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  • Large, Lasting and Inevitable: Jorge Silvetti in Dialogues and Writings on Architecture as a Cultural Practice by Silvetti, Jorge
    Jorge Silvetti

    Large, Lasting and Inevitable: Jorge Silvetti in Dialogues and Writings on Architecture as a Cultural Practice

    A retrospective on the influential career of Argentinian architect Jorge Silvetti. Jorge Silvetti looks back on a long career as both a designing architect and as an architectural teacher and theoretician. Born in Argentina, he was one of the founding members of Arquitectos Asociados,...
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  • OASE 116: The Architect as Public Intellectual by Avermaete, Tom
    Tom Avermaete

    OASE 116: The Architect as Public Intellectual

    Architects and designers critically examine their ability to contribute to the discussion on social issues and challengesThis issue of OASE explores the role of architects as public intellectuals and the ways in which they contribute to society beyond design. Architects are well placed to...
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  • Designed for Life: Architecture and Design in Cork City, 1900-90 by Spalding, Tom
    Tom Spalding

    Designed for Life: Architecture and Design in Cork City, 1900-90

    Author: Tom SpaldingISBN-10: 1782050191ISBN-13: 9781782050193Publisher: Cork University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/20/2025Pages: 384Format: Hardcover
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  • The Architecture of Housing Co-Ops: 15 Case Studies in De/NL by Kums, Marieke
    Marieke Kums

    The Architecture of Housing Co-Ops: 15 Case Studies in De/NL

    A handy companion to the rise of housing co-ops in Western EuropeTo stimulate interest in cooperative living, The Architecture of Housing Co-ops highlights successful examples from Germany alongside more recent Dutch projects, showcasing recent developments through detailed analyses, financial models, floor plans and interviews...
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  • Proto-Habitat by Menu, Flavien
    Flavien Menu

    Proto-Habitat

    One timber prefab building turns into a litany of conversations, research and essays on responsible yet habitable environmentsThe Proto-Habitat is both a theoretical and practical (built) experiment to explore ways of dwelling that are closer to contemporary lifestyles, and to broaden collective representation to...
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  • I Prefer Not To.... by Swinnen, Peter
    Peter Swinnen

    I Prefer Not To....

    Recounting a lecture series-cum-dialogue on the possibilities and sticking points confronting architects worldwideThis book is a free-associative recount of the 12-part lecture series staged by Belgian architect Peter Swinnen (born 1972) at the ETH Department of Architecture (Zurich). I Prefer Not To ... can...
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  • Bracket [On Sharing] by Bhatia, Neeraj
    Neeraj Bhatia

    Bracket [On Sharing]

    Bracket [On Sharing] considers the historic roots of sharing and their relationship to contemporary models of sharing. Sharing is one of the humanity's most basic traits; we intrinsically recognize the benefits of pooling resources within a community in order take advantage of varied abilities...
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  • Architecture from Public to Commons by L?pez-Dinardi, Marcelo
    Marcelo L?pez-Dinardi

    Architecture from Public to Commons

    This book provides an urgent framework and collective reflection on understanding ways to reconsider and recast architecture within ideas and politics of the commons and practices of commoning.Architecture from Public to Commons opens with Institutions the dialogue with the scales of the commons, the...
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  • The Great Repair: Politics for a Society of Repair: A Reader by Hiller, Christian
    Christian Hiller

    The Great Repair: Politics for a Society of Repair: A Reader

    A theoretical approach to repairing society from the perils of capitalism and overconsumptionThis collaborative project between ARCH+, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, ETH Zurich and the University of Luxembourg proposes a vision of societal repair based on practices of care, maintenance and mending.Author: Christian HillerISBN-10:...
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  • I, Nobot by John Wit, Andrew
    Andrew John Wit

    I, Nobot

    The book is a graphic novella written by two self-realized nobots who aim to help nearly seven billion fellow biological nobots (also known as humans) realize their true nature. They believe that many nobots are unaware of their existence and some even call themselves...
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  • Architectural Materialisms: Nonhuman Creativity by Voyatzaki, Maria
    Maria Voyatzaki

    Architectural Materialisms: Nonhuman Creativity

    This book gathers 14 architects, designers, performing artists, film makers, media theorists, philosophers, mathematicians and programmers. They all argue that matter in contemporary posthuman times has to be rethought in its rich internal dynamism and its multifaceted context. By transversally crossing disciplinary boundaries, new...
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  • Dash 11: Interiors on Display: A Representation of Good Living by Zeinstra, Jurjen
    Jurjen Zeinstra

    Dash 11: Interiors on Display: A Representation of Good Living

    This edition of DASH examines the development of home interiors in the twentieth century, from the designs of Cuypers to the contemporary stylings of IKEA. Through a series of images of "period rooms," this publication examines the concept of living in style.Author: Jurjen ZeinstraISBN-10:...
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  • Parkett No. 82 Pawel Althamer, Louise Bourgeois, Rachel Harrison by Curiger, Bice
    Bice Curiger

    Parkett No. 82 Pawel Althamer, Louise Bourgeois, Rachel Harrison

    Parkett 82 features sculptor, diarist and preeminent Feminist Louise Bourgeois; the theatrical, shamanistic Polish artist Pawel Althamer and New York sculptor Rachel Harrison. Essayists on Bourgeois include Robert Storr, whose text is aptly called "Mother of Them All/Sister of Some," Tracey Emin and Griselda...
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  • Shrinking Cities in Romania: Volume 1: Research and Analysis; Volume 2: Responses and Interventions by Păun Constantinescu, Ilinca
    Ilinca Păun Constantinescu

    Shrinking Cities in Romania: Volume 1: Research and Analysis; Volume 2: Responses and Interventions

    Gathering a large group of academics, researchers, artists, architects, and urban planners, the publication Shrinking Cities in Romania is a pioneering initiative to raise awareness of an acute and pervasive yet too little discussed matter: the socio-cultural, physical, economic, and demographic decline of Romanian...
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  • Other Space Odysseys by Borasi, Giovanna
    Giovanna Borasi

    Other Space Odysseys

    This book presents three architectural responses to the idea of journeys through outer space in a future based on technology. After the 1969 moonwalk, Alessandro Poli with Superstudio considered it critical to imagine our environment as connected to outer space. His "Architettura interplanetaria" imagined...
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  • Pratt Sessions, Volume 2 by Erdman, David
    David Erdman

    Pratt Sessions, Volume 2

    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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  • Colonial Architecture and Urbanism in Africa: Intertwined and Contested Histories by Demissie, Fassil
    Fassil Demissie

    Colonial Architecture and Urbanism in Africa: Intertwined and Contested Histories

    Colonial architecture and urbanism in Africa created a built environment purposely suited to the administrative apparatus of empire: architecture and urbanism sought to project the authority of the European powers while simultaneously stabilizing the fragile European identity at the colonial frontier. This book seeks...
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  • Myth and Mirage: Inland Southern California, Birthplace of the Spanish Colonial Revival by Betsky, Aaron
    Aaron Betsky

    Myth and Mirage: Inland Southern California, Birthplace of the Spanish Colonial Revival

    The Spanish Colonial Revival style has been part of the aesthetic fabric of Southern California for over 100 years.While Spanish Colonial Revival landmarks are well known throughout the region, examples of such works in the Inland Empire have largely been forgotten. Myth and Mirage...
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  • Pocket Guide to Los Angeles Architecture by McBrien, Judith Paine
    Judith Paine McBrien

    Pocket Guide to Los Angeles Architecture

    Sprawling Los Angeles may never be considered a walking city, but this concise handbook organizes one hundred must-see architectural highlights into three downtown walkable tours and two delightful side trips. It covers such classic sights as Grauman's Chinese Theatre and the Griffith Observatory; modernist...
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  • Morningside Heights: A History of Its Architecture and Development by Dolkart, Andrew
    Andrew Dolkart

    Morningside Heights: A History of Its Architecture and Development

    Morningside Heights, the institutional heart of New York City, is also one of the city's most architecturally distinguished neighborhoods. The high plateau that forms Morningside Heights is geographically isolated within the city and remained largely undeveloped even as neighboring Harlem and the Upper West...
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  • Frank Lloyd Wright's Living Space by Satler, Gail
    Gail Satler

    Frank Lloyd Wright's Living Space

    Author: Gail SatlerISBN-10: 0875802451ISBN-13: 9780875802459Publisher: Northern Illinois University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/01/1999Pages: 212Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.01lbsSize: 8.79h x 5.77w x 0.79d
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  • Design Things by Binder, Thomas
    Thomas Binder

    Design Things

    A new perspective on design thinking and design practice: beyond products and projects, toward participatory design things. Design Things offers an innovative view of design thinking and design practice, envisioning ways to combine creative design with a participatory approach encompassing aesthetic and democratic practices...
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  • OASE 117: Project Village by Devoldere, Stefan
    Stefan Devoldere

    OASE 117: Project Village

    Exploring the role of the village in a highly urbanized 21st centuryThis latest issue of OASE contributes to the ongoing conversation around the architecture and urban design of villages, spurred by a growing demand for climate solutions within the field. The village is examined...
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  • Sun Seekers: The Cure of California by Kilston, Lyra
    Lyra Kilston

    Sun Seekers: The Cure of California

    Sunshine and nature: California as a beacon of better healthSince the mid-19th century, the idea of California has lured many waves of migrants. Here, writer and editor Lyra Kilston explores a less examined attraction: the region's promise of better health. From ailing families seeking...
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  • Vernacular Architecture in the 21st Century: Theory, Education and Practice by Asquith, Lindsay
    Lindsay Asquith

    Vernacular Architecture in the 21st Century: Theory, Education and Practice

    The issues surrounding the function and meaning of vernacular architecture in the twenty-first century are complex and extensive. Taking a distinctively rigorous theoretical approach, this book considers these issues from a number of perspectives, broadening current debate to a wider multidisciplinary audience. These collected...
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  • LA+ Journal: Risk: Interdisciplinary Journal of Landscape Architecture by Hands, Tatum
    Tatum Hands

    LA+ Journal: Risk: Interdisciplinary Journal of Landscape Architecture

    Author: Tatum HandsISBN-10: 1939621968ISBN-13: 9781939621962Publisher: Oro EditionsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/15/2017Pages: 120Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.30lbsSize: 10.40h x 8.80w x 0.40d
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  • The Taylorized Beauty of the Mechanical: Scientific Management and the Rise of Modernist Architecture by Guillén, Mauro F.
    Mauro F. Guillén

    The Taylorized Beauty of the Mechanical: Scientific Management and the Rise of Modernist Architecture

    The dream of scientific management was a rationalized machine world where life would approach the perfection of an assembly line. But since its early twentieth-century peak this dream has come to seem a dehumanizing nightmare. Henry Ford's assembly lines turned out a quarter of...
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  • Reconstruction as Violence in Syria by Rabbat, Nasser
    Nasser Rabbat

    Reconstruction as Violence in Syria

    A sustained critique of postwar reconstruction in Syria as a politically neutral processIn 2011, emboldened by the Arab Spring, the Syrians rose up against their government. The Syrian regime used violence to suppress the protests, so that what began as pro-democracy protests eventually morphed...
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  • Approximate Translation: Media, Narrative, and Experience in Urban Design by Jae-An Crisman, Jonathan
    Jonathan Jae-An Crisman

    Approximate Translation: Media, Narrative, and Experience in Urban Design

    Cities are infinite cultural hyperobjects that contain layers of history, of contemporary life, of material, capital, infrastructure, of future dreams of what may come. We sometimes call these dreams "urban design plans"--two-dimensional drawings that are meant to capture our aspirations for the future of...
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  • Tashkent Modernism XX/XI by Chukhovich, Boris
    Boris Chukhovich

    Tashkent Modernism XX/XI

    An investigative record of the architectural movement emblematic of the Soviet OrientAfter World War II, Tashkent, Uzbekistan, was designated as the capital of the Soviet Orient, a vitrine of socialism in the East. Conceived by both local and Moscow architects, the distinctive quality of...
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  • The Architecture of Psychoanalysis: Spaces of Transition by Rendell, Jane
    Jane Rendell

    The Architecture of Psychoanalysis: Spaces of Transition

    In this thought-provoking book, Jane Rendell explores how architectural space registers in psychoanalysis. She investigates both the inherently spatial vocabulary of psychoanalysis and ideas around the physical 'setting' of the psychoanalytic encounter, with reference to Sigmund Freud, D.W. Winnicott and Andre Green. Building on...
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  • The Sympathy of Things: Ruskin and the Ecology of Design by Spuybroek, Lars
    Lars Spuybroek

    The Sympathy of Things: Ruskin and the Ecology of Design

    'If there is one thing we can learn from John Ruskin, it is that each age must find its own way to beauty' writes Lars Spuybroek in The Sympathy of Things, his ground-breaking work which proposes a radical new aesthetics for the digital era....
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  • Piranesi's Lost Words by Minor, Heather Hyde
    Heather Hyde Minor

    Piranesi's Lost Words

    Giovanni Battista Piranesi was one of the most important artists eighteenth-century Europe produced. But Piranesi was more than an artist; he was an engraver and printmaker, architect, antiquities dealer, archaeologist, draftsman, publisher, bookseller, and author. In Piranesi's Lost Words, Heather Hyde Minor considers Piranesi...
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  • A Language of Contemporary Architecture: An Index of Topology and Typology by Luna, Rafael
    Rafael Luna

    A Language of Contemporary Architecture: An Index of Topology and Typology

    As a way to understand the contemporary project in architecture, this book provides an index of ideas, theories, projects, and definitions that string into a methodology for evaluating the contemporary language of architecture described as "contemporism" through a review of topology (form) and typology...
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  • Beyond Architecture: The New New York by Diamonstein-Spielvogel, Barbaralee
    Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel

    Beyond Architecture: The New New York

    A volume of new essays by a range of contributors--architectural critics, city planners, historians, scholars, journalists, and more--to commemorate the sixtieth anniversary of the passage of the New York City Landmarks Law, exploring the past, present, and future of historic preservation in America's great...
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  • Analysing Architecture: The Universal Language of Place-Making by Unwin, Simon
    Simon Unwin

    Analysing Architecture: The Universal Language of Place-Making

    Now in its fifth edition, Analysing Architecture has become internationally established as the best introduction to architecture. Aimed primarily at those studying architecture, it offers a clear and accessible insight into the workings of this rich and fascinating subject. With copious illustrations from his...
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  • Visuality for Architects: Architectural Creativity and Modern Theories of Perception and Imagination by Mitrovic, Branko
    Branko Mitrovic

    Visuality for Architects: Architectural Creativity and Modern Theories of Perception and Imagination

    What is more important in architectural works--their form, shape, and color, or the meanings and symbolism that can be associated with them? Can aesthetic judgments of architecture be independent of the stories one can tell about buildings? Do non-architects perceive buildings in the same...
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  • The Genesis of Roman Architecture by Hopkins, John North
    John North Hopkins

    The Genesis of Roman Architecture

    An important new look at Rome's earliest buildings and their context within the broader tradition of Mediterranean culture This groundbreaking study traces the development of Roman architecture and its sculpture from the earliest days to the middle of the 5th century BCE. Existing narratives...
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  • Architecture of Segregation: The Hierarchy of Spaces and Places by McCants, Jerel
    Jerel McCants

    Architecture of Segregation: The Hierarchy of Spaces and Places

    Author: Jerel McCantsISBN-13: 9798990152434Publisher: Two Penny PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/25/2024Pages: 416Format: HardcoverWeight: 2.02lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.25d
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  • Point Line Plane by Kuma, Kengo
    Kengo Kuma

    Point Line Plane

    Point Line Plane is architectural theory, but written as narrative, full of intriguing vignettes, such as the fact that in Ancient Rome windows were fitted with slices of marble because glass was so expensive. It's written in a very Japanese form: a series of...
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  • Textile in Architecture: From the Middle Ages to Modernism by Ekici, Didem
    Didem Ekici

    Textile in Architecture: From the Middle Ages to Modernism

    This book investigates the interconnections between textile and architecture via a variety of case studies from the Middle Ages through the twentieth century and from diverse geographic contexts. Among the oldest human technologies, building and weaving have intertwined histories. Textile structures go back to...
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  • The Letters of Colin Rowe: Five Decades of Correspondence by Colin, Rowe
    Rowe Colin

    The Letters of Colin Rowe: Five Decades of Correspondence

    Legendary architect, historian and critic, Colin Rowe taught Architecture and Urban Design at Liverpool University, the University of Texas at Austin, Cambridge University and for another 30 years at Cornell. From the late 1940s through to the early 1960s he wrote a uniquely perceptive...
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  • Architecture and Nature: essays by Abilio Guerra by Guerra, Abilio
    Abilio Guerra

    Architecture and Nature: essays by Abilio Guerra

    This collection, edited by Fernando Luiz Lara and Silvana Romano Santos, brings together articles that are somehow related to a common nodule, that I believe was identified few years ago, and points to a kind of birth mark of Brazilian's architectural culture.The common nodule...
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  • Multimodality in the Built Environment: Spatial Discourse Analysis by Ravelli, Louise J.
    Louise J. Ravelli

    Multimodality in the Built Environment: Spatial Discourse Analysis

    This book provides an extended exploration of the multimodal analysis of spatial (three-dimensional) texts of the built environment, culminating in a holistic approach termed Spatial Discourse Analysis (SpDA). Based on existing frameworks of multimodal analysis, this book applies, adapts, and extends these frameworks to...
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  • H Blocks: An Architecture of the Conflict in and about Northern Ireland by Purbrick, Louise
    Louise Purbrick

    H Blocks: An Architecture of the Conflict in and about Northern Ireland

    Shortlisted for the Alice Davis Hitchcock Medallion 2023A place of incarceration and liberation, political debate and historical denial, the H Block cell units of Long Kesh/Maze prison in Northern Ireland housed members of both Republican and Loyalist military groups during 'The Troubles' and are...
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  • A History of Building Types by Pevsner, Nikolaus
    Nikolaus Pevsner

    A History of Building Types

    An essential guide to vital and often overlooked features of the architectural and social inheritance of the West This book provides vital insights into the ways in which architecture reflects the character of society. Drawing on his immense erudition and keenly discerning eye, Nikolaus...
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  • Three Pavilions by S?rgio Bernardes Contribution to the Brazilian Modern Architectural Avant-Garde in the Mid-20th Century by Sombra, Fausto
    Fausto Sombra

    Three Pavilions by S?rgio Bernardes Contribution to the Brazilian Modern Architectural Avant-Garde in the Mid-20th Century

    As part of the second generation of modern architects from Rio de Janeiro - at least one decade separated him from the first group of modern architects acting in Rio, such as L?cio Costa (1902-1998), Jorge Machado Moreira (1904-1992), Oscar Niemeyer (1907-2012) and Affonso...
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  • The Mother Tongue of Architecture: Selected Writing from Kazi Khaleed Ashraf by Ashraf, Kazi Khaleed
    Kazi Khaleed Ashraf

    The Mother Tongue of Architecture: Selected Writing from Kazi Khaleed Ashraf

    A collection of critical essays on abiding and compelling topics in architecture and the culture of architecture. Range of topics are diverse: an architectural phenomenology of water, architecture and landscape rethought, ancient Greece to India, The Buddha's house to the modern house in India,...
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  • Building Time: Architecture, Event, and Experience by Leatherbarrow, David
    David Leatherbarrow

    Building Time: Architecture, Event, and Experience

    While most books on architecture concentrate on spatial themes, this book explores architecture's temporal dimensions. Through a series of close readings of buildings, both contemporary and classic, it demonstrates the centrality of time in modern architecture, and shows why an understanding of time is...
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  • World Architecture: A Cross-Cultural History by Ingersoll, Richard
    Richard Ingersoll

    World Architecture: A Cross-Cultural History

    Richard Ingersoll's World Architecture: A Cross-Cultural History, Second Edition, provides the most comprehensive and contemporary survey in the field. Each chapter within the text's chronological organization focuses on three unique architectural cultures, giving instructors the flexibility to choose which traditions are the most relevant...
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