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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(...)
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 aspects of the politics of representation.
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février 1998, Chicago
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This book examines how the structure and content of medieval maps can provide an intriguing insight into how medieval mapmakers and readers saw their world.
Mapping Time and Space: How Medieval Mapmakers Viewed Their World
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This book examines how the structure and content of medieval maps can provide an intriguing insight into how medieval mapmakers and readers saw their world.
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janvier 1998, London
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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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mars 2001, Baltimore
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The spread of Renaissance culture in England coincided with the birth of the profession of architecture, whose practitioners soon became superior to simple builders in social standing and perceived intellectual prowess. This book, which focuses in particular on the scientist, mathematician, and architect Sir Christopher Wren, explores the extent to which this new(...)
Compass & rule : architecture as mathematical practice in England
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The spread of Renaissance culture in England coincided with the birth of the profession of architecture, whose practitioners soon became superior to simple builders in social standing and perceived intellectual prowess. This book, which focuses in particular on the scientist, mathematician, and architect Sir Christopher Wren, explores the extent to which this new professional identity was based on expertise in the mathematical arts and sciences. Featuring drawings, instruments, paintings, and other examples of the material culture of English architecture, the book discusses the role of mathematics in architectural design and building technology. It begins with architectural drawing in the 16th century, moves to large-scale technical drawing under Henry VIII, considers Inigo Jones and his royal buildings and Christopher Wren and the dome of St. Paul’s, and concludes with the architectural education of George III. Interweaving text and visual image, the book investigates the boundaries between art and science in architecture—the most artistic of the sciences and the most scientific of the arts.
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"Begin again, fail better: preliminary drawings in architecture" engages with one of the principal activities of the architect in the process of design: drawing by hand, and more specifically, the act of beginning those drawings. Architects try, fail, try again, fail better until they start to move in the direction that ultimately becomes a building . . . or not. This(...)
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Begin again, fail better: Preliminary drawings in architecture and art
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"Begin again, fail better: preliminary drawings in architecture" engages with one of the principal activities of the architect in the process of design: drawing by hand, and more specifically, the act of beginning those drawings. Architects try, fail, try again, fail better until they start to move in the direction that ultimately becomes a building . . . or not. This book brings together some 180 preliminary architecture drawings. More than fifty contemporary Swiss architecture firms each contributed two pieces that reveal something of their individual approach and understanding of architecture. This selection is enhanced by historical works from four significant British and Swiss archival collections dating back to the sixteenth century and up to the twentieth. The illustrations are complemented by essays providing a critical and historical framework, as well as a conversation engaging with the conditions and importance of failure within the design process. Brief interludes by international architects, archivists, and teachers, introducing a range of perspectives, round out this beautiful volume.
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Architecte et dessinateur, voyageur infatigable, savant précis et scrupuleux, Carl Haller von Hallerstein (1774-1817) occupe une place centrale parmi les précurseurs de l’archéologie classique, bien que sa disparition prématurée l’ait privé d’une plus large renommé, notamment en France. S’appuyant sur l’exploration du fonds d’archives conservé à la bibliothèque nationale(...)
Dessiner la Grèce : L'oeil et la main de Carl Haller von Hallerstein
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Architecte et dessinateur, voyageur infatigable, savant précis et scrupuleux, Carl Haller von Hallerstein (1774-1817) occupe une place centrale parmi les précurseurs de l’archéologie classique, bien que sa disparition prématurée l’ait privé d’une plus large renommé, notamment en France. S’appuyant sur l’exploration du fonds d’archives conservé à la bibliothèque nationale et universitaire de Strasbourg, cet ouvrage croise les perspectives d’historiens de l’art, d’historiens du livre et d’archéologues et permet ainsi de mieux appréhender le regard porté par Haller von Hallerstein, non seulement sur les vestiges archéologiques de la Grèce ancienne, mais également sur les paysages et les populations qrecques, albanaises et turques qui, au début du XIXe siècle, peuplent la Grèce à la veille de son indépendance.
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A digital atlas containing a wealth of information. The general maps show how the New Dutch Water Defence Line coheres as a strategic landscape structure. Maps at scale 1:25.000 show its typographic build-up in layers and components. The more detailed maps of the forts along its length reveal the sheer wealth of its historic places buildings forms and defining elements. In dutch.
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janvier 2007, Rotterdam
Strategisch Laagland Digital atlas
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A digital atlas containing a wealth of information. The general maps show how the New Dutch Water Defence Line coheres as a strategic landscape structure. Maps at scale 1:25.000 show its typographic build-up in layers and components. The more detailed maps of the forts along its length reveal the sheer wealth of its historic places buildings forms and defining elements. In dutch.
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Detail in Process
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What separates good architecture from great architecture? The difference lies in the details. The way an architect chooses to treat architectural detailingscreens and walls, doors and windows, roofs, bridges, and stairscan transform the merely ordinary into the extraordinary. Detail in Process, the second volume in the new AsBuilt series, features twenty-five(...)
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avril 2008, New York
Detail in Process
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What separates good architecture from great architecture? The difference lies in the details. The way an architect chooses to treat architectural detailingscreens and walls, doors and windows, roofs, bridges, and stairscan transform the merely ordinary into the extraordinary. Detail in Process, the second volume in the new AsBuilt series, features twenty-five awe-inspiring projects characterized by an unusual synthesis of aesthetics and materials: the sunshade at Morphosis's Student Recreation Center in Cincinnati; the embossed and perforated copper skin of Herzog & de Meuron's de Young Museum in San Francisco; the handrails at Miró Rivera Architects', Lake Austin Footbridge in Austin; the stairs at Heatherwick Studios', Longchamps Store in New York City; plus twenty more. Editors Christine Killory and René Davids have collected the best work of the past two years including new buildings by some of today's most daring and detail-obsessed architects, including Norman Foster, James Carpenter, John Ronan, Renzo Piano, Marmol Radziner, Tadao Ando, Steven Holl, Jean Nouvel, David Chipperfield, and SANAA. Comprehensively documented, Detail in Process includes the plans, details, and large-scale sections needed to appreciate the innovative ways these architects have responded to complicated design problems.
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En abordant la cartographie sous l’angle des objets qu’elle représente, ce nouveau dossier se propose de montrer leur extrême diversité, loin de l’image habituelle qui voue les cartes à la représentation du réel le plus tangible : cartographie d’une ville disparue, Vicina sur le Danube ; cartographie du mouvement : la bataille de Vyborg (1790) ; l’atlas sphéroïdal de(...)
Revue de la bibliothèque nationale de France no 24 : la cartographie
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En abordant la cartographie sous l’angle des objets qu’elle représente, ce nouveau dossier se propose de montrer leur extrême diversité, loin de l’image habituelle qui voue les cartes à la représentation du réel le plus tangible : cartographie d’une ville disparue, Vicina sur le Danube ; cartographie du mouvement : la bataille de Vyborg (1790) ; l’atlas sphéroïdal de Garnier ; une carte pour le passage de Vénus en 1874…
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octobre 2006, Paris
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In an age of digital cameras and computer renderings, the tradition of drawing and assembling an architectural sketchbook seems at once either willfully eccentric and or charmingly retrograde. But its profound importance to architecture and urban planning endures. Italian Cities and Landscapes is a compact and lovely sketch book created by architect William H. Fain during(...)
Italian cities and landscapes : An architect's sketchbook
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In an age of digital cameras and computer renderings, the tradition of drawing and assembling an architectural sketchbook seems at once either willfully eccentric and or charmingly retrograde. But its profound importance to architecture and urban planning endures. Italian Cities and Landscapes is a compact and lovely sketch book created by architect William H. Fain during a six month fellowship at the American Academy in Rome. Exploring the Italian city and countryside by bicycle, Fain used colored pencil to sketch scenes of the street life, the magnificent landscapes, and the architectural marvels of Italy. Italian Cities and Landscapes shows that for the creative individual, documenting travels through drawing continues to be a valuable means of learning to see, understand, and design.
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