$47.95
(available to order)
Summary:
The House offers an overview of the development of house and home, from its beginnings in the caves of early man through the variety of structures that have since evolved-- from mud huts and Chinese underground villages to Georgian Arts and Crafts, influenced by climate and materials but also by culture, custom, and religious beliefs. Gardiner shows why people have(...)
The house : its origins and evolution
Actions:
Price:
$47.95
(available to order)
Summary:
The House offers an overview of the development of house and home, from its beginnings in the caves of early man through the variety of structures that have since evolved-- from mud huts and Chinese underground villages to Georgian Arts and Crafts, influenced by climate and materials but also by culture, custom, and religious beliefs. Gardiner shows why people have historically built as they have, and how they think about the houses they design, explaining why, from being merely a shelter, the design of a house has come to express ideas about space, aesthetics, customs, and culture. With 112 black-and-white photographs and drawings.
Residential Architecture
Habiter un monde qui brûle
$39.95
(available in store)
Summary:
Le changement climatique n’est pas seulement une crise environnementale : c’est un risque existentiel pour notre planète. Canicules extrêmes, sécheresses prolongées, inondations soudaines : l’adaptation n’est plus une option, mais une condition de survie collective. Nourri d’exemples concrets venus du monde entier, cet essai propose une nouvelle grammaire de(...)
Habiter un monde qui brûle
Actions:
Price:
$39.95
(available in store)
Summary:
Le changement climatique n’est pas seulement une crise environnementale : c’est un risque existentiel pour notre planète. Canicules extrêmes, sécheresses prolongées, inondations soudaines : l’adaptation n’est plus une option, mais une condition de survie collective. Nourri d’exemples concrets venus du monde entier, cet essai propose une nouvelle grammaire de l’adaptation. Il développe quatre concepts fondateurs – One Climate One Risk, le Minimax climatique, Net Positive et l’Éthique climatique – pour transformer la sidération en action. À la croisée de la science, de la stratégie et de la philosophie politique, il trace la voie d’une Europe capable non seulement de se protéger, mais de retrouver un rôle actif dans les grands équilibres du vivant.
Environment and environmental theory
$85.95
(available to order)
Summary:
"Fundamentals of community design for wellbeing" addresses the need to rethink the philosophy and form of residential environments due to recent social, economic, environmental, and cultural shifts, including depletion of non-renewable resources, elevated levels of greenhouse gas emissions, and climate change. This book highlights innovative planning strategies for(...)
Fundamentals of community design for wellbeing: Fostering sustainability and livability
Actions:
Price:
$85.95
(available to order)
Summary:
"Fundamentals of community design for wellbeing" addresses the need to rethink the philosophy and form of residential environments due to recent social, economic, environmental, and cultural shifts, including depletion of non-renewable resources, elevated levels of greenhouse gas emissions, and climate change. This book highlights innovative planning strategies for livability and wellbeing of communities supported by lessons from notable international case studies, addressing varied issues including accommodating elderly populations, designing walkable communities, and closing the affordability gap. Authored by an architecture professor who is also a practicing architect and urban planner, this book navigates the residential design process from site planning to individual home design, emphasizing principles of sustainability.
Urban Theory
$39.95
(available to order)
Summary:
From climate change to migration, all across the world cities are having to come to terms with contemporary challenges for which there are few easy answers. The Amsterdam Agenda invites 12 urban thinkers to share their knowledge, insights, and vision for the future of cities in light of today’s ongoing transformations. Be it the repercussions of over-tourism, alternative(...)
Urban Theory
June 2020
The Amsterdam agenda: 12 good ideas for the future of cities
Actions:
Price:
$39.95
(available to order)
Summary:
From climate change to migration, all across the world cities are having to come to terms with contemporary challenges for which there are few easy answers. The Amsterdam Agenda invites 12 urban thinkers to share their knowledge, insights, and vision for the future of cities in light of today’s ongoing transformations. Be it the repercussions of over-tourism, alternative forms of civic engagement, or incorporating new technologies into existing infrastructure, these are urgent issues with global impact. Based on a 2018 lecture series at the Amsterdam Academy of Architecture, The Amsterdam Agenda brings together the views of today’s brightest names from the fields of architecture, planning, activism, and more.
Urban Theory
$42.95
(available to order)
Summary:
Degrowth is an emerging social movement that overlaps with proposals for systemic change such as anti-globalization and climate justice, commons and transition towns, basic income and Buen Vivir. ''Degrowth in Movement(s)'' reflects on the current situation of social movements aiming at overcoming capitalism, industrialism and domination. The essays ask: What is the key(...)
Critical Theory
June 2020
Degrowth in movements: exploring pathways for transformation
Actions:
Price:
$42.95
(available to order)
Summary:
Degrowth is an emerging social movement that overlaps with proposals for systemic change such as anti-globalization and climate justice, commons and transition towns, basic income and Buen Vivir. ''Degrowth in Movement(s)'' reflects on the current situation of social movements aiming at overcoming capitalism, industrialism and domination. The essays ask: What is the key idea of the respective movement? Who is active? What is the relation with the degrowth movement? What can the degrowth movement learn from these other movements and the other way around? Which common proposals, but also which contradictions, oppositions and tensions exist? And what alliances could be possible for broader systemic transformations?
Critical Theory
EP Vol.3: Post-craft
$37.00
(available to order)
Summary:
The notion of the handmade has shifted from the margins to center stage. Craft’s value is increasingly recognized across creative, economic, social, cultural, and political contexts. Because of its widespread appropriation, and the dissolution of disciplinary boundaries, the meaning of handicrafts is changing. While craft’s claims of authenticity and anti-consumerism are(...)
EP Vol.3: Post-craft
Actions:
Price:
$37.00
(available to order)
Summary:
The notion of the handmade has shifted from the margins to center stage. Craft’s value is increasingly recognized across creative, economic, social, cultural, and political contexts. Because of its widespread appropriation, and the dissolution of disciplinary boundaries, the meaning of handicrafts is changing. While craft’s claims of authenticity and anti-consumerism are in question, its role is poised for optimization within the contemporary climate. Amid new economies of making, craft is moving from modern craft to post-craft. Through essays, conversations, and projects by designers, artists, and scholars, the third volume in the EP series examines not only the practice of post-craft but also its mediation and interpretation.
Art Theory
$86.95
(available to order)
Summary:
Beyond The West inspires a fresh understanding of global contemporary architecture beyond the Western Countries. Architects throughout the world work against a backdrop of rapidly growing cities, changing societies and climate, and emerging economies. But while Western architecture has largely dominated the discourse, architecture firms from non-Western countries have(...)
Beyond the west: new global architecture
Actions:
Price:
$86.95
(available to order)
Summary:
Beyond The West inspires a fresh understanding of global contemporary architecture beyond the Western Countries. Architects throughout the world work against a backdrop of rapidly growing cities, changing societies and climate, and emerging economies. But while Western architecture has largely dominated the discourse, architecture firms from non-Western countries have been establishing local and global -recognition for themselves, often finding strikingly different solutions to local requirements, including sustainability, transportation and migration, construction materials, and traditions. Beyond The West journeys across Asia, Africa, and the Americas to under-stand how local architects respond to a changing world, and focuses its wide lens on inspiring and truly global architecture.
Contemporary Architecture
$26.95
(available to order)
Summary:
"Accidental gravity" moves from upstate New York to the contemporary western U.S. and into Canada, from urban and suburban places to wild lands. The essays are informative, but the focus is personal. Quetchenbach writes about urban and suburban places as well as wild lands. In the first section of the book, he focuses on suburban neighborhoods, “the places where tensions(...)
Accidental gravity: residents, travelers, and the landscape of memory
Actions:
Price:
$26.95
(available to order)
Summary:
"Accidental gravity" moves from upstate New York to the contemporary western U.S. and into Canada, from urban and suburban places to wild lands. The essays are informative, but the focus is personal. Quetchenbach writes about urban and suburban places as well as wild lands. In the first section of the book, he focuses on suburban neighborhoods, “the places where tensions between human and animal nature, and between differing concepts of the natural world, come to the fore.” In the second section, he juxtaposes these humanized places with Yellowstone National Park, in the context of climate change and other contemporary pressures. This is nature writing at its finest.
Landscape Theory
El croquis 189: Alfredo Paya 2010-2017, Toni Girones 2003-2017, José Maria Sanchez Garcia 2010-2017
$106.50
(available in store)
Summary:
José María Sánchez García, Alfredo Payá, and Toni Gironès are the subjects of this triple focus on young Spanish architects. Although based in different cities and regions, they all launched their careers in the 21st century, and each has since built notable projects throughout Spain and its territories. Each architect’s profile includes a biography, a conversation with(...)
El croquis 189: Alfredo Paya 2010-2017, Toni Girones 2003-2017, José Maria Sanchez Garcia 2010-2017
Actions:
Price:
$106.50
(available in store)
Summary:
José María Sánchez García, Alfredo Payá, and Toni Gironès are the subjects of this triple focus on young Spanish architects. Although based in different cities and regions, they all launched their careers in the 21st century, and each has since built notable projects throughout Spain and its territories. Each architect’s profile includes a biography, a conversation with the architect, an essay by the architect, and several examples of built works. Gain insight on these three architects and recent highlights from the Spanish architecture scene, including the Rowing Pavilion in Alange, the Ibiza and Formentera Music and Dance Conservatory, and the Climate Museum in Lleida.
Magazines
$44.95
(available to order)
Summary:
On the eve of its 50th anniversary, the Landscape Architecture Foundation asked a diverse group of the world's leading landscape architects to reflect on the last half-century and present bold ideas for what the discipline should achieve in the future. Well beyond the public conception of the profession as "gardener" or "park designer," these landscape architects(...)
The New Landscape Declaration: a call to action for the twenty-first century
Actions:
Price:
$44.95
(available to order)
Summary:
On the eve of its 50th anniversary, the Landscape Architecture Foundation asked a diverse group of the world's leading landscape architects to reflect on the last half-century and present bold ideas for what the discipline should achieve in the future. Well beyond the public conception of the profession as "gardener" or "park designer," these landscape architects discussed their role in addressing weighty issues like climate change, urbanization, management of vital resources like water, and global inequities. "The New Landscape Declaration" brings together their ideas and experiences in essays from thirty-three preeminent thinkers, including: James Corner, Randy Hester, Kate Orff, Martha Schwartz, Carl Steinitz, Richard Weller, and Kongjian Yu.
Gardens