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We know racism is entrenched in our systems and institutions, but what about our cities and public spaces?
In The Diaspora of Belonging, author Jay Sharma explores the history of systemic racism, structural oppression, and state-sanctioned discrimination and injustice as it relates to urban settings. Drawing on 12 unique cities across the country, Sharma demonstrates how calculated decisions regarding our cities are, and how those in power have...
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Mexican Interior Design Style is a perfect ebook that explains how you can decorate in Mexican interior and decorating style in a very easy way. The ebook on Mexican home interiors explains the key features of Mexican interiors. This ebook explains in detail, how Mexican art, architecture, color schemes, and textiles create a traditional Mexican ambiance. If you are planning to renovate or design the interior of your new home and are looking for inspiration,...
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En el libro se exploran los modos de vida de las y los residentes de tres barrios que son el resultado de formas específicas de producir ciudad en distintos momentos de la historia de Santiago de Chile: la Unidad Vecinal Portales, un proyecto moderno de vivienda colectiva para clases medias, El Castillo, barrio de sectores populares producto de las políticas de erradicación de campamentos en lugares centrales, y la Comunidad Ecológica de Peñalolén,...
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This magnificent display of all 166 plates from an extremely rare set of portfolios depicts scores of examples of the ironworker's art, among them beautiful gates, balustrades, balcony railings, window grilles, church screens, and lantern holders. A superb collection of royalty-free images for use by designers, architecture enthusiasts, and lovers of antiques.
2805) Vacant Spaces NY
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Vacant Spaces NY begins gathering the incomplete data available and documenting vacant spaces in New York City. Organized from large to small, general to specific, vacancy in the United States to case studies of specific vacancies in Manhattan, Michael Meredith, Hilary Sample, and their architecture studio MOS imagine possibilities for repurposing current vacant spaces in New York City.
This project began by walking around our neighborhood noticing...
2806) Calme Bloc
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Architects, authors, and photographers—different viewpoints on a dense and complex building in Paris's 20th arrondissement. Located just above the city's eight-lane ring road, this "calm block" was recently completed by Parisian architecture firms Chartier Dalix and Avenier Cornejo, which combines a kindergarten with 240 studio apartments for young workers—in a rapidly changing neighbourhood. The photographer Myr Muratet, who spent several weeks...
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Explore the beauty, tradition, and stylish renovation of rustic mountain homes across the Southern Appalachians in this gorgeously photographed book.
The cool, wooded mountains of the South are dotted with log cabins, each with its own rich history and aesthetic charm. In The Southern Rustic Cabin, photographer Emily Followill captures the rugged beauty and unique personality of thirteen mountain homes located across Tennessee, Georgia, North Carolina,...
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The author of Traditional American Rooms examines the evolution of home construction, making a case against mass-produced homes.
HISTORY®'s Lone Star Restoration star, Brent Hull is a master craftsman, and hands-on preservationist. Hull, a Foreword Reviews Book of the Year Finalist for architectural non-fiction, challenges us to consider the impact our decisions will have when building a house. What do our homes say about us? What stories are they...
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Light and architecture lie at the base of the iGuzzini Illuminazione strategy. During the day, a "natural" organic form creates high quality and highly ergonomic workplaces. At night, the building is, transformed by artificial light into a glowing landmark in the landscape, a gigantic lantern. The project is the result of profound technological research, that runs parallel to the buildings use: an R&D center for the development of technical knowledge...
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A popular history of the Riverdale area of Toronto, including Playter Estates north of the Danforth. In its first 50 years, the city of Toronto changed from a rough settlement to a booming city with a voracious appetite for land. The incorporated city of Toronto grew tenfold from 1834 to 1884 - partly through immigration, but also through the annexation of older communities. Among these were the former suburbs of Leslieville and Riverside, which were...
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With over 180 photos and extensive commentary, this Asian design book will add a stylish flair to all your bedroom design projects. Contemporary Asian Bedrooms opens the door to a new world of slumber retreats, showcasing some of the most eye-catching bedroom designs in luxury homes and hotels in Southeast Asia. Shown here are a range of new design trends that make contemporary bedrooms more than just a spot for shut-eye. Bedrooms now have an exciting...
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Discover the perfect combination of style, functionality, and durability with "Contemporary Kitchen Materials." This comprehensive ebook explores a wide range of materials that are at the forefront of modern kitchen design. From sleek stainless steel and glossy acrylic to eco-friendly cork and timeless wood, this guide covers it all.
Learn how to choose the right materials that suit your desired aesthetic and meet your practical needs. Explore the...
2813) Modern Asian Living
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Featuring hundreds of photographs, this Asian design book is a love note to the modern, stylish luxury homes and interior spaces of Asia. In recent years Asian design-in architecture, interiors and product design-has catapulted on to the global stage. Gone are the thatched villas and vernacular furniture of yesteryear. Replacing them are sleek, modern spaces, decked out with high quality furnishings and furniture, beautiful artworks and state-of the-art...
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The city is the point of departure and arrival for the "architectural experience." It is, therefore, a palpable, external fact as well as a product of the mind, an abstraction. This book attempts to recreate this trajectory and to describe this exchange between the mind and the world through the traces it has produced. Two separate moments lie at the heart of this book's very structure and shape: one when the city is the site of an experience and...
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Learn the art of Japanese gardening with this classic, fascinating text. The Sakuteiki, or "Records of Garden Making," was written nearly one thousand years ago. It is the oldest existing text on Japanese gardening-or any kind of gardening-in the world. In this edition of the Sakuteiki the authors provide an English-language translation of this classic work and an introduction to the cultural and historical context that led to the development of Japanese...
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With hundreds of photographs and a wealth of information Yin Yu Tang tells the history of a traditional Chinese house and the fascinating stories of its occupants. In the late Qing dynasty, around the year 1800, a prosperous Chinese merchant named Huang built a house for his family in a remote village southwest of Shanghai. He named the house Yin Yu Tang which means Hall of Abundant Shelter-implying his desire for the building to shelter many of his...
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Black Interior Designers, Inc. (BID) presents the extraordinary work of 50 interior designers and offers a behind-the-scenes look at what it means to be a person of color working in the design industry today.
In 2010, Black Interior Designers, Inc. (BID) began to unite, connect, and promote Black designers, bringing their projects into the spotlight.
In “Iconic Home: Interiors, Advice, and Stories from 50 Amazing Black Designers”, author Ashley...
2819) Easter Island
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In this book, early fluent readers will marvel at Easter Island while learning about its history, location, uses, and architecture. Vibrant, full-color photos and carefully leveled text will engage young readers as they learn more about the landmark's cultural history.
A Take a Look! infographic aids understanding, sidebars present interesting, supplementary information, and an At a Glance recap offers a map and quick stats on the landmark. Children...
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Dark Matters explores the city at night as a place and time within, which escape from the confines of the daytime is possible. More specifically, it is a state of being. There is a long history of night walking, often integral to shady worlds of miscreants, shift workers and transgressors. Yet the night offers much to be enjoyed beyond vice. Night by definition contrasts day, summoning notions of darkness and fear. But, another night exists out there....
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