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  • Retrospecta #41: Yale School of Architectue 2017 - 18 by Brash Doan, Nicole
    Nicole Brash Doan

    Retrospecta #41: Yale School of Architectue 2017 - 18

    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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  • Abstract 2016 by Andraos, Amale
    Amale Andraos

    Abstract 2016

    Abstract is the yearly publication of work and research from the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP). Produced through the Office of the Dean Amale Andraos, the archive of student work contains documentation of exceptional projects, selected by faculty at...
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  • Abstract 2017 by Andraos, Amale
    Amale Andraos

    Abstract 2017

    Abstract is the yearly publication of work and research from the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture Planning and Preservation. Produced through the Office of the Dean Amale Andraos, the archive of student work contains documentation of exceptional projects, selected by faculty at the...
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  • Architecture in Abjection: Bodies, Spaces and Their Relations by Kovar, Zuzana
    Zuzana Kovar

    Architecture in Abjection: Bodies, Spaces and their Relations

    This book marks a turning point in architectural theory by using philosophy to examine the field anew.Breaking from the traditional dualism within architecture - which presents the body as subject and space as object - it examines how such rigid boundaries can be softened....
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  • Pratt Sessions: Volume 1 by Erdman, David
    David Erdman

    Pratt Sessions: Volume 1

    Pratt Sessions presents a series of conversations between notable practitioners and thinkers. It is a distributed symposium that is curated and yet open-ended. Based on an ongoing lecture series at Pratt Institute's Graduate Architecture and Urban Design program, each session brings together two participants...
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  • Oxymoron and Pleonasm Conversation on American Critical: Conversations on American Critical and Projective Theory of Architecture by Mitasova, Monika
    Monika Mitasova

    Oxymoron and Pleonasm Conversation on American Critical: Conversations on American Critical and Projective Theory of Architecture

    Monika Mitasova interviewed an influential group of current American theorists, historians and practitioners proposing critical and projective architecture, respectively, which forms the first book that brings those perspectives together to show the state of current critical and projective theory, practice and new alternative actions...
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  • The Architecture of Control: A Contribution to the Critique of the Science of Apparatuses by Vetter, Grant
    Grant Vetter

    The Architecture of Control: A Contribution to the Critique of the Science of Apparatuses

    Through six meditations on the ideology of architecture, Grant Vetter is able to give us an entirely new set of coordinates for understanding social control in the twenty-first century. Moving between historical precedents in the east and the west, Vetter's work reveals a hybrid...
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  • La+ Journal: Identity: Interdisciplinary Journal of Landscape Architecture by Hands, Tatum
    Tatum Hands

    La+ Journal: Identity: Interdisciplinary Journal of Landscape Architecture

    Ever since the 18th century when Alexander Pope advised his peers to "consult the genius of place," the idea that designers could interpret and then express the essential identity of a place has been venerated in landscape architecture. This issue of LA+ is devoted...
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  • The Nature of Design: Principles, Processes, and the Purview of the Architect by Lockard, M. Scott
    M. Scott Lockard

    The Nature of Design: Principles, Processes, and the Purview of the Architect

    Design is a widely-misunderstood discipline. In fact, the design profession itself often accepts and promotes a vague and misleading definition of design. The Nature of Design asks design professionals, their clients and interested students to examine the fundamental nature and practice of their discipline,...
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  • Abstraction and Transcendence: Nature, Shintai, and Geometry in the Architecture of the Tadao Ando by Hien, Pham Thanh
    Pham Thanh Hien

    Abstraction and Transcendence: Nature, Shintai, and Geometry in the Architecture of the Tadao Ando

    Author: Pham Thanh HienISBN-10: 158112029XISBN-13: 9781581120295Publisher: Dissertation.comLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/19/1998Pages: 198Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.57lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.45d
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  • New Delhi: New annotated edition by Byron, Robert
    Robert Byron

    New Delhi: New annotated edition

    "THAT New Delhi exists, and that, twenty years ago, it did not exist, are facts known to anyone who is at all aware of the British connection with India. It is expected, and assumed, that the representatives of British sovereignty beyond the seas shall...
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  • Timely Meditations, vol.2: Architectural Philosophy and Hermeneutics by Perez-Gomez, Alberto
    Alberto Perez-Gomez

    Timely Meditations, vol.2: Architectural Philosophy and Hermeneutics

    This remarkable collection brings together a selection of essays by Alberto P駻ez-Gez, originally published in diverse periodicals and as chapters in books, over a period of twenty-five years. The essays have been revised and updated by the author, sometimes substantially modified to reflect more...
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  • The Jacksons R by Jackson, Luke
    Luke Jackson

    The Jacksons R

    Author: Luke JacksonISBN-10: 1519714009ISBN-13: 9781519714008Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/06/2015Pages: 34Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.30lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.09d
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  • Toward a Living Architecture?: Complexism and Biology in Generative Design by Cogdell, Christina
    Christina Cogdell

    Toward a Living Architecture?: Complexism and Biology in Generative Design

    A bold and unprecedented look at a cutting-edge movement in architecture Toward a Living Architecture? is the first book-length critique of the emerging field of generative architecture and its nexus with computation, biology, and complexity. Starting from the assertion that we should take generative...
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  • The Architecture of Neoliberalism: How Contemporary Architecture Became an Instrument of Control and Compliance by Spencer, Douglas
    Douglas Spencer

    The Architecture of Neoliberalism

    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...
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  • Boundaries of the City: The Architecture of Western Urbanism by Waterhouse, Alan
    Alan Waterhouse

    Boundaries of the City: The Architecture of Western Urbanism

    In this study Alan Waterhouse draws on anthropological, social and cultural history, literature, and philosophy to reach an understanding of the roots of Western architecture and city building. He explores the illusion that cities are constructed to impose rational order, an order articulated through...
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  • British Architecture 1760-1914: Volume I: 1760-1830 by Tyack, Geoffrey
    Geoffrey Tyack

    British Architecture 1760-1914: Volume I: 1760-1830

    This volume of primary sources examine British architectural history from 1760 to 1830. It contains a mixture of architectural treatises, biographical material on architects, works on different types of building, and contemporary descriptions of individual buildings and will be of great interest to students...
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  • Building Practice in the Dutch East Indies: Epistemic Imposition at the Beginning of the 20th Century by Hutama Setiadi, David
    David Hutama Setiadi

    Building Practice in the Dutch East Indies: Epistemic Imposition at the Beginning of the 20th Century

    This book reveals the 'epistemic imposition' of architectural ideas and practices by colonists from the Netherlands in the Dutch East Indies from the late-19th century onwards, exploring the ways in which this came to shape the profession up to the present day in what...
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  • The Corruption of Co-Design: Political and Social Conflicts in Participatory Design Thinking by Von Busch, Otto
    Otto Von Busch

    The Corruption of Co-Design: Political and Social Conflicts in Participatory Design Thinking

    Designers are often depicted as social change agents that serve the good in the world. Similarly, co-design tends to be described as a democratic mode of creativity that is somehow beyond reproach. But is change a virtue in itself, and do participatory practices always...
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  • Network Nature: The Place of Nature in the Digital Age by Coyne, Richard
    Richard Coyne

    Network Nature The Place of Nature in the Digital Age

    How do people avoid the stresses of the digital age? Urban dwellers must now turn to nature to recover, restore and rebalance after the stresses brought on by relentless digital connectivity. It is easy to task nature as the cure, with technology as the...
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  • Architectural Drawing by Edminster, Clothier Franklin
    Clothier Franklin Edminster

    Architectural Drawing

    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 was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you...
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  • Royalty and Architecture by Aslet, Clive
    Clive Aslet

    Royalty and Architecture

    On the intersection of royalty and architecture throughout the agesThis volume looks at the robust link between architecture and royalty--from palaces and gardens to ornamental interiors and other artworks--and presents historical examples in which leaders of European nobility or aristocracy served as surprisingly active...
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  • A History of Architecture by Kimball, Fiske
    Fiske Kimball

    A History of Architecture

    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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  • A Treatise on Civil Architecture by Chambers, William
    William Chambers

    A Treatise on Civil Architecture

    A gorgeous, oversize, clothbound facsimile of the classic 18th-century guide to the vocabulary of Western architectureSir William Chambers (1723-96) was a Swedish British architect who designed imaginative castle buildings and luxurious interiors as well as simple and rational utilitarian architecture: some of his most...
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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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  • The Ultimate Beginner's Guide to Cricut: Mastering Your Machine in 2023 by Striker, Max
    Max Striker

    The Ultimate Beginner's Guide to Cricut: Mastering Your Machine in 2023

    Unleash your creativity with The Ultimate Beginner's Guide to Cricut: Mastering Your Machine in 2023 This comprehensive guide covers everything you need to know about your Cricut machine, from setting it up to creating custom designs and projects.You'll learn about Cricut materials and tools,...
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  • Frank Lloyd Wright and Ralph Waldo Emerson: Transforming the American Mind by Rahmani, Ayad
    Ayad Rahmani

    Frank Lloyd Wright and Ralph Waldo Emerson: Transforming the American Mind

    Frank Lloyd Wright and Ralph Waldo Emerson: Transforming the American Mind is an interdisciplinary volume of literary and cultural scholarship that examines the link between two pivotal intellectual and artistic figures. It probes the degree to which the transcendentalist author influenced the architect's campaign...
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  • Unbuilt Utopian Cities 1460 to 1900: Reconstructing their Architecture and Political Philosophy by Morrison, Tessa
    Tessa Morrison

    Unbuilt Utopian Cities 1460 to 1900: Reconstructing their Architecture and Political Philosophy

    Bringing together ten utopian works that mark important points in the history and an evolution in social and political philosophies, this book not only reflects on the texts and their political philosophy and implications, but also, their architecture and how that architecture informs the...
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  • Peirce for Architects by Coyne, Richard
    Richard Coyne

    Peirce for Architects

    Ideas gain legitimacy as they are put to some practical use. A study of Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914) supports this pragmatism as a way of thinking about truth and meaning. Architecture has a strong pragmatic strand, not least as we think of building users,...
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  • Louis H. Sullivan and a 19th - Century Poetics of Naturalized Architecture by Weingarden, Lauren S.
    Lauren S. Weingarden

    Louis H. Sullivan and a 19th - Century Poetics of Naturalized Architecture

    For most of the twentieth century, modernist viewers dismissed the architectural ornament of Louis H. Sullivan (1856-1924) and the majority of his theoretical writings as emotional outbursts of an outmoded romanticism. In this study, Lauren Weingarden reveals Sullivan's eloquent articulation of nineteenth-century romantic practices...
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  • Contemporary Perspectives on Jane Jacobs: Reassessing the Impacts of an Urban Visionary by Schubert, Dirk
    Dirk Schubert

    Contemporary Perspectives on Jane Jacobs: Reassessing the Impacts of an Urban Visionary

    Jane Jacobs's famous book The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961) has challenged the discipline of urban planning and led to a paradigm shift. Controversial in the 1960s, most of her ideas became generally accepted within a decade or so after publication,...
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  • Sidi Bou Sa'id, Tunisia: Structure and Form of a Mediterranean Village by Hakim, Besim S.
    Besim S. Hakim

    Sidi Bou Sa'id, Tunisia: Structure and Form of a Mediterranean Village

    This book, profusely illustrated with original drawings and photographs, is an important case study of traditional towns and their processes of urbanization. Professor Besim Hakim undertook a landmark analysis of the village of Sidi Bou Sa'id located on the Mediterranean in northern Tunisia, working...
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  • Memory and Architecture by Bastea, Eleni
    Eleni Bastea

    Memory and Architecture

    Using the analytical perspectives of architecture, comparative literature, and cultural studies, the essays in Memory and Architecture examine the role of memory in the creation of our built environment.Part I, "Designing National Memories," examines the ways institutions and individuals construct national memory. Eric Sandweiss...
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  • Merleau-Ponty: Space, Place, Architecture by Locke, Patricia M.
    Patricia M. Locke

    Merleau-Ponty: Space, Place, Architecture

    Phenomenology has played a decisive role in the emergence of the discourse of place, now indispensable to many disciplines in the humanities and social sciences, and the contribution of Merleau-Ponty's thought to architectural theory and practice is well established. Merleau-Ponty: Space, Place, Architecture is...
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  • Dwelling, Seeing, and Designing: Toward a Phenomenological Ecology by Seamon, David
    David Seamon

    Dwelling, Seeing, and Designing: Toward a Phenomenological Ecology

    Contributors include architects, philosophers, landscape architects, and geographers, who focus on the question of how people might see and understand the natural and built environments in a deeper, more perceptive way. What is a sense of place and how can it be supported by...
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  • Architecture and Power in the Ancient Andes: The Archaeology of Public Buildings by Moore, Jerry D.
    Jerry D. Moore

    Architecture and Power in the Ancient Andes: The Archaeology of Public Buildings

    In this 1996 volume, Jerry D. Moore discusses public architecture in the context of the cultural, political and religious life of the pre-hispanic Andes. Archaeologists have invested enormous effort in excavating and documenting prehistoric buildings, but analytical approaches to architecture remain as yet undeveloped....
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  • Unity Temple: Frank Lloyd Wright and Architecture for Liberal Religion by Siry, Joseph M.
    Joseph M. Siry

    Unity Temple: Frank Lloyd Wright and Architecture for Liberal Religion

    In this study, Joseph Siry examines the building in the light of Wright's earlier religious architecture, his methods of design, and his innovative construction techniques, particularly the use of reinforced concrete. He also sets Unity Temple against the tradition of the liberal Unitarian and...
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  • Herculean Ferrara: Ercole d'Este (1471-1505) and the Invention of a Ducal Capital by Tuohy, Thomas
    Thomas Tuohy

    Herculean Ferrara: Ercole d'Este (1471-1505) and the Invention of a Ducal Capital

    The court of Ercole d'Este was one of the most glittering in Renaissance Italy. The duke was a prolific builder, and the leader in the revival of classical theater, an enthusiastic patron of musicians, and a creator of magnificent court spectacles. Very little survives...
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  • Architecture in the Age of Stalin: Culture Two by Paperny, Vladimir
    Vladimir Paperny

    Architecture in the Age of Stalin: Culture Two

    Paperny examines the evolution of architecture in Russia during the Stalinist period. Defining two conflicting trends--Culture One and Culture Two--that have alternately prevailed in Russian culture, the author argues that the shift away from the architectural avant-garde of the 1920s was not entirely the...
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  • Venice's Mediterranean Colonies: Architecture and Urbanism by Georgopoulou, Maria
    Maria Georgopoulou

    Venice's Mediterranean Colonies: Architecture and Urbanism

    This book examines the architecture and urbanism in the Venetian colonies of the Eastern Mediterranean and how their built environments express the close cultural ties with both Venice and Byzantium. Using the island of Crete and its capital city, Candia (modern Herakleion) as a...
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  • The Architecture of New York City: Histories and Views of Important Structures, Sites, and Symbols by Reynolds, Donald Martin
    Donald Martin Reynolds

    The Architecture of New York City: Histories and Views of Important Structures, Sites, and Symbols

    From the reviews of the first edition of Architecture of New York City. "It should provide joy to anyone even vaguely interested in this city and its artifacts.. It is very likely to turn them into enthusiasts." --New York Times Book Review ".weaves the...
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  • Virilio for Architects by Armitage, John
    John Armitage

    Virilio for Architects

    Paul Virilio is an innovative figure in the study of architecture, space, and the city. Virilio for Architects primes readers for their first encounter with his crucial texts on some of the vital theoretical debates of the twenty-first century, including: Oblique Architecture and Bunker...
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  • Lefebvre for Architects by Coleman, Nathaniel
    Nathaniel Coleman

    Lefebvre for Architects

    While the work of Henri Lefebvre has become better known in the English-speaking world since the 1991 translation of his 1974 masterpiece, The Production of Space, his influence on the actual production of architecture and the city has been less pronounced. Although now widely...
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  • Goodman for Architects by Capdevila-Werning, Remei
    Remei Capdevila-Werning

    Goodman for Architects

    American philosopher Nelson Goodman (1906-1998) was one of the foremost analytical thinkers of the twentieth century, with groundbreaking contributions in the fields of logic, philosophy of science, epistemology, and aesthetics. This book is an introduction to the aspects of Goodman's philosophy which have been...
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  • Ecology and the Architectural Imagination by Muller, Brook
    Brook Muller

    Ecology and the Architectural Imagination

    By including ecological concerns in the design process from the outset, architecture can enhance life. Author Brook Muller understands how a designer's predispositions and poetic judgement in dealing with complex and dynamic ecological systems impact the "greenness" of built outcomes. Ecology and the Architectural...
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  • Derrida for Architects by Coyne, Richard
    Richard Coyne

    Derrida for Architects

    Looking afresh at the implications of Jacques Derrida's thinking for architecture, this book simplifies his ideas in a clear, concise way. Derrida's treatment of key philosophical texts has been labelled as "deconstruction," a term that resonates with architecture. Although his main focus is language,...
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  • Gadamer for Architects by Kidder, Paul
    Paul Kidder

    Gadamer for Architects

    Providing a concise and accessible introduction to the work of the celebrated twentieth century German philosopher, Hans-Georg Gadamer, this book focuses on the aspects of Gadamer's philosophy that have been the most influential among architects, educators in architecture, and architectural theorists. Gadamer's philosophy of...
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  • Baudrillard for Architects by Proto, Francesco
    Francesco Proto

    Baudrillard for Architects

    Marginalized due to the deployment of both a highly specialized jargon and a novel stylistic approach meant to upset established norms and conventions, Baudrillard's thought has suffered from the lack of an accessible, consistent and comprehensive exposition able to make it relevant to diverse...
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  • Bhabha for Architects by Hernandez, Felipe
    Felipe Hernandez

    Bhabha for Architects

    The work of Homi K. Bhabha has permeated into numerous publications which use postcolonial discourse as a means to analyze architectural practices in previously colonized contexts, particularly in Africa, Asia, the Middle-East, South-East Asia and, Latin America. Bhabha's use of the concept of 'space'...
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  • The Emergence of Modern Architecture: A Documentary History from 1000 to 1810 by Lefaivre, Liane
    Liane Lefaivre

    The Emergence of Modern Architecture: A Documentary History from 1000 to 1810

    A cognitive history of the emergence of modern architecture. Cutting across disciplinarian and institutional divisions as we know them today, this book reconstructs developments within the framework of a cognitive history of the past. Modern is here taken to mean the radical re-thinking of...
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