Criticism

Back in 1997, New Labour came to power amid much talk of regenerating the inner cities left to rot under successive Conservative governments. Over the next decade, British cities became the laboratories of the new enterprise economy: glowing monuments to...

In this collection of idiosyncratic lessons, architect and teacher Pier Paolo Tamburelli engages with the very foundations of arch-itecture, proposing a series of new and open-ended perspectives on how we build the world. Developed for the 'Grundkurs',...

Perth and Kinross, at the geographical heart of Scotland, contains a wide diversity of buildings including the remains of a Roman line of forts and watch towers, carved stones erected by the warrior aristocracy of the sixth to ninth centuries, the...

With his book The Good Life, Inaki Abalos takes the reader on a tour of seven iconic 20th-century houses. Some of them were actually built, others merely imagined or film sets: Mies van der Rohe's House with Three Patios, Martin Heidegger's cabin in the...

How architecture in Belgium, from its very beginnings, has epitomized modernity and singularity.Since the foundation of the country in 1830, architecture in Belgium has been an expression of the key issues of modern Western societies. In Something...

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

The Greek architectural orders-Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian-lie at the heart of the classical traditions of building, and yet satisfying accounts for their origins have proved elusive. In contrast with conventional theories that would see the orders...

In Architecture Unbound, noted architecture critic Joseph Giovannini proposes that our current architectural landscape ultimately emerged from transgressive and progressive art movements that had roiled Europe before and after World War I. By the 1960s,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262720182Author Anthony VidlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 274Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 16mm

A walk through the remnants of a social democratic America, and an argument about its future. In the 1960s, a novel ideology about cities, and what was best for them, emerged in New York. Pushing against the state planning of the time, it held that...

Peter Eisenman-world-famous for his Holocaust Memorial in Berlin (2005)-confronts historicism with theory and the analysis of form, whose distinguishing features he regards as the foundation of architectural composition. The architect illustrates his...

In Junkspace (2001), architect Rem Koolhaas itemises in delirious detail how our cities are being overwhelmed. His celebrated jeremiad is here updated and twinned with Running Room, a fresh response from architectural critic Hal Foster. 'The manifesto...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262047746Author Karl KinsellaFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Much of our time at the movies is spent in other people's homes. Cinema is, after all, often about everyday life. Spectacle of Property is the first book to address the question of the ubiquitous conjuncture of the moving image and its domestic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781633450622Author Martino StierliFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Museum of Modern ArtPublisher Museum of Modern ArtWeight(grams) 1100g

An essential resource on the work of Bernard Tschumi Architects, with a focus on how concept, context, and program intersect with intuition in singular and unexpected ways.Event-Cities 5 is the fifth and final volume in the MIT Press series documenting...

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

For Christopher Day, architecture isn't just about the appearance of buildings but how they're experienced as places to be in. Occupants' experience can differ radically from designers' intentions as their concerns and thinking differ. Additionally,...

In recent years we have seen a number of dramatic discoveries within the biological and related sciences. Traditional arguments such as "nature versus nurture" are rapidly disappearing because of the realization that just as we are affecting our...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993053009Author Christian IlliesFormat PaperbackPage Count 164Imprint Cambridge Architectural PressPublisher Cambridge Architectural Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262533607Author Sarah RobinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 270Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 229mm * 178mm * 14mm

A manual, monograph, and call to action, Toward an Urban Ecology points to the future of landscape architecture's role in making resilient, sustainable, and community-oriented spaces Kate Orff, 2017 MacArthur Fellow, has an optimistic and transformative...

"The Continuum Aesthetics Series" looks at the aesthetic questions and issues raised by all major art forms. Stimulating, engaging and highly readable, the series offers food for thought not only for students of aesthetics, but also for anyone with an...

The OfficeUS Agenda, the catalogue for the U.S. Pavilion, serves simultaneously as a guide and counterpoint to the exhibition. Organized into stories of expertise, exchange, and export, the Agenda frames the narratives that have projected the...

The OfficeUS Atlas collects the exhibition research in an archive of nearly 1000 architectural projects. Organized according to individual firm histories, the Atlas documents the development of U.S. architectural offices working abroad from 1914 to the...

More than ever, architecture is in need of provocation, a new path beyond the traditional notion that buildings must serve as vessels, or symbols of something outside themselves. Non-Referential Architecture is nothing less than a manifesto for a new...

This unique appraisal of the famous Swiss architect's major works have now been expanded to include two more buildings. The Villa Shodhan and the Pavilion Suisse round out the coverage of Le Corbusier's significant works. The author critically examines...

Contemporary architectural criticism tends to focus on the theories and concepts behind buildings. Yet there is much to be learned by venturing beyond the library walls to contemplate the real buildings - the things themselves. This urge for 'real living...

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...

Throughout history, nature has served as an inspiration for architecture and designers have tried to incorporate the harmonies and patterns of nature into architectural form. Alberti, Charles Renee Macintosh, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Le Courbusier are...

This book brings together Kenneth Frampton's essays from the 1960s to today which epitomize his reflections on the historical-theoretical entanglements of architecture with place, the public realm, cultural identity, urban landscape and environment, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935408734Author Felicity D. ScottFormat HardbackPage Count 560Imprint Zone BooksPublisher Zone Books

Modern Architecture is a landmark text--the first book in which America's greatest architect put forth the principles of a fundamentally new, organic architecture that would reject the trappings of historical styles while avoiding the geometric...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789388118446Author Joseph MurphyPage Count 110Imprint General Press IndiaPublisher General Press India

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

Non-Plan explores ways of involving people in the design of their environments - a goal which transgresses political categories of 'right' and 'left'. Attempts to circumvent planning bureaucracy and architectural inertia have ranged from free-market...

This book is a collection of essays at the intersection of architecture and climate change. Neither a collective lament nor an inventory of architectural responses, the essays consider cultural values ascribed to climate and ask how climate reflects our...

Considering the immense diversity of sub-Saharan Africa's archi tecture and built realities, does it make sense to speak of an African architecture? How does this differ from archi tecture in Africa? What does the term architecture actually mean in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781902902371Author George LegendreFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Architectural Association PublicationsPublisher Architectural Association Publications

A Financial Times Best Book of the YearA Guardian Best Architecture Book of the Year"Sharp, revealing, funny."-The Guardian"An original and even occasionally hilarious book about losing ideals and finding them again... [De Graaf] deftly shows that...