Ken Yeang : Eco Skyscrapers
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For many, eco skyscrapers are synonymous with Ken Yeang. In more than three decades of practice, Ken Yeang has almost single-handedly pioneered and developed this building genre. This book presents Ken Yeang's work on the design of ecologically responsive skyscrapers, and includes his essay on applying green-design principles to the skyscraper typology, as well as a(...)
Ken Yeang : Eco Skyscrapers
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For many, eco skyscrapers are synonymous with Ken Yeang. In more than three decades of practice, Ken Yeang has almost single-handedly pioneered and developed this building genre. This book presents Ken Yeang's work on the design of ecologically responsive skyscrapers, and includes his essay on applying green-design principles to the skyscraper typology, as well as a preface by Steve Featherstone, an introduction by David Scott (Chairman of The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat) and a critique by Professor Ivor Richards. Ken Yeang makes it clear at the outset that the skyscraper building type is probably the most ecologically unfriendly of all building types, but states that until an economically viable alternative is identified, it is necessary to make them as humane and as sustainable as possible. Each project is presented together with data on its climatic location, the local vegetation, plot ratio, net and gross areas. The book is invaluable to those seeking to design green skyscraper.
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La maison à petits pas
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Une maison, ce n'est pas seulement des murs et un toit, c'est surtout le lieu où l'on se sent chez soi. La maison peut être faite de matériaux très variés. Elle peut être construite dans les arbres ou sur un fleuve. Selon les pays, elle porte différents noms: l'hacienda, l'igloo, le mas, le phare, la hutte, le chalet, l'isba... Chaque maison ressemble à ses habitants,(...)
La maison à petits pas
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Une maison, ce n'est pas seulement des murs et un toit, c'est surtout le lieu où l'on se sent chez soi. La maison peut être faite de matériaux très variés. Elle peut être construite dans les arbres ou sur un fleuve. Selon les pays, elle porte différents noms: l'hacienda, l'igloo, le mas, le phare, la hutte, le chalet, l'isba... Chaque maison ressemble à ses habitants, mais elle a toujours la même fonction: abriter ses occupants, devenir un lieu de vie agréable et chaleureux... Comment la construit-on? Que seront les maisons de demain? Un livre pour partir à la découverte des habitats du monde... sans bouger de chez soi!
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A solid album of recent work, this volume includes exhibition photographs as well as notes and sketches, and documents work both interior and exterior, including a light installation that put Bustamante's mark all over Austria's Kunsthaus Bregenz. "Given the fact that [they] had committed the entire building to me, it seemed obvious that I should display my presence from(...)
Jean-Marc Bustamante beautifuldays
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A solid album of recent work, this volume includes exhibition photographs as well as notes and sketches, and documents work both interior and exterior, including a light installation that put Bustamante's mark all over Austria's Kunsthaus Bregenz. "Given the fact that [they] had committed the entire building to me, it seemed obvious that I should display my presence from the outside. The display is a signal. It reveals itself progressively as the 200 lights come on, until all of them are ablaze."
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Bibliodyssey
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Across the world, libraries and institutions are just beginning to make their collections available online, much of this amazing material goes unoticed by the casual surfer. BibliOdyssey's mission has been to search the dustier corners of the internet and retrieve these materials for our enjoyment. Thanks to the efforts of this singular weblog, a myriad of(...)
Bibliodyssey
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Across the world, libraries and institutions are just beginning to make their collections available online, much of this amazing material goes unoticed by the casual surfer. BibliOdyssey's mission has been to search the dustier corners of the internet and retrieve these materials for our enjoyment. Thanks to the efforts of this singular weblog, a myriad of long-forgotten imagery has now resurfaced. Each of these fascinating images is accompanied by a commentary from PK, author and curator of BibliOdyssey, and a link to the source website. With a foreword by artist Dinos Chapman, BibliOdyssey is a journey in discovery and delight, a true cabinet of curiosities.
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The city reader 4th edition
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The fourth edition of the highly successful The City Reader brings together the very best of publications on the city. Classic writings by such authors as Lewis Mumford, Ernest W. Burgess, LeCorbusier, Lewis Wirth, Jane Jacobs and Kevin Lynch meet the best contemporary writings of, among others, Sir Peter Hall, Richard Florida, Mike Davis, Michael Porter, Robert Putnam,(...)
Urban Theory
August 2007, London New York
The city reader 4th edition
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The fourth edition of the highly successful The City Reader brings together the very best of publications on the city. Classic writings by such authors as Lewis Mumford, Ernest W. Burgess, LeCorbusier, Lewis Wirth, Jane Jacobs and Kevin Lynch meet the best contemporary writings of, among others, Sir Peter Hall, Richard Florida, Mike Davis, Michael Porter, Robert Putnam, Andrus Duany, Saskia Sassen, and Manuel Castells. New to the fourth edition are important classic writings on urban economics by Wilbur Thomson and on bosses and machines by James Bryce, Jane Addams, and William L. Riordan, and new contemporary material on sustainable urban development , the creative class, metropolitics, occidentalism, Asian megacities, and urban futurism by The Bruntland Commission, Richard Florida, Myron Orfield, Ian Buruma and Avishai Margalit, Aprodicio Laquian, and Joel Kotkin. Fifty-seven generous selections are included: a combination of forty-six readings from the third edition and eleven entirely new selections. Structured to aid student understanding, the anthology features main and part Introductions, as well as individual introductions to the selected articles. Each selection is introduced with a brief intellectual biography and a review of the author s writings and related literature, an explanation of how the piece fits into the broader context of urban history and practice, competing ideological perspectives on the city, and the major current debates concerning race and gender, globalization, terrorism, the impact of information technology on cities, civic engagement, and postmodernism. The City Reader provides the comprehensive mapping of the terrain of Urban Studies, old and new. It is illustrated with over forty photographs and is essential reading for anyone interested in the city.
Urban Theory
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«In the end Otte devotes himself to a dream: He builds a new road. The rotary snowplow is his tool. It drives upon the existing, the direction determining ground, in order to erect another edifice upon it. It follows an old track, but lets itself not be diverted from its undertaking. A gorge offering no escape emerges between the masses of snow, in whose uniformity the(...)
Photography monographs
January 2007, Salzburg
Hanns Otte : Grossglockner Hochalpenstrasse
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«In the end Otte devotes himself to a dream: He builds a new road. The rotary snowplow is his tool. It drives upon the existing, the direction determining ground, in order to erect another edifice upon it. It follows an old track, but lets itself not be diverted from its undertaking. A gorge offering no escape emerges between the masses of snow, in whose uniformity the spatial coordinates are lost. The photographer has moved from the neutral grey to arrive at the white of fantasy. This road appears to be a path into the unreal, away from the certainties of daily life- and yet, heaping up the snow is only the trite means to make a road also passable in the winter.» Timm Starl 2007
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Why are there so many dogs in downtown? Does commuting makes you fat? Can government sell your house to a developer? Will art save your city? In 'On the Ground: Observations from Harvard' writer and journalist Tracy Metz investigates these and many other topical issues in land use and planning as practiced in the US. 'On the Ground' is a selection of the columns,(...)
On the ground : observations from Harvard
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Why are there so many dogs in downtown? Does commuting makes you fat? Can government sell your house to a developer? Will art save your city? In 'On the Ground: Observations from Harvard' writer and journalist Tracy Metz investigates these and many other topical issues in land use and planning as practiced in the US. 'On the Ground' is a selection of the columns, essays and interwiews she wrote as a Loeb Fellow at the Harvard Graduated School Design.
Urban Theory
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Reaching Beyond the Gold assesses the influence of global events on urban developments. Six cities - Genoa, Barcelona, Athens, Bilbao, Shanghai and London - have been chosen as case studies. These have all recently hosted a global event or will do so in the near future. After an introduction of the characteristics and impact of global events in general the history of(...)
Reaching Beyond the Gold : the impact of global events on urban development
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Reaching Beyond the Gold assesses the influence of global events on urban developments. Six cities - Genoa, Barcelona, Athens, Bilbao, Shanghai and London - have been chosen as case studies. These have all recently hosted a global event or will do so in the near future. After an introduction of the characteristics and impact of global events in general the history of each city is sketched and the political and urban implications of the events are examined. Three key aspects - organisation, management and city marketing - are dwelt on at length. Over forty facets including site size, visitor attendance figures, investments, populations, stakeholders, aims and methods, are then compared. A timeline, pictograms and drawings together with clear definitions of the different categories of events are used to give the best possible conditions in which to compare and analyse the events in question. Reaching Beyond the Gold analyses the successes and the failures of host cities in the past. The conclusions it draws can put an end to the structural errors still being made when organising large-scale events.
Urban Theory
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Depuis des siècles, les Japonais entretiennent une relation très proche avec la nature, et leurs jardins témoignent de ce profond attachement. Chacun d'eux, qu'il soit dédié à la contemplation ou à la promenade, est le résultat d'un travail de conception élaboré tant d'un point de vue architectural que symbolique. Les premiers écrits japonais sur le thème remontent au XIe(...)
Trois pierres cinq fleurs : petit traité du jardin japonais
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Depuis des siècles, les Japonais entretiennent une relation très proche avec la nature, et leurs jardins témoignent de ce profond attachement. Chacun d'eux, qu'il soit dédié à la contemplation ou à la promenade, est le résultat d'un travail de conception élaboré tant d'un point de vue architectural que symbolique. Les premiers écrits japonais sur le thème remontent au XIe siècle. Le texte fondateur présenté ici date de 1395, époque fortement marquée par le développement du bouddhisme zen; c'est la première fois qu'il est traduit en français. Dans ce recueil de traditions secrètes, on apprend l'art de poser les pierres, celui de construire «l'île du souffle d'en haut» et d'atteindre ainsi «deux bonheurs et trois biens».... Poèmes de grands auteurs japonais et calligraphies de Keiko Yokoyama viennent délicatement émailler cet étrange traité où la science du jardin mêle souvent recherche esthétique et préoccupations philosophiques.
Landscape Theory
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Spécialiste du Moyen Age, Guy Lobrichon retrace l'histoire de ces moines d'Occident qui ont fait l'éternité de l'Europe. Pères fondateurs du monachisme, abbés, abbesses, moines, moniales, convers, Bénédictins, Clunisiens, Cisterciens, Chartreux..., et tous les lieux qui leur sont liés, Vézelay, Cluny, Conques, Fontfroide, Silvacane, le Mont-Saint-Michel,(...)
Les moines d'Occident : L'éternité de l'Europe
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Spécialiste du Moyen Age, Guy Lobrichon retrace l'histoire de ces moines d'Occident qui ont fait l'éternité de l'Europe. Pères fondateurs du monachisme, abbés, abbesses, moines, moniales, convers, Bénédictins, Clunisiens, Cisterciens, Chartreux..., et tous les lieux qui leur sont liés, Vézelay, Cluny, Conques, Fontfroide, Silvacane, le Mont-Saint-Michel, Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire, Camaldoli, Monte Oliveto, Poblet, Santa Maria de las Cuevas, Saint-Gall, Fulda, Melk, Durrow..
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