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Today the world is focusing unprecedented attention on Asia and the Middle East, rediscovering a cultural, political, and geographical landscape that has fascinated and frustrated Westerners since the time of Alexander the Great. "Mapping the Silk Road and Beyond", traces the history of the European age of exploration and its lasting effects on these regions through(...)
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septembre 2004, London, New York
Mapping the silk road and beyond : 2000 years of exploring the east
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Today the world is focusing unprecedented attention on Asia and the Middle East, rediscovering a cultural, political, and geographical landscape that has fascinated and frustrated Westerners since the time of Alexander the Great. "Mapping the Silk Road and Beyond", traces the history of the European age of exploration and its lasting effects on these regions through beautifully rendered and imaginative maps drawn by explorers, merchants, and colonial administrators of the time. The book focuses on both maritime exploration and overland discovery via the ancient Silk Road, a network of trading posts that encompassed China, Tibet, Pakistan, India, Kurdistan, Iraq, Ethiopia, Eritrea, and dozens of other places known in ancient times by fabled names, including Abyssinia, Malacca, Macassar, Siam, and Cathay. The maps provide visual keys to the fascinating history of Asia and the Middle East; illuminating a cast of historical figures ranging from great leaders (the Queen of Sheba, Mohammed the prophet, King Charles V) to legendary explorers (Marco Polo, Columbus, Magellan, Sir Francis Drake, Capt. James Cook) and influential cartographers. "Mapping the Silk Road and Beyond", depicts over eighty maps organized chronologically, from Alexander the Great’s map of the world, first created in 323 BC and reproduced in a sixteenth-century atlas, to maps from the nineteenth century by French and Dutch explorers that detail the growing interaction between Europeans and Eastern cultures. The maps represent the finest examples in existence in museums, libraries, and archives around the world, chosen because they depict the most important milestones in the mapping of Asia.
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Orsay : l'architecture
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Moins connus que les collections de peinture ou de sculpture, les dessins d'architecture du musée d'Orsay comptent plus de dix-huit mille pièces parmi lesquelles on peut distinguer deux ensembles exceptionnels le fonds Eiffel et le fonds Guimard. L'idée de constituer une "galerie de dessins d'architecture" avait germé dès 1890, mais, malgré différents dons et la collecte(...)
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Moins connus que les collections de peinture ou de sculpture, les dessins d'architecture du musée d'Orsay comptent plus de dix-huit mille pièces parmi lesquelles on peut distinguer deux ensembles exceptionnels le fonds Eiffel et le fonds Guimard. L'idée de constituer une "galerie de dessins d'architecture" avait germé dès 1890, mais, malgré différents dons et la collecte de quelques dizaines dé dessins, cette galerie permanente ne vit jamais le jour. Ce n'est qu'un siècle plus tard, avec la création du musée d'Orsay, que l'architecture trouva sa place dans un musée pluridisciplinaire consacré à cette période si riche de la deuxième moitié du XIXe siècle et du début du XXe siècle. Sous le Second Empire et plus encore sous la Troisième République, la société industrielle en plein essor réclame toujours plus de nouveaux bâtiments publics, d'églises, de prisons, de théâtres et d'immeubles. Parallèlement, les Expositions universelles sont un creuset d'imaginations fertiles : la tour Eiffel reste l'exemple le plus emblématique. Enfin, au tournant du siècle, l'Art nouveau fait souffler un vent d'émancipation et d'innovation. Cet ouvrage fait enfin connaître ce fonds aux richesses insoupçonnées, à travers quatre-vingts œuvres choisies et présentées par leur conservateur.
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Hand-drawn worlds
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Not all architectural renderings are done by straight edge or CAD program; not all spaces are visually related through blueprints. Impressive architectural spaces, spaces of atmospheric density, are also, and often to highly suggestive effect, created by hand. "Hand-Drawn Worlds" presents exemplary architectural drawings by 20 internationally-recognized contemporary(...)
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Not all architectural renderings are done by straight edge or CAD program; not all spaces are visually related through blueprints. Impressive architectural spaces, spaces of atmospheric density, are also, and often to highly suggestive effect, created by hand. "Hand-Drawn Worlds" presents exemplary architectural drawings by 20 internationally-recognized contemporary architects and artists, among them Ken Adam, Alexander Brodskij, Lee Dunnette, Richard Ferrier, Zaha Hadid, Willem van den Hoed, Steven Holl, Syd Mead, Gottfried Müller, and Michael Sorkin. Flanked by related essays, fantastic rooms of great perfection and unmistakable character rise in more than 140 large-format illustrations. An essay on the history of architectural drawings completes the volume.
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In "Apollo's Eye", geographer Denis Cosgrove examines the historical implications for the West of conceiving and representing the earth as a globe: a unified, spherical body. Cosgrove traces how ideas of globalism and globalization have shifted historically in relation to changing images of the earth, from antiquity to the Space Age. He connects the evolving image(...)
Apollo's eye : a cartographic genealogy of the earth in the Western imagination
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In "Apollo's Eye", geographer Denis Cosgrove examines the historical implications for the West of conceiving and representing the earth as a globe: a unified, spherical body. Cosgrove traces how ideas of globalism and globalization have shifted historically in relation to changing images of the earth, from antiquity to the Space Age. He connects the evolving image of a unified globe to politically powerful conceptions of human unity. Cosgrove constructs a genealogy of global images from classical Greece and Rome to the present, giving special attention to the early sixteenth century, when Europeans circumnavigated the earth, relocated it within their understanding of the cosmos, and revolutionized its representation in models and maps. Each chapter focuses on specific images of the globe or whole earth, reproduced in a wealth of illustrations. Cosgrove's analysis traces a pattern of associations between global images and the formation of Western identities, paying tribute to the complex cosmographic tradition out of which today's geographical imagination has emerged.
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Maps and politics
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Do maps accurately and objectively present the information we expect them to portray, or are they instead colored by the political purposes of their makers? In this lively and well-illustrated book, Jeremy Black investigates this dangerous territory, arguing persuasively that the supposed "objectivity" of the map-making and map-using process cannot be divorced from(...)
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Do maps accurately and objectively present the information we expect them to portray, or are they instead colored by the political purposes of their makers? In this lively and well-illustrated book, Jeremy Black investigates this dangerous territory, arguing persuasively that the supposed "objectivity" of the map-making and map-using process cannot be divorced from aspects of the politics of representation.
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octobre 2003, Chicago / London
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livres
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Destiné aux archivistes non spécialisés en archives de l'architecture-- ainsi qu'aux architectes et aux curieux-- ce manuel éclaire les étapes successives d'un programme de travail consacré aux archives modernes d'architecture. L'accent est mis beaucoup plus sur les documents graphiques et sur les maquettes que sur les dossiers écrits, très comparables à ceux qui(...)
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janvier 1900, Paris
Manuel de traitement des archives d'architecture
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Destiné aux archivistes non spécialisés en archives de l'architecture-- ainsi qu'aux architectes et aux curieux-- ce manuel éclaire les étapes successives d'un programme de travail consacré aux archives modernes d'architecture. L'accent est mis beaucoup plus sur les documents graphiques et sur les maquettes que sur les dossiers écrits, très comparables à ceux qui constituent des archives.
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janvier 1900, Paris
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Limes atlas
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This atlas shows the significance today of the Northern border zone of the Roman Empire in the Netherlands. Illustrated with maps and photographs throughout. With summaries in English and German.
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This atlas shows the significance today of the Northern border zone of the Roman Empire in the Netherlands. Illustrated with maps and photographs throughout. With summaries in English and German.
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What role does drawing play in architectural education? How is drawing used as an instrument for communication, investigation, and representation in architecture and the construction industry? This book assembles contributions to the 2021 edition of the Lucerne Talks, the bi-annual Symposium on Pedagogy in Architecture at the Lucerne School of Engineering and(...)
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octobre 2023
Drawing in architecture, education and research: Lucerne talks
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What role does drawing play in architectural education? How is drawing used as an instrument for communication, investigation, and representation in architecture and the construction industry? This book assembles contributions to the 2021 edition of the Lucerne Talks, the bi-annual Symposium on Pedagogy in Architecture at the Lucerne School of Engineering and Architecture. ''Drawing in architecture education and research'' offers a closer look at the importance of drawing culture in the curricula of Swiss schools of architecture and in the practice of architecture firms. Conceived as a compendium and reference book for students, teachers, and practitioners alike, this book explores the potential of drawing as a universal tool for communication and understanding among different societies, language groups, and professional communities. It considers drawing in its dual function as an object and a method for theory and practice in architecture and features strategies for a future transdisciplinary language of drawing that enables narrations and representations of new spatial concepts.
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A young engraver making a precarious living wandering around Europe, Hollar was employed by an English lord who took him to London, where he became known for his fashion plates, maps and panoramas. This book traces the story of the artist/engraver who drew London before and after the Great Fire of 1666.
The man who drew London : Wenceslaus Hollar in reality and imagination
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A young engraver making a precarious living wandering around Europe, Hollar was employed by an English lord who took him to London, where he became known for his fashion plates, maps and panoramas. This book traces the story of the artist/engraver who drew London before and after the Great Fire of 1666.
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Giovanni-Batista Piranesi
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Publié pour la première fois en 1918, cet ouvrage consacré à l’architecte-graveur Giovanni-Battista Piranesi ( Mestre 1720 – Rome 1778 ) est plus qu’une biographie. Il s’agit d’une véritable étude de la société italienne et romaine au XVIIIe siècle qui, sur bien des points, fait encore autorité aujourd’hui. Fils d’un tailleur de pierre vénitien, Giovanni-Battista Piranesi(...)
Giovanni-Batista Piranesi
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Publié pour la première fois en 1918, cet ouvrage consacré à l’architecte-graveur Giovanni-Battista Piranesi ( Mestre 1720 – Rome 1778 ) est plus qu’une biographie. Il s’agit d’une véritable étude de la société italienne et romaine au XVIIIe siècle qui, sur bien des points, fait encore autorité aujourd’hui. Fils d’un tailleur de pierre vénitien, Giovanni-Battista Piranesi reçut une formation d’architecte. Passionné par l’antiquité romaine, il accompagna, alors âgé de vingt ans, l’ambassadeur de Venise auprès du Saint-Siège à Rome. Il put alors satisfaire à loisir sa passion et parfaire sa formation auprès des maîtres romains. Lors de ce séjour, il s’initia à la gravure, art qu’il pratiqua sa vie durant, gravant des vues de Rome où les ruines antiques sont omniprésentes. Sa formation d’architecte et son œil passionné d’amateur d’antiquités offrent à notre regard ébahi une profusion d’œuvres qu’il publia dans plusieurs recueils. Ses talents d’architecte furent peu sollicités. C’est principalement la famille des Rezzonico, Vénitiens comme lui et dont fut issu le pape Clément XIII, qui lui permit d’exercer sa profession. Il fut notamment l’architecte de la restauration du prieuré des chevaliers de Malte à Rome et de son église, Sainte-Marie-Aventine.
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