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4 volumes : illustrations, folded plan, plates (inc. 5 color wood engravings) ; 26 cm
- Library main 55858 | W3881 EXP T691; ID:90-B429 | v. 1 | Available
- Library main 55857 | W3881 EXP T691; ID:90-B429 | v. 2 | Available
- Library main 55856 | W3881 EXP T691; ID:90-B429 | v. 3 | Available
- Library main 55855 | W3881 EXP T691; ID:90-B429 | v. 4 | Available
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4 volumes : illustrations, folded plan, plates (inc. 5 color wood engravings) ; 26 cm
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- London International Exhibition.,
- International Exhibition,
- Exhibition catalogs.,
- Decorative arts Catalogs.,
- Industrial arts Great Britain.,
- Catalogues d'exposition.,
- Arts décoratifs Catalogues.,
- Métiers Grande-Bretagne.,
- exhibition catalogs.,
- Decorative arts,
- Industrial arts,
- Great Britain,
- Catalogs,
- Wood engravings Color Specimens Great Britain 1862.,
- Gold blocked bindings Specimens Great Britain 1862.,
- Binders' tickets Specimens Great Britain 1862.
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London : Printed for Her Majesty's Commissioners, [1862]
London : Printed for Her Majesty's Commissioners, [1862]
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The illustrated catalogue of the Industrial Department.
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4 volumes : illustrations, folded plan, plates (inc. 5 color wood engravings) ; 26 cm
The illustrated catalogue of the Industrial Department.
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- Library main 55858 | W3881 EXP T691; ID:90-B429 | v. 1 | Available
- Library main 55857 | W3881 EXP T691; ID:90-B429 | v. 2 | Available
- Library main 55856 | W3881 EXP T691; ID:90-B429 | v. 3 | Available
- Library main 55855 | W3881 EXP T691; ID:90-B429 | v. 4 | Available
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4 volumes : illustrations, folded plan, plates (inc. 5 color wood engravings) ; 26 cm
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London : Printed for Her Majesty's Commissioners, [1862]
London : Printed for Her Majesty's Commissioners, [1862]
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- London International Exhibition.,
- International Exhibition,
- Exhibition catalogs.,
- Decorative arts Catalogs.,
- Industrial arts Great Britain.,
- Catalogues d'exposition.,
- Arts décoratifs Catalogues.,
- Métiers Grande-Bretagne.,
- exhibition catalogs.,
- Decorative arts,
- Industrial arts,
- Great Britain,
- Catalogs,
- Wood engravings Color Specimens Great Britain 1862.,
- Gold blocked bindings Specimens Great Britain 1862.,
- Binders' tickets Specimens Great Britain 1862.
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Huellas de Desaparición.
Huellas de Desaparición.
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[Place of publication not identified] : Failed Architecture, 2022.
[Place of publication not identified] : Failed Architecture, 2022.
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[Place of publication not identified] : Failed Architecture, 2022.
[Place of publication not identified] : Failed Architecture, 2022.
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xvi, 638 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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xvi, 638 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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- Auschwitz (Concentration camp),
- Auschwitz (Camp de concentration),
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Poland.,
- Auschwitz (Poland : Concentration Camp),
- Holocauste, 1939-1945 Pologne.,
- Concentratiekampen.,
- Holocaust.,
- World War, 1939-1945 Concentration camps.,
- Auschwitz (Poland : Concentration camp),
- Poland
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Bloomington : Published in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C. by Indiana University Press, ©1994.
Bloomington : Published in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C. by Indiana University Press, ©1994.
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Anatomy of the Auschwitz death camp / Yisrael Gutman and Michael Berenbaum, editors ; editorial board, Yehuda Bauer, Raul Hilberg, and Franciszek Piper.
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xvi, 638 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Anatomy of the Auschwitz death camp / Yisrael Gutman and Michael Berenbaum, editors ; editorial board, Yehuda Bauer, Raul Hilberg, and Franciszek Piper.
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Bloomington : Published in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C. by Indiana University Press, ©1994.
Bloomington : Published in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C. by Indiana University Press, ©1994.
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- Auschwitz (Concentration camp),
- Auschwitz (Camp de concentration),
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Poland.,
- Auschwitz (Poland : Concentration Camp),
- Holocauste, 1939-1945 Pologne.,
- Concentratiekampen.,
- Holocaust.,
- World War, 1939-1945 Concentration camps.,
- Auschwitz (Poland : Concentration camp),
- Poland
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192 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm
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192 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm
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- Charles Hope -- Jennifer Fletcher -- Jill Dunkerton -- Miguel Falomir -- David Jaffé, Nicholas Penny, Caroline Campbell, and Amanda Bradley --,
- Hope, Charles.,
- Fletcher, Jennifer.,
- Dunkerton, Jill.,
- Falomir Faus, Miguel.,
- Jaffé, David, 1953-,
- Penny, Nicholas, 1949-,
- Campbell, Caroline, 1973-,
- Bradley, Amanda.
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- Titian, approximately 1488-1576 Exhibitions.,
- Titian, approximately 1488-1576 Criticism and interpretation.,
- Titian, ca. 1488-1576.,
- titian, ca. 1488-1576 Expositions.,
- Titian, approximately 1488-1576,
- Titien, (1489?-1576) Catalogues d'exposition.,
- Tizian, approximately 1488-1576 utställningskataloger.,
- Tizian, approximately 1488-1576 analys och tolkning.,
- Painters Italy 16th century.,
- Painting, Renaissance.,
- Schilderijen.,
- Painters Italy 16th century Exhibitions.,
- Exhibition catalogues.,
- Exhibition catalogs.,
- exhibition catalogs.,
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.,
- Catalogues d'exposition.
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London : National Gallery : Distributed by Yale University Press, 2003.
London : National Gallery : Distributed by Yale University Press, 2003.
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Titian / essays by Charles Hope, Jennifer Fletcher, Jill Dunkerton, Miguel Falomir ; catalogue edited by David Jaffé ; with contributions from Nicholas Penny, Caroline Campbell, Amanda Bradley.
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192 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm
Titian / essays by Charles Hope, Jennifer Fletcher, Jill Dunkerton, Miguel Falomir ; catalogue edited by David Jaffé ; with contributions from Nicholas Penny, Caroline Campbell, Amanda Bradley.
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192 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm
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London : National Gallery : Distributed by Yale University Press, 2003.
London : National Gallery : Distributed by Yale University Press, 2003.
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- Charles Hope -- Jennifer Fletcher -- Jill Dunkerton -- Miguel Falomir -- David Jaffé, Nicholas Penny, Caroline Campbell, and Amanda Bradley --,
- Hope, Charles.,
- Fletcher, Jennifer.,
- Dunkerton, Jill.,
- Falomir Faus, Miguel.,
- Jaffé, David, 1953-,
- Penny, Nicholas, 1949-,
- Campbell, Caroline, 1973-,
- Bradley, Amanda.
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- Titian, approximately 1488-1576 Exhibitions.,
- Titian, approximately 1488-1576 Criticism and interpretation.,
- Titian, ca. 1488-1576.,
- titian, ca. 1488-1576 Expositions.,
- Titian, approximately 1488-1576,
- Titien, (1489?-1576) Catalogues d'exposition.,
- Tizian, approximately 1488-1576 utställningskataloger.,
- Tizian, approximately 1488-1576 analys och tolkning.,
- Painters Italy 16th century.,
- Painting, Renaissance.,
- Schilderijen.,
- Painters Italy 16th century Exhibitions.,
- Exhibition catalogues.,
- Exhibition catalogs.,
- exhibition catalogs.,
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.,
- Catalogues d'exposition.
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xiii, 161 pages : illustrations, maps, plans ; 29 cm
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xiii, 161 pages : illustrations, maps, plans ; 29 cm
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- Barragán, Luis, 1902-1988 Criticism and interpretation.,
- Barragán, Luis, 1902-,
- Barragán, Luis, 1902-1988 Critique et interprétation.,
- Barragán, Luis, 1902-1988,
- Barragán, Luis 1902-1988,
- Barragán, Luis.,
- Architecture, Domestic Mexico Mexico City.,
- Landscape architecture Mexico Mexico City.,
- Architecture domestique Mexique Mexico.,
- Architecture du paysage Mexique Mexico.,
- Architecture, Domestic.,
- Landscape architecture.,
- Gartengestaltung,
- Landschaftsgestaltung,
- ARQUITETURA MODERNA Século 20 MÉXICO.,
- CASAS.,
- ARQUITETURA PAISAGÍSTICA.,
- Architects Mexico 20th century.,
- Mexico Mexico City.,
- Mexiko,
- El Pedregal.,
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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New York : Princeton Architectural Press, [2001]
New York : Princeton Architectural Press, [2001]
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Luis Barragán's gardens of El Pedregal / Keith Eggener ; foreword by Marc Treib.
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xiii, 161 pages : illustrations, maps, plans ; 29 cm
Luis Barragán's gardens of El Pedregal / Keith Eggener ; foreword by Marc Treib.
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xiii, 161 pages : illustrations, maps, plans ; 29 cm
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New York : Princeton Architectural Press, [2001]
New York : Princeton Architectural Press, [2001]
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- Barragán, Luis, 1902-1988 Criticism and interpretation.,
- Barragán, Luis, 1902-,
- Barragán, Luis, 1902-1988 Critique et interprétation.,
- Barragán, Luis, 1902-1988,
- Barragán, Luis 1902-1988,
- Barragán, Luis.,
- Architecture, Domestic Mexico Mexico City.,
- Landscape architecture Mexico Mexico City.,
- Architecture domestique Mexique Mexico.,
- Architecture du paysage Mexique Mexico.,
- Architecture, Domestic.,
- Landscape architecture.,
- Gartengestaltung,
- Landschaftsgestaltung,
- ARQUITETURA MODERNA Século 20 MÉXICO.,
- CASAS.,
- ARQUITETURA PAISAGÍSTICA.,
- Architects Mexico 20th century.,
- Mexico Mexico City.,
- Mexiko,
- El Pedregal.,
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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xvii, 257 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
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xvii, 257 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
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- Sepulchral monuments, Renaissance Italy Venice.,
- Sepulchral monuments Italy Venice.,
- Monuments funéraires de la Renaissance Italie Venise.,
- Monuments funéraires Italie Venise.,
- Monumenti sepolcrali Venezia.,
- Dogi veneziani.,
- Buildings.,
- Kings and rulers Tombs.,
- Sepulchral monuments.,
- Sepulchral monuments, Renaissance.,
- Graftomben.,
- Reliëfs.,
- Dogen.,
- Monuments funéraires Italie Venise (Italie),
- Doges Italie Venise (Italie) Tombeaux.,
- Venice (Italy) Kings and rulers Tombs.,
- Venice (Italy) Buildings, structures, etc.,
- Venecia (Italia) Edificios, estructuras, etc.,
- Venise (Italie) Rois et souverains Tombeaux.,
- Venise (Italie) Constructions.,
- Italy Venice.
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New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000.
New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000.
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The tombs of the Doges of Venice / Debra Pincus.
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xvii, 257 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
The tombs of the Doges of Venice / Debra Pincus.
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xvii, 257 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
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New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000.
New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000.
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- Sepulchral monuments, Renaissance Italy Venice.,
- Sepulchral monuments Italy Venice.,
- Monuments funéraires de la Renaissance Italie Venise.,
- Monuments funéraires Italie Venise.,
- Monumenti sepolcrali Venezia.,
- Dogi veneziani.,
- Buildings.,
- Kings and rulers Tombs.,
- Sepulchral monuments.,
- Sepulchral monuments, Renaissance.,
- Graftomben.,
- Reliëfs.,
- Dogen.,
- Monuments funéraires Italie Venise (Italie),
- Doges Italie Venise (Italie) Tombeaux.,
- Venice (Italy) Kings and rulers Tombs.,
- Venice (Italy) Buildings, structures, etc.,
- Venecia (Italia) Edificios, estructuras, etc.,
- Venise (Italie) Rois et souverains Tombeaux.,
- Venise (Italie) Constructions.,
- Italy Venice.
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264 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (some color) ; 24 x 32 cm
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264 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (some color) ; 24 x 32 cm
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- Urban parks Ontario Toronto.,
- Urban parks Ontario Toronto Pictorial works.,
- Wilderness areas Ontario Toronto.,
- Wilderness areas Ontario Toronto Pictorial works.,
- Parcs urbains Ontario Toronto.,
- Parcs urbains Ontario Toronto Ouvrages illustrés.,
- Réserves de la vie sauvage Ontario Toronto.,
- Réserves de la vie sauvage Ontario Toronto Ouvrages illustrés.,
- Urban parks,
- Wilderness areas,
- Toronto (Ont.) Pictorial works.,
- Toronto (Ont.) Ouvrages illustrés.,
- Ontario Toronto,
- Illustrated works
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Toronto, Ontario : ECW Press, [2017]
Toronto, Ontario : ECW Press, [2017]
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An enduring wilderness : Toronto's natural parklands / photographs by Robert Burley ; with writing by Anne Michaels, Michael Mitchell, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Alissa York, George Elliott Clarke, Wayne Reeves.
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264 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (some color) ; 24 x 32 cm
An enduring wilderness : Toronto's natural parklands / photographs by Robert Burley ; with writing by Anne Michaels, Michael Mitchell, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Alissa York, George Elliott Clarke, Wayne Reeves.
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264 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (some color) ; 24 x 32 cm
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Toronto, Ontario : ECW Press, [2017]
Toronto, Ontario : ECW Press, [2017]
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- Urban parks Ontario Toronto.,
- Urban parks Ontario Toronto Pictorial works.,
- Wilderness areas Ontario Toronto.,
- Wilderness areas Ontario Toronto Pictorial works.,
- Parcs urbains Ontario Toronto.,
- Parcs urbains Ontario Toronto Ouvrages illustrés.,
- Réserves de la vie sauvage Ontario Toronto.,
- Réserves de la vie sauvage Ontario Toronto Ouvrages illustrés.,
- Urban parks,
- Wilderness areas,
- Toronto (Ont.) Pictorial works.,
- Toronto (Ont.) Ouvrages illustrés.,
- Ontario Toronto,
- Illustrated works
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Museum builders II
Museum builders II
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"Museum Builders II" explores 27 contemporary museum commissions, which both demonstrate and generate aspects of identity, be they national, ethnic, regional, civic, or personal. The dialogue of "identity and difference" finds many and varied architectural expressions in the contemporary museum buildings highlighted, which are drawn from across the globe. The projects(...)
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"Museum Builders II" explores 27 contemporary museum commissions, which both demonstrate and generate aspects of identity, be they national, ethnic, regional, civic, or personal. The dialogue of "identity and difference" finds many and varied architectural expressions in the contemporary museum buildings highlighted, which are drawn from across the globe. The projects(...)
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Commercial interiors, Building types
Commercial interiors, Building types
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February 2004, Chichester
February 2004, Chichester
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Museum builders II
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"Museum Builders II" explores 27 contemporary museum commissions, which both demonstrate and generate aspects of identity, be they national, ethnic, regional, civic, or personal. The dialogue of "identity and difference" finds many and varied architectural expressions in the contemporary museum buildings highlighted, which are drawn from across the globe. The projects vary dramatically in scale, context, thematics and intent, but all raise questions of architectural representation. Many museum architects have turned to the natural landscape for inspiration, often for aesthetic or pragmatic reasons, but at times to invest their buildings with a specific identity. Similarly, rich archaeological and architectural caches have been plundered by designers in a quest to give identity to their built form. Several featured museum projects address the meeting of cultures, which were defining moments in history, and these encounters have left a tenacious legacy on the architecture and exhibitions of those museums. Most resonant here is the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: a deeply poignant physical monument to one of the most horrifying and inhumane encounters in human history, and a most extreme example of the museum’s lasting role in the construction and depiction of identities.
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"Museum Builders II" explores 27 contemporary museum commissions, which both demonstrate and generate aspects of identity, be they national, ethnic, regional, civic, or personal. The dialogue of "identity and difference" finds many and varied architectural expressions in the contemporary museum buildings highlighted, which are drawn from across the globe. The projects vary dramatically in scale, context, thematics and intent, but all raise questions of architectural representation. Many museum architects have turned to the natural landscape for inspiration, often for aesthetic or pragmatic reasons, but at times to invest their buildings with a specific identity. Similarly, rich archaeological and architectural caches have been plundered by designers in a quest to give identity to their built form. Several featured museum projects address the meeting of cultures, which were defining moments in history, and these encounters have left a tenacious legacy on the architecture and exhibitions of those museums. Most resonant here is the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: a deeply poignant physical monument to one of the most horrifying and inhumane encounters in human history, and a most extreme example of the museum’s lasting role in the construction and depiction of identities.
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February 2004, Chichester
February 2004, Chichester
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Commercial interiors, Building types
Commercial interiors, Building types
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As the world’s population swells and the need for sustainable ways of living grows ever more urgent and obvious, prefabricated architecture has taken center stage. Even before our current predicaments, the mass-produced, factory-made home had a distinguished history, having served as a vital precept in the development of Modern architecture. Today, with the digital(...)
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As the world’s population swells and the need for sustainable ways of living grows ever more urgent and obvious, prefabricated architecture has taken center stage. Even before our current predicaments, the mass-produced, factory-made home had a distinguished history, having served as a vital precept in the development of Modern architecture. Today, with the digital(...)
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Prefabricated Architecture
Prefabricated Architecture
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August 2008, New York
August 2008, New York
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Home delivery, fabricating the modern dwelling
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As the world’s population swells and the need for sustainable ways of living grows ever more urgent and obvious, prefabricated architecture has taken center stage. Even before our current predicaments, the mass-produced, factory-made home had a distinguished history, having served as a vital precept in the development of Modern architecture. Today, with the digital revolution reorganizing the relationship between drafting board and factory, it continues to spur innovative manufacturing and design, and its potential has clearly not yet come to fruition. Home Delivery traces the history of prefabrication in architecture, from its early roots in colonial cottages though the work of such figures as Jean Prouvé and Buckminster Fuller, and mass-produced variants such as the Lustron house, to a group of full-scale contemporary houses commissioned specifically for the MoMA exhibition that this book accompanies. In addition to an introductory essay by Barry Bergdoll, Chief Curator in the Museum’s Department of Architecture and Design, this volume contains essays on prefabricated housing in Japan and in Nordic countries by Ken Tadashi Oshima and Rasmus Waern, respectively. It also includes focused texts on approximately 40 historical projects and five commissions, as well as a bibliography.
Home delivery, fabricating the modern dwelling
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As the world’s population swells and the need for sustainable ways of living grows ever more urgent and obvious, prefabricated architecture has taken center stage. Even before our current predicaments, the mass-produced, factory-made home had a distinguished history, having served as a vital precept in the development of Modern architecture. Today, with the digital revolution reorganizing the relationship between drafting board and factory, it continues to spur innovative manufacturing and design, and its potential has clearly not yet come to fruition. Home Delivery traces the history of prefabrication in architecture, from its early roots in colonial cottages though the work of such figures as Jean Prouvé and Buckminster Fuller, and mass-produced variants such as the Lustron house, to a group of full-scale contemporary houses commissioned specifically for the MoMA exhibition that this book accompanies. In addition to an introductory essay by Barry Bergdoll, Chief Curator in the Museum’s Department of Architecture and Design, this volume contains essays on prefabricated housing in Japan and in Nordic countries by Ken Tadashi Oshima and Rasmus Waern, respectively. It also includes focused texts on approximately 40 historical projects and five commissions, as well as a bibliography.
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August 2008, New York
August 2008, New York
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Prefabricated Architecture
Prefabricated Architecture
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In 1999, historians at the Virginia Historical Society acquired three curiously bound volumes of drawings and documents created between 1821 and 1858 by a long — and unjustifiably — forgotten architect named Thomas R. Blackburn. Further inspection revealed that these were, in fact, no ordinary documents, but a unique window onto the life of a distinguished builder and(...)
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In 1999, historians at the Virginia Historical Society acquired three curiously bound volumes of drawings and documents created between 1821 and 1858 by a long — and unjustifiably — forgotten architect named Thomas R. Blackburn. Further inspection revealed that these were, in fact, no ordinary documents, but a unique window onto the life of a distinguished builder and(...)
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In Jefferson's shadow : the architecture of Thomas R. Blackburn
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In 1999, historians at the Virginia Historical Society acquired three curiously bound volumes of drawings and documents created between 1821 and 1858 by a long — and unjustifiably — forgotten architect named Thomas R. Blackburn. Further inspection revealed that these were, in fact, no ordinary documents, but a unique window onto the life of a distinguished builder and his revered master : Thomas Jefferson. In these extraordinary books, we find Blackburn, at first a young carpenter, engaged in the construction of Jefferson's famed "academical village" at the University of Virginia. He simultaneously embarked on an ambitious program of architectural study, guided, it appears, by Jefferson himself. The drawings he executed in the four decades that followed — extraordinary ink and watercolor explorations of his many residential and civic commissions — bear witness to his emergence as a mature and prolific architect in his own right. "In Jefferson's shadow" is a unique document of the relationship between an unknown but highly skilled country builder and the American statesman widely considered this nation's first gentleman architect. But it is also an indispensable resource on the little-understood practice of architecture in the early and mid-nineteenth century.
In Jefferson's shadow : the architecture of Thomas R. Blackburn
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In 1999, historians at the Virginia Historical Society acquired three curiously bound volumes of drawings and documents created between 1821 and 1858 by a long — and unjustifiably — forgotten architect named Thomas R. Blackburn. Further inspection revealed that these were, in fact, no ordinary documents, but a unique window onto the life of a distinguished builder and his revered master : Thomas Jefferson. In these extraordinary books, we find Blackburn, at first a young carpenter, engaged in the construction of Jefferson's famed "academical village" at the University of Virginia. He simultaneously embarked on an ambitious program of architectural study, guided, it appears, by Jefferson himself. The drawings he executed in the four decades that followed — extraordinary ink and watercolor explorations of his many residential and civic commissions — bear witness to his emergence as a mature and prolific architect in his own right. "In Jefferson's shadow" is a unique document of the relationship between an unknown but highly skilled country builder and the American statesman widely considered this nation's first gentleman architect. But it is also an indispensable resource on the little-understood practice of architecture in the early and mid-nineteenth century.
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August 2006, New York
August 2006, New York
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Architecture Monographs
Architecture Monographs
