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24 pages ; 23 cm
Oxford: James Parker and Co., 1910.
Stained glass from the earliest period to the Renaissance : a paper read before the Oxford Architectural and Historical Society, March 2, 1910 / by Herbert W. Bryans.
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Oxford: James Parker and Co., 1910.
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Stephen Stimson Associates landscape architect is a design firm deeply rooted in planning, design and construction of landscape in all its forms: garden, street, park, campus, community, and region. The firm is renowned for exceeding design goals with regard to space and use of materials, and Stimson's work often challenges design assumptions by using common materials in(...)
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February 2002, Gloucester, Massachusetts
Stephen Stimson Associates / ten landscapes
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Stephen Stimson Associates landscape architect is a design firm deeply rooted in planning, design and construction of landscape in all its forms: garden, street, park, campus, community, and region. The firm is renowned for exceeding design goals with regard to space and use of materials, and Stimson's work often challenges design assumptions by using common materials in uncommon ways. Much of the firm's work--from residential to corporate to institutional--responds to the elements and natural foundations of the northeastern coastal United States.
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February 2002, Gloucester, Massachusetts
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The future of nostalgia
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Combining personal memoir, philosophical essay, and historical analysis, Svetlana Boym explores the spaces of collective nostalgia that connect national biography and personal self-fashioning in the twenty-first century. She guides us through the ruins and construction sites of post-communist cities-St. Petersburg, Moscow, Berlin, and Prague-and the imagined homelands of(...)
The future of nostalgia
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Combining personal memoir, philosophical essay, and historical analysis, Svetlana Boym explores the spaces of collective nostalgia that connect national biography and personal self-fashioning in the twenty-first century. She guides us through the ruins and construction sites of post-communist cities-St. Petersburg, Moscow, Berlin, and Prague-and the imagined homelands of exiles-Benjamin, Nabokov, Mandelstahm, and Brodsky. From Jurassic Park to the Totalitarian Sculpture Garden, Boym unravels the threads of this global epidemic of longing and its antidotes.
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April 2002, New York
Critical Theory
AV proyectos 046: sports
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Sports are expanding their frontiers. The new football stadiums are transforming their original recreational basis and are becoming projects for urban and social reconstruction. In the latest issue of ‘AV Proyectos’, some of the most up-to-date sports grounds are featured. These include amongst others the Bordeaux Stadium designed by Herzog & Meuron; the +Pool in New York(...)
AV proyectos 046: sports
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Sports are expanding their frontiers. The new football stadiums are transforming their original recreational basis and are becoming projects for urban and social reconstruction. In the latest issue of ‘AV Proyectos’, some of the most up-to-date sports grounds are featured. These include amongst others the Bordeaux Stadium designed by Herzog & Meuron; the +Pool in New York by Family/Play Lab; the Spree Swimming Pool in Berlin designed by Realities United and the Sports Park in Velenje designed by Enota.
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This edition offers a special focus on four Spanish practices based in Madrid: Antón García & Ensamble Studio, Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos, Selgascano, and Mansilla + Tuñón Arquitectos. Along with illuminating interviews and texts by the architects, it includes an in-depth look at both realized buildings and concepts for future projects, including the San Telmo Museum, El(...)
A+U 502: four practices in Madrid
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This edition offers a special focus on four Spanish practices based in Madrid: Antón García & Ensamble Studio, Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos, Selgascano, and Mansilla + Tuñón Arquitectos. Along with illuminating interviews and texts by the architects, it includes an in-depth look at both realized buildings and concepts for future projects, including the San Telmo Museum, El “B” in Cartagena, Berklee Tower of Music in Valencia, Yenikapi Transfer Point & Archaeo-Park Area in Istanbul, and the Contemporary Art Centre in Córdoba, among others.
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Initially known as a theorist exploring the spatial-political implications of the May 1968 uprisings, Bernard Tschumi emerged as an architect of international repute in the 1980s with his Parc de la Villette, a 125-acre cultural park located in northeastern Paris. His buildings and design theory famously draw on an array of disciplines, such as literature, cinema and(...)
Architecture Monographs
August 2014
Bernard Tschumi - Architecture: concept & notation
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Initially known as a theorist exploring the spatial-political implications of the May 1968 uprisings, Bernard Tschumi emerged as an architect of international repute in the 1980s with his Parc de la Villette, a 125-acre cultural park located in northeastern Paris. His buildings and design theory famously draw on an array of disciplines, such as literature, cinema and philosophy. All aspects of the man and his work are examined in Bernard Tschumi, published to accompany a landmark retrospective at the Centre Pompidou.
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Abandoned places
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From an abandoned Six Flags park in New Orleans to a disused hydroelectric power station in the jungle to the north of Fukushima, Henk Van Rensbergen takes photographs of abandoned buildings all over the world. He searches for and pinpoints the beauty of their desolation and the richness of their decay. After more than 25 years of voyages of discovery throught the world's(...)
Abandoned places
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From an abandoned Six Flags park in New Orleans to a disused hydroelectric power station in the jungle to the north of Fukushima, Henk Van Rensbergen takes photographs of abandoned buildings all over the world. He searches for and pinpoints the beauty of their desolation and the richness of their decay. After more than 25 years of voyages of discovery throught the world's debris, it was time for a photographer's selection: the best of Abandonned Places 1,2 and 3, supplemented by unpublished material.
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Modernist Estates: the buildings and the people who live in them today gives us an inside look at remarkable and sometimes controversial estates in Britain and their impact on the lives of their communities. Featuring twenty-one modernist homes and their residents, including the Barbican, the Isokon, Balfron Tower and Park Hill, it provides an overview of the building,(...)
Modernist estates: the buildings and the people who live in them
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Modernist Estates: the buildings and the people who live in them today gives us an inside look at remarkable and sometimes controversial estates in Britain and their impact on the lives of their communities. Featuring twenty-one modernist homes and their residents, including the Barbican, the Isokon, Balfron Tower and Park Hill, it provides an overview of the building, architects, historical and political context, and explores, with interviews and contemporary photography, what it's like to live on a modernist estate today.
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120, [8] pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Oxford [England] : John Henry and James Parker, 1864.
Art applied to industry : a series of lectures / by William Burges.
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Oxford [England] : John Henry and James Parker, 1864.
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xvi, 350 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
New York, New York : Viking, [2016], ©2016.
Streetfight : handbook for an urban revolution / Janette Sadik-Khan and Seth Solomonow.
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New York, New York : Viking, [2016], ©2016.