Maps activity book
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This book includes a compendium of 36 activities for you to design, decorate and draw. Bursting with fascinating facts and puzzles from around the world, this book offers hours of entertainment to young adventurers. Countries featured include: Europe – Poland, Czech Republic, Iceland, Finland, Germany, Great Britain, the Netherlands, France, Spain, Italy, Greece,(...)
Maps activity book
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This book includes a compendium of 36 activities for you to design, decorate and draw. Bursting with fascinating facts and puzzles from around the world, this book offers hours of entertainment to young adventurers. Countries featured include: Europe – Poland, Czech Republic, Iceland, Finland, Germany, Great Britain, the Netherlands, France, Spain, Italy, Greece, Romania, Austria, Belgium, Sweden, Switzerland Asia – Russia, Mongolia, China, Nepal, India, Thailand, Japan, Jordan Africa – Morocco, Egypt, Ghana, Tanzania, Namibia, Madagascar North America – Canada, United States of America, Mexico South America – Ecuador, Peru, Brazil, Chile Australia and Oceania – Australia, New Zealand, Fiji the Arctic, Antarctica
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xv, 383 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm.
New York : Columbia University Press, ©2008.
The ecosystem approach : complexity, uncertainty, and managing for sustainability / edited by David Waltner-Toews, James J. Kay, and Nina-Marie E. Lister.
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New York : Columbia University Press, ©2008.
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Maps of the Dieppe school, commissioned for wealthy households rather than for use in navigation, often presented explorers’ latest discoveries alongside fantastical creatures and allusions to myth. In 1550 cartographer Pierre Desceliers presented to France’s King Henry II one such map, a work of extraordinary beauty and value showing the world as it was known at the(...)
The world for a king: Pierre Desceliers map of 1550
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Maps of the Dieppe school, commissioned for wealthy households rather than for use in navigation, often presented explorers’ latest discoveries alongside fantastical creatures and allusions to myth. In 1550 cartographer Pierre Desceliers presented to France’s King Henry II one such map, a work of extraordinary beauty and value showing the world as it was known at the time. This map, one of the most important of the Dieppe school, includes descriptions of French attempts to colonize Canada and the conquest of Peru by the Spanish in addition to descriptions of the legendary king Prester John in Ethiopia and a race of Amazons in Russia.
Architectural Plans and Cartography
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Exposed Architecture offers an overview of work by young architects in Latin America. Published in collaboration with LIGA, Space for Architecture in Mexico City, it is broken into three parts. The first documents, through images and brief texts, exhibitions that twelve firms from Argentina, Brazil/Uruguay, Chile, Mexico, Peru, Venezuela, and from Portugal created at(...)
Architecture since 1900, Americas
April 2018
Exposed architecture: exhibitions, interludes, and essays
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Exposed Architecture offers an overview of work by young architects in Latin America. Published in collaboration with LIGA, Space for Architecture in Mexico City, it is broken into three parts. The first documents, through images and brief texts, exhibitions that twelve firms from Argentina, Brazil/Uruguay, Chile, Mexico, Peru, Venezuela, and from Portugal created at LIGA’s exhibition space in Mexico. In the second part, six “Studio Interludes” shed light on practice and aesthetics in contemporary Latin American architecture. The third part comprises short essays by Latin American architects, along with two interviews with local figures, looking at key aspects and topics against a backdrop of the many challenges the region poses for the production and communication of architecture.
Architecture since 1900, Americas
Juan Grimm
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Juan Grimm is the "father of landscape architecture in Chile", and one of South America’s most important landscape architects. Working mainly with local flora, he creates new landscape textures; to date he has designed and built nearly 2,500 acres of garden works, as well as private and public parks in Chile, Argentina, Peru and Uruguay—including the gardens of a(...)
Juan Grimm
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Juan Grimm is the "father of landscape architecture in Chile", and one of South America’s most important landscape architects. Working mainly with local flora, he creates new landscape textures; to date he has designed and built nearly 2,500 acres of garden works, as well as private and public parks in Chile, Argentina, Peru and Uruguay—including the gardens of a Benedictine abbey and of the Bahá’í temple in Santiago. Featuring drawings, photographs, interviews and extensive essays, this book presents Grimm’s body of work, his methods, his sources of inspiration and his artistic aims. Selected examples—ranging from small gardens to large parks—illustrate Grimm’s development over the course of his 30-year career.
Landscape Architecture, Monographs
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Lo-TEK Water : a field guide for TEKnology / Julia Watson ; foreword, Dr. Lyla June Johnston.
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557 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm
Cologne : Taschen, 2025.
Lo-TEK Water : a field guide for TEKnology / Julia Watson ; foreword, Dr. Lyla June Johnston.
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Cologne : Taschen, 2025.
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Among the most sumptuous buildings of antiquity were royal palaces. As in the Old World, kings and nobles of ancient Mexico and Peru had luxurious administrative quarters in cities, and exquisite pleasure palaces in the countryside. This volume explores the great houses of the ancient New World, from palaces of the Aztecs and Incas, looted by the Spanish conquistadors, to(...)
History until 1900, North America
March 2009, Washington
Palaces of the ancient new world
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Among the most sumptuous buildings of antiquity were royal palaces. As in the Old World, kings and nobles of ancient Mexico and Peru had luxurious administrative quarters in cities, and exquisite pleasure palaces in the countryside. This volume explores the great houses of the ancient New World, from palaces of the Aztecs and Incas, looted by the Spanish conquistadors, to those lost high in the Andes and deep in the jungle. This volume, the first scholarly compendium of elite residences of the high cultures of the New World, presents definitive descriptions and interpretations by leading scholars in the field. Authoritative yet accessible, this extensively illustrated book will serve as an important resource for anthropologists, archaeologists, and historians of art, architecture, and related disciplines.
History until 1900, North America
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This publication offers a selection of contemporary designs. From modest to massive and everything between, these houses feature the latest trends in building and interior design. Locations include the USA, UK, India, Germany, Italy, Australia, New Zealand, Brazil, Norway, Hong Kong, Singapore, Indonesia, the Netherlands, Japan, the Bahamas, Mexico, Canada, Peru,(...)
21st century houses : 150 of the world's best
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This publication offers a selection of contemporary designs. From modest to massive and everything between, these houses feature the latest trends in building and interior design. Locations include the USA, UK, India, Germany, Italy, Australia, New Zealand, Brazil, Norway, Hong Kong, Singapore, Indonesia, the Netherlands, Japan, the Bahamas, Mexico, Canada, Peru, Portugal, Switzerland, Spain, UAE, Slovenia, Argentina, South Africa, Austria, Malaysia, and more. This book features more than 100 of the world’s most prominent architects, including US architects Swatt | Miers, Marmol Radziner, Olson Kundig Architects, LPA Inc, and Moore Ruble Yudell; European architects Jarmund Vigsnaes, Paul de Ruiter, Marc Kohler Architects, Damiliano Studio, and K-M Architects; and South American architects Marcio Kogan, Una Arquitectos, FGMF, BAK Arquitectos, and Artadi Arquitectos.
Residential Architecture
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From their Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize-winning design for the University of Piura educational facilities to their design for the Place of Remembrance in Lima, Barclay & Crousse's work binds together the most current advances in technology with designs that center on the quality of life of its dwellers. Their works show how design specific to the conditions of(...)
Barclay & Crousse: landscapes of intimacy
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From their Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize-winning design for the University of Piura educational facilities to their design for the Place of Remembrance in Lima, Barclay & Crousse's work binds together the most current advances in technology with designs that center on the quality of life of its dwellers. Their works show how design specific to the conditions of developing countries can inform and be vital to global architectural conversation. Founded in Paris by Sandra Barclay and Jean Pierre Crousse in 1994, the firm relocated to Lima, Peru, in 2006, pursuing their projects in Europe through Atelier Nord-Sud. This book presents 12 buildings illustrated through sketches, plans and over 120 photographs by Chilean photographer Cristóbal Palma. The volume is a work unto itself that demonstrates the architects' mastery of space.
Architecture Monographs
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Intrepid Prussian explorer, scientist, diplomat and author Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) was reputedly the second best-known person in early nineteenth-century France (Stephen Jay Gould describes him as "probably the world's most famous and influential intellectual [of his time]"), yet he is little known in the US today. From 1799 to 1804, Humboldt traversed about(...)
Unity of nature: Humboldt and the Americas
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Intrepid Prussian explorer, scientist, diplomat and author Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) was reputedly the second best-known person in early nineteenth-century France (Stephen Jay Gould describes him as "probably the world's most famous and influential intellectual [of his time]"), yet he is little known in the US today. From 1799 to 1804, Humboldt traversed about 6,000 miles, journeying through the Spanish American colonies (modern-day Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Mexico and Cuba) to observe nature in the "torrid zone," and later published some 30 volumes about his travels. This catalogue traces the breadth of Humboldt's influence through painting and objects, including work by Albert Bierstadt, Adela Breton, Norton Bush, Frederic Edwin Church, George Catlin, Martin Johnson Heade, Louis Rémy Mignot, Thomas Moran, Johann Moritz Rugendas and Mark Dion.
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