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Robert Adams : turning back
Robert Adams : turning back
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"Turning back: a photographic journal of re-exploration" is published to coincide with the bicentennial of the Lewis and Clark expedition. The narrative begins at the Pacific ocean and moves eastward through what was formerly one of the world’s great rain forests. Photographs at the center of the book report on the forest’s destruction. Elsewhere they trace a search for(...)
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"Turning back: a photographic journal of re-exploration" is published to coincide with the bicentennial of the Lewis and Clark expedition. The narrative begins at the Pacific ocean and moves eastward through what was formerly one of the world’s great rain forests. Photographs at the center of the book report on the forest’s destruction. Elsewhere they trace a search for(...)
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Robert Adams : turning back
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"Turning back: a photographic journal of re-exploration" is published to coincide with the bicentennial of the Lewis and Clark expedition. The narrative begins at the Pacific ocean and moves eastward through what was formerly one of the world’s great rain forests. Photographs at the center of the book report on the forest’s destruction. Elsewhere they trace a search for hope. Two hundred years ago, Lewis and Clark reported finding in the American Northwest a vast forest of ancient evergreens. In "Turning back", Robert Adams looks again at the region’s trees, discovering evidence both of America’s failure and of a continuing promise. President Jefferson’s primary charge to Lewis and Clark was to prepare the way for American commerce. Today, historians still speculate about why, upon his return, Lewis lapsed into depression and apparently committed suicide. "Going east," Adams suggests, "was more difficult than going west." So then, what is the future? "Turning back" documents two kinds of predictive evidence. On the one hand we observe the results of greed so unrestrained that they are indistinguishable from those of nihilism. On the other we see what still lives, whether by our design or neglect, or Providence; in these 164 pictures the tone is celebratory, as in a prayer book. From coastal landscapes populated with tourists to timber clear-cutting and small family farms in eastern Oregon, here we reflect on what was lost, what is retained, and what we value both regionally and as a people with a common history.
Robert Adams : turning back
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"Turning back: a photographic journal of re-exploration" is published to coincide with the bicentennial of the Lewis and Clark expedition. The narrative begins at the Pacific ocean and moves eastward through what was formerly one of the world’s great rain forests. Photographs at the center of the book report on the forest’s destruction. Elsewhere they trace a search for hope. Two hundred years ago, Lewis and Clark reported finding in the American Northwest a vast forest of ancient evergreens. In "Turning back", Robert Adams looks again at the region’s trees, discovering evidence both of America’s failure and of a continuing promise. President Jefferson’s primary charge to Lewis and Clark was to prepare the way for American commerce. Today, historians still speculate about why, upon his return, Lewis lapsed into depression and apparently committed suicide. "Going east," Adams suggests, "was more difficult than going west." So then, what is the future? "Turning back" documents two kinds of predictive evidence. On the one hand we observe the results of greed so unrestrained that they are indistinguishable from those of nihilism. On the other we see what still lives, whether by our design or neglect, or Providence; in these 164 pictures the tone is celebratory, as in a prayer book. From coastal landscapes populated with tourists to timber clear-cutting and small family farms in eastern Oregon, here we reflect on what was lost, what is retained, and what we value both regionally and as a people with a common history.
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mai 2005, New York
mai 2005, New York
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Monographies photo
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John Divola : three acts
John Divola : three acts
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In 1973, artist John Divola began the first of three highly ambitious and original bodies of work that together form this publication. The Vandalism series comprises black-and-white photographs of interiors of abandoned houses. Entering illegally, Divola spray painted expressive markings in the forms of dots, lines, and grids, creating a series of conceptual gestures that(...)
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In 1973, artist John Divola began the first of three highly ambitious and original bodies of work that together form this publication. The Vandalism series comprises black-and-white photographs of interiors of abandoned houses. Entering illegally, Divola spray painted expressive markings in the forms of dots, lines, and grids, creating a series of conceptual gestures that(...)
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John Divola : three acts
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In 1973, artist John Divola began the first of three highly ambitious and original bodies of work that together form this publication. The Vandalism series comprises black-and-white photographs of interiors of abandoned houses. Entering illegally, Divola spray painted expressive markings in the forms of dots, lines, and grids, creating a series of conceptual gestures that referenced “action painting” as readily as the graffiti that was fast becoming a cultural phenomenon. The following year, Divola began the Los Angeles International Airport Noise Abatement series, photographing a condemned neighborhood bought out by the airport to serve as a noise buffer for new runways.An extensive catalog of break-ins, the photographs record the evidence of violent entries: shattered windows, doors torn from hinges, a crowbar resting in the jamb of a door pried open. The final installment in this book, the Zuma series, is the artist’s documentation of the destruction of an abandoned beachfront property. While employing similar strategies of painting and intervention, the Zuma images add variation and complexity to Divola’s established themes as they incorporate color, elements of nature, and meditation on change. These cyclical images skillfully juxtapose romantic skies and sunsets with a seaside structure that, frame by frame, deteriorates into ruin as it is vandalized by the artist and others who eventually set it on fire. Divola’s art practice shares a tradition with conceptual artists such as Bruce Nauman, whose photographs are considered to be performance or sculpture, and Robert Smithson, who used photography to investigate the built environment.
John Divola : three acts
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In 1973, artist John Divola began the first of three highly ambitious and original bodies of work that together form this publication. The Vandalism series comprises black-and-white photographs of interiors of abandoned houses. Entering illegally, Divola spray painted expressive markings in the forms of dots, lines, and grids, creating a series of conceptual gestures that referenced “action painting” as readily as the graffiti that was fast becoming a cultural phenomenon. The following year, Divola began the Los Angeles International Airport Noise Abatement series, photographing a condemned neighborhood bought out by the airport to serve as a noise buffer for new runways.An extensive catalog of break-ins, the photographs record the evidence of violent entries: shattered windows, doors torn from hinges, a crowbar resting in the jamb of a door pried open. The final installment in this book, the Zuma series, is the artist’s documentation of the destruction of an abandoned beachfront property. While employing similar strategies of painting and intervention, the Zuma images add variation and complexity to Divola’s established themes as they incorporate color, elements of nature, and meditation on change. These cyclical images skillfully juxtapose romantic skies and sunsets with a seaside structure that, frame by frame, deteriorates into ruin as it is vandalized by the artist and others who eventually set it on fire. Divola’s art practice shares a tradition with conceptual artists such as Bruce Nauman, whose photographs are considered to be performance or sculpture, and Robert Smithson, who used photography to investigate the built environment.
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mai 2006, New York
mai 2006, New York
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Monographies photo
Monographies photo
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Paul Shepheard's previous book, What is Architecture?, was about making real, material things in the world -- landscapes, buildings, and machines. The Cultivated Wilderness is about those landscapes, and about the strategies that govern what we've done in shaping them.In the author's words, this book is about "seeing things that are too big to see." His emphasis on(...)
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Paul Shepheard's previous book, What is Architecture?, was about making real, material things in the world -- landscapes, buildings, and machines. The Cultivated Wilderness is about those landscapes, and about the strategies that govern what we've done in shaping them.In the author's words, this book is about "seeing things that are too big to see." His emphasis on(...)
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The cultivated wilderness or, what is landscape?
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Paul Shepheard's previous book, What is Architecture?, was about making real, material things in the world -- landscapes, buildings, and machines. The Cultivated Wilderness is about those landscapes, and about the strategies that govern what we've done in shaping them.In the author's words, this book is about "seeing things that are too big to see." His emphasis on strategy makes landscape fundamental -- he says that every architectural move is set in a landscape. Norman England, for example, was constructed as a network of strong points, in a strategy of occupation. The eighteenth-century grid cities of the New World reflect a strategy of reason. Our current strategy is the economic exploitation of the Earth, an intricately woven blanket of commerce that covers up a multitude of other possibilities, many other ways to treat the surface of the globe -- some of which are the landscapes revealed in this book.In a series of first-person narratives, reminiscent of his last book, the author pairs six landscapes, in order of descending scale from global to local, from the seven wonders of the ancient world to the condensed destruction of World War I's Western Front. In an engaging style, Shepheard takes the reader on an odyssey through these landscapes, meeting people and seeing places. He states that now, at the end of a century in which the appropriate landscape was sought but never found, the strategy of turning the land to profit is under review -- and offers this book as his contribution to that review.
The cultivated wilderness or, what is landscape?
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Paul Shepheard's previous book, What is Architecture?, was about making real, material things in the world -- landscapes, buildings, and machines. The Cultivated Wilderness is about those landscapes, and about the strategies that govern what we've done in shaping them.In the author's words, this book is about "seeing things that are too big to see." His emphasis on strategy makes landscape fundamental -- he says that every architectural move is set in a landscape. Norman England, for example, was constructed as a network of strong points, in a strategy of occupation. The eighteenth-century grid cities of the New World reflect a strategy of reason. Our current strategy is the economic exploitation of the Earth, an intricately woven blanket of commerce that covers up a multitude of other possibilities, many other ways to treat the surface of the globe -- some of which are the landscapes revealed in this book.In a series of first-person narratives, reminiscent of his last book, the author pairs six landscapes, in order of descending scale from global to local, from the seven wonders of the ancient world to the condensed destruction of World War I's Western Front. In an engaging style, Shepheard takes the reader on an odyssey through these landscapes, meeting people and seeing places. He states that now, at the end of a century in which the appropriate landscape was sought but never found, the strategy of turning the land to profit is under review -- and offers this book as his contribution to that review.
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mars 1997, Cambridge, Mass.
mars 1997, Cambridge, Mass.
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Théorie du paysage
Théorie du paysage
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Maine-Montparnasse et la Défense sont des opération emblématiques représentatives de la nouvelle définition du rapport entre ville et architecture qui se met en place après la guerre. La concentration démographique, la décentralisation des industries et l'avènement du secteur tertiaire obligent à remodeler des structures urbaines inadaptées à la circulation, aux modes de(...)
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Maine-Montparnasse et la Défense sont des opération emblématiques représentatives de la nouvelle définition du rapport entre ville et architecture qui se met en place après la guerre. La concentration démographique, la décentralisation des industries et l'avènement du secteur tertiaire obligent à remodeler des structures urbaines inadaptées à la circulation, aux modes de(...)
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Paris - ville moderne : Maine-Montparnasse et la Défense 1950-1975
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Maine-Montparnasse et la Défense sont des opération emblématiques représentatives de la nouvelle définition du rapport entre ville et architecture qui se met en place après la guerre. La concentration démographique, la décentralisation des industries et l'avènement du secteur tertiaire obligent à remodeler des structures urbaines inadaptées à la circulation, aux modes de déplacement et à la vitesse, préoccupations majeures des années 50. Cette nécessité de modernisation va de pair avec une montée de l'interventionnisme étatique qui a débuté sous le gouvernement de Vichy, en réaction à l'urbanisme incontrôlé de la périphérie parisienne. À partir de 1959, des plans directeurs successifs établissent les inventaires des opérations à entreprendre : destruction d'îlots insalubres, percement d'axes de circulation, remembrements. Cette politique, qui fait table rase du passé, trouve ses fondements aussi bien dans les thèses rationnalistes développées par Le Corbusier dans la Charte d'Athènes et dans les conclusions du rapport Buchanan pour Londres, que dans les projets utopiques d'Hugh Ferriss ou de Norman Bel Geddes. La dalle, sol artificiel maîtrisé par la technique, apparaît comme le socle idéal de la ville du futur. Des premiers dessins très schématiques, montrant les systèmes de circulation, sur lesquels les immeubles apparaissent de manière abstraite, aux réalisations du milieu des années 70, on voit à travers les phases successives de ces projets le concept d'une ville sur dalle naître, évoluer, puis disparaître, marquant la fin d'une époque optimiste où l'on croyait possible de modifier les conditions de la vie urbaine. Virginie Lefebvre, architecte, docteur en histoire de l'art est lecturer à la Graduate School of Design de l'Université de Harvard et membre du groupe de recherche sur l'architecture et les infrastructures (GRAI).
Paris - ville moderne : Maine-Montparnasse et la Défense 1950-1975
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Maine-Montparnasse et la Défense sont des opération emblématiques représentatives de la nouvelle définition du rapport entre ville et architecture qui se met en place après la guerre. La concentration démographique, la décentralisation des industries et l'avènement du secteur tertiaire obligent à remodeler des structures urbaines inadaptées à la circulation, aux modes de déplacement et à la vitesse, préoccupations majeures des années 50. Cette nécessité de modernisation va de pair avec une montée de l'interventionnisme étatique qui a débuté sous le gouvernement de Vichy, en réaction à l'urbanisme incontrôlé de la périphérie parisienne. À partir de 1959, des plans directeurs successifs établissent les inventaires des opérations à entreprendre : destruction d'îlots insalubres, percement d'axes de circulation, remembrements. Cette politique, qui fait table rase du passé, trouve ses fondements aussi bien dans les thèses rationnalistes développées par Le Corbusier dans la Charte d'Athènes et dans les conclusions du rapport Buchanan pour Londres, que dans les projets utopiques d'Hugh Ferriss ou de Norman Bel Geddes. La dalle, sol artificiel maîtrisé par la technique, apparaît comme le socle idéal de la ville du futur. Des premiers dessins très schématiques, montrant les systèmes de circulation, sur lesquels les immeubles apparaissent de manière abstraite, aux réalisations du milieu des années 70, on voit à travers les phases successives de ces projets le concept d'une ville sur dalle naître, évoluer, puis disparaître, marquant la fin d'une époque optimiste où l'on croyait possible de modifier les conditions de la vie urbaine. Virginie Lefebvre, architecte, docteur en histoire de l'art est lecturer à la Graduate School of Design de l'Université de Harvard et membre du groupe de recherche sur l'architecture et les infrastructures (GRAI).
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octobre 2003, Paris
octobre 2003, Paris
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Théorie de l’urbanisme
Théorie de l’urbanisme
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périodiques
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Future anterior
Future anterior
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Historic preservation is at an important moment of rethinking. The field has grown exponentially in America since its first academic program was founded at Columbia University in 1965. Although initially concerned only with buildings, preservation has recently expanded to include the protection and creative interpretation of entire urban environments, landscapes,(...)
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Historic preservation is at an important moment of rethinking. The field has grown exponentially in America since its first academic program was founded at Columbia University in 1965. Although initially concerned only with buildings, preservation has recently expanded to include the protection and creative interpretation of entire urban environments, landscapes,(...)
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Future anterior
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Historic preservation is at an important moment of rethinking. The field has grown exponentially in America since its first academic program was founded at Columbia University in 1965. Although initially concerned only with buildings, preservation has recently expanded to include the protection and creative interpretation of entire urban environments, landscapes, highways, cultural traditions, artistic practices, and even specific “experiences” such as historic view sheds. Most importantly, historic preservation is beginning a significant re-clarification of its purposes, sharpening and deepening its focus on the contributions old architecture and artifacts make to our understanding of the human condition and how we should address and live in it. Future Anterior is the first and only journal in American academia to be devoted to the study and advancement of preservation, which brings together the interests of scholars and professionals in multiple disciplines such as architecture, art, history, philosophy, law, planning, materials science, cultural anthropology, conservation, and others. Future Anterior establishes an important and much needed forum for the critical examination of this expanding discipline, to spur challenges of its motives, goals, forms of practice and results. The appearance of Future Anterior signals the maturation of the field of preservation and a shift away from nostalgic antiquarianism towards an active involvement in the understanding and creative transformation of human environments. This turn in preservation is reflected in an increased interest in historic architecture and artifacts as expressive resources of great public importance. The destruction of patrimony, from the colossal Buddhas in Afghanistan to New York’s World Trade Center, is seen not just as barbarism but as sources of understanding about where we are going wrong and what we need to do next. In response, architects, planners, urban designers, and artists have been producing works which engage the public in new ways of reflecting and taking on the past not as constraint but as provocation.
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Historic preservation is at an important moment of rethinking. The field has grown exponentially in America since its first academic program was founded at Columbia University in 1965. Although initially concerned only with buildings, preservation has recently expanded to include the protection and creative interpretation of entire urban environments, landscapes, highways, cultural traditions, artistic practices, and even specific “experiences” such as historic view sheds. Most importantly, historic preservation is beginning a significant re-clarification of its purposes, sharpening and deepening its focus on the contributions old architecture and artifacts make to our understanding of the human condition and how we should address and live in it. Future Anterior is the first and only journal in American academia to be devoted to the study and advancement of preservation, which brings together the interests of scholars and professionals in multiple disciplines such as architecture, art, history, philosophy, law, planning, materials science, cultural anthropology, conservation, and others. Future Anterior establishes an important and much needed forum for the critical examination of this expanding discipline, to spur challenges of its motives, goals, forms of practice and results. The appearance of Future Anterior signals the maturation of the field of preservation and a shift away from nostalgic antiquarianism towards an active involvement in the understanding and creative transformation of human environments. This turn in preservation is reflected in an increased interest in historic architecture and artifacts as expressive resources of great public importance. The destruction of patrimony, from the colossal Buddhas in Afghanistan to New York’s World Trade Center, is seen not just as barbarism but as sources of understanding about where we are going wrong and what we need to do next. In response, architects, planners, urban designers, and artists have been producing works which engage the public in new ways of reflecting and taking on the past not as constraint but as provocation.
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périodiques
périodiques
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octobre 2004, New York
octobre 2004, New York
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Revues
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La région de l'Île-de-France, avec sa ville phare, Paris, est une des plus riches et des plus active d'Europe. Mais que signifie cette richesse? Faut-il la mesurer exclusivement en revenu moyen par habitant? D'autres données statistiques font apparaître une réalité plus ambiguë. Les activités économiques d'une région métropolitaine produisent des inégalités sociales et(...)
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La région de l'Île-de-France, avec sa ville phare, Paris, est une des plus riches et des plus active d'Europe. Mais que signifie cette richesse? Faut-il la mesurer exclusivement en revenu moyen par habitant? D'autres données statistiques font apparaître une réalité plus ambiguë. Les activités économiques d'une région métropolitaine produisent des inégalités sociales et(...)
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Paysages territoires : l'Île-de-France comme métaphore
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La région de l'Île-de-France, avec sa ville phare, Paris, est une des plus riches et des plus active d'Europe. Mais que signifie cette richesse? Faut-il la mesurer exclusivement en revenu moyen par habitant? D'autres données statistiques font apparaître une réalité plus ambiguë. Les activités économiques d'une région métropolitaine produisent des inégalités sociales et culturelles, mais aussi une destruction du patrimoine paysager à leur mesure. C'est pourquoi l'action de classement et de protection menée par la Direction régionale de l'environnement (Diren) est dans cette région particulièrement nécessaire et significative. Ce livre en rend compte. Parmi les cinq cent sites "classés et protégés" que gère aujourd'hui la Diren, douz ont été retenus, dont la superficie et la définition patrimoniale varient très largement, depuis un jardin du XVIIIè siècle jusqu'à une vallée agricole, depuis une carrière de craie jusqu'à l'emprise d'un domaine de chase royale, en passant par la réserve naturelle d'une zone inondable, le cours enfoui d'une rivière ou les parages d'une institution psychiatrique. Douze monographies, construites chaque fois différemment, à partir d'une enquête photographique, traduisent cette diversité de territoires habités, parlés, racontés et imaginés. Dans chaque cas, le parcours du photographe, orienté par un savoir géographique, constitue la trame d'un récit descriptif, nourri de témoignages contemporains et de documents historiques ou poétiques. L'information et sa mise en forme passent ici par l'image et sa mise en page mais aussi par l'écoute et le montage. La complexité et l'ambiguité des situations décrites sont prises en compte, comme l'épaisseur ou l'opacité propres à la création artistique. "L'île-de-France comme métaphore" est un album photographique, documentaire et monumental. Et un essai à plusieurs voix de défense et illustration de l'environnement.
Paysages territoires : l'Île-de-France comme métaphore
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La région de l'Île-de-France, avec sa ville phare, Paris, est une des plus riches et des plus active d'Europe. Mais que signifie cette richesse? Faut-il la mesurer exclusivement en revenu moyen par habitant? D'autres données statistiques font apparaître une réalité plus ambiguë. Les activités économiques d'une région métropolitaine produisent des inégalités sociales et culturelles, mais aussi une destruction du patrimoine paysager à leur mesure. C'est pourquoi l'action de classement et de protection menée par la Direction régionale de l'environnement (Diren) est dans cette région particulièrement nécessaire et significative. Ce livre en rend compte. Parmi les cinq cent sites "classés et protégés" que gère aujourd'hui la Diren, douz ont été retenus, dont la superficie et la définition patrimoniale varient très largement, depuis un jardin du XVIIIè siècle jusqu'à une vallée agricole, depuis une carrière de craie jusqu'à l'emprise d'un domaine de chase royale, en passant par la réserve naturelle d'une zone inondable, le cours enfoui d'une rivière ou les parages d'une institution psychiatrique. Douze monographies, construites chaque fois différemment, à partir d'une enquête photographique, traduisent cette diversité de territoires habités, parlés, racontés et imaginés. Dans chaque cas, le parcours du photographe, orienté par un savoir géographique, constitue la trame d'un récit descriptif, nourri de témoignages contemporains et de documents historiques ou poétiques. L'information et sa mise en forme passent ici par l'image et sa mise en page mais aussi par l'écoute et le montage. La complexité et l'ambiguité des situations décrites sont prises en compte, comme l'épaisseur ou l'opacité propres à la création artistique. "L'île-de-France comme métaphore" est un album photographique, documentaire et monumental. Et un essai à plusieurs voix de défense et illustration de l'environnement.
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février 2003, Marseille
février 2003, Marseille
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Jardins
Jardins
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As gentrification threatens to uproot neighbourhoods across the world, the flame of co-operative housing has been reignited while the concept of community landownership has the potential to turn the tide and put the destiny of our cities into the hands of residents.Villages in Cities takes us across North America to Montreal, Boston, Vermont, and Mississippi,(...)
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As gentrification threatens to uproot neighbourhoods across the world, the flame of co-operative housing has been reignited while the concept of community landownership has the potential to turn the tide and put the destiny of our cities into the hands of residents.Villages in Cities takes us across North America to Montreal, Boston, Vermont, and Mississippi,(...)
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janvier 2019
janvier 2019
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Villages in cities: community land ownership, cooperative housing, and the Milton Parc story
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As gentrification threatens to uproot neighbourhoods across the world, the flame of co-operative housing has been reignited while the concept of community landownership has the potential to turn the tide and put the destiny of our cities into the hands of residents.Villages in Cities takes us across North America to Montreal, Boston, Vermont, and Mississippi, presentingconcrete examples of citizens taking back the land and claiming their right to secure housing. It also acts as a guidebook to contemporary urban struggles through fertile archival material from the Milton Parc struggle, which is as relevant today as it was 50 years ago.Villages in Cities presents a succinct portrait of the problems facing the ownership of urban land, the challenge of contesting the State’s presupposed legitimacy in determining our urban future, and the contradictions these elements imply. n Montreal in 1968, speculators announced their ‘urban renewal’ plan to demolish six blocks of the downtown heritage neighborhood of Milton Parc in order to build enormous high-rise condos, hotels, office buildings, and shopping malls. The local community viewed this as a declaration of war. What followed was a remarkable struggle that not only saved the heritage architecture from destruction but also protected local residents from gentrification through the creation of the largest nonprofit cooperative housing project on an urban community land trust in North America. And Milton Parc is not unique. Villages in Cities takes us across North America—to New York, Boston, Burlington, Oakland, Jackson, Montreal, Toronto, Ottawa, and Vancouver—to show concrete examples of citizens taking back the land and claiming their right to secure housing. The book draws connections among these projects, examines their underlying causes, and connects them with a holistic “Right to the City” movement that is emerging internationally.
Villages in cities: community land ownership, cooperative housing, and the Milton Parc story
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As gentrification threatens to uproot neighbourhoods across the world, the flame of co-operative housing has been reignited while the concept of community landownership has the potential to turn the tide and put the destiny of our cities into the hands of residents.Villages in Cities takes us across North America to Montreal, Boston, Vermont, and Mississippi, presentingconcrete examples of citizens taking back the land and claiming their right to secure housing. It also acts as a guidebook to contemporary urban struggles through fertile archival material from the Milton Parc struggle, which is as relevant today as it was 50 years ago.Villages in Cities presents a succinct portrait of the problems facing the ownership of urban land, the challenge of contesting the State’s presupposed legitimacy in determining our urban future, and the contradictions these elements imply. n Montreal in 1968, speculators announced their ‘urban renewal’ plan to demolish six blocks of the downtown heritage neighborhood of Milton Parc in order to build enormous high-rise condos, hotels, office buildings, and shopping malls. The local community viewed this as a declaration of war. What followed was a remarkable struggle that not only saved the heritage architecture from destruction but also protected local residents from gentrification through the creation of the largest nonprofit cooperative housing project on an urban community land trust in North America. And Milton Parc is not unique. Villages in Cities takes us across North America—to New York, Boston, Burlington, Oakland, Jackson, Montreal, Toronto, Ottawa, and Vancouver—to show concrete examples of citizens taking back the land and claiming their right to secure housing. The book draws connections among these projects, examines their underlying causes, and connects them with a holistic “Right to the City” movement that is emerging internationally.
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janvier 2019
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The rat has been described as the shadow of the human. From ancient times it spread via the routes of commerce and conquest to eventually inhabit almost every part of the world. Its impact on history has been enormous in terms of the damage done through plague and disease, the destruction of agricultural produce, and the infestations of cities. At the same time the rat(...)
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The rat has been described as the shadow of the human. From ancient times it spread via the routes of commerce and conquest to eventually inhabit almost every part of the world. Its impact on history has been enormous in terms of the damage done through plague and disease, the destruction of agricultural produce, and the infestations of cities. At the same time the rat(...)
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The rat has been described as the shadow of the human. From ancient times it spread via the routes of commerce and conquest to eventually inhabit almost every part of the world. Its impact on history has been enormous in terms of the damage done through plague and disease, the destruction of agricultural produce, and the infestations of cities. At the same time the rat has provided science with a huge resource for experimentation. This highly adaptable, fertile and intelligent creature is almost universally loathed, but there are cultures in which it is revered, even deified. This book traces the history of the human relationship with rats from the first archaeological finds to the genetically engineered rats of the present day, describing its role in the arts and sciences, religion and myth, psychoanalysis and medicine. The author includes wide-ranging examples of the rat’s appearance: in literature – 'The Pied Piper'; Beatrix Potter stories, 'The Wind in the Willows'; in culture – Victorian rat-and-dog baiting pits, its popularity as a pet, even the subject of a ’70s pop song; folklore – it was a good luck symbol in ancient Rome, symbol of cunning in Chinese mythology; and psychoanalysis – Freud’s Rat Man, for example. The book also seeks to answer two problems raised by the complexity of human attitudes to the rat. The first concerns how it was that the rat came to be seen not just as verminous, but also as being particularly despised for being so – more so, in fact, than other parasitic animals. The second concerns the manner in which human attitudes to the rat can be so contradictory, when admiration for its abilities are set against this idea of hatred. The rat can be found at the heart of human preoccupations with hygiene, sexuality and appetite, and exists as a perverse totem for the worst excesses of human behaviour. In 'Rat', Jonathan Burt provides a fascinating account of this animal in history, myth and culture.
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The rat has been described as the shadow of the human. From ancient times it spread via the routes of commerce and conquest to eventually inhabit almost every part of the world. Its impact on history has been enormous in terms of the damage done through plague and disease, the destruction of agricultural produce, and the infestations of cities. At the same time the rat has provided science with a huge resource for experimentation. This highly adaptable, fertile and intelligent creature is almost universally loathed, but there are cultures in which it is revered, even deified. This book traces the history of the human relationship with rats from the first archaeological finds to the genetically engineered rats of the present day, describing its role in the arts and sciences, religion and myth, psychoanalysis and medicine. The author includes wide-ranging examples of the rat’s appearance: in literature – 'The Pied Piper'; Beatrix Potter stories, 'The Wind in the Willows'; in culture – Victorian rat-and-dog baiting pits, its popularity as a pet, even the subject of a ’70s pop song; folklore – it was a good luck symbol in ancient Rome, symbol of cunning in Chinese mythology; and psychoanalysis – Freud’s Rat Man, for example. The book also seeks to answer two problems raised by the complexity of human attitudes to the rat. The first concerns how it was that the rat came to be seen not just as verminous, but also as being particularly despised for being so – more so, in fact, than other parasitic animals. The second concerns the manner in which human attitudes to the rat can be so contradictory, when admiration for its abilities are set against this idea of hatred. The rat can be found at the heart of human preoccupations with hygiene, sexuality and appetite, and exists as a perverse totem for the worst excesses of human behaviour. In 'Rat', Jonathan Burt provides a fascinating account of this animal in history, myth and culture.
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août 2005, London
août 2005, London
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Faune et flore
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Monumental : annuel 2002
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Dossier Patrimoine antique : - Les ruines du temps ou le temps des ruines ? - Conservation et présentation d'un site archéologique - Le Plan patrimoine antique de Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur - Les arènes de Nîmes, du dégagement à la réutilisation, de la réutilisation à la destruction ? - La Maison carrée après l'Antiquité - Passion et résurrection du patrimoine(...)
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Dossier Patrimoine antique : - Les ruines du temps ou le temps des ruines ? - Conservation et présentation d'un site archéologique - Le Plan patrimoine antique de Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur - Les arènes de Nîmes, du dégagement à la réutilisation, de la réutilisation à la destruction ? - La Maison carrée après l'Antiquité - Passion et résurrection du patrimoine(...)
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novembre 2002, Paris
novembre 2002, Paris
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Monumental : annuel 2002
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Dossier Patrimoine antique : - Les ruines du temps ou le temps des ruines ? - Conservation et présentation d'un site archéologique - Le Plan patrimoine antique de Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur - Les arènes de Nîmes, du dégagement à la réutilisation, de la réutilisation à la destruction ? - La Maison carrée après l'Antiquité - Passion et résurrection du patrimoine antique arlésien - La restauration de l'amphithéâtre d'Arles - Retour au pont du Gard - Le site archéologique de l'agora d'Athènes : patrimoine antique et projet urbain - Observations à propos des villes et de leurs enceintes dans le monde romain - La permanence des remparts gallo-romains dans les enceintes urbaines médiévales - L'héritage antique dans la morphologie des villes françaises - La conservation des mosaïques in situ - L'oppidum de Bibracte, mont Beuvray, Nièvre - La restauration du trophée d'Auguste à La Turbie, Alpes-Maritimes - Séduction et troubles de l'image archéologique - La reconstitution virtuelle de la villa gallo-romaine d'Echternach, Luxembourg - Quand la modernité affronte la clameur de l'Acropole Mémoire/Regards : - L'oeil monumental Chantier/Actualité 2001-2002 : - Les fresques d'Abu-Gosh, Israël - Le vitrail, une page à lire ou à réécrire ? - L'ancienne église abbatiale de Mimizan, Landes - La restauration du clocher-porche et du portail occidental - Une démarche originale pour assurer la conservation d'un monument altéré par les sels - Le dégagement et la restauration des peintures murales - Le retour de la tenture d'Esther au château de La Roche-Guyon, Val-d'Oise - Voltaire à Ferney, Ain. Deux acquisitions, deux interrogations - L'inventaire des parcs et jardins historiques de Wallonie, Belgique - La restauration du théâtre de la reine au Petit Trianon, Versailles, Yvelines - La restauration des peintures murales, chapelle de l'hôpital d'Angers, Maine-et-Loire - Les fresques d'Amaury-Duval, église de Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Yvelines - La restauration de la basilique du saint curé d'Ars, Ars-sur-Formans, Ain - Le domaine d'Abbadia, Hendaye, Pyrénées-Atlantiques - L'histoire du domaine - La restauration du château - L'instrumentation scientifique et l'observatoire - Trois villas du XXe siècle sur la « Côte » - La villa Kérylos, Beaulieu-sur-Mer, Alpes-Maritimes - La villa Noailles, Hyères, Var - La villa E-1027 et son jardin, Roquebrune-Cap Martin, Alpes-Maritimes Laboratoire/Recherches : - Consolidation et hydrofugation de la pierre - Méthodologie pour l'étude préalable des portails en pierre comportant des vestiges de polychromie - Les techniques et matériaux des années 30 à 70 et leur sauvegarde.
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Dossier Patrimoine antique : - Les ruines du temps ou le temps des ruines ? - Conservation et présentation d'un site archéologique - Le Plan patrimoine antique de Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur - Les arènes de Nîmes, du dégagement à la réutilisation, de la réutilisation à la destruction ? - La Maison carrée après l'Antiquité - Passion et résurrection du patrimoine antique arlésien - La restauration de l'amphithéâtre d'Arles - Retour au pont du Gard - Le site archéologique de l'agora d'Athènes : patrimoine antique et projet urbain - Observations à propos des villes et de leurs enceintes dans le monde romain - La permanence des remparts gallo-romains dans les enceintes urbaines médiévales - L'héritage antique dans la morphologie des villes françaises - La conservation des mosaïques in situ - L'oppidum de Bibracte, mont Beuvray, Nièvre - La restauration du trophée d'Auguste à La Turbie, Alpes-Maritimes - Séduction et troubles de l'image archéologique - La reconstitution virtuelle de la villa gallo-romaine d'Echternach, Luxembourg - Quand la modernité affronte la clameur de l'Acropole Mémoire/Regards : - L'oeil monumental Chantier/Actualité 2001-2002 : - Les fresques d'Abu-Gosh, Israël - Le vitrail, une page à lire ou à réécrire ? - L'ancienne église abbatiale de Mimizan, Landes - La restauration du clocher-porche et du portail occidental - Une démarche originale pour assurer la conservation d'un monument altéré par les sels - Le dégagement et la restauration des peintures murales - Le retour de la tenture d'Esther au château de La Roche-Guyon, Val-d'Oise - Voltaire à Ferney, Ain. Deux acquisitions, deux interrogations - L'inventaire des parcs et jardins historiques de Wallonie, Belgique - La restauration du théâtre de la reine au Petit Trianon, Versailles, Yvelines - La restauration des peintures murales, chapelle de l'hôpital d'Angers, Maine-et-Loire - Les fresques d'Amaury-Duval, église de Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Yvelines - La restauration de la basilique du saint curé d'Ars, Ars-sur-Formans, Ain - Le domaine d'Abbadia, Hendaye, Pyrénées-Atlantiques - L'histoire du domaine - La restauration du château - L'instrumentation scientifique et l'observatoire - Trois villas du XXe siècle sur la « Côte » - La villa Kérylos, Beaulieu-sur-Mer, Alpes-Maritimes - La villa Noailles, Hyères, Var - La villa E-1027 et son jardin, Roquebrune-Cap Martin, Alpes-Maritimes Laboratoire/Recherches : - Consolidation et hydrofugation de la pierre - Méthodologie pour l'étude préalable des portails en pierre comportant des vestiges de polychromie - Les techniques et matériaux des années 30 à 70 et leur sauvegarde.
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Trees capture our imagination because they are rooted solidly in the earth but point ethereally toward the sky. They occupy a dimension that has as much to do with time and patience as with place and landscape. They are vertical beings to whom we attribute qualities both divine and human. Since 1991, photographer Barbara Bosworth has been on a quest to photograph(...)
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Trees capture our imagination because they are rooted solidly in the earth but point ethereally toward the sky. They occupy a dimension that has as much to do with time and patience as with place and landscape. They are vertical beings to whom we attribute qualities both divine and human. Since 1991, photographer Barbara Bosworth has been on a quest to photograph(...)
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septembre 2005, Cambridge
septembre 2005, Cambridge
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Trees : national champions / photographs by Barbara Bosworth
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Trees capture our imagination because they are rooted solidly in the earth but point ethereally toward the sky. They occupy a dimension that has as much to do with time and patience as with place and landscape. They are vertical beings to whom we attribute qualities both divine and human. Since 1991, photographer Barbara Bosworth has been on a quest to photograph America's "champion" trees - trees that are the biggest of their species, as recorded in the National Register of Big Trees, a list established and maintained by the nonprofit conservation organization American Forests. She has traveled down highways and up back roads, walked through forests and across clear-cut land, sometimes led by local tree enthusiasts, sometimes alone, to photograph trees that are remarkable not only for their size but for their endurance. Bosworth finds champion trees in backyards, fields, and forests, near roadways, power lines, and sidewalks. Her photographs document the trees' magnificence but also show how they are markers of a changing landscape. The yellow poplar, for example, stands on the fringes of a suburban housing development, in the center of a park for the enjoyment and relaxation of residents. The western red cedar stands alone in the middle of a clear-cut, saved from logging only because it is recorded in the Register as the biggest of its kind. The trees and their surroundings tell us about our relationship with nature and the land. Bosworth captures the ineffable grace and dignity of trees with clarity and directness: the green ash that shades a midwestern crossroads, the common pear that blooms in a Washington field, and the Florida strangler fig with its mass of entwining aerial roots. Her photographs, panoramic views taken with an 8 x 10 camera, show the immensity of the largest species and the hidden triumphs of the smallest. Some trees are dethroned each year because of sickness or destruction, but more often simpy because a new and bigger specimen is discovered; only three trees from the original Register in 1940 are still living today. Bosworth's 70 photographs of champion trees are not only a collection of tree portraits but the story of an American adventure as well. With a foreword by Roger Conover and essays by Douglas R. Nickel and John R. Stilgoe.
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Trees capture our imagination because they are rooted solidly in the earth but point ethereally toward the sky. They occupy a dimension that has as much to do with time and patience as with place and landscape. They are vertical beings to whom we attribute qualities both divine and human. Since 1991, photographer Barbara Bosworth has been on a quest to photograph America's "champion" trees - trees that are the biggest of their species, as recorded in the National Register of Big Trees, a list established and maintained by the nonprofit conservation organization American Forests. She has traveled down highways and up back roads, walked through forests and across clear-cut land, sometimes led by local tree enthusiasts, sometimes alone, to photograph trees that are remarkable not only for their size but for their endurance. Bosworth finds champion trees in backyards, fields, and forests, near roadways, power lines, and sidewalks. Her photographs document the trees' magnificence but also show how they are markers of a changing landscape. The yellow poplar, for example, stands on the fringes of a suburban housing development, in the center of a park for the enjoyment and relaxation of residents. The western red cedar stands alone in the middle of a clear-cut, saved from logging only because it is recorded in the Register as the biggest of its kind. The trees and their surroundings tell us about our relationship with nature and the land. Bosworth captures the ineffable grace and dignity of trees with clarity and directness: the green ash that shades a midwestern crossroads, the common pear that blooms in a Washington field, and the Florida strangler fig with its mass of entwining aerial roots. Her photographs, panoramic views taken with an 8 x 10 camera, show the immensity of the largest species and the hidden triumphs of the smallest. Some trees are dethroned each year because of sickness or destruction, but more often simpy because a new and bigger specimen is discovered; only three trees from the original Register in 1940 are still living today. Bosworth's 70 photographs of champion trees are not only a collection of tree portraits but the story of an American adventure as well. With a foreword by Roger Conover and essays by Douglas R. Nickel and John R. Stilgoe.
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septembre 2005, Cambridge
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