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  • 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

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  • The Secret Lives of Buildings

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

    by 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. ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • The Evolution of Designs

    Biological Analogy in Architecture and the Applied Arts

    by Philip Steadman ...
    This book tells the history of the many analogies that have been made between the evolution of organisms and the human production of artefacts, especially buildings. It examines the effects of these analogies on architectural and design theory and considers how recent biological thinking has relevance for design.Architects and designers have looked to biology for inspiration since the early 19th ... Read more

    $126.99 CAD

  • The Art-Architecture Complex

    by Hal Foster ...
    Hal Foster, author of the acclaimed Design and Crime, argues that a fusion of architecture and art is a defining feature of contemporary culture. He identifies a “global style” of architecture—as practiced by Norman Foster, Richard Rogers and Renzo Piano—analogous to the international style of Le Corbusier, Gropius and Mies.More than any art, today’s global style conveys both the dreams and ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • The City Rehearsed

    Object, Architecture, and Print in the Worlds of Hans Vredeman de Vries

    by Christopher Heuer ...
    Series series The Classical Tradition in Architecture
    The City Rehearsed offers an entirely new perspective on printed architecture in early modern Europe through the lens of Hans Vredeman de Vries. It probes the geographical encounters of dozens of engravings with contemporary texts on architecture, theatre, urbanism, art collecting, even ethnography.The Netherlandish polymath Hans Vredeman de Vries (1526-1609) devoted his entire career to the ... Read more

    $114.99 CAD

  • The Green Braid

    Towards an Architecture of Ecology, Economy and Equity

    Edited by Kim Tanzer, Rafael Longoria ...
    Series series The ACSA Architectural Education Series
    This volume presents the discipline’s best thinking on sustainability in written, drawn, and built form, drawing on over fifteen years of peer-reviewed essays and national design awards published by the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA).Providing a primer on sustainability, useful to teachers and students alike, the selected essays address a broad range of issues. Combined ... Read more

    $105.99 CAD

  • The Sympathy of Things

    Ruskin and the Ecology of Design

    by Lars Spuybroek ...
    'If there is one thing we can learn from John Ruskin, it is that each age must find its own way to beauty' writes Lars Spuybroek in The Sympathy of Things, his ground-breaking work which proposes a radical new aesthetics for the digital era.Spuybroek argues that we must 'undo' the twentieth century and learn to understand the aesthetic insights of the nineteenth-century art critic John Ruskin, ... Read more

    $43.99 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

  • Interior Design: Conceptual Basis

    by Anthony Sully ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    Maximizing reader insights into interior design as a conceptual way of thinking, which is about ideas and how they are formulated. The major themes of this book are the seven concepts of planning, circulation, 3D, construction, materials, colour and lighting, which covers the entire spectrum of a designer’s activity. Analysing design concepts from the view of the range of possibilities that the ... Read more

    $76.99 CAD

  • Building the State: Architecture, Politics, and State Formation in Postwar Central Europe

    by Virag Molnar ...
    Series series Architext
    The built environment of former socialist countries is often deemed uniform and drab, an apt reflection of a repressive regime. Building the State peeks behind the grey façade to reveal a colourful struggle over competing meanings of the nation, Europe, modernity and the past in a divided continent.Examining how social change is closely intertwined with transformations of the built environment, ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

  • Architecture and Capitalism

    1845 to the Present

    Edited by Peggy Deamer ...
    Architecture and Capitalism tells a story of the relationship between the economy and architectural design. Eleven historians each discuss in brand new essays the time period they know best, looking at cultural and economic issues, which in light of current economic crises you will find have dealt with diverse but surprisingly familiar economic issues. Told through case studies, the narrative ... Read more

    $114.99 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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