The architecture of failure
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The Architecture of Failure exposes the ways in which failure has been suppressed, ignored and denied in the way we design our cities. It examines the 19th century fantasy architecture of the iron and glass exhibition palaces, strange, unprecedented, dream-like structures, almost all now lost, existing only as melancholy archive fragments; it traces the cultural legacy of(...)
The architecture of failure
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The Architecture of Failure exposes the ways in which failure has been suppressed, ignored and denied in the way we design our cities. It examines the 19th century fantasy architecture of the iron and glass exhibition palaces, strange, unprecedented, dream-like structures, almost all now lost, existing only as melancholy archive fragments; it traces the cultural legacy of these buildings through the heroics of the early 20th century, post-war radicals and recent developments, discussing related themes in art, literature, politics and philosophy.
Architectural Theory
Pop art, a colourful history
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Pop Art is the most important 20th-century art movement. It brought Modernism to the masses, making art sexy and fun with coke cans and comics. Today, in our age of selfies and social networking, we are still living in a world defined by Pop. Full of brand new interviews and research, Sooke describes the great works by Warhol, Lichtenstein and other key figures, but also(...)
Pop art, a colourful history
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Pop Art is the most important 20th-century art movement. It brought Modernism to the masses, making art sexy and fun with coke cans and comics. Today, in our age of selfies and social networking, we are still living in a world defined by Pop. Full of brand new interviews and research, Sooke describes the great works by Warhol, Lichtenstein and other key figures, but also re-examines the movement for the 21st century and asks if it is still art? He reveals a global story, tracing Pop's surprising origins in 19th-century Paris to uncovering the forgotten female artists of the 1960s.
Art Theory
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Railways of Southern Quebec, Volume II, continues the study, begun in Volume I, of various railway companies that operated in Quebec south of the St. Lawrence River. The featured railways illustrate the many diverse elements of 19th century railway construction. Also covered are aspects of the railway network rationalization resulting from railways having lost their(...)
Railways of southern Québec : from the Richelieu to the Chaudière - the revised and expanded volume II in the series
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Railways of Southern Quebec, Volume II, continues the study, begun in Volume I, of various railway companies that operated in Quebec south of the St. Lawrence River. The featured railways illustrate the many diverse elements of 19th century railway construction. Also covered are aspects of the railway network rationalization resulting from railways having lost their transportation primacy to cars and trucks.
Architecture du Québec
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In the second half of the 19th century, unprecedented advances in technology resulted in the collision of travel and photography. Explorers were able to document their journeys, hauling enormous amounts of equipment over arduous terrain. This collection of photographs takes readers on a historic global tour that includes five continents and offers a visible record of(...)
Image and exploration: early travel photography from 1850-1914
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In the second half of the 19th century, unprecedented advances in technology resulted in the collision of travel and photography. Explorers were able to document their journeys, hauling enormous amounts of equipment over arduous terrain. This collection of photographs takes readers on a historic global tour that includes five continents and offers a visible record of worlds long-since vanished.
Photography Collections
Painting in stone: architecture and the poetics of marble, from antiquity to the Enlightenment
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Spanning almost five millennia, 'Painting in Stone' tells a new history of premodern architecture through the material of precious stone. Illustrated examples include the synthetic gems used to simulate Sumerian and Egyptian heavens; the marble temples and mansions of Greece and Rome; the painted palaces and polychrome marble chapels of early modern Italy; and the(...)
Painting in stone: architecture and the poetics of marble, from antiquity to the Enlightenment
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Spanning almost five millennia, 'Painting in Stone' tells a new history of premodern architecture through the material of precious stone. Illustrated examples include the synthetic gems used to simulate Sumerian and Egyptian heavens; the marble temples and mansions of Greece and Rome; the painted palaces and polychrome marble chapels of early modern Italy; and the multimedia revival in 19th-century England.
Materials and Lighting
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The great World's Fairs and Expositions staged around the world since the middle of the 19th century were among the largest and most dramatic cultural events ever staged. In both beneficial and detrimental ways, they affected the lives of tens of millions of people. This publication retraces the history of world's fairs and expositions from London to Shanghai 1851-2010.
Fair world: a history of world's fairs and expositions, from London to Shangai 1851-2010
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The great World's Fairs and Expositions staged around the world since the middle of the 19th century were among the largest and most dramatic cultural events ever staged. In both beneficial and detrimental ways, they affected the lives of tens of millions of people. This publication retraces the history of world's fairs and expositions from London to Shanghai 1851-2010.
Museums and Universal Exhibitions
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"Parallel Cities" examines the history of the multilevel city with a focus on elevated pedestrian systems as a recurrent concept in urban planning and design. The book chronicles the evolution and migration of this concept from 19th-century French social utopian thinkers and 20th-century Soviet Constructivist architectural circles to its incubation in postwar London, its(...)
Parallel cities: a multilevel metropolis
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"Parallel Cities" examines the history of the multilevel city with a focus on elevated pedestrian systems as a recurrent concept in urban planning and design. The book chronicles the evolution and migration of this concept from 19th-century French social utopian thinkers and 20th-century Soviet Constructivist architectural circles to its incubation in postwar London, its theorization by members of CIAM and Team 10, and its eventual dissemination to North America and Asia, where extensive systems were built in cities such as Minneapolis, Calgary and Hong Kong.
Urban Theory
Lee Friedlander : Staglieno
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The Staglieno cemetery near Genoa was created in the 19th century. It is home not only to those whose bones lie buried beneath, but also to the ornate display of sculptures erected in their memory. Printed in duotone on matte art paper and bound in velvet, with an introduction by Peter Galassi, Chief Curator, Department of Photography, The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Lee Friedlander : Staglieno
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The Staglieno cemetery near Genoa was created in the 19th century. It is home not only to those whose bones lie buried beneath, but also to the ornate display of sculptures erected in their memory. Printed in duotone on matte art paper and bound in velvet, with an introduction by Peter Galassi, Chief Curator, Department of Photography, The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Photography monographs
The ecologies of the building envelope: a material history and theory of architectural surfaces
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"The ecologies of the building envelope" theorizes the building envelope as a literal embodiment of the social, political, technological, and economic contingencies which have become embedded within it over the last century, analyzing the historical lineages, heroes and villains that helped define the complex material ecologies we see within the envelope today. While the(...)
The ecologies of the building envelope: a material history and theory of architectural surfaces
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"The ecologies of the building envelope" theorizes the building envelope as a literal embodiment of the social, political, technological, and economic contingencies which have become embedded within it over the last century, analyzing the historical lineages, heroes and villains that helped define the complex material ecologies we see within the envelope today. While the façade is one of the most thoroughly theorized elements of architecture, it is also one of the most questioned since the end of the 19th century. Within the discipline of architecture, the traditional understanding of the façade focuses primarily on semiotic and compositional operations (such as proportional laws and linguistic codes), which are deployed on the building's surface. In contrast to this, our material and environmental theory of the envelope proposes that the exponential development of building technologies since the mid-19th century, coupled with new techniques of management and regulation, have diminished the compositional and ornamental capacities of the envelope in favor of material, quantitative, and technical performances. Rather than producing a stylistic analysis of the façade, we investigate the historical lineages of the performances, components, assembly types, and material entanglements that constitute the contemporary building envelope.
Architectural Theory
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This book documents the life and work of Lewis Larsson and his fellow colleagues of the American Colony Photographers group who together formed part of a Swedish nonconformist religious sect that emigrated to Jerusalem at the end of the 19th century. Together they created over a period of 50 years one of the world's finest collections of photographs from Palestine and the(...)
The dream of Jerusalem : Lewis Larsson and the American colony photographers
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This book documents the life and work of Lewis Larsson and his fellow colleagues of the American Colony Photographers group who together formed part of a Swedish nonconformist religious sect that emigrated to Jerusalem at the end of the 19th century. Together they created over a period of 50 years one of the world's finest collections of photographs from Palestine and the Middle-East from that period.
Photography monographs