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Modern Architecture of Curaçao
The DoCoMoMo Movement, 1930-1960
Modernism is an important architectural style in which technological innovations are used for social purposes. The Curaçao chapter of the nonprofit organization DoCoMoMo (Documentation and Conservation of the Modern Movement), dedicated to documenting and conserving...
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Seattle’s Olympic Sculpture Park
A Place for Art, Environment, and an Open Mind
How a public-private partnership created an iconic Pacific Northwest park
The Seattle Art Museum’s Olympic Sculpture Park, where Alexander Calder’s The Eagle soars over Puget Sound, Roxy Paine’s stainless-steel Split glistens in the rain, and Richard...
ISBN: 9780932216809
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Common Ground
Dutch-South African Architectural Exchanges, 1902–1961
The richness and diversity of Dutch contributions to the built environment of South Africa remain little-known in the study of twentieth-century architectural history. Between 1902 and 1961 more than seventy Dutch-born émigré architects were active...
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Opening Kailasanatha
The Temple in Kanchipuram Revealed in Time and Space
The footsteps and sensory experience of devotees linger in an Indian temple
Stone figures hardened by ascetic discipline and heroic effort face north in deep shadow. There they meet the gazes of the same gods and...
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Landmarks from a Bygone Era
Life and Work of Ed. Cuypers and Hulswit-Fermont, 1897-1927
Eduard Cuypers (1859–1927) was one of the most celebrated architects in the Netherlands in the 1890s. Known for much of the development of the time throughout Indonesia, yet working from Amsterdam, Cuypers and his firm...
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Architecture from the Indonesian Past
Life and Work of Fermont-Cuypers, 1927-1957
In Architecture from the Indonesian Past, Obbe H. Norbruis tells the story of a celebrated Dutch architecture firm, its unique buildings, and their designers. Fermont-Cuypers designed many buildings significant in Indonesia’s history beginning in 1927...
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Building Reuse
Sustainability, Preservation, and the Value of Design
How to reimagine existing buildings to create a more sustainable future
The construction and operation of buildings is responsible for 41 percent of all primary energy use and 48 percent of all carbon emissions, and the...
ISBN: 9780295748078
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What the Emperor Built
Architecture and Empire in the Early Ming
Winner of the 2023 Bei Shan Tang Monograph Prize, sponsored by the Association for Asian Studies
How imperial ideology is given shape in built space
One of the most famous rulers in Chinese history, the Yongle emperor...
ISBN: 9780295746883
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Plantation Houses of Curaçao
Jewels of the Past
Curaçao’s historic plantation houses showcase unique architecture that resulted from the use of European, especially Dutch, building styles adapted to local tropical construction methods and available building materials. With the arrival of the oil industry...
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Protecting Asia’s Heritage
Yesterday and Tomorrow
Asian activists, organizers, critics, teachers, artists, and entrepreneurs have become passionately involved in protecting Asia’s heritage. In this book, twelve principal authors from eleven of the region’s countries present their experience of what has been...
ISBN: 9786162151569
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Ng’ambo Atlas
Zanzibar
Ng’ambo is the lesser known "other side” of Zanzibar Town. During the British Protectorate the area was designated as the Native Quarters; today it is set to become the new city center of Zanzibar’s capital....
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Where Dragon Veins Meet
The Kangxi Emperor and His Estate at Rehe
Winner of the 2023 On the Brinck Book Award, presented by the University of New Mexico School of Architecture + Planning
An auspicious political landscape, represented in image and text
In 1702, the second emperor of the...
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China Gothic
The Bishop of Beijing and His Cathedral
As China struggled to redefine itself at the turn of the twentieth century, nationalism, religion, and material culture intertwined in revealing ways. This phenomenon is evident in the twin biographies of North China’s leading Catholic...
ISBN: 9780295746678
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Olmsted in Seattle
Creating a Park System for a Modern City
In the midst of galloping growth at the turn of the twentieth century, Seattle’s city leaders seized on the confluence of a roaring economy with the City Beautiful movement to hire the Olmsted Brothers landscape...
ISBN: 9781933245560
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The Landscape Architecture of Richard Haag
From Modern Space to Urban Ecological Design
Richard Haag is best known for his rehabilitation of Gas Works Park in Seattle and for a series of remarkable gardens at the Bloedel Reserve on Bainbridge Island. He reshaped the field of landscape architecture...
ISBN: 9780295746463
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Shaping Seattle Architecture
A Historical Guide to the Architects, Second Edition
The first edition of Shaping Seattle Architecture, published in 1994, introduced readers to Seattle’s architects by showcasing the work of those who were instrumental in creating the region’s built environment. Twenty years later, the second...
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Stories in Stone
Travels through Urban Geology
Most people do not think to observe geology from the sidewalks of a major city, but all David B. Williams has to do is look at building stone in any urban center to find a...
ISBN: 9780295746456
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Gordon Walker
A Poetic Architecture
Gordon Walker’s (b. 1939) highly unusual design process has yielded an extensive architecture of extraordinary quality; he is a unique figure in the American architectural movement and in the history of the Pacific Northwest. This...
ISBN: 9781732821408
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Improvised City
Architecture and Governance in Shanghai, 1843-1937
For nearly one hundred years, Shanghai was an international treaty port in which the extraterritorial rights of foreign governments shaped both architecture and infrastructure, and it merits examination as one of the most complex and...
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Kas di Shon
Plantation Houses on Curacao: Past and Present
Driving through Curacao’s landscapes, the old plantation houses are visible from afar. The houses speak to us of a past long gone. A past in which plantations, homegrown food, cattle breeding, salt production, and slavery...
ISBN: 9789460224669
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