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196 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm
New York : Rizzoli, 1985.
Ricardo Bofill : Taller de Arquitectura / introduction by Christian Norberg-Schulz ; edited and photographed by Yukio Futagawa.
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196 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm
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New York : Rizzoli, 1985.
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"Glasraum" is the result of a collaboration in the fields of architecture and photography. Set within the interiors of a remodelled office by Ganko, with pictures by Louis De Belle, the book occupies a liminal state between documentation and composition. Favouring a certain classicism in the strand of the modern tradition both authors identify with, Glasraum explores the(...)
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Ganko, Louis De Belle: Glasraum
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"Glasraum" is the result of a collaboration in the fields of architecture and photography. Set within the interiors of a remodelled office by Ganko, with pictures by Louis De Belle, the book occupies a liminal state between documentation and composition. Favouring a certain classicism in the strand of the modern tradition both authors identify with, Glasraum explores the deliberate ambiguities embedded in a seemingly aloof approach to the construction of both space and image.
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Water plays a key role in times of the climate change – both as an essential resource and as a potential threat. Rising sea levels, floods, and droughts demand innovative approaches in architecture and urban planning. ''Wind Blows, Water Rises'' is dedicated to the research-based work of Doreen Heng Liu and her office NODE, which focuses intensively on the Pearl River(...)
Doreen Heng Liu + NODE with GBA Lab/ SZU, Shenzhen: Wind blows, water rises
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Water plays a key role in times of the climate change – both as an essential resource and as a potential threat. Rising sea levels, floods, and droughts demand innovative approaches in architecture and urban planning. ''Wind Blows, Water Rises'' is dedicated to the research-based work of Doreen Heng Liu and her office NODE, which focuses intensively on the Pearl River Delta in China – one of the world’s most densely populated metropolitan regions.
Architecture Monographs
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Whether tall office buildings, high-rise apartments, or lofty hotels, skyscrapers have been stars in American cinema since the silent era. Cinema’s tall buildings have been variously represented as unbridled aspiration, dens of iniquity and eroticism, beacons of democracy, and well-oiled corporate machines. Considering their intriguing diversity, Merrill Schleier(...)
Architecture and Film, Set Design
January 2009, Minneapolis, London
Skyscraper cinema : architecture and gender in American film
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Whether tall office buildings, high-rise apartments, or lofty hotels, skyscrapers have been stars in American cinema since the silent era. Cinema’s tall buildings have been variously represented as unbridled aspiration, dens of iniquity and eroticism, beacons of democracy, and well-oiled corporate machines. Considering their intriguing diversity, Merrill Schleier establishes and explains the impact of actual skyscrapers on America’s ideologies about work, leisure, romance, sexual identity, and politics as seen in Hollywood movies.
Architecture and Film, Set Design
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Reprinted from the 1968 edition. Triton was a concept for an anchored floating city for 100,000 people that would be located just offshore and connected with bridges to the mainland. When president Johnson left office he took the model with him and installed it in his Presidential Library in Texas. This is the complete deisng report prepared by Buckminster Fuller and(...)
Architecture Monographs
July 2005, Honolulu
A study of a prototype floating community
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Reprinted from the 1968 edition. Triton was a concept for an anchored floating city for 100,000 people that would be located just offshore and connected with bridges to the mainland. When president Johnson left office he took the model with him and installed it in his Presidential Library in Texas. This is the complete deisng report prepared by Buckminster Fuller and his Triton Foundation staff for the U.S Department of Housing and Urban Development.
Architecture Monographs
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The Japanese based Nikken Sekkei Group has been engaged in diverse design challenges in an ongoing attempt to address a wide array of urban and architectural issues. The office’s leading approach has involved using comprehensive environmental assessment and diagnostic methods along with sophisticated thermal analysis technology. Here a collection of sustainable(...)
Sustainable architecture @ Nikken Sekkei
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The Japanese based Nikken Sekkei Group has been engaged in diverse design challenges in an ongoing attempt to address a wide array of urban and architectural issues. The office’s leading approach has involved using comprehensive environmental assessment and diagnostic methods along with sophisticated thermal analysis technology. Here a collection of sustainable architecture projects along with case studies for green building concepts and a variety of practical technologies embraced by the office are collected together.
Architecture Monographs
Jarmund/Vigsnaes Arkitekter
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Established in 1996, Norwegian office Jarmund/Vigsnæs Arkitekter (JVA) has gained worldwide recognition. Within their work can be detected a variety of elements, from Dutch pragmatism to Swiss atmospherics, and from Spanish abstraction to the American West Coast. Mari Hvattum combines an interview with her analysis of the practice. Included are notable projects such as(...)
Jarmund/Vigsnaes Arkitekter
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Established in 1996, Norwegian office Jarmund/Vigsnæs Arkitekter (JVA) has gained worldwide recognition. Within their work can be detected a variety of elements, from Dutch pragmatism to Swiss atmospherics, and from Spanish abstraction to the American West Coast. Mari Hvattum combines an interview with her analysis of the practice. Included are notable projects such as Dune House, Edge House, the Norwegian Ministry of Defence and the Oslo School of Architecture and Design, and many others.
Architecture Monographs
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xl, 344 pages, 1 pages : frontispiece, illustrations, plans (black and white) ; 40 cm
London : Offices of "Country Life", 1913.
Houses and gardens by E. L. Lutyens / described and criticised by Lawrence Weaver.
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xl, 344 pages, 1 pages : frontispiece, illustrations, plans (black and white) ; 40 cm
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London : Offices of "Country Life", 1913.
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volumes : illustrations ; 30 cm.
London : Offices of Country Life ; New York : C. Scribner's Sons, 1922.
Small country houses of to-day / edited by Lawrence Weaver.
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volumes : illustrations ; 30 cm.
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London : Offices of Country Life ; New York : C. Scribner's Sons, 1922.
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x, 610, xiii pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 31 cm.
London : The offices of "Country Life" ; George Newnes, Ltd, [1900]
The century book of gardening : a comprehensive work for every lover of the garden / edited by E. T. Cook.
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x, 610, xiii pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 31 cm.
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London : The offices of "Country Life" ; George Newnes, Ltd, [1900]