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167 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm
New York : Museum of Modern Art : Distributed in the U.S. and Canada by D.A.P., ©2007.
Jeff Wall / Peter Galassi ; exhibition organized by Peter Galassi, Neal Benezra ; interview with Jeff Wall by James Rondeau.
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New York : Museum of Modern Art : Distributed in the U.S. and Canada by D.A.P., ©2007.
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What might Gianbattista Piranesi (1720-1778) contribute to today’s architectural debate? Could his vision of a pensile city inspire the city of tomorrow? Archescape is a new concept based on a reading of Piranesi’s Campo Marzio, his sublime reconstruction of ancient Rome. Archescape, a fusion of the words architecture and escape into a new ‘scape’, addresses two issues:(...)
Archescape: on the tracks of Piranesi
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What might Gianbattista Piranesi (1720-1778) contribute to today’s architectural debate? Could his vision of a pensile city inspire the city of tomorrow? Archescape is a new concept based on a reading of Piranesi’s Campo Marzio, his sublime reconstruction of ancient Rome. Archescape, a fusion of the words architecture and escape into a new ‘scape’, addresses two issues: the city flight that tends towards the destruction of what it looks for, and the sprawling urban footprint that is unsustainable and blocks escape. It also conceives a way out: the creation of flight lines inside a dense city.
Architectural Theory
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This book examines how photography, the railroad, electricity, space flight and the computer became central, yet often contradictory, parts of the way Americans construct and narrate their culture, whether as western settlers, consumers or tourists.
Narratives and spaces : technology and the construction of American culture
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This book examines how photography, the railroad, electricity, space flight and the computer became central, yet often contradictory, parts of the way Americans construct and narrate their culture, whether as western settlers, consumers or tourists.
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Engineering Structures
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352 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
New York : Museum of Modern Art ; London : Thames & Hudson [distributor], 2007.
Jeff Wall : selected essays and interviews / Jeff Wall.
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New York : Museum of Modern Art ; London : Thames & Hudson [distributor], 2007.
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This book folds out to a 139cm panorama, detailing the history and mythology of flight, from the legendary attempts of Icarus, to the revolutionary innovations of the Jet Age! The wrap-around cover provides educational entries for each panel, detailing notable benchmarks in the history of aviation.
High times : a history of aviation
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This book folds out to a 139cm panorama, detailing the history and mythology of flight, from the legendary attempts of Icarus, to the revolutionary innovations of the Jet Age! The wrap-around cover provides educational entries for each panel, detailing notable benchmarks in the history of aviation.
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224 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm
Berlin : Die Gestalten Verlag, 2015.
The new nomads : temporary spaces and a life on the move / [edited by Sven Ehmann, Robert Klanten, Michelle Galindo, and Sofia Borges ; profile texts by Sofia Borges ; preface by Shonquis Moreno].
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Berlin : Die Gestalten Verlag, 2015.
Night creatures: Firefly
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Written in lyrical verse, this story follows one sun-seeking child who discovers a meadow illuminated by fireflies: "fallen constellations" that dance like stars among the summer grasses, setting fears to flight. Enchanting to read aloud and exquisite to hold in the hand, each scene is rendered in spellbinding detail, showing the power of hope in a world steeped in darkness.
Night creatures: Firefly
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Written in lyrical verse, this story follows one sun-seeking child who discovers a meadow illuminated by fireflies: "fallen constellations" that dance like stars among the summer grasses, setting fears to flight. Enchanting to read aloud and exquisite to hold in the hand, each scene is rendered in spellbinding detail, showing the power of hope in a world steeped in darkness.
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The Table That Ran Away to the Woods tells the story of a writing desk that one day “grabbed two pairs of shoes / ran downstairs, and took flight,” escaping into the countryside with its owners in barefoot pursuit. This is the first time the tale—first published in a Polish newspaper in 1940 and re-created in this exquisite collaged version in 1963—has been made available(...)
The table that ran away to the woods
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The Table That Ran Away to the Woods tells the story of a writing desk that one day “grabbed two pairs of shoes / ran downstairs, and took flight,” escaping into the countryside with its owners in barefoot pursuit. This is the first time the tale—first published in a Polish newspaper in 1940 and re-created in this exquisite collaged version in 1963—has been made available to an English-speaking audience.
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Architecture Now! Houses series includes 60 of the most dramatic new residences around the world. See the House Turtle designed by the artists Carsten Höller and Marcel Odenbach in Biriwa, Ghana; visit Tadao Ando’s dramatic House in Monterrey, Mexico, or take off to see the Flight of Birds House in the Azores by Bernardo Rodrigues. This new book allows you to explore the(...)
Architecture Now! Houses vol.3
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Architecture Now! Houses series includes 60 of the most dramatic new residences around the world. See the House Turtle designed by the artists Carsten Höller and Marcel Odenbach in Biriwa, Ghana; visit Tadao Ando’s dramatic House in Monterrey, Mexico, or take off to see the Flight of Birds House in the Azores by Bernardo Rodrigues. This new book allows you to explore the most beautiful and spectacular houses, both inside and out.
Residential Architecture
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Although we tend to think of television primarily as a household fixture, TV monitors outside the home are widespread: in bars, laundromats, and stores; conveying flight arrival and departure times in airports; uniting crowds at sports events and allaying boredom in waiting rooms; and helping to pass the time in workplaces of all kinds. In Ambient Television Anna McCarthy(...)
Ambient television : visual culture and public space
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Although we tend to think of television primarily as a household fixture, TV monitors outside the home are widespread: in bars, laundromats, and stores; conveying flight arrival and departure times in airports; uniting crowds at sports events and allaying boredom in waiting rooms; and helping to pass the time in workplaces of all kinds. In Ambient Television Anna McCarthy explores the significance of this pervasive phenomenon, tracing the forms of conflict, commerce, and community that television generates outside the home.
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