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Vendor: 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...- $40.00
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Vendor: 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...- $45.00
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Vendor: 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...- $40.00
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Vendor: 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...- $44.95
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Vendor: 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...- $105.00
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Vendor: 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...- $135.00
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Vendor: 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....- $55.99
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Vendor: 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...- $75.00
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Vendor: 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...- $75.00
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Vendor: 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...- $27.00
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Vendor: 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...- $29.99
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Vendor: 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...- $42.95
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Vendor: 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...- $16.95
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Vendor: 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...- $35.00
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Vendor: 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,...- $40.00
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Vendor: 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...- $126.00
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Vendor: 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...- $59.50
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Vendor: 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...- $115.00
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Vendor: 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- $240.00
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Vendor: 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...- $32.95
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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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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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