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Understandingunderstanding
by Wurman, Richard Saul       
(Hardcover - English - 9781939621696)
This is a book for people to dip into, as they would walk in and out of the room of a dinner party and embrace their interests. Before Information Architecture, before the rules on how to organize information, before you learn grammar, before you work hard at expanding your vocabulary and go through the exercises of parallel meanings of things as using a Thesaurus and as one writes papers in class, before any learning one must understand. Understanding Understanding precedes the whole process of learning, of giving yourself permission to understand the formations of facts, data, stories, pictures, words, conversations that allow you to understand. This book coul ..
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Beauty, Neuroscience, and Architecture: Timeless Patterns and Their Impact on Our Well-Being
by Ruggles, Donald H.       
(Hardcover - English - 9780692928622)
2019 Independent Publishers Book Awards (IPPY) Bronze Medal Award winner br 2018 Robert & Judi Newman Award for Literature & Journalism br For centuries, men and women have sought to express beauty in architecture and art. But, it is only recently that neuroscience has helped determine how and why beauty plays such an important role in our lives. Founded on a series of lectures architect Donald H. Ruggles has given over the past ten years, Beauty, Neuroscience and Architecture: Timeless Patterns and Their Impact on Our Well-Being postulates that beauty can and does make a vital difference in our lives, including improving many aspects of our health. In ..
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Stones Against Diamonds: Architecture Words 12
by Bo Bardi, Lina       
(Paperback - English - 9781907896200)
Lina Bo Bardi (1914-1992) was a prolific architect, designer and thinker, whose work, absorbing her native Italy and then after 1946 her adopted home-land, Brazil, spans across architecture, furniture, stage and costume design, urban planning, curatorial work, teaching and writing. br This collection of essays is the first-ever English anthology of her of writings. It includes texts written when she was still living in Italy as well as later contributions to a number of Brazilian newspapers, journals and magazines. An acute critic and a creative thinker, Bo Bardi proposes a series of new parameters for design thinking and practice, such as the notions of 'histo ..
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Manual of Section
by Lewis, Paul    Tsurumaki, Marc    Lewis, David J.
(Paperback - English - 9781616892555)
"It has been a while sincedevoured a book on architecture with as much pleasure.love a good section andlove this book."--Aaron Betsky, Architect Magazine Award-winning architects Paul Lewis, Marc Tsurumaki, and David J. Lewis's essential guide to section. Section, along with plan and elevation, is one of the most important representational techniques of architectural design. Manual of Section is the first book to provide a framework to describe and evaluate this fundamental design process in architecture. Divided into seven categories of section based on extensive archival research: br - Range is from simple one-story buildings to complex structures br - ..
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Fairy Tale Architecture
by Bernheimer, Andrew    Bernheimer, Kate    Patchett, Ann
(Paperback - English - 9781951541286)
Fairy Tale Architecture is a ground-breaking book, the first study to bring architects in conversation with fairy tales in breathtaking designs. Little Red Riding Hood, Baba Yaga, Rapunzel, Jack and the Beanstalk, The Snow Queen: these and more than fifteen other stories designed by Bernheimer Architecture, Sn hetta, Rural Studio, LEVENBETTS, and LTL Architects and many other international vanguards have created stunning works for this groundbreaking collection of architectural fairy tales. Story by story, Andrew Bernheimer and Kate Bernheimer--a brother and sister team as in an old fairy tale--have built the ultimate home for lovers of fiction and design. ..
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Mongrel Rapture: The Architecture of Ashton Raggatt McDougall
by Architecture, Arm    Raggatt, Mark    Ward, Maitiu
(Leather - English - 9780987228161)
In his essay within Mongrel Rapture, the first monograph on the polarising work of Australian architectural practice Ashton Raggatt McDougall (ARM), Charles Jencks identifies ARM as one of a handful of architectural practices internationally that operate in a mold he describes as 'Radical Post Modernism'. Eschewing notions of good taste and formal purity, ARM opts instead for an 'architecture of ideas'. Drawing from diverse sources that range across everything from Le Corbusier to Robert Venturi, computer programming to biblical verse, ARM's architecture has been alternately celebrated and execrated by critics and the public alike. Despite ARM's radicalism and t ..
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Daddy Wouldn't Buy Me a Bauhaus: Profiles in Architecture and Design
by Abrams, Janet    Sudjic, Deyan   
(Paperback - English - 9781616899516)
Daddy Wouldn't Buy Me a Bauhaus collects the unparalleled writings of legendary British wordsmith Janet Abrams for the first time. From pivotal figures in international modernism to the pioneers of digital medium, Abrams explored the ideas, theories, and emotions that fueled their work. The book's twenty-six profiles, written in Abrams's signature, personal, often hilarious style, include Reyner Banham, Berthold Lubetkin, Philip Johnson, Paul Rand, Phyllis Lambert, Frank Gehry, Rem Koolhaas, Muriel Cooper, April Greiman, and Michael Bloomberg. Many of the profiles are back in print for the first time, having originally appeared in Blueprint, I.D. magazine, the ..
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Being the Mountain: Productora
by Bedoya, Carlos    Ickx, Wonne    Jaime, Victor
(Hardcover - English - 9781948765510)
The publication casts new light on the relationship between modernism and the ground, calling into question received assumptions and liberating new possibilities for how a building relates to its site. The result of research PRODUCTORA initiated as winners of the Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize for Emerging Practice at Illinois Institute of Technology, Being the Mountain examines the relationship between architecture and the ground it occupies, an interaction so obvious--a building must touch the ground--that it often remains underexplored. Richly illustrated contributions by Carlos Bedoya, Frank Escher, Wonne Ickx, V ronique Patteeuw, and Jes s Vassallo revi ..
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Roberto Burle Marx Lectures: Landscape as Art and Urbanism
by Doherty, Gareth    Finotti, Leonardo   
(Paperback - English - 9783037786253)
strong Essential lectures on the art of landscaping from Roberto Burle Marx, described by the New York Times as the designer most responsible for our utopian impressions of the Brazilian built environment strong Roberto Burle Marx (1909-94) remains one of the most important landscape architects in the history of the field, celebrated for his famous curving mosaic walkways at Copacabana Beach in Rio and the beautiful rooftop garden at Banco Safra in S o Paulo. His distinctive and widely acclaimed work has been featured and referenced in numerous sources, yet few of Burle Marx's own words have been published. This collection of a dozen of Burle Marx's lecture ..
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Architecture on Display: On the History of the Venice Biennale of Architecture
by Levy, Aaron    Menking, William   
(Paperback - English - 9781902902968)
Architecture on Display is a research initiative by Aaron Levy and William Menking that consists of interviews with each of the living directors of the Venice Biennale for Architecture, including Vittorio Gregotti, Paolo Portoghesi, Francesco Dal Co, Kurt Forster, Massimiliano Fuksas, Hans Hollein, Richard Burdett, Deyan Sudjic, Aaron Betsky and Kazuyo Sejima, as well as the current president of the Venice Biennale, Paolo Barrata. These conversations do not seek to recapitulate the exhibitions themselves but rather explore the questions that the exhibitions have raised, with the hope of offering a model for future curatorial endeavours. ..
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Álvaro Siza Viera: A Pool in the Sea: In Conversation with Kenneth Frampton
by Frampton, Kenneth    Mentzel, Vincent   
(Hardcover - English - 9781948765039)
This book documents a unique experience of a journey by lvaro Siza Vieira, Vincent Mentzel and Kenneth Frampton to the early work of Siza in Porto. This book includes a vast collection of descriptions, drawings and photographs by Vincent Mentzel about the project, as well as a writing by Siza Vieira himself and other texts. The book also includes an analysis of the bathers' course by Pedro Vieira de Almeida, as well as testimonies of the architects Diogo Seixas Lopes, Manuel Aires Mateus, Michel Toussaint, Joao Manoel Gomes Da Silva, Luís Urbano, Diogo Seixas Lopes and Pedro Vieira de Almeida. Álvaro Siza was the 1992 winner of The Pritzker Arch ..
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The Future of Transportation: SOM Thinkers Series
by Grabar, Henry    Abrahamian, Atossa Araxia    Van Mead, Nick
(Paperback - English - 9781942884453)
strong How will we travel in the future? Essays on the transport to come, from sidewalk scooters to levitating trains strong With the promise of delivery drones, personal helicopters, and groceries delivered right to your refrigerator, one might think we are living in the best of transportation times. Most city commuters would be quick to tell you otherwise. Of all the technological interventions continuously inserted into our daily travels, which ones will last? Is ride-sharing here to stay? In ten years will we all be taking autonomous vehicles to work? Will traffic as we know it cease to exist? While this volume makes no promises or predictions, it does t ..
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The Lost, Last Words of Mies Van Der Rohe: The Lohan Tapes from 1969
by Neumeyer, Fritz       
(Paperback - English - 9783869227672)
The German-American architect Dirk Lohan began to record his conversations with his grandfather Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in the summer of 1969. The tapes, recorded during the final weeks of Mies's life, captured some of the architect's very last words. They were sent to the Museum of Modern Art in New York after his death, though they went missing under unknown circumstances. Only an incomplete typescript remains as a testimony to the conversations. The Lost, Last Words of Mies van der Rohe presents this text in its entirety for the very first time. The conversations relayed in the typescript reveal the famously reticent Mies speaking about his own life with ..
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The House of Light and Entropy: Architecture Words 11
by Ponte, Alessandra       
(Paperback - English - 9781907896170)
Formerly announced as Maps and Territories, this collection of essays written by landscape historian Alessandra Ponte, begins with an investigation of the American obsession with lawns and then continues to collectively map the aesthetic, scientific and technological production of past and present North American landscapes. These include the American desert as a privileged site of scientific and artistic testing; the faraway projects of electrification of the Canadian North; the transformation of the notion and perception of waste and wasteland during the twentieth century; the photographic medium and its encounters with Native Americans; as well as an introduct ..
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General Theory of Urbanization 1867
by Ildefons, Cerdà    Vicente, Guallart   
(Hardcover - English - 9781945150906)
First translation into English on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the publication of the General Theory of Urbanization 1867 by Ildefons Cerd , an essential work on urban development. br In 1867 Ildefons Cerd published his "Teoria general de la urbanitzaci n". In this text, the "science of building cities", understood as a phenomenon, became a new discipline with a broad economic, social and cultural impact on the life of the people of the city. Coinciding with 150 years since its publication, its first translation into English is being presented along with the publishing online at urbanization.org with the statistics transformed into interactive grap ..
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And It Came to Pass--Not to Stay
by Fuller, R. Buckminster    Snyder, Jaime   
(Paperback - English - 9783037786215)
strong Lyrical meditations on life, work and hopes for the future from the beloved architect and polymath Buckminster Fuller strong First published in 1976, issued in a new edition in 2008, and now back in print, And It Came to Pass--Not to Stay brings together a selection of Buckminster Fuller's (1895-1983) lyrical and philosophical best, including seven "essays" that address global crises and his predictions for the future--"to make the world work for 100% of humanity in the shortest possible time through spontaneous cooperation without ecological offence or the disadvantage of anyone." These essays, comprising "How LittleKnow," "Complexion 1976," "WhatAm ..
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Modernity Unbound: Architecture Words 7
by Mertins, Detlef       
(Paperback - English - 9781902902890)
For almost 20 years, Detlef Mertins has been a critical voice in renewing our understanding of architectural modernity. Architect, historian, professor, his essays have often taken up familiar themes in order to redress inaccuracies and release energies that we were unaware of. br These essays elaborate on such key modernist tropes as transparency, glass architecture, organicism, life and event, sameness and difference. Previously published in a variety of different venues, from journals to anthologies - including such noted books as Lars Spuybroek's NOX: Machining Architecture and FOA's Phylogenesis - they are now assembled for the first time in this volume. ..
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Designing Change
by Design, Dp    Lim, Mike   
(Hardcover - English - 9781943532346)
Change is the only constant in an ever-progressing world. Recognizing this, DP Design explores how designing an interior space goes beyond a direct, strategic response to a building's intrinsic architectural form across all its projects, to examine and embody the evolving relationship between man and built environment. Designing Change, is a visual discourse into the creative psyche of its interior-architects and how the firm has articulated man's relationship with the built environment into design. Unique and engaging, the book offers an in-depth look at the fundamentals and perceptions of interior spaces across various typologies; inviting you to rethink desig ..
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The Built Idea: Alberto Campo Baeza
by Baeza, Alberto Campo       
(Paperback - English - 9789881512536)
Architects reveal the keys to Architecture in their drawings, their floor plans, sections and also in their writings. It is important to appreciate the concise texts of Mies Van der Rohe or the more passionate expressions of Le Corbusier. And that is howwould like these texts, published here today, to be understood. Alberto Campo Baeza (born Valladolid, Spain, 1946) is one of the most important architects of the modern period. The Built Idea presents a series of seminal texts in which he conveys his most deeply-held architectural ideas and convictions, exploring and explaining his foundational influences and subjects such as the importance of light, the work of ..
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Tectonic Acts of Desire and Doubt: Architectural Words 9
by Rakatansky, Mark       
(Paperback - English - 9781907896156)
This collection of a number of key essays by the New York-based architect and writer Mark Rakatansky proposes an innovative framework for architecture to enact the complex tectonic dramas of social and culture space. br Following its title, the book is arrayed in three sections: Tectonic, Acts of, Desire and Doubt. In each, Rakatansky covers a series of subjects in a writerly voice that varies from the third-person narrative of the scholarly essays to the transcript of an email exchange with fellow academic Sarah Whiting discussing recent books by architect Greg Lynn. Transformational performances of architectural identity are explored in discussions of fabrica ..
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