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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

This revised edition of Buildings of Michigan (first published in 1993) presents the architecture of the Upper and Lower peninsulas of Michigan, which are surrounded by four of the Great Lakes. From the Greek, Gothic, Italianate, Queen Anne, and...

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

Bilingual edition (English/German) / Zweisprachige Ausgabe (deutsch/englisch) Artistic production and the spaces available for this within the urban fabric have always played a valuable role in urbanization processes. Art City Lab takes Berlin as an...

The way things flow: exploring the movement of bodies, data and goods. Mobility shapes society in countless ways. Looking at society from the perspective of mobility reveals that its key moments of development coincide with the removal of obstacles to...

In 1935 a fledging government agency embarked on a project to photograph Americans hit hardest by the Great Depression. Over the next eight years, the photographers of the Farm Security Administration captured nearly a quarter-million images of tenant...

Rwanda, less than a generation removed from the 1994 Genocide, is experiencing a period of economic ascent and population growth. Its capital city, Kigali, is expected to triple in size within a generation, and positioned to become a premiere hub of...

In an era of steel and glass towers, the graceful and distinctive structures of Victorian Ontario which survive are a pleasing and a valuable link with the past. Some of the finest examples of these buildings can still be found in London, Ontario, and...

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

Since its opening in the 1920s, Chicago's North Michigan Avenue has been one of the city's most prestigious commerical corridors, lined by some of its most architecturally distinctive business, residential, and hotel buildings. Planned by Daniel Burnham...

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...

This comprehensively illustrated book records and assembles material on over 150 buildings by Karl Schinkel, Germany's most important 19th century architect.About the AuthorUntil his retirement Hillert Ibbeken was a professor of geology at the Freie...

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...

The particular type of "Seaside holiday camp" is a good sample of how the architectural research can solve problems. From 1930 to 1960 this new type is created and declined by Italian architects because many industries wanted to solve the problems of...

Today, weather extremes brought about by anthropogenic climate change pose relentless cognitive and imaginative challenges. Beyond news media, what are the cultural registers of this phenomenon? How can artistic and literary engagements with...

Zweisprachige Ausgabe (deutsch/englisch) / Bilingual edition (English/German) Unsere gebaute Welt wirft taglich neue Fragen auf - sei es in kultureller, technischer, oekonomischer, sozialer, politischer oder asthetischer Hinsicht. Doch viel zu oft wird...

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...

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 300Imprint Parkett VerlagPublisher Parkett VerlagWeight(grams) 975gDimensions(mm) 254mm * 212mm *...

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)

Seeing the camp as a persistent political instrument in Israel-Palestine and beyondThe Common Camp underscores the role of the camp as a spatial instrument employed for reshaping, controlling, and struggling over specific territories and populations...

Buildings shape our identity and sense of self in profound ways that are not always evident to architects and town planners, or even to those who think they are intimately familiar with the buildings they inhabit. Architecture and the Mimetic Self...

Philosophers on the art of cinema mainly remain silent about architecture. Discussing cinema as 'mass art', they tend to forget that architecture, before cinema, was the only existing 'mass art'. In this work author Nadir Lahiji proposes that the...

Over the last three decades neoliberal ideology has irreversibly changed our political and economic reality. But what-if any-relationship exists between neoliberalism and our built environment? Is There (Anti-)Neoliberal Architecture? seeks to complement...

Pressing Matters VI is an exciting compilation of design and research performed at PennDesign's Department of Architecture. It features recent work by students, news, important symposia and lectures, and is printed on recycled paper with non-toxic inks. ...

A wide-ranging and challenging exploration of design and how it engages with the self The field of design has radically expanded. As a practice, design is no longer limited to the world of material objects but rather extends from carefully crafted...

The Architecture of Neoliberalism pursues an uncompromising critique of the neoliberal turn in contemporary architecture. This book reveals how a self-styled parametric and post-critical architecture serves mechanisms of control and compliance while...

Amid Japan's political turbulence in 1960, seven architects and designers founded Metabolism to propagate radical ideas of urbanism. Kenzo Tange's Plan for Tokyo 1960 further celebrated urban expansion as organic processes and pushed city design to an...

This book looks at architecture history in reverse, in order to follow chains of precedents back through time to see how ideas alter the course of civilization in general and the discipline of architecture in particular. Part I begins with present-day...

Emulation is a challenging middle ground between imitation and invention. The idea of rivaling by means of imitation, as old as the Aenead and as modern as Michelangelo, fit neither the pessimistic deference of the neoclassicists nor the revolutionary...

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...

Contemporary technical architectural drawings, in establishing a direct relationship between the drawing and its object, tend to privilege the visible physical world at the expense of the invisible intangible ideas and concepts, including that of the...