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Alfred Neumann (1900–1968) was a Czech architect whose work was wrought in the context of postwar modernism and the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948. Today, his influence and impact have been largely forgotten, but, in their time, Neumann’s original designs received praise and elicited controversy in almost equal measure, offering exciting new possibilities to(...)
Space packed: the architecture of Alfred Neumann
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Alfred Neumann (1900–1968) was a Czech architect whose work was wrought in the context of postwar modernism and the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948. Today, his influence and impact have been largely forgotten, but, in their time, Neumann’s original designs received praise and elicited controversy in almost equal measure, offering exciting new possibilities to the modernist mainstream.
Architecture Monographs
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This book investigates the development of multi-unit housing typologies that were predominant in a particular city from the 1800s to present day. It emphasises the importance of understanding the direct connection between housing and dwelling in the context of a city, and the manner in which the city is an instructional indication of how a housing typology is embodied.
Multi-unit housing in urban cities: from 1800 to the present
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This book investigates the development of multi-unit housing typologies that were predominant in a particular city from the 1800s to present day. It emphasises the importance of understanding the direct connection between housing and dwelling in the context of a city, and the manner in which the city is an instructional indication of how a housing typology is embodied.
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Parallel strokes
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Parallel strokes is a collection of interviews with 19 contemporary typeface designers, graffiti writers, and lettering artists around the world (Akira Kobayashi, Barry McGee, Daim and Seak, Ed Fella, among others). The book is introduced with a comprehensive essay charting the history of graffiti, its relation to type design, and how the two practices relate in the wider(...)
Parallel strokes
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Parallel strokes is a collection of interviews with 19 contemporary typeface designers, graffiti writers, and lettering artists around the world (Akira Kobayashi, Barry McGee, Daim and Seak, Ed Fella, among others). The book is introduced with a comprehensive essay charting the history of graffiti, its relation to type design, and how the two practices relate in the wider context of lettering.
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This book explores computation, specifically the craft of writing computer code, as a medium for drawing. Exercises, essays, algorithms, diagrams, and drawings are woven together to offer instruction, insight, and theories that are valuable to practicing architects, artists, and scholars. This book can serve as a primer for those new to programming or motivation and(...)
Computational drawing: from foundational exercises to theories of representation
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This book explores computation, specifically the craft of writing computer code, as a medium for drawing. Exercises, essays, algorithms, diagrams, and drawings are woven together to offer instruction, insight, and theories that are valuable to practicing architects, artists, and scholars. This book can serve as a primer for those new to programming or motivation and context for those with experience.
Architectural Drawing
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When does an artist's creation become art, and where? Does it occur in the solitary confines of an artist's studio or does it require the context of an art gallery's white cube? What is the relationship between these two culturally charged spaces? How does the site of art's presentation shape the meaning and determine even the very possibility of its existence?
Studio and Cube: on the relationship between where art is made and where at is displayed
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When does an artist's creation become art, and where? Does it occur in the solitary confines of an artist's studio or does it require the context of an art gallery's white cube? What is the relationship between these two culturally charged spaces? How does the site of art's presentation shape the meaning and determine even the very possibility of its existence?
Museology
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The Floor Plan Manual Housing documents and analyzes 150 international housing projects since 1945. It shows the latest developments in housing and places them in the context of important examples from the past 65 years. This manual is distinguished by the typological and conceptual breadth of the projects it presents and the extensive time period covered by the selection(...)
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Floor plan manual housing, 4th revised and expanded edition
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The Floor Plan Manual Housing documents and analyzes 150 international housing projects since 1945. It shows the latest developments in housing and places them in the context of important examples from the past 65 years. This manual is distinguished by the typological and conceptual breadth of the projects it presents and the extensive time period covered by the selection of examples.
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Part of the Density series, this sizeable addition provides a comparative analysis of 32 collective housing projects with particular emphasis on the study and comparison of construction systems along the with a detailed cost analysis of each featured project. Within this context specific aspects such as density ratios, floor plans, housing types, façade and roof systems(...)
A+T Hoco, density housing construction & costs
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Part of the Density series, this sizeable addition provides a comparative analysis of 32 collective housing projects with particular emphasis on the study and comparison of construction systems along the with a detailed cost analysis of each featured project. Within this context specific aspects such as density ratios, floor plans, housing types, façade and roof systems and sustainability strategies are also examined.
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Don't brand my public space!
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Don’t Brand My Public Space! is a critical investigation of the visual strategies employed to identify and brand political spaces. In the context of a revival of xenophobic propaganda on the one hand and the degradation of places into pure marketing products on the other, it is possible to recognize an increasingly theatrical, unquestioned production of public signs and symbols...
Don't brand my public space!
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Don’t Brand My Public Space! is a critical investigation of the visual strategies employed to identify and brand political spaces. In the context of a revival of xenophobic propaganda on the one hand and the degradation of places into pure marketing products on the other, it is possible to recognize an increasingly theatrical, unquestioned production of public signs and symbols...
Graphic Design and Typography
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Tree Gardens focuses on what author Gina Crandell calls the "largest living architectural structures," masses of trees that form expressive spaces on sites all over the world. Each case study, from the grand park at Versailles, to New York City's 9/11 Memorial Forest, explains how the scale, context, species, and spacing of trees on a particular site establish its(...)
Tree gardens: architecture and the forest
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Tree Gardens focuses on what author Gina Crandell calls the "largest living architectural structures," masses of trees that form expressive spaces on sites all over the world. Each case study, from the grand park at Versailles, to New York City's 9/11 Memorial Forest, explains how the scale, context, species, and spacing of trees on a particular site establish its expressive structure.
Gardens
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Moving effortlessly from analyses of Aristotle and James Joyce to the philosophical difficulties of telling dogs from cats, Umberto Eco demonstrates time and again his inimitable ability to bridge ancient, medieval, and modern modes of thought. From the Tree to the Labyrinth is a brilliant illustration of Eco's longstanding argument that problems of interpretation can be(...)
From the tree to the labyrinth
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Moving effortlessly from analyses of Aristotle and James Joyce to the philosophical difficulties of telling dogs from cats, Umberto Eco demonstrates time and again his inimitable ability to bridge ancient, medieval, and modern modes of thought. From the Tree to the Labyrinth is a brilliant illustration of Eco's longstanding argument that problems of interpretation can be solved only in historical context.
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