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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262680028Author Steen Eiler RasmussenFormat PaperbackPage Count 245Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 132mm...

Once Upon a China is an unconventional architectural story of great beauty, empathy, honour and sadness. The chapters are ingenious reimaginations of 'Dream of the Red Mansion', 'Journey to the West ', 'The Water Margin', and 'Romance of the Three...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486443973Author Abraham SwanFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

The core idea for this book is the use of operative verbs as tools for designing space. These operative verbs abstract the idea of spatial formation to its most basic terms, allowing for an objective approach to create the foundation for subjective...

"A clearly articulated manifesto for those trying to preserve Tokyo's emergent properties, Emergent Tokyo helps distil lessons for other cities" -Benjamin Bansal, Urban Studies Journal This book examines the urban fabric of contemporary Tokyo as a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143114741Author Michael PollanFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 289gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 142mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780870702822Author Robert VenturiFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Museum of Modern ArtPublisher Museum of Modern ArtWeight(grams) 590g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262545235Author Pier Vittorio AureliFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262545150Author Mario CarpoFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Conditional design is the sequel to Operative Design. This book will further explore the operative in a more detailed, intentional, and perhaps functional manner. Spatially, the conditional is the result of the operative. It is not a blind result however...

The county's remarkable and richly varied military architecutre, from Hadrian's Wall to Warkworth, contrasts with monastic ruins buried deep in the valleys of the Coquet and the Aln or standing proudly by the sea at Holy Island and Tynemouth. Newcastle...

Condition surveys are becoming increasingly important and standardised in approach but are a high risk service with the potential for legal consequences if mistakes are made. Professionals therefore require clear, up-to-date advice on how to inspect and...

Since its original publication in 1978, Delirious New York has attained mythic status. Back in print in a newly designed edition, this influential cultural, architectural, and social history of New York is even more popular, selling out its first...

This is the most accessible architectural theory book that exists. Korydon Smith presents each common architectural subject - such as tectonics, use, and site - as though it were a conversation across history between theorists by providing you with the...

How do we think about architecture historically and theoretically? Forty Ways to Think about Architecture provides an introduction to some of the wide-ranging ways in which architectural history and theory are being approached today. The inspiration for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912018734Author Robin WilsonPage Count 192Imprint Blue Crow MediaPublisher Blue Crow MediaWeight(grams) 450gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 150mm * 15mm

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262518789Author Jeremy TillFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 16mm

Some of England's grandest country houses are to be found in this prosperous rural county. The Elizabethan Renaissance Kirby Hall, the Jacobean mansion at Apethorpe, the late 17th-century French-inspired Boughton, Hawksmoor's stately Baroque Easton...

Reyner Banham was a pioneer in arguing that technology, human needs, and environmental concerns must be considered an integral part of architecture. No historian before him had so systematically explored the impact of environmental engineering on the...

In this book, Bernard Rudofsky steps outside the narrowly defined discipline that has governed our sense of architectural history and discusses the art of building as a universal phenomenon. He introduces the reader to communal architecture--architecture...

Revolutionary essays on design, aesthetics and materialism - from one of the great masters of modern architectureAdolf Loos, the great Viennese pioneer of modern architecture, was a hater of the fake, the fussy and the lavishly decorated, and a lover of...

What makes the places we inhabit extraordinary? Why are some urban spaces more vital and restorative? Wonderful landscapes, inspiring works of architecture and urban design, and the numinous experiences that accompany them have been an integral dimension...

The making of shadows is an act as old as architecture itself. From the gloom of the medieval hearth through to the masterworks of modernism, shadows have been an essential yet neglected presence in architectural history. Shadow-Makers tells for the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013442568Author Rudolf WittkowerFormat HardbackPage Count 248Imprint Hassell Street PressPublisher Hassell Street PressWeight(grams) 526gDimensions(mm)...

Carlo Scarpa was a virtuoso of light, a master of detail, and a connoisseur of materials. Today he is known as a 20th-century master of architecture. To mark the first centenary of Scarpa's birth, all his works are presented here for the first time. The...

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

Soak up carbon into beautiful, healthy buildings that heal the climate "Green buildings" that slash energy use and carbon emissions are all the rage, but they aren't enough. The hidden culprit is embodied carbon - the carbon emitted when...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262544979Author Catherine IngrahamFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Space, place and territory are concepts that lie at the core of geography and urban planning, environmental studies and sociology. Although space, place and territory are indeed polysemic and polemic, they have particular characteristics that distinguish...

How can architecture develop better aesthetic directions for the twenty-first-century built environment? Our world, increasingly defined by efficient but unconsidered architecture and cities, seems to be getting uglier. In On the Appearance of the World,...

Urbanism Beyond 2020 explores numerous questions triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic: Why is city making a health project? How are ecological and human wellbeing interrelated? How can leadership and governance help bridge gaps in our unjust cities? How...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262543002Author Andrew WittFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

A celebration of the uniquely vibrant architecture and interiors of classic and new Spanish-style houses in the south-western United States, Mexico, and Spain. Casa Bohemia showcases a collection of some of the most beautifully preserved Spanish...

Explains construction professional practice in an appealing, succinct, and relatively informal way This book details the management of construction projects from beginning to end, concentrating on the principles underlying what construction professionals...

Deyan Sudjic's The Edifice Complex: The Architecture of Power is a fascinating exploration of the language of architecture as an insight into the psychology of power, from tyrants to billionaires. Why do presidents and prime ministers, tycoons and...

Since its first publication in 1982, Modern Architecture Since 1900 has become established as a contemporary classic. Worldwide in scope, it combines a clear historical outline with masterly analysis and interpretation. Technical, economic, social and...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907896972Author Robin EvansFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint Architectural Association PublicationsPublisher Architectural Association Publications

While completing the Almannajuvet Zinc Mine Museum in southern Norway in 2016, celebrated Swiss architect Peter Zumthor asked Norwegian scholar Mari Lending to engage in a dialogue about the project. Departing from the ways in which Zumthor's pavilions...