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This book is a cutting edge study exploring the field of the conception and the tectonic making of place as it impinges in, and thus changes, the site in which it is set. It examines the attitudes to both nature and the built environment of the designer, the client and the society in which an intervention (be it architecture, landscape design or a piece of art) is made.(...)
Constructing place : mind and matter
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This book is a cutting edge study exploring the field of the conception and the tectonic making of place as it impinges in, and thus changes, the site in which it is set. It examines the attitudes to both nature and the built environment of the designer, the client and the society in which an intervention (be it architecture, landscape design or a piece of art) is made. The legacy of the Modernist view of nature and the environment is also addressed, and the degree to which such ideas continue to impinge on contemporary interventions is assessed. These topics are addressed through the methodologies of history, theory, philosophy and psychology. The book forges new collaborative ideas in an interdisciplinary way, including essays on architecture, planning, landscape and philosophy (particularly applied aesthetics).
Architectural Theory
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For some people, their lawn is a source of pride, and for others, caring for their lawn is a chore. Yet for an increasing number of people, turf care is a cause of ecological anxiety. In Lawn People, author Paul Robbins, asks, "How did the needs of the grass come to be my own?" In his goal to get a clearer picture of why people and grasses do what they do, Robbins(...)
Lawn People: how grasses, weeds and chemicals make us who we are
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For some people, their lawn is a source of pride, and for others, caring for their lawn is a chore. Yet for an increasing number of people, turf care is a cause of ecological anxiety. In Lawn People, author Paul Robbins, asks, "How did the needs of the grass come to be my own?" In his goal to get a clearer picture of why people and grasses do what they do, Robbins interviews homeowners about their lawns, and uses national surveys, analysis from aerial photographs, and economic data to determine what people really feel about-and how they treat-their lawns. Lawn People places the lawn in its ecological, economic, and social context. Robbins considers the attention we pay our turfgrass-the chemicals we use to grow lawns, the hazards of turf care to our urban ecology, and its potential impact on water quality and household health. He also shows how the ecology of cities creates certain kinds of citizens, deftly contrasting man's control of the lawn with the lawn's control of man. Lawn People provides an intriguing examination of nature's influence on landscape management and on the ecosystem.
Green Architecture
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«I have always been interested in spiritual places where memories and stories reside in the landscape. Places that have been altered and impacted by the people who have made their lives on the land. The Gaspé Peninsula is such a place.» Linda Rutenberg
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Linda Rutenberg: The Gaspé peninsula, land on the edge of time
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«I have always been interested in spiritual places where memories and stories reside in the landscape. Places that have been altered and impacted by the people who have made their lives on the land. The Gaspé Peninsula is such a place.» Linda Rutenberg
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C'est l'histoire des raisons pour lesquelles la société urbaine des pays riches en est venue à idéaliser le modèle de l'habitation individuelle au plus près de la nature. De ses plus anciennes expressions mythologiques jusqu'à l'urbain diffus contemporain, cette histoire couvre plus de trois millénaires. Elle aboutit aujourd'hui à un paradoxe insoutenable : la quête de "(...)
November 2010
Histoire de l'habitat idéal: De l'orient vers l'occident
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C'est l'histoire des raisons pour lesquelles la société urbaine des pays riches en est venue à idéaliser le modèle de l'habitation individuelle au plus près de la nature. De ses plus anciennes expressions mythologiques jusqu'à l'urbain diffus contemporain, cette histoire couvre plus de trois millénaires. Elle aboutit aujourd'hui à un paradoxe insoutenable : la quête de " la nature " (en termes de paysage) détruit son objet même : la nature (en termes d'écosystèmes et de biosphère). Associée à l'automobile, la maison individuelle est effectivement devenue le motif directeur d'un genre de vie dont l'empreinte écologique démesurée entraîne une surconsommation insoutenable à long terme des ressources de la nature.
Great city parks
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Great City Parks is a celebration of some of the finest achievements of landscape architecture in the public realm. It is a comparative study of thirty significant public parks in major cities across Western Europe and North America. Collectively, they give a clear picture of why parks have been created, how they have been designed, how they are managed, and what plans(...)
Great city parks
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Great City Parks is a celebration of some of the finest achievements of landscape architecture in the public realm. It is a comparative study of thirty significant public parks in major cities across Western Europe and North America. Collectively, they give a clear picture of why parks have been created, how they have been designed, how they are managed, and what plans are being made for them at the beginning of the twenty-first century.
Urban Landscapes
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New York is an exciting book dedicated to one of the world's most fascinating and vibrant cities. Lavishly illustrated this architectural overview documents both the historical development and the future prospects of New York. Throughout New York you will find a wide range of projects which demonstrate every aspect of the city's construction, including commercial,(...)
Architecture since 1900, Europe
February 2001, West Sussex
New York
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New York is an exciting book dedicated to one of the world's most fascinating and vibrant cities. Lavishly illustrated this architectural overview documents both the historical development and the future prospects of New York. Throughout New York you will find a wide range of projects which demonstrate every aspect of the city's construction, including commercial, residential, industrial and public buildings, as well as transportation and landscape works.
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February 2001, West Sussex
Architecture since 1900, Europe
Japanese interiors
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Exploring the art and craft of Japanese residential interiors, author Mihoko Iida provides an insider's look into the wide-ranging interior design of her country's private homes. Featuring twenty-eight exemplary residences around Japan – from urban apartments to mountain and seaside escapes – the book showcases aspirational minimalist homes alongside functional live/work(...)
Japanese interiors
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Exploring the art and craft of Japanese residential interiors, author Mihoko Iida provides an insider's look into the wide-ranging interior design of her country's private homes. Featuring twenty-eight exemplary residences around Japan – from urban apartments to mountain and seaside escapes – the book showcases aspirational minimalist homes alongside functional live/work spaces and traditional historic dwellings. Throughout, Iida demonstrates the enduring philosophy of integrating the natural landscape into the home, and details the influences and continuing evolution of Japanese interior design. The book also showcases homes designed by some of Japan's top architects, such as Kengo Kuma, nendo, Koji Fujii, Arata Endo, and Takamitsu Azuma.
Contemporary Asian Architecture
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Spanning four continents and six countries, this book introduces "new art landscapes" that fuse architecture, the reuse of found structures, environmentalism, and artistic experimentation. Through words and pictures, readers explore six institutions--Olympic Sculpture Park, Seattle, USA; Raketenstation Hombroich, near Neuss, Germany; Benesse Art Site in Naoshima, Japan;(...)
White cube, green maze: new art landscapes
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Spanning four continents and six countries, this book introduces "new art landscapes" that fuse architecture, the reuse of found structures, environmentalism, and artistic experimentation. Through words and pictures, readers explore six institutions--Olympic Sculpture Park, Seattle, USA; Raketenstation Hombroich, near Neuss, Germany; Benesse Art Site in Naoshima, Japan; Inhotim, near Belo Horizonte, Brazil; Jardin Botanico, Culiacan, Mexico; and Grand Traiano Art Complex, Grottaferrata, Italy--dedicated to the experience of culture and nature. Integrating vegetation and non-linear sequences of spaces, the sites offer multiple experiences enticing the visitor to circulate between and within buildings. The sites are depicted with architects' plans and sketches, historical photographs, and maquettes and sketches by key installation artists. Raymund Ryan's essay discusses important historical precedents and considers the defining characteristics of "new art landscapes" through descriptions of each of the projects. Brian O'Doherty offers an artist's critical perspective, while Marc Treib situates the projects in the history of landscape design Architects under consideration include such established masters as Tadao Ando and Alvaro Siza Vieira as well as emerging practices such as Tatiana Bilbao and Johnston Marklee.
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Subconscious city
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"Subsconscious city" examines the often hidden underpinnings of Winnipeg - its myths, its vacant lots, its forgotten communities, its hidden gems - and reveals a complicated picture of place. Created as a companion to the contemporary art exhibition of the same name curated by Shawna Dempsey and Lori Millan, this publication delves into the nature of our urban social and(...)
Architecture in Canada
March 2008, Winnipeg
Subconscious city
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"Subsconscious city" examines the often hidden underpinnings of Winnipeg - its myths, its vacant lots, its forgotten communities, its hidden gems - and reveals a complicated picture of place. Created as a companion to the contemporary art exhibition of the same name curated by Shawna Dempsey and Lori Millan, this publication delves into the nature of our urban social and physical landscape, and its power to shape identity. This volume includes poetry and lyrics by John K. Samson, new fiction by Guy Maddin, creative meditations by Jeanne Randolph and Marvin Francis, and essays by Sigrid Dahle, Molly Johnson and Richard Milgrom, Claudine Majzels, and Dempsey and Millan, ranging in topics from the benefits of zero growth to the Aboriginal urban experience. Artworks of KC Adams, Keith Berens, Simon Hughes' Bonnie Marin, Diana Thorneycroft and many others.
Architecture in Canada
BosBus mobile nature reserve
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The last place anyone would look for Nature would probably be inside a bus. Yet, as this charming book proves, that’s where you could find it - at least during the International Architecture Biennale 2003. The BosBus, an ordinary city bus with a growing forest inside it, traveled the streets of Rotterdam, hosting debates and dialogues en route, as architects, city(...)
November 2004, Rotterdam
BosBus mobile nature reserve
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The last place anyone would look for Nature would probably be inside a bus. Yet, as this charming book proves, that’s where you could find it - at least during the International Architecture Biennale 2003. The BosBus, an ordinary city bus with a growing forest inside it, traveled the streets of Rotterdam, hosting debates and dialogues en route, as architects, city planners, ecologists and biologists hammered out the relationship between culture and nature in and around the city.