Criticism

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781638400363Author Francisco González de CanalesFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Actar PublishersPublisher Actar Publishers

Every year, thousands of people pilgrimmage to South Bend, Indiana to visit the campus of the University of Notre Dame for sporting events, academic conferences, or just for a tour. From the Golden Dome on top of the main building, to the grotto hidden...

Constructing Community examines community from the particular perspective of the shaping and control of urban space in contemporary liberal democracies. Following a consideration and critique of influential theories of community that have arisen within...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789462082533Author The Why FactoryFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint NAI PublishersPublisher Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAi Uitgevers/Publishers)

'A New Nature' is a book about architecture as the organization of material. It unfolds an idea of working with architecture and urbanity as conditions rather than form. By experiencing cities and cultural landscapes as states of change, the author...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783803007933Author Thomas KoehlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Ernst Wasmuth VerlagPublisher Ernst Wasmuth Verlag

Following Italy's unification in 1861, architects, artists, politicians, and literati engaged in volatile debates over the pursuit of national and regional identity. Growing industrialization and urbanization across the country contrasted with the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789462081772Author Winy MaasFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint NAI PublishersPublisher Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAi Uitgevers/Publishers)

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789462082816Author Jorge Mejia HernandezFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint NAI PublishersPublisher Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAi...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789462081222Author Dick Van GamerenFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint NAI PublishersPublisher Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAi...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789462080133Author Jan KappersFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint NAI PublishersPublisher Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAi Uitgevers/Publishers)

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788495951861Author Albert FerrFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint ActarD IncPublisher ActarD IncWeight(grams) 920g

While our era of constant crisis demands stronger social and political engagement, architecture has been largely characterized by a lack of strong positions during the last decades. But more recently, one can again observe attitudes that claim to address...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992633646Author Emilie SibbessonFormat HardbackPage Count 220Imprint The Highfield Press SouthamptonPublisher The Highfield Press Southampton

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789056626549Author Dick Van GamerenFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint NAI PublishersPublisher Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAi...

In the light of the current housing and environmental crisis and increasing social inequalities, there is a growing sense of urgency for architecture as a discipline to engage with the transformation in housing evident in the postwar period. Rather than...

Our built environment raises new issues daily - whether from a cultural, technical, economic, social, political, or aesthetic point of view. However, all too often discussions about architecture and urban development are based on superficial images, or a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789462081659Author Jurjen ZeinstraFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint NAI PublishersPublisher Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAi Uitgevers/Publishers)

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789056627669Author Winy MaasFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint NAI PublishersPublisher Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAi Uitgevers/Publishers)

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789462084766Author Klaske HavikFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint NAI PublishersPublisher Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAi Uitgevers/Publishers)

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789462084810Author Eric FirleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint NAI PublishersPublisher Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAi Uitgevers/Publishers)

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789056626747Author Kenneth FramptonFormat PaperbackPage Count 319Imprint Nai010 PublishersPublisher Nai010 PublishersWeight(grams) 680gDimensions(mm) 236mm...

Bilingual edition (English/German) / Zweisprachige Ausgabe (deutsch/englisch) Can aesthetic concepts reflect and provide answers for ethical aspects and issues? Is “more ethics, less aesthetics” applicable, according to the motto of the Venice Biennial...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783959057011Author Melissa MakeleFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Spector BooksPublisher Spector BooksWeight(grams) 798gDimensions(mm) 295mm * 229mm *...

E.A.T. / Engadin Art Talks, the forum in Zuoz in the crystalline winter-wonderland of the Swiss Alps, takes place at the end of January each year and has become famous as a meeting point for thought leaders and disruptive minds. The event is curated by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783907582428Author Bice CurigerFormat PaperbackPage Count 225Imprint Parkett VerlagPublisher Parkett VerlagWeight(grams) 975g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789462082205Author Kristian KoremanFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint NAI PublishersPublisher Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAi Uitgevers/Publishers)

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781517907167Author Irit KatzFormat HardbackPage Count 376Imprint University of Minnesota PressPublisher University of Minnesota PressWeight(grams) 178g

Talking Architecture (Revised Edition) is one of the latest additions in the series of Ramin Jahanbegloo's interviews of prominent intellectuals who have influenced modern Indian thought. Focusing on the life, work, and ideas of Raj Rewal, one of India's...

Text in English and German. As in 2001, during the 2002 Cologne International Furniture Fair three internationally known designers squeezed themselves into the town's best known building between buildings. There they presented their ideas on the subject...

In 508/7 B.C.E., after years of chaos and uncertainty, the city of Athens was rocked by a momentous occurrence: the passage of a series of reforms that resulted in what has come to be known as the world's first democracy. Exactly how the Athenians did...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783865600776Author Rem KoolhassFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Buchhandlung Walther Konig GmbH & Co. KG. Abt. VerlagPublisher Buchhandlung Walther...

While most studies on the history of architectural theory have been concerned with what has been said and written, this book is concerned with how architecture theory has been created and transmitted. Architecture Thinking across Boundaries looks at...

Part pocket guide, part history, and part architectural primer, the companion piece to urban design critic John King's Cityscapes: San Francisco and Its Buildings contains all of the wit and wonder of the first installment. In epigrammatic prose and with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916186439Author Andrea CetruloFormat PaperbackImprint Theatrum MundiPublisher Theatrum Mundi

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788074372773Author Christopher LongFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint KantPublisher KantWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 231mm * 165mm * 15mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780980612387Author David ParkenFormat HardbackPage Count 270Imprint Reveal BooksPublisher Reveal Books

In their growing awareness of the need to keep alive Canada's heritage, individuals, community groups, and small historical societies have long felt the need for a basic guide to the preservation of buildings, particularly buildings which, though they...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781566566964Author Deanna MacDonaldFormat PaperbackPage Count 249Imprint Interlink BooksPublisher Interlink BooksWeight(grams) 517g