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Equal parts travel adventure, history and journalistic exploration, ''The Peace in Peril'' is a story about the dubious trade-off of hydro power for resources like timber and farmland, but also far more: the Peace valley has been a prosperous home to people for eleven thousand years. How will lives, human and otherwise, be erased or irrevocably altered when the next great(...)
novembre 2016
The peace in peril: the real cost of the Site C dam
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Equal parts travel adventure, history and journalistic exploration, ''The Peace in Peril'' is a story about the dubious trade-off of hydro power for resources like timber and farmland, but also far more: the Peace valley has been a prosperous home to people for eleven thousand years. How will lives, human and otherwise, be erased or irrevocably altered when the next great flood rises up to engulf the Peace River valley?
Morphosis 2004-2018
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Known for its architecture of complexity, disruption, and ambiguity, Morphosis is on the cutting edge of exploration and discovery in design. This book documents the great variety of the firm's creations across the globe, a new academic building for the Cooper Union in New York, the Perot Museum of Nature and Science in Texas, the Casablanca Finance City Tower in(...)
Morphosis 2004-2018
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Known for its architecture of complexity, disruption, and ambiguity, Morphosis is on the cutting edge of exploration and discovery in design. This book documents the great variety of the firm's creations across the globe, a new academic building for the Cooper Union in New York, the Perot Museum of Nature and Science in Texas, the Casablanca Finance City Tower in Morocco, and the Sejong M-Bridge, in Sejong City, South Korea.
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Werner's nomenclature of colours: adapted to zoology, botany, chemistry, anatomy and the arts
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First published in 1814, Werner's Nomenclature of Colours is a taxonomic guide to the colors of the natural world that has been cherished by artists and scientists for more than two centuries. This beautiful pocket-size facsimile is certain to delight and inform a new generation of artists and scientists. Werner's Nomenclature of Colours is a charming artifact from the(...)
Werner's nomenclature of colours: adapted to zoology, botany, chemistry, anatomy and the arts
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First published in 1814, Werner's Nomenclature of Colours is a taxonomic guide to the colors of the natural world that has been cherished by artists and scientists for more than two centuries. This beautiful pocket-size facsimile is certain to delight and inform a new generation of artists and scientists. Werner's Nomenclature of Colours is a charming artifact from the golden age of natural history and global exploration.
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An illustrated exploration of our limitless fascination with doors, gates, and bridges. The word 'portal' comes from the Latin for 'gate', but it refers to any place of ingress and egress. According to architectural historian Philippa Lewis, a portal 'is generally an optimistic thing, both literally and metaphorically... The word encapsulates the idea of passing through,(...)
février 2018
Portals: gates, stiles, windows, bridges and other crossings
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An illustrated exploration of our limitless fascination with doors, gates, and bridges. The word 'portal' comes from the Latin for 'gate', but it refers to any place of ingress and egress. According to architectural historian Philippa Lewis, a portal 'is generally an optimistic thing, both literally and metaphorically... The word encapsulates the idea of passing through, to a new opportunity, to making progress or moving forward, to entering fresh new worlds.'
Homme de lettres
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Un réservoir de formes, à destination des graphistes, des designers, des typographes, étudiants et professionnels. Une exploration des objets et des paysages apparemment ordinaires où nos regards prennent forme. Des histoires de graphisme, faites d'archives, de travaux personnels, de recherches, de photographies, de dessins. Un créateur de signes, un homme de lettres,(...)
Homme de lettres
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Un réservoir de formes, à destination des graphistes, des designers, des typographes, étudiants et professionnels. Une exploration des objets et des paysages apparemment ordinaires où nos regards prennent forme. Des histoires de graphisme, faites d'archives, de travaux personnels, de recherches, de photographies, de dessins. Un créateur de signes, un homme de lettres, disparu trop tôt, à qui ses pairs rendent hommage dans cette monographie traversée par le monde.
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Failed States is an occasional publication that aims to collate and investigate ideas around place, or more specifically: ''indeterminate geographies.'' Each themed issue is a trove of text and image by emerging and established writers, artists, filmmakers, photographers and academics. The open-ended nature of the invitation extended to the contributors allows the journal(...)
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mars 2019
Failed states, issue 3: refuge
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Failed States is an occasional publication that aims to collate and investigate ideas around place, or more specifically: ''indeterminate geographies.'' Each themed issue is a trove of text and image by emerging and established writers, artists, filmmakers, photographers and academics. The open-ended nature of the invitation extended to the contributors allows the journal to become a space for the exploration of new ways of working, potentially diverging from established practices.
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The participatory city
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''The Participatory City'' is the first international and interdisciplinary collection of texts encompassing the whole spectrum of the debate within a wide geographical framework. Offering international perspectives on the question of urban participation, the contributors to this volume examine participatory dimensions of social housing, land-use policies, migrant rights,(...)
The participatory city
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''The Participatory City'' is the first international and interdisciplinary collection of texts encompassing the whole spectrum of the debate within a wide geographical framework. Offering international perspectives on the question of urban participation, the contributors to this volume examine participatory dimensions of social housing, land-use policies, migrant rights, environmental problems and health issues through the exploration of case studies from Chicago, Detroit, London, Mexico City and Bangalore.
Théorie de l’urbanisme
Hiroshi Sugimoto: black box
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Hiroshi Sugimoto has explored ideas of time, empiricism and metaphysics through a surreal and formalistic approach since the 1970s. A self-described "habitual self-interlocutor," Sugimoto uses the camera as a bridge between abstract questions and the quiet, comical nature of modern everyday life. This new project presents a survey of Sugimoto’s iconic work, from his calm(...)
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avril 2016
Hiroshi Sugimoto: black box
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Hiroshi Sugimoto has explored ideas of time, empiricism and metaphysics through a surreal and formalistic approach since the 1970s. A self-described "habitual self-interlocutor," Sugimoto uses the camera as a bridge between abstract questions and the quiet, comical nature of modern everyday life. This new project presents a survey of Sugimoto’s iconic work, from his calm seascapes to his more recent exploration of lightning fields and photogenic drawing.
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In this book, Susan Schuppli introduces a new operative concept: material witness, an exploration of the evidential role of matter as both registering external events and exposing the practices and procedures that enable matter to bear witness. Organized in the format of a trial, 'Material witness' moves through a series of cases that provide insight into the ways in(...)
Material witness: Media, forensics, evidence
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In this book, Susan Schuppli introduces a new operative concept: material witness, an exploration of the evidential role of matter as both registering external events and exposing the practices and procedures that enable matter to bear witness. Organized in the format of a trial, 'Material witness' moves through a series of cases that provide insight into the ways in which materials become contested agents of dispute around which stake holders gather.
Montréal confidential
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Presented in its original pocketbook format, this entertaining account documents the 1950s nightlife of Canada’s second largest city. Based on the original chronicle from the era, this overview’s spirited prose complements a vast collection of archival photographs, vividly depicting the people and places of Montreal’s underbelly. From glamorous cabarets and lush(...)
Montréal confidential
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Presented in its original pocketbook format, this entertaining account documents the 1950s nightlife of Canada’s second largest city. Based on the original chronicle from the era, this overview’s spirited prose complements a vast collection of archival photographs, vividly depicting the people and places of Montreal’s underbelly. From glamorous cabarets and lush restaurants, this exploration demonstrates why this city has been named one of the most colorful communities on the continent.
Architecture de Montréal