[DOC] Designing Rainwater Harvesting Systems: Integrating Rainwater into Building Systems by Celeste Allen Novak; Eddie Van Giesen; Kathy M. DeBusk in Arts-Photography

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As any historian or casual observer of urban transformation might tell you; walls are not everlasting. The following collection examines different ways monuments and notions of monumentality in art and architecture exist in relation to this reality. From Esther Yis chronicle of the uncertain fate of a section of the Berlin Wall known as the East Side Gallery; to Michael Z. Wises essay on the Casa Malaparte in Capri; the articles collected in this months LARB Digital Edition examine the powerful sway of the monumental on our common sense. Also in this issue; Victoria Dailey covers land artist Michael Heizers LACMA installation; Levitated Mass; Evan Selinger reviews Bianca Boskers in-depth look at the phenomena of “duplitecture;rdquo; Original Copies: Architectural Mimicry in Contemporary China; Victoria Bugge Oye reviews the first ever monograph on the acclaimed Postmodern architects Diller; Scofidio; and Renfro; and we look back on architect Joe Days own monumental undertaking with the Gettys Pacific Standard Time Presents: Modern Architecture in L.A.