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  • Concrete

    Serie serie Object Lessons
    Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.Concrete has an image problem. Portrayed as boring, cheap, and thoughtless, it is often considered synonymous with bad architecture. For many, concrete is architecture gone wrong – dogmatic, ugly, and as miserably grey as English drizzle.Stephen Parnell's Concrete is an apologia of concrete, ... Läs mer

    61,64 kr

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  • How Architecture Works

    A Humanist's Toolkit

    The prize-winning scholar's "expert, holistic, down-to-earth guide" to the beauty and function of architecture ( Booklist , starred review).We spend most of our days and nights in buildings. They are the setting of our everyday lives as well as a public art form. Yet architecture remains a mystery to most of us. In How Architecture Works, Witold Rybczynski, a renowned critic and winner of the ... Läs mer

    125,49 kr

  • Building and Dwelling

    Ethics for the City

    **'Thank god for Richard Sennett ... essential reading for all students of the city' Anna Minton, Prospect'Constantly stimulating ideas from a veteran of urban thinking' Jonathan Meades, Guardian**In Building and Dwelling, Richard Sennett distils a lifetime's thinking and practical experience to explore the relationship between the good built environment and the good life. He argues for, and ... Läs mer

    269,97 kr

  • Humanise

    A Maker’s Guide to Building Our World

    From one of the world's most imaginative designers comes a story about humanity told through the lens of our buildings.'This book is a super-accessible guide as to why we shouldn't put up with soulless buildings and how we might change that' GRAYSON PERRY*****Our world is losing its humanity.Too many developers care more about their shareholders than society. Too many politicians care more about ... Läs mer

    176,59 kr

  • The Language of Things

    av Deyan Sudjic ...
    We live in a world drowning in objects. But what do they tell us about ourselves?In The Language of Things, Deyan Sudjic charts our relationship - both innocent and knowing - with all things designed. From the opulent excesses of the catwalk, or the technical brilliance of a laptop computer, to the subtle refinement of a desk lamp, he shows how we can be manipulated and seduced by our possessions ... Läs mer

    146,69 kr

  • Landscape Architecture

    A Very Short Introduction

    av Ian Thompson ...
    Serie serie Very Short Introductions
    Landscape architecture plays an important role in shaping the places in which we live and work. But what is it? Landscape architects are involved, amongst other things, in the layout of business parks, the reclamation of derelict industrial sites, the restoration of historic city parks, and the siting and design of major pieces of infrastructure such as motorways, dams, power stations, and flood ... Läs mer

    75,30 kr

  • Modern Architecture

    A Critical History

    Serie serie World of Art
    This highly acclaimed survey of modern architecture and its origins has become a classic since it first appeared in 1980, and has helped to shape architectural practice and discourse worldwide. For this extensively revised and updated fifth edition, Kenneth Frampton has added a new section that explores in detail the modernist tradition in architecture across the globe in the late twentieth and ... Läs mer

    203,19 kr

  • The Language of Cities

    av Deyan Sudjic ...
    The director of the Design Museum defines the greatest artefact of all time: the cityWe live in a world that is now predominantly urban. So how do we define the city as it evolves in the twenty-first century? Drawing examples from across the globe, Deyan Sudjic decodes the underlying forces that shape our cities, such as resources and land, to the ideas that shape conscious elements of design, ... Läs mer

    112,77 kr

  • Paper

    An Elegy

    av Ian Sansom ...
    From the author of The Bad Book Affair comes a witty, personal, and entertaining meditation on the history and significance of paper—an international cultural study and a series of personal reflections on the meaning of this essential product.Let us suppose for a moment that paper were to disappear. Would anything be lost? Everything would be lost.Paper surrounds us. Not only as books, letters and ... Läs mer

    102,49 kr

  • Makers of Modern Architecture, Volume II

    From Le Corbusier to Rem Koolhaas

    av Martin Filler ...
    In the first volume of Makers of Modern Architecture (2007), Martin Filler examined the emergence of that revolutionary new form of building and explored its aesthetic, social, and spiritual aspirations through illuminating studies of some of its most important practitioners, from Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright to, in our own time, Renzo Piano and Santiago Calatrava.Now, in Makers of Modern ... Läs mer

    154,64 kr

  • Why We Build

    Power and Desire in Architecture

    av Rowan Moore ...
    In an era of brash, expensive, provocative new buildings, a prominent critic argues that emotions—such as hope, power, sex, and our changing relationship to the idea of home—are the most powerful force behind architecture, yesterday and (especially) today.We are living in the most dramatic period in architectural history in more than half a century: a time when cityscapes are being redrawn on a ... Läs mer

    97,09 kr eller gratis med Kobo Plus

  • The Story of Post-Modernism

    Five Decades of the Ironic, Iconic and Critical in Architecture

    In The Story of Post-Modernism, Charles Jencks, the authority on Post-Modern architecture and culture, provides the defining account of Post-Modern architecture from its earliest roots in the early 60s to the present day. By breaking the narrative into seven distinct chapters, which are both chronological and overlapping, Jencks charts the ebb and flow of the movement, the peaks and troughs of ... Läs mer

    327,32 kr