiors of homes and businesses, city streets, rural landscapes, signs and billboards, and, most of all, the people,(...)
Tria Giovan : the Cuba archive
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Tria Giovan first traveled to Cuba in 1990. Over the next six years she took twelve month-long trips, traversing the island numerous times, and making more than 25,000 images. Immersing herself in Cuba’s history, literature, and politics, she photographed interiors of homes and businesses, city streets, rural landscapes, signs and billboards, and, most of all, the people, creating a compelling body of work that captures the subtleties and layered complexities of day-to-day Cuba born from complete engagement and informed perspective.
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The story of OOPEAA began in a rural field in Finland, where the now-iconic Kärsämäki Shingle Church was built by hand by hundreds of volunteers over half a decade. In the years that followed, OOPEAA has established itself as one of Finland’s leading architecture firms, one that is distinguished by a sensitivity to material and craftmanship. In text, photographs and(...)
Oopeaa: Office For Peripheral Architecture
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The story of OOPEAA began in a rural field in Finland, where the now-iconic Kärsämäki Shingle Church was built by hand by hundreds of volunteers over half a decade. In the years that followed, OOPEAA has established itself as one of Finland’s leading architecture firms, one that is distinguished by a sensitivity to material and craftmanship. In text, photographs and drawings, this book traces the office’s development into one of the most innovative architectural practices in the Nordic region today.
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January 2016
Architecture Monographs
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This third volume in the “Essays on the Political Economy of Urban Form” series addresses contemporary power relations and their effects on urban and natural landscapes. Edited by Marc Angélil and Rainer Hehl, it explores geopolitics in the Amazon, Ecuador’s infrastructural subtraction, circulatory urbanism in Mumbai and urban development on Brazil’s frontier. It traces(...)
Empower! Essays on the political economy + political ecology of urban form, vol.3
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This third volume in the “Essays on the Political Economy of Urban Form” series addresses contemporary power relations and their effects on urban and natural landscapes. Edited by Marc Angélil and Rainer Hehl, it explores geopolitics in the Amazon, Ecuador’s infrastructural subtraction, circulatory urbanism in Mumbai and urban development on Brazil’s frontier. It traces the economic exploitation and anthropology that drove widespread ecocide in the Amazon basin, and how accessible rail transport in India challenges artificial distinctions between urban and rural.
Critical Theory