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  • York's Historic Architecture by Butcher, Scott D.
    Scott D. Butcher

    York's Historic Architecture

    From early Colonial taverns and ornate Victorian homes to the postmodern office towers of today, York's streetscape features almost every style and era of American architecture. In the city where the Second Continental ongress governed the fledgling United States, a virtually unparalleled diversity of...
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  • Making Space: Women and the Manmade Environment by Matrix
    Matrix

    Making Space: Women and the Manmade Environment

    Timely re-issue of the groundbreaking manifesto for feminist architectureMaking Space is a pioneering work first published in 1984 which challenges us to look at how the built environment impacts on women's lives. It exposes the sexist assumptions on gender and sexuality that have a...
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  • Feminist Futures of Spatial Practice: Materialism, Activism, Dialogues, Pedagogies, Projections by Schalk, Meike
    Meike Schalk

    Feminist Futures of Spatial Practice: Materialism, Activism, Dialogues, Pedagogies, Projections

    Architecture and the arts have long been on the forefront of socio-spatial struggles, in which equality, access, representation and expression are at stake in our cities, communities and everyday lives. Feminist spatial practices contribute substantially to new forms of activism, expanding dialogues, engaging materialisms,...
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  • The Architecture of Bathing: Body, Landscape, Art by Pearson, Christie
    Christie Pearson

    The Architecture of Bathing: Body, Landscape, Art

    A celebration of communal bathing--swimming pools, saunas, beaches, ritual baths, sweat lodges, and more--viewed through the lens of architecture and landscape.We enter the public pool, the sauna, or the beach with a heightened awareness of our bodies and the bodies of others. The phenomenology...
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  • Sundry Modernism: Materials for a Study of Palestinian Modernism by Toukan, Oraib
    Oraib Toukan

    Sundry Modernism: Materials for a Study of Palestinian Modernism

    With Sundry Modernism, Oraib Toukan presents an informal register of modernist Palestinian architecture--an assemblage of images and stories collected from 2013 to 2015 in the cities of Nablus, Ramallah, Jerusalem, Bethlehem, and Jericho. Using her photographs as conversation prompts with various residents, historians, and...
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  • Internal: Developing Informed Architectural Languages by Diehl, Tom
    Tom Diehl

    Internal: Developing Informed Architectural Languages

    As the number and distinctiveness of design directions in contemporary architecture expands, an outcome has emerged of a contradictory nature. While many of these directions hold great intrigue, a troubling aspect arises in that in their realization an "incompleteness" is often exhibited, one expressing...
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  • Building Democracy in Late Archaic Athens by Paga, Jessica
    Jessica Paga

    Building Democracy in Late Archaic Athens

    In 508/7 B.C.E., after years of chaos and uncertainty, the city of Athens was rocked by a momentous occurrence: the passage of a series of reforms that resulted in what has come to be known as the world's first democracy. Exactly how the Athenians...
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  • Non-Referential Architecture: Ideated by Valerio Olgiati and Written by Markus Breitschmid by Olgiati, Valerio
    Valerio Olgiati

    Non-Referential Architecture: Ideated by Valerio Olgiati and Written by Markus Breitschmid

    More than ever, architecture is in need of provocation, a new path beyond the traditional notion that buildings must serve as vessels, or symbols of something outside themselves. Non-Referential Architecture is nothing less than a manifesto for a new architecture. It brings together two...
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  • 100 Ideas That Changed Architecture by Weston, Richard
    Richard Weston

    100 Ideas That Changed Architecture

    Written by an expert, 100 Ideas that Changed Architecture provides a concise history of the subject, and offers a fascinating resource to dip into for the general reader. Starting with the basic building 'components' of door, window, column and beam and the Classical orders,...
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  • The Octagon House: A Home for All by Fowler, Orson Squire
    Orson Squire Fowler

    The Octagon House: A Home for All

    In the mid-19th Century America was host to a curious architectural trend: the octagonal house. Such eight-sided homes-as well as schools, churches, barns, and businesses-were popping up across the country so quickly that by 1857 over 1,000 had been built. Though the craze has...
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  • Werewolf: The Architecture of Lunacy, Shapeshifting, and Material Metamorphosis by O'Donnell, Caroline
    Caroline O'Donnell

    Werewolf: The Architecture of Lunacy, Shapeshifting, and Material Metamorphosis

    As climate, culture, and technology evolve and become increasingly unpredictable, architecture's stasis becomes more incongruous. Werewolf explores an emerging but under-investigated branch of architecture that embraces the transformation of form, performance, and the responsiveness to environments and context. These ideas are studied through architectural...
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  • And It Came to Pass--Not to Stay by Fuller, R. Buckminster
    R. Buckminster Fuller

    And It Came to Pass--Not to Stay

    Lyrical meditations on life, work and hopes for the future from the beloved architect and polymath Buckminster FullerFirst published in 1976, issued in a new edition in 2008, and now back in print, And It Came to Pass--Not to Stay brings together a selection...
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  • Climates: Architecture and the Planetary Imaginary by Graham, James
    James Graham

    Climates: Architecture and the Planetary Imaginary

    This book is a collection of essays at the intersection of architecture and climate change. Neither a collective lament nor an inventory of architectural responses, the essays consider cultural values ascribed to climate and ask how climate reflects our conception of what architecture is...
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  • X-Ray Architecture by Colomina, Beatriz
    Beatriz Colomina

    X-Ray Architecture

    "A new theory of architecture is on the horizon." -Ashley Simone, BombHow our medical obsessions and the image of the body influence modern architecture. This book explores the impact of medical discourse and diagnostic technologies on the formation, representation and reception of modern architecture....
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  • Lost Cincinnati by Suess, Jeff
    Jeff Suess

    Lost Cincinnati

    Cincinnati earned its nickname of "Queen City of the West" with a wealth of fine theaters and hotels, a burgeoning brewery district and the birth of professional baseball. Though many of these treasures have vanished, they left an indelible mark on the city. Revisit...
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  • Timeless Cities: An Architect's Reflections on Renaissance Italy by Mayernik, David
    David Mayernik

    Timeless Cities: An Architect's Reflections on Renaissance Italy

    For Italian city builders over the course of a thousand years, the urban realm was the great theater where their best aspirations were played out, the place where society said the most substantial things about who they were and what they longed for. In...
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  • Robert Venturi: Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture by Venturi, Robert
    Robert Venturi

    Robert Venturi: Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture

    First published in 1966, and since translated into 16 languages, this remarkable book has become an essential document of architectural literature. A "gentle manifesto for a nonstraightforward architecture," Venturi's Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture expresses in the most compelling and original terms the postmodern...
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  • How Architecture Works: A Humanist's Toolkit by Rybczynski, Witold
    Witold Rybczynski

    How Architecture Works

    An essential toolkit for understanding architecture as both art form and the setting for our everyday lives We spend most of our days and nights in buildings, living and working and sometimes playing. Architecture is both the setting for our everyday lives and a...
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  • Open Gaza: Architectures of Hope by Sorkin, Michael
    Michael Sorkin

    Open Gaza: Architectures of Hope

    Cutting-edge analysis on how to improve life inside the Gaza Strip through architecture and design, illustrated in full-colorThe Gaza Strip is one of the most beleaguered environments on earth. Crammed into a space of 139 square miles (360 square kilometers), 1.8 million people live...
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  • Seven Palms: The Thomas Mann House in Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles by Nenik, Francis
    Francis Nenik

    Seven Palms: The Thomas Mann House in Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles

    The story of Thomas Mann's Pacific Palisades home-in-exile, in text and picturesWriter Francis Nenik narrates the history of the Thomas Mann House in Los Angeles' Pacific Palisades neighborhood, and the years that Thomas Mann and his family lived in it, during the author's 1942-52...
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  • Welcome to Your World: How the Built Environment Shapes Our Lives by Goldhagen, Sarah Williams
    Sarah Williams Goldhagen

    Welcome to Your World: How the Built Environment Shapes Our Lives

    One of the nation's chief architecture critics reveals how the environments we build profoundly shape our feelings, memories, and well-being, and argues that we must harness this knowledge to construct a world better suited to human experienceTaking us on a fascinating journey through some...
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  • Projectiles: Architecture Words 6 by Cache, Bernard
    Bernard Cache

    Projectiles: Architecture Words 6

    Bernard Cache formulated his concept of 'non-standard architecture' in his 1995 book Earth Moves: The Furnishing of Territories, a concept that was given the name 'objectile' by Gilles Deleuze in his book on the philosopher Leibniz, The Fold. This collection of ten essays brings...
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  • Sweet & Salt: Water and the Dutch by Metz, Tracy
    Tracy Metz

    Sweet & Salt: Water and the Dutch

    Water management runs in the blood of the Dutch: draining the Netherlands and keeping it dry is a process they started centuries ago and continue to this day. In Sweet & Salt: Water and the Dutch, author Tracy Metz and art historian Maartje van...
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  • Dark Space: Architecture, Representation, Black Identity by Gooden, Mario
    Mario Gooden

    Dark Space: Architecture, Representation, Black Identity

    This collection of essays by architect Mario Gooden investigates the construction of African American identity and representation through the medium of architecture. These five texts move between history, theory, and criticism to explore a discourse of critical spatial practice engaged in the constant reshaping...
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  • Junkspace with Running Room by Koolhaas, Rem
    Rem Koolhaas

    Junkspace with Running Room

    Junkspace first appeared in the Harvard Design School Guide to Shopping (2001), a vast compendium of text, images, and data concerning the consumerist transformation of city and suburb from the first department store to the latest mega mall. The architect Rem Koolhaas itemized in...
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  • Beauty Memory Unity: A Theory of Proportion in Architecture by Bass, Steve
    Steve Bass

    Beauty Memory Unity: A Theory of Proportion in Architecture

    Ancient architects and artists had a way of striking resonant chords in those who viewed of their work. However, this skill seems to have disappeared. Beauty Memory Unity points toward a possibility of regaining a new sense of unity in the visual arts through...
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  • Modern Architecture: Being the Kahn Lectures for 1930 by Wright, Frank Lloyd
    Frank Lloyd Wright

    Modern Architecture: Being the Kahn Lectures for 1930

    Modern Architecture is a landmark text--the first book in which America's greatest architect put forth the principles of a fundamentally new, organic architecture that would reject the trappings of historical styles while avoiding the geometric abstraction of the machine aesthetic advocated by contemporary European...
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  • Adjaye: Africa: Architecture: Compact Edition by Adjaye, David
    David Adjaye

    Adjaye: Africa: Architecture: Compact Edition

    Educated in England, David Adjaye's lifelong dream was to return to Africa as an architect to document the continent's built environment. Over a decade, he tirelessly documented these dynamic, colorful cities, photographing thousands of buildings, sites, and public spaces, and letting each building speak...
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  • The International Style by Hitchcock, Henry-Rusell
    Henry-Rusell Hitchcock

    The International Style

    Initially produced as the catalog to accompany a controversial and groundbreaking 1932 Museum of Modern Art show of the then new architecture emerging in Europe and America, The International Style quickly became the definitive statement of the principles underlying the work of such giants...
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  • Architectural Missionary: D. Fred Charlton in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, 1887-1918 by Brisson, Steven C.
    Steven C. Brisson

    Architectural Missionary: D. Fred Charlton in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, 1887-1918

    The first and most prolific professional architect to reside permanently in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, D. Fred Charlton used the local Lake Superior sandstone to craft the distinctive style found in buildings throughout Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Born in England and trained there as a civil...
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  • If Venice Dies by Settis, Salvatore
    Salvatore Settis

    If Venice Dies

    "Anyone interested in learning what is really going on in Venice should read this book."--Donna Leon, author of My Venice and Other Essays and Death at La FeniceWhat is Venice worth? To whom does this urban treasure belong? This eloquent book by internationally renowned...
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  • Renzo Piano: The Art of Making Buildings by Piano, Renzo
    Renzo Piano

    Renzo Piano: The Art of Making Buildings

    Fifty years of pioneering architecture from the icon behind the Whitney Museum in New York, the Shard in London and the Pompidou Centre in ParisOne of the world's most renowned architects, Renzo Piano (born 1937) is responsible for such iconic landmarks as the Whitney...
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  • Chicago's Classical Architecture: The Legacy of the White City by Stone, David
    David Stone

    Chicago's Classical Architecture: The Legacy of the White City

    Chicago's architecture has been called the most important in the United States by the American Institute of Architects, and perhaps no other type of architecture has had as significant of an impact on the city's look, feel, and character as classical architecture. Chicago's connection...
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  • Building Access: Universal Design and the Politics of Disability by Hamraie, Aimi
    Aimi Hamraie

    Building Access: Universal Design and the Politics of Disability

    "All too often," wrote disabled architect Ronald Mace, "designers don't take the needs of disabled and elderly people into account." Building Access investigates twentieth-century strategies for designing the world with disability in mind. Commonly understood in terms of curb cuts, automatic doors, Braille signs,...
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  • The Open-Ended City: David Dillon on Texas Architecture by Holliday, Kathryn
    Kathryn Holliday

    The Open-Ended City: David Dillon on Texas Architecture

    Texas Historical Commission Award of Excellence in Media Achievement, Texas Historical Commission In 1980, David Dillon launched his career as an architectural critic with a provocative article that asked "Why Is Dallas Architecture So Bad?" Over the next quarter century, he offered readers of...
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  • Lost Twin Cities by Millett, Larry
    Larry Millett

    Lost Twin Cities

    "An impressive sampling of the vanished buildings of the Twin Cities, tracing their history and including information on who the owners and architects were, how these structures were used, why they were torn down, and what occupies each site today. Highly recommended." --Library JournalLost...
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  • Retrospecta 44: Yale School of Architecture 2020-21 by Ansorena, Claudia
    Claudia Ansorena

    Retrospecta 44: Yale School of Architecture 2020-21

    Retrospecta catalogs activity at the Yale School of Architecture. Each volume is a snapshot of evolving architectural and graphic design trends. The book demarcates events such as lectures, publication releases, and outstanding circumstances that have uniquely impacted the academic, social, and political environment at...
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  • Landscape Architecture Frontiers 49: Urban Wilderness and Planting Design by Yu, Kongjian
    Kongjian Yu

    Landscape Architecture Frontiers 49: Urban Wilderness and Planting Design

    There are highly fragmented urban wildernesses remaining and scattering in rapidly urbanized and exceedingly industrialized cities, ranging from crevices along sidewalks to large areas of isolated forests. Although differing in scales with the natural wilderness, urban wildernesses see similar community structures and often offer...
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  • Posthuman Architecture: A Catalogue of Archetypes by Leveratto, Jacopo
    Jacopo Leveratto

    Posthuman Architecture: A Catalogue of Archetypes

    For long, spatial design has been seen as an action that could be performed by people and for people only. And today, even though some of the most meaningful projects of our times seem to challenge this concept, qualitative researches still struggle to emerge....
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  • Bauhaus N° 12: Habitat by Perren, Claudia
    Claudia Perren

    Bauhaus Nｰ 12: Habitat

    Understanding architectural holism from both a historical and a contemporary perspectiveIn 1953, a group of young architects met and proposed a radical shift away from functionalist housing as an architectural standard, instead offering the term "habitat" as a holistic view uniting housing, human beings...
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  • Space Is the Place: Current Reflections on Art and Architecture by Feireiss, Lukas
    Lukas Feireiss

    Space Is the Place: Current Reflections on Art and Architecture

    Space and place as topics of playful investigation and serious reflectionThis book looks at art that relates playfully to architecture, with contributions from artists, architects, designers and scholars including Franz Xaver Baier, Beatriz Colomina, Olafur Eliasson, Andrea Fraser, Bruce Nauman, Tom Sachs and more.Author:...
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  • Lothian by McWilliam, Colin
    Colin McWilliam

    Lothian

    Lothian boasts some of Scotland's most picturesque villages and fine Georgian towns, but its architectural history goes back to the twelfth century. The introduction of monastic orders and the establishment of the parish churches has left examples at Dalmeny and Tyninghame. Lothian also has...
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  • Cornell Journal of Architecture 11: Fear by Warke, Val
    Val Warke

    Cornell Journal of Architecture 11: Fear

    Anthropologists tell us that fear is an innate trait among most primate species, a principal aspect of learning-to-survive. At the same time, most of us primates seem equally adept at learning new fears, fears that are perhaps irrational and non-productive, and frequently enflamed by...
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  • Founding Myths of Architecture by Buhagiar, Konrad
    Konrad Buhagiar

    Founding Myths of Architecture

    This book brings together and discusses the work of some of the most influential and intriguing figures in the history of architecture.Author: Konrad BuhagiarISBN-10: 1907317171ISBN-13: 9781907317170Publisher: Artifice PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/26/2021Pages: 176Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.95lbsSize: 9.60h x 6.10w x 0.70d
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  • Lateness by Eisenman, Peter
    Peter Eisenman

    Lateness

    A provocative case for historical ambiguity in architecture by one of the field's leading theorists Conceptions of modernity in architecture are often expressed in the idea of the zeitgeist, or "spirit of the age," an attitude toward architectural form that is embedded in a...
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  • Space as Membrane by Ebeling, Siegfried
    Siegfried Ebeling

    Space as Membrane

    What if architecture was no longer 3D or 2D, mass or surface, object or space? And what if the architectural environment was envisioned not as an abstract continuum, but as a material envelope that grows organically from the human body, uniting its skin with...
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  • The World as an Architectural Project by Sarkis, Hashim
    Hashim Sarkis

    The World as an Architectural Project

    Architects imagine the planet: fifty speculative world-scale projects from Patrick Geddes, Alison and Peter Smithson, Kiyonori Kikutake, Juan Navarro Baldeweg, Luc Deleu, and others. The world's growing vulnerability to planet-sized risks invites action on a global scale. The World as an Architectural Project shows...
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  • Architecture for Health by Nickl-Weller, Christine
    Christine Nickl-Weller

    Architecture for Health

    Hospital architecture reflects society in a state of flux. How do we care for our patients? What working environments do we offer caregivers? How does the hospital fit into our cities? When it comes to planning a hospital, architects are not only faced with...
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  • Implosions/Explosions: Towards a Study of Planetary Urbanization by Brenner, Neil
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    Implosions/Explosions: Towards a Study of Planetary Urbanization

    In 1970, the influential French Marxist philosopher and sociologist Henri Lefebvre published a book titled The Urban Revolution, in which he advanced the hypothesis that "society has been completely urbanized." By this, Lefebvre meant that the process of urbanization creates the conditions for capitalism--rather...
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  • Future Cities Laboratory by Cairns, Stephen
    Stephen Cairns

    Future Cities Laboratory

    Future Cities Laboratory reports on the same named research program and its mission to shape sustainable future cities through science, by design, in place. It offers a global perspective on cities from the vantage point of the world's most populous and rapidly urbanizing continent:...
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