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Metropolitan Natures presents original histories of the diverse environments that constitute Montreal and its region. It explores the agricultural and industrial transformation of the metropolitan area, the interaction of city and hinterland, and the interplay of humans and nature.It covers a wide range of issues, from landscape representations during the colonial era to(...)
Architecture de Montréal
June 2011
Metropolitan natures: environmental histories of Montréal
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Metropolitan Natures presents original histories of the diverse environments that constitute Montreal and its region. It explores the agricultural and industrial transformation of the metropolitan area, the interaction of city and hinterland, and the interplay of humans and nature.It covers a wide range of issues, from landscape representations during the colonial era to urban encroachments on the Kahnawake Mohawk reservation on the south shore of the island, from the 1918-1920 Spanish Flu epidemic and the ensuing modifications to the urban sprawl characteristic of North America during the postwar period.
Architecture de Montréal
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This small architectural guide provides a representative overview of the built environment in the north Indian metropolis of Ahmedabad. In addition to covering the city’s notable legacy of modernist architecture, the work also treats diverse forms of informal urban arrangements: from architecture without architects (to borrow from Bernard Rudofsky) to ephemeral structures(...)
Architectural Theory
October 2015
Architecture reading aid: Ahmedabad
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This small architectural guide provides a representative overview of the built environment in the north Indian metropolis of Ahmedabad. In addition to covering the city’s notable legacy of modernist architecture, the work also treats diverse forms of informal urban arrangements: from architecture without architects (to borrow from Bernard Rudofsky) to ephemeral structures sprouting up on streets and plazas, everything is fair game. Clear axonometric drawings and short texts providing cultural and historical context make this idiosyncratic travel guide an accessible introduction to decoding Indian urbanism for the architect and layperson alike.
Architectural Theory
Learning from Las Cuencas
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This publication provides a new perspective on the cultural landscapes of mining across the province of Asturias in north-west Spain. These areas, after undergoing an intense process of industrialisation, have changed considerably within just a few decades. What were once natural valleys with rural economic and social structures came to host bustling, dense urban(...)
Learning from Las Cuencas
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This publication provides a new perspective on the cultural landscapes of mining across the province of Asturias in north-west Spain. These areas, after undergoing an intense process of industrialisation, have changed considerably within just a few decades. What were once natural valleys with rural economic and social structures came to host bustling, dense urban agglomerations. As a result, hybrid architectures have emerged, mutating artefacts which, despite the invisibility of their inevitable marginality, can offer interesting lessons in architecture today. Richly illustrated with photographs and diagrams, it features contributions from noted artists and architects.
Urban Theory
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289 pages : color illustrations, portraits ; 33 cm
Sharjah : Sharjah Architecture Triennial ; Zürich : Park Books, [2025], ©2025
The beauty of impermanence : Sharjah Architecture Triennial = جمالیة المتغیّر : ترینالي الشارقة للعمارة / editor, Tosin Oshinowo. The beauty of impermanence : Sharjah Architecture Triennial = Jamālīyah al-mutighayyir : tirīnālī al-Shārqah lil-'amārah / editor, Tosin Oshinowo.
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Mountains piled upon mountains : Appalachian nature writing in the anthropocene / edited by Jessica Cory.
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Marseille mix
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There are many Marseilles, or at least many versions of Marseille: seaside village, haven of gangsters, gateway to the East, city of immigrants and outcasts. It is by turns the dull bourgeois provincial town where nothing ever happens and the mysterious unknowable city of the Mediterranean. In this book, William Firebrace explores the many Marseilles, the invented and the(...)
Marseille mix
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There are many Marseilles, or at least many versions of Marseille: seaside village, haven of gangsters, gateway to the East, city of immigrants and outcasts. It is by turns the dull bourgeois provincial town where nothing ever happens and the mysterious unknowable city of the Mediterranean. In this book, William Firebrace explores the many Marseilles, the invented and the actual. Leading readers down narrow streets, through undulating terrain that seems at once, or serially, Italian, Greek, Levantine, and North African, Firebrace traces the history and culture of Marseille through landscapes, buildings, food, films, literature, and criminology.
Journeys
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In past years, architects have been confronted with a changed market, changed sets of tasks and also new requirements. Which strategies can they adopt to get commissions or spark interest in their projects? With selected examples, the author analyses the processes of individual architects since the 1950s. Beginning with the commencement of marketing in the North American(...)
Function follows strategy: architects' strategies from the fifties to the present
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In past years, architects have been confronted with a changed market, changed sets of tasks and also new requirements. Which strategies can they adopt to get commissions or spark interest in their projects? With selected examples, the author analyses the processes of individual architects since the 1950s. Beginning with the commencement of marketing in the North American post-war era he proceeds to then cast his view to contemporary times. Transformations in society and politics, the changed requirements of clients, and also the crisis in the economy and financial circles all influence the professional existence of architects.
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MAP 006: Greenland
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In September 2011, selected teams won a conpetition hosted by the Danish Architecture Center, to exhibit at the Danish Pavilion for the 13th Venice Biennale of Architecture. The theme and aim for the exhibit was to formalize months of research into the many challenges Greenland faces today and in the immediate future. This special issue of MAP is a selection of the work(...)
MAP 006: Greenland
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In September 2011, selected teams won a conpetition hosted by the Danish Architecture Center, to exhibit at the Danish Pavilion for the 13th Venice Biennale of Architecture. The theme and aim for the exhibit was to formalize months of research into the many challenges Greenland faces today and in the immediate future. This special issue of MAP is a selection of the work exhibited at the Biennale in the fall of 2012, a full year of visits, expeditions, collaborations and speculation into the uncertain future of the worlds largest island at the edge of the North Pole.
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February 2014
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Picturing Mexico: From the Camera Lucida to Film explores the early artistic and cultural factors that contributed to the emergence of film in a heterogeneous media environment at the turn of the 20th century. Focusing his attention upon lithographs and photographs of Mexico created by European and North American visitors, Fullerton argues that the introduction of the(...)
Picturing Mexico: from the camera lucida to film
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Picturing Mexico: From the Camera Lucida to Film explores the early artistic and cultural factors that contributed to the emergence of film in a heterogeneous media environment at the turn of the 20th century. Focusing his attention upon lithographs and photographs of Mexico created by European and North American visitors, Fullerton argues that the introduction of the illustrated press and the popular photographic album towards the end of the 19th century transformed the private space of the printed page. He contends that the dynamics of the moving image were informed by the convergence of these media forms.
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Petrochemical America
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Petrochemical America offers an in-depth analysis of the causes of sustained environmental abuse along the largest river system in North America. It combines Richard Misrach’s photographs of Louisiana’s “Chemical Corridor” with landscape architect Kate Orff’s “Ecological Atlas”. Misrach and Orff’s joint effort depicts the complex ecologies of a particular region along 150(...)
Petrochemical America
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Petrochemical America offers an in-depth analysis of the causes of sustained environmental abuse along the largest river system in North America. It combines Richard Misrach’s photographs of Louisiana’s “Chemical Corridor” with landscape architect Kate Orff’s “Ecological Atlas”. Misrach and Orff’s joint effort depicts the complex ecologies of a particular region along 150 miles of the Mississippi River - an area of intense chemical production that became known as “Cancer Alley”. This revelatory collaboration has resulted in a complex document and an extensively researched guidebook to the ways in which the petrochemical industry has permeated every facet of contemporary life.
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