Chairs : a history
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In "Chairs : history", furniture historian Florence de Dampierre presents a readable and visually exploration of chairs and their place in culture throughout the ages. Along with hundreds of photographs, th eauthor fills these pages with information, tracing the chair's emergence in ancient Egypt and examining various forms of seating from Classical Greece, the Roman(...)
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In "Chairs : history", furniture historian Florence de Dampierre presents a readable and visually exploration of chairs and their place in culture throughout the ages. Along with hundreds of photographs, th eauthor fills these pages with information, tracing the chair's emergence in ancient Egypt and examining various forms of seating from Classical Greece, the Roman Empire, and the Renaissance era, to the classic designs of today - from thrones to divans, straight-backed to overstuffed, Baroque to Bauhaus, and contemporary.
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Subway Memories
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This book of photographs showcases over thirty years of New York subway photography by Chilean-born documentary photographer Camilo José Vergara. Thecolor images document the evolution of the city’s neighbourhoods and offer views of stations, tracks, and trains throughout the urban landscape. They chronicle Vergara’s own exploration of his adopted hometown and of the(...)
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This book of photographs showcases over thirty years of New York subway photography by Chilean-born documentary photographer Camilo José Vergara. Thecolor images document the evolution of the city’s neighbourhoods and offer views of stations, tracks, and trains throughout the urban landscape. They chronicle Vergara’s own exploration of his adopted hometown and of the subway that became his conduit of discovery. Vergara’s work dramatizes the vital role of New York’s subway in keeping New York neighborhoods alive and flourishing.
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Art play
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Marion Deuchars has created a surprising and engaging range of activities and games organized into seven sections of Drawing, Color, Shapes, Paint, Paper, Printing, and Pattern. Each section is not only a great opportunity to play, but also helps to shape and form artistic ability and confidence. Discover the joys of making your own marbled paper. Create your own language(...)
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Marion Deuchars has created a surprising and engaging range of activities and games organized into seven sections of Drawing, Color, Shapes, Paint, Paper, Printing, and Pattern. Each section is not only a great opportunity to play, but also helps to shape and form artistic ability and confidence. Discover the joys of making your own marbled paper. Create your own language in pictures. Providing hours of endless fun and exploration,Art Play will bring out the artist in everyone.
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A sustainist lexicon
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Words are our first tools for making sense of the world. 'A Sustainist Lexicon' presents seven words for a changing time. In this timely exploration of our cities, heritage, civic initiatives, urbanism and the future, Michiel Schwarz, co- creator of the Sustainism manifesto, charts how a new ethos and praxis is emerging in the ‘design’ of our living environment. This(...)
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A sustainist lexicon
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Words are our first tools for making sense of the world. 'A Sustainist Lexicon' presents seven words for a changing time. In this timely exploration of our cities, heritage, civic initiatives, urbanism and the future, Michiel Schwarz, co- creator of the Sustainism manifesto, charts how a new ethos and praxis is emerging in the ‘design’ of our living environment. This concise lexicon explores the changing cultural landscape through seven entries: Placemaking, Connectedness, Local, Commons, Circularity, Proportionality, and Co-Design.
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Histoire du design 1940-1990
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L'histoire du design de 1940 à 1990 pourrait n'être fondée que sur la vie et l'oeuvre de ses stars: de Loewy à Starck, d'Aalto à Sottsass, de Rietveld à Miyake. Mais Raymond Guidot ne sacrifie pas au culte de la personalité. Son livre, qui ressemble parfois à un film d'anticipation, replace le design dans un movement historique qui englobe les(...)
Histoire du design 1940-1990
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L'histoire du design de 1940 à 1990 pourrait n'être fondée que sur la vie et l'oeuvre de ses stars: de Loewy à Starck, d'Aalto à Sottsass, de Rietveld à Miyake. Mais Raymond Guidot ne sacrifie pas au culte de la personalité. Son livre, qui ressemble parfois à un film d'anticipation, replace le design dans un movement historique qui englobe les évenements politiques, le cinéma, les arts plastiques, la bande dessinée, et l''exploration de l''espace.
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novembre 1994, Paris
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Trois années d'explorations architecturales dans la zone du canal à Bruxelles. / Three years of architectural exploration in Brussels' canal zone. Avec textes de / with texts by Paul Blondeel, Stefano Boeri, Vincent Brunetta, Raoul Bunschoten, Lieven de Cauter, Bruno de Meulder, Alexander D'Hooghe, Hilde Heynen, Leïla Houari, Steven Jacobs, Rudi Laermans,(...)
Une ville en mouvement / a moving city
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Trois années d'explorations architecturales dans la zone du canal à Bruxelles. / Three years of architectural exploration in Brussels' canal zone. Avec textes de / with texts by Paul Blondeel, Stefano Boeri, Vincent Brunetta, Raoul Bunschoten, Lieven de Cauter, Bruno de Meulder, Alexander D'Hooghe, Hilde Heynen, Leïla Houari, Steven Jacobs, Rudi Laermans, André Loeckx, Veronique Patteeuw, Richard Plunz, Yves Schoonjans, Graham Shane, Kelly Shannon, Marcel Smets, Pieter T'Jonck, Pieter Uyttenhove, Pierre van Assche, Stephan van den Zegel, Paul Vermeulen.
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janvier 1998, Brussels
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Architecture and objects
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This first book on architecture by the founder of object-oriented ontology (OOO) deepens the exchange between architecture and philosophy, providing a new roadmap to OOO’s influence on the language and practice of contemporary architecture and offering new conceptions of the relationship between form and function. Thinking through object-oriented ontology—and the work of(...)
Architecture and objects
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This first book on architecture by the founder of object-oriented ontology (OOO) deepens the exchange between architecture and philosophy, providing a new roadmap to OOO’s influence on the language and practice of contemporary architecture and offering new conceptions of the relationship between form and function. Thinking through object-oriented ontology—and the work of architects such as Rem Koolhaas and Zaha Hadid—enables the exploration of new concepts regarding the relationship between form and function.
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The new American ghetto
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The New American Ghetto provides, through photographs and text, an exploration, over nearly two decades, of ghettos in New York, Newark, Los Angeles, Chicago, Detroit, and smaller cities. The author has taken successive photographs of the same places, tracking change over time - changes that have made the conditions of today's ghettos very different from those of an(...)
Théorie de l’urbanisme
janvier 1900, New Brunswick, N.J.
The new American ghetto
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The New American Ghetto provides, through photographs and text, an exploration, over nearly two decades, of ghettos in New York, Newark, Los Angeles, Chicago, Detroit, and smaller cities. The author has taken successive photographs of the same places, tracking change over time - changes that have made the conditions of today's ghettos very different from those of an earlier era. Vergara's interviews with residents and historical research contribute to his unique view of the nature and meaning of the inner city.
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janvier 1900, New Brunswick, N.J.
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The new American ghetto
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The "New American Ghetto" provides, through photographs and text, an exploration, over nearly two decades, of ghettos in New York, Newark, Los Angeles, Chicago, Detroit, and smaller cities. The author has taken successive photographs of the same places, tracking change over time - changes that have made the conditions of today's ghettos very different from(...)
Théorie de l’urbanisme
janvier 1997, New Brunswick, N.J.
The new American ghetto
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The "New American Ghetto" provides, through photographs and text, an exploration, over nearly two decades, of ghettos in New York, Newark, Los Angeles, Chicago, Detroit, and smaller cities. The author has taken successive photographs of the same places, tracking change over time - changes that have made the conditions of today's ghettos very different from those of an earlier era. Vergara's interviews with residents and historical research contribute to his unique view of the nature and meaning of the inner city.
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janvier 1997, New Brunswick, N.J.
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On color
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Our lives are saturated by color. We live in a world of vivid colors, and color marks our psychological and social existence. But for all color’s inescapability, we don’t know much about it. Now authors David Scott Kastan and Stephen Farthing offer an exploration of one of the most intriguing and least understood aspects of everyday experience. Kastan and Farthing, a(...)
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On color
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Our lives are saturated by color. We live in a world of vivid colors, and color marks our psychological and social existence. But for all color’s inescapability, we don’t know much about it. Now authors David Scott Kastan and Stephen Farthing offer an exploration of one of the most intriguing and least understood aspects of everyday experience. Kastan and Farthing, a scholar and a painter, respectively, investigate color from numerous perspectives: literary, historical, cultural, anthropological, philosophical, art historical, political, and scientific.