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En marge des immenses étendues urbaines qui parsèment aujourd'hui l'archipel, l'esprit du Japon vit dans ses maisons de campagne. Amy Katoh - accompagnée de Shin Kimura, l'un des photographes les plus en vue du pays - a voyagé dans un Japon reculé et paisible, à la découverte de ces sanctuaires où le temps semble s'être arrêté. L'ornementation très simple, les(...)
Maisons traditionelles du Japon
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En marge des immenses étendues urbaines qui parsèment aujourd'hui l'archipel, l'esprit du Japon vit dans ses maisons de campagne. Amy Katoh - accompagnée de Shin Kimura, l'un des photographes les plus en vue du pays - a voyagé dans un Japon reculé et paisible, à la découverte de ces sanctuaires où le temps semble s'être arrêté. L'ornementation très simple, les savoir-faire anciens, le respect de règles ancestrales recèlent toute l richesse d'une grande civilisation. En s'appuyant sur 450 splendides photos en couleurs, cet ouvrage présente les visages du Japon d'hier et décrit l'évolution du mode de vie rural traditionnel. C'est un réservoir d'idée inestimable pour tous ceux qui souhaitent faire entrer la nature et la beauté dans leur vie de citadins modernes.
History until 1900, Asia
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This oublication is an enchanting collection of colour and black-and-white photographs taken in and around Cesare Fabbri’s native Emilia-Romagna and Sardinia between 2005–2015. Under Fabbri’s lens we encounter a silent world roused from its slumber, where objects are animated and personified. Fabbri nods to the photographic practice of Luigi Ghirri, bringing to mind the(...)
Cesare Fabbri: The flying carpet
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This oublication is an enchanting collection of colour and black-and-white photographs taken in and around Cesare Fabbri’s native Emilia-Romagna and Sardinia between 2005–2015. Under Fabbri’s lens we encounter a silent world roused from its slumber, where objects are animated and personified. Fabbri nods to the photographic practice of Luigi Ghirri, bringing to mind the Italian master’s words: “the camera is a magical toy capable of bringing together the great and the small, illusion and reality, our adult awareness and the fairy-tale world of childhood.” Indeed, in 'The Flying Carpet', we encounter scenes that might derive from comics – a rural hut with painted questioning eyes, a plant uprooted and hovering mid-air, and an embroidered carpet lifting up in the breeze.
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In light of the increasing disengagement between urban and rural areas, this book address the interdependency of cities with ecological and technological processes outside the purview of traditional urban planning. It compiles a huge amount of essays in regards to the most important topics that cities must address today, such as their connection with global data networks,(...)
Imminent commons: the expanded city, Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism 2017
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In light of the increasing disengagement between urban and rural areas, this book address the interdependency of cities with ecological and technological processes outside the purview of traditional urban planning. It compiles a huge amount of essays in regards to the most important topics that cities must address today, such as their connection with global data networks, ecological cycles of resources which supersede the traditional boundaries of urbanism. For this reason, it frames investigation of contemporary urbanism on nine imminent commons grouping the urban commons into resources and technologies lead us to the arcane classification of natural resources: air, water, fire, and earth, the four elements of ancient cosmologies; and five basic technological commons based on expanded human capacities: sensing, communicating, moving, making, and recycling.
Urban Theory
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Since 2008, for the first time in human history, more people reside in cities than in the countryside. As a result, suburban housing development is one of the most important construction tasks of our times. Architects and urban planners face the challenge of creating residential space and the associated infrastructure in the periphery or vicinity of modern cities. Whether(...)
The sub/urban idea: from terraced houses to residential estates
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Since 2008, for the first time in human history, more people reside in cities than in the countryside. As a result, suburban housing development is one of the most important construction tasks of our times. Architects and urban planners face the challenge of creating residential space and the associated infrastructure in the periphery or vicinity of modern cities. Whether large or small, such projects offer the opportunity of combining the advantages of urban and rural life. While many such housing developments were designed in isolation in the past, there are increasingly successful projects today that can serve as templates for future construction projects. The contents of this volume focus on the architectural aspects of row houses, residential parks, gated communities, and large housing developments.
Residential Architecture
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Transférée du monde rural a au vocabulaire urbain et postindustriel, la friche désigne en fait toute portion de territoire dont le devenir - provisoirement ou durablement - échappe aux hommes qui l'avaient jusque-là contrôlé. Alors même que les friches en tout genre se multiplient et forment une donnée constante du paysage contemporain, ce numéro 4 des Cahiers de l'Ecole(...)
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January 2006, Paris / Besançon / Blois
Les cahiers de l'École de Blois 4 : autour des friches
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Transférée du monde rural a au vocabulaire urbain et postindustriel, la friche désigne en fait toute portion de territoire dont le devenir - provisoirement ou durablement - échappe aux hommes qui l'avaient jusque-là contrôlé. Alors même que les friches en tout genre se multiplient et forment une donnée constante du paysage contemporain, ce numéro 4 des Cahiers de l'Ecole de Blois (janvier 2006) s'interroge sur leur statut et sur ce qu'on pourrait appeler leur légitimité - ce principe d'incertitude ou ce suspens qu'elles font planer sur les enjeux du paysage. Textes de : Pierre Audat, Jean-Christophe Bailly, Chilpéric de Boiscuillé, Marc Claramunt, Gilles Clément, Christophe Degruelle, Aurélie Dewitte, Jean Echenoz, Claude Eveno, Delphine Lermite, Christophe Père, Kyohei Sakaguchi, Anne-Sophie Verriest, Hans Zischler.
Gardens
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As the historical and commercial value of old buildings rises, so does the demand for comprehensive restoration information. "Well-Preserved" is the standard guide for preserving historic homes and buildings. This book uses compelling arguments to establish the importance of architectural preservation for a wide variety of buildings in urban, rural, and suburban(...)
February 2003, Erin, Ontario
Well -Preserved : the Ontario Heritage Foundation's manual of principles and practice for architectural conservation, third revised edition
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As the historical and commercial value of old buildings rises, so does the demand for comprehensive restoration information. "Well-Preserved" is the standard guide for preserving historic homes and buildings. This book uses compelling arguments to establish the importance of architectural preservation for a wide variety of buildings in urban, rural, and suburban environments. Examples of 23 broad architectural styles are illustrated along with their cultural and historical significance. Combining concise, clear text with abundant photographic examples, the book presents planning advice for assessing, protecting, designing, repairing, and enhancing heritage structures of any age and style. Illustrated chapters cover the elements of foundation, floor and wall stabilization, roofing, masonry, exterior and interior woodwork, metalwork, stucco, concrete, composites and plaster, windows, entrances, exterior paint, interior finishes, and fixtures.
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Fondée en 1925, la ville d'Arvida est née de la nécessité de fournir de la main-d'oeuvre à l'usine Alcan qui venait de s'implanter sur les rives du Saguenay. L'arrivée de la grande enterprise dans le Québec rural a conduit au téléscopage de deux cultures: la culture industrielle moderne de l'Amérique du Nord anglophone et la culture rurale traditionelle du Québec(...)
Arvida au Saguenay : naissance d'une ville industrielle
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Fondée en 1925, la ville d'Arvida est née de la nécessité de fournir de la main-d'oeuvre à l'usine Alcan qui venait de s'implanter sur les rives du Saguenay. L'arrivée de la grande enterprise dans le Québec rural a conduit au téléscopage de deux cultures: la culture industrielle moderne de l'Amérique du Nord anglophone et la culture rurale traditionelle du Québec francophone. Arvida est un véritable microcosme de la naissance d'une ville industrielle et du développement de l'identité communautaire de sa population. José Igartua s'intéresse tout particulièrement au mouvement ouvrier local qui a atteint son apogée lors de la célèbre grève de 1941, démontrant que la lutte pour l'action collective a marqué un tournant dans l'épanouissement de la conscience communautaire.
Architecture du Québec
Paysage de lignes
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Cet ouvrage dépeint l’histoire matérielle et anonyme des objets qui composent les télécommunications modernes: poteaux électriques, fils et câbles, prises et interrupteurs, en passant par des dispositifs et micro-architectures ingénieux tels le théâtrophone et la cabine téléphonique. À partir de l’installation héroïque, vers la fin du 19e siècle, d’infrastructures(...)
Paysage de lignes
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Cet ouvrage dépeint l’histoire matérielle et anonyme des objets qui composent les télécommunications modernes: poteaux électriques, fils et câbles, prises et interrupteurs, en passant par des dispositifs et micro-architectures ingénieux tels le théâtrophone et la cabine téléphonique. À partir de l’installation héroïque, vers la fin du 19e siècle, d’infrastructures couvrant la surface terrestre, traversant les sous-sols, les océans et les mers jusqu’à pénétrer les intérieurs domestiques, Paysage de lignes propose une lecture qui, par sa pluralité d'axes, explore les multiples liens et croisements que ces «choses» techniques entretiennent avec l’architecture et l’art. Enrichi d’images d’archive inédites nous révélant un imaginaire stupéfiant, cet ouvrage apporte un regard esthétique sur des objets ordinaires qui ont changé à jamais le paysage urbain, rural et domestique de notre civilisation.
Urban Theory
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Doug Rickard’s A New American Picture offers a startling and fresh perspective on American street photography. While at first glance the work looks reassuringly familiar and well within the traditional bounds of the genre, Rickard’s methodology is anything but conventional. All of the images are appropriated from Google Street View; over a period of two years, Rickard(...)
Doug Rickard : a new American picture
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Doug Rickard’s A New American Picture offers a startling and fresh perspective on American street photography. While at first glance the work looks reassuringly familiar and well within the traditional bounds of the genre, Rickard’s methodology is anything but conventional. All of the images are appropriated from Google Street View; over a period of two years, Rickard took advantage of the technology platform’s comprehensive image archive to virtually drive the unseen and overlooked roads of America - bleak places that are forgotten, economically devastated and abandoned. With an informed and careful eye, Rickard finds and decodes these previously photographed scenes of urban and rural decay. He rephotographs the machine-made images as they appear on his computer screen, framing and freeing them from their technological origins.
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Most consumer products come primarily from the Pearl River Delta, the "factory of the world" with the largest industrial region on earth. The delta has attracted millions of poor rural residents to settle in factory towns in hopes for a better life. Factory Towns of South China opens a window on these walled compounds, exposing the gritty establishments, crowded(...)
Factory towns of South China: an illustrated guidebook
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Most consumer products come primarily from the Pearl River Delta, the "factory of the world" with the largest industrial region on earth. The delta has attracted millions of poor rural residents to settle in factory towns in hopes for a better life. Factory Towns of South China opens a window on these walled compounds, exposing the gritty establishments, crowded dormitories and monotonous labor carried out by workers. Some function as self-contained cities, with their own fire brigade, hospital, bank, TV station and as many as half a million workers living within the compounds. Other factories are scattered in larger villages to mask their existence and evade governmental crackdowns on the production of fake consumer goods and illegal casino machines.
Collective Housing