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384 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
Weil am Rhein : Vitra Design Museum, 2005.
Jean Prouvé : the poetics of the technical object / [general editor, Alexander von Vegesack ; editors, Catherine Dumont y'Ayot and Bruno Reichlin ; translators, Brian Currid, David Mason, and Dafydd Rees Roberts].
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384 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
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Weil am Rhein : Vitra Design Museum, 2005.
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This collection focuses on how architectural material is transformed, revised, swallowed whole, plagiarized, or in any other way appropriated. It charts new territory within this still unexplored yet highly topical area of study by establishing a shared vocabulary with which to discuss, or contest, the workings of appropriation as a vital and progressive aspect of(...)
Terms of appropriation: modern architecture and global exchange
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This collection focuses on how architectural material is transformed, revised, swallowed whole, plagiarized, or in any other way appropriated. It charts new territory within this still unexplored yet highly topical area of study by establishing a shared vocabulary with which to discuss, or contest, the workings of appropriation as a vital and progressive aspect of architectural discourse. Written by a group of rising scholars in the field of architectural history and criticism, the chapters cover a range of architectural subjects that are linked in their investigations of how architects engage with their predecessors.
Architectural Theory
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xii, 310 pages, [80] pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Toronto : University of Toronto Press, ©1999, 2001.
Art on the Jesuit missions in Asia and Latin America, 1542-1773 / Gauvin Alexander Bailey.
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xii, 310 pages, [80] pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
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Toronto : University of Toronto Press, ©1999, 2001.
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In the middle of the renowned financial and shopping district of Hong Kong lies Exchange Square. The name underlines not only the exchange of monetary value but also the people’s mobility: each Sunday, tens of thousands of female domestic workers from South and Southeast Asia reclaim the public space, here and in the surrounding streets and squares. The artist Moira Zoitl(...)
Exchange square, activism and everyday life of foreign domestic workers in Hong Kong
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In the middle of the renowned financial and shopping district of Hong Kong lies Exchange Square. The name underlines not only the exchange of monetary value but also the people’s mobility: each Sunday, tens of thousands of female domestic workers from South and Southeast Asia reclaim the public space, here and in the surrounding streets and squares. The artist Moira Zoitl has concerned herself with these women’s living and working conditions and with their everyday life and activism. EXCHANGE SQUARE presents artistic and collaborative projects, complemented by analytical texts and interviews about the forms of and the reasons for globalized job migration.
Contemporary Asian Architecture
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xxx, 245 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm
Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2011.
The city as campus : urbanism and higher education in Chicago / Sharon Haar.
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Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2011.
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128 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), plans ; 24 cm.
Rotterdam : Nai010 Publishers, 2016.
Prototyping efnMobile / Ulrich Knaack [and 3 others] ; additional articles by Linda Hildebrand, Anan Ashour.
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128 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), plans ; 24 cm.
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Rotterdam : Nai010 Publishers, 2016.
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Drawings which reveal the internal structure of this building, and demonstrate Berlage's spatial solution for its construction.
Daniel Castor : drawing Berlage's exchange
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Drawings which reveal the internal structure of this building, and demonstrate Berlage's spatial solution for its construction.
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September 1996, Rotterdam
Architecture Monographs
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viii, 483 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.
[Oslo] : Arkitekthøgskolen i Oslo, [2013]
From utopia to reality : the motorway as a work of art / Even Smith Wergeland.
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viii, 483 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.
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[Oslo] : Arkitekthøgskolen i Oslo, [2013]
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xiii, 321 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1994.
Chambers for a memory palace / Donlyn Lyndon and Charles W. Moore ; with illustrations by the authors.
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xiii, 321 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1994.
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The Hawkins\Brown architectural firm in London, was founded in 1988 by Roger Hawkins and Russell Brown. The spectrum of the firm's works ranges from residences and interior design by way of office buildings and various public buildings such as theaters and university buildings all the way to urban planning, such as designs for squares and subway stations.
Ideas exchange: The collaborative studio of Hawkins\Brown
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The Hawkins\Brown architectural firm in London, was founded in 1988 by Roger Hawkins and Russell Brown. The spectrum of the firm's works ranges from residences and interior design by way of office buildings and various public buildings such as theaters and university buildings all the way to urban planning, such as designs for squares and subway stations.
Architecture Monographs