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This book features the cartography of nine of metropolises : Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Washington DC, New Orleans, St. Louis, Chicago, Denver, and San Francisco. Illustrated by rare or previosly unpublished maps and views.
American cities : historic maps and views
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This book features the cartography of nine of metropolises : Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Washington DC, New Orleans, St. Louis, Chicago, Denver, and San Francisco. Illustrated by rare or previosly unpublished maps and views.
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Chairs : a history
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In "Chairs : history", furniture historian Florence de Dampierre presents a readable and visually exploration of chairs and their place in culture throughout the ages. Along with hundreds of photographs, th eauthor fills these pages with information, tracing the chair's emergence in ancient Egypt and examining various forms of seating from Classical Greece, the Roman(...)
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In "Chairs : history", furniture historian Florence de Dampierre presents a readable and visually exploration of chairs and their place in culture throughout the ages. Along with hundreds of photographs, th eauthor fills these pages with information, tracing the chair's emergence in ancient Egypt and examining various forms of seating from Classical Greece, the Roman Empire, and the Renaissance era, to the classic designs of today - from thrones to divans, straight-backed to overstuffed, Baroque to Bauhaus, and contemporary.
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The Swiss Federal Office of Culture presents the 20 winners of this year's national design competition and the prize-winning works, with illustrations and a descriptive essay by the jury, in a pulication called "Swiss Design 2004: innovation"
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January 2004, Baden
Swiss Design 2004 : innovation - texts on the topic
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The Swiss Federal Office of Culture presents the 20 winners of this year's national design competition and the prize-winning works, with illustrations and a descriptive essay by the jury, in a pulication called "Swiss Design 2004: innovation"
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Mayo Bucher : open sign
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This illustrated book explores for the first time the breadth and depth of the work created from 1992 – 2002 by the Swiss artist Mayo Bucher (b. Zurich 1963). Bucher’s significantly abstract, geometrically inflected yet painterly art functions on a refreshing variety of levels. It leads into a complex, and at the same time smooth world of structures, colours, forms and(...)
Mayo Bucher : open sign
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This illustrated book explores for the first time the breadth and depth of the work created from 1992 – 2002 by the Swiss artist Mayo Bucher (b. Zurich 1963). Bucher’s significantly abstract, geometrically inflected yet painterly art functions on a refreshing variety of levels. It leads into a complex, and at the same time smooth world of structures, colours, forms and signs. It addresses painting's productive relationship with design, architecture and music – a link that is central to Mayo Bucher's art. In recent years, his resonant imagery has appeared on the covers of ECM Records. "Open Sign" makes clear and profound statements about our compulsion both to construct and question meaning: about human consciousness and its endless quest for clarity of expression and understanding - and about our saving need for mystery. With essays by Ruedi Baur, designer and Dr. Michael Tucker, Professor in the Faculty of Arts & Architecture, University of Brighton.
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The work of this photographer is being celebrated in a show of work at the Folkwang Museum in Essen. The exhibition will be shown subsequently in Munich. This publication records all the key creative phases and working fields of this photographer, extending from travel reportage to extensive advertising campaigns (including DaimlerBenz) and product photographs (including(...)
Hans Hansen : sachfotographie
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The work of this photographer is being celebrated in a show of work at the Folkwang Museum in Essen. The exhibition will be shown subsequently in Munich. This publication records all the key creative phases and working fields of this photographer, extending from travel reportage to extensive advertising campaigns (including DaimlerBenz) and product photographs (including FSB, Erco, Vitra). As well as this, it introduces a personality and his view of the world of objects, and attempts to explore the photographer’s inspirations and passions.
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The familiar story of the Creation is told by the author in the visual language of the 20th century. From Fiat Lux! to the seventh day of rest, the story has been translated line by line into the alphabet of the signs, labels and trademarks of consumption and contemporary systems of orientation and signals.
Genesis
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The familiar story of the Creation is told by the author in the visual language of the 20th century. From Fiat Lux! to the seventh day of rest, the story has been translated line by line into the alphabet of the signs, labels and trademarks of consumption and contemporary systems of orientation and signals.
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Since the late 1980s, Catherine Opie's interest in the motif of the visual road trip has resulted in photographic series that simultaneously document and question personal and collective identities that characterize America. For the past two winters, as the Walker's 2001 Visual Arts artist-in-residence, she has focused on two specific architectural elements in and around(...)
Catherine Opie : skyways & icehouses
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Since the late 1980s, Catherine Opie's interest in the motif of the visual road trip has resulted in photographic series that simultaneously document and question personal and collective identities that characterize America. For the past two winters, as the Walker's 2001 Visual Arts artist-in-residence, she has focused on two specific architectural elements in and around the Twin Cities: ice-fishing houses and skyways. Opie's American cities series explores the historical specificity of architectures that are often taken for granted. Her take on the Twin Cities' vernacular landscape has resulted in 26 panoramic black-and-white images of skyways as well as 14 large-format color images of ice-fishing houses. As a photographic project, Catherine Opie: "Skyways & icehouses" provides a meditative portrait of this particular locale. This catalogue, accompanying the exhibition features selected submissions by Minnesota residents who have had particular experiences with and in these local icons. Their short essays animate Opie's empty landscapes with personal anecdotes, memories, poems, and stories. With an introduction by curator Douglas Fogle
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George Nikolajevich
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The first monographic survey on the the architect George Nikolajevich, working in St. Louis.
George Nikolajevich
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The first monographic survey on the the architect George Nikolajevich, working in St. Louis.
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This young German architect contributes to the current debate in modern architecture with his innovative designs. André Poitiers' adventure in design has been one of experimentation, an experimentation in which he has pursued difficult objectives and pushed himself to the edge of known territory. The expertise is there, acquired in the studio of Norman Foster, but his(...)
André Poitiers : objects in the territory
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This young German architect contributes to the current debate in modern architecture with his innovative designs. André Poitiers' adventure in design has been one of experimentation, an experimentation in which he has pursued difficult objectives and pushed himself to the edge of known territory. The expertise is there, acquired in the studio of Norman Foster, but his dream has invaded the territory of architecture and generated intentionally provocative figures. Poitiers picked his own, original way, driven by futuristic and iconoclastic impetus. Technology and New Pop seem to have been the hardware and software of his path. The most recent goal on Poitiers' journey is Plasma, the liquid, organic and living material, liable to alter in relation to functional and environmental factors. Poitiers' unusual and individual approach to designing is reflected in the graphics and presentation of the book.
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R 128 by Werner Sobek
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A presentation of Werner Sobek's experimental but fascinating house in Stuttgart which caused a furore when it was built. When this single family house was built, it took the international architecture world by storm. Constructed on a modular basis, it was glazed throughout, had no interior dividing walls, and could meet its own energy requirements completely. This is(...)
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March 2002, Basel / Boston / Berlin
R 128 by Werner Sobek
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A presentation of Werner Sobek's experimental but fascinating house in Stuttgart which caused a furore when it was built. When this single family house was built, it took the international architecture world by storm. Constructed on a modular basis, it was glazed throughout, had no interior dividing walls, and could meet its own energy requirements completely. This is the first book to document Sobek's unique house. In it the author explains the architectural design, describing the supporting structures, the technology used, the temperature control system, and to conclude he explores what it must be like to live in such a futuristic building.
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