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There's an elemental satisfaction in living in a cozy sanctuary in the midst of a snowy landscape. It evokes feelings of warmth, security, refuge, and comfort. "Winter homes" beautifully illustrates examples from winter wonderlands around the globe and provides ingenious solutions on how the home's design is formulated, and the architectural and interior design techniques(...)
Winter homes: cozy living in style
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There's an elemental satisfaction in living in a cozy sanctuary in the midst of a snowy landscape. It evokes feelings of warmth, security, refuge, and comfort. "Winter homes" beautifully illustrates examples from winter wonderlands around the globe and provides ingenious solutions on how the home's design is formulated, and the architectural and interior design techniques used to create both a connection to nature and contend with biting winter conditions.
Residential Architecture
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This volume tells the stories of the designers, architects, engineers, artists, scientists, and activists, who are at the forefront of positive change worldwide. Focusing on four themes - Technology, Society, Communication, and Ecology - Alice Rawsthorn and Paola Antonelli present a unique portrait of how our great creative minds are developing new design solutions to the(...)
Design emergency: Building a better future
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This volume tells the stories of the designers, architects, engineers, artists, scientists, and activists, who are at the forefront of positive change worldwide. Focusing on four themes - Technology, Society, Communication, and Ecology - Alice Rawsthorn and Paola Antonelli present a unique portrait of how our great creative minds are developing new design solutions to the major challenges of our time, while helping us to benefit from advances in science and technology.
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AD Green new deal landscapes
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This issue of AD explores the principles behind the Green New Deal and how they apply to the architectural and landscape professions. Whatever form the Green New Deal will take and is taking, it will be materialised through infrastructure, buildings, landscapes and various other constructed forms. The contributors to this AD examine the theoretical frameworks and design(...)
AD Green new deal landscapes
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This issue of AD explores the principles behind the Green New Deal and how they apply to the architectural and landscape professions. Whatever form the Green New Deal will take and is taking, it will be materialised through infrastructure, buildings, landscapes and various other constructed forms. The contributors to this AD examine the theoretical frameworks and design practices within which the protocols of the Green New Deal could be integrated.
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How are young people enabled to participate in contemporary art and gallery culture and what are the vehicles and strategies for this? Where do the challenges and tensions lie? What are the conditions that encourage young learners to be self-directed? What are the challenges involved in working with vulnerable young people? If partnership between organisations is(...)
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August 2009
Engage 22 : the international journal of visual art and gallery education, summer 2008
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How are young people enabled to participate in contemporary art and gallery culture and what are the vehicles and strategies for this? Where do the challenges and tensions lie? What are the conditions that encourage young learners to be self-directed? What are the challenges involved in working with vulnerable young people? If partnership between organisations is important in working with young people of all kinds, what makes for dynamic partnerships?
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South African–born A.J. Diamond gives a rare glimpse into the sights that informed his life and career on three continents. From childhood and youth in South Africa to education in England and the United States and finally to life in Toronto, Diamond has kept a sketchbook, paints and a pen at hand. This book gives visual and narrative illustrations of how he has viewed(...)
Sketches: From here and there
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South African–born A.J. Diamond gives a rare glimpse into the sights that informed his life and career on three continents. From childhood and youth in South Africa to education in England and the United States and finally to life in Toronto, Diamond has kept a sketchbook, paints and a pen at hand. This book gives visual and narrative illustrations of how he has viewed the world he has travelled.
Architecture Monographs
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This special issue of positions analyzes how the creation and proliferation of photographic images in East Asia affect global perceptions of the region's gender, ethnic, historical, and cultural identities. The contributors assess the ways that East Asia's relationship to the world and to its own past are increasingly mediated by the global circulation of visual images.(...)
Photography's places: Positions East Asia cultures critique
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This special issue of positions analyzes how the creation and proliferation of photographic images in East Asia affect global perceptions of the region's gender, ethnic, historical, and cultural identities. The contributors assess the ways that East Asia's relationship to the world and to its own past are increasingly mediated by the global circulation of visual images. They approach photography as both an object and medium of cultural critique.
Theory of Photography
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Cities speak, and this little book helps us understand their language. Considering the urban landscape not from the abstract perspective of an urbanplanner but from the viewpoint of an attentive observer, Urban Code offers 100 "lessons" - maxims, observations, and bite -size truths, followed by shortessays - that teach us how to read the city. This is a user's guide to(...)
Urban code: 100 lessons for understanding the city
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Cities speak, and this little book helps us understand their language. Considering the urban landscape not from the abstract perspective of an urbanplanner but from the viewpoint of an attentive observer, Urban Code offers 100 "lessons" - maxims, observations, and bite -size truths, followed by shortessays - that teach us how to read the city. This is a user's guide to the city, aprimer of urban literacy, at the pedestrian level.
Urban Theory
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This publication outlines the history of Mughal architecture and gardens, from stylistic developments under different emperors, to the geometric origins of Mughal design and decoration. Now the gardens are mostly lost, but the authors carefully depict how they would have been; their structures and layouts, the favoured varieties of colorful flowers and scented plants, and(...)
Mughal architecture and gardens
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This publication outlines the history of Mughal architecture and gardens, from stylistic developments under different emperors, to the geometric origins of Mughal design and decoration. Now the gardens are mostly lost, but the authors carefully depict how they would have been; their structures and layouts, the favoured varieties of colorful flowers and scented plants, and the laborious methods sometimes used to create running water in areas without natural springs and streams.
Arch Middle East
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With a thought-provoking collection of texts, drawings, photos, schematics and charts, this book explores how the design process can increase awareness of energy, re-interpreting familiar furnishings and products to make the use of electricity more visible. Grounded in passion and humor, rigor and research, the book asks designers and consumers - that is, all of us - to(...)
Static! Designing for energy awareness
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With a thought-provoking collection of texts, drawings, photos, schematics and charts, this book explores how the design process can increase awareness of energy, re-interpreting familiar furnishings and products to make the use of electricity more visible. Grounded in passion and humor, rigor and research, the book asks designers and consumers - that is, all of us - to look at the future of energy use in a new way.
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Young Architects 15: range
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Young architects often stand out more for their design approach than their realized work. This year's theme, Range, echoes the committee's perception of young architects' careers as explorations of the discipline's boundaries. Architects were challenged to demonstrate how the range they operate within evolves as they encounter the perceived limits of the profession.(...)
Young Architects 15: range
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Young architects often stand out more for their design approach than their realized work. This year's theme, Range, echoes the committee's perception of young architects' careers as explorations of the discipline's boundaries. Architects were challenged to demonstrate how the range they operate within evolves as they encounter the perceived limits of the profession. Competition entries reflect a diversity of approaches from formal treatments and construction to material experimentation and applications.
Contemporary Architecture