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This book takes an in-depth look at the social lives of five objects commonly found in the public spaces of New York City and its suburbs, revealing how our interactions with such material things are our primary point of contact with the social, political, and economic forces that shape city life. Drawing on groundbreaking fieldwork and a wealth of original interviews,(...)
In the midst of things: The social lives of objects in the public spaces of New York City
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This book takes an in-depth look at the social lives of five objects commonly found in the public spaces of New York City and its suburbs, revealing how our interactions with such material things are our primary point of contact with the social, political, and economic forces that shape city life. Drawing on groundbreaking fieldwork and a wealth of original interviews, Mike Owen Benediktsson shows how we are in the midst of things whose profound social role often goes overlooked. This publication demonstrates how the material realm is one of immediacy, control, inequality, and unpredictability, and how these factors frustrate the ability of designers, planners, and regulators to shape human behavior.
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Mosaics West8
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Rotterdams West 8 is not only one of the largest, but also one of the best-known and most active design firms working in Europe today in the field of "urban design and landscape architecture." The phrase suggests the firms strongly interdisciplinary orientation between landscape architecture and town planning. Its projects are provocative, avant-garde in the typically(...)
Landscape Architecture, Monographs
August 2006, Basel, Boston, Berlin
Mosaics West8
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Rotterdams West 8 is not only one of the largest, but also one of the best-known and most active design firms working in Europe today in the field of "urban design and landscape architecture." The phrase suggests the firms strongly interdisciplinary orientation between landscape architecture and town planning. Its projects are provocative, avant-garde in the typically Dutch manner, and not afraid of contact with popular culture. They were created in close collaboration with such architects as Richard Rogers, Steven Holl, Dominique Perrault, Rem Koolhaas, Renzo Piano, and many others. The founder and director of the firm and its most highly visible figure is Adriaan Geuze, who is the author of this book.
Landscape Architecture, Monographs
Aglaia Konrad: Japan works
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Aglaia Konrad’s photographic work probes the social, cultural, economic, political, and historical parameters that inform architecture and urbanism. 'Japan Works' is the result of her journey through Japan in the autumn of 2019. Using a pre-compiled list of places with exceptional architecture, Konrad took thousands of photos in Tokyo, Itoigawa, Kyoto, Nagoya and Osaka.(...)
Aglaia Konrad: Japan works
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Aglaia Konrad’s photographic work probes the social, cultural, economic, political, and historical parameters that inform architecture and urbanism. 'Japan Works' is the result of her journey through Japan in the autumn of 2019. Using a pre-compiled list of places with exceptional architecture, Konrad took thousands of photos in Tokyo, Itoigawa, Kyoto, Nagoya and Osaka. In addition to mostly iconic, post-war Metabolist architecture, Konrad also took a large number of photos of nonspecific architectural moments and infrastructure that, with the same intensity, give their own impression of the architectural landscape in Japan. Free associations of full-page photographs alternate with contact sheets documenting her itinerary. These are informed by postscript glosses written by architect and critic Julian Worrall.
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The shipping container is all around: whizzing by on the highway, trundling past on rails, unloading behind a big box store even as you shop there, clanking on the docks just out of sight…. 90% of the goods and materials that move around the globe do so in shipping containers. It is an absolutely ubiquitous object, even if most of us have no direct contact with it. But(...)
Shipping container (object lessons)
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The shipping container is all around: whizzing by on the highway, trundling past on rails, unloading behind a big box store even as you shop there, clanking on the docks just out of sight…. 90% of the goods and materials that move around the globe do so in shipping containers. It is an absolutely ubiquitous object, even if most of us have no direct contact with it. But what is this thing? Where has it been, and where is it going? Craig Martin's book illuminates the “development of containerization”-including design history, standardization, aesthetics, and a surprising speculative discussion of the futurity of shipping containers. - See more at: http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/shipping-container-9781501303142/#sthash.2H0oxVN8.dpuf
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January 2016
Transportation, Tourism, Migration
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Au sein des quartiers et dans les projets de rénovation urbaine, tout comme autour de l’habitat et des immeubles de bureaux, le végétal apporte aux citoyens de nombreux bienfaits : il incite à une activité physique, favorise les rencontres, purifie l’air et préserve la biodiversité. De l’intimité d’un petit jardin breton à la métamorphose des berges du Rhône à Lyon, les(...)
Jardins et paysages d'aujourd'hui
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Au sein des quartiers et dans les projets de rénovation urbaine, tout comme autour de l’habitat et des immeubles de bureaux, le végétal apporte aux citoyens de nombreux bienfaits : il incite à une activité physique, favorise les rencontres, purifie l’air et préserve la biodiversité. De l’intimité d’un petit jardin breton à la métamorphose des berges du Rhône à Lyon, les quarante aménagements paysagers présentés dans ce livre contribuent à l’embellissement de notre quotidien. Outre leur fonctionnalité, l’harmonie de la composition et l’émotion du premier contact visuel, ils ont convaincu le jury des Victoires du Paysage par leur intégration au site, le choix d’essences adaptées au contexte, des solutions éco-responsables pour l’entretien et l’implication des usagers.
Gardens
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L’ouvrage « Vivre sans plastique » se place en continuité des efforts de Chantal Plamondon et Jay Sinha de sensibilisation aux dangers que représentent notamment les produits à base de BPA, le polystyrène et autres plastiques à usage unique. Couramment utilisés pour emballer des aliments, des boissons, des produits de soins personnels et de nettoyage, la plupart des(...)
Environment and environmental theory
October 2019
Vivre sans plastique : des outils écologiques à notre portée
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L’ouvrage « Vivre sans plastique » se place en continuité des efforts de Chantal Plamondon et Jay Sinha de sensibilisation aux dangers que représentent notamment les produits à base de BPA, le polystyrène et autres plastiques à usage unique. Couramment utilisés pour emballer des aliments, des boissons, des produits de soins personnels et de nettoyage, la plupart des plastiques peuvent en effet libérer des produits chimiques lorsqu’ils entrent en contact avec de la nourriture et de l’eau. Jay et Chantal expliquent dans ce guide comment analyser son utilisation personnelle du plastique et comment trouver ou créer des alternatives à ce matériau en donnant des idées de substituts sûrs, réutilisables et abordables. Un livre appelé à devenir la référence en la matière.
Environment and environmental theory
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Despite the rich discourse surrounding it and the dynamic practice that it engendered, the photographic avant-garde in Japan only existed for a brief period during the 1920s and ’30s. Yet it also contributed to the continuation of the production of radical visual arts and played a key role in the education of a post-war generation of Japanese artists who came of age in(...)
Avant-Garde rising: The photographic vanguard in modern Japan
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Despite the rich discourse surrounding it and the dynamic practice that it engendered, the photographic avant-garde in Japan only existed for a brief period during the 1920s and ’30s. Yet it also contributed to the continuation of the production of radical visual arts and played a key role in the education of a post-war generation of Japanese artists who came of age in the 1950s and ’60s. Initially centred around Osaka and the Kansai region, the movement was inspired by contact with the work of photographers and surrealists overseas, at first through magazines and photobooks and later by touring exhibitions in Japan. This catalogue presents an impressive visual history of the movement.
Photography Collections
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Published in concert with a major exhibition at the CCA in 1995, ''Scenes of the World to Come'' analyses the global structures and thematic strategies according to which American architectural forms and urban models migrated to the Old Continent, bringing the promise of a new architecture and, along with it, the threat of a dissolution of European identity.(...)
Scenes of the world to come: European architecture and the American challenge, 1893-1960
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Published in concert with a major exhibition at the CCA in 1995, ''Scenes of the World to Come'' analyses the global structures and thematic strategies according to which American architectural forms and urban models migrated to the Old Continent, bringing the promise of a new architecture and, along with it, the threat of a dissolution of European identity. The text traces the assimilation of American models in the various countries of Europe: in Germany, where the discipline of urban planning was founded; in futurist and fascist Italy; in France, where the Beaux-Arts tradition was profoundly shaken by contact with America; in avant-garde and Stalinist Russia; and in Great Britain after 1945.
CCA Publications
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In 1949, the photographer Lucien Hervé (1910–2007) took a picture of an innovative apartment building in Marseille, France, and sent it to the building’s architect, Le Corbusier (1887–1965). Le Corbusier responded by asking Hervé to become his official photographer. This book recounts the collaboration between these Modernists. The author takes the reader on a tour of(...)
September 2011
Le Corbusier and Lucien Hervé: a dialogue between architect and photographe
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In 1949, the photographer Lucien Hervé (1910–2007) took a picture of an innovative apartment building in Marseille, France, and sent it to the building’s architect, Le Corbusier (1887–1965). Le Corbusier responded by asking Hervé to become his official photographer. This book recounts the collaboration between these Modernists. The author takes the reader on a tour of sixteen of Le Corbusier’s most iconic buildings using Hervé’s edited sheets of contact prints as visual guides. These sheets, which became an effective tool in the collaborative dissemination of Le Corbusier’s work, capture Hervé’s dynamic perspectives and dramatic use of light. His sequencing of the individual prints creates an exhilarating rhythm that showcases the architect’s novel forms and materials.
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“When walking, or perhaps more rarely when sauntering on horseback, one is in direct contact with surroundings, reifying a connection to natural rhythms. To forget the season, soil, and sky is to deny existence.” So writes landscape architect Roger G. Courtenay in this publication. Whether walking the Piedmont of Virginia, canoeing the French Broad River near Asheville,(...)
My kind of countryside: finding design principles in the land
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“When walking, or perhaps more rarely when sauntering on horseback, one is in direct contact with surroundings, reifying a connection to natural rhythms. To forget the season, soil, and sky is to deny existence.” So writes landscape architect Roger G. Courtenay in this publication. Whether walking the Piedmont of Virginia, canoeing the French Broad River near Asheville, North Carolina, driving along the Blue Ridge Parkway, or exploring Thomas Jefferson’s Academical Village, Courtenay turns to his local countryside for inspiration. In this book the author delves into the nuances of his craft, inviting us to share his encounters with a myriad of landscapes and revealing how he then interprets these experiences in his sketches.
Landscape Theory