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AV 185: Alejandro Aravena
AV 185: Alejandro Aravena
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The Chilean Pritzker Prize winner takes centre stage in this timely instalment. Remarkable for his drive to put into practice ideas that can bring improvement to the city and peoples’ lives, Alejandro Aravena is taking this one step further with his theme for the 15th Venice Architecture Biennale, “Reporting from the Front”. In keeping with this line of inquiry, the(...)
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The Chilean Pritzker Prize winner takes centre stage in this timely instalment. Remarkable for his drive to put into practice ideas that can bring improvement to the city and peoples’ lives, Alejandro Aravena is taking this one step further with his theme for the 15th Venice Architecture Biennale, “Reporting from the Front”. In keeping with this line of inquiry, the(...)
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AV 185: Alejandro Aravena
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The Chilean Pritzker Prize winner takes centre stage in this timely instalment. Remarkable for his drive to put into practice ideas that can bring improvement to the city and peoples’ lives, Alejandro Aravena is taking this one step further with his theme for the 15th Venice Architecture Biennale, “Reporting from the Front”. In keeping with this line of inquiry, the magazine offers readers the chance to discover the stories of many other architects from around the globe whose work has brought positive change to the built environment. Divided among participatory design, civic service, and sustainable landscape, the projects herein give an exemplary overview of Aravena’s distinctive practice.
AV 185: Alejandro Aravena
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The Chilean Pritzker Prize winner takes centre stage in this timely instalment. Remarkable for his drive to put into practice ideas that can bring improvement to the city and peoples’ lives, Alejandro Aravena is taking this one step further with his theme for the 15th Venice Architecture Biennale, “Reporting from the Front”. In keeping with this line of inquiry, the magazine offers readers the chance to discover the stories of many other architects from around the globe whose work has brought positive change to the built environment. Divided among participatory design, civic service, and sustainable landscape, the projects herein give an exemplary overview of Aravena’s distinctive practice.
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périodiques
périodiques
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juin 2016
juin 2016
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Revues
Revues
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Since 1978, Herzog & de Meuron have consistently refined a fundamental approach to architecture that is tangibly rooted in the urban biography of Basel. It is here in the birthplace of the two founders that the office has prospered and acquired an international reach. The work of the architects is inscribed in the landscape of Basel, a city that has now become a(...)
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Since 1978, Herzog & de Meuron have consistently refined a fundamental approach to architecture that is tangibly rooted in the urban biography of Basel. It is here in the birthplace of the two founders that the office has prospered and acquired an international reach. The work of the architects is inscribed in the landscape of Basel, a city that has now become a(...)
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From Basel: Herzog & de Meuron
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Since 1978, Herzog & de Meuron have consistently refined a fundamental approach to architecture that is tangibly rooted in the urban biography of Basel. It is here in the birthplace of the two founders that the office has prospered and acquired an international reach. The work of the architects is inscribed in the landscape of Basel, a city that has now become a triational metropolis. This book is the result of ten years of exchange with Jacques Herzog, Pierre de Meuron, and their partners. Interwoven texts and images yield an eloquent portrait of Herzog & de Meuron and trace the physiognomy of an expanded historical territory, both monumental and intimate.
From Basel: Herzog & de Meuron
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Since 1978, Herzog & de Meuron have consistently refined a fundamental approach to architecture that is tangibly rooted in the urban biography of Basel. It is here in the birthplace of the two founders that the office has prospered and acquired an international reach. The work of the architects is inscribed in the landscape of Basel, a city that has now become a triational metropolis. This book is the result of ten years of exchange with Jacques Herzog, Pierre de Meuron, and their partners. Interwoven texts and images yield an eloquent portrait of Herzog & de Meuron and trace the physiognomy of an expanded historical territory, both monumental and intimate.
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octobre 2016
octobre 2016
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Architecture, monographies
Architecture, monographies
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Painting in New York 1971-83
Painting in New York 1971-83
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Published to follow the landmark exhibition at Karma Gallery, New York, this catalog unites the works of 30 women painters who were active in New York City during the 1970s. The collection showcases the diverse practices and backgrounds of these artists, all of whom were deeply influenced by the transformative legacy of second-wave feminism. During this period, a new form(...)
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Published to follow the landmark exhibition at Karma Gallery, New York, this catalog unites the works of 30 women painters who were active in New York City during the 1970s. The collection showcases the diverse practices and backgrounds of these artists, all of whom were deeply influenced by the transformative legacy of second-wave feminism. During this period, a new form(...)
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décembre 2023
décembre 2023
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Painting in New York 1971-83
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Published to follow the landmark exhibition at Karma Gallery, New York, this catalog unites the works of 30 women painters who were active in New York City during the 1970s. The collection showcases the diverse practices and backgrounds of these artists, all of whom were deeply influenced by the transformative legacy of second-wave feminism. During this period, a new form of painting emerged, fusing elements of sculpture and textile into the medium while reevaluating its role through innovative art historical methodologies. Amid debates about the relevance of painting, women artists revitalized the practice, coinciding with a shifting political landscape characterized by the global revolt of women against their marginalized status.
Painting in New York 1971-83
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Published to follow the landmark exhibition at Karma Gallery, New York, this catalog unites the works of 30 women painters who were active in New York City during the 1970s. The collection showcases the diverse practices and backgrounds of these artists, all of whom were deeply influenced by the transformative legacy of second-wave feminism. During this period, a new form of painting emerged, fusing elements of sculpture and textile into the medium while reevaluating its role through innovative art historical methodologies. Amid debates about the relevance of painting, women artists revitalized the practice, coinciding with a shifting political landscape characterized by the global revolt of women against their marginalized status.
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décembre 2023
décembre 2023
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Metamorfosi 05: Bruno Zevi
Metamorfosi 05: Bruno Zevi
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Bruno Zevi played a crucial role in the understanding and propagation of contemporary architecture. On the centenary of his birth - in an ideal partnership with the initiatives the “Bruno Zevi Foundation” is promoting both in Italy and abroad - “Metamorfosi, Q.d.A.” devotes this issue to some aspects of his cultural and educational battle. Its goal is to build a bridge(...)
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Bruno Zevi played a crucial role in the understanding and propagation of contemporary architecture. On the centenary of his birth - in an ideal partnership with the initiatives the “Bruno Zevi Foundation” is promoting both in Italy and abroad - “Metamorfosi, Q.d.A.” devotes this issue to some aspects of his cultural and educational battle. Its goal is to build a bridge(...)
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Metamorfosi 05: Bruno Zevi
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Bruno Zevi played a crucial role in the understanding and propagation of contemporary architecture. On the centenary of his birth - in an ideal partnership with the initiatives the “Bruno Zevi Foundation” is promoting both in Italy and abroad - “Metamorfosi, Q.d.A.” devotes this issue to some aspects of his cultural and educational battle. Its goal is to build a bridge between what the next generations learnt from him, all while following different paths, and what still remains alive and useful of his insights for a different way of practicing architecture inspired by social issues and in the pursuit of an evolving link between architecture, city and landscape.
Metamorfosi 05: Bruno Zevi
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Bruno Zevi played a crucial role in the understanding and propagation of contemporary architecture. On the centenary of his birth - in an ideal partnership with the initiatives the “Bruno Zevi Foundation” is promoting both in Italy and abroad - “Metamorfosi, Q.d.A.” devotes this issue to some aspects of his cultural and educational battle. Its goal is to build a bridge between what the next generations learnt from him, all while following different paths, and what still remains alive and useful of his insights for a different way of practicing architecture inspired by social issues and in the pursuit of an evolving link between architecture, city and landscape.
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novembre 2018
novembre 2018
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Revues
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2G 55: Robbrecht en Daem
2G 55: Robbrecht en Daem
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Paul Robbrecht and Hilde Daem have been active as architects in the Belgian city of Ghent since 1975. Their work moves between the local traditions of Flemish building and a cosmopolitanism acquired, in the main, as a result of their collaborations with international artists on exhibition and museum spaces. This number of 2G presents eighteen projects by Robbrecht en(...)
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Paul Robbrecht and Hilde Daem have been active as architects in the Belgian city of Ghent since 1975. Their work moves between the local traditions of Flemish building and a cosmopolitanism acquired, in the main, as a result of their collaborations with international artists on exhibition and museum spaces. This number of 2G presents eighteen projects by Robbrecht en(...)
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2G 55: Robbrecht en Daem
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Paul Robbrecht and Hilde Daem have been active as architects in the Belgian city of Ghent since 1975. Their work moves between the local traditions of Flemish building and a cosmopolitanism acquired, in the main, as a result of their collaborations with international artists on exhibition and museum spaces. This number of 2G presents eighteen projects by Robbrecht en Daem, fifteen of them built, which extend from public spaces for various Belgian cities (Antwerp, Ghent and Knokke) and urban amenities of major importance like Bruges Concert Hall to small projects inserted in the landscape, like a cabin the woods, a pair of observation towers and a dovecote.
2G 55: Robbrecht en Daem
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Paul Robbrecht and Hilde Daem have been active as architects in the Belgian city of Ghent since 1975. Their work moves between the local traditions of Flemish building and a cosmopolitanism acquired, in the main, as a result of their collaborations with international artists on exhibition and museum spaces. This number of 2G presents eighteen projects by Robbrecht en Daem, fifteen of them built, which extend from public spaces for various Belgian cities (Antwerp, Ghent and Knokke) and urban amenities of major importance like Bruges Concert Hall to small projects inserted in the landscape, like a cabin the woods, a pair of observation towers and a dovecote.
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périodiques
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novembre 2010
novembre 2010
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Revues
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Pablo Lopez Luz
Pablo Lopez Luz
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The aerial photographs of Pablo Lopez Luz (born 1979) rove across the urban landscapes of his native Mexico, capturing scenes of dense civic activity and more pastoral areas on urban perimeters. Luz's bird's-eye viewpoint endows his images with the feel of staged artifice, while also permitting the viewer the rare possibility of appraising a vast spread of visual(...)
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The aerial photographs of Pablo Lopez Luz (born 1979) rove across the urban landscapes of his native Mexico, capturing scenes of dense civic activity and more pastoral areas on urban perimeters. Luz's bird's-eye viewpoint endows his images with the feel of staged artifice, while also permitting the viewer the rare possibility of appraising a vast spread of visual(...)
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Pablo Lopez Luz
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The aerial photographs of Pablo Lopez Luz (born 1979) rove across the urban landscapes of his native Mexico, capturing scenes of dense civic activity and more pastoral areas on urban perimeters. Luz's bird's-eye viewpoint endows his images with the feel of staged artifice, while also permitting the viewer the rare possibility of appraising a vast spread of visual information, and the extraordinary impact that urban populations have as they encroach in ever-increasing circles upon the landscape around them. "Pablo Lopez Luz" contains color photographs produced over the last five years in Acapulco, Chiapas, Mexico City and Tijuana, plus another series made in Hong Kong.
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The aerial photographs of Pablo Lopez Luz (born 1979) rove across the urban landscapes of his native Mexico, capturing scenes of dense civic activity and more pastoral areas on urban perimeters. Luz's bird's-eye viewpoint endows his images with the feel of staged artifice, while also permitting the viewer the rare possibility of appraising a vast spread of visual information, and the extraordinary impact that urban populations have as they encroach in ever-increasing circles upon the landscape around them. "Pablo Lopez Luz" contains color photographs produced over the last five years in Acapulco, Chiapas, Mexico City and Tijuana, plus another series made in Hong Kong.
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mars 2012
mars 2012
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Monographies photo
Monographies photo
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Superkilen
Superkilen
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Superkilen, a kilometer-long band wedging through one of the most ethnically diverse and socially challenged neighborhoods in Denmark, celebrates the dawn of a new type of public space. This large-scale public project recipient of a 2013 AIA Award for Regional and Urban Design is the result of an invitational competition led by the city of Copenhagen and the Realdania(...)
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Superkilen, a kilometer-long band wedging through one of the most ethnically diverse and socially challenged neighborhoods in Denmark, celebrates the dawn of a new type of public space. This large-scale public project recipient of a 2013 AIA Award for Regional and Urban Design is the result of an invitational competition led by the city of Copenhagen and the Realdania(...)
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Architecture, monographies
Architecture, monographies
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novembre 2013
novembre 2013
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Superkilen
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Superkilen, a kilometer-long band wedging through one of the most ethnically diverse and socially challenged neighborhoods in Denmark, celebrates the dawn of a new type of public space. This large-scale public project recipient of a 2013 AIA Award for Regional and Urban Design is the result of an invitational competition led by the city of Copenhagen and the Realdania Foundation. Bjarke Ingels award-winning architecture firm BIG, landscape architecture studio Topotek 1, and high-profile artist collective Superflex were chosen to create an urban space with a strong local identity. The project was conceived as a giant exhibition space of urban best practices for public art and design.
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Superkilen, a kilometer-long band wedging through one of the most ethnically diverse and socially challenged neighborhoods in Denmark, celebrates the dawn of a new type of public space. This large-scale public project recipient of a 2013 AIA Award for Regional and Urban Design is the result of an invitational competition led by the city of Copenhagen and the Realdania Foundation. Bjarke Ingels award-winning architecture firm BIG, landscape architecture studio Topotek 1, and high-profile artist collective Superflex were chosen to create an urban space with a strong local identity. The project was conceived as a giant exhibition space of urban best practices for public art and design.
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novembre 2013
novembre 2013
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Architecture, monographies
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Film noir remains one of the most enduring legacies of 1940's and 1950's Hollywood. Populated by double-crossing, unsavory characters, this pioneering film style explored a shadow side of American life during a period of tremendous prosperity and optimism. Edward Dimendberg compellingly demonstrates how film noir is preoccupied with modernity, particularly the urban(...)
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Film noir remains one of the most enduring legacies of 1940's and 1950's Hollywood. Populated by double-crossing, unsavory characters, this pioneering film style explored a shadow side of American life during a period of tremendous prosperity and optimism. Edward Dimendberg compellingly demonstrates how film noir is preoccupied with modernity, particularly the urban(...)
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avril 2004, Cambridge, Mass.
avril 2004, Cambridge, Mass.
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Film noir and the spaces of modernity
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Film noir remains one of the most enduring legacies of 1940's and 1950's Hollywood. Populated by double-crossing, unsavory characters, this pioneering film style explored a shadow side of American life during a period of tremendous prosperity and optimism. Edward Dimendberg compellingly demonstrates how film noir is preoccupied with modernity, particularly the urban landscape. The originality of Dimendberg's approach lies in his examining these films in tandem with historical developments in architecture, city planning, and modern communications systems. He confirms that noir is not simply a reflection of modernity but a virtual continuation of the spaces of the metropolis. He convincingly shows that Hollywood's dark thrillers of the postwar decades were determined by the same forces that shaped the city itself. Exploring classic examples of film noir such as "The Asphalt Jungle", "Double Indemnity", "Kiss Me Deadly", and "The Naked City" alongside many lesser-known works, Dimendberg masterfully interweaves film history and urban history while perceptively analyzing works by Raymond Chandler, Edward Hopper, Siegfried Kracauer, and Henri Lefebvre. A bold intervention in cultural studies and a major contribution to film history, Film Noir and the Spaces of Modernity will provoke debate by cinema scholars, urban historians, and students of modern culture - and will captivate admirers of a vital period in American cinema.
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Film noir remains one of the most enduring legacies of 1940's and 1950's Hollywood. Populated by double-crossing, unsavory characters, this pioneering film style explored a shadow side of American life during a period of tremendous prosperity and optimism. Edward Dimendberg compellingly demonstrates how film noir is preoccupied with modernity, particularly the urban landscape. The originality of Dimendberg's approach lies in his examining these films in tandem with historical developments in architecture, city planning, and modern communications systems. He confirms that noir is not simply a reflection of modernity but a virtual continuation of the spaces of the metropolis. He convincingly shows that Hollywood's dark thrillers of the postwar decades were determined by the same forces that shaped the city itself. Exploring classic examples of film noir such as "The Asphalt Jungle", "Double Indemnity", "Kiss Me Deadly", and "The Naked City" alongside many lesser-known works, Dimendberg masterfully interweaves film history and urban history while perceptively analyzing works by Raymond Chandler, Edward Hopper, Siegfried Kracauer, and Henri Lefebvre. A bold intervention in cultural studies and a major contribution to film history, Film Noir and the Spaces of Modernity will provoke debate by cinema scholars, urban historians, and students of modern culture - and will captivate admirers of a vital period in American cinema.
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avril 2004, Cambridge, Mass.
avril 2004, Cambridge, Mass.
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''Los Angeles Lost and Found'' is a collection of essays and photographs that explores Los Angeles as a city of constant reinvention, where history is often buried beneath layers of change. Experience designer Margaret Chandra Kerrison uses the lens of narrative placemaking to examine how LA’s physical spaces—its streets, neighborhoods, and landmarks—shape both individual(...)
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''Los Angeles Lost and Found'' is a collection of essays and photographs that explores Los Angeles as a city of constant reinvention, where history is often buried beneath layers of change. Experience designer Margaret Chandra Kerrison uses the lens of narrative placemaking to examine how LA’s physical spaces—its streets, neighborhoods, and landmarks—shape both individual(...)
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Los Angeles lost and found: Essays on identity, place and belonging
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''Los Angeles Lost and Found'' is a collection of essays and photographs that explores Los Angeles as a city of constant reinvention, where history is often buried beneath layers of change. Experience designer Margaret Chandra Kerrison uses the lens of narrative placemaking to examine how LA’s physical spaces—its streets, neighborhoods, and landmarks—shape both individual and collective identity. What sets this collection apart is Kerrison’s deeply personal approach. She weaves her own story into the fabric of the city’s landscape, grounding cultural analysis in lived experience. Her reflections on the recent Los Angeles wildfires are especially poignant, revealing how natural disaster can strip a place down to its essence and reshape the stories we tell about it. Through these moments of vulnerability, she illustrates how loss and resilience are embedded in the urban environment. Blending memoir with observation, Kerrison highlights how overlooked spaces carry emotional weight and cultural memory. In doing so, she invites readers to view Los Angeles not just as a city of spectacle, but as a living, breathing narrative. Los Angeles Lost and Found is both intimate and expansive, offering a portrait of a city that continues to inspire and challenge those who call it home—or dream of doing so.
Los Angeles lost and found: Essays on identity, place and belonging
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''Los Angeles Lost and Found'' is a collection of essays and photographs that explores Los Angeles as a city of constant reinvention, where history is often buried beneath layers of change. Experience designer Margaret Chandra Kerrison uses the lens of narrative placemaking to examine how LA’s physical spaces—its streets, neighborhoods, and landmarks—shape both individual and collective identity. What sets this collection apart is Kerrison’s deeply personal approach. She weaves her own story into the fabric of the city’s landscape, grounding cultural analysis in lived experience. Her reflections on the recent Los Angeles wildfires are especially poignant, revealing how natural disaster can strip a place down to its essence and reshape the stories we tell about it. Through these moments of vulnerability, she illustrates how loss and resilience are embedded in the urban environment. Blending memoir with observation, Kerrison highlights how overlooked spaces carry emotional weight and cultural memory. In doing so, she invites readers to view Los Angeles not just as a city of spectacle, but as a living, breathing narrative. Los Angeles Lost and Found is both intimate and expansive, offering a portrait of a city that continues to inspire and challenge those who call it home—or dream of doing so.
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mars 2026
mars 2026
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Théorie de l’urbanisme
Théorie de l’urbanisme
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Buildings of Massachusettes
Buildings of Massachusettes
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This latest volume in the Society of Architectural Historians' Buildings of the United States series analyzes the architecture, landscape, and planning patterns of the capital of Massachusetts and forty surrounding cities and towns that fan out from Boston Harbor. The term "metropolitan" here emphasizes both the range of the project and the importance of this area in(...)
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This latest volume in the Society of Architectural Historians' Buildings of the United States series analyzes the architecture, landscape, and planning patterns of the capital of Massachusetts and forty surrounding cities and towns that fan out from Boston Harbor. The term "metropolitan" here emphasizes both the range of the project and the importance of this area in(...)
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Buildings of Massachusettes
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This latest volume in the Society of Architectural Historians' Buildings of the United States series analyzes the architecture, landscape, and planning patterns of the capital of Massachusetts and forty surrounding cities and towns that fan out from Boston Harbor. The term "metropolitan" here emphasizes both the range of the project and the importance of this area in introducing regional planning to the United States. Extensively illustrated with photographs and maps, and supplemented with a glossary and bibliography, the book assesses built form from initial colonial settlement in the 1630s through twenty-first-century additions to the Boston area landscape. The authors selected both exemplary and representative buildings and sites for inclusion. Here are structures of international reputation and buildings that characterize the vernacular housing patterns of the region. Because of the exceptional importance of the Boston area to the history of landscape architecture and city planning, those issues have been addressed in both the narrative introduction and the 640 entries. In contrast to other existing architectural guides, which do not move beyond central Boston and Cambridge, The Buildings of Massachusetts: Metro Boston canvasses the twelve sections of central Boston, its eight annexed neighborhoods, five sections of Cambridge (the district's second largest municipality), and forty surrounding communities have been examined. This volume has been designed to complement a second guidebook in the Buildings of the United States series that will focus on the buildings of Massachusetts from Cape Cod to the Berkshires.
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This latest volume in the Society of Architectural Historians' Buildings of the United States series analyzes the architecture, landscape, and planning patterns of the capital of Massachusetts and forty surrounding cities and towns that fan out from Boston Harbor. The term "metropolitan" here emphasizes both the range of the project and the importance of this area in introducing regional planning to the United States. Extensively illustrated with photographs and maps, and supplemented with a glossary and bibliography, the book assesses built form from initial colonial settlement in the 1630s through twenty-first-century additions to the Boston area landscape. The authors selected both exemplary and representative buildings and sites for inclusion. Here are structures of international reputation and buildings that characterize the vernacular housing patterns of the region. Because of the exceptional importance of the Boston area to the history of landscape architecture and city planning, those issues have been addressed in both the narrative introduction and the 640 entries. In contrast to other existing architectural guides, which do not move beyond central Boston and Cambridge, The Buildings of Massachusetts: Metro Boston canvasses the twelve sections of central Boston, its eight annexed neighborhoods, five sections of Cambridge (the district's second largest municipality), and forty surrounding communities have been examined. This volume has been designed to complement a second guidebook in the Buildings of the United States series that will focus on the buildings of Massachusetts from Cape Cod to the Berkshires.
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août 2009
août 2009
