L'atlas des bizarreries
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Saviez-vous qu’on trouve un musée des sièges de toilettes à San Antonio, aux États-Unis ? Et qu’en Chine, se tient un concours de beauté pour poissons rouges ? Grâce à cet atlas géographique, vous le saurez ! Il est divisé en 8 chapitres : Europe, Asie, Afrique, Amérique du Nord et du centre, Amérique du Sud, Océanie, Antarctique, cercle Arctique et Groenland. Chaque(...)
L'atlas des bizarreries
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Saviez-vous qu’on trouve un musée des sièges de toilettes à San Antonio, aux États-Unis ? Et qu’en Chine, se tient un concours de beauté pour poissons rouges ? Grâce à cet atlas géographique, vous le saurez ! Il est divisé en 8 chapitres : Europe, Asie, Afrique, Amérique du Nord et du centre, Amérique du Sud, Océanie, Antarctique, cercle Arctique et Groenland. Chaque chapitre est introduit par une carte du continent concerné. Découvre plus de 450 anecdotes drôles et loufoques réparties sur 40 cartes du monde. Parfait pour parcourir la Terre en s’amusant !
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The language of cities
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Most of us now live in cities. But what makes a city? Is it a place - or an idea? How should we define the city as it evolves today? Deyan Sudjic, Director of the Design Museum, decodes the underlying forces that shape the urban spaces around us, from their buildings to their names, from the power of crowds to why being a Londoner, New Yorker or Muscovite can offer a(...)
The language of cities
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Most of us now live in cities. But what makes a city? Is it a place - or an idea? How should we define the city as it evolves today? Deyan Sudjic, Director of the Design Museum, decodes the underlying forces that shape the urban spaces around us, from their buildings to their names, from the power of crowds to why being a Londoner, New Yorker or Muscovite can offer a sense of identity greater than any other.
Urban Theory
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Young Architects 17: Authenticity features work by winners of the 2015 Architectural League Prize for Young Architects + Designers. The competition theme, “Authenticity,” asked how recent advances in computation, visualization, material intelligence, and fabrication technologies have begun to alter design principles and also architects’ roles and their approaches to(...)
Young architects 17: Authenticity
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Young Architects 17: Authenticity features work by winners of the 2015 Architectural League Prize for Young Architects + Designers. The competition theme, “Authenticity,” asked how recent advances in computation, visualization, material intelligence, and fabrication technologies have begun to alter design principles and also architects’ roles and their approaches to architecture and research. The book includes projects by the six winners of the 2015 League Prize: Dan Adams and Marie Adams, Landing Studio. Anna Neimark and Andrew Atwood, First Office. Erin Besler, Besler & Sons. Seth McDowell and Rychiee Espinosa, mcdowellespinosa. Thom Moran. Clark Thenhaus, Endemic.
Contemporary Architecture
Écoute la musique
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La formulation du titre exprime une invitation (ou incitation) à écouter la musique. Pourtant, rien de proprement sonore n’apparaît dans les pages du livre. Au contraire, ce sont plutôt des manifestations silencieuses de la nature : des nuages qui flottent dans l’air, la lune qui croît et décroît, des flammes qui vacillent, des fleurs qui s’ouvrent, des papillons qui(...)
Écoute la musique
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La formulation du titre exprime une invitation (ou incitation) à écouter la musique. Pourtant, rien de proprement sonore n’apparaît dans les pages du livre. Au contraire, ce sont plutôt des manifestations silencieuses de la nature : des nuages qui flottent dans l’air, la lune qui croît et décroît, des flammes qui vacillent, des fleurs qui s’ouvrent, des papillons qui dansent etc. Or, l’idée originale – et efficace dans sa simplicité – de Motomitsu Maehara consiste à structurer l’espace de chaque page avec des portées musicales et d’y figurer les différentes scènes auxquelles il veut rendre attentif son lecteur. Le livre se lit donc comme une partition, ce qui éveille la sensibilité auditive autant que le regard. Les images acquièrent ainsi une dimension poétique grâce aux éléments visuels disposés sur la page selon le modèle de l’écriture musicale : un recours subtil à une palette de signes permettant de capter les mélodies secrètes du monde visible.
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Ce récit romancé raconte l'histoire de l'établissement de Ville-Marie. Le livre est accompagné d'un CD de 12 chansons de Gaëtane Breton sur la vie quotidienne dans la nouvelle colonie de 1642 à 1690. Au printemps 1641, la jeune Madeleine Drouhin quitte la France pour la traversée vers la Nouvelle-France. Après un premier hiver à Québec, les Français remontent le fleuve(...)
La périlleuse fondation de Ville-Marie
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Ce récit romancé raconte l'histoire de l'établissement de Ville-Marie. Le livre est accompagné d'un CD de 12 chansons de Gaëtane Breton sur la vie quotidienne dans la nouvelle colonie de 1642 à 1690. Au printemps 1641, la jeune Madeleine Drouhin quitte la France pour la traversée vers la Nouvelle-France. Après un premier hiver à Québec, les Français remontent le fleuve Saint-Laurent. En mai 1642, ils jettent l'ancre aux abords de cette immense île pour y fonder une nouvelle colonie, Ville-Marie. Madeleine y fera la rencontre de Qaletaqa, un jeune Algonquin dont elle tombera amoureuse et qui l'aidera à s'adapter aux conditions difficiles de ce pays.
Children's Books
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Cet ouvrage a pour ambition d’associer les éléments d’un état de la recherche en sciences humaines et sociales à propos des rapports sociaux de sexes et de l’espace urbain, mais aussi, et surtout, d’ouvrir des pistes opérationnelles utiles aux différents groupes acteurs de la ville, à toutes celles et tous ceux qui fabriquent quotidiennement la ville, en héritent et la transforment.
Gender Theory in Architecture
April 2017
La ville, quel genre ? : l'espace public à l'épreuve du genre
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Cet ouvrage a pour ambition d’associer les éléments d’un état de la recherche en sciences humaines et sociales à propos des rapports sociaux de sexes et de l’espace urbain, mais aussi, et surtout, d’ouvrir des pistes opérationnelles utiles aux différents groupes acteurs de la ville, à toutes celles et tous ceux qui fabriquent quotidiennement la ville, en héritent et la transforment.
Gender Theory in Architecture
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Six date palm characteristics provide the structure of this book: Form, Fruit, Hydration, Metamorphosis, Shade and Shadow, and Gender. Each investigation draws on Emirati traditions and tacit knowledge to share a narrative that is infused with sensitivity, genuine curiosity, and human inventiveness. This is the story of a species that continues to provide great value to(...)
The secret life of date palms
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Six date palm characteristics provide the structure of this book: Form, Fruit, Hydration, Metamorphosis, Shade and Shadow, and Gender. Each investigation draws on Emirati traditions and tacit knowledge to share a narrative that is infused with sensitivity, genuine curiosity, and human inventiveness. This is the story of a species that continues to provide great value to the Middle East. The hope is that the spirit of engagement and ingenuity employed throughout history inspires others to find value in their own regional resources, climates and cultures.
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"New Deal Utopias" explores one of the most ambitious but overlooked programs of the New Deal, the Greenbelt Towns, designed and built by the United States government to be model cities in the 1930s. The program was critiqued as "communistic" by conservative members of Congress, industrial and corporate leaders, and newspapers, yet they still managed to make an impression(...)
Photography monographs
October 2017
Jason Reblando: New deal utopias
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"New Deal Utopias" explores one of the most ambitious but overlooked programs of the New Deal, the Greenbelt Towns, designed and built by the United States government to be model cities in the 1930s. The program was critiqued as "communistic" by conservative members of Congress, industrial and corporate leaders, and newspapers, yet they still managed to make an impression on urbanist ideas in America. Jason Reblando's contemporary photographs of Greenbelt, Maryland; Greenhills, Ohio; and Greendale, Wisconsin invite viewers to reflect upon planned communities and the human urge to create an ideal society.
Photography monographs
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This book presents a series of contemporary, diverse and innovative design strategies that vary in form, function and design intent. The common denominator of all projects is the alternative and/or experimental approach of combining both private and public spaces. Diverse, innovative design approaches with complex programme are combined with socially and financially(...)
Innovative architecture strategies
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This book presents a series of contemporary, diverse and innovative design strategies that vary in form, function and design intent. The common denominator of all projects is the alternative and/or experimental approach of combining both private and public spaces. Diverse, innovative design approaches with complex programme are combined with socially and financially sustainable strategies. It shows design approaches with complex programmes, innovative and socially and financially sustainable approach.Innovative Architecture Strategies aims to help understand the different design approaches that can be followed when called to propose a concept and design an innovative mixed-use building. It's also a guide, point of reference, and inspiration book. The book demonstrates an analytical and clear way to conceptualize, explain and present a mixed-use design project. Each project in the book is selected for its different form, function, technique and design intent. They all offer a clear example of a design project. The diverse design approaches are presented in ten chapters. Each chapter begins with explaining the main concept behind the specific design approach and with a reference to a built precedent.
Contemporary Architecture
Grey Crawford: Finding bones
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Finding Bones introduces a newly rediscovered body of work by Grey Crawford. It's an anthology of photographs that embody the creative spirit that was prevalent throughout the Los Angeles art scene at the time. Southern California in the early 1970s was an island of its own creation: a mixture of surf, sea, and concrete highways winding around an ever-changing cultural(...)
Grey Crawford: Finding bones
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Finding Bones introduces a newly rediscovered body of work by Grey Crawford. It's an anthology of photographs that embody the creative spirit that was prevalent throughout the Los Angeles art scene at the time. Southern California in the early 1970s was an island of its own creation: a mixture of surf, sea, and concrete highways winding around an ever-changing cultural climate, it challenged assumptions of the definition of art. Crawford chooses his backgrounds with a sense of austerity as a means for introducing these hard-edged shapes and using them as the building blocks for his own language.
Photography monographs