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  • Architecture: The Whole Story by Jones, Denna
    Denna Jones

    Architecture: The Whole Story

    This latest addition to the Whole Story series offers an encyclopedic and lavishly illustrated survey of architecture throughout human history. Sweeping in reach and exhaustive in detail, Architecture: The Whole Story is an indispensible reference for anyone interested in the evolution of our built...
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  • Archiflop: A Guide to the Most Spectacular Failures in the History of Modern and Contemporary Architecture by Biamonti, Alessandro
    Alessandro Biamonti

    Archiflop: A Guide to the Most Spectacular Failures in the History of Modern and Contemporary Architecture

    Once an architectural project has emerged from the perfect atmosphere of the computer, the drawings and the 3-D models, it inevitably comes up against the logic of the real world. In most cases, the encounter is painless. But sometimes things go wrong, what remains...
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  • Becoming Philadelphia: How an Old American City Made Itself New Again by Saffron, Inga
    Inga Saffron

    Becoming Philadelphia: How an Old American City Made Itself New Again

    Once dismissed as a rusting industrial has-been--the "Next Detroit"--Philadelphia has enjoyed an astonishing comeback in the 21st century. Over the past two decades, Inga Saffron has served as the premier chronicler of the city's physical transformation as it emerged from a half century of...
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  • New York 1960: Architecture and Urbanism Between the Second World War and the Bicentennial by Stern, Robert A. M.
    Robert A. M. Stern

    New York 1960: Architecture and Urbanism Between the Second World War and the Bicentennial

    The post-World War II era witnessed New York's reign as the unofficial but undisputed economic and artistic capital of the world. By the mid-1970s, the city had experienced a profound reversal, and both its economy and its reputation were at a historic nadir.This is...
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  • Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan by Koolhaas, Rem
    Rem Koolhaas

    Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan

    Since its publication - Delirious New York (1978) has attained mythic status. Rem Koolhaas's celebration and analysis of New York depicts the city as a metaphor for the variety of human behaviorAt the end of the nineteenth century, population, information, and technology explosions made...
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  • After the Manifesto by Buckley, Craig
    Craig Buckley

    After the Manifesto

    Does the recent explosion of the architectural manifesto signal a new urgency of the form, or does it represent a hopeless effort to resuscitate something that has outlived its useful lifespan? After the Manifesto brings together architects and scholars to revisit the past, present...
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  • Greece by Tzonis, Alexander
    Alexander Tzonis

    Greece

    The remains of antiquity define Greek architecture in the popular imagination, but Greek edifices encompass far more than these ancient structures. Offered here is a comprehensive survey of modern Greek architecture of the past hundred-plus years.The book explores the buildings and architects of modern...
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  • Eric Lyons and Span by Simms, Barbara
    Barbara Simms

    Eric Lyons and Span

    Due to popular demand we are delighted to offer this new paperback edition of Eric Lyons and Span. Lavishly illustrated and deeply researched, this book celebrates the work of the architect Eric Lyons OBE (1912-1980), whose famous post-war housing - that today would be...
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  • Deserts Are Not Empty by
    Alla Vronskaya

    Deserts Are Not Empty

    Colonial and imperial powers have often portrayed arid lands as "empty" spaces ready to be occupied, exploited, extracted, and polluted. Despite the undeniable presence of human and nonhuman lives and forces in desert territories, the "regime of emptiness" has inhabited, and is still inhabiting,...
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  • Artificial Islands: Adventures in the Dominions by Hatherley, Owen
    Owen Hatherley

    Artificial Islands: Adventures in the Dominions

    Winner of Architectural Book of the Year 2023. Should Britain form a new union with its old 'Dominions' in Canada, Australia and New Zealand? Are they really our closest allies and relations? And is there any reason why they should want to unite again...
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  • Resisting Postmodern Architecture by Giarmarelos, Stylianos
    Stylianos Giamarelos

    Resisting Postmodern Architecture: Critical regionalism before globalisation

    Resisting Postmodern Architecture studies critical regionalism within the wider framework of postmodern architecture.Author: Stylianos GiamarelosISBN-10: 1800081340ISBN-13: 9781800081345Publisher: UCL PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/10/2022Pages: 438Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.85lbsSize: 8.98h x 6.06w x 1.26d
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  • The Covert Life of Hospital Architecture by Zook, Julie
    Julie Zook

    The Covert Life of Hospital Architecture

    The Covert Life of Hospital Architecture addresses hospital architecture as a set of interlocked, overlapping spatial and social conditions that help to produce desired outcomes such as greater patient safety, increased scope for care provider communication and more intelligible corridors.Author: Julie ZookISBN-10: 1800080891ISBN-13: 9781800080898Publisher:...
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  • Anarchitectural Experiments: When Unbuilt Designs Turn to Film by Stasiowski, Maciej
    Maciej Stasiowski

    Anarchitectural Experiments: When Unbuilt Designs Turn to Film

    Comprehensive exploration of architectural visualization through speculative design projects. Outlines how cinema and animation augment traditional design drawing practices to expand the possibilities for theoretical architectural projects. It provides a history of speculative designs and elaborates on their modes of representation. 119 b&w illus.Author:...
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  • Building Black: Towards Antiracist Architecture by Mason, Elliot C.
    Elliot C. Mason

    Building Black: Towards Antiracist Architecture

    Building Black: Towards Antiracist Architecture brings together the forefronts of Black Studies and architectural theory. Only recently, architecture and urban planning have started to confront their constitution of race as a social referent, and their part in the establishment of racist logics. This confrontation...
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  • Plug-Ins: Design for City Making in Barcelona by Manzini, Ezio
    Ezio Manzini

    Plug-Ins: Design for City Making in Barcelona

    This book's central argument is that plug-ins, situated design outcomes that aim to enrich the complex system of the city and expand its potentialities, are a solid yet supple conceptual framework for rethinking how design can be a key agent in city making. This...
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  • Queering Architecture: Methods, Practices, Spaces, Pedagogies by Jobst, Marko
    Marko Jobst

    Queering Architecture: Methods, Practices, Spaces, Pedagogies

    Featuring contributions from a range of significant voices in the field, this volume renews the conversation around what it means to speak of the 'queer' in the context of architecture, and offers a fresh take on the methodological and epistemological challenges this poses to...
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  • Exquisite Corpse, Writings on Buildings by Sorkin, Michael
    Michael Sorkin

    Exquisite Corpse: Writings on Buildings

    'Exquisite Corpse' was a game played by the surrealists in which someone drew on a piece of paper, folded it and passed it to the next person to draw on until, finally, the sheet was opened to reveal a calculated yet random composition. In...
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  • Architecture and Urbanism in Viceregal Mexico: Puebla de Los Ángeles, Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries by Burke, Juan Luis
    Juan Luis Burke

    Architecture and Urbanism in Viceregal Mexico: Puebla de Los ﾁngeles, Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries

    Architecture and Urbanism in Viceregal Mexico presents a fascinating survey of urban history between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. It chronicles the creation and development of Puebla de los ﾁngeles, a city located in central-south Mexico, during its viceregal period. Founded in 1531, the...
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  • Swahili Port Cities: The Architecture of Elsewhere by Meier, Sandy Prita
    Sandy Prita Meier

    Swahili Port Cities: The Architecture of Elsewhere

    On the Swahili coast of East Africa, monumental stone houses, tombs, and mosques mark the border zone between the interior of the African continent and the Indian Ocean. Prita Meier explores this coastal environment and shows how an African mercantile society created a place...
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  • Space Settlements by Scharmen, Fred
    Fred Scharmen

    Space Settlements

    In the summer of 1975, NASA brought together a team of physicists, engineers, and space scientists--along with architects, urban planners, and artists--to design large-scale space habitats for millions of people. This Summer Study was led by Princeton physicist Gerard O'Neill, whose work on this...
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  • Unhoused: Adorno and the Problem of Dwelling by Waggoner, Matt
    Matt Waggoner

    Unhoused: Adorno and the Problem of Dwelling

    Unhoused: Adorno and the Problem of Dwelling is the first book-length study of Theodor Adorno as a philosopher of housing. Treating his own experience of exile as emblematic of late modern life, Adorno observed that twentieth-century dwelling had been rendered "impossible" by nativism, by...
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  • The Arab City: Architecture and Representation by Andraos, Amale
    Amale Andraos

    The Arab City: Architecture and Representation

    Moving beyond reductive notions of identity, myths of authenticity, fetishized traditionalism, or the constructed opposition of tradition and modernity, The Arab City: Architectural and Representation critically engages contemporary architectural and urban production in the Middle East. Taking the "Arab City" and "Islamic Architecture" as...
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  • When Urbanization Comes to Ground: Caza + Subra by Arnaiz, Carlos
    Carlos Arnaiz

    When Urbanization Comes to Ground: Caza + Subra

    When Urbanization Comes To Ground is a collaborative research project between the Brooklyn-based architecture studio, CAZA, and think tank, SURBA, an urban research collective spearheaded by Carlos Arnaiz and Peter Rowe. Drawing upon case studies including projects in China, Colombia, and the Philippines, this...
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  • The LeFevre Fellowship: 2000-2017 by Wilke, Benjamin
    Benjamin Wilke

    The LeFevre Fellowship: 2000-2017

    The Howard E. LeFevre '29 Emerging Practitioner Fellowship provides an individual with a nine-month residency to investigate a specific project related to his or her overall development, to produce an exhibition and lecture concerning that work, and to develop their ideas within the context...
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  • Projecting Urbanity: Architecture for and Against the City by Leatherbarrow, David
    David Leatherbarrow

    Projecting Urbanity: Architecture for and Against the City

    Existing histories of modern architecture typically give their highest praise to private houses and their most severe condemnation to architect-authored urban plans, often neglecting the built works that are no smaller than a single building and possibly as large as an urban block, the...
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  • Share: Conversations about Contemporary Architecture: The Nordic Countries by Saunders, Todd
    Todd Saunders

    Share: Conversations about Contemporary Architecture: The Nordic Countries

    Share: Conversations about Contemporary Architecture - The Nordic Countries is the first book in a new global series of investigative interviews about the modern architectural process. Initiated and undertaken by the Norway-based Canadian architect Todd Saunders, the Nordic Countries edition features interviews with 30...
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  • Post Domesticity: Re-Thinking Urban Obsolescence by Garcia-Setien, Diego
    Diego Garcia-Setien

    Post Domesticity: Re-Thinking Urban Obsolescence

    PostDomestiCity is an inquiry and speculative exercise into the conditions of obsolescence in the post-industrial city, from a contemporary perspective. Working with three paradigmatic cases that were conceived from industrial logics--the Packard plant in Detroit, Lima's PREVI neighbourhood, and theGrand'Mare complex in Rouen--, we...
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  • The Architecture of Disability: Buildings, Cities, and Landscapes Beyond Access by Gissen, David
    David Gissen

    The Architecture of Disability: Buildings, Cities, and Landscapes Beyond Access

    A radical critique of architecture that places disability at the heart of the built environment Disability critiques of architecture usually emphasize the need for modification and increased access, but The Architecture of Disability calls for a radical reorientation of this perspective by situating experiences...
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  • Postmodern Non-Residential Berlin by Kromrei, Claudia
    Claudia Kromrei

    Postmodern Non-Residential Berlin

    30 buildings from the 1970s and 80s, 30 built manifestos, densely gathered in two halves of a divided city: transformer station, hotel and airport terminal, diving tower, school, and animal laboratory. Not only do their functions and purposes differ fundamentally, but their forms and...
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  • On the Duty and Power of Architectural Criticism: Proceeds of the International Conference on Architectural Criticism 2021 by Wang, Wilfried
    Wilfried Wang

    On the Duty and Power of Architectural Criticism: Proceeds of the International Conference on Architectural Criticism 2021

    A rich collection of essays that offer essential, independent voices on architecture criticism in a highly challenging media environment. Should architectural criticism be enlightening? Should it help in the creation of a better built environment? Is there a factual basis to it? Does it...
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  • Sigfried Giedion: Liberated Dwelling: (Befreites Wohnen) by Giedion, Sigfried
    Sigfried Giedion

    Sigfried Giedion: Liberated Dwelling: (Befreites Wohnen)

    In 1929, the great Swiss historian and architecture critic Sigfried Giedion (1888-1968)--later the author of the classics Space, Time and Architecture (1941) and Mechanization Takes Command (1948)--issued Befreites Wohnen (Liberated Dwelling), a small but vocal architecture manifesto and an early expression of modernist housing...
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  • Architecture for Science by Nickl-Weller, Christine
    Christine Nickl-Weller

    Architecture for Science

    Although research is the engine of all innovation, the research building as a purely functional building has not been of any architectural interest for a long time. However, there is consensus now that structures for research and knowledge transfer can do more than just...
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  • Live Your Dreams Coloring Book: 20 Live Your Dreams Mandala Coloring Pages by Crystal Coloring Books
    Crystal Coloring Books

    Live Your Dreams Coloring Book: 20 Live Your Dreams Mandala Coloring Pages

    Do you love coloring or know someone that does? Then this coloring book is for you, or it will make a great gift idea for your family and friends. Coloring is an excellent way to relax and unwind. Recent studies have shown that adult...
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  • Bullshit Swear word Coloring Book: Mandala Design Dark Edition Stress-relief Adults Coloring Book (Black Pages) by Adult Coloring Books
    Adult Coloring Books

    Bullshit Swear word Coloring Book: Mandala Design Dark Edition Stress-relief Adults Coloring Book (Black Pages)

    GREAT GIFT IDEAS COLOURING BOOKS FOR GROWN-UPS This incredible Adult Coloring Book by best-selling artist This book is the perfect way to relieve stress and while enjoying beautiful and highly detailed images. Product Details: Printed single sided on bright white paper Perfect for all...
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  • AA Book 2022: On Location by Dillon, Ryan
    Ryan Dillon

    AA Book 2022: On Location

    The AA Book: On Location highlights the agendas and practices that have intersected both physically and metaphorically throughout the Architectural Association (AA) during the 2021-22 academic year. The publication features hundreds of projects by students from every unit and programme within the school, which...
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  • Shock City: Image and Architecture in Industrial Manchester by Crinson, Mark
    Mark Crinson

    Shock City: Image and Architecture in Industrial Manchester

    A bold reassessment of the major architectural monuments and urban forms of the world's first industrial city: Manchester From the mid-eighteenth century to the nineteen-twenties, from the birth of the Industrial Revolution to the height of Manchester's global significance and the beginning of its...
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  • The Social and Political Life of Latin American Infrastructures by Alderman, Jonathan
    Jonathan Alderman

    The Social and Political Life of Latin American Infrastructures

    Understanding Latin American identity, history, and politics through its infrastructure and architecture. From roads, railways, statues, and bridges, infrastructure provides a unique lens through which to view our own national histories and societies. Serving as an important conduit between individuals and the state, infrastructure...
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  • Architect, Verb.: The New Language of Building by De Graaf, Reinier
    Reinier De Graaf

    Architect, Verb.: The New Language of Building

    The Hidden Rules of Architecture: how to build world-class, award winning, creative, innovative, sustainable, liveable and beautiful spaces that foster a sense of place and well being Leading architect Reinier de Graaf De Graaf punctures the myths behind the debates on what contemporary architecture...
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  • The Covert Life of Hospital Architecture by Zook, Julie
    Julie Zook

    The Covert Life of Hospital Architecture

    The Covert Life of Hospital Architecture addresses hospital architecture as a set of interlocked, overlapping spatial and social conditions that help to produce desired outcomes such as greater patient safety, increased scope for care provider communication and more intelligible corridors.Author: Julie ZookISBN-10: 1800080905ISBN-13: 9781800080904Publisher:...
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  • Fascism, Architecture, and the Claiming of Modern Milan, 1922-1943 by Maulsby, Lucy M.
    Lucy M. Maulsby

    Fascism, Architecture, and the Claiming of Modern Milan, 1922-1943

    Fascism, Architecture, and the Claiming of Modern Milan, 1922-1943 chronicles the dramatic architectural and urban transformation of Milan during the nearly twenty years of fascist rule. The commercial and financial centre of Italy and the birthplace of fascism, Milan played a central role in...
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  • Building/Object: Shared and Contested Territories of Design and Architecture by Ashby, Charlotte
    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...
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  • The Architectural Imagination at the Digital Turn by Bredella, Nathalie
    Nathalie Bredella

    The Architectural Imagination at the Digital Turn

    The Architectural Imagination at the Digital Turn asks what it means to speak of a "digital turn" in architecture. It examines how architects at the time engaged with the digital and imagined future modes of practice, and looks at the technological, conceptual and economic...
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  • Designing Our Way to a Better World by Fisher, Thomas
    Thomas Fisher

    Designing Our Way to a Better World

    Envisioning what we need, when it doesn't yet exist: this, Thomas Fisher tells us, is what design does. And if what we need now is a better world--functioning schools, working infrastructure, thriving cities--why not design one? Fisher shows how the principles of design apply...
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  • America Town: Building the Outposts of Empire by Gillem, Mark L.
    Mark L. Gillem

    America Town: Building the Outposts of Empire

    American servicemen and -women are currently stationed in more than 140 countries from Central America to Western Europe to the Middle East, often living and working on military bases that not only dominate foreign territories but also re-create familiar space that "feels like home"--gated...
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  • Campsite: Architectures of Duration and Place by Hailey, Charlie
    Charlie Hailey

    Campsite: Architectures of Duration and Place

    Camping is perhaps the quintessential American activity. We camp to escape, to retreat, to "find" ourselves. The camp serves as a home-away-from-home where we might rethink a deliberate life. We also camp to find a new collective space where family and society converge. Many...
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  • Changing Ideals in Modern Architecture, 1750-1950: Second Edition by Collins, Peter
    Peter Collins

    Changing Ideals in Modern Architecture, 1750-1950: Second Edition

    Collins explains what Revivalism, Rationalism, Eclecticism, and Functionalism meant to those who practised them, examining the impact that social forces and the other arts and sciences had on architectural styles while recognizing the tectonic continuities that underlie the seeming ruptures between pre-modern, modern, and...
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  • Architectural Affects after Deleuze and Guattari by Jobst, Marko
    Marko Jobst

    Architectural Affects after Deleuze and Guattari

    Architectural Affects after Deleuze and Guattari is the first sustained survey into ways of theorising affect in architecture. It reflects on the legacy and influence of Gilles Deleuze and F駘ix Guattari in the uptake of affect in architectural discourse and practice, and stresses the...
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  • Stud: Architectures of Masculinity by Sanders, Joel
    Joel Sanders

    Stud: Architectures of Masculinity

    Originally published in 1996, Stud: Architectures of Masculinity is an interdisciplinary exploration of the active role architecture plays in the construction of male identity. Architects, artists, and theorists investigate how sexuality is constituted through the organization of materials, objects, and human subjects in actual...
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  • Spatializing Justice: Building Blocks by Cruz, Teddy
    Teddy Cruz

    Spatializing Justice: Building Blocks

    A manifesto calling for a new kind of architecture that confronts social and economic inequality and uneven urban growth. Spatializing Justice calls for architects and urban designers to do more than design buildings and physical systems. Architects should take a position against inequality and...
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  • Oblique Drawing: A History of Anti-Perspective by Scolari, Massimo
    Massimo Scolari

    Oblique Drawing: A History of Anti-Perspective

    A challenge to the hegemony of perspective: investigations into other forms of representation used by different cultures over the last two thousand years.For more than half a century, Erwin Panofsky's Perspective as Symbolic Form has dominated studies of visual representation. Despite the hegemony of...
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