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“avani parikh”

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  • Choice Architecture

    A new approach to behavior, design, and wellness

    by Avani Parikh, Prashant Parikh ...
    From Vitruvius in the 1st century BCE on, there has been an attempt to understand how architecture works, especially in its poetic aspect but also in its basic functions. Design can encourage us to walk, to experience community, to imagine new ways of being, and can affect countless other choices we make that shape our health and happiness.Using the ideas of rational choice theory and behavioral ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

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    A Life

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    A powerhouse of architectural biography by Pulitzer Prize winning critic Ada Louise Huxtable of America's greatest architectRenowned architecture critic Ada Louise Huxtable's biography Frank Lloyd Wright looks at the architect and the man, from his tumultuous personal life to his long career as a master builder. Along the way she introduces Wright's masterpieces, from the tranquil Fallingwater to ... Read more

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  • Design as Future-Making

    Edited by Director, Masters in Design Studies Program Susan Yelavich, Barbara Adams ...
    Design as Future-Making brings together leading international designers, scholars, and critics to address ways in which design is shaping the future. The contributors share an understanding of design as a practice that, with its focus on innovation and newness, is a natural ally of futurity. Ultimately, the choices made by designers are understood here as choices about the kind of world we want to ... Read more

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  • Open Source Architecture

    by Carlo Ratti ...
    A provocative look at the architecture of the future and the challenges of learning from the past.Open Source Architecture is a visionary manifesto for the architecture of tomorrow that argues for a paradigm shift from architecture as a means of supporting the ego-fueled grand visions of "starchitects" to a collaborative, inclusive, network-driven process inspired by twenty-first-century trends ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

  • Oriental Interiors

    Design, Identity, Space

    Edited by John Potvin ...
    Since the publication of Edward Said's groundbreaking work Orientalism 35 years ago, numerous studies have explored the West's fraught and enduring fascination with the so-called Orient. Focusing their critical attention on the literary and pictorial arts, these studies have, to date, largely neglected the world of interior design. Oriental Interiors is the first book to fully explore the ... Read more

    $30.79 USD

  • Pride in Modesty

    Modernist Architecture and the Vernacular Tradition in Italy

    by Michelangelo Sabatino ...
    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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  • Built to Meet Needs: Cultural Issues in Vernacular Architecture

    by Paul Oliver ...
    The study of vernacular architecture explores the characteristics of domestic buildings in particular regions or localities, and the many social and cultural factors that have contributed to their evolution. In this book, vernacular architecture specialist Paul Oliver brings together a wealth of information that spans over two decades, and the whole globe. Some previously unpublished papers, as ... Read more

    $224.99 USD

  • An Aesthetic Occupation

    The Immediacy of Architecture and the Palestine Conflict

    by Daniel Bertrand Monk ...
    In An Aesthetic Occupation Daniel Bertrand Monk unearths the history of the unquestioned political immediacy of “sacred” architecture in the conflict between Palestinians and Israelis. Monk combines groundbreaking archival research with theoretical insights to examine in particular the Mandate era—the period in the first half of the twentieth century when Britain held sovereignty over Palestine. ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • A New Kind of Bleak

    Journeys through Urban Britain

    by Owen Hatherley ...
    In A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain, Owen Hatherley skewered New Labour’s architectural legacy in all its witless swagger. Now, in the year of the Diamond Jubilee and the London Olympics, he sets out to describe what the Coalition’s altogether different approach to economic mismanagement and civic irresponsibility is doing to the places where the British live.In a journey that begins and ... Read more

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  • Architectural Principles in the Age of Cybernetics

    by Christopher Hight ...
    A theoretical history of anthropomorphism and proportion in modern architecture, this volume brings into focus the discourse around proportion with current problems of post-humanism in architecture alongside the new possibilities made available through digital technologies.The book examines how the body and its ordering has served as a central site of architectural discourse in recent decades, ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Narrative Architecture

    A Designer's Story

    by Sylvain De Bleeckere, Sebastiaan Gerards ...
    Narrative Architecture explores the postmodern concept of narrative architecture from four perspectives: thinking, imagining, educating, and designing, to give you an original view on our postmodern era and architectural culture. Authors Sylvain De Bleeckere and Sebastiaan Gerards outline the ideas of thinkers, such as Edmund Husserl, Paul Ricoeur, Emmanuel Levinas, and Peter Sloterdijk, and ... Read more

    $87.99 USD

  • Critical Architecture

    Edited by Jane Rendell, Jonathan Hill, Mark Dorrian, Murray Fraser ...
    Series series Critiques
    Critical Architecture examines the relationship between critical practice in architecture and architectural criticism. Placing architecture in an interdisciplinary context, the book explores architectural criticism with reference to modes of criticism in other disciplines - specifically art criticism - and considers how critical practice in architecture operates through a number of different modes ... Read more

    $82.99 USD