Debbie Bentley: Dammed
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"Dammed" follows the roughly 1,450-mile main stem of the Colorado River, from birth in the Rocky Mountain National Park to its end at the border of Mexico, and the 16 dams and diversions along its course. The work documents the river, dams, reservoirs, and people interacting with the river along this route. The intent of this environmental photography project is to bring(...)
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"Dammed" follows the roughly 1,450-mile main stem of the Colorado River, from birth in the Rocky Mountain National Park to its end at the border of Mexico, and the 16 dams and diversions along its course. The work documents the river, dams, reservoirs, and people interacting with the river along this route. The intent of this environmental photography project is to bring attention to the increasingly arid conditions of the Colorado River basin, but also prompts discussion and learning about not only the Colorado River watershed, but of water supply in general.
Photography monographs
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"High Line: a field guide and handbook" is a pocket-sized artists’ project offering an alternative survey to some curious aspects of New York’s elevated High Line park. Presenting an account – both anecdotal and scientifically minded – of the fauna and insect-life that thrives there, the book serves as a colorful introduction to the vast and varied ecology of the High(...)
High Line: a field guide and handbook
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"High Line: a field guide and handbook" is a pocket-sized artists’ project offering an alternative survey to some curious aspects of New York’s elevated High Line park. Presenting an account – both anecdotal and scientifically minded – of the fauna and insect-life that thrives there, the book serves as a colorful introduction to the vast and varied ecology of the High Line. Full of peculiar observations, rumors, speculations, and mostly-true facts, Field Guide captures the manifold experience of moving along the elevated greenway through a towering cityscape.
Gardens
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Peter Walker and Partners / Nasher Sculpture Center Garden focuses on his garden in Dallas, Texas, a set of "outdoor galleries" showcasing the Nasher collection of modern and contemporary sculpture. A museum without a roof, the garden, with its subtle balance of art and nature, is also a serene urban park, whose beauty perfectly complements Renzo Piano's design for the(...)
Peter Walker and partners : Nasher sculpture center garden
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Peter Walker and Partners / Nasher Sculpture Center Garden focuses on his garden in Dallas, Texas, a set of "outdoor galleries" showcasing the Nasher collection of modern and contemporary sculpture. A museum without a roof, the garden, with its subtle balance of art and nature, is also a serene urban park, whose beauty perfectly complements Renzo Piano's design for the center. Peter Walker's informative sketches, drawings, and plans, along with photographs of the final design, reveal the delicate balance between art, culture, and context at the heart of the Nasher Foundation Sculpture Garden.
Landscape Architecture, Monographs
AV Monographs 284: COBE
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At the intersection of urban regeneration and the construction of new forms of collective life lies the work of Cobe, established in Copenhagen in 2006 by architect Dan Stubbergaard. With an approach that combines territorial strategy, material finesse, and attention to everyday experience, Cobe’s work operates simultaneously between building, landscape, and public space.(...)
AV Monographs 284: COBE
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At the intersection of urban regeneration and the construction of new forms of collective life lies the work of Cobe, established in Copenhagen in 2006 by architect Dan Stubbergaard. With an approach that combines territorial strategy, material finesse, and attention to everyday experience, Cobe’s work operates simultaneously between building, landscape, and public space. Marking the firm’s 20th anniversary, the magazine presents a selection of works characterised by the integration of nature and city, attention to the human scale, the creation of shared spaces, and sustainability. Highlights include Ragnarock Museum, Forfatterhuset Kindergarten, and Opera Park.
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Mies Van Der Rohe
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"Mies van der Rohe" provides a comprehensive analysis of this great architect's entire oeuvre and presents a detailed portfolio of 21 key works. Author Yehuda E. Safran is an architectural/art critic based in Paris and New York and is currently Adjunct Associate (...)
Mies Van Der Rohe
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"Mies van der Rohe" provides a comprehensive analysis of this great architect's entire oeuvre and presents a detailed portfolio of 21 key works. Author Yehuda E. Safran is an architectural/art critic based in Paris and New York and is currently Adjunct Associate Professor at Columbia University. Works include: Barcelona Pavilion, Tugendhat House, Weissenhof Apartment Building, Farnsworth House, 860-880 Lake Shore Drive, 900-910 Lake Shore Drive, Seagram Building, Lafayette Park, IBM Regional Office Building, New National Gallery, S.R. Crown Hall, Lange House, Esters House, Afrikanische Strasse Housing, Social Service Administration Building, and more.
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May 2000, Lisbon
Architecture Monographs
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The city reader
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This collection brings together the very best on the city. Classic writings by such as Robert Park, Lewis Mumford, Raymond Unwin, Jane Jacobs, Le Corbusier and Kevin Lynch meet the best contemporary writings of, among others, Peter Hall, Mike Davis, Saskia Sasson, Dolores Hayden and Manuel Castells. 50 generous selections(...)
The city reader
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This collection brings together the very best on the city. Classic writings by such as Robert Park, Lewis Mumford, Raymond Unwin, Jane Jacobs, Le Corbusier and Kevin Lynch meet the best contemporary writings of, among others, Peter Hall, Mike Davis, Saskia Sasson, Dolores Hayden and Manuel Castells. 50 generous selections are included. Each piece is separately introduced with a brief intellectual biography, a review of the author's writings and related literature, and an explanation of how the piece fits into the broader context of urban theory and practice.
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January 1900, New York
Urban Theory
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The critical landscape
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The Critical Landscape documents developments in European and American discourse over recent decades. It makes an attempt to formulate an answer to the question put by Michael Hays: 'what should a critical conscious architect, at (...)
The critical landscape
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The Critical Landscape documents developments in European and American discourse over recent decades. It makes an attempt to formulate an answer to the question put by Michael Hays: 'what should a critical conscious architect, at this moment in history, be doing?'. This book includes contributions by the series editors Arie Graafland and Jasper de Haan, the critics Mark Wigley, Beatriz Colomina, Michael Hays, Karin Wilhelm, Michael Müller, Alexander Tzonis, Rypke Sierksma, Liane Lefaivre, Kyong Park and Yorgos Simeoforidis, and the architects Ben van Berkel & Caroline Bos, Rem Koolhaas and Michael Sorkin.
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September 1996, Rotterdam
Architectural Theory
AV proyectos 101 : MOS
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'AV Proyectos 101' dedicates its dossier to MOS, a small New York office self-defined as a studio that benefits and suffers from contradiction, and that creates projects that appear to one thing and something else at the same time - familiar and strange, childish and sophisticated, precise and vague. The issue includes the competition for Tuchkov Buyan Park, a new urban(...)
AV proyectos 101 : MOS
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'AV Proyectos 101' dedicates its dossier to MOS, a small New York office self-defined as a studio that benefits and suffers from contradiction, and that creates projects that appear to one thing and something else at the same time - familiar and strange, childish and sophisticated, precise and vague. The issue includes the competition for Tuchkov Buyan Park, a new urban garden on Vatny Island in Saint Petersburg, with the winning proposal of Studio 44 and West 8 plus the two finalist projects, and six projects that take on the challenge of designing kindergartens.
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95 pages illustrations 24 cm
[New York] American Society of Civil Engineers, [1934]
A history of the development of wooden bridges, by Robert Fletcher and J.P. Snow, with discussion by Henry B. Seaman [and others].
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[New York] American Society of Civil Engineers, [1934]
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15 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Philadelphia, Pa. : Parker-Russell Mining & Mfg. Co., 1904.
The new gas works at Lynchburg, Virginia.
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Philadelphia, Pa. : Parker-Russell Mining & Mfg. Co., 1904.