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This book is a comprehensive monograph on the complete works of Erich Mendelsohn (1887-1953), the leading exponent of architectural Expressionism. Over 1,000 sketches, designs, plans, photographs of models and present-day photographs of his buildings provide an (...)
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This book is a comprehensive monograph on the complete works of Erich Mendelsohn (1887-1953), the leading exponent of architectural Expressionism. Over 1,000 sketches, designs, plans, photographs of models and present-day photographs of his buildings provide an (...)
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Erich Mendelsohn : the complete works
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This book is a comprehensive monograph on the complete works of Erich Mendelsohn (1887-1953), the leading exponent of architectural Expressionism. Over 1,000 sketches, designs, plans, photographs of models and present-day photographs of his buildings provide an exhaustive documentation of Erich Mendelsohn's power of innovation, and make it an indispensable volume for everyone wishing to get to grips with his work. With biographical notes by Louise Mendelsohn.
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This book is a comprehensive monograph on the complete works of Erich Mendelsohn (1887-1953), the leading exponent of architectural Expressionism. Over 1,000 sketches, designs, plans, photographs of models and present-day photographs of his buildings provide an exhaustive documentation of Erich Mendelsohn's power of innovation, and make it an indispensable volume for everyone wishing to get to grips with his work. With biographical notes by Louise Mendelsohn.
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April 1999, Basel
April 1999, Basel
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Architecture Monographs
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In this book authorities in social history, architectural history, American studies, cultural geography, and landscape architecture explore aspects of the emergent field of cultural landscape studies, demonstrating the many meanings of ordinary settings. While traditional studies in this field have been of rural life, most of the authors in this(...)
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In this book authorities in social history, architectural history, American studies, cultural geography, and landscape architecture explore aspects of the emergent field of cultural landscape studies, demonstrating the many meanings of ordinary settings. While traditional studies in this field have been of rural life, most of the authors in this(...)
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Understanding ordinary landscapes
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In this book authorities in social history, architectural history, American studies, cultural geography, and landscape architecture explore aspects of the emergent field of cultural landscape studies, demonstrating the many meanings of ordinary settings. While traditional studies in this field have been of rural life, most of the authors in this collection take on urban subjects, and with them the challenging issues of power, class, race, ethnicity, subculture, and cultural opposition.
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In this book authorities in social history, architectural history, American studies, cultural geography, and landscape architecture explore aspects of the emergent field of cultural landscape studies, demonstrating the many meanings of ordinary settings. While traditional studies in this field have been of rural life, most of the authors in this collection take on urban subjects, and with them the challenging issues of power, class, race, ethnicity, subculture, and cultural opposition.
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November 1997, New Haven
November 1997, New Haven
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Landscape Theory
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John Hunt has witnessed again and again the power of original thinking to transform bothcompanies and individuals. Few can argue with Hunt's claim that it is ideas that move the world forward, and he articulates that anyone can play: there is no hierarchy to original thinking. By illustrating how to create space so ideas can breathe, this publication provides a lifeline(...)
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John Hunt has witnessed again and again the power of original thinking to transform bothcompanies and individuals. Few can argue with Hunt's claim that it is ideas that move the world forward, and he articulates that anyone can play: there is no hierarchy to original thinking. By illustrating how to create space so ideas can breathe, this publication provides a lifeline(...)
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The art of the idea: and how it can change your life
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John Hunt has witnessed again and again the power of original thinking to transform bothcompanies and individuals. Few can argue with Hunt's claim that it is ideas that move the world forward, and he articulates that anyone can play: there is no hierarchy to original thinking. By illustrating how to create space so ideas can breathe, this publication provides a lifeline to those who find themselves stuck in a rut.
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John Hunt has witnessed again and again the power of original thinking to transform bothcompanies and individuals. Few can argue with Hunt's claim that it is ideas that move the world forward, and he articulates that anyone can play: there is no hierarchy to original thinking. By illustrating how to create space so ideas can breathe, this publication provides a lifeline to those who find themselves stuck in a rut.
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March 2009
March 2009
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xx, 451 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, 2014.
Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, 2014.
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Being nuclear : Africans and the global uranium trade / Gabrielle Hecht.
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xx, 451 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Being nuclear : Africans and the global uranium trade / Gabrielle Hecht.
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Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, 2014.
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Canada at war
Canada at war
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Canada at War highlights crucial events from 1936 to 1946, when the Cold War began. This series shows World War II as Canadians encountered it, from the halting beginning when the country, struggling against depression, accepted the challenge of war, to VE-Day, when Canada emerged as an industrial power. These 13 half-hour films were culled from more than 16 million(...)
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Canada at War highlights crucial events from 1936 to 1946, when the Cold War began. This series shows World War II as Canadians encountered it, from the halting beginning when the country, struggling against depression, accepted the challenge of war, to VE-Day, when Canada emerged as an industrial power. These 13 half-hour films were culled from more than 16 million(...)
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Canada at war
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Canada at War highlights crucial events from 1936 to 1946, when the Cold War began. This series shows World War II as Canadians encountered it, from the halting beginning when the country, struggling against depression, accepted the challenge of war, to VE-Day, when Canada emerged as an industrial power. These 13 half-hour films were culled from more than 16 million feet of film shot by Canadian, British, American, German and Russian cameramen.
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Canada at War highlights crucial events from 1936 to 1946, when the Cold War began. This series shows World War II as Canadians encountered it, from the halting beginning when the country, struggling against depression, accepted the challenge of war, to VE-Day, when Canada emerged as an industrial power. These 13 half-hour films were culled from more than 16 million feet of film shot by Canadian, British, American, German and Russian cameramen.
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January 2005
January 2005
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Who gets to shape the narrative of our times? The current moment is a battle royale over that foundational power, one in which women, people of color, non-straight people are telling other versions, and white people and men and particularly white men are trying to hang onto the old versions and their own centrality. In 'Whose Story Is This?' Rebecca Solnit appraises(...)
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Who gets to shape the narrative of our times? The current moment is a battle royale over that foundational power, one in which women, people of color, non-straight people are telling other versions, and white people and men and particularly white men are trying to hang onto the old versions and their own centrality. In 'Whose Story Is This?' Rebecca Solnit appraises(...)
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Whose story is this? Essays at the intersection
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Who gets to shape the narrative of our times? The current moment is a battle royale over that foundational power, one in which women, people of color, non-straight people are telling other versions, and white people and men and particularly white men are trying to hang onto the old versions and their own centrality. In 'Whose Story Is This?' Rebecca Solnit appraises what's emerging and why it matters and what the obstacles are.
Whose story is this? Essays at the intersection
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Who gets to shape the narrative of our times? The current moment is a battle royale over that foundational power, one in which women, people of color, non-straight people are telling other versions, and white people and men and particularly white men are trying to hang onto the old versions and their own centrality. In 'Whose Story Is This?' Rebecca Solnit appraises what's emerging and why it matters and what the obstacles are.
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September 2019
September 2019
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Critical Theory
Critical Theory
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Ornament and crime
Ornament and crime
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Adolf Loos, the great Viennese pioneer of modern architecture, was a hater of the fake, the fussy and the lavishly decorated, and a lover of stripped down, clean simplicity. He was also a writer of effervescent, caustic wit, as shown in this selection of essays on all aspects of design and aesthetics, from cities to glassware, furniture to footwear, architectural training(...)
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Adolf Loos, the great Viennese pioneer of modern architecture, was a hater of the fake, the fussy and the lavishly decorated, and a lover of stripped down, clean simplicity. He was also a writer of effervescent, caustic wit, as shown in this selection of essays on all aspects of design and aesthetics, from cities to glassware, furniture to footwear, architectural training(...)
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Ornament and crime
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Adolf Loos, the great Viennese pioneer of modern architecture, was a hater of the fake, the fussy and the lavishly decorated, and a lover of stripped down, clean simplicity. He was also a writer of effervescent, caustic wit, as shown in this selection of essays on all aspects of design and aesthetics, from cities to glassware, furniture to footwear, architectural training to why ''the lack of ornament is a sign of intellectual power''.
Ornament and crime
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Adolf Loos, the great Viennese pioneer of modern architecture, was a hater of the fake, the fussy and the lavishly decorated, and a lover of stripped down, clean simplicity. He was also a writer of effervescent, caustic wit, as shown in this selection of essays on all aspects of design and aesthetics, from cities to glassware, furniture to footwear, architectural training to why ''the lack of ornament is a sign of intellectual power''.
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May 2019
May 2019
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Architectural Theory
Architectural Theory
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This book brings together a collection of 24 captivating architecture fairy tales from over 300 entries to Blank Space's first "Fairy Tales" competition. "Fairy Tales" challenged entrants to develop visionary, narrative-based design proposals, rewriting the way architecture communicates itself and unlocking the power of architecture through storytelling. In an eclectic(...)
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This book brings together a collection of 24 captivating architecture fairy tales from over 300 entries to Blank Space's first "Fairy Tales" competition. "Fairy Tales" challenged entrants to develop visionary, narrative-based design proposals, rewriting the way architecture communicates itself and unlocking the power of architecture through storytelling. In an eclectic(...)
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Fairy tales: when architecture tells a story
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This book brings together a collection of 24 captivating architecture fairy tales from over 300 entries to Blank Space's first "Fairy Tales" competition. "Fairy Tales" challenged entrants to develop visionary, narrative-based design proposals, rewriting the way architecture communicates itself and unlocking the power of architecture through storytelling. In an eclectic array of forms - from stories, to poems, memoirs, and comics - these entries bring new meaning to architecture, its value, and its place in society.
Fairy tales: when architecture tells a story
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This book brings together a collection of 24 captivating architecture fairy tales from over 300 entries to Blank Space's first "Fairy Tales" competition. "Fairy Tales" challenged entrants to develop visionary, narrative-based design proposals, rewriting the way architecture communicates itself and unlocking the power of architecture through storytelling. In an eclectic array of forms - from stories, to poems, memoirs, and comics - these entries bring new meaning to architecture, its value, and its place in society.
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July 2015
July 2015
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Literature and poetry
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Storm in Chandigarh
Storm in Chandigarh
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‘India, once a uniform piece of territory to administer, was now a welter of separate, sensitive identities, resurrected after independence.’ As the quarrel over boundaries, water and electric power between Punjab and the newly created Haryana intensifies, Gyan Singh, the chief minister of Punjab, threatens to launch a crippling strike that will affect both states. With(...)
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‘India, once a uniform piece of territory to administer, was now a welter of separate, sensitive identities, resurrected after independence.’ As the quarrel over boundaries, water and electric power between Punjab and the newly created Haryana intensifies, Gyan Singh, the chief minister of Punjab, threatens to launch a crippling strike that will affect both states. With(...)
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Storm in Chandigarh
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‘India, once a uniform piece of territory to administer, was now a welter of separate, sensitive identities, resurrected after independence.’ As the quarrel over boundaries, water and electric power between Punjab and the newly created Haryana intensifies, Gyan Singh, the chief minister of Punjab, threatens to launch a crippling strike that will affect both states. With the chief minister of Haryana, Harpal Singh, refusing to concede any advantages, the stage is set for a confrontation.
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‘India, once a uniform piece of territory to administer, was now a welter of separate, sensitive identities, resurrected after independence.’ As the quarrel over boundaries, water and electric power between Punjab and the newly created Haryana intensifies, Gyan Singh, the chief minister of Punjab, threatens to launch a crippling strike that will affect both states. With the chief minister of Haryana, Harpal Singh, refusing to concede any advantages, the stage is set for a confrontation.
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December 2013
December 2013
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Arch Southwest Asia & North Africa
Arch Southwest Asia & North Africa
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From the beginning, the landscape has determined where and how people live. Over time, people embellished the natural landscape with an infrastructure of roads, aqueducts, bridges, ports, power plants, and more. Now communities are turning their attention to the central planning challenge of our time: sustainability. And they are discovering, or rediscovering, the(...)
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From the beginning, the landscape has determined where and how people live. Over time, people embellished the natural landscape with an infrastructure of roads, aqueducts, bridges, ports, power plants, and more. Now communities are turning their attention to the central planning challenge of our time: sustainability. And they are discovering, or rediscovering, the(...)
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Green infrastructure: a landscape approach
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From the beginning, the landscape has determined where and how people live. Over time, people embellished the natural landscape with an infrastructure of roads, aqueducts, bridges, ports, power plants, and more. Now communities are turning their attention to the central planning challenge of our time: sustainability. And they are discovering, or rediscovering, the benefits of green infrastructure—infrastructure that takes advantage of the natural landscape. The authors present six principles for successful green infrastructure projects.
Green infrastructure: a landscape approach
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From the beginning, the landscape has determined where and how people live. Over time, people embellished the natural landscape with an infrastructure of roads, aqueducts, bridges, ports, power plants, and more. Now communities are turning their attention to the central planning challenge of our time: sustainability. And they are discovering, or rediscovering, the benefits of green infrastructure—infrastructure that takes advantage of the natural landscape. The authors present six principles for successful green infrastructure projects.
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April 2013
April 2013
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Landscape Theory
Landscape Theory
