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Simon Sadler searches for the Situationist City among the detritus of tracts, manifestos, and works of art that the Situationist International left behind.

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A history of Venetian culture from the beginning of the 16th century through the first decades of the 17th century. This study records the battle that was fought for architecture as metaphor for absolute truth and good government.

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An architect's defense of drawing as a way of thinking, even in an age of electronic media.

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Buildings are driven by human emotions and desires: hope, power, money, sex, and the idea of home.

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Architectural Agents makes the case that buildings act in the world independently of their makers, patrons, owners, or occupants. And often they act badly. Treating buildings as bodies, Annabel Jane Wharton writes biographies of symptomatic structures in order to diagnose their pathologies.

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The book presents the history of this phenomenon for the past hundred years. I describes and analyses numerous, often funny, entertaining as well as embarrassing, examples of false intellectual pretence and pompous.

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By way of more than 2,000 years of architectural history, this illustrated book defines and shows the major components of the art - from theory, plans, and models to structural elements such as columns, arches, and domes, to materials and decorative elements.

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Chronicles the work of Peter Reyner Banham, and the legacy he left in the form of the Fellowship Programme via the work of the five Banham Fellows 2005-2010.

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Rather than boosting design creativity, the mechanism we introduce in this book proves to accompany architects strolling through the maze of architecture improving the creation of architecture similarly to how nature creates itself.

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A periodical journal of theory and architectural knowledge

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Presents diverse points of view on the relationship between design and capitalism. The contributions to this book stake out a variety of positions in the debate over the extent to which it is possible - or desirable - to escape from, resist, or suggest plausible alternatives to the dominant culture of consumer capitalism.

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Presents diverse points of view on the relationship between design and capitalism. The contributions to this book stake out a variety of positions in the debate over the extent to which it is possible - or desirable - to escape from, resist, or suggest plausible alternatives to the dominant culture of consumer capitalism.

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An essential collection of illustrated texts regarding the reiterative in architecture and design today

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In a world where change is the only constant, effected by the ever-evolving needs of users, Designing Change is a sophisticated visual essay examining and exploring the relationship between user and space, design and space.

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Dessau may be a mere speck on the map, but to this day the city of Bauhaus still occupies the most important place in the development of the New Building - otherwise known as the Neues Bauen - movement.

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Issue VII of DIALECTIC, a refereed journal of the School of Architecture, CA+P, University of Utah, focuses on the theme of 'Architecture and Citizenship: Decolonizing Architectural Pedagogy.

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Five experiments made by prestigious architects on their own homes during the dark days of the Second World War.

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Why do we design where we live and work Why do we not just live in nature, or in chaos Why does society care about architecture Why does it really matter This book answers these questions through a fresh examination of the basic purposes and elements of architecture - beginning in nature, and combining function and expression.

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Reconsiders the purpose and practice of architecture.

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Judgment is how architecture gets from A to B: how architecture is produced by architects and cultures, how it is received by critics and publics, and how it extends histories and forms futures.