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  • Gender Space Architecture

    An Interdisciplinary Introduction

    Edición de Iain Borden, Barbara Penner, Jane Rendell ...
    Series series Architext
    This significant reader brings together for the first time the most important essays concerning the intersecting subjects of gender, space and architecture. Carefully structured and with numerous introductory essays, it guides the reader through theoretical and multi-disciplinary texts to direct considerations of gender in relation to particular architectural sites, projects and ideas. This ... Leer más

    $91.99 USD

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  • Frank Lloyd Wright

    A Life

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • The Secret Lives of Buildings

    From the Ruins of the Parthenon to the Vegas Strip in Thirteen Stories

    de Edward Hollis ...
    A strikingly original, beautifully narrated history of Western architecture and the cultural transformations that it represents.Concrete, marble, steel, brick: little else made by human hands seems as stable, as immutable, as a building. Yet the life of any structure is neither fixed nor timeless. Outliving their original contexts and purposes, buildings are forced to adapt to each succeeding age. ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • The Future of Architecture in 100 Buildings

    de Marc Kushner ...
    Series series TED Books
    The founder of Architizer.com and practicing architect draws on his unique position at the crossroads of architecture and social media to highlight 100 important buildings that embody the future of architecture.We’re asking more of architecture than ever before; the response will define our future.A pavilion made from paper. A building that eats smog. An inflatable concert hall. A research lab ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD

  • Placing Words

    Symbols, Space, and the City

    de William J. Mitchell ...
    Reflections on architecture and the exchange of information in the spaces and places of the city, from the necessity of skyscrapers in an age of Web sites to cities as talent magnets, from architectural bling to the neo-minimalism of the new MoMA.The meaning of a message, says William Mitchell, depends on the context of its reception. "Shouting 'fire' in a crowded theater produces a dramatically ... Leer más

    $22.99 USD

  • A New Kind of Bleak

    Journeys through Urban Britain

    de Owen Hatherley ...
    In A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain, Owen Hatherley skewered New Labour’s architectural legacy in all its witless swagger. Now, in the year of the Diamond Jubilee and the London Olympics, he sets out to describe what the Coalition’s altogether different approach to economic mismanagement and civic irresponsibility is doing to the places where the British live.In a journey that begins and ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • Transcultural Architecture

    The Limits and Opportunities of Critical Regionalism

    de Thorsten Botz-Bornstein ...
    Critical Regionalism is a notion which gained popularity in architectural debate as a synthesis of universal, 'modern' elements and individualistic elements derived from local cultures. This book shifts the focus from Critical Regionalism towards a broader concept of 'Transcultural Architecture' and defines Critical Regionalism as a subgroup of the latter. One of the benefits that this change of ... Leer más

    $67.99 USD

  • Softspace

    From a Representation of Form to a Simulation of Space

    Edición de Sean Lally, Jessica Young ...
    This well-illustrated book unites essayists and emerging architectural practices to examine how digital tools are increasingly being used in architectural design, not only to show form, structure and geometries but also to visualize and simulate energies and material qualities such as air, gas, sound, scent and electricity.Softspace takes stock of current advancements in design and research, while ... Leer más

    $76.99 USD

  • Food and Architecture

    At The Table

    Edición de Samantha L. Martin-McAuliffe ...
    Food and Architecture is the first book to explore the relationship between these two fields of study and practice. Bringing together leading voices from both food studies and architecture, it provides a ground-breaking, cross-disciplinary analysis of two disciplines which both rely on a combination of creativity, intuition, taste, and science but have rarely been engaged in direct dialogue.Each ... Leer más

    $34.99 USD

  • Constructing Place

    Mind and the Matter of Place-Making

    Edición de Sarah Menin ...
    This book is a cutting edge study examining the attitudes to both nature and the built environment of the designer, the client and the society in which an intervention (be it architecture, landscape design or a piece of art) is made. The legacy of the Modernist view of nature and the environment is also addressed, and the degree to which such ideas continue to impinge on contemporary interventions ... Leer más

    $115.99 USD

  • Architecture and Feminisms

    Ecologies, Economies, Technologies

    Edición de Hélène Frichot, Catharina Gabrielsson, Helen Runting ...
    Series series Critiques
    Set against the background of a ‘general crisis’ that is environmental, political and social, this book examines a series of specific intersections between architecture and feminisms, understood in the plural. The collected essays and projects that make up the book follow transversal trajectories that criss-cross between ecologies, economies and technologies, exploring specific cases and positions ... Leer más

    $68.99 USD

  • Why Architects Matter

    Evidencing and Communicating the Value of Architects

    de Flora Samuel ...
    Why Architects Matter examines the key role of research- led, ethical architects in promoting wellbeing, sustainability and innovation. It argues that the profession needs to be clear about what it knows and the value of what it knows if it is to work successfully with others. Without this clarity, the marginalization of architects from the production of the built environment will continue, ... Leer más

    $62.99 USD