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An architectural history primer, a showcase of classic modern homes, and an inspirational design book, "Living modern" exposes the inner workings of modernist principles. Through hundreds of photographs that display modern homes by such design luminaries as Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Charles and Ray Eames, Alvar Aalto, Richard Neutra, and Le Corbusier, this book is a(...)
Residential Architecture
January 2002, San Francisco
Modern living: bringing modernism home
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An architectural history primer, a showcase of classic modern homes, and an inspirational design book, "Living modern" exposes the inner workings of modernist principles. Through hundreds of photographs that display modern homes by such design luminaries as Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Charles and Ray Eames, Alvar Aalto, Richard Neutra, and Le Corbusier, this book is a resource for those who want to learn about the movement's pinnacles, as well as anyone who wants to apply its tenets to create modern creations.
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January 2002, San Francisco
Residential Architecture
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Naming New York is a comprehensive compilation and explanation of the names of Manhattan's streets, alleys, avenues, plazas, parks, and corners. It surveys names currently in use and includes the oldest and the newest honorific add-on names, from Astor Place to Yitzak Rabin Way.
Naming New York: Manhattan places & how they got their names
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Naming New York is a comprehensive compilation and explanation of the names of Manhattan's streets, alleys, avenues, plazas, parks, and corners. It surveys names currently in use and includes the oldest and the newest honorific add-on names, from Astor Place to Yitzak Rabin Way.
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The gardens and estate of La Foce constitute one of the most important and best kept early twentieth-century gardens in Italy. Amid 3,500 acres of farmland in the countryside near Pienza, with sweeping views of the Tuscan landscape, La Foce was the childhood dream garden of the late writer Marchesa Iris Origo. Passionate about the order and symmetry of Florentine gardens,(...)
Gardens
December 2001, Philadelphia
La Foce : a garden and landscape in Tuscany
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The gardens and estate of La Foce constitute one of the most important and best kept early twentieth-century gardens in Italy. Amid 3,500 acres of farmland in the countryside near Pienza, with sweeping views of the Tuscan landscape, La Foce was the childhood dream garden of the late writer Marchesa Iris Origo. Passionate about the order and symmetry of Florentine gardens, Origo and her husband, Antonio, purchased the dilapidated villa in 1924, soliciting the help of English architect and family friend Cecil Pinsent to reawaken the natural magic of the property. Pinsent designed the structure of simple, elegant, box-edged beds and green enclosures that give shape to the Origos' shrubs, perennials, and vines, and created a garden of soaring cypress walks, native cyclamen, lawns, and wildflower meadows. Today the garden is a place of unusual and striking beauty, a green oasis in the barren Siena countryside. Situated in the Val d'Orcia, a wide valley in southeastern Tuscany that seems to exist on a larger, wilder scale than the rest of the Tuscan landscape, it is run by Benedetta and Donata Origo, and is open to the public one day a week. "La Foce : a garden and landscape in Tuscany" includes a historical essay and memoir by the daughter of La Foce's creators, Antonio and Iris Origo, along with photographs, sketches, and a critical analysis of the gardens. The volume not only focuses on the beauty of the gardens themselves and their indisputable merit as fascinating works of landscape architecture but also sees them within the context of both the larger Tuscan topography and the wider landscape of geography and history.
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December 2001, Philadelphia
Gardens
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Gillian Mackie examines the decorative schemes of the surviving chapels built in Italy and Istria from AD312-740 in the context of numerous chapels known from archaeological sites or from later medieval texts. Using the decoration as the primary source of evidence on the buildings' use and meaning, this survey includes chapels, imperial mausolea, and the oratories of the(...)
Early Christian chapels in the West : decoration, function, and patronage
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Gillian Mackie examines the decorative schemes of the surviving chapels built in Italy and Istria from AD312-740 in the context of numerous chapels known from archaeological sites or from later medieval texts. Using the decoration as the primary source of evidence on the buildings' use and meaning, this survey includes chapels, imperial mausolea, and the oratories of the popes and bishops, from Rome, Milan, Ravenna, and the smaller centres of the upper Adriatic. The author begins with an overview of the various types, and then discusses several of the most complete monuments in considerable detail.
History until 1900
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ROAM is an unconventional academic reader, looking at 'the Aesthetics of Mobility'. Under five themes - narrative, representation, glocalisation, telematics, velocity - ideas around what it is to 'roam' are explored, from theoritical texts to magazine style snippets of information. Against an architectural understanding of urban spaces and mobility. ROAM also engages with(...)
Reader on the aesthetics of mobility
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ROAM is an unconventional academic reader, looking at 'the Aesthetics of Mobility'. Under five themes - narrative, representation, glocalisation, telematics, velocity - ideas around what it is to 'roam' are explored, from theoritical texts to magazine style snippets of information. Against an architectural understanding of urban spaces and mobility. ROAM also engages with discourses from art, cultural studies, design and politics. In line with its unconventional approach, the texts in ROAM are designed to be read at different speeds, so that design projects are interspliced amongst essays and soundbites, provoking the reader with new views about our increasingly mobilised society.
Architectural Theory
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This text covers every aspect of the trademark, its history, development, style, classification and relevance in today's world. A brief history is given of the origins of the trademark in heraldry, monograms, owner's marks and certificates of origin. The proceeding chapters explore corporate identity and communication design with an emphasis on sign theory. The core of(...)
Marks of excellence : the history and taxonomy of trademarks
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This text covers every aspect of the trademark, its history, development, style, classification and relevance in today's world. A brief history is given of the origins of the trademark in heraldry, monograms, owner's marks and certificates of origin. The proceeding chapters explore corporate identity and communication design with an emphasis on sign theory. The core of the book is a comprehensive classification of trademarks covering name marks, abbreviations and all kinds of picture marks. This is followed by an alphabetical index of trademark themes from animals to word puzzles. The index is illustrated by a selection of the world's best trademarks - the marks of excellence from which this book takes its name. The final section of the book covers the development of trademarks over time and across the boundaries of language and space.
Graphic Design and Typography
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Paris - Geoffrey James
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This collection of photographs of Paris by Geoffrey James was published to coincide with an exhibition at the Canadian Cultural Centre, Paris in the autumn of 2001. / Publié à l'occasion de l'exposition au Centre culturel candadien à Paris en 2001.
Photography monographs
September 2001, Paris
Paris - Geoffrey James
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This collection of photographs of Paris by Geoffrey James was published to coincide with an exhibition at the Canadian Cultural Centre, Paris in the autumn of 2001. / Publié à l'occasion de l'exposition au Centre culturel candadien à Paris en 2001.
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September 2001, Paris
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Roger d'Astous, architecte
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Formé par le célèbre architecte américain Frank Lloyd Wright, Roger D'Astous fut un des créateurs les plus féconds de la génération des pionniers québécois du modernisme après la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Comme son maître, l'architecte montréalais fut avant tout un bâtisseur de maisons. Toujours fidèle aux principes de l'architecture organique, notamment l'intégration de(...)
November 2001
Roger d'Astous, architecte
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Formé par le célèbre architecte américain Frank Lloyd Wright, Roger D'Astous fut un des créateurs les plus féconds de la génération des pionniers québécois du modernisme après la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Comme son maître, l'architecte montréalais fut avant tout un bâtisseur de maisons. Toujours fidèle aux principes de l'architecture organique, notamment l'intégration de l'œuvre au milieu naturel et le respect de la propriété des matériaux, il sut, grâce à une recherche persistante, concevoir des formes nouvelles qui lui permirent de créer un style personnel. Roger d'Astous apporta aussi une contribution exceptionnelle à l'architecture religieuse qui franchissait une étape de renouveau au moment où il entamait sa carrière. Sa production d'autres types d'édifices fut moins soutenue, mais presque chaque fois son intervention dans ces domaines a donné lieu à des œuvres qui se démarquent par leur originalité, comme en témoigne l'élégant Château Champlain à Montréal.
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Casa Barcelona project
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This book details the conception and design process for the "Barcelona House", a model housing project, with individual spaces and components designed by UN Studio/van Berkel, Toyo Ito, Dominique Perrault, and David Chipperfield.
Casa Barcelona project
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This book details the conception and design process for the "Barcelona House", a model housing project, with individual spaces and components designed by UN Studio/van Berkel, Toyo Ito, Dominique Perrault, and David Chipperfield.
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January 2001, Barcelona
Collective Housing
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Cet ouvrage offre un large panorama des décors architecturaux dans toute la diversité de l'aire géographique musulmane (Orient, Espagne et Maghreb, Turquie et Iran, sous-continent indien...).
L'Art de la céramique dans l'architecture musulmane
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Cet ouvrage offre un large panorama des décors architecturaux dans toute la diversité de l'aire géographique musulmane (Orient, Espagne et Maghreb, Turquie et Iran, sous-continent indien...).
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November 2001, Paris
Arch Middle East