A+T Next : collective housing in progress (density, intensity, uses, location, types, detail)
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This new volume by a+t publishers is part of the Density series on collective housing It focuses mainly on infills of the consolidated urban fabric. All projects have won first or second prizes in international competitions and fill in the existing city or regenerated urban voids with different former uses. 30 European and American projects by 29 different young(...)
A+T Next : collective housing in progress (density, intensity, uses, location, types, detail)
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This new volume by a+t publishers is part of the Density series on collective housing It focuses mainly on infills of the consolidated urban fabric. All projects have won first or second prizes in international competitions and fill in the existing city or regenerated urban voids with different former uses. 30 European and American projects by 29 different young architectural practices are analyzed; amongst these are BIG + Topotek1, atelier Kempe Thill, Maccreanor Lavington, and babled nouvet Reynaud.
Collective Housing
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Wonderland manual is a cultural version of the NATO Cold War strategy of flexible response . Pursuing the military analogy, the manual is a continuation by other means of what Wonderland has been doing for the past years: accelerating the exchange of information among young architects in Europe.It is first and foremost a guide containing facts and figures, tips and(...)
Wonderland : manual for emerging architects
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Wonderland manual is a cultural version of the NATO Cold War strategy of flexible response . Pursuing the military analogy, the manual is a continuation by other means of what Wonderland has been doing for the past years: accelerating the exchange of information among young architects in Europe.It is first and foremost a guide containing facts and figures, tips and experiences and as such can be seen as a handbook for European architects at the start of their careers.
Architectural Theory
Candida Höfer: Haus Ludwig
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In Haus Ludwig, Candida Höfer (born 1944), internationally renowned for her photographs of museums and libraries, documents the private collection and interiors of the house of Irene and Peter Ludwig in Aachen, Germany. The collection itself contains a wealth of works by European modernist greats such as August Macke, Fernand Léger, Henri Matisse, Lyonel Feininger and(...)
Candida Höfer: Haus Ludwig
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In Haus Ludwig, Candida Höfer (born 1944), internationally renowned for her photographs of museums and libraries, documents the private collection and interiors of the house of Irene and Peter Ludwig in Aachen, Germany. The collection itself contains a wealth of works by European modernist greats such as August Macke, Fernand Léger, Henri Matisse, Lyonel Feininger and Alexej von Jawlensky, as well as by postwar American Pop-era artists such as Roy Lichtenstein, Jasper Johns and Jackson Pollock.
Photography monographs
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The recycling of post-industrial landscapes has been a topic of great interest both in landscape and urban design in the past 20 years. This book is a history, a design theory and a survey of seminal schemes all in one. It analyzes all ground-breaking European projects such as Peter Latz' Duisburg Nord, Parque del Clot in Barcelona or Parc aux Angeliques in Bordeaux and(...)
Beauty redeemed: recycling post-industrial landscapes
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The recycling of post-industrial landscapes has been a topic of great interest both in landscape and urban design in the past 20 years. This book is a history, a design theory and a survey of seminal schemes all in one. It analyzes all ground-breaking European projects such as Peter Latz' Duisburg Nord, Parque del Clot in Barcelona or Parc aux Angeliques in Bordeaux and looks at the transformation of the urban landscape in the long run.
Urban Landscapes
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eter Davidson takes readers through our culture’s long engagement with the concept of twilight—from the melancholy of smoky English autumn evenings to the midnight sun of northern European summers and beyond. Taking in poets and painters, Victorians and Romans, city and countryside, and deftly combining memoir, literature, philosophy, and art history, Davidson shows how(...)
The last of the light: about twilight
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eter Davidson takes readers through our culture’s long engagement with the concept of twilight—from the melancholy of smoky English autumn evenings to the midnight sun of northern European summers and beyond. Taking in poets and painters, Victorians and Romans, city and countryside, and deftly combining memoir, literature, philosophy, and art history, Davidson shows how the atmospheric shadows and the in-between nature of twilight has fired the imagination and generated works of incredible beauty, mystery, and romance.
Critical Theory
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Leipzig-born photographer Margret Hoppe is a promising new voice in European photographic art. This new book features her series Apres une Architecture, a photographic perspective of Le Corbusier's architecture that refers to his concept of a modern architecture laid-out in the book Vers une architecture (Toward an Architecture) of 1923. Hoppe's images show Le Corbusier's(...)
Margret Hoppe: the promise of modernism
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Leipzig-born photographer Margret Hoppe is a promising new voice in European photographic art. This new book features her series Apres une Architecture, a photographic perspective of Le Corbusier's architecture that refers to his concept of a modern architecture laid-out in the book Vers une architecture (Toward an Architecture) of 1923. Hoppe's images show Le Corbusier's use of exposed concrete, the clarity of his geometric shapes and the emblematic polychrome surfaces as symbols of his buildings.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm
New York : Aperture ; London : Thames & Hudson [distributor], ©2006.
Satellites : photographs from the fringes of the former Soviet Union / photographs and text by Jonas Bendiksen.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm
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New York : Aperture ; London : Thames & Hudson [distributor], ©2006.
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Artifacts and allegiances : how museums put the nation and the world on display / Peggy Levitt.
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x, 244 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2015], ©2015
Artifacts and allegiances : how museums put the nation and the world on display / Peggy Levitt.
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x, 244 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
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Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2015], ©2015
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260 pages : illustrations (some color), plans ; 28 cm
Zurich, Switzerland : Park Books, [2019], ©2019
Contrast and cohesion / G8A Architects ; texts, Patrick Bingham-Hall.
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260 pages : illustrations (some color), plans ; 28 cm
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Zurich, Switzerland : Park Books, [2019], ©2019
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47 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 31 cm
Paris : Jeu de Paume, ©2019.
L'équilibriste = The art of poise : André Kertész / commissaires de l'exposition, Matthieu Rivallin, Pia Viewing ; traduction anglaise, John Tittensor.
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47 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 31 cm
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Paris : Jeu de Paume, ©2019.