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Sundries catalog.
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1 volume [approximately 28] pages : illustrations ; 19 x 24 cm
Columbus, Ohio : Welsbach Co., [approximately 1890]
Sundries catalog.
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Halliday's harvest sale.
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30 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm
Hamilton [Ont.] : Halliday Co. Ltd., ©1931.
Halliday's harvest sale.
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Hamilton [Ont.] : Halliday Co. Ltd., ©1931.
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"Glasraum" is the result of a collaboration in the fields of architecture and photography. Set within the interiors of a remodelled office by Ganko, with pictures by Louis De Belle, the book occupies a liminal state between documentation and composition. Favouring a certain classicism in the strand of the modern tradition both authors identify with, Glasraum explores the(...)
May 2024
Ganko, Louis De Belle: Glasraum
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"Glasraum" is the result of a collaboration in the fields of architecture and photography. Set within the interiors of a remodelled office by Ganko, with pictures by Louis De Belle, the book occupies a liminal state between documentation and composition. Favouring a certain classicism in the strand of the modern tradition both authors identify with, Glasraum explores the deliberate ambiguities embedded in a seemingly aloof approach to the construction of both space and image.
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The topics that Friedman and his interviewees discuss illuminate five overarching themes: the functions and meanings of home; history, tradition, and change in residential architecture; activism, sustainability, and the environment; cities, suburbs, and regions; and technology, innovation, and materials. Friedman frames the interviews with an extended introduction that(...)
The American idea of home: conversations about architecture and design
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The topics that Friedman and his interviewees discuss illuminate five overarching themes: the functions and meanings of home; history, tradition, and change in residential architecture; activism, sustainability, and the environment; cities, suburbs, and regions; and technology, innovation, and materials. Friedman frames the interviews with an extended introduction that highlights these themes and helps readers appreciate the common concerns that underlie projects as disparate as Katrina cottages and Frank Lloyd Wright Usonian houses.
Architectural Theory
Aglaia Konrad: desert cities
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This publication is part of a series of artist' books and conceptual art publications, edited, compiled and selected by Christoph Keller. Neither an architectural nor a documentary photographer, Aglaia Konrad focuses a direct gaze on cities like Cairo, Alexandria and Anwar el Sadat, capturing applications of “Modernist” principles in desert architecture. Her photographs(...)
Contemporary Art Monographs
June 2008, Zürich
Aglaia Konrad: desert cities
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This publication is part of a series of artist' books and conceptual art publications, edited, compiled and selected by Christoph Keller. Neither an architectural nor a documentary photographer, Aglaia Konrad focuses a direct gaze on cities like Cairo, Alexandria and Anwar el Sadat, capturing applications of “Modernist” principles in desert architecture. Her photographs spotlight an improbable dialogue between imported models and vernacular elements, constructions and sites, desert and communities, modernity and tradition.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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Jaipur, famous for its pink-hued buildings, is a melting pot of Rajput, Mughal, and other cultures, and is also the seat of an extensive vernacular tradition. In addition, visitors to the city will find a contemporary architecture infusing new forms with the legacy of the past and the spirit of place. This handy guide offers information on 166 buildings and places to(...)
Jaipur architectural travel guide
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Jaipur, famous for its pink-hued buildings, is a melting pot of Rajput, Mughal, and other cultures, and is also the seat of an extensive vernacular tradition. In addition, visitors to the city will find a contemporary architecture infusing new forms with the legacy of the past and the spirit of place. This handy guide offers information on 166 buildings and places to visit throughout the city, along with seven itineraries full of practical information.
City Guides
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Nicolas Malebranche is now recognised as a major figure in the history of philosophy, occupying a crucial place in the Rationalist tradition of Descartes, Spinoza and Leibniz. The Search after Truth is his first, longest and most important work; this volume also presents the Elucidations which accompanied its third edition, the result of comments that Malebranche(...)
March 1997, Cambridge
Malebranche the search after truth
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Nicolas Malebranche is now recognised as a major figure in the history of philosophy, occupying a crucial place in the Rationalist tradition of Descartes, Spinoza and Leibniz. The Search after Truth is his first, longest and most important work; this volume also presents the Elucidations which accompanied its third edition, the result of comments that Malebranche solicited on the original work and an important repository of his theories of ideas and causation.
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Ilay Cooper, who has travelled extensively in India since 1965, surveys the vernacular buildings of each region with an expert knowledge of materials and techniques, as well as of history and tradition. Barry Dawson's photographs bring us into intimate contact with the rural towns and villages of India where ninety per cent of the population live and work.(...)
Traditional Buildings of India
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Ilay Cooper, who has travelled extensively in India since 1965, surveys the vernacular buildings of each region with an expert knowledge of materials and techniques, as well as of history and tradition. Barry Dawson's photographs bring us into intimate contact with the rural towns and villages of India where ninety per cent of the population live and work. Through this colourful, intimate and humane study of traditional architecture, the many personalities of India are revealed.
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May 1998, London
Arch Middle East
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"What I was looking for with this house was probably a return to the main principles of modernism. I was trying to look for the very basics of architecture: a simple structure, simple construction methods, and straightforward spatial conditions that would satisfy the needs of our family. The house was a laboratory where I was looking back to where the tradition of(...)
Enrique Norten : a house in the city
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"What I was looking for with this house was probably a return to the main principles of modernism. I was trying to look for the very basics of architecture: a simple structure, simple construction methods, and straightforward spatial conditions that would satisfy the needs of our family. The house was a laboratory where I was looking back to where the tradition of modernity started, and I tried to recapture that." -Enrique Norten
Architecture Monographs
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Camille Solyagua’s photographs of natural history function within a tradition of “Wunderkammers,”cabinets of natural curiousities brought together by visual analogies. Benevolent Pleasures of Sight presents a comprehensive selection of Solyagua’s photographs in an edition of 1000 numbered copies. Robert Sobiezek’s introduction discusses how Solyagua’s work unites an(...)
Camille Solyagua: Benevolent pleasures of sight
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Camille Solyagua’s photographs of natural history function within a tradition of “Wunderkammers,”cabinets of natural curiousities brought together by visual analogies. Benevolent Pleasures of Sight presents a comprehensive selection of Solyagua’s photographs in an edition of 1000 numbered copies. Robert Sobiezek’s introduction discusses how Solyagua’s work unites an 18th-century notion of extraordinary eccentricities with a Surrealist concept of convulsive beauty, while Ruth Bernhard writes of her own deeply felt response to Solyagua’s imagery.
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