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An unprecedented event in architecture history, the Case Study Houses program gave America new models for residential living. This comprehensive account of the project presents each of the 36 prototype homes through floor plans, sketches, and photographs, and explores how architects like Richard Neutra, Charles and Ray Eames, and Eero Saarinen redefined the Los Angeles(...)
Modernism
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Case study houses: the complete CSH program 1945-1966. 40th edition
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An unprecedented event in architecture history, the Case Study Houses program gave America new models for residential living. This comprehensive account of the project presents each of the 36 prototype homes through floor plans, sketches, and photographs, and explores how architects like Richard Neutra, Charles and Ray Eames, and Eero Saarinen redefined the Los Angeles landscape and the modern home.
Modernism
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After seizing Jerusalem's eastern precincts from Jordan at the conclusion of the Six-Day War in 1967, Israel unilaterally unified the city and plunged into an ambitious building program, eager to transform the very meaning of one of the world's most emotionally charged urban spaces. The goal was as simple as it was controversial: to both Judaize and modernize Jerusalem.(...)
Seizing Jerusalem: the architectures of unilateral unification
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After seizing Jerusalem's eastern precincts from Jordan at the conclusion of the Six-Day War in 1967, Israel unilaterally unified the city and plunged into an ambitious building program, eager to transform the very meaning of one of the world's most emotionally charged urban spaces. The goal was as simple as it was controversial: to both Judaize and modernize Jerusalem. Seizing Jerusalem, the first architectural history of "united Jerusalem," chronicles how numerous disciplines, including architecture, landscape design, and urban planning, as well as everyone from municipal politicians to state bureaucrats, from Israeli-born architects to international luminaries such as Louis Kahn, Buckminster Fuller, and Bruno Zevi, competed to create Jerusalem's new image. This decade-long competition happened with the Palestinian residents still living in the city, even as the new image was inspired by the city's Arab legacy. The politics of space in the Holy City, still contested today, were shaped in this post-1967 decade not only by the legacy of the war and the politics of dispossession, but curiously also by emerging trends in postwar architectural culture.Drawing on previously unexamined archival documents and in-depth interviews with architects, planners, and politicians, Alona Nitzan-Shiftan analyzes the cultural politics of the Israeli state and, in particular, of Jerusalem's influential mayor, Teddy Kollek, whose efforts to legitimate Israeli rule over Jerusalem provided architects a unique, real-world laboratory to explore the possibilities and limits of modernist design--as built form as well as political and social action. Seizing Jerusalem reveals architecture as an active agent in the formation of urban and national identity, and demonstrates how contemporary debates about Zionism, and the crisis within the discipline of architecture over postwar modernism, affected Jerusalem's built environment in ways that continue to resonate today.
Arch Middle East
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Grading is an important aspect of landscape architecture. The book explains the basics such as contour lines, land forms, earth mass calculation, and introduces the topics of slope protection systems, rainwater management, or grading for roads and parking lots. The 2nd edition is updated with new digital technologies including landscapingSMART, DTM and 3D machine control.(...)
Grading: landscapingSmart 3d machine control systems stormwater management
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Grading is an important aspect of landscape architecture. The book explains the basics such as contour lines, land forms, earth mass calculation, and introduces the topics of slope protection systems, rainwater management, or grading for roads and parking lots. The 2nd edition is updated with new digital technologies including landscapingSMART, DTM and 3D machine control. Practical examples and exercises complement the theoretical foundations.
Gardens
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Magnificent buildings, spendid gardens returns to print some of the most important works of David Coffin, a leading authority on Renaissance architecture who, as one of the first scholars to apply the tools of art history to the study of gardens, became a founder of the discipline of garden and landscape studies.
Magnificent buildings, spendid gardens by David Coffin
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Magnificent buildings, spendid gardens returns to print some of the most important works of David Coffin, a leading authority on Renaissance architecture who, as one of the first scholars to apply the tools of art history to the study of gardens, became a founder of the discipline of garden and landscape studies.
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C3 335: add in the scape
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Incorporating in nature and the landscape is the main feature of this issue of C3. The manipulation of their surroundings is a key characteristic of the human race, and here it is explored through the facet of architecture and building. Texts by Aldo Vanini and Alison Killing are followed with examples of significant projects typified by either augmentation to, or(...)
C3 335: add in the scape
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Incorporating in nature and the landscape is the main feature of this issue of C3. The manipulation of their surroundings is a key characteristic of the human race, and here it is explored through the facet of architecture and building. Texts by Aldo Vanini and Alison Killing are followed with examples of significant projects typified by either augmentation to, or submersion in, the landscape. Featured are Rossignol Global Headquarters by Hérault Arnod Architects, Kilden Performing Arts Centre by ALA Architects, Troll Wall Restaurant by Reiulf Ramstad Architects, Mário Sequeira Gallery by Atelier Carvalho Araújo, and OASIS-Pastoral Care Voestalpine by X Architekten, among several others. A special highlight on Madrid-based collective EXIT Architects rounds out the issue.
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David Freund: gas stop
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In the twentieth century, any American driver or passenger would stop at gas stations at least weekly, and not just for gas. Gas stations were also oases offering food and drink, car repairs, directions, maps and, importantly, bathrooms. Yet, beyond their appreciation as roadside novelties, their offerings to American culture, landscape and history have been little(...)
David Freund: gas stop
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In the twentieth century, any American driver or passenger would stop at gas stations at least weekly, and not just for gas. Gas stations were also oases offering food and drink, car repairs, directions, maps and, importantly, bathrooms. Yet, beyond their appreciation as roadside novelties, their offerings to American culture, landscape and history have been little photographed. From 1978 to 1981, David Freund analyzed the culture, architecture and landscape of gas stations in more than forty states. The photographs show customers and workers in postures and actions peculiar to gassing up, or just hanging out. Architecture and signage, both corporate and vernacular, beckon passing drivers. Regional landscapes hold and surround gas stations, each with its own landscape of designed plantings or scrappy volunteers. Stations were also outposts for American networks other than petroleum, seen in telephone booths, mailboxes and powerlines. These and all that surrounds them spark recognition and recollection, accruing as elements of a nonlinear American narrative. While Freund’s primary concern is for his photographs to engage and surprise, he acknowledges nostalgia and uses it to imbue his subjects with a compelling sense of belonging. Of more than 200,000 gas stations in the United States at the time of this project, today they and their roles are mostly gone, existing now in memory and in this work. Four hardcover books housed in a slipcase
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Blaise Drummond
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Blaise Drummond (born 1967) examines the relationship between nature and culture through extreme juxtapositions of architecture and landscape. Reminiscent of Le Corbusier's Pavillon de l´Esprit Nouveau, this catalogue focuses on a recent museum installation, in which a dead tree seems to be growing through the ceiling. This subjugation of the natural world is further(...)
Blaise Drummond
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Blaise Drummond (born 1967) examines the relationship between nature and culture through extreme juxtapositions of architecture and landscape. Reminiscent of Le Corbusier's Pavillon de l´Esprit Nouveau, this catalogue focuses on a recent museum installation, in which a dead tree seems to be growing through the ceiling. This subjugation of the natural world is further explored in Drummond's paintings and drawings.
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Metamorfosi 05: Bruno Zevi
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Bruno Zevi played a crucial role in the understanding and propagation of contemporary architecture. On the centenary of his birth - in an ideal partnership with the initiatives the “Bruno Zevi Foundation” is promoting both in Italy and abroad - “Metamorfosi, Q.d.A.” devotes this issue to some aspects of his cultural and educational battle. Its goal is to build a bridge(...)
Metamorfosi 05: Bruno Zevi
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Bruno Zevi played a crucial role in the understanding and propagation of contemporary architecture. On the centenary of his birth - in an ideal partnership with the initiatives the “Bruno Zevi Foundation” is promoting both in Italy and abroad - “Metamorfosi, Q.d.A.” devotes this issue to some aspects of his cultural and educational battle. Its goal is to build a bridge between what the next generations learnt from him, all while following different paths, and what still remains alive and useful of his insights for a different way of practicing architecture inspired by social issues and in the pursuit of an evolving link between architecture, city and landscape.
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Eccentric spaces
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Like all of Robert Harbison's works, "Eccentric Spaces" is a hybrid, informed by the author's interests in art, architecture, fiction, poetry, landscape, geography, history, and philosophy. The subject is the human imagination and the mysterious interplay between the (...)
Eccentric spaces
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Like all of Robert Harbison's works, "Eccentric Spaces" is a hybrid, informed by the author's interests in art, architecture, fiction, poetry, landscape, geography, history, and philosophy. The subject is the human imagination and the mysterious interplay between the imagination and the spaces it has made for itself to live in: gardens, rooms, buildings, streets, museums and maps, fictional topographies, and architectures. The book is a lesson in seeing and sensing the manifold forms created by the mind for its own pleasure. Palaces and haunted houses, Victorian parlors, Renaissance sculpture gardens, factories, hill-towns, ruins, cities, even novels and paintings constructed around such environments: these are the spaces over which the author broods. Brilliantly learned, deliberately remote in form from conventional scholarship, "Eccentric Spaces" is a magical book, an intellectual adventure, a celebration. Originally published in 1977.
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Architectural Theory
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Established sometime around the 1st or 2nd century BCE, Tashkent is the capital city of Uzbekistan and the largest metropolis in Central Asia benefiting from its historical role as geographic crossroads, its developed resources, and its thriving multiculturalism. Previous Soviet rule was established in 1917—which over six decades heralded transformations in Tashkent’s(...)
Karel Ballas: Tashkent Modernism
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Established sometime around the 1st or 2nd century BCE, Tashkent is the capital city of Uzbekistan and the largest metropolis in Central Asia benefiting from its historical role as geographic crossroads, its developed resources, and its thriving multiculturalism. Previous Soviet rule was established in 1917—which over six decades heralded transformations in Tashkent’s culture, identity, and, of course, its landscape and architecture. In this volume, realized in collaboration with the Uzbekistan Art and Culture Development Foundation, photographer Karel Balas reveals the modernist architecture of Tashkent through a collection of never-before-seen photographs.
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