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The latest addition to Art Spaces series profiles one of the most famous and prestigious buildings in the world. The two-acre square, enclosed by a spectacular glass roof, transforms the Museum’s inner courtyard into the largest covered public square in Europe, with the world-famous Reading Room at its center. Written and researched in collaboration with the architects(...)
The great court at the British museum
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The latest addition to Art Spaces series profiles one of the most famous and prestigious buildings in the world. The two-acre square, enclosed by a spectacular glass roof, transforms the Museum’s inner courtyard into the largest covered public square in Europe, with the world-famous Reading Room at its center. Written and researched in collaboration with the architects Foster and Partners and the British Museum.
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This first book on Bogardus' life and work describes how iron architecture remade the face of American cities in the mid-nineteenth century, following the appearance of cast iron on the industrial scene in eighteenth-century England and Europe. It documents the role played by Bogardus, who patented his method for cast-iron construction in 1850 and(...)
Cast-iron architecture in America : the significance of James Bogardus
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This first book on Bogardus' life and work describes how iron architecture remade the face of American cities in the mid-nineteenth century, following the appearance of cast iron on the industrial scene in eighteenth-century England and Europe. It documents the role played by Bogardus, who patented his method for cast-iron construction in 1850 and championed its use in America's growing cities.
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January 1998, New York
History until 1900
Glasshouse Greenhouse
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The Haarkon Greenhouse Tour, a conceptual photoseries project by India and Magnus--the creators of Haarkon, began as a self-initiated adventure in Oxford's botanic garden four years ago. Since then, Magnus and India have visited countless locations in the UK, Europe, America, Asia, and beyond in search of dream glasshouses and greenhouses, capturing dramatic palm houses,(...)
Glasshouse Greenhouse
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The Haarkon Greenhouse Tour, a conceptual photoseries project by India and Magnus--the creators of Haarkon, began as a self-initiated adventure in Oxford's botanic garden four years ago. Since then, Magnus and India have visited countless locations in the UK, Europe, America, Asia, and beyond in search of dream glasshouses and greenhouses, capturing dramatic palm houses, tropical hothouses, and private potting sheds along the way.
Gardens
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Original Copies presents the first definitive chronicle of a remarkable phenomenon in which entire townships appear to have been airlifted from their historic and geographic foundations in Europe and the Americas, and spot-welded to Chinese cities. These copycat constructions are not theme parks but thriving communities where Chinese families raise children, cook dinners,(...)
Original copies: architectural mimicry in contemporary China
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Original Copies presents the first definitive chronicle of a remarkable phenomenon in which entire townships appear to have been airlifted from their historic and geographic foundations in Europe and the Americas, and spot-welded to Chinese cities. These copycat constructions are not theme parks but thriving communities where Chinese families raise children, cook dinners, and simulate the experiences of a pseudo-Orange County or Oxford.
Contemporary Asian Architecture
Rémy Marlot
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Born in Paris in 1972, Rémy Marlot's work associates the concepts of nature and culture in his work, around the issues of the urban landscape, the garden, dreams and night time. Since 1999, he has oriented his work Alongside his photography, his developing videographic work establishes a dialogue between these two media. Rémy Marlot's work is exhibited in Europe, the(...)
Rémy Marlot
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Born in Paris in 1972, Rémy Marlot's work associates the concepts of nature and culture in his work, around the issues of the urban landscape, the garden, dreams and night time. Since 1999, he has oriented his work Alongside his photography, his developing videographic work establishes a dialogue between these two media. Rémy Marlot's work is exhibited in Europe, the United States and Japan.
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Hero of Dada, Constructivist virtuoso, patron saint of collage, sound poetry and installation art, Schwitters made his greatest impact in the postwar era influencing American Pop art, Fluxus and assemblage art throughout Europe and America. This volume draws on recent research into the Merzbau interiors, and gathers all aspects of his output, from collage to typography(...)
Kurt Schwitters: A journey through art
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Hero of Dada, Constructivist virtuoso, patron saint of collage, sound poetry and installation art, Schwitters made his greatest impact in the postwar era influencing American Pop art, Fluxus and assemblage art throughout Europe and America. This volume draws on recent research into the Merzbau interiors, and gathers all aspects of his output, from collage to typography and architecture, into one glorious testimonial to Schwitters' libidinously prolific oeuvre.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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Through the use of account books, inventories, wills, and other records, Renata Ago examines early modern attitudes toward possessions, asking what people did with their things, why they wrote about them, and how they passed objects on to their heirs. An investigation into the relationship between people and the things they buy, Gusto for Things paints a portrait of the(...)
Gusto for things : a history of objects in Seventeenth-Century Rome
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Through the use of account books, inventories, wills, and other records, Renata Ago examines early modern attitudes toward possessions, asking what people did with their things, why they wrote about them, and how they passed objects on to their heirs. An investigation into the relationship between people and the things they buy, Gusto for Things paints a portrait of the meaning of objects in preindustrial Europe.
History until 1900, Italy
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318 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm
Frankfurt am Main : Revolver, c 2006.
Ideal city, invisible cities / [editors: Sabrina van der Ley & Markus Richter].
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318 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm
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Frankfurt am Main : Revolver, c 2006.
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112 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
New York : H.N. Abrams, 1995.
Flowers : Charles Rennie Mackintosh / text by Pamela Robertson.
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112 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
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New York : H.N. Abrams, 1995.
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The Trentino Brief.
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[Place of publication not identified] : ZKM, 2024.
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[Place of publication not identified] : ZKM, 2024.