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Over the past 20 years, there has been a resurgence of city building in Toronto that has not been seen since the buoyant optimism of the 1960s. The cultural renaissance has increased awareness of design and of the market for cultural tourism in Toronto. A Guidebook to Contemporary Architecture in Toronto provides a perspective on this process of cultural and architectural(...)
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Over the past 20 years, there has been a resurgence of city building in Toronto that has not been seen since the buoyant optimism of the 1960s. The cultural renaissance has increased awareness of design and of the market for cultural tourism in Toronto. A Guidebook to Contemporary Architecture in Toronto provides a perspective on this process of cultural and architectural(...)
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Architecture in Canada
Architecture in Canada
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February 2010
February 2010
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A guidebook to contemporary architecture in Toronto
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Over the past 20 years, there has been a resurgence of city building in Toronto that has not been seen since the buoyant optimism of the 1960s. The cultural renaissance has increased awareness of design and of the market for cultural tourism in Toronto. A Guidebook to Contemporary Architecture in Toronto provides a perspective on this process of cultural and architectural transformation, and the selected projects reflect contemporary tendencies, aspirations and attitudes towards city building. Each project is featured on a two-page spread with a concise, descriptive text, project information, photographs and drawings. The projects are organized by neighbourhood and allow the reader to take a self-guided tour. Maps at the introduction of each neighbourhood provide context, and an index provides easy referencing of projects throughout.
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Over the past 20 years, there has been a resurgence of city building in Toronto that has not been seen since the buoyant optimism of the 1960s. The cultural renaissance has increased awareness of design and of the market for cultural tourism in Toronto. A Guidebook to Contemporary Architecture in Toronto provides a perspective on this process of cultural and architectural transformation, and the selected projects reflect contemporary tendencies, aspirations and attitudes towards city building. Each project is featured on a two-page spread with a concise, descriptive text, project information, photographs and drawings. The projects are organized by neighbourhood and allow the reader to take a self-guided tour. Maps at the introduction of each neighbourhood provide context, and an index provides easy referencing of projects throughout.
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February 2010
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"Ghostly ruins" shows the life and death of thirty structures, from transportation depots, factories, and jails to amusement parks, mansions, hotels, and entire towns. Author Harry Skrdla gives a guided tour of these structures at their peak of popularity juxtaposed with their current state. Structures discussed include the infamous Eastern State Penitentiary and(...)
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"Ghostly ruins" shows the life and death of thirty structures, from transportation depots, factories, and jails to amusement parks, mansions, hotels, and entire towns. Author Harry Skrdla gives a guided tour of these structures at their peak of popularity juxtaposed with their current state. Structures discussed include the infamous Eastern State Penitentiary and(...)
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October 2006, New York
October 2006, New York
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Ghostly ruins : America's forgotten architecture
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"Ghostly ruins" shows the life and death of thirty structures, from transportation depots, factories, and jails to amusement parks, mansions, hotels, and entire towns. Author Harry Skrdla gives a guided tour of these structures at their peak of popularity juxtaposed with their current state. Structures discussed include the infamous Eastern State Penitentiary and Bethlehem Steel factory in Pennsylvania, the Packard Motors Plant and Book-Cadillac Hotel in Detroit, and Philip Johnson's New York State Pavilion from the 1964/65 World's Fair. There is the entire town of Centralia, Pennsylvania, where a trash fire set inside an old mine in 1962 morphed into an underground inferno that incinerated the town from underneath; more than forty years later, the subterranean fire still rages. The town is empty now, just as the many other abandoned places in this chronicle.
Ghostly ruins : America's forgotten architecture
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"Ghostly ruins" shows the life and death of thirty structures, from transportation depots, factories, and jails to amusement parks, mansions, hotels, and entire towns. Author Harry Skrdla gives a guided tour of these structures at their peak of popularity juxtaposed with their current state. Structures discussed include the infamous Eastern State Penitentiary and Bethlehem Steel factory in Pennsylvania, the Packard Motors Plant and Book-Cadillac Hotel in Detroit, and Philip Johnson's New York State Pavilion from the 1964/65 World's Fair. There is the entire town of Centralia, Pennsylvania, where a trash fire set inside an old mine in 1962 morphed into an underground inferno that incinerated the town from underneath; more than forty years later, the subterranean fire still rages. The town is empty now, just as the many other abandoned places in this chronicle.
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October 2006, New York
October 2006, New York
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The fire within the eye : a historical essay on the nature and meaning of light / David Park.
The fire within the eye : a historical essay on the nature and meaning of light / David Park.
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xiii, 377 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
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Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1997.
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1997.
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The fire within the eye : a historical essay on the nature and meaning of light / David Park.
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xiii, 377 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
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Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1997.
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This city guide takes readers on a tour of Detroit's many architectural landmarks.
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This city guide takes readers on a tour of Detroit's many architectural landmarks.
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AIA Detroit: the American Institute of Architects guide to Detroit architecture
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This city guide takes readers on a tour of Detroit's many architectural landmarks.
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This city guide takes readers on a tour of Detroit's many architectural landmarks.
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November 2002
November 2002
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At its founding, Boston was a small peninsula; over the last 375 years the city has doubled in size by filling in the surrounding tidal flats -areas covered with water at high tide and exposed at low. In "Walking tours of Boston's made land", historian Nancy Seasholes outlines twelve walks that trace where and why Boston's man-made land was created, and, along the way,(...)
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At its founding, Boston was a small peninsula; over the last 375 years the city has doubled in size by filling in the surrounding tidal flats -areas covered with water at high tide and exposed at low. In "Walking tours of Boston's made land", historian Nancy Seasholes outlines twelve walks that trace where and why Boston's man-made land was created, and, along the way,(...)
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Walking tours of Boston's made land
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At its founding, Boston was a small peninsula; over the last 375 years the city has doubled in size by filling in the surrounding tidal flats -areas covered with water at high tide and exposed at low. In "Walking tours of Boston's made land", historian Nancy Seasholes outlines twelve walks that trace where and why Boston's man-made land was created, and, along the way, uncovers fascinating and little-known pieces of Boston history. In the course of these walks - around the central waterfront, Back Bay, Beacon Hill, the South End, Charlestown, and elsewhere - she shows us how Boston's past is always just below the surface of its present. Each walk is accompanied by a map that shows the route and original shoreline. The walks are illustrated with historical maps, historical photographs and views, and current photographs. All walks are accessible by public transportation.
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At its founding, Boston was a small peninsula; over the last 375 years the city has doubled in size by filling in the surrounding tidal flats -areas covered with water at high tide and exposed at low. In "Walking tours of Boston's made land", historian Nancy Seasholes outlines twelve walks that trace where and why Boston's man-made land was created, and, along the way, uncovers fascinating and little-known pieces of Boston history. In the course of these walks - around the central waterfront, Back Bay, Beacon Hill, the South End, Charlestown, and elsewhere - she shows us how Boston's past is always just below the surface of its present. Each walk is accompanied by a map that shows the route and original shoreline. The walks are illustrated with historical maps, historical photographs and views, and current photographs. All walks are accessible by public transportation.
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September 2006, Cambridge (MA), London
September 2006, Cambridge (MA), London
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Atlas of poetic botany
Atlas of poetic botany
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This Atlas invites the reader to tour the farthest reaches of the rainforest in search of exotic—poetic—plant life. Guided in these botanical encounters by Francis Hallé, who has spent forty years in pursuit of the strange and beautiful plant specimens of the rainforest, the reader discovers a plant with just one solitary, monumental leaf; an invasive hyacinth; a tree(...)
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This Atlas invites the reader to tour the farthest reaches of the rainforest in search of exotic—poetic—plant life. Guided in these botanical encounters by Francis Hallé, who has spent forty years in pursuit of the strange and beautiful plant specimens of the rainforest, the reader discovers a plant with just one solitary, monumental leaf; an invasive hyacinth; a tree(...)
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Atlas of poetic botany
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This Atlas invites the reader to tour the farthest reaches of the rainforest in search of exotic—poetic—plant life. Guided in these botanical encounters by Francis Hallé, who has spent forty years in pursuit of the strange and beautiful plant specimens of the rainforest, the reader discovers a plant with just one solitary, monumental leaf; an invasive hyacinth; a tree that walks; a parasitic laurel; and a dancing vine. Further explorations reveal the Rafflesia arnoldii, the biggest flower in the world, with a crown of stamens and pistils the color of rotten meat that exude the stench of garbage in the summer sun; underground trees with leaves that form a carpet on the ground above them; and the biggest tree in Africa, which can reach seventy meters (more tha 200 feet) in height, with a four-meter (about 13 feet) diameter. Hallé's drawings, many in color, provide a witty accompaniment.
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This Atlas invites the reader to tour the farthest reaches of the rainforest in search of exotic—poetic—plant life. Guided in these botanical encounters by Francis Hallé, who has spent forty years in pursuit of the strange and beautiful plant specimens of the rainforest, the reader discovers a plant with just one solitary, monumental leaf; an invasive hyacinth; a tree that walks; a parasitic laurel; and a dancing vine. Further explorations reveal the Rafflesia arnoldii, the biggest flower in the world, with a crown of stamens and pistils the color of rotten meat that exude the stench of garbage in the summer sun; underground trees with leaves that form a carpet on the ground above them; and the biggest tree in Africa, which can reach seventy meters (more tha 200 feet) in height, with a four-meter (about 13 feet) diameter. Hallé's drawings, many in color, provide a witty accompaniment.
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November 2018
November 2018
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xiii, 604 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
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New Haven : Yale University Press, 2009.
New Haven : Yale University Press, 2009.
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Futurism : an anthology / edited by Lawrence Rainey, Christine Poggi, and Laura Wittman.
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xiii, 604 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
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New Haven : Yale University Press, 2009.
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A tour of not-to-be-missed public places—parks, plazas, memorials, streets—that shape the New York experience.
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A tour of not-to-be-missed public places—parks, plazas, memorials, streets—that shape the New York experience.
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Guide to New York City urban landscapes
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A tour of not-to-be-missed public places—parks, plazas, memorials, streets—that shape the New York experience.
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A tour of not-to-be-missed public places—parks, plazas, memorials, streets—that shape the New York experience.
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July 2013
July 2013
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Like a ship cast on the shore by some Mediterranean tempest, the E 1027 house, built in 1929 by legendary Irish designer Eileen Gray with and for her architect friend Jean Badovici, was little more, seventy years later, than a desolate wreck. But since 2014 an exceptional combination of the knowledge and skills of a whole host of architects and historians, coupled with(...)
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Like a ship cast on the shore by some Mediterranean tempest, the E 1027 house, built in 1929 by legendary Irish designer Eileen Gray with and for her architect friend Jean Badovici, was little more, seventy years later, than a desolate wreck. But since 2014 an exceptional combination of the knowledge and skills of a whole host of architects and historians, coupled with(...)
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Architecture Monographs
Architecture Monographs
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May 2022
May 2022
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E 1027 : Restoring a house by the sea
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Like a ship cast on the shore by some Mediterranean tempest, the E 1027 house, built in 1929 by legendary Irish designer Eileen Gray with and for her architect friend Jean Badovici, was little more, seventy years later, than a desolate wreck. But since 2014 an exceptional combination of the knowledge and skills of a whole host of architects and historians, coupled with a harmonious collaboration between public authorities and private initiative, have succeeded in setting the building afloat again. E 1027 can now be seen with all the beauty of its original lines, a white vessel emerging from a lemon grove with its blue awning as a sail. Up till now only familiar through the black and white pictures of the albums of its time, its interiors bring together ingenious pieces of furniture and a collection of chairs, lamps and mirrors which have acquired iconic status, and which have been meticulously restored. The heart of this book is a guided tour through this resuscitated architectural masterpiece, with details of its remarkable furnishings and decoration, all illustrated with the photographs of Manuel Bougot.
E 1027 : Restoring a house by the sea
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Like a ship cast on the shore by some Mediterranean tempest, the E 1027 house, built in 1929 by legendary Irish designer Eileen Gray with and for her architect friend Jean Badovici, was little more, seventy years later, than a desolate wreck. But since 2014 an exceptional combination of the knowledge and skills of a whole host of architects and historians, coupled with a harmonious collaboration between public authorities and private initiative, have succeeded in setting the building afloat again. E 1027 can now be seen with all the beauty of its original lines, a white vessel emerging from a lemon grove with its blue awning as a sail. Up till now only familiar through the black and white pictures of the albums of its time, its interiors bring together ingenious pieces of furniture and a collection of chairs, lamps and mirrors which have acquired iconic status, and which have been meticulously restored. The heart of this book is a guided tour through this resuscitated architectural masterpiece, with details of its remarkable furnishings and decoration, all illustrated with the photographs of Manuel Bougot.
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Ce guide se propose d'accompagner le lecteur à la découverte de l'histoire et du patrimoine de la ville de Boulogne-Billancourt (Hauts-de-Seine) du XIVe au XXe siècle, avec une attention particulière sur la ville des années 30. À travers les différents quartiers, les visites s'organisent autour de six parcours thématiques qui permettent d'admirer tour à tour l'église(...)
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Ce guide se propose d'accompagner le lecteur à la découverte de l'histoire et du patrimoine de la ville de Boulogne-Billancourt (Hauts-de-Seine) du XIVe au XXe siècle, avec une attention particulière sur la ville des années 30. À travers les différents quartiers, les visites s'organisent autour de six parcours thématiques qui permettent d'admirer tour à tour l'église(...)
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Le guide Boulogne-Billancourt : ville d'art et d'histoire
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Ce guide se propose d'accompagner le lecteur à la découverte de l'histoire et du patrimoine de la ville de Boulogne-Billancourt (Hauts-de-Seine) du XIVe au XXe siècle, avec une attention particulière sur la ville des années 30. À travers les différents quartiers, les visites s'organisent autour de six parcours thématiques qui permettent d'admirer tour à tour l'église Notre-Dame des Menus, l'Hôtel de Ville conçu par Tony Garnier, un exceptionnel patrimoine architectural des années 1930, le musée des Années 30, le musée départemental Albert-Kahn avec ses archives et ses fabuleux jardins, la bibliothèque Paul-Marmottan, le parc ou les anciennes usines témoins du passé industriel. Les aménagements en cours de l'île Seguin font l'objet d'un chapitre à part.
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Ce guide se propose d'accompagner le lecteur à la découverte de l'histoire et du patrimoine de la ville de Boulogne-Billancourt (Hauts-de-Seine) du XIVe au XXe siècle, avec une attention particulière sur la ville des années 30. À travers les différents quartiers, les visites s'organisent autour de six parcours thématiques qui permettent d'admirer tour à tour l'église Notre-Dame des Menus, l'Hôtel de Ville conçu par Tony Garnier, un exceptionnel patrimoine architectural des années 1930, le musée des Années 30, le musée départemental Albert-Kahn avec ses archives et ses fabuleux jardins, la bibliothèque Paul-Marmottan, le parc ou les anciennes usines témoins du passé industriel. Les aménagements en cours de l'île Seguin font l'objet d'un chapitre à part.
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November 2022
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