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Building the South Side explores the struggle for influence that dominated the planning and development of Chicago's South Side during the Progressive Era. Robin F. Bachin examines the early days of the University of Chicago, Chicago’s public parks, Comiskey Park, and the Black Belt to consider how community leaders looked to the physical design of the city to shape its(...)
Building the south side: urban space and civic culture in Chicago 1890-1919
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Building the South Side explores the struggle for influence that dominated the planning and development of Chicago's South Side during the Progressive Era. Robin F. Bachin examines the early days of the University of Chicago, Chicago’s public parks, Comiskey Park, and the Black Belt to consider how community leaders looked to the physical design of the city to shape its culture and promote civic interaction.
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February 2004, Chicago, London
History until 1900
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A step-by-step guide to the fundamentals of freehand drawing for architecture and interior design students, "Freehand drawing" offers a comprehensive course for acquiring the essential architectural drawing skills. It covers basic tools, materials, and techniques for producing the rough sketch, the dimensioned sketch, and the final drawing and shows how to apply these to(...)
January 2005, New York / London
Freehand drawing for architects and interior designers
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A step-by-step guide to the fundamentals of freehand drawing for architecture and interior design students, "Freehand drawing" offers a comprehensive course for acquiring the essential architectural drawing skills. It covers basic tools, materials, and techniques for producing the rough sketch, the dimensioned sketch, and the final drawing and shows how to apply these to accurately render plans, elevations, and interior and exterior views.
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Parker's remarkable synthesis of the urban literature over the past 150 years shows how the best urban theories grow out of the lived experience in cities and can help citizens to reflect on that experience and make it better. It will be invaluable both to students needing a guide to urban theory as well as connoisseurs looking for a provocative synthesis of the literature.
Urban theory and the urban experience : encountering the city
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Parker's remarkable synthesis of the urban literature over the past 150 years shows how the best urban theories grow out of the lived experience in cities and can help citizens to reflect on that experience and make it better. It will be invaluable both to students needing a guide to urban theory as well as connoisseurs looking for a provocative synthesis of the literature.
Urban Theory
Looking encountering staging
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"Looking, Encountering, Staging" investigates the ways cultural practices (exhibitions, news reports, documentary photography, artistic and scientific discourses) stage their subjects and thus construct positions for their audiences. The contributors analyse how these positions come to be naturalized as 'given', or use strategies of staging, performing and(...)
Looking encountering staging
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"Looking, Encountering, Staging" investigates the ways cultural practices (exhibitions, news reports, documentary photography, artistic and scientific discourses) stage their subjects and thus construct positions for their audiences. The contributors analyse how these positions come to be naturalized as 'given', or use strategies of staging, performing and re-theatricalization to rethink the role of the artist or curator as mediator and to relocate the viewer
Contemporary Art Monographs
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Dust is a poetic meditation on how dust has been experienced and the small has been imagined across the ages. Examining a thousand years of Western civilization—from the naturalism of medieval philosophy, to the artistry of the Renaissance, to the scientific and industrial revolutions, to the modern worlds of nanotechnology and viral diseases— Dust offers a story of the(...)
Dust: a history of the small & the invisible
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Dust is a poetic meditation on how dust has been experienced and the small has been imagined across the ages. Examining a thousand years of Western civilization—from the naturalism of medieval philosophy, to the artistry of the Renaissance, to the scientific and industrial revolutions, to the modern worlds of nanotechnology and viral diseases— Dust offers a story of the genesis of the microcosm.
Architectural Theory
Architecture now! 7
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This publication includes a broad variety of projects from around the world, as well as some works of art that have a direct relation to architecture, from the likes of Giacomo Costa or Shinro Ohtake. It also explores how the recent economic downturn has led to fewer large-scale projects, but has also stimulated creative thinking, as architects find new ways to work(...)
Architecture now! 7
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This publication includes a broad variety of projects from around the world, as well as some works of art that have a direct relation to architecture, from the likes of Giacomo Costa or Shinro Ohtake. It also explores how the recent economic downturn has led to fewer large-scale projects, but has also stimulated creative thinking, as architects find new ways to work imaginatively inside budget constraints.
History since 1900, Reference Books
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In Ten Fundamental Questions of Curating ten contemporary curators pose and then propose answers to a series of key questions related to curating, art and exhibition making today: What Is a Curator? What Is the Public? What Is Art? What About Collecting? What Is an Exhibition? Why Mediate Art? What To Do with the Contemporary? What About Responsibility? What Is the(...)
Ten fundamental questions of curating
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In Ten Fundamental Questions of Curating ten contemporary curators pose and then propose answers to a series of key questions related to curating, art and exhibition making today: What Is a Curator? What Is the Public? What Is Art? What About Collecting? What Is an Exhibition? Why Mediate Art? What To Do with the Contemporary? What About Responsibility? What Is the Process? How About Pleasure?
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Posters: a global history
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From band posters stapled to telephone poles to the advertisements hanging at bus shelters to the inspirational prints that adorn office walls, posters surround us everywhere—but do we know how they began? Telling the story of this ephemeral art form, Elizabeth E. Guffey reexamines the poster’s roots in the nineteenth century and explores the relevance they still possess(...)
Posters: a global history
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From band posters stapled to telephone poles to the advertisements hanging at bus shelters to the inspirational prints that adorn office walls, posters surround us everywhere—but do we know how they began? Telling the story of this ephemeral art form, Elizabeth E. Guffey reexamines the poster’s roots in the nineteenth century and explores the relevance they still possess in the age of digital media.
Printed Matter
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This is the first all-encompassing book about the visual language of man-made products, explaining how mass-produced objects evolve over time and what made them change. Form evolution behaves in a similar way to language evolution and, to some extent, even to natural evolution. In the book the author materializes the governing rules of form evolution by means of fourteen(...)
The form of design: deciphering the language of mass-produced objects
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This is the first all-encompassing book about the visual language of man-made products, explaining how mass-produced objects evolve over time and what made them change. Form evolution behaves in a similar way to language evolution and, to some extent, even to natural evolution. In the book the author materializes the governing rules of form evolution by means of fourteen case studies.
Design Theory
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Toilet brings together twelve essays by urbanists, historians and cultural analysts (among others) to shed light on the public restroom. Based on a broad range of conceptual and political viewpoints, the original essays in this volume show how bathroom design reflects and sustains social practice.
Commercial interiors, Building types
November 2010
Toilet: Public restrooms and the politics of sharing
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Toilet brings together twelve essays by urbanists, historians and cultural analysts (among others) to shed light on the public restroom. Based on a broad range of conceptual and political viewpoints, the original essays in this volume show how bathroom design reflects and sustains social practice.
Commercial interiors, Building types