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This volume, which presents work from the 1950’s and early 1960’s, reproduces a monograph first published in 1962. In an age dominated by a few great architect-designers noted for their intensely personal art, the firm of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill for twenty-five years has been a unique force in the building of the modern city. This book is the first study of SOM’s(...)
SOM architecture of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (1950-1962)
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This volume, which presents work from the 1950’s and early 1960’s, reproduces a monograph first published in 1962. In an age dominated by a few great architect-designers noted for their intensely personal art, the firm of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill for twenty-five years has been a unique force in the building of the modern city. This book is the first study of SOM’s unified but far-flung operations, of the architecture created by its remarkable complex of designers and engineers working in all corners of the world
Architecture Monographs
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Charley Harper was an American original. For over six decades he painted colorful and graphic illustrations of nature, animals, insects and people alike, from his home studio in Cincinnati, Ohio until he passed away in 2007 at the age of 84. Renowned New York based designer Todd Oldham rediscovered Charley's work in 2001, and collaborated closely with him in the ensuing(...)
Charley Harper, an illustrated life
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Charley Harper was an American original. For over six decades he painted colorful and graphic illustrations of nature, animals, insects and people alike, from his home studio in Cincinnati, Ohio until he passed away in 2007 at the age of 84. Renowned New York based designer Todd Oldham rediscovered Charley's work in 2001, and collaborated closely with him in the ensuing years; combing through his extensive archive to edit and design this stunning monograph. This coffee table tome is popularly priced, beautiful tribute to Charley Harper's singular style, which he referred to as Minimal Realism.
Illustration
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In an age where the globalization process is threatening the uniqueness and vitality of small towns, and where most urban planning discourse is directed at topics such as metropol-regions or mega-regions and world cities, the authors here emphasize the need to critically reflect on the potential of small towns. The second edition is expanded to cover the intensive(...)
Small town sustainability: economic, social, and environmental innovation, second edition, revised and expanded
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In an age where the globalization process is threatening the uniqueness and vitality of small towns, and where most urban planning discourse is directed at topics such as metropol-regions or mega-regions and world cities, the authors here emphasize the need to critically reflect on the potential of small towns. The second edition is expanded to cover the intensive development of small towns in China and Korea. In addition, the authors examine the impact of the economic crisis on small towns and the recent development of the Slow City movement.
Urban Theory
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Most people have memories of playing on well-manicured lawns or running across the flat green surface of a local park, but we often don’t think of grasses as something we consume. Indeed, grasses include four species—wheat, rice, maize, and sugar—that provide sixty percent of human calorie intake, and we become more and more dependent on these as the world’s population(...)
Grasses
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Most people have memories of playing on well-manicured lawns or running across the flat green surface of a local park, but we often don’t think of grasses as something we consume. Indeed, grasses include four species—wheat, rice, maize, and sugar—that provide sixty percent of human calorie intake, and we become more and more dependent on these as the world’s population increases. In this book, Stephen Harris explains the history of our relationship with these vital plants from the end of the last Ice Age to the present day.
Landscape Theory
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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(...)
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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.
Isabelle walks with angels
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This magical realist story is about a hardworking, marginalized woman, Isabelle. Isabelle could be any woman any age anywhere. After years of struggling, disappointment and exhaustion, she finds herself unemployed, homeless and despairing wandering the streets of Montreal. Until she meets a group of other women. A moment she never imagined possible. Resistance and(...)
Isabelle walks with angels
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This magical realist story is about a hardworking, marginalized woman, Isabelle. Isabelle could be any woman any age anywhere. After years of struggling, disappointment and exhaustion, she finds herself unemployed, homeless and despairing wandering the streets of Montreal. Until she meets a group of other women. A moment she never imagined possible. Resistance and solidarity fed by hope and courage. Isabelle lives the unending dream of justice for all. Each page of the "urban legend" is embedded in a full colour illustration/painting by the Montreal/Belgrade artist Ivan R.
Architecture de Montréal
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Early in Sullivan's career in the 1890s, when he emerged as a leading skyscraper architect of Chicago, his ornament gave scale and quality to his work. After 1900, as his career declined, it served to identify his buildings and the humane conception they encapsulated in an increasingly hostile cityscape. The brilliant(...)
Sullivan's city : the meaning of ornament for Louis Sullivan
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Early in Sullivan's career in the 1890s, when he emerged as a leading skyscraper architect of Chicago, his ornament gave scale and quality to his work. After 1900, as his career declined, it served to identify his buildings and the humane conception they encapsulated in an increasingly hostile cityscape. The brilliant pencil execution of ornament in his old age became a surrogate for the great architectural projects realized earlier. This extended essay on how Sullivan's ornament shaped the city is illuminated by new colour photographs by Cervin Robinson.
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January 2000, New York
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Architecture for the books
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In the age of information, digital communication and the computer, the traditional library building type is undergoing dramatic change, as these buildings become portals to information in a wide variety of forms beyond the printed page. 'Architecture for the books' shows how designers meet the challenge of library design for a new generation of library users. This(...)
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December 2003, Victoria (Australia)
Architecture for the books
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In the age of information, digital communication and the computer, the traditional library building type is undergoing dramatic change, as these buildings become portals to information in a wide variety of forms beyond the printed page. 'Architecture for the books' shows how designers meet the challenge of library design for a new generation of library users. This publication presents more than 30 new projects from North America, with a combination of public libraries, school libraries and university libraries. Projects are documented with full-colour photographs, plans, drawings and descriptive text.
Commercial interiors, Building types
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La société antique tenait ses morts à bonne distance de la cité, enfermés dans de vastes nécropoles ou dans des mausolées familiaux, le long des routes. Au Moyen Age, les morts furent au contraire attirés au cœur de l'habitat et ensevelis, le plus souvent de manière collective et anonyme, dans des terrains protégés que la population labourait et retournait régulièrement.(...)
Naissance du cimetière : lieux sacrés et terre des morts dans l'Occident médiéval
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La société antique tenait ses morts à bonne distance de la cité, enfermés dans de vastes nécropoles ou dans des mausolées familiaux, le long des routes. Au Moyen Age, les morts furent au contraire attirés au cœur de l'habitat et ensevelis, le plus souvent de manière collective et anonyme, dans des terrains protégés que la population labourait et retournait régulièrement. Ces lieux, auxquels fut bientôt donné le nom de "cimetières", accueillaient aussi des artisans dans leurs ateliers, des marchands dans leurs échoppes, des spectacles et des jeux, ou encore des assemblées de justice.
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April 2005, Paris
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Teju Cole: Pharmakon
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Bringing together a sequence of subtle and disquieting photographs with a dozen compact short stories, ''Pharmakon'' is a surprising new work from the singular mind of Teju Cole. The photographs were taken across the globe and extend the oblique point of view he developed in ''Fernweh'' (2020). Interspersed among the images are texts that emerge like intimate signals from(...)
Teju Cole: Pharmakon
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Bringing together a sequence of subtle and disquieting photographs with a dozen compact short stories, ''Pharmakon'' is a surprising new work from the singular mind of Teju Cole. The photographs were taken across the globe and extend the oblique point of view he developed in ''Fernweh'' (2020). Interspersed among the images are texts that emerge like intimate signals from our age of crisis, mining further the exquisite linguistic control that characterizes Cole’s novels ''Open City'' (2011) and ''Tremor'' (2023). The result is a work of strange beauty that startles and consoles in equal measure.
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