Skip to main content
Search Button
Canada Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “paul thibaut”
Skip side bar filters

  • Ambiances

    A Sensitivity to Ordinary Situations

    Edited by Jean-Paul Thibaud, Nicolas Tixier, David Zerbib ...
    Series series Ambiances, Atmospheres and Sensory Experiences of Spaces
    How do ambiances shape our sensory, social, and built environments? This book offers interdisciplinary perspectives to understand the profound ways in which ambiances redefine our experiences and perceptions of ordinary spaces.The study of ambiances is part of an important trend in the contemporary urban world, where increasing attention is being given to the sensitive and affective dimensions of ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • Experiential Walks for Urban Design

    Revealing, Representing, and Activating the Sensory Environment

    Edited by Barbara E. A. Piga, Daniel Siret, Jean-Paul Thibaud ...
    Series series History (R0)
    The edited volume explores the topic of experiential walks, which is the practice of multi- or mono-sensory and in-motion immersion into an urban or natural environment. The act of walking is hence intended as a process of (re-)discovering, reflecting and learning through an embodied experience. Specific attention is devoted to the investigation of the ambiance of places and its dynamic ... Read more

    $192.99 CAD

  • The Aesthetics of Atmospheres

    by Gernot Böhme ...
    Series series Ambiances, Atmospheres and Sensory Experiences of Spaces
    Interest in sensory atmospheres and architectural and urban ambiances has been growing for over 30 years. A key figure in this field is acclaimed German philosopher Gernot Böhme whose influential conception of what atmospheres are and how they function has been only partially available to the English-speaking public. This translation of key essays along with an original introduction charts the ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

People who read these also enjoyed

  • Attunement

    Architectural Meaning after the Crisis of Modern Science

    by Alberto Perez-Gomez ...
    How architecture can move beyond the contemporary enthusiasms for the technically sustainable and the formally dazzling to enhance our human values and capacities.Architecture remains in crisis, its social relevance lost between the two poles of formal innovation and technical sustainability. In Attunement, Alberto Pérez-Gómez calls for an architecture that can enhance our human values and ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Atmospheric Architectures

    The Aesthetics of Felt Spaces

    by Professor Gernot Böhme ...
    There is fast-growing awareness of the role atmospheres play in architecture. Of equal interest to contemporary architectural practice as it is to aesthetic theory, this 'atmospheric turn' owes much to the work of the German philosopher Gernot Böhme.Atmospheric Architectures: The Aesthetics of Felt Spaces brings together Böhme's most seminal writings on the subject, through chapters selected from ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

  • Rethinking Architecture

    A Reader in Cultural Theory

    by Neil Leach ...
    Brought together for the first time - the seminal writing on architecture by key philosophers and cultural theorist of the twentieth century.Issues around the built environment are increasingly central to the study of the social sciences and humanities. The essays offer a refreshing take on the question of architecture and provocatively rethink many of the accepted tenets of architecture theory ... Read more

    $93.99 CAD

  • Technology and Desire

    The Transgressive Art of Moving Images

    Edited by Rania Gaafar, Martin Schulz ...
    The spectral realm at the boundaries of images incessantly reveals a desire to see beyond the visible and its medium: screens, frames, public displays and projection sites in an art context. The impact of new media on art and film has influenced the material histories and performances (be they in theory or practice) of images across the disciplines. Digital technologies have not only shaped post ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

  • Incompleteness: The Proof and Paradox of Kurt Gödel (Great Discoveries)

    The Proof and Paradox of Kurt Gödel

    by Rebecca Goldstein ...
    Series series Great Discoveries
    "A gem. . . . An unforgettable account of one of the great moments in the history of human thought." —Steven PinkerProbing the life and work of Kurt Gödel, Incompleteness indelibly portrays the tortured genius whose vision rocked the stability of mathematical reasoning— and brought him to the edge of madness. ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • The Artist and the Mathematician

    by Amir D Aczel ...
    Nicolas Bourbaki, whose mathematical publications began to appear in the late 1930s and continued to be published through most of the twentieth century, was a direct product as well as a major force behind an important revolution that took place in the early decades of the twentieth century that completely changed Western culture. Pure mathematics, the area of Bourbaki's work, seems on the surface ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • The Scent of Time

    A Philosophical Essay on the Art of Lingering

    by Byung-Chul Han ...
    Translated by Daniel Steuer ...
    In his philosophical reflections on the art of lingering, acclaimed cultural theorist Byung-Chul Han argues that the value we attach today to the vita activa is producing a crisis in our sense of time. Our attachment to the vita activa creates an imperative to work which degrades the human being into a labouring animal, an animal laborans. At the same time, the hyperactivity which characterizes ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • The Autopoiesis of Architecture, Volume I

    A New Framework for Architecture

    by Patrik Schumacher ...
    Take a theoretical approach to architecture with The Autopoiesis of Architecture, which presents the topic as a discipline with its own unique logic. Architecture's conception of itself is addressed as well as its development within wider contemporary society.Author Patrik Schumacher offers innovative treatment that enriches architectural theory with a coordinated arsenal of concepts facilitating ... Read more

    $60.99 CAD

  • What is Art?

    Conversation with Joseph Beuys

    by Joseph Beuys, Volker Harlan ...
    Joseph Beuys's work continues to influence and inspire practitioners and thinkers all over the world, in areas from organizational learning, direct democracy and new money forms to new art pedagogies and ecological art practices. Here, in dialogue with Volker Harlan - a close colleague, whose own work also revolves around understandings of substance and sacrament that are central to Beuys - the ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus