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This paperback edition of Building for Tomorrow includes recent projects, including The Seed Cathedral in Shanghai, the Riverside Museum in Glasgow, and the Metropol Parasol in Seville. Readers can also explore Richard Rogers's instantly recognizable Lloyds Building, Bart Prince's extraordinary organic wooden houses, Frank Gehry's billowing titanium gallery, and Santiago(...)
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Building for tomorrow : visionary architecture from around the world
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This paperback edition of Building for Tomorrow includes recent projects, including The Seed Cathedral in Shanghai, the Riverside Museum in Glasgow, and the Metropol Parasol in Seville. Readers can also explore Richard Rogers's instantly recognizable Lloyds Building, Bart Prince's extraordinary organic wooden houses, Frank Gehry's billowing titanium gallery, and Santiago Calatrava's concrete beetle-like planetarium.
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160 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Rotterdam : NAi ; Den Haag : EFL Publications ; New York : Avaiable in North, South and South America through D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, ©1997.
Het idee van de functionele stad : een lezing met lichtbeelden 1928 / C. van Eesteren ; met een inleiding van Vincent van Rossem = The idea of the functional city : a lecture with slides 1928 / C. van Eesteren ; with an introduction by Vincent van Rossem.
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Rotterdam : NAi ; Den Haag : EFL Publications ; New York : Avaiable in North, South and South America through D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, ©1997.
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220 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
New Haven : Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press, 1993.
The English journey : journal of a visit to France and Britain in 1826 / edited by David Bindman and Gottfried Riemann ; translated by F. Gayna Walls.
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New Haven : Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press, 1993.
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Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1996.
The Italian garden : art, design, and culture / edited by John Dixon Hunt.
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Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1996.
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286 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 29 cm
New York : Rizzoli, 2021., ©2021
Tadao Ando : living with light / Philip Jodidio ; preface by Tadao Ando.
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Site Specific
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An investigation into how place and context affects critical design development in an architectural site related programme. Architects were shortlisted for this project for their particular (and sometimes contrasting) modes of working with site specificity within European and American contemporary architectural practice. All the architects selected are working at an(...)
Site Specific
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An investigation into how place and context affects critical design development in an architectural site related programme. Architects were shortlisted for this project for their particular (and sometimes contrasting) modes of working with site specificity within European and American contemporary architectural practice. All the architects selected are working at an international level within their field and display a high level of intelligence and sensibility within their designs. This book offers the reader a chance to understand the deeper thinking of the individual interviewees.
Contemporary Architecture
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Site of Sound Vol.2 aims to address contemporary work being done in the cross-over between sound and architecture. The anthology brings together new research and writing that charts out the theoritical implications and consequences for artistic and spatial discourses, while documenting contemporary projects that come to occupy and define a sonic-spatial territory.
Site of Sound #2: Of architecture and the ear
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Site of Sound Vol.2 aims to address contemporary work being done in the cross-over between sound and architecture. The anthology brings together new research and writing that charts out the theoritical implications and consequences for artistic and spatial discourses, while documenting contemporary projects that come to occupy and define a sonic-spatial territory.
Acoustics
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''Twisted'' documents and explores an eleven-story garment factory building in Shantou, China, for the fashion label Lafayette 148. The book presents the building as an artifact of architecture, with detailed documentation of images and drawings. The book also presents essays that offer a series of distinct but interrelated responses to the many questions that arise when(...)
Contemporary Asian Architecture
December 2018
Twisted: Lafayette 148 New York factory in China
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''Twisted'' documents and explores an eleven-story garment factory building in Shantou, China, for the fashion label Lafayette 148. The book presents the building as an artifact of architecture, with detailed documentation of images and drawings. The book also presents essays that offer a series of distinct but interrelated responses to the many questions that arise when building a garment factory facility in contemporary China. Issues addressed range from the architectural import of the building typology, to the ecological footprint of a factory, to social and architectural concerns regarding labor as well as construction practices, to the ethics and aesthetics of factory building.
Contemporary Asian Architecture
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Textile architecture
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This volume presents promising projects that envision a future when textiles are widely and innovatively employed as architectural elements. Though they are frequently reduced to a decorative afterthought in contemporary interior design, textiles are extremely versatile, with a range of tactile qualities and surprising strength, which gives them tremendous architectural(...)
Textile architecture
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This volume presents promising projects that envision a future when textiles are widely and innovatively employed as architectural elements. Though they are frequently reduced to a decorative afterthought in contemporary interior design, textiles are extremely versatile, with a range of tactile qualities and surprising strength, which gives them tremendous architectural potential, ranging from simple solutions to high-tech applications. Presenting projects by prominent architects such as Rem Koolhaas, Herzog & de Meuron, Kengo Kuma and Graft Architects, this richly illustrated edition provides an overview of the wide ranging possibilities for the application of textiles in building design.
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