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  • Remote Practices

    Architecture at a Distance

    by Matthew Mindrup, Lilian Chee ...
    As advancements in transportation and technology continue to close the gap between architect, client, builder and site, critique and place, this book considers how architects, designers, theorists, and critics design, describe and critique future and past constructions in absentia. This book engages with remote practice, providing students, academics and professionals with the understanding and ... Read more

    $69.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Material Imagination

    Reveries on Architecture and Matter

    by Matthew Mindrup ...
    In recent years architectural discourse has witnessed a renewed interest in materiality under the guise of such familiar tropes as 'material honesty,' 'form finding,' or 'digital materiality.' Motivated in part by the development of new materials and an increasing integration of designers in fabricating architecture, a proliferation of recent publications from both practice and academia explore ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • The City Crown by Bruno Taut

    by Matthew Mindrup, Ulrike Altenmüller-Lewis ...
    Series series Ashgate Studies in Architecture
    This book is the first English translation of the German architect Bruno Taut’s early twentieth-century anthology Die Stadtkrone (The City Crown). Written under the influence of World War I, Taut developed The City Crown to promote a utopian urban concept where people would live in a garden city of ’apolitical socialism’ and peaceful collaboration around a single purpose-free crystalline structure ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

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    Translated by André Naffis-Sahely ...
    "This powerful book of cultural criticism" by the renowned art historian "shines a harsh light on" a historic city's destruction in the name of profit ( The Washington Post).What is Venice worth? To whom do its irreplaceable treasures belong? This eloquent book by art historian Salvatore Settis urgently poses these questions, igniting a new debate about urban stewardship and cultural patrimony at ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Potsdamer Platz

    The Reshaping of Berlin

    by Quazi Mahtab Zaman, Malgorzata Nowobilska ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    The redesign of Potsdamer Platz depicts the struggle to revive Berlin, Germany. This central and highly visible square has undergone a series of strategic revisions to restore its vitality and so to meet place-enhancing objectives. Specifically, the book critically addresses the challenging tasks of restoring Potsdamer Platz from a state of disintegration to a condition worthy of a world-class ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Explorations in Urban Design

    An Urban Design Research Primer

    by Matthew Carmona ...
    Whilst recognising that distinctly different traditions exist within the study and practice of urban design, this book advances an interdisciplinary and innovative approach, which is of direct importance to understanding the urban forms, conditions, practices and processes. It enthuses and inspires users who are grappling with urban design research problems, but who need inspiration to move from ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Altering Practices

    Feminist Politics and Poetics of Space

    Edited by Doina Petrescu ...
    This collection of essays addresses and defines the state of contemporary theories and practices of space: it is concerned with the growing importance of technology and communications, the effects of globalization and the change of social demands. Within the current urban and geopolitical contexts, it addresses the emergence of new social and political theories that raise questions of identity and ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Routledge Revivals: Housing in Europe (1984)

    Edited by Martin Wynn ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1984, this book presents a survey of housing problems in various European countries and how individual states have responded.Each chapter begins by surveying the problem in each country since the Second World War, before going on to outline the roles fulfilled by national housing agencies and local authorities, as well as assessing the impact of housing policies on society and ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Four Walls and a Roof

    The Complex Nature of a Simple Profession

    by Reinier de Graaf ...
    A Financial Times Best Book of the YearA Guardian Best Architecture Book of the Year“Sharp, revealing, funny.”—The Guardian“An original and even occasionally hilarious book about losing ideals and finding them again… [De Graaf] deftly shows that architecture cannot be better or more pure than the flawed humans who make it.”—The EconomistArchitecture, we like to believe, is an elevated art form... ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Shopping Malls and Public Space in Modern China

    by Nicholas Jewell ...
    China’s rise as an economic superpower has been inescapable. Statistical hyperbole has been accompanied by a plethora of highly publicized architectural forms that brand the regeneration of its increasingly globalized urban centres. Despite the sizeable body of literature that has accompanied China’s modernization, the essence and trajectory of its contemporary cityscape remains difficult to grasp ... Read more

    $70.99 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

  • Cities and Design

    by Paul L. Knox ...
    Series series Routledge Critical Introductions to Urbanism and the City
    Cities, initially a product of the manufacturing era, have been thoroughly remade in the image of consumer society. Competitive spending among affluent households has intensified the importance of style and design at every scale and design professions have grown in size and importance, reflecting distinctive geographies and locating disproportionately in cities most intimately connected with ... Read more

    $72.99 USD