Architecture - Criticism

This book presents the life story of an extraordinary woman in the world of corporate architecture during the Mad Men era of the 1950s to 1980s. Born in a small village in Germany, Brigitte Peterhans managed to come to America to study with Mies...

Matter Matters reflects on the current environmental and social crises through the lens of materiality, positioning matter as the focal point to address the political ecology of objects in a society striving for carbon neutrality by 2050. The publication is based on the homonymous...

The Review: "What's Affordable?" showcases Tulane School of Architecture's commitment to developing sustainable alternatives for our future built environment through the work of its students, faculty, and researchers.The outcome of TUSA's various programs - Architecture, Design, Historic Preservation, and Real Estate - is organized...

Author: Gideon BoieISBN-10: 9462088993ISBN-13: 9789462088993Publisher: Nai010 PublishersLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/11/2025Pages: 320Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.05lbsSize: 8.82h x 5.75w x 0.87d

Is there anything as ephemeral, mundane, or difficult to capture as the everyday? For most, the everyday is not spectacular, provocative, or fiery. It may be easy to brush aside as unimportant or banal, especially as countless alerts of thrilling global events imply our...

This book is about architecture, but not about formal architectural images. It is about the people who inhabit and use buildings and places. It is about the people who have made and will make buildings and places. It is a book about subjects and...

Architect Andrew Frontini converts the architectural monograph into a story telling vehicle to candidly reveal the inner workings of the architect's creative process as it intersects with the constantly evolving needs of our society. Eleven narrative insertions are bound into the body of the...

Ever more technologies are being created to sense our environment, and much is being learned about how animals and plants sense theirs. We often think of these tools as extending our capacity for sensing what is not available through natural human perception. But what...

Manhattan is commonly regarded as an iconic island-territory of the twentieth century. Conventional representations reinforce its reading as an urban condition resulting from neoliberal capitalism. These forces have expanded the city grid and extruded its architectures as a laboratory of urban ideas. Yet, like...

It could be said that Walter Gropius laid the cornerstone of modern architecture in 1919 by founding the Bauhaus. As a result, modern architecture is now over 100 years old. This first century of modernism has come to a close with a mixed review....

Media Matters in Landscape Architecture makes a unique contribution to landscape architectural praxis for its explicit framing of "environmental media" in terms of its dual meaning within our discipline. In the sciences, environmental media are the materials of the natural world--soils, air, water, plants,...

""How to Attract Money"" by Joseph Murphy is a practical guide that explores the principles and techniques for attracting wealth and abundance into one's life. Drawing upon the power of the subconscious mind and the laws of attraction, Murphy provides valuable insights and actionable...

Now available in paperback, this is a cutting edge, detailed and comprehensive exploration of architectural theory. Its focus on interdisplinarity and cross-cultural ties ensures the discipline's relationship with the social sciences is fully explored.Author: Greig CryslerISBN-10: 1446282635ISBN-13: 9781446282632Publisher: Sage Publications LtdLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/03/2013Pages: 776Format:...

Author: Lina GhotmehISBN-10: 3037787767ISBN-13: 9783037787762Publisher: Lars Muller PublishersLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/24/2025Pages: 288Format: HardcoverWeight: 2.95lbsSize: 12.05h x 8.98w x 0.94d

Author: Justin AgyinISBN-10: 9462088977ISBN-13: 9789462088979Publisher: Nai010 PublishersLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/29/2025Pages: 128Format: Paperback

Every national architecture-whether Japanese, German, French, Moroccan, or Israeli-reflects the culture, traditions, climate, and technology of the nation within its borders.Therefore, for nearly two millennia, the Jewish people, lacking a state, did not have a national Jewish architecture. Buildings constructed by or for Jews...

The Banham Lectures presents a series of essays by leading critics on art, design, architecture and culture. All are inspired by the revolutionary work of Reyner Banham, who continues to be one of the greatest influences on Design and Architecture today. Integrating the study...

NOW IN TRADE EDITION! *50 Books 50 Covers AIGA (American Institute of Graphic Arts), Winner, Book Category *Official Selection Award of the 10th Edition of the Festival International du Livre D'Art et du Film Both an architecture and movie fan's dream (LA Times), this...

Volume five of the Landscript series examines material culture in the context of landscape architecture theory and design, positing the constructed landscape as a site for the investigation of human-nature relations and the factors that mediate their production, from labor to physical materials.Author: Jane...

The philosophy of Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908-1961) has influenced the design work of architects as diverse as Steven Holl and Peter Zumthor, as well as informing renowned schools of architectural theory, notably those around Dalibor Vesely at Cambridge, Kenneth Frampton, David Leatherbarrow and Alberto P?rez-G?mez...

How films imagine and represent in-between spaces and how cinematic production becomes a site to project spatial fantasies. Architecture, Film, and the Inbetween: Spatio-Cinematic Betwixt looks at the cinematic representation of architectural in-betweenness, as well as the in-between spaces within the architectural structure of...

Dispositional Intelligence proposes a contemporary theory of spatial organization in architecture through original research into a particular kind of hybrid design production--inherently architectural yet strongly driven by modes of intellection traditionally associated with engineering--which surfaced between the mid-1950s and the mid-2000s. Three highly important...

Designing Cultures of Care brings together an international selection of design researchers who, through a variety of design approaches, explore the ways in which design intersects with cultures of care. Unique in its focus and disciplinary diversity, this edited volume of essays develops an...

This book focuses on architect Demetri Porphyrios and developer Roger Madelin projects that highlight dialogues between historic buildings and new districts to create city centers in a master plan for Kings Cross London with the Yale School of Architecture.Author: George KnightISBN-10: 0393732479ISBN-13: 9780393732474Publisher: Yale...

A celebration of Peter Eisenman's illustrious career as architect, thinker, author, and educator Known for his architecture, writing, and teaching, Peter Eisenman (b. 1932) has shaped the field of contemporary architecture through innovative design and thinking. His works include single-family residences such as his...

Ayrshire and Arran is an area of striking contrasts. Its landscape ranges from sand dunes to rolling pastures to moors. The local architecture is similarly diverse, marrying natural beauty with industry and modernity. This survey, featuring specially commissioned photographs and maps, offers the kind...

In the early nineteenth century, the most consequential developments in Ottoman architecture were taking place not in Istanbul but in the farthest reaches of imperial territory. Emily Neumeier investigates this wider phenomenon through a consideration of the architecture of Ali Pasha of Ioannina, one...

A wise architect's guide for re-energizing architectural design thinking, capturing and applying discoveries from the human sciences and insights from non-architects, to transform architectural design, practice, and education. People-Centered Architecture: Design Practice and Education is a unique exploration of concrete ways a deeper understanding...

An urgent appeal to rethink the heritage enterprise A critical reassessment of historic preservation policies in the United States, Second-Order Preservation brings needed attention to the hierarchical underpinnings and effects of established preservation frameworks. Questioning the criteria by which value is ascribed to historic...

Appraising the legacy of the Delos Symposia as both global humanitarian network and intellectual theaterSpearheaded by members of the digital humanities Delos Project, The Delos Symposia offers a contemporary critical reassessment of the extravagant conferences choreographed around Greek architect Constantinos Doxiadis and his "science...

Just as information and media are products of design, they themselves leave indelible marks on the environments in which they circulate and help structure. Architecture has irrevocably been altered by the proliferation and advancement of new media technologies and forms of communication, but architecture,...

The Architecture of Neoliberalism pursues an uncompromising critique of the neoliberal turn in contemporary architecture. This book reveals how a self-styled parametric and post-critical architecture serves mechanisms of control and compliance while promoting itself, at the same time, as progressive. Spencer's incisive analysis of...

The compelling story of the significant relationship between communism and modern architecture in postwar France The massive reshaping of French cities that took place between 1958 and 1981 is commonly regarded as a unique episode in which modernist ideals were tested on an unprecedented...

I have known G (Gurjit Singh Matharoo) since the days I was a student, and him, my teacher, who gave one-liners or sometimes just one-word lessons at the School of Architecture1. One day, he was on the public phone at the School, maybe a...

Design Research for Uncertain Futures assembles a diverse group of thinkers and makers, and thinking-through-makers, to situate design research as a form of knowledge generation that is complementary to science, and especially needed now, given changing climates and uncertain futures. Our model of design...

A particular history of how encounters between architects and people with disabilities transformed modern culture. Window Shopping with Helen Keller recovers a series of influential moments when architects and designers engaged the embodied experiences of people with disabilities. David Serlin reveals how people with...

A particular history of how encounters between architects and people with disabilities transformed modern culture. Window Shopping with Helen Keller recovers a series of influential moments when architects and designers engaged the embodied experiences of people with disabilities. David Serlin reveals how people with...

The second publication by Goldsmiths' Centre for Research Architecture explores the role of media in spatial politics and social justice movementsSince its founding in 2005, the Centre for Research Architecture (CRA) at Goldsmiths, University of London, has brought together a diverse group of architects,...

Cataloging the Uzbek national pavilion at the 18th Architecture BiennaleFrom the ruins of the ancient qalas to the mythical figure of the labyrinth: the amply illustrated Unbuild Together addresses different horizons of Uzbekistan's architectural heritage as potential tools for envisioning the future and key...

Cohabitation Strategies: Challenging Neoliberal Urbanization Between Crisis presents twelve years of urban theories, projects, and interventions developed by Cohabitation Strategies, a Rotterdam- and New York City-based non-profit cooperative committed to radical socio-spatial research, design, and development. Centering on the development of new action-research methodologies,...

Architect and artist Roger Kemble has demonstrated his ideas of urban design with images from sixteen major Canadian cities--among others. He has walked, measured, and sketched their streets, squares and places, scanned their horizons, probed the relationships between structures, land and landscape with unprecedented...

For more than twenty years now, Blair Kamin of the Chicago Tribune has explored how architecture captures our imagination and engages our deepest emotions. A winner of the Pulitzer Prize for criticism, Kamin treats his subjects not only as works of art but also...

Contents "French Philosophy Since 1945", Fredrika Spindler "Utopian Thinking in Past and Contemporary Times," Sinziana Ravini "Universal Modernism, Swedish Art Heroine," Charlotte Bydler "'Pastoral Power' and the Techniques for Controlling the Poor and Unemployed," Maurizio Lazzarato "Inventing a Silence," Alexandre Costanzo "The Ground Zero...

This book provides an in-depth exploration of the rich and persistent use of analogical thinking in the built environment. Since the turn of the 21st century, "design thinking" has permeated many fields outside of the design disciplines. It is expected to succeed whenever disciplinary...

"After 1945 our plutocrats, bureaucrats, board chairmen, CEOs, commissioners, and college presidents undergo an inexplicable change. They become diffident and reticent. All at once they are willingto accept that glass of ice water in the face, that bracing slap across the mouth, that reprimand...

Sir Banister Fletcher's A History of Architecture is the acknowledged classic work of architectural history reference. Since the first edition was published in 1896, it has been declared the 'Book of the Century' by the American Institute of Architects and it has become essential...

A brief (evolutionary) history of how we became prodigious builders.'A powerful explanation and a deep understanding of design'- Michael Batty, CASA, University College London This book contains one of the most fascinating stories ever told: how and why our species became a lineage of...

The American Vignola, Part 1: The Five Orders is a book written by William Robert Ware and first published in 1904. The book is a comprehensive guide to the classical architecture of ancient Greece and Rome, focusing specifically on the five orders of architecture:...

What is design philosophy and why is it needed? This important book explains the discipline's recent emergence, the key questions which dominate it, and its potential to fundamentally change the way we practice and think about design. The reader comprises eight thematic sections, each...

The Colonial Architecture of Salem is a comprehensive book written by Frank Cousins that explores the rich history of the colonial architecture in Salem, Massachusetts. The book is divided into several chapters, each of which focuses on a different aspect of the city's architecture....