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  • Finding Ella Briggs

    The Life and Work of an Unconventional Architect

    by Despina Stratigakos, Elana Shapira, Barbara Penner, Christine Oertel, Dörte Kuhlmann, Megan Brandow-Faller, Carmen Trifina, Ursula Prokop, Eva Ottillinger, Ulrike Matzer, Celina Kress, Christine Zwingl, Sabrina Rahman, Sabine Plakolm-Forsthuber, Katrin Stingl, Monika Platzer ...
    The first biography of an extraordinary woman and architect who left her mark on world capitals and reshaped modern designElla Briggs (1880–1977) was a talented architect, designer, and writer whose influence was felt on both sides of the Atlantic. She trained with the Viennese Secessionists and brought their radical ideas to Gilded Age New York. She designed modernist housing for the masses in ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Extinct

    A Compendium of Obsolete Objects

    Edited by Barbara Penner, Adrian Forty, Dr Olivia Horsfall Turner, Dr Miranda Critchley ...
    A collection of 85 ‘extinct’ objects, now superseded, unfashionable or simply forgotten. ... Read more

    $44.29 USD

  • Bathroom

    by Barbara Penner ...
    Series series Objekt
    The story of the modern bathroom is both one of grand feats of engineering and mass production, and of the unremarkable and repressed. The most private place in the home, the bathroom is where we perform the most intimate of our daily routines; it is also a space where we take refuge from the outside world. Yet the moment we turn on a tap or flush the toilet, the smallest room is hooked up to a ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

  • Gender Space Architecture

    An Interdisciplinary Introduction

    Edited by Iain Borden, Barbara Penner, Jane Rendell ...
    Series series Architext
    This significant reader brings together for the first time the most important essays concerning the intersecting subjects of gender, space and architecture. Carefully structured and with numerous introductory essays, it guides the reader through theoretical and multi-disciplinary texts to direct considerations of gender in relation to particular architectural sites, projects and ideas. This ... Read more

    $87.99 USD

  • Sexuality and Gender at Home

    Experience, Politics, Transgression

    Edited by Brent Pilkey, Rachel Scicluna, Ben Campkin, Barbara Penner ...
    Sexuality and Gender at Home is the first book to explore the meanings and experiences of home through the framework of sexuality. Looking at a broad spectrum of sexuality, gender and domesticity, it examines the many ways in which home is constructed, performed and experienced in relation to sexuality and gender. Considering identity issues such as age, class, ethnicity and gender, the authors ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Tell My Sister Where I Am and Other Stories

    by Barbara Penner, Hanhtiet Le ...
    Tell My Sister Where I Am and Other Stories by Hanhtiet Le and Barbara Penner tells the vivid account of one woman's experiences of war and its aftermath, tearing families apart, and making neighbours out of strangers.Excerpt from Tell My Sister Where I Am and Other Stories:Grandmother summons me. I tiptoe to her and stand straight but small, stare at my ten toes lined up taut in the sand. Her ... Read more

    $6.62 USD

  • To a Third Country

    by Barbara Penner ...
    It's the late 1960s. In Canada, a girl thinks of war only as a boys' game; the aftermath can be handled by some new and improved detergent. Six small Khmer girls scattered about Cambodia are oblivious to the catastrophe looming over their homeland. In the human tsunami that casts survivors of the Khmer Rouge on Thailand's eastern border, each of these young women finds refuge during the early '80s ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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    Where Design Meets Life

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    Our gadgets, appliances, and cars are sleeker and more elegant than they’ve ever been; in our free time, we trawl the internet for pictures of flawless minimalist interiors; and even the great industrialist of our time—Steve Jobs—is admired more for his visual savvy than his technological inventiveness. And yet with Instagram and Pinterest at our fingers and great design more available—and more ... Read more

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  • The 99% Invisible City

    A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design

    by Roman Mars, Kurt Kohlstedt ...
    **A NEW YORK TIMES, WASHINGTON POST, USA TODAY, AND PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BESTSELLER“[A] diverse and enlightening book . . . The 99% Invisible City is altogether fresh and imaginative when it comes to thinking about urban spaces.”—The New York Times Book Review**“Here is a field guide, a boon, a bible, for the urban curious. Your city’s secret anatomy laid bare—a hundred things you look at but don’t ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • Fifty Inventions That Shaped the Modern Economy

    by Tim Harford ...
    **NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2017 by BLOOMBERG BUSINESSWEEK, THE FINANCIAL TIMES, AND AMAZONLook out for Tim's next book, The Data Detective*.*A lively history seen through the fifty inventions that shaped it most profoundly, by the bestselling author of The Undercover Economist and Messy.**Who thought up paper money? What was the secret element that made the Gutenberg printing press possible? And what ... Read more

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  • How Buildings Learn

    What Happens After They're Built

    by Stewart Brand ...
    A captivating exploration of the ever-evolving world of architecture and the untold stories buildings tell.When a building is finished being built, that isn’t the end of its story. More than any other human artifacts, buildings improve with time—if they’re allowed to. Buildings adapt by being constantly refined and reshaped by their occupants, and in that way, architects can become artists of time ... Read more

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  • Landscape Architecture

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Ian Thompson ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Landscape architecture plays an important role in shaping the places in which we live and work. But what is it? Landscape architects are involved, amongst other things, in the layout of business parks, the reclamation of derelict industrial sites, the restoration of historic city parks, and the siting and design of major pieces of infrastructure such as motorways, dams, power stations, and flood ... Read more

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