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Fashion consciousness interpreted as modern, ethical living - "ecodesign" considers every project a life-cycle that has to be well thought out, from production to disposal. This new "green" approach reflects a dynamic lifestyle that imaginatively brings together design, innovation, and the responsible use of resources. The objects and products featured in this book(...)
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Ecodesign
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Fashion consciousness interpreted as modern, ethical living - "ecodesign" considers every project a life-cycle that has to be well thought out, from production to disposal. This new "green" approach reflects a dynamic lifestyle that imaginatively brings together design, innovation, and the responsible use of resources. The objects and products featured in this book provide attractive solutions for the demands of contemporary life.
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©2014, New York : Fordham University Press, 2014.
Making Italian America : consumer culture and the production of ethnic identities / edited by Simone Cinotto.
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The new urban elite live a lifestyle that benefits from and heavily depends on the service economy, a development with potential consequences for architecture and urban planning. "Serve City" explores this latest challenge to the city via an Australian study: the development of an urban-planning strategy for a new service site in Sydney where information and communication(...)
Urban Theory
March 2004, Berlin
Serve city : interactive urbanism
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The new urban elite live a lifestyle that benefits from and heavily depends on the service economy, a development with potential consequences for architecture and urban planning. "Serve City" explores this latest challenge to the city via an Australian study: the development of an urban-planning strategy for a new service site in Sydney where information and communication technologies play decisive roles in the plan.
Urban Theory
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In 1930, Nikolai A. Milyutin presented his structural-engineering vision of the Marxist-stamped form of city and lifestyle with this book. The orientation towards Western ideas of design, but especially his demand for decentralised metropolises made him a reluctant enemy of the state, and Sozgorod immediately became forbidden literature. This facsimile edition, the first(...)
Sozgorod, faksimile der erstausgabe von 1930
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In 1930, Nikolai A. Milyutin presented his structural-engineering vision of the Marxist-stamped form of city and lifestyle with this book. The orientation towards Western ideas of design, but especially his demand for decentralised metropolises made him a reluctant enemy of the state, and Sozgorod immediately became forbidden literature. This facsimile edition, the first direct German translation of the original Russian, makes Milyutin’s legacy available again.
Modernism
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This book offers an overview of the history of dolls' houses and their furniture, based on the collections of the V Museum of Childhood. From early art cabinets and ‘baby’ houses that recorded the extravagant lifestyle of aristocratic owners, and German houses intended as teaching aids for young girls, to the dolls’ houses of today, Pasierbska tells the fascinating story(...)
Dollhouse from the V Museum of childhood
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This book offers an overview of the history of dolls' houses and their furniture, based on the collections of the V Museum of Childhood. From early art cabinets and ‘baby’ houses that recorded the extravagant lifestyle of aristocratic owners, and German houses intended as teaching aids for young girls, to the dolls’ houses of today, Pasierbska tells the fascinating story of the dolls’ house.
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xiii, 354 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, ©2003.
Around Washington Square : an illustrated history of Greenwich Village / Luther S. Harris.
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Habitants atypique
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They live off the beaten track in treehouses, troglodytes, round or square houses, huts, cabanes, their habitat is their image. Its design also responds to the daily needs: shelter, food, heating. Habitat is witnessing a thought in alternative lifestyle that is attracting more and more. For four years French photographer Alexa Brunet has travelled across France to portray(...)
Habitants atypique
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They live off the beaten track in treehouses, troglodytes, round or square houses, huts, cabanes, their habitat is their image. Its design also responds to the daily needs: shelter, food, heating. Habitat is witnessing a thought in alternative lifestyle that is attracting more and more. For four years French photographer Alexa Brunet has travelled across France to portray the housing and surroundings of 25 of these alternative dwellers.
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Shuichiro Shibata: bus stop
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The number of passengers on local bus routes at bus stops as addressed in this photo book has been in decline since the peak year of 1968. This is due to an increase in individual car ownership, an aging society with fewer children, lower populations in rural areas, and lifestyle changes. Japanese photographer Shuichiro Shibata (1963) has travelled all over Japan to(...)
Shuichiro Shibata: bus stop
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The number of passengers on local bus routes at bus stops as addressed in this photo book has been in decline since the peak year of 1968. This is due to an increase in individual car ownership, an aging society with fewer children, lower populations in rural areas, and lifestyle changes. Japanese photographer Shuichiro Shibata (1963) has travelled all over Japan to picture the bus stops in black and white photographs.
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Based upon research by trend analysts Chris Sanderson and Martin Raymond from the London firm The Future Laboratory , the multifaceted examples in this informative volume are diverse. Portrayed in striking ways, they range from product design, industrial design and the interiors of restaurants and hotels to branding and consumerism. crEATe. surely indicates how food(...)
CrEATe: eat, design and future food
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Based upon research by trend analysts Chris Sanderson and Martin Raymond from the London firm The Future Laboratory , the multifaceted examples in this informative volume are diverse. Portrayed in striking ways, they range from product design, industrial design and the interiors of restaurants and hotels to branding and consumerism. crEATe. surely indicates how food is gaining new meaning in our lifestyle as well as in top-notch contemporary design.
Food
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The scale of Wolf’s vision alternates between the grand and the intimate, capturing both the striking facades of the buildings themselves and the minute human interventions that mark them. Wolf’s photographs reflect a deft combination of Western aesthetic formalism and Eastern wabi-sabi. The accompanying texts by Kenneth Baker and Douglas Young explore the choices(...)
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January 1900, New York
Michael Wolf : Hong Kong : front door / back door
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The scale of Wolf’s vision alternates between the grand and the intimate, capturing both the striking facades of the buildings themselves and the minute human interventions that mark them. Wolf’s photographs reflect a deft combination of Western aesthetic formalism and Eastern wabi-sabi. The accompanying texts by Kenneth Baker and Douglas Young explore the choices people make of lifestyle, forms, functions, identity and design, as well as the notion of Hong Kong as a brand.
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