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  • Graphic Assembly

    Montage, Media, and Experimental Architecture in the 1960s

    by Craig Buckley ...
    An innovative look at the contribution of montage to twentieth-century architecture—now in paperbackGraphic Assembly unearths the role played by montage and collage in the development of architectural culture over the past century, revealing their unexamined yet crucial significance. Craig Buckley brings together experimental architectural practices based in London, Paris, Vienna, and Florence, ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • North American Odyssey

    Historical Geographies for the Twenty-first Century

    This groundbreaking volume offers a fresh approach to conceptualizing the historical geography of North America by taking a thematic rather than a traditional regional perspective. Leading geographers, building on current scholarship in the field, explore five central themes. Part I explores the settling and resettling of the continent through the experiences of Native Americans, early European ... Read more

    $100.99 CAD

  • Screen Genealogies

    From Optical Device to Environmental Medium

    Series series MediaMatters
    Against the grain of the growing literature on screens, Screen Genealogies argues that the present excess of screens cannot be understood as an expansion and multiplication of the movie screen nor of the video display. Rather, screens continually exceed the optical histories in which they are most commonly inscribed. As contemporary screens become increasingly decomposed into a distributed field ... Read more

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  • Provenance in Architecture

    A Dictionary

    The provenance of artworks is a burning issue in current scholarship and politics. Transpose provenance into architecture and it reveals new and surprising dimensions in the social, material and cultural lives of buildings and architectural artefacts, reframing questions of migration, movement and circulation. Provenance in architecture illuminates the intricate trajectories of fundamentally ... Read more

    $62.99 CAD

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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

    $44.99 CAD

  • Architecture and Abstraction

    Series series Writing Architecture
    A landmark study of abstraction in architectural history, theory, and practice that challenges our assumptions about the meaning of abstract forms.In this theoretical study of abstraction in architecture—the first of its kind—Pier Vittorio Aureli argues for a reconsideration of abstraction, its meanings, and its sources. Although architects have typically interpreted abstraction in formal terms ... Read more

    $36.79 CAD

  • Notes on Participatory Art

    Toward a Manifesto Differentiating It from Open Work, Interactive Art and Relational Art.

    We are living in the Age of Participation. Social media are exploding, customer cooperation is sought in product development, and customer content is even built into media. But where is the art reflecting our times? Where are the artists making this kind of art? Who were their predecessors?In this book the author traces the roots of Participatory Art from Duchamp, Mondrian and Moholy-Nagy via less ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Horror in Architecture

    The Reanimated Edition

    A new edition of this extensive visual analysis of horror tropes and their architectural analoguesHorror in Architecture presents an unflinching look at how horror genre tropes manifest in the built environment. Spanning the realms of art, design, literature, and film, this newly revised and expanded edition compiles examples from all areas of popular culture to form a visual anthology of the ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Modern Architecture

    Series series Oxford History of Art
    This new account of international modernism explores the complex motivations behind this revolutionary movement and assesses its triumphs and failures. The work of the main architects of the movement such as Frank Lloyd Wright, Adolf Loos, Le Corbusier, and Mies van der Rohe is re-examined shedding new light on their roles as acknowledged masters. Alan Colquhoun explores the evolution of the ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Architectural Styles

    A Visual Guide

    by Owen Hopkins ...
    Have you ever wondered what the difference is between Gothic and Gothic Revival, or how to distinguish between Baroque and Neoclassical? This guide makes extensive use of photographs to identify and explain the characteristic features of nearly 300 buildings. The result is a clear and easy-to-navigate guide to identifying the key styles of western architecture from the classical age to the present ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • Digital Art and Meaning

    Reading Kinetic Poetry, Text Machines, Mapping Art, and Interactive Installations

    Series series Electronic Mediations
    In a world increasingly dominated by the digital, the critical response to digital art generally ranges from hype to counterhype. Popular writing about specific artworks seldom goes beyond promoting a given piece and explaining how it operates, while scholars and critics remain unsure about how to interpret and evaluate them. This is where Roberto Simanowski intervenes, demonstrating how such ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • 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