Architecture
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Sundry Modernism: Materials for a Study of Palestinian ModernismWith Sundry Modernism, Oraib Toukan presents an informal register of modernist Palestinian architecture--an assemblage of images and stories collected from 2013 to 2015 in the cities of Nablus, Ramallah, Jerusalem, Bethlehem, and Jericho. Using her photographs as conversation prompts with various residents, historians, and...
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LightopiaAn investigation into the development of light design within a broad cultural and historical contextLightopia investigates the development of light design, taking a novel perspective by placing the current paradigm shift in the larger context of cultural history. The starting point for the book...
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Helsinki: Architectural GuideHelsinki is an architectural hub between East and West. The influence of nearby St Petersburg is just as palpable as that of European neo-classicism of the early nineteenth century. Creativity is a pervasive feature of this Nordic magnet for friends of good design and...
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Tezuka Architects: The Yellow BookBuilding on the wide interest in the popular TED talk, "The Best Kindergarten You've Ever Seen," delivered in 2015 by Japanese architect Takaharu Tezuka (born 1964), Tezuka Architects: The Yellow Book is an in-depth, monographic study of the work and design philosophy of Tezuka's...
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Slavutych: Architectural GuideSlavutych, a Ukrainian provincial city north of Kiev, seems in many respects to belong to a different era. Built after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986 to replace the contaminated dwellings of workers from the plant, Slavutych is the last "ideal" planned city of...
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The Essence of Light: Centre for International Light Art UnnaA celebration of the Centre for International Light Art's 10-year anniversary, this beautiful catalog presents fascinating photos of the museum's light installations accompanied by explanatory texts and artist biographies. The book details the space's effective presentation of works created specially for the former Lindenbrauerei...
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The Giedion World: Sigfried Giedion and Carola Giedion-Welcker in DialogueSigfried Giedion (1888-1968) and Carola Giedion-Welcker (1893-1979) were among the most influential scholars of art and architectural history during the early twentieth century. Of particular impact was their role in connecting leading protagonists of modernism in architecture, art, and literature, such as Alvar Aalto,...
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Prefab HousesA prefab is a mass-produced house, constructed in a factory and assembled on-site in a few days or weeks. Once regarded as a cheap, easy solution for urgent housing problems, the prefab has evolved to become a synonym for ambitious design and sophisticated detailing...
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CabinsEver since Henry David Thoreau's described his two years, two months, and two days of cabin existence at Walden Pond, Massachusetts in Walden, or, Life in the Woods (1854), the idea of a refuge dwelling has seduced the modern psyche. In the past decade,...
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Arts & Architecture 1945-49From the end of World War II until the mid-1960s, exciting things were happening in American architecture. Emerging talents were focusing on innovative projects that integrated at once modern design and low-cost materials. The trend was most notably embodied in the famous Case Study...
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PalladioAndrea Palladio (1508-1580) is widely considered the father of Western architecture. Strongly influenced by formal temple designs in Ancient Greece and Rome, he pioneered a revival of Classical symmetry and perspective, and with it created a universal architectural language.From his humble beginning as a...
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Michel-Ange. l'Oeuvre Peint, Sculpté Et Architectural CompletAvant d'atteindre le jeune âge de 30 ans, Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) avait déjà sculpté la Pietà et David, deux des oeuvres les plus célèbres de toute l'histoire de l'art. Sculpteur, mais aussi peintre, dessinateur et architecte, les créations de ce maître absolu de la...
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PianoWhile some architects have a signature style, Renzo Piano seeks to apply coherent ideas to extraordinarily different projects. His buildings impress as much for their individual impact as for their diversity of scale, material, and form.Piano rose to international prominence with his codesign of...
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Pre-RaphaelitesFounded in 1848 as a secret society, the Pre-Raphaelites rejected classical ideals and the dominant artistic genre painting of their era for what they saw as a more spiritual, sincere, and naturalistic approach. Founded by William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais, and Dante Gabriel...
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TurnerL'oeuvre de Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851) déclenche une émotion proche d'une acquisition soudaine de la vue. Ses paysages terrestres et marins aux couleurs et lumières enchanteresses brûlent la rétine avec une force fondamentale, élémentaire, comme si le soleil lui-même brillait hors du cadre.Pertinemment...
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Venedig Von Oben: Die Lagunenstadt in LuftaufnahmenVenedig - ein Sehnsuchtsort, dessen Faszination ungebrochen bleibt. Der vorliegende Band bietet einen vollig neuen Zugang zu dieser ungewohnlichen Stadt, namlich mit Luftaufnahmen, die in einer eigenen Fotokampage angefertigt wurden.Author: Riccarda Cantarella, Armando Dal Fabbro, Maria Giulia MontessoriPublisher: Schnell & SteinerPublished: 08/31/2015Pages: 288Binding Type:...
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Valparaiso School: Open City GroupSince 1950 the avantgarde architect Alberto Cruz has had such a defining influence on the Faculty of Architecture at the Catholic University in Valparaiso that the phrase Valparaiso School was soon coined. Out of this work emerged in 1970 the anonymous group "Open City...
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Lexikon Zur Keltischen ArchaologieZiel dieses Werkes ist es einen Uberblick uber die materiellen Hinterlassenschaften der Spathallstatt- und La Tene-Kultur zu geben, welche wohl in weiten Bereichen der keltischen Archaologie zugeordnet werden kann. Die Zusammenstellung der tatsachlich vorhandenen Objekte und Uberreste gibt einen Uberblick uber die wichtigsten Fundstellen,...
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Die Logik der Erscheinung; Husserls Lehre vom Urteil als phänomenologische Theorie der WahrheitHusserls Ph nomenologie ist als Erscheinungslehre auf den logischen Urteils- und Formenkanon angewiesen und partiell mit ihm identisch. Dar ber hinaus ist sie als transzendentale Logik die Begr ndung jeder formallogischen Urteilst tigkeit, d. h. sie ist eine Wahrheitslehre vor dem Hintergrund der Bestimmung...
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Rosenkranze Und Seelengarten. Bildung Und Frommigkeit in Niedersachsischen FrauenklosternBereits im Mittelalter waren die niedersachsischen Frauenkloster als Orte gelehrter Bildung und einer vielfaltigen Frommigkeitspraxis bekannt: Nonnen beteten Rosenkranze und lasen in einem fruhen Bestseller, dem Hortulus animae, zu Deutsch Seelengartlein. Die Ausstellung Rosenkranze und Seelengarten in der Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbuttel zeigt erstmals...
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