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By: Norman Crowe
ISBN: 9780262531467
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 1997
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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In this broad-ranging view of architecture and urbanism across cultural boundaries, the author evaluates the connections between the natural and man-made in our towns and cities, farms and gardens, architecture and works of civil engineering.
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By: Keller Easterling
ISBN: 9780262550406
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 2001
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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Bridging the gap between architecture and infrastructure, Easterling views architecture as part of an ecology of interrelationships and linkages, and she treats the expression of organizational character as part of the architectural endeavor.
(Hardback)
By: Duncan Bell
ISBN: 9781350096592
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Feb 2020
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: Duncan Bell
ISBN: 9781350250826
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Aug 2021
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: Beatriz Colomina
ISBN: 9780262531399
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 1996
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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Through close reading of two major figures of modern architecture, Adolf Loos and Le Corbusier, this text argues that architecture only becomes modern in its engagement with the mass media. It suggests that modern architecture renegotiates the relationship between public and private.
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By: Tony Fry
ISBN: 9781474224154
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Aug 2017
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: Stijn Bussels
ISBN: 9781350205376
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Dec 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Hardback)
By: Professor Peggy Deamer
ISBN: 9781472570505
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Sep 2015
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Anthony Vidler
ISBN: 9780262720182
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 1994
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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Anthony Vidler interprets contemporary buildings and projects in light of the resurgent interest in the uncanny as a metaphor for a fundamentally "unhomely" modern condition.
(Hardback)
By: Douglas Spencer
ISBN: 9781472581525
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2016
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Panayotis Tournikiotis
ISBN: 9780262700856
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 2001
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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The history of modern architecture as constructed by historians and key texts.
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By: Professor Mark Dorrian
ISBN: 9781350294509
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Hardback)
By: Professor Mark Dorrian
ISBN: 9781350076594
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 2020
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: Matthew Poole
ISBN: 9781472581655
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Oct 2015
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Hardback)
By: Matthew Poole
ISBN: 9781472581662
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Oct 2015
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Dolores Hayden
ISBN: 9780262581523
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 1997
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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This text proposes new perspectives on gender, race and ethnicity to broaden the practice of public history and public art, enlarge urban preservation, and reconsider the writing of urban history. It provides models for creative urban history projects in cities and towns across America.
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By: N. J. Habraken
ISBN: 9780262581950
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 2000
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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The influential Dutch architect's long-awaited manifesto on the everyday environment as the first and best ground for establishing the significance and coherence of architecture.
(Hardback, 2nd edition)
By: Lars Spuybroek
ISBN: 9781474243865
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Apr 2016
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Mauro F. Guilln
ISBN: 9780691138473
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2009
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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The dream of scientific management was a rationalized machine world where life would approach the perfection of an assembly line. Since its early twentieth-century peak, this dream has come to seem a dehumanizing nightmare. This book tells the story of the emergence of modernist architecture as a romance with the ideas of scientific management.
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By: Stephen Lees
ISBN: 9781408128817
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2011
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This book looks at the development and influence of buildings and why they are designed in a particular way.
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By: Indra Kagis Mcewen
ISBN: 9780262633062
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Sep 2004
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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A historical study of Vitruvius's De architectura, showing that his purpose in writing "the whole body of architecture" was shaped by the imperial Roman project of world domination.
(Hardback)
By: Thomas A. Dutton
ISBN: 9780897892537
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 1991
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Dialectically linking architectural education and society, the book presents authors who conceptualize architectural pedagogy within a critical analysis of the larger society, and who construct forms of teaching and learning experiences that reveal and contest professional and societal directions.
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By: Anthony Vidler
ISBN: 9780262720410
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 2002
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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This book traces the emergence of a psychological idea of space from Pascal and Freud to the identification of agoraphobia and claustrophobia in the nineteenth century to twentieth-century theories of spatial alienation and estrangement in the writings of Georg Simmel, Siegfried Kracauer, and Walter Benjamin.
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By: Mark Wigley
ISBN: 9780262731454
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 2001
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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In a daring revisionist history of modern architecture, Mark Wigley opens up a new understanding of the historical avant-garde. He explores the most obvious, but least discussed, feature of modern architecture: white walls.
