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Vendor: 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...- $75.00
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Vendor: 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...- $24.95
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Vendor: 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...- $34.95
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Vendor: 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...- $39.95
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Vendor: 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....- $49.95
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Vendor: 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....- $30.00
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Vendor: 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...- $115.00
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Vendor: 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,...- $34.95
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Vendor: 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"...- $75.00
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Vendor: 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...- $46.95
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Vendor: 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...- $40.00
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Vendor: 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...- $16.95
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Vendor: 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...- $40.00
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Vendor: 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...- $120.00
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Vendor: 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,...- $160.00
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Vendor: 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...- $63.45
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Vendor: 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...- $45.00
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Vendor: 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...- $45.00
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Vendor: 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...- $54.99
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Vendor: 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....- $39.95
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Vendor: 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...- $25.00
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Vendor: 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...- $60.00
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Vendor: 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...- $120.00
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Vendor: 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...- $120.00
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Vendor: 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...- $33.00
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Vendor: 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...- $26.95
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Vendor: 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- $24.99
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Vendor: 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...- $30.00
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Vendor: 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....- $28.00
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Vendor: 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...- $120.00
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Vendor: Shirley Jordan
Cities Interrupted: Visual Culture and Urban Space
Cities Interrupted explores the potential of visual culture - in the form of photography, film, performance, architecture, urban design, and mixed media - to strategically interrupt processes of globalization in contemporary urban spaces. Looking at cities such as Amsterdam, Beijing, Doha, London, New York,...- $35.95
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Vendor: Natalie Kane
Design and Disability: 10 Tales of Accessible Design
This visually rich book celebrates design ingenuity, making the point that inclusive design is better for all This visually rich book celebrates design ingenuity, acknowledging the significant contributions of disabled individuals and communities to design and making the point that, simply put, inclusive design...- $35.00
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Vendor: Peter Eisenman
Rewriting Alberti
Author: Peter EisenmanISBN-10: 0262553716ISBN-13: 9780262553711Publisher: MIT PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/09/2025Pages: 248Format: Paperback- $34.95
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Vendor: Winy Maas
Cz2: Roadmap to the Mosaic Society
Concrete research, data visualization and blueprints for transforming Czechia into a beacon of sustainable innovationContaining interviews with local experts and research by 150 local and international students, this richly illustrated "data novel" offers a methodological framework for investigating the social, built, ecological, governance, cultural...- $45.00
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Vendor: Martino Tattara
What's Next for Mom and Dad's House?: Essays on the Single-Family Housing Type and Its Future, Vol. 1
Proposing solutions for how the traditional suburban single-family house can be reinvented for the contemporary market and climateDespite the increasing interest in reuse and circularity, little attention has been paid to the task of transforming the extensive residential sprawls of single-family houses built across...- $35.00
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Vendor: Derek S. Denman
Fortress Power: Hostile Designs and the Politics of Spatial Control
A compelling treatise on the relationship between power and enclosureFortress Power presents a genealogy of fortification as a material and political technology intent on obstruction, tracing its implementation across battlefields, borders, and urban environments. Drawing on the influential work of philosophers Michel Foucault and...- $25.00
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Vendor: Chris Youn?s
Architectures of Existence: Ethics, Aesthetics, Politics
Architectures of Existence proposes that philosophical thinking (ecosophical thinking) can inform the way we engage with our world and its inhabitants, as architects, designers and planners, but also as individuals, as people, and as a society.In Art et existence, Maldiney states: "For us, to...- $26.99
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Vendor: Jonathan Ochshorn
Building Bad: How Architectural Utility is Constrained by Politics and Damaged by Expression
In this book, the author argues that architectural functionality is often constrained by political and economic forces, while it is also effectively undermined by modes of expression. Utilitarian building elements-for example, windows or skylights intended to bring daylight into offices or factories-may be subject...- $14.95
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Vendor: Paola Vigan?
Biopolitical Garden: Space, Lives, Transition
The book discusses the ways in which the project can critically contribute to an affirmative biopolitical action of substantial emancipation; it considers space an essential agent, and not only a collective capital, or a support, for adapting our lives to the recent profoundly changed...- $44.95
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Vendor: John Barr
1960s University Buildings: The Golden Age of British Modern Architecture
The 1960s continue to hold an almost mythical place in Western culture, particularly in Britain, where change was widespread and infiltrated many aspects of life. This included architecture, whose role in a modern democracy and the form it should take were hotly debated. This...- $99.99
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Vendor: Mark Foster Gage
On the Appearance of the World: A Future for Aesthetics in Architecture
How can architecture develop better aesthetic directions for the twenty-first-century built environment? Our world, increasingly defined by efficient but unconsidered architecture and cities, seems to be getting uglier. In On the Appearance of the World, Mark Foster Gage asks why. He imagines a future...- $10.00
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Vendor: Charlotte Ashby
Building/Object: Shared and Contested Territories of Design and Architecture
Building/Object addresses the space in between the conventional objects of design and the conventional objects of architecture, probing and reassessing the differences between the disciplines of design history and architectural history Each of the 13 chapters in this book examine things which are neither...- $39.95
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Vendor: Philip Sapirstein
New Directions and Paradigms for the Study of Greek Architecture: Interdisciplinary Dialogues in the Field
New Directions and Paradigms for the Study of Greek Architecture comprises 20 chapters by nearly three dozen scholars who describe recent discoveries, new theoretical frameworks, and applications of cutting-edge techniques in their architectural research. The contributions are united by several broad themes that represent...- $190.00
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Vendor: Joaquim Nabuco
The Art of Brazilian Architecture
Photographer Joaquim Nabuco has found art in the architecture, interiors, and landscapes designed by his fellow Brazilians. Through more than 160 large, lively images, Nabuco welcomes you on a journey to see more than 15 properties, including log homes in the mountains of Rio...- $60.00
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Vendor: Christophe Van Gerrewey
OASE 118: Book Reviews: From Words to Buildings
Author: Christophe Van GerreweyISBN-10: 9462088950ISBN-13: 9789462088955Publisher: Nai010 PublishersLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/11/2025Pages: 128Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.60lbsSize: 9.29h x 6.54w x 0.63d- $40.00
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Vendor: Ian Nairn
Outrage
Acclaimed architectural critic Ian Nairn's masterpiece, reissued for the first time since 1955. In June of 1955, The Architectural Review (Britain's most acclaimed and well-read magazine of architectural criticism) published a special issue featuring one essay called Outrage by Ian Nairn. As one of...- $22.95
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Vendor: Garnet Bernier
Association/12
ASSOCIATION is a student designed and edited publication that gathers work from students, faculty, staff, and alumni across Cornell University's College of Architecture, Art, and Planning in a single semi-annual volume. An anthology of projects from artists, architects, and planners, ASSOCIATION strives to highlight...- $30.00
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Vendor: Clemens F. Kusch
Exhibition Halls
An exhibition centre is a central focus of a city's economic life, and in many cases a unique expression of its image. For this reason, as well as offering adequate space and infrastructure, it must make a strong, clearly recognizable architectural statement. Over the...- $99.95
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Vendor: Jeffrey Huang
Transcalar Prospects in Climate Crisis: Architectural Research in Re/Action
Author: Jeffrey HuangISBN-10: 3037787651ISBN-13: 9783037787656Publisher: Lars Muller PublishersLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/04/2025Pages: 384Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.60lbsSize: 8.98h x 6.61w x 1.26d- $50.00
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Vendor: David L. Fleener
Not a Woman Architect: The Life and Work of Brigitte Peterhans
This book presents the life story of an extraordinary woman in the world of corporate architecture during the Mad Men era of the 1950s to 1980s. Born in a small village in Germany, Brigitte Peterhans managed to come to America to study with Mies...- $39.95
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