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    The Eyes of the Skin

    Architecture and the Senses

    Unabridged

    3 hours 35 min

    Explore the relationship between architecture and the sensory experience with the fourth edition of this groundbreaking work.First published in 1996, The Eyes of the Skin is a classic of architectural theory. It asks the far-reaching question why, when there are five senses, is one single sense―sight―so predominant in architectural culture and design? With the ascendancy of the digital and the all ... Read more

    $34.34 CAD

  • The Eyes of the Skin

    Architecture and the Senses

    THE EYES OF THE SKINFirst published in 1996, The Eyes of the Skin has become a classic of architectural theory. It asks the far-reaching question why, when there are five senses, has one single sense – sight – become so predominant in architectural culture and design? With the ascendancy of the digital and the all-pervasive use of the image electronically, it is a subject that has become all the ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

  • The Eyes of the Skin

    Architecture and the Senses

    THE EYES OF THE SKINExplore the relationship between architecture and the sensory experience with the fourth edition of this groundbreaking workFirst published in 1996, The Eyes of the Skin is a classic of architectural theory. It asks the far-reaching question why, when there are five senses, is one single sense—sight—so predominant in architectural culture and design? With the ascendancy of the ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • Rootedness

    Reflections for Young Architects

    rootednessDiscover the insights and lessons of architect Juhani PallasmaaIn Rootedness: Reflections for Young Architects, Juhani Pallasmaa delivers an insightful and expansive collection of his most compelling ideas into architecture’s position among arts and culture. Pallasmaa speaks to architecture students and young professionals, discussing each topic with sincerity and openness, suggesting ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Inseminations

    Seeds for Architectural Thought

    A collection of the writing of the highly influential architect, Juhani Pallasmaa, presented in short, easily accessible, and condensed ideas ideal for studentsJuhani Pallasmaa is one of Finland’s most distinguished architects and architectural thinkers, publishing around 60 books and several hundred essays and shorter pieces over his career. His influential works have inspired undergraduate and ... Read more

    $53.99 CAD

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    A Very Short Introduction

    Series series Very Short Introductions
    As public interest in modern art continues to grow, as witnessed by the spectacular success of Tate Modern and the Bilbao Guggenheim, there is a real need for a book that will engage general readers, offering them not only information and ideas about modern art, but also explaining its contemporary relevance and history. This book achieves all this and focuses on interrogating the idea of 'modern' ... Read more

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  • An Introduction to Architectural Theory

    1968 to the Present

    A sharp and lively text that covers issues in depth but not to the point that they become inaccessible to beginning students, An Introduction to Architectural Theory is the first narrative history of this period, charting the veritable revolution in architectural thinking that has taken place, as well as the implications of this intellectual upheaval.The first comprehensive and critical history of ... Read more

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  • The Story of Post-Modernism

    Five Decades of the Ironic, Iconic and Critical in Architecture

    In The Story of Post-Modernism, Charles Jencks, the authority on Post-Modern architecture and culture, provides the defining account of Post-Modern architecture from its earliest roots in the early 60s to the present day. By breaking the narrative into seven distinct chapters, which are both chronological and overlapping, Jencks charts the ebb and flow of the movement, the peaks and troughs of ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Contemporary Art and Memory

    Images of Recollection and Remembrance

    by Joan Gibbons ...
    Whether exploring the intimate recollections which make up the artist's own life history or questioning the way the gallery and museum present public memory, contemporary art, it would seem, is haunted by the past. "Contemporary Art and Memory" is the first accessible survey book to explore the subject of memory as it appears in its many guises in contemporary art. Looking at both personal and ... Read more

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  • Critical Architecture

    Series series Critiques
    Critical Architecture examines the relationship between critical practice in architecture and architectural criticism. Placing architecture in an interdisciplinary context, the book explores architectural criticism with reference to modes of criticism in other disciplines - specifically art criticism - and considers how critical practice in architecture operates through a number of different modes ... Read more

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  • After Modern Art

    1945-2017

    by David Hopkins ...
    Series series Oxford History of Art
    Contemporary art can be baffling and beautiful, provocative and disturbing. This pioneering book presents a new look at the controversial period between 1945 and 2015, when art and its traditional forms were called into question. It focuses on the relationship between American and European art, and challenges previously held views about the origins of some of the most innovative ideas in art of ... Read more

    $25.59 CAD

  • The Boundaries of Modern Art

    Conceptual art in the Western world is in crisis. That is the view of many people who are disillusioned with what they regard as its attention-seeking antics, where artists themselves have proudly proclaimed 'the death of art'. Why has art been on this road to destruction, and how did it get there? How does one make sense of the bewildering complexity of Conceptual art, and how does one extract ... Read more

    $10.07 CAD