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  • Architecture and Ekphrasis: Space, Time and the Embodied Description of the Past by Dana Arnold 9780719099496

    Architecture and Ekphrasis: Space, Time and the Embodied Description of the Past by Dana Arnold 9780719099496

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    Architecture and ekphrasis examines how eighteenth-century prints and drawings of antique architecture operated as representations of thought. Using original archival material, it considers the idea of the past in the period, specifically how it was...
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  • Fit: An Architect's Manifesto by Robert Geddes 9780691155753

    Fit: An Architect's Manifesto by Robert Geddes 9780691155753

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    Fit is a book about architecture and society that seeks to fundamentally change how architects and the public think about the task of design. Distinguished architect and urbanist Robert Geddes argues that buildings, landscapes, and cities should be...
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  • Thinking and Building on Shaky Ground: On Architecture in Seismic Regions by Yun Fu 9783035625585

    Thinking and Building on Shaky Ground: On Architecture in Seismic Regions by Yun Fu 9783035625585

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    Building with earthquakes is a familiar yet persistent design problem for resilient construction on all continents. This book elaborates on various factors for earthquake-resilient architecture in six thematic chapters that explore the design strategies...
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  • Survey of Chester County, Pennsylvania, Architecture by Margaret B. Schiffer 9780916838027

    Survey of Chester County, Pennsylvania, Architecture by Margaret B. Schiffer 9780916838027

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    Chester County is one of the three original counties formed in 1682 in southeastern Pennsylvania by William Penn under Charter signed by King Charles II. The greatest number of settlers after 1682 came from the British Isles, and so the architecture they...
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  • Authorship - Discourse, A Series on Architecture by Antoine Picon 9780964264106

    Authorship - Discourse, A Series on Architecture by Antoine Picon 9780964264106

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    Authorship critically examines emergent themes in contemporary architecture by revisiting the seemingly defunct notion of design authorship. As we revel in the death of the master architect, how do we come to terms with the shifting role of creativity in...
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  • Curated Decay: Heritage beyond Saving by Caitlin DeSilvey 9780816694365

    Curated Decay: Heritage beyond Saving by Caitlin DeSilvey 9780816694365

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    Transporting readers from derelict homesteads to imperiled harbors, postindustrial ruins to Cold War test sites, Curated Decay presents an unparalleled provocation to conventional thinking on the conservation of cultural heritage. Caitlin DeSilvey...
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  • Indoor America: The Interior Landscape of Postwar Suburbia by Andrea Vesentini 9780813941585

    Indoor America: The Interior Landscape of Postwar Suburbia by Andrea Vesentini 9780813941585

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    Cars, single-family houses, fallout shelters, air-conditioned malls-these are only some of the many interiors making up the landscape of American suburbia. Indoor America explores the history of suburbanization through the emergence of such spaces in the...
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  • Vernacular Modernism: Heimat, Globalization, and the Built Environment by Maiken Umbach 9780804753432

    Vernacular Modernism: Heimat, Globalization, and the Built Environment by Maiken Umbach 9780804753432

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    Vernacular Modernism challenges the common perception of modern architecture as the example of an internationalism which eradicates local traditions and transforms the globe into a faceless urban sprawl. The essays trace the vernacular in some of...
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  • R.O.M.E 2025: Resilient Osmotic Metabolic Ecological by Carlo Gasparrini 9788899854270

    R.O.M.E 2025: Resilient Osmotic Metabolic Ecological by Carlo Gasparrini 9788899854270

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    The R.O.M.E. look is presented in this book by a project team at the University of Naples. It is part of a more comprehensive interpretation and design experience carried out in 2015 by twenty-five universities, under the international workshop...
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  • Designing Territorial Metabolism: Metropolitan Studio on Brussels, Barcelona, and Veneto by Geoffrey Grulois 9783868594898

    Designing Territorial Metabolism: Metropolitan Studio on Brussels, Barcelona, and Veneto by Geoffrey Grulois 9783868594898

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    The concepts of metabolism, ecosystems, and circular economy are currently challenging the discipline of urbanism. As the shift from linear to circular production-consumption patterns seems to be ultimate for reducing the externalities of our urban...
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  • Verb Crisis by Mario Ballesteros 9788496540972

    Verb Crisis by Mario Ballesteros 9788496540972

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    Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788496540972Author Mario BallesterosFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint ActarD IncPublisher ActarD Inc
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  • Wright`s Writings - Reflections on Culture and Politics, 1894-1959 by Kenneth Frampton 9781941332351

    Wright`s Writings - Reflections on Culture and Politics, 1894-1959 by Kenneth Frampton 9781941332351

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    Wright's Writings traces the discursive work of Frank Lloyd Wright through a set of essays by Kenneth Frampton. Originally written as a series of introductions to the five-volume collection of Wright's writing published in 1992, the essays are gathered...
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  • The Architect's Dream: Form and Philosophy in Architectural Imagination by Sean Pickersgill 9781789387407

    The Architect's Dream: Form and Philosophy in Architectural Imagination by Sean Pickersgill 9781789387407

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    Sean Pickersgill demonstrates that the goal of creating meaningful architecture can take a variety of critical and philosophical paths. The importance of architecture as an expression of broad, complex social drivers is complemented by the equally...
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  • Designing Mind-Friendly Environments: Architecture and Design for Everyone by Steve Maslin 9781785921421

    Designing Mind-Friendly Environments: Architecture and Design for Everyone by Steve Maslin 9781785921421

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    Exploring the impact of the built environment and design on people with a range of neurological experiences, including autism, dementia, dyslexia and dyspraxia, this comprehensive guide provides project commissioners, architects and designers with all...
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  • Architecture and Objects by Graham Harman 9781517908522

    Architecture and Objects by Graham Harman 9781517908522

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    Thinking through object-oriented ontology-and the work of architects such as Rem Koolhaas and Zaha Hadid-to explore new concepts of the relationship between form and function Object-oriented ontology has become increasingly popular among architectural...
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  • The Cultured Landscape: Designing the Environment in the 21st Century by Sheila Harvey 9780419250302

    The Cultured Landscape: Designing the Environment in the 21st Century by Sheila Harvey 9780419250302

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    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...
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  • Global Heritage Assemblages: Development and Modern Architecture in Africa by Christoph Rausch 9780367193058

    Global Heritage Assemblages: Development and Modern Architecture in Africa by Christoph Rausch 9780367193058

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    UNESCO aims to tackle Africa's under-representation on its World Heritage List by inscribing instances of nineteenth- and twentieth-century modern architecture and urban planning there. But, what is one to make of the utopias of progress and development...
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  • Architecture Beyond Experience by Michael Benedikt 9781943532896

    Architecture Beyond Experience by Michael Benedikt 9781943532896

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    Architecture Beyond Experience is an interdisciplinary work in the service of one goal: the bringing about of a more relational, 'posthuman' and yet humanist strain in architecture. It argues against the values that currently guide much architectural...
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  • Lunch 13:: Mischief by Colin Giliand 9781941806326

    Lunch 13:: Mischief by Colin Giliand 9781941806326

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    Lunch is an annual, student-edited design research journal at the University of Virginia School of Architecture that aims to facilitate conversations across disciplines and communities, publishing articles, research, interviews, and projects that...
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  • Not Interesting: On the Limits of Criticism in Architecture Andrew Atwood 9781940743530

    Not Interesting: On the Limits of Criticism in Architecture Andrew Atwood 9781940743530

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    Not Interesting proposes another set of terms and structures to talk about architecture, without requiring that it be interesting. This book explores a set of alternatives to the interesting and imagines how architecture might be positioned more broadly...
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  • Against Urbanism Franco La Cecla 9781629632353

    Against Urbanism Franco La Cecla 9781629632353

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    Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629632353Author Franco La CeclaFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint PM PressPublisher PM Press
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  • Las Vegas in the Rearview Mirror - The City in Thepru, Photography and Film . Stierli 9781606061374

    Las Vegas in the Rearview Mirror - The City in Thepru, Photography and Film . Stierli 9781606061374

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    This is an intelligent and superbly illustrated reevaluation of the seminal architectural manifesto Learning from Las Vegas. Learning from Las Vegas - published in 1972 by the American architects Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, and Steven Izenour -...
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  • Architectural Materialisms: Nonhuman Creativity by Maria Voyatzaki 9781474420570

    Architectural Materialisms: Nonhuman Creativity by Maria Voyatzaki 9781474420570

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    Maps materiality's importance in the emergent posthuman future of architecture This book gathers 14 architects, designers, performing artists, film makers, media theorists, philosophers, mathematicians and programmers. They all argue that matter in...
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  • Architecture and Freedom: Searching for Agency in a Changing World Owen Hopkins 9781119332633

    Architecture and Freedom: Searching for Agency in a Changing World Owen Hopkins 9781119332633

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    Architects are facing a crisis of agency. For decades, they have seen their traditional role diminish in scope as more and more of their responsibilities have been taken over by other disciplines within the building construction industry. Once upon a...
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  • The Rent of Form: Architecture and Labor in the Digital Age by Pedro Fiori Arantes 9780816699285

    The Rent of Form: Architecture and Labor in the Digital Age by Pedro Fiori Arantes 9780816699285

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    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...
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  • Historic Architecture of Pennsylvania by Scott D. Butcher 9780764342752

    Historic Architecture of Pennsylvania by Scott D. Butcher 9780764342752

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    Nestled among the rolling hills of South Central Pennsylvania, six counties - Adams, Cumberland, Dauphin, Lancaster, Lebanon, and York - are home to more than three centuries of history and architecture. Beginning with early eighteenth century buildings,...
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  • Open Space: Transparency - Freedom - Dematerialisation by Gunther Feuerstein 9783936681550

    Open Space: Transparency - Freedom - Dematerialisation by Gunther Feuerstein 9783936681550

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    The aim of the study is to analyse and describe in detail one of the most important trends in architecture in the 19th and 20th centuries: the evolution leading from the closed, hermetic spaces of the early cultures and the Middle Ages to the "open...
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  • Moderne, Postmoderne - Und Nun Barock? Entwicklungslinien Der Architektur Des 20. Jahrhunderts by Stefan Grundmann 9783930698639

    Moderne, Postmoderne - Und Nun Barock? Entwicklungslinien Der Architektur Des 20. Jahrhunderts by Stefan Grundmann 9783930698639

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    "This book is an attempt at architectural criticism" that is how Robert Venturi opened the discussion on Post-Modernism in architecture in Complexity and Contradiction in Architecturea generation ago. And this was a typical beginning...
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  • Androgynos--The Male-Female in Art and Architecture: The Male-female in Art and Architecture by Gunther Feuerstein 9783930698745

    Androgynos--The Male-Female in Art and Architecture: The Male-female in Art and Architecture by Gunther Feuerstein 9783930698745

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    This book deals with elemental basic architectural questions: the age-old subject of antithesis and thesis, unity and duality, contrast and harmony.About the AuthorGunther Feurstein who was a professor at Hochschule fur Gestaltung in Linz and also a...
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  • Vancouver in Focus: The City's Built Form by Mike Chadwick 9781894694445

    Vancouver in Focus: The City's Built Form by Mike Chadwick 9781894694445

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    Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781894694445Author Mike ChadwickFormat HardbackPage Count 231Imprint Granville Island PublishingPublisher Granville Island PublishingWeight(grams) 1186g
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  • She City: Designing Out Women’s Inequity in Cities by Nicole Kalms 9781350153080

    She City: Designing Out Women’s Inequity in Cities by Nicole Kalms 9781350153080

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    Rooted in feminist political thought, She City illuminates how gender shapes our urban spaces and city design. Through three sections: 'Resisting Sexist Cities', 'Designing Feminist Cities', and 'Prioritizing Safer Cities', Kalms examines barriers to...
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  • Global Perspectives on Critical Architecture: Praxis Reloaded by Gevork Hartoonian 9781138573376

    Global Perspectives on Critical Architecture: Praxis Reloaded by Gevork Hartoonian 9781138573376

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    Judging from the debates taking place in both education and practice, it appears that architecture is deeply in crisis. New design and production techniques, together with the globalization of capital and even skilled-labour, have reduced architecture to...
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  • Architecture of Great Expositions 1937-1959: Messages of Peace, Images of War by Rika Devos 9781138573352

    Architecture of Great Expositions 1937-1959: Messages of Peace, Images of War by Rika Devos 9781138573352

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    This book investigates architecture as a form of diplomacy in the context of the Second World War at six major European international and national expositions that took place between 1937 and 1959. The volume gives a fascinating account of architecture...
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  • Shopping Malls and Public Space in Modern China by Nicholas Jewell 9781138573338

    Shopping Malls and Public Space in Modern China by Nicholas Jewell 9781138573338

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    China's rise as an economic superpower has been inescapable. Statistical hyperbole has been accompanied by a plethora of highly publicized architectural forms that brand the regeneration of its increasingly globalized urban centres. Despite the sizeable...
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  • Architectural Projects of Marco Frascari: The Pleasure of a Demonstration by Sam Ridgway 9781138567795

    Architectural Projects of Marco Frascari: The Pleasure of a Demonstration by Sam Ridgway 9781138567795

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    Marco Frascari believed that architects should design thoughtful buildings capable of inspiring their inhabitants to have pleasurable and happy lives. A visionary Italian architect, academic and theorist, Frascari is best-known for his extraordinary...
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  • Courtyard Housing for Health and Happiness: Architectural Multiculturalism in North America by Donia Zhang 9781138567757

    Courtyard Housing for Health and Happiness: Architectural Multiculturalism in North America by Donia Zhang 9781138567757

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    Health and happiness are fundamental to human quality of life. The United Nations World Happiness Report 2012 reflects a new worldwide call for governments to include happiness as a criterion to their policies. The Healthy Cities or Happy Cities movement...
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  • Intersections of Space and Ethos by Kyriaki Tsoukala 9781138567368

    Intersections of Space and Ethos by Kyriaki Tsoukala 9781138567368

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    The pressing economic, environmental and social crises emanate the need for a redefinition of the dominant views, perspectives and values in the field of architecture. The intellectual production of the last two decades has witnessed an impressive number...
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  • Architectures of Hiding: Crafting Concealment | Omission | Deception | Erasure | Silence by Rana Abughannam 9781032412320

    Architectures of Hiding: Crafting Concealment | Omission | Deception | Erasure | Silence by Rana Abughannam 9781032412320

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    This is the first book to look at this underserved subject in history and theory.Includes contributions from authors in Canada, US, Lebanon, China, UK, France, Spain and Belgium.Fully illustrated in both colour and black and white.Book InformationISBN...
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  • Digital Fabrication and the Design Build Studio by William Carpenter 9780367766702

    Digital Fabrication and the Design Build Studio by William Carpenter 9780367766702

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    This book explores the connection between digital fabrication and the design build studio in both academic and professional studios.The book presents 17 essays and cases studies from well-known scholars and practitioners, including Kengo Kuma, Joseph...
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  • Practice Practice by Ashton Hamm 9781951541958

    Practice Practice by Ashton Hamm 9781951541958

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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...
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