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Aurora Fernández Per and Javier Mozas, founders of the a+t research group, relate their stories of three trips to Japan: spring 1995, autumn 2004, and summer 2018. The common thread is architecture, which drives them to travel through a country which has become highly influential in terms of international design. Using texts, photographs, and drawings they interpret(...)
Contemporary Asian Architecture
December 2018
Japan diaries: architecture and more
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Aurora Fernández Per and Javier Mozas, founders of the a+t research group, relate their stories of three trips to Japan: spring 1995, autumn 2004, and summer 2018. The common thread is architecture, which drives them to travel through a country which has become highly influential in terms of international design. Using texts, photographs, and drawings they interpret buildings and landscapes, as well as narrate the everyday scenes they have witnessed along the way.
Contemporary Asian Architecture
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Hunch no 1 1999
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Hunch 1 documents the comparative analysis of Los Angeles, Tokyo, and the Netherlands carried out during the 1998/99 academic year under the guidance of Stan Allen, Stefano Boeri, and Ben van Berkel. It also features the work of Kazuyo Sejima, and Bart Lootsma's investigation of Rem Koolhaas's work in journalism and film in the 1960s. In addition, ‘Bad Architecture(...)
Hunch no 1 1999
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Hunch 1 documents the comparative analysis of Los Angeles, Tokyo, and the Netherlands carried out during the 1998/99 academic year under the guidance of Stan Allen, Stefano Boeri, and Ben van Berkel. It also features the work of Kazuyo Sejima, and Bart Lootsma's investigation of Rem Koolhaas's work in journalism and film in the 1960s. In addition, ‘Bad Architecture Stories’, the diary of Berlage participant Shiuan-Wen Chu, will be continued over several issues.
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December 1999, Amsterdam
Magazines
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This exploration of the history of Western civilization showcases the cathedral’s central role in the European imagination. Jenkins tells the stories behind these stone wonders: the architects that made them possible, the triumphs of engineering, the artists who enriched their décor, and the inevitable human follies of those who were involved in their building, from the(...)
Cathedrals: Masterpieces of architecture, feats of engineering, icons of faith
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This exploration of the history of Western civilization showcases the cathedral’s central role in the European imagination. Jenkins tells the stories behind these stone wonders: the architects that made them possible, the triumphs of engineering, the artists who enriched their décor, and the inevitable human follies of those who were involved in their building, from the artisans and workers to the wealthy donors and the faithful who worshipped beneath their soaring spires and majestic domes.
History until 1900
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Before giant robots, space ships, and masked super heroes filled the pages of Japanese comic books--known as manga--such characters were regularly seen on the streets of Japan in kamishibai stories. Manga Kamishibai: The Art of Japanese Paper Theater tells the history of this fascinating and nearly vanished Japanese art form that paved the way for modern-day comic books,(...)
Illustration
September 2009
Manga kamishibai: the art of japanese paper theater
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Before giant robots, space ships, and masked super heroes filled the pages of Japanese comic books--known as manga--such characters were regularly seen on the streets of Japan in kamishibai stories. Manga Kamishibai: The Art of Japanese Paper Theater tells the history of this fascinating and nearly vanished Japanese art form that paved the way for modern-day comic books, and is the missing link in the development of modern manga.
Illustration
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In forty brief chapters, Nigel Warburton guides us on a chronological tour of the major ideas in the history of philosophy. He provides interesting and often quirky stories of the lives and deaths of thought-provoking philosophers from Socrates, who chose to die by hemlock poisoning rather than live on without the freedom to think for himself, to Peter Singer, who asks(...)
A little history of philosophy
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In forty brief chapters, Nigel Warburton guides us on a chronological tour of the major ideas in the history of philosophy. He provides interesting and often quirky stories of the lives and deaths of thought-provoking philosophers from Socrates, who chose to die by hemlock poisoning rather than live on without the freedom to think for himself, to Peter Singer, who asks the disquieting philosophical and ethical questions that haunt our own times.
Critical Theory
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For more than 20 years Kai Wiedenhofer has been taking photographs in the Middle East, a place where many journalists and photographers have covered the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Yet Wiedenhofer is unique in that he concentrates exclusively on Gaza, and often remains there to take photos long after the media has moved onto more 'pressing' news stories. Wiedenhofer's(...)
Kai Wiedenhofer : the book of destruction; Gaza - one year after the 2009 war
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For more than 20 years Kai Wiedenhofer has been taking photographs in the Middle East, a place where many journalists and photographers have covered the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Yet Wiedenhofer is unique in that he concentrates exclusively on Gaza, and often remains there to take photos long after the media has moved onto more 'pressing' news stories. Wiedenhofer's images of crumbling ruins and maimed civilians are a powerful landscape of disquiet and destruction.
Photography monographs
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Edith Dekyndt's artistic approach results in a disturbing observation of the physical phenomena taking place before our very eyes, or even in certain cases, within our eyes. Just as science fiction produces the supernatural from the rational, fantasy and strangeness are no longer the result of superstitious attitudes, as in the age of fantastic and fabulous stories, but(...)
Edith Dekyndt: I remember earth
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Edith Dekyndt's artistic approach results in a disturbing observation of the physical phenomena taking place before our very eyes, or even in certain cases, within our eyes. Just as science fiction produces the supernatural from the rational, fantasy and strangeness are no longer the result of superstitious attitudes, as in the age of fantastic and fabulous stories, but the lucid vision of a world whose reality revealed by science now reaches beyond fiction.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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Every house has a history, and this book tells the often intimate stories of some remarkable buildings and their architects and clients. Concise, with informative texts, the publication features many illustrations, including specially commissioned photographs as well as floor plans and drawings, and offers a detailed documentation, which includes a bibliography,(...)
November 2009
The iconic house : architectural masterworks since 1900
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Every house has a history, and this book tells the often intimate stories of some remarkable buildings and their architects and clients. Concise, with informative texts, the publication features many illustrations, including specially commissioned photographs as well as floor plans and drawings, and offers a detailed documentation, which includes a bibliography, gazetteers and a list of houses by type, whether Arts and Crafts or Art Nouveau, Modernist or Minimalist, High-Tech or vernacular.
VU : the story of a magazine
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This book pays tribute to VU’s fundamental contribution to press photography, showing how photographers and publishers became aware of the potential of the medium. Themed picture sections explore the most notable features of VU : striking page layouts, fascinating photo stories, stunning cover designs, chilling images from Nazi Germany, and more. This anthology gives the(...)
VU : the story of a magazine
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This book pays tribute to VU’s fundamental contribution to press photography, showing how photographers and publishers became aware of the potential of the medium. Themed picture sections explore the most notable features of VU : striking page layouts, fascinating photo stories, stunning cover designs, chilling images from Nazi Germany, and more. This anthology gives the reader an insight into how the modern media came into being, as well as offering a snapshot of an entire era.
Photography Collections
In the butterfly garden
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This pop-up book traces a caterpillar’s evolution from lowly cocoon to magnificent winged butterfly. Along the way we find cunning insects hidden in the grass, inchworms munching their way through a jungle of leaves, and a floral paradise where the newly hatched butterfly makes its home. Intricately constructed with the dazzling color and delicate details that have become(...)
In the butterfly garden
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This pop-up book traces a caterpillar’s evolution from lowly cocoon to magnificent winged butterfly. Along the way we find cunning insects hidden in the grass, inchworms munching their way through a jungle of leaves, and a floral paradise where the newly hatched butterfly makes its home. Intricately constructed with the dazzling color and delicate details that have become UG’s trademark, this book also tells young readers one of nature’s most basic stories.
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