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'People Cities' discusses the work, theory, life, and influence of Jan Gehl from the perspective of those who have worked with him across the globe. Jan Ghel’s research, theories, and strategies have been helping cities to reclaim their public space and recover from the great post-WWII car invasion. His work has influenced public space improvements in over 50 global(...)
People cities: The life and legacy of Jan Gehl
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'People Cities' discusses the work, theory, life, and influence of Jan Gehl from the perspective of those who have worked with him across the globe. Jan Ghel’s research, theories, and strategies have been helping cities to reclaim their public space and recover from the great post-WWII car invasion. His work has influenced public space improvements in over 50 global cities, including New York, London, Moscow, Copenhagen, Melbourne, Sydney, and the authors’ hometown of Perth.
Théorie de l’urbanisme
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"Summerfolk" explores the ways in which Russia’s turbulent past has shaped the function of the dacha and attitudes toward it. The book also demonstrates the crucial role that the dacha has played in the development of Russia’s two most important cities, Moscow and St. Petersburg, by providing residents with a refuge from the squalid and crowded metropolis. Like the(...)
mars 2003, Ithaca, London
Summerfolk : a history of the Dacha, 1710-2000
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"Summerfolk" explores the ways in which Russia’s turbulent past has shaped the function of the dacha and attitudes toward it. The book also demonstrates the crucial role that the dacha has played in the development of Russia’s two most important cities, Moscow and St. Petersburg, by providing residents with a refuge from the squalid and crowded metropolis. Like the suburbs in other nations, the dacha form of settlement served to alleviate social anxieties about urban growth.
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This book surveys two centuries of Russian history through a succession of ambitious architectural projects designed for a single construction site in central Moscow. Czars, Bolshevik rulers, and contemporary Russian leaders alike have dreamed of glorious monuments to themselves and their ideologies on this site. The history of their efforts reflects the story of the(...)
septembre 2007, New Haven London
The holy place : Architecture, ideology, and history in Russia
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This book surveys two centuries of Russian history through a succession of ambitious architectural projects designed for a single construction site in central Moscow. Czars, Bolshevik rulers, and contemporary Russian leaders alike have dreamed of glorious monuments to themselves and their ideologies on this site. The history of their efforts reflects the story of the nation itself and its repeated attempts to construct or reconstruct its identity and to repudiate or resuscitate emblems of the past.
Desired Landscapes, Issue 1
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'Desired landscapes' exist in our fantasies. They are postcards depicting distant vistas – unvisited or perhaps unforgettable. Projections of possible homes, of streets yet to be discovered and of urban clichés to be demystified. This magazine is all about that. It explores the sense of a place. It is a collection of person-to-place bonds, urban observations and poetic(...)
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Desired Landscapes, Issue 1
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'Desired landscapes' exist in our fantasies. They are postcards depicting distant vistas – unvisited or perhaps unforgettable. Projections of possible homes, of streets yet to be discovered and of urban clichés to be demystified. This magazine is all about that. It explores the sense of a place. It is a collection of person-to-place bonds, urban observations and poetic snapshots. Issue 1 takes you to ATHENS – TOKYO – MUNICH – ISTANBUL – LOS ANGELES – BEIRUT – LONDON – KUWAIT – BERLIN – MOSCOW – PARIS
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The future of nostalgia
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Combining personal memoir, philosophical essay, and historical analysis, Svetlana Boym explores the spaces of collective nostalgia that connect national biography and personal self-fashioning in the twenty-first century. She guides us through the ruins and construction sites of post-communist cities-St. Petersburg, Moscow, Berlin, and Prague-and the imagined homelands of(...)
The future of nostalgia
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Combining personal memoir, philosophical essay, and historical analysis, Svetlana Boym explores the spaces of collective nostalgia that connect national biography and personal self-fashioning in the twenty-first century. She guides us through the ruins and construction sites of post-communist cities-St. Petersburg, Moscow, Berlin, and Prague-and the imagined homelands of exiles-Benjamin, Nabokov, Mandelstahm, and Brodsky. From Jurassic Park to the Totalitarian Sculpture Garden, Boym unravels the threads of this global epidemic of longing and its antidotes.
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avril 2002, New York
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In this book Sichel examines Krull's autobiographical texts and photographic oeuvre to present and unravel the rich mythology that Krull fabricated around her life and work. The chapters follow the geographical and chronological sequence of Krull's life, moving(...)
Germaine Krull : photographer of modernity
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In this book Sichel examines Krull's autobiographical texts and photographic oeuvre to present and unravel the rich mythology that Krull fabricated around her life and work. The chapters follow the geographical and chronological sequence of Krull's life, moving from Munich to Moscow to Berlin to Amsterdam to Paris to Brazil to Africa to Bangkok and other locations. This book, which accompanies the first major retrospective exhibition on Krull, should secure Krull's rightful place among the masters of twentieth-century photography.
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octobre 1999, Cambridge, Mass.
Monographies photo
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Paris, Moscow, Rio de Janeiro, Tokyo, Addis Ababa, Buenos Aires, Shanghai, Cairo, Johannesburg, Dubai, Berlin and New York: world-renowned French photojournalist and documentarian Raymond Depardon has captured daily life in the streets of a dozen world-class cities in as many five-minute short films. Cities includes a series of stills from each and a personal essay on his(...)
novembre 2007
Raymond Depardon: villes/cities/städte
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Paris, Moscow, Rio de Janeiro, Tokyo, Addis Ababa, Buenos Aires, Shanghai, Cairo, Johannesburg, Dubai, Berlin and New York: world-renowned French photojournalist and documentarian Raymond Depardon has captured daily life in the streets of a dozen world-class cities in as many five-minute short films. Cities includes a series of stills from each and a personal essay on his travels. Depardon, born in 1942, is co-founder of Gamma, a member of Magnum, and a winner of the Pulitzer Prize for his still photography.
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novembre 2007
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The elusive face of Andrea Palladio is an updated version of the essay "I volti di Palladio" published in December 2016 in the catalogue for the exhibition Andrea Palladio. Il mistero del volto, edited by G. Beltramini, Milan 2016. The exhibition, on view at the Palladio Museum, Vicenza, from December 3, 2016 - June 18, 2017, was produced by the Centro Internazionale di(...)
The elusive face of Andrea Palladio
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The elusive face of Andrea Palladio is an updated version of the essay "I volti di Palladio" published in December 2016 in the catalogue for the exhibition Andrea Palladio. Il mistero del volto, edited by G. Beltramini, Milan 2016. The exhibition, on view at the Palladio Museum, Vicenza, from December 3, 2016 - June 18, 2017, was produced by the Centro Internazionale di Studi di Architettura Andrea Palladio and the Soprintendenza archeologia, belle arti e paesaggio per le province di Verona, Rovigo e Vincenza, in collaboration with ROSIZO State Museum and Exhibition Center, Moscow.
Architecture, monographies
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A companion volume to "Illuminations", the first collection of Walter Benjamin's writings, "Reflections" presents a further sampling of his wide-ranging work. Here Benjamin evolves a theory of language as the medium of all creation, discusses theater and surrealism, reminisces about Berlin in the 1920s, recalls conversations with Bertolt Brecht, and provides travelogues(...)
Reflections: essays, aphorisms, autobiographical writings
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A companion volume to "Illuminations", the first collection of Walter Benjamin's writings, "Reflections" presents a further sampling of his wide-ranging work. Here Benjamin evolves a theory of language as the medium of all creation, discusses theater and surrealism, reminisces about Berlin in the 1920s, recalls conversations with Bertolt Brecht, and provides travelogues of various cities, including Moscow under Stalin. Benjamin moves seamlessly from literary criticism to autobiography to philosophical-theological speculations, cementing his reputation as one of the greatest and most versatile writers of the twentieth century.
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This current issue presents recent large-scale institutional or public buildings. David Adjaye’s building for the Skolkovo - Moscow School of Management has attracted a lot of attention internationally since it is the first major public building by an international architect in Russia in quite some time. Also included in this issue is Fernando Romero’s design for the(...)
Mark, n.32: the modern monument
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This current issue presents recent large-scale institutional or public buildings. David Adjaye’s building for the Skolkovo - Moscow School of Management has attracted a lot of attention internationally since it is the first major public building by an international architect in Russia in quite some time. Also included in this issue is Fernando Romero’s design for the Museo Soumaya, a conversation with Franz Schulze, artist and the biographer of Mies van der Rohe, Philip Johnson and Helmut Jahn, as well as news, reviews and previews from all corners of contemporary architectural practice.
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