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This publication offers a view of Steven Holl's spectacular buildings, with a particular eye to their sculptural expressiveness, the materials used, compositional elements, and the way light is handled. Essays by Dietmar Steiner (director of the Architekturzentrum in Vienna), Yehuda Safran (professor at Columbia University, New York) and Wolf Prix (architect, Vienna) shed(...)
Steven Holl : idea and phenomena
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This publication offers a view of Steven Holl's spectacular buildings, with a particular eye to their sculptural expressiveness, the materials used, compositional elements, and the way light is handled. Essays by Dietmar Steiner (director of the Architekturzentrum in Vienna), Yehuda Safran (professor at Columbia University, New York) and Wolf Prix (architect, Vienna) shed light on the process of moving from idea to phenomenon, from the first sketch - in this case from Steven Holl's water-colour drawings - to construction.
Architecture Monographs
Jim Mangan: time of nothing
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Photographer Jim Mangan zeroes in on the American Southwest with Time of Nothing, a book of aerial shots taken near the Great Salt Lake. One turn of the page, and it becomes clear the desert is anything but desolate. Mangan captures the landscapes in their pink and purple painted hues, complemented by rich textures sculpted from bodies of water. What ensues is a series of(...)
Jim Mangan: time of nothing
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Photographer Jim Mangan zeroes in on the American Southwest with Time of Nothing, a book of aerial shots taken near the Great Salt Lake. One turn of the page, and it becomes clear the desert is anything but desolate. Mangan captures the landscapes in their pink and purple painted hues, complemented by rich textures sculpted from bodies of water. What ensues is a series of abstract photos that serve as a necessary reminder of nature’s faculties.
Photography monographs
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As a native New Yorker with a lifelong curiosity about urban infrastructure, photographer Stanley Greenberg observes characteristics of the city that most people miss. And the more he explores the city, the more he understands it as a huge catalog of features that repeat, vary, morph, and multiply - block by block, neighborhood by neighborhood. Alleys, skybridges,(...)
Codex New York: typologies of the city
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As a native New Yorker with a lifelong curiosity about urban infrastructure, photographer Stanley Greenberg observes characteristics of the city that most people miss. And the more he explores the city, the more he understands it as a huge catalog of features that repeat, vary, morph, and multiply - block by block, neighborhood by neighborhood. Alleys, skybridges, parking sheds, architectural relics, tiny streets, water infrastructure — these and more were captured to create a visual chronicle of the city.
Photography monographs
Prefab green
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In this publication, architect Michelle Kaufmann shares her vision of creating thoughtful, sustainable design for everyone. Her firm, Michelle Kaufmann Designs, blends sustainable home layouts, eco-friendly materials, and low-energy options to create a "prepackaged" green solution to home design. Kaufmann tells about five eco-principles that are present in every design(...)
February 2009
Prefab green
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In this publication, architect Michelle Kaufmann shares her vision of creating thoughtful, sustainable design for everyone. Her firm, Michelle Kaufmann Designs, blends sustainable home layouts, eco-friendly materials, and low-energy options to create a "prepackaged" green solution to home design. Kaufmann tells about five eco-principles that are present in every design her firm creates - smart design, eco-materials, energy efficiency, water conservation, and healthy environment - and how each work together to create homes that make a difference.
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This book presents a new chapter in a series of installations that different visual artists and architects from around the world created in Mies van der Rohe's emblematic building. The Chinese artist Ai Weiwei filled the pavilion's pools with two typical items that are part of our daily lives, but are completely at odds with an architectural construction: the water in the(...)
Ai Wei Wei: With milk, find something everybody can use
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This book presents a new chapter in a series of installations that different visual artists and architects from around the world created in Mies van der Rohe's emblematic building. The Chinese artist Ai Weiwei filled the pavilion's pools with two typical items that are part of our daily lives, but are completely at odds with an architectural construction: the water in the pools, one exterior and the other interior is replaced, respectively, with milk and coffee.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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"The mother tongue of architecture" is a collection of critical essays on abiding and compelling topics in architecture and the culture of architecture. Range of topics is diverse: an architectural phenomenology of water, relationship of architecture and landscape rethought, ancient Greece to India, the Buddha’s house to the modern house in India, the architecture and(...)
The mother tongue of architecture: Selected writing from Kazi Khaleed Ashraf
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"The mother tongue of architecture" is a collection of critical essays on abiding and compelling topics in architecture and the culture of architecture. Range of topics is diverse: an architectural phenomenology of water, relationship of architecture and landscape rethought, ancient Greece to India, the Buddha’s house to the modern house in India, the architecture and landscapes of Louis Kahn, Le Corbusier in India, the architecture of Balkrishna Doshi, and other original topics such as the destruction of buildings as a ritual necessity.
Architectural Theory
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Today, Mexico is the most populous metropolis in America. At two thousand meters above the sea level, it is surrounded by mountains that overpass the three thousand meters of altitude. 'UNLAKECITY - where there was a lake, now there is a city' focuses on the geography and the architecture of Mexico City, from the past to the present. Concentrating in two important key(...)
Unlakecity: geography and architecture of mexico
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Today, Mexico is the most populous metropolis in America. At two thousand meters above the sea level, it is surrounded by mountains that overpass the three thousand meters of altitude. 'UNLAKECITY - where there was a lake, now there is a city' focuses on the geography and the architecture of Mexico City, from the past to the present. Concentrating in two important key subjects - water and the construction of public space, the urban development will be explained visualizing the geographical condition of the city.
Vernacular Architecture
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"Off the grid homes" looks at six contemporary architectural projects that integrate alternative technologies for generating and conserving energy. Being off the grid can refer to many different aspects of energy and resource independence, from rainwater collection, to photovoltaic (PV) systems, to gray-water systems and more. Diagrams and clear explanations of(...)
Off the grid homes : case studies for sustainable living
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"Off the grid homes" looks at six contemporary architectural projects that integrate alternative technologies for generating and conserving energy. Being off the grid can refer to many different aspects of energy and resource independence, from rainwater collection, to photovoltaic (PV) systems, to gray-water systems and more. Diagrams and clear explanations of technologies and their appropriate applications are provided alongside the case studies that explain just how the technologies work and how they may best be applied to each individual situation.
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April 2007, Layton
Green Architecture
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Abelardo Morell's elegant photographs of books are presented in duotone reproductions, highlighting the grace and sensuality of the printed page. Morell has selected unusual books, like a leather-bound volume that is smaller than a paper clip, an impossibly large dictionary, and illustrated books whose characters appear to leap off of the page. He has photographed the(...)
Abelardo Morell : a book of books, reduced-format edition
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Abelardo Morell's elegant photographs of books are presented in duotone reproductions, highlighting the grace and sensuality of the printed page. Morell has selected unusual books, like a leather-bound volume that is smaller than a paper clip, an impossibly large dictionary, and illustrated books whose characters appear to leap off of the page. He has photographed the endless ocean of books in a library and the strikingly beautiful way in which weathered and water-damaged books take on sculptural form.
Photography monographs
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L'auteur Bill Bryson entreprend un Grand Tour à l'échelle d'une maison pour raconter de pièce en pièce l'aventure du génie humain. Au fil de cette histoire de l'envers du décor, vous croiserez des personnages tels que Virginia Woolf (qui n'aimait pas sa bonne) et Karl Marx (qui couchqit avec la sienne), vous saurez tout sur l'invention de la tapette à souris et vous(...)
Une histoire du monde sans sortir de chez moi
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L'auteur Bill Bryson entreprend un Grand Tour à l'échelle d'une maison pour raconter de pièce en pièce l'aventure du génie humain. Au fil de cette histoire de l'envers du décor, vous croiserez des personnages tels que Virginia Woolf (qui n'aimait pas sa bonne) et Karl Marx (qui couchqit avec la sienne), vous saurez tout sur l'invention de la tapette à souris et vous comprendrez que sans les "water-closets à chasse d'eau" il n'y aurait pas eu de révolution industrielle...
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Architectural Theory