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  • Homes Fit For Heroes

    The Politics and Architecture of Early State Housing in Britain

    de Mark Swenarton ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Homes fit for Heroes looks at the pledge made 100 years ago by the Lloyd George government to build half a million ‘homes fit for heroes’ – the pledge which made council housing a major part of the housing system in the UK. Originally published in 1981, the book is the only full-scale study of the provision and design of state housing in the period following the 1918 Armistice and remains the ... Leer más

    $51.99 USD

  • Architecture and the Welfare State

    Edición de Mark Swenarton, Tom Avermaete, Dirk van den Heuvel ...
    In the decades following World War Two, and in part in response to the Cold War, governments across Western Europe set out ambitious programmes for social welfare and the redistribution of wealth that aimed to improve the everyday lives of their citizens. Many of these welfare state programmes - housing, schools, new towns, cultural and leisure centres – involved not just construction but a new ... Leer más

    $82.99 USD

  • The Politics of Making

    Edición de Mark Swenarton, Igea Troiani, Helena Webster ...
    Series series Critiques
    A unique collection of contemporary writings, this book explores the politics involved in the making and experiencing of architecture and cities from a cross-cultural and global perspectiveTaking a broad view of the word ‘politics’, the essays address a range of questions, including:What is the relationship between politics and the making of space?What role has theory played in reinforcing or ... Leer más

    $73.99 USD

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  • Rome

    de Amanda Claridge ...
    Series series Oxford Archaeological Guides
    The city of Rome is the largest archaeological site in the world, capital and showcase of the Roman Empire and the centre of Christian Europe. This guide provides: · Coverage of all the important sites in the city from 800 BC to AD 600 and the start of the early middle ages, drawing on the latest discoveries and the best of recent scholarship · Over 220 high-quality maps, site plans, diagrams and ... Leer más

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  • The Secret Lives of Buildings

    From the Ruins of the Parthenon to the Vegas Strip in Thirteen Stories

    de Edward Hollis ...
    A strikingly original, beautifully narrated history of Western architecture and the cultural transformations that it represents.Concrete, marble, steel, brick: little else made by human hands seems as stable, as immutable, as a building. Yet the life of any structure is neither fixed nor timeless. Outliving their original contexts and purposes, buildings are forced to adapt to each succeeding age. ... Leer más

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  • The Architecture of Neoliberalism

    How Contemporary Architecture Became an Instrument of Control and Compliance

    de Mr Douglas Spencer ...
    The Architecture of Neoliberalism pursues an uncompromising critique of the neoliberal turn in contemporary architecture. This book reveals how a self-styled parametric and post-critical architecture serves mechanisms of control and compliance while promoting itself, at the same time, as progressive. Spencer's incisive analysis of the architecture and writings of figures such as Zaha Hadid, Patrik ... Leer más

    $29.99 USD

  • The Evolution of Designs

    Biological Analogy in Architecture and the Applied Arts

    de Philip Steadman ...
    This book tells the history of the many analogies that have been made between the evolution of organisms and the human production of artefacts, especially buildings. It examines the effects of these analogies on architectural and design theory and considers how recent biological thinking has relevance for design.Architects and designers have looked to biology for inspiration since the early 19th ... Leer más

    $91.99 USD

  • Derrida for Architects

    de Richard Coyne ...
    Series series Thinkers for Architects
    Looking afresh at the implications of Jacques Derrida’s thinking for architecture, this book simplifies his ideas in a clear, concise way. Derrida‘s treatment of key philosophical texts has been labelled as "deconstruction," a term that resonates with architecture. Although his main focus is language, his thinking has been applied by architectural theorists widely.As well as a review of Derrida’s ... Leer más

    $45.99 USD

  • The Making and Selling of Post-Mao Beijing

    de Anne-Marie Broudehoux ...
    Series series Planning, History and Environment Series
    Describes the changing life of the city and its inhabitants during the final decades of the twentieth century and examines the complex forces at play in the search for modernity. The author presents us with four case studies of how the city is marketing and selling itself (including its refurbishment for the 2008 Olympic bid) and concludes that Beijing's urban image construction may provide an ... Leer más

    $64.99 USD

  • Atmospheres: Aesthetics of Emotional Spaces

    de Tonino Griffero ...
    Originally published in Italian in 2010, this book is the first to address the theory of atmospheres in a thorough and systematic way. It examines the role of atmospheres in daily life, and defines their main characteristics. Outlining the typical phenomenological situations in which we experience atmospheres, it assesses their impact on contemporary aesthetics. It puts forward a philosophical ... Leer más

    $76.99 USD

  • San Carlino Lugano. My inky cloak. Notes on the wooden model of the San Carlino in Lugano by Mario Botta

    de Emanuele Saurwein ...
    A wooden model and a city. A large wooden model of a valuable church and a small city that is perhaps still unsure of itself. The clash between these two completely independent and autonomous realities opens up a path of inquiry that deserves to be followed, if only out of a legitimate and very human sense of curiosity. The following pages intend to follow this path, this itinerary marked out ... Leer más

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  • Understanding Architecture

    An Introduction to Architecture and Architectural History

    de Hazel Conway, Rowan Roenisch ...
    A comprehensive introduction to architecture and architectural history and exceptional in its approach, this book explores architecture as a current practice in relation to history and in relation to the wider context of cultures, conservation and the environment. This new edition brings in the new emphasis on sustainability, urbanism, urban regeneration and cultural identity, in order to take a ... Leer más

    $70.99 USD