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Oro Editions California Changing
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Oro Editions Reimagining Environmental Identity
Book SynopsisReimagining Environmental Identity by Ping Jiang presents a compelling exploration of architectural practice designed to navigate the dynamic urban landscapes of China and beyond.
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Oro Editions Episodes in Public Architecture
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Oro Editions UPDN
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Oro Editions Its About the People
Book SynopsisThis book is about architecture, but not about formal architectural images. It is about the people who inhabit and use buildings and places.
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Oro Editions The Architecture of Will Bruder
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Applied Research & Design Smallx20
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Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony/Rodale Colorful Living
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Jonglez Abandoned Asylums
Book SynopsisAbandoned Asylums takes readers on an unrestricted visual journey inside America's abandoned state hospitals, asylums, and psychiatric facilities, the institutions where countless stories and personal dramas played out behind locked doors and out of public sight. The images captured by photographer Matt Van der Velde are powerful, haunting and emotive. A sad and tragic reality that these once glorious historical institutions now sit vacant and forgotten as their futures are uncertain and threatened with the wrecking ball. Explore a private mental hospital that treated Marilyn Monroe and other celebrities seeking safe haven. Or look inside the seclusion cells at an asylum that once incarcerated the now-infamous Charles Manson. Or see the autopsy theater at a Government Hospital for the Insane that was the scene for some of America's very first lobotomy procedures. With a foreward by renowned expert Carla Yanni examining their evolution and subsequent fall from grace, accompanying writings by Matt Van der Velde detailing their respective histories, Abandoned Asylums will shine some light on the glorious, and sometimes infamous institutions that have for so long been shrouded in darkness.Table of Contents* ABANDONED, ASYLUMS, CREEPY, HAUNTING, HOSPITALS, MATTVANDERVELDE, MENTAL, MENTALINSTITUTIONS, PROJECt, SERIES, URBEX
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Presses Polytechniques et Universitaires Romandes New Brutalism: The Invention of a Style
Book SynopsisThis book reveals the origin, definition, and evolution of New Brutalism in architecture. The New Brutalism movement in architecture addressed a new way of understanding the urban dimension in the post-war period, and in particular the role of the architect in an insecure society. But the original definition was manipulated, diluted, and fragmented as the concept spread from Europe to the United States, Japan, and South America. New Brutalism follows its contributions on a global scale, as it challenged the ambivalent collaboration between critics and architects and opened a controversial debate over a new “international style.” Disruptive, revolutionary, and at times even Dadaist, New Brutalism steered the cultural trajectory of the Modern Movement. A corrective to the many myths and misinterpretations of the style, this book reasserts the foundations of New Brutalism and offers a close examination of its international influence and variations.Table of ContentsA GAME OF PATIENCE FOR A NEW ART HISTORY – ROBERTO GARGIANI1. THE BRITISH DEBATE IN SEARCH OF A NEW-ISM1.1. Reactions to the International Style and the Myth of the Pioneers of the Modern Movement1.2. Principles of Truth: The Revival of Pugin, Ruskin and Morris 1.3. Roughness, Accident and Irregularity for a New Picturesque 1.4. New Humanism, New Empiricism, New Monumentality1.5. The Functional Tradition for National Unification 1.6. The Neo-Palladianism of Wittkower and Rowe2. LE CORBUSIER AND BÉTON BRUT2.1. From ‘Béton Armé’ to ‘Béton Brut’ at the Unité in Marseille2.2. Architecture d’Aujourd’hui and Art Brut 2.3. Le Point and the Concept of Béton Brut2.4. The Humanism of Béton Brut3. THE INVENTION OF A DEFINITION: FROM ASPLUND TO THE SMITHSONS3.1. The First Brutalist Building: Villa Göth3.2. The Unité as a Model for English Reconstruction 3.3. New Movement-Classical-Complex-Human3.4. The Smithsons’ New Brutalism3.5. Early Definitions of New Brutalism: Segal and the English Magazines3.6. Johnson’s Anti-Design3.7. Banham’s Radical Philosophy3.8. Formalism, Roughness and Brutality3.9. Smithsons’ Anti-Art Architecture for a New Aesthetic3.10. New Brutalism Will Take Many Forms3.11. The Case of the School at Hunstanton 3.12. Piranesi and Mies in Blake’s New Brutalism3.13. Futuristic Connections for a ‘Mechanistic Brutalism’3.14. Stirling and the Primitive Aesthetic, or the Maisons Jaoul Model 4. BANHAM’S MEMORABLE ARTICLE4.1. A Category of the New Art History4.2. The Origins in Le Corbusier’s Béton Brut4.3. Early Brutalism 4.4. Anti-art and As Found: For ‘une Architecture Autre’4.5. Wittkower, Rowe and the Anti-Brutalists4.6. The Role of the Yale Art Gallery 4.7. Image, ‘Quod Visum Perturbat’5. CRITICAL PRECISIONS: FROM SUMMERSON TO LASDUN5.1. The Old Rigour according to Summerson5.2. Le Corbusier’s Brutal Concrete, from Zevi to Scully 5.3. The Strict-Brutalists5.4. Thoughts in Progress on the Brutalist Canon5.5. The Smithsons’ Ethics 5.6. Style and Attitude6. INTERNATIONAL BRUTALISM: FROM ZEVI TO JOEDICKE6.1. Zevi and the First Italian Brutalist6.2. Romantic, Informal, Naturalistic: Italian Variations 6.3. Premises for American Brutalism6.4. The Carnegie Institute Student Questionnaire6.5. Kallmann’s Action Architecture 6.6. Directions and Dilemmas beyond the International Style6.7. Pevsner and Stirling vs. the Brutalist Aesthetics6.8. The Essential Ethic of Brutalism Is in Town Building6.9. Anti-Miesian Brutalism by Pehnt and Joedicke 7. THE NEW BRUTALISM: ETHIC OR AESTHETIC? BY JOEDICKE AND BANHAM7.1. Joedicke’s Proposal for a Monograph on New Brutalism 7.2. Towards the Final Structure of the Book 7.3. Banham’s New Brutalism: From Materials to Ethics7.4. Beyond Brutalism: ‘The Total Environment’ 7.5. Brutalist Style7.6. The Economist Building vs. Leicester University8. THE SAD END OF NEW BRUTALISM8.1. Pevsner and the Anti-Pioneers8.2. New Brutalism’s Obituary 8.3. The Old Brutalism 8.4. The Smithsons’ Answer to Banham: Robin Hood Gardens
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Birkhauser Swiss Sensibility: The Culture of Architecture in
Book SynopsisContemporary architecture in Switzerland is influenced by Peter Zumthor and Herzog & de Meuron, recipients of the Swiss Pritzker Prize, as well as a number of other prominent architects. The book presents 25 buildings in Switzerland designed by 16 influential Swiss architects: The range covers high-density urban developments through to rural sites in the alpine environment, with examples of traditional craftsmanship and materials, and modern construction technology and engineering. Large-format photographs illustrate the buildings’ proportions, materials, and details. Four authors analyze the Swiss building culture and its high architectural quality from an insider’s and an outsider’s point of view. In a detailed interview, Peter Zumthor explains his approach to architectural design.
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Birkhauser Renzo Piano: Space - Detail - Light
Book SynopsisThe Pritzker laureate Renzo Piano is recognized worldwide as one of the most renowned architects of our time. Central elements of his aesthetics include the playful use of natural light, the transparency of his buildings and their fine detailing. This publication documents nine museum buildings by Renzo Piano Building Workshop.
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Birkhauser Basics Dachkonstruktion
Book Synopsis A roof over one’s head is a basic need – it provides shelter from rain, wind and the cold. In addition to these requirements, the structure must be load bearing and stable. Out of traditional craftsmanship, roof shapes and typologies have developed that fulfill these tasks and endure to this day. Basics Roof Construction describes the different kinds of roofs and which advantages and disadvantages each of them has. It explains which tasks are performed by the structural elements and layers and how to account for these in planning construction. The objective is to provide students with the principles, properties and technical terms of construction so that they can implement this knowledge in concrete design plans: from building, to insulation and sealing, all the way to the basics of drainage.
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Birkhauser Drawing Climate: Visualising Invisible Elements
Book SynopsisEphemeral phenomena like fire, precipitation, shade, and wind have emerged as important contemporary protagonists for environmental design due to their dynamic impact on buildings and cities. The importance of including these forces in architecture has gained rapid momentum in the global quest for sustainability. This book investigates the history, theory and applications of climatic design in the built environment examining architecture and landscapes from various time periods. Based on a collaboration between the University of Sydney and the National University of Singapore, the book brings together contributing authors from Australia, Singapore, and the United States. "Dry", "Wet", "Cool" and "Hot" divide the book into categories through which a wide array of representational topics are covered —from dust storms and clouds, to ice and bushfires. A concluding section presents project examples for exploratory application in the design of architecture.
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Braun Publishing AG Buildings for Books: Contemporary Library
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Braun Fascination Seaside Living Architecture Design
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Braun Where Architects Stay at the Atlantic Ocean
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Braun Publishing AG Building Berlin Vol. 13
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Braun Publishing AG New Tiny Houses
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Lars Muller Publishers Intimacy of Making: Three Historical Sites in
Book SynopsisIn The Intimacy of Making Swiss French photographer Hélène Binet takes us on a visual journey through a world of stone, walls and gardens that define and celebrate the Korean art of making. In pure and calm photographs we discover traditional Korean architecture through a Western lens. The purity of the motifs sharpens one’s eye for the often-overlooked beauty and harmony in our own environment and history, as well as for the care of craft and composition. This book is a reminder against our often fleeting and careless perceptions. In her photographs, which were taken over the course of the last three years, Binet looks at three typologies of traditional architecture in Korea: the Confucian school and sacred place Byeong- san Sewon; garden and tea house Soswaewon; and the Jongmyo Shrine. Her camera combines both the nature and the built structures and reveals the soul of the three sites. The photographic essays are accompanied by two texts: Korean architect, Byoung Soo Cho, offers insight into the cultural and architectural history, while art and design critic and teacher, Eugénie Shinkle, focuses on the “making.”
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Lars Muller Publishers Dutch Architecture: Bauhausbucher 10
Book SynopsisDutch architect and designer J. J. P. Oud participated in the Bauhaus Week and the International Architecture Exhibition. His writing, beginning with a personal confession, is a summary of theoretical and practical findings in the field of architecture, specifically using the example of Dutch architecture. He thus looks to the future and reflects on the potential of architecture without forgetting to reveal his relationship with the past.
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Lars Muller Publishers Malevich: Non-objective World: Bauhausbucher 11
Book SynopsisKasimir Malevich’s treatise on Suprematism was included in the Bauhausbücher series in 1927, as was Piet Mondrian’s reflections on Russian Constructivism in 1925 (New Design, Bauhausbücher 5). Like Mondrian, who was never an official member of the Bauhaus, Malevich nevertheless had a close connection to the ideas of the school in terms of content. This volume 11 laid the foundation for the Russian avant-garde artist’s late work: to wrest the mask of life from the true face of art.
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Birkhauser lost in space: Architecture and Dementia
Book SynopsisDementia presents immense challenges – both for individuals as well as for society as a whole. More than 35 million people all over the world currently live with dementia, a number that is expected to double by 2050. This also has implications for architecture and urban planning because dementia often affects people’s sense of orientation and their ability to perceive space. How can homes, apartments, public buildings, outdoor spaces, neighbourhoods and cities, as well as environments and infrastructure, be designed to meet the needs of people with dementia as well as those of their caregivers? And can a consideration of the problems of dementia lead to a better understanding of space that can improve architecture and the built environment for us all? This book addresses these and other questions in a series of professional essays that examine the specific requirements for different disciplines. In addition, international case study projects illustrate the breadth of current actual solutions. The book is intended as a guide for all those involved in the design and planning process – architects, interior designers, engineers, town planners, local authorities and clients – and as a reader for the users themselves: for people with dementia, their family and friends, and all those in their social environment.
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Park Books Public Spaces NY
Book SynopsisA new book by acclaimed New York-based architects and educators Michael Meredith and Hilary Sample. Featuring their latest research on legal frameworks, private interests, and community needs shaping urban public spaces.
£38.25
Hirmer Verlag Holkham
Book SynopsisCreated over four decades from the 1720s to the 1760s by the highly erudite, visionary, and ambitious Earl of Leicester, Holkham is a masterpiece of Palladian architecture. Richly illustrated and with far-reaching essays, this volume invites us to a splendid tour through an incredibly well-preserved house, with all its splendidly furnished interiors and amazing collection of artworks still in place. Lord Leicester designed Holkham as the ideal home and setting for the ancient sculptures, distinguished paintings, and other treasures he had acquired on his Grand Tour. The unique Marble Hall and the Gallery revive and celebrate the values and virtues of ancient Rome, while the Saloon and state rooms vibrate with a baroque sense of grandeur and splendor. With the original family still in custodianship, Holkham is a unique survivor of the golden age of English country house culture.
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Taschen Mies Van Der Rohe
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Taschen GmbH Decorative Art 50s
Book SynopsisPublished annually from 1906 until 1980, Decorative Art, The Studio Yearbook was dedicated to the latest currents in architecture, interiors, furniture, lighting, glassware, textiles, metalware, and ceramics. Since the publications went out of print, the now hard-to-find yearbooks have become highly prized by collectors and dealers. TASCHEN’s Decorative Art 50s explores the spirit of optimism and the fervent consumerism of the decade. Technology and construction had been enervated by research during the war and these discoveries could now be applied in peacetime. The popularization of plastics, fiberglass, and latex literally shaped the decade. Rising incomes and postwar rebuilding on both sides of the Atlantic led to a massive housing boom in both the suburbs and inner cities, and these new homes reflected the new style. While European design was extraordinarily inventive, American design was looking to an idealized vision of the future—between them a modern idiom was developed that can be seen vividly on these pages. This overview of the decade includes the work of such famous innovators as Charles and Ray Eames, George Nelson, Hans Wegner, and Gio Ponti.Trade Review“An indispensable tool for collectors: names are named, designs praised and accusations made.” * San Francisco Examiner Magazine *
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Taschen GmbH Decorative Art 60s
Book SynopsisPublished annually from 1906 until 1980, Decorative Art, The Studio Yearbook was dedicated to the latest currents in architecture, interiors, furniture, lighting, glassware, textiles, metalware, and ceramics. Since the publications went out of print, the now hard-to-find yearbooks have become highly prized by collectors and dealers.Decorative Art 1960s looks at the birth of pop in a decade of unprecedented social, sexual, and political change. All the restless energies bubbling throughout the world during the 1960s made their way into the design style of the decade. Liberation was in the air, men were rushing to the moon, and the sky was the limit as far as visual creativity was concerned. The concept of lifestyle really came into its own, and although the early years of the decade still saw a rivalry between the well-crafted object and the industrially manufactured, by its end both ethnic and pop iconography had gained equal foothold in the aesthetic. Light was also predominant in shaping interiors. Freedom of choice and personal expression were the buzzwords for the young consumer, and so the likes of Panton, Sottsass, Paolozzi, Parisi, Sarpaneva, and Lomazzi did what they could to oblige.Trade Review“An indispensable tool for collectors: names are named, designs praised and accusations made.” * San Francisco Examiner Magazine *
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DOM Publishers Theorising Architecture in Sub-Saharan Africa:
Book SynopsisConsidering the immense diversity of sub-Saharan Africa's architecture and built realities, does it make sense to speak of an African architecture? How does this differ from architecture in Africa? What does the term architecture actually mean in the African context? And how could these questions be conceptualised while leaving behind pre-existing theoretical moulds and biases? Searching for new ways to theorise sub-Saharan African architecture, this collection of 49 essays broadens and develops the discourse around the architecture of a very rapidly changing continent. Its authors – practising architects and renowned scholars – put forward an array of heterogeneous perspectives, question old tropes and emerging narratives, and challenge popular concepts whilst proposing new ones. All with the aim of critically examining and advancing theoretical reflection on African architectures, both on the continent and globally.
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Sternberg Press Disorientation Bernard Rudofsky in the Empire of
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ArchiTangle GmbH Who's Next: Homelessness, Architecture and Cities
Book SynopsisHomelessness is a growing global problem that requires local discussions and solutions. In the face of the coronavirus pandemic, it has noticeably become a collective concern. However, in recent years, the official political discourse in many countries around the world implies that poverty is a personal fault, and that if people experience homelessness, it is because they have not tried hard enough to secure shelter and livelihood. Although architecture alone cannot solve the problem of homelessness, the question arises: What and which roles can it play? Or, to be more precise, how can architecture collaborate with other disciplines in developing ways to permanently house those who do not have a home?Who’s Next? Homelessness, Architecture, and Cities seeks to explore and understand a reality that involves the expertise of national, regional, and city agencies, non-governmental organizations, health-care fields, and academic disciplines. Through scholarly essays, interviews, analyses of architectural case studies, and research on the historical and current situation in Los Angeles, Moscow, Mumbai, New York, São Paulo, San Francisco, Shanghai, and Tokyo, this book unfolds different entry points toward understanding homelessness and some of the many related problems. The book is a polyphonic attempt to break down this topic into as many parts as needed, so that the specificities and complexities of one of the most urgent crises of our time rise to the fore.Trade Review--0 "-"
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Arquine Housing Strategies for Urban Redensification
Book SynopsisAn accessible reader offering case studies of innovative alternatives to expansionist urban housingThis reader takes the following assumption as its basis: the ceaseless expansion of the urban periphery has been detrimental to not only urban populations but also the planet at large, corroding its most valuable and scarce resource, land. Housing proffers redensification as the corrective measure to the failing expansionist approach toward urban planning. Gathered here are case studies of alternative social housing projects from the past centuryall of which incorporate methods of redensification. They span the Weißenhofsiedlung Estate (1927) to architectural experiments in suburban Mexico as recent as 2017.These alternative developments have offered solutions to countries experiencing intense population growth and provided sanctuary for those who have lost their homes in natural disasters. Altogether, the projects evince that the problem of urban hou
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Karolinum,Nakladatelstvi Univerzity Karlovy,Czech Republic The Mining Towns of the Bohemian Ore Mountains
Book SynopsisA history of the lost art of the Bohemian Ore Mountains. The development of mining towns in the Ore Mountain region of Bohemia during the thirteenth to the sixteenth century was driven by the Saxon nobility who brought with them the culture of their homeland. The art and architecture of the Ore Mountains, financed by wealthy miners and local nobility, therefore followed a different path than Prague yet rivaled its importance and grandeur.The Mining Towns of the Bohemian Ore Mountains introduces the most important mining centers and historical monuments, exploring what made the late Gothic and early Renaissance periods in northwest Bohemia so distinct from the rest of the kingdom. It also examines the specific cultural space that formed, where locals viewed the Bohemian-Saxon border as an abstract political concept that had little to do with day-to-day reality. The authors trace the monuments and works of art until the second half of the twentieth century when many of them tragically vanished because of lignite mining.Table of ContentsIntroduction /13Ore mining in the Ore Mountains and the establishment of mining towns /17The mining profession and mining law /33Medical care, hospitals, and social solidarity /43Mining guilds and their representation /46Coin minting and medal making /50The patron saints and piety of miners /54The mining towns after Luther’s theses, and confessionalisation in the Ore Mountains /61Between the Gothic and the Renaissance: In search of the ‘Saxon Renaissance’ /69The Saxon Renaissance in architecture /72The urbanism and architecture of mining towns in the Ore Mountains /84Faith and piety in mining towns in the context of religious monuments /119Remembering Prísenice /168The mining towns of Slavkov Forest /174Review of sources, literature and internet sources /186
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Mapin Publishing Pvt.Ltd Concepts of Space in Traditional Indian
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ListLab Barcelona Superilla
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ListLab Custom Made: Sense and Method in the Design of
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Skira Genius of the Place AlBunt
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Fondazione Prada Machines a Penser
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Mondadori Electa Villa Albani Torlonia: The Cradle of
Book SynopsisVilla Albani Torlonia, with its collections, the Italian garden, and the hemicycle of the Kaffeehaus, is a sublime testimony of that particular antiquarian taste which came to the fore in the mid-eighteenth century, that for which Rome became a favourite destination on the Grand Tour. The classicist dream of Cardinal Alessandro Albani (1692 1779), was preserved thanks to the Torlonia family, who purchased the villa in 1866, enlarging the collection and the gardens and restoring the most important cardinal residence of the eighteenth century. More than 300 images by the great Italian master Massimo Listri recount the history of this extraordinary cultural heritage for the very first time. An immersive journey leads the reader between its collections of ancient masterpieces. Statues, bas-reliefs, and fountains are ensconced between the various buildings and gardens of the villa in a composition of environments, landscapes, and works of art forever waiting to be discovered.
£93.75
Mondadori Electa Claesson Koivisto Rune In Transit
Book SynopsisThis is the first comprehensive monograph on the philosophy and works of architecture and design office Claesson Koivisto Rune.
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Set Margins' publications Provocations on Media Architecture
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Set Margins' Publications They Asked Me to Design a House I Asked Them to Design a Home
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Mal Og Menning,Iceland Discover Icelandic Architecture: 2018
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Casemate Publishers Cultural Landscapes of Northeast Scotland
Book SynopsisPresents regional inter and multidisciplinary studies examining and showcasing the cultural landscapes and international interactions of NE Scotland from glacial to early modern times
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Transit Books Immemorial
Book SynopsisMarkham delivers a probing meditation on grief, memory, and memorialization... Plaintive and powerful, this is hard to forget.Publishers WeeklyA speculative essay on language in the face of climate catastrophe: how we memorialize what has been lost and what soon will be, pushing public imagination into generative realms. I am in need of a word, writes Lauren Markham in an email to the Bureau of Linguistical Reality, an organization that coins neologisms. She describes her desire to memorialize something that is in the process of being losta landscape, a species, birdsong. How do we mourn the abstracted casualties of what's to come?In a dazzling synthesis of reporting, memoir, and essay, Markham reflects on the design and function of memorials, from the traditional to the speculativethe Vietnam Memorial in Washington, DC, a converted prison in Ljubljana, a ghost forest of dead cedar trees in a Manhattan parkin an attempt to reckon with the grief of climate catastrophe. Can memorials look toward the future as they do to the past? How can we create a psychic space for feeling while spurring action and agitating for change?Immemorial is part of the Undelivered Lectures series from Transit Books.
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Clarkson Potter/Ten Speed Right at Home
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Press Forward Rising Stories A Novel
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