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  • Nights of the Dispossessed: Riots Unbound by Ginwala, Natasha
    Natasha Ginwala

    Nights of the Dispossessed: Riots Unbound

    Riots are extraordinary events that have been recurring with increasing frequency and occupy a highly controversial space in the political imagination. Despite their often negative portrayals, it is undeniable that riots have played a pivotal role in the confrontation between authority and dissent. Recently,...
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  • Borderwall as Architecture: A Manifesto for the U.S.-Mexico Boundary by Rael, Ronald
    Ronald Rael

    Borderwall as Architecture: A Manifesto for the U.S.-Mexico Boundary

    "A protest against the wall and a forecast about its future."--Allison Arieff, The New York Times "Rael's courageous mixture of subversion and compromise is not going to hide the affront that the border represents to those who live south of it."--London Review of Books...
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  • La+ Creature by Hands, Tatum
    Tatum Hands

    LA+ Creature

    Issue 14 of LA+ Journal brings you the results of the LA+ CREATURE international design ideas competition, which explored how we can use design to achieve a more symbiotic existence with other creatures. The competition brief asked entrants to choose a nonhuman client and...
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  • Architecture's New Strangeness: A 21st Century Cult of Peculiarity by Moffett, Kenneth
    Kenneth Moffett

    Architecture's New Strangeness: A 21st Century Cult of Peculiarity

    This book arose from two observations: that building design in these first decades of the 21st century has come to accept and pursue some increasingly odd and disturbing trends; and that there seems to be insufficient architectural criticism that calls these trends to account....
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  • Balkrishna Doshi: Writings on Architecture & Identity by Bader, Simone Vera
    Simone Vera Bader

    Balkrishna Doshi: Writings on Architecture & Identity

    Royal Gold Medal 2022 recipient: Balkrishna Doshi This book presents a curated selection of Balkrishna Doshi's exceptional writings since the 1950s, with some published here for the first time. The collection of 15 lectures, articles and essays is richly illustrated with more than 50...
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  • The Philosophy of Dumbness by Choma, Joseph
    Joseph Choma

    The Philosophy of Dumbness

    This is the dumbest smart book on contemporary architecture. What really is this "technology" that we speak of? How do we define "intelligence"? These are just two of the questions that this book attempts to answer through the unconventional (and seemingly ironic) lens of...
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  • Responsive Environments: Defining Our Technologically-Mediated Relationship with Space by Sayegh, Allen
    Allen Sayegh

    Responsive Environments: Defining Our Technologically-Mediated Relationship with Space

    The entanglement of physical contexts with digital environments is constantly changing our relationship with the surrounding space and creating new hybrid experiences. These transformations pose complex design challenges and yet offer novel opportunities for the understanding and development of human-centered built environments. Drawing from...
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  • The Adirondack Architecture Guide, Southern-Central Region by Null, Janet A.
    Janet A. Null

    The Adirondack Architecture Guide, Southern-Central Region

    Janet A. Null is an award-winning architect and President of Argus Architecture & Preservation, P.C. She lives in upstate New York and has practiced throughout the Adirondack region for more than twenty-five years.Author: Janet A. NullISBN-10: 1438466668ISBN-13: 9781438466668Publisher: Excelsior Editions/State University of New YoLanguage:...
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  • 25 Concepts in Modern Architecture: A Guide for Visual Thinkers by Travis, Stephanie
    Stephanie Travis

    25 Concepts in Modern Architecture: A Guide for Visual Thinkers

    Designed to appeal to visual thinkers, 25 Concepts in Modern Architecture explores the fundamental ideas behind architectural design, through easy-to-follow sketches, drawings and succinct explanations. Twenty-five concepts - each of which are key to architectural design thinking - are accessibly explained by examining twenty-five...
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  • The Fourth Dimension in Architecture: The Impact of Building on Behavior by Hall, Edward T.
    Edward T. Hall

    The Fourth Dimension in Architecture: The Impact of Building on Behavior

    This study of how the architecture of a building influences the people who work in it is of interest to architects, behavioralists, and management personnel as well as fans of architecture in general. Mildred Reed Hall and Edward T. Hall founded Edward T. Hall...
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  • Toward an Architecture by Le Corbusier
    Le Corbusier

    Toward an Architecture

    Published in 1923, Toward an Architecture had an immediate impact on architects throughout Europe and remains a foundational text for students and professionals. Le Corbusier urges readers to cease thinking of architecture as a matter of historical styles and instead open their eyes to...
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  • Architecture and the Senses in the Italian Renaissance: The Varieties of Architectural Experience by Karmon, David
    David Karmon

    Architecture and the Senses in the Italian Renaissance: The Varieties of Architectural Experience

    This is the first study of Renaissance architecture as an immersive, multisensory experience that combines historical analysis with the evidence of first-hand accounts. Questioning the universalizing claims of contemporary architectural phenomenologists, David Karmon emphasizes the infinite variety of meanings produced through human interactions with...
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  • Best Practices: A Companion to Architecture and Its Messy Relationship with Building Materials, Signage Systems, Communication Equipme by Besler, Erin
    Erin Besler

    Best Practices: A Companion to Architecture and Its Messy Relationship with Building Materials, Signage Systems, Communication Equipme

    A thought-provoking guide to the endearing and enigmatic ways in which the built environment takes shape, Best Practices proposes a new way of thinking about neighborhoods, housing developments, streetscapes, and storefronts, not so much as places defined by building codes, dimensions, or geographic features,...
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  • Architecture Depends by Till, Jeremy
    Jeremy Till

    Architecture Depends

    Polemics and reflections on how to bridge the gap between what architecture actually is and what architects want it to be.Architecture depends--on what? On people, time, politics, ethics, mess: the real world. Architecture, Jeremy Till argues with conviction in this engaging, sometimes pugnacious book,...
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  • Philadelphia Builds: Essays on Architecture by Lewis, Michael J.
    Michael J. Lewis

    Philadelphia Builds: Essays on Architecture

    "Michael Lewis deploys his gifts as a storyteller to convey the ideas, aspirations, vanities and struggles that gave form to Philadelphia's most important buildings. Written with ferocious passion and deep scholarship, these architectural histories frequently charmed me, occasionally provoked me, and ultimately left me...
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  • Art After Liberalism by Gamso, Nicholas
    Nicholas Gamso

    Art After Liberalism

    Art after Liberalism is an account of creative practice at a moment of converging social crises. It is also an inquiry into emergent ways of living, acting, and making art in the company of others. The apparent failures of liberal thinking mark its starting...
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  • Poetic Significance: Sài Gòn Mid-Century Modernist Architecture by Pham Phu Vinh
    Pham Phu Vinh

    Poetic Significance: S瀛 G Mid-Century Modernist Architecture

    "Poetic Significance" presents beautiful architectural photography, diagrams, and the history of the very rich and complex Vietnamese modernist architecture from the mid-century in Saigon, Vietnam. Vietnamese mid-twentieth-century modernist architecture made its way into the Vietnamese vernacular culture to be recreated and transformed by the...
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  • Are We Human? Notes on an Archaeology of Design by Colomina, Beatriz
    Beatriz Colomina

    Are We Human? Notes on an Archaeology of Design

    Rethinking the intimate relationship between humans and design, from primitive tools and ornamentation to the constant buzz of modern social mediaThe question "are we human?" is both urgent and ancient. Beatriz Colomina and Mark Wigley offer a multilayered exploration of the intimate relationship between...
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  • Architecture Without Architects: A Short Introduction to Non-Pedigreed Architecture by Rudofsky, Bernard
    Bernard Rudofsky

    Architecture Without Architects: A Short Introduction to Non-Pedigreed Architecture

    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 produced not by specialists but by the spontaneous...
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  • The Mosaics of Alexandria: Pavements of Greek and Roman Egypt by Guimier-Sorbets, Anne-Marie
    Anne-Marie Guimier-Sorbets

    The Mosaics of Alexandria: Pavements of Greek and Roman Egypt

    A beautifully illustrated study of mosaic art in Greco-Roman Egypt The art of the mosaic was developed by the Greeks, notably within the royal court of Macedonia, and was initially unknown to the Egyptians. Macedonian mosaicists then established busy workshops in the capital, Alexandria,...
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  • Ant Farm: Living Archive 7 by Scott, Felicity
    Felicity Scott

    Ant Farm: Living Archive 7

    Felicity D. Scott revisits the architectural, art, video, and intermedia practices of the experimental collective Ant Farm, self-described ]super-radical activist environmentalists.] Drawing together archival material on their extended fields of practice, Ant Farm features the first full-color publication of the complete Ant Farm Timeline,...
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  • York's Historic Architecture by Butcher, Scott D.
    Scott D. Butcher

    York's Historic Architecture

    From early Colonial taverns and ornate Victorian homes to the postmodern office towers of today, York's streetscape features almost every style and era of American architecture. In the city where the Second Continental ongress governed the fledgling United States, a virtually unparalleled diversity of...
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  • Making Space: Women and the Manmade Environment by Matrix
    Matrix

    Making Space: Women and the Manmade Environment

    Timely re-issue of the groundbreaking manifesto for feminist architectureMaking Space is a pioneering work first published in 1984 which challenges us to look at how the built environment impacts on women's lives. It exposes the sexist assumptions on gender and sexuality that have a...
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  • Feminist Futures of Spatial Practice: Materialism, Activism, Dialogues, Pedagogies, Projections by Schalk, Meike
    Meike Schalk

    Feminist Futures of Spatial Practice: Materialism, Activism, Dialogues, Pedagogies, Projections

    Architecture and the arts have long been on the forefront of socio-spatial struggles, in which equality, access, representation and expression are at stake in our cities, communities and everyday lives. Feminist spatial practices contribute substantially to new forms of activism, expanding dialogues, engaging materialisms,...
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  • The Architecture of Bathing: Body, Landscape, Art by Pearson, Christie
    Christie Pearson

    The Architecture of Bathing: Body, Landscape, Art

    A celebration of communal bathing--swimming pools, saunas, beaches, ritual baths, sweat lodges, and more--viewed through the lens of architecture and landscape.We enter the public pool, the sauna, or the beach with a heightened awareness of our bodies and the bodies of others. The phenomenology...
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  • Sundry Modernism: Materials for a Study of Palestinian Modernism by Toukan, Oraib
    Oraib Toukan

    Sundry Modernism: Materials for a Study of Palestinian Modernism

    With Sundry Modernism, Oraib Toukan presents an informal register of modernist Palestinian architecture--an assemblage of images and stories collected from 2013 to 2015 in the cities of Nablus, Ramallah, Jerusalem, Bethlehem, and Jericho. Using her photographs as conversation prompts with various residents, historians, and...
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  • Internal: Developing Informed Architectural Languages by Diehl, Tom
    Tom Diehl

    Internal: Developing Informed Architectural Languages

    As the number and distinctiveness of design directions in contemporary architecture expands, an outcome has emerged of a contradictory nature. While many of these directions hold great intrigue, a troubling aspect arises in that in their realization an "incompleteness" is often exhibited, one expressing...
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  • Building Democracy in Late Archaic Athens by Paga, Jessica
    Jessica Paga

    Building Democracy in Late Archaic Athens

    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...
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  • Non-Referential Architecture: Ideated by Valerio Olgiati and Written by Markus Breitschmid by Olgiati, Valerio
    Valerio Olgiati

    Non-Referential Architecture: Ideated by Valerio Olgiati and Written by Markus Breitschmid

    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 architecture. It brings together two...
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  • 100 Ideas That Changed Architecture by Weston, Richard
    Richard Weston

    100 Ideas That Changed Architecture

    Written by an expert, 100 Ideas that Changed Architecture provides a concise history of the subject, and offers a fascinating resource to dip into for the general reader. Starting with the basic building 'components' of door, window, column and beam and the Classical orders,...
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  • The Octagon House: A Home for All by Fowler, Orson Squire
    Orson Squire Fowler

    The Octagon House: A Home for All

    In the mid-19th Century America was host to a curious architectural trend: the octagonal house. Such eight-sided homes-as well as schools, churches, barns, and businesses-were popping up across the country so quickly that by 1857 over 1,000 had been built. Though the craze has...
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  • Werewolf: The Architecture of Lunacy, Shapeshifting, and Material Metamorphosis by O'Donnell, Caroline
    Caroline O'Donnell

    Werewolf: The Architecture of Lunacy, Shapeshifting, and Material Metamorphosis

    As climate, culture, and technology evolve and become increasingly unpredictable, architecture's stasis becomes more incongruous. Werewolf explores an emerging but under-investigated branch of architecture that embraces the transformation of form, performance, and the responsiveness to environments and context. These ideas are studied through architectural...
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  • And It Came to Pass--Not to Stay by Fuller, R. Buckminster
    R. Buckminster Fuller

    And It Came to Pass--Not to Stay

    Lyrical meditations on life, work and hopes for the future from the beloved architect and polymath Buckminster FullerFirst published in 1976, issued in a new edition in 2008, and now back in print, And It Came to Pass--Not to Stay brings together a selection...
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  • Climates: Architecture and the Planetary Imaginary by Graham, James
    James Graham

    Climates: Architecture and the Planetary Imaginary

    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 conception of what architecture is...
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  • X-Ray Architecture by Colomina, Beatriz
    Beatriz Colomina

    X-Ray Architecture

    "A new theory of architecture is on the horizon." -Ashley Simone, BombHow our medical obsessions and the image of the body influence modern architecture. This book explores the impact of medical discourse and diagnostic technologies on the formation, representation and reception of modern architecture....
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  • Lost Cincinnati by Suess, Jeff
    Jeff Suess

    Lost Cincinnati

    Cincinnati earned its nickname of "Queen City of the West" with a wealth of fine theaters and hotels, a burgeoning brewery district and the birth of professional baseball. Though many of these treasures have vanished, they left an indelible mark on the city. Revisit...
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  • Timeless Cities: An Architect's Reflections on Renaissance Italy by Mayernik, David
    David Mayernik

    Timeless Cities: An Architect's Reflections on Renaissance Italy

    For Italian city builders over the course of a thousand years, the urban realm was the great theater where their best aspirations were played out, the place where society said the most substantial things about who they were and what they longed for. In...
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  • Robert Venturi: Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture by Venturi, Robert
    Robert Venturi

    Robert Venturi: Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture

    First published in 1966, and since translated into 16 languages, this remarkable book has become an essential document of architectural literature. A "gentle manifesto for a nonstraightforward architecture," Venturi's Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture expresses in the most compelling and original terms the postmodern...
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  • How Architecture Works: A Humanist's Toolkit by Rybczynski, Witold
    Witold Rybczynski

    How Architecture Works

    An essential toolkit for understanding architecture as both art form and the setting for our everyday lives We spend most of our days and nights in buildings, living and working and sometimes playing. Architecture is both the setting for our everyday lives and a...
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  • Open Gaza: Architectures of Hope by Sorkin, Michael
    Michael Sorkin

    Open Gaza: Architectures of Hope

    Cutting-edge analysis on how to improve life inside the Gaza Strip through architecture and design, illustrated in full-colorThe Gaza Strip is one of the most beleaguered environments on earth. Crammed into a space of 139 square miles (360 square kilometers), 1.8 million people live...
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  • Seven Palms: The Thomas Mann House in Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles by Nenik, Francis
    Francis Nenik

    Seven Palms: The Thomas Mann House in Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles

    The story of Thomas Mann's Pacific Palisades home-in-exile, in text and picturesWriter Francis Nenik narrates the history of the Thomas Mann House in Los Angeles' Pacific Palisades neighborhood, and the years that Thomas Mann and his family lived in it, during the author's 1942-52...
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  • Welcome to Your World: How the Built Environment Shapes Our Lives by Goldhagen, Sarah Williams
    Sarah Williams Goldhagen

    Welcome to Your World: How the Built Environment Shapes Our Lives

    One of the nation's chief architecture critics reveals how the environments we build profoundly shape our feelings, memories, and well-being, and argues that we must harness this knowledge to construct a world better suited to human experienceTaking us on a fascinating journey through some...
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  • Projectiles: Architecture Words 6 by Cache, Bernard
    Bernard Cache

    Projectiles: Architecture Words 6

    Bernard Cache formulated his concept of 'non-standard architecture' in his 1995 book Earth Moves: The Furnishing of Territories, a concept that was given the name 'objectile' by Gilles Deleuze in his book on the philosopher Leibniz, The Fold. This collection of ten essays brings...
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  • Sweet & Salt: Water and the Dutch by Metz, Tracy
    Tracy Metz

    Sweet & Salt: Water and the Dutch

    Water management runs in the blood of the Dutch: draining the Netherlands and keeping it dry is a process they started centuries ago and continue to this day. In Sweet & Salt: Water and the Dutch, author Tracy Metz and art historian Maartje van...
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  • Dark Space: Architecture, Representation, Black Identity by Gooden, Mario
    Mario Gooden

    Dark Space: Architecture, Representation, Black Identity

    This collection of essays by architect Mario Gooden investigates the construction of African American identity and representation through the medium of architecture. These five texts move between history, theory, and criticism to explore a discourse of critical spatial practice engaged in the constant reshaping...
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  • Junkspace with Running Room by Koolhaas, Rem
    Rem Koolhaas

    Junkspace with Running Room

    Junkspace first appeared in the Harvard Design School Guide to Shopping (2001), a vast compendium of text, images, and data concerning the consumerist transformation of city and suburb from the first department store to the latest mega mall. The architect Rem Koolhaas itemized in...
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  • Beauty Memory Unity: A Theory of Proportion in Architecture by Bass, Steve
    Steve Bass

    Beauty Memory Unity: A Theory of Proportion in Architecture

    Ancient architects and artists had a way of striking resonant chords in those who viewed of their work. However, this skill seems to have disappeared. Beauty Memory Unity points toward a possibility of regaining a new sense of unity in the visual arts through...
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  • Modern Architecture: Being the Kahn Lectures for 1930 by Wright, Frank Lloyd
    Frank Lloyd Wright

    Modern Architecture: Being the Kahn Lectures for 1930

    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 abstraction of the machine aesthetic advocated by contemporary European...
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  • Adjaye: Africa: Architecture: Compact Edition by Adjaye, David
    David Adjaye

    Adjaye: Africa: Architecture: Compact Edition

    Educated in England, David Adjaye's lifelong dream was to return to Africa as an architect to document the continent's built environment. Over a decade, he tirelessly documented these dynamic, colorful cities, photographing thousands of buildings, sites, and public spaces, and letting each building speak...
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  • The International Style by Hitchcock, Henry-Rusell
    Henry-Rusell Hitchcock

    The International Style

    Initially produced as the catalog to accompany a controversial and groundbreaking 1932 Museum of Modern Art show of the then new architecture emerging in Europe and America, The International Style quickly became the definitive statement of the principles underlying the work of such giants...
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