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  • Late Modernism and Other Latenesses: Architecture, Materials, and Media After Time by Grimley, Chris
    Chris Grimley

    Late Modernism and Other Latenesses: Architecture, Materials, and Media After Time

    Reflects on the modern impulse for rushed production, expansion, and consumption. Hurry up, we're late: The early decades of the twenty-first century have demonstrated that we are already behind. Concepts like Moore's Law, accelerationism, hyperloop, and rapid news cycles push the notion that speed...
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  • Architecture as Built Criticism: Proceeds of the International Conference on Architectural Criticism 2023 by Li, Xiangning
    Xiangning Li

    Architecture as Built Criticism: Proceeds of the International Conference on Architectural Criticism 2023

    Explores architecture's capacity to express cultural criticism. Can architects express explicit criticism through their buildings? Is modernist housing, for example, a collective criticism of unsustainable living conditions? Can a state's embassy convey critical messages to the home and host country? The essays collected in...
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  • The Architectural Casino: Conversations about Modernism in Haifa by Weizman, Ines
    Ines Weizman

    The Architectural Casino: Conversations about Modernism in Haifa

    The edition offers a new approach to what Weizman names "documentary architecture," meaning that to write about the history of a building is also to map the world in which it is located. After the First World War and under the British Mandate, Haifa...
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  • The House Is (Not) a Prison: On the Queerness of Architecture by Ripley, Colin
    Colin Ripley

    The House Is (Not) a Prison: On the Queerness of Architecture

    Explores the relationship between architecture and queerness in modernity. Where is sexuality, especially queer sexuality, in architecture? The House Is (Not) a Prison approaches this question from a radically new position, looking not for a theory of queer architecture, but rather for a queer...
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  • Space Syntax: Selected Papers by Bill Hillier by Vaughan, Laura
    Laura Vaughan

    Space Syntax: Selected Papers by Bill Hillier

    Discover the visionary ideas that redefined architecture and urbanism--Bill Hillier's most influential writings on space syntax, all in one critical volume. Few scholars have reshaped our understanding of architecture and urban design as profoundly as Bill Hillier. Space Syntax compiles the most influential works...
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  • Space Syntax: Selected Papers by Bill Hillier by Vaughan, Laura
    Laura Vaughan

    Space Syntax: Selected Papers by Bill Hillier

    Discover the visionary ideas that redefined architecture and urbanism--Bill Hillier's most influential writings on space syntax, all in one critical volume. Few scholars have reshaped our understanding of architecture and urban design as profoundly as Bill Hillier. Space Syntax compiles the most influential works...
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  • Theories and Practices of Architectural Representation by Christenson, Mike
    Mike Christenson

    Theories and Practices of Architectural Representation

    Theories and Practices of Architectural Representation focuses on the study of architectural knowledge approached through the lens of representation: the making of things-about-buildings. Architectural knowledge systems continue to shift away from traditional means, such as books and photographs, into modes dominated by digital technologies....
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  • The Nature of Order, Book Three: A Vision of a Living World: An Essay on the Art of Building and the Nature of the Universe by Alexander, Christopher
    Christopher Alexander

    The Nature of Order, Book Three: A Vision of a Living World: An Essay on the Art of Building and the Nature of the Universe

    Christopher Alexander's series of ground-breaking books including A Pattern Language and The Timeless Way of Building have pointed to fundamental truths of the way we build, revealing what gives life and beauty and true functionality to our buildings and towns. Now, in The Nature...
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  • The Luminous Ground by Alexander, Christopher
    Christopher Alexander

    The Luminous Ground

    Christopher Alexander's series of ground-breaking books including A Pattern Language and The Timeless Way of Building have pointed to fundamental truths of the way we build, revealing what gives life and beauty and true functionality to our buildings and towns. Now, in The Nature...
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  • Arthurian Legends' Literary Legacies: Tracing King Arthur's Enduring Presence Through Narrative, Art and Architecture by Hartfield
    Hartfield

    Arthurian Legends' Literary Legacies: Tracing King Arthur's Enduring Presence Through Narrative, Art and Architecture

    Embark on a captivating journey through the mists of time and legend with Arthurian Legends' Literary Legacies: Tracing King Arthur's Enduring Presence Through Narrative, Art and Architecture. This comprehensive volume invites you to delve into the rich tapestry of the Arthurian mythos, exploring its...
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  • Stadium's Story: Architecting Sport's Arenas and Infrastructure by Langley, Jona
    Jona Langley

    Stadium's Story: Architecting Sport's Arenas and Infrastructure

    Step onto the architectural playing field with "Stadium's Story: Architecting Sport's Arenas and Infrastructure," a captivating exploration of the evolution, design, and future of the iconic structures that host the world's most thrilling sporting events. From the humble beginnings of ancient arenas to the...
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  • Shopping Towns Europe: Commercial Collectivity and the Architecture of the Shopping Centre, 1945-1975 by Gosseye, Janina
    Janina Gosseye

    Shopping Towns Europe: Commercial Collectivity and the Architecture of the Shopping Centre, 1945-1975

    Shopping Towns Europe is the first book to explore the introduction and dissemination of the shopping centre in Europe. European shopping centres are often assumed to be no more than carbon copies of their American precursors - however the wide-ranging case studies featured in...
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  • Architecture Tours L.A. Guidebook: Pasadena by Massino Smith, Laura
    Laura Massino Smith

    Architecture Tours L.A. Guidebook: Pasadena

    Here is THE way to see Los Angeles's rich architectural heritage! L.A. is a "driving" city, best seen from the car. Tour guide, author, and architectural historian Laura Massino Smith directs you on an unforgettable ride to uncover the city's exciting cultural past. You...
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  • The New Design Museum: Co-Creating the Present, Prototyping the Future by Leanza, Beatrice
    Beatrice Leanza

    The New Design Museum: Co-Creating the Present, Prototyping the Future

    Explores how design and architecture museums have adapted to face contemporary concerns. The New Design Museum brings together theories and voices from leading international institutions and independent initiatives addressing the transformed--and continually transforming--nature of design in the twenty-first century and its planetary scope in...
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  • Architectural Theory. Pioneering Texts on Architecture from the Renaissance to Today by Evers, Bernd
    Bernd Evers

    Architectural Theory. Pioneering Texts on Architecture from the Renaissance to Today

    If you've ever wondered what goes through architects' minds when they design buildings, you'll be happy to know that there's no shortage of brilliant reading material to satisfy your curiosity. Wading through the archives at your local library may prove fruitful to your endeavor,...
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  • Structural Inequality: Black Architects in the United States by Kaplan, Victoria
    Victoria Kaplan

    Structural Inequality: Black Architects in the United States

    In Structural Inequality Victoria Kaplan relates the stories of twenty black architects from around the United States to examine the sociological context of architectural practice. Through these experiences, research, and observation, she explores the role systemic racism plays in an occupation commonly referred to...
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  • Tent Poles in the Ground by Bates, Stephen
    Stephen Bates

    Tent Poles in the Ground

    "Tent poles in the ground" is a collection of 21 texts by the famous architect Stephen Bates. They testifies to the importance of writing as part of a form of practice that includes building and teaching. Tent Poles in the ground is a collection...
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  • Ungovernable Spaces: Community Formation and the Poetics of Resistance by Kreider, Kristen
    Kristen Kreider

    Ungovernable Spaces: Community Formation and the Poetics of Resistance

    What does it mean to be governed and what does it mean to resist? Examining how communities form amidst social and political turbulence, this open access book presents four case studies that demonstrate the power of organic social formations over imposed order. Understanding this...
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  • Architecture and Identity: Responses to Cultural and Technological Change by Abel, Chris
    Chris Abel

    Architecture and Identity: Responses to Cultural and Technological Change

    This revised edition includes a new introduction and six additional chapters covering a broad range of subjects up to the most recent and topical concerns.Author: Chris AbelISBN-10: 1138206555ISBN-13: 9781138206557Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/16/2017Pages: 414Format: HardcoverWeight: 2.35lbsSize: 10.00h x 8.00w x 0.94d
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  • Paris on the Potomac: The French Influence on the Architecture and Art of Washington, D.C. by Field, Cynthia R.
    Cynthia R. Field

    Paris on the Potomac: The French Influence on the Architecture and Art of Washington, D.C.

    In 1910 John Merven Carr?re, a Paris-trained American architect, wrote, "Learning from Paris made Washington outstanding among American cities." The five essays in Paris on the Potomac explore aspects of this influence on the artistic and architectural environment of Washington, D.C., which continued long...
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  • The Phenomenon of Life: An Essay on the Art of Building and the Nature of the Universe by Alexander, Christopher
    Christopher Alexander

    The Phenomenon of Life: An Essay on the Art of Building and the Nature of the Universe

    Christopher Alexander's series of ground-breaking books including A Pattern Language and The Timeless Way of Building have pointed to fundamental truths of the way we build, revealing what gives life and beauty and true functionality to our buildings and towns. Now, in The Nature...
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  • Forms of Non-Belonging by Tan, Pelin
    Pelin Tan

    Forms of Non-Belonging

    Reflections on the conditions of contemporary exile, refugeehood, migration, and community building at the margins of society. According to Pelin Tan, there are forms of belonging that do not quite belong. In this collection of essays and conversations with artists and practitioners across twenty...
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  • Exhibition as Interior, Interior as Exhibition: Spaces of Display Within and Beyond the Museum and Gallery by Sparke, Penny
    Penny Sparke

    Exhibition as Interior, Interior as Exhibition: Spaces of Display Within and Beyond the Museum and Gallery

    Exhibition design has long been studied in the fields of art, design and architecture, but the focus has been on the design of the exhibition narrative, rather than the design as interior space. This book breaks new ground, exploring the complex relationships which exist...
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  • Katarina Burin: Contribution and Collaboration: The Work of Petra Andrejova-Molnár and Her Contemporaries by Burin, Katarina
    Katarina Burin

    Katarina Burin: Contribution and Collaboration: The Work of Petra Andrejova-Molnár and Her Contemporaries

    In her first artist's book, Cambridge, MA-based artist Katarina Burin (born 1975) creates a fictitious Czechoslovakian architect named Andrejova-Molnar, described as a pioneering architect of modern postwar Europe, as part of her investigation of architectural history. The book presents a biographical narrative about the...
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  • William Morgan: Evolution of an Architect by Shieldhouse, Richard
    Richard Shieldhouse

    William Morgan: Evolution of an Architect

    William Morgan (1930-2016) was a bold, innovative, and highly imaginative architect known internationally for fusing ancient and modern styles and for his early championing of green design principles. This extensively illustrated book traces Morgan's life story and the development of his singular design vision....
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  • Common Architecture by Kim, Sunwoo
    Sunwoo Kim

    Common Architecture

    What is the common value of architecture? The first description that come to mind is: somethingnormal, ordinary, or rational.These keywords are pointing toward the opposite of newness. A brave jump of logic would make out that architecture does not need to call for newness....
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  • How Does Architecture Distribute the Sensible?: Engaging Jacques Ranci?re by Bedford, Joseph
    Joseph Bedford

    How Does Architecture Distribute the Sensible?: Engaging Jacques Ranci?re

    Jacques Ranci?re is one of the leading thinkers not only of contemporary aesthetic theory but contemporary philosophy in general. After his break from Althusser, Ranci?re developed the radical and axiomatic principal of the absolute equality of intelligences and capacities that defined his entire body...
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  • The Architect as Worker: Immaterial Labor, the Creative Class, and the Politics of Design by Deamer, Peggy
    Peggy Deamer

    The Architect as Worker: Immaterial Labor, the Creative Class, and the Politics of Design

    Directly confronting the nature of contemporary architectural work, this book is the first to address a void at the heart of architectural discourse and thinking. For too long, architects have avoided questioning how the central aspects of architectural "practice" (professionalism, profit, technology, design, craft,...
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  • For the Temporary Accommodation of Settlers: Architecture and Immigrant Reception in Canada, 1870-1930 Volume 33 by Monteyne, David
    David Monteyne

    For the Temporary Accommodation of Settlers: Architecture and Immigrant Reception in Canada, 1870-1930 Volume 33

    For immigrants making the transoceanic journey from Europe or Asia to North America, the experience of a new country began when they disembarked. In Canada the federal government built a network of buildings that provided newcomers with shelter, services, and state support. "Immigration sheds"...
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  • Architecture and the Mimetic Self: A Psychoanalytic Study of How Buildings Make and Break Our Lives by Huskinson, Lucy
    Lucy Huskinson

    Architecture and the Mimetic Self: A Psychoanalytic Study of How Buildings Make and Break Our Lives

    Buildings shape our identity and sense of self in profound ways that are not always evident to architects and town planners, or even to those who think they are intimately familiar with the buildings they inhabit. Architecture and the Mimetic Self provides a useful...
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  • Uninhabitable Architectures by Sbarigia, Chiara
    Chiara Sbarigia

    Uninhabitable Architectures

    Testing the limits of when architecture becomes pure art"Uninhabitable architecture[s]" are projects that do not provide for human presence, and thus function as pure art. Using archival and commissioned photographs, this study of the relationship between living and building includes Gio Ponti's Branca Tower...
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  • Richard Rogers on Modern Architecture by Rogers, Richard
    Richard Rogers

    Richard Rogers on Modern Architecture

    Written during what architect Richard Rogers saw as a moment of crisis in modern architecture, this essay explores how the way we build--and live--could change for the better. Roger argues that poor design, monotony and inhuman scale are not the results of a lack...
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  • Oblique Experiments: Claude Parent's Architectural Installations (1969-1975) by Siddiqui, Igor
    Igor Siddiqui

    Oblique Experiments: Claude Parent's Architectural Installations (1969-1975)

    With the radical proposition of life on inclined planes--a theory known as the oblique function--the French architect Claude Parent sought to free architecture of orthogonal form, renew its social relevance, and inspire people's interest in the built environment. Oblique Experiments: Claude Parent's Architectural Installations...
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  • The Garden Retreat in Asia and Europe: Ways of Dwelling in a Torn World by Zhuang, Yue
    Yue Zhuang

    The Garden Retreat in Asia and Europe: Ways of Dwelling in a Torn World

    The Garden Retreat in Asia and Europe explores the meaning of gardens and designed landscapes as places of retreat and refuge in times of need or emergency. In the current times of war, pandemic, climate change, and global anxiety, the value of the garden...
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  • The Architect as Worker: Immaterial Labor, the Creative Class, and the Politics of Design by Deamer, Peggy
    Peggy Deamer

    The Architect as Worker: Immaterial Labor, the Creative Class, and the Politics of Design

    Directly confronting the nature of contemporary architectural work, this book is the first to address a void at the heart of architectural discourse and thinking. For too long, architects have avoided questioning how the central aspects of architectural "practice" (professionalism, profit, technology, design, craft,...
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  • Architecture and Psychoanalysis: Peter Eisenman and Jacques Lacan by Hendrix, John Shannon
    John Shannon Hendrix

    Architecture and Psychoanalysis: Peter Eisenman and Jacques Lacan

    Architecture and Psychoanalysis is an analysis of the relation between psychoanalytic theory and compositional strategies in architecture. In psychoanalysis it focuses on the writing of Jacques Lacan as well as theories of the structure of the psyche, linguistics, and perception. In architecture it focuses...
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  • The Organizational Complex: Architecture, Media, and Corporate Space by Martin, Reinhold
    Reinhold Martin

    The Organizational Complex: Architecture, Media, and Corporate Space

    A historical and theoretical analysis of corporate architecture in the United States after the Second World War.The Organizational Complex is a historical and theoretical analysis of corporate architecture in the United States after the Second World War. Its title refers to the aesthetic and...
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  • The Architecture of the City by Rossi, Aldo
    Aldo Rossi

    The Architecture of the City

    Aldo Rossi was a practicing architect and leader of the Italian architectural movement La Tendenza and one of the most influential theorists of the twentieth century. The Architecture of the City is his major work of architectural and urban theory. In part a protest...
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  • Landscape Is...!: Essays on the Meaning of Landscape by Doherty, Gareth
    Gareth Doherty

    Landscape Is...!: Essays on the Meaning of Landscape

    Landscape Is...! examines the implicit biases and received meanings of landscape. Following on from the previous publication Is Landscape...? which examined the plural and promiscuous identities of the landscape idea, this companion volume reflects upon the diverse and multiple meanings of landscape as a...
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  • Architecture After Deleuze and Guattari by Smith, Chris L.
    Chris L. Smith

    Architecture After Deleuze and Guattari

    This study illuminates the complex interplay between Deleuze and Guattari's philosophy and architecture. Presenting their wide-ranging impact on late 20th- and 21st-century architecture, each chapter focuses on a core Deleuzian/Guattarian philosophical concept and one key work of architecture which evokes, contorts, or extends it....
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  • Representing the Landscape Project: The Creative Process and Design Education by Stef?no, Daniele
    Daniele Stef?no

    Representing the Landscape Project: The Creative Process and Design Education

    Representation is an indispensable creative process, able to develop our thinking, making us more aware and weaving a new connection with the landscapes surrounding us. For the landscape architect, representation is fundamental to unravelling all those values that underlie reality. It also allows the...
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  • The Feeling of Space by Bardt, Christopher
    Christopher Bardt

    The Feeling of Space

    A richly illustrated exploration of humanity's drive to shape life as a spatial project, from Plato's time to the digital era. Place is something real, but space is generally conceived as abstract and immaterial. In The Feeling of Space, Christopher Bardt explores this damaging...
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  • Architecture and Cultural Continuity: The Making of Festival, Experience and Historicity by Frost, Christian
    Christian Frost

    Architecture and Cultural Continuity: The Making of Festival, Experience and Historicity

    Architecture and Cultural Continuity explores a dynamic way of viewing architecture - arguing that all architecture is best evaluated through active experiences in relation to cultural traditions of community and belonging, space, ritual, and setting. A work in three parts, the book first analyses...
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  • Architecture, Empire, and Trade: The United Africa Company by Jackson, Iain
    Iain Jackson

    Architecture, Empire, and Trade: The United Africa Company

    This open access book tells a new and untold history of the architecture of West Africa in the colonial era, as revealed for the first time through the archives of the United Africa Company (UAC). From the imperial Royal Niger Company's charter in the...
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  • Why Architecture Matters: Lessons from Chicago by Kamin, Blair
    Blair Kamin

    Why Architecture Matters: Lessons from Chicago

    For more than a decade, Pulitzer Prize-winning Chicago Tribune architecture critic Blair Kamin has been writing fiery, intelligent essays on the state of contemporary architecture. His subjects range from high-rises to highways, parks to public housing, Frank Lloyd Wright to Frank Gehry. Why Architecture...
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  • Architecture in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: An Introduction to AI for Architects by Leach, Neil
    Neil Leach

    Architecture in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: An Introduction to AI for Architects

    Updated to cover the latest cutting-edge developments in the field and now in full color, Architecture in the Age of Artificial Intelligence introduces AI for designers and explores its seismic impact on the future of architecture and design. From smart assistants and ChatGPT to...
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  • Intar Interventions and Adaptive Reuse Intervention as ACT by Rhode Island School of Design
    Rhode Island School of Design

    Intar Interventions and Adaptive Reuse Intervention as ACT

    Author: Rhode Island School of DesignISBN-10: 3035616086ISBN-13: 9783035616088Publisher: BirkhauserLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/24/2018Pages: 136Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.95lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.40d
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  • Everyday Architecture: A Vast Wasteland by Moffett, Kenneth M.
    Kenneth M. Moffett

    Everyday Architecture: A Vast Wasteland

    A long-deserved survey, of the everyday building types that line our suburban roads and parking lots, affords an informative and diverting critique of their architectural and sociocultural foibles. This project began with an essay on the "McMansion" phenomenon, and it grew to become a...
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  • From Light to Dark: Daylight, Illumination, and Gloom by Edensor, Tim
    Tim Edensor

    From Light to Dark: Daylight, Illumination, and Gloom

    Light pervades the world, and when it is not light, darkness emerges and is combated by electric illumination. Despite this globally shared human experience in which spaces appear radically different depending on time, season, and weather, social science investigation on the subject is meager....
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  • Modernism's Magic Hat: Architecture and the Illusion of Development Without Capital by Muzaffar, Ijlal
    Ijlal Muzaffar

    Modernism's Magic Hat: Architecture and the Illusion of Development Without Capital

    Examines the role of architecture in the history of global development and decolonization. In Modernism's Magic Hat, Ijlal Muzaffar examines how modern architects and planners help resolve one of the central dilemmas of the mid-twentieth-century world order: how to make decolonization plausible without accounting...
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