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  • Buildings Must Die: A Perverse View of Architecture by Cairns, Stephen
    Stephen Cairns

    Buildings Must Die: A Perverse View of Architecture

    Part memento mori for architecture, and part invocation to reimagine the design values that lay at the heart of its creative purpose.Buildings, although inanimate, are often assumed to have "life." And the architect, through the act of design, is assumed to be their conceiver...
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  • Designing Mind-Friendly Environments: Architecture and Design for Everyone by Maslin, Steve
    Steve Maslin

    Designing Mind-Friendly Environments: Architecture and Design for Everyone

    Exploring the impact of the built environment and design on people with a range of neurological experiences, including autism, dementia, dyslexia and dyspraxia, this comprehensive guide provides project commissioners, architects and designers with all the information and personal insight they need to design, create...
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  • Weaving Body Context by Mimesis International
    Mimesis International

    Weaving Body Context

    We want to move beyond thinking of architecture as an object. Architecture is not separate from us - it is not something to be judged merely by its formal properties, its satisfaction of programmatic concerns or its performance in terms of technical parameters. We...
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  • Konrad Wachsmann's Television: Post-Architectural Transmissions by Wigley, Mark
    Mark Wigley

    Konrad Wachsmann's Television: Post-Architectural Transmissions

    A novel reading of the work of one of the most influential designers of the twentieth century.In this provocative intellectual biography, architectural historian Mark Wigley makes the surprising claim that the thinking behind modernist architect Konrad Wachsmann's legendary projects was dominated by the idea...
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  • Emergent Tokyo: Designing the Spontaneous City by Almazán, Jorge
    Jorge Almaz疣

    Emergent Tokyo: Designing the Spontaneous City

    Tokyo is one of the most vibrant and livable cities on the planet, a megacity that somehow remains intimate and adaptive. Com-pared to Western metropolises like New York or Paris, however, few outsiders understand Tokyo's inner workings. For cities around the globe mired in...
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  • Dynamic Geographies by Wilks, Barbara
    Barbara Wilks

    Dynamic Geographies

    Landscapes are forged by many forces and are dynamic, not static. Yet most landscape designs are designed as static; that is, they are designed not to change substantially for 20-50 years. As cities become the dominant living space for humans, allowing non-human forces to...
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  • Egyptian Places: An Illustrated Travelogue by Ayon, Henry David
    Henry David Ayon

    Egyptian Places: An Illustrated Travelogue

    Egyptian Places: An Illustrated Travelogue is a rich and multi-faceted account of an architect's visits to 12 of Ancient Egypt's most spectacular sites, a journey that transports the reader from the urban metropolis of Cairo and the Great Pyramid of Giza to the remote...
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  • Platform 12: How about Now? by Bly, Carrie
    Carrie Bly

    Platform 12: How about Now?

    Offering questions of the past to ground questions of the present, How About Now? summons the enduring concerns and preoccupations that designers constantly revisit, reconsider, and redefine in response to a changing world. This installment of the GSD Platform series celebrates--and places itself within--the...
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  • Architecture and Structuralism: The Ordering of Space by Hertzberger, Herman
    Herman Hertzberger

    Architecture and Structuralism: The Ordering of Space

    The Dutch Architect and writer Herman Hertzberger (born 1932) is internationally recognized for both his built work and his written work. His buildings (such as Centraal Beheer in Apeldoorn, built in 1972) and his publications (such as his widely translated Lessons for Students in...
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  • Two Sides of the Border: Reimagining the Region by Bilbao, Tatiana
    Tatiana Bilbao

    Two Sides of the Border: Reimagining the Region

    What if we stopped dividing the US and Mexico, and instead saw the border as one region? This book envisions the cultural and industrial cohesion of the areaAt a moment when migration has returned as a hot-button political issue and NAFTA is being renegotiated...
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  • Landscape as Territory: A Cartographic Design Project by Olóriz, Clara
    Clara Olóriz

    Landscape as Territory: A Cartographic Design Project

    Landscape as Territory is a cartographic book project that critically addresses the agency of architects in the so-called 'Urban Age, ' understanding the notion of 'territory' as a field of design praxis through which Interconnected landscapes are produced. Territory, understood as a 'political technology,...
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  • Platform 11: Setting the Table by Mira Bang, Esther
    Esther Mira Bang

    Platform 11: Setting the Table

    Platform represents a year in the life of the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Produced annually, this compendium highlights a selection of work from the disciplines of architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning and design, and design engineering. It exposes a rich and varied...
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  • Andrea Branzi: E=mc2: The Project in the Age of Relativity by Andrea, Brandi
    Brandi Andrea

    Andrea Branzi: E=mc2: The Project in the Age of Relativity

    Starting from the Radical research to contemporary design, the book collects Andrea Branzi's work about the relationship city-design. The publication begins from the Andrea Branzi's reflection on the relationship civility-design, from the Radical's research on mass-production civilization to the "infinite territories", proposing new territories...
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  • Un-Conscious-City by Arets, Wiel
    Wiel Arets

    Un-Conscious-City

    No one demands that people move to cities; people tend to do so, on their own. People choose to move to cities for opportunity. Such choices are often made unconsciously, as they are based on rules, traditions, and local communities-or a combination of all...
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  • Signal. Image. Architecture. by May, John
    John May

    Signal. Image. Architecture.

    Architecture is immersed in an immense cultural experiment called imaging. ​Yet the technical status and nature of that imaging must be reevaluated. What happens to the architectural mind when it stops pretending that electronic images of drawings made by computers are drawings? When it...
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  • Architecture in the Anthropocene: Encounters Among Design, Deep Time, Science and Philosophy by Turpin, Etienne
    Etienne Turpin

    Architecture in the Anthropocene: Encounters Among Design, Deep Time, Science and Philosophy

    Architecture in the Anthropocene: Encounters Among Design, Deep Time, Science and Philosophy, edited by Etienne Turpin, brings together a provocative series of essays, conversations, and design proposals that attempt to intensify the potential of the multidisciplinary discourse developing in response to the Anthropocene thesis...
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  • Frederic Church's Olana on the Hudson: Art, Landscape, Architecture by Rosenbaum, Julia B.
    Julia B. Rosenbaum

    Frederic Church's Olana on the Hudson: Art, Landscape, Architecture

    An in-depth look inside Olana, one of America's greatest estates, which was designed and built by Frederic Church, the most renowned of the Hudson River School painters. Frederic Church, the leader of the much-loved group of artists known as the Hudson River School, made...
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  • A Chronology of Architecture: A Cultural Timeline from Stone Circles to Skyscrapers by Zukowsky, John
    John Zukowsky

    A Chronology of Architecture: A Cultural Timeline from Stone Circles to Skyscrapers

    Roman architect and engineer Vitruvius defined architecture's characteristics to include firmitas, utilitas, and venustas--essentially, structural integrity, usefulness, and beauty. Amazingly, all three Vitruvian characteristics can be found one way or another in most buildings and constructions from antiquity through the present. A Chronology of...
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  • The Hidden Dimension by Hall, Edward T.
    Edward T. Hall

    The Hidden Dimension

    People like to keep certain distances between themselves and other people or thigns. And this invisible bubble of space that constitutes each person's "territory" is one of the key dimensions of modern society. Edward T. Hall, author of The Silent Language, introduced the science...
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  • Architecture, Aesthetics, and the Predicaments of Theory by Ameri, Amir H.
    Amir H. Ameri

    Architecture, Aesthetics, and the Predicaments of Theory

    Architecture, Aesthetics, and the Predicaments of Theory offers a critical analysis of the methodological constants and shared critical strategies in the history of theoretical discourse on Western architecture. Central to these constants is the persistent role of aesthetics as a critical tool for the...
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  • Intra! Intra!: Towards an Intra Space by Jauernik, Christina
    Christina Jauernik

    Intra! Intra!: Towards an Intra Space

    Thinkers revisit INTRA SPACE, an artistic research project that experiments with the substances, constructions, and manifestations of our bodies. INTRA INTRA calls a variety of thinkers to revisit INTRA SPACE, an artistic research project that experiments with the substances, constructions, and manifestations of our...
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  • Typological Drift: Emerging Cities in China by Li, Shiqiao
    Shiqiao Li

    Typological Drift: Emerging Cities in China

    Neither derivatives of Western cities norisolated from them, Chinese cities in the past four decades are perhaps bestcaptured in their characteristic complexity through a concept in biologicalevolution: drift. Unlike mutation, adaptation, and migration, drift ofphenotypes takes place when chance events terminate some features and...
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  • What Kind of Architect Are You by Greinacher, Udo
    Udo Greinacher

    What Kind of Architect Are You

    Architecture is commonplace. We inhabit it and use it; it is constantly present; it serves as foreground and background and usually has a story to tell. But apart from its most illustrious makers, we know almost nothing about the people who conceived it: the...
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  • The Nomadic Listener by Chattopadhyay, Budhaditya
    Budhaditya Chattopadhyay

    The Nomadic Listener

    Volume one of a series on transcultural poetics: sound, text and drawings on contemporary urban experienceBased on the author's artistic research on migration, contemporary urban experience, and sonic alienation, The Nomadic Listener is composed of a series of texts stemming from psychogeographic explorations of...
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  • The Future of Transportation: SOM Thinkers Series by Grabar, Henry
    Henry Grabar

    The Future of Transportation: SOM Thinkers Series

    How will we travel in the future? Essays on the transport to come, from sidewalk scooters to levitating trainsWith the promise of delivery drones, personal helicopters, and groceries delivered right to your refrigerator, one might think we are living in the best of transportation...
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  • Space and Anti-Space: The Fabric of Place, City and Architecture by Littenberg, Barbara
    Barbara Littenberg

    Space and Anti-Space: The Fabric of Place, City and Architecture

    This book challenges the conventional idea of what constitutes the physical form of the contemporary city. Observing the absence of extended urban fabrics--the missing urbanism--in the new global cities developed today, it argues that these cities are merely statistical accumulations of density that lack...
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  • Architectural Styles: A Visual Guide by Hopkins, Owen
    Owen Hopkins

    Architectural Styles: A Visual Guide

    Have you ever wondered what the difference is between Gothic and Gothic Revival, or how to distinguish between Baroque and Neoclassical? This guide makes extensive use of photographs to identify and explain the characteristic features of nearly 300 buildings. The result is a clear...
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  • It's All Done Gone: Arkansas Photographs from the Farm Security Administration Collection, 1935-1943 by Watkins, Patsy
    Patsy Watkins

    It's All Done Gone: Arkansas Photographs from the Farm Security Administration Collection, 1935-1943

    In 1935 a fledging government agency embarked on a project to photograph Americans hit hardest by the Great Depression. Over the next eight years, the photographers of the Farm Security Administration captured nearly a quarter-million images of tenant farmers and sharecroppers in the South,...
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  • Showpiece City: How Architecture Made Dubai by Reisz, Todd
    Todd Reisz

    Showpiece City: How Architecture Made Dubai

    Staggering skylines and boastful architecture make Dubai famous--this book traces them back to a twentieth-century plan for survival. In 1959, experts agreed that if Dubai was to become something more than an unruly port, a plan was needed. Specifically, a town plan was prescribed...
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  • Architecture and Violence by Kenzari, Bechir
    Bechir Kenzari

    Architecture and Violence

    This is a compelling compilation of essays by international architectural theorists on the relationship of violence to space. With the events of September 11th, the London bombings, the Madrid train explosions, and the daily blasts in Baghdad, the question of violence and terrorism is...
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  • Introducing: Short Essays on Influential Thinkers and Designers in Architecture by Erdman, David
    David Erdman

    Introducing: Short Essays on Influential Thinkers and Designers in Architecture

    Introducing―a collection of eighteen short essays developed by designer and educator David Erdman―suggests that short-form writing might serve as a possible vehicle for architectural discourse to flourish in the 21st century. Speculating that concise pieces of information attributed to the blogging and tweeting generation...
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  • The Language of Houses: How Buildings Speak to Us by Lurie, Alison
    Alison Lurie

    The Language of Houses: How Buildings Speak to Us

    In the 1980's, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Alison Lurie wrote a meditation on clothing as an expression of history, social status and individual psychology. The Language of Clothes (Random House) came to be highly regarded in the literature of couture and design.Lurie has returned...
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  • At Home in Maine: Houses Designed to Fit the Land by Glass, Christopher
    Christopher Glass

    At Home in Maine: Houses Designed to Fit the Land

    Just what is the quintessential Maine house? A traditional Cape nestled into a hillside meadow? A classic lake ront cottage? A restored Victorian in a quaint village? Architect Chris Glass and photographer Brian Vanden Brink make a compelling and visually fascinating argument that the...
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  • The Architecture of Sunderland: 1700-1914 by Potts, Graham
    Graham Potts

    The Architecture of Sunderland: 1700-1914

    Sunderland is largely a product of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, when coalmining and shipbuilding fuelled rapid expansion and development. Once known as the 'largest shipbuilding town in the world', Sunderland's proud and distinctive identity is embodied in its historic buildings and in its...
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  • Four Walls and a Roof: The Complex Nature of a Simple Profession by de Graaf, Reinier
    Reinier de Graaf

    Four Walls and a Roof: The Complex Nature of a Simple Profession

    Architecture, we like to believe, is an elevated art form that shapes the world as it pleases. Four Walls and a Roof challenges this notion, presenting a candid account of what it is really like to work as an architect. Drawing on his own...
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  • Architecture and Modernity: A Critique by Heynen, Hilde
    Hilde Heynen

    Architecture and Modernity: A Critique

    Bridges the gap between the history and theory of twentieth-century architecture and cultural theories of modernity.In this exploration of the relationship between modernity, dwelling, and architecture, Hilde Heynen attempts to bridge the gap between the discourse of the modern movement and cultural theories of...
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  • La+ Community by Hands, Tatum
    Tatum Hands

    LA+ Community

    Almost everything that landscape architects design is ultimately for a community. Community can be the boon or bane of a project, and oftentimes both. LA+ COMMUNITY aims to explore how, over time, each of us moves in and out of multiple communities, shaping them...
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  • Writingplace Journal for Architecture and Literature 5: Narrative Methods for Writing Urban Places by Hernández, Jorge
    Jorge Hern疣dez

    Writingplace Journal for Architecture and Literature 5: Narrative Methods for Writing Urban Places

    Experts in architecture and literature assess narrative as a tool for designDeveloped in context of the European scientific network EU COST Action, Writingplace 5 approaches a range of narrative methods for analysis and design that deal with socially inclusive urban places. Author: Jorge Hern疣dezISBN-10:...
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  • Future Cities Lab: Indicia 03 by Cairns, Stephen
    Stephen Cairns

    Future Cities Lab: Indicia 03

    An invitation to explore, test and refine sustainable urban development in your own cityThis third and final volume in the Indicia book series presents the results of the Future Cities Laboratory research program in the form of actions for sustainable city-making. It complements the...
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  • Young Architects 20: Objective by Of New York, The Architectural League
    The Architectural League Of New York

    Young Architects 20: Objective

    The Architectural League Prize for Young Architects + Designers is an annual competition, series of lectures, exhibition, and publication organized by The Architectural League of New York. For more than thirty years, the League Prize has recognized outstanding and provocative work by up-and-coming North...
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  • Landscape Architecture Frontiers 046: Prototype Study in Landscape Architecture by Yu, Kongjian
    Kongjian Yu

    Landscape Architecture Frontiers 046: Prototype Study in Landscape Architecture

    In its history of over a hundred of years, landscape architecture has developed many ideas, concepts, methods, and models. In this issue, LA Frontiers focuses on prototype studies by examining those traceable and repeatable landscape theories, methodologies, and pedagogies, and introducing the knowledge from...
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  • Ecologies of Architecture: Essays on Territorialisation by Radman, Andrej
    Andrej Radman

    Ecologies of Architecture: Essays on Territorialisation

    Drawing on a range of philosophical texts, Andrej Radman brings together a collection of 11 of his essays, published over the last decade, to show that when a society manipulates its matter it is not a reflection of culture; it is culture.Author: Andrej RadmanISBN-10:...
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  • Evictions by Deutsche, Rosalyn
    Rosalyn Deutsche

    Evictions: Art and Spatial Politics

    Since the 1980s a great deal has been written on the relationship between art, architecture, and urban planning and design, on the one hand, and the politics of space on the other. In Evictions Rosalyn Deutsche investigates--and protests against--the dominant uses of this interdisciplinary...
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  • Confucius' Courtyard: Architecture, Philosophy and the Good Life in China by Ruan, Xing
    Xing Ruan

    Confucius' Courtyard: Architecture, Philosophy and the Good Life in China

    For more than three thousand years, Chinese life - from the city and the imperial palace, to the temple, the market and the family home - was configured around the courtyard. So too were the accomplishments of China's artistic, philosophical and institutional classes. Confucius'...
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  • Retrospecta #43: Yale School of Architecture 2019-2020 by Hicks, Claire
    Claire Hicks

    Retrospecta #43: Yale School of Architecture 2019-2020

    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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  • Architectural Principles in the Age of Humanism by Wittkower, Rudolf
    Rudolf Wittkower

    Architectural Principles in the Age of Humanism

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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  • Expansions by Sarkis, Hashim
    Hashim Sarkis

    Expansions

    A companion to the Biennale Architettura 2021 catalog, gathering over 80 responses to the question: how will we live together?A complement to the Biennale Architettura 2021 catalog, Expansions gathers over 80 responses to the question: how will we live together? It acts as an...
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  • Many Masks: A Life of Frank Lloyd Wright by Gill, Brendan
    Brendan Gill

    Many Masks: A Life of Frank Lloyd Wright

    "Genius, egotist, mythomaniac, sexual rebel, master of media manipulation, the legendary Wright comes alive in all his cantankerous complexity. . . . A delight from cover to cover."--Kirkus Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) is often described as the greatest of American architects. His works-among them...
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  • The Architecture and Cities of Northern Mexico from Independence to the Present by Burian, Edward R.
    Edward R. Burian

    The Architecture and Cities of Northern Mexico from Independence to the Present

    The states of Northern Mexico--Tamaulipas, Nuevo Le, Coahuila, Chihuahua, Durango, Sonora, Sinaloa, and Baja California Norte and Sur--have architecture, urbanism, and landscape design that offer numerous lessons in how to build well, but this constructed environment is largely undervalued or unknown. To make this...
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  • Japan-ness in Architecture by Isozaki, Arata
    Arata Isozaki

    Japan-ness in Architecture

    One of Japan's leading architects examines notions of Japan-ness as exemplified by key events in Japanese architectural history from the seventh to the twentieth century; essays on buildings and their cultural context.Japanese architect Arata Isozaki sees buildings not as dead objects but as events...
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