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  • Writing Spaces

    Discourses of Architecture, Urbanism and the Built Environment, 1960–2000

    par C. Greig Crysler ...
    Collections series Architext
    Writing Spaces examines some of the most important discourses in spatial theory of the last four decades, and considers their impact within the built environment disciplines. The book will be a key resource for courses on critical theory in architecture, urban studies and geography, at both the graduate and advanced undergraduate level. ... En savoir plus

    $116.79 CAD

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  • Shopping Malls and Public Space in Modern China

    par Nicholas Jewell ...
    China’s rise as an economic superpower has been inescapable. Statistical hyperbole has been accompanied by a plethora of highly publicized architectural forms that brand the regeneration of its increasingly globalized urban centres. Despite the sizeable body of literature that has accompanied China’s modernization, the essence and trajectory of its contemporary cityscape remains difficult to grasp ... En savoir plus

    $101.68 CAD

  • Junkspace with Running Room

    par Rem Koolhaas, Hal Foster ...
    Junkspace first appeared in the Harvard Design School Guide to Shopping (2001), a vast compendium of text, images, and data concerning the consumerist transformation of city and suburb from the first department store to the latest mega mall. The architect Rem Koolhaas itemized in delirious detail how our cities are being overwhelmed. His celebrated jeremiad is updated here and twinned with Running ... En savoir plus

    $14.99 CAD

  • Cities and Design

    par Paul L. Knox ...
    Collections series Routledge Critical Introductions to Urbanism and the City
    Cities, initially a product of the manufacturing era, have been thoroughly remade in the image of consumer society. Competitive spending among affluent households has intensified the importance of style and design at every scale and design professions have grown in size and importance, reflecting distinctive geographies and locating disproportionately in cities most intimately connected with ... En savoir plus

    $105.80 CAD

  • Potsdamer Platz

    The Reshaping of Berlin

    par Quazi Mahtab Zaman, Malgorzata Nowobilska ...
    Collections series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    The redesign of Potsdamer Platz depicts the struggle to revive Berlin, Germany. This central and highly visible square has undergone a series of strategic revisions to restore its vitality and so to meet place-enhancing objectives. Specifically, the book critically addresses the challenging tasks of restoring Potsdamer Platz from a state of disintegration to a condition worthy of a world-class ... En savoir plus

    $64.99 CAD

  • Courtyard Housing for Health and Happiness

    Architectural Multiculturalism in North America

    par Donia Zhang ...
    Health and happiness are fundamental to human quality of life. The United Nations World Happiness Report 2012 reflects a new worldwide call for governments to include happiness as a criterion to their policies. The Healthy Cities or Happy Cities movement has been endorsed by the WHO since 1986, and a Healthy House or Happy Home is a critical constituent of a healthy city or a happy city. ... En savoir plus

    $101.68 CAD

  • Global Perspectives on Critical Architecture

    Praxis Reloaded

    par Gevork Hartoonian ...
    Judging from the debates taking place in both education and practice, it appears that architecture is deeply in crisis. New design and production techniques, together with the globalization of capital and even skilled-labour, have reduced architecture to a commodified object, its aesthetic qualities tapping into the current pervasive desire for the spectacular. These developments have changed the ... En savoir plus

    $101.68 CAD

  • Interior Urbanism

    Architecture, John Portman and Downtown America

    par Professor Charles Rice ...
    Vast interior spaces have become ubiquitous in the contemporary city. The soaring atriums and concourses of mega-hotels, shopping malls and transport interchanges define an increasingly normal experience of being 'inside' in a city. Yet such spaces are also subject to intense criticism and claims that they can destroy the quality of a city's authentic life 'on the outside'.Interior Urbanism ... En savoir plus

    $38.99 CAD

  • The Practice Turn in Architecture: Brussels after 1968

    par Isabelle Doucet ...
    Collections series Ashgate Studies in Architecture
    What makes a city? What makes architecture? And, what is to be included in the discussions of architecture and the city? Attempting to answer such ambitious questions, this book starts from a city’s specificity and complexity. In response to recent debates in architectural theory around the agency and locus of critical action, this book tests the potential of criticality through-practice. Rather ... En savoir plus

    $101.68 CAD

  • The Practice of Modernism

    Modern Architects and Urban Transformation, 1954–1972

    par John R. Gold ...
    In this sequel to his widely-acclaimed book The Experience of Modernism (1997), John Gold continues his detailed enquiry into the Modern Movement's involvement in urban planning and city design.Making extensive use of information gained from hours of in-depth interviews with architects of the time, this new book examines the complex relationship between vision and subsequent practice in the saga ... En savoir plus

    $114.99 CAD

  • Utopias and Architecture

    par Nathaniel Coleman ...
    Utopian thought, though commonly characterized as projecting a future without a past, depends on golden models for re-invention of what is. Through a detailed and innovative re-assessment of the work of three architects who sought to represent a utopian content in their work, and a consideration of the thoughts of a range of leading writers, Coleman offers the reader a unique perspective of ... En savoir plus

    $152.99 CAD

  • Writing Urbanism

    A Design Reader

    Modifié par Douglas Kelbaugh, Kit McCullough ...
    Collections series The ACSA Architectural Education Series
    Urban design continues to grow as an increasingly important and expanding field of study, research and professional endeavour.Distinguished by its broad scope and comprehensiveness on the subject of urban design, this new collection combines selected essays from both practitioners and academia.Writing Urbanism is the ideal volume for both students, architects and urban designers. ... En savoir plus

    $105.80 CAD