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  • Saints and Spectacle: Byzantine Mosaics in Their Cultural Setting by Connor, Carolyn L.
    Carolyn L. Connor

    Saints and Spectacle: Byzantine Mosaics in Their Cultural Setting

    Saints and Spectacle examines the origins and reception of the Middle Byzantine program of mosaic decoration. This complex and colorful system of images covers the walls and vaults of churches with figures and compositions seen against a dazzling gold ground. The surviving eleventh-century churches...
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  • Architecture of France by Hanser, David A.
    David A. Hanser

    Architecture of France

    Covering all regions of France--from Avignon's Palace of the Popes to Versailles' Petit Trianon--and all periods of French architecture--from the Roman theater at Orange to the Arc de Triomphe in Paris--this volume examines more than 60 of France's most important architectural landmarks. Writing in...
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  • Emulating Antiquity: Renaissance Buildings from Brunelleschi to Michelangelo by Hemsoll, David
    David Hemsoll

    Emulating Antiquity: Renaissance Buildings from Brunelleschi to Michelangelo

    A revelatory account of the complex and evolving relationship of Renaissance architects to classical antiquity Focusing on the work of architects such as Brunelleschi, Bramante, Raphael, and Michelangelo, this extensively illustrated volume explores how the understanding of the antique changed over the course of...
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  • Rediscovering Architecture: Paestum in Eighteenth-Century Architectural Experience and Theory by de Jong, Sigrid
    Sigrid de Jong

    Rediscovering Architecture: Paestum in Eighteenth-Century Architectural Experience and Theory

    The 18th-century rediscovery of the three archaic Greek-Doric temples in Paestum in southern Italy turned existing ideas on classical architecture upside down. The porous limestone temples with rough, heavy columns were entirely unlike the classical architecture travelers to the site were familiar with. Paestum,...
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  • From Ornament to Object: Genealogies of Architectural Modernism by Payne, Alina
    Alina Payne

    From Ornament to Object: Genealogies of Architectural Modernism

    In the late 19th century, a centuries-old preference for highly ornamented architecture gave way to a budding Modernism of clean lines and unadorned surfaces. At the same moment, everyday objects--cups, saucers, chairs, and tables--began to receive critical attention. Alina Payne addresses this shift, arguing...
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  • Rafael Moneo: Building, Teaching, Writing by González de Canales, Francisco
    Francisco Gonz疝ez de Canales

    Rafael Moneo: Building, Teaching, Writing

    A critical look at the life, work, and influence of the important and award-winning Spanish architect Rafael Moneo The Spanish architect Rafael Moneo (b. 1937) has won numerous awards (including the prestigious Pritzker Architecture Prize), yet this publication is the first to offer a...
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  • Sebastiano Serlio on Architecture, Volume One, Books I-V of 'Tutte L'Opere D'Architecttura Et Prospetiva' by Serlio, Sebastiano
    Sebastiano Serlio

    Sebastiano Serlio on Architecture, Volume One, Books I-V of 'Tutte L'Opere D'Architecttura Et Prospetiva'

    Sebastiano Serlio introduced the principles of classical design to northern Europe and was the most important architectural writer and theorist of the sixteenth century. However, his writings have been inaccessible to English language readers until now. This distinguished translation of Serlio's treatise, complete with...
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  • Texas Log Buildings: A Folk Architecture by Jordan, Terry G.
    Terry G. Jordan

    Texas Log Buildings: A Folk Architecture

    Once too numerous to attract attention, the log buildings of Texas now stand out for their rustic beauty. This book preserves a record of the log houses, stores, inns, churches, schools, jails, and barns that have already become all too few in the Texas...
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  • Interpreting Environments: Tradition, Deconstruction, Hermeneutics by Mugerauer, Robert
    Robert Mugerauer

    Interpreting Environments: Tradition, Deconstruction, Hermeneutics

    In this pioneering book, Robert Mugerauer seeks to make deconstruction and hermeneutics accessible to people in the environmental disciplines, including architecture, planning, urban studies, environmental studies, and cultural geography.Mugerauer demonstrates each methodology through a case study. The first study uses the traditional approach to...
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  • Artificial Love: A Story of Machines and Architecture by Shepheard, Paul
    Paul Shepheard

    Artificial Love: A Story of Machines and Architecture

    A vision of architecture that includes sculpture, machines, and technology and encapsulates the history of the human species.According to Paul Shepheard, architecture is the rearranging of the world for human purposes. Sculpture, machines, and landscapes are all architecture-every bit as much as buildings are....
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  • Chambers for a Memory Palace by Lyndon, Donlyn
    Donlyn Lyndon

    Chambers for A Memory Palace

    This ode to the spirit of place consists of an exchange of letters in which one author recalls and the other responds to the elements considered essential to the art of successful place-making. Each of the book's chapters forms a chamber, and each chamber...
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  • The Projective Cast: Architecture and Its Three Geometries by Evans, Robin
    Robin Evans

    The Projective Cast: Architecture and Its Three Geometries

    Robin Evans recasts the idea of the relationship between geometry and architecture, drawing on mathematics, engineering, art history, and aesthetics to uncover processes in the imagining and realizing of architectural form.Anyone reviewing the history of architectural theory, Robin Evans observes, would have to conclude...
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  • Nature and the Idea of a Man-Made World by Crowe, Norman
    Norman Crowe

    Nature and the Idea of a Man-Made World: An Investigation into the Evolutionary Roots of Form and Order in the Built Environment

    Over the course of this century, nature has increasingly been relegated to the province of environmentalists while cities and towns have been turned over to developers and planners. Norman Crowe seeks to overcome this division into the respective realms of specialists by recognizing the...
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  • Architecture's Desire: Reading the Late Avant-Garde by Hays, K. Michael
    K. Michael Hays

    Architecture's Desire: Reading the Late Avant-Garde

    Theorizes an architectural ethos of extreme self-reflection and finality from a Lacanian perspective.While it is widely recognized that the advanced architecture of the 1970s left a legacy of experimentation and theoretical speculation as intense as any in architecture's history, there has been no general...
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  • Camps: A Guide to 21st-Century Space by Hailey, Charlie
    Charlie Hailey

    Camps: A Guide to 21st-Century Space

    The meaning and function of camps, from Scout Jamborees and RV Clubs to FEMA trailers and GTMO.What is a camp? In August 2005, television news showed viewers an estimated 20,000 Katrina evacuees camped out in the Superdome, Cindy Sheehan protesting the Iraq War on...
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  • Learning from Las Vegas, Facsimile Edition by Venturi, Robert
    Robert Venturi

    Learning from Las Vegas, Facsimile Edition

    A fascimile edition of the long-out-of-print large-format edition designed by design icon Muriel Cooper.Upon its publication by the MIT Press in 1972, Learning from Las Vegas was immediately influential and controversial. The authors made an argument that was revolutionary for its time--that the billboards...
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  • Grammars of Approach: Landscape, Narrative, and the Linguistic Picturesque by Wall, Cynthia
    Cynthia Wall

    Grammars of Approach: Landscape, Narrative, and the Linguistic Picturesque

    In Grammars of Approach, Cynthia Wall offers a close look at changes in perspective in spatial design, language, and narrative across the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries that involve, literally and psychologically, the concept of "approach." In architecture, the term "approach" changed in...
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  • Diller Scofidio + Renfro: Architecture After Image by Dimendberg, Edward
    Edward Dimendberg

    Diller Scofidio + Renfro: Architecture After Image

    In Diller Scofidio + Renfro: Architecture after Images, Edward Dimendberg offers the first comprehensive treatment of one of the most imaginative contemporary design studios. Since founding their practice in 1979, Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofidio have integrated architecture, urban design, media art, and the...
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  • The Anatomy of Architecture: Ontology and Metaphor in Batammaliba Architectural Expression by Blier, Suzanne Preston
    Suzanne Preston Blier

    The Anatomy of Architecture: Ontology and Metaphor in Batammaliba Architectural Expression

    Blier illuminates the extraordinary architecture of the Batammaliba people of Western Africa, revealing these buildings as texts through which we can read the beliefs, psychology, traditions, and social concerns of their inhabitants. In doing so, she explores the role of vernacular architecture as an...
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  • The Age of Spectacle: Adventures in Architecture and the 21st-Century City by Dyckhoff, Tom
    Tom Dyckhoff

    The Age of Spectacle: Adventures in Architecture and the 21st-Century City

    In Dubai, a luxury apartment block is built in the shape of a giant iPod. In China, President Xi Jinping denounces the trend of constructing "bizarre" new buildings in wacky shapes and colors. In Cincinnati, celebrity architect Zaha Hadid is paid millions to design...
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  • Children of the Soil: The Power of Built Form in Urban Madagascar by Rijke-Epstein, Tasha
    Tasha Rijke-Epstein

    Children of the Soil: The Power of Built Form in Urban Madagascar

    In Children of the Soil, Tasha Rijke-Epstein offers an urban history of the port city of Mahajanga, Madagascar, before, during, and after colonization. Drawing on archival and ethnographic evidence, she weaves together the lives and afterlives of built spaces to show how city residents...
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  • Thin Place Design: Architecture of the Numinous by Tabb, Phillip James
    Phillip James Tabb

    Thin Place Design: Architecture of the Numinous

    What makes the places we inhabit extraordinary? Why are some urban spaces more vital and restorative? Wonderful landscapes, inspiring works of architecture and urban design, and the numinous experiences that accompany them have been an integral dimension of our culture. Up-lifting spaces, dramatic use...
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  • Repository: 49 Methods and Assignments for Writing Urban Places by Havik, Klaske
    Klaske Havik

    Repository: 49 Methods and Assignments for Writing Urban Places

    Prompts for creative and embodied engagement with the urban environment Conceived as a sequel to Vademecum: 77 Minor Terms for Writing Urban Places, this volume offers a set of methods and assignments intended to stimulate creative, often embodied, approaches to architecture, urban studies and...
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  • Situated Practices in Architecture and Politics by Mah, Kai
    Kai Mah

    Situated Practices in Architecture and Politics

    Offers a framework for rethinking what "normal" architectural practice means. This book brings together five transformative architectural practices from around the globe to critique the assumptions, working methods, and embedded social and political biases within "normal" architectural practice. Their changing ethics of practice, and...
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  • Architecture 101: From Frank Gehry to Ziggurats, an Essential Guide to Building Styles and Materials by Bridge, Nicole
    Nicole Bridge

    Architecture 101: From Frank Gehry to Ziggurats, an Essential Guide to Building Styles and Materials

    A crash course in designing and constructing buildings Too often, textbooks turn the noteworthy details of architecture into tedious discourse that would put even Frank Gehry to sleep. Architecture 101 cuts out the boring explanations, and instead provides a hands-on lesson that keeps you...
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  • The Contested Territory of Architectural Theory by Haddad, Elie G.
    Elie G. Haddad

    The Contested Territory of Architectural Theory

    This book brings together a diverse group of theoreticians to explore architectural theory as a discipline, assessing its condition and relevance to contemporary practice. Offering critical assessment in the face of major social and environmental issues of today, 17 original contributions address the relevance...
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  • An Architectural Travel Guide to Utah by Bradley Evans, Martha
    Martha Bradley Evans

    An Architectural Travel Guide to Utah

    An Architectural Travel Guide to Utah invites visitors and other explorers of Utah to see the state's history, material culture, settlement, and natural landscape through the lens of its buildings. With more than 600 buildings as examples, this guide takes readers through Utah's cities...
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  • Architectures of Hiding: Crafting Concealment Omission Deception Erasure Silence by Abughannam, Rana
    Rana Abughannam

    Architectures of Hiding: Crafting Concealment Omission Deception Erasure Silence

    Architecture manifests as a space of concealment and unconcealment, lethe and al黎heia, enclosure and disclosure, where its making and agency are both hidden and revealed. With an urgency to amplify narratives that are overlooked, silenced and unacknowledged in and by architectural spaces, histories and...
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  • Architectures of Hiding: Crafting Concealment Omission Deception Erasure Silence by Abughannam, Rana
    Rana Abughannam

    Architectures of Hiding: Crafting Concealment Omission Deception Erasure Silence

    Architecture manifests as a space of concealment and unconcealment, lethe and al黎heia, enclosure and disclosure, where its making and agency are both hidden and revealed. With an urgency to amplify narratives that are overlooked, silenced and unacknowledged in and by architectural spaces, histories and...
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  • Norman Foster by Foster, Norman
    Norman Foster

    Norman Foster

    With a career spanning across continents and over six decades, the work of the renowned architect Norman Foster is nothing short of extraordinary. His creative innovation and holistic approach have made him one of the world's most influential and well-known architects. From the Apple...
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  • Territories of Disobedience by Choi, Linna
    Linna Choi

    Territories of Disobedience

    Architects build in and for a system that is not only pathological, but toxic. It is ruining the only planet we have, and we are clearly at the end of what is still possible within this ecology. The architecture presented in this book is...
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  • Architecture in Context: Developing Urban Living Environments Beyond the Master Plan and Facade Discussion by Von Keitz, Kay
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    Kay Von Keitz

    Architecture in Context: Developing Urban Living Environments Beyond the Master Plan and Facade Discussion

    Attempting to explore untapped potential in urban planning, Architecture in Context debates such topics as strategies for user-financed urban construction, transport in Copenhagen and urban planning in Africa. Contributors include architects, planners and theorists such as Christoph Laimer, Klaus Overmeyer, Andreas Denk, Oliver Bormann...
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  • Handbook of Research on Inclusive and Innovative Architecture and the Built Environment by Peng, Ng Foong
    Ng Foong Peng

    Handbook of Research on Inclusive and Innovative Architecture and the Built Environment

    There is an urgent need to emphasize inclusivity in architecture and the built environment. Innovative technologies within the field of architecture are being developed to enhance inclusivity in architectural approaches and development processes. It is essential to research inclusivity in architecture and the built...
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  • How the Country House Became English by Barczewski, Stephanie
    Stephanie Barczewski

    How the Country House Became English

    The story of how the country house, historically a site of violent disruption, came to symbolize English stability during the eighteenth century. Country houses are quintessentially English, not only architecturally but also in that they embody national values of continuity and insularity. The English...
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  • Maintenance Architecture by Sample, Hilary
    Hilary Sample

    Maintenance Architecture

    An inventive examination of a crucial but neglected aspect of architecture, by an architect writing to architects.Maintenance plays a crucial role in the production and endurance of architecture, yet architects for the most part treat maintenance with indifference. The discipline of architecture values the...
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  • Buckminster Fuller Inc.: Architecture in the Age of Radio by Wigley, Mark
    Mark Wigley

    Buckminster Fuller Inc.: Architecture in the Age of Radio

    Bucky Inc. offers a deep exploration of Richard Buckminster Fuller's work and thought to shed new light on the questions raised by our increasingly electronic world. It shows that Fuller's entire career was a multi-dimensional reflection on the architecture of radio. He always insisted...
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  • Slicing Spaces: Performance of Architecture in Cinema by Kacmaz Erk, Gul
    Gul Kacmaz Erk

    Slicing Spaces: Performance of Architecture in Cinema

    As suggested in the title, Slicing Spaces: Performance of Architecture in Cinema, this project slices through the multifaceted layers of film space. The text investigates how architecture performs as an altruist, proving that environed space is not merely a backdrop in film scenes, but...
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  • Architectural Technology by Emmitt, Stephen
    Stephen Emmitt

    Architectural Technology

    Since the publication of the first edition of Architectural Technology, in 2002, there have been significant developments in the number of courses, the profile of the discipline as well as significant changes in the Construction sector. The Second edition of Architectural Technology addresses these...
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  • Concrete Approximations: In Pursuit of Absolute Space by Ottevaere, Olivier
    Olivier Ottevaere

    Concrete Approximations: In Pursuit of Absolute Space

    Concrete is ubiquitous but contentious: culturally, environmentally, and often politically. Yet, the architecture it produces across fields of practices remains pertinent to the architectural discipline and its history. Having been incessantly normalized, misused and abused by different stakeholders and agendas, some of its material...
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  • The Mannerist Mind: An Architecture of Crisis by González de Canales, Francisco
    Francisco Gonz疝ez de Canales

    The Mannerist Mind: An Architecture of Crisis

    Departing from a discussion on what it would be a mannerist attitude in the architecture of today, and theorizing around it, this book analyzes some works of contemporary European practices including Lutjens Padmanabhan, architekten de vylder vinck taillieu, TEd'A, Maio, 6a architects and AOffice...
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  • Aesthetics Equals Politics: New Discourses across Art, Architecture, and Philosophy by Gage, Mark Foster
    Mark Foster Gage

    Aesthetics Equals Politics: New Discourses across Art, Architecture, and Philosophy

    How aesthetics--understood as a more encompassing framework for human activity--might become the primary discourse for political and social engagement. These essays make the case for a reignited understanding of aesthetics--one that casts aesthetics not as illusory, subjective, or superficial, but as a more encompassing...
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  • The Architecture of Influence: The Myth of Originality in the Twentieth Century by Lawrence, Amanda Reeser
    Amanda Reeser Lawrence

    The Architecture of Influence: The Myth of Originality in the Twentieth Century

    How do we create the new from the old? The Architecture of Influence explores this fundamental question by analyzing a broad swath of twentieth-century architectural works--including some of the best-known examples of the architectural canon, modern and postmodern--through the lens of influence. The book...
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  • Neuroarchitecture: Designing High-Rise Cities at Eye-Level by Suurenbroek, Frank
    Frank Suurenbroek

    Neuroarchitecture: Designing High-Rise Cities at Eye-Level

    An investigation into the impact of urban infrastructure on our lived experiencesThis critical publication introduces the burgeoning field of neuroarchitecture by examining streetscapes in Western cities such as Amsterdam, Toronto, Manchester and Oslo. Through analysis of each location, it questions design guidelines and gives...
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  • Together: A Blueprint for Collaborative Living: Towards Collective Self-Organisation in Housing by Czischke, Darinka
    Darinka Czischke

    Together: A Blueprint for Collaborative Living: Towards Collective Self-Organisation in Housing

    Exploring the new paradigm of collective housing in the 21st centuryAmid an unprecedented housing crisis, people are increasingly turning toward collective self-organization for housing that is community-oriented, affordable and environmentally sustainable. Together presents essays, interviews and case studies addressing the revival of collaborative living...
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  • Hatching: Piranesi & Tafuri by Watson, Victoria
    Victoria Watson

    Hatching: Piranesi & Tafuri

    Hatching: Piranesi & Tafuri presents an interpretation and a critical design proposal, it was inspired by Manfredo Tafuri's essay The Wicked Architect: G.B. Piranesi, Heterotopia and the Voyage. Tafuri's essay was published as the introductory chapter to his book The Sphere and the Labyrinth,...
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  • Architectures of Time: Toward a Theory of the Event in Modernist Culture by Kwinter, Sanford
    Sanford Kwinter

    Architectures of Time: Toward a Theory of the Event in Modernist Culture

    An exploration of twentieth-century conceptions of time and their relation to artistic form.In Architectures of Time, Sanford Kwinter offers a critical guide to the modern history of time and to the interplay between the physical sciences and the arts. Tracing the transformation of twentieth-century...
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  • Ambient Commons: Attention in the Age of Embodied Information by McCullough, Malcolm
    Malcolm McCullough

    Ambient Commons: Attention in the Age of Embodied Information

    On rediscovering surroundings when information goes everywhere.The world is filling with ever more kinds of media, in ever more contexts and formats. Glowing rectangles have become part of the scene; screens, large and small, appear everywhere. Physical locations are increasingly tagged and digitally augmented....
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  • Architecture in Digital Culture: Machines, Networks and Computation by Yiannoudes, Socrates
    Socrates Yiannoudes

    Architecture in Digital Culture: Machines, Networks and Computation

    This book examines the manifestations of architecture, cities, and design processes within digital culture. Adopting a comparative and critical method, the author looks at past and present encounters of the digital with architectural discourse and practice. Along three central themes - machines, networks, and...
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  • The Making of Mexican Modernist Architecture by Arredondo Zambrano, Celia Esther
    Celia Esther Arredondo Zambrano

    The Making of Mexican Modernist Architecture

    This book presents the making of Mexican Modernist architecture through five power structures - academic, social status, economic/political, gender, and postcolonial - and by interviews and analysis of 13 key Mexican architects. These include Luis Barragán, José Villagrán García, Juan O'Gorman, Pedro Ramírez Vázquez,...
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  • Modernising Post-War France: Architecture and Urbanism During Les Trente Glorieuses by Bullock, Nicholas
    Nicholas Bullock

    Modernising Post-War France: Architecture and Urbanism During Les Trente Glorieuses

    This book is about the role played by architects, engineers and planners in transforming France during the three post-war decades of growing prosperity, a period when modernisation was a central priority of the state, promising a way forward from the shame of defeat in...
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