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  • A Modern Way to Live: 5 Design Principles from the Modern House by Gibberd, Matt
    Matt Gibberd

    A Modern Way to Live

    In 2005, childhood friends Matt Gibberd and Albert Hill set out to convince people of the power of good design and its ability to influence our wellbeing. They founded The Modern House - in equal parts an estate agency, a publisher and a lifestyle...
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  • Architectural Missionary: D. Fred Charlton in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, 1887-1918 by Brisson, Steven C.
    Steven C. Brisson

    Architectural Missionary: D. Fred Charlton in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, 1887-1918

    The first and most prolific professional architect to reside permanently in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, D. Fred Charlton used the local Lake Superior sandstone to craft the distinctive style found in buildings throughout Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Born in England and trained there as a civil...
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  • If Venice Dies by Settis, Salvatore
    Salvatore Settis

    If Venice Dies

    "Anyone interested in learning what is really going on in Venice should read this book."--Donna Leon, author of My Venice and Other Essays and Death at La FeniceWhat is Venice worth? To whom does this urban treasure belong? This eloquent book by internationally renowned...
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  • Renzo Piano: The Art of Making Buildings by Piano, Renzo
    Renzo Piano

    Renzo Piano: The Art of Making Buildings

    Fifty years of pioneering architecture from the icon behind the Whitney Museum in New York, the Shard in London and the Pompidou Centre in ParisOne of the world's most renowned architects, Renzo Piano (born 1937) is responsible for such iconic landmarks as the Whitney...
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  • Chicago's Classical Architecture: The Legacy of the White City by Stone, David
    David Stone

    Chicago's Classical Architecture: The Legacy of the White City

    Chicago's architecture has been called the most important in the United States by the American Institute of Architects, and perhaps no other type of architecture has had as significant of an impact on the city's look, feel, and character as classical architecture. Chicago's connection...
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  • Building Access: Universal Design and the Politics of Disability by Hamraie, Aimi
    Aimi Hamraie

    Building Access: Universal Design and the Politics of Disability

    "All too often," wrote disabled architect Ronald Mace, "designers don't take the needs of disabled and elderly people into account." Building Access investigates twentieth-century strategies for designing the world with disability in mind. Commonly understood in terms of curb cuts, automatic doors, Braille signs,...
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  • The Open-Ended City: David Dillon on Texas Architecture by Holliday, Kathryn
    Kathryn Holliday

    The Open-Ended City: David Dillon on Texas Architecture

    Texas Historical Commission Award of Excellence in Media Achievement, Texas Historical Commission In 1980, David Dillon launched his career as an architectural critic with a provocative article that asked "Why Is Dallas Architecture So Bad?" Over the next quarter century, he offered readers of...
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  • Lost Twin Cities by Millett, Larry
    Larry Millett

    Lost Twin Cities

    "An impressive sampling of the vanished buildings of the Twin Cities, tracing their history and including information on who the owners and architects were, how these structures were used, why they were torn down, and what occupies each site today. Highly recommended." --Library JournalLost...
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  • Retrospecta 44: Yale School of Architecture 2020-21 by Ansorena, Claudia
    Claudia Ansorena

    Retrospecta 44: Yale School of Architecture 2020-21

    Retrospecta catalogs activity at the Yale School of Architecture. Each volume is a snapshot of evolving architectural and graphic design trends. The book demarcates events such as lectures, publication releases, and outstanding circumstances that have uniquely impacted the academic, social, and political environment at...
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  • Landscape Architecture Frontiers 49: Urban Wilderness and Planting Design by Yu, Kongjian
    Kongjian Yu

    Landscape Architecture Frontiers 49: Urban Wilderness and Planting Design

    There are highly fragmented urban wildernesses remaining and scattering in rapidly urbanized and exceedingly industrialized cities, ranging from crevices along sidewalks to large areas of isolated forests. Although differing in scales with the natural wilderness, urban wildernesses see similar community structures and often offer...
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  • Posthuman Architecture: A Catalogue of Archetypes by Leveratto, Jacopo
    Jacopo Leveratto

    Posthuman Architecture: A Catalogue of Archetypes

    For long, spatial design has been seen as an action that could be performed by people and for people only. And today, even though some of the most meaningful projects of our times seem to challenge this concept, qualitative researches still struggle to emerge....
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  • Bauhaus N° 12: Habitat by Perren, Claudia
    Claudia Perren

    Bauhaus Nｰ 12: Habitat

    Understanding architectural holism from both a historical and a contemporary perspectiveIn 1953, a group of young architects met and proposed a radical shift away from functionalist housing as an architectural standard, instead offering the term "habitat" as a holistic view uniting housing, human beings...
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  • Space Is the Place: Current Reflections on Art and Architecture by Feireiss, Lukas
    Lukas Feireiss

    Space Is the Place: Current Reflections on Art and Architecture

    Space and place as topics of playful investigation and serious reflectionThis book looks at art that relates playfully to architecture, with contributions from artists, architects, designers and scholars including Franz Xaver Baier, Beatriz Colomina, Olafur Eliasson, Andrea Fraser, Bruce Nauman, Tom Sachs and more.Author:...
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  • Lothian by McWilliam, Colin
    Colin McWilliam

    Lothian

    Lothian boasts some of Scotland's most picturesque villages and fine Georgian towns, but its architectural history goes back to the twelfth century. The introduction of monastic orders and the establishment of the parish churches has left examples at Dalmeny and Tyninghame. Lothian also has...
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  • Cornell Journal of Architecture 11: Fear by Warke, Val
    Val Warke

    Cornell Journal of Architecture 11: Fear

    Anthropologists tell us that fear is an innate trait among most primate species, a principal aspect of learning-to-survive. At the same time, most of us primates seem equally adept at learning new fears, fears that are perhaps irrational and non-productive, and frequently enflamed by...
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  • Founding Myths of Architecture by Buhagiar, Konrad
    Konrad Buhagiar

    Founding Myths of Architecture

    This book brings together and discusses the work of some of the most influential and intriguing figures in the history of architecture.Author: Konrad BuhagiarISBN-10: 1907317171ISBN-13: 9781907317170Publisher: Artifice PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/26/2021Pages: 176Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.95lbsSize: 9.60h x 6.10w x 0.70d
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  • Lateness by Eisenman, Peter
    Peter Eisenman

    Lateness

    A provocative case for historical ambiguity in architecture by one of the field's leading theorists Conceptions of modernity in architecture are often expressed in the idea of the zeitgeist, or "spirit of the age," an attitude toward architectural form that is embedded in a...
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  • Space as Membrane by Ebeling, Siegfried
    Siegfried Ebeling

    Space as Membrane

    What if architecture was no longer 3D or 2D, mass or surface, object or space? And what if the architectural environment was envisioned not as an abstract continuum, but as a material envelope that grows organically from the human body, uniting its skin with...
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  • The World as an Architectural Project by Sarkis, Hashim
    Hashim Sarkis

    The World as an Architectural Project

    Architects imagine the planet: fifty speculative world-scale projects from Patrick Geddes, Alison and Peter Smithson, Kiyonori Kikutake, Juan Navarro Baldeweg, Luc Deleu, and others. The world's growing vulnerability to planet-sized risks invites action on a global scale. The World as an Architectural Project shows...
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  • Architecture for Health by Nickl-Weller, Christine
    Christine Nickl-Weller

    Architecture for Health

    Hospital architecture reflects society in a state of flux. How do we care for our patients? What working environments do we offer caregivers? How does the hospital fit into our cities? When it comes to planning a hospital, architects are not only faced with...
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  • Implosions/Explosions: Towards a Study of Planetary Urbanization by Brenner, Neil
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    Implosions/Explosions: Towards a Study of Planetary Urbanization

    In 1970, the influential French Marxist philosopher and sociologist Henri Lefebvre published a book titled The Urban Revolution, in which he advanced the hypothesis that "society has been completely urbanized." By this, Lefebvre meant that the process of urbanization creates the conditions for capitalism--rather...
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  • Future Cities Laboratory by Cairns, Stephen
    Stephen Cairns

    Future Cities Laboratory

    Future Cities Laboratory reports on the same named research program and its mission to shape sustainable future cities through science, by design, in place. It offers a global perspective on cities from the vantage point of the world's most populous and rapidly urbanizing continent:...
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  • Buildings Must Die: A Perverse View of Architecture by Cairns, Stephen
    Stephen Cairns

    Buildings Must Die: A Perverse View of Architecture

    Part memento mori for architecture, and part invocation to reimagine the design values that lay at the heart of its creative purpose.Buildings, although inanimate, are often assumed to have "life." And the architect, through the act of design, is assumed to be their conceiver...
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  • Designing Mind-Friendly Environments: Architecture and Design for Everyone by Maslin, Steve
    Steve Maslin

    Designing Mind-Friendly Environments: Architecture and Design for Everyone

    Exploring the impact of the built environment and design on people with a range of neurological experiences, including autism, dementia, dyslexia and dyspraxia, this comprehensive guide provides project commissioners, architects and designers with all the information and personal insight they need to design, create...
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  • Weaving Body Context by Mimesis International
    Mimesis International

    Weaving Body Context

    We want to move beyond thinking of architecture as an object. Architecture is not separate from us - it is not something to be judged merely by its formal properties, its satisfaction of programmatic concerns or its performance in terms of technical parameters. We...
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  • Konrad Wachsmann's Television: Post-Architectural Transmissions by Wigley, Mark
    Mark Wigley

    Konrad Wachsmann's Television: Post-Architectural Transmissions

    A novel reading of the work of one of the most influential designers of the twentieth century.In this provocative intellectual biography, architectural historian Mark Wigley makes the surprising claim that the thinking behind modernist architect Konrad Wachsmann's legendary projects was dominated by the idea...
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  • Emergent Tokyo: Designing the Spontaneous City by Almazán, Jorge
    Jorge Almaz疣

    Emergent Tokyo: Designing the Spontaneous City

    Tokyo is one of the most vibrant and livable cities on the planet, a megacity that somehow remains intimate and adaptive. Com-pared to Western metropolises like New York or Paris, however, few outsiders understand Tokyo's inner workings. For cities around the globe mired in...
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  • Dynamic Geographies by Wilks, Barbara
    Barbara Wilks

    Dynamic Geographies

    Landscapes are forged by many forces and are dynamic, not static. Yet most landscape designs are designed as static; that is, they are designed not to change substantially for 20-50 years. As cities become the dominant living space for humans, allowing non-human forces to...
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  • Egyptian Places: An Illustrated Travelogue by Ayon, Henry David
    Henry David Ayon

    Egyptian Places: An Illustrated Travelogue

    Egyptian Places: An Illustrated Travelogue is a rich and multi-faceted account of an architect's visits to 12 of Ancient Egypt's most spectacular sites, a journey that transports the reader from the urban metropolis of Cairo and the Great Pyramid of Giza to the remote...
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  • Platform 12: How about Now? by Bly, Carrie
    Carrie Bly

    Platform 12: How about Now?

    Offering questions of the past to ground questions of the present, How About Now? summons the enduring concerns and preoccupations that designers constantly revisit, reconsider, and redefine in response to a changing world. This installment of the GSD Platform series celebrates--and places itself within--the...
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  • Architecture and Structuralism: The Ordering of Space by Hertzberger, Herman
    Herman Hertzberger

    Architecture and Structuralism: The Ordering of Space

    The Dutch Architect and writer Herman Hertzberger (born 1932) is internationally recognized for both his built work and his written work. His buildings (such as Centraal Beheer in Apeldoorn, built in 1972) and his publications (such as his widely translated Lessons for Students in...
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  • Two Sides of the Border: Reimagining the Region by Bilbao, Tatiana
    Tatiana Bilbao

    Two Sides of the Border: Reimagining the Region

    What if we stopped dividing the US and Mexico, and instead saw the border as one region? This book envisions the cultural and industrial cohesion of the areaAt a moment when migration has returned as a hot-button political issue and NAFTA is being renegotiated...
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  • Landscape as Territory: A Cartographic Design Project by Olóriz, Clara
    Clara Olóriz

    Landscape as Territory: A Cartographic Design Project

    Landscape as Territory is a cartographic book project that critically addresses the agency of architects in the so-called 'Urban Age, ' understanding the notion of 'territory' as a field of design praxis through which Interconnected landscapes are produced. Territory, understood as a 'political technology,...
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  • Platform 11: Setting the Table by Mira Bang, Esther
    Esther Mira Bang

    Platform 11: Setting the Table

    Platform represents a year in the life of the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Produced annually, this compendium highlights a selection of work from the disciplines of architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning and design, and design engineering. It exposes a rich and varied...
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  • Andrea Branzi: E=mc2: The Project in the Age of Relativity by Andrea, Brandi
    Brandi Andrea

    Andrea Branzi: E=mc2: The Project in the Age of Relativity

    Starting from the Radical research to contemporary design, the book collects Andrea Branzi's work about the relationship city-design. The publication begins from the Andrea Branzi's reflection on the relationship civility-design, from the Radical's research on mass-production civilization to the "infinite territories", proposing new territories...
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  • Un-Conscious-City by Arets, Wiel
    Wiel Arets

    Un-Conscious-City

    No one demands that people move to cities; people tend to do so, on their own. People choose to move to cities for opportunity. Such choices are often made unconsciously, as they are based on rules, traditions, and local communities-or a combination of all...
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  • Signal. Image. Architecture. by May, John
    John May

    Signal. Image. Architecture.

    Architecture is immersed in an immense cultural experiment called imaging. ​Yet the technical status and nature of that imaging must be reevaluated. What happens to the architectural mind when it stops pretending that electronic images of drawings made by computers are drawings? When it...
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  • Architecture in the Anthropocene: Encounters Among Design, Deep Time, Science and Philosophy by Turpin, Etienne
    Etienne Turpin

    Architecture in the Anthropocene: Encounters Among Design, Deep Time, Science and Philosophy

    Architecture in the Anthropocene: Encounters Among Design, Deep Time, Science and Philosophy, edited by Etienne Turpin, brings together a provocative series of essays, conversations, and design proposals that attempt to intensify the potential of the multidisciplinary discourse developing in response to the Anthropocene thesis...
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  • Frederic Church's Olana on the Hudson: Art, Landscape, Architecture by Rosenbaum, Julia B.
    Julia B. Rosenbaum

    Frederic Church's Olana on the Hudson: Art, Landscape, Architecture

    An in-depth look inside Olana, one of America's greatest estates, which was designed and built by Frederic Church, the most renowned of the Hudson River School painters. Frederic Church, the leader of the much-loved group of artists known as the Hudson River School, made...
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  • A Chronology of Architecture: A Cultural Timeline from Stone Circles to Skyscrapers by Zukowsky, John
    John Zukowsky

    A Chronology of Architecture: A Cultural Timeline from Stone Circles to Skyscrapers

    Roman architect and engineer Vitruvius defined architecture's characteristics to include firmitas, utilitas, and venustas--essentially, structural integrity, usefulness, and beauty. Amazingly, all three Vitruvian characteristics can be found one way or another in most buildings and constructions from antiquity through the present. A Chronology of...
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  • The Hidden Dimension by Hall, Edward T.
    Edward T. Hall

    The Hidden Dimension

    People like to keep certain distances between themselves and other people or thigns. And this invisible bubble of space that constitutes each person's "territory" is one of the key dimensions of modern society. Edward T. Hall, author of The Silent Language, introduced the science...
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  • Architecture, Aesthetics, and the Predicaments of Theory by Ameri, Amir H.
    Amir H. Ameri

    Architecture, Aesthetics, and the Predicaments of Theory

    Architecture, Aesthetics, and the Predicaments of Theory offers a critical analysis of the methodological constants and shared critical strategies in the history of theoretical discourse on Western architecture. Central to these constants is the persistent role of aesthetics as a critical tool for the...
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  • Intra! Intra!: Towards an Intra Space by Jauernik, Christina
    Christina Jauernik

    Intra! Intra!: Towards an Intra Space

    Thinkers revisit INTRA SPACE, an artistic research project that experiments with the substances, constructions, and manifestations of our bodies. INTRA INTRA calls a variety of thinkers to revisit INTRA SPACE, an artistic research project that experiments with the substances, constructions, and manifestations of our...
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  • Typological Drift: Emerging Cities in China by Li, Shiqiao
    Shiqiao Li

    Typological Drift: Emerging Cities in China

    Neither derivatives of Western cities norisolated from them, Chinese cities in the past four decades are perhaps bestcaptured in their characteristic complexity through a concept in biologicalevolution: drift. Unlike mutation, adaptation, and migration, drift ofphenotypes takes place when chance events terminate some features and...
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  • What Kind of Architect Are You by Greinacher, Udo
    Udo Greinacher

    What Kind of Architect Are You

    Architecture is commonplace. We inhabit it and use it; it is constantly present; it serves as foreground and background and usually has a story to tell. But apart from its most illustrious makers, we know almost nothing about the people who conceived it: the...
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  • The Nomadic Listener by Chattopadhyay, Budhaditya
    Budhaditya Chattopadhyay

    The Nomadic Listener

    Volume one of a series on transcultural poetics: sound, text and drawings on contemporary urban experienceBased on the author's artistic research on migration, contemporary urban experience, and sonic alienation, The Nomadic Listener is composed of a series of texts stemming from psychogeographic explorations of...
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  • The Future of Transportation: SOM Thinkers Series by Grabar, Henry
    Henry Grabar

    The Future of Transportation: SOM Thinkers Series

    How will we travel in the future? Essays on the transport to come, from sidewalk scooters to levitating trainsWith the promise of delivery drones, personal helicopters, and groceries delivered right to your refrigerator, one might think we are living in the best of transportation...
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  • Space and Anti-Space: The Fabric of Place, City and Architecture by Littenberg, Barbara
    Barbara Littenberg

    Space and Anti-Space: The Fabric of Place, City and Architecture

    This book challenges the conventional idea of what constitutes the physical form of the contemporary city. Observing the absence of extended urban fabrics--the missing urbanism--in the new global cities developed today, it argues that these cities are merely statistical accumulations of density that lack...
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  • Architectural Styles: A Visual Guide by Hopkins, Owen
    Owen Hopkins

    Architectural Styles: A Visual Guide

    Have you ever wondered what the difference is between Gothic and Gothic Revival, or how to distinguish between Baroque and Neoclassical? This guide makes extensive use of photographs to identify and explain the characteristic features of nearly 300 buildings. The result is a clear...
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  • It's All Done Gone: Arkansas Photographs from the Farm Security Administration Collection, 1935-1943 by Watkins, Patsy
    Patsy Watkins

    It's All Done Gone: Arkansas Photographs from the Farm Security Administration Collection, 1935-1943

    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 farmers and sharecroppers in the South,...
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