Juan Grimm
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Juan Grimm is the "father of landscape architecture in Chile", and one of South America’s most important landscape architects. Working mainly with local flora, he creates new landscape textures; to date he has designed and built nearly 2,500 acres of garden works, as well as private and public parks in Chile, Argentina, Peru and Uruguay—including the gardens of a(...)
Juan Grimm
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Juan Grimm is the "father of landscape architecture in Chile", and one of South America’s most important landscape architects. Working mainly with local flora, he creates new landscape textures; to date he has designed and built nearly 2,500 acres of garden works, as well as private and public parks in Chile, Argentina, Peru and Uruguay—including the gardens of a Benedictine abbey and of the Bahá’í temple in Santiago. Featuring drawings, photographs, interviews and extensive essays, this book presents Grimm’s body of work, his methods, his sources of inspiration and his artistic aims. Selected examples—ranging from small gardens to large parks—illustrate Grimm’s development over the course of his 30-year career.
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Tatiana Bilbao: perspectives
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Located in Mexico City, Tatiana Bilbao Estudio is well known internationally for its use of traditional Mexican construction techniques, the highly sculptural effects of its buildings and its unusually collaborative approach toward each client. Founded by Tatiana Bilbao (born 1972) in 2004, its completed buildings include the Gratitude Open Chapel in La Ruta del(...)
Architecture Monographs
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Tatiana Bilbao: perspectives
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Located in Mexico City, Tatiana Bilbao Estudio is well known internationally for its use of traditional Mexican construction techniques, the highly sculptural effects of its buildings and its unusually collaborative approach toward each client. Founded by Tatiana Bilbao (born 1972) in 2004, its completed buildings include the Gratitude Open Chapel in La Ruta del Peregrino, Gabriel Orozco's house in Roca Blanca and the botanical garden in Culiacan. The texts by Patrick Charpenel, Simon Hartmann, Raymund Ryan and a conversation with Gonzalo Ortega address Bilbao's uniquely contemporary architectural language, which combines the efficient use of materials, optimal function and an original design with a discreet aesthetic that always conveys a responsiveness toward landscape.
Architecture Monographs
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In a garden sit the aged Kublai Khan and the young Marco Polo—Mongol emperor and Venetian traveler. Kublai Khan has sensed the end of his empire coming. Marco Polo diverts his host with stories of the cities he has seen in his travels around the empire: stories about memory and desire, art and creation, life and death. As Marco Polo unspools his tales, the emperor(...)
Invisible cities, 50th Anniversary edition
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In a garden sit the aged Kublai Khan and the young Marco Polo—Mongol emperor and Venetian traveler. Kublai Khan has sensed the end of his empire coming. Marco Polo diverts his host with stories of the cities he has seen in his travels around the empire: stories about memory and desire, art and creation, life and death. As Marco Polo unspools his tales, the emperor realizes these fantastic places are more familiar than they appear. With a new introduction from Pulitzer Prize winner Anthony Doerr, and dreamlike illustrations of the cities interspersed throughout, this edition breathes new life into Calvino’s classic, a celebration of the story’s profound invention and enduring insight.
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Architecture : nature
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Philip Jodidio has collected numerous examples of the partnership between architecture and nature from throughout history and the world and presents them in one illustrated volume. From Frank Lloyd Wright's residential house Fallingwater in Bear Run, Philadelphia, to the Miho Museum in Japan built by I.M. Pei, and from the Olympic Stadium built for the 1972 games in(...)
Architecture since 1900, Europe
October 2006, Munich, Berlin, London, New York
Architecture : nature
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Philip Jodidio has collected numerous examples of the partnership between architecture and nature from throughout history and the world and presents them in one illustrated volume. From Frank Lloyd Wright's residential house Fallingwater in Bear Run, Philadelphia, to the Miho Museum in Japan built by I.M. Pei, and from the Olympic Stadium built for the 1972 games in Munich to the MoMA roof top garden in New York by Ken Smith, Jodidio demonstrates the many forms that the interplay between built structures and their environment can take. He examines aspects of the relationship between nature and architecture such as nature as inspiration; the imitation and mimicking of natural patterns; landscape design; ecologically sensitive structures; and artificial realities, among others.
Architecture since 1900, Europe
En Blanco, Kazunori Fujimoto
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Japanese architecture possesses a spatial sensibility that is able to intensely define the space through very thin and light elements, sometimes semi-transparent. The same sensibility is can also be found when other kinds of materials are used, like heavy materials that belong also to the Western tradition. In Japanese architecture, especially in the case of Kazunori(...)
En Blanco, Kazunori Fujimoto
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Japanese architecture possesses a spatial sensibility that is able to intensely define the space through very thin and light elements, sometimes semi-transparent. The same sensibility is can also be found when other kinds of materials are used, like heavy materials that belong also to the Western tradition. In Japanese architecture, especially in the case of Kazunori Fujimoto's architecture, it is possible to find this lightness through the use of reinforced concrete, shaped as if it were paper. The process of dissolution of architecture, that uses voids as a holy place and builds a garden instead of the emperor's palace, is typical of Japanese culture. It consists in the composition of elements working on the spirituality of the invisible.
Architecture Monographs
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Francois Halard's unique photographic sensibility is unmistakable. Each image is imbued with the intimate knowledge of design history, each story a lesson in a master's point of view. This book is a continuation of his last volume of photography of grand interiors, artists' studios, and architectural pilgrimage sites. Each story's subject matter is not just a personal(...)
Francois Halard: A visual diary
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Francois Halard's unique photographic sensibility is unmistakable. Each image is imbued with the intimate knowledge of design history, each story a lesson in a master's point of view. This book is a continuation of his last volume of photography of grand interiors, artists' studios, and architectural pilgrimage sites. Each story's subject matter is not just a personal passion of the photographer, but also a chapter in design history: Philip Johnson and Charles James's de Menil House, Giorgio Morandi's studio, Rick Owens's radical Paris apartment, Eileen Gray's recently restored modernist home on the French coast, Dries Van Noten's verdant garden and home, the home and studio of Louise Bourgeois in New York, and many more.
Interior Design
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For ancient Romans, genius loci was literally "the genius of the place,"the presiding divinity who inhabited a site and gave it meaning. While we are less attuned to divinity today, we still sense that a place has significance. In this book, eminent garden historian John Dixon Hunt explores genius loci in many settings, including contemporary land art, the paintings of(...)
Genius Loci: An essay on the meanings of place
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For ancient Romans, genius loci was literally "the genius of the place,"the presiding divinity who inhabited a site and gave it meaning. While we are less attuned to divinity today, we still sense that a place has significance. In this book, eminent garden historian John Dixon Hunt explores genius loci in many settings, including contemporary land art, the paintings of Paul and John Nash, travel writers such as Henry James, Paul Theroux, and Lawrence Durrell on Provence, Mexico, and Cyprus, and landscape architects who invent new meanings for a site. This book is a nuanced, thoughtful exploration of how places become more significant to us through the myriad ways we see, talk about, and remember them.
Landscape Theory
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Since the first edition of "Edible Estates : Attack on the Front Lawn" was published in 2008, interest in edible gardening has exploded across the United States and abroad. This greatly expanded second edition of the book documents the eight Edible Estates regional prototype gardens that author Fritz Haeg has planted in California, Kansas, Texas, Maryland, New Jersey, New(...)
Edible estates : attack on the front lawn, 2nd edition
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Since the first edition of "Edible Estates : Attack on the Front Lawn" was published in 2008, interest in edible gardening has exploded across the United States and abroad. This greatly expanded second edition of the book documents the eight Edible Estates regional prototype gardens that author Fritz Haeg has planted in California, Kansas, Texas, Maryland, New Jersey, New York and England, and includes personal accounts from the homeowner-gardeners about the pleasures and challenges of publicly growing food where they live. Ten "Reports from Coast to Coast" tell the stories of others who have planted their own edible front yards in towns and cities across the country. In addition to essays by landscape architect and scholar Diana Balmori, edible-landscaping pioneer Rosalind Creasy, bestselling author and sustainable-food advocate Michael Pollan and artist and writer Lesley Stern, this edition features updated text by Haeg (including his observations on the Obama White House vegetable garden); a contribution from Mannahatta author Eric W. Sanderson; and Growing Power founder, MacArthur Fellow and urban farmer Will Allen's never-before-published Declaration of the Good Food Revolution. This is not a comprehensive how-to book, nor a showcase of impossibly perfect gardens. The stories presented here are intended to reveal something about how we are living today and to inspire readers to plant their own versions of an Edible Estate. If we see that our neighbor's typical grassy lawn instead can be a beautiful food garden, perhaps we will begin to look at the city around us with new eyes. Our private land can be a public model for the world in which we would like to live.
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Recent works of the offices of SANAA, Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa. Works include the Teshima Art Museum, the Rolex Learning Center in Lausanne, a flower garden in Taipei, the Okurayama housing complex in Yokohama, the Vitra Factory Building in Weil am Rhein, the Toyota Aizuma Hall in Toyota, a villa in Hayama Kanagawa, Derek Lam’s shop in SoHo in New York and his(...)
GA Architect: Kazuyo Sejima, Ryue Nuishizawa 2006-2011
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Recent works of the offices of SANAA, Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa. Works include the Teshima Art Museum, the Rolex Learning Center in Lausanne, a flower garden in Taipei, the Okurayama housing complex in Yokohama, the Vitra Factory Building in Weil am Rhein, the Toyota Aizuma Hall in Toyota, a villa in Hayama Kanagawa, Derek Lam’s shop in SoHo in New York and his shop on the upper east side of Manhattan, the Carina store in Tokyo, the Inujima Art House Project in Okayama, the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion in London, the Hyundai Card Concert Hall in Seoul, the Shakujii Apartment in Nerima Tokyo, a spatial design for Comme des Garçons in Tokyo and more. Includes an essay by Ryue Nishizawa.
Architecture Monographs
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Intitulé Plantes et jardins, le dossier thématique présente les travaux récents de trois artistes — Sara Angelucci, Sara A.Tremblay et Frédéric Lavoie — dont les projets photographiques explorent le monde végétal à travers une investigation attentive où fleurs, plantes, insectes et écosystèmes deviennent le miroir de nos inquiétudes face à notre relation à l’environnement.
CV Ciel variable 130 : Plantes et jardins / plants and gardens
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Intitulé Plantes et jardins, le dossier thématique présente les travaux récents de trois artistes — Sara Angelucci, Sara A.Tremblay et Frédéric Lavoie — dont les projets photographiques explorent le monde végétal à travers une investigation attentive où fleurs, plantes, insectes et écosystèmes deviennent le miroir de nos inquiétudes face à notre relation à l’environnement.
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