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288 pages illustrations (some color), portraits, plans 33 cm
New York, Putnam [1963]
Great gardens of the Western World / by Peter Coats with an introduction by Harold Nicolson.
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New York, Putnam [1963]
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The State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg is unfathomably vast and filled with infinite objects. Amazingly, behind the walls of its galleries, completely hidden from view, are infinitely more objects in floor upon floor of storage rooms and laboratories. In four trips to Russia in 2018-2019, Wijnanda Deroo moved through these outer-worldly environments with her camera,(...)
Wijnanda Deroo: Behind the walls of the Hermitage
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The State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg is unfathomably vast and filled with infinite objects. Amazingly, behind the walls of its galleries, completely hidden from view, are infinitely more objects in floor upon floor of storage rooms and laboratories. In four trips to Russia in 2018-2019, Wijnanda Deroo moved through these outer-worldly environments with her camera, using available light, not displacing a thing. This book shares her revelations.
Photography monographs
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From the ski slopes of Utah to the frigid tundra of northwestern Russia, ''Snowbound'' celebrates contemporary design in cold climates with a focus on sustainability. Architectural historian William Morgan documents winter dwellings and trekker cabins from high-profile firms like MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple and rising stars like Scott & Scott. Readers are transported to(...)
Snowbound: dwelling in winter
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From the ski slopes of Utah to the frigid tundra of northwestern Russia, ''Snowbound'' celebrates contemporary design in cold climates with a focus on sustainability. Architectural historian William Morgan documents winter dwellings and trekker cabins from high-profile firms like MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple and rising stars like Scott & Scott. Readers are transported to beautiful, pristine, and, in some cases, remote locations in the snowier regions of the world.
Residential Architecture
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12 pages : illustrations ; 17 x 18 cm
[Netherlands?] : [publisher not identified], [after 1957]
[Personal letter to Lewis Mumford].
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[Netherlands?] : [publisher not identified], [after 1957]
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285 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), facsimiles, portraits ; 25 x 25 cm
Paris : Centre Pompidou, [2018], ©2018
Chagall, Lissitzky, Malévitch : l'avant-garde russe à Vitebsk, 1918-1922 / sous la direction d'Angela Lampe.
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Paris : Centre Pompidou, [2018], ©2018
Dacha Idylls
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Dacha Idylls is a lively account of dacha life and how Russians experience this deeply rooted tradition of the summer cottage amid the changing cultural, economic, and political landscape of postsocialist Russia. Simultaneously beloved and reviled, dachas wield a power that makes owning and caring for them an essential part of life. In this book, the author captures the(...)
Dacha Idylls
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Dacha Idylls is a lively account of dacha life and how Russians experience this deeply rooted tradition of the summer cottage amid the changing cultural, economic, and political landscape of postsocialist Russia. Simultaneously beloved and reviled, dachas wield a power that makes owning and caring for them an essential part of life. In this book, the author captures the dacha's abiding traditions and demonstrates why Russians insist that these dwellings are key to understanding Russian life.
Gardens
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Once described as “Italy gone Marxist,” Georgia, located in both an advantageous and vulnerable geopolitical position between the Black Sea, Russia, Central Asia, and the Middle East, enjoys a Mediterranean climate and viniculture in combination with a community-oriented and self-determined spirit. Taking the exhibition “Frozen Moments: Architecture Speaks Back” (2010) as(...)
Ministry of Highways : a guide to the performative architecture of Tbilisi
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Once described as “Italy gone Marxist,” Georgia, located in both an advantageous and vulnerable geopolitical position between the Black Sea, Russia, Central Asia, and the Middle East, enjoys a Mediterranean climate and viniculture in combination with a community-oriented and self-determined spirit. Taking the exhibition “Frozen Moments: Architecture Speaks Back” (2010) as its starting point, this guidebook maps the social, urban, and art discourses of the country’s post-Soviet years as seen from its hilly capital of Tbilisi.
Modernism
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In this book, Alice Mah explores the experiences of urban decline and post-industrial change in three different community contexts: Niagara Falls, Canada/USA; Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK; and Ivanovo, Russia. Employing a unique methodological approach that combines ethnographic, spatial, and documentary methods, Mah draws on international comparisons of the landscapes(...)
Industrial ruination, community, and place: Landscapes, and legacies of urban decline
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In this book, Alice Mah explores the experiences of urban decline and post-industrial change in three different community contexts: Niagara Falls, Canada/USA; Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK; and Ivanovo, Russia. Employing a unique methodological approach that combines ethnographic, spatial, and documentary methods, Mah draws on international comparisons of the landscapes and legacies of industrial ruination over the past forty years. Through this, she foregrounds the complex challenges of living with prolonged uncertainty and deprivation amidst socioeconomic change.
Urban Theory
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x, 673 pages : illustrations ; 31 cm.
London ; New York : Routledge, 1993.
Companion to contemporary architectural thought / edited by Ben Farmer and Hentie Louw.
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London ; New York : Routledge, 1993.
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383 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm
New York, NY : Performa Publications, ©2013.
Performa 11 : staging ideas / Roselee Goldberg ; photographs by Paula Court ; afterword by Claire Bishop ; edited by Jennifer Piejko.
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383 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm
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New York, NY : Performa Publications, ©2013.