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North: The future of post-climat America

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Climate change is already influencing how and where people live. In ''North'', Jesse M. Keenan argues that America is entering a new era marked by shifts in population that will transform everything from the physical landscape of cities to electoral politics. First, Keenan examines how human mobility is shaped by the environment and the economy. Next, he provides a conceptual and empirical overview of adaptation science, with a focus on how people, governments, and markets are preparing for and responding to climate impacts. He documents how physical impacts in the built environment, escalating costs, and public sector inertia are converging to drive people out of high-risk areas, while, at the same time, certain other areas are attracting people who seek a more sustainable way of life. ''North'' is not just a collection of scientific observations and projections about the peril of those left behind. It is also a projection of optimism about America's capacity for decarbonization, environmental stewardship, and economic mobility for those on the move.

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The houses of Guadelajara: Ghosts of modernity, ghosts of the past

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This is also, inevitably, a book about Luis Barragán and the long shadow he cast over Mexican architecture. It explores his early and little-known work as part of a generation of architect–engineers known as the Escuela Tapatía (the Guadalajara School), which in the 1920s developed an abstract and stylized reinterpretation of the regional architecture of Jalisco. Even less well known is the generation of architects who began their careers in Guadalajara in the early 1980s. This group took the work of Barragán and his colleagues from the 1920s as the starting point for its own production, resulting in an “echo of an echo”—a reinterpretation through time of an increasingly distant and abstracted original.

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Winter: images of contemporary Chilean architecture

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Photographers from across the globe chronicle Chile’s new architecture in wintertime Here, 15 leading architectural photographers- including Aryeh Kornfeld, Bleda y Rosa, Cristóbal Palma, David Bestué, Erieta Attali, Felipe Fontecilla, Guy Wenborne, Ignacio Acosta, Leonardo Finotti, Louise Oates and Iwan Baan- capture some of Chile’s most important works of contemporary architecture during the winter months. The photographs dwell on details, textures, form and qualities of light and space, as well the dialogue between buildings and surrounding landscape.

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Civitas: Sao Paulo

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This illustrated monograph explores the city-building aspirations of the Brazilian modern masters through their buildings in Sao Paulo. Works by Vilanova Artigas, Lina Bo Bardi, Salvador Candia, Rino Levi, Oscar Niemeyer and Paulo Mendes da Rocha were designed in response to the chaotic growth of one of the world's largest metropolises. ''CIVITAS'' brings together for the first time a unique collection of nineteen buildings, proposing a fresh take on them through new photographs especially taken for the book and graphic elements re-drawn by the author. Some of the works are today references in the urban public space, underlining the contemporary relevance of this architecture.

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Access for all: Sao Paulo's architectural infrastructures

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One of the ten largest cities in the world, São Paulo faces huge challenges in urban infrastructure. Yet despite the daunting task of supporting a population of more than twenty million, the Brazilian metropolis has since the 1950s maintained a policy of public and private investment in communal infrastructure, thus providing inclusive places and spaces for all its population. While many cities emulate Bilbao and other destinations by funding signature buildings by celebrated architects to attract tourists, São Paulo consistently and persistently funds programs aimed at social sustainability for its permanent residents. 'Access for All' demonstrates how architecture and infrastructure can contribute to a city’s urban development in multiple ways. Featuring a selection of buildings and projects from across seven decades, it takes readers through the city’s distinctive approach to urban infrastructure. The featured spaces range from a simple canopy over a public park to spaces for education, health care, sports and culture, and more. Beyond serving a specific purpose, one of the key roles of these spaces is to be accessible places for people to spend time together.

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Exposed architecture: exhibitions, interludes, and essays

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Exposed Architecture offers an overview of work by young architects in Latin America. Published in collaboration with LIGA, Space for Architecture in Mexico City, it is broken into three parts. The first documents, through images and brief texts, exhibitions that twelve firms from Argentina, Brazil/Uruguay, Chile, Mexico, Peru, Venezuela, and from Portugal created at LIGA’s exhibition space in Mexico. In the second part, six “Studio Interludes” shed light on practice and aesthetics in contemporary Latin American architecture. The third part comprises short essays by Latin American architects, along with two interviews with local figures, looking at key aspects and topics against a backdrop of the many challenges the region poses for the production and communication of architecture.

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Bien sûr, Chicago

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Le projet d’Adolf Loos pour le Chicago Tribune fait toujours énigme. L’architecte se place à contre-courant du formalisme moderne, « qui demain déjà sera obsolète ». Il prend l’arrogance du commanditaire au pied de la lettre pour mieux la révéler. Il raille les désirs de l’époque en proposant d’installer, si les limites de hauteur pouvaient être abolies un jour, une statue de tribun romain assis au sommet de la colonne dorique. Il avertit pourtant?: ce projet ne contredit en rien ses positions théoriques antérieures à propos de l’ornement. Loos nous avait alertés. La tour n’est pas un archétype, elle est un artefact.

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Infinite span: 90 years of Brazilian architecture

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'Infinite Span: 90 Years of Brazilian Architecture' assembles representative projects and works of Brazilian architecture made between 1920 and 2018. It creatively juxtaposes projects and proposes dialogues between them, and highlights intersections between architecture and music, literature, cinema and performing arts.

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Two sides of the border: reimagining the region

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What if we stopped dividing the US and Mexico, and instead saw the border as one region? This book envisions the cultural and industrial cohesion of the area. At a moment when migration has returned as a hot-button political issue and NAFTA is being renegotiated as the USMC, political discourse has exaggerated differences on either side of the shared US/Mexico border. But what if we stopped dividing the United States and Mexico into two separate nations, and instead studied their shared histories, cultures and economies, acknowledging them as parts of a single region? In 2018, under the direction of Mexican architect Tatiana Bilbao, 13 architecture studios and their students across the United States and Mexico undertook the monumental task of attempting to rethink the US/Mexico border as a complex and dynamic, but also cohesive and integrated, region. ''Two sides of the border'' envisions the borderlands through five themes: creative industries and local production, migration, housing and cities, territorial economies and tourism. Building on a long shared history in the region, the projects in this volume use design and architecture to address social, political and ecological concerns along our shared border.

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Medellin: topography of knowledge

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Celebrated as the world’s most innovative city in 2013, Medellín is the quintessential symbol for urban metamorphosis. What makes it a reference model lies as much in its exceptional public facilities and infrastructure as it does in the socially driven, progressive urban policies and bold formats for cooperation. Medellín: Topography of Knowledg is an exhibition and programme that will investigate and disseminate lessons from the Medellín Model, bringing together the diverse range of actors behind it.