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The authors of this book offer aesthetically pleasing strategies for creating and caring for ecologically sound lawns. Revised and updated edition.
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The authors of this book offer aesthetically pleasing strategies for creating and caring for ecologically sound lawns. Revised and updated edition.
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May 2001, New Haven
May 2001, New Haven
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Redesigning the american lawn : a search for environmental harmony
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The authors of this book offer aesthetically pleasing strategies for creating and caring for ecologically sound lawns. Revised and updated edition.
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May 2001, New Haven
May 2001, New Haven
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Craig Wright explores the complex symbolism of the labyrinth in architecture, religious thought, music and dance from the Middle Ages to the present.
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Craig Wright explores the complex symbolism of the labyrinth in architecture, religious thought, music and dance from the Middle Ages to the present.
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The maze and the warrior : symbols in architecture, theology and music
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Craig Wright explores the complex symbolism of the labyrinth in architecture, religious thought, music and dance from the Middle Ages to the present.
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Craig Wright explores the complex symbolism of the labyrinth in architecture, religious thought, music and dance from the Middle Ages to the present.
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June 2001, Cambridge, MA and London
June 2001, Cambridge, MA and London
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Architectural Theory
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Writing, according to Panayotis Tournikiotis, has always exerted a powerful influence on architecture. Indeed, the study of modern architecture cannot be separated from a fascination with the texts that have tried to explain the idea of a new architecture in a new society. During the last forty years, the question of the relationship of architecture to its history - of(...)
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Writing, according to Panayotis Tournikiotis, has always exerted a powerful influence on architecture. Indeed, the study of modern architecture cannot be separated from a fascination with the texts that have tried to explain the idea of a new architecture in a new society. During the last forty years, the question of the relationship of architecture to its history - of(...)
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April 2001, Cambridge, Mass.
April 2001, Cambridge, Mass.
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The historiography of modern architecture
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Writing, according to Panayotis Tournikiotis, has always exerted a powerful influence on architecture. Indeed, the study of modern architecture cannot be separated from a fascination with the texts that have tried to explain the idea of a new architecture in a new society. During the last forty years, the question of the relationship of architecture to its history - of buildings to books - has been one of the most important themes in debates about the course of modern architecture. Tournikiotis argues that the history of modern architecture tends to be written from the present, projecting back onto the past our current concerns, so that the "beginning" of the story really functions as a "representation" of its end. In this book the buildings are the quotations, while the texts are the structure. Tournikiotis focuses on a group of books by major historians of the twentieth century: Nikolaus Pevsner, Emil Kaufmann, Sigfried Giedion, Bruno Zevi, Leonardo Benevolo, Henry-Russell Hitchcock, Reyner Banham, Peter Collins, and Manfredo Tafuri. In examining these writers' thoughts, he draws on concepts from critical theory, relating architecture to broader historical models.
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Writing, according to Panayotis Tournikiotis, has always exerted a powerful influence on architecture. Indeed, the study of modern architecture cannot be separated from a fascination with the texts that have tried to explain the idea of a new architecture in a new society. During the last forty years, the question of the relationship of architecture to its history - of buildings to books - has been one of the most important themes in debates about the course of modern architecture. Tournikiotis argues that the history of modern architecture tends to be written from the present, projecting back onto the past our current concerns, so that the "beginning" of the story really functions as a "representation" of its end. In this book the buildings are the quotations, while the texts are the structure. Tournikiotis focuses on a group of books by major historians of the twentieth century: Nikolaus Pevsner, Emil Kaufmann, Sigfried Giedion, Bruno Zevi, Leonardo Benevolo, Henry-Russell Hitchcock, Reyner Banham, Peter Collins, and Manfredo Tafuri. In examining these writers' thoughts, he draws on concepts from critical theory, relating architecture to broader historical models.
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April 2001, Cambridge, Mass.
April 2001, Cambridge, Mass.
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Architectural Theory
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In "Architectures of Time", Sanford Kwinter offers a critical guide to the modern history of time and to the interplay between the physical sciences and the arts. Tracing the transformation of twentieth-century epistemology to the rise of thermodynamics and statistical mechanics, Kwinter explains how the demise of the concept of absolute time, and of the classical notion(...)
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In "Architectures of Time", Sanford Kwinter offers a critical guide to the modern history of time and to the interplay between the physical sciences and the arts. Tracing the transformation of twentieth-century epistemology to the rise of thermodynamics and statistical mechanics, Kwinter explains how the demise of the concept of absolute time, and of the classical notion(...)
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Architectures of time : toward a theory of the event in modernist culture
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In "Architectures of Time", Sanford Kwinter offers a critical guide to the modern history of time and to the interplay between the physical sciences and the arts. Tracing the transformation of twentieth-century epistemology to the rise of thermodynamics and statistical mechanics, Kwinter explains how the demise of the concept of absolute time, and of the classical notion of space as a fixed background against which things occur, led to field theory and a physics of the "event." He suggests that the closed, controlled, and mechanical world of physics gave way to the approximate, active, and qualitative world of biology as a model of both scientific and metaphysical explanation. Kwinter examines theory of time and space in Einstein's theories of relativity and shows how these ideas were reflected in the writings of the sculptor Umberto Boccioni, the town planning schema of the Futurist architect Antonio Sant'Elia, the philosophy of Henri Bergson, and the writings of Franz Kafka. He argues that the writings of Boccioni and the visionary architecture of Sant'Elia represent the earliest and most profound deployments of the concepts of field and event. In discussing Kafka's work, he moves away from the thermodynamic model in favor of the closely related one of Bergsonian durée, or virtuality. He argues that Kafka's work manifests a coherent cosmology that can be understood only in relation to the constant temporal flux that underlies it.
Architectures of time : toward a theory of the event in modernist culture
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In "Architectures of Time", Sanford Kwinter offers a critical guide to the modern history of time and to the interplay between the physical sciences and the arts. Tracing the transformation of twentieth-century epistemology to the rise of thermodynamics and statistical mechanics, Kwinter explains how the demise of the concept of absolute time, and of the classical notion of space as a fixed background against which things occur, led to field theory and a physics of the "event." He suggests that the closed, controlled, and mechanical world of physics gave way to the approximate, active, and qualitative world of biology as a model of both scientific and metaphysical explanation. Kwinter examines theory of time and space in Einstein's theories of relativity and shows how these ideas were reflected in the writings of the sculptor Umberto Boccioni, the town planning schema of the Futurist architect Antonio Sant'Elia, the philosophy of Henri Bergson, and the writings of Franz Kafka. He argues that the writings of Boccioni and the visionary architecture of Sant'Elia represent the earliest and most profound deployments of the concepts of field and event. In discussing Kafka's work, he moves away from the thermodynamic model in favor of the closely related one of Bergsonian durée, or virtuality. He argues that Kafka's work manifests a coherent cosmology that can be understood only in relation to the constant temporal flux that underlies it.
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June 2001, Cambridge
June 2001, Cambridge
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Architectural Theory
Architectural Theory
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Theory of garden art
Theory of garden art
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Published originally between 1779 and 1785 and comprising five volumes, Hirschfeld's Theory of Garden Art is here translated into English for the first time. In this one-volume abridged edition Linda Parshall translates the essential aspects of the Theory of Garden Art, Hirschfeld's seminal work. The translation is accompanied by an introduction by Parshall, which(...)
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Published originally between 1779 and 1785 and comprising five volumes, Hirschfeld's Theory of Garden Art is here translated into English for the first time. In this one-volume abridged edition Linda Parshall translates the essential aspects of the Theory of Garden Art, Hirschfeld's seminal work. The translation is accompanied by an introduction by Parshall, which(...)
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Theory of garden art
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Published originally between 1779 and 1785 and comprising five volumes, Hirschfeld's Theory of Garden Art is here translated into English for the first time. In this one-volume abridged edition Linda Parshall translates the essential aspects of the Theory of Garden Art, Hirschfeld's seminal work. The translation is accompanied by an introduction by Parshall, which analyzes Hirschfeld's place in the intellectual and cultural history of his time, and in the history of landscape design. This book will be a useful and authoritative contribution to both the history of landscape architecture and German cultural history.
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Published originally between 1779 and 1785 and comprising five volumes, Hirschfeld's Theory of Garden Art is here translated into English for the first time. In this one-volume abridged edition Linda Parshall translates the essential aspects of the Theory of Garden Art, Hirschfeld's seminal work. The translation is accompanied by an introduction by Parshall, which analyzes Hirschfeld's place in the intellectual and cultural history of his time, and in the history of landscape design. This book will be a useful and authoritative contribution to both the history of landscape architecture and German cultural history.
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May 2001, Philadelphia
May 2001, Philadelphia
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Landscape Theory
Landscape Theory
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This series of presentations and critiques, which took place at the Seaside Institute in Seaside, Florida, highlights the major issues of New Urbanism as they were discussed by the key players in the field, such as Andres Duany, Elizabeth PlaterZyberk, Stefanos Polyzoides, and Daniel Solomon, as well as such academic critics as Witold Rybczynski, Colin Rowe, Judith(...)
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This series of presentations and critiques, which took place at the Seaside Institute in Seaside, Florida, highlights the major issues of New Urbanism as they were discussed by the key players in the field, such as Andres Duany, Elizabeth PlaterZyberk, Stefanos Polyzoides, and Daniel Solomon, as well as such academic critics as Witold Rybczynski, Colin Rowe, Judith(...)
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The seaside debates : a critique of the new urbanism
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This series of presentations and critiques, which took place at the Seaside Institute in Seaside, Florida, highlights the major issues of New Urbanism as they were discussed by the key players in the field, such as Andres Duany, Elizabeth PlaterZyberk, Stefanos Polyzoides, and Daniel Solomon, as well as such academic critics as Witold Rybczynski, Colin Rowe, Judith DiMaio, Alex Krieger, Alan Plattus, and others. Issues of growth management, promotion of civic life, land conservation, and rational transportation were discussed, focusing on eight U.S. and Canadian cities as examples.
The seaside debates : a critique of the new urbanism
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This series of presentations and critiques, which took place at the Seaside Institute in Seaside, Florida, highlights the major issues of New Urbanism as they were discussed by the key players in the field, such as Andres Duany, Elizabeth PlaterZyberk, Stefanos Polyzoides, and Daniel Solomon, as well as such academic critics as Witold Rybczynski, Colin Rowe, Judith DiMaio, Alex Krieger, Alan Plattus, and others. Issues of growth management, promotion of civic life, land conservation, and rational transportation were discussed, focusing on eight U.S. and Canadian cities as examples.
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March 2002, New York
March 2002, New York
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Urban Theory
Urban Theory
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Catalogue accompagnant l'exposition "Nouvelles de nulle part, utopies urbaines 1789-2000" organisée conjointement par le musée de Valence et le Centre Pompidou.
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Catalogue accompagnant l'exposition "Nouvelles de nulle part, utopies urbaines 1789-2000" organisée conjointement par le musée de Valence et le Centre Pompidou.
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Nouvelles de nulle part : utopies urbaines 1789-2000
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Catalogue accompagnant l'exposition "Nouvelles de nulle part, utopies urbaines 1789-2000" organisée conjointement par le musée de Valence et le Centre Pompidou.
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Catalogue accompagnant l'exposition "Nouvelles de nulle part, utopies urbaines 1789-2000" organisée conjointement par le musée de Valence et le Centre Pompidou.
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January 2001, Paris
January 2001, Paris
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Urban Theory
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Ce livre est le deuxième volume d'un ouvrage qui en compte six. Il traite de l'espace et du temps de la génèse urbaine.
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Ce livre est le deuxième volume d'un ouvrage qui en compte six. Il traite de l'espace et du temps de la génèse urbaine.
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Le sens de l'espace : La dynamique urbaine
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Ce livre est le deuxième volume d'un ouvrage qui en compte six. Il traite de l'espace et du temps de la génèse urbaine.
Le sens de l'espace : La dynamique urbaine
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Ce livre est le deuxième volume d'un ouvrage qui en compte six. Il traite de l'espace et du temps de la génèse urbaine.
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January 2001, Paris
January 2001, Paris
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Matter and Mind in Architecture was the theme of the 7th Alvar Aalto Symposium and this book brings together essays by the participants. The contributing writers, all important representatives in their respective fields of philosophy, music, literature and architecture (...)
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Matter and Mind in Architecture was the theme of the 7th Alvar Aalto Symposium and this book brings together essays by the participants. The contributing writers, all important representatives in their respective fields of philosophy, music, literature and architecture (...)
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Matter and mind in architecture
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Matter and Mind in Architecture was the theme of the 7th Alvar Aalto Symposium and this book brings together essays by the participants. The contributing writers, all important representatives in their respective fields of philosophy, music, literature and architecture include Kazuyo Sejima, Vittorio Gregotti, Wilfried Wang, Juan Navarro Baldeweg, Karsten Harries, Göran Schildt, Juha Leviskä, and John Patkau.
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Matter and Mind in Architecture was the theme of the 7th Alvar Aalto Symposium and this book brings together essays by the participants. The contributing writers, all important representatives in their respective fields of philosophy, music, literature and architecture include Kazuyo Sejima, Vittorio Gregotti, Wilfried Wang, Juan Navarro Baldeweg, Karsten Harries, Göran Schildt, Juha Leviskä, and John Patkau.
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January 2001, Helsinki
January 2001, Helsinki
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Architectural Theory
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At the turn of the last century, Adolf Loos wrote: "The evolution of culture is synonymous with the removal of ornament from objects of daily use." Ornament had exhausted its purpose, and the persistence of it, Loos argued, was indicative of a degenerative culture. The simple, undecorated form was celebrated as a signal of the movement of modern man toward some truer,(...)
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At the turn of the last century, Adolf Loos wrote: "The evolution of culture is synonymous with the removal of ornament from objects of daily use." Ornament had exhausted its purpose, and the persistence of it, Loos argued, was indicative of a degenerative culture. The simple, undecorated form was celebrated as a signal of the movement of modern man toward some truer,(...)
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Crime and ornament : the arts and popular culture in the shadow of Adolf Loos
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At the turn of the last century, Adolf Loos wrote: "The evolution of culture is synonymous with the removal of ornament from objects of daily use." Ornament had exhausted its purpose, and the persistence of it, Loos argued, was indicative of a degenerative culture. The simple, undecorated form was celebrated as a signal of the movement of modern man toward some truer, more powerful expression of his self. Debates about ornament have returned: recent thinking questions the assumption that ornament is inessential, and its artistic and political implications continue to be hotly debated. The writers in "Crime and Ornament" bring these debates together by addressing the role of ornament in a variety of disciplines: film, visual art, video, literature, fashion, sports, gay imagery and, of course, architecture are explored in relation to this key concept. With a distinguished group of contributors including Felicity Scott, Brian Pronger, Jeanne Randolph, Ignasi de Solà-Morales, Graham Ramsay, Katherine Milligan, Jan Zwicky, Jim Drobnick, "Crime and Ornament" provides a diverse, multi-disciplinary approach to a salient concern in architectural, artistic and aesthetic discourse.
Crime and ornament : the arts and popular culture in the shadow of Adolf Loos
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At the turn of the last century, Adolf Loos wrote: "The evolution of culture is synonymous with the removal of ornament from objects of daily use." Ornament had exhausted its purpose, and the persistence of it, Loos argued, was indicative of a degenerative culture. The simple, undecorated form was celebrated as a signal of the movement of modern man toward some truer, more powerful expression of his self. Debates about ornament have returned: recent thinking questions the assumption that ornament is inessential, and its artistic and political implications continue to be hotly debated. The writers in "Crime and Ornament" bring these debates together by addressing the role of ornament in a variety of disciplines: film, visual art, video, literature, fashion, sports, gay imagery and, of course, architecture are explored in relation to this key concept. With a distinguished group of contributors including Felicity Scott, Brian Pronger, Jeanne Randolph, Ignasi de Solà-Morales, Graham Ramsay, Katherine Milligan, Jan Zwicky, Jim Drobnick, "Crime and Ornament" provides a diverse, multi-disciplinary approach to a salient concern in architectural, artistic and aesthetic discourse.
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January 1900, Toronto
January 1900, Toronto
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Architectural Theory
Architectural Theory
