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  • Urban Squares as Places, Links and Displays

    Successes and Failures

    by Jon Lang, Nancy Marshall ...
    To attract investment and tourists and to enhance the quality of life of their citizens, municipal authorities are paying considerable attention to the quality of the public domain of their cities – including their urban squares. Politicians find them good places for rallies. Children consider squares to be playgrounds, the elderly as places to catch-up with each other, and for many others squares ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • The Scope of Architectural Theory

    by Jon Lang ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This book comprehensively lays out the knowledge base required for architectural practice and education at a time when artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms are shaping the way architects think. Architects with a desire to retain their creative role in the design of buildings and urban spaces must understand and articulate the theoretical bases of their work and what it can achieve. This book ... Read more

    $170.09 USD

  • The Routledge Companion to Twentieth and Early Twenty-First Century Urban Design

    A History of Shifting Manifestoes, Paradigms, Generic Solutions, and Specific Designs

    by Jon Lang ...
    Series series Routledge Companions
    The Routledge Companion to Twentieth and Early Twenty-First Century Urban Design is a fully illustrated descriptive and explanatory history of the development of urban design ideas and paradigms of the past 150 years. The ideas and projects, hypothetical and built, range in scale from the city to the urban block level. The focus is on where the generic ideas originated, the projects that were ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Urban Design

    A Typology of Procedures and Products

    by Jon Lang ...
    Urban Design: A Typology of Procedures and Products, 2nd Edition provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to urban design, defining the field and addressing the controversies and goals of urban design.Including over 50 updated international case studies, this new edition presents a three-dimensional model with which to categorize the processes and products involved: product type, ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Functionalism Revisited

    Architectural Theory and Practice and the Behavioral Sciences

    by Jon Lang, Walter Moleski ...
    A range of current approaches to architecture are neglected in our contemporary writings on design philosophies. This book argues that the model of 'function' and the concept of a 'functional building' that we have inherited from the twentieth-century Modernists is limited in scope and detracts from a full understanding of the purposes served by the built environment. It simply does not cover the ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

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  • Thinking Contemporary Curating

    by Terry Smith ...
    What is contemporary curatorial thought? Current discourse on the topic is heating up with a new cocktail of bold ideas and ethical imperatives. these include: cooperative curating, especially with artists; the reimagination of museums; curating as knowledge production; the historicization of exhibitionmaking; and commitment to extra-artworld participatory activism. Less obvious, but increasingly ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Issues in Curating Contemporary Art and Performance

    Edited by Judith Rugg, Michèle Sedgwick ...
    Issues in Curating Contemporary Art and Performance proposes that the concept of curating is a complex field of enquiry. By drawing together artists, curators, architects and cultural theorists, it proposes new approaches to curating and ways of developing critical enquiry about this increasingly expanding field. Focusing on pertinent issues in curating contemporary art and performance, the book's ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

  • An Introduction to Architectural Theory

    1968 to the Present

    by Harry Francis Mallgrave, David J. Goodman ...
    A sharp and lively text that covers issues in depth but not to the point that they become inaccessible to beginning students, An Introduction to Architectural Theory is the first narrative history of this period, charting the veritable revolution in architectural thinking that has taken place, as well as the implications of this intellectual upheaval.The first comprehensive and critical history of ... Read more

    $37.00 USD

  • Representing Landscape Architecture

    Edited by Marc Treib ...
    Representing Landscape Architecture offers a broad investigation of how the designed landscape is and has been represented: for design study, for criticism and even for its realization.It has been said that we can only realize what we can imagine. But in order to realize we must convey ideas to others as well as to ourselves. Representation is by no means neutral and the process of communication, ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • EMPTY STAGES, CROWDED FLATS. PERFORMATIVITY AS CURATORIAL STRATEGY.

    Performing Urgencies 4

    by Joanna Warsza, Florian Malzacher, Frédérique Aït-Touati, Knut Ove Arntzen, Nedjma Hadj Benchelabi, Claire Bishop, Beatrice von Bismarck, Rui Catalão, Vanessa Desclaux0, Tim Etchells1, Karin Harrasser2, Shannon Jackson3, Ana Janevski4, Lina Majdalanie5, Ewa Majewska6, Maayan Sheleff7, Gerald Siegmund8, Claire Tancons9, Kasia Tórz0, Rachida Triki1, Jelena Vesić2, Catherine Wood3 ...
    Series Book 4 - Performing Urgencies
    During its impressive career over the last decades the term 'performative' has been attributed with many parallel meanings in the humanities, philosophy, arts, or economics. Empty Stages, Crowded Flats additionally applies the notion of the performative to the context of curating with the aim to unfold a potential that so far has been mostly unused. The book is following J. L. Austin, Judith ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • History through material culture

    by Leonie Hannan, Sarah Longair ...
    Series Book 1 - IHR Research Guides
    History through material culture is a unique, step-by-step guide for students and researchers who wish to use objects as historical sources.Responding to the significant, scholarly interest in historical material culture studies, this book makes clear how students and researchers ready to use these rich material sources can make important, valuable and original contributions to history.Written by ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • An Architect's Guide to Fame

    Edited by Paul Davies, Torsten Schmiedeknecht ...
    This lively text provides a candid inquiry into the contemporary means by which architects get work and (for better or worse) become famous. In response to the reciprocal relationship between publicity and everyday architectural practice, this book examines the mechanisms by which architects seek publicity and manage to establish themselves and their work ahead of their colleagues. Through the ... Read more

    $62.99 USD