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  • Form Follows Fuel

    14 Buildings from Antiquity to the Oil Age

    Modernists believed that “form follows function.” Form Follows Fuel shows that in fact energy has been the biggest influence on the world’s architecture throughout the history of our species. The availability of energy under different fuel regimes – including human labour, firewood, coal, oil, gas, and renewables – shapes architecture at all scales, from what gets built to how its doors hinge.This ... Leer más

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  • Postmodern Architecture in Socialist Poland

    Transformation, Symbolic Form and National Identity

    de Florian Urban ...
    Series series Architext
    Garish churches, gabled panel blocks, neo-historical tenements—this book is about these and other architectural oddities that emerged in Poland between 1975 and 1989, a period characterised by the decline of the authoritarian socialist regime and waves of political protest. During that period, committed architects defied repressive politics and persistent shortages, and designed houses and ... Leer más

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  • Neo-historical East Berlin

    Architecture and Urban Design in the German Democratic Republic 1970-1990

    de Florian Urban ...
    Series series Ashgate Studies in Architecture
    In the years prior to the fall of the Berlin Wall, the leaders of the German Democratic Republic planned to construct a city center that was simultaneously modern and historical, consisting of both redesign of old buildings and new architectural developments. Drawing from recently released archival sources and interviews with former key government officials, decision-makers and architects, this ... Leer más

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  • The New Tenement

    Residences in the Inner City Since 1970

    de Florian Urban ...
    This book examines "new tenements"—dense, medium-rise, multi-storey residences that have been the backbone of European inner-city regeneration since the 1970s and came with a new positive view on urban living. Focusing principally on Berlin, Copenhagen, Glasgow, Rotterdam, and Vienna, it relates architectural design to an evolving intellectual framework that mixed anti-modernist criticism with ... Leer más

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  • Tower and Slab

    Histories of Global Mass Housing

    de Florian Urban ...
    Tower and Slab looks at the contradictory history of the modernist mass housing block - home to millions of city dwellers around the world. Few urban forms have roused as much controversy. While in the United States decades-long criticism caused the demolition of most mass housing projects for the poor, in the booming metropolises of Shanghai and Mumbai remarkably similar developments are being ... Leer más

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    The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization

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  • The Future of Nostalgia

    de Svetlana Boym ...
    **From an award-winning cultural theorist, the classic work on the intricate relationship between longing and belonging“A remarkable book… brilliant.”―New York Times**Can one be nostalgic for the home one never had? Why is it that the age of globalization is accompanied by a no less global epidemic of nostalgia? Can we know what we are nostalgic for? In the seventeenth century, Swiss doctors ... Leer más

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  • Energy and Civilization

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    **A BILL GATES “BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR”A comprehensive account of how energy has shaped 10,000 years of human history, from pre-agricultural foraging societies through today’s fossil fuel–driven civilization.**Energy is the only universal currency; it is necessary for getting anything done. The conversion of energy on Earth ranges from terra-forming forces of plate tectonics to cumulative erosive ... Leer más

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  • The Soviet Century

    Archaeology of a Lost World

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  • The Fabric of Civilization

    How Textiles Made the World

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  • Cities

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