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  • The Digital Turn in Architecture 1992 - 2012

    Edited by Mario Carpo ...
    Series series AD Reader
    Now almost 20 years old, the digital turn in architecture has already gone through several stages and phases. Architectural Design (AD) has captured them all – from folding to cyberspace, nonlinearity and hypersurfaces, from versioning to scripting, emergence, information modelling and parametricism. It has recorded and interpreted the spirit of the times with vivid documentary precision, ... Read more

    $64.99 AUD

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  • A City is Not a Tree

    by Christopher Alexander ...
    In 1965, the architect and design theorist Christopher Alexander published a landmark theoretical critique of modern urban design, and by extension, modern design in general. His critique was different from others of the day in that it was not based on a social or political argument, but on a structural analysis, rooted in then-emerging insights from the fields of mathematics and cognition. Here, ... Read more

    $15.42 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Archispeak

    An Illustrated Guide to Architectural Terms

    by Tom Porter ...
    Widely used in architectural circles in the heat of discussion, the recurrent use of particular words and terms has evolved into a language of design jargon. Commonly found in architectural literature and journalism, in critical design debate and especially in student project reviews, Archispeak can seem insular and perplexing to others and -- particularly to the new architectural student -- often ... Read more

    $101.85 AUD

  • Matter: Material Processes in Architectural Production

    Edited by Gail Peter Borden, Michael Meredith ...
    Beginning with material, this book revolves around physical material making and design decisions that emerge from material interaction.Combining essays from both practice and academia, this book presents some of the most significant projects and thoughts on materiality from the last decade. Beautifully illustrated with a great deal of technical information throughout, it shows work, technical ... Read more

    $117.28 AUD

  • Unified Architectural Theory

    A COMPANION TO CHRISTOPHER ALEXANDER’S THE PHENOMENON OF LIFE — THE NATURE OF ORDER, BOOK 1

    by Nikos Salingaros ...
    We are on the threshold of a new way of thinking about, learning, and practicing architecture. Ready to abandon design based on often-irrelevant images for a more meaningful paradigm, we find answers in combining timeless truths with recent scientific results. These explain how architecture can re-attach itself to nature. Unified Architectural Theory re-invents architecture by uncovering its ... Read more

    $15.42 AUD

  • Philosophy of Technology

    An Introduction for Technology and Business Students

    by Jan Hoogland, Jan van der Stoep, Maarten Verkerk, Marc de Vries ...
    Philosophy of Technology: An introduction for technology and business students is an accessible guide to technology’s changes , their ubiquitousness, and the many questions these raise. Designed for those with no philosophical background in mind, it is ideal for technology and engineering students or specialists who want to learn to think critically about how their work influences society and our ... Read more

    $114.20 AUD

  • Ambient Commons

    Attention in the Age of Embodied Information

    by Malcolm McCullough ...
    On rediscovering surroundings when information goes everywhere.The world is filling with ever more kinds of media, in ever more contexts and formats. Glowing rectangles have become part of the scene; screens, large and small, appear everywhere. Physical locations are increasingly tagged and digitally augmented. Amid this flood, your attention practices matter more than ever. You might not be able ... Read more

    $37.06 AUD

  • Relive

    Media Art Histories

    Edited by Sean Cubitt, Paul Thomas ...
    Series series Leonardo
    Leading historians of the media arts define a new materialist media art history, discussing temporality, geography, ephemerality, and the future.In Relive, leading historians of the media arts grapple with this dilemma: how can we speak of “new media” and at the same time write the histories of these arts? These scholars and practitioners redefine the nature of the field, focusing on the materials ... Read more

    $55.65 AUD

  • Virtuality and the Art of Exhibition

    Curatorial Design for the Multimedial Museum

    by Vince Dziekan ...
    Vince Dziekan is deputy associate dean of research in the Faculty of Art & Design at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia; a FACT associate with the Foundation for Art & Creative Technology in Liverpool; and digital media curator of the Leonardo Electronic Almanac. ... Read more

    $44.54 AUD

  • Architecture in the Space of Flows

    Edited by Andrew Ballantyne, Christopher Smith ...
    Traditionally, architecture has been preoccupied with the resolution of form. That concern helps to make photogenic buildings, which have received a great deal of attention. This book looks instead at the idea of the flows, which connects things together and moves between things. It is more difficult to discuss, but more necessary, because it is what makes things work. Architects have to think ... Read more

    $112.65 AUD

  • The Death of Drawing

    Architecture in the Age of Simulation

    by 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 ... Read more

    $109.57 AUD

  • Urban Design Thinking

    A Conceptual Toolkit

    by Kim Dovey ...
    Urban Design Thinking provides a conceptual toolkit for urban design. Bridging the gap between theory and practice, it shows how the design of our cities and urban spaces can be interpreted and informed through contemporary theories of urbanism, architecture and spatial analysis.Relating abstract ideas to real-world examples, and taking assemblage thinking as its critical framework, the book ... Read more

    $56.75 AUD