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Another Reason is a bold and innovative study of the intimate relationship between science, colonialism, and the modern nation. Gyan Prakash, one of the most influential historians of India writing today, explores in fresh and unexpected ways the complexities, contradictions, and profound importance of this relationship in the history of the subcontinent. He reveals how(...)
Another reason: science and the imagination of modern India
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Another Reason is a bold and innovative study of the intimate relationship between science, colonialism, and the modern nation. Gyan Prakash, one of the most influential historians of India writing today, explores in fresh and unexpected ways the complexities, contradictions, and profound importance of this relationship in the history of the subcontinent. He reveals how science served simultaneously as an instrument of empire and as a symbol of liberty, progress, and universal reason--and how, in playing these dramatically different roles, it was crucial to the emergence of the modern nation.
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August 1999
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The volume focuses on the development of numerous regional centers of art in Spain, North Africa, Egypt, Syria, Anatolia, Iraq, and Yemen, as well as the western and northeastern provinces of Iran. It traces the cultural and artistic evolution of such centers in the early Islamic period and examines the different ways of creating a beautiful environment. The book(...)
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October 2001, New Haven
Islamic art and architecture 650-1250
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The volume focuses on the development of numerous regional centers of art in Spain, North Africa, Egypt, Syria, Anatolia, Iraq, and Yemen, as well as the western and northeastern provinces of Iran. It traces the cultural and artistic evolution of such centers in the early Islamic period and examines the different ways of creating a beautiful environment. The book approaches the arts with new classifications of architecture and architectural decoration, the art of the object, and the art of the book.
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October 2001, New Haven
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L'architecture chinoise
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Ce livre présente à la fois au grand public et aux connaisseurs les plus importantes œuvres architecturales de la Chine, de l'ère néolithique jusqu'au début du XXe siècle, et les trésors de son incomparable culture. Il est né de la collaboration de savants et d'éditeurs chinois et occidentaux qui commentent et analysent pour nous cités, maisons, tombes, jardins, ponts,(...)
L'architecture chinoise
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Ce livre présente à la fois au grand public et aux connaisseurs les plus importantes œuvres architecturales de la Chine, de l'ère néolithique jusqu'au début du XXe siècle, et les trésors de son incomparable culture. Il est né de la collaboration de savants et d'éditeurs chinois et occidentaux qui commentent et analysent pour nous cités, maisons, tombes, jardins, ponts, temples et palais, en rattachant toujours leur évolution aux événements historiques, politiques et culturels qui les ont modelés.
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Himalayan vernacular
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For ten years, Austrian architect Carl Pruscha was stationed in Shangri-la, or as close as you can get to it. The UNESCO consultant for regional planning in Nepal from 1964 to 1974, he presided over the opening of Nepal, Bhutan, and Tibet to the rest of the world, and in this passionate Pruscha manifesto, illustrated with his own photographs, argues for preservation of(...)
Himalayan vernacular
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For ten years, Austrian architect Carl Pruscha was stationed in Shangri-la, or as close as you can get to it. The UNESCO consultant for regional planning in Nepal from 1964 to 1974, he presided over the opening of Nepal, Bhutan, and Tibet to the rest of the world, and in this passionate Pruscha manifesto, illustrated with his own photographs, argues for preservation of vernacular architecture.
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Orientalisme
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L'orientalisme, dont le voyage est l'atelier, se définit d'abord par l'exploration de territoires inscrits, pour l'essentiel, dans les limites de l'Empire ottoman. De Delacroix à Paul Klee, en privilégiant l'expression française, cet ouvrage retrace les étapes d'un mouvement artistique multiforme dont on reconnaît de plus en plus l'importance. "Le monde est moins réel que(...)
Orientalisme
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L'orientalisme, dont le voyage est l'atelier, se définit d'abord par l'exploration de territoires inscrits, pour l'essentiel, dans les limites de l'Empire ottoman. De Delacroix à Paul Klee, en privilégiant l'expression française, cet ouvrage retrace les étapes d'un mouvement artistique multiforme dont on reconnaît de plus en plus l'importance. "Le monde est moins réel que ce qui active notre vie intérieure", écrit dans La Voie cruelle Ella Maillart, l'une des grandes voyageuses du XXe siècle. Cette rencontre entre l'intime et l'étranger, entre l'autre et le même, définit la pratique itinérante et s'applique aussi à l'orientalisme. Loin d'être seulement le fruit d'une lecture de cartes ou des fluctuations de tendances, ces œuvres sont au croisement de territoires objectifs et d'imaginaires sculptés par un milieu. Les confrontations entre l'ici et l'ailleurs suscitent, au travers de filtres culturels, des regards propres aux artistes d'Occident, qui sollicitent aujourd'hui nos interprétations.
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Chantée par les sagas de la colonisation, mise en scène par Hollywood, pôle d'attraction pour les Européens et les Marocains, Casablanca est d'abord une collection exceptionnelle d'espaces urbains, de maisons, de jardins. Les auteurs retracent de 1900 à 1960 la renaissance d'un port presque oublié et sa métamorphose en métropole tumultueuse, façonnée par toutes les(...)
Casablanca: mythes et figures d'une aventure urbaine, nouvelle édition
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Chantée par les sagas de la colonisation, mise en scène par Hollywood, pôle d'attraction pour les Européens et les Marocains, Casablanca est d'abord une collection exceptionnelle d'espaces urbains, de maisons, de jardins. Les auteurs retracent de 1900 à 1960 la renaissance d'un port presque oublié et sa métamorphose en métropole tumultueuse, façonnée par toutes les cultures méditerranéennes. Les bâtiments significatifs de cette ville métisse sont analysés à partir des archives françaises et marocaines et présentés par des centaines de photographies inédites. Revivent ainsi les clients, les habitants et les architectes inventifs formant la trame humaine d'une scène incomprise mais essentielle de la modernité. Traduit en anglais en 2002, Casablanca a eu un impact incontestable sur les politiques patrimoniales marocaines. Des compléments et des précisions sont apportées à l'édition de 1998.
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Nearly half a century after its inception, the city of Brasilia, designed by Lucio Costa and Oscar Niemeyer, and based on Le Corbusier's plans, continues to be one of the world's most widely debated architectural projects. Envisioned as an egalitarian, harmonically conceived environment, the city was designed to foster collectivity and integration. Central to this effort(...)
Case : Brasilia's Superquadra
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Nearly half a century after its inception, the city of Brasilia, designed by Lucio Costa and Oscar Niemeyer, and based on Le Corbusier's plans, continues to be one of the world's most widely debated architectural projects. Envisioned as an egalitarian, harmonically conceived environment, the city was designed to foster collectivity and integration. Central to this effort was the idea of the "Superquadra," large neighbourhoods, each with their own schools, shopping, and entertainment complexes. The latest volume in the CASE series, published in collaboration with Harvard University's Graduate School of Design, takes a new look at the Superquadra as a utopian concept, analyzing both its strengths and weaknesses. It features a rare interview with planner Lucio Costa as well as essays exploring the historical and cultural contexts of Brasilia, day-to-day life in the city, and its technical complexities and realities.
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February 2005, Munich
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Maisons et riads du Maroc
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Le Maroc dispose d'un riche patrimoine architectural. Des palais de Fès aux riads de Marrakech, ce livre chemine à travers les demeures les plus insolites du pays. Photographies de Cécile Tréal et Jean-Michel Ruiz.
Maisons et riads du Maroc
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Le Maroc dispose d'un riche patrimoine architectural. Des palais de Fès aux riads de Marrakech, ce livre chemine à travers les demeures les plus insolites du pays. Photographies de Cécile Tréal et Jean-Michel Ruiz.
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October 2004, Genève
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For more than a thousand years, the burial site known as the Wu Family Shrines in the Shandong province of northeastern China has served as a benchmark for the study of the Han Dynasty (206 BCE - 220 CE) - a defining period in Chinese history. This book presents scolarships that prompts significant reexamination of the site's long-accepted implications, including its(...)
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May 2005, New Haven, New York
Recarving China's past : art, archeology, and architecture of the
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For more than a thousand years, the burial site known as the Wu Family Shrines in the Shandong province of northeastern China has served as a benchmark for the study of the Han Dynasty (206 BCE - 220 CE) - a defining period in Chinese history. This book presents scolarships that prompts significant reexamination of the site's long-accepted implications, including its attribution to the Wu family.
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Brazil's Modern Architecture
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Brazil's architecture is strikingly distinct from Latin America as a whole and diverse in itself. Yet coverage of the architecture of twentieth-century Brazil is all too often confined to the work of one man (Oscar Niemeyer) or the buildings of two cities (Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo). In Brazil's Modern Architecture, a new generation of Brazilian cities and historians(...)
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October 2007, London, New York
Brazil's Modern Architecture
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Brazil's architecture is strikingly distinct from Latin America as a whole and diverse in itself. Yet coverage of the architecture of twentieth-century Brazil is all too often confined to the work of one man (Oscar Niemeyer) or the buildings of two cities (Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo). In Brazil's Modern Architecture, a new generation of Brazilian cities and historians sets the record straight, providing a truly comprehensive survey and analysis of twentieth-century Brazilian architecture.
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