Design with Life
Design with Life

Author: Mitchell Joachim

Publisher: Actar D, Inc.

Published: 2021-06-21

Total Pages: 440

ISBN-13: 1638409617

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Design with Life chronicles the breakthroughs and projects of a nonprofit that is defining resolute new directions in socio-ecological design and other deep-seated intersections of synthetic biology, architecture, and urban systems. In the challenging context of accelerating climate dynamics, the core discipline of architectural design is evolving and embracing new forms of action. New York-based nonprofit Terreform ONE has established a distinctive design tactic that investigates projects through the regenerative use of natural materials, science, and the emergent field of socio-ecological design. This kind of design approach uses actual living matter (not abstracted imitations of nature) to create new functional elements and spaces. These future-based actions are not only grounded in social justice, but are also far-reaching in their application of digital manufacturing and maker culture. Terreform ONE tackles urgent environmental and urban social concerns through the integrated use of living materials and organisms.

Imminent Commons Compendium
Imminent Commons Compendium

Author: Hyungmin Pai

Publisher: Actar

Published: 2019-04-30

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781948765282

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This compendium assembles 4 volumes that explore city commons through the works presented at the Seoul Biennale 2017. The first book shows an exploration not of distant utopias, but of the very near future, because the emerging commons is changing the way we connect, make, move, recycle, sense, and share, and the way we manage air, water, energy and the earth. The second book presents contemporary urbanism thoughts on nine imminent commons, which engage collective ecological and technological resources relevant to all cities and even extra-urban territories. The third book sets up a dialogue on the current state and near future of cities of the world through the lens of public initiatives, projects, and urban narratives. The fourth book highlights Seoul's complex urban fabric as a theatre on which the Seoul Biennale was played out. 4 books for the price of 3: Imminent Commons: The Expanded City Imminent Commons: Urban Questions for the Near Future Imminent Commons: Commoning Cities Imminent Commons: Live from Seoul

Pigment Compendium
Pigment Compendium

Author: Nicholas Eastaugh

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 963

ISBN-13: 0750689803

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Bringing together for the first time the two original Pigment Compendium volumes, the collection forms an essential guide for identification of historical pigment compounds, and details pigment names and synonyms.

Compendium of the Impending Crisis of the South
Compendium of the Impending Crisis of the South

Author: Hinton Rowan Helper

Publisher: Gale Cengage Learning

Published: 1860

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13:

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This book condemns slavery, by appealed to whites' rational self-interest, rather than any altruism towards blacks. Helper claimed that slavery hurt the Southern economy by preventing economic development and industrialization, and that it was the main reason why the South had progressed so much less than the North since the late 18th century.

Pigment Compendium: A Dictionary of Historical Pigments
Pigment Compendium: A Dictionary of Historical Pigments

Author: Nicholas Eastaugh

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2007-03-30

Total Pages: 508

ISBN-13: 1136373861

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The Pigment Compendium Dictionary is a comprehensive information source for scientists, art historians, conservators and forensic specialists. Drawn together from extensive analystical research into the physical and chemical properties of pigments, this essential reference to pigment names and synonyms describes the inter-relationship of different names and terms. The Dictionary covers the field worldwide from pre-history to the present day, from rock art to interior decoration, from ethnography to contemporary art. Drawing on hundreds of hard-to-obtain documentary sources as well as modern scientific data each term is discussed in detail, giving both its context and composition.