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From the outset the role of the atlas has extended beyond the geographic to the historical. It has been used as a means of comprehensively describing history as well as, of course, a tool for the teaching of history. Barkow Leibinger's Bricoleur Bricolage atlas is a historical tool of an altogether different sort from the sixteenth-century European projects and(...)
Barkow Leibinger: Bricoleur bricolage
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From the outset the role of the atlas has extended beyond the geographic to the historical. It has been used as a means of comprehensively describing history as well as, of course, a tool for the teaching of history. Barkow Leibinger's Bricoleur Bricolage atlas is a historical tool of an altogether different sort from the sixteenth-century European projects and their many descendants interested in the mapping of all history. Yet this atlas shares with its early modern origins a belief in comprehensiveness, orderliness and chronology – in this case, of the projects, research and ideas that the Berlin office of Barkow Leibinger have undertaken during the past few years, or to be more precise, since such activities were catalogued last, in Barkow Leibinger: An Atlas of Fabrication, published by the Architectural Association in 2009.
Architecture Monographs
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This collection of essays places travel at the center of Sebald's poetics and shows how his appropriation of travel in its myriad historical and cultural forms -- tourism, the pilgrimage, the walking vacation, travel as escape -- works to craft intertextual narratives in which the pursuit of individual life stories is mapped onto a wider European cultural history of loss(...)
The undiscover'd country: W.G. Sebald and the poetics of travel
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This collection of essays places travel at the center of Sebald's poetics and shows how his appropriation of travel in its myriad historical and cultural forms -- tourism, the pilgrimage, the walking vacation, travel as escape -- works to craft intertextual narratives in which the pursuit of individual life stories is mapped onto a wider European cultural history of loss and destruction. Following these cues, the contributors wander the various modalities of travel in Sebald's writing in order to discover how walking, flying, sojourning, and other kinds of peregrination inform the relationship between writing, reading, memory, and place in Sebald's work. At the same time, the essays uncover in innovative ways the affinities between Sebald and literary travelers like Bruce Chatwin, Franz Kafka, Adalbert Stifter, Christoph Ransmayr, and Joseph Conrad.
Theory of Photography
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About Two Squares, a book for children by the Russian avant-garde artist El Lissitzky, will extend the boundaries of anyone's imagination. Radically simple, and yet sophisticated, this book tells the story of two squares who take on the mission of rebuilding the world. First published in 1922 in post-revolutionary Russia, About Two Squares was "constructed" using pure(...)
About two squares: a suprematist tale of two squares in six constructions
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About Two Squares, a book for children by the Russian avant-garde artist El Lissitzky, will extend the boundaries of anyone's imagination. Radically simple, and yet sophisticated, this book tells the story of two squares who take on the mission of rebuilding the world. First published in 1922 in post-revolutionary Russia, About Two Squares was "constructed" using pure geometric forms and typographic elements as a means to disseminate the new order, with Lissitzky propelling the reader to build their own future and pointing them in a daringly modern direction. Inspired by Kazimir Malevich's suprematist vision of a non-objective art, About Two Squares had an immediate impact on the European art world with its publication in Theo van Doesburg's avant-garde art journal, De Stijl, and redefined what an illustrated book could be.
Storming the old boys' citadel: two pioneer women architects of nineteeth century north america
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This book focuses on the lives and works of two of the very first women of European American ancestry to practice architecture in North America during the 19th century. Mother Joseph du Sacré-Coeur, a Sister of Providence—born Esther Pariseau, in St. Elzéar, Quebec—is credited with works built in the present states of Washington, Idaho, Montana, northern Oregon, and in(...)
Storming the old boys' citadel: two pioneer women architects of nineteeth century north america
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This book focuses on the lives and works of two of the very first women of European American ancestry to practice architecture in North America during the 19th century. Mother Joseph du Sacré-Coeur, a Sister of Providence—born Esther Pariseau, in St. Elzéar, Quebec—is credited with works built in the present states of Washington, Idaho, Montana, northern Oregon, and in the province of British Columbia. For her contributions, Mother Joseph was honored by the State of Washington as one of two people to represent it in the National Statuary Hall Collection in Washington, DC. Louise Blanchard Bethune designed and built works in the Buffalo, New York area. Storming the Old Boys’ Citadel follows the evolving histories of two Revival-styled multiuse public buildings considered to be these women’s major works.
Canadian Architects
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Houses for a New World is the first comprehensive history of this uniquely American form of domestic architecture and urbanism. Between 1945 and 1965, more than thirteen million houses--most of them in new ranch and split-level styles--were constructed on large expanses of land outside city centers, providing homes for the country's rapidly expanding population.(...)
Houses for a new world: builders and buyers in american suburds 1945-1965
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Houses for a New World is the first comprehensive history of this uniquely American form of domestic architecture and urbanism. Between 1945 and 1965, more than thirteen million houses--most of them in new ranch and split-level styles--were constructed on large expanses of land outside city centers, providing homes for the country's rapidly expanding population. Focusing on twelve developments in the suburbs of Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago, and Los Angeles, Barbara Miller Lane tells the story of the collaborations between builders and buyers, showing how both wanted houses and communities that espoused a modern way of life--informal, democratic, multiethnic, and devoted to improving the lives of their children. The resulting houses differed dramatically from both the European International Style and older forms of American domestic architecture.
Urban Theory
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viii, 403 pages, 12 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Toronto ; Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1976.
The pioneer years, 1895-1914 : memories of settlers who opened the West / Barry Broadfoot.
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viii, 403 pages, 12 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Toronto ; Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1976.
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ix, 255 pages : illustrations, map, plans ; 25 cm
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2022., ©2022
Architectural education through materiality : pedagogies of 20th century design / edited by Elke Couchez and Rajesh Heynickx.
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ix, 255 pages : illustrations, map, plans ; 25 cm
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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2022., ©2022
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469 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
New York : Clarkson Potter, ©2001.
Preserving the world's great cities : the destruction and renewal of the historic metropolis / Anthony M. Tung.
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469 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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New York : Clarkson Potter, ©2001.
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Merz to Emigre and beyond : Avant-Garde magazine design of the twentieth century / Steven Heller.
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240 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm
London ; New York : Phaidon Press, 2003.
Merz to Emigre and beyond : Avant-Garde magazine design of the twentieth century / Steven Heller.
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240 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm
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London ; New York : Phaidon Press, 2003.
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111 pages : illustrations (some colour), plans ; 25 cm
Weil am Rhein, Germany : Vitra Design Museum, [2022]
Kazuo Shinohara - the Umbrella House project / Kazuo Shinohara ; edited by Christian Dehli, Andrea Grolimund.
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111 pages : illustrations (some colour), plans ; 25 cm
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Weil am Rhein, Germany : Vitra Design Museum, [2022]