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From modest chapels to majestic cathedrals, and historic synagogues to modern mosques and Buddhist temples: this photo-filled, pocket-size guidebook presents 1,079 houses of worship in Manhattan and lays to rest the common perception that skyscrapers, bridges, and parks are the only defining moments in the architectural history of New York City. With his exhaustive(...)
From Abyssinian to Zion : a guide to Manhattan's houses of worship
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From modest chapels to majestic cathedrals, and historic synagogues to modern mosques and Buddhist temples: this photo-filled, pocket-size guidebook presents 1,079 houses of worship in Manhattan and lays to rest the common perception that skyscrapers, bridges, and parks are the only defining moments in the architectural history of New York City. With his exhaustive research of the city´s religious buildings, David W. Dunlap has revealed (and at times unearthed) an urban history that reinforces New York as a truly vibrant center of community and cultural diversity.
Guides des villes
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As a kid growing up in Manhattan, William Helmreich played a game with his father they called "Last Stop." They would pick a subway line and ride it to its final destination, and explore the neighborhood there. Decades later, Helmreich teaches university courses about New York, and his love for exploring the city is as strong as ever. Putting his feet to the test, he(...)
The New York nobody knows : walking 6000 miles in the city
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As a kid growing up in Manhattan, William Helmreich played a game with his father they called "Last Stop." They would pick a subway line and ride it to its final destination, and explore the neighborhood there. Decades later, Helmreich teaches university courses about New York, and his love for exploring the city is as strong as ever. Putting his feet to the test, he decided that the only way to truly understand New York was to walk virtually every block of all five boroughs--an astonishing 6,000 miles.
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The city's end: two centuries of fantasies, fears, and premonitions of new york's destruction
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From nineteenth-century paintings of fires raging through New York City to scenes of Manhattan engulfed by a gigantic wave in the 1998 movie Deep Impact, images of the city’s end have been prolific and diverse. Why have Americans repeatedly imagined New York’s destruction? What do the fantasies of annihilation played out in virtually every form of literature and art mean?(...)
The city's end: two centuries of fantasies, fears, and premonitions of new york's destruction
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From nineteenth-century paintings of fires raging through New York City to scenes of Manhattan engulfed by a gigantic wave in the 1998 movie Deep Impact, images of the city’s end have been prolific and diverse. Why have Americans repeatedly imagined New York’s destruction? What do the fantasies of annihilation played out in virtually every form of literature and art mean? This book is the first to investigate two centuries of imagined cataclysms visited upon New York, and to provide a critical historical perspective to our understanding of the events of September 11, 2001.
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Simon Chaput: Jantar Mantar
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While in the process of moving his studio of 30 years from Manhattan to Miami, Chaput discovered these previously unprinted images. He realized how influential they are to his whole body of work, and an intense printing session followed in his beloved darkroom. Perfectly capturing the striking combinations of geometrical forms of the Jantar Mantar, Chaput presents(...)
Simon Chaput: Jantar Mantar
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While in the process of moving his studio of 30 years from Manhattan to Miami, Chaput discovered these previously unprinted images. He realized how influential they are to his whole body of work, and an intense printing session followed in his beloved darkroom. Perfectly capturing the striking combinations of geometrical forms of the Jantar Mantar, Chaput presents mysterious and romantic locations where one could spend hours in visual exploration. Indeed, he spent hours waiting for the right light and angles, and for the many visitors to have left the famous Indian sites.
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Factory Andy Warhol
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Stephen Shore a 17 ans lorsqu’il commence à fréquenter la Factory, l’atelier d’artistes créé par Andy Warhol à Manhattan. Entre 1965 et 1967, Shore y passe presque tout son temps, photographiant tous les personnages de la bande (musiciens, acteurs, peintres, écrivains) dont Edie Sedgwick, Nico et Lou Reed, sans oublier Warhol, le maître des lieux. Cet ouvrage présente une(...)
Factory Andy Warhol
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Stephen Shore a 17 ans lorsqu’il commence à fréquenter la Factory, l’atelier d’artistes créé par Andy Warhol à Manhattan. Entre 1965 et 1967, Shore y passe presque tout son temps, photographiant tous les personnages de la bande (musiciens, acteurs, peintres, écrivains) dont Edie Sedgwick, Nico et Lou Reed, sans oublier Warhol, le maître des lieux. Cet ouvrage présente une sélection personnelle des clichés de Shore, une vision de l’intérieur de ce lieu et de cette époque extraordinaires signée par l’un des photographes les plus emblématiques de ces dernières décennies.
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From the bustling streets of Manhattan to the shaded underside of Coney Island’s boardwalk to the expansive landscapes and open roads of the American West, ''Winogrand'' Color unveils a tender portrait of a version of the country that feels at once bygone and timeless. His snapshots of strangers exude an unparalleled sense of intimacy, offering poetic glimpses into(...)
Garry Winogrand: Winogrand Color
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From the bustling streets of Manhattan to the shaded underside of Coney Island’s boardwalk to the expansive landscapes and open roads of the American West, ''Winogrand'' Color unveils a tender portrait of a version of the country that feels at once bygone and timeless. His snapshots of strangers exude an unparalleled sense of intimacy, offering poetic glimpses into everyday postwar America. Presenting 150 photographs selected from the archives at the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, Arizona, this is the first monograph dedicated in full to Winogrand’s vivid color photography.
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GA Houses 119
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Issue 119 features three projects by Gurjit Singh Matharoo (b. 1966 in Ajmer, India), a Glass/Wood House by Kenga Kuma, a space in Dutchess County, New York by Steven Holl, some small houses by Frank Gehry, the Gagarin House in Connecticut by Marcel Breuer, a house by Ken Yokogawa, a house by Takashi Yamaguchi, a house by Shigeru Fuse, a project by Alphaville, a project(...)
GA Houses 119
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Issue 119 features three projects by Gurjit Singh Matharoo (b. 1966 in Ajmer, India), a Glass/Wood House by Kenga Kuma, a space in Dutchess County, New York by Steven Holl, some small houses by Frank Gehry, the Gagarin House in Connecticut by Marcel Breuer, a house by Ken Yokogawa, a house by Takashi Yamaguchi, a house by Shigeru Fuse, a project by Alphaville, a project by Keisuke Maeda and an art collector’s loft in Manhattan by UN Studio. The ‘Elements’ series focuses on Gurjit Singh Matharoo and Eric Owen Moss.
Revues
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''Projects and Their Consequences'' presents fifteen key projects from leading architectural thinkers Reiser + Umemoto. This book traces thirty years of innovative, multidisciplinary investigations of form, structure, technique, and planning. Projects include large-scale studies of infrastructure for the East River Corridor and Hudson Yards areas in Manhattan and the(...)
Reiser + Umemoto: projects and their consequences
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''Projects and Their Consequences'' presents fifteen key projects from leading architectural thinkers Reiser + Umemoto. This book traces thirty years of innovative, multidisciplinary investigations of form, structure, technique, and planning. Projects include large-scale studies of infrastructure for the East River Corridor and Hudson Yards areas in Manhattan and the Alishan Railway in Taiwan, as well as schemes for cultural institutions including the New Museum, Children's Museum of Pittsburgh, and University of Applied Arts Vienna. Also included are "textual projects": narrative works that blur the boundaries of art and architecture.
Architecture, monographies
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Au siècle de l'urbanisation galopante, la mutation rapide des villes est au coeur de leurs interrogations. Des études de Robert Venturi consacrées au Las Vegas des années 1970 à l'ouvrage de Rem Koolhaas New York Délire, qui fait du Luna Park de Coney Island l'" incubateur " mythologique de Manhattan, des cités idéales rêvées par Watt Disney aux fantaisies architecturales(...)
Dreamlands: des parcs d'attractions aux cités du futur
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Au siècle de l'urbanisation galopante, la mutation rapide des villes est au coeur de leurs interrogations. Des études de Robert Venturi consacrées au Las Vegas des années 1970 à l'ouvrage de Rem Koolhaas New York Délire, qui fait du Luna Park de Coney Island l'" incubateur " mythologique de Manhattan, des cités idéales rêvées par Watt Disney aux fantaisies architecturales des urbanistes de Dubaï ou de Shanghai, cette punlication retrace les étapes d'une métamorphose ludique de la ville, qui est peut-être aussi celle de la culture, à l'heure du tourisme de masse.
Expositions collectives
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Alexandra Horowitz shows us how to see the spectacle of the ordinary. Structured around a series of eleven walks the author takes, mostly in her Manhattan neighborhood, On Looking features experts on a diverse range of subjects, including an urban sociologist, the well-known artist Maira Kalman, a geologist, a physician, and a sound designer. Horowitz also walks with a(...)
On looking : eleven walks with expert eyes
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Alexandra Horowitz shows us how to see the spectacle of the ordinary. Structured around a series of eleven walks the author takes, mostly in her Manhattan neighborhood, On Looking features experts on a diverse range of subjects, including an urban sociologist, the well-known artist Maira Kalman, a geologist, a physician, and a sound designer. Horowitz also walks with a child and a dog to see the world as they perceive it. What they see, how they see it, and why most of us do not see the same things...