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This is the second part of a major theoretical work by Patrik Schumacher, which outlines how the discipline of architecture should be understood as its own distinct system of communication. Autopoeisis comes from the Greek and means literally...

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...

In this profoundly original book, Jennifer Bloomer addresses important philosophical questions concerning the relation between writing and architecture. Drawing together two cultural fantasies from different periods-one literary and one...

Cutting-edge analysis on how to improve life inside the Gaza Strip through architecture and design, illustrated in full-colorThe Gaza Strip is one of the most beleaguered environments on earth. Crammed into a space of 139 square miles (360 square...

Between 1949 and 1989, remarkable buildings of late modernity were constructed in the coastal city of Kuwait. Within these four decades, the city state on the Arabian Gulf was comprehensively restructured and practically redesigned. Following a first...

This book sheds light on a particular facet of the link between politics and Islam through the analysis of the relationship between Islamism and the built environment. The relationship between Islam and politics has always been controversial, yet it has...

Architecture of Resistance investigates the relationship between architecture, politics and power, and how these factors interplay in light of the Palestinian/Israeli conflict. It takes Palestine as the key ground of spatial exploration, looking at the...

Design education in architecture and allied disciplines is the cornerstone of design professions that contribute to shaping the built environment of the future. In this book, design education is dealt with as a paradigm whose evolutionary processes,...

A controversial manifesto on the role of classical principles in architecture critically examined for relevance today. First published in 1959, The Golden City is a seminal, critical document that developed one of the earliest and most compelling...

Is all knowledge the product of thought? Or can the physical interactions of the body with the world produce reliable knowledge? In late-nineteenth-century Europe, scientists, artists, and other intellectuals theorized the latter as a new way of knowing,...

Riots are extraordinary events that have been recurring with increasing frequency and occupy a highly controversial space in the political imagination. Despite their often negative portrayals, it is undeniable that riots have played a pivotal role in the...

James Stirling (1924-1992) is acclaimed as the most influential and controversial modern British architect. His partnership with James Gowan (b. 1923) between 1956 and 1963 put postwar British architecture on the international map, and their Leicester...

When it comes to determining the relative quality of architecture, who is best equipped to make the distinctions? Is it the public who lives in and among the buildings? The people who commission and pay for the buildings? Art historians? Or architects...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997874464Author Budhaditya ChattopadhyayFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Errant BodiesPublisher Errant BodiesWeight(grams) 227g

Urban space is a commons: simultaneously a sphere of human cooperation and negotiation and its product. Understanding urban space as a commons means that the much sought-after productivity of the city precedes rather than results from strategies of the...

As you crest the ridge, the green valley below and the ocean beyond come into view. This is Shobac, a seaside village featuring an ensemble of buildings that, at first glance, looks like a monumental work of Land Art. What is this place? A fishing...

Following Norberg-Schulz examines the life and work of the seminal architectural thinker Christian Norberg-Schulz (1926 - 2000), drawing new attention to his architectural designs and re-examining his acclaimed theoretical work on the phenomenology of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907317170Author Konrad BuhagiarFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Artifice PressPublisher Artifice PressDimensions(mm) 245mm * 155mm * 38mm

Amid Japan's political turbulence in 1960, seven architects and designers founded Metabolism to propagate radical ideas of urbanism. Kenzo Tange's Plan for Tokyo 1960 further celebrated urban expansion as organic processes and pushed city design to an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788832080124Author Chiara ScarpittiFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint ListLabPublisher ListLabWeight(grams) 1089gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 147mm * 13mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262047128Author Daniel NaegeleFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

While the construction of architecture has a place in architectural discourse, its destruction, generally seen as incompatible with the very idea of "culture," has been neglected in theoretical and historical discussion. Responding to this neglect,...

The relationship between public and private spheres is one of the key concerns of the modern society. This book investigates this relationship, especially as manifested in the urban space with its social and psychological significance. Through...

Architecture Is All Over investigates architecture's simultaneous diminishment and ubiquity in the early twenty-first century. As a diagnostic and tactical guide, this collection features original texts and design proposals from emerging and established...

The name Farsons is as synonymous with Malta as Guinness is with Ireland. Louis Farrugia’s visionary decision to conduct a European architectural competition has resulted in a stunningly beautiful and brilliant transformation of the 1951 Art Deco Farsons...

- Original and applied approach: this is the first book to provide practical pedagogical design experiments integrating specific challenges of climate change into the architecture curriculum - Timely: adds to a growing discourse around architecture’s...

Seemingly immobile and durable, architecture remains a challenge in the modern world of collecting and exhibiting. From the late eighteenth century onward, divergent conventions of display have been conflated with urgent discussions of how material...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262519557Author Jeffrey KipnisFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 581gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 137mm * 17mm

Built space supports our daily habits and our membership of communities, organizations, institutions, or social formations. Architecture and Spatial Culture argues that architecture matters because it makes the settings of our life intelligible, so that...

Since the beginning of the century, the field of architecture has fervently turned its attention to documenting the contemporary urban condition. Every city been has been examined as a repository of architectural concepts, scrutinized as an urban...

Architecture has long been understood as a cultural discipline able to articulate the human condition and lift the human spirit, yet the spirituality of architecture is rarely directly addressed in academic scholarship. The seventeen chapters provide a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262545006Author Mari HvattumFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Women [Re]Build: Stories, Polemic, Futures is exemplary in its mission to combine in one resource reflections on the renewal of feminist thought in architecture (Framing Stories), challenges to practice made possible by activism (Shaping Polemics), and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262524650Author Giuliana BrunoFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 499gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 137mm * 15mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789083362106Author Olivier LacroutsFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint OnomatopeePublisher OnomatopeeWeight(grams) 390g

Affect, Architecture, and Practice builds on and contributes to work in theories of affect that have risen within diverse disciplines, including geography, cultural studies, and media studies, challenging the nature of textual and representational-based...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604864069Author Franco La CeclaFormat PaperbackPage Count 134Imprint PM PressPublisher PM PressWeight(grams) 148g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908967534Author Daniel NaegeleFormat HardbackPage Count 560Imprint Artifice Books on ArchitecturePublisher Artifice Press

Once dismissed as a rusting industrial has-been-the "Next Detroit"-Philadelphia has enjoyed an astonishing comeback in the 21st century. Over the past two decades, Inga Saffron has served as the premier chronicler of the city's physical transformation as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787353718Author Stamatis ZografosFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 370g