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viii, 55, [1] pages : illustrations (some color), plans ; 35 cm
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viii, 55, [1] pages : illustrations (some color), plans ; 35 cm
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- Tschumi, Bernard, 1944- Themes, motives.,
- Tschumi, Bernard, 1944- Thèmes, motifs.,
- Tschumi, Bernard, 1944-,
- Architecture, Postmodern France Paris Themes, motives.,
- Follies (Architecture) France Paris Themes, motives.,
- Landscape architecture France Paris Designs and plans.,
- Parks France Paris Designs and plans.,
- Architecture postmoderne France Paris Thèmes, motifs.,
- Architecture du paysage France Paris Dessins et plans.,
- Parcs France Paris Dessins et plans.,
- Folies (Architecture) France Paris Thèmes, motifs.,
- Follies (Architecture) Themes, motives,
- Parks,
- Landscape architecture,
- Architecture, Postmodern Themes, motives,
- Buildings,
- Themes, motives,
- Architecture, Postmodern France Paris.,
- Follies (Architecture) France Paris.,
- Paris (France) Buildings, structures, etc. Themes, motives.,
- Parc de La Villette (Paris, France),
- Paris (France) Constructions Thèmes, motifs.,
- Parc de la Villette (Paris, France),
- France Paris,
- France Paris Parc de La Villette,
- Paris (France) Buildings, structures, etc.,
- recreatiegebieden,
- amenity and recreation areas,
- ontwerp,
- design,
- frankrijk,
- france,
- tuinen,
- gardens,
- groene zones,
- green belts,
- landschapsarchitectuur,
- landscape architecture,
- plantmateriaal,
- planting stock,
- speelterreinen,
- playgrounds,
- publieke tuinen,
- public gardens,
- openbare parken,
- public parks,
- steden,
- towns,
- stedelijke gebieden,
- urban areas,
- landschapsbouw,
- landscaping,
- districten,
- districts,
- gemeenten,
- municipalities,
- Public Green and Parks,
- Openbare parken en groenvoorzieningen,
- Architectural drawings
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Princeton, NJ : Princeton Architectural Press, ©1987.
Princeton, NJ : Princeton Architectural Press, ©1987.
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Cinégram folie : le Parc de la Villette / Bernard Tschumi.
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viii, 55, [1] pages : illustrations (some color), plans ; 35 cm
Cinégram folie : le Parc de la Villette / Bernard Tschumi.
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Princeton, NJ : Princeton Architectural Press, ©1987.
Princeton, NJ : Princeton Architectural Press, ©1987.
Subject:
- Tschumi, Bernard, 1944- Themes, motives.,
- Tschumi, Bernard, 1944- Thèmes, motifs.,
- Tschumi, Bernard, 1944-,
- Architecture, Postmodern France Paris Themes, motives.,
- Follies (Architecture) France Paris Themes, motives.,
- Landscape architecture France Paris Designs and plans.,
- Parks France Paris Designs and plans.,
- Architecture postmoderne France Paris Thèmes, motifs.,
- Architecture du paysage France Paris Dessins et plans.,
- Parcs France Paris Dessins et plans.,
- Folies (Architecture) France Paris Thèmes, motifs.,
- Follies (Architecture) Themes, motives,
- Parks,
- Landscape architecture,
- Architecture, Postmodern Themes, motives,
- Buildings,
- Themes, motives,
- Architecture, Postmodern France Paris.,
- Follies (Architecture) France Paris.,
- Paris (France) Buildings, structures, etc. Themes, motives.,
- Parc de La Villette (Paris, France),
- Paris (France) Constructions Thèmes, motifs.,
- Parc de la Villette (Paris, France),
- France Paris,
- France Paris Parc de La Villette,
- Paris (France) Buildings, structures, etc.,
- recreatiegebieden,
- amenity and recreation areas,
- ontwerp,
- design,
- frankrijk,
- france,
- tuinen,
- gardens,
- groene zones,
- green belts,
- landschapsarchitectuur,
- landscape architecture,
- plantmateriaal,
- planting stock,
- speelterreinen,
- playgrounds,
- publieke tuinen,
- public gardens,
- openbare parken,
- public parks,
- steden,
- towns,
- stedelijke gebieden,
- urban areas,
- landschapsbouw,
- landscaping,
- districten,
- districts,
- gemeenten,
- municipalities,
- Public Green and Parks,
- Openbare parken en groenvoorzieningen,
- Architectural drawings
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256 pages : illustrations (some color), photographs, plans ; 26 cm
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256 pages : illustrations (some color), photographs, plans ; 26 cm
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- Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959.,
- Wright, Frank 1932-,
- Freeman House (Hollywood, Los Angeles, Calif.),
- Architecture, Domestic Conservation and restoration California Los Angeles.,
- Historic buildings Conservation and restoration California Los Angeles.,
- Architecture domestique Conservation et restauration Californie Los Angeles.,
- Monuments historiques Conservation et restauration Californie Los Angeles.,
- Architecture, Domestic Conservation and restoration,
- Buildings,
- Historic buildings Conservation and restoration,
- Restaurierung,
- Denkmalpflege,
- Villa,
- Los Angeles (Calif.) Buildings, structures, etc.,
- California Los Angeles,
- Freeman House
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New York : W.W. Norton & Co., ©2011.
New York : W.W. Norton & Co., ©2011.
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Saving Wright : the Freeman House and the preservation of meaning, materials, and modernity / Jeffrey M. Chusid.
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256 pages : illustrations (some color), photographs, plans ; 26 cm
Saving Wright : the Freeman House and the preservation of meaning, materials, and modernity / Jeffrey M. Chusid.
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256 pages : illustrations (some color), photographs, plans ; 26 cm
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New York : W.W. Norton & Co., ©2011.
New York : W.W. Norton & Co., ©2011.
Subject:
- Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959.,
- Wright, Frank 1932-,
- Freeman House (Hollywood, Los Angeles, Calif.),
- Architecture, Domestic Conservation and restoration California Los Angeles.,
- Historic buildings Conservation and restoration California Los Angeles.,
- Architecture domestique Conservation et restauration Californie Los Angeles.,
- Monuments historiques Conservation et restauration Californie Los Angeles.,
- Architecture, Domestic Conservation and restoration,
- Buildings,
- Historic buildings Conservation and restoration,
- Restaurierung,
- Denkmalpflege,
- Villa,
- Los Angeles (Calif.) Buildings, structures, etc.,
- California Los Angeles,
- Freeman House
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Building on Jeanne Gang’s recent book of the same name, "The art of architectural grafting" explores her concept for bringing new life to existing buildings through strategic additions that expand on structures’ original capacity and minimise their carbon footprint. The horticultural practice of grafting connects two separate plants, one old and one new, so they can grow(...)
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Building on Jeanne Gang’s recent book of the same name, "The art of architectural grafting" explores her concept for bringing new life to existing buildings through strategic additions that expand on structures’ original capacity and minimise their carbon footprint. The horticultural practice of grafting connects two separate plants, one old and one new, so they can grow(...)
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Jeanne Gang: The Art of Architectural Grafting
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Building on Jeanne Gang’s recent book of the same name, "The art of architectural grafting" explores her concept for bringing new life to existing buildings through strategic additions that expand on structures’ original capacity and minimise their carbon footprint. The horticultural practice of grafting connects two separate plants, one old and one new, so they can grow and flourish as one. This centuries-old technique is still employed today in the quest for more fruitful, tastier and more resilient plant varieties. Gang’s concept of architectural grafting applies the sensibility and principles of this approach to design at multiple scales. Rather than demolition and new construction, this approach focuses on the transformation and expansion of existing structures, thereby preserving both historic fabric and material resources.
Jeanne Gang: The Art of Architectural Grafting
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Building on Jeanne Gang’s recent book of the same name, "The art of architectural grafting" explores her concept for bringing new life to existing buildings through strategic additions that expand on structures’ original capacity and minimise their carbon footprint. The horticultural practice of grafting connects two separate plants, one old and one new, so they can grow and flourish as one. This centuries-old technique is still employed today in the quest for more fruitful, tastier and more resilient plant varieties. Gang’s concept of architectural grafting applies the sensibility and principles of this approach to design at multiple scales. Rather than demolition and new construction, this approach focuses on the transformation and expansion of existing structures, thereby preserving both historic fabric and material resources.
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July 2025
July 2025
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Contemporary Architecture
Contemporary Architecture
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The earth is not a dead, mute landscape but an eloquent, living being. Sometimes it just takes a spade, a packet of seeds, and a pair of sturdy boots to realize it. The philosopher Byung-Chul Han spent three springs, summers, autumns, and winters in his secret garden in Berlin, devoting himself to daily gardening in all weathers. For Han, gardening is a form of silent(...)
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The earth is not a dead, mute landscape but an eloquent, living being. Sometimes it just takes a spade, a packet of seeds, and a pair of sturdy boots to realize it. The philosopher Byung-Chul Han spent three springs, summers, autumns, and winters in his secret garden in Berlin, devoting himself to daily gardening in all weathers. For Han, gardening is a form of silent(...)
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In praise of the earth: a journey into the garden
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The earth is not a dead, mute landscape but an eloquent, living being. Sometimes it just takes a spade, a packet of seeds, and a pair of sturdy boots to realize it. The philosopher Byung-Chul Han spent three springs, summers, autumns, and winters in his secret garden in Berlin, devoting himself to daily gardening in all weathers. For Han, gardening is a form of silent meditation, a lingering in stillness. It gives you a different sense of time. Every plant has its own time that is specific to it, and the garden is a space in which these multiple temporalities overlap and cut across one another. The longer he worked in the garden, the more respect he developed for the earth and for its enchanting beauty.
In praise of the earth: a journey into the garden
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The earth is not a dead, mute landscape but an eloquent, living being. Sometimes it just takes a spade, a packet of seeds, and a pair of sturdy boots to realize it. The philosopher Byung-Chul Han spent three springs, summers, autumns, and winters in his secret garden in Berlin, devoting himself to daily gardening in all weathers. For Han, gardening is a form of silent meditation, a lingering in stillness. It gives you a different sense of time. Every plant has its own time that is specific to it, and the garden is a space in which these multiple temporalities overlap and cut across one another. The longer he worked in the garden, the more respect he developed for the earth and for its enchanting beauty.
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books
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November 2025
November 2025
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Landscape Theory
Landscape Theory
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"This other Eden" is a captivating narrative of seven great gardens, beautiful canvases that represent not just pleasure grounds but a country's evolution. Showpieces of grand design, they are also barometers of social change; lasting reflections of intellectual endeavour, of religion and philosophy, science and technology, art and literature, from Robert Cecil's garden(...)
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"This other Eden" is a captivating narrative of seven great gardens, beautiful canvases that represent not just pleasure grounds but a country's evolution. Showpieces of grand design, they are also barometers of social change; lasting reflections of intellectual endeavour, of religion and philosophy, science and technology, art and literature, from Robert Cecil's garden(...)
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This other Eden : seven great gardens and 300 years of English history
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"This other Eden" is a captivating narrative of seven great gardens, beautiful canvases that represent not just pleasure grounds but a country's evolution. Showpieces of grand design, they are also barometers of social change; lasting reflections of intellectual endeavour, of religion and philosophy, science and technology, art and literature, from Robert Cecil's garden at Hatfield House, conceived by the famous botanist and plant-collector John Tradescant, who travelled widely to seek out unusual specimens, to Capability Brown, who 'improved' upon nature to create the archetypal English parkland; from Joseph Paxton, whose engineering feats at Chatsworth mirrored the great Victorian age of technology, to Getrude Jekyll, who turned back to nature and designed the English cottage garden renowned the world over.
This other Eden : seven great gardens and 300 years of English history
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"This other Eden" is a captivating narrative of seven great gardens, beautiful canvases that represent not just pleasure grounds but a country's evolution. Showpieces of grand design, they are also barometers of social change; lasting reflections of intellectual endeavour, of religion and philosophy, science and technology, art and literature, from Robert Cecil's garden at Hatfield House, conceived by the famous botanist and plant-collector John Tradescant, who travelled widely to seek out unusual specimens, to Capability Brown, who 'improved' upon nature to create the archetypal English parkland; from Joseph Paxton, whose engineering feats at Chatsworth mirrored the great Victorian age of technology, to Getrude Jekyll, who turned back to nature and designed the English cottage garden renowned the world over.
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March 2007, London
March 2007, London
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Gardens
Gardens
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Find hope to heal the relationship between our planet and all of its inhabitants, including humans, animals, and plants. Essays, visual narratives, and interviews explore practices of care and present possibilities for living differently in a fragile age. Artists and culture bearers consider bonds of love, responsibility, and reciprocity, encouraging consideration of our(...)
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Find hope to heal the relationship between our planet and all of its inhabitants, including humans, animals, and plants. Essays, visual narratives, and interviews explore practices of care and present possibilities for living differently in a fragile age. Artists and culture bearers consider bonds of love, responsibility, and reciprocity, encouraging consideration of our(...)
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How to survive: Living with care in the climate crisis
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Find hope to heal the relationship between our planet and all of its inhabitants, including humans, animals, and plants. Essays, visual narratives, and interviews explore practices of care and present possibilities for living differently in a fragile age. Artists and culture bearers consider bonds of love, responsibility, and reciprocity, encouraging consideration of our inherent interdependence with one another, with other creatures, and with the planet itself. This anthology looks at how life, including plant, animal, and human life, can thrive through acts of harmony. In "How to survive", women and non-binary voices present ideas of interdependence, place-based knowledge, attentiveness, liberatory imagination, mending, repair, and activism offering visions of hope and adaptation, as well as novel ways of understanding our responsibilities to the planet.
How to survive: Living with care in the climate crisis
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Find hope to heal the relationship between our planet and all of its inhabitants, including humans, animals, and plants. Essays, visual narratives, and interviews explore practices of care and present possibilities for living differently in a fragile age. Artists and culture bearers consider bonds of love, responsibility, and reciprocity, encouraging consideration of our inherent interdependence with one another, with other creatures, and with the planet itself. This anthology looks at how life, including plant, animal, and human life, can thrive through acts of harmony. In "How to survive", women and non-binary voices present ideas of interdependence, place-based knowledge, attentiveness, liberatory imagination, mending, repair, and activism offering visions of hope and adaptation, as well as novel ways of understanding our responsibilities to the planet.
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June 2025
June 2025
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Environment and environmental theory
Environment and environmental theory
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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(...)
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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(...)
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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.
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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January 2017
January 2017
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Photography monographs
Photography monographs
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The botanical city
The botanical city
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Plant life is a subject frequently ignored in the context of urban theory, and the essays in 'The Botanical City' offer a fresh perspective into new ecological forms that continue to emerge in cities across the world. Much like the unique adaptive strategies of city-native animals, urban plants often become distinctively intertwined with their cities’ human(...)
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Plant life is a subject frequently ignored in the context of urban theory, and the essays in 'The Botanical City' offer a fresh perspective into new ecological forms that continue to emerge in cities across the world. Much like the unique adaptive strategies of city-native animals, urban plants often become distinctively intertwined with their cities’ human(...)
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The botanical city
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Plant life is a subject frequently ignored in the context of urban theory, and the essays in 'The Botanical City' offer a fresh perspective into new ecological forms that continue to emerge in cities across the world. Much like the unique adaptive strategies of city-native animals, urban plants often become distinctively intertwined with their cities’ human infrastructure, and this book explores both the scientific approaches to understanding these new ecologies and attempts on the part of writers and artists to engage with urban flora. Edited by the British cultural geographers Matthew Gandy and Sandra Jasper, the book comprises ecological reflections on city design, history, art and mapmaking, alongside philosophical excursions on the meaning of urban ecology in the Anthropocene.
The botanical city
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Plant life is a subject frequently ignored in the context of urban theory, and the essays in 'The Botanical City' offer a fresh perspective into new ecological forms that continue to emerge in cities across the world. Much like the unique adaptive strategies of city-native animals, urban plants often become distinctively intertwined with their cities’ human infrastructure, and this book explores both the scientific approaches to understanding these new ecologies and attempts on the part of writers and artists to engage with urban flora. Edited by the British cultural geographers Matthew Gandy and Sandra Jasper, the book comprises ecological reflections on city design, history, art and mapmaking, alongside philosophical excursions on the meaning of urban ecology in the Anthropocene.
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October 2020
October 2020
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Urban Landscapes
Urban Landscapes
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"Moscow: a guide to Soviet modernist architecture 1955-1991" provides descriptions of almost 100 buildings from the most underrated period of Soviet architecture. This is the first guide to bring together the architecture made during the three decades between Khrushchev and Gorbachev, from the naive modernism of the "thaw" of the late 1950s through postmodernism.(...)
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"Moscow: a guide to Soviet modernist architecture 1955-1991" provides descriptions of almost 100 buildings from the most underrated period of Soviet architecture. This is the first guide to bring together the architecture made during the three decades between Khrushchev and Gorbachev, from the naive modernism of the "thaw" of the late 1950s through postmodernism.(...)
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September 2019
September 2019
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Moscow: a guide to Soviet modernist architecture 1955-1991
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"Moscow: a guide to Soviet modernist architecture 1955-1991" provides descriptions of almost 100 buildings from the most underrated period of Soviet architecture. This is the first guide to bring together the architecture made during the three decades between Khrushchev and Gorbachev, from the naive modernism of the "thaw" of the late 1950s through postmodernism. Buildings include the Palace of Youth, the Rossiya cinema, the Pioneer Palace, the Ostankino TV Tower, the TASS headquarters, the "golden brains" of the Academy of Sciences and less well-known structures such as the House of New Life and the Lenin Komsomol Automobile Plant Museum. The authors situate Moscow's postwar architecture within the historical and political context of the Soviet Union, while also referencing developments in international architecture of the period.
Moscow: a guide to Soviet modernist architecture 1955-1991
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"Moscow: a guide to Soviet modernist architecture 1955-1991" provides descriptions of almost 100 buildings from the most underrated period of Soviet architecture. This is the first guide to bring together the architecture made during the three decades between Khrushchev and Gorbachev, from the naive modernism of the "thaw" of the late 1950s through postmodernism. Buildings include the Palace of Youth, the Rossiya cinema, the Pioneer Palace, the Ostankino TV Tower, the TASS headquarters, the "golden brains" of the Academy of Sciences and less well-known structures such as the House of New Life and the Lenin Komsomol Automobile Plant Museum. The authors situate Moscow's postwar architecture within the historical and political context of the Soviet Union, while also referencing developments in international architecture of the period.
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September 2019
September 2019
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An illustrated catalog of American fruits & nuts:U.S.Dept. of Agriculture Pomological Watercolor
An illustrated catalog of American fruits & nuts:U.S.Dept. of Agriculture Pomological Watercolor
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The United States Department of Agriculture Pomological Watercolor Collection encompasses 7,497 botanical watercolor paintings of evolving fruit and nut varieties, alongside specimens introduced by USDA plant explorers from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Assembled between 1886 and 1942, the collection's remarkable, botanically accurate watercolors were executed(...)
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The United States Department of Agriculture Pomological Watercolor Collection encompasses 7,497 botanical watercolor paintings of evolving fruit and nut varieties, alongside specimens introduced by USDA plant explorers from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Assembled between 1886 and 1942, the collection's remarkable, botanically accurate watercolors were executed(...)
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An illustrated catalog of American fruits & nuts:U.S.Dept. of Agriculture Pomological Watercolor
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The United States Department of Agriculture Pomological Watercolor Collection encompasses 7,497 botanical watercolor paintings of evolving fruit and nut varieties, alongside specimens introduced by USDA plant explorers from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Assembled between 1886 and 1942, the collection's remarkable, botanically accurate watercolors were executed by some 21 professional artists (including nine women). Authored largely before the widespread application of photography, the watercolors were intended to aid accurate identification and examination of fruit varietals, for the nation’s fruit growers. Documenting the transformation of American pomology, the science of fruit breeding and production, and the horticultural innovations accountable for contemporary fruit cultivation and consumption, the USDA’s collection offers fascinating anthropological and horticultural insights concerning the fruits we ecstatically devour, and why.
An illustrated catalog of American fruits & nuts:U.S.Dept. of Agriculture Pomological Watercolor
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The United States Department of Agriculture Pomological Watercolor Collection encompasses 7,497 botanical watercolor paintings of evolving fruit and nut varieties, alongside specimens introduced by USDA plant explorers from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Assembled between 1886 and 1942, the collection's remarkable, botanically accurate watercolors were executed by some 21 professional artists (including nine women). Authored largely before the widespread application of photography, the watercolors were intended to aid accurate identification and examination of fruit varietals, for the nation’s fruit growers. Documenting the transformation of American pomology, the science of fruit breeding and production, and the horticultural innovations accountable for contemporary fruit cultivation and consumption, the USDA’s collection offers fascinating anthropological and horticultural insights concerning the fruits we ecstatically devour, and why.
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May 2021
May 2021
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Gardens
Gardens
