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This volume follows the development of country-specific features in the renaissance styles throughout Europe to illustrate how each culture integrated its unique history with renaissance principles, from the medieval picturesque forms of Germanic cities to the inviting chateaux of the French countryside; from England’s imposing royal edifices to the Moorish Cathedrals of Spain.
Icons of Renaissance architecture
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This volume follows the development of country-specific features in the renaissance styles throughout Europe to illustrate how each culture integrated its unique history with renaissance principles, from the medieval picturesque forms of Germanic cities to the inviting chateaux of the French countryside; from England’s imposing royal edifices to the Moorish Cathedrals of Spain.
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Ruins : Shinichiro Kobayashi
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This extradordinary book presents the colour photography of Shinichiro Kobayashi, of ruins left languishing in the Japansese countryside. The former structures are, for the most part, remnants of industry -- collapsed bridges and tunnels, factories and viaducts. But there are also pictures of schools and dwellings, barber shops and fair grounds. The result is a(...)
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Ruins : Shinichiro Kobayashi
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This extradordinary book presents the colour photography of Shinichiro Kobayashi, of ruins left languishing in the Japansese countryside. The former structures are, for the most part, remnants of industry -- collapsed bridges and tunnels, factories and viaducts. But there are also pictures of schools and dwellings, barber shops and fair grounds. The result is a remarkable collection of images.
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Too much 2 : London Issue
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Too Much is a report on the experience of physical space; about the man-made world remaking man. Issue two is about experiences of rebuilding, constructing ideal cities, building shelter, relocating to the countryside (or jungle, or desert), and living in new ways. With contributions by Takashi Homma, Jun Aoki, Anders Edström and Apichatpong Weerasethakul among others.
Too much 2 : London Issue
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Too Much is a report on the experience of physical space; about the man-made world remaking man. Issue two is about experiences of rebuilding, constructing ideal cities, building shelter, relocating to the countryside (or jungle, or desert), and living in new ways. With contributions by Takashi Homma, Jun Aoki, Anders Edström and Apichatpong Weerasethakul among others.
Revues
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Each year more than 15 million Chinese leave the country's rural areas and move to the cities. This book documents and analyses the meteoric rate of urbanization of the countryside around Shanghai, most particularly the part played there by ‘new towns’ and ‘new villages’. Some pilot new towns have been developed with the help of Western designers, and adapted to suit(...)
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Shanghai new towns: searching for community and identity in a sprawling metropolis
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Each year more than 15 million Chinese leave the country's rural areas and move to the cities. This book documents and analyses the meteoric rate of urbanization of the countryside around Shanghai, most particularly the part played there by ‘new towns’ and ‘new villages’. Some pilot new towns have been developed with the help of Western designers, and adapted to suit Chinese standards.
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Like his previous publications, photographer Patrick Faigenbaum's new book is dedicated to a specific terrain: the Bengali metropolis of Kolkata, which bore the name of Calcutta during its time as a British colony. The historical profile of the chaotic metropolis and its close connection with the surrounding countryside are shown through the prism of figures from(...)
Patrick Faigenbaum: Kolkata - Calcutta
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Like his previous publications, photographer Patrick Faigenbaum's new book is dedicated to a specific terrain: the Bengali metropolis of Kolkata, which bore the name of Calcutta during its time as a British colony. The historical profile of the chaotic metropolis and its close connection with the surrounding countryside are shown through the prism of figures from public life, rituals, and intimate landscapes.
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''Earth, Sky and Water'' presents 15 projects designed by Mette across three chapters: ''By the Water'', ''In the Forest'' and ''In the Countryside''. First-person project texts describe Mette’s unique practice of camping on-site at the start of each design process, and detail the thinking behind each house’s main features. Inviting photography takes readers inside these(...)
Earth, sky & water: Houses in the Nordic style
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''Earth, Sky and Water'' presents 15 projects designed by Mette across three chapters: ''By the Water'', ''In the Forest'' and ''In the Countryside''. First-person project texts describe Mette’s unique practice of camping on-site at the start of each design process, and detail the thinking behind each house’s main features. Inviting photography takes readers inside these homes and draws particular attention to the choice of materials.
Architecture résidentielle
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In this study, Tracy Ehrlich analyses the Villa Mondragone, built by Pope Paul V Borghese in an effort to demonstrate how architecture, landscape and rituals of villeggiatura (villa life) were used to forge a new identity as a Roman noble house. She also explores the relationship between landscape and identity and, in so doing, reevaluates the conventional privileging of(...)
Landscape and identity in early modern Rome : villa culture at Frascati in the Borghese era
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In this study, Tracy Ehrlich analyses the Villa Mondragone, built by Pope Paul V Borghese in an effort to demonstrate how architecture, landscape and rituals of villeggiatura (villa life) were used to forge a new identity as a Roman noble house. She also explores the relationship between landscape and identity and, in so doing, reevaluates the conventional privileging of the city over the countryside.
Histoire jusqu’à 1900
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Anyone who has ever driven through the Swiss countryside has probably unsuspectingly passed one of these well camouflaged chalets that serves as part of Switzerland's impressive military defence system. This reprint gathers together more than one hundred photographs of these ‘false' chalets and presents them in full colour, one to a page. A clearly laid out map, providing(...)
Christian Schwager: falsche chalets
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Anyone who has ever driven through the Swiss countryside has probably unsuspectingly passed one of these well camouflaged chalets that serves as part of Switzerland's impressive military defence system. This reprint gathers together more than one hundred photographs of these ‘false' chalets and presents them in full colour, one to a page. A clearly laid out map, providing location details of each building, adequately compensates for the lack of English text.
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The photographs in this book were made in the outskirts of a small Italian town, a neighborhood that was built in the late fifties, when people from the countryside came to the city looking for work. The place appears like a strange combination of rural and urban cultures. A body of work about photography as a means to investigate the past, letting familiar visions(...)
Alessandra Dragoni: All the flowers that you plant
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The photographs in this book were made in the outskirts of a small Italian town, a neighborhood that was built in the late fifties, when people from the countryside came to the city looking for work. The place appears like a strange combination of rural and urban cultures. A body of work about photography as a means to investigate the past, letting familiar visions revealing themselves from a different perspective.
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This book offers a glimpse beyond the garden walls of some of today's most innovative art spaces around the world-sculpture parks and art situated in nature. From Edward James's surreal sculpture garden Las Pozas in Mexico to Anselm Kiefer's sprawling studio complex in the French countryside, artists and art collectors are creating outdoor spaces in order to display(...)
Outdoor art : extraordinary sculpture parks and art in nature
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This book offers a glimpse beyond the garden walls of some of today's most innovative art spaces around the world-sculpture parks and art situated in nature. From Edward James's surreal sculpture garden Las Pozas in Mexico to Anselm Kiefer's sprawling studio complex in the French countryside, artists and art collectors are creating outdoor spaces in order to display sculpture and art that is both transformative and powerful.
Land Art