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  • Border Without Wall: Frontera Sin Muro by Lara, Fernando Luiz
    Fernando Luiz Lara

    Border Without Wall: Frontera Sin Muro

    The projects here presented were developed by a partnership between UT Austin and UANL-Monterrey schools of architecture, led by Professors Fernando Lara and Diana Maldonado. They students focused on designing the necessary infrastructure to allow people to cross freely between Mexico and the US....
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  • Linear Thought Condensation by Magyar, Peter
    Peter Magyar

    Linear Thought Condensation

    Unify knowing and feeling with drawing. Since this process is influenced by the racial memory of our body, the outcome could be unpredictable, mysterious and timeless. If the drawn investigation questions the fundamentals of knowledge, existence and truth, then the resulting architecture might embody...
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  • Rebuilding Babel: Modern Architecture and Internationalism by Crinson, Mark
    Mark Crinson

    Rebuilding Babel: Modern Architecture and Internationalism

    Much of modernist architecture was inspired by the emergence of internationalism: the ethics and politics of world peace, justice and unity through global collaboration. Mark Crinson here shows how the ideals represented by the Tower of Babel - built, so the story goes, by...
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  • The Intimate City: Walking New York by Kimmelman, Michael
    Michael Kimmelman

    The Intimate City: Walking New York

    "'The Intimate City' is a joyful miscellany of people seeing things in the urban landscape, the streets alive with remembrances and ideas even when those streets are relatively empty of people."--Robert Sullivan, New York Times Book Review From the New York Times architecture critic,...
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  • Architecture and Objects by Harman, Graham
    Graham Harman

    Architecture and Objects

    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 theorists and practitioners in recent years. Architecture and Objects, the first...
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  • On Bramante by Tamburelli, Pier Paolo
    Pier Paolo Tamburelli

    On Bramante

    A new interpretation of the work of Bramante, suggesting an agenda for contemporary architectural practice In On Bramante, architect Pier Paolo Tamburelli considers the work of the celebrated Italian Renaissance architect Donato Bramante and through this reappraisal suggests a possible agenda for current architectural...
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  • Ecologies of Inception: Design Potentials on a Warming Planet by Ferracina, Simone
    Simone Ferracina

    Ecologies of Inception: Design Potentials on a Warming Planet

    Responding to increasing levels of planetary pollution, waste generation, carbon dioxide emission and environmental collapse, Ecologies of Inception re-thinks potentiality--an object's ability to change--in architecture and design. The book problematizes the still-prevailing modern paradigm of design practice: the technical tabula rasa, a tendency to...
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  • The Good Life: A Guided Visit to the Houses of Modernity by Ábalos, Iñaki
    Iki ﾁbalos

    The Good Life: A Guided Visit to the Houses of Modernity

    What is the role of architecture if not to realize a shared vision of the "good life," a vision that in the age of architectural modernism shaped--and was shaped by--a range of ideas about the home? With The Good Life, I aki balos serves...
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  • Museum Without Walls by Meades, Jonathan
    Jonathan Meades

    Museum Without Walls

    Jonathan Meades has an obsessive preoccupation with places. He has spent thirty years constructing sixty films, two novels and hundreds of pieces of journalism that explore an extraordinary range of them, from natural landscapes to man-made buildings and 'the gaps between them', drawing attention...
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  • 2000+: The Urgencies of Architectural Theory by Graham, James
    James Graham

    2000+: The Urgencies of Architectural Theory

    Has architectural theory become a historical phenomenon to be anthologized and studied as another passing phase in the history of the discipline? Do the current commonplace watchwords of "practice" and "research" mark the end of theory's place in architectural discourse? This edited volume posits...
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  • The Architectural Treatise in the Italian Renaissance: Architectural Invention, Ornament, and Literary Culture by Payne, Alina A.
    Alina A. Payne

    The Architectural Treatise in the Italian Renaissance: Architectural Invention, Ornament, and Literary Culture

    Vitruvius' Ten Books of Architecture was the fountainhead of architectural theory in the Italian Renaissance. Offering theoretical and practical solutions to a wide variety of architectural issues, this treatise did not, however, address all of the questions that were of concern to early modern...
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  • Situate, Manipulate, Fabricate: An Anthology of the Influences on Architectural Design and Production by Schwartz, Chad
    Chad Schwartz

    Situate, Manipulate, Fabricate: An Anthology of the Influences on Architectural Design and Production

    This anthology of selected works outlines three critical instigators of architecture, all tied directly to the tectonic makeup of our built environment - place, material, and assembly. These catalysts provide the organizational framework for a collection of essays discussing their significant influence on the...
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  • Whose Tradition?: Discourses on the Built Environment by Alsayyad, Nezar
    Nezar Alsayyad

    Whose Tradition?: Discourses on the Built Environment

    In seeking to answer the question Whose Tradition? this book pursues four themes: Place: Whose Nation, Whose City?; People: Whose Indigeneity?; Colonialism: Whose Architecture?; and Time: Whose Identity?Following Nezar AlSayyad's Prologue, contributors addressing the first theme take examples from Indonesia, Myanmar and Brazil to...
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  • Theories of the Digital in Architecture by Oxman, Rivka
    Rivka Oxman

    Theories of the Digital in Architecture

    In the form of a critical anthology, this book interlaces an ensemble of seminal articles by leading figures in the theory and practice of digital design with a series of original theoretical texts. It develops a meta-theory of the emerging interactions of media technologies...
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  • The Story of Architecture by Rybczynski, Witold
    Witold Rybczynski

    The Story of Architecture

    An inviting exploration of architecture across cultures and centuries by one of the field's eminent authors "Rybczynski's expansive account traces the influence of social, technological, and economic shifts on architecture across centuries."--New York Times Book Review "The finest architectural writer in our language."--Mark Alan...
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  • Shadowed: Victor Burgin by Burgin, Victor
    Victor Burgin

    Shadowed: Victor Burgin

    Burgin's writings on general issues such as photographic, psychoanalytic and cultural theory are noted for their lucidity, compactness and reason. By contrast, the photographs and videos that Burgin creates as an image-maker are richly paradoxical and constitute an enquiry into the structure of meaning...
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  • Us Trade Center Graphics in Europe by Carr, Tom
    Tom Carr

    Us Trade Center Graphics in Europe

    Research carried by IAAC and The Observer Design Group on Taipeis unique urban configuration over a ten-day period, measuring and reading the city in order to get the precise information to register the uniqueness of this urban configuration, is chronicled.Author: Tom CarrISBN-10: 8496540618ISBN-13: 9788496540613Publisher:...
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  • Doctor Watson Architects Incomplete Works Volume Four by Watson, Victoria
    Victoria Watson

    Doctor Watson Architects Incomplete Works Volume Four

    This volume of Incomplete Works is a compilation of twenty four items, each of which draws together: 1. an extract 2. a Cosmological Leap. The extracts are reflections on the nature of colour, they are selected from Doctor Watson Architects' library of texts about...
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  • Inscriptions: Architecture Before Speech by Hays, K. Michael
    K. Michael Hays

    Inscriptions: Architecture Before Speech

    Inscriptions: Architecture Before Speech presents a theory of contemporary architecture that spans the work of 112 practices in 750 images. Against the popular characterization of contemporary architecture as a centerless field where anything goes and everything is possible, this book argues that much recent...
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  • Architettura Non-Referenziale by Olgiati, Valerio
    Valerio Olgiati

    Architettura Non-Referenziale

    This manifesto by architect Valerio Olgiati and theoretician Markus Breitschmid demonstrates a new approach in architecture in a world free of ideologies and, therefore, references. It offers a foundation for conceiving a non-referential architecture in that non-referential world. Text in English and Italian.Author: Valerio...
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  • Historic Architecture in the Caribbean Islands by Crain, Edward E.
    Edward E. Crain

    Historic Architecture in the Caribbean Islands

    The books in the Florida and the Caribbean Open Books Series demonstrate the University Press of Florida's long history of publishing Latin American and Caribbean studies titles that connect in and through Florida, highlighting the connections between the Sunshine State and its neighboring islands....
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  • An Illustrated Dictionary of Navajo Landscape Terms by Mark, David M.
    David M. Mark

    An Illustrated Dictionary of Navajo Landscape Terms

    The Navajo language (Diné bizaad) has a vocabulary of landscape terms that allow speakers to communicate about their environment. This book documents that vocabulary and provides photographic illustration of many of the terms.Author: David M. MarkISBN-10: 1433160587ISBN-13: 9781433160585Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic PubliLanguage:...
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  • Architecture as Icon: Perception and Representation of Architecture in Byzantine Art by Curcic, Slobodan
    Slobodan Curcic

    Architecture as Icon: Perception and Representation of Architecture in Byzantine Art

    Presenting the first formulation of the central subject, this volume challenges major assumptions long held by Western art historians and provides new ways of thinking about, looking at, and understanding Byzantine art in its broadest geographic and chronological framework, from A.D. 300 to the...
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  • The Fountain of Latona: Louis XIV, Charles Le Brun, and the Gardens of Versailles by Hedin, Thomas F.
    Thomas F. Hedin

    The Fountain of Latona: Louis XIV, Charles Le Brun, and the Gardens of Versailles

    Ovid tells the story of Latona, the mother by Jupiter of Apollo and Diana. In her flight from the jealous Juno, she arrives faint and parched on the coast of Asia Minor. Kneeling to sip from a pond, Latona is met by the local...
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  • Architecture and Power in Africa by Elleh, Nnamdi
    Nnamdi Elleh

    Architecture and Power in Africa

    Two of the most ambitious religious edifices of the 20th century are the Our Lady of Peace Basilica in the West African country of the Ivory Coast and the Hassan II Mosque in Morocco. Nnamdi Elleh not only provides a substantial architectural and pictorial...
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  • Constructions by Rajchman, John
    John Rajchman

    Constructions

    In this series of overlapping essays on architecture and art, JohnRajchman attempts to do theory in a new way that takes off from the philosophy of the late Gilles Deleuze.foreword by Paul Virilio. In this series of overlapping essays on architecture and art, John...
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  • A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction by Alexander, Christopher
    Christopher Alexander

    A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction

    You can use this book to design a house for yourself with your family; you can use it to work with your neighbors to improve your town and neighborhood; you can use it to design an office, or a workshop, or a public building....
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  • McHap the Americas 2: Territory & Expeditions by Rodriguez, Florencia
    Florencia Rodriguez

    McHap the Americas 2: Territory & Expeditions

    New approaches to nature, landscape, and territory were key in the jury's and architect's architecture discussions during the second cycle of the MCHAP prize. This book puts together the finalist projects with a selection of articles, dialogues and visual essays, providing a particular set...
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  • African Modernism: The Architecture of Independence. Ghana, Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire, Kenya, Zambia by Herz, Manuel
    Manuel Herz

    African Modernism: The Architecture of Independence. Ghana, Senegal, Ce d'Ivoire, Kenya, Zambia

    Back-in-print, the most comprehensive survey of modern architecture in Africa to date. When African Modernism was first published in 2015, it was received with international praise and has been sought after constantly ever since it went out of print in 2018. Marking Park Books'...
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  • Behind the Postmodern Facade: Architectural Change in Late Twentieth-Century America by Larson, Magali Sarfatti
    Magali Sarfatti Larson

    Behind the Postmodern Facade: Architectural Change in Late Twentieth-Century America

    Magali Larson's comprehensive study explores how architecture "happens" and what has become of the profession in the postmodern era. Drawing from extensive interviews with pivotal architects--from Philip Johnson, who was among the first to introduce European modernism to America, to Peter Eisenman, identified with...
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  • A Critic Writes: Selected Essays by Reyner Banham by Banham, Reyner
    Reyner Banham

    A Critic Writes: Selected Essays by Reyner Banham

    Few twentieth-century writers on architecture and design have enjoyed the renown of Reyner Banham. Born and trained in England and a U.S. resident starting in 1976, Banham wrote incisively about American and European buildings and culture. Now readers can enjoy a chronological cross-section of...
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  • Latin America at the Crossroads by Leguã-A, Mariana
    Mariana Leguía

    Latin America at the Crossroads

    Guest-editor Mariana Leguía The announcement of Rio de Janeiro as the 2016 Olympic host city has placed Latin America on the world's stage. Latin America has not been the centre of international architectural attention and pilgrimage since the mid 20th century when economic growth...
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  • The Contradiction Between Form and Function in Architecture by Hendrix, John Shannon
    John Shannon Hendrix

    The Contradiction Between Form and Function in Architecture

    Continuing the themes that have been addressed in The Humanities in Architectural Design and The Cultural Role of Architecture, this book illustrates the important role that a contradiction between form and function plays in compositional strategies in architecture. The contradiction between form and function...
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  • Bourdieu for Architects by Webster, Helena
    Helena Webster

    Bourdieu for Architects

    Pierre Bourdieu is arguably one of the twentieth century's greatest socio-philosophical thinkers and his writings have much to offer anyone interested in the ways that people value, consume and produce architecture. Bourdieu spent much of his life attempting to understand cultural consumption and production...
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  • Intersections: Architectural Histories and Critical Theories by Borden, Iain
    Iain Borden

    Intersections: Architectural Histories and Critical Theories

    Over the last decade, critical theories of different kinds have had an enormous impact on many different disciplines and practices. Intersections is the first book to survey comprehensively this impact on Architecture, providing sixteen essays that intersect a particular critical theory with specific architectural...
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  • Nordic Classicism: Scandinavian Architecture 1910-1930 by Stewart, John
    John Stewart

    Nordic Classicism: Scandinavian Architecture 1910-1930

    Nordic Classicism presents the first English-language survey of an important yet short-lived movement in modern architectural history. It was through the Nordic classical movement that Scandinavian architecture first attracted international attention. It was the Nordic Pavilions, rather than Le Corbusier's modernism, which generated most...
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  • The Social Re Production of Architecture: Politics, Values and Actions in Contemporary Practice by Petrescu, Doina
    Doina Petrescu

    The Social (Re)Production of Architecture: Politics, Values and Actions in Contemporary Practice

    The Social (Re)Production of Architecture brings the debates of the 'right to the city' into today's context of ecological, economic and social crises. Building on the 1970s' discussions about the 'production of space', which French sociologist Henri Lefebvre considered a civic right, the authors...
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  • Architectural History Retold by Davies, Paul
    Paul Davies

    Architectural History Retold

    How much do you know about Greek architecture? Roman? Gothic? The Renaissance? Modernism? Perhaps more importantly, do you know how these are connected or how one style evolved to become another? Or what happened historically during each of these periods? Architectural History Retold is...
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  • Architecture as Signs and Systems: For a Mannerist Time by Venturi, Robert
    Robert Venturi

    Architecture as Signs and Systems: For a Mannerist Time

    Robert Venturi exploded onto the architectural scene in 1966 with a radical call to arms in Complexity and Contradiction. Further accolades and outrage ensued in 1972 when Venturi and Denise Scott Brown (along with Steven Izenour) analyzed the Las Vegas strip as an archetype...
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  • Disclosing Horizons: Architecture, Perspective and Redemptive Space by Temple, Nicholas
    Nicholas Temple

    Disclosing Horizons: Architecture, Perspective and Redemptive Space

    This study examines the influence of perspective on architecture, highlighting how critical historical changes in the representation and perception of space continue to inform the way architects design. Since its earliest developments, perspective was conceived as an exemplary form of representation that served as...
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  • Ryue Nishizawa / Sanaa by Wilke, Benjamin
    Benjamin Wilke

    Ryue Nishizawa / Sanaa

    Following the example of music publication, Source Books in Architecture offers an alternative to the traditional architectural monograph. If one is interested in hearing music, he or she simply buys the desired recording. If, however, one wishes to study a particular piece in greater...
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  • Stan Allen: Four Projects by Wilke, Benjamin
    Benjamin Wilke

    Stan Allen: Four Projects

    The Source Books in Architecture series documents the work of the Herbert Baumer Distinguished Visiting Professors at the Austin E. Knowlton School of Architecture. While previous books have addressed a single project of the Baumer Professor, this one has a slightly different focus. Stan...
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  • Greening Asia: Emerging Principles for Sustainable Architecture by Kishnani, Nirmal
    Nirmal Kishnani

    Greening Asia: Emerging Principles for Sustainable Architecture

    The central argument of this book is that, despite the current trend to embrace Green, an urgent rethink is needed in the way that Asia builds. The hard truth about Green buildings today is they are products of fragmented and cautious approach. They not...
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  • Imminent Commons Compendium: Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism 2017 by Pai, Hyungmin
    Hyungmin Pai

    Imminent Commons Compendium: Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism 2017

    This compendium assembles 4 volumes that explore city commons through the works presented at the Seoul Biennale 2017. The first book shows an exploration not of distant utopias, but of the very near future, because the emerging commons is changing the way we connect,...
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  • La+ Design by Design, Upenn
    Upenn Design

    LA+ Design

    From the stone blade and the fire stick to the latest algorithms of genetic code, we shape our world through the act of design. With its roots in the Renaissance notion disegno, design is the ability not only to make something, but also to...
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  • Ecologies of Prosperity for the Living by Jover, Margarita
    Margarita Jover

    Ecologies of Prosperity for the Living

    Ecologies of Prosperity for the Living City assembles key essays and projects to reflect on today's phenomenon of planetary urbanization. Urbanization is the result of a certain relationship between the territory and the society who inhabits it. Thus, without transforming the way societies inhabit...
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  • La+ Imagination: Interdisciplinary Journal of Landscape Architecture by Hands, Tatum
    Tatum Hands

    LA+ Imagination: Interdisciplinary Journal of Landscape Architecture

    Paradisiacal, utopian, dystopian, heterotopian - islands hold an especially enigmatic and beguiling place in our imagination. Issue 07 of LA+ Journal brings you the results of the LA+ IMAGINATION open international design ideas competition, in which we asked designers to create a new island....
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  • Expanded Field: Installation Architecture Beyond Art by Berman, Ila
    Ila Berman

    Expanded Field: Installation Architecture Beyond Art

    At the end of the late 1970s, art theorist and critic Rosalind Krauss had written a seminal text entitled "Sculpture in the Expanded Field," in an attempt to both locate and analyze vanguard sculptural practices of the time such as the work of Richard...
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  • Making It Modern: The History of Modernism in Architecture of Design by Betsky, Aaron
    Aaron Betsky

    Making It Modern: The History of Modernism in Architecture of Design

    At its root, modernism is that fundamental. It is a question of having something to represent that is of the moment. In the most radical interpretation, modernism always comes too late. The modern is that which is always new, which is to say, always...
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  • The Structure of the Ordinary: Form and Control in the Built Environment by Habraken, N. J.
    N. J. Habraken

    The Structure of the Ordinary: Form and Control in the Built Environment

    The influential Dutch architect's long-awaited manifesto on the everyday environment as the first and best ground for establishing the significance and coherence of architecture.According to N. J. Habraken, intimate and unceasing interaction between people and the forms they inhabit uniquely defines built environment. The...
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