Architecture - Criticism

This open access book tells a new and untold history of the architecture of West Africa in the colonial era, as revealed for the first time through the archives of the United Africa Company (UAC). From the imperial Royal Niger Company's charter in the...

For more than a decade, Pulitzer Prize-winning Chicago Tribune architecture critic Blair Kamin has been writing fiery, intelligent essays on the state of contemporary architecture. His subjects range from high-rises to highways, parks to public housing, Frank Lloyd Wright to Frank Gehry. Why Architecture...

Updated to cover the latest cutting-edge developments in the field and now in full color, Architecture in the Age of Artificial Intelligence introduces AI for designers and explores its seismic impact on the future of architecture and design. From smart assistants and ChatGPT to...

Author: Rhode Island School of DesignISBN-10: 3035616086ISBN-13: 9783035616088Publisher: BirkhauserLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/24/2018Pages: 136Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.95lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.40d

A long-deserved survey, of the everyday building types that line our suburban roads and parking lots, affords an informative and diverting critique of their architectural and sociocultural foibles. This project began with an essay on the "McMansion" phenomenon, and it grew to become a...

Light pervades the world, and when it is not light, darkness emerges and is combated by electric illumination. Despite this globally shared human experience in which spaces appear radically different depending on time, season, and weather, social science investigation on the subject is meager....

Examines the role of architecture in the history of global development and decolonization. In Modernism's Magic Hat, Ijlal Muzaffar examines how modern architects and planners help resolve one of the central dilemmas of the mid-twentieth-century world order: how to make decolonization plausible without accounting...

Cities Interrupted explores the potential of visual culture - in the form of photography, film, performance, architecture, urban design, and mixed media - to strategically interrupt processes of globalization in contemporary urban spaces. Looking at cities such as Amsterdam, Beijing, Doha, London, New York,...

This visually rich book celebrates design ingenuity, making the point that inclusive design is better for all This visually rich book celebrates design ingenuity, acknowledging the significant contributions of disabled individuals and communities to design and making the point that, simply put, inclusive design...

Author: Peter EisenmanISBN-10: 0262553716ISBN-13: 9780262553711Publisher: MIT PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/09/2025Pages: 248Format: Paperback

Concrete research, data visualization and blueprints for transforming Czechia into a beacon of sustainable innovationContaining interviews with local experts and research by 150 local and international students, this richly illustrated "data novel" offers a methodological framework for investigating the social, built, ecological, governance, cultural...

Proposing solutions for how the traditional suburban single-family house can be reinvented for the contemporary market and climateDespite the increasing interest in reuse and circularity, little attention has been paid to the task of transforming the extensive residential sprawls of single-family houses built across...

A compelling treatise on the relationship between power and enclosureFortress Power presents a genealogy of fortification as a material and political technology intent on obstruction, tracing its implementation across battlefields, borders, and urban environments. Drawing on the influential work of philosophers Michel Foucault and...

Architectures of Existence proposes that philosophical thinking (ecosophical thinking) can inform the way we engage with our world and its inhabitants, as architects, designers and planners, but also as individuals, as people, and as a society.In Art et existence, Maldiney states: "For us, to...

In this book, the author argues that architectural functionality is often constrained by political and economic forces, while it is also effectively undermined by modes of expression. Utilitarian building elements-for example, windows or skylights intended to bring daylight into offices or factories-may be subject...

The book discusses the ways in which the project can critically contribute to an affirmative biopolitical action of substantial emancipation; it considers space an essential agent, and not only a collective capital, or a support, for adapting our lives to the recent profoundly changed...

The 1960s continue to hold an almost mythical place in Western culture, particularly in Britain, where change was widespread and infiltrated many aspects of life. This included architecture, whose role in a modern democracy and the form it should take were hotly debated. This...

How can architecture develop better aesthetic directions for the twenty-first-century built environment? Our world, increasingly defined by efficient but unconsidered architecture and cities, seems to be getting uglier. In On the Appearance of the World, Mark Foster Gage asks why. He imagines a future...

Building/Object addresses the space in between the conventional objects of design and the conventional objects of architecture, probing and reassessing the differences between the disciplines of design history and architectural history Each of the 13 chapters in this book examine things which are neither...

New Directions and Paradigms for the Study of Greek Architecture comprises 20 chapters by nearly three dozen scholars who describe recent discoveries, new theoretical frameworks, and applications of cutting-edge techniques in their architectural research. The contributions are united by several broad themes that represent...

Photographer Joaquim Nabuco has found art in the architecture, interiors, and landscapes designed by his fellow Brazilians. Through more than 160 large, lively images, Nabuco welcomes you on a journey to see more than 15 properties, including log homes in the mountains of Rio...

Author: Christophe Van GerreweyISBN-10: 9462088950ISBN-13: 9789462088955Publisher: Nai010 PublishersLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/11/2025Pages: 128Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.60lbsSize: 9.29h x 6.54w x 0.63d

Acclaimed architectural critic Ian Nairn's masterpiece, reissued for the first time since 1955. In June of 1955, The Architectural Review (Britain's most acclaimed and well-read magazine of architectural criticism) published a special issue featuring one essay called Outrage by Ian Nairn. As one of...

ASSOCIATION is a student designed and edited publication that gathers work from students, faculty, staff, and alumni across Cornell University's College of Architecture, Art, and Planning in a single semi-annual volume. An anthology of projects from artists, architects, and planners, ASSOCIATION strives to highlight...

An exhibition centre is a central focus of a city's economic life, and in many cases a unique expression of its image. For this reason, as well as offering adequate space and infrastructure, it must make a strong, clearly recognizable architectural statement. Over the...

Author: Jeffrey HuangISBN-10: 3037787651ISBN-13: 9783037787656Publisher: Lars Muller PublishersLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/04/2025Pages: 384Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.60lbsSize: 8.98h x 6.61w x 1.26d

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

Author: Charlotte Malterre-BarthesISBN-10: 3775758208ISBN-13: 9783775758208Publisher: Hatje CantzLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/11/2025Pages: 120Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.30lbsSize: 7.00h x 4.30w x 0.50d

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...

More essays on the culture of communal gatherings, this time with a look toward the social science of secret, underground get-togethersIn what ways does the underground facilitate subcultural expression? Is clandestinity necessary for working against a given social order?Pursuing these lines of inquiry, Party...

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...