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Dust is a poetic meditation on how dust has been experienced and the small has been imagined across the ages. Examining a thousand years of Western civilization—from the naturalism of medieval philosophy, to the artistry of the Renaissance, to the scientific and industrial revolutions, to the modern worlds of nanotechnology and viral diseases— Dust offers a story of the(...)
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Dust is a poetic meditation on how dust has been experienced and the small has been imagined across the ages. Examining a thousand years of Western civilization—from the naturalism of medieval philosophy, to the artistry of the Renaissance, to the scientific and industrial revolutions, to the modern worlds of nanotechnology and viral diseases— Dust offers a story of the(...)
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Dust: a history of the small & the invisible
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Dust is a poetic meditation on how dust has been experienced and the small has been imagined across the ages. Examining a thousand years of Western civilization—from the naturalism of medieval philosophy, to the artistry of the Renaissance, to the scientific and industrial revolutions, to the modern worlds of nanotechnology and viral diseases— Dust offers a story of the genesis of the microcosm.
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Dust is a poetic meditation on how dust has been experienced and the small has been imagined across the ages. Examining a thousand years of Western civilization—from the naturalism of medieval philosophy, to the artistry of the Renaissance, to the scientific and industrial revolutions, to the modern worlds of nanotechnology and viral diseases— Dust offers a story of the genesis of the microcosm.
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October 2001
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Some see dust as dull and useless stuff. But in the hands of author Hannah Holmes, it becomes a mysterious force; Dust, we discover, built the planet we walk upon. And it tinkers with the weather and spices the air we breathe. Billions of tons of it rise annually into the air--the dust of deserts and forgotten kings mixing with volcanic ash, sea salt, leaf fragments,(...)
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Some see dust as dull and useless stuff. But in the hands of author Hannah Holmes, it becomes a mysterious force; Dust, we discover, built the planet we walk upon. And it tinkers with the weather and spices the air we breathe. Billions of tons of it rise annually into the air--the dust of deserts and forgotten kings mixing with volcanic ash, sea salt, leaf fragments,(...)
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The secret life of dust: from the cosmos to the kitchen counter, the big consequences of little things
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Some see dust as dull and useless stuff. But in the hands of author Hannah Holmes, it becomes a mysterious force; Dust, we discover, built the planet we walk upon. And it tinkers with the weather and spices the air we breathe. Billions of tons of it rise annually into the air--the dust of deserts and forgotten kings mixing with volcanic ash, sea salt, leaf fragments, scales from butterfly wings, shreds of T-shirts, and fireplace soot. Eventually, though, all this dust must settle.
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Some see dust as dull and useless stuff. But in the hands of author Hannah Holmes, it becomes a mysterious force; Dust, we discover, built the planet we walk upon. And it tinkers with the weather and spices the air we breathe. Billions of tons of it rise annually into the air--the dust of deserts and forgotten kings mixing with volcanic ash, sea salt, leaf fragments, scales from butterfly wings, shreds of T-shirts, and fireplace soot. Eventually, though, all this dust must settle.
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October 2003
October 2003
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Breathable
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An eye-opening and refreshing collection of practices, works, projects and essays are compiled in this catalogue which together explore the theme of how air, the atmosphere and our physical surrounds, work and reflect on the individual and society. Simplicity, luminosity, economy of means, the integration of non-human actors, the construction of new types of public(...)
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An eye-opening and refreshing collection of practices, works, projects and essays are compiled in this catalogue which together explore the theme of how air, the atmosphere and our physical surrounds, work and reflect on the individual and society. Simplicity, luminosity, economy of means, the integration of non-human actors, the construction of new types of public(...)
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Breathable
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An eye-opening and refreshing collection of practices, works, projects and essays are compiled in this catalogue which together explore the theme of how air, the atmosphere and our physical surrounds, work and reflect on the individual and society. Simplicity, luminosity, economy of means, the integration of non-human actors, the construction of new types of public spaces, the recovery of space as a material, and the application of technology in a natural way, are all themes central to this publication. A seminal collection of practitioners are featured here with works and writings from such names as: Mark Wigley, Olafur Eliasson, Diller & Scofidio, R, Brian Eno, Carsten Nicolai, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Decosterd & Rahm and SANAA.
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An eye-opening and refreshing collection of practices, works, projects and essays are compiled in this catalogue which together explore the theme of how air, the atmosphere and our physical surrounds, work and reflect on the individual and society. Simplicity, luminosity, economy of means, the integration of non-human actors, the construction of new types of public spaces, the recovery of space as a material, and the application of technology in a natural way, are all themes central to this publication. A seminal collection of practitioners are featured here with works and writings from such names as: Mark Wigley, Olafur Eliasson, Diller & Scofidio, R, Brian Eno, Carsten Nicolai, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Decosterd & Rahm and SANAA.
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October 2009
October 2009
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Chaos and anarchy represent the opposite pole to an ordered life. Nothing works any more, everything is devastated, everything is falling apart. City walls, buildings that once afforded protection, have fallen victim to the excesses of armed conflict. In Ruins, the author delivers a detailed assessment of ruins as a phenomenon in architecture, landscape design, fine(...)
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Chaos and anarchy represent the opposite pole to an ordered life. Nothing works any more, everything is devastated, everything is falling apart. City walls, buildings that once afforded protection, have fallen victim to the excesses of armed conflict. In Ruins, the author delivers a detailed assessment of ruins as a phenomenon in architecture, landscape design, fine(...)
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Ruins: reflexions about violence, chaos and transience
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Chaos and anarchy represent the opposite pole to an ordered life. Nothing works any more, everything is devastated, everything is falling apart. City walls, buildings that once afforded protection, have fallen victim to the excesses of armed conflict. In Ruins, the author delivers a detailed assessment of ruins as a phenomenon in architecture, landscape design, fine art, film and the media. The result is an extraordinarily intense contribution to the theme of transience.
Ruins: reflexions about violence, chaos and transience
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Chaos and anarchy represent the opposite pole to an ordered life. Nothing works any more, everything is devastated, everything is falling apart. City walls, buildings that once afforded protection, have fallen victim to the excesses of armed conflict. In Ruins, the author delivers a detailed assessment of ruins as a phenomenon in architecture, landscape design, fine art, film and the media. The result is an extraordinarily intense contribution to the theme of transience.
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August 2011
August 2011
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Le souffle du plein air: histoire d'un projet pédagogique et architectural novateur (1904-1952)
Le souffle du plein air: histoire d'un projet pédagogique et architectural novateur (1904-1952)
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Plusieurs édifices remarquables sont nés de son développement, comme l'école de plein air d'Amsterdam de Jan Duiker ou celle de Suresnes d'Eugène Beaudouin et Marcel Lods. En nous offrant ici la première synthèse de l'histoire internationale du mouvement des écoles de plein air, Anne-Marie Châtelet dévoile les fils culturels, programmatiques et techniques qui situent ces(...)
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Plusieurs édifices remarquables sont nés de son développement, comme l'école de plein air d'Amsterdam de Jan Duiker ou celle de Suresnes d'Eugène Beaudouin et Marcel Lods. En nous offrant ici la première synthèse de l'histoire internationale du mouvement des écoles de plein air, Anne-Marie Châtelet dévoile les fils culturels, programmatiques et techniques qui situent ces(...)
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Le souffle du plein air: histoire d'un projet pédagogique et architectural novateur (1904-1952)
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Plusieurs édifices remarquables sont nés de son développement, comme l'école de plein air d'Amsterdam de Jan Duiker ou celle de Suresnes d'Eugène Beaudouin et Marcel Lods. En nous offrant ici la première synthèse de l'histoire internationale du mouvement des écoles de plein air, Anne-Marie Châtelet dévoile les fils culturels, programmatiques et techniques qui situent ces bâtiments scolaires emblématiques dans le débat sur l'architecture moderne, le renouveau de la pédagogie et les progrès de la médecine et de l'hygiène.
Le souffle du plein air: histoire d'un projet pédagogique et architectural novateur (1904-1952)
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Plusieurs édifices remarquables sont nés de son développement, comme l'école de plein air d'Amsterdam de Jan Duiker ou celle de Suresnes d'Eugène Beaudouin et Marcel Lods. En nous offrant ici la première synthèse de l'histoire internationale du mouvement des écoles de plein air, Anne-Marie Châtelet dévoile les fils culturels, programmatiques et techniques qui situent ces bâtiments scolaires emblématiques dans le débat sur l'architecture moderne, le renouveau de la pédagogie et les progrès de la médecine et de l'hygiène.
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October 2011
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The stone of Oxford offers a critical look at many of the neglected or overlooked aspects of this world famous city. Illustrated with the author's own photographs and drawings, this publication enlightens the reader on many aspects of recent architecture and town planning.
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The stone of Oxford offers a critical look at many of the neglected or overlooked aspects of this world famous city. Illustrated with the author's own photographs and drawings, this publication enlightens the reader on many aspects of recent architecture and town planning.
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The stones of Oxford: Conjectures on a cockleshell
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The stone of Oxford offers a critical look at many of the neglected or overlooked aspects of this world famous city. Illustrated with the author's own photographs and drawings, this publication enlightens the reader on many aspects of recent architecture and town planning.
The stones of Oxford: Conjectures on a cockleshell
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The stone of Oxford offers a critical look at many of the neglected or overlooked aspects of this world famous city. Illustrated with the author's own photographs and drawings, this publication enlightens the reader on many aspects of recent architecture and town planning.
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October 2011
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Why Don't American Cities Burn? traces the collision of urban transformation with the rightward-moving social politics of late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century America. He shows how the bifurcation of black social structures produced a new African American inequality and traces the shift from images of a pathological black "underclass" to praise of the(...)
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Why Don't American Cities Burn? traces the collision of urban transformation with the rightward-moving social politics of late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century America. He shows how the bifurcation of black social structures produced a new African American inequality and traces the shift from images of a pathological black "underclass" to praise of the(...)
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Why don't American cities burn?
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Why Don't American Cities Burn? traces the collision of urban transformation with the rightward-moving social politics of late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century America. He shows how the bifurcation of black social structures produced a new African American inequality and traces the shift from images of a pathological black "underclass" to praise of the entrepreneurial poor who take advantage of new technologies of poverty work to find the beginning of the path to the middle class. He explores the reasons American cities since the early 1970s have remained relatively free of collective violence while black men in bleak inner-city neighborhoods have turned their rage inward on one another rather than on the agents and symbols of a culture and political economy that exclude them. The book ends with a meditation on how the political left and right have come to believe that urban transformation is inevitably one of failure and decline abetted by the response of government to deindustrialization, poverty, and race. How, Katz asks, can we construct a new narrative that acknowledges the dark side of urban history even as it demonstrates the capacity of government to address the problems of cities and their residents? How can we create a politics of modest hope?
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Why Don't American Cities Burn? traces the collision of urban transformation with the rightward-moving social politics of late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century America. He shows how the bifurcation of black social structures produced a new African American inequality and traces the shift from images of a pathological black "underclass" to praise of the entrepreneurial poor who take advantage of new technologies of poverty work to find the beginning of the path to the middle class. He explores the reasons American cities since the early 1970s have remained relatively free of collective violence while black men in bleak inner-city neighborhoods have turned their rage inward on one another rather than on the agents and symbols of a culture and political economy that exclude them. The book ends with a meditation on how the political left and right have come to believe that urban transformation is inevitably one of failure and decline abetted by the response of government to deindustrialization, poverty, and race. How, Katz asks, can we construct a new narrative that acknowledges the dark side of urban history even as it demonstrates the capacity of government to address the problems of cities and their residents? How can we create a politics of modest hope?
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October 2011
October 2011
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Urban Theory
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The Gutenberg Galaxy catapulted Marshall McLuhan to fame as a media theorist and, in time, a new media prognosticator. Fifty years after its initial publication, this landmark text is more significant than ever before. The edition also includes new introductory essays that illuminate McLuhan’s lasting effect on a variety of scholarly fields and popular culture.
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The Gutenberg Galaxy catapulted Marshall McLuhan to fame as a media theorist and, in time, a new media prognosticator. Fifty years after its initial publication, this landmark text is more significant than ever before. The edition also includes new introductory essays that illuminate McLuhan’s lasting effect on a variety of scholarly fields and popular culture.
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Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg galaxy
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The Gutenberg Galaxy catapulted Marshall McLuhan to fame as a media theorist and, in time, a new media prognosticator. Fifty years after its initial publication, this landmark text is more significant than ever before. The edition also includes new introductory essays that illuminate McLuhan’s lasting effect on a variety of scholarly fields and popular culture.
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The Gutenberg Galaxy catapulted Marshall McLuhan to fame as a media theorist and, in time, a new media prognosticator. Fifty years after its initial publication, this landmark text is more significant than ever before. The edition also includes new introductory essays that illuminate McLuhan’s lasting effect on a variety of scholarly fields and popular culture.
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October 2011
October 2011
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Critical Theory
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Les architectes sont-ils nuls ? Beaucoup le pensent.Devant le spectacle affligeant de la Bibliothèque de France, la désolation des quartiers sur dalle, à Montparnasse, Beaugrenelle, Euralille, la prétention du ministère des Finances, la pesante médiocrité de l’Opéra Bastille, la folie des grandeurs du quartier « Odysseum » de Montpellier, les quartiers de barres et de(...)
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Les architectes sont-ils nuls ? Beaucoup le pensent.Devant le spectacle affligeant de la Bibliothèque de France, la désolation des quartiers sur dalle, à Montparnasse, Beaugrenelle, Euralille, la prétention du ministère des Finances, la pesante médiocrité de l’Opéra Bastille, la folie des grandeurs du quartier « Odysseum » de Montpellier, les quartiers de barres et de(...)
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Faut-il pendre les architectes?
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Les architectes sont-ils nuls ? Beaucoup le pensent.Devant le spectacle affligeant de la Bibliothèque de France, la désolation des quartiers sur dalle, à Montparnasse, Beaugrenelle, Euralille, la prétention du ministère des Finances, la pesante médiocrité de l’Opéra Bastille, la folie des grandeurs du quartier « Odysseum » de Montpellier, les quartiers de barres et de tours…, on ne peut que faire chorus avec la foule. Pourtant le jugement est expéditif. L’architecte est un bouc émissaire facile. Il y a d’autres coupables : maires mégalomanes, entreprises déficientes, fait du prince, concours biaisés, juridiction écrasante, pots-de-vin, inculture des maîtres d’ouvrages et poujadisme du public. Faut-il pendre les architectes ? dresse le constat sévère d’un milieu et d’un système qui n’en finissent pas de produire des erreurs monumentales. Les architectes qui s’en sortent n’en sont que plus méritants. On peut se pendre à leur cou.
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Les architectes sont-ils nuls ? Beaucoup le pensent.Devant le spectacle affligeant de la Bibliothèque de France, la désolation des quartiers sur dalle, à Montparnasse, Beaugrenelle, Euralille, la prétention du ministère des Finances, la pesante médiocrité de l’Opéra Bastille, la folie des grandeurs du quartier « Odysseum » de Montpellier, les quartiers de barres et de tours…, on ne peut que faire chorus avec la foule. Pourtant le jugement est expéditif. L’architecte est un bouc émissaire facile. Il y a d’autres coupables : maires mégalomanes, entreprises déficientes, fait du prince, concours biaisés, juridiction écrasante, pots-de-vin, inculture des maîtres d’ouvrages et poujadisme du public. Faut-il pendre les architectes ? dresse le constat sévère d’un milieu et d’un système qui n’en finissent pas de produire des erreurs monumentales. Les architectes qui s’en sortent n’en sont que plus méritants. On peut se pendre à leur cou.
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October 2011
October 2011
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"Art and the City" explores the contentious relationship between civic politics and visual culture in Los Angeles. Struggles between civic leaders and modernist artists to define civic identity and control public space highlight the significance of the arts as a site of political contest in the twentieth century.
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"Art and the City" explores the contentious relationship between civic politics and visual culture in Los Angeles. Struggles between civic leaders and modernist artists to define civic identity and control public space highlight the significance of the arts as a site of political contest in the twentieth century.
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Art and the city : civic imagination and cultural authority in Los Angeles
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"Art and the City" explores the contentious relationship between civic politics and visual culture in Los Angeles. Struggles between civic leaders and modernist artists to define civic identity and control public space highlight the significance of the arts as a site of political contest in the twentieth century.
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"Art and the City" explores the contentious relationship between civic politics and visual culture in Los Angeles. Struggles between civic leaders and modernist artists to define civic identity and control public space highlight the significance of the arts as a site of political contest in the twentieth century.
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June 2011
June 2011
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Urban Theory
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