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The business of architecture - shaped by anti-trust legislation and pro-corporate governmental policies - has created an extractive, inequitable, and precarious environment for its practitioners. These pressures have led many small firms, which make up...

This volume explores connections between architecture and theatre, and encourages imagination in the design of buildings and social spaces.Imagination is arguably the architect's most crucial capacity, underpinning memory, invention, and compassion. No...

Beautiful artist's book about Tin Drum's MR installation, Medusa. A meditation on emergent technologies, nature and architecture amidst the climate crisis with contributions from celebrated writers, academics and thinkers. The mixed reality Medusa...

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...

The first comprehensive architectural and cultural history of condominium and cooperative housing in twentieth-century America. Today, one in five homeowners in American cities and suburbs lives in a multifamily home rather than a single-family...

There are highly fragmented urban wildernesses remaining and scattering in rapidly urbanized and exceedingly industrialized cities, ranging from crevices along sidewalks to large areas of isolated forests. Although differing in scales with the natural...

This book brings together a diverse group of theoreticians to explore architectural theory as a discipline, assessing its condition and relevance to contemporary practice. Offering critical assessment in the face of major social and environmental issues...

The 'Storming of the Capitol' was, for many, the culminating media performance of the four-year presidency of Donald Trump. His Presidency and it's 'final act', bore all the hallmarks of a 21st century form of populism and media-politico spectacle that...

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...

Based on the eponymous symposium and exhibition, Fulfilled: Architecture, Excess, and Desire considers the role of architecture in a culture shaped by the excessive manufacturing and assuagement of desire. Until the term became synonymous with Amazon...

A radical critique of architecture that places disability at the heart of the built environment Disability critiques of architecture usually emphasize the need for modification and increased access, but The Architecture of Disability calls for a radical...

Since early times, humans have explored the space below their feet for different purposes: to flee persecution and war, to find protection from severe climates, to improve urban life-and more recently, to solve environmental problems. A rare look at old...

In 1980, David Dillon launched his career as an architectural critic with a provocative article that asked "Why Is Dallas Architecture So Bad?" Over the next quarter century, he offered readers of the Dallas Morning News a vision of how good...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945150968Author Chin JungkownFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint Actar PublishersPublisher Actar PublishersWeight(grams) 285g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262545464Author Ethan ZissonFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 229g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780929112466Author Brian CarterFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Dalhousie Architectural PressPublisher Dalhousie Architectural PressWeight(grams) 560g

In a globalizing world, frontiers may be in flux but they remain as significant as ever. New borders are established even as old borders are erased. Beyond lines on maps, however, borders are spatial zones in which distinctive architectural, graphic, and...

How does one envision architecture? Forays gathers the work of Joe Day and Deegan-Day Design into six diptychs, unified by this question. Working in a wide range of media and scales, Day's work mines the differentials between perspective and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781954081093Author Kongjian YuFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Oro EditionsPublisher Oro EditionsWeight(grams) 279g

The Avery Review, a digital journal about books, buildings, and other architectural media, makes its print debut with a thematic broadsheet edition about the city of Chicago. Coinciding with the inaugural Chicago Architectural Biennial, this issue...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9786079489922Author Camilo RestrepoFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint ArquinePublisher ArquineWeight(grams) 386g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474483018Author Andrej RadmanFormat HardbackPage Count 232Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University PressWeight(grams) 156g

The book focused initially on the philosophical, artistic, and scientific forces that impacted on the humanist of the late Medieval and Renaissance period, profuse in the exchange of ideas and discovery, behind much of which was the impact of Dante's...

MASTERcrit was inaugurated in 2015 as a hybrid series of events that encompassed lectures, critiques and a charrette. Modelled on the traditional notion of a 'Master Class' the workshop enlisted the best graduating students from the school as nominated...

Illustrated by case studies from both smaller nations - such as Carriacou, Barbados and St Lucia - and larger countries - including Cuba, Mexico and Jamaica - this volume brings together leading writers on environmental planning in the Caribbean to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781732010604Author Florencia RodriguezFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint NESSPublisher NESSWeight(grams) 862g

A thought-provoking, elegantly crafted collection of essays by one of architecture's most influential figures Among practicing architects today, perhaps only Robert A. M. Stern once contemplated a career as a historian, an interest that has informed both...

Much has been written about Millennials, but until now their growing presence in the field of architecture has not been examined in depth. In an era of significant challenges stemming from explosive population growth, climate change, and the density of...

The book investigates speculative filmic architectural projects and animations that go beyond representing buildings, touching upon issues concerning medium, act of representation, or conducting criticism on history, culture, society, or urban politics,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781988111315Author Arthur EricksonFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Concordia UniversityPublisher Concordia UniversityWeight(grams) 100g

Here is THE way to see Los Angeles's rich architectural heritage! L.A. is a "driving" city, best seen from the car. Tour guide, author, and architectural historian Laura Massino Smith directs you on an unforgettable ride to uncover the city's...

The city of Pasadena is rich in history and significant architecture, featuring 9 landmark districts and over 3,500 designated historic sites. Preservation groups like Pasadena Heritage have worked tirelessly with the city to preserve Pasadena's...

Here is THE way to see Los Angeles's rich architectural heritage! L.A. is a "driving" city, best seen from the car. Tour guide, author, and architectural historian Laura Massino Smith directs you on an unforgettable ride to uncover the city's...

Examines how images of accumulation help open up the climate to political mobilization The current epoch is one of accumulation: not only of capital but also of raw, often unruly material, from plastic in the ocean and carbon in the atmosphere to...

At the peak of the 1968/69 students' riots at American Universities, Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown, together with Steven Izenour, pursued their Design and Research Studio on the topic of Las Vegas at Yale School of Architecture. The results of...

Children are the future architects, clients and users of our buildings. The kinds of architectural worlds they are exposed to in picturebooks during their formative years may be assumed to influence how they regard such architecture as adults...

Swedish-American architect Lars Lerup's writings suggest a mindful collector as their author, rather than a scholar or a theoretician. Lerup sharply observes and analyses his urban environment and its properties, before adding his findings to his own...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781623718220Author Geoffrey SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Interlink BooksPublisher Interlink Publishing Group, Inc

Here is THE way to see Los Angeles's rich architectural heritage! L.A. is a "driving" city, best seen from the car. Tour guide, author, and architectural historian Laura Massino Smith directs you on an unforgettable ride to uncover the city's...

German architecture prior to the modern period has received less systemic, analytical study than that of Italy, France, and Britain. Scholarly discussion of broad traditions or continuities within Germanic or Central European facade design is even...