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A journey through the gardens of Japan—their art, culture, and history. This book is a guide to gardens in Japan and a revelation of their historical and cultural contexts. Offering a tour of over 120 gardens spanning east, west, north, and south in Japan, the authors provide a brief description, photographs, and directions for easy reference, interwoven with notes(...)
The lure of the Japanese garden
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A journey through the gardens of Japan—their art, culture, and history. This book is a guide to gardens in Japan and a revelation of their historical and cultural contexts. Offering a tour of over 120 gardens spanning east, west, north, and south in Japan, the authors provide a brief description, photographs, and directions for easy reference, interwoven with notes on personal experiences and travel in different seasons. A glossary of terms and a chronological summary of the gardens in different historical periods are included. A reference for visitors to Japan as well as armchair travelers, this book is the first to show such a wide geographical spread of gardens throughout Japan, and will be beloved by all garden lovers and anyone captivated by this unique element of Japanese culture.
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April 2002, New York
Gardens
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A type specimen book for "Dolly", the new typface from Underware, with an introduction by Erik Spiekermann.
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Photographer Fi McGhee’s record of the conversion of a Dutch barn in Essex by architect, John Pawson. A five year project which incorporated eighteenth-century solidity with 21st century design.
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Vaughan Oliver is an influential member of the small group that changed the face of British graphics in the 1980s. Designed by Oliver himself, and written by Rick Poynor, this book illustrates Oliver's intensely visual and emotive work in detail for the first time - most notably his sumptuous sleeve imagery for London's 4AD label.
Vaughan Oliver : visceral pleasures
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Vaughan Oliver is an influential member of the small group that changed the face of British graphics in the 1980s. Designed by Oliver himself, and written by Rick Poynor, this book illustrates Oliver's intensely visual and emotive work in detail for the first time - most notably his sumptuous sleeve imagery for London's 4AD label.
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January 2000, London
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Chromophobia
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The central argument of "Chromophobia" is that a chromophobic impulse – a fear of corruption or contamination through colour – lurks within much Western cultural and intellectual thought. This is apparent in the many and varied attempts to purge colour, either by making it the property of some 'foreign body' – the oriental, the feminine, the infantile, the vulgar, or the(...)
Chromophobia
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The central argument of "Chromophobia" is that a chromophobic impulse – a fear of corruption or contamination through colour – lurks within much Western cultural and intellectual thought. This is apparent in the many and varied attempts to purge colour, either by making it the property of some 'foreign body' – the oriental, the feminine, the infantile, the vulgar, or the pathological – or by relegating it to the realm of the superficial, the supplementary, the inessential, or the cosmetic. Chromophobia has been a cultural phenomenon since ancient Greek times; this book is concerned with forms of resistance to it. Writers have tended to look no further than the end of the nineteenth century. David Batchelor seeks to go beyond the limits of earlier studies, analysing the motivations behind chromophobia and considering the work of writers and artists who have been prepared to look at colour as a positive value. Exploring a wide range of imagery including Melville's 'great white whale', Huxley's reflections on mescaline, and Le Corbusier's 'journey to the East', Batchelor also discusses the use of colour in Pop, Minimal, and more recent art.
Colour Theory and Design
The emblem
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John Manning's book charts the rise and evolution of the emblem from its earliest manifestations to its emergence as a genre in its own right in the 16th century, and then through its various reinventions to the present day.
The emblem
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John Manning's book charts the rise and evolution of the emblem from its earliest manifestations to its emergence as a genre in its own right in the 16th century, and then through its various reinventions to the present day.
Architectural Theory
Grave Matters
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'Cemeteries', writes Mark C. Taylor, 'are where I go to commune with "my" ghosts. The journey to the cemetery is always solitary even when I am with people who are closest to me. In the graveyard, the we is dispersed and the I stripped bare.' In "Grave Matters", Taylor's ghosts become our own. His thoughtful, poignant essay interweaves personal narrative, historical(...)
Grave Matters
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'Cemeteries', writes Mark C. Taylor, 'are where I go to commune with "my" ghosts. The journey to the cemetery is always solitary even when I am with people who are closest to me. In the graveyard, the we is dispersed and the I stripped bare.' In "Grave Matters", Taylor's ghosts become our own. His thoughtful, poignant essay interweaves personal narrative, historical analysis, cultural commentary and philosophical reflection. Dietrich Christian Lammerts's photographs show us the graves of the artists, architects, writers, philosophers and musicians who shaped Western culture; at once beautiful and disturbing, they suggest an alternative history of modernism and its precursors. Grave Matters raises difficult questions: What place do the modern greats have in the postmodern age? Who decided where and how they would be buried? Who wrote their epitaphs? What do their deaths, and their graves, tell us about their lives and suggest about our own? The words and images of Grave Matters inscribe the future that we all face, and to ponder this memento mori is to meet life anew.
Food
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"Ecology and design" addresses a shortcoming by articulating priorities and approaches for incorporating ecological principles in the teaching of landscape design and planning. The book explains why landscape architecture and design and planning faculty should include ecology standard part of their curricula, provides insights on how that can be done, and offers model(...)
Landscape Theory
January 1900, Washington
Ecology and design : frameworks for learning
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"Ecology and design" addresses a shortcoming by articulating priorities and approaches for incorporating ecological principles in the teaching of landscape design and planning. The book explains why landscape architecture and design and planning faculty should include ecology standard part of their curricula, provides insights on how that can be done, and offers model from successful programs.
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January 1900, Washington
Landscape Theory
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"The limitless city" offers an accessible examination of the predominant form of land use in the United States today - the all too familiar pattern of commercial and residential development know as sprawl. Oliver Gillham, an architect and planner with more than twenty-five years of experience in the field, considers the history and development of sprawl and examines(...)
The limetless city : a primer in the urban sprawl debate
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"The limitless city" offers an accessible examination of the predominant form of land use in the United States today - the all too familiar pattern of commercial and residential development know as sprawl. Oliver Gillham, an architect and planner with more than twenty-five years of experience in the field, considers the history and development of sprawl and examines current debates about the issue. The book offers a comprehensive definition of sprawl in America; traces the roots of sprawl and considers the factors that led to its preeminence as an urban and suburban form reviews both its negative impacts (loss of open space, increased pollution, gridlock) as well as its positive aspects (economic development, personal freedom, privacy); considers responses to sprawl including "smart growth," urban growth boundaries, regional planning, and the New Urbanism; looks at what can be done to improve and counterbalance sprawl. The author argues that whether we like it or not, sprawl is here to stay, and only by understanding where it came from and why it developed will we be able to successfully address the problems it has created and is likely to create in the future. "The limitless city" provides a realistic look at sprawl, with a frank recognition of its status as the predominant urban form in America, now and into the near future. Rather than railing against it, Gillham charts its probable future course while describing critical efforts that can be undertaken to improve the future of sprawl and our existing urban core areas.
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March 2002, Washington
Urban Theory
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Classics from Philippe Starck, Mies, Le Corbusier, Maurer, and Aalto are depicted side by side with work from contemporary designers, such as Jorge Pensi, Marco Sousa Santos, Waldemar Rothe, and Roberto Giacomucci.
Furniture design - Design de meubles
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Classics from Philippe Starck, Mies, Le Corbusier, Maurer, and Aalto are depicted side by side with work from contemporary designers, such as Jorge Pensi, Marco Sousa Santos, Waldemar Rothe, and Roberto Giacomucci.
Interior Design