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  • Building/Object

    Shared and Contested Territories of Design and Architecture

    Edited by Dr Charlotte Ashby, Mark Crinson ...
    Building/Object addresses the space in between the conventional objects of design and the conventional objects of architecture, probing and reassessing the differences between the disciplines of design history and architectural historyEach of the 13 chapters in this book examine things which are neither object-like nor building-like, but somewhere in between – air conditioning; bookshelves; ... Read more

    $33.19 USD

  • Orientalism's Interlocutors

    Painting, Architecture, Photography

    by Nicholas Thomas, Zeynep Çelik, Roger Benjamin, Mark Crinson ...
    Series series Objects/Histories
    Until now, Orientalist art—exemplified by paintings of harems, slave markets, or bazaars—has predominantly been understood to reflect Western interpretations and to perpetuate reductive, often demeaning stereotypes of the exotic East. Orientalism's Interlocutors contests the idea that Orientalist art simply expresses the politics of Western domination and argues instead that it was often produced ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • The Architecture of Art History

    A Historiography

    by Mark Crinson, Richard J. Williams ...
    What is the place of architecture in the history of art? Why has it been at times central to the discipline, and at other times seemingly so marginal? What is its place now?Many disciplines have a stake in the history of architecture – sociology, anthropology, human geography, to name a few. This book deals with perhaps the most influential tradition of all – art history – examining how the ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Rebuilding Babel

    Modern Architecture and Internationalism

    by Mark Crinson ...
    Much of modernist architecture was inspired by the emergence of internationalism: the ethics and politics of world peace, justice and unity through global collaboration. Mark Crinson here shows how the ideals represented by the Tower of Babel - built, so the story goes, by people united by one language - were effectively adapted by internationalist architecture, its styles and practices, in the ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Empire Building

    Orientalism and Victorian Architecture

    by Mark Crinson ...
    The colonial architecture of the nineteenth century has much to tell us of the history of colonialism and cultural exchange. Yet, these buildings can be read in many ways. Do they stand as witnesses to the rapacity and self-delusion of empire? Are they monuments to a world of lost glory and forgotten convictions? Do they reveal battles won by indigenous cultures and styles? Or do they simply ... Read more

    $110.99 USD

  • Urban Memory

    History and Amnesia in the Modern City

    Edited by Mark Crinson ...
    Nine previously unpublished essays form an interdisciplinary assessment of urban memory in the modern city, analysing this burgeoning area of interest from the perspectives of sociology, architectural and art history, psychoanalysis, culture and critical theory. Featuring a wealth of illustrations, images, maps and specially commissioned artwork, this work applies a critical and creative approach ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

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  • The Story of Post-Modernism

    Five Decades of the Ironic, Iconic and Critical in Architecture

    by Charles Jencks ...
    In The Story of Post-Modernism, Charles Jencks, the authority on Post-Modern architecture and culture, provides the defining account of Post-Modern architecture from its earliest roots in the early 60s to the present day. By breaking the narrative into seven distinct chapters, which are both chronological and overlapping, Jencks charts the ebb and flow of the movement, the peaks and troughs of ... Read more

    $35.00 USD

  • Non-Plan: Essays on Freedom, Participation and Change in Modern Architecture and Urbanism

    Edited by Jonathan Hughes, Simon Sadler ...
    Non-Plan explores ways of involving people in the design of their environments - a goal which transgresses political categories of 'right' and 'left'. Attempts to circumvent planning bureaucracy and architectural inertia have ranged from free-market enterprise zones, to self-build housing, and from squatting to sophisticated technologies of prefabrication. Yet all have shared in a desire to let ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • Cities Interrupted

    Visual Culture and Urban Space

    Edited by Shirley Jordan, Christoph Lindner ...
    Cities Interrupted explores the potential of visual culture – in the form of photography, film, performance, architecture, urban design, and mixed media – to strategically interrupt processes of globalization in contemporary urban spaces.Looking at cities such as Amsterdam, Beijing, Doha, London, New York, and Paris, the book brings together original essays to reveal how the concept of ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Modern Architecture

    by Alan Colquhoun ...
    Series series Oxford History of Art
    This new account of international modernism explores the complex motivations behind this revolutionary movement and assesses its triumphs and failures. The work of the main architects of the movement such as Frank Lloyd Wright, Adolf Loos, Le Corbusier, and Mies van der Rohe is re-examined shedding new light on their roles as acknowledged masters. Alan Colquhoun explores the evolution of the ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • 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

  • Landscape Architecture

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Ian Thompson ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Landscape architecture plays an important role in shaping the places in which we live and work. But what is it? Landscape architects are involved, amongst other things, in the layout of business parks, the reclamation of derelict industrial sites, the restoration of historic city parks, and the siting and design of major pieces of infrastructure such as motorways, dams, power stations, and flood ... Read more

    $7.99 USD