Denis Wood: Everything sings
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With artful wit and rigor, cartographer Denis Wood has written numerous books (including the influential bestseller The Power of Maps) that reorient his readers not only to our neighborhoods, homes and bodies, but also to our own very human instinct to understand where we live by mapmaking. At the heart of Wood's investigations is a near-legendary endeavor: the Boylan(...)
Denis Wood: Everything sings
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With artful wit and rigor, cartographer Denis Wood has written numerous books (including the influential bestseller The Power of Maps) that reorient his readers not only to our neighborhoods, homes and bodies, but also to our own very human instinct to understand where we live by mapmaking. At the heart of Wood's investigations is a near-legendary endeavor: the Boylan Heights maps, begun in 1982, and now published in Everything Sings. Surveying his century-old, half-square mile neighborhood Boylan Heights in Raleigh, North Carolina, Wood began by paring away the inessential "map crap" (scale, orientation, street grids) and, in searching for the revelatory in the unmapped and the unmappable, he ended up plotting such phenomena as radio waves permeating the air, the light cast by street lights and Halloween pumpkins on porches. Wood's maps accumulate into a multi-layered story about one neighborhood that tells the larger story of what constitutes the places we call home. With an introduction by Ira Glass.
Morphologie: city metaphors
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First published in 1982, German architect Oswald Mathias Ungers' ''City metaphors'' juxtaposes more than 100 various city maps throughout history with images of flora and fauna and other images from science and nature. Ungers assigns each a title- a single descriptive word printed in both English and German. In Ungers' vision, the divisions of Venice are transformed into(...)
Morphologie: city metaphors
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First published in 1982, German architect Oswald Mathias Ungers' ''City metaphors'' juxtaposes more than 100 various city maps throughout history with images of flora and fauna and other images from science and nature. Ungers assigns each a title- a single descriptive word printed in both English and German. In Ungers' vision, the divisions of Venice are transformed into a handshake and the 1809 plan of St Gallen becomes a womb. Ungers writes in his foreword, “Without a comprehensive vision reality will appear as a mass of unrelated phenomenon and meaningless facts, in other words, totally chaotic. In such a world it would be like living in a vacuum; everything would be of equal importance; nothing could attract our attention; and there would be no possibility to utilize the mind.” A classic of creative cartography and visual thinking, ''City metaphors'' is also an experiment in conscious vision-building.
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Atlas: Geography, Architecture and Change in an Interdependent World helps readers find their way through the practical and ethical challenges presented by globalisation and global environmental change. This publication combines recent thinking on human geography and architecture on global environmental change issues, setting out to develop a reinterpretation of(...)
février 2012
Atlas: geography, architecture and change in an independent world
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Atlas: Geography, Architecture and Change in an Interdependent World helps readers find their way through the practical and ethical challenges presented by globalisation and global environmental change. This publication combines recent thinking on human geography and architecture on global environmental change issues, setting out to develop a reinterpretation of cartography and a reframing of sustainability. The aim is to find a re-drawing of the earth and the making of new maps. With a focus on the growth and remaking of cities it offers an innovative mix of essays and shorter texts, original artworks and distinctive re-mappings. The Atlas arises out of a collaboration between scholars and practitioners from architecture and human geography.
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Carried out by designers Moniek Driesse and Annelys de Vet, along with Analía Solomonoff, the Subjective Atlas of Mexico is part of a series of previous subjective atlases where a varied group of artists, designers and photographers who choose personal topics as a starting point to map their cultural identity. Each were asked: what makes a Mexican? what are our likenesses(...)
juin 2012
Atlas subjectivo de México / subjective atlas of Mexico
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Carried out by designers Moniek Driesse and Annelys de Vet, along with Analía Solomonoff, the Subjective Atlas of Mexico is part of a series of previous subjective atlases where a varied group of artists, designers and photographers who choose personal topics as a starting point to map their cultural identity. Each were asked: what makes a Mexican? what are our likenesses and what differences do we share? Through its pages the scope of Mexico as a country limited by its borders and its latitudes suddenly vanishes and everyday practices take on new meaning. We can find Mexico reflected in the world, and the world reflected in Mexico. A DVD is included.
Subjective atlas of Hungary
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Is it possible to draw a portrait of contemporary Hungary with only one pencil, held by many? Could we map this country at all with its controversial optimism and pessimism, proud and poetry in one single book? Fifty young visual authors were invited by new media lab Kitchen and Dutch designer Annelys de Vet to put their homeland in perspective. Together they shed light(...)
Subjective atlas of Hungary
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Is it possible to draw a portrait of contemporary Hungary with only one pencil, held by many? Could we map this country at all with its controversial optimism and pessimism, proud and poetry in one single book? Fifty young visual authors were invited by new media lab Kitchen and Dutch designer Annelys de Vet to put their homeland in perspective. Together they shed light on the Hungarian spirit, today, from the most characteristic vernacular buildings to waterside houses and recycled fences, from wine spritzer and salty sticks to vegetable gardens and sold-out products.
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La ville a offert de multiples visages depuis son apparition en Mésopotamie et dans la vallée de l'Indus, voici environ 10 000 ans, et héberge aujourd'hui la moitié de l'humanité. L'appréhension du milieu urbain fut toutefois progressive et plurielle. Les quelque 200 cartes de la collection exceptionnelle de la Royal Geographical Society nous montrent comment l'homme a(...)
La ville: la cartographie urbaine de l'antiquité au XXe siècle
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La ville a offert de multiples visages depuis son apparition en Mésopotamie et dans la vallée de l'Indus, voici environ 10 000 ans, et héberge aujourd'hui la moitié de l'humanité. L'appréhension du milieu urbain fut toutefois progressive et plurielle. Les quelque 200 cartes de la collection exceptionnelle de la Royal Geographical Society nous montrent comment l'homme a imaginé, puis dessiné la ville. Par les tablettes en terre cuite des Babyloniens aux plans très précis du milieu du XXe siècle, en passant par les peintures et les enluminures médiévales, ce livre nous entraîne dans les cités, les bourgs et les métropoles de différentes époques.
London: a history in maps
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Over the past two thousand years London has developed from a small town into one of the world's largest and most dynamic cities. This book charts that growth and the city's transformation through hundreds of maps culled from the collection of the British Library's Map Library. Including official documents, individual endeavors, hand-drawn renditions, and technologically(...)
London: a history in maps
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Over the past two thousand years London has developed from a small town into one of the world's largest and most dynamic cities. This book charts that growth and the city's transformation through hundreds of maps culled from the collection of the British Library's Map Library. Including official documents, individual endeavors, hand-drawn renditions, and technologically advanced replicas, these maps represent a variety of perspectives. Utilitarian maps show the city as it is and serve to elucidate its inner workings, while carefully wrought plans show the city as it was envisioned. This book reveals the inside story of the creation, growth, and change of London.
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Les illustrations de cet ouvrage entraînent les lecteurs du Moyen Âge au XIXe siècle, sur les traces des bâtisseurs, architectes, décorateurs, utopistes ou simples témoins d'un passé dont ne subsistent parfois que des ruines. Ils ont pour noms Villard de Honnecourt, Jacques Androuet du Cerceau, Etienne Dupérac, Palladio, le Bernin, Borromini, Viollet-le-Duc, entre autres.
Dessins d'architecture, du Moyen-Âge au XIXe siècle
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Les illustrations de cet ouvrage entraînent les lecteurs du Moyen Âge au XIXe siècle, sur les traces des bâtisseurs, architectes, décorateurs, utopistes ou simples témoins d'un passé dont ne subsistent parfois que des ruines. Ils ont pour noms Villard de Honnecourt, Jacques Androuet du Cerceau, Etienne Dupérac, Palladio, le Bernin, Borromini, Viollet-le-Duc, entre autres.
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In the seventeenth century, a map of the plague suggested a radical idea—that the disease was carried and spread by humans. In the nineteenth century, maps of cholera cases were used to prove its waterborne nature. More recently, maps charting the swine flu pandemic caused worldwide panic and sent shockwaves through the medical community. In Disease Maps, Tom Koch(...)
Disease maps: epidemics on the ground
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In the seventeenth century, a map of the plague suggested a radical idea—that the disease was carried and spread by humans. In the nineteenth century, maps of cholera cases were used to prove its waterborne nature. More recently, maps charting the swine flu pandemic caused worldwide panic and sent shockwaves through the medical community. In Disease Maps, Tom Koch contends that to understand epidemics and their history we need to think about maps of varying scale, from the individual body to shared symptoms evidenced across cities, nations, and the world. Disease Maps begins with a brief review of epidemic mapping today and a detailed example of its power. Koch then traces the early history of medical cartography, including pandemics such as European plague and yellow fever, and the advancements in anatomy, printing, and world atlases that paved the way for their mapping. Moving on to the scourge of the nineteenth century—cholera—Koch considers the many choleras argued into existence by the maps of the day, including a new perspective on John Snow’s science and legacy. Finally, Koch addresses contemporary outbreaks such as AIDS, cancer, and H1N1, and reaches into the future, toward the coming epidemics.
Mapping New York
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A beautifully illustrated book with distinctive maps dating back to the 16th Century, when New York was known as New Amsterdam and founded by the Dutch as a commercial trading post, right up to the present day. Mapping New York provides a pictorial history of the city – both documenting it as a leader in commerce and as one of the most built up urban areas in the world.(...)
Mapping New York
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A beautifully illustrated book with distinctive maps dating back to the 16th Century, when New York was known as New Amsterdam and founded by the Dutch as a commercial trading post, right up to the present day. Mapping New York provides a pictorial history of the city – both documenting it as a leader in commerce and as one of the most built up urban areas in the world. This book focuses on maps from the 20th and 21st century, thematically arranged with maps on population, military, water, transport, commerce, crime, as well as planning and developing maps, and boundaries of the five boroughs. Featuring well known graphics such as the New York City subway map, artists’ representations include Claes Oldenburg’s Soft Manhattan #1: Postal Codes from 1966 and the poem, “Manhattan,” in the shape of the city by Howard Horowitz.