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  • Seeding Urban Transformation

    Tactical Urbanism for Systemic Regeneration

    Edited by Chris L. Smith, Suzanne Ewing, Lily Chi ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Seeding Urban Transformation explores opportunities to produce urban life afresh in the fraught presents of ecological fragility, social strain and financial inequity. A collection of case studies across disciplines and geographies; critical and creative provocations between the tactical and the systemic, for positive change and urban liveability. ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Architecture After Deleuze and Guattari

    by Chris L. Smith ...
    Series series Deleuze and Guattari Encounters
    This study illuminates the complex interplay between Deleuze and Guattari's philosophy and architecture. Presenting their wide-ranging impact on late 20th- and 21st-century architecture, each chapter focuses on a core Deleuzian/Guattarian philosophical concept and one key work of architecture which evokes, contorts, or extends it.Challenging the idea that a concept or theory defines and then ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • LabOratory

    Speaking of Science and Its Architecture

    by Sandra Kaji-O'Grady, Chris L. Smith ...
    An illustrated examination of laboratory architecture and the work that it does to engage the public, recruit scientists, and attract funding.The laboratory building is as significant to the twenty-first century as the cathedral was to the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. The contemporary science laboratory is built at the grand scales of cathedrals and constitutes as significant an ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Bare Architecture

    A Schizoanalysis

    by Chris L. Smith ...
    Bare Architecture: a schizoanalysis, is a poststructural exploration of the interface between architecture and the body. Chris L. Smith skilfully introduces and explains numerous concepts drawn from poststructural philosophy to explore the manner by which the architecture/body relation may be rethought in the 21st century. Multiple well-known figures in the discourses of poststructuralism are ... Read more

    $38.89 USD

  • De-signing Design

    Cartographies of Theory and Practice

    by Scott McQuire, Mark Jackson, Marsha Berry, Maria O'Connor, Laurene Vaughan, Yoko Akama, William Cartwright, Linda Daley, Karen Burns, Stephen Loo, Lisa Dethridge, Chris L. Smith, Neil Leach, Hugh J. Silverman ...
    Series series TEXTURES: Philosophy / Literature / Culture
    De-Signing Design: Cartographies of Theory and Practice throws new light on the terrain between theory and practice in transdisciplinary discourses of design and art. The editors, Elizabeth Grierson, Harriet Edquist, and Hélène Frichot, bring together diverse approaches to design theory, practice, and philosophy from leading scholars in Australia, New Zealand, Japan, and the United Kingdom. Themes ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Laboratory Lifestyles

    The Construction of Scientific Fictions

    Edited by Sandra Kaji-O'Grady, Chris L. Smith, Russell Hughes ...
    Series series Leonardo
    A generously illustrated examination of the boom in luxurious, resort-style scientific laboratories and how this affects scientists' work.The past decade has seen an extraordinary laboratory-building boom. This new crop of laboratories features spectacular architecture and resort-like amenities. The buildings sprawl luxuriously on verdant campuses or sit sleekly in expensive urban neighborhoods. ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

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  • Patterns of Commoning

    by David Bollier, Silke Helfrich ...
    What accounts for the persistence and spread of "commoning," the irrepressible desire of people to collaborate and share to meet everyday needs? How are the more successful projects governed? And why are so many people embracing the commons as a powerful strategy for building a fair, humane and Earth-respecting social order? In more than fifty original essays, Patterns of Commoning addresses these ... Read more

    $7.00 USD

  • Designing Disorder

    Experiments and Disruptions in the City

    by Richard Sennett, Pablo Sendra ...
    Rethinking the open cityPlanners, privatisation, and police surveillance are laying siege to urban public spaces. The streets are becoming ever more regimented as life and character are sapped from our cities. What is to be done? Is it possible to maintain the public realm as a flexible space that adapts over time? Can disorder be designed?Fifty years ago, Richard Sennett wrote his groundbreaking ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Spatial Agency: Other Ways of Doing Architecture

    by Nishat Awan, Tatjana Schneider, Jeremy Till ...
    This book offers the first comprehensive overview of alternative approaches to architectural practice.At a time when many commentators are noting that alternative and richer approaches to architectural practice are required if the profession is to flourish, this book provides multiple examples from across the globe of how this has been achieved and how it might be achieved in the future ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • The Urban Design Reader

    Edited by Michael Larice, Elizabeth Macdonald ...
    Series series Routledge Urban Reader Series
    The second edition of The Urban Design Reader draws together the very best of classic and contemporary writings to illuminate and expand the theory and practice of urban design. Nearly 50 generous selections include seminal contributions from Howard, Le Corbusier, Lynch, and Jacobs to more recent writings by Waldheim, Koolhaas, and Sorkin. Following the widespread success of the first edition of ... Read more

    $115.99 USD

  • The Routledge Companion to Museum Ethics

    Redefining Ethics for the Twenty-First Century Museum

    Edited by Janet Marstine ...
    Routledge Companion to Museum Ethics is a theoretically informed reconceptualization of museum ethics discourse as a dynamic social practice central to the project of creating change in the museum. Through twenty-seven chapters by an international and interdisciplinary group of academics and practitioners it explores contemporary museum ethics as an opportunity for growth, rather than a burden of ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • The Green Braid

    Towards an Architecture of Ecology, Economy and Equity

    Edited by Kim Tanzer, Rafael Longoria ...
    Series series The ACSA Architectural Education Series
    This volume presents the discipline’s best thinking on sustainability in written, drawn, and built form, drawing on over fifteen years of peer-reviewed essays and national design awards published by the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA).Providing a primer on sustainability, useful to teachers and students alike, the selected essays address a broad range of issues. Combined ... Read more

    $72.99 USD