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From Louis Sullivan's Bayard-Condict Building of 1898 on Bleeker Street to the Conde Nast tower currently rising above Times Square, "Manhattan Skyscrapers" lavishly presents over a hundred years of New York's most interesting and important tall (...)
Structures d’ingénierie
août 1999, New York
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From Louis Sullivan's Bayard-Condict Building of 1898 on Bleeker Street to the Conde Nast tower currently rising above Times Square, "Manhattan Skyscrapers" lavishly presents over a hundred years of New York's most interesting and important tall buildings. Author Eric P. Nash profiles familiar skyscrapers such as the Woolworth Building, the Empire State Building, the Chrysler Building, the World Trade Towers, the AT (now Sony) Building, and the Seagram Building, while also championing several often-overlooked yet significant structures, such as the McGraw- Hill, the Metropolitan Life Insurance, and the Fred F. French Buildings.
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As oil prices soar and suburbs continue to sprawl, Grescoe hits the commuter road in a global quest to understand and illuminate the challenges of the post-automobile age. Straphanger offers a global tour of alternatives to car-based living, told through encounters with bicycle commuters, subway engineers, idealistic mayors and disillusioned trolley campaigners.(...)
Straphanger: saving our cities and ourselves from the automobile
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As oil prices soar and suburbs continue to sprawl, Grescoe hits the commuter road in a global quest to understand and illuminate the challenges of the post-automobile age. Straphanger offers a global tour of alternatives to car-based living, told through encounters with bicycle commuters, subway engineers, idealistic mayors and disillusioned trolley campaigners. Along the way, Grescoe meets libertarian apologists for the automobile, urbanists who defend suburban sprawl, champions of buses, rapid transit and light rail, and planners fighting to liberate cities from the empire of the automobile.
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Part of an accessibly written and generously illustrated series on architecture through the ages, this book features modern architecture's most important architects and buildings, interior and exterior photographs, detailed images, drawings and plans. A style driven by huge technological advances, modernism is architecture's most diverse period. It encompasses buildings(...)
The story of modern architecture
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Part of an accessibly written and generously illustrated series on architecture through the ages, this book features modern architecture's most important architects and buildings, interior and exterior photographs, detailed images, drawings and plans. A style driven by huge technological advances, modernism is architecture's most diverse period. It encompasses buildings as varied as the Sydney Opera House and the Empire State skyscraper. This volume helps readers sort through the numerous movements, schools of design, and architectural styles of Modernism. Chronologically arranged, it includes some of twentieth century's most exciting buildings.
Modernisme
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Benjamin Flowers explores the role of culture and ideology in shaping the construction of skyscrapers and the way wealth and power have operated to reshape the urban landscape. Flowers narrates this modern tale by closely examining the creation and reception of three significant sites: the Empire State Building, the Seagram Building, and the World Trade Center. He(...)
Skyscraper: the politics and power of building New York City in the twentieth century
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Benjamin Flowers explores the role of culture and ideology in shaping the construction of skyscrapers and the way wealth and power have operated to reshape the urban landscape. Flowers narrates this modern tale by closely examining the creation and reception of three significant sites: the Empire State Building, the Seagram Building, and the World Trade Center. He demonstrates how architects and their clients employed a diverse range of modernist styles to engage with and influence broader cultural themes in American society: immigration, the Cold War, and the rise of American global capitalism.
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The yew is the oldest and most common tree in the world, but it is a plant of puzzling contradictions: it is a conifer with juicy scarlet berries, but no cones; deer can feast on its poisonous foliage, but it is lethal to farm animals; and it thrives where other plants cannot because of its extraordinarily low rate of photosynthesis. Exploring this paradoxical plant in(...)
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The yew is the oldest and most common tree in the world, but it is a plant of puzzling contradictions: it is a conifer with juicy scarlet berries, but no cones; deer can feast on its poisonous foliage, but it is lethal to farm animals; and it thrives where other plants cannot because of its extraordinarily low rate of photosynthesis. Exploring this paradoxical plant in Yew, Fred Hageneder surveys its position in religious and cultural history, its role in the creation of the British Empire, and its place in modern medicine.
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The dawn of the color photograph : Albert Kahn's Archives of the Planet / David Okuefuna.
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Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 2008.
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Rédigée dans un style accessible à tous, voici une étude qui offre un éclairage sur les changements structurels et idéologiques qui sont survenus dans l'après-guerre et qui explique la montée du néonationalisme au Québec et le rôle qu'a joué ce dernier dans la transformation de la société québécoise et de ses relations avec le reste du Canada. Un grand essai sur le Québec.
Contester l'empire: pensée postcoloniale et militantisme politique à Montréal, 1963-1972
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Rédigée dans un style accessible à tous, voici une étude qui offre un éclairage sur les changements structurels et idéologiques qui sont survenus dans l'après-guerre et qui explique la montée du néonationalisme au Québec et le rôle qu'a joué ce dernier dans la transformation de la société québécoise et de ses relations avec le reste du Canada. Un grand essai sur le Québec.
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Les Incas
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Aujourd'hui encore, l'or des Incas, les ruines mystérieuses de leurs cités et le mythe d'un empire juste et bienveillant nourrissent le rêve des voyageurs. Aux alentours de 1400 de notre ère, alors que la partie andine de l'Amérique du Sud est morcelée en de multiples royaumes et seigneuries, un petit peuple montagnard, les Incas, se lance dans une suite de conquêtes qui(...)
Les Incas
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Aujourd'hui encore, l'or des Incas, les ruines mystérieuses de leurs cités et le mythe d'un empire juste et bienveillant nourrissent le rêve des voyageurs. Aux alentours de 1400 de notre ère, alors que la partie andine de l'Amérique du Sud est morcelée en de multiples royaumes et seigneuries, un petit peuple montagnard, les Incas, se lance dans une suite de conquêtes qui l'amène à constituer rapidement le plus grand État jamais connu dans l'Amérique précolombienne. L'empire inca représente l'étape ultime du développement d'une civilisation très ancienne, celle du Pérou antique, que son isolement, jusqu'à la conquête espagnole, a rendue particulièrement originale.
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Regional bureaucracy
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Over a period of three decades, from 1958 to 1988, the New South Wales Government Architect’s Office (GAO) in Australia realised nearly a thousand buildings across the state. This enormous production was the direct result of an ideological choice, one that involved a brutal commitment to building architecture that was merely adequate. In terms of scale and ambition, the(...)
Architecture contemporaine
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Regional bureaucracy
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Over a period of three decades, from 1958 to 1988, the New South Wales Government Architect’s Office (GAO) in Australia realised nearly a thousand buildings across the state. This enormous production was the direct result of an ideological choice, one that involved a brutal commitment to building architecture that was merely adequate. In terms of scale and ambition, the GAO’s operation resembles the laying out of the Roman Empire. It built the infrastructure that holds the territory together, and in doing so literally constructed the state while obliterating the pre-existing country. Through numerous examples, this volume meticulously documents the phenomenon.
Architecture contemporaine
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This book examines house types from Britain to Syria to disclose how people imagined and articulated their place in the Roman world. Shelly Hales considers the nature and role of domestic decoration and its part in promoting social identities. From the Egyptian themes of imperial residences in Italy, to the viticultural designs found in the rock-cut homes in Petra, this(...)
The Roman house and social identity
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This book examines house types from Britain to Syria to disclose how people imagined and articulated their place in the Roman world. Shelly Hales considers the nature and role of domestic decoration and its part in promoting social identities. From the Egyptian themes of imperial residences in Italy, to the viticultural designs found in the rock-cut homes in Petra, this decoration consistently appeals to fantasies beyond the immediate realities of their inhabitants. Employing a wide range of approaches to the study of the house and acculturation in the Roman Empire, Hales' book is the first synthesis of Roman domestic architecture