Criticism

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911339502Author David LeatherbarrowFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Artifice PressPublisher Artifice Press

This edited book explores and promotes reflection on how the lessons of Metabolism experience can inform current debate on city making and future practice in architectural design and urban planning. More than sixty years after the Metabolist manifesto...

Whatever 'ugliness' is, it remains a problematic category in architectural aesthetics - alternately vilified and appropriated, either to shock or to invert conventions of architecture. This book presents eighteen new essays which rethink ugliness in...

Responding to increasing levels of planetary pollution, waste generation, carbon dioxide emission and environmental collapse, Ecologies of Inception re-thinks potentiality-an object's ability to change-in architecture and design. The book problematizes...

A critique of prominent architects' approach to digitally driven design and labor practices over the past two decades With the advent of revolutionary digital design and production technologies, contemporary architects and their clients developed a taste...

Widely acknowledged as Britain's leading architectural historian, Sir Howard Colvin has been responsible for fundamental research that has helped to bring about a renaissance in English architectural history in the second half of the twentieth century...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781572410985Author Adolf LoosFormat PaperbackPage Count 203Imprint Ariadne PressPublisher Ariadne PressWeight(grams) 316g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800081710Author Alessandro AyusoFormat PaperbackImprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 700g

Image, Text, Architecture brings a radical and detailed analysis of the modern and contemporary architectural media, addressing issues of architectural criticism, architectural photography and the role of journal editors. It covers examples as diverse as...

Urban Design Thinking provides a conceptual toolkit for urban design. Bridging the gap between theory and practice, it shows how the design of our cities and urban spaces can be interpreted and informed through contemporary theories of urbanism,...

In the late 1960s the world was faced with impending disaster: the height of the Cold War, the end of oil, and the decline of great cities throughout the world. Out of this crisis came a new generation of thinkers, designers and engineers who hoped to...

Rhetoric provides a repertoire of different methods for original and innovative creation by introducing notions of surprise, the unexpected, and conflict. The myths of "inspiration" and "the brilliant idea" dominate explanations of the genesis of many...

Has architectural theory become a historical phenomenon to be anthologized and studied as another passing phase in the history of the discipline? Do the current commonplace watchwords of "practice" and "research" mark the end of theory's place in...

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...

Architecture for Residential Care and Ageing Communities confronts urgent architectural design challenges within residential innovation, ageing communities and healthcare environments. The increasing and diversified demands on the housing market today...

Designing Spatial Culture investigates a powerful experiential dialogue formed between the habitation of space and a diversified cultural realm. This creative proposition binds and positions human activity and experience framing its histories, currency...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307277244Author Alain De BottonFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 414gDimensions(mm) 204mm...

As Angela Y. Davis has proposed, the "path to prison," which so disproportionately affects communities of color, is most acutely guided by the conditions of daily life. Architecture, then, as fundamental to shaping these conditions of civil existence,...

Sigfried Giedion's small but vocal manifesto Befreites Wohnen (1929) is an early manifestation of modernist housing ideology and as such is key to the broader understanding of the ambitions of the International Congresses of Modern Architecture (CIAM)...

Why write instead of draw when it comes to architecture? Why rely on literary pieces instead of architectural treatises and writings when it comes to the of study buildings and urban environments? Why rely on literary techniques and accounts instead of...

This book is about perception, emotion, and affect in architecture: how and why we feel the way that we do and the ways in which our surroundings and bodies contribute to this. Our experience of architecture is an embodied one, with all our senses...

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...

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...

In this suggestive inquiry into the operations of linearity in architectural theory and practice, Catherine Ingraham investigates the line as both a conceptual and literal force in architecture. She approaches her subject from philosophical, theoretical,...

This book poses important philosophical questions about the aims, values and purposes of landscape architecture. The editors, highly regarded in their field, have drawn together a distinguished team of writers who provide unique individual perspectives...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800081352Author Stylianos GiamarelosFormat HardbackImprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 1010g

This is the dumbest smart book on contemporary architecture. What really is this "technology" that we speak of? How do we define "intelligence?" These are just two of the questions that this book attempts to answer through the unconventional (and...

The author charts the development of architectural theory and practice from Elizabeth I to George IV. Questions of style, technology, and the social framework are resolved as separable but always essential components of the building worlds.Book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780195407105Author Architecture/Design Columnist Adele FreedmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Oxford University Press, USAPublisher Oxford University...

Relationships with Italy were crucial in contributing to the making of postmodern architecture in Australia. In this collection of essays and conversations, the authors reflect upon the reception of Italian postmodern architecture in Australia, revealing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996405133Author Abilio GuerraFormat PaperbackPage Count 310Imprint Nhamerica Press LLCPublisher Nhamerica Press LLCWeight(grams) 268g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781008909540Author Simon ElmerFormat PaperbackPage Count 178Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 210g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992131753Author Jean-Pierre ChupinFormat HardbackImprint Potential Architecture Books Inc.Publisher Potential Architecture Books Inc.Weight(grams) 1111g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780980819700Author Andrew BenjaminFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint re.pressPublisher re.pressWeight(grams) 241g

This title looks at intelligent spaces, sensitive rooms, flexible houses and the links between the human body and artificial systems of architecture comprised of postorganic through the merging of the body and architecture brought about by electronic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013293276Author Stamatis ZografosFormat HardbackPage Count 210Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street PressWeight(grams) 216g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992876883Author Victoria WatsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Doctor Watson ArchitectsPublisher Doctor Watson ArchitectsWeight(grams) 203g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780785809883Author Book Sales, Inc.Format PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint BooksalesPublisher BooksalesWeight(grams) 386g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915609144Author Markus MiessenFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint Sternberg PressPublisher Sternberg PressWeight(grams) 737g

What happens when ruination overtakes regeneration? Following on from A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain, Owen Hatherley investigates the fate of British cities in the desolate new world of savage public-sector cuts, when government funds are...