PB 06 In Class with Tavora
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The 6th title in the AMAG Pocket Books Collection explores the enduring pedagogical legacy of Fernando Távora, a pivotal figure in Portuguese architecture and a key influence on the Porto School. Celebrating the continued relevance of his teachings, the authors delve into his philosophy of making architecture for living, emphasizing the interplay between modernity and(...)
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The 6th title in the AMAG Pocket Books Collection explores the enduring pedagogical legacy of Fernando Távora, a pivotal figure in Portuguese architecture and a key influence on the Porto School. Celebrating the continued relevance of his teachings, the authors delve into his philosophy of making architecture for living, emphasizing the interplay between modernity and tradition, the humanity of space, and the essence of spatial composition. While numerous studies on Távora exist, most remain within Portugal; this volume seeks to bring his insights to a broader audience, reaffirming his influence on new generations of architects.
Architectural Theory
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In Cornelia Hahn Oberlander: Making the Modern Landscape, Susan Herrington draws upon archival research, site analyses, and numerous interviews with Oberlander and her collaborators to offer a biography of this adventurous and influential landscape architect. Born in 1921, Oberlander fled Nazi Germany at the age of eighteen with her family, going on to become one of the(...)
Cornelia Hahn Oberlander : making the Modern landscape
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In Cornelia Hahn Oberlander: Making the Modern Landscape, Susan Herrington draws upon archival research, site analyses, and numerous interviews with Oberlander and her collaborators to offer a biography of this adventurous and influential landscape architect. Born in 1921, Oberlander fled Nazi Germany at the age of eighteen with her family, going on to become one of the few women to graduate from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design in the late 1940s. For six decades she has practiced socially responsible and ecologically sensitive planning for public landscapes. Herrington places Oberlander within a larger social and aesthetic context, chronicling both her personal and professional trajectory and her work in New York, Philadelphia, Vancouver, Seattle, Berlin, Toronto, and Montreal.
Landscape Architecture, Monographs
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World Film Locations: Barcelona explores the rich cinematic history of this seductive Catalonian city. The essays collected here cover essential themes of the city’s cinematic history, including the origins of cinema in Barcelona; the role of Ciutat Vella (old quarter) as a film set; the influential Barcelona School of the 1960s; the film presence of Gaudí and his work;(...)
Architecture and Film, Set Design
September 2013
World film locations: Barcelona
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World Film Locations: Barcelona explores the rich cinematic history of this seductive Catalonian city. The essays collected here cover essential themes of the city’s cinematic history, including the origins of cinema in Barcelona; the role of Ciutat Vella (old quarter) as a film set; the influential Barcelona School of the 1960s; the film presence of Gaudí and his work; changing attitudes and urban renewal before and after the 1992 Olympics; and the emergence of a new generation of female filmmakers that have made Barcelona the center of their cinematic explorations.
Architecture and Film, Set Design
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The Media House Project is the fruit of a strategic alliance between the Metapolis Group from Barcelona, the MIT Media Lab, and the Fundacio Politecnica de Catalunya, with the collaboration of the Consortium I2CAT and the Elisava Design School, in order to build a prototype of an informational house. This project enables the testing of the progression of information(...)
Architecture since 1900, Europe
January 1900, Barcelona
Media house project : the house is the computer, the structure is the network
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The Media House Project is the fruit of a strategic alliance between the Metapolis Group from Barcelona, the MIT Media Lab, and the Fundacio Politecnica de Catalunya, with the collaboration of the Consortium I2CAT and the Elisava Design School, in order to build a prototype of an informational house. This project enables the testing of the progression of information technologies beyond that of computers and integrates them into everyday life, literally looking to build computers from the components of buildings, in such a way that the logical intelligence of a structure can grow with its physical form.
Architecture since 1900, Europe
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Published to celebrate the Martell Lecture given by Tod Williams and Billie Tsien on March 30, 2007 at the school of Architecture and Planning, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York.
Art and use Tod Williams Billie Tsien
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Published to celebrate the Martell Lecture given by Tod Williams and Billie Tsien on March 30, 2007 at the school of Architecture and Planning, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York.
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Robert Royston
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Over nearly six decades of practice, Robert Royston (1918–2008) shaped the postwar Bay Area landscape with visionary designs for public spaces. Early in his career, Royston conceived of the "landscape matrix," a system of interconnected parks, plazas, and parkways that he hoped could bring order and amenity to rapidly developing suburbs. The idea would inform his work on(...)
Landscape Architecture, Monographs
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Robert Royston
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Over nearly six decades of practice, Robert Royston (1918–2008) shaped the postwar Bay Area landscape with visionary designs for public spaces. Early in his career, Royston conceived of the "landscape matrix," a system of interconnected parks, plazas, and parkways that he hoped could bring order and amenity to rapidly developing suburbs. The idea would inform his work on more than two thousand projects as diverse as school grounds, new towns, transit corridors, and housing tracts. As an apprentice of Thomas Church, Royston gained experience with residential gardens that influenced his early designs for public parks. At a time when neighborhood parks were typically limited to playing fields and stock playground equipment, Royston created imaginative facilities for the American family, offering activities for people of all ages.
Landscape Architecture, Monographs
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xvii, 215 pages, 16 numbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.
The politics of furniture : identity, diplomacy and persuasion in post-war interiors / edited by Fredie Floré and Cammie McAtee.
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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.
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14 videocassettes (Mini-DV) (approximately 776 min.) : sound, color ; 1/4 in. master, 3 computer optical discs (CD-R) (approximately 813 min.) : digital, MP3 file ; 12 cm
Le CCA dans un champ muséologique en expansion = The CCA in an expanding curatorial field : recordings, 2010.
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"On the dance floor," a visual and literary compendium of nightclub revelries and sweat-soaked gymnasiums on-screen and off. Featuring deep dives into cinema’s most iconic dance moments and contributions from dance world legends, On the Dance Floor spins out from high school proms and house parties to discos, raves, and the joys of dancing on your own. Features a(...)
On the dance floor: Spinning out on screen
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"On the dance floor," a visual and literary compendium of nightclub revelries and sweat-soaked gymnasiums on-screen and off. Featuring deep dives into cinema’s most iconic dance moments and contributions from dance world legends, On the Dance Floor spins out from high school proms and house parties to discos, raves, and the joys of dancing on your own. Features a foreword by Cher; dance floor dispatches from Charli XCX, Ryan Heffington, Lizzy Goodman, and more; conversations with filmmakers and choreographers including Whit Stillman and Kate Beckinsale; and original essays from writers such as Rachel Tashjian and Marlowe Granados.
Architecture and Film, Set Design
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Founded by architect Walter Gropius (1883–1969) in 1919, the Bauhaus was the 20th century’s most influential school of art, architecture, and design. After the school was shuttered under pressure from the Nazis in 1933, many Bauhaus artists brought their innovative practices and teaching methods to the United States. Gropius himself accepted a position at Harvard, where(...)
Object lessons: the Bauhaus and Harvard
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Founded by architect Walter Gropius (1883–1969) in 1919, the Bauhaus was the 20th century’s most influential school of art, architecture, and design. After the school was shuttered under pressure from the Nazis in 1933, many Bauhaus artists brought their innovative practices and teaching methods to the United States. Gropius himself accepted a position at Harvard, where he would help establish a collection of Bauhaus material that has since grown to more than 30,000 objects—the largest such collection outside Germany. Harvard in turn became an unofficial center for the Bauhaus in America. Written by established and emerging voices in the field, the scholarship presented here expands on the special link between the two institutions, while highlighting understudied aspects of the Bauhaus, such as weaving, photography, and art made by women. Accompanied by illustrations—some of never-before-published objects—this book yields fascinating insights for Bauhaus devotees and design aficionados.
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