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Once in every generation comes a scholar who is a master of both the documentary evidence and the buildings themselves. Such a man is Christoph Luitpold Frommel who, after winning a world-wide reputation, here distils his learning into a new synthesis that is both up-to-date and securely based on primary sources. The book is not only illustrated throughout with(...)
The architecture of the Italian Renaissance
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Once in every generation comes a scholar who is a master of both the documentary evidence and the buildings themselves. Such a man is Christoph Luitpold Frommel who, after winning a world-wide reputation, here distils his learning into a new synthesis that is both up-to-date and securely based on primary sources. The book is not only illustrated throughout with photographs, drawings, plans and reconstructions, but social context, technical innovation and aesthetic judgement are all given due weight, with particular emphasis on the way in which each architect balanced individual inspiration with the accepted canon.
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January 1900, London
History until 1900
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Making the modern garden
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An analysis of contemporary gardens as well as a collection of landscapes around the worl, this publication is a study of the philosophy and practice of garden design at the outset of the twenty-first century. Author Christopher Bradley-Hole, himself a landscape designer of note, discusses the process of garden design in a presentation of modern landscapes at all sizes(...)
Making the modern garden
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An analysis of contemporary gardens as well as a collection of landscapes around the worl, this publication is a study of the philosophy and practice of garden design at the outset of the twenty-first century. Author Christopher Bradley-Hole, himself a landscape designer of note, discusses the process of garden design in a presentation of modern landscapes at all sizes and locations. Among the designers in the book are Fernando Caruncho, Peter Walker, Kathryn Gustafson, and Vladamir Sitta; different types of gardens include roof gardens, courtyards, urban and country gardens, and dramatic landscapes.
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January 1900
Gardens
Andreas Horlitz: works
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The first monograph on Andreas Horlitz's work over a quarter century covers an engaging richness of artistic strategies. After beginning as a prizewinning photographer, Horlitz turned to word-and-picture constructions, experiments with Xerox reproductions, and, recently, mirror-and-light works and architecturally related, site-specific projects. Throughout his career,(...)
Andreas Horlitz: works
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The first monograph on Andreas Horlitz's work over a quarter century covers an engaging richness of artistic strategies. After beginning as a prizewinning photographer, Horlitz turned to word-and-picture constructions, experiments with Xerox reproductions, and, recently, mirror-and-light works and architecturally related, site-specific projects. Throughout his career, language, either textual or scientific, has figured large--in one case as large as a six-story installation incorporating the sleep research of Alexander Borb ly, who has recorded his daily activity patterns since 1982 using a monitor strapped permanently to his wrist. These immensely inventive images and structures are discussed in essays by Klaus Honnef, Irene Netta, Sibylle Omlin, Hans Scheurer, and Stephan Trescher.
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The unknown Gertrude Jekull
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This is a selection of two hundred of the best articles and other writings by Gertrude Jekyll, who 'changed the face of England more than any save the Creator himself and, perhaps, Capability Brown'. Although Miss Jekyll designed around four hundred gardens, none remains as she intended and few exist today in any recognizable form. Her enduring influence has been achieved(...)
The unknown Gertrude Jekull
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This is a selection of two hundred of the best articles and other writings by Gertrude Jekyll, who 'changed the face of England more than any save the Creator himself and, perhaps, Capability Brown'. Although Miss Jekyll designed around four hundred gardens, none remains as she intended and few exist today in any recognizable form. Her enduring influence has been achieved not through her spade but through her pen. She published fifteen books and contributed well over a thousand articles, notes and letters to numerous magazines and newspapers. But although the books are well known, until now, all but a handful of her other writings have been accessible only to scholars - a situation that this selection redresses. This book covers themes that include garden planning, wild and woodland gardening, climbing plants, water gardening and garden ornament, and includes selected articles. This is a gem of garden writing that all who are interested in Jekyll, planting and design will be delighted to discover.
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January 2007, London
Gardens
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László Moholy-Nagy (1895–1946) was one of the most ardent seekers of the ‘New Vision’ among the early twentieth century avant-garde artists. His ongoing preoccupation with the phenomenon of light defined all periods of his artistic creativity, and his strength lay in his effortless skill translating light and spatial dimensions from one medium to another. In the early(...)
Photography monographs
January 1900, Göttingen
Laszlo Moholy-Nagy : color in transparency, photographic experiments in color
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László Moholy-Nagy (1895–1946) was one of the most ardent seekers of the ‘New Vision’ among the early twentieth century avant-garde artists. His ongoing preoccupation with the phenomenon of light defined all periods of his artistic creativity, and his strength lay in his effortless skill translating light and spatial dimensions from one medium to another. In the early 1930s the first color processes became widely available. After he had mastered the different fields of black/white photography, it was only to be expected that Moholy would focus his creative energy on the next hot issue among photographers. Color photography proved to be one of Moholy’s most important media of artistic production, but until now, with a few exceptions, his work in the field of color photography is unknown. This book presents 100 works — advertisements, portraits, urban views, New Bauhaus studies, and abstract compositions — from the early days of Moholy’s experimentation with color in 1934 until his death in 1946. A foreword by Hattula Moholy-Nagy, an introductory essay and extended captions by Jeannine Fiedler, a chronology and bibliography will present the history of color photography and the significance of these works in Moholy’s own oeuvre.
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January 1900, Göttingen
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Saul Leiter: Early colour
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Although Edward Steichen exhibited some of Saul Leiter's color photographs at The Museum of Modern Art in 1953, for 40 years afterward they remained virtually unknown to the art world. Saul Leiter: Early Color provides the first opportunity to see a comprehensive presentation of images by one of photography's great originals.
Saul Leiter: Early colour
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Although Edward Steichen exhibited some of Saul Leiter's color photographs at The Museum of Modern Art in 1953, for 40 years afterward they remained virtually unknown to the art world. Saul Leiter: Early Color provides the first opportunity to see a comprehensive presentation of images by one of photography's great originals.
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January 1900
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The twenty-first century has seen a boom in museum construction, both in new buildings and renovations or additions to existing ones. Nearly thirty museums are given close inspection in this generously illustrated volume. Each entry includes a discussion of the building's cultural and geographic environment, complemented by color photographs, sketches, and architectural(...)
Commercial interiors, Building types
January 1900, Munich / Berlin / London / New York
Museums in the 21st century : concepts, projects, buildings
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The twenty-first century has seen a boom in museum construction, both in new buildings and renovations or additions to existing ones. Nearly thirty museums are given close inspection in this generously illustrated volume. Each entry includes a discussion of the building's cultural and geographic environment, complemented by color photographs, sketches, and architectural plans. The book encompasses four continents and highlights, among others, the designs of Frank Gehry, Renzo Piano, Steven Holl, Zaha Hadid, Mario Botta, David Chipperfield, Tadao Ando, Yoshio Taniguchi, and Daniel Libeskind. In addition, the authors provide thoughtful commentary on the relationship between architecture and the fine arts and an assessment of museum functionality in modern times.
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January 1900, Munich / Berlin / London / New York
Commercial interiors, Building types
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Dan Flavin : new light
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In making light his primary medium, Dan Flavin (1933–1996) established himself as one of the most innovative and significant artists of the minimalist movement. A new generation encountered Flavin’s work through the critically acclaimed exhibition "Dan Flavin : a retrospective", which opened in October 2004 at the National Gallery of Art, Washington. "Dan Flavin : new(...)
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October 2006, New Haven, London
Dan Flavin : new light
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In making light his primary medium, Dan Flavin (1933–1996) established himself as one of the most innovative and significant artists of the minimalist movement. A new generation encountered Flavin’s work through the critically acclaimed exhibition "Dan Flavin : a retrospective", which opened in October 2004 at the National Gallery of Art, Washington. "Dan Flavin : new light" includes essays that respond to this exhibition and to the renewed interest in Flavin’s work and its place in 20th-century art. In this volume, six leading scholars of contemporary art consider the ambiguities and multiple resonances of Flavin’s light works. Each addresses the ontological complexity of the work –object-based, yet "situational", and painterly in its deployment of colored light – within the insistently sculptural world of minimalism. The book’s contributors interpret this tension by exploring Flavin’s early assemblages, the relationship of drawing to his installation practice, the specificity of his materials and their operation in actual space, and the openly ambivalent place of Flavin’s work within the history of late modernism.
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October 2006, New Haven, London
Contemporary Art Monographs
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Nantes : cléfs pour le futur
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Quels sont les ressorts d'une métropole et de sa prospérité? À partir du cas de Nantes, cet ouvrage pose une problématique générale concernant l'ensemble des grandes agglomérations françaises. Il fait apparaître, pour les grands pôles d'attraction urbaine, la nécéssité de mobiliser les habitants, premiers acteurs du développement. Les villes majeures sur le terrtoire(...)
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December 2006, La Tour d'Aigues
Nantes : cléfs pour le futur
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Quels sont les ressorts d'une métropole et de sa prospérité? À partir du cas de Nantes, cet ouvrage pose une problématique générale concernant l'ensemble des grandes agglomérations françaises. Il fait apparaître, pour les grands pôles d'attraction urbaine, la nécéssité de mobiliser les habitants, premiers acteurs du développement. Les villes majeures sur le terrtoire français, celles qui sont créatrices d'emploi et de richesses, ont besoin de cette dimension de projet prenant en compte l'ampleur des mutations sociétales et appuyée sur les réalités du vécu des hommes et de leurs activités. L'auteur nous livre ici une réflexion en profondeur, nourrie par l'histoire et l'observation fine des réalités locales. Il met en lumière une idée-force pour les Nantais, mais aussi pour toutes les métropoles : le territoire des décideurs doit être aussi celui des habitants.
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December 2006, La Tour d'Aigues
Architecture since 1900, Europe
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Dans ce numéro : -Lionel Guillemot, Jean Soumagne : «La technopole d'Angers : d'une logique urbaine à une logique territoriale et sectorielle» -Jacques Fache : «Atlanpole : les fragilités d'une d'une organisation spatiale et thématique» -Alexandre Grondeau : «Technopôle et gouvernance publique : le cas de Sophia-Antipolis» Chrisitine Liefooghe, Sylvie Delmer,(...)
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November 2006, Rennes
Technopôles : un concept dépassé?
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Dans ce numéro : -Lionel Guillemot, Jean Soumagne : «La technopole d'Angers : d'une logique urbaine à une logique territoriale et sectorielle» -Jacques Fache : «Atlanpole : les fragilités d'une d'une organisation spatiale et thématique» -Alexandre Grondeau : «Technopôle et gouvernance publique : le cas de Sophia-Antipolis» Chrisitine Liefooghe, Sylvie Delmer, Maryvonne Prevot, Isabelle Estienne, Karine Stachowski : «De Villeneuve-d'Ascq Technopole à la métropole technopolitaine : espace, réseaux, gouvernance» -Josette Debroux : «Migration d'actifs vers l'espace «rural isolé». Éléments d'analyse sur les liens à l'espace d'arrivée»
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November 2006, Rennes
Commercial interiors, Building types