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In the summer of 2017, a collectively-built mountain, the Mont Réel, emerged in Montréal, providing a gathering and performance place for the surrounding communities and an in-situ laboratory to experiment with urban (bio)diversity. It was conceived and constructed by Constructlab with many friends, colleagues and participants during the "ateliers collaboratives"(...)
How to build a mountain / Comment construire une montagne
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In the summer of 2017, a collectively-built mountain, the Mont Réel, emerged in Montréal, providing a gathering and performance place for the surrounding communities and an in-situ laboratory to experiment with urban (bio)diversity. It was conceived and constructed by Constructlab with many friends, colleagues and participants during the "ateliers collaboratives" workshop. It was supported by the Goethe-Institut Montreal in partnership with the Consulate général de France à Québec and the Université de Montréal.
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Cascoland is a multidisciplinary public art project initiated by Dutch artist Fiona de Bell, involving international artists, architects, designers, local talent and initiatives as well as urban communities and stakeholders. Cascoland is exploring a series if interventions in public space to create awareness of urban issues, mobility and the use of public space in a(...)
Urban Theory
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Cascoland interventions in public space Drill Hall Johannesburg South Africa
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Cascoland is a multidisciplinary public art project initiated by Dutch artist Fiona de Bell, involving international artists, architects, designers, local talent and initiatives as well as urban communities and stakeholders. Cascoland is exploring a series if interventions in public space to create awareness of urban issues, mobility and the use of public space in a positive and creative framework and to mobilize local residents, artists and initiatives to participate in the shapping of their public space.
Urban Theory
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The book demonstrates the importance of individual decisions by outlining the circumstances in which people decided where to move, when to marry, and what work to do. Integrating social and spatial analysis, the authors provide insights into the relationships among the city's three cultural communities, show how inequalities of voice, purchasing power, and access to real(...)
Peopling the North American city, Montreal 1840-1900
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The book demonstrates the importance of individual decisions by outlining the circumstances in which people decided where to move, when to marry, and what work to do. Integrating social and spatial analysis, the authors provide insights into the relationships among the city's three cultural communities, show how inequalities of voice, purchasing power, and access to real property were maintained, and provide first-hand evidence of the impact of city living and poverty on families, health, and futures.
Architecture de Montréal
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Many experts agree that energy is the defining issue of this century. Economic recessions, foreign wars, and foreclosures are only a few of the results of America’s dependence on oil. In Terra Nova, ecologist Eric Sanderson elucidates the interconnections between oil and money, cars and transportation, and suburbs and land use. He then charts a path toward renewed(...)
Terra nova: the new world after oil, cars, and suburbs
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Many experts agree that energy is the defining issue of this century. Economic recessions, foreign wars, and foreclosures are only a few of the results of America’s dependence on oil. In Terra Nova, ecologist Eric Sanderson elucidates the interconnections between oil and money, cars and transportation, and suburbs and land use. He then charts a path toward renewed economic growth, enhanced national security, revitalized communities, and a sustainable environment: a new form of the American Dream.
Green Architecture
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In Japan, modern sewer systems began to appear during the late 19th century, though evidence of sewage systems in the country dates back to over 2,000 years ago. In the 1980s, as communities outside of Japan's major cities were slated to receive new sewer systems these public works projects were met with resistance, until one dedicated bureaucrat solved the problem by(...)
Drainspotting: Japanese manhole covers
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In Japan, modern sewer systems began to appear during the late 19th century, though evidence of sewage systems in the country dates back to over 2,000 years ago. In the 1980s, as communities outside of Japan's major cities were slated to receive new sewer systems these public works projects were met with resistance, until one dedicated bureaucrat solved the problem by devising a way to make these mostly invisible systems aesthetically appreciated aboveground: customized manhole covers.
Contemporary Asian Architecture
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195 pages : colour illustrations ; 26 cm
London : Unicorn, an imprint of Unicorn Publishing Group LLP, 2017.
Neural architects : the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre from idea to reality / Georgina Ferry.
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Bum-Ba Bum-Ba: : Conversations with John Lennon and Yoko Ono.
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viii, 469 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Winterthur, Del. : Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum ; Hanover : Distributed by University Press of New England, 1996.
The substance of style : perspectives on the American arts and crafts movement / edited by Bert Denker.
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viii, 469 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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Winterthur, Del. : Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum ; Hanover : Distributed by University Press of New England, 1996.
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xi, 101 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm
Cambridge : Polity Press, [2023], ©2023
The time of the landscape : on the origins of the aesthetic revolution / Jacques Rancière ; translated by Emiliano Battista.
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79 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
New York : Princeton Architectural Press, ©1999.
The Salk Institute / photographs by Ezra Stoller ; introduction by D.S. Friedman.
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New York : Princeton Architectural Press, ©1999.