Ferrari research center
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The building site is in the centre of the Ferrara Industrial Complex (Maranello, Italy) which is undergoing major changes and developments. This project is born out of the desire of bringing the natural environment within this highly technological complex in order to create a comfortable working context (...) this building, dedicated to a car manufacturing company that(...)
Ferrari research center
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The building site is in the centre of the Ferrara Industrial Complex (Maranello, Italy) which is undergoing major changes and developments. This project is born out of the desire of bringing the natural environment within this highly technological complex in order to create a comfortable working context (...) this building, dedicated to a car manufacturing company that has represented, for generations, the realization of a dream, becomes part of this poetry, magic and reverie.
Architecture Monographs
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The "Reprints" series seek to recirculate un- or under-documented writings on the city or space, typically those authored by non-architects. Questions on Dwellings acquire permission where possible, and publish under Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) copyright. Reprint 01: "Bloods/Crips Proposal for L.A.’s Face-lift," originally(...)
Humans and cities
February 2024
Questions on dwelling, reprint 01: Blood/Crips proposal for L.A.'s face-lift
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The "Reprints" series seek to recirculate un- or under-documented writings on the city or space, typically those authored by non-architects. Questions on Dwellings acquire permission where possible, and publish under Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) copyright. Reprint 01: "Bloods/Crips Proposal for L.A.’s Face-lift," originally written in 1992. The booklet includes an editorial essay for context. Both the proposal and essay are inclued in German translation.
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Clouds: nature and culture
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Richard Hamblyn explores the notable presence of clouds in literature and the arts (including music and sculpture) while outlining their growing scientific significance in the context of climate change. The book covers the history, science and art of clouds, including the controversial history of cloud modification. All the major cloud types are discussed and illustrated,(...)
Clouds: nature and culture
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Richard Hamblyn explores the notable presence of clouds in literature and the arts (including music and sculpture) while outlining their growing scientific significance in the context of climate change. The book covers the history, science and art of clouds, including the controversial history of cloud modification. All the major cloud types are discussed and illustrated, including clouds on other planets, as well as the increasing number of man-made clouds that fill our changeable skies.
Landscape Theory
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The young city of Almere, the Netherlands, will double in size between now and the year 2030. Ecology and sustainability will feature as the central themes of this large-scale urban development, so the city council and the national government have decided. In this concise book, the Almere Principles are presented, explained, introduced and placed in a historical(...)
The almere principles: for an ecologically, socially and economically sustainable future of Almere 2030
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The young city of Almere, the Netherlands, will double in size between now and the year 2030. Ecology and sustainability will feature as the central themes of this large-scale urban development, so the city council and the national government have decided. In this concise book, the Almere Principles are presented, explained, introduced and placed in a historical context. It includes contributions from Jacqueline Cramer, Adri Duivesteijn, William McDonough and Fred Feddes.
Urban Theory
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"The Image of Law" is the first book to examine law through the thought of Gilles Deleuze. Lefebvre challenges the truism that judges must apply and not create law. In a plain and lucid style, he activates Deleuze's key themes - his critique of dogmatic thought, theory of time, and concept of the encounter - within the context of adjudication in order to claim that(...)
The image of law, Deleuze, Bergson, Spinoza
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"The Image of Law" is the first book to examine law through the thought of Gilles Deleuze. Lefebvre challenges the truism that judges must apply and not create law. In a plain and lucid style, he activates Deleuze's key themes - his critique of dogmatic thought, theory of time, and concept of the encounter - within the context of adjudication in order to claim that judgment has an inherent, and not an accidental or willful, creativity.
Critical Theory
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Examining our shifting perceptions of nature and place in the context of environmental challenges and how these affect urbanism and architecture, the seventeen essayists in "Thinking the contemporary landscape" argue for an all-encompassing view of landscape that integrates the scientific, intellectual, aesthetic, and mythic into a new multidisciplinary understanding of(...)
Thinking the contemporary landscape
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Examining our shifting perceptions of nature and place in the context of environmental challenges and how these affect urbanism and architecture, the seventeen essayists in "Thinking the contemporary landscape" argue for an all-encompassing view of landscape that integrates the scientific, intellectual, aesthetic, and mythic into a new multidisciplinary understanding of the contemporary landscape. A must-read for anyone concerned about the changing nature of our landscape in a time of climate crisis.
Landscape Theory
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Today, a growing number of architects see sustainable architecture in the broader context of a contemporary sensibility that revisits the roots of 20th century Modernism. At the same time they draw inspiration from regional material culture and building design traditions, much of which was developed in direct relation to local climatic and geographic conditions. Presented(...)
Architecture in Canada
December 2005, Cambridge, Ontario
41° to 66° : regional responses to sustainable architecture in Canada
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Today, a growing number of architects see sustainable architecture in the broader context of a contemporary sensibility that revisits the roots of 20th century Modernism. At the same time they draw inspiration from regional material culture and building design traditions, much of which was developed in direct relation to local climatic and geographic conditions. Presented here are several recent public projects by some of the country's most respected architects notably KPMB, Erickson and the Patkau.
Architecture in Canada
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Snoehetta, one of Scandinavia’s leading architecture practices, seeks to develop its architectures within a continuous state of reinvention. Every project differs – only elementary aspects related to a broad sense of context generate core discussions when developing early concepts. Projects like the library of Alexandria, the new opera house in Oslo or the Ras al Khaima(...)
Snohetta conditions: architecture, interior, landscape.
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Snoehetta, one of Scandinavia’s leading architecture practices, seeks to develop its architectures within a continuous state of reinvention. Every project differs – only elementary aspects related to a broad sense of context generate core discussions when developing early concepts. Projects like the library of Alexandria, the new opera house in Oslo or the Ras al Khaima gateway exemplify the intentions of the architects and give a hint of how they comment on given preconditions.
Architecture Monographs
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Sara Cedar Miller, the official historian and photographer for the Central Park Conservancy, draws on extensive research to tell the story of the park's creation, placing it in the context of 19th-century American art and social history and illuminating the roles of its designers Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux and their associate Jacob Wrey Mould. Period views(...)
Central Park, an American masterpiece
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Sara Cedar Miller, the official historian and photographer for the Central Park Conservancy, draws on extensive research to tell the story of the park's creation, placing it in the context of 19th-century American art and social history and illuminating the roles of its designers Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux and their associate Jacob Wrey Mould. Period views and original plans and drawings, many previously unpublished, are complemented by Miller's new photographs.
Gardens
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In this volume, an international, interdisciplinary group of writers discuss what it means to be global — or to be local — in the context of artistic, curatorial and theoretical knowledge and practice. Continuing the discussion begun in The Curatorial Conundrum (2016) and How Institutions Think (2017), Curating After the Global considers curating and questions of(...)
Curating after the global: roadmaps for the present
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In this volume, an international, interdisciplinary group of writers discuss what it means to be global — or to be local — in the context of artistic, curatorial and theoretical knowledge and practice. Continuing the discussion begun in The Curatorial Conundrum (2016) and How Institutions Think (2017), Curating After the Global considers curating and questions of locality, geopolitical change, the reassertion of nation-states, and the violent diminishing of citizen and denizen rights across the globe.
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