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679 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), plans ; 27 cm
San Rafael, CA : Oro Editions, ©2008.
Peter L. Gluck and partners : the modern impulse / edited by Oscar Riera Ojeda ; introduction by Peter L. Gluck and Joseph Giovannini.
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679 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), plans ; 27 cm
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San Rafael, CA : Oro Editions, ©2008.
Ben Johnson : Foster in view
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For more than thrity years Ben Johnson the artist has been documenting the work of Norman Foster the architect in photographs that have frequently served as source material for Johnson's own neo-realist paintings. This book is a reocord of this body of work. Included here are photographs of Foster,s most celebrated projects, from the Sainsbury Center for Visual Arts,(...)
Ben Johnson : Foster in view
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For more than thrity years Ben Johnson the artist has been documenting the work of Norman Foster the architect in photographs that have frequently served as source material for Johnson's own neo-realist paintings. This book is a reocord of this body of work. Included here are photographs of Foster,s most celebrated projects, from the Sainsbury Center for Visual Arts, the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank, the restoration of the Reichstag, and the Great Court at the British Museum, to airports in Hong Kong and Beijing.
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xiii, 194 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 x 29 cm
Champaign : University of Illinois Press, [2012]
SynergiCity : reinventing the postindustrial city / edited by Paul Hardin Kapp and Paul J. Armstrong, foreword by Richard Florida.
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xiii, 194 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 x 29 cm
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Champaign : University of Illinois Press, [2012]
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This book makes visible the inner workings of some of the world’s most iconic designs. From SLR camera to mantel clock to espresso machine, from iPad to bicycle to grand piano, every single component of each object is revealed. These disassembled objects show that even the most intricate of modern technologies can be broken down and understood, while beautifully(...)
Things come apart: a teardown manual for modern living
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This book makes visible the inner workings of some of the world’s most iconic designs. From SLR camera to mantel clock to espresso machine, from iPad to bicycle to grand piano, every single component of each object is revealed. These disassembled objects show that even the most intricate of modern technologies can be broken down and understood, while beautifully illustrating the quality and elegance of older designs. Stunning photography is interspersed with essays by notable figures from the worlds of restoration, DIY, and design innovation who discuss historical examples of teardowns, disassembly, and reverse-engineering.
Industrial Design
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While destruction as a theme can be traced throughout art history, from the early atomic age it has remained a pervasive and compelling element of contemporary visual culture. Damage Control features the work of more than 40 international artists working in a range of media--painting, sculpture, photography, film, installation, and performance--who have used destruction(...)
October 2013
Damage control: art and destruction since 1950
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While destruction as a theme can be traced throughout art history, from the early atomic age it has remained a pervasive and compelling element of contemporary visual culture. Damage Control features the work of more than 40 international artists working in a range of media--painting, sculpture, photography, film, installation, and performance--who have used destruction as a means of responding to their historical moment and as a strategy for inciting spectacle and catharsis, as a form of rebellion and protest, or as an essential part of re-creation and restoration.
Real Review 17
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An extinction burst occurs when bad behaviour intensifies before stopping. Undesirable qualities can become entrenched through positive reinforcement. But if the world changes and no longer provides us with the same feedback, we lose our minds: to the privileged, equality feels like persecution. Extinction bursts are forms of active denial; refusals to accept the past as(...)
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Real Review 17
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An extinction burst occurs when bad behaviour intensifies before stopping. Undesirable qualities can become entrenched through positive reinforcement. But if the world changes and no longer provides us with the same feedback, we lose our minds: to the privileged, equality feels like persecution. Extinction bursts are forms of active denial; refusals to accept the past as gone, and desperate attempts to preserve the potential of an impossible reality. Today, modernity’s worst tendencies return intensified: patriarchy, racism, plutocracy, colonialism, exploitation, rentierism, genocide. Even attempts at redemption, restoration and stasis accelerate the decline.
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"The Sustainable Urban Development Reader" brings together classic readings from a wide variety of sources to investigate how our cities and towns can become more sustainable. Thirty-eight selections span issues such as land use planning, urban design, transportation, ecological restoration, economic development, resource use, and equity planning. Section introductions(...)
Urban Theory
April 2004, London / New York
The sustainable urban development reader
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"The Sustainable Urban Development Reader" brings together classic readings from a wide variety of sources to investigate how our cities and towns can become more sustainable. Thirty-eight selections span issues such as land use planning, urban design, transportation, ecological restoration, economic development, resource use, and equity planning. Section introductions outline the major themes, while introductions to the individual writings explain their interest and significance to wider audiences. Additional sections present twenty-four case studies of real-world sustainable urban planning examples, sustainability planning exercises, and further reading.
Urban Theory
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vii, 70 pages, 48 leaves of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), plans ; 40 cm
London : John Murray, 1867.
The terra-cotta architecture of North Italy (XIIth-XVth centuries) : pourtrayed as examples for imitation in other countries / from careful drawings and restorations by Federigo Lose ; forty-eight illustrations engraved and printed in colours, with woodcut sections, mouldings, etc. and descriptive text by V. Ottolini and F. Lose ; edited by Lewis Gruner.
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vii, 70 pages, 48 leaves of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), plans ; 40 cm
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London : John Murray, 1867.
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Rethinking urban parks : public space & cultural diversity / Setha Low, Dana Taplin, Suzanne Scheld.
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xii, 226 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Austin : University of Texas Press, 2005.
Rethinking urban parks : public space & cultural diversity / Setha Low, Dana Taplin, Suzanne Scheld.
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xii, 226 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
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Austin : University of Texas Press, 2005.
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xxvi, 401 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm
New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Italian Gothic sculpture : c. 1250-c. 1400 / Anita Fiderer Moskowitz.
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xxvi, 401 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm
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New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001.