Book of ruins
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''Book of ruins'' offers a survey – not encyclopedic, but substantial – of leading moments when the fact and idea of ruins were taken up by writers, travellers and artists: painters, film makers, landscape architects, and architects. Gathering together short texts and extracts that describe and reflect on ruins, dating from remote antiquity (Scipio shedding tears when(...)
Architectural Theory
September 2022
Book of ruins
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''Book of ruins'' offers a survey – not encyclopedic, but substantial – of leading moments when the fact and idea of ruins were taken up by writers, travellers and artists: painters, film makers, landscape architects, and architects. Gathering together short texts and extracts that describe and reflect on ruins, dating from remote antiquity (Scipio shedding tears when viewing the destruction of Carthage) to present times (the ruins of a modern city, portrayed in the film ''Requiem for Detroit''), it provides a perspective upon what the past has meant to different cultures at different times. Following an introductory essay, the book includes 70 entries, chronologically ordered, each including an indicative image (or two), an introductory commentary by the authors, and the text itself. The texts come from designers (from Bernini through Piranesi to David Chipperfield) as well as other artists (John Piper), and from literary figures (Goethe, Wordsworth, Byron and Shelley, Hugo, and Hardy). It concludes by discussing what we do with ruins by way of preservation, conservation, adaptive reuse and appropriation, and contemporary loss and ruin, as illustrated by 9/11 and the Neues Museum and highlighting the continuing relevance of the ruin.
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305 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm
México, D.F. : Panorama Editorial, ©1985.
Ciudades prehispánicas de México : Tula, Teotihuacán, Monte Albán, Tajín y Chichen Itzá / Luis E. Arochi.
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México, D.F. : Panorama Editorial, ©1985.
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xviii, 468 pages : illustrations ; 23 x 26 cm
Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, ©1975.
Maya cities: placemaking and urbanization / George F. Andrews.
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xviii, 468 pages : illustrations ; 23 x 26 cm
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Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, ©1975.
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2 volumes, 13 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 37 cm
London : G. Bell, 1875-77.
Notes on Irish architecture / by Edwin, third earl of Dunraven ; edited by Margaret Stokes.
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London : G. Bell, 1875-77.
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175 pages, 58 [i.e. 48] leaves of plates : illustrations, map, plans ; 26 cm
Beyrouth : Impr. Catholique, 1933.
A travers les villes mortes de haute Syrie : promenades archéologiques en 1928, 1929, 1931 / Joseph Mattern.
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175 pages, 58 [i.e. 48] leaves of plates : illustrations, map, plans ; 26 cm
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Beyrouth : Impr. Catholique, 1933.
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1 portfolio (iv (2), 124 pages, 16 leaves of plates) : illustrations (some color), facsimiles, plans ; 30 cm
Wien : Schroll & Co., 1911.
Die Burg Aggstein an der Donau in Niederösterreich : Erforschung und Beschreibung ihres jetzigen Zustandes und Entwurf für deren Rekonstruktion nach dem mutmasslichen Bestande zur Zeit ihrer im Jahre 1429 erfolgten Wiedererbauung / von Eduard Reithmayer.
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1 portfolio (iv (2), 124 pages, 16 leaves of plates) : illustrations (some color), facsimiles, plans ; 30 cm
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Wien : Schroll & Co., 1911.
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Col tempo, 1956-2024 / Guido Guidi ; a cura di Simona Antonacci, Pippo Ciorra, Antonello Frongia.
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425 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), facsimiles, portraits ; 31 cm
[Rome] : MAXXI ; [London] : MACK, 2024.
Col tempo, 1956-2024 / Guido Guidi ; a cura di Simona Antonacci, Pippo Ciorra, Antonello Frongia.
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[Rome] : MAXXI ; [London] : MACK, 2024.
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87 pages illustrations 22 cm
Seaforth, Ont., Huron Expositor, 1968.
From forest to thriving hamlets.
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Seaforth, Ont., Huron Expositor, 1968.
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Figure majeure et originale des landscape studies anglo-saxonnes, Jackson (1911-1996), fut successivement touriste-reporter un Europe, romancier, cow-boy, officier de renseignement, ranchero, éditeur, et visiting professor dans quelques-unes des plus grandes universités américaines. Les nombreux essais qu'il a consacrés à la lecture des paysages occidentaux et a leurs(...)
De la nécessité des ruines et autres sujets
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Figure majeure et originale des landscape studies anglo-saxonnes, Jackson (1911-1996), fut successivement touriste-reporter un Europe, romancier, cow-boy, officier de renseignement, ranchero, éditeur, et visiting professor dans quelques-unes des plus grandes universités américaines. Les nombreux essais qu'il a consacrés à la lecture des paysages occidentaux et a leurs mutations conjuguent une observation de première main avec une culture historique exceptionnelle et une grande indépendance d'esprit qui s'exprime dans une prose souple et maîtrisée. Dans la Nécessité des Ruines, l'un de ses recueils les plus aboutis, ce précurseur de l'enseignement du paysage livre une sorte de testament : de la balade considérée comme un des beaux-arts.
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These ruins you see
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This publication is part of the projet These Ruins You See, it includes the project's research, realization, and a series of specially commissioned essays. This project has manifested in different exhibitions, publications, and lectures. These Ruins You See was exhibited at the Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil from November 8, 2006 to February 28, 2007.
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September 2008, New York
These ruins you see
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This publication is part of the projet These Ruins You See, it includes the project's research, realization, and a series of specially commissioned essays. This project has manifested in different exhibitions, publications, and lectures. These Ruins You See was exhibited at the Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil from November 8, 2006 to February 28, 2007.
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September 2008, New York
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