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A digital atlas containing a wealth of information. The general maps show how the New Dutch Water Defence Line coheres as a strategic landscape structure. Maps at scale 1:25.000 show its typographic build-up in layers and components. The more detailed maps of the forts along its length reveal the sheer wealth of its historic places buildings forms and defining elements. In dutch.
Architectural Drawing
January 2007, Rotterdam
Strategisch Laagland Digital atlas
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A digital atlas containing a wealth of information. The general maps show how the New Dutch Water Defence Line coheres as a strategic landscape structure. Maps at scale 1:25.000 show its typographic build-up in layers and components. The more detailed maps of the forts along its length reveal the sheer wealth of its historic places buildings forms and defining elements. In dutch.
Architectural Drawing
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Lighting and city - a necessary, yet sometimes difficult, relationship. Four public, historical sites, in the heart of Milan, were "occupied" by well-known lighting designers and hosted a few small-scale projects, ephemeral lighting installations introduced and explored for everyday urban life. Squares, streets, and gardens that, lit in most unusual ways, lived under a(...)
Milano : lights in the blue / luci a cielo aperto
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Lighting and city - a necessary, yet sometimes difficult, relationship. Four public, historical sites, in the heart of Milan, were "occupied" by well-known lighting designers and hosted a few small-scale projects, ephemeral lighting installations introduced and explored for everyday urban life. Squares, streets, and gardens that, lit in most unusual ways, lived under a different light for four days, then photographed by masters of contemporary photography.
Materials and Lighting
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"This is a combination of big scale drawings (180 x 200 cm) and the One year Drawings, showing the process of reconstructing one image amongst all those that I had registered during the day. In both cases I’m interested in the creation of a frail universe based on the tensions between the anxiety of existential discomfort and it’s comical response evoked by human(...)
Katerina Christidi: c'est pas angoissant
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"This is a combination of big scale drawings (180 x 200 cm) and the One year Drawings, showing the process of reconstructing one image amongst all those that I had registered during the day. In both cases I’m interested in the creation of a frail universe based on the tensions between the anxiety of existential discomfort and it’s comical response evoked by human figures." Katerina Christidi
Graphic Design and Typography
Urban transformation
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If we want to get a grip on what is ‘urban' today, we have to capture it in all of its disguises, gradations, and transformations as it simultaneously occurs on a global scale. This comprehensively illustrated book takes the reader on a global dérive, through emerging urban conditions in five continents, as seen through the eyes of more than 50 international architects,(...)
Urban transformation
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If we want to get a grip on what is ‘urban' today, we have to capture it in all of its disguises, gradations, and transformations as it simultaneously occurs on a global scale. This comprehensively illustrated book takes the reader on a global dérive, through emerging urban conditions in five continents, as seen through the eyes of more than 50 international architects, urban planners, politicians, and artists.
Urban Theory
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This publication explores how the topic of food and associated processes such as its production and consumption are critically reflected in the international art of today. The catalogue for the 13th Triennial of Small-Scale Sculpture presents over forty artistic approaches from across the continents, in which it becomes clear how food can be understood as exemplified by(...)
Food: ecologies of the everyday.
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This publication explores how the topic of food and associated processes such as its production and consumption are critically reflected in the international art of today. The catalogue for the 13th Triennial of Small-Scale Sculpture presents over forty artistic approaches from across the continents, in which it becomes clear how food can be understood as exemplified by aesthetic, social, ecological and economical connections.
Food
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An essential volume for landscape- and garden-design professionals, 'Drawing for Landscape Architecture' argues for the importance of learning to “see by hand,” to visualize large-scale design plans and articulate them through drawing before turning to the digital tools that are so crucial to efficient and cost-effective building solutions. This enriched approach makes(...)
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Drawing for landscape architecture
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An essential volume for landscape- and garden-design professionals, 'Drawing for Landscape Architecture' argues for the importance of learning to “see by hand,” to visualize large-scale design plans and articulate them through drawing before turning to the digital tools that are so crucial to efficient and cost-effective building solutions. This enriched approach makes for better design, happier clients, and more successful projects.
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"Tiny taxonomy" describes the practice of gardening and the implications of strict classification. It seems that as the world around us gains complexity and intricacy, our biological world is trending towards monotony. As our experiences become more and more uniform, our capacity to apprehend transformation and detail diminishes. Using the scale of the individual plant,(...)
Tiny taxonomy: individual plants in landscape architecture
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"Tiny taxonomy" describes the practice of gardening and the implications of strict classification. It seems that as the world around us gains complexity and intricacy, our biological world is trending towards monotony. As our experiences become more and more uniform, our capacity to apprehend transformation and detail diminishes. Using the scale of the individual plant, smallness becomes a design opportunity while classification embraces the aliveness of plants.
Gardens
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Garden festivals are often a testing area for new ideas for landscape designers. On a small scale designers can experiment with innovative materials and explore emerging tendencies. The International Garden Festival in Métis in northern Quebec is probably the best-known festival in North America. This publication will explain the role of garden festivals in landscape(...)
Experimenting landscapes: testing the limits of the garden. Métis Garden Festival
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Garden festivals are often a testing area for new ideas for landscape designers. On a small scale designers can experiment with innovative materials and explore emerging tendencies. The International Garden Festival in Métis in northern Quebec is probably the best-known festival in North America. This publication will explain the role of garden festivals in landscape design and present a selection of 25 gardens from Métis.
Gardens
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How do you design a distinctive building that also fits seamlessly into its context? How do you add value to a site yet at the same time acknowledge its identity? ''Architecture in Context'' attempts to answer these questions with a carefully selected series of international, public/private, large- and small-scale projects, all of which demonstrate just that sensitivity(...)
Architecture in context: contemporary design solutions
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How do you design a distinctive building that also fits seamlessly into its context? How do you add value to a site yet at the same time acknowledge its identity? ''Architecture in Context'' attempts to answer these questions with a carefully selected series of international, public/private, large- and small-scale projects, all of which demonstrate just that sensitivity to their environmental, cultural and social contexts.
Contemporary Architecture
Green architecture today
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Thirty international architects are selected for the leading role they’ve played in the professional development of modern sustainable architecture. Residential and commercial projects are offered as examples of the best new ideas in green living. 'Green Architecture today' presents an intriguing spectrum of offerings. Large-scale photos and detail shots are accompanied(...)
Green architecture today
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Thirty international architects are selected for the leading role they’ve played in the professional development of modern sustainable architecture. Residential and commercial projects are offered as examples of the best new ideas in green living. 'Green Architecture today' presents an intriguing spectrum of offerings. Large-scale photos and detail shots are accompanied by diagrams of sustainable features such as active and passive cooling and heating systems.
Green Architecture