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Have you ever wondered what the difference is between Gothic and Gothic Revival, or how to distinguish between Baroque and Neoclassical? This guide makes extensive use of photographs to identify and explain the characteristic features of nearly 300 buildings. The result is a clear and easy-to-navigate guide to identifying the key styles of western architecture from the(...)
Architectural styles: a visual guide
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Have you ever wondered what the difference is between Gothic and Gothic Revival, or how to distinguish between Baroque and Neoclassical? This guide makes extensive use of photographs to identify and explain the characteristic features of nearly 300 buildings. The result is a clear and easy-to-navigate guide to identifying the key styles of western architecture from the classical age to the present day.
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Mark Ruwedel
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Over the past three decades, Mark Ruwedel (born 1954) has examined the intersections of representation, cultural memory and shifting perceptions of space. His work is an epic account of North American civilization, extending from topologies of urban architecture to large-scale projects such as "The Ice Age" and "Westward the Course of Empire." Ruwedel represents landscape(...)
Mark Ruwedel
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Over the past three decades, Mark Ruwedel (born 1954) has examined the intersections of representation, cultural memory and shifting perceptions of space. His work is an epic account of North American civilization, extending from topologies of urban architecture to large-scale projects such as "The Ice Age" and "Westward the Course of Empire." Ruwedel represents landscape as a site where radically different scales of time intertwine.
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Posters: a global history
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From band posters stapled to telephone poles to the advertisements hanging at bus shelters to the inspirational prints that adorn office walls, posters surround us everywhere—but do we know how they began? Telling the story of this ephemeral art form, Elizabeth E. Guffey reexamines the poster’s roots in the nineteenth century and explores the relevance they still possess(...)
Posters: a global history
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From band posters stapled to telephone poles to the advertisements hanging at bus shelters to the inspirational prints that adorn office walls, posters surround us everywhere—but do we know how they began? Telling the story of this ephemeral art form, Elizabeth E. Guffey reexamines the poster’s roots in the nineteenth century and explores the relevance they still possess in the age of digital media.
Printed Matter
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Spécialiste du Moyen Age, Guy Lobrichon retrace l'histoire de ces moines d'Occident qui ont fait l'éternité de l'Europe. Pères fondateurs du monachisme, abbés, abbesses, moines, moniales, convers, Bénédictins, Clunisiens, Cisterciens, Chartreux..., et tous les lieux qui leur sont liés, Vézelay, Cluny, Conques, Fontfroide, Silvacane, le Mont-Saint-Michel,(...)
Les moines d'Occident : L'éternité de l'Europe
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Spécialiste du Moyen Age, Guy Lobrichon retrace l'histoire de ces moines d'Occident qui ont fait l'éternité de l'Europe. Pères fondateurs du monachisme, abbés, abbesses, moines, moniales, convers, Bénédictins, Clunisiens, Cisterciens, Chartreux..., et tous les lieux qui leur sont liés, Vézelay, Cluny, Conques, Fontfroide, Silvacane, le Mont-Saint-Michel, Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire, Camaldoli, Monte Oliveto, Poblet, Santa Maria de las Cuevas, Saint-Gall, Fulda, Melk, Durrow..
History until 1900
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''On women'' presents seven essays and exchanges, spanning a range of subjects: the challenges and humiliations women face as they age; the relationship between women's liberation and class struggle; beauty, which Sontag calls "that over-rich brew of so many familiar opposites"; feminism; fascism; and film. Taken together, these pieces-relentlessly curious, historically(...)
On women
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''On women'' presents seven essays and exchanges, spanning a range of subjects: the challenges and humiliations women face as they age; the relationship between women's liberation and class struggle; beauty, which Sontag calls "that over-rich brew of so many familiar opposites"; feminism; fascism; and film. Taken together, these pieces-relentlessly curious, historically precise, politically robust, and allergic to easy categorization Sontag's inimitable mind at work.
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This thing called theory
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In the age of post-digital architecture and digital materiality, This Thing Called Theory explores current practices of architectural theory, their critical and productive role. The book is organized in sections which explore theory as an open issue in architecture, as it relates to and borrows from other disciplines, thus opening up architecture itself and showing how(...)
Architectural Theory
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This thing called theory
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In the age of post-digital architecture and digital materiality, This Thing Called Theory explores current practices of architectural theory, their critical and productive role. The book is organized in sections which explore theory as an open issue in architecture, as it relates to and borrows from other disciplines, thus opening up architecture itself and showing how architecture is inextricably connected to other social and theoretical practices.
Architectural Theory
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This book showcases around 150 minimalist designers working across a wide range of formats and media – from independent magazines and album covers to corporate identity and branding. With more than 400 original photographs exclusive to the book, each accompanied by a commentary on the design and production processes involved, MIN shows the creative possibilities that(...)
Min: the new simplicity in graphic design
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This book showcases around 150 minimalist designers working across a wide range of formats and media – from independent magazines and album covers to corporate identity and branding. With more than 400 original photographs exclusive to the book, each accompanied by a commentary on the design and production processes involved, MIN shows the creative possibilities that design for print continues to offer in the digital age.
Graphic Design and Typography
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x, 204 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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Ecologies of comparison : an ethnography of endangerment in Hong Kong / Tim Choy.
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239 pages : colour illustrations ; 27 cm
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Reside : contemporary West Coast houses / Michael Prokopow.
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1 videocassette (VHS) (approximately 93 min.) : sound, color ; 1/2 in. consultation copy, 2 videocassettes (Mini-DV) (approximately 104 min.) : sound, color ; 1/4 in....
Ground zero of architecture : recordings, 2002.
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