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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “david fortin”
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  • Architecture and Science-Fiction Film

    Philip K. Dick and the Spectacle of Home

    by David T. Fortin ...
    Series series Ashgate Studies in Architecture
    The home is one of our most enduring human paradoxes and is brought to light tellingly in science-fiction (SF) writing and film. However, while similarities and crossovers between architecture and SF have proliferated throughout the past century, the home is often overshadowed by the spectacle of 'otherness'. The study of the familiar (home) within the alien (SF) creates a unique cultural lens ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    MINDSET

    The Invisible War.

    by Bill Fortin ...
    Narrated by David Gilmore ...
    Series Audiobook 4 - Cold War Political Thriller Series

    Unabridged

    15 hours 35 min

    A Gripping Geopolitical Thriller That Plays Like a Blockbuster.Reviewed by Christopher Cartwright in Australia on 28 July 2026Mindset is a sprawling, relentlessly ambitious geopolitical thriller that feels less like reading a novel and more like watching a major international crisis unfold in real time.Bill Fortin takes the reader deep inside an invisible war being fought through intelligence ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Bricks & Mortals

    Ten Great Buildings and the People They Made

    by Tom Wilkinson ...
    We don't just look at buildings: their facades, beautiful or ugly, conceal the spaces where we live. We are born, work, love, and die in architecture. We buy and sell it, rent and squat it, create and destroy it. All of these aspects of buildings-economic, erotic, political, and psychological-are crucial if we are to understand architecture properly. And because architecture molds us just as much ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Scientific Computing and Cultural Heritage

    Contributions in Computational Humanities

    Edited by Hans Georg Bock, Willi Jäger, Michael J. Winckler ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    The sheer computing power of modern information technology is changing the face of research not just in science, technology and mathematics, but in humanities and cultural studies too. Recent decades have seen a major shift both in attitudes and deployment of computers, which are now vital and highly effective tools in disciplines where they were once viewed as elaborate typewriters. This ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • The Contradiction Between Form and Function in Architecture

    by John Shannon Hendrix ...
    Continuing the themes that have been addressed in The Humanities in Architectural Design and The Cultural Role of Architecture, this book illustrates the important role that a contradiction between form and function plays in compositional strategies in architecture. The contradiction between form and function is seen as a device for poetic expression, for the expression of ideas, in architecture ... Read more

    $114.99 CAD

  • Open Enclosed: Donald Judd

    by Gillermo Zuaznabar ...
    Taking "Specific Objects," the seminal text written by Judd in the mid-sixties, as the central theme, the author analyzes the artist's main concepts and his whole career from a new perspective: "what one seeks is an object that speaks of the world in which it is moving or of the world from which it is moving away. One searches for a boundary work, a frontier, that says, simultaneously, where it is ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Virilio for Architects

    by John Armitage ...
    Series series Thinkers for Architects
    Paul Virilio is an innovative figure in the study of architecture, space, and the city. Virilio for Architects primes readers for their first encounter with his crucial texts on some of the vital theoretical debates of the twenty-first century, including:Oblique Architecture and Bunker ArcheologyCritical Space and the Overexposed CityThe Ultracity and Very High BuildingsGrey Ecology and Global ... Read more

    $68.70 CAD

  • 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

    $105.80 CAD

  • Disclosing Horizons

    Architecture, Perspective and Redemptive Space

    by Nicholas Temple ...
    This study examines the influence of perspective on architecture, highlighting how critical historical changes in the representation and perception of space continue to inform the way architects design.Since its earliest developments, perspective was conceived as an exemplary form of representation that served as an ideal model of how everyday existence could be measured and ultimately judged. ... Read more

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  • What Can and Can't Be Said

    Race, Uplift, and Monument Building in the Contemporary South

    by Dell Upton ...
    An original study of monuments to the civil rights movement and African American history that have been erected in the U.S. South over the past three decades, this powerful work explores how commemorative structures have been used to assert the presence of black Americans in contemporary Southern society. The author cogently argues that these public memorials, ranging from the famous to the ... Read more

    $49.99 CAD

  • Agency

    Working With Uncertain Architectures

    Edited by Florian Kossak, Doina Petrescu, Tatjana Schneider, Renata Tyszczuk, Stephen Walker ...
    Series series Critiques
    While the potential of agency is most frequently taken to be the power and freedom to act for oneself, for the architectural community this also involves the power and responsibility to act as intermediaries on behalf of others.Presenting current thinking from practitioners and scholars from around the world, this book asks for a more active relationship between the humanities, the architectural ... Read more

    $116.79 CAD

  • London's Contemporary Architecture

    An Explorer's Guide

    by Ken Allinson ...
    London is a living architectural exhibition. This tried and trusted portable guide will help you to find your way around one of the world’s most exciting cities, offering architectural experiences and insights into London’s finest contemporary architecture.features more than 400 buildings including key venues from the 2012 Olympic Parkprovides a superb full colour photographic record of the ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD