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Les Quatre Vents in Charlevoix County, Quebec, has been acclaimed as the most aesthetically satisfying and horticulturally exciting landscape experience in North America. The garden combines elements from the best gardening traditions with the original and the unexpected into a splendid composition that is nevertheless perfectly compatible with its natural surroundings.(...)
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Les Quatre Vents in Charlevoix County, Quebec, has been acclaimed as the most aesthetically satisfying and horticulturally exciting landscape experience in North America. The garden combines elements from the best gardening traditions with the original and the unexpected into a splendid composition that is nevertheless perfectly compatible with its natural surroundings.(...)
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The greater perfection : the story of the gardens at Les Quatre-Vents
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Les Quatre Vents in Charlevoix County, Quebec, has been acclaimed as the most aesthetically satisfying and horticulturally exciting landscape experience in North America. The garden combines elements from the best gardening traditions with the original and the unexpected into a splendid composition that is nevertheless perfectly compatible with its natural surroundings. "The Greater Perfection" chronicles the family origins of Les Quatre Vents as well as the story of its expansion during the last twenty-five years. Author Francis Cabot's account of the challenges of developing and enlarging Les Quatre Vents reveals the fascinating process behind the creation of this garden.
The greater perfection : the story of the gardens at Les Quatre-Vents
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Les Quatre Vents in Charlevoix County, Quebec, has been acclaimed as the most aesthetically satisfying and horticulturally exciting landscape experience in North America. The garden combines elements from the best gardening traditions with the original and the unexpected into a splendid composition that is nevertheless perfectly compatible with its natural surroundings. "The Greater Perfection" chronicles the family origins of Les Quatre Vents as well as the story of its expansion during the last twenty-five years. Author Francis Cabot's account of the challenges of developing and enlarging Les Quatre Vents reveals the fascinating process behind the creation of this garden.
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September 2001, New York
September 2001, New York
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Architecture du Québec
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Big Bang Beijing
Big Bang Beijing
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The urban landscape in Beijing is changing in a dramatic and mind boggling tempo; an urban condition may cease to exist one day only to be replaced by another completely different one in a short matter of time. This study presents a selection of categorized images, in order to tell a story about Beijing – a story about the mutation of different styles. Filled(...)
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The urban landscape in Beijing is changing in a dramatic and mind boggling tempo; an urban condition may cease to exist one day only to be replaced by another completely different one in a short matter of time. This study presents a selection of categorized images, in order to tell a story about Beijing – a story about the mutation of different styles. Filled(...)
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Contemporary Asian Architecture
Contemporary Asian Architecture
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December 2007, Tokyo
December 2007, Tokyo
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Big Bang Beijing
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The urban landscape in Beijing is changing in a dramatic and mind boggling tempo; an urban condition may cease to exist one day only to be replaced by another completely different one in a short matter of time. This study presents a selection of categorized images, in order to tell a story about Beijing – a story about the mutation of different styles. Filled predominantly with coloured photographs, the book also includes short essays and contributions from various contributors including; Hiromasa Shirai, André Schmidt, Charles Berman and Rem Koolhaas.
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The urban landscape in Beijing is changing in a dramatic and mind boggling tempo; an urban condition may cease to exist one day only to be replaced by another completely different one in a short matter of time. This study presents a selection of categorized images, in order to tell a story about Beijing – a story about the mutation of different styles. Filled predominantly with coloured photographs, the book also includes short essays and contributions from various contributors including; Hiromasa Shirai, André Schmidt, Charles Berman and Rem Koolhaas.
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December 2007, Tokyo
December 2007, Tokyo
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Contemporary Asian Architecture
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Urban China
Urban China
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Currently there are more than 125 Chinese cities with a population exceeding one million. The unprecedented urban growth in China presents a crucial development for studies on globalization and urban transformation. This concise and engaging book examines the past trajectories, present conditions, and future prospects of Chinese urbanization, by investigating five key(...)
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Currently there are more than 125 Chinese cities with a population exceeding one million. The unprecedented urban growth in China presents a crucial development for studies on globalization and urban transformation. This concise and engaging book examines the past trajectories, present conditions, and future prospects of Chinese urbanization, by investigating five key(...)
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Currently there are more than 125 Chinese cities with a population exceeding one million. The unprecedented urban growth in China presents a crucial development for studies on globalization and urban transformation. This concise and engaging book examines the past trajectories, present conditions, and future prospects of Chinese urbanization, by investigating five key themes - governance, migration, landscape, inequality, and cultural economy. Based on a comprehensive evaluation of the literature and original research materials, Ren offers a critical account of the Chinese urban condition after the first decade of the twenty-first century.
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Currently there are more than 125 Chinese cities with a population exceeding one million. The unprecedented urban growth in China presents a crucial development for studies on globalization and urban transformation. This concise and engaging book examines the past trajectories, present conditions, and future prospects of Chinese urbanization, by investigating five key themes - governance, migration, landscape, inequality, and cultural economy. Based on a comprehensive evaluation of the literature and original research materials, Ren offers a critical account of the Chinese urban condition after the first decade of the twenty-first century.
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April 2013
April 2013
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Contemporary Asian Architecture
Contemporary Asian Architecture
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Preserved buildings and historic districts, museums and reconstructions have become an important part of the landscape of cities around the world. Beginning in the 1970s, Tokyo participated in this trend. However, repeated destruction and rapid redevelopment left the city with little building stock of recognized historical value. Late twentieth-century Tokyo thus presents(...)
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Preserved buildings and historic districts, museums and reconstructions have become an important part of the landscape of cities around the world. Beginning in the 1970s, Tokyo participated in this trend. However, repeated destruction and rapid redevelopment left the city with little building stock of recognized historical value. Late twentieth-century Tokyo thus presents(...)
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Tokyo vernacular : common spaces, local histories, found objects
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Preserved buildings and historic districts, museums and reconstructions have become an important part of the landscape of cities around the world. Beginning in the 1970s, Tokyo participated in this trend. However, repeated destruction and rapid redevelopment left the city with little building stock of recognized historical value. Late twentieth-century Tokyo thus presents an illuminating case of the emergence of a new sense of history in the city’s physical environment, since it required both a shift in perceptions of value and a search for history in the margins and interstices of a rapidly modernizing cityscape.
Tokyo vernacular : common spaces, local histories, found objects
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Preserved buildings and historic districts, museums and reconstructions have become an important part of the landscape of cities around the world. Beginning in the 1970s, Tokyo participated in this trend. However, repeated destruction and rapid redevelopment left the city with little building stock of recognized historical value. Late twentieth-century Tokyo thus presents an illuminating case of the emergence of a new sense of history in the city’s physical environment, since it required both a shift in perceptions of value and a search for history in the margins and interstices of a rapidly modernizing cityscape.
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August 2013
August 2013
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Contemporary Asian Architecture
Contemporary Asian Architecture
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The most significant architectural spaces in the world are now entirely empty of people. The data centres, telecommunications networks, distribution warehouses, unmanned ports and industrialised agriculture that define the very nature of who we are today are at the same time places we can never visit. Marking the end of human-centred design, the issue turns its attention(...)
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The most significant architectural spaces in the world are now entirely empty of people. The data centres, telecommunications networks, distribution warehouses, unmanned ports and industrialised agriculture that define the very nature of who we are today are at the same time places we can never visit. Marking the end of human-centred design, the issue turns its attention(...)
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AD Machine landscapes: architectures of the Post Anthropocene
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The most significant architectural spaces in the world are now entirely empty of people. The data centres, telecommunications networks, distribution warehouses, unmanned ports and industrialised agriculture that define the very nature of who we are today are at the same time places we can never visit. Marking the end of human-centred design, the issue turns its attention to the new typologies of the post-human, architecture without people and our endless expanse of Machine Landscapes.
AD Machine landscapes: architectures of the Post Anthropocene
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The most significant architectural spaces in the world are now entirely empty of people. The data centres, telecommunications networks, distribution warehouses, unmanned ports and industrialised agriculture that define the very nature of who we are today are at the same time places we can never visit. Marking the end of human-centred design, the issue turns its attention to the new typologies of the post-human, architecture without people and our endless expanse of Machine Landscapes.
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February 2019
February 2019
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From the Gothic to the contemporary, glass has transformed the structural, formal, and philosophical principles of architecture. In The "Glass state", Annette Fierro views the many meanings of transparency in architecture. Specifically, she analyzes the transparent monumental buildings that were built in Paris between 1981 and 1998 as part of François Mitterrand’s(...)
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From the Gothic to the contemporary, glass has transformed the structural, formal, and philosophical principles of architecture. In The "Glass state", Annette Fierro views the many meanings of transparency in architecture. Specifically, she analyzes the transparent monumental buildings that were built in Paris between 1981 and 1998 as part of François Mitterrand’s(...)
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Architecture since 1900, Europe
Architecture since 1900, Europe
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December 2002, Cambridge / London
December 2002, Cambridge / London
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The glass state : the technology of the spectacle - Paris, 1981-1998
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From the Gothic to the contemporary, glass has transformed the structural, formal, and philosophical principles of architecture. In The "Glass state", Annette Fierro views the many meanings of transparency in architecture. Specifically, she analyzes the transparent monumental buildings that were built in Paris between 1981 and 1998 as part of François Mitterrand’s program of Grands Projets. The Grands Projets provide a rare opportunity to study a finite set of buildings constructed of similar materials, in the same time period, in a specific urban landscape, and with related ideological missions. Fierro employs a "discourse of the detail," in which the smallest architectural detail manifests the political, theoretical, and urban contexts of the building’s design and construction. She examines the paradox of the most pared down architectural configurations being used to support the most complex meanings. Intrinsic to Mitterrand’s glass buildings in Paris, for example, is a political concept: the metaphor of accessibility as a means of breaking open cultural institutions previously closed to the public. In addition to the structures of the Grands Projets--the Institut du Monde Arabe, the Grande and Petite Pyramides du Louvre, the glass greenhouses at utopian park projects at La Villette and Andre Citroën, and the Bibliothèque nationale de France--Fierro discusses the Fondation Cartier and two precedent structures, the Centre Georges Pompidou and the Eiffel Tower.
The glass state : the technology of the spectacle - Paris, 1981-1998
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From the Gothic to the contemporary, glass has transformed the structural, formal, and philosophical principles of architecture. In The "Glass state", Annette Fierro views the many meanings of transparency in architecture. Specifically, she analyzes the transparent monumental buildings that were built in Paris between 1981 and 1998 as part of François Mitterrand’s program of Grands Projets. The Grands Projets provide a rare opportunity to study a finite set of buildings constructed of similar materials, in the same time period, in a specific urban landscape, and with related ideological missions. Fierro employs a "discourse of the detail," in which the smallest architectural detail manifests the political, theoretical, and urban contexts of the building’s design and construction. She examines the paradox of the most pared down architectural configurations being used to support the most complex meanings. Intrinsic to Mitterrand’s glass buildings in Paris, for example, is a political concept: the metaphor of accessibility as a means of breaking open cultural institutions previously closed to the public. In addition to the structures of the Grands Projets--the Institut du Monde Arabe, the Grande and Petite Pyramides du Louvre, the glass greenhouses at utopian park projects at La Villette and Andre Citroën, and the Bibliothèque nationale de France--Fierro discusses the Fondation Cartier and two precedent structures, the Centre Georges Pompidou and the Eiffel Tower.
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December 2002, Cambridge / London
December 2002, Cambridge / London
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Architecture since 1900, Europe
Architecture since 1900, Europe
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127 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 28 x 36 cm
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Bologna, Italy : Damiani ; Akron, Ohio : Akron Art Museum, ©2010.
Bologna, Italy : Damiani ; Akron, Ohio : Akron Art Museum, ©2010.
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Detroit disassembled / essay by Philip Levine ; photographs by Andrew Moore.
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127 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 28 x 36 cm
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Bologna, Italy : Damiani ; Akron, Ohio : Akron Art Museum, ©2010.
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Ever since the discovery of the cave, humans have made use of nature’s geological formations. Only recently, however, have developments in structural engineering made it possible to engage the earth’s surface as a building element in its own right. With an increasing awareness of our planet’s limited natural resources, the most acclaimed architectural practices from(...)
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Ever since the discovery of the cave, humans have made use of nature’s geological formations. Only recently, however, have developments in structural engineering made it possible to engage the earth’s surface as a building element in its own right. With an increasing awareness of our planet’s limited natural resources, the most acclaimed architectural practices from(...)
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Landscrapers : building with the land
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Ever since the discovery of the cave, humans have made use of nature’s geological formations. Only recently, however, have developments in structural engineering made it possible to engage the earth’s surface as a building element in its own right. With an increasing awareness of our planet’s limited natural resources, the most acclaimed architectural practices from around the world are building into the earth and merging man-made forms with the contours of the land. The results are at once preternatural and breathtaking. From Zaha Hadid’s Tram Terminal in France to Snøhetta’s Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Egypt, from Future System’s hill-burrowing house in Wales to Antoine Predock’s Spencer Theater in the United States, over fifty projects displayed here expose the breadth and depth of this new direction in architecture. Aaron Betsky first considers our historical preoccupation with communing with the land through building, then four central chapters – ‘Engineered Utopias’, ‘Caves and Caverns’, ‘Unfolding the Land’ and ‘A New Nature’ – explore the ways in which ‘geotecture’ responds to, becomes a part of and yet remains distinctive within our natural landscape.
Landscrapers : building with the land
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Ever since the discovery of the cave, humans have made use of nature’s geological formations. Only recently, however, have developments in structural engineering made it possible to engage the earth’s surface as a building element in its own right. With an increasing awareness of our planet’s limited natural resources, the most acclaimed architectural practices from around the world are building into the earth and merging man-made forms with the contours of the land. The results are at once preternatural and breathtaking. From Zaha Hadid’s Tram Terminal in France to Snøhetta’s Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Egypt, from Future System’s hill-burrowing house in Wales to Antoine Predock’s Spencer Theater in the United States, over fifty projects displayed here expose the breadth and depth of this new direction in architecture. Aaron Betsky first considers our historical preoccupation with communing with the land through building, then four central chapters – ‘Engineered Utopias’, ‘Caves and Caverns’, ‘Unfolding the Land’ and ‘A New Nature’ – explore the ways in which ‘geotecture’ responds to, becomes a part of and yet remains distinctive within our natural landscape.
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October 2002, New York
October 2002, New York
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Architecture since 1900, Europe
Architecture since 1900, Europe
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This publication attempts to critically present and interpret the urbanisation processes of the contemporary Greek city-- a product of post-War modernisation-- through five fields/constituent conditions: poly-katoikia, poli(s)-katoikia, form-less, border-less, place-less. These are conditions of indeterminacy that seem to establish the difference and, simultaneously, the(...)
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This publication attempts to critically present and interpret the urbanisation processes of the contemporary Greek city-- a product of post-War modernisation-- through five fields/constituent conditions: poly-katoikia, poli(s)-katoikia, form-less, border-less, place-less. These are conditions of indeterminacy that seem to establish the difference and, simultaneously, the(...)
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Architecture since 1900, Europe
Architecture since 1900, Europe
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January 1900, Athens
January 1900, Athens
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The contemporary (Greek) city
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This publication attempts to critically present and interpret the urbanisation processes of the contemporary Greek city-- a product of post-War modernisation-- through five fields/constituent conditions: poly-katoikia, poli(s)-katoikia, form-less, border-less, place-less. These are conditions of indeterminacy that seem to establish the difference and, simultaneously, the challenge within the new metropolitan landscape. Bilingual publication: Greek-English.
The contemporary (Greek) city
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This publication attempts to critically present and interpret the urbanisation processes of the contemporary Greek city-- a product of post-War modernisation-- through five fields/constituent conditions: poly-katoikia, poli(s)-katoikia, form-less, border-less, place-less. These are conditions of indeterminacy that seem to establish the difference and, simultaneously, the challenge within the new metropolitan landscape. Bilingual publication: Greek-English.
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January 1900, Athens
January 1900, Athens
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This book presents neither a modernist nor a postmodernist view of the city and its environment. The text and images do not project ideals of urban development, nor do they solve social and environmental problems. Rather, they present a hybrid landscape shaped and reshaped by practices of everyday urbanization for a city now characterized as the "first" city of the 21st century.
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This book presents neither a modernist nor a postmodernist view of the city and its environment. The text and images do not project ideals of urban development, nor do they solve social and environmental problems. Rather, they present a hybrid landscape shaped and reshaped by practices of everyday urbanization for a city now characterized as the "first" city of the 21st century.
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Architecture since 1900, Europe
Architecture since 1900, Europe
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October 2008, Berlin
October 2008, Berlin
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Urbanising the Mojave desert : Las Vegas
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This book presents neither a modernist nor a postmodernist view of the city and its environment. The text and images do not project ideals of urban development, nor do they solve social and environmental problems. Rather, they present a hybrid landscape shaped and reshaped by practices of everyday urbanization for a city now characterized as the "first" city of the 21st century.
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This book presents neither a modernist nor a postmodernist view of the city and its environment. The text and images do not project ideals of urban development, nor do they solve social and environmental problems. Rather, they present a hybrid landscape shaped and reshaped by practices of everyday urbanization for a city now characterized as the "first" city of the 21st century.
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October 2008, Berlin
October 2008, Berlin
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Architecture since 1900, Europe
Architecture since 1900, Europe
