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  • The Silent Songs of Butterflies

    Stories in Verse Both Light and Dark

    by David Ellison Reid ...
    Folk-verse stories for older children* up through to elders who are still young at heart. From light to dark, from humour to horror, from flatulent dragons to the battlefields of Ragnarok, it's an eclectic gamut of meter and rhyme that should appeal to fans of Casey at the Bat or The Cremation of Sam McGee. (18 000+ words)*Occasional mild profanity such as excrement, derrier, Hades, etc. ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • On Discomfort

    Moments in a Modern History of Architectural Culture

    Edited by David Ellison, Andrew Leach ...
    Series series Ashgate Studies in Architecture
    Examining discomfort’s physical, emotional, conceptual, psychological and aesthetic dimensions, the contributors to this volume offer an alternate, cultural approach to the study of architecture and the built environment. By attending to a series of disparate instances in which architecture and discomfort intersect, On Discomfort offers a fresh reading of the negotiations that define architecture ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Sound, Space and Civility in the British World, 1700-1850

    Edited by Peter Denney, Bruce Buchan, David Ellison, Karen Crawley ...
    Series series British Literature in Context in the Long Eighteenth Century
    In this collection, the essays examine the critical role that judgments about noise and sound played in framing the meaning of civility in British discourse and literature during the long eighteenth century. The volume restores the sonic dimension to conversations about civil conduct by exploring how censured behaviours and recommended practices resonated beyond the written word. As the ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

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    by Bill Hillier, Julienne Hanson ...
    The book presents a new theory of space: how and why it is a vital component of how societies work. The theory is developed on the basis of a new way of describing and analysing the kinds of spatial patterns produced by buildings and towns. The methods are explained so that anyone interested in how towns or buildings are structured and how they work can make use of them. The book also presents a ... Read more

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  • Benjamin for Architects

    by Brian Elliott ...
    Series series Thinkers for Architects
    Walter Benjamin has become a decisive reference point for a whole range of critical disciplines, as he constructed a unique and provocative synthesis of aesthetics, politics and philosophy.Examining Benjamin’s contributions to cultural criticism in relation to the works of Max Ernst, Adolf Loos, Le Corbusier and Sigfried Giedion, this book also situates Benjamin’s work within more recent ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • Writing the Modern City

    Literature, Architecture, Modernity

    Edited by Sarah Edwards, Jonathan Charley ...
    Literary texts and buildings have always represented space, narrated cultural and political values, and functioned as sites of personal and collective identity. In the twentieth century, new forms of narrative have represented cultural modernity, political idealism and architectural innovation. Writing the Modern City explores the diverse and fascinating relationships between literature, ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Back to the Future

    New Urbanism and the Rise of Neotraditionalism in Urban Planning

    by Karl Besel, Viviana Andreescu ...
    Back to the Future explores new urbanism and urban revitalization within the context of public policy trends such as regional governance and the role of nonprofits. The purpose of this book is to provide students and professionals alike with a context for examining the beginnings of new urbanism, as well as to illustrate how this movement has become a nationwide trend in response to changing ... Read more

    $38.09 USD

  • Superhumanity

    Design of the Self

    Edited by Nick Axel, Beatriz Colomina, Nikolaus Hirsch, Anton Vidokle, Mark Wigley ...
    A wide-ranging and challenging exploration of design and how it engages with the selfThe field of design has radically expanded. As a practice, design is no longer limited to the world of material objects but rather extends from carefully crafted individual styles and online identities to the surrounding galaxies of personal devices, new materials, interfaces, networks, systems, infrastructures, ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Architecture, Participation and Society

    Edited by Paul Jenkins, Leslie Forsyth ...
    How can architects best increase their engagement with building users and wider society to provide better architecture?Since the mid 1990s government policy has promoted the idea of greater social participation in the production and management of the built environment but there has been limited direction to the practising architect.Reviewing international cases and past experiences to analyze what ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • 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

    $58.49 USD

  • From Object to Experience

    The New Culture of Architectural Design

    by Harry Francis Mallgrave ...
    Harry Francis Mallgrave combines a history of ideas about architectural experience with the latest insights from the fields of neuroscience, cognitive science and evolutionary biology to make a powerful argument about the nature and future of architectural design.Today, the sciences have granted us the tools to help us understand better than ever before the precise ways in which the built ... Read more

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  • Architecture Against the Post-Political

    Essays in Reclaiming the Critical Project

    Edited by Nadir Lahiji ...
    Written by a team of renowned contributors and carefully edited to address the themes laid out by the editors in their introduction, the book includes theoretical issues concerning the questions of aesthetics and politics and addresses city and urban strategies within the general critique of the "post-political". By focusing on specific case studies from Warsaw, Barcelona, Dubai, Tokyo and many ... Read more

    $77.99 USD