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Critiques eBook Series

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  • Architecture and Feminisms

    Ecologies, Economies, Technologies

    Edited by 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 ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

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  • How Buildings Learn

    What Happens After They're Built

    by Stewart Brand ...
    A captivating exploration of the ever-evolving world of architecture and the untold stories buildings tell.When a building is finished being built, that isn’t the end of its story. More than any other human artifacts, buildings improve with time—if they’re allowed to. Buildings adapt by being constantly refined and reshaped by their occupants, and in that way, architects can become artists of time ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

  • Open Source Architecture

    by Carlo Ratti ...
    A provocative look at the architecture of the future and the challenges of learning from the past.Open Source Architecture is a visionary manifesto for the architecture of tomorrow that argues for a paradigm shift from architecture as a means of supporting the ego-fueled grand visions of "starchitects" to a collaborative, inclusive, network-driven process inspired by twenty-first-century trends ... Read more

    $22.69 CAD

  • A New Kind of Bleak

    Journeys through Urban Britain

    by 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 ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Urban Revolution Now

    Henri Lefebvre in Social Research and Architecture

    by Christian Schmid ...
    When Henri Lefebvre published The Urban Revolution in 1970, he sketched a research itinerary on the emerging tendency towards planetary urbanization. Today, when this tendency has become reality, Lefebvre’s ideas on everyday life, production of space, rhythmanalysis and the right to the city are indispensable for the understanding of urbanization processes at every scale of social practice. This ... Read more

    $105.80 CAD

  • An Aesthetic Occupation

    The Immediacy of Architecture and the Palestine Conflict

    by Daniel Bertrand Monk ...
    In An Aesthetic Occupation Daniel Bertrand Monk unearths the history of the unquestioned political immediacy of “sacred” architecture in the conflict between Palestinians and Israelis. Monk combines groundbreaking archival research with theoretical insights to examine in particular the Mandate era—the period in the first half of the twentieth century when Britain held sovereignty over Palestine. ... Read more

    $38.49 CAD

  • Architectural Principles in the Age of Cybernetics

    by Christopher Hight ...
    A theoretical history of anthropomorphism and proportion in modern architecture, this volume brings into focus the discourse around proportion with current problems of post-humanism in architecture alongside the new possibilities made available through digital technologies.The book examines how the body and its ordering has served as a central site of architectural discourse in recent decades, ... Read more

    $114.04 CAD

  • Architectural Design and Ethics

    by Thomas Fisher ...
    Architectural Design and Ethics offers both professional architects and architecture students a theoretical base and numerous suggestions as to how we might rethink our responsibilities to the natural world and design a more sustainable future for ourselves. As we find ourselves on the steep slope of several exponential growth curves – in global population, in heat-trapping atmospheric gases, in ... Read more

    $68.70 CAD

  • Occupation: ruin, repudiation, revolution

    constructed space conceptualized

    by Lynn Churchill, Dianne Smith ...
    Bringing together an international range of contributors from the fields of practice, theory and history, this book takes a fresh look at occupation. It argues that occupation is a prospect that begins with ruin--a residue from the past, an implied or even a resounding presence of something previous that holds the potential for transformation. This prospect invites us to repudiate, re-imagine and ... Read more

    $101.68 CAD

  • Rural and Urban: Architecture Between Two Cultures

    Edited by Andrew Ballantyne ...
    Investigating various ways in which the cultures of the town and the countryside interact in architecture, original essays in this book written by an international range of recognized theorists will help all students of architecture and urban design understand how the urban and rural relate.Taking a broad historical sweep, this collection draws on a symposium of the Society of Architectural ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • Environmental Planning in the Caribbean

    by Janet Momsen ...
    Series series Urban Planning and Environment
    Illustrated by case studies from both smaller nations - such as Carriacou, Barbados and St Lucia - and larger countries - including Cuba, Mexico and Jamaica - this volume brings together leading writers on environmental planning in the Caribbean to provide an interdisciplinary contemporary critical overview. They argue that context is central to the practice of environmental planning in this ... Read more

    $105.80 CAD

  • Infrastructure and the Architectures of Modernity in Ireland 1916-2016

    by Gary A. Boyd, John McLaughlin ...
    At the formation of the new Republic of Ireland, the construction of new infrastructures was seen as an essential element in the building of the new nation, just as the adoption of international style modernism in architecture was perceived as a way to escape the colonial past. Accordingly, infrastructure became the physical manifestation, the concrete identity of these objectives and architecture ... Read more

    $82.44 CAD