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132 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 26 cm.
Los Angeles : Getty Conservation Institute and the J. Paul Getty Museum, ©2002.
El Pueblo : the historic heart of Los Angeles / Jean Bruce Poole, Tevvy Ball.
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132 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 26 cm.
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Los Angeles : Getty Conservation Institute and the J. Paul Getty Museum, ©2002.
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The is the first book to document the highly innovative Terminal in Hong Kong, completed in 2018, with a rare glimpse at all stages of plans, design, and construction. Located centrally in Hong Kong, this is the largest below ground station in the world. The high-speed rail terminus station will connect Hong Kong to Beijing with the largest rail network in history,(...)
Andrew Bromberg at Aedas: West Kowloon Station
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The is the first book to document the highly innovative Terminal in Hong Kong, completed in 2018, with a rare glimpse at all stages of plans, design, and construction. Located centrally in Hong Kong, this is the largest below ground station in the world. The high-speed rail terminus station will connect Hong Kong to Beijing with the largest rail network in history, expected to strengthen the city's strategic position as the southern gateway of China.
Architecture Monographs
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In these pages, Chinese gardens unfold as cosmic diagrams, revealing a profound and ancient view of the world and of humanity's place in it. Keswick conducts us through the art and architecture, the principles and techniques of Chinese gardens, showing their long history as the background for a civilization. Updated and expanded, this third edition, with an(...)
The Chinese garden : history, art and architecture
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In these pages, Chinese gardens unfold as cosmic diagrams, revealing a profound and ancient view of the world and of humanity's place in it. Keswick conducts us through the art and architecture, the principles and techniques of Chinese gardens, showing their long history as the background for a civilization. Updated and expanded, this third edition, with an introduction by Alison Hardie, includes many new illustrations, and an updated list of gardens in China accessible to visitors.
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This pocket book describes the source of the Islamic architectural tradition in the ubiquitous courtyard house, and the development of the mosque as both place of worship and centre of the community, its form moulded by the requirements of prayer set out in the Koran and given various monumental forms as the conquests of Islam brought contact with the traditions of Egypt,(...)
Four caliphates : the formation of the Islamic tradition
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This pocket book describes the source of the Islamic architectural tradition in the ubiquitous courtyard house, and the development of the mosque as both place of worship and centre of the community, its form moulded by the requirements of prayer set out in the Koran and given various monumental forms as the conquests of Islam brought contact with the traditions of Egypt, Persia, and China. The book also explains the development of the tradition in tombs, palaces and fortifications.
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October 1998, London
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Small stone hutongs, built within a courtyard-and-alley system, are emblematic of Beijing’s traditional inner-city architecture which still contends with modern, cooperate redevelopments to shape the character of the city. In one of the oldest cities in China, the important tasks of preservation and revitalization require particular sensitivity. Captured at the centre of(...)
Hutong metabolism: Zao/Standard Architecture
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Small stone hutongs, built within a courtyard-and-alley system, are emblematic of Beijing’s traditional inner-city architecture which still contends with modern, cooperate redevelopments to shape the character of the city. In one of the oldest cities in China, the important tasks of preservation and revitalization require particular sensitivity. Captured at the centre of the battlefield between development, conservation and renovation, the hutongs, on the verge of erasure, call into question the paradoxical nature of these paradigms.
Architecture Monographs
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The acclaimed Portuguese architect Álvaro Siza Vieira takes centre stage in this instalment, with special focus on works completed over the last five years. In total, 26 diverse projects are detailed, from the China International Design Museum and Camilo Study Centre to wineries in Quinta do Portal and a spa in Pedra Salgadas. The issue includes a biography of the master(...)
El Croquis 168/169: Alvaro Siza
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The acclaimed Portuguese architect Álvaro Siza Vieira takes centre stage in this instalment, with special focus on works completed over the last five years. In total, 26 diverse projects are detailed, from the China International Design Museum and Camilo Study Centre to wineries in Quinta do Portal and a spa in Pedra Salgadas. The issue includes a biography of the master architect along with an essay by Juan Antonio Cortés analysing eleven architectural issues in the work of Siza.
El Croquis
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Kensington Market : collective memory, public history, and Toronto's urban landscape / Na Li.
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xv 122 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2015], ©2015
Kensington Market : collective memory, public history, and Toronto's urban landscape / Na Li.
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xv 122 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
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Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2015], ©2015
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[Place of publication not identified] : The Funambulist, 2017.
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[Place of publication not identified] : The Funambulist, 2017.
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Volume is project Archis + AMO + C-LAB + ... Can we do something by doing (almost) nothing? Can we achieve anything by doing too much? Can we do what we need to do, by doing just what is needed? How do we define doing too much, too little? How to think through doing anyway? The box contains 4 elements to examine these questions: "Volume Magazine", an A1 poster, a(...)
Volume no. 2 : doing (almost) nothing
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Volume is project Archis + AMO + C-LAB + ... Can we do something by doing (almost) nothing? Can we achieve anything by doing too much? Can we do what we need to do, by doing just what is needed? How do we define doing too much, too little? How to think through doing anyway? The box contains 4 elements to examine these questions: "Volume Magazine", an A1 poster, a research paper on 'Unknown urbanity in China' and a deck of cards cum essay.
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A co-founder in the 1960s of the influential metabolism movement in Japan, which promoted adaptable structures, Kurokawa has recently articulated his theory of symbiosis, in which he examines the contemporary shift from machine-age values to more organic environments. This retrospective book spans his career, illuminating the continuity, originality, and humanity of his(...)
Architecture Monographs
August 2005, Berlin
Kisho Kurokawa : metabolism and symbiosis
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A co-founder in the 1960s of the influential metabolism movement in Japan, which promoted adaptable structures, Kurokawa has recently articulated his theory of symbiosis, in which he examines the contemporary shift from machine-age values to more organic environments. This retrospective book spans his career, illuminating the continuity, originality, and humanity of his work. Covered here are less-familiar early designs and current undertakings of astounding proportions, like Zhengdong New District in China, a planned city of 15,000 people.
Architecture Monographs