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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.

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Nelson Algren : Chicago, city on the make - 60th anniversary edition

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Ernest Hemingway once said of Nelson Algren's writing that "you should not read it if you cannot take a punch." The prose poem, "Chicago: City on the Make," filled with language that swings and jabs and stuns, lives up to those words. In this sixtieth anniversary edition, Algren presents 120 years of Chicago history through the lens of its "nobodies nobody knows" the tramps, hustlers, aging bar fighters, freed death-row inmates, and anonymous working stiffs who prowl its streets.

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The atlas of American architecture : 2000 years of architecture, city planning, landscape architecture and civil engineering

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This comparative history of American architecture, social spaces, and engineered environments — organized by style, and then by chronology — is for the general reader. Within its heavily illustrated pages, Tom Martinson traces two millennia of the built environment of this endlessly fascinating, extraordinarily expansive, and utterly diverse nation. Pairing vibrant photography with a rich knowledge of the history of architecture in America — from the Hopi and Colonial years to neomodernism, Robert A. M. Stern, and Zaha Hadid — the book is a comprehensive overview of styles and developments, as well as telling the story of a country through its buildings.

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Latin America in construction: architecture 1955-1980

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In 1955 The Museum of Modern Art staged Latin American Architecture since 1945, a landmark survey of modern architecture in Latin America. Published in conjunction with a new exhibition that revisits the region on the 60th anniversary of that important show, Latin America in Construction: Architecture 1955-1980 offers a complex overview of the positions, debates, and architectural creativity from Mexico and Cuba to the Southern Cone between 1955 and the early 1980s.

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Dream house: The White House as an American home

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Dream House: The White House as an American Home looks at the president's house in the context of American house design and decoration. Hundreds of historic photographs, plans, and drawings compare the president's residence to other American houses, gardens, and interiors, showing the White House as it changed through decades of interior renovation, rebuilding, and landscaping.

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L.A. [Ten]: interviews on Los Angeles architecture, 1970s-1990s

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Catapulted to fame by the international media in and around the 1980s, a loosely affiliated cadre of architects-the so-called L.A. Ten - emerged to define the future of Los Angeles architecture. In this book, architects Neil Denari, Frederick Fisher, Ming Fung, Craig Hodgetts, Coy Howard, Wes Jones, Thom Mayne, Eric Owen Moss, Michael Rotondi, and former associates of the late Franklin Israel offer a casual, witty, and approachable retrospective on the characters, environment, and cultural history of L.A. architecture as they remember it.