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This book offers a survey of emergent Asian architects from India to Japan, including Philippines. The Asian continent today acts as a theatre to some of the most rapid changes in the urban environment ever to occur anywhere in the world. As cities and economies expand at an almost immeasurable pace, Asian architects face new challenges and opportunities. Through(...)
Instant Asia: fast foward through the architecture of a changing continent
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This book offers a survey of emergent Asian architects from India to Japan, including Philippines. The Asian continent today acts as a theatre to some of the most rapid changes in the urban environment ever to occur anywhere in the world. As cities and economies expand at an almost immeasurable pace, Asian architects face new challenges and opportunities. Through interviews, conversations, and visits to architecture studios across the continent, "Instant Asia" documents the most recent built projects of the emerging generation of designers shaping the architectural identity of Asia today.
Contemporary Asian Architecture
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''Visual Encounters in the Study of Rural Childhoods'' brings together visual studies and childhood studies to explore images of childhood in the study of rurality and rural life. The volume highlights how the voices of children themselves remain central to investigations of rural childhoods. Contributions look at representations and experiences of rural childhoods from(...)
Visual encounters in the study of rural childhoods
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''Visual Encounters in the Study of Rural Childhoods'' brings together visual studies and childhood studies to explore images of childhood in the study of rurality and rural life. The volume highlights how the voices of children themselves remain central to investigations of rural childhoods. Contributions look at representations and experiences of rural childhoods from both the Global North and Global South (including U.S., Canada, Haiti, India, Sweden, Slovenia, South Africa, Russia, Timor-Leste, and Colombia) and consider visuals ranging from picture books to cell phone video to television.
Architectural Theory
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The 2018 Pritzker Architecture Prize winner Balkrishna Doshi is one of India's most influential architects, renowned for his harmonious designs that merge the formal language of classical modernism with Indian building traditions and local craft skills. Always designed with a sensitivity to the social, environmental and economic conditions of a given commission or site,(...)
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May 2019
Balkrishna Doshi: architecture for the people
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The 2018 Pritzker Architecture Prize winner Balkrishna Doshi is one of India's most influential architects, renowned for his harmonious designs that merge the formal language of classical modernism with Indian building traditions and local craft skills. Always designed with a sensitivity to the social, environmental and economic conditions of a given commission or site, Doshi’s architecture honors the past while at the same time accommodating the rapidly changing conditions and needs of modern India. "Balkrishna Doshi: Architecture for the People" presents the first comprehensive survey of this groundbreaking architect’s oeuvre in over 20 years.
Architecture Monographs
Autopia : cars and culture
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Autopia is the first book to explore the culture of the motor car in the widest sense. Featuring newly commissioned essays by writers, critics, historians, artists and film-makers, as well as reprinting key texts, it examines the effect of the car throughout the world, including the USA, Western and Eastern Europe, Japan, China, Cuba, India and South Africa. In this book(...)
Transportation, Tourism, Migration
November 2002, London
Autopia : cars and culture
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Autopia is the first book to explore the culture of the motor car in the widest sense. Featuring newly commissioned essays by writers, critics, historians, artists and film-makers, as well as reprinting key texts, it examines the effect of the car throughout the world, including the USA, Western and Eastern Europe, Japan, China, Cuba, India and South Africa. In this book the car is treated neither as a technological fetish object nor as an instrument of danger. Instead, it is examined as an important determinant of 20th-century culture.
Transportation, Tourism, Migration
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The city of Mumbai in India is undergoing dramatic transformations and the forces driving these changes in the city are forcing new modes of urbanism and urbanization to be realised. In particular, social, economic and political forces are aggressively pushing the evolution of an urban form in which local architects and planners are struggling to qualitatively intervene.(...)
Reclaiming (the urbanism) of Mumbai
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The city of Mumbai in India is undergoing dramatic transformations and the forces driving these changes in the city are forcing new modes of urbanism and urbanization to be realised. In particular, social, economic and political forces are aggressively pushing the evolution of an urban form in which local architects and planners are struggling to qualitatively intervene. This collection of essays and writings examine both the status quo in current developments while exploring stimulating projects that are emerging on the margins that provide hope for future directions of urbanisation in the city.
Arch Middle East
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Illustrates and documents the architectural projects undertaken in India by Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret, and for the first time offers a detailed survey of the furniture designed for the new city of Chandigarh. Design, arts plastiques, architecture... autant de domaines de création à travers lesquels Le Corbusier et Pierre Jeanneret ont exercé leurs formidables(...)
Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret, l'aventure indienne/ The indian adventure
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Illustrates and documents the architectural projects undertaken in India by Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret, and for the first time offers a detailed survey of the furniture designed for the new city of Chandigarh. Design, arts plastiques, architecture... autant de domaines de création à travers lesquels Le Corbusier et Pierre Jeanneret ont exercé leurs formidables talents, durant cette grande aventure humaine que représenta la construction de la ville de Chandigarh. Ces multiples réalisations indiennes méconnues, à Chandigarh mais également illustrées et commentées de façon détaillée, riche en documents à travers l'Inde, sont d'archives et photos.
Architecture Monographs
GA Houses 119
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Issue 119 features three projects by Gurjit Singh Matharoo (b. 1966 in Ajmer, India), a Glass/Wood House by Kenga Kuma, a space in Dutchess County, New York by Steven Holl, some small houses by Frank Gehry, the Gagarin House in Connecticut by Marcel Breuer, a house by Ken Yokogawa, a house by Takashi Yamaguchi, a house by Shigeru Fuse, a project by Alphaville, a project(...)
GA Houses 119
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Issue 119 features three projects by Gurjit Singh Matharoo (b. 1966 in Ajmer, India), a Glass/Wood House by Kenga Kuma, a space in Dutchess County, New York by Steven Holl, some small houses by Frank Gehry, the Gagarin House in Connecticut by Marcel Breuer, a house by Ken Yokogawa, a house by Takashi Yamaguchi, a house by Shigeru Fuse, a project by Alphaville, a project by Keisuke Maeda and an art collector’s loft in Manhattan by UN Studio. The ‘Elements’ series focuses on Gurjit Singh Matharoo and Eric Owen Moss.
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Architecturally, Burma is both a melting pot and a museum. Boasting a wealth of influences from all of the countries that surround it--India, China, Laos, Thailand, Bhutan, Laos--Burma has also preserved many key examples of religious architectural styles no longer extant in their countries of origin, most famously in Pagan, the country’s capital in the ninth to twelfth(...)
Architecture in Burma: moments in time
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Architecturally, Burma is both a melting pot and a museum. Boasting a wealth of influences from all of the countries that surround it--India, China, Laos, Thailand, Bhutan, Laos--Burma has also preserved many key examples of religious architectural styles no longer extant in their countries of origin, most famously in Pagan, the country’s capital in the ninth to twelfth centuries. Authored by Lorie Karnath, President of the Explorer’s Club in New York, Architecture in Burma is an overview of the astounding architectural treasures of this long-isolated country.
Arch Middle East
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Puff is a tale about an old-fashioned small steam engine who lives a very unexciting life in a train yard. Puff daydreams that he could swim or imagines traveling to such distant lands as Egypt, India, France, and even to outer space. Puff’s chance to prove his mettle finally arrives when a newer modern engine pulling circus cars breaks down during a snowstorm. Puff(...)
Puff
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Puff is a tale about an old-fashioned small steam engine who lives a very unexciting life in a train yard. Puff daydreams that he could swim or imagines traveling to such distant lands as Egypt, India, France, and even to outer space. Puff’s chance to prove his mettle finally arrives when a newer modern engine pulling circus cars breaks down during a snowstorm. Puff bravely hooks to the cars and manages to bring the circus into warm sunshine. A reprint of a rare, much-sought-after 1960s-era children’s book.
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Listening into Others: : An Ethnographic Exploration in Govindpuri.
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