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L'Algérie et son patrimoine : dessins français du XIXe siècle

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Alors que la notion de patrimoine était encore peu partagée en métropole, dès 1830 de nombreux architectes allèrent inventorier les richesses de l'Algérie. Deux fonds importants relatifs à ces campagnes dormaient depuis dans des bibliothèques françaises: de nombreux relevés et dessins aquarellés à la Médiathèque de l'architecture et du patrimoine et sept albums de l'architecte Delamarre à la Sorbonne. C'est à partir de leur redécouverte que les auteurs du présent ouvrage, eux-mêmes architectes et enseignants originaires d'Algérie, resituent cette autre dimension du fait colonial et soulignent la naissance d'une conscience patrimoniale: de l'inédit pour cette année de l'Algérie en France.

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Place, time and being in Japanese architecture

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Several of the responsive design strategies revealed in this book are directly applicable beyond Japan where they could make a significant contribution to sustaining natural and cultural diversity globally.

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Bukhara : the eastern dome of Islam

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In this book a city planner, an architect and a historian trace the urban development of this outstanding city and analyse its architecture in urban and historical contexts from its origins in the pre-Islamic period to the situation today.

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Subjective atlas of Palestine

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Sublime landscapes, tranquil urban scenes, frolicking children; who would associate these images with Palestine? All too often the Western media show the country’s gloomy side, and Palestinians as aggressors. It is this that makes identifying with them virtually impossible. If we are to relate to the Palestinians other images are needed, images seen from a cultural and more human vantage point. The Dutch designer Annelys de Vet invited Palestinian artists, photographers and designers to map their country as they see it. Given their closeness to the subject, this has resulted in unconventional, very human impressions of the landscape and the architecture, the cuisine, the music and the poetry of thought and expression. The drawings, photographs, maps and narratives made for this atlas reveal individual life experiences, from preparing chickpeas to a manual on water pipe smoking, from historic dress to modern music. Pages containing humorous and caustic newspaper cartoons and invented Palestinian currency followed by colourful cultural diaries and moving letters from prisoners. All in all, the contributions give an entirely different angle on a nation in occupied territory. In this subjective atlas it is the Palestinians themselves who show the disarming reverse side of the black-and-white image generally resorted to by the media.

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The Age of Sinan : architectural culture in the Ottoman Empire

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During his tenure as Chief Royal Architect (1539-1588) in the "Golden Age" of the Ottoman Empire, Sinan designed hundreds of structures that helped create the renowned urban image of Istanbul, particularly mosques with seemingly weightless, light-filled centralized domes that have been compared with developments in Renaissance Italy. His distinctive architectural idiom left its imprint over a vast empire extending from the Danube to the Tigris, and he became the most celebrated of all Ottoman architects. In this lavishly illustrated, major new assessment of Sinan's oeuvre, Gülru Necipoglu challenges standard views of Sinan as a "Turkish Michelangelo" driven solely by an insatiable urge for artistic experimentation. Her innovative analysis shows that Sinan's rich variety of mosque designs sprang from a process of negotiation between the architect and his elite patrons, both men and women. Defined though they were by social and territorial hierarchies and associated notions of identity, memory, and decorum, Sinan's mosques simultaneously shaped these conceptions. "The Age of Sinan" draws on a wealth of primary sources to reveal the chief architect's monuments as bearers of previously unrecognized dimensions of meaning. A sophisticated study of the cultural and social history of Ottoman architecture, interpreting the works of a seminal figure in the early modern eastern Mediterranean world, it is must-reading for scholars and students of art history and other fields with an interest in the Ottoman Empire.

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The temple of Jerusalem

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The Temple has become the world's most potent symbol of the human search for an lost ideal, an image of greatness. Goldhill travels across cultural and temporal boundaries to convey the full extent of its impact on religious, artistic, and scholarly imaginations.

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Anthologie critique de la theorie japonaise

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Ce livre présente l'examen d'un siècle et demi de théorie architecturale japonaise. Les textes et discours théoriques choisis sont ceux qui sont les plus représentatifs des réflexions du monde architectural et de la création au Japon de la fin du XIXe à la fin du XXe siècle. Il montre l'évolution des tendances pour essayer de mettre en évidence la part du milieu.

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Les palais indiens

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Ce livre aborde les traditions architecturales historiques et régionales de l'Inde. Les plus anciens édifices royaux, les vastes cités impériales et citadelles.

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Japan, culture of wood : buildings, objects, techniques

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Japan is synonymous worldwide with traditional timber construction and the diversified use of wood in every sphere. Out of a long-enduring tradition emerge products of unrivalled refinement, craftsmanship and minimalist design. From bridges, through dwellings, sliding doors and furniture, to receptacles, tools and musical instruments, this publication presents the technique, tradition, context and production of some 30 different kinds of objects, focusing on the genesis of each. Every step from material selection through to surface finish is captured directly by noted photographer Roland Bauer in fascinating sequences, which combine with the detailed drawings to make each item's composition and production easy to grasp.

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Algérie, traces d'histoire: architecture, urbanisme et art de la préhistoire à L'Algerie contemporaine

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Cet ouvrage aborde l’Algérie dans sa singularité avec ses richesses humaines, créatrices et symboliques souvent inexplorées, pour suivre aussi la complexité de son histoire et des représentations qui l’ont accompagnée.