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xiv, 382 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Berkeley : University of California Press, 2002.
The making of revolutionary Paris / David Garrioch.
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xiv, 382 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Berkeley : University of California Press, 2002.
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xxvii, 248 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, ©1996.
The restoration of the Monastery of Saint Martin of Tournai / Herman of Tournai ; translated with an introduction and notes by Lynn H. Nelson.
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xxvii, 248 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
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Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, ©1996.
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Over five days, some 60 residents of a northern village teamed with designers from southern Quebec to conceive and build an outdoor community pavilion that activates a central recreational area. Most housing and civic buildings in the communities emerge from and stand like physical markers of Euro-Canadian values. The Royal Architectural Institute of Canada has begun a(...)
Contemporary Architecture
October 2020
Blueprint for a hack: leveraging informal building practices
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Over five days, some 60 residents of a northern village teamed with designers from southern Quebec to conceive and build an outdoor community pavilion that activates a central recreational area. Most housing and civic buildings in the communities emerge from and stand like physical markers of Euro-Canadian values. The Royal Architectural Institute of Canada has begun a discourse on design in northern Canadian communities, but discussions continue to dwell on housing and civic buildings. A strong need exists to open conversations about design and the public realm in northern villages, which this project tries to address, creating a unique experience in which northern and southern groups could apply a 'hacking mindset' to reimagine community spaces.
Contemporary Architecture
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Organized by interpretive categories such as space, infrastructure, and imaginaries, this volume uses historical and contemporary examples of how laboratories are fundamentally connected to changes in the contemporary university. The authors cover topics such as the evolution and delineation of lab-based communities, how labs’ tools and technologies contribute to defining(...)
Archive, library and the digital
December 2021
The lab book: situated practices in media studies
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Organized by interpretive categories such as space, infrastructure, and imaginaries, this volume uses historical and contemporary examples of how laboratories are fundamentally connected to changes in the contemporary university. The authors cover topics such as the evolution and delineation of lab-based communities, how labs’ tools and technologies contribute to defining their space, and a glossary of key hybrid lab techniques.
Archive, library and the digital
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''Eight Meditations on Architecture'' offers a rare and illuminating dialogue between two of Europe's most reflective architectural voices—Juhani Pallasmaa and Alberto Campo Baeza. Through a series of eight essays, the book examines eternal architectural themes—Beauty, Light, Time, Memory, Universality, Wisdom, Sacred, and Essentiality—revealing how enduring values shape(...)
Eight meditations on architecture: Juhani Pallasmaa and Alberto Campo Baeza
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''Eight Meditations on Architecture'' offers a rare and illuminating dialogue between two of Europe's most reflective architectural voices—Juhani Pallasmaa and Alberto Campo Baeza. Through a series of eight essays, the book examines eternal architectural themes—Beauty, Light, Time, Memory, Universality, Wisdom, Sacred, and Essentiality—revealing how enduring values shape the practice of building and the meaning of space. More than an academic treatise, this unique work underscores the necessity of cultural reflection and philosophical grounding in architectural practice. Written by architects whose writings are already essential reading in architectural education, these meditations offer a rigorous yet poetic inquiry into the discipline. Richly illustrated with contributions that interweave theory and personal insight, ''Eight Meditations on Architecture'' provides a space for reflection that is increasingly rare in contemporary discourse—one where theory and practice are not opposites but mutually reinforcing paths toward meaningful design.
Architectural Theory
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Sustainable Affordable Prefab combines architectural theory and practice in an illustrated account of ecoMOD, the innovative design/build program pioneered by John Quale.
March 2012
Sustainable, affordable prefab : the ecoMOD project
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Sustainable Affordable Prefab combines architectural theory and practice in an illustrated account of ecoMOD, the innovative design/build program pioneered by John Quale.
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6435 drawings, 0,27 l.m. of photographic materials, 5.93 l.m. of textual records, other materials, Arranged by series: Series 1. Student work and professional work in...
Victor Prus fonds, 1945-1992.
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6435 drawings, 0,27 l.m. of photographic materials, 5.93 l.m. of textual records, other materials, Arranged by series: Series 1. Student work and professional work in...
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"Fotnoter'' ("Footnotes") documents the last ten years of urban developments in Oslo, through Tallerås subjective, yet distinctly indexical photographic practice. The book is centered around his photographic archive, reimagined through an in depth design process conceptualizing Tallerås exhibition practice as a book. The book contains a newly written essay, where the(...)
Jon Benjamin Talleras: Fotnoter
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"Fotnoter'' ("Footnotes") documents the last ten years of urban developments in Oslo, through Tallerås subjective, yet distinctly indexical photographic practice. The book is centered around his photographic archive, reimagined through an in depth design process conceptualizing Tallerås exhibition practice as a book. The book contains a newly written essay, where the artist contextualizes his archive, and reflects around urban development and the need for critically engaging with the city and it’s development through art making, and through a direct engagement with the city.
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Rice University architect and professor Jesús Vasallo has become a key voice in debates on architectural realism. This text adapts the interview that Jimmy Bullis and Pouya Khadem conducted for PLAT, the magazine published by Rice University students. The term “style” has become outdated for contemporary practice because it implies an obsolete approach. But this does not(...)
AV Proyectos 132 : Red de realistas
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Rice University architect and professor Jesús Vasallo has become a key voice in debates on architectural realism. This text adapts the interview that Jimmy Bullis and Pouya Khadem conducted for PLAT, the magazine published by Rice University students. The term “style” has become outdated for contemporary practice because it implies an obsolete approach. But this does not mean that internal coherence is unnecessary. All architectural practice must be consistent because it is part of a broader field of cultural production.
Magazines
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Asymptote firmly is in its third phase of development as a building based practice. The pedigree and experience Asymptote brings to the profession and art of architecture is based on this methodically layered situation of acquiring expertise and knowledge towards a 'radical' practice folding all of these interests into the development of new forms, designs, architectures(...)
DD 9 : Scape_Asymptote Architecture / USA
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Asymptote firmly is in its third phase of development as a building based practice. The pedigree and experience Asymptote brings to the profession and art of architecture is based on this methodically layered situation of acquiring expertise and knowledge towards a 'radical' practice folding all of these interests into the development of new forms, designs, architectures and spacialities. Asymptote having evolved from a foundation of ideas and speculation has, through implementation and experimentation, arrived for the moment at construction based works.
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