Fountains and water features
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This fully illustrated book shows how fountains and water features have developed in Europe from antiquity to the present day and how the appreciation of water in the garden has changed.
Fountains and water features
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This fully illustrated book shows how fountains and water features have developed in Europe from antiquity to the present day and how the appreciation of water in the garden has changed.
Gardens
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The internationally renowned collaborative duo Lois & Franziska Weinberger have played a key role in contemporary debates about sustainability, art and nature. This edition presents 60 color images of their public works from the past 30 years, which hinge on the idea of a garden as a "perfectly provisional realm."
Landscape Architecture, Monographs
January 2010
Lois & Franziska Weinberger: The mobile garden
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The internationally renowned collaborative duo Lois & Franziska Weinberger have played a key role in contemporary debates about sustainability, art and nature. This edition presents 60 color images of their public works from the past 30 years, which hinge on the idea of a garden as a "perfectly provisional realm."
Landscape Architecture, Monographs
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A graceful, contemplative volume, Camera Lucida was first published in 1979. Commenting on artists such as Avedon, Clifford, Mapplethorpe, and Nadar, Roland Barthes presents photography as being outside the codes of language or culture, acting on the body as much as on the mind, and rendering death and loss more acutely than any other medium.
Camera Lucida: reflections on photography
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A graceful, contemplative volume, Camera Lucida was first published in 1979. Commenting on artists such as Avedon, Clifford, Mapplethorpe, and Nadar, Roland Barthes presents photography as being outside the codes of language or culture, acting on the body as much as on the mind, and rendering death and loss more acutely than any other medium.
Theory of Photography
Mourning diary
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The day after his mother’s death in October 1977, the influential philosopher Roland Barthes began a diary of mourning. Taking notes on index cards as was his habit, he reflected on a new solitude, on the ebb and flow of sadness, and on modern society’s dismissal of grief. These 330 cards, published here for the first time, prove a skeleton key to the themes he tackled(...)
Mourning diary
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The day after his mother’s death in October 1977, the influential philosopher Roland Barthes began a diary of mourning. Taking notes on index cards as was his habit, he reflected on a new solitude, on the ebb and flow of sadness, and on modern society’s dismissal of grief. These 330 cards, published here for the first time, prove a skeleton key to the themes he tackled throughout his work. Behind the unflagging mind, “the most consistently intelligent, important, lay a deeply sensitive man who cherished his mother with a devotion unknown even to his closest friends.
Critical Theory
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During the 1960s and 70s, thousands of monuments commemorating the Second World War – called 'Spomeniks' – were built throughout the former Yugoslavia; striking monumental sculptures, with an angular geometry echoing the shapes of flowers, crystals, and macro-views of viruses or DNA. In the 1980s the Spomeniks still attracted millions of visitors from the Eastern bloc;(...)
Spomenik #1 - 26. Jan Kempenaers
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During the 1960s and 70s, thousands of monuments commemorating the Second World War – called 'Spomeniks' – were built throughout the former Yugoslavia; striking monumental sculptures, with an angular geometry echoing the shapes of flowers, crystals, and macro-views of viruses or DNA. In the 1980s the Spomeniks still attracted millions of visitors from the Eastern bloc; today they are largely neglected and unknown, their symbolism lost and unwanted. Antwerp-based photographer Jan Kempenaers travelled the Balkans photographing these eerie objects, presented in this book as a powerful typological series. The beauty and mystery of the isolated, crumbling Spomeniks informs Kempenaer's enquiry into memory, found beauty, and whether former monuments can function as pure sculpture.
Photography monographs
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Richly illustrated with meditative photography of traditional and contemporary Japanese architecture, this book is concerned with articulating boundaries, and space. Historic and modern Japanese techniques for defining space are profiled, from home design through natural landscaping to the ceremonial spaces of tearoom and temple. An elegant study of Japanese architectural(...)
Kyokai : a Japanese technique for articulating space
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Richly illustrated with meditative photography of traditional and contemporary Japanese architecture, this book is concerned with articulating boundaries, and space. Historic and modern Japanese techniques for defining space are profiled, from home design through natural landscaping to the ceremonial spaces of tearoom and temple. An elegant study of Japanese architectural art, with its emphasis on nature and fluidity, the book includes contributions by Kengo Kuma, Sou Fujimoto, and Junya Ishigami. Photographs by Kiyoshi Takai.
Contemporary Asian Architecture
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Demonstrating how cartography is a valuable instrument for urban research, this cartographic book reveals the impact of infrastructure on a region's development in an original manner. Bieke Cattoor has mapped and analysed the roads, railways and communications network of Belgium's Kortrijk region, overlaying them with historical and topical information. With this(...)
Figures, Infrastructures: an atlas of roads and railways
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Demonstrating how cartography is a valuable instrument for urban research, this cartographic book reveals the impact of infrastructure on a region's development in an original manner. Bieke Cattoor has mapped and analysed the roads, railways and communications network of Belgium's Kortrijk region, overlaying them with historical and topical information. With this perspective, the varied elements in an infrastructural network are clarified, and Cattoor identifies how roads and railways form related patterns and lead to nodes. The book reveals the complexity of our layered urban landscape with a new and simple representational method, and suggests how this method can be deployed in urban research as a whole.
Architectural Plans and Cartography
Conceptual diagrams
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A diagram is seen as a tool to deliver an idea. This two–volume boxed set has chapters on Public Space/Landscape/Urban Design/Interior Design and contains works by UN Studio, JDS Architects, VMX Architects, nodo17 Architects, NL Architects, Vincent Callebaut, Tania Conko, PSA, mxg Architects, Florian Krieger and more.
Conceptual diagrams
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A diagram is seen as a tool to deliver an idea. This two–volume boxed set has chapters on Public Space/Landscape/Urban Design/Interior Design and contains works by UN Studio, JDS Architects, VMX Architects, nodo17 Architects, NL Architects, Vincent Callebaut, Tania Conko, PSA, mxg Architects, Florian Krieger and more.
Contemporary Architecture
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Twenty-six Viennese gasoline stations – and a couple more – inspired by the classic Twentysix Gasoline Stations by Edward Ruscha done in 1962. The colour section of this book includes 36 photographs on 48 pages showing 34 different gasoline stations. It includes alternative views and a number of atypical Viennese gas stations, as well as individual examples for comparison(...)
Sechsundzwanzig Wiener Tankstellen
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Twenty-six Viennese gasoline stations – and a couple more – inspired by the classic Twentysix Gasoline Stations by Edward Ruscha done in 1962. The colour section of this book includes 36 photographs on 48 pages showing 34 different gasoline stations. It includes alternative views and a number of atypical Viennese gas stations, as well as individual examples for comparison from Vienna and elsewhere.
Theory of Photography
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Book with recent photographic work by Uta Eisenreich, focussing on the shortcomings of our cognitive tool-kit. A NOT B walks us along the fine line between common sense and uncommon nonsense in a realm reminiscent of pre-school books, assessment tests and optical illusions. Uta Eisenreich is fascinated by the attempt to establish order within an inconsistent reality that(...)
A NOT B
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Book with recent photographic work by Uta Eisenreich, focussing on the shortcomings of our cognitive tool-kit. A NOT B walks us along the fine line between common sense and uncommon nonsense in a realm reminiscent of pre-school books, assessment tests and optical illusions. Uta Eisenreich is fascinated by the attempt to establish order within an inconsistent reality that constantly exceeds the borders of comprehension. She photographs ever-changing combinations of elementary objects arranged by basic methods of classification. From one image to the next, the meaning of things keeps transforming. A web of clues and associations is spun, triggering the viewer to discern underlying patterns and make sense of the illusory correlations of a-logical connections. Design by Julia Born.
Contemporary Art Monographs