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The Guerilla Art Kit מאת Keri Smith We are living in a golden age of self-expression. The explosion of user-created content on blogs and social networking sites moved Time magazine to name 'You' their 2006 person of the year. But while we may be spending a lot more time in virtual worlds, we have not lost the urge to make our p...

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Catalog: The Illustrated History of Mail Order Shopping מאת Robin Cherry Since 1872 when traveling salesman Aaron Montgomery Ward realized he could eliminate the middleman and sell goods directly to his customers Americans have had an ongoing love affair with the mail-order catalog which continues undiminished even in today's online-driven world. The practical can find...

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Contemporary Curtain Wall Architecture מאת Scott Murray Recent years have seen a rapidly growing interest among contemporary architects in the use of curtain walls to create innovative, attention-grabbing building facades. With new concerns about the environment and affordable envelopes, the curtain wall represents a microcosm of issues important to arch...

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Le Corbusier and the Maisons Jaoul מאת Caroline Maniaque Benton In 1955, just as the world was pigeonholing him as the high priest of modernism, Le Corbusier shocked the architecture world with of all things weekend houses. Built of brick, concrete, stone, and timber, the Maisons Jaoul are the antithesis of everything commonly referred to as 'Corbusian.' Their s...

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Paul Rudolph: The Florida Houses מאת Joseph King Paul Rudolph, one of the 20th century's most iconoclastic architects, is best known-and most maligned-for his large "brutalist" buildings, like the Yale Art and Architecture Building. So it will surprise many to learn that early in his career he developed a series of houses that represent the unriva...

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D.I.Y.: Design It Yourself (Design Handbooks) מאת Ellen Lupton Not satisfied with the new T-shirts on sale at the local mall? Maybe you'd like a wedding invitation that expresses your own vision, not your party planner's? How about some personalized stationery? An upgrade to your website? A business card? A poster for your political campaign? A CD package for y...

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Materials for Design מאת Victoria Ballard Bell As architecture programs throughout the country break out of the classroom and adopt the holistic methods of design/build programs, the need for a textbook that bridges the gap between construction materials and design sensibility is sorely needed. Materials for Design is that book. Students must ...

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Interactive Architecture מאת Michael Fox Every year, a bevy of new phones, games, televisions, and electronic reading devices ride into our lives on a tidal wave of interactive hype. These i-products, while handy, primarily confine their interactivity to the surfaces of screens. Not exactly the kind of 'world-changing' transformation we've...

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Mingering Mike מאת Dori Hadar One cold December morning, Dori Hadar DJ by night, criminal investigator by day was digging through crates of records at a flea market in Washington, D.C. There he stumbled into the elaborate world of Mingering Mike a soul superstar of the 1960s and '70s who released an astonishing 50 albums and at ...

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Integrated Design in Contemporary Architecture מאת Kiel Moe Listen in on any conversation about architecture these days and you will almost certainly hear the buzzword of early-twenty-first century building sustainability. But just how sustainable must a building be to earn that sought-after designation? How must architects reconsider the entire design proce...

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The Codewriting Workbook: Creating Computational Architecture in AutoLISP מאת Robert J. Krawczyk The Codewriting Workbook introduces students and practitioners to basic programming concepts for computer-aided design (CAD). Through a series of guided exercises and examples readers learn how to develop and write procedures for creating two-dimensional drawings and three-dimensional models using ...

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50 Years of Recuperation of the Situationist International (FORuM Project Publications) מאת McKenzie Wark From antiglobalist activists and corporate adbusters to online hackers and guerilla street artists the influence of the Situationist International (SI) is writ large across our contemporary cultural landscape. Formed in 1957 as a merger of four European avant-garde groups with backgrounds in Marxis...

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Over and Over: A Catalog of Hand-Drawn Patterns מאת Michael Perry Pattern can be derived from many sources if we remember to look closely. While patterns have been around forever there's a recent movement a tendency among designers to allow patterns to animate their work with colorful and exuberant complexity. Over and Over: A Catalog of Hand-Drawn Patterns c...

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The Campus Guide: Harvard University מאת Douglas Shand-Tucci The newest titles in the Princeton Architectural Press Campus Guide series take readers on an insider's tour of Harvard University and the University of Cincinnati. Beautifully photographed in full color, the guides present architectural walks of two American campuses distinguished by landmark build...

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Bethlehem Steel מאת Andrew Garn Many of America's most impressive structures--from the Chrysler Building to the George Washington Bridge to the Panama Canal--as well as its battleships, railroads, and automobiles had their origins in the Bethlehem Steel plant in eastern Pennsylvania. Although still in operation, much of the plant,...

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Loblolly House: Elements of a New Architecture + DVD מאת Stephen Kieran 'If prefabs are assembly-line Fords, Loblolly is a custom hot rod, begging for mass production.'—Andrew Blum for WIRED magazine Known for their in-depth research and innovative, inventive, and meticulously constructed architecture, KieranTimberlake Assoicates put its ideas about stream...

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Architecture of the Off-Modern (FORuM Project Publications) מאת Svetlana Boym Svetlana Boym's Architecture of the Off-Modern is an imaginative tour through the history and afterlife of Vladimir Tatlin's legendary but unbuilt Monument to the Third International of 1920. Generally considered to be the defining expression of architectural constructivism, the structure w...

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Moderne: Fashioning the French Interior מאת Sarah Schleuning Jacques- mile Ruhlmann, Pierre Chareau, Robert Mallet-Stevens, Charlotte Perriand, Eileen Gray: together these designers and their contemporaries pioneered the look of the modern French interior during the 1920s. Their use of sumptuous materials, rich jewel tones, intricate geometric patterns, and c...

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Five Houses, Ten Details (Writing Matters) מאת Edward R. Ford Edward Ford's forty years of practicing and teaching architecture have focused on one area: the architectural detail. Yet, despite two hugely influential books (The Details of Modern Architecture, volumes 1 and 2), numerous articles, and lectures given from Vancouver to Vienna, there are tw...

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Beach Houses: Andrew Geller מאת Alastair Gordon The Bra. The Box Kite. The Cat. The Milk Carton. The Reclining Picasso. These are the playful names given to the eccentric beach houses of Andrew Geller. Built in the 1950s and 1960s, these whimsical vacation homes reflected the idea of summer leisure for a generation more concerned with fun on the ...

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D.I.Y.: Kids מאת Ellen Lupton All over the world, parents are raising kids to get active and embrace the 'design-it-yourself' spirit of homemade arts and crafts. D.I.Y. Kids encourages young readers to use basic design principles and onhand materials to express their individuality through more than eighty imaginative proj...

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Young Architects 10: Resonance מאת The Architectural League of New York Resonance is the tenth in an annual series of publications that features the best young practicing architects as selected by the Architectural League of New York in their annual Young Architects competition. Young architects practicing today are working with diversified tools as a result of...

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Fresh Dialogue Nine: In/Visible: Graphic Data Revealed מאת AIGA New York Chapter Each year, the New York chapter of the AIGA invites a group of emerging designers to participate in the Fresh Dialogue forum. In/Visible: Graphic Data Revealed brings together a diverse group of information graphics designers for a lively discussion about the challenges they face visualizin...

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Richard Haag: Bloedel Reserve and Gas Works Park (Landscape Views) מאת William S. (ed) Saunders This is the first book to explore Blodel Reserve and Gasworks Park in detail, both in terms of Haag's design process and of the impact of these projects on other architects. The included essays discuss such themes as aspects of the sublime in Haag's work, the relation between Bloedel Rese...

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There's Nothing Funny About Design מאת David Barringer '. . . no one has ever written about graphic design in quite this way. The title sounds more like a short story, and at times I found myself reading it as though it were a fictional exploration of a designer's consciousness. When I did, its energy, relentlessness, emotion, and abundance of detail ma...

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Atlas of Novel Tectonics מאת Jesse Reiser Architects Jesse Reiser and Nanako Umemoto have been generating some of the most provocative thinking in the field for nearly twenty years. With Atlas of Novel Tectonics, Reiser+Umemoto hone in on the many facets of architecture and illuminate their theories with great thought and simplicity. The At...

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Donogoo–Tonka or the Miracles of Science: A Cinematographic Tale (FORuM Project Publications) מאת Jules Romains Donogoo-Tonka or The Miracles of Science: A Cinematographic Tale is a mock film scenario written by the French novelist Jules Romains. It was first published in book form in 1920, and has never been translated into English. The satirical plot concerns a famous geographer whose academic care...

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The Vatican and Saint Peter's Basilica of Rome מאת Paul Letarouilly French architect Paul Letarouilly (1795-1855), author of the masterpiece Edifices de Rome Moderne, was unequaled in his observational ability and impeccable drawing skills. He devoted many years of his life living in austerity and refusing paying commissions to compile and draw the intricat...

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Indie Publishing: How to Design and Publish Your Own Book (Design Brief) מאת Ellen Lupton Once referred to derisively as 'vanity publishing,' self-published books are finally taking their place alongside more accepted indie categories such as music, film, and theater. Indie Publishing is a practical guide to creating and distributing printed books regardless of your background, ...

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The Map as Art: Contemporary Artists Explore Cartography מאת Katharine Harmon Maps can be simple tools, comfortable in their familiar form. Or they can lead to different destinations: places turned upside down or inside out, territories riddled with marks understood only by their maker, realms connected more to the interior mind than to the exterior world. These are the place...

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Bunker Archaeology מאת Paul Virilio Out of print for almost a decade we are thrilled to bring back one of our most requested hard-to-find titles—philosopher and cultural theorist Paul Virilio's Bunker Archeology. In 1994 we published the first English-language translation of the classic French edition of 1975 which accompanied an ...

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Twentieth-Century Pattern Design מאת Lesley Jackson The first book to examine pattern as an essential part of twentieth-century design history is now available in paperback. Organized by decade, Twentieth-Century Pattern Design details the technical innovations that affected the development of modern textiles and wallpapers. With stunning colo...

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A Year in Japan מאת Kate T. Williamson The Land of the Rising Sun is shining brightly across the American cultural landscape. Recent films such as Lost in Translation and Memoirs of a Geisha seem to have made everyone an expert on Japan, even if they've never been there. But the only way for a Westerner to get to know the real Japan is t...

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Yankee Modern: 10 Houses By Estes/Twombly מאת William Morgan Architects James Estes and Peter Twombly have described their nearly two decades of work as 'quiet modernism.' Their Rhode Island-based firm, Estes/Twombly Architects, builds modestly sized and geometrically precise houses that are unique to their New England locale without being style-driven. These...

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Revolving Architecture: A History of Buildings That Rotate, Swivel, and Pivot מאת Chad Randl Alternately lauded as the future of architecture or dismissed as pure folly, revolving buildings are a fascinating missing chapter in architectural history with surprising relevance to issues in contemporary architectural design. Rotating structures have been employed to solve problems and create ef...

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The New Modern House מאת Will Jones Every architect dreams of a perfect client, and every client dreams of a perfect architect. Alas, these relationships don't always work out to everyone’s expectations. But when they do—when there are shared ideas and the communication flows—the results can be spectacular. The New Modern House ...

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Transmaterial: A Catalog of Materials That Redefine our Physical Environment מאת Blaine Brownell These days, whether you're designing a building or a toaster, a savvy knowledge of materials is increasingly critical. And keeping up with the constant flow of new materials, let alone their applications, properties, and sources, is an increasingly difficult and time-consuming task. Blaine Erickson ...

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Daniel Eatock Imprint: Works 1975-2007 מאת Daniel Eatock Imagine the work of a young designer for whom concept and humor are more important than the glossy aesthetics of mainstream periodicals and design annuals and for whom the message trumps the media, and you begin to get an idea of the refreshingly smart and thought-provoking work of Daniel Eatock. Re...

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Thinking with Type, 2nd revised and expanded edition - A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, & Students Ellen Lupton

Thinking with Type, 2nd revised and expanded edition - A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, & Students מאת Ellen Lupton

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Northwestern University: The Campus Guide מאת Jay Pridmore Northwestern University: The Campus Guide takes readers on a vivid trip through this campus's compelling history from the 19th century to the present day. This highly illustrated guide presents a wide variety of buildings ranging from Prairie style to Collegiate Gothic by historically important arch...

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Subnature: Architecture's Other Environments מאת David Gissen We are conditioned over time to regard environmental forces such as dust, mud, gas, smoke, debris, weeds, and insects as inimical to architecture. Much of today's discussion about sustainable and green design revolves around efforts to clean or filter out these primitive elements. While mostly the d...

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Letter by Letter מאת Laurent Pflughaupt Letters are the building blocks of our language, and quite possibly of our consciousness. Written into young minds through constant repetition, letters soon function like water in a fishbowl essential for life, but too familiar to qualify as objects of serious inquiry. But considered separately from...

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Heavenly Vaults: From Romanesque to Gothic in European Architecture מאת David Stephenson The Gothic cathedrals of the Middle Ages are among the world's greatest architectural achievements. Looking up at the soaring vaulted ceiling of a Gothic church, it is impossible not to marvel at the seemingly unending design variations of these transcendent structures. Photographer David Stephenson...

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Paris Changing: Revisiting Eugene Atget's Paris מאת Christopher Rauschenberg Between 1888 and 1927 Eug ne Atget meticulously photographed Paris and its environs, capturing in thousands of photographs the city's parks, streets, and buildings as well as its diverse inhabitants. His images preserved the vanishing architecture of the ancien r gime as Paris grew into a modern cap...

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Points + Lines: Diagrams and Projects for the City מאת Stan Allen Points + Lines: Diagrams and Projects for the City is a book of New York architect Stan Allen's writings and projects that propose new architectural strategies for the contemporary city. Organized in the form of a user's manual, it juxtaposes speculative texts outlining Allen's general princi...

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Material Immaterial: The New Work of Kengo Kuma מאת Botond Bognar In our 2005 monograph Kengo Kuma: Selected Works, celebrated architect Kengo Kuma boldly declared that his ultimate aim was to 'erase architecture' so that his buildings became one with their surroundings. In recent years he has pursued this goal by focusing primarily on imaginative and une...

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Provisional: Emerging Modes of Architectural Practice USA מאת Elite Kedan Provisional profiles nine of the United States' most exciting architectural practices. They all share a pragmatic, 'roll-up-your-sleeves' approach that seeks opportunities to redefine the role of craft in architectural practice. Enlightening interviews together with a selection of drawings, diagrams...

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Sites of Impact: Meteorite Craters Around the World מאת Stan Gaz The Earth is pockmarked with the evidence of ancient collisions: huge craters blasted into its surface by thousands of pounds of meteorite fragments traveling at approximately 50,000 miles per hour. Ranging in age from those formed in this century to billion-year-old specimens, the Earth's meteorite...

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Lewis.Tsurumaki.Lewis: Opportunistic Architecture מאת Paul Lewis What if the constraints and limitations of architecture became the catalyst for design invention? The award-winning young architecture firm Lewis.Tsurumaki.Lewis calls their answers to this question 'opportunistic architecture.' It is a design philosophy that transforms the typically restrictive con...

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Studio and Cube: On The Relationship Between Where Art is Made and Where Art is Displayed (FORuM Project Publications) מאת Brian O'Doherty When does an artist's creation become art, and where? Does it occur in the solitary confines of an artist's studio or does it require the context of an art gallery's white cube? What is the relationship between these two culturally charged spaces? How does the site of art's presentation shape the me...

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Bio-Politics and the Emergence of Modern Architecture (FORuM Project Publications) מאת Sven-Olov Wallenstein Biopolitics and the Emergence of Modern Architecture concerns the dissolution of the classical paradigm of architecture as imitative form in the context of the French Enlightenment, and analyzes the emergence of a new logic of architecture based on a biopolitical process of subject formatio...

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Think/Make: Della Valle Bernheimer (New Voices in Architecture) מאת Andrew Bernheimer Architecture, the saying goes, is a verb. It's an ongoing process of creating. For Brooklyn-based architects Jared Della Valle and Andrew Bernheimer it is, more accurately, two verbs: think and make. Two words that, when fused in the work of Della Valle Bernheimer, energize and transform each other ...

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Plan of Chicago מאת Daniel Burnham This meticulous reprint of the Plan of Chicago reproduces all 142 plates from the original, 48 of which are in color. It also contains a color plate of the City Hall that was omitted from the 1909 edition. A new introduction by Kristen Schaffer details those parts of Burnham's draft that were...

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Animal Logic מאת Richard Barnes A buffalo stands horns to head with a man who is calmly vacuuming the snow-covered plains beneath its feet. A herd of plastic-wrapped zebras surrounds a giraffe, while a man on scaffolding above paints them a lovely trompe l'oeil sky. Photographer Richard Barnes has spent more than ten years documen...

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Ghostly Ruins: America's Forgotten Architecture מאת Harry Skrdla We've all seen them but might have been too scared to enter: the house on the hill with its boarded-up windows; the darkened factory on the outskirts of town; the old amusement park with its rickety skeleton of a rollercoaster. These are the ruins of America, filled with the echoes of the voices and...

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To Each His Home: Inspired Interiors as Unique as Their Owners מאת Bilyana Dimitrova Most of us would agree that, for better or worse, our houses speak for us. They are like a second face we present to the world. But when does a house become your home? It is the moment your house begins speaking to you—in an ongoing conversation propelled by the acquiring, arranging, and rearrangi...

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Dartmouth College: The Campus Guide מאת Scott Meacham The newest titles in the Princeton Architectural Press Campus Guide series take readers on authoritative tours of two prestigious colleges, Vassar and Dartmouth. Beautifully photographed in full color, the guides present architectural walks of these American college campuses distinguished for landma...

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At a Crossroads: Between a Rock and My Parents' Place מאת Kate T. Williamson After graduating from college and spending a magical year abroad writing our best-selling A Year in Japan, Kate T. Williamson felt ready for anything. But, like many a postgraduate, she needed some time to figure out just what that anything was. Her parents' house in Pennsylvania seemed lik...

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Suburban Transformations מאת Paul Lukez Smart Growth advocates, environmentalists, and New Urbanists have all tried in their own ways to spread the message of reforming current land use patterns. Their solutions are often criticized for being overly prescriptive, opposed to growth, or nostalgic. Suburban Transformations offers an a...

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Dot Dot Dot 16 מאת Stuart Bailey The journal whose very name promises more to come is back with a new issue certain to surprise and delight its dedicated legion of readers. Dot Dot Dotinvites a multidisciplinary group of contributors to write design pieces about the past, present, and future of visual culture. Far from you...

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Full Irish: New Architecture in Ireland מאת Sarah A. Lappin From Georgian cities to modernist masterpieces, architecture in Ireland has a long history of excellence. The last fifteen years, however, witnessed more social, economic, and cultural change than any previous period on the island, leaving a dramatic mark on the country's architecture. A new commitm...

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Maine Cottages: Fred L. Savage and the Architecture of Mount Desert John M. Bryan

Maine Cottages: Fred L. Savage and the Architecture of Mount Desert מאת John M. Bryan Mount Desert has been one of America's favorite tourist destinations for over 150 years. As early as the 1840s, the lush landscape of this island on the Maine coast attracted artists and writers, who soon made Mount Desert's beauty famous with their paintings and publications. The stream of tourists...

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79 Short Essays on Design מאת Michael Bierut Seventy-nine Short Essays on Design brings together the best of designer Michael Bierut's critical writing serious or humorous, flattering or biting, but always on the mark. Bierut is widely considered the finest observer on design writing today. Covering topics as diverse as Twyla Tharp and ...

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Bamboo Fences מאת Isao Yoshikawa Bamboo has emerged as the building material of choice for the twenty-first century. Designers in every field from architecture to aeronautics are discovering ever more innovative uses for the miracle plant. Five times stronger than concrete and flexible enough to be woven like silk, bamboo has for m...

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Pamphlet Architecture 28: Augmented Landscapes מאת Smout Allen In 1977 Steven Holl and William Stout created a grittier alternative to mainstream architectural publishing called Pamphlet Architecture. With Holl's Bridges, the landmark series was born, and for 30 years Pamphlet has served as soapbox and laboratory for such notable architects and theorists...

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Drosscape: Wasting Land in Urban America מאת Alan Berger Do you really know what is under that new house you just bought? How about what lies beneath the neighborhood playground? Was that 'big box' retailer down your street built atop a toxic site? Will the warehouse just beyond your backyard be converted into a shopping center, factory, or trucking hub? ...