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  • Framing Places

    Mediating Power in Built Form

    par Kim Dovey ...
    Collections series Architext
    Framing Places is an account of the nexus between place and power, investigating how the built forms of architecture and urban design act as mediators of social practices of power. Explored through a range of theories and case studies, this examination shows how lives are 'framed' within the clusters of rooms, buildings, streets and cities. These silent framings of everyday life also mediate ... En savoir plus

    $114.04 CAD

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  • Frank Lloyd Wright

    A Life

    par Ada Louise Huxtable ...
    Collections series Penguin Lives
    A powerhouse of architectural biography by Pulitzer Prize winning critic Ada Louise Huxtable of America's greatest architectRenowned architecture critic Ada Louise Huxtable's biography Frank Lloyd Wright looks at the architect and the man, from his tumultuous personal life to his long career as a master builder. Along the way she introduces Wright's masterpieces, from the tranquil Fallingwater to ... En savoir plus

    $10.99 CAD

  • From Bauhaus to Our House

    par Tom Wolfe ...
    After critiquing―and infuriating―the art world with The Painted Word, the award-winning author Tom Wolfe shares his less-than-favorable thoughts about modern architecture in From Bauhaus to Our House.In this examination of the strange saga of twentieth-century architecture, Wolfe takes such European architects as Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier, and Bauhaus art school founder Walter Gropius ... En savoir plus

    $13.99 CAD

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  • How Architecture Works

    A Humanist's Toolkit

    par Witold Rybczynski ...
    The prize-winning scholar's "expert, holistic, down-to-earth guide" to the beauty and function of architecture ( Booklist , starred review).We spend most of our days and nights in buildings. They are the setting of our everyday lives as well as a public art form. Yet architecture remains a mystery to most of us. In How Architecture Works, Witold Rybczynski, a renowned critic and winner of the ... En savoir plus

    $19.99 CAD

  • Design as Future-Making

    Modifié par Director, Masters in Design Studies Program Susan Yelavich, Barbara Adams ...
    Design as Future-Making brings together leading international designers, scholars, and critics to address ways in which design is shaping the future. The contributors share an understanding of design as a practice that, with its focus on innovation and newness, is a natural ally of futurity. Ultimately, the choices made by designers are understood here as choices about the kind of world we want to ... En savoir plus

    $45.39 CAD

  • Pride in Modesty

    Modernist Architecture and the Vernacular Tradition in Italy

    par Michelangelo Sabatino ...
    Following Italy's unification in 1861, architects, artists, politicians, and literati engaged in volatile debates over the pursuit of national and regional identity. Growing industrialization and urbanization across the country contrasted with the rediscovery of traditionally built forms and objects created by the agrarian peasantry. Pride in Modesty argues that these ordinary, often anonymous, ... En savoir plus

    $39.19 CAD

  • Curating Architecture and the City

    Modifié par Sarah Chaplin, Alexandra Stara ...
    Collections series Critiques
    Addressing the collection, representation and exhibition of architecture and the built environment, this book explores current practices, historical precedents, theoretical issues and future possibilities arising from the meeting of a curatorial ‘subject’ and an architectural ‘object’.Striking a balance between theoretical investigations and case studies, the chapters cover a broad methodological ... En savoir plus

    $116.79 CAD

  • The Death of Drawing

    Architecture in the Age of Simulation

    par David Scheer ...
    The Death of Drawing explores the causes and effects of the epochal shift from drawing to computation as the chief design and communication medium in architecture. Drawing both framed the thinking of architects and organized the design and construction process to place architects at its center. Its displacement by building information modeling (BIM) and computational design recasts both the terms ... En savoir plus

    $101.68 CAD

  • Adaptive Architecture

    Changing Parameters and Practice

    Modifié par Wolfgang F. E. Preiser, Andrea E. Hardy, Jacob J. Wilhelm ...
    The constant in architecture's evolution is change. Adaptive Architecture explores structures, or environments that accommodate multiple functions at the same time, sequentially, or at periodically recurring events. It demonstrates how changing technological, economic, ecological and social conditions have altered the playing field for architecture from the design of single purpose structures to ... En savoir plus

    $109.92 CAD

  • Courtyard Housing for Health and Happiness

    Architectural Multiculturalism in North America

    par Donia Zhang ...
    Health and happiness are fundamental to human quality of life. The United Nations World Happiness Report 2012 reflects a new worldwide call for governments to include happiness as a criterion to their policies. The Healthy Cities or Happy Cities movement has been endorsed by the WHO since 1986, and a Healthy House or Happy Home is a critical constituent of a healthy city or a happy city. ... En savoir plus

    $101.68 CAD

  • The Architecture of the Illusive Distance

    par Amir H. Ameri ...
    Focusing on three secular institutional building types: libraries, museums, and cinemas, this book explores the intricate interplay between culture and architecture. It explores the cultural imperatives which have seen to the formation of these institutions, the development of their architecture, and their transformation over time. The relationship between culture and architecture is often ... En savoir plus

    Prix courant $97.99 CAD Maintenant $86.56 CAD

  • Rural and Urban: Architecture Between Two Cultures

    Modifié par Andrew Ballantyne ...
    Investigating various ways in which the cultures of the town and the countryside interact in architecture, original essays in this book written by an international range of recognized theorists will help all students of architecture and urban design understand how the urban and rural relate.Taking a broad historical sweep, this collection draws on a symposium of the Society of Architectural ... En savoir plus

    $94.81 CAD