C.P Cavafy: collected poems
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Daniel Mendelsohn--a classics scholar who alone among Cavafy's translators shares the poet's deep intimacy with the ancient world--is uniquely positioned to give readers full access to Cavafy's genius. The more than 250 works collected in this volume, comprising all of the Published, Repudiated, and Unpublished poems, cover the vast sweep of Hellenic civilization, from(...)
January 2012
C.P Cavafy: collected poems
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Daniel Mendelsohn--a classics scholar who alone among Cavafy's translators shares the poet's deep intimacy with the ancient world--is uniquely positioned to give readers full access to Cavafy's genius. The more than 250 works collected in this volume, comprising all of the Published, Repudiated, and Unpublished poems, cover the vast sweep of Hellenic civilization, from the Trojan War through Cavafy's own lifetime. Powerfully moving, searching and wise, whether advising Odysseus as he returns home to Ithaca or portraying a doomed Marc Antony on the eve of his death, Cavafy's poetry makes the historical personal--and vice versa.
Belgium's best buildings
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An elegant and easy to use guide for architecture fans and for everyone who is curious about architecture in Belgium. Starting from the top 10 lists of renowned Belgian architects, 75 buildings completed after 1900 were selected and are presented in this book, from well-known contemporary buildings such as the MAS museum in Antwerp, up to less obvious buildings such as a(...)
April 2012
Belgium's best buildings
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An elegant and easy to use guide for architecture fans and for everyone who is curious about architecture in Belgium. Starting from the top 10 lists of renowned Belgian architects, 75 buildings completed after 1900 were selected and are presented in this book, from well-known contemporary buildings such as the MAS museum in Antwerp, up to less obvious buildings such as a modernist chapel or an architect's home. The buildings are listed per province, and each one is presented with a short text and photo. The book also contains a map, to help you find the buildings you want to discover.
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Nature All Around Us uses the familiar in order to introduce basic ecological concepts. It offers in twenty-five short chapters organized by scale, from the home to the neighborhood to the city at large. Various ecological concepts are approachably examined, from understanding why a squirrel might act aggressively towards its neighbor to how nutrients and energy(...)
Urban Landscapes
October 2012
Nature all around us: a guide to urban ecology
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Nature All Around Us uses the familiar in order to introduce basic ecological concepts. It offers in twenty-five short chapters organized by scale, from the home to the neighborhood to the city at large. Various ecological concepts are approachably examined, from understanding why a squirrel might act aggressively towards its neighbor to how nutrients and energy contained within a discarded apple core are recycled back into the food chain. Streaming through the work is an introduction to basic ecology, including the dangers of invasive species and the crucial role played by plants and trees in maintaining air quality.
Urban Landscapes
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''Portugal Lessons'' is a project of laba, or Laboratory Basel, founded in 2011 as a satellite studio of the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne’s School of Architecture. The book presents the studio’s case studies of the country and processes of urbanization. Rooted in laba’s latest research, it explores architectural forms of life and housing: whom we live with or(...)
Portugal lessons: environmental objects. Teaching and research in architecture
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''Portugal Lessons'' is a project of laba, or Laboratory Basel, founded in 2011 as a satellite studio of the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne’s School of Architecture. The book presents the studio’s case studies of the country and processes of urbanization. Rooted in laba’s latest research, it explores architectural forms of life and housing: whom we live with or open our home to and how permeable that boundary should be. The findings are presented in more than two hundred graphics, drawings, plans, and photographs. The book also features proposals for architectural interventions by laba’s students, all of them tackling issues of housing.
Architecture since 1900, Europe
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In June 2015 Alberto Manguel prepared to leave his centuries-old village home in France’s Loire Valley and reestablish himself in a one-bedroom apartment on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. Packing up his enormous, 35,000-volume personal library, choosing which books to keep, store, or cast out, Manguel found himself in deep reverie on the nature of relationships between(...)
Packing my library: an elegy and ten digressions
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In June 2015 Alberto Manguel prepared to leave his centuries-old village home in France’s Loire Valley and reestablish himself in a one-bedroom apartment on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. Packing up his enormous, 35,000-volume personal library, choosing which books to keep, store, or cast out, Manguel found himself in deep reverie on the nature of relationships between books and readers, books and collectors, order and disorder, memory and reading. In this poignant and personal reevaluation of his life as a reader, the author illuminates the highly personal art of reading and affirms the vital role of public libraries.
Literature and poetry
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Miguel Milá is considered one of Spain’s first and most influential industrial designers. Starting out as an interior designer amid the country’s early modernist movement, Milá began making the objects he needed but couldn’t yet find on the market. He took raw and renewable materials and crafted prototypes by hand, occasionally evolving designs to perfect his now-iconic(...)
Miguel Milá: A life in design
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Miguel Milá is considered one of Spain’s first and most influential industrial designers. Starting out as an interior designer amid the country’s early modernist movement, Milá began making the objects he needed but couldn’t yet find on the market. He took raw and renewable materials and crafted prototypes by hand, occasionally evolving designs to perfect his now-iconic lighting and furniture. This book is a detailed look back through Milá’s most emblematic works, produced between 1956 and 2021, with archival photos and drawings, as well as original photos shot at Milá’s Barcelona home by Nacho Alegre.
Design Monographs
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"Hudson Modern" surveys this emerging domestic architecture, featuring nearly twenty houses that integrate with site and region through composition, scale, and materials, and which strike a balance between innovation and rootedness. A reconstructed midcentury house accented in cedar, walnut, and bluestone by Joel Sanders and landscaped by the late Diana Balmori blurs the(...)
Hudson modern: residential landscapes
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"Hudson Modern" surveys this emerging domestic architecture, featuring nearly twenty houses that integrate with site and region through composition, scale, and materials, and which strike a balance between innovation and rootedness. A reconstructed midcentury house accented in cedar, walnut, and bluestone by Joel Sanders and landscaped by the late Diana Balmori blurs the edge of habitation and nature. KieranTimberlake revises the classic vision of a glass box by cladding a home on a rocky site in Pound Ridge in a tapestry of steel, aluminum, copper, and glass. In Rhinebeck, Steven Holl experiments with a radical form that has both ecological and social dimensions.
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As we stand on the cusp of a fundamental restructuring of the housing and building industries, this book provides timely insights into the promise of prefabricated housing. The idea of a more industrialised approach to house building is not a new one: since the 19th century, designers, inventors, engineers, builders, developers, and entrepreneurs have all been fascinated(...)
Prefab housing and the future of building
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As we stand on the cusp of a fundamental restructuring of the housing and building industries, this book provides timely insights into the promise of prefabricated housing. The idea of a more industrialised approach to house building is not a new one: since the 19th century, designers, inventors, engineers, builders, developers, and entrepreneurs have all been fascinated by the idea of the factory-built, modular home. But international housing affordability crises, emerging technologies, and concerns for more sustainable building practices have given a new urgency to the need to transform building construction in the 21st century.
Engineering Structures
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"The Walker House, RM Schindler" is the first in a series of architecture books related to inspirational houses. It takes us to Los Angeles, the adopted home of Austrian-born American architect, RM Schindler, and tells the story of the Walker House and how came into the possession of its current owner, journalist and modernist architecture and design geek, Andrew Romano.(...)
R M Schindler, the Walker house
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"The Walker House, RM Schindler" is the first in a series of architecture books related to inspirational houses. It takes us to Los Angeles, the adopted home of Austrian-born American architect, RM Schindler, and tells the story of the Walker House and how came into the possession of its current owner, journalist and modernist architecture and design geek, Andrew Romano. The 80-page hardbound book features interior photography by longtime Apartamento contributor, Ye Rin Mok, texts by Andrew Romano, and archival imagery of the Walker House, courtesy of the private collection of Andrew Romano and the University of Santa Barbara California.
Architecture Monographs
Toyo Ito 2: 2002-2014
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The second in a two-volume introduction to the career of architect Toyo Ito, this monograph features 20 of his works in Japan and abroad since the Sendai Mediatheque, including the 2002 Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, Tama Art University Library and Kaohsiung Stadium, plus ongoing projects such as the National Taichung Theater. In addition, Ito’s endeavours surrounding his(...)
Toyo Ito 2: 2002-2014
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The second in a two-volume introduction to the career of architect Toyo Ito, this monograph features 20 of his works in Japan and abroad since the Sendai Mediatheque, including the 2002 Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, Tama Art University Library and Kaohsiung Stadium, plus ongoing projects such as the National Taichung Theater. In addition, Ito’s endeavours surrounding his “Home-for-All” project (featured at the 2012 Venice Biennale) are given special attention. In a conversation with Terunobu Fujimori, Ito reveals his personal insight regarding these various buildings and projects, which are accompanied by abundant photographs, drawings and sketches.
Architecture Monographs