Waterscapes pamphlet : Neue Ansaetze fuer die Schweizer Landschaft / Changes in the Swiss landscape
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The Waterscapes pamphlet presents a selection of eight landscape architecture projects elaborated by students at the ETH Zurich. In the context of a design studio, students are asked to topographically on existing sites, combining traditional landscape design with advanced CNC tools to develop new environments better adapted to flooding and natural erosion in the Alps.
Waterscapes pamphlet : Neue Ansaetze fuer die Schweizer Landschaft / Changes in the Swiss landscape
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The Waterscapes pamphlet presents a selection of eight landscape architecture projects elaborated by students at the ETH Zurich. In the context of a design studio, students are asked to topographically on existing sites, combining traditional landscape design with advanced CNC tools to develop new environments better adapted to flooding and natural erosion in the Alps.
Landscape Theory
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This study traces the history of a cultural and artistic landscape that has taken shape since the year 2000, with the Internet. Omar Kholeif aims to put into context a new language for seeing, feeling, and being that has emerged through post-millennial technologies, and argues for a nuanced understanding of the post-digital condition.
Goodbye, world! Looking at art in the digital age
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This study traces the history of a cultural and artistic landscape that has taken shape since the year 2000, with the Internet. Omar Kholeif aims to put into context a new language for seeing, feeling, and being that has emerged through post-millennial technologies, and argues for a nuanced understanding of the post-digital condition.
Art Theory
Notes on my dunce cap
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A text for those curious about education as a context for creativity and collaboration, and for teachers who want to reconsider hierarchy in their classrooms, Jesse Ball's Notes on My Dunce Cap includes advisory material regarding the creation of syllabi and the manner in which groups may evaluate the work of an individual without harm.
Notes on my dunce cap
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A text for those curious about education as a context for creativity and collaboration, and for teachers who want to reconsider hierarchy in their classrooms, Jesse Ball's Notes on My Dunce Cap includes advisory material regarding the creation of syllabi and the manner in which groups may evaluate the work of an individual without harm.
Museology
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The districts of Zurich are strongly intermixed, yet the metaphor of 'Zurich's Rooms' has asserted itself: in a playful manner, the urban districts, which determine Zurich's versatile profile, are assigned particular functions within the 'dwelling of Zurich'. Some relevant theses which have emerged in this context are elucidated in the framework of this catalogue.
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February 2008, Berlin
The seventh room / Das siebte zimmer
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The districts of Zurich are strongly intermixed, yet the metaphor of 'Zurich's Rooms' has asserted itself: in a playful manner, the urban districts, which determine Zurich's versatile profile, are assigned particular functions within the 'dwelling of Zurich'. Some relevant theses which have emerged in this context are elucidated in the framework of this catalogue.
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Function Rules
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This book is about adapting the world of things to the world of people. It is also the first study of successful swedish design and development firm ergonomidesign. Featuring essays, interviews and case sudies. This beautifully illustrated volume puts ergonomidesign's achievements in a societal context that goes way beyond bad backs and ugly office chairs.
Function Rules
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This book is about adapting the world of things to the world of people. It is also the first study of successful swedish design and development firm ergonomidesign. Featuring essays, interviews and case sudies. This beautifully illustrated volume puts ergonomidesign's achievements in a societal context that goes way beyond bad backs and ugly office chairs.
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January 2006, Stockholm
Design Monographs
Collage city
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This book is a critical reappraisal of contemporary theories of urban planning and design and of the role of the architect-planner in an urban context. The authors rejecting the grand utopian visions of "total planning" and "total design," propose instead a "collage city" which can accommodate a whole range of utopias in miniature.
Collage city
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This book is a critical reappraisal of contemporary theories of urban planning and design and of the role of the architect-planner in an urban context. The authors rejecting the grand utopian visions of "total planning" and "total design," propose instead a "collage city" which can accommodate a whole range of utopias in miniature.
Urban Theory
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In Talking Architecture Jahanbegloo converses with Raj Rewal, one of India's leading contemporary architects. The book addresses issues encompassing the aesthetic foundations of Indian architecture, architecture in the twenty-first century, and Rewal's work, among others, to produce challenging ideas and provocative suggestions on the role of an Indian architect in a global context.
Talking architecture: Raj Rewal in conversation with Ramin Jahanbegloo
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In Talking Architecture Jahanbegloo converses with Raj Rewal, one of India's leading contemporary architects. The book addresses issues encompassing the aesthetic foundations of Indian architecture, architecture in the twenty-first century, and Rewal's work, among others, to produce challenging ideas and provocative suggestions on the role of an Indian architect in a global context.
Architecture Monographs
Modern architecture A-Z
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Each architect's entry features a portrait, quote and short biography as well as a description of important works, historical context and general approach; illustrations include numerous drawings, photographs and floor plans. The book's A to Z entries cover not only architects but also groups, movements and styles from the 18th to the 21st centuries.
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Modern architecture A-Z
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Each architect's entry features a portrait, quote and short biography as well as a description of important works, historical context and general approach; illustrations include numerous drawings, photographs and floor plans. The book's A to Z entries cover not only architects but also groups, movements and styles from the 18th to the 21st centuries.
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Inspired by the cover designs of popular egghead novels published from the 1940s to the 1970s, the colorful geometric forms of Thomas Raat's abstract paintings appropriate those forms in the context of contemporary publishing. This artist's book is a work of art in itself, with full-color plates, Chinese folding and varying folio sizes.
Thoams Raat: an inquiry into meaning and truth and more...
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Inspired by the cover designs of popular egghead novels published from the 1940s to the 1970s, the colorful geometric forms of Thomas Raat's abstract paintings appropriate those forms in the context of contemporary publishing. This artist's book is a work of art in itself, with full-color plates, Chinese folding and varying folio sizes.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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351 pages : illustrations (some color), maps, plans ; 28 cm
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Neri&Hu Design and Research Office : thresholds : space, time and practice / with essays by Rafael Moneo, Sarah M. Whiting ; concept. Lyndon Neri, Rossana Hu, Christine Chang ; text Christine Chang, Vivienne Shi, Nellie Yang.
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