Lacaton & Vassal
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Designed by the architects’s themselves, this monograph is published in conjunction with an exhibition of their work at the Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine in Paris. The illustrated monograph gathers all the projects that have been designed by the office and presents them in thematic groups, such as beginnings, landscape, dreams, freedom, transformation and the(...)
Lacaton & Vassal
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Designed by the architects’s themselves, this monograph is published in conjunction with an exhibition of their work at the Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine in Paris. The illustrated monograph gathers all the projects that have been designed by the office and presents them in thematic groups, such as beginnings, landscape, dreams, freedom, transformation and the city – together, these themes are woven into a story that challenges the architects’s proposals. In denying the obvious, the architects seek to emphasise what is essential and specific to each situation and context, while in turn proposing an architecture that celebrates freedom.
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In 1927, while a student of architecture at the Moscow Vhutemas, Georgii Krutikov presented a vision for a flying city. More than just a flight of architectural fancy, Krutikov’s flying city was a utopian dream, a plan to solve the seemingly intractable problems of overcrowding and resource depletion by moving humanity’s living quarters to space. Inspired in equal parts(...)
Georgii Krutikov: the flying city and beyond
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In 1927, while a student of architecture at the Moscow Vhutemas, Georgii Krutikov presented a vision for a flying city. More than just a flight of architectural fancy, Krutikov’s flying city was a utopian dream, a plan to solve the seemingly intractable problems of overcrowding and resource depletion by moving humanity’s living quarters to space. Inspired in equal parts by sci-fi dreams of space travel and the revolutionary idealism that still percolated in the Soviet Union at that time, Krutikov created an incredible amount of detailed information about his city: sketches, drawings, plans, and more.
Théorie de l’architecture
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The work of the great literary and cultural critic Walter Benjamin is an audacious plotting of history, art, and thought; a reservoir of texts, commentaries, scraps, and fragments of everyday life, art, and dreams. Throughout his life, Benjamin gathered together all kinds of artifacts, assortments of images, texts, and signs, themselves representing experiences, ideas,(...)
Walter Benjamin's Archive: images, texts, signs
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The work of the great literary and cultural critic Walter Benjamin is an audacious plotting of history, art, and thought; a reservoir of texts, commentaries, scraps, and fragments of everyday life, art, and dreams. Throughout his life, Benjamin gathered together all kinds of artifacts, assortments of images, texts, and signs, themselves representing experiences, ideas, and hopes, each of which was enthusiastically logged, systematized, and analyzed by their author. In this way, Benjamin laid the groundwork for the salvaging of his own legacy. This publication leads readers to the heart of his intellectual world, yielding a rich and detailed portrait of its author.
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Habitat: Biq builds the city
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The architects of the Rotterdam architecture practice Biq Stadsontwerp realize that the human habitat is no pristine idyll. Hans van der Heijden and Rick Wessels consider the habitat to be the architect's field of work and the gauge of the design. The design's effectiveness is the product of traditions and societal conventions, of the dreams, desires, and fictions of its(...)
Habitat: Biq builds the city
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The architects of the Rotterdam architecture practice Biq Stadsontwerp realize that the human habitat is no pristine idyll. Hans van der Heijden and Rick Wessels consider the habitat to be the architect's field of work and the gauge of the design. The design's effectiveness is the product of traditions and societal conventions, of the dreams, desires, and fictions of its inhabitants, but also of the possibilities and limitations of the construction industry. biq stadsontwerp links architectonic forms to the negotiations inherent in working in the modern city. Habitat examines this realism through five of the practice's designs.
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xix, 300 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2014.
Designing Tito's capital : urban planning, modernism, and socialism / Brigitte Le Normand.
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xix, 300 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
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National Mall / [Kyle May, editor in chief ; editors, Julia van den Hout [and three others]].
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118 pages, 10 unnumbered pages : illustrations, maps, plans ; 22 cm
[Brooklyn, N.Y.] : CLOG, [2012], ©2012
National Mall / [Kyle May, editor in chief ; editors, Julia van den Hout [and three others]].
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118 pages, 10 unnumbered pages : illustrations, maps, plans ; 22 cm
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[Brooklyn, N.Y.] : CLOG, [2012], ©2012
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192 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm
Chicago : Art Institute of Chicago, 2001.
2001 : building for space travel / John Zukowsky, editor ; with contributions by Rachel Armstrong [and others].
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192 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm
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Chicago : Art Institute of Chicago, 2001.
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v, 266 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
New York : New York University Press, ©2011.
Highway under the Hudson : a history of the Holland Tunnel / Robert W. Jackson.
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v, 266 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
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New York : New York University Press, ©2011.
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American cities, once economic and social launch pads for their residents, are all too often plagued by poverty and decay. One need only to look at the ruins of Detroit to see how far some once-great cities have fallen, or to Boston and San Francisco for evidence that such decline is reversible. In Boom Towns, Stephen J.K. Walters diagnoses the root causes of urban(...)
Boom towns: restoring the urban american dream
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American cities, once economic and social launch pads for their residents, are all too often plagued by poverty and decay. One need only to look at the ruins of Detroit to see how far some once-great cities have fallen, or to Boston and San Francisco for evidence that such decline is reversible. In Boom Towns, Stephen J.K. Walters diagnoses the root causes of urban decline in order to prescribe remedies that will enable cities to thrive once again. Arguing that commonplace explanations for urban decay misunderstand the nature our towns, Walters reconceives of cities as dense accumulations of capital in all of its forms — places that attract people by making their labor more productive and their leisure more pleasurable. Policymakers, therefore, must properly define and enforce property rights in order to prevent the flight of capital and the resulting demise of urban centers. Using vivid evocations of iconic towns and the people who crucially affected their destinies, Walters shows how public policy measures which aim to revitalize often do more harm than good. He then outlines a more promising set of policies to remedy the capital shortage that continues to afflict many cities and needlessly limit their residents' opportunities. With its fresh interpretation of one of the American quandaries of our day, Boom Towns offers a novel contribution to the debate about American cities and a program for their restoration.
Théorie de l’urbanisme
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206 pages : illustration ; 21 cm
Chico, CA : AK Press, [2024], ©2024
Defying displacement : urban recomposition and social war / Andrew Lee.
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206 pages : illustration ; 21 cm
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Chico, CA : AK Press, [2024], ©2024