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In this collection of essays, Ackerman offers insight into his formation and development as a scholar, as well as reflections on a range of topics. Concise, lucid, and original, this book presents deep syntheses alongside innovative approaches and a broadening geographical and chronological reach. Ackerman’s enduring fascination with architecture was one unforeseen(...)
Origins, invention, revision: studying the history of art and architecture
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In this collection of essays, Ackerman offers insight into his formation and development as a scholar, as well as reflections on a range of topics. Concise, lucid, and original, this book presents deep syntheses alongside innovative approaches and a broadening geographical and chronological reach. Ackerman’s enduring fascination with architecture was one unforeseen consequence of his military service in World War II, and the collection includes a revealing account of his part in the liberation of Milan as a soldier in the Fifth American Regiment. These essays represent a unique, personal journey—from the Italian Renaissance to the classical architecture of India and the work of Frank Gehry at the new museum of the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris.
Architectural Theory
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The global renaissance in architecture has afforded Portuguese architect Alvaro Siza a wide range of opportunities to generate new and exciting architecture over recent years. These buildings and projects reflect Siza's continuing belief, in his own words, that ‘the limits of a building can be found in the way the relations between exterior and interior are controlled.'(...)
El Croquis
August 2008, Madrid
El Croquis 140 Alvaro Siza 2001-2008
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The global renaissance in architecture has afforded Portuguese architect Alvaro Siza a wide range of opportunities to generate new and exciting architecture over recent years. These buildings and projects reflect Siza's continuing belief, in his own words, that ‘the limits of a building can be found in the way the relations between exterior and interior are controlled.' Seventeen projects built over the last eight years, including Maison van Middelem-Dupont, the Multipurpose Pavilion, Gondomar, House in Majorca, Armande Passos House, Anyang Pavilion, and the Museum for the Ibere Carmago Foundation are thoroughly examined in this volume. All are accompanied by full page colour photographs, sketches, plans, elevations, models, and introduced by an extensive interview with the architect.
El Croquis
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This stunning and lyrical volume highlights the personal work of Lola Álvarez Bravo (1903–1993), one of Mexico’s foremost photographers. Álvarez Bravo worked as a photojournalist, commercial photographer, portraitist, and educator and played a critical role in her country’s cultural renaissance. In the years following the Mexican Revolution, she captured a profoundly(...)
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November 2018
Lola Alvarez Bravo: picturing Mexico
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This stunning and lyrical volume highlights the personal work of Lola Álvarez Bravo (1903–1993), one of Mexico’s foremost photographers. Álvarez Bravo worked as a photojournalist, commercial photographer, portraitist, and educator and played a critical role in her country’s cultural renaissance. In the years following the Mexican Revolution, she captured a profoundly transformative moment for the country’s land, architecture, and people. She remains best known for these works and for her portraits of prominent modernists working in Mexico, including Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, and David Alfaro Siqueiros. Lola Álvarez Bravo delves into a lesser-known body of work, in which attention to pattern, light, and abstraction guides the artist’s depictions of urban and rural landscapes and their inhabitants.
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Comment les Hommes ont-ils vu, conçu et imaginé l'espace où l'on bâtit depuis la Renaissance en Occident ? L'Art du chantier. Construire et démolir du XVIe au XXIe siècle confronte les regards d'observateurs - artistes, journalistes, amateurs -, mais aussi ceux des acteurs qui travaillent sur les lieux - ingénieurs, architectes, entrepreneurs et, ce qui est plus rare,(...)
L'art du chantier : construire et démolir du XVIe au XXIe siècle
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Comment les Hommes ont-ils vu, conçu et imaginé l'espace où l'on bâtit depuis la Renaissance en Occident ? L'Art du chantier. Construire et démolir du XVIe au XXIe siècle confronte les regards d'observateurs - artistes, journalistes, amateurs -, mais aussi ceux des acteurs qui travaillent sur les lieux - ingénieurs, architectes, entrepreneurs et, ce qui est plus rare, ouvriers. Fruit d'une collaboration étroite entre historiens de l'art et historiens des techniques, l'ouvrage dévoile les multiples enjeux du chantier : techniques, sociaux, politiques et artistiques. Par ce rassemblement sans précédent de documents et d'oeuvres visuelles, c'est à une réflexion sur la dimension anthropologique de l'acte d'édifier et sur l'importance de cet acte pour nos sociétés que ce livre entend contribuer.
Architectural Theory
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Never before have so many high-rises been built. Spectacular skyscrapers with landmark character are not only appearing in boom cities like Dubai and Beijing or in the USA — the high-rise is also experiencing a renaissance in Europe. No type of building generates stronger emotions, but differentiated debate on these tower blocks only began recently. It is no longer merely(...)
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January 2009, Berlin
The international highrise awards 2008
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Never before have so many high-rises been built. Spectacular skyscrapers with landmark character are not only appearing in boom cities like Dubai and Beijing or in the USA — the high-rise is also experiencing a renaissance in Europe. No type of building generates stronger emotions, but differentiated debate on these tower blocks only began recently. It is no longer merely a question of how many meters tall, but of new qualities in the construction of high-rise buildings, e.g. energy efficiency, sustainability, and social, economic and ecological compatibility. The projects of the International Highrise Award 2008 demonstrate current developments and so present the full range of contemporary high-rise construction, from utilisation to site-specifics.
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Welcoming another direction in their investigations, A+T presents a new publication that focuses on hybrid buildings. Specific in their use and design, this new generation of building structures enable a combination of different programmes and encourages a range of urban uses including housing, public spaces, offices and civic facilities. Among the twelve high-rise hybrid(...)
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November 2008, Vitoria-Gasteiz
a+t : hybrids 1 : high-rise mixed-use buildings
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Welcoming another direction in their investigations, A+T presents a new publication that focuses on hybrid buildings. Specific in their use and design, this new generation of building structures enable a combination of different programmes and encourages a range of urban uses including housing, public spaces, offices and civic facilities. Among the twelve high-rise hybrid projects examined are Steven Holl Architects' Linked Hybrid, Beijing; RCR arcquitectes' The Edge, Dubai; the Tour Signal, Puteaux by Jean Nouvel and OMA's Dubai Renaissance, Dubai. Further, four recent projects in New York are examined in the context of the future place for skyscrapers in architecture. All works are accompanied by plans, elevations, photographs, computerised images and technical notes.
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This detailed examination of I. M. Pei's new wing of the German Historical Museum in Berlin was published to coincide with the unveiling of the extension in 2003. The glass building, with its triangular footprint and seemingly weightless curved staircase, offers a striking departure from the museum's older structures, and plays an important role in Berlin's current(...)
I.M. Pei : the exhibitions building of the German Historical Museum Berlin
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This detailed examination of I. M. Pei's new wing of the German Historical Museum in Berlin was published to coincide with the unveiling of the extension in 2003. The glass building, with its triangular footprint and seemingly weightless curved staircase, offers a striking departure from the museum's older structures, and plays an important role in Berlin's current architectural and cultural renaissance. Essays from architectural scholars comment on Pei's design, provide a history of the Arsenal building and site, and place the Show House in context with the architect's other important museum structures, including those built for the National Art Gallery in Washington, D.C., and the legendary Glass Pyramid in the courtyard of the Louvre.
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"Altre Tempeste" is a visual journey through the contemporary landscapes of the Veneto, seen through the lens of Olivo Barbieri. Drawing inspiration from Giorgione’s "The Tempest," the artist brings Renaissance memory into dialogue with the transformations of Italy’s Northeast, where historical architecture, industrial warehouses, and shifting natural environments(...)
Olivio Barbieri : Altre tempeste
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"Altre Tempeste" is a visual journey through the contemporary landscapes of the Veneto, seen through the lens of Olivo Barbieri. Drawing inspiration from Giorgione’s "The Tempest," the artist brings Renaissance memory into dialogue with the transformations of Italy’s Northeast, where historical architecture, industrial warehouses, and shifting natural environments coexist. From Carlo Scarpa’s Brion Tomb to Canova’s Gypsotheca, Barbieri moves between sweeping views and intimate details, using color and light as critical tools of inquiry. Photography becomes a laboratory where art, architecture, and science converge, revealing new ways of seeing and understanding place. Featuring thirty-two previously unpublished works and insightful critical texts, the volume presents a landscape suspended between history, industry, and imagination.
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Plunge into the ancestral water wisdom that could reshape all our futures. This book reveals how Indigenous innovations—like floating farms, tidal fish traps, and aquifer recharge systems—have sustained civilizations for millennia by working with nature, not against it. Far from relics, these systems offer dynamic, adaptable solutions for the climate crisis of today.(...)
Lo-TEK Water: A field guide for TEKnology
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Plunge into the ancestral water wisdom that could reshape all our futures. This book reveals how Indigenous innovations—like floating farms, tidal fish traps, and aquifer recharge systems—have sustained civilizations for millennia by working with nature, not against it. Far from relics, these systems offer dynamic, adaptable solutions for the climate crisis of today. Structured to bridge past and future, the author Julia Watson dissolves the divide between technology and ecology, between ancestral wisdom and digital innovation. The TEKnological Renaissance it celebrates redefines water as an intelligent force that can shape resilient cities and landscapes. Aquatic infrastructure is reframed—from extractive and industrial into regenerative and evolving—designed to sustain life for generations.
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Studies of rituals in sacred gardens and landscapes offer tantalizing insights into the significance of gardens and landscapes in the societies of India, ancient Greece, Pre-Columbian Mexico, medieval Japan, post-Renaissance Europe, and America. Sacred gardens and landscapes engaged their visitors into three specific modes of agency: as anterooms spurring encounters with(...)
Sacred gardens and landscapes : ritual and agency
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Studies of rituals in sacred gardens and landscapes offer tantalizing insights into the significance of gardens and landscapes in the societies of India, ancient Greece, Pre-Columbian Mexico, medieval Japan, post-Renaissance Europe, and America. Sacred gardens and landscapes engaged their visitors into three specific modes of agency: as anterooms spurring encounters with the netherworld; as journeys through mystical lands; and as a means of establishing a sense of locality, metaphorically rooting the dweller's own identity in a well-defined part of the material world. Each section of this book is devoted to one of these forms of agency. Together the essays reveal a profound cultural significance of gardens previously overlooked by studies of garden styles.
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March 2007, Washington, D.C., Cambridge
Landscape Theory