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  • A Musicology for Landscape

    by David Nicholas Buck ...
    Series series Design Research in Architecture
    Drawing conceptually and directly on music notation, this book investigates landscape architecture’s inherent temporality. It argues that the rich history of notating time in music provides a critical model for this under-researched and under-theorised aspect of landscape architecture, while also ennobling sound in the sensory appreciation of landscape.A Musicology for Landscape makes available to ... Read more

    $95.99 USD

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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

    $34.79 USD

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Architecture

    by James Stevens Curl, Susan Wilson ...
    Series series Oxford Quick Reference
    Containing over 6,000 entries from Aalto to Zwinger and written in a clear and concise style, this authoritative dictionary covers architectural history in detail, from ancient times to the present day. It also includes concise biographies of hundreds of architects from history (excluding living persons), from Sir Francis Bacon and Imhotep to Liang Ssu-ch'eng and Francis Inigo Thomas. The ... ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

  • An Anthropology of Architecture

    by Victor Buchli ...
    Ever since anthropology has existed as a discipline, anthropologists have thought about architectural forms. This book provides the first overview of how anthropologists have studied architecture and the extraordinarily rich thought and data this has produced.With a focus on domestic space - that intimate context in which anthropologists traditionally work - the book explains how anthropologists ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Atmospheric Architectures

    The Aesthetics of Felt Spaces

    by Professor Gernot Böhme ...
    There is fast-growing awareness of the role atmospheres play in architecture. Of equal interest to contemporary architectural practice as it is to aesthetic theory, this 'atmospheric turn' owes much to the work of the German philosopher Gernot Böhme.Atmospheric Architectures: The Aesthetics of Felt Spaces brings together Böhme's most seminal writings on the subject, through chapters selected from ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Use Matters

    An Alternative History of Architecture

    Edited by Kenny Cupers ...
    From participatory architecture to interaction design, the question of how design accommodates use is driving inquiry in many creative fields. Expanding utility to embrace people’s everyday experience brings new promises for the social role of design. But this is nothing new. As the essays assembled in this collection show, interest in the elusive realm of the user was an essential part of ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • The Cultured Landscape

    Designing the Environment in the 21st Century

    Edited by Sheila Harvey, Ken Fieldhouse ...
    This book poses important philosophical questions about the aims, values and purposes of landscape architecture. The editors, highly regarded in their field, have drawn together a distinguished team of writers who provide unique individual perspectives on contemporary themes from a wide base of knowledge. Altogether, this key international study raises awareness of the landscape and encourages ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Architecture and the Forest Aesthetic

    A New Look at Design and Resilient Urbanism

    by Jana VanderGoot ...
    Despite population trends toward urbanization, the forest continues to have a strong appeal to the human imagination, and the human preference for forest over many other types of terrain is well documented. This book re-imagines architecture and urbanism by allowing the forest to be a prominent consideration in the language of design, thus recognizing the forest as essential rather than just ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Art and Architecture in the Islamic Tradition

    Aesthetics, Politics and Desire in Early Islam

    by Mohammed Hamdouni Alami ...
    What is 'art' in the sense of the Islamic tradition? Mohammed Hamdouni Alami argues that Islamic art has historically been excluded from Western notions of art; that the Western aesthetic tradition's preoccupation with the human body, and the ban on the representation of the human body in Islam, has meant that Islamic and Western art have been perceived as inherently at odds. However, the move ... Read more

    $26.49 USD

  • The Evolving European City - Introduction

    by Giuseppe Marinoni, Giovanni Chiaramonte ...
    Series Book 29 - EUROPEAN PRACTICE
    In The Evolving European City, renowned urban planner and architect Giuseppe Marinoni and eminent photographer Giovanni Chiaramonte assemble a breathtaking presentation of cities that have undergone profound change in order to combat congestion, pollution, and the unsightliness of industrial wastelands. Marinoni conveys a profound belief that unified urban plans under the direction of one creative ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Greece

    Modern Architectures in History

    by Alcestis P. Rodi, Prof Alexander Tzonis ...
    Series series Modern Architectures in History
    This book is an unprecedented account of modern architecture in Greece, providing a unique understanding of the development of architectural practice and theory in the context of the country’s political and social history. Alexander Tzonis and Alcestis Rodi present the ambitious Neoclassicist projects thought appropriate for a new nation that followed from the establishment of the Greek state in ... Read more

    $35.29 USD

  • Utopias and Architecture

    by Nathaniel Coleman ...
    Utopian thought, though commonly characterized as projecting a future without a past, depends on golden models for re-invention of what is. Through a detailed and innovative re-assessment of the work of three architects who sought to represent a utopian content in their work, and a consideration of the thoughts of a range of leading writers, Coleman offers the reader a unique perspective of ... Read more

    $110.99 USD