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  • Industries of Architecture

    Edited by Katie Lloyd Thomas, Tilo Amhoff, Nick Beech ...
    Series series Critiques
    At a time when the technologies and techniques of producing the built environment are undergoing significant change, this book makes central architecture’s relationship to industry. Contributors turn to historical and theoretical questions, as well as to key contemporary developments, taking a humanities approach to the Industries of Architecture that will be of interest to practitioners and ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

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  • Four Walls and a Roof

    The Complex Nature of a Simple Profession

    by Reinier de Graaf ...
    A Financial Times Best Book of the YearA Guardian Best Architecture Book of the Year“Sharp, revealing, funny.”—The Guardian“An original and even occasionally hilarious book about losing ideals and finding them again… [De Graaf] deftly shows that architecture cannot be better or more pure than the flawed humans who make it.”—The EconomistArchitecture, we like to believe, is an elevated art form... ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Sidewalks

    by Valeria Luiselli ...
    Translated by Christina MacSweeney ...
    Cosmopolitan, vivacious essays in the tradition of Brodsky’s Watermark and Benjamin’s The Arcades Project by a celebrated young Mexican author.Valeria Luiselli is an evening cyclist; a literary tourist in Venice, searching for Joseph Brodsky’s tomb; an excavator of her own artifacts, unpacking from a move. In essays that are as companionable as they are ambitious, she uses the city to exercise a ... Read more

    $13.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

    $15.99 USD

  • Architect

    The Pritzker Prize Laureates in Their Own Words

    Edited by Ruth Peltason, Grace Ong-Yan ...
    In this completely revised and up-to-date edition, the world's most accomplished architects -- Gehry, Pei, Meier, Nouvel, Piano, and 37 more-express their views on creativity, inspiration, and legacy in this visually stunning, one-of-a-kind collection.The Pritzker Prize is the most prestigious international prize for architecture. Architect includes all 42 recipients of the Pritzker Prize, and ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • The Architect as Worker

    Immaterial Labor, the Creative Class, and the Politics of Design

    Edited by Professor Peggy Deamer ...
    Directly confronting the nature of contemporary architectural work, this book is the first to address a void at the heart of architectural discourse and thinking. For too long, architects have avoided questioning how the central aspects of architectural “practice” (professionalism, profit, technology, design, craft, and building) combine to characterize the work performed in the architectural ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • The Death of Drawing

    Architecture in the Age of Simulation

    by David Scheer ...
    The Death of Drawing explores the causes and effects of the epochal shift from drawing to computation as the chief design and communication medium in architecture. Drawing both framed the thinking of architects and organized the design and construction process to place architects at its center. Its displacement by building information modeling (BIM) and computational design recasts both the terms ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • The Social (Re)Production of Architecture

    Politics, Values and Actions in Contemporary Practice

    Edited by Doina Petrescu, Kim Trogal ...
    The Social (Re)Production of Architecture brings the debates of the ‘right to the city’ into today’s context of ecological, economic and social crises. Building on the 1970s’ discussions about the ‘production of space’, which French sociologist Henri Lefebvre considered a civic right, the authors question who has the right to make space, and explore the kinds of relations that are produced in the ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Common Space

    The City as Commons

    by Associate Professor Stavros Stavrides ...
    Series series In Common
    Space is both a product and a prerequisite of social relations, it has the potential to block and encourage certain forms of encounter. In Common Space, activist and architect Stavros Stavrides calls for us to conceive of space-as-commons – first, to think beyond the notions of public and private space, and then to understand common space not only as space that is governed by all and remains open ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Softspace

    From a Representation of Form to a Simulation of Space

    Edited by 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 ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Design Intervention (Routledge Revivals)

    Toward a More Humane Architecture

    Edited by Wolfgang F. E. Preiser, Jacqueline Vischer, Edward White ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Design Intervention: Toward a More Humane Architecture, first published in 1991, intends to demonstrate that interest in social issues is alive and well in architecture, that there is a small but effective cadre of dedicated professionals who continue to commit themselves to solving social problems, and that architecture is being applied to the alleviation of the social ills of our time.The ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • FLA Learning Centre

    by Giuseppe Marinoni ...
    Series Book 6 - EUROPEAN PRACTICE
    Built after Giuseppe Marinoni’s design had won an international competition, the Learning Centre FLA (Lombardy Foundation for the Environment) at Seveso looks on the outside like a primary volume, divided up by vertical fissures and sectioned by the glass front: a wing of the square and proscenium opening onto the town. The rigorous elliptical layout of the plan is in fact a collage of irregular ... Read more

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