Play! Indoor & Outdoor
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The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things Plato. Nowhere is creativity of function so prevalent as in the world of children, and Play! Indoor & Outdoor is a look at the field of design and architecture tail.
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Play! Indoor & Outdoor
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The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things Plato. Nowhere is creativity of function so prevalent as in the world of children, and Play! Indoor & Outdoor is a look at the field of design and architecture tail.
Great public squares
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Here, analysed and drawn at a common scale for easy comparison, are forty outstanding urban spaces of the Western world. Robert Gatje explores the storied piazzas of Rome, Venice and Florence, the elegant places of Paris, via less familiar gathering places in Germany, the Czech Republic, Spain and Portugal. From the former marketplaces and graceful Georgian squares of the(...)
Great public squares
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Here, analysed and drawn at a common scale for easy comparison, are forty outstanding urban spaces of the Western world. Robert Gatje explores the storied piazzas of Rome, Venice and Florence, the elegant places of Paris, via less familiar gathering places in Germany, the Czech Republic, Spain and Portugal. From the former marketplaces and graceful Georgian squares of the United Kingdom to the most interesting and impressive squares of the New World-Santa Fe, Portland, Boston and New York-Gatje offers new insights, computer-generated plans and colour photographs to convey the spatial experience.
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Au fil de ses voyages, P. Butcher, collectionneur et marchand d'art, a photographié les murs peints en Haïti, oeuvres naïves et accomplies, assorties de slogans et d'inscriptions, débordant de couleurs, mêlant symboles religieux, souvenirs de l'esclavage, éléments de la vie quotidienne et de la fête, et témoignages des événements de 1986 à 1994. Une culture disparue dans(...)
Urban vodou: politique et art de la rue en Haïti
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Au fil de ses voyages, P. Butcher, collectionneur et marchand d'art, a photographié les murs peints en Haïti, oeuvres naïves et accomplies, assorties de slogans et d'inscriptions, débordant de couleurs, mêlant symboles religieux, souvenirs de l'esclavage, éléments de la vie quotidienne et de la fête, et témoignages des événements de 1986 à 1994. Une culture disparue dans le séisme de janvier 2010.
Public Space
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In the summer of 2017, a collectively-built mountain, the Mont Réel, emerged in Montréal, providing a gathering and performance place for the surrounding communities and an in-situ laboratory to experiment with urban (bio)diversity. It was conceived and constructed by Constructlab with many friends, colleagues and participants during the "ateliers collaboratives"(...)
How to build a mountain / Comment construire une montagne
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In the summer of 2017, a collectively-built mountain, the Mont Réel, emerged in Montréal, providing a gathering and performance place for the surrounding communities and an in-situ laboratory to experiment with urban (bio)diversity. It was conceived and constructed by Constructlab with many friends, colleagues and participants during the "ateliers collaboratives" workshop. It was supported by the Goethe-Institut Montreal in partnership with the Consulate général de France à Québec and the Université de Montréal.
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Banksy : myths & legends
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"The thruth, the whole thruth and everything but the thruth."
Banksy : myths & legends
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"The thruth, the whole thruth and everything but the thruth."
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July 2012
Public Space
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Going Public showcases the creative revival of public space in our urban and rural landscapes. The book’s selection of formal and informal interventions, reclamations, and architecture illustrates the current scope and interest in refashioning and repurposing our built environment for public use. The objectives of the featured examples are as diverse as the projects(...)
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Going public : public architecture, urbanism and interventions
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Going Public showcases the creative revival of public space in our urban and rural landscapes. The book’s selection of formal and informal interventions, reclamations, and architecture illustrates the current scope and interest in refashioning and repurposing our built environment for public use. The objectives of the featured examples are as diverse as the projects themselves and range from inspiring communication and community experience to devising new means of gathering in and connecting to nature. Ranging from bold to subtle and from temporary to permanent, the architecture and urban design featured in Going Public offers inspiring and surprising interpretations of our public surroundings and natural landscapes.
Beauty in decay II
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Overgrown industrial complexes, disused asylums, abandoned palaces and monasteries feature in this latest incendiary book from Carpet Bombing Culture. Author RomanyWG has again tirelessly tracked down dozens of new locations to amaze viewers of Beauty in Decay II, a further peek behind the Urbex curtain. Urban explorers find the beauty layers of history, multi-hued(...)
Beauty in decay II
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Overgrown industrial complexes, disused asylums, abandoned palaces and monasteries feature in this latest incendiary book from Carpet Bombing Culture. Author RomanyWG has again tirelessly tracked down dozens of new locations to amaze viewers of Beauty in Decay II, a further peek behind the Urbex curtain. Urban explorers find the beauty layers of history, multi-hued peeling paint, antique objects, ancient initials in the dust and the other physical manifestations of memory that abandoned, impermanent urban spaces manifest. Beauty in Decay II features RomanyWGs selection of panoramic photographs from Urbex explorers the world over.
Public Space
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Art and the City explores the condition of public art in cities. Divided into two volumes shrinkwrapped together - one of color plates, the other of critical discussion - it includes works by artists such as Doug Aitken, Ai Weiwei, Los Carpinteros, Martin Creed, Frank Stella and Oscar Tuazon.
Art and the city : a public art project
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Art and the City explores the condition of public art in cities. Divided into two volumes shrinkwrapped together - one of color plates, the other of critical discussion - it includes works by artists such as Doug Aitken, Ai Weiwei, Los Carpinteros, Martin Creed, Frank Stella and Oscar Tuazon.
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The question of composition and spatial qualities arises in every urban design concept or intervention in the spatial structure of urban public squares. How are the essential elements involved: dimension, proportion, alignment, cohesion, accesses, shaping of focus point and of edges like surfaces and materials? How do they contribute to a character of urban space with(...)
Squares: urban spaces in Europe
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The question of composition and spatial qualities arises in every urban design concept or intervention in the spatial structure of urban public squares. How are the essential elements involved: dimension, proportion, alignment, cohesion, accesses, shaping of focus point and of edges like surfaces and materials? How do they contribute to a character of urban space with which residents can identify? Comparing historical examples with current designs aids one in visualizing spatial effect. Similar to a floor planmanualfor buildings,Squares allows the user to evaluate spatial conditions for movement and rest based on comparable existing urban squares.
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November 2014
Public Space
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An illustrated chronicle of projects organized by the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University in collaboration with Elastic City, this volume contains interviews with Todd Shalom and Hayal Pozanti, who assemble new shapes from Manhattan's West Village streetscape; Greta Hansen, Kyung Jae Kim, and Adam Koogler, who host spontaneous(...)
Group efforts: changing public space
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An illustrated chronicle of projects organized by the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University in collaboration with Elastic City, this volume contains interviews with Todd Shalom and Hayal Pozanti, who assemble new shapes from Manhattan's West Village streetscape; Greta Hansen, Kyung Jae Kim, and Adam Koogler, who host spontaneous political forums in a pavilion built with plastic and blown air; and Karen Finley, who détourns Columbus Circle into an urban-scale mandala of resistance, reparation, and discovery.
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