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  • Victoria's Lost Pavilion

    From Nineteenth-Century Aesthetics to Digital Humanities

    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book explores the significance of the now-lost pavilion built in the Buckingham Palace Gardens in the time of Queen Victoria for understanding experiments in British art and architecture at the outset of the Victorian era. It introduces the curious history of the garden pavilion, its experimental contents, the controversies of its critical reception, and how it has been digitally remediated. ... Read more

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    How Contemporary Architecture Became an Instrument of Control and Compliance

    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 promoting itself, at the same time, as progressive. Spencer's incisive analysis of the architecture and writings of figures such as Zaha Hadid, Patrik ... Read more

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  • Pride in Modesty

    Modernist Architecture and the Vernacular Tradition in Italy

    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 rediscovery of traditionally built forms and objects created by the agrarian peasantry. Pride in Modesty argues that these ordinary, often anonymous, ... Read more

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  • Architecture and Capitalism

    1845 to the Present

    Edited by Peggy Deamer ...
    Architecture and Capitalism tells a story of the relationship between the economy and architectural design. Eleven historians each discuss in brand new essays the time period they know best, looking at cultural and economic issues, which in light of current economic crises you will find have dealt with diverse but surprisingly familiar economic issues. Told through case studies, the narrative ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Architecture and Embodiment

    The Implications of the New Sciences and Humanities for Design

    In recent years we have seen a number of dramatic discoveries within the biological and related sciences. Traditional arguments such as "nature versus nurture" are rapidly disappearing because of the realization that just as we are affecting our environments, so too do these altered environments restructure our cognitive abilities and outlooks. If the biological and technological breakthroughs are ... Read more

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  • Interior Design: Conceptual Basis

    by Anthony Sully ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    Maximizing reader insights into interior design as a conceptual way of thinking, which is about ideas and how they are formulated. The major themes of this book are the seven concepts of planning, circulation, 3D, construction, materials, colour and lighting, which covers the entire spectrum of a designer’s activity. Analysing design concepts from the view of the range of possibilities that the ... Read more

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  • 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 an ideal model of how everyday existence could be measured and ultimately judged. ... Read more

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  • Reading the Islamic City

    Discursive Practices and Legal Judgment

    Series series Toposophia: Thinking Place/Making Space
    Reading the Islamic City offers insights into the implications the practices of the Maliki school of Islamic law have for the inhabitants of the Islamic city, the madinah. The problematic term madinah fundamentally indicates a phenomenon of building, dwelling, and urban settlement patterns that evolved after the 7th century CE in the Maghrib (North Africa) and al-Andalusia (Spain). Madinah ... Read more

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  • The Living Tradition of Architecture

    Edited by José de Paiva ...
    The Living Tradition of Architectureexplores the depth of architecture as it takes flesh in the living tradition of building, dwelling and thinking. This is a timely appraisal of the field by some of its foremost contributors. Beyond modern misconceptions about tradition only relating to things past and conducive to a historicist vision, the essays in this volume reveal tradition as a living ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Style and Creativity in Design

    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This book looks at causative reasons behind creative acts and stylistic expressions. It explores how creativity is initiated by design cognition and explains relationships between style and creativity. The book establishes a new cognitive theory of style and creativity in design and provides designers with insights into their own cognitive processes and styles of thinking, supporting a better ... Read more

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  • Writing Urbanism

    A Design Reader

    Series series The ACSA Architectural Education Series
    Urban design continues to grow as an increasingly important and expanding field of study, research and professional endeavour.Distinguished by its broad scope and comprehensiveness on the subject of urban design, this new collection combines selected essays from both practitioners and academia.Writing Urbanism is the ideal volume for both students, architects and urban designers. ... Read more

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  • Shadow-Makers

    A Cultural History of Shadows in Architecture

    The making of shadows is an act as old as architecture itself. From the gloom of the medieval hearth through to the masterworks of modernism, shadows have been an essential yet neglected presence in architectural history.Shadow-Makers tells for the first time the history of shadows in architecture. It weaves together a rich narrative – combining close readings of significant buildings both ancient ... Read more

    $34.79 USD