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1000 lights : 1879 to 1959
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This two-volume edition contains a selection of over 1200 lights. Presented chronologically by decade are history’s most interesting electric lights, from Edison's first light bulb to Tiffany's beautiful leaded glass shades to completely outrageous designs from the late 1960s and 1970s to the latest high-tech LED lamps. All major styles will be represented: Arts & Crafts,(...)
1000 lights : 1879 to 1959
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This two-volume edition contains a selection of over 1200 lights. Presented chronologically by decade are history’s most interesting electric lights, from Edison's first light bulb to Tiffany's beautiful leaded glass shades to completely outrageous designs from the late 1960s and 1970s to the latest high-tech LED lamps. All major styles will be represented: Arts & Crafts, Art Nouveau, Art Deco, Modern Movement, De Stijl, Postwar, Pop, Radical, Post-Modern and Contemporary.
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February 2005, Köln
Interior Design
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Five lesser-known buildings by Frank Gehry which laid the foundations for his international breakthrough a decade later, portrayed by the renowned architectural photographer Johan Dehlin. This publication revisits some of Frank Gehry's lesser-known early works, built in the late 1970s and early 1980s. During this period, Gehry experimented with low-cost construction and(...)
Five Buildings by Frank Gehry
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Five lesser-known buildings by Frank Gehry which laid the foundations for his international breakthrough a decade later, portrayed by the renowned architectural photographer Johan Dehlin. This publication revisits some of Frank Gehry's lesser-known early works, built in the late 1970s and early 1980s. During this period, Gehry experimented with low-cost construction and "off the shelf" materials in creating a series of highly inventive projects in the Los Angeles area.
Architecture Monographs
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Focusing on the golden era of world's fairs, from the 1930s to the 1970s, this book offers a nostalgic glimpse of the future in vintage photographs, postcards, previously unpublished memorabilia, and drawings of pavilions, created by such designers and architects as Buckminster Fuller, Norman Bel Geddes, Kisho Kurokawa, and Le Corbusier. Innovative, informative, and(...)
Exit to tomorrow : world's fair architecture, design, fashion, 1933-2005
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Focusing on the golden era of world's fairs, from the 1930s to the 1970s, this book offers a nostalgic glimpse of the future in vintage photographs, postcards, previously unpublished memorabilia, and drawings of pavilions, created by such designers and architects as Buckminster Fuller, Norman Bel Geddes, Kisho Kurokawa, and Le Corbusier. Innovative, informative, and entertaining, this souvenir of yesterday's tomorrow is a tour of the achievements of avant-garde architecture and design.
Museums and Universal Exhibitions
The soul of brutes
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Carlo Ginzburg has been at the forefront of the discipline of microhistory ever since his earliest works were published to great acclaim in the 1970s. This volume brings together four of Ginzburg’s recent scintillating essays and lectures that testify to the diversity of his thoughts on history and philosophy. With several beautifully reproduced color illustrations, the(...)
The soul of brutes
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Carlo Ginzburg has been at the forefront of the discipline of microhistory ever since his earliest works were published to great acclaim in the 1970s. This volume brings together four of Ginzburg’s recent scintillating essays and lectures that testify to the diversity of his thoughts on history and philosophy. With several beautifully reproduced color illustrations, the book will interest not only scholars of history, philosophy, and art, but also general intellectual readers.
Critical Theory
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DVD : Ericka Beckman began making super-8 films in New York’s late-1970s No Wave scene, alongside artists of the “Pictures Generation.” This DVD contains her Super-8 Piaget trilogy: We Imitate; We Break Up (1978); The Broken Rule (1979); and Out of Hand (1980): three giddy, game-playing choreographies whose hypnotic rhythms draw inspiration from child psychology and early(...)
(DVD) Ericka Beckman : the Super-8 Trilogy 1978-1981
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DVD : Ericka Beckman began making super-8 films in New York’s late-1970s No Wave scene, alongside artists of the “Pictures Generation.” This DVD contains her Super-8 Piaget trilogy: We Imitate; We Break Up (1978); The Broken Rule (1979); and Out of Hand (1980): three giddy, game-playing choreographies whose hypnotic rhythms draw inspiration from child psychology and early cartoons, and star such artist-friends as Mike Kelley, Matt Mullican and James Casebere.
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SOM has long been known for innovation, experimentation, design excellence, and technical mastery, for an abiding interest in the contributions that buildings can make to the life of cities, and for a collaborative approach that extends to all aspects of the design and construction processes. This volume, which presents work from the 1970s and early 1980s, reproduces a(...)
SOM architecture of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (1973-1983)
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SOM has long been known for innovation, experimentation, design excellence, and technical mastery, for an abiding interest in the contributions that buildings can make to the life of cities, and for a collaborative approach that extends to all aspects of the design and construction processes. This volume, which presents work from the 1970s and early 1980s, reproduces a monograph first published in 1983. SOM’s growth as a large architectural firm began almost fifty years ago.
Architecture Monographs
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If landscape is the secret agent and contested territory of the 20th century, then it also forms a lens and language on an increasingly deterritorialized world. Informed by systems thinking from the modern atomic age, Pamphlet Architecture 35: Going Live. From States to Systems emerges from the failure of environmentalism and rise of ecology between the 1970s and 80s,(...)
Pamphlet architecture 35: Going live, from states to systems
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If landscape is the secret agent and contested territory of the 20th century, then it also forms a lens and language on an increasingly deterritorialized world. Informed by systems thinking from the modern atomic age, Pamphlet Architecture 35: Going Live. From States to Systems emerges from the failure of environmentalism and rise of ecology between the 1970s and 80s, taking inspiration from preeminent urban ecologist Howard T. Odum and his book, A Tropical Rain Forest.
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1 folder (40 leaves) : illustrations (some color), maps, charts ; 30 cm
Paris : Documentation française, 1971.
La République fédérale d'Allemagne.
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Paris : Documentation française, 1971.
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239 pages ; 23 cm.
Paris : Presses universitaires de France, ©1984.
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Paris : Presses universitaires de France, ©1984.
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95 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Rotterdam [The Netherlands] : Uitgeverij 010 Publishers, 2000.
Het Wiebengacomplex : Hergebruik en restauratie van de Nijverheidsscholen in Groningen (1922-1923) / redactie Eleonoor Jap Sam = The Wiebenga complex : conversion and restoration of the technical schools in Groningen (1922-1923).
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Rotterdam [The Netherlands] : Uitgeverij 010 Publishers, 2000.