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“simone brott”

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  • Digital Monuments

    The Dreams and Abuses of Iconic Architecture

    by Simone Brott ...
    Digital Monuments radically explodes "iconic architecture" of the new millennium and its hijacking of the public imagination via the digital image. Hallucinatory constructions such as Rem Koolhaas’s CCTV headquarters in Beijing, Frank Gehry’s Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao and Zaha Hadid’s Performing Arts Centre in Abu Dhabi are all introduced to the world by immortal digital imagery that floods the ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Architecture for a Free Subjectivity

    Deleuze and Guattari at the Horizon of the Real

    by Simone Brott ...
    Architecture for a Free Subjectivity reformulates the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze's model of subjectivity for architecture, by surveying the prolific effects of architectural encounter, and the spaces that figure in them. For Deleuze and his Lacanian collaborator Félix Guattari, subjectivity does not refer to a person, but to the potential for and event of matter becoming subject, and the ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Architecture Post Mortem

    The Diastolic Architecture of Decline, Dystopia, and Death

    Edited by Donald Kunze, David Bertolini, Simone Brott ...
    Architecture Post Mortem surveys architecture’s encounter with death, decline, and ruination following late capitalism. As the world moves closer to an economic abyss that many perceive to be the death of capital, contraction and crisis are no longer mere phases of normal market fluctuations, but rather the irruption of the unconscious of ideology itself. Post mortem is that historical moment ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

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  • Architecture, Culture, and Spirituality

    by Thomas Barrie, Julio Bermudez, Phillip James Tabb ...
    Architecture has long been understood as a cultural discipline able to articulate the human condition and lift the human spirit, yet the spirituality of architecture is rarely directly addressed in academic scholarship. The seventeen chapters provide a diverse range of perspectives, grouped according to topical themes: Being in the World; Sacred, Secular, and the Contemporary Condition; Symbolic ... Read more

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  • The Architecture of Happiness

    by Alain De Botton ...
    Series series Vintage International
    A dazzling and generously illustrated journey through the philosophy and psychology of architecture and the indelible connection between our identities and our locations.One of the great but often unmentioned causes of both happiness and misery is the quality of our environment: the kinds of walls, chairs, buildings, and streets that surround us. And yet a concern for architecture is too often ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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  • Frank Lloyd Wright

    A Life

    by Ada Louise Huxtable ...
    Series series Penguin Lives
    A powerhouse of architectural biography by Pulitzer Prize winning critic Ada Louise Huxtable of America's greatest architectRenowned architecture critic Ada Louise Huxtable's biography Frank Lloyd Wright looks at the architect and the man, from his tumultuous personal life to his long career as a master builder. Along the way she introduces Wright's masterpieces, from the tranquil Fallingwater to ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Pocket Guide to Chicago Architecture (Norton Pocket Guides)

    by Judith Paine McBrien ...
    Series Book 0 - Norton Pocket Guides
    “A handy guidebook that profiles a building per page, with a drawing and vital statistics on most of Chicago’s major historic and modern buildings.”—Chicago TribuneUpdated and expanded to chart the changing urban landscape of Chicago--as well as to incorporate a section on Chicago’s campus architecture, including works by Rem Koolhaas at the Illinois Institute of Technology and Frank Lloyd Wright ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • All Over the Map

    Writing on Buildings and Cities

    by Michael Sorkin ...
    Robert Hughes once described Michael Sorkin as “unique in America––brave, principled, highly informed and fiercely funny.” All Over the Map confirms all of these superlatives as Sorkin assaults “the national security city, with its architecture of manufactured fear.” ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Oriental Interiors

    Design, Identity, Space

    Edited by John Potvin ...
    Since the publication of Edward Said's groundbreaking work Orientalism 35 years ago, numerous studies have explored the West's fraught and enduring fascination with the so-called Orient. Focusing their critical attention on the literary and pictorial arts, these studies have, to date, largely neglected the world of interior design. Oriental Interiors is the first book to fully explore the ... Read more

    $30.79 USD

  • The city as interface

    how digital media are changing the city

    by Martijn de Waal ...
    Digital and mobile media play an increasingly important role in everyday urban life. They are changing the way urban life takes shape and how we experience our built environment. This seems a mainly practical matter: thanks to these technologies we can organize our lives more conveniently. But the rise of these `urban media also presents us with an important philosophical issue: What do they mean ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Pride in Modesty

    Modernist Architecture and the Vernacular Tradition in Italy

    by Michelangelo Sabatino ...
    Following Italy's unification in 1861, architects, artists, politicians, and literati engaged in volatile debates over the pursuit of national and regional identity. Growing industrialization and urbanization across the country contrasted with the rediscovery of traditionally built forms and objects created by the agrarian peasantry. Pride in Modesty argues that these ordinary, often anonymous, ... Read more

    $35.29 USD

  • Derrida for Architects

    by Richard Coyne ...
    Series series Thinkers for Architects
    Looking afresh at the implications of Jacques Derrida’s thinking for architecture, this book simplifies his ideas in a clear, concise way. Derrida‘s treatment of key philosophical texts has been labelled as "deconstruction," a term that resonates with architecture. Although his main focus is language, his thinking has been applied by architectural theorists widely.As well as a review of Derrida’s ... Read more

    $42.99 USD