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Then first part of a trilogy of books exploring the science of patterns in nature, this book looks at how shapes form. From soap bubbles to honeycombs, delicate shell patterns, and even the developing body parts of a complex animal like ourselves, the author uncovers patterns in growth and form in all corners of the natural world, explains how these patterns are(...)
Shapes: nature's patterns: a tapertry in three parts
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Then first part of a trilogy of books exploring the science of patterns in nature, this book looks at how shapes form. From soap bubbles to honeycombs, delicate shell patterns, and even the developing body parts of a complex animal like ourselves, the author uncovers patterns in growth and form in all corners of the natural world, explains how these patterns are self-made, and describes why similar shapes and structures may be found in very different settings, orchestrated by nothing more than simple physical forces. This book will make you look at the world with fresh eyes, seeing order and form in places you'd least expect.
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Illustration now! volume 2
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Spanking new: A freshly-picked selection of today's hottest illustrators Following the success of Illustration Now!, this installment presents a completely new selection of 150 illustrators from all around the world. Whereas the first volume brought together a fascinating mix of star illustrators and brand new faces that together formed the face of illustration around the(...)
Graphic Design and Typography
January 2008, Köln, London, Los Angeles, Madrid, Paris, Tokyo
Illustration now! volume 2
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Spanking new: A freshly-picked selection of today's hottest illustrators Following the success of Illustration Now!, this installment presents a completely new selection of 150 illustrators from all around the world. Whereas the first volume brought together a fascinating mix of star illustrators and brand new faces that together formed the face of illustration around the world, Illustration Now! 2 is even more exciting, featuring illustrators from 25 countries, with styles ranging from cutting edge to traditional. Also included is a dialog between design specialist Steven Heller and German illustrator Christoph Niemann about illustration's role in the world today. This book is perfect not only for creative professionals and illustration students, but also artists and anyone with an appreciation for visual language.
Graphic Design and Typography
Design now!
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Designs for life: From eco-design to design-art Not only an in-depth exploration of contemporary design practice, this book is also a rallying call for a more sustainable approach to product design of every type, from lighting and furniture design to consumer electronic equipment, transportation, product architecture, and environmental design. Visually stunning and highly(...)
Interior Design
January 2008, Köln, London, Paris, Madrid, Tokyo, Los Angeles
Design now!
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Designs for life: From eco-design to design-art Not only an in-depth exploration of contemporary design practice, this book is also a rallying call for a more sustainable approach to product design of every type, from lighting and furniture design to consumer electronic equipment, transportation, product architecture, and environmental design. Visually stunning and highly informative, Design Now! illustrates the latest work by 90 of the world's leading designers and design-led manufacturing companies, while also featuring in-their-own-words statements that give a unique insight into the nature of 3-dimensional design today. Additionally, the editors? introductory essay authoritatively outlines the main issues facing designers, manufacturers and consumers, and offers a perceptive vision for a better way forward that focuses on the need to reduce, reuse, and recycle. Design Now! is essential for anyone interested in design and the road towards a greener future. Examples of selected designers and design-led companies featured: Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec, Ecotricity, Naoto Fukasawa, Zaha Hadid, Intelligent Energy, Jonathan Ive & Apple Design, LOT-EK, Ross Lovegrove, Marine Current Turbines, Jasper Morrison, Marc Newson, POC, Philips Design, Seymourpowell, Tokujin Yoshioka
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Créée en 1986 par P. Gallois et D. Lantez, architectes diplômés d'Etat, l'agence SAGL fait ses débuts dans la réalisation de lotissements pavillonnaires, dans l'architecture en bois et dans la réhabilitation de friches industrielles. Aujourd'hui, elle fait de l'immobilier logistique une de ses spécialités phares et se trouve classée parmi les premières agences françaises.
Green Architecture
January 2008, Paris
Logistique : sustainable development & développement durable
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Créée en 1986 par P. Gallois et D. Lantez, architectes diplômés d'Etat, l'agence SAGL fait ses débuts dans la réalisation de lotissements pavillonnaires, dans l'architecture en bois et dans la réhabilitation de friches industrielles. Aujourd'hui, elle fait de l'immobilier logistique une de ses spécialités phares et se trouve classée parmi les premières agences françaises.
Green Architecture
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Tous les étrangers de passage à Bruxelles le remarquent: Bruxelles est une ville de façade. En pleine apogée de l'Art nouveau, nombre d'entre elles se colorent de sgraffites (expression proche de la fresque, aux thèmes décoratifs et figuratifs), chaque propriétaire voulant se ditinguer par son goût artistique. Cet art décoratif, car il s'agit bien d'un art, a créé un(...)
Architecture since 1900, Europe
January 2008, Bruxelles
Façade Art Nouveau: les plus beaux sgraffites de Bruxelles
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Tous les étrangers de passage à Bruxelles le remarquent: Bruxelles est une ville de façade. En pleine apogée de l'Art nouveau, nombre d'entre elles se colorent de sgraffites (expression proche de la fresque, aux thèmes décoratifs et figuratifs), chaque propriétaire voulant se ditinguer par son goût artistique. Cet art décoratif, car il s'agit bien d'un art, a créé un patrimoine extraordinaire dans la ville. Voir et connaître les plus beaux sgraffites de Bruxelles. Tel est le but de ce livre: offrir le plaisir de cette découverte à un large public.
Architecture since 1900, Europe
Bruxelles par-delà les murs
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Ce livre vous ouvre la ville. Il vous dévoile la face cachée de Bruxelles en vous révelant 160 intérieurs d'îlots... qui vont vous surprendre. Beaucoup sont accessibles, les autres ne sont visibles que dans cet ouvrage.
Bruxelles par-delà les murs
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Ce livre vous ouvre la ville. Il vous dévoile la face cachée de Bruxelles en vous révelant 160 intérieurs d'îlots... qui vont vous surprendre. Beaucoup sont accessibles, les autres ne sont visibles que dans cet ouvrage.
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H20 : les eaux de l'oubli
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Avec «H2O», ouvrage suscité par le projet de l'aménagement d'un lac artificiel en plein centre de Dallas (Texas), Illich nous invite à réfléchir non plus sur nous-même dans notre milieu mais sur un événement fondamental de ce milieu : l'eau.
H20 : les eaux de l'oubli
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Avec «H2O», ouvrage suscité par le projet de l'aménagement d'un lac artificiel en plein centre de Dallas (Texas), Illich nous invite à réfléchir non plus sur nous-même dans notre milieu mais sur un événement fondamental de ce milieu : l'eau.
Green Architecture
Calgary project
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Calgary is a young city- it has gone from pioneer beginnings to modernity in little over a century, and is well known for its dynamic growth. The Calgary Project examines the forces that produced its urban structure, and the relationship to the quality of urban life, with the intention of helping to guide the development of this prairie metropolis into the twenty-first century.
Architecture in Canada
October 2006, Calgary
Calgary project
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Calgary is a young city- it has gone from pioneer beginnings to modernity in little over a century, and is well known for its dynamic growth. The Calgary Project examines the forces that produced its urban structure, and the relationship to the quality of urban life, with the intention of helping to guide the development of this prairie metropolis into the twenty-first century.
Architecture in Canada
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This book takes a fresh approach to positioning the role of the computer in contemporary architectural theory and discourse, but of greater significance, Susannah Hagan also positions the computer in terms of making a significant contribution to revolving major environmental and social problems.
Digitalia: architecture and the digital, the environmental and the avant-garde
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This book takes a fresh approach to positioning the role of the computer in contemporary architectural theory and discourse, but of greater significance, Susannah Hagan also positions the computer in terms of making a significant contribution to revolving major environmental and social problems.
Architectural Theory
Walter Benjamin's Archive
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The works of the great literary and cultural critic Walter Benjamin are a reservoir of texts, commentaries, scraps and fragments of everyday life, arts and dreams. This beautifully designed book gives an insight into Benjamin's habits of collecting and archiving through some of his most personal documents. From notebooks in which every conceivable space is covered with(...)
Critical Theory
November 2007, London, New York
Walter Benjamin's Archive
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The works of the great literary and cultural critic Walter Benjamin are a reservoir of texts, commentaries, scraps and fragments of everyday life, arts and dreams. This beautifully designed book gives an insight into Benjamin's habits of collecting and archiving through some of his most personal documents. From notebooks in which every conceivable space is covered with handwriting, and a heartfelt traveller's series of postcards, to a sequence of Benjamin's own photographs, and lists that include a collection of his son Stefan's early words and sentences, this wonderful collection testifies to Benjamin's complex and kaleidoscopic passion for the ephemera of human life. Illustrated throughout in color and black and white.
Critical Theory