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  • Visual Perception of Urban Place

    A Methodological Approach for Analysis and Synthesis of Designed Forms

    by Mainak Ghosh, Sanjib Nag, Satyaki Roy ...
    This book critically examines the methodology of visual perception of urban places. Based on systematic study of different parameters derived from investigative research and on empirical analysis of Kolkata as a case, it discusses generic issues of urban design in relation with visual communication design. A framework has been evolved in the process which can be used methodically in various cities ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • Perception, Design and Ecology of the Built Environment

    A Focus on the Global South

    Edited by Mainak Ghosh ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This edited volume is a compilation of the ‘built environment’ in response to many investigations, analyses and sometimes mere observations of the various dialogues and interactions of the built, in context to its ecology, perception and design. The chapters concentrate on various independent issues, integrated as a holistic approach, both in terms of theoretical perspectives and practical ... Read more

    $154.99 CAD

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  • Architectural Research Methods

    by Linda N. Groat, David Wang ...
    ARCHITECTURAL RESEARCH METHODSARCHITECTURE/GENERALA PRACTICAL GUIDE TO RESEARCH FOR ARCHITECTS AND DESIGNERS—NOW UPDATED AND EXPANDED!From searching for the best glass to prevent glare to determining how clients might react to the color choice for restaurant walls, research is a crucial tool that architects must master in order to effectively address the technical, aesthetic, and behavioral issues ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • Non-Representational Theory

    Space, Politics, Affect

    by Nigel Thrift ...
    Series series International Library of Sociology
    This astonishing book presents a distinctive approach to the politics of everyday life. Ranging across a variety of spaces in which politics and the political unfold, it questions what is meant by perception, representation and practice, with the aim of valuing the fugitive practices that exist on the margins of the known. It revolves around three key functions. It:introduces the rather dispersed ... Read more

    $100.99 CAD

  • Thought in the Act

    Passages in the Ecology of Experience

    by Erin Manning, Brian Massumi ...
    “Every practice is a mode of thought, already in the act. To dance: a thinking in movement. To paint: a thinking through color. To perceive in the everyday: a thinking of the world’s varied ways of affording itself.” —from Thought in the ActCombining philosophy and aesthetics, Thought in the Act is a unique exploration of creative practice as a form of thinking. Challenging the common opposition ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Ambient Commons

    Attention in the Age of Embodied Information

    by Malcolm McCullough ...
    On rediscovering surroundings when information goes everywhere.The world is filling with ever more kinds of media, in ever more contexts and formats. Glowing rectangles have become part of the scene; screens, large and small, appear everywhere. Physical locations are increasingly tagged and digitally augmented. Amid this flood, your attention practices matter more than ever. You might not be able ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Reframing Visual Social Science

    Towards a More Visual Sociology and Anthropology

    by Luc Pauwels ...
    The burgeoning field of 'visual social science' is rooted in the idea that valid scientific insight into culture and society can be acquired by observing, analyzing and theorizing its visual manifestations: visible behavior of people and material products of culture. Reframing Visual Social Science provides a well-balanced, critical-constructive and systematic overview of existing and emerging ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Heritage and Social Media

    Understanding heritage in a participatory culture

    Edited by Elisa Giaccardi ...
    Heritage and Social Media explores how social media reframes our understanding and experience of heritage. Through the idea of ‘participatory culture’ the book begins to examine how social media can be brought to bear on the encounter with heritage and on the socially produced meanings and values that individuals and communities ascribe to it.To highlight the specific changes produced by social ... Read more

    $98.99 CAD

  • Design Innovation for the Built Environment

    Research by Design and the Renovation of Practice

    Edited by Michael Hensel ...
    Today architecture and other fields in the built environment face the steep task of answering complex questions pertaining to sustainability, performance, and adaptability.How are these disciplines to accomplish these difficult tasks at such an immense pace?How might architectural practice renovate itself accordingly?Worldwide it is becoming increasingly clear that different modes of research are ... Read more

    $119.99 CAD

  • Revealing Architectural Design

    Methods, Frameworks and Tools

    by Philip D. Plowright ...
    Revealing Architectural Design examines the architectural design process from the point of view of knowledge domains, domain syntax, coherence, framing, thinking styles, decision-making and testing. Using straightforward language, the book connects general design thinking to underlying frameworks that are used in the architectural design process.The book provides historical grounding as well as ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • A/r/tography

    Essential Readings and Conversations

    Series series Artwork Scholarship: International Perspectives in Education
    The focus of this edited book is to evoke and provoke conceptual conversations between early a/r/tographic publications and the contemporary scholarship of a/r/tographers publishing and producing today. Working around four pervasive themes found in a/r/tographic literature, this volume addresses relationality and renderings, ethics and embodiment, movement and materiality, and propositions and ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • The SAGE Handbook of Visual Research Methods

    Edited by Luc Pauwels, Dawn Mannay ...
    The second, thoroughly revised and expanded, edition of The SAGE Handbook of Visual Research Method******s presents a wide-ranging exploration and overview of the field today. As in its first edition, the Handbook does not aim to present a consistent view or voice, but rather to exemplify diversity and contradictions in perspectives and techniques.The selection of chapters from the first edition ... Read more

    $147.99 CAD