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  • Modern Architecture: A Critical History (Fifth) (World of Art)

    Series Book 0 - World of Art
    An extensively revised and updated edition of a bestselling classic on modern architecture and its origins by Kenneth Frampton.Kenneth Frampton’s highly acclaimed survey of modern architecture and its origins has been a classic since it first appeared in 1980. Starting with the cultural developments since 1750 that drove the modern movement, moving through the creation of modern architecture, and ... Read more

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  • Álvaro Siza Viera: A Pool in the Sea

    In conversation with Kenneth Frampton

    This book documents a unique experience of a journey by Álvaro Siza Vieira, Vincent Mentzel and Kenneth Frampton to the early work of Siza in Porto.This book includes a vast collection of descriptions, drawings and photographs by Vincent Mentzel about the project, as well as a writing by Siza Vieira himself and other texts.The book also includes an analysis of the bathers’ course by Pedro Vieira ... Read more

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  • MORE WATER LESS LAND NEW ARCHITECTURE

    SEA LEVEL RISE AND THE FUTURE OF COASTAL URBANISM

    Climate change, and the inevitability of sea level rise, will require much more of us than simply pulling back from the coastline. The thesis of Weston Wright's More Water Less Land New Architecture is that we need to start thinking in an entirely different way about the relationship of cities to waterfront sites and of the relationship of buildings to water, which means rethinking many of ... Read more

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  • Architecture and the Public World

    Kenneth Frampton

    Series series Radical Thinkers in Design
    This book brings together Kenneth Frampton's essays from the 1960s to today which epitomize his reflections on the historical–theoretical entanglements of architecture with place, the public realm, cultural identity, urban landscape and environment, and the political question of the “predicament” of architecture in the new Millennium.The essays explore Frampton's contention that architecture's ... Read more

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  • Le Corbusier (Second) (World of Art)

    Series Book 0 - World of Art
    A revised and updated edition of a bestselling introduction to Le Corbusier, one of the leading architects of the twentieth century.Le Corbusier is one of the most famous architects of the twentieth century. The richness and variety of his work combined with his passionately expressed philosophy of architecture have had an immense impact on the urban fabric and the way we live. Weaving through his ... Read more

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  • The Sources of Modern Architecture and Design (Second) (World of Art)

    Series Book 0 - World of Art
    An updated edition of this classic survey of the origins of twentieth-century ideas in architecture and the applied arts.The turn of the nineteenth century saw an extraordinary flowering of invention in architecture and design, leading to the emergence of two contrasting styles: art nouveau and the International Style. Professor Nikolaus Pevsner brings clarity to this period of dynamic change by ... Read more

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  • Technology and Place

    Sustainable Architecture and the Blueprint Farm

    Developing "sustainable" architectural and agricultural technologies was the intent behind Blueprint Farm, an experimental agricultural project designed to benefit farm workers displaced by the industrialization of agriculture in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas. Yet, despite its promise, the very institutions that created Blueprint Farm terminated the project after just four years (1987-1991).In ... Read more

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