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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(...)
septembre 2010
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.
Monographies photo
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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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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
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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.
Monographies photo
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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 Table That Ran Away to the Woods tells the story of a writing desk that one day “grabbed two pairs of shoes / ran downstairs, and took flight,” escaping into the countryside with its owners in barefoot pursuit. This is the first time the tale—first published in a Polish newspaper in 1940 and re-created in this exquisite collaged version in 1963—has been made available(...)
Littérature jeunesse
septembre 2012
The table that ran away to the woods
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The Table That Ran Away to the Woods tells the story of a writing desk that one day “grabbed two pairs of shoes / ran downstairs, and took flight,” escaping into the countryside with its owners in barefoot pursuit. This is the first time the tale—first published in a Polish newspaper in 1940 and re-created in this exquisite collaged version in 1963—has been made available to an English-speaking audience.
Littérature jeunesse
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The formerly segregated countryside is now traversed by global and regional flows of people, goods, waste, energy and information, linking it to urban systems and enabling those systems to function in the first place. Ruralism is dedicated to the significance of rural spaces as a starting point for transformation. International experts explore the rural from(...)
Ruralism : the future of villages and small towns in an urbanizing world
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The formerly segregated countryside is now traversed by global and regional flows of people, goods, waste, energy and information, linking it to urban systems and enabling those systems to function in the first place. Ruralism is dedicated to the significance of rural spaces as a starting point for transformation. International experts explore the rural from architectural, cultural, gender-oriented, ecological and political perspectives, and ask how a new vision of the rural can be formulated.
Théorie de l’urbanisme
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In this illustrated volume, Maria Antonietta Crippa and Françoise Caussé explore the particular set of circumstances that led to one of the twentieth century’s most famous exponents of urbanism creating an ethereal space of worship perched atop a remote hill in the French countryside. Putting the chapel into its historical context and exploring the controversies and(...)
Architecture, monographies
novembre 2014
Le Corbusier : the chapel of Notre-Dame du Haut at Ronchamp
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In this illustrated volume, Maria Antonietta Crippa and Françoise Caussé explore the particular set of circumstances that led to one of the twentieth century’s most famous exponents of urbanism creating an ethereal space of worship perched atop a remote hill in the French countryside. Putting the chapel into its historical context and exploring the controversies and arguments that have surrounded and continue to surround it, the book also features new photographs that capture the genius of Le Corbusier’s design.
Architecture, monographies