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  • Eating, Building, Dwelling

    About Food, Architecture and Cities

    Edited by David Arredondo Garrido, Juan Calatrava, Marta Sequeira ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Architecture
    The intricate relationship between food, city and architecture, spanning from ancient civilizations to the present, serves as a focal point for interdisciplinary discourse. This book delves into a diverse set of cases throughout history in which processes related to food significantly influenced architectural or urban designs.This book delineates three spatial levels — city, home and intermediate ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Towards a Public Space

    Le Corbusier and the Greco-Latin Tradition in the Modern City

    by Marta Sequeira ...
    **Selected in the top eight short-list for the Thought and Criticism category of the FAD Awards 2019**Le Corbusier is well-known for his architectural accomplishments, which have been extensively discussed in literature. Towards a Public Space instead offers a unique analysis of Le Corbusier’s contributions to urban planning.The public spaces in Le Corbusier’s plans are usually considered to break ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

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  • Modern Architecture: A Critical History (Fifth) (World of Art)

    by Kenneth Frampton ...
    Series Book 0 - World of Art
    An extensively revised and updated edition of a bestselling classic on modern architecture and its origins by Kenneth Frampton.Kenneth Frampton’s highly acclaimed survey of modern architecture and its origins has been a classic since it first appeared in 1980. Starting with the cultural developments since 1750 that drove the modern movement, moving through the creation of modern architecture, and ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Bell Beaker Transition in Europe

    Mobility and local evolution during the 3rd millennium BC

    Edited by Maria Pilar Prieto Martínez, Laure Salanova ...
    Could the circulation of objects or ideas and the mobility of artisans explain the unprecedented uniformity of the material culture observed throughout the whole of Europe? The 17 papers presented here offer a range of new and different perspectives on the Beaker phenomenon across Europe. The focus is not on Bell Beaker pottery but on social groups (craft specialists, warriors, chiefs, extended or ... Read more

    $28.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Modern Architecture and Climate

    Design before Air Conditioning

    by Daniel A. Barber ...
    How climate influenced the design strategies of modernist architectsModern Architecture and Climate explores how leading architects of the twentieth century incorporated climate-mediating strategies into their designs, and shows how regional approaches to climate adaptability were essential to the development of modern architecture. Focusing on the period surrounding World War II—before fossil ... Read more

    $56.89 USD

  • Concrete and Culture

    A Material History

    by Adrian Forty ...
    Despite its ancient Roman origins, concrete is considered the ultimate modern material, used everywhere in construction today: the equivalent of three tonnes of concrete per person on the planet is produced each year. Used in our pavements, roads, tunnels and walls, concrete surrounds us wherever we go and polarizes opinion, provoking intense loathing in some and fervent passion in others.Concrete ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Brazil

    Modern Architectures in History

    by Richard J. Williams ...
    Series series Modern Architectures in History
    Set against a backdrop of breathtaking natural beauty, Brazil’s striking Modernist architecture has long garnered international acclaim. But these well-known works are not fully reflective of the built environment of Brazil, and in this volume, Richard Williams unearths the surprisingly rich and influential architectural heritage of Brazil.Spanning the period from the 1930s to the present, ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Tate Introductions: Miró

    by Iria Candela ...
    Series Book 4 - Tate Introductions
    The bright colours and graphic strength of paintings by Joan Miro have made him an immensely popular modern painter, but the artist would have been extremely disappointed to see his work treated as little more than interior décor.In this accessible survey of the artist's life and career, Iria Candela explains the complex roots and darker shades that lie behind the evolution of Miró's work, from ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • European Planning History in the 20th Century

    A Continent of Urban Planning

    Edited by Max Welch Guerra, Abdellah Abarkan, María A. Castrillo Romón, Martin Pekár ...
    The history of Europe in the 20th century is closely tied to the history of urban planning. Social and economic progress but also the brute treatment of people and nature throughout Europe were possible due to the use of urban planning and the other levels of spatial planning. Thereby, planning has constituted itself in Europe as an international subject. Since its emergence, through intense ... Read more

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  • Brazilian Art under Dictatorship

    Antonio Manuel, Artur Barrio, and Cildo Meireles

    by Claudia Calirman ...
    Brazilian Art under Dictatorship is a sophisticated analysis of the intersection of politics and the visual arts during the most repressive years of Brazil's military regime, from 1968 until 1975. Raised in Rio de Janeiro during the dictatorship, the curator and art historian Claudia Calirman describes how Brazilian visual artists addressed the political situation and opened up the local art scene ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • The Global Work of Art

    World's Fairs, Biennials, and the Aesthetics of Experience

    by Caroline A. Jones ...
    Global biennials have proliferated in the contemporary art world, but artists’ engagement with large-scale international exhibitions has a much longer history that has influenced the present in important ways. Going back to the earliest world’s fairs in the nineteenth century, this book argues that “globalism” was incubated in a century of international art contests and today constitutes an ... Read more

    $50.99 USD

  • More than Buildings

    Learning from Portuguese Building Typology

    Edited by Sérgio Padrão Fernandes, João Silva Leite, Carlos Dias Coelho ...
    Series series Project Thinking on Design
    More than Buildings studies the buildings typology in Portuguese cities and their relationship with the program (the way in which it responds to a function), the territory where it is integrated and with time and the way in which built forms evolve.The book is structured around a set of key theoretical texts that highlight the potential of knowledge about typology (and its specific formal ... Read more

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