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For centuries artists and designers have recorded places, people, and life in travel sketchbooks. Over a period of fifty years, Laurie Olin, one of America's most distinguished landscape architects, has recorded aspects of France: its cities and countryside, streets and cafes, ancient ruins, vineyards, and parks.

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Presents the last major work of Gilles Deleuze, translated into English.

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This portfolio explores nine current works of varying scale, program and complexity that establish Francis Cauffman's case for architecture founded on contemporary activities and their anticipated future evolution.

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While Frank Lloyd Wrights life and work have been extensively chronicled, this book reexamines the period between Wrights arrival in Chicago in 1887 and his move into the loft office in Steinway Hall in 1897.

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During his short lifetime, Franz Schubert (1797-1828) contributed to a wide variety of musical genres, from intimate songs and dances to ambitious chamber pieces, symphonies, and operas. The essays and translated documents in Franz Schubert and His World examine his compositions and ties to the Viennese cultural context, revealing surprising and ov

Breaks through barriers of restraint and incomprehension when faced with Shakespeare's text to achieve a freer, more visceral relationship to language. Included is an analysis of Shakespeare's use of language to create character, story and meaning through different uses of language.

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The National Gallery of Art houses one of the most important collections of French old master paintings outside France. This book catalogues nearly one hundred paintings of the collection, from works by Francois Clouet in the sixteenth century to paintings by Elisabeth Louise Vigee Le Brun in the eighteenth.

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As archaeologists unearth the past, they seek meaning or purpose for the objects they uncover by looking at the objects themselves and their archaeological context. Art historians, on the other hand, primarily focus on aesthetics, asking why a particular object stimulates our senses, and what that tells us about ourselves. From Ancient to Modern of

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This book examines how reading, writing and criticism can address the urgent issues faced by architecture as it is practiced, taught and studied today. The publication is drawn from an international public symposium organized in the spring of 2017 by the Department of Architecture at the University of Hong Kong.

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Interweaves biographical information about 5 renowned French artists - Nicolas Poussin, Antoine Watteau, Jean-Honore Fragonard, Jacques-Louis David, and Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. This book presents over 260 illustrations, and explores drawing as a site of reflection, the space between the idea of a painted image and its realization on canvas.

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From Fallow is a curated collection of 100 ideas for abandoned property. Through drawing and text each idea is elaborated and each entry serves both as documentation and speculation.

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Cinema has been undergoing a profound technological shift: celluloid film is being replaced by digital media. In From Light to Byte Markos Hadjioannou asks what is different in the way digital movies depict the world and engage with the individual and how we might best address the technological shift within media archaeologies.

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A fascinating and unprecedented look at how illumination and darkness shape our experiences across history and space

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A fascinating and unprecedented look at how illumination and darkness shape our experiences across history and space

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Fun Mill. The Architecture of Creative Industry in Contemporary China looks closely on transforming existing real estate by promoting creative clusters, starting with specific architectures that are examined using an open-minded approach.

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The book talks about the design and construction of the building 774 at CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research). Building 774 is unique both in terms of its architectural value and for its location. It is the gateway to CERN for the more than 100.000 people who visit the installations each year.

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Brimming with personality, the travel cats each have a story to tell and a journey to embark on.

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The future is not as far away as it might seem.