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Kimono traces the transformation of the Japanese garment from everyday attire to National symbol, exploring the historic and contemporary use of this enduring cultural legacy.

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The book presents the source material for the ideas behind the projects, the projects themselves and the essays about the work together in order to better understand the interest and developing idea behind an architecture which resists genre categorization, appreciates sloppiness and makes room for intuition and less formal precedent.

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A selection of 100 works from the Shen Zhai Collection demonstrates the range and quality of Japanese ceramics in Chinese style. Detailed descriptions, makers' marks, and box inscriptions make this a valuable reference resource.

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Photographs of Saudi Arabia in the midst of a grand transformation from a tribal desert culture to an influential world power.

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Numerous color illustrations showcase this group of works by Doerthe Fuchs in all its beauty. A cocoon is a casing that contains something unknown. Be enchanted by the jewelry created by this artist.

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The first monograph of the Norwegian jewellery artist Konrad Mehus, who translates daily social and political themes into impressive narrative jewellery objects in an ironic and subtle way.

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First monograph on one of the leading lights of the contemporary Iranian art movement, showcasing his various artistic phases and outlining his progressive approach to art-making and distribution.

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The work of the English artist Hamish Fulton (b in London in 1946) uncontestedly occupies a unique position among the artistic stances taken in the 20th and early 21st centuries. Fulton is a 'walking artist', one whose central theme is nature and nature as humans experience it. This book charts the work of British 'walking' artist Hamish Fulton.

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From Korean artists' first encounters with oil paintings in the late nineteenth century to the varied and vibrant creative outputs of the 2000s, this new account covers a critical and, from a cultural perspective, a revolutionary time, signified by the breakdown of earlier artistic conventions and the rise of new art forms.

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The Kyiv Architectural Guide presents over 100 buildings worth seeing from 100 years of the citys history, compiled by Ukrainian architectural historian Semen Shyrochyn.

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The LA Forum Reader brings together three decades of discursive writings and publications on architecture, urbanism, and Los Angeles culled from the archives of the Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design.

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LA+ COMMUNITY aims to explore how, over time, each of us moves in and out of multiple communities, shaping them as they shape us, and in turn shaping our landscapes and cities.

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Issue 14 of LA+ Journal brings you the results of the LA+ CREATURE international design ideas competition, which explored how we can use design to achieve a more symbiotic existence with other creatures.

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In LA+ DESIGN we move beyond the designed outcome to explore the myths, methods, meanings, and futures of design.

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GEO - Earth - is a word that simultaneously signifies something vast and elemental. It refers to both the planet on which we live and the soil that sustains us.

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LA+ Green explores the green spectrum from plants to politics and from art to science. Includes an interview with Noam Chomsky.

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Issue 10 of LA+ Journal brings you the results of the LA+ Iconoclast open design ideas competition, in which we asked designers to reimagine New York's Central Park, fictionally devastated by eco-terrorists protesting the loss of the world's forests.

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Addresses the age-old question of spatial identity, but in a novel way. This multidisciplinary text contains insights from diverse fields that will broaden the understanding of a complex topic.

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As well as showcasing the award-winning designs and a comprehensive Salon des Refuss, LA+ INTERRUPTION features interviews with jurors Fiona Raby, Martin Rein-Cano, Mark Raggatt, Rania Ghosn, and Jason Zhisen Ho, and an essay by Katya Crawford, coauthor of the The Design Competition in Landscape Architecture (forthcoming).