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Highly protected landscapes, both natural and composed, form the backdrop to historic seats of political power and wealth, whilst sites of intense modern productivity are neatly concealed behind natural veils.   Manor Lessons: Commons Revisited, the concluding volume of laba’s Teaching and Research in Architecture series, explores the lessons that can be learned from the compound history of the Manorial System, whose forgotten feudalistic origins were once rooted in the idea of the land, not as private property but as common ground.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49739296997649,"sku":"NGR9783038601968","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52335227371793,"sku":"NLS9783038601968","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/3038601969.jpg?v=1751158273"},{"product_id":"israel-lessons-book-harry-gugger-9783038600879","title":"Israel Lessons","description":"An urbanist research project on concepts of social space rooted in land domestication and landscape idolatry; and an exploration of the role agriculture played in modern Israel's urbanisation processes, creation of a national narrative, and changes in local climate.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52346873938193,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52346874495249,"sku":"NLS9783038600879","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9783038600879.jpg?v=1772705637"},{"product_id":"portugal-lessons-book-harry-gugger-9783038601098","title":"Portugal Lessons","description":"Architectural objects confront their environment. 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Fez Lessons: Industrious Habitat  looks at Fez, Morocco's famous former capital and today its  second-largest city. Based on a recent research program conducted by  EPFL's Laboratory Basel (laba), it investigates how these clashes have  marked the city's socioeconomic structure and urban fabric, and whether  or not it offers alternative and relevant means of human association and  community.   Given the growing stream of large-scale international  investment, the constant enticement of tourism, and a worldwide revival  of nationalism, Laba's student's and researchers were looking for tiny  cues, nagging doubts, and signs of the fusion between form and life,  raising questions about identity, authenticity, tradition, the  globalisation of culture, and the use of local resources. Their findings  are visualised in the book in striking images, graphics and maps.  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