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256 pages : illustrations (some color), plans (some color), portraits ; 22 x 30 cm.
[Austin, Texas] : University of Texas at Austin, Center for American Architecture and Design ; Berlin : Akademie der Künste, [2013], Tübingen, Germany : Distributor in Europe, Ernst Wasmuth Verlag ; New York, New York : Distributor in the United States and Canada, D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, ©2013
Philharmonie, Berlin 1956-1963 : Hans Scharoun / [editors, Wilfried Wang, Daniel E. Sylvester ; essays, Eva-Maria Barkhofen, Mack Scogin, Daniel E. Sylvester, Wilfried Wang].
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256 pages : illustrations (some color), plans (some color), portraits ; 22 x 30 cm.
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[Austin, Texas] : University of Texas at Austin, Center for American Architecture and Design ; Berlin : Akademie der Künste, [2013], Tübingen, Germany : Distributor in Europe, Ernst Wasmuth Verlag ; New York, New York : Distributor in the United States and Canada, D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, ©2013
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Typography is still dominated by letterforms from the first one hundred years of European printing. Where were the processes and attitudes that lie behind these forms? Fred Smeijers is a type desinger who learn to design and cut punches: the key instruments with which metal type is made. This book is a work of practical history, with much contemporary relevance. Show(...)
Counterpunch : making type in the sixteenth century, designing type now; 2nd edition
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Typography is still dominated by letterforms from the first one hundred years of European printing. Where were the processes and attitudes that lie behind these forms? Fred Smeijers is a type desinger who learn to design and cut punches: the key instruments with which metal type is made. This book is a work of practical history, with much contemporary relevance. Show More Show Less
Graphic Design and Typography
Urban reports: urban strategies and visions in mid-sized cities in a local and global context
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This publication centres on how mid-size cities are being affected by global trends and explores the consequences and challenges they face in their development. How do these cities deal with the frictions and potentials arising from local interests and global powers? Representatives from six European cities - Amsterdam, Bilbao, Copenhagen, Dublin, Zagreb and Zurich -(...)
Urban Theory
July 2011
Urban reports: urban strategies and visions in mid-sized cities in a local and global context
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This publication centres on how mid-size cities are being affected by global trends and explores the consequences and challenges they face in their development. How do these cities deal with the frictions and potentials arising from local interests and global powers? Representatives from six European cities - Amsterdam, Bilbao, Copenhagen, Dublin, Zagreb and Zurich - report on their fascinating visions for transforming their cities in the 21st century.
Urban Theory
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“Eco-Visionaries” surveys contemporary positions in art and architecture addressing environmental problems beyond mainstream notions of sustainability. This comprehensive volume is a companion to the collaborative 2018 exhibition staged by four participating European museums. Each show maintains a different focus and curatorial approach, and for each, artists investigate(...)
Contemporary Architecture
August 2018
Eco-visionaries: art, architecture and new media after the Anthropocene
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“Eco-Visionaries” surveys contemporary positions in art and architecture addressing environmental problems beyond mainstream notions of sustainability. This comprehensive volume is a companion to the collaborative 2018 exhibition staged by four participating European museums. Each show maintains a different focus and curatorial approach, and for each, artists investigate more sustainable approaches toward humankind's place on earth, through video and sound works, paintings and installations.
Contemporary Architecture
Jasmina Cibic: NADA
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With her works, the Slovenian artist Jasmina Cibic brings together film, sculpture, performance and installation into multi-layered projects that explore how art, architecture and political rhetoric are deployed and instrumentalised in the name of the nation. The publication presents the artist’s latest film trilogy that was developed in cooperation with the Kunstmuseen(...)
Jasmina Cibic: NADA
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With her works, the Slovenian artist Jasmina Cibic brings together film, sculpture, performance and installation into multi-layered projects that explore how art, architecture and political rhetoric are deployed and instrumentalised in the name of the nation. The publication presents the artist’s latest film trilogy that was developed in cooperation with the Kunstmuseen Krefeld, BALTIC Gateshead, Aarhus, the European Capital of Culture 2017, and MSU Zagreb.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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"British architect Nicholas Hawksmoor (approx. 1661-1736) is recognized as one of the major contributors to the traditions of British and European architectural culture. Nevertheless, there is insufficient visual documentation and analysis of his work. Nicholas Hawksmoor: London Churches reconsiders his architecture in relation to urbanism. The publication focuses on a(...)
Nicholas Hawksmoor: London churches
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"British architect Nicholas Hawksmoor (approx. 1661-1736) is recognized as one of the major contributors to the traditions of British and European architectural culture. Nevertheless, there is insufficient visual documentation and analysis of his work. Nicholas Hawksmoor: London Churches reconsiders his architecture in relation to urbanism. The publication focuses on a series of important London churches the architect designed during the early part of the eighteenth century
Architecture Monographs
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How do we foster trust in our public spaces, communities and each other? Trustmaking, edited by the eponymous European collective, introduces an approach to intergenerational connection, grounded in strategies such as arts-based interventions and place-making, which contradict and counteract urban paradigms. For planners, policymakers and anyone invested in inclusive(...)
September 2026
Trustmaking: A guidebook on youth empowerment in urban transformation
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How do we foster trust in our public spaces, communities and each other? Trustmaking, edited by the eponymous European collective, introduces an approach to intergenerational connection, grounded in strategies such as arts-based interventions and place-making, which contradict and counteract urban paradigms. For planners, policymakers and anyone invested in inclusive cities, Trustmaking offers actionable, arts-based tools to bridge generational gaps and foster collaboration.
Tanaka Ikko : graphic master
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Tanaka Ikko (b. 1930) is one of the established masters of Japanese graphic design. His work draws together influences from East and West, acknowledging the vocabulary of European Modernism while remaining characteristically Japanese. Inspired by sources as diverse as traditional Japanese illustration techniques and his passion for American jazz, he is renowned for(...)
Tanaka Ikko : graphic master
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Tanaka Ikko (b. 1930) is one of the established masters of Japanese graphic design. His work draws together influences from East and West, acknowledging the vocabulary of European Modernism while remaining characteristically Japanese. Inspired by sources as diverse as traditional Japanese illustration techniques and his passion for American jazz, he is renowned for numerous cultural posters and programmes for theatre and ballet, many for Kanze Noh Drama.
Graphic Designers, Monographs
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The guide describes and illutrates all 107 RIBA, RIBA National, RIBA European and RIBA International Award-winning schemes, including the winners of the international Lubetkin Prize and a series of further prizes for conservation, public space, client of the year, sustainability, schools, houses and small projects. The guide is introduced with an essay on the purpose of(...)
Architecture 2008 the guide to the RIBA awards
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The guide describes and illutrates all 107 RIBA, RIBA National, RIBA European and RIBA International Award-winning schemes, including the winners of the international Lubetkin Prize and a series of further prizes for conservation, public space, client of the year, sustainability, schools, houses and small projects. The guide is introduced with an essay on the purpose of awards by Tony Chapman, who heads the RIBA's award programme.
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December 2008
Museums and Universal Exhibitions
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For generalists and specialists alike, this book engages a wide range of subjects, including reconstructions of the Egyptian labyrinth, architectural museums, European visions of New World cities, the great spaces and national parks of the America West, and landscape gardening in the United States. These subjects work together to develop a unique way of looking at the(...)
Skyline : the narcissistic city
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For generalists and specialists alike, this book engages a wide range of subjects, including reconstructions of the Egyptian labyrinth, architectural museums, European visions of New World cities, the great spaces and national parks of the America West, and landscape gardening in the United States. These subjects work together to develop a unique way of looking at the city and its architecture, the landscape and its spaces.
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February 2001, Stanford
Urban Theory